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MILLIONAIRES’ TAXES.
Ebi tie Proposed Incorae Tax Will
Squeeze tbe Rich Man.
Will Bleed Standard Oil Magnates.
The Incomes of Famous Preachers
and Literary Men—Also Railroad
Officials
In a syndicate article on the proposed
income tax, published in the Washington
Star, F. G. Carpenter says: “If it [the
tax] could be justly collected it would
bring in millions. I hare been looking
over the rich men of the United State*
and estimating what they will have to
pay if they are taxed on the incomes that
they ought to have in proportion to their
supposed wealth. Every congressman on
his salary alone will have to drop <3O a
year into the treasury. The cabinet
ministers will each fork over <BO to Uncle
Sam. and President Cleveland will have
S9OO deducted from his white house in
come. Private Secretary Thurber will
yield up <OO and the justices of the
supreme court will each have $l3O a
year less to spend on capons, terra
pin and other delicacies. If in addi
tion to this they return the incomes
that they should have, supposing their
wealth brought them 5 per cent. Cleve
land's two hundred odd thousand dollars
would make him pay S3OO more of an in
come tax. and Secretary Lament will have
to plank down the same amount out of his
profits of street railway investments.
Evpry millionaire in the Senate ought, at
this rate, to pay something like <I.OOO a
year income tax, and if Don Cameron,
Cal Briec and John P. Jones do not wince
when they are asked to give up <6,000 and
upward apiece to the treasury, lam much
mistaken in the men. Senator Stewart
issaid to be worth <1,000.000. He will pay
<I,OOO. Watson C. Squire has $1,000,000
worth of real estate in the state of
Washington and he is too sharp a business
man w> let it bring him in less than a $50.-
000 income. He ought to pay SI,OOO. Of
aU of John Sherman's big fortune I
doubt whether there are many dollars
lying idle, and Vilas will probably have
to drop ll.OOu a year from hi* Wisconsin
assets Fully half of the members of
the Senate have incomes of <5.000 and
more ia addition to their salaries. They
will have to pay <IOO and upward apiece,
and Henry Cabot Lodge, George C. Per
kins and Senator Stock bridge are among
those who will be expected to pay their
thousands. The most of these men will
kick when the bill comes before the Sen
ate and the general opinion is that it will
not be allowed to become a law.
MILLIONAIRES BT TBS THOUSAND.
The millionaires of the United States!
Their name is legion. Each one of their
millions ought to bring in between $40,000
snd $50,000 a year, and from this tax they
should pay at least SI,OOO per million.
Look at the iist and see some of the
golden spots upon which the muriatio
acid of this tax ought to fall to prove
whether the figures are genuine. Will
ilim Waldorf Astor is said to be worth
$150.000,000. His vast wealth is in lands
and houses in New York city, and is sup
posed to bring him in 6 per oent. If this
is so, he gets more than SO,( 00,000 a year,
and his tax will be more th&A SIBO,OOO, or
about <15,000 per month. Ttie Gould es
tate, it is said, amounts to o ver <100.000,-
000, and at 6 per cent, it will bring in
<6,000,000 a year, and would have to pay a
tax of $120,000. One of the biggest
fortunes of the United States is that of
the Vanderbilts, which amounts to in the
neighborhood of <300.000 000. and which,
if reduced to gold, would equal more than
700,000 pounds of the precious metal. It
ia all safely and conservatively invested,
and it probably brings in an income of
<12,000,000 a year, and it ought to pay a
tax of something like <30,000 ier month,
or over <BOO a day. The two brothers,
William K. and Cornelius VanderbUt, are
together supposed to be worth nearly
<000,000,000, and when William H. Van
derbilt was living I got an idea at the
treasury department of his immense
estate. 1 was looking Into the invest
ments of our millionaires in 4 per cent,
bonds, and I was told that at one time
Commodore Vanderbilt had held $46,000,-
000 in these securities alone. The
interest was paid quarterly, and this one
man got from the United States treasury
1 per cent, on this amount every three
months Without the slightest risk he re
ceived from the United States government
a check for <460.000 every ninety days. ,It
made me feel like au anarchist. I could
have forgiven him the receiving ten times
this amount from an investment in which
be stood some chance of losing, but to re
ceive <150.000 a month, $5,000 a day, or
over <2OO an hour, without doing a stroke
of work or risking a cent of loss was en
tirely too much for me, and for the mo
ment I flaunted the red flag and envied
him.
TIN CENTS A SECOND.
It Is hard to pet an Idea of what these
millions mean, and the enormous incomes
which they bring in. The Astor fortune
if put into $1 bills and pasted together
would make a crazy quilt big enough to
cover fifty-six farms of 100 acres each.
The Gould estate would carpel more than
8,000 acres, and iffthe bills were pasted to
gether end to end those which could be
realized from the Vanderbilt fortunes
would make a green ribbon more than 22,-
000 miles long, or long enough to almost
reach around the earth. And still there
are other fortunes nearly as great as
these. Collis P. Huntington is said to be
worth $50,000,000 and he ought to pay $50,.
000 a year of an income tax. I would like
to see the long face of liussell Sage
shrivel up when he is asked to give
Uncle Sam $50,000 out of his income.
t venture he would have the money
brought in in barrels of pennies and paid
out one at a time in order to bold on to it
the longer. Hussell Sage makes his
money at high rates of Interest. He al
ways has a vast amount on call, and he
can figure up what 4 per cent means with
out using a pencil or pen. He is supposed
to he worth $50,000,000, and his trans
actions are such that the tax inquisitors
will not find it hard to estimate some
thing as to its profits. According to the
published account, however, Russell Sage
IS credited with taking in 10 cents every
second, $6 a minute, a little more than
&,000 a day. about $250,000 a month, and
over $3,000,000 a year. His property must
lie protected, and you will agree with me
that an Income tax as to him would be
just. V
STANDARD OIL MILLIONS.
By the way. speaking of the Justice of
an income tax. makes me think of a ques
tion which was debated in one of the
literary societies of John Allen’s con
gressional district in Mississippi. This
was:
“Where is the best place to have a
boil?”
The decision arrived at was: “On the
other fellow.” And this is the way with
the income tax, it is all right provided it
comes on the other fellow, and these mil
lionaires are the other fellows. Take
the Standard Oil magnates. They have
turned globules of oil into gobs of gold
end their own heads buzz when they try
to compute their incomes.
John Rockefeller is said to be worth al
most as much as William Waldorf Astor
and the most conservative estimates put
him at $100,000,0U0. He did many a Job of
hauling along the wharves in Cleveland
When he was a young man for a dollar a
load, and he knows bow much $1 means,
but eveu he caunot figure out in his mind
the enormous amount of IIOU.UUOJJOU His
money is Invested in standard oil stocks,
kj*ti ich are supposed to be as good ss gold
■nd which sometimes pay 12 |>er cent.
dividends. His income must be in the
neighborhood of slo.uuo,ooo a year, and
an income tax of <300,000 would not hurt
him as much as a tax of $3 would injure
the average reader of this letter. He
spends his thousands on horses, country
homes and Baptist Sunday schools, but
they don't begin to eat up his income,
much less nis vast principal, and he can
pay this tax and not come to want.
Another rich Standard oil man is Olivets
Payne, who is said to be worth $100,000.-
000 and who is a bachelor with mo house
to take care of.no children to keep in
shoes and no grocery bills to pay. You
would think that he would not object to
helping Uncle Sam out to the extent of a
paltry couple of hundred thousand dol
lars a year. Henry M. Flagler has his
extravagances in the way of his immense
Florida hotels, but these are but mice
bites at the great round cheese of his in
come. At 5 per cent, his fortune is said
to bring him in $3,000,000 a year or $250,-
000 a month. The income tax would leave
him more than $61,900,000 for his year's ex
penses. and his principal would remain
untouched. He is said to be worth $50,-
000.000, and at 5 per oeut. his income is
nearly SBSO per hour. Flagler was once
as poor as John Rockefeller. When he
was a boy he thought he could make a
fortune at keeping a hotel and he longed
for the chance to try it. The result was ,
that when his connection with the Stand
ard Oil Company brought him in money
faster than he count it he concluded to
realize his boyish amoition and he built
his big hotel at St. Augustine.
PINCHING THE COIN. ‘
One reason why our rich men object to
paying taxes lies in their early lines. The
most of them began saving penny by
penny. Until they were of age a dollar
was as big as a cart wheel, and they can
now appreciate small amounts better
than they can large ones. They look
upon their millions as matters of course,
aud in the way of business they make
and lose fortunes without wißking. When
it comes to spending, however, they pinch
the coin until the nose of the Goddess of
Liberty is pushed down into her throat
and the eagle fairly screams in his agony.
Even iu his last days, it is said. Jay
Gould estimated the dollars he spent as
the profit from the sale of so many rat
traps. Andrew Carnegie once worked
for <3 a week, and though there is no
man more liberal in the lump I venture
he can tell you how many meals a poor
man can get from every dollar he spends,
and Levi S. Loiter, who has been
paying SIO,OOO for house rent and
who has just finished a palace
more gorgeous than that of any sec
ond class kingdom of Europe, used to
hustle about trying to get a start on $0 a
week. Russell Sage made his first money
in selling as a grocer in Troy, N. Y., and
he thinks of the barrels and barrels of
sweet mixture which the $50,000 tax on
his income would buy, and his face is any
thing but sweet at the thought. Joseph
Pulitzer will have to pay several times
SIO,OOO if this bill passes, and he will re
member how hard he worked to make
his first dollars in driving a coach in St.
Louis, or as a poor reporter on the smaller
newspapers there. Sidney Dillon will re
member how he ran errands as an office
bey, Henry Clewe will figure up the whole
on the basis of the value of the money to
him when he was getting $3 a week, and
D. O. Mills will estimate how much his
income tax would amount to if he were
back in Sacramento, Cal., trying to get
enough money to start life by selling
lemonade and root beer. I hope
they can squeeze a big tax out
of Lucky Baldwin. He ought
to pay $50,000 a year, and if he does
it will make him feel as if he bad 50,000
pins pricking at 50,000 different places in
his anatomy. This will not be the case
with George W. Childs. He began life a
poor boy, but he has never been miserly,
and the big income tax he will have to
pay will not hurt him. He has made
money rapidly, but he has spent it just
as freely, and though he made no more
than SOOO a year until he was seventeen,
before he was twenty he was on his way
to fortune. Still he worked once for $4 a
month. Whitelaw Reid, who will have to
pay an income tax as big as the president's
salary, said not long ago that he was glad
to get $5 a week as a correspondent of a
Cincinnati newspaper, and John Wana
maker, another of these prospective
big income tax payers, began life by
working for $1.35 a week. Phil Armour
will pay a tax on millions. He worked
hard in the mines of California to get his
start, and he knows the exact value of
the tens of thousands of dollars which he
will have to pay. It is the same with a
dozen other rich men whom I could men
tion. They all began at the bottom, and
the most of them will realize the value of
the money they will have to give up. A
few of them wiU, I venture, lie about it,
and say that they make less than they do.
but many will be honest and turn in to
Uncle Sam a fair account of their profits
and their losses.
PROFESSIONAL MEN.
It will be the same with professional
men. The best brain and the most
skilled fingers of the United States will
be affected by this tax. There are a num
ber of lawyers in New York who make
many times $4,000 a year, and there are
railroad officials, editors and bank presi
dents in all the big cities who receive
fortunes for their work. George B. Rob
erts, president of the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company is said to receive $50,000
a year as his salary, andChauncey Depew
receives a like amount. Both of these
men have large estates outside of their
salaries, but on their salaries alone they
will pay SI,OOO to Uncle Sam, and the
same will be the case of a number of oth
er high salaried men. The president of
the Western Union Telegraph Company
is said to receive $50,000 a year. The presi
dent of the Equitable Life Insurance CO.
gets a like amount, and he is a poor
bank president, who does not receive ns
much as the chief justice of the United
States, Bob Ingersoll is supposed to make
SIOO,OOO a year out of his law practice and
lecturing. He ought to pay $2,000 of a
tax. George Hoadley probably makes
$60,000. and it is said that Bourke Cock
ran still gets the same amount out of
his practice. I know a lawyer in New
York who made about $25,000 last year,
and who gets a big salary from a corpora
tion, and is paid in addition SIOO a day
whenever he is away from the city on
business for it. It is the same with doc
tors. There are said to be a hundred
doctors in New York who make SIO,OOO a
year and upward, and it is said that Dr.
Weir Mitchell once refused a fee of $25,-
000 to go over to Europe and back on the
next steamer to pay a single medical
visit. There are more than twenty doc
tors in New York who make over $20,000
a year, and nearly every profession has
its SIO,OOO men. Even the preachers
will have to pay income taxes. Dr. T. De-
Witt Tamage will have to pay $l6O out of
the salary he gets from the Brooklyn
Tabernacle, and the assessment on the re
mainder of his income will call, I venture,
for SSOO more. Dr. Morgan Dix will be
asked for S2OO, and Robert Collyer will
give Uncle Sam a like amount. Even the
newspaper men will have to pay. All of
the big editors will be assessed and a
number of the literary men. W D. How
ells will probably give at least SSOO out of
his income to the United States treasury.
John Brisben Walker will be one whose
income taxes will run into the thousands,
and Mark Twain will shell out several
times as many gold dollars as he made
during the days when he worked for a
living as a newspaper correspondent here
at Washington.
WEALTHT WOMEN.
Among the people upon whom this tax
will most heavily fall will be the rich
women of the United States Their in
comes are better known than those of the
men. the widows of our millionaires, the
exact amount of whose estates have been
told in the courts, will be assessed at s
per cent, of all they receive over this $4,-
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1894.
000. Mrs. Stanford will have to pay many
thousands every year. Mrs. Senator
Hearn will annually pay a fortune to the
government, and Mrs. Zach Chandler will
be called upon for a large amount. Every
one has heard of the great wealth of
Miss Hetty Green. She is said to be
worth <30,000.000. and at 6 per cent her
income from this must be<l,Boo.oooa year.
At this rate she will pay $36,000 in taxes.
Mias Mary Garrett, of Baltimore will be
another large tax payer, and there are
some women in Washington who could
buy diamond necklaces out of the amount
they will have to pay if this bill passes.
BCBEWB FOR ALL CORKS.
One Factory Makes Enough to Give
One to Every Man.
From the New York Tribune.
Newark, N. J., Jan. 37.—Hard times
have made no difference with the cork
screw. More of them than ever were
turned out during the last year. New
ark is the birthplace of most of the cork
screws of the world. Hence, this is a good
spot to get statistics on the subject.
When it is slated that one firm in this
city alone made 160.000,000 corkscrews
last year, the size and importance of the
industry will be understood. This beats
the record. The Wilson bill isn’t sup
posed to disturb the traffic in the least.
It is hard to see just what is done with all
the corkscrews that are manufactured
every twelve months. There must be a
tremendous lot of them broken and lost.
The fact that the last year’s yield was
big enough to supply every voter on the
globe with one, and leave enough over to
supply the advocates of women suffrage, is
proof of the statement.
The average length of the corkscrew is
three inches. If the corkscrews turned
on the market by one firm, in 1893, could
be laid length to length they would have
extended from New York to San Fran
cisco. would have spanned the Pacific
ocean and reached half way across Japan.
This, be it remembered, was the work of
only one establishment. If all the new
corkscrews of 1893 could be numbered,
thev would doubtless be sufficient to sup
ply every inhabitant of this sphere with
one of the articles.
It requires nearly 100 men simply to
twist the screws for the 160,000,000 imple
ments. These men worked full time, too,
and every day of the year, except Sun
days and holidays. It took a number
more hands to make the wooden and
other styles of handles. There are nearly
fifty varieties in the market. Among
them are the ring handle, steel wire
screws lor demijohns and large bottles,
the folding screw and the broad wire
handle screw. Several years ago an ice
pick and cigar- box opener was made with
a screw concealed in the steel tube han
dle. The tube can be slipped off, and the
ice-pick forma the handle of the screw.
Another novelty has a brush in the
handle, so that the waiter in a restaurant
is not obliged to run his fingers around
the inside of the neck of a wine bottle in
order to remove the particles of cork and
dust. For chara[>aguo bottles a screw is
made with a blade in one end of the
the handle to cut the twine around the
cork. Another handle oontaina both tha
blade and the brush The power cork
soiew is an ingenious and popular
arrangement, which saves the knees and
arms from a tussle with an obstiuate
cork. A cone of steel fits over the neck of
the bottle, and the screw draws the cork
while the cone presses on the bottle.
Cheap novelties out of twisted wire
have also been invented and patented by
those in the corkscrew trade. The spiral
thumbscrew is one of these. It can be
pushed into a board and easily removed,
after serving as a temporary hatrack. It
can be purchased for <1 a gross, and re
tails at 5 cents. Spiral paper books, wall
hooks, hat and coat racks and stair but
tons, card surpenders, and holders, bill
files, soap holders, pickle forks, toasting
and vegetable forks, and spiral shoe but
ton hooks are also manufactured here in
Newark. There is also a left-handed
corkscrew. The original was made for a
left-handed bartender, and it has been
popular. A Newark firm turns over 300,-
000 pocket corkscrews every year.
The query has already been rained as
to what becomes of all the corkscrews.
Of course, loss and breakage cut quite a
figure. Large New York restaurants buy
corkscrews direct from the Newark
makers, and they get hundreds at a time.
It is no unusual thing for big hardware
houses in Boston, New York. Philadel
phia and Washington to order 10,000 cork
pullers at a time.
STUOKIN A MOLASSES TROUGH.
The Vanity of a New York Woman
Wintering In Florida Got Her Into
Trouble.
From the New York Times.
A New Yorker who went to Florida to
see the prize fight, and visited Corbett at
his training quarters, at Mayport, tells
an amusing story. A well-known young
woman of this city who is spending the
the winter in Florida went, accompanied
by a cousin from Jacksonville, to inspect
the surroundings of the champion.
Among the articles which chiefly in
terested her was the weighing machine,
which registered the avoirdupois of the
champion twice a day. She asked and
received the privilege of being weighed,
and was somewhat horrified on learning
that her well-nourished blonde beauty
was to be measured by a symbolic 138
pouuds. After leaving the grounds, she
expressed Skepticism as to the accuracy
of the machine, and, with her companion,
went to a small grocery, which, half
buried by the shifting, wind-driven
sands, is visible from the steamers pass
ing up the St. John's, to learn what
story the grocery scales would tell.
These scales were kept in a dimly
lighted extension, having a floor about a
foot lower than that of the main buiid
iug. In this extension was also kept a
row of large molasses hogsheads, in front
of which was a wooden trough two feet
wide by a foot deep ana eight or nine
feet long, which received the drippings
from the faucets.
In the dim, religious light sifting
through the small sand-stained panes the
tourist, it so happened, did not perceive
the vulgar trough. While stepping from
the highpr to the lower floor, she tripped,
and, in trying to recover her balance, fell
fiat along the sticky length of the ancient
trough. Arabic figures never lie, though
feminine ones may, and the secret dis
closed by the “138 pounds” could not be
questioned by any of those who saw the
generously plump form so snugly wedged
in between the pine sides of the wooden
box as to be unable to rise. Struggling
wildly to recover her feet, the victim
kicked open the faucet of the end hogs
head, the first fruits of which action were
apparent In the form of a stream of amber
sweetness falling upon her ankles at the
rate of a pint in ten seconds.
The proprietor and his assistant rushed
to the sDot, attracted by the screams of
the lady, but so thoroughly had the tour
ist’s personality pervaded the box. that
they found themselves unable, unassisted,
to restore the fallen sufferer to the per
pendicular. Reinforcements were neces
sary. Two men digging in a bed of natural
oysters were invited to aid. Tho com
bined strength ofthe quartette finally ex
tricated the lady.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody good.
The tourist’s contretemps proved a wind
fall to the two little sons of the grocery
man. Previously restrained by their
father from venturing to the extension,
they now, in the excitement of the acci
dent, laid aside precedent for some fleet
ing, hafipy moments and viewed the
sv.oetened mysteries of the building.
While the victim, sweet in spite of her
self, was being conducted to the rooms of
the grocer s wife, they followed, apply
ing their frugal fingers to that portion of
her saccbsnzed costume containing the
heaviest deposits.
A CHINAMAN'S STORY.
Wilt Join Can Do Id tie Way ol an
American Romaoce.
How a Pedagogue's Happiness Was
Nipped In the Bud- The Story of a
New England Courtship.
Yan Phon Lee, In the St. Louis Republlo.
When 1 was a boy I attended a public
school in a New England town not many
miles from the “Hub." The teacher of
classics in that institution was a man by
the name of Virgil Monson, who was by
birth and training a Puritan, but one
whom culture bad somewhat liberalized,
though he retained many prejudices of
the average yankee.
In person he was short, heavy and
thick-set. His head was dome-shaped,
but it appeared to me that his bumps of
veneration and combativeness bad been
unduly developed at the expense of the
bumps of conjugal affection, which was
sufficient explanation of the fact that he
had not yet committed matrimony, though
he had turned 35 at the time I first knew
him.
Whatever may have been his defects, I
must do him the justice to say that bis
forehead was broad and high, a sure sign
of intellectuality; his nose of the Roman
variety, which always indicates strength
of character and tenacity of opinion;
while his manner of compressing his lips,
pointed not the less certainly to his firm
ness. to which a square chin also con
tributed.
His disposition was by no means lamb
like, nor his temper equable, as his red
hair (what there was of it) and red beard
bore abundant testimony to the contrary.
I grieve to say that much learning had
made Mr. Monson not mad. but bald. The
dome part of his head, was wont to shine
like the golden dome of the state eapitol
in Boston, especially after the vigorous
polishings he gave it in his toilet. A
fringe of sandy hair surrounded the
aforesaid bald surface like the diverging
rays of light around the aurora borealis.
Add to the foregoing an excitable tem
perament, a quick and nervous manner,
a love of pedantic display, a fondness for
Greek and Latin roots, and most of all
for natural science, and you have a toler
ably fair description of an interesting
personality.
It was our professor's habit, to seek
recreation in the woods during the inter
vals of pedagogical labor, and there,
amid the sighings of trees, tne singing of
birds and the chirpings of crickets, to
combine bis pursuit of health with the
study of natural science. After spending
an afternoon in the fragrant seclusion of
the forest he would re{umjwith his
pockets full of botanical and entomolog
ical specimens. Among the last may be
mentioned caterpilars, moths, butterflies
and other denizens of the woods.
WE BOARDED IN THE SAME HOUSE.
His room was next door to mine, and
had the appearance of a museum. There
were numerous books, of course, on all
sorts of subjects, ferneries, cabinets of
minerals and chloroformed butterflies,
suspicious bottles containing queer crea
tures in all stages of alcoholic intoxica
tion, and aquaria containing living fish,
toads, lizards, and so on.
Absorbed as he was in his duties at
school, his favorite studies and pursuits,
Mr. Monson had had little time to think
of matrimony, and though some designing
mammas had pressed the question home
tahim, his invariable reply had been.
“1 don’t need a wife. I am happy
enough asl am."
This reply served as a wet blanket to
the enthusiastic interest his lady ac
quaintances entertained in his happiness.
Though his character and disposition in
were not suoh as to make him popular
with the fair sex, still the few who knew
and respected him, woundered at his pro
digious learning, which he took no pains
to conceal, and secretly laughed at his ec
centricities and hobbies.
Having evaded Cupid’s darts so long
and with such signal success, no one sup
posed for a moment that he would suc
cum bat last to the charms of a coquettish
country girl. But so it turned out —thus
proving the truth of the old adage that
there is no fool like an old fool. He fell
a victim to love so late in. life that, like
mumps und measles, it attacked him with
greater virulence than it would have
done in his younger days.”
The girl, whom we will simply call Lil
ian, was a brunette of fascinating man
ners, but rather homely features. But if
she satisfied Mr. Monson’s notions of an
ideal woman, no one else had a right to
complain. She was still attending school,
though past 21 years of age, and, as fate
would have it, was boarding in the same
house as the professor. It was observed
by the landlady and her daughter that
after Lilian’s advent Mr. Monson was
changed from his own self. He paid more
attention to his toilet than before, brush
ing his fringe of hair with unusual care
and having his beard trimmed oftener
than had been his wont. At the table he
had alternate fits of abstraction and lo
quacity. He lingered there as long as
Lilian remained, and would, after supper,
follow her to the sitting room, where he
would talk to her by tbe hour about some
Greek poet or natural phenomenon. And
when he showed her his various bugs, in
sects and reptiles, msking a running com
plimentary on their peculiarities, the
landlady formed the very natural conclu
sion that the professor was badly “stuck.”
The girl was a splendid listener and
flattered Mr. Monson’s vanity by her at
tertiou rather than by words of praise.
In about! three months the professor
had wound himself in a net as completely
as the silk worm in its cocoon. As he
grew more persistent in his attentions
the girl became more coquettish. She
would be kind one day and distant and
hard to please the next, thus tormenting
the very life out of him.
THE PBOrBeSOR’S WOOING.
At last, unable to bear tbe strain, he
determined to risk all by a test question.
A favorable opportunity presented itself
one night when everybody had retired
and the twain were alone in the parlor.
What took place there had better be
told in the words of the young lady, who
related the affair afterwards to the land
lady's daughter, not knowing that I was
listening and taking it all in.
"Well,” she said, “to begin from the
beginning, your mother left the parlor as
the clock struck 9, taking care to close tho
door after her. This emtxildened him to
draw his chair closes to mine. ‘Do you
think one can bo happier when married
than single l” he asked. I replied that I
didn’t know, not having had the experi
ence of a married woman.
“ ’Well, don’t you think so, or believe
so!’
“ ’Why that depends on circumstances,
Mr. Monson,’ i answered. I knew what
was coming all the time, but didn’t want
to show it.
“ ‘But if there is love in the marriage,
don't you think that there will be happi
ness i ’
At this point he seized my hand and
squeezed it until it fairly turned blue, and
said excitedly:
“ ’Then marry me. Miss Lillian. No
man can love a woman more than I love
you. Say but yes, and my very life is at
your disposal to do as you please with it.
Your happiness will be my first consider
ation. Here, on my knees, I ask you to
grant my suit.’
“I turned my face around to look at him
and oh! what do you think ! You can
never guess. I laugh every time 1 think
of it. One of those nasty caterpillars had
crept out of his pocket during the excite
ment and was making its way over his
shoulder toward his collar. I nearly died
with laughter at his comical situation.
Upon this he got very mad and excited
beyond control, but ihe remained on his
knees the while. Said he:
“ ’You are laghing at a very serious
matter. You trifie with me. Is this the
way to treat the proffered love of an hon
est man?’
“’I am sorry, Mr. Monson. I was not
laughing at you, but at something else..
“I had barely finished saying that when
that worm stood on the poor mans collar
and. bracing its hind feet on it, made a
grab for his hair with its front feet. The
nasty thing was so comical in all move
ments that I laughed right out, making
no attempt to control m.v merriment. He
rose from his knees; his face was scarlet
with rage. But as he turned the door
knob I commanded my risiDilities enough
to say to him:
“ ‘Mr. Monson, lam very, very sorry
for what has happened. I respect and es
teem you as a friend, but I can never be
your wife. But if you don't want another
girl to laugh at you, the next time you go
a-courting you leave worms and bugs be
hind.’
"By this time the caterpillar had
reached his bald spot, and from that ele
vated perch was looking on the scene
with placid enjoyment. He caught my
eyes as they were bent towards the in
truder, and Just then, his excitement
having subsided a little and no doubt feel
ing the nasty thing on top of bis head, be
caught it in his hand, crushing the poor
worm at the same time. He then made a
dart for the stairs, going over three steps
at a time. That is all there was to this
little romance of mine."
The next week the professor resigned
his position in the school and left the
town forever.
AMERICA'S RICHEST WOMAN.
Hetty Green, Worth $60,000,000,
Pays $7 a Week for Board and Room.
From the Philadelphia Record.
New York, Jan. 38.—With a fortune
estimated at $60,000,000, Mrs. Hetty
Green, the richest woman in America,
lives in a dingy hall bedroom in a Brook
lyn boarding house, and eats in the
kitchen, paying $7 a week for board and
room. Although she has a husband, son
and daughter, she has no home, but mi
grates from boarding house to boarding
house, caring for two things—her money
and her privacy.
The eccentricities of this Croesus in
petticoats are as sands of the sea. She
lives the life of a roving hermit because
it gives her an excuse to refuse to pay
taxes on her personal property. When
ever a tax collector is fortunate to locate
her she sends him away empty-handed on
the ground that she is a non-resident of
the city or county or state. She has been
so shrewd in her endeavors to conceal her
temporary residences from the public
that at no time within ten years have
more than a score of persons known where
she slept or where she ate her meals.
Here is a pen picture of the woman in
her daily garb: She is well above the
medium hight, with a Urge frame and
plenty of flesh to cover the bones. Her
hands and feet are of generous propor
tions. She is not only square-jawed, but
her whole head is singularly square. She
has high cheek-bones, a firm, straight
nose, thin lips and keen, gray eyes, set
well back under the broad forehead. Her
hair, once brown, looks as if it had a tinge
of green in it. It is combed down
straight on each side of her forehead ag
gressively.
There is an aggresive air in the poise of
the head and the well-squared shoulders
and erect figure. She walks with a quick,
yet shuffling stride. Her features are not
coarse, and an expression of good nature,
sharp and shrewd, yet kindly, is on the
face that haunts many a mortgage debtor
in his dreams.
WEARS SHOP-WORN CLOTHING.
She wears a faded black cloth dress
that she paid $1 for at a second-hand
store in 1893. It is frayed around the
bottom and the skirt is rusty. Over this
was a $1.90 black cloth jacket, bought
two weeks ago, after she had called once
a week for three or four weeks to inquire
the price, which was originally $6. After
shop wear had brought the figure down
to $1.90, she took the jacket.
Her bonnet is small and black, and un
obstrusive enough in appearance from the
front, but the ribbon with which it was
faced cannot conceal a great patch of
faded yellow at the back, which you can
recognize anywhere. She wears heavy
overshoes over her thick button boots.
Three or four buttons are gone, and the
woman's feet look obstrusive under the
short skirt. Her overshoes are loose, too,
and her shoes of coarse leather. Tightly
clutched under her left arm, this golden
princess in peasant dress carries a black
cloth bag. with puckering strings, which
is her constant companion out of doors.
OWNS A FORTUNE IN DIAMONDS.
Once in a great while Mrs. Green
“dresses up.” She has a strange passion
for diamonds and keeps a marvelous ar
ray of them locked in her strong boxes in
the Chemical Bank. Once upon a time
she yielded to the beseechings of her
landlady’s daughter and brought from the
bank an immense bundle. She uncovered
on the kitchen table a collection of dia
monds and precious stones such as they
had never seen. There were diamond
brooches and necklaces and a string of
pearls, which Mrs. Green admitted was
worth a great many thousand dollars,
and, in addition, a very handsome black
satin gown, with black lace flounces on it
a foot wide.
The old lady (she is over 60) was per
suaded to go up and put on the dress and
diamonds, when she looked like a queen
of wealth, as she is.
Even then she wanted to eat in the
kitchen, but the landlady insisted on her
sitting with the other boarders. But
Mrs. Green quickly donned her old gar
ments, saying she felt like a fool in the
others.
The rich woman's life is the most hum
drum possible. She rises early, and after
breakfasting in the kitchen walks across
the bridge to New York, unless it is
stormy, when she will spend 3 cents for
carfare. Once over the river she goes
straight to the Chemical bank, where
she has her office. She is one of the largest
stockholders in that institution, and
keeps her cash there, amounting to three
or four million. In the vaults of the bank
are Mrs. Green's strong boxes, where
are some $25,000,000 worth of government
bonds, securities, mortgagesjand a magni
ficent collection of diamonds. All Mrs.
Green's letters, no matter how addressed
go the Chemical bank. She gets hundreds
of begging epistles every week, and they
invariably reach the waste basket.
She takes he. luncheon at the bank to
save money ana spends the day at her
desk, looking over papers and scheming
for gain. She leaves for home about 6
o’clock, and after supper spends the even
ing in the kitchen to save burning gas in
her room.
Mrs. Green’s husband is a club bach
elor, once worth $1,000,000, but now de
pendent on his wife, having lost his for
tune in speculation. "Ned" Green, the
son, looks after his mother's interests out
of town. Miss Sylvia H. Green, 28 years
old, is a tall, plain-featured young woman
who has a fortune of $6,000,0ut) in her own
right, besides being a prospective sharer
with her brother, in her mother’s vast
estate. The four members of this queer
family are most of the time domiciled un
der four roofs, thanks to the mother s
eccentric parsimony.
Manager—The critics say that in the
play, "A Wronged Wife,” you do not ex
hibit enough emotion when your busband
leaves you, never to return. Popular
Actress—Oh, i don’t, don’t If Well, I’ve
had two or three husbands leave me
never to return, and I guess I know as
much about how to act under those cir
cumstances as any uody.—l'uck.
RAILROADS.
THE TROPICAL TRUNK LINE
Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway
Joseph H. Durkee, Receiver.
THE FLORIDA SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO . I
INDIAN RIVER STEAMBOAT COMPANY, l B. B. CABLE. w
JUPITER AND LAKE WORTH railway;! General Manage
~ SOUTH— | J VfTP TT7 —
No. 15.|N0. y .' N0.71. N0.23. Time Table la Bffoct 1an.28, ■oi|Wo 78.
t *,SIS , l tr Jacksonville .".".Ar SOO pm 1 tSr.sA
955 p 2 51p 10 59a 10 06 a ........ . Mavnnlin SniH... 9 ivi .J: 9® 830 an,
100 SP 25Cp 1106 alOl3 a Cove !?pr"is .W ii!: Im n£ J * 2
1120 p 145 pll So a 1105a Palatka 05 dS 12 pm 5 >5 a
2isS DeLeon Springs Ul4 am 240 pm \2
2 15a 529 p |34 P 116 p ... Beresford 10 55 am 224 nm
B 56p 155 p 155 PAr ) _ _ _ 1 T. v 10 20 air* 9rl Pm °3 &m
. . Jssp 1250 p 1250 pLt .... f DeLand. y ..] J® IS SS -
52? !?Z P Ow.nge City Junction 10 46 am 217 7* •
*°* p !*5 p Enterprise Junction 10.35 am *O7 cm ! ,n|
S*P SP 233 p Sanford. 10 10 am 52 }MI
\ ‘j!J a <o7p 315 p 320 p Winter Park 915 am 12 45 Km ill? 41 *
4 57a i 20p 327 p 332 p ..... .... Orlando 905 -im 10 on jyn
?!* IS
*p|..v.°°. pAr ff‘M^de
••; : s*£ }|s
83Ra103Bp 615 p 6MpAr Tampa Lv *6loamJ 945 am *is „
* Lv Jacksonville Ar 800 pm ®
tg JSS.\-“*•••*
gjop p * JS !** ]&
....... f 1006 p 0 40 p Ar Pemberton i645 am 920 am
! **>P *°°Pj Lv Jacksonville Ar 300 pm~T7i Ttzp:
1 40p 7 BOp Ar Tavares.,,., Lv+ 820 am M""!;
t 00p 210 p 210 pLv Enterprise Junction Ar 10 25 am 150 Km
8 <S P 400 p 400 pAr Titusville Lv *715 am tl2 15 Km!!!"
Courtney
Steamer "St. Augustine" is “ Indlanoia £ Steamer "St Aueuti n .-> b
appointed to leave Titusville s Georglana g appointed U> leave \EIL2 U
dafly. except Sunday. 7 a, g Tropic 1 JdX except sJKd“v 2%™
m.; due Ro kledge 11 a. m.;L Cocoa S:m.; RockWce 6 S 7
Melbourne 2lp. m. |2 Rockledge 55 Titusville 3% ptS
Steamer "St. Lucie" or “St. g Eau Gallie J Steamer "St Lucie" nr
Sebastian" is appointed to 3 Melbourne g-jebastian" is aDDolnui S in
leave Titusville for Jupiter on (J St Lucie £ leave Jupiter l p m dliw
arrival of train No. 71-4:00 Ft. Pierce [except Saturday :RktoS2i
p. m. dally, except Sunday ;.g Eden a 7-30 a m excent Wa.
due Rockledge 6:30 p. Jensen 5 dueTituevilte 10:Soa h |r
Jupiter 12 noon following day. g Bewail s Point ■= necting with train No 7 '
1 Hob© Sound..., I
I 130 Pml 980 amlAr Juno Lvll 15 am * 145 pm
•Dally. tDaiiy except Sunday. JSunday onlv! * ===•
Trains 71 and 72 carry panor buffet cars between Jacksonville and Titusville Punt*
Gorda and 1 arapa and ei ween Palatka and Wi no svi le Trams 23 and 14 carrv thrm ef
Pullman Bullet Sleepers dally between New York and Port Tampa, connecting at Port
Tampa on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays for Key West and Havana. 1 rains and
7# a. o carry through Pullman sleeping cars between New Vork and Port Tampa
Trains 15 and 14 oarry through Pullman sleeping cars between Cincinnati and Port Tampa.
G. D. ACKERLY General Passenger Agent, Jacksonville, Fla.
an mi i ini Rui i
(00th MERIDIAN TIME.)
Time Table in Effect Dec. 25, 1893.
Train Train I Train "" TO AND FROM THE Train - ] train fnJIiT
38- *34- I 36. NORTH. 86. •**. 87.
~12 01 n n 325 pm 7.5 pm|Lv Savannah Ar 430 am 1100 ami 400 m
143 pm 620 pm 901pm|Ar Fairfax, S. C Lv 244 am 816 am 213 pm
225 pm 728 pm 941pm;Ar Denmark, S. 0 Lv 208 am 7 11am 132 m
350 pm 940 pm 1106 pm Ar Columbia,S.C Lv 12 40 am 500 am 1210 pm
8 10 pm Ar Spartanburg, S. C Lv 10ft) am
11 TO pm *Ar Asheville, N. C Lv .. ..... 660 am
830 pm 300 am Ar Charlotte N C Lr 1080 pm 930 am
*49 Pm 440 amlAr Sallsuury, N. C Lv 915 pm 813 am
1109 pm 820 amlAr.. ..Greensboro, N. C Lv 732 pm 85iam
12 27 am 800 amAr Danville. Va Lv 550 pm.... 540 sm
7 00 am 125 pm Ar Richmond, Va ..Lv 12 40 pm 12 60 am
218 am 10 00 amAr Lynchburg. Va Lv 350 pm I4Bsm
400 am !.... 11 40 am Ar Charlottesville, Va Lv 212 pm 155 m
213 am 255 pm Ar Washington ~Lv 1101 am 1043 pm
823 am 420 pm Ar Baltimore Lv 942 pm 620 pm
10 46 am 640 pm Ar Philadelphia Ly 720 am 655 pm
1 12 pm 910 pm Ar New York Lv 12 15 am 430 pm
Train ' Train Train T 6 AND FROM " Train Train Train*
35. *39. 37. FLORIDA. 38, 36. '4O.
440 am Bl6~am 410 pm Lr Savannah Art 11 50 am 710 pm 1166 pm
645 am 1100 am 606 pm Ar Everett Lv 942 am 505 pm 926 pm
835 am 100 pm 815 pm Ar Yulee Lv 745 am 313 pm 715 pm
915 am 240 pm 845 pm Ar Fernandtna ...r....Lv 710 am 1225 pm
9 18 am Ar Callahan Lv 2 15 pm
920 am 155 pm 900 pmir Jacksonville Lv 7Coam 225 pm 630 pm
11 33 am 850 pm Ar Lake City. ...Lv 11 33 am .’
12 20 pm 942 pm Ar Live Oak Lv 10 41am
237 pm 12 05 am Ar Monticello Lv 806 am
330 pm 12 46 am Ar Tallahassee . Lv 730 am
5 12 pm Ar—.... Chattahoochee Lv 12 38 am
6 15 pm Ar River Junction Lv 12 35 am
11 00 pm Ar Pensacola Lv 4 25 pm
3 05 am Ar Mobile Lv 3 35 pm
7 35 am ....... Ar New Orleans Lv 11 00 am
11 37 am 420 pm 12 03 am Ar Waldo Lv 333 am 11 37 am 330 pm
12 35 pm 525 pm Ar Gainesville Lv 10 33 am
SCO pm Ar ..Cedar Key Lv 6 15 am
153 pm 600 pm 212 am Ar Ocala Lv 116 am 052 am 107 pm
1 18 pm Ar Silver Springs Lv 1 21 pm
245 pm 655 pm 326 amAr. Wildwood Lv 12 05 am 857 am 12 07 pm
320 pm 426 amAr Leesburg Lv 10 30 pm 822 am 1123 am
515 pm 725 amAr Orlando Lv 746 pm 630 am 930 am
5 50 pm 11 15 am Ar Winter Park Lv 8 to am
342 pm 756 pm 449 am Ar Lacooehee Lv 10 30 am 1 57 am 10 59 am
9 10 pm 4 20 pm Ar .. .Tarpon Springs Lv 7 25 am
1040 pm 700 pm Ar St. Petersburg Lv . . . 660 am
444 pm 930 pm 631 amAr ...Plant City Lv 835 pm 6 31am 047 am
a3O pm 10 10 pm 730 am Ar Tampa Lv 730 pm 645 am 900 am
•Note—Daily except Sunday.
Vestibuled sleepers on trains 35, 36. 37 and 38 via Richmond and Danville railroad be
tween Tampa. Jacksonville and New York.
To Florida—Sleeper on No. 37 to Tampa. No. 35 to Jacksonville.
Sleeper to New Orleans on No. 36 from Jacksonville.
Buffet parlor cars on trains 37 and 38 Jacksonville and Asheville via Columbia sad
Spartanburg. ,
Dining cars on trains 37 and 38 between Jacksonville and New York.
For full information apply to A. O. MAC DONELL. G. P. A., Jacksonville, Fla.
N. S. PENNINGTON. Traffic Manager. Jacksonville. Fla.
All trains arrive and depart at Central railroad depot.
_ , . , I. M. FLEMING, Dlv. Pass. Agent.
Tickets on sale corner Bull and Bryan streets and Central railroad depot, Savannah. Qa
D. C. ALLEN, City Ticket Agent.
TYPEWRITERS.
Remington Typewriter
The history of the RtMIItOTOIT shows a steadily rising tide of popnlarity and success.
It Is absolutely nnrivtled for all the essential qnalltles of a first-class writing machine.
’ 1 91(J7 First invention of the Typewriter now known
cent* for *l* luo * • as the Remington Standard. A few machines
o 1 u rtjK AH |, made by hand during this and the following
ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.; i Tears.
1 Q7"2 The repeated experiments of the inventors
- IT _n I 1 having somewhat improved upon the first
. i ; | crude attempts, it was brought to the
7'~.. I Remington factory, at Ilion, N. Y.
Cj-Pltill 1 1 874. After more than a year of painstaking labor
Jtt S\Tf, ' 1 1 ' 1 on the part of many able mechanical experts,
I KzP I' the first Remington-made machines were
il ' fcpygjjwn put u P° n the market.
JSSaaMEIEra a I’ jean Six years after, only 1,000 machines had been
*.;.' T> ' - ■ t?" 1 'I sold. The public were slow to realise the
1 ’I value of the invention.
1882. The number increased to 8,800 machines.
ADOPTED AS THE OFFICIAL j 1 1 SftC OOO machines were sold this year. It grew
* uuj. In popular favor. In
WRITING MACHINE ] Oqa Sales had risen to 80,000 machines per
„ !| 10 ' U| annum.
Ur Inc | Found a production of 100 machines per day
WORLD'S COLUMBIAN j! 1892 . J:
PYPTKTTTnN *ive additions to our factory, to enable It to
fcArUMUUW. keep pace with all demands /
WYCKOFF, SEAMANS & BENEDICT,
327 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
C. S. RICHMOND, t - < Sg?. t -„.Ss, a ar'
MACHINERY. CASTINGS. ETC.
KEHOES IRON WORKS,
IKON AND BRASS FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, BLACKSMITHS AND BOILERMAK
ERS. KNUINES, BOILERS AND MACHINERY, SHAFTING, PULLEYS. ETC.
Special attention to Rapair Work. Ettimates promptly furnished. Broujhten slreel
Irom Reynolds to Randolph streets. Telephone 268.