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court, cod go forth blotted from the palace
gate. Hager exchange* oriental comfort
for the wilderness of Beersbeba. Mary
Queen of Boot* m oat paae oat from flattery
and pomp to suffer ignominious death in
the castle of Fotheringiy. The wheel of
fortuoe keep* turniig, and mansions and
hats exchange, and be ho rode the cbanot
pushes the barrow, and instead of the glare
of festal light* is the simmering of the
peat-fire, and in place of Haul's palaoe is
the rock, the cold rook, the desolate rock.
But that is the place to which God comet
Jacob with his head on a stone saw tne
shining ladder. Israel in the desert beheld
the marshaling of the fiery baton. John
on barren Patmoe heard trumpeting, and
the clapping of wings, and the stroke of
seraphic Ungers on golden harpe, and noth
ing but heavenly strength nerved Rixpah
for her appalling mission amid the scream
of wild birds and the stealthy tread of
hungry monsters. The grandest visions of
glory, the most rapturous experiences of
Christian love, tbe greatest triumphs of
grace have come to the tr.ed and the herd
pressed and tbe betrayed and tbe orusbed.
God stooping down from heaven to comfort
Rixpah on the rock.
Again, the tragedy of the text displays
the courage of woman amid great emergen
cies. What mother or sister or daughter
would dare to go out to fight the cormorant
and jackal t Rixpah did it. And so would
you if an emergency demanded. Woman
is naturally timid and shrinks from ex
posure and depends on stronger arms for
the achievement of great enterprise*. And
she Is often troubled lest there might be oc
casions demanding fortitude when she
would faU. Not so. Some of those who
are afraid to look out of door after night
fall, and who quake in tbe darknesa at tbe
least uncertain sound, and who start at tbe
alam of tbe door, and turn pale in a thunder
storm, if the day of trial came
would be heroic and invulnerable. God
has arranged it so that woman needs the
trumpet of some great contest of principle
or affection to rouse up her slumbering
courage. Then she will stand under the
cr'ies Are of oppoeing hosts at Chalons to
fire wine to the wounded. Then she will
carry into prison and dark lane tbe message
of salvation. Then she will brave the
pestilence. Deborah goes out to sound ter
ror Into the heart of God’s enemiee. Abi-
KU throws herself between a raiding party
of Infuriated men, and her husband's vin>
yards. Rixpah fight* back the vultures
from the rook.
Among tbe Orkney Islands an eagle
swooped and lifted a child to its eyrie far
up on the mountains. With tbe spring of a
panther tbs mother mounts bill above hbl,
crag above crag, bight above bight. The
fire of her own eye outflasblng tbe glare of
the eagles. And with unmalled band,
stronger than tbe Iron { eak and terrible
claw, she hurled the wild bird down the
rocks. In tbe French revolution, Cezotte
was brought out to be executed when his
daughter threw herself on the body of her
father and said, “Strike, barbarians! You
oannot reach my father but through my
heart!" Tbe crowd parted, and Unking arms
father and daughter walked out free. Dur
ing the siege of Saragossa Augustine carried
refreshment* to tbe gates Arriving
at the battery of Portillo she
found that all tbe garrison had been
killed. She snatched a match from the
hamd of a dead artilleryman and fired off
a twenty-six pounder, then leaped on it
and vowed she would not leave it alive. The
soldiers looked in and saw her daring, and
rushed op and opened another tremendous
fire on the enemy. The life of James L of
800 llano vis threatened. Poets have sung
those times, and able pens have lingered
npon tbe story of manly endurance, but
bow few to tell tbe story of Catharine
Douglas, one of the queen’s maids, who ran
to bolt tbe and or, but found tbe her had been
taken away so as to facilitate tbe entrance
of tbe assassin. She thrust her arm into
the staple. The murderers rushing
against it, her arm was shattered. Yet
how many have since lived and died who
never heard the touching, self-sacrificing,
heroic story of Catherine Douglas and her
poor, shattered arm. You know how
calmly Mine. Roland went to execution,
and bow cheerfully Joanna of Naples
walked to the oastle of Muro, and how
fearlessly Mae. Grimaldi listened to her
condemnation; and how Charlotte Cordav
smiled upon tbe frantic mob that pursued
her to the guillotine. And there would be
no sad to the recital if I attempted to pre
sent all tbe historical incidents which show
that woman’s courage will arouse itself for
great emergency.
But I need not go so rar. You have known
some ooe who was considered a mere but
terfly in society. Her hand bad known no
toll. Her eye had wept no tear over mis
fortune. Hbe moved among obsequious ad
mirers as careless as an insect In a field of
blossoming buckwheat. But in 18*57 finan
cial tempest struck the husband's estate.
Before he had time to reef sail, and make
things snug tbe ship capsized and went
down. Enemies cheered at tbe misfortune
and wondered what would become of the
butterfly. Good men pitied and said she
would die of a broken heart, “btie will not
work,” say they, "and she is too proud to
beg.” But the prophecies have failed. Dis
aster has transformed the shining slogger 1
Into |a practical worker. Happy as a
princess though oompelled to bush her own
ohlld to sleep and spread her own table and
answer the ringtng of ber own door rwll.
Her arm has been musoied for the ccraflic - -
agalnst misfortune, hunger and poverty and
want and all the other jackals Rixpah scares
from the rock.
I law one in a desolate home. Her mere!
lew oompanlon bad pawned even the chil
dren's shoes for ram. From honorable an
oestry she had come down to this. The cruse
of oil was empty and the last candle gone
out. Her faced frock was patched with
fragments of an antique silk that she had
worn on the bright marriage day. Con
fident in God 'he bad a strong heart to
which her ohildren ran when they trembled
at lbs staggering step and quailed under
a father’s curse. Though the heavens were
filled with fierce wings and the thickets
gnashed with rage, Kizpah watched faith
fully day after day aDd year after year and
wolf and cormorant by her God
strengthened arm were hurled down the
rook.
Too pass day by day aloDg streets where
there are heroines greater than Joan of
Ara Upon that cellar floor there are con
flicts aa fleroe as Sedan, and heaven and
hell mingle in the fight. Lifted in that
garret there are tribunals where more
fortitude is demanded than was exhibited
by Lady Jaue Grey or Mary, Queen of
Boots,
Now, 1 ask if mere natural oourage can
do so much, what may we not expeot of
women who have gazed on the great sacri
fice, and who ere urged forward by all the
vetoes of graoe that sound from the Bible,
and all the notes of victory that speak from
the sky. Many years ago the Forfarshire
steamer started from Hull bouud for Dun
dee. After the veesel had been out a little
while, the winds began to rave and billows
rise until a tempest was upon them. The
vessel leaked and the liras went out, and
though the sails were hoisted fore and aft,
she went speeding toward the breakers.
Bbe struck with her bows foremost on the
rock. The vessel parted. Amid the whirl
wind and the darkness ail were lost but
nine. These clung to the wreck on the
beaob. Bleeping that night in Longstone
light bouse was a girl of gentle spirit and
comely countenance. As the morning
dawns. 1 see that girl standing amid
the spray and tumult of contend
ing elements looking through a glass
upon the wreck arid the niue wretched suf
ferers. Bhe proposes to her father to take a
boat and put out across the wild sea to
resoue thaui. The father says: “It cannot
be done! Just look at the tumbling surf!”
But she persisted and with her father
bounds into the bust. Though never accus
tomed to plying the oar she takes one and
her father the other. Bteady now! Pull
• Pull away! The sea tossed up the
boat as though it we:e a bubble, but amid
the foam and the wrath of the sea the
wreok was reached, the exhausted people
picked up and saved. Humane societies
tendered their thunks. Wealth (toured into
the lap of tbe poor girl. Visitors from all
lands came to look on her sweet face: and
vhen soon after she launched .forth on a
i dark see and death was the oarsman, dukes
and duchesses and mightly men sat down
in tears in Alnwick castK to think they
never again might see tbs faoe of Grsoe
Darling.
No such deeds of daring will probably be
asked of you, but bear you not the bowl of
that awful storm of trouble and sin that
bath tossed ten thousand shivers-: hulk*
into the breakers! -Koow you not that the
whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked'
That there are wound* to be healed and
broxen hearts to be bound and drowning
souls to be rescued I gome have gone down
and you come too late, but others are cling
ing to the wreck, are shivering with the
o ld. are strangling in the wava, are crying
j to you for deliveranoe. Will you not, oar
lin hand, put out to-day from the light
I house. When the last ship's timber ehall
have been rent, and tbe last Longs tne
j beacon shall have been thundered down in ]
! the hurricane, and the lest tempest shell ;
have folded it* wings, and tbe sea itself
ehall have been licked up by the tongue of 1
all-consuming Are. the crowns of eternal re
ward shall be kindling into brighter (lory
on the brow of tbe faithful. And Christ,
pointing to the inebriate that yon reformed,
and the dying sinner whom you taught to
pray, and the outcast, whom vou pointed to
God for shelter, willsar: "You did it to
them! You did it to me!”
Again the scene of the text impresses
upon us the strength of maternal attach
ment, Not many men would have had
courage or endurance for the awful mission
of Rixpah. To dare the rage of wild beasts,
and sit from May to October unsheltered,
and to watch the corpses of unboned chil
dren was a work that nothing but the
maternal heart could have accomplished.
It needed more strength than to stand be
fore opened batteries or to walk in calmness
tbe deck of a foundering steamer.
There is no emotion so completely unsel
fish a* maternal affection. Conjugal love
expects tne return of many kindnesses and
attentions. Filial love expects parental
care or is helped by the memory of pas:
watchfulness But the strength of a
mother’* love is entirely independent of the
past and the future, and is, of all emotions,
the purest. The child has done nothing in
tbe past to earn kindness, and in the future
it may grow up to maltreat its parent; but
still from the mother’s heart there goes
forth inconsumable affection. Abuse oannot
offend it, neglect oannot chill it; time can
not efface it, death cannot destroy it. For
harsh words it has gentle chiding, for the
blow It has beneficent ministry, for
neglect it has increasing watch
fulness. It weeps at the prison door
over the incarcerated prodigal, and
pleads for pardon at the governor’s feet,
and is forced away by c3mpassionate
friends from witnessing the struggles of
the gallows. Other lights go out, but this
burns on without extinguishment, as in a
gloom-struck night you may see a -ingle
star, one of God’s pickets, with giearning
bayonet of light guarding tbe outposts of
heaveu.. Tbe Marchioness of Bpadara,
when the earthquake at Messina occurred,
was carried out insensible from tbe failing
bouses. On coming to ber tenses she found
that her infai.t had uoi been reeoued. Bhe
went back and perished in the ruins.
Illustrations of ten thousand mothers who
in as many different ways have sacrificed
themselves for their children.
O. despise not a mother’s love! If here
tofore you beve been negligent of suob an
one, and you have still opportunity for rep
aration , make baste. If you could only
just look in for an hour’s visit to bar you
would roues up in the aged one e whole
world of blissful memories. What if she
does sit wltbot talking much; she
watched you for many month* when you
knew not how to talk at all. W hat if the
baa many ailments to tell about. During
fifteen years you ran to her with every
little scratch and bruise, and the doctored
your little finger at carefully as a surgeon
would bind the worst fracture. You say
she is childish now. I wonder if she ever
saw you when you were childish, You
have no patience to walk with ber on the
str- eta, she moves so slowly. I wonder if
■be remember* the time when you were
glad enough to go slowly. You complain
at the expense of providing for her now. I
wonder what your flnanoial income was
from one year to ten years of age. Do not
begrudge what you do for the old folks. I
care not how much you did for them, they
have done more for you.
But from this weird text of the morning
comes rushing In upon my soul a thought
that overpowers me. This watching by
Rixpah was an after-death watching. I
wonder if now there is an after-death
watching. 1 think there Is. There are Riz
pabs who have passed death, and who are
still watching. They look down from their
supernal and glorified state upon us, and is
not that an after-death watching • I cannot
believe that those who before their death
were interested in us have since their death
become indifferent as to what happens to us.
Not on* hour of the six months during
whicu R-xpah watched, seated upon the
ri/Cks, was she more alert, or diligent, or
armed for ns than our mother, if glorified,
is alert and diligent and armed for us. It is
not now Kizpah on a rock, but Kizpah on a
throne. How long has your mother been
dradi Do you think she has been dead long
enough to forget yon' My mother
has been dead twenty-nine years.
I believe she knows more about me now
then she did when I stood in her presence,
and Im no spiritualist either. The Bible
•ays; “Are they not all m.metering spirits
sent forth to minister to them that shall be
heirs of salvation.” Young man! Better
look out what you do and where you go, for
your glorified mother ts looking at you.
You sometimes sav to yiurself, “What
would mother say if the knew this?" She
does know You might cheat her once, but
you cannot cheat her now Dees it embar
rass us to think she knows all about us now)
If she had to put up with so mseh wtten the
was here, surs.y she will not he the lees
patient or excusatory now.
O, this treme .doaa thought of my text,
this after-death watching What an uplift
ing oonsidara’lon Ar.d what * comforting
thought. Young mother you who have
just lost your babe end who .‘ems tbe need
of a nearer solace than that which comes
from ordinary sympathy, your mother
knowt all about it. You cannot run in and
talk It all over with her as you would if she
were still a terreetlal resident, but It will
oomfort you some, I think, yea it will com
fort you a good deal to know that she un
derstands it all. You see that the veloc
ities of tbe heavenly conditions are so great
that it would not take her a half second to
come to your bereft heart. O, these moth
ers iu heaven! They can do more for us
now than before they went away. The
bridge between this world and the next is
not broken down. They approach the
bridge from both ways, departing spirits,
and coming spirits, disimprisoned spirits,
and sympathizing spirits. And so let ub
walk as to be worthy of the supernal com
panionship®, and if to any of us life on
ea-th is a hard grind, let us understand that
if we watch faithfully and trust fully our
blessed Lord, there will be a corresponding
reward In the land of peace, and that
Kizpah, who once wept on a rock, now
reigns on a throne.
MONEY FOUND IN EVERY CORNER.
Death of an Old and Eccentric
Woman Who Had a Fortune Hid.
R acinic, Wis., Deo. 4.—Mrs. Anthony
Gregg, an eccentric woman of the town of
Dover, recently left her home for a trip
overland to Milwaukee. On the way she
was taken sick, carried into a farm house
and died. It had been suppose! that the
woman was worth considerable money, but
after her death it was discovered that she
was rich and had secreted large sums of
money about her home. Fifteen hundred
dollars wai found in the bottom of a crock
tilled with lard; in an old rag bag in the
corner of her house was found $1,000;
in a small box on a shelf was found another
$1,000; in tbe woodshed and other outbuild
ings were discovered sums ranging trom
ssoo upward. 1c a Milwaukee bank she
had deposited SB,OOO, aud besides owned a
couple of farms. Her fortune is estimated
at *20.000.
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1892.
THE DEAD MILLIONAIRE.
JAY GOULD'S ENORMOUS WEALTH
VARIOUSLY ESTIMATED.
Some Interesting Incidents la His
Career—The Numerous Enterprises
Id Which Hs Was latsrssted-Anec
dote# Illustrating Bis Character.
Where He Will Be Buried.
When a very rich man dies one of the
first q ■as Hons asked by the public is, "How
much did he leaver And to it has been
sinoe the death of Jay Gould. Everybody
want to xuow the size of the immense
fortune be managed to amass during tbe
thirty odd year* of his active business ca
reer. The New York Sun says his estate,
when inventoried, will show about as fol
lows:
Securities. Par Value. Market Value.
Western Union $21000,000 $19,140.0 0
Manhattan Rai!w*>\ 10,000.000 13,000,<>d
Missouri Pacific, s’*. lfc/00.000 0,900 000
Missouri laciflc, bd 15.PV.000 13,500.000
Texas Pacific........ 5,000,000 1,100,000
Wabash Railway.... 10,000,000 1,100, 00
Miscellaneous 50,000,000 15,000, OV
Cash and res. estate. 6.000.000 6,000.000
Totals $110,000,000 $75,6*0, COO
Tbe Herald estimates his wealth at $92.-
100.0UO; the New York correspondent of the
Philadelphia /Vest places it at $150,000,000
to sajo,,ooo. But it is probable that the
more conservative estimate in detail given
above is nearest oorrect.
PREPARED FOR DEATH.
Mr. Gould had evidently prepared for his
end—that is, in a financial way, by arrang
ing matter* so that his demise would cot
break tbe prices of his stocks and bon is In
conversation with Dr. Chaunoey M. Depew
a day or two ago he said to a reporter: "Mr.
Gould was too sharp a business man to
make any mistakes about the future. He
told me eight weeks ago that ms affair*
were all adjusted, and that, should be drop
dead at any time, his business was so ar
ranged that bis sons could take charge of his
interests at ones.
"I thick that be was the most successful
business man of his time. As to his being
the greatest financier of tbe age I am not
prepared to say. There at other men who
are considered great financier*.”
"an irreparable loss."
“Every one must realize,” said Rus
sell Sage, "that in Jay Gould’s death the
country hat sustained a loss that is irrep
arable. He was universally acknowledg and
to be one of the leading ennd* of the age.
No ooe has done so much as he in the devel
opment of the resources of the country,
and the splendid rail ways oonatruoted and
maintained by him will be regarded as
monuments of his genius and energy. Dur
ing the last two years, when illness pre
vented him from engaging actively in busi
ness, he still retained the keenest interest
in the development of his enterprises. His
far-sighted mind even made provision for
bis death, aDd tbe slight variation wbioh
has taken place in the value of securities
and -ring the last few days shows how com
plete this provision was. Though Ido not
knew how his great propertv was be
queathed, I am satisfied that the will will
not affect the market to any great extent.”
THE BLACKEST PART OF GOULD’S CAREER.
The rise and progress and ups and downs
of Erie are s romance themselves, of which
tbs most enlivening chapter pertains to the
connection of Jay Gould and James Fisk.
Jr., with its control, says tbs New York
Herald. Early in 1868 the contestant* for
supremacy ink;he oontrol of Erie were
Vanderbilt, Drew, Fisk and Gould.
Drew had a claim against the
road for $3,500,000, but as Vander
bilt had detected him in what be con
sidered unfair tactioe he proonred an injunc
tion restraining the directors from paying
the claim.
At this time there were 251,058 shares is
sued, and on March 3 an injunction was ob
tained restraining aDy further issue. Prior to
this, on Feb. 10, the board had increased the
stock of the road to 450.000 shares ($45,000.-
000 at par), Five millions of convertible
bonds were sold to Drew. He converted
them into stock, threw them on the market
and broke the price of Erie to 65t
The bears had hoped to crowd It down to
50, when Vanderbilt’s injunction was
served, and under the enormous purchases
of the commodore the price went up to 73,
Drew, Fisk and Gould were acting in con
cert, and although host* of minor bears
were ruined this trie kept unruffled fronts.
They had prepared a grand coup and lay in
wait for their enemy. Procuring from a
second judge an order forbidding them to
refrain from necessary issues of more stock,
the board prepared 50,000 convertible
bonds and promptly converted them into
stock. Vanderbilt knew nothing of the
new move and had ordered his brokers to
buy all the Erie that was offered. On
March 10 the price opened at 79. Tbe Van
derbilt broker bought largely and the price
went up to 83. Gould’s broker had un
loaded the 50,000 share* iu blocks of 5,000
and 6,000 shares, and about 2 o’ciook it was
whispered to Vanderbilt that thousands of
freeh shares of Brie not three days old were
on the market. The price fell from 83 to
71, the commodore having unwittiugly
furnished bis adversaries the weapon with
wbioh to fight himself.
GOULD FLIES TO JERSEY CITY.
The situation was critical, and Vander
bilt at once invoked the power of the court
whose order bad been disobeyed to punish
his opponents. Jay Gould was as well in
formed In oourt proceedings as any one,
and before prooess oould be served ou them
he hurried with hie aseociates to the safe
ref ge of Jersey City. H# had all the books
and papers of the Erie road taken to
Taylor’s hotel, aud. more thau that, he had
fr .in 6,000,000 to $10,000,000, the proceeds
of 100,000 shares of freshly issued stook,
carried over in chests. Such men with
such ammunition were not to be dealt with
In ordinary ways. Lawyers of every grade
found quite enough to do, and tbe
supreme oourt chambers rang with
charges and countercharges, oriminatione
and recriminations. Draw beoame fright
ened and made term* with Vanderbilt, but
Jay Gould went bodily to Albany aud pre
pared and engineered through the legisla
ture a bill legalizing the extra issue of Erie
stock, although he contended that he really
needed no special legislation, as under the
general railroad act of 1850 Erie was em
powered to borrow such sums as were
necessary “for completing, furnishing and
operating” tbe road, and although the road
was oompleted and furnished, it bad still to
be "operated.” The result was a com
promise between Gould and Van4erbilt, the
latter being relieved of 50,000 shares, for
whioh he received $2,500,000 in cash and
$1,250,000 in bonds and some other con
cessions not pertinent to this artiole.
TWEED IN ERIE’S BOARD.
At this time Gould formed a thick and
thin alliance with certain members of the
old Tweed ring, and Peter B. Sweeny and
William M. Tweed wore added to the board
of directors. Gould’s was the master mind.
What he devised Fisk executed, and
Tweed, with all his powerful alliances,
legalized. In October, 1868, they had foroed
tbe prioe of Erie down to 44, and in order
to still further depress it Gould suggested a
plan to produce an artificial stringency in
the money market. He and tbe Erie oliaue
controlled #10,000,000; to this Drew added
$4,000,000. It was easily done. Heavy
ohecks were drawn on banks in their inter
est, tbe banks certified tbe checks, and
greenbacks were borrowed on them. These
being locked up, and therefor* withdrawn
from circulation, tightened the money
market, and price* fell off. Ruin overtook
hundreds, mid many strong dealers were on
the verge of disaster.
HOW DREW WAS TURNED DOWN.
Of tbese a friend of Drew was short
$2,000,000, and he applied to him tor aid.
Drew gave it, and then withdrew from the
combination. Ena was then vt-ry low.
Tbe combination of which Gould was ohief
bought Immense quantities at tbe ruling
rates, the $14,000,000 being still locked up.
Gould knew that Drew was short some
70,000 shares of Erie, and to punish him toe
combination unlocked their greenbaoks,
I money became easy,at once Erie rose to 61,
and Drew was cornered. He pleaded with
Goald to let chn sp, but be was inexorable,
and Drew retired a loser to tbe extent of
$1,500,000.
It is obvioosly impossible to give iu detail
the eocnnoua dealing and speculations .of
this money sing. A complete history of his
life would be a virtual f ketch of the stock
movem-nts of his time. But there are cer
tain marked and monumental era* or crises
in tbe life of Wall stree. that were the p-cd
uct off Gou.d’s brain whicu are -if general
; interest. Tbe manipulation of Erie was one
lof them. An idea of the magnitude of
j Gould's operations may be inferred from one
1 fact On July 1, 1868. when Gould became
j dictator of Erie, the stock of tbe company
amounted to $34,265,300. and at the end of
October, in the same year, it had risen to
$57,766,300, being aa inc-ease of $23,501,000
la four months. For years be literally con
trolled courts, legislatures and boards so far
far as bis necessities ailed for central.
With the powerful backing of the t .en
dominant ring be bad but to ask to receive,
to command—and pay—to be obeyed.
Millions were aa nothing to him. No one
could guess by bis ooui.tenanoe whether he
was ahead $5,000,000 or behind $3,000,000.
Ail endeavors to oust him from bis dictator
ship by legal procedure were unavailing.
He occupied tbe gorgeous apartments of
tbe Grand opera house with Fisk and an
army of retainers, and 'as as truly a mon
arch as any born to the throne. Before he
left the management the Erie stock was ex
panded in lees than three years from $34,-
000,000 to $86,0X1,000 aa increase of $53,-
000,000.
“BLACK FRIDAY.”
An attempt was made by Mr. Gould in
1860 to corner all the gold In the country.
Fifty millions was tbe prize aimed at. Hie
price of gold that year was 130Ji, the low
est in three years. dr. Goutd bought
$7,000,000 worth at 132 and put the price
up to 140. A few dys later gold rose to
144. On Sept. 24, the famous "Black Fri
day,” Mr. Gould determined to unload his
holdiug a* quickly as possible. Without the
knowledge of bis associates he sold a large
part of his gold to his own friends at 160.
A little before noon an order came from
Washington to sell S4,(aKJ,OOO of gold from
the sub-treasury. The corner collapsed and
numbers of business men and speculators
were ruined.
RESIDENCE ON FIFTH AVENUE.
Mr. Gould’s residence, at 597 Fifth ave
nue, is not one of the m j*t imposing buitd
inga in the city, but ha< an appearance of
quiet and solid oomfort. It is a iarge stone
building, which about three years ago was
modeled by Mr. Gould from the former resi
dence of Mayor Opdyke at an expense of
SBO,OOO. The interior is richly furnished
with o stly rugs, hangings and fixtures, and
the furniture is of a heavy but comfortable
pattern. A special feat.,re of tne house is
the dining room, a wainscoted hall, about
20x30 feet, finished In rich woods and with
appropriate furniture. In the ceiling is a
large panel, on which is painted a scene
from mythology by a famous artist of the
modern French school. The room in which
Mr. Gould died is a spacious and airy one,
having a southern exposure. Mr. Gould
took great comfort in his home, being a
man of domestic taste*, and was never so
happy aa when surrounded by his children.
the oocld mausoleum.
Jay Gould will be buried iu Woodlawn.
He was one of the first to build a tomb in
that beautiful suburban cemetery. Tbe
Gould mausoleum is one of the most impos
ing of the group of tombs built by ths
wealthiest and most prominent families in
New York. It it of gray granite, and oc
cupies an eminenoe somewhat distant from
the entrance, so that it is not seen from
the railroad which passes by the oemetery
walls.
The architecture of the mausoleum Is that
of a Greek temple. The tomb itself stands
of a basis of three granite steps, and, with
its sloped graaite roof, is about 30 feet high.
Tbe roof is supported on all sides by rows
ef heavy granite columns, eleven to the
side. The entrance is marked simply by
thrss granite column* on eaoh side of the
heavy bronze doors leading into the mauso
leum. These doors are extremely heavy
and richly ornate.
The interior of the structure is arranged
for vaults underneath and on eaoh side. It
is very simple and unostentatious. The only
ornament is a rarely-stained glrss window
at the end opposite tbe door.
The body of Mr. Gould will probably be
placed m tbe vault underneath the tomb,
over which there is a heavy granite slab.
The body of Mrs. Jay Gould, who died in
1888, lies in this tomb.
MR. GOULD’S WILL.
From various sources it was learned that
Mr. Gould’s will, made three years ago, will
dispose of tbe estate in this fashion; each of
Mr. Gould 1 - six children will reoeive abso
lutely $5,000,00(1, and ths remainder with
the exception of a few bequests, will be held
in trust of permanently invested, the in
come to be shared alike by them.
Mr. Gould has three sisters, two of whom
are Mrs. Northup and Mrs. Hough, and a
brother, Abraham Gould, who is an em
ploye of the Missouri Paeiflo Railway
Company. None of these relatives are very
well off, and it is likely that they will be
liberally remembered.
Russell Sage said: "The estate is fully
protected by the terms of the will. It is my
belief that the estate will remain intact
until Mr. Gould’s two minor children come
of age. George Gould is already a
rich man. I think the entiro estate is worth
about $100,000,000.”
A gentleman who knew Mr. Gould very
well said: “From what I know of Mr.
Gould I believe he drew his own will. He
was naturally a secretive man and any im
portant undertaking he kept to himself as
much as possible. Many of his interests
have been In charge of his sons and of
other persons whom he oould Implicitly
trust.”
HIS CONFIDENCE IN HIS BOYS.
A gentleman who knows eomething of
Mr. Gould’s private life said to a reporter
of the New York Press, that he had
done one thing wliioh very few riob fathers
ever thought of doing, and which it would
be much better for them if they did do.
When George Gould reached bis twenty
first birthday his father called him into his
private office, gave him a power of attor
ney whioh would have enabled him to con
trol Mr. Gould’s entire property, and also
furnished him with the combinations of his
private safes and deposit vaults. When
Edwin Gould was 21 years of age Mr. Gould
made the same birthday preseut, excepting
that the power of attorney was a joint one,
tbe survivor in the case of the k death of
either one retaining it. and he also gave this
second son the combinations of his safe. It
was his intention to go through that im
pressive formality upon the twenty-first
birthday of each one of his song, and this
ceremony of itself awakened a sense of re
sponsibility in these young men which bos
been valuable, and which was precisely
what Mr. Gould desired to develop. More
over, he knew that these instruments would
make it impossible for any disaster to come
to his property iu case be beoame disabled
or suddenly died. “My sons are good busi
ness men,” Mr. Gould bas frequently said.
WAS SOMEWHAT SUPERSTITIOUS.
Mr. Gould was superstitious, says the
New York Times. He did uot bother, per
haps, over beginning things on Friday, and
the new moon over his left shoulder may
not have disturbed him. But a oouple of
weeks ago he admitted bis superstitious
weakness. He was on his way downtown,
when be came across a Wall street friend,
with whom he kept up conversation down
the avenue. In tbe course of the chat Mr.
Gould expressed himself as feeling physi
cally much stronger than for a long time.
His eyes were clear, his countenance was
ruddy; he did not look like a sick man.
"I’m getting along famously,” he said.
“My appetite has oouie back. 1 feel like a
new man. Why, last night late two bowls
of bread aud milk, went to bed at 8 o’clock
and slept through till 8 o’clock this morn
ing."
There w*s as much enthusiasm in the tone
as if a record was being made • t some stock
market transaction with a million profit m
it. But tbe cheerfulness disappeared when
Mr. Gould’s companion asked: “How old
are you, Mr. Gould.'”
“O. I’m a young men yet,” answered toe
millionaire.
The evasion was noticed, and for polite
ness’ sake the questioner remarked blandly:
“Pardon my Inquiry, I only happened to be
thinking of an odd thing 1 heard yesterday,
I>id you ever hear, Mr. Gould, that once
every seven years a man runs extraordinary
risks, acd that whenever a mao has a
birthday divisible by seven be is in danger I”
“So—l never heard of that,” said Mr.
Gould. Then he turned to bis Times. The
elevated train ran down two or three blocks
further. Mr. Gould was scanning the death
notice oolumn.
“The st-ck market looks well,” remarked
the other gentleman,
“How strangequoth Mr. Gould. His
gate went on through the death notices.
“I think stocks are goiog a good deal
higher," was further remarked.
“It’s really true,” said Mr. Gould.
“Stillwent on Mr. Gould’s oompauioD,
“ the bears are well organized and they are
confident"
“My gracious, it’s so,” said Mr. Gould.
His neighbor looked at him a httle aston
ished. Mr. Goald had finished the death
notices and was looking out of the window.
There was not muoh glisten in his eye. The
countenance wasn’t ruddy. He hai been
dividing by seven the ages recorded in those
death notices.
“Western Union ought to go a good deal
higher, oughtn’t it, Mr. Gould?” said the
other man.
And Mr. Gould’s answer was: “It may
be odd, but really I never heard before
about this dividing your age by seven.”
“O, that’s only a foolish superstition,”
was the soothing reply.
“O, of oourse,” said Mr. Gould; “of
course!”
Then the chat went on of stocks, of
money ratet, of all the fol-de-rol of Wall
street.
“Cortland next!" yelled the elevated rail
road guard.
“It’s odd, isn't it,” said Mr. Gould, as If
in a reverie, and he arose to leave the train.
“Do you know,” said he, “eight sevens
make fifty-six—and fifty sir, is just my
age ”
SPOKANE HA3 A MONTH CBIBTO
Says He Is Worth $3,000,000 and
Throws Gold to Actresses.
Spokane, Wash., Dec. 4.—Arthur Hig
gins, wno, three weeks ago, came into this
place without a dollar, is now considered a
second Mouta Cristo, When he first toid
of his discovery of marvelous wealth
in s cave in the Cascade moun
tains he was considered a lunatic.
He claims that the cave is 400 feet deep,
and after working for a year he found a way
to get down in it, He found three nuggets
of gold amounting to millions of dollars, so
he says.
A few days ego Higgins astonished his
friends by appearing among them dressed
in fine clothes. He drove a costly span of
black horses, carried two gold watches,
valued at $.540, and a chain three inches
wide, made of S2O, $lO and $.5 gold pieces
amounting to SBSOI. At variety theaters he
throws quantities of S2O pieces to favorite
aotresses during the performances.
Higgins says he is worth $3,000,000. That
he has money there is no question, but how
muoh no one knows. The story he tells is that
there is a oave 400 feet deep in the Cascade
mountains where he can go and get thou
sands of dollars in nuggets whenever be
wants them. A mining oorupany has been
formed of Spokane capitalists with $200,-
090,000 as capital, and he is the manager of
the company. He has started for Seattle
where he claims he has made a large mining
deal.
CLAY MINEBB MUST GO.
Machines Being Introduced That Will
Take Their Occupation Away.
Steubenville, Dec. 4.—At New Cum
berland the John Porter Fire Brick Com
pany gave notice to their seventy-five min
ers that their services were no touger needed.
Tho men declare that the order follows the
prospective success of the new clay digging
machines, and that the machines were intro
duced to punish the men for last fall’s
strike.
These new maohlnes are destined to dis
place thousands of diggers In more than one
line of mining in Ohio, Pennsylvania and
West Virginia. ■ One machine will do the
work of from seventeen to twenty men.
MEDICAL.
Mrs. Amanda Paisley
For many years an esteemed communicant of
Trinity Episcopal church, Newburgh, N. Y.,
always savs “Thank Ton” to Hood’s Sar
saparilla. She suffered for years from Eczema
and Scrofula sores on her face, head and
ears, making her deaf nearly a year, and affect
ing her sight. To the surprise of her friends
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Has effected a cure and she can now hear and
see as well as ever. For full particulars of her
case send to C. I. Hood & Cos., Lowell, Mass.
HOOD’B PILLS re hand made, and are per
fect in condition, proportion and appearance.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
notice!
All goods left at my store for cleaning or dye
ing up to July 1, 1c92. must be taken out on or
before Jan 1, 1993. After that date they will be
held for gale for charges.
CHARLES RATZ,
Southern Dye House, Opp site Marshall House
Cmil-LTI.b 111- I H I 111
Our system for testing and adjusting to cor
rect any error of refraction is used only by us.
We guarantee to fit the most complicated oases.
All children's eyes should be examined at the
time of entering school. Thousands suffer with
headaches which can he remedied with properly
fitted glasses. Examination made with the
latest appliances without charge.
DR M. SCHWAB Si SON.
23 Bull Street. Savannah, Ga.
N. B.—Spectacles, Eyeglasses and all Optl
cai Instruments repaired at short notice
TENNEY’S FINE CANDIES
FRESH EVERY WEEK
AT
SOUTHSIDE PHARMACY,
Abercorn and Henry Street,.
MEDICAL.
LATORj
Protection from Malaria.
Chills and Fever, Intermittent Fever, Bilious
Fever, Typhoid Fever, Headache, General De
bility, Lassitude, Nausea, are the painful off
spring, of Malaria and hava their origin in a
disordered Liver, which, if not regulated in
time, great suffering, wretchedness and death
will ensue. Simmons Liver Regulator (purely
vegetable) is ahsolutely certain in its remedial
effects and acts more promptly in curing all
forms of malarial diseases than calomel or qui
nine. without any of the Injurious consequences
which follow tbelr use. If taken occasionally
by persons exposed to Malaria it will expel the
poison and protect them from attacx.
See that you get the Genuine, prepared by
-I. H. Zeilin A Cos., Philadelphia, Pa,
Pt NKHAL INVITATIONS.
CRESSLER.—The relatives and friends of
Mrs. and Mrs. Aaron Cressler are invited to at
tend the funeral services of their youngest
daughter, .Mattie, at the family residence, 98
Henry street, at 4 o'clock THIS AFTERNOON.
Carriages for the family. Interutent at
Laurel Grove cemetery.
DUNNING.—The friends and acquaintance of
Shildos C. Donkins and Mr. SDd Mrs. Joseph
D. Weed and family are requested to attend the
funeral of the former at 10 o'clock THIS
MORNING at the Christian church, Bolton
street.
HENNESSY. —The relatives and friends of
Mrs. Catherine Henneasy and family are re
spectfully Invited to attend the funeral of her
youngest son, Michael J., from residence. No.
t 6 Houston street, at 9:30 o'clock THIS MORN
ING,
MRBTINGs.
NOTICE TO ROAD COMMMMUUM?'
The annual meeting of the Board of Road
Commissioners will be held at the court bouse
on MONDAY, Deo, 5, at 10 o'clock a u.
Q. BOURQUIN, Chairman.
R Coakuy, Secretary.
GEORGIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
The regular monthly meeting of this society
will be held at Hodgson Hall THIS EVENING
at 9 o'clock.
T. D. ROCKWELL,
Recording Secretary.
etr* ISUaIS OTICBa.
On and after Feb 1, 1990, the basis of mnan
tsrnment of all advertising In the Mounvo Nsws
will be agate, or as the rate of $1 40 an lnoh for
the firat insertion. No Spedai Notice inserted
for less than $1 00.
NOTICE.
TO THE BONDHOLDERS OF THE GEORGIA
SOUTHERN AND FLORIDA R. R. CO.
A majority of the first mortgage bonds of the
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad Com
pany having been deposited to the order of the
Bondholders’ committee, notice is hereby given
to those who have signed the Bondholders'
agreement, dated November fourth, eighteen
hundred and ninety-two, to deposit their bonds,
and to those who have not joined in said agree
ment that additional deposits of bonds will be
received by the Mercantile Trust and Deposit
Company of Baltimore or the Southern Bank of
the Stata of Ooor*a, fiavaaaai.. until 1 1 a,- ao.li,
1-9*4, after which date the committee will exer
cise its right to refuse further deposits or to re
ceive them upon different terms.
H. P. SMART,
Chairman Bondholders’ Committee.
Savannah, Ga., Deo. 3, 1899.
notice!
All persons are hereby cautioned not to har
bor or trust any of the crew of British steam
ship EGLANTINE, Bruoe master, as no debts
contracted by them will be paid by the captain
or A. MINIS' SONS, Consignees.
AN OPEN INVITATION!
IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN MEN’S OR
BOYS’ APPAREL WE CORDIALLY INVITE
AN INSPECTION OF OUR STOCK. IT HAS
BEEN REPLENISHED TO REPAIR THE
HEAVY INROADS MADE BY THE EARLY
SEASON’S BUSINESS, AND IS NOW COM
PLETE IN EVERY DEPARTMENT AND
ABOVE ALL THE PRICES ARE AS AT
TRACTIVE AS THE GOODS.
FALK CLOTHING CO.
NOTICE.
Travel over Hanner s bridge on the Montgom
ery cross road will be suspended after Nov. 4
for a short time during the construction of a
new bridge over Vernon river.
R. A. BLANDFORD, City Engineer.
ST. JOHNS KtVER IMPROVEMENT.
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 15. 1899.
Notice Is hereby given that the channel in the
St. Johns river, Florida, known as the "cut-off"
between Fulton and New Berlin has been per
manently closed by a submerged in dlka.
J. H BACON.
Engineer in Charge.
THE LARGEST DISPLAY OP "
FINK SOAPS. COLOGNES, SPONGES AND
TOILET REQUISITES
Ever shown in this city, and direct from the
springs
BUFFALO, HARRIS AND BOWDEN LITHIA
WATERS.
Go for the largest selection.
LIVINGSTON'S PHARMACY,
Bull and Congress.
Telephone 293.
Spectacles selling at Tic., worth $9 50 per pair.
IN MEDICINES
—Purity is of the first consideration.—
I challenge the most exacting todetect the
least impurity in anything dispensed in my
drug store.
R. C. McCALL,
Corner Congress and Whitaker Streets.
DON’T LEAVE THOME SPOTS
OH
YOUR CLOTHING,
When for twenty-five cents you can get a large
bottle of
"DETERSIVE FLUID”
Which will remove instantaneously upon appli
cation grease or Mains from silk or woolen
goods without injury to tht fabric, at
SOLOMONS & CO.,
163 Congress Street and 99 Bull Street.
For 25 CentiT 1 ' “
Cures all aches.
Cures all pains.
Cures all diarrhiea
Cures the oholera.
PUNJAB BALSAM.
BOWLINBKI. PHAR.MACIBT.
He still has the prescription
Books of Butler's Pharmacy, •
and is the only one who can
repeat the proscriptions.
AMUsEMEVU.
SAVANNAH THEATErT
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 7,
MR. POTTHBOFTEIAS.
COMEDY-DRAMA IN FOUR ACTS
-BY
A. C. GUNTER,
Author of “MR BAP.NEB OF NEW YORK*
Under the Management of
McVICKER & ROBB.
Special Scenery, Includes View of Venice k_
Moonlight, View of Harbor at Fni.fT,
The English ChaSri^d^o^* 008 ’
France. ’
Seat* at Lhrtorttont Dec. 5
d£*?o. ** u * cUoa " LARKY the lord.”
BAFKs. " '
THE CITIZENS BANK
of savannah.
Capital $500,000
Transacts a general banking business.
Maintains a Savings Department and allows
INTEREST AT 4 PER CENT., compounded
quarterly.
The accounts of Individuals, firms, banks aol
corporations are solicited.
With our large number of correspondents la
GEORGIA, ALABAMA, FLORIDA and SOUTH
CAROLINA, we are prepared to handle collec
tions on the most favorable term.
Correspondence invited.
BRANTLEY A. DENMARK,
Prxsidxxt.
M. B. LANE,
Vice Preside*!.
GEORGE O. FREEMAN,
Cashier.
SAVANNAH BANK '
AND TRUST CO.
SAVANNAH, GA.
INTEREST AT
ON DEPOSITS IN SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.
Collections on Savannah and all southera
points, we handle on the most favorahie terms
and remit at lowest exchange rates on day of
pay ment. Correspondence solicited
JOSEPH D WEED. President.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Vice President.
JAMES H. HUNTER, Cashier.
ESTEVE&CO.7
116 1-2 Bay Street,
savannah, - - ga.,
AND BUSINESS, BUT
AfiL aLLL LXOnANOK OM ALL TRtT PRIM-
Portugal!* 3 OF spaln ’ france
DRAW ON
A. BUFFER & SONS LONDON
1 PARIS,
Havre,
CREDIT LYONNAIS {-BORDEAUX*
ROUEN,
NANTES.
l DUNKIRK,Me,
ESTEVEA CO BARCELONA
P. ALFARO &CO .. MADRID
BARKOSO £ CO LISBON
rates paid for drafts of masters
of Spanish vessels and for drafts drawn by
masters of vessels bound for Spanish ports
SHELLED RUTS.
SHELLED NUTS!
WALNUTS.
PECANB.
FILBERTa
ALMONDS (tolled.)
Fins assortment of Chocolate Creams tnd
Candies at
WM. G. COOPER’S,
28 Whitaker Street.
-h
PHOTOGRAPHERS.
LAUNEY & GOEBEL
Are now prepared to show at their NEW
STUDIO the finest line of Engravings, Etching*
Water Colon, etc., ever broughl to Savannah.
Just suitable for the Christmas Holidays.
Frames of all sizes and styles constantly is
stock or made to order. The public cordially
invited to inspect.
N. R —We have also succeeded In securing
the services of Mr. FRANK WETTLIN. late of
New York, who is a finished artist in Crayon,
Pastel and Water Colors.
PRINTERS AND BOOKBINDERS^
GEO. N. NICHOLS,
PRINTING,
BINDING,
BLANK BOOKS.
83* Bay St. Savannah.
hotelsl
The X)e Soto,
SAVANNAH, G-A.
One of the most elegantly appointed hotrft
In the world. Accommodations for WO
Special rates for Savannah families Jrsir
permanent board.
WATSON & POWERS.
PROPRIETORS.
THE MORRISON HOUSE.
/"'entrally located on line of scrvet narA
L pleasant south room*. >* "
board at moderate prices.
and ventilation perfect, the ,
Uon of the house is of the beet. Corner
on and Drayton streets, Savannan. '
Vir ANTED, merchant* to try tn ”
▼ V advertndutf io the “One
columns of the Manx urn N*w. “ w ll ' ™
pay.