Bellefonte, Pa., Dec. 9, 1892.
RECOMPENSE.
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BY MBS, A, 8, ROE, .
They tcld me the roses were cruel,
rome with thorns gti
The story of gold and the rainbow,
‘Was only a fable old.
But the sun-kissed roses unfolded,
To yield me a perfume sweet;
And the kind of the western sunset,
Scattered his gold at my feet.
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They told me the snowdrifts of Winter,
Were deeper than ever before ;
The murmuring winds of the Summer,
Had gone to return never more.
But in the warm light of the Springtime,
The snowdrifts all melted away ;
The soft winds returned with the Summer,
To scatter the clouds of each day.
They told me the life of a Christian,
Was toilsome, and dark, and colds
The lovesand rewards of the Master,
Were all for the brave and bold.
The sun of His love fell upon me—
My heaviest crosses are light’;
And out of the gloom and the darkness,
He bringeth me sunshine bright.
—Zable Talk.
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THE INEVITABLE END.
BY JULES VERNE.
Swish | It 1s the wind, let loose.
Swash! It is the rain, falling in tor-
rents.
This shrieking squall bends down
‘the trees of the Volsinian coast, and
hurries on, flinging itself against the
sides of the mountains of Crimma.
Along the whole length -of the littoral
are high rocks, gnawed ‘by the billows
-of the vast Sea of Megalocrida.
Swish! Swash!
Down by the harbor nestles the lit-
tle town of Luktrop; perhaps 100
houses, with green palings, which de-
fend them indifferently from the wild
wind; fouror five hilly streets—ravines
rather than streets—paved. with peb-
‘bles and strewn with ashes thrown
from the active cones in the back-
ground. The volcano is not far dis-
tant jit is called the the Vauglor. Dur-
ing the day it sends forth sulphurous
wapors; at night, from time to time,
great: cutpourings of flame. Like a
lighthouse carrying 150 kertzes, the
Vauglor indicates the port of Luktrop
to the coasters, felzans, verliches and
balapzes, whose keels furrow the wa-
ters of Megalocrida. J
On the other side @f the town are ru-
ing dating from the Crimmarian era.
Then a suburb, Arabin appearance,
much like a casbah, with white walls,
domed roofs, and sun-scorched terraces
which are all wvothing but accumula-
tions of square stones thrown together
at'random. Veritatile dice are these,
whose numbers will never be effaced
by the rust of Time.
‘“*Among others we notice the Six-four,
a name given to a curious erection,
having six openings on one side and
four on the other.
«> A belfry ' overlooks the town,
the square belfry of St. Philfile-
na, with bells hung in the thickness
of the walls, which sometimes a hurri- |
cane will set in motion. That isa bad
sign ; ‘the people tremble when they
hear it. :
Such is Luktrop. Then come the
scattered habitationsin the country, set
amid heath and broom, as in Brittany.
But this is not Brittany. Is iit in
France? 1 cannot tall. Isisit in Eu-
rope? I caondi tell. At all events,
do not loak for Luktrop on any map.
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Rat-tat! A dlscreet/kaock is struck
upon the narrow door of Six-four at
the left corner of the Rue Messagliere.
This i3 one of the most comfortable
houses in Laktrop—if such a word is
‘known there—one of ithe richest, if
gaining some millions of fretzers, by
hook or by crook, constitutes riches.
The ratvtat is answered by a savage |
‘bark, in whieh is much of lupine howl,
as if a wolf hould bark. Then a wit-
dow is opened above the door of Six-
four, and an ill tempered voice says,
“Deuce take people svho.come bother-
ing here!”
A young girl, shivering in the rain
wrapped in a thin cloak, asks if Dr.
Trifulgas is at home.
“He 15, or he is not, according to cir-
cumstances.”
“I want him to come to my father,
who is dying.”
“Where is be dying?
“At Val Karnion, four kertzes from
here.”
“And his name 2”
“Vor Kartift.”
“Vort Kartift, the herring-salter 2’
“Yes; and it Dr, Trifulgas”—
“Dr. Trifulgas is not at home.”
Andithe window is closed with a
slam, while the swiches of the wind
and the swashes of the rain mingle in
a deafening uproar.
Jil.
A hard man, this Dr. Trifulgas, with
little com passion, and attendizg noone
unless paid cash in advance. His old |
Hurzof, a mongrel of bulldog and span- |
iel, would have had more feeling than
‘ Karnion, four
Thank you!
slept more soundiy than before.
“Twenty fretzers for going to Val door is ajar; he has but to push it. He
ertzes from here! pushes it, he enters, and the wind
roughly closes it behind him. T
And the window was closed again. dog Hurzof, left outside, howls, with
Twenty fretzers !
a cold or lumbago for 20 fretzers, es- \
pecially when to-morrow one has to go Dr. Tritulgas had come back to his
to Kiltreno to visit therich Edzingov, own house.
laid up with gout, which is valued at dered ; he has not even taken a turn-
| 50 tretzers the visit! With this agree- ing. \
able prospect before him, Dr, Trifulgas’ Luktrop. And yet here is the same
low, vaulted passage, the same wooden
Swish | Swash I'and then rat-tat! rat- ' staircase, with high banisters, worn
tat! rattat! To the noises of the | away by the constant rubbing of hands.
Be off with you!”
Riek
A grand fee! i
squall were now added three blows of |
hand. The doctor slept. He woke, |
but in a fearful humor. When he;
opened the window the storm came in
like a charge of shot.
“I am come about the herring-sal-
ter,”
“That
again!”
“I am his mother-"’
“May his mother, his wife, and his
daughter perish with him I”?
“He has had an attack” —
“Let him defend himself.”
“Some money has been paid ms,”
continued the old woman, “an install
ment on the household to the camon-
deur Doutrup, of the Rue Messagliere.
If you do not come my granddaughter
will no longer have a father, my daugh-
ter-in-law a husband, myself a son.”
It was piteous and terrible to hear |
the old woman’s voice—to know that
the wind was freezing the blood in her
veins, that the rain was soaking her
very bones beneath her thin flesh,
“A fit! why, that would be 200 tret-
zers I” replied the heartless Trifulgas.
“We have only 120.”
“Good night,” and the window was
again closed. Bat, after due reflection,
it appeared that 120 fretzers for an
hour and a balf on the road, plus half
an hour of visit, made a'fretzer a min-
ute, A -small profit, but still not to be
despised. fp
Instead of going to bed again, the
dector slipped into his coat ot velveter,
went down in his wading boots, stowed
himself away in his great coat of lur-
taine, with his sourouet on his head
and his mufflers on his hands. He
left his lamp lighted close to his phar-
macopocia, open at page 197. Then,
pulling the door at.Six-four, he paused
on the threshold. The old woman
was there, leaning on her stick, bowed
down by ber 80 years of misery.
“The 120 fretzers.”
“Here is the money, and may God
multiply it for you a hundred fold!”
“God! Who ever saw the color of
his money ?” :
The doctor whistled for Hurzof, gave
him a small lantern to carry, and took
the road toward the sea. The old wom-
an followed him.
IV.
What swishy swashy weather! The
bells of St. Philfilena are all swinging
by reason of the gale. A bad sign!
But Dr. Trifulgas is not superstitious.
He believes in nothing—not even in
hie own science. except for what it
brings him in... What weather, and al-
so what a road! Pebbles and ashes;
the pebbles slippery with seaweed, the
ashes crackling with iron refuse. No
other light «than that from Hurzof’s
lantern, vague aud uncertain. At times
jets of flame from Vauglor uprear
themselves, and in the midst of them
appear great comical silhouettes. In
truth no one knows what is in the
depths of those unfathomable craters:
Perhaps spirits of the other world,
which volatilize themselves as they
come forth, | te a
_ The doctor and the old woman fol-
low the curves of the little bays of the
littoral. The sea is white with a vivid
whiteness—a mourning = white, It
sparkles as it throws ott the crests ot
the surf, whieh seems like oufpourings
of glow-worme. !
These two persons go on thus as ‘far
as the turn in the road between the
sandhills, where the brooms and thé
reeds clash together with a shock like
that of bayonets." '
The dog had drawn near to his mas.
ter and seemed fo gay to him : “Come
come! a hundred and twenty fretzers
for the strong box! That isthe way
to make a fortune, Another rood to
the vineyard; another dish added to our
supper ; another meat pie for the faith-
tul Harzot. Let us lock after the rich
invalids aud look after them—accord.
ing to their purses!’
At that spot.the old woman pauses, |
With her trembling fingers she points
out among theshadows a reddish light.
There is the house of Von Kartiff, the
herring aalter.
“There 2" said the doctor.
“Yes,” said the old woman.
“Hurrah 1” cries the dog Hurzof.
A sudden explosion from the Vaug-
lor, shaken to its wery base. A shea
of lurid flame springs up to the zenith,
forcing its way threagh the clouds. Dr.
He Trifulgas is buried to the ground
swears roundly pieks, himself up and
looks about him.
The old woman is no longer there.
wretched herring-salter
he. The house called Six-tour admit-
ted no poor, and opened only to the |
rich. Further, it had a regular tariff; |
so much for a typhoid, so much for a
fit, so much for a pericarditis, avd for |
other complaints which doctors invent |
by the dozen. Now, Vort Kartiff, the |
herring salter, was a poor man, and of |
low degree. Why should Dr. Triful- |
gas bave taken any trouble, and on such
a night ?
“Is it vothing that I should have
had to get up?’ he murmured as he |
went back to bed ; “that alone is worth |
10 fretzers.”
Hardly 20 minutes had passed, when
the iron hammer was again struck on
the door of Six-four.
Much agaist his inclination the doc- |
tor left his bed, and leaned ont of the
window. |
“Who is there?” he cried,
“I am the wife of Vort Kartiff.”
“The herring-salter ol Val Karn-
ion ?”
“Yes; and if you refuse to come, he
will die.”
#All right ; yon will be a widow,"
‘Here are 20 fretzers,”
| mugs earn them,
| course, it is the herring-salter’s house ;
. tempest, Dr. Trifulgas tramps on with
house becomes more distinct, being is-
olated in the midst of the landscape.
recembles that of Dr, Trifulgas, the
Six tour of Luktrop. Thesame arrange-
"ments of
, arched door.
, 88 fast ag the gale allows him. The
Has she disappeared through some fis-
sure of the earth, or has she flown
{away on the wings of the mist? As
i for the dog, he is there still, standing
{on his hind legs, his jaws apart, his
lentern extinguished.
“Nevertheless, we will go on,” mut-
tera Dr, Trifulecas, The honest man
has been paid his 120 fretzers, and he
V.
Only a luminous speck at the dis-
tance of hall a kertz. Ivisthe lamp of
the dyiug—perhaps of the dead. Of
the old woman pointed to it with her
finger ; no mistake is possible. Through
the whistling switches and the dash-
ing swashes, through the uproar of the
hurried steps. As be advances, the
It is very remarkable how much it
little
Dr. Trifulgas hastens on
windows, the same
the knocker, struck by a more decided | ing.
The Death of Jay Gould.
Peaceful End of the Great Financier at his New
York Home. :
stock. Gould sold his at a handsome
profit.
The
In 1859, with fair capital, some ex-
perience, and particularly some knowl-
edge ot railway properties, he establish-
ed himself as a broker on Wall street.
He gave close attention to the Erie and
invested freely in its stock. During
the war the stock went down, and he
bought all he could of it, with the re- |
sult that he was soon known as one of |
the leading spirits of the company, and
in 1867 was clected president of it. Then |
came his manipulation of the property.
Stockholders brought suit to restrain |
the issue of any more stock, and asked
Gould bad 8 hemorthage, from the of. | for a receiver. A receiver was appoint-
fects a Which be hag not Revered ed in the person of Gould himself. Re-
when be bad a sscond -bemorrhage 1Wo | 0 oi otis were made-10- oust. him
days later, followed by still another on : ’ :
Wednesday 1nki. from his place in the company, but all
Jay Gould, the world famous railroad
king, died last Friday at his home on
Fifth Ave., New York. The direct
cause of death, as stated at the house,
was pulmonary consumption. Mr. and
Mrs. George Gould, Miss Helen, Miss
Annie, and Edwin and Howard Gould
were at his bedside when he died. Dr.
Munn and Dr. Janeway were in atten-
dance.
MR. GOULD’S FATAL ILLNESS.
On the day before Thanksgiving Mr.
ntervals of silence. ;
Strange! Ope would have said that
And yet he has not wan-
He is at Val Karnion, not at
He ascends. He reaches the land:
Beneath the door a faint light
filters through, asin Six-four. Isit a
delusion ? Inthe dimness he recogniz-
es his room—the yellow sofa, on the
right the old chest of pearwood, on the
‘ creased
! and two daughters,
left the brass-bound strong box, in
which he intended to deposit his 120
tretzers. There is his armchair, with
the leathern cushions: there 1s his ta-
ble, with its twisted legs, and on it,
close to the expiring lamp, his phar-
macopoeia, open at page 197.
“What is the matter with me?” he
murmurs,
What is the matter with him ? Fear!
His pupils are dilated ; his body is con-
tracted, ehriveled ; an icy perspiration
freezes his skin—every hair stands on
end.
But hasten! For want of oil the
lamp expires ; and also the dying man !
Yes, there is the bed—his own bed—
with posts and canopv ; as wide as it is
long, shut in by heavy curtains. Is it
possible that this is the pallet of a
wretched herring-salter? With a quak-
ing hand Dr. Tritulgas seizes the cur-
tains; he opens them; he looks in.
The dying man, his head uncovered, is
motionlsss as it at his last breath. The
doctor leans over him—
Ah! what a cry, to which, outside,
responds an unearthly howl from the
dog. ;
The dying man is not the herring
salter, Vort Kartif—it is Dr. Trifulgas;
it is he whom congestion has attacked
—he himself! Cerebral apoplexy,
with sudden accumulation of serosity
was a surprise to all but the most inti-
mate acquaintances of Mr. Gould. It
had all along been supposed that he was
suffering from nervous dyspepsia.
The funeral was held on Monday.
HIS BREAK-DOWN AND LAST ILLNESS.
The real condition of Mr. Gould’s
health was not revealed until a year ago
fic railtoad was Mr. Gould’s pride. He
had built it up, and made it a dividend-
paying road. He was very jealous of
the reputation which the Vanderbilt
roads enjoyed, and always pointed to
the Missouri Pacific when he was charg-
ed with being a railroad wrecker, and
not a railroad builder.
The Gould boys at the time were re-
ported to be heavily “short” of the
market. A great bull movement, based
on the enormous crops of the year, was
in progress.The directors of the Missouri
Pacific met and both sir. Gould and
his son George favored a passing of the
dividend. According to the reports at
the time, Russell Sage, who was “long”
of the market, was violently opposed to
the move. 8. Sloan, the conservative
president of the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western railroad, was also a direct-
or of the Missouri Pacific. He, too,
‘was opposed to the step. The debate
between George Gould and Russell Sage
in the cavities of the brain, with paral-
ysis of the body on the side opposite
that of the seat of the lesion. I
Yes, it is he, who was sent for, and |
for whom 120 fretzers have been paid.
He who, from harduess of heart, re.
fused to attend the herring salter—he
who was dying.
Dr. Trifulgas is like a madman, he
knows himself lost. At each moment
the symptoms increase. Not only all
the functions of the organs slaken, but
the lungs and the heart ccase to act.
And yet he has not quite lost con-
ecronsness. What can be done?
bleed! If he besitates Dr. Trifulgas is
dead. In those days they still bled;
and then, as now, medical men cured
all those apoplectic patients who were |
not going to die. |
. Dr. Trifulgas seizes his case, takes |
out lancet, opens a vein in the arm of
his double. The blood does not flow. |
He rubs his chest violently—his own |
breathing grows slower. He warms
his feet with hot bricks-—his own grow |
olthonn;
Then his double lifts himeelf, falls |
back and draws one last breath. Dr, |
‘Prifulgas, notwithstanding all that his |
science has taught him to do, dies be-
neath his own hands.
In the morning a corpse was found
in the house Six-four--that of Dr. Tri-
talgas: “They but him 'in a coifin, -and
carried hin with much pomp to the
cemetery of Luktrop, whither he ‘had
scot 80 many others—in a professienal |
manner. |
As to old Hurzof, it is said that; to
this day, he haunts the country with
his lantern alight, and howling like a
lost dog. Ido wot know if that be
true; but strange ' things happen in
Volsinia, especially in’ the neighber-
hood of Luktrop. i
And, again, I warn you, not to haunt |
for the town on the map. The best
geographers have not yet agreed to its
latitnde —nor even its longitude.
Giant Trees in Califernia. '
The fame of the “big trees’ of Califor- |
ria is world wide, but they are not, us |
many who have have never visited the |
Slope suppose, scattered all over the |
Go’dean State and in plain view of every
railroad station between Salt Lake City
and San Francisco. Neither were they |
known to the first settlers who braved |
the dangers of a trip round the Horn, or |
the greater dangers of an overland |
journey to the new Eldorado. The first |
white man who is known to have
agreed upon the sylvan monarchs was 4 |
trapper by the name of Dowd, who ac- |
cidently.dizcovered what isnow known |
as theCualaveras Grove, in 1852.
After the Calaveras Grove, which is
in the county of the same name, the on-
ly other considerable growths of them
are in Mariposa county, where in an
area two miles square there are 427 of
these monster trees from 275 to 340 feet
in height and from 25 to 40 feet in
diameter, and another grove known as
the Fresno Grove, which contains some
600 trees, the largest 81 feet in diameter.
Placer county, fifty miles north of Cala-
veras, also bas a small grove of these
giant redwoods. The largest tree in the
Calaveras Grove is about 850 feet high
be consumptive.
grew to a heated altercation. Jay
‘Gould broke down and, it was said, act-
ually wept. He fainted and showed that
his constitution was broken. The divi-
dend was passed, and the bull wave re-
stored. This action was at first charged
to a desire to manipulated the market
so that the Goulds could cover their
| “shorts” but when the fact was made
known Wall street at last realized that
Jay Gould had nearly run his course.
FORESAW HIS IMPENDING FATE,
* Mr: Gould set to to have his proper-
ties in such shape that his sons could
easily handle them. He foresaw his im-
pending fate. The tangles which beset
the Missouri, Kansas and 'Texas and
other railroads of Gould’s in which he
was fighting for an advantage, were
straightened. Every one saw that he
was marking out a path in which his
‘sons must travel when he was gone. Last
summer Mr. Gould again broke down
at a directors’ meeting. He was said to
His sons said that he
was suffering from a bronchial affection.
In his private car he went to the south-
west and lived there for three months.
He returned to New York in lime for
the Manhatten Elevated and Western
Union annual meetings in September.
The once alert and brisk man moved
like an automaton. His shoulders droop-
ed forward, great wrinkles hollowed his
cheeks, and a lack of luster replaced the
keen, piercing glance that was so famil-
iar in his dark ‘eyes. He moved and
acted like a man 80 years old, bent with
cares of life,
The Western Union was about to
issue a stock dividened for the $18,000,000
surplus in its treasury, and the financier
could not keep away from the scene of
another trinmph.
schemes rela‘ive to the Western Union
and Manhatten in his mind. But nature
asserted its sway, and they were deferred
until his brain could resume its accus-
tomed vigor. That day never came,
and Mr. Gould for four weeks has tran-
sected the principal portion of his busi-
ness at his house, only making a few
| seattering and brief visits to his down
town office. The family buped that be
would recover as usual, but the attack |
of last Wednesday dissipated all such
hopes.
THE PERSONIFICATION OF POVERTY.
© As a small boy Jay Gould was almost
the personification of poverty. His
father was an impoverished farmer in
Roxbury, Delaware county, New York, |
and there the baby Gould avariciously
clenched his hands for the first time on
the 27th of May, 1836. Determined to
gain an education which his parents
could not buy him, he kept the books of
a village blacksmith in return for suffi-
cient money to enable him to enter a
| country academy. In time he learned | which may be considered in this in-
| enough of trigonometry and general
| mathematics to become a surveyor, and | has this to say upon the subject ;
| as such was employed at a salary of $20; - No two estimates agree us to the
| a month to aid in waking a map of Ul- | the amount of his fortune. The most
ster county, N. Y. He subsequently
made a survey and a map of his native
county, and in connection with that af-
terwards published a book entitled
“History of Delaware county, N. Y.”
He planned several surveys, but be
fore he could enter upon them was at
tacked by typhoid fever. Recovering
from that, he made an unsuccessful ef-
fort to put on the market a mouse-trap
This announcement | ir 51.4", i] 1879, when Joba A. Dix
He had a number of
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Jif the battles of the Erie, a volume
‘would be needed. A mere reference to
them here must suffice,
THE INIQUITY OF BLACK FRIDAY. |
The crowning chicanery of Jay
| Gould’s life was his manipulation of the |!
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| March, 1869, was 180}, the lowest in
| three years. Gould bought $7,000,000
" worth at 132 and put the price up to
1140. A tew days later the precious
| metal rose to 144. In the middle of
| September, the Gould clique bought
$9,000,000 in one batch at 133} to 134,
and on the morning of Wednezday,
September 22. the clique held several
millions more than tbero was in the
city of New York outside the Sub-
Treasury, the price had been forced no
higher than 141. On Thursday the
clique held in calls ard cash and gold
from $80,000,000 to $110,000,000. The
short interest made largely under 144 is
said to have been $250,000. :
The clique settled its plans on Thurs-
day evening.’ It had loaned gold in
immense sums at 138: The plan at first
was to call in all this, lock it up and
force the bears to settle by buying it
under the rule. The Tenth National
Bank was to have been used to shift ‘the
immense sums, but the appearence of
the Bank Examiners unsettled this plaz,
and the programme was to put gold up
swiftly and frighten the bears into di-
rect settlements. Asit was the officials
of the bank agreed to certifiy to an un-
| limited extent night: and day. On
Thursday it did certity checks amoun-
ting to $25,000,000, and on Friday,
spite of the prescence of the examiners,
$4,000.000 more.
When, during this “Black Friday”
week gold rose in the market from
185 to 165, and the grand crash
came which involved the financial
affairs of Wall street in confu-
sion and brought utter ruin upon hun-
dreds of individuals, there was no mer-
cy shown by the clique, who, having
their enemies firmly in their grasp,
mercilessly subjected them to the
squeezing process without a pang of re-
morse or a sign of feeling. The indivi-
dual character of Gould was stampad
upon this transaction in’ the complete-
ness of its plan, the nerve with which it
was carried out and the reckless disre-
gard of individual rizhts and the wel-
fare of the country at large.
,- That nothing but good should be said
of the dead is a trite maxim, but if 1t
were rigidly observed the story of Jay
Gould’s career would require few lines
in the telling. If the living are to pro-
fi from the lessons ot the dead, the ro-
mance of the life of that which until
yesterday was a man must be narrated
with seeming harshness. As there is no
pocket in his shroud, he leaves behind
him a colossal fortune and a princely
tomb in Woodlawn Cemetery, but ex-
cept from the’ fruit of his loins, nota
tear fell yesterday when it was heralded
through the world that the Wizard of
Wall street had let fall the magician’s
wand with which for a quarter of a cen-
tury he has ruled the financial centre of:
America, With unbounded possibili-
| ties for good, he never made a friend
"outside his domestic circle ; with almost
limitless power for helping others, his
chief aim appeared to be the destruction
of his fellows ; with the power to call
down upon him the blessings of man-
kind, he earned only the maledictions of
his brethren. He will be remembered
{only as a financial freak. No monu-
{ mient will stand in remembrance of him
| as an example for others to follow.
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Yet some will cail him a great man
and glorily the ability which enabled a |
| poor bey to cutdo Creesus in the ag- |
grandizement of wealth, forgetting his
ruthless rapacity, his untiring greed, his
inherent destructiveness.
! JAY GOULD'S WEALTH.
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| The size of the fortune which has |
i been built up by the methods which |
| have been herein referred to, is various-
ly estimated. The Associated Press,
| stance a specially reliable informant,
| conservative figures place it at $60,000,-
; 000, whilesome people in Wall street
{figure it at fully $100,000,000. His
! known holdings of securities are about
Las follows : $22,000,000 par value of
| Western Union Telegraph, which at to-
{ day’s prices would tetch about $18,700.
000 ; $10,000,000 par value of Missouri
| Pacific, wtich is now worth in the mar- |
! ket $5,500,000.
the cones which grow upon them (these
trees are coniferous) are as big as two-
gallon jhge, being in all particulars al-
most counterparts of the common pine
cones,
circumference of any tree know to exist.
There are but two trees in the world
taller than Maripcea’s 850-foot prize
taker.
variety, are 460 feet in height and may
be found near Quelarup on the Black-
wood River
Louis Republic.
are a gupd many people He does not ad-
and measures 45 feet in diameter six | of his own invention, and which was| He is supposed to hold in the neigh-
feet above the ground. “The Grizzly | the occasion of many a jibe at him after | borhood of $8,000,000, probably more,
Giant,” the prize of Mariposa county, is | he became rich. Looking for something | of Manhattan Railway stock, worth
93 feet in diameter at the ground, and 64
feet five yards higher up.
Just think of 1t I A tree that would
make a square block of wood as large as
the average St. Louis building lot!
Their leaves are awl-shaped needles, and
else to employ him, he formed a part-
nership with Zadok Pratt in the tannery
business. Pratt sent him into Pennsyl-
vania to select a site, which he did in a
fine grove since known as Gouldshoro,
A sawmill attached to the tannery and
a thriving business was done which
Gould soon came to own entire, buying
out the Pratt interest. In 1856 he “sold
out and went to New York city, where
he engaged as a partner in a leather
house. Then came the panic of 1857,
in which the house went down, but
Gould escaped. He was married at
this time, and his father-in-law put him
in the way of buying railroad eecurities.
All the money he had he put in those
buying them at 10 cents on the dollar
in some instances, of that ot the Rut-
land.and Washington railway, of which
company he later became president, and
in due time he consolidated it with the
{ $10,400,000 His holdings of all these
| stocks have been larger thaa this, but be
{ sold them to either invest the money in
| new issues of bonds of the Missouri Pa-
| cific and Manhattan Companies or to
finance these companies until bonds
could be issued. He holds about one-
third of the bonds issued on the Mis-
souri Pacific system which would be
about §30 000,000. Mr. Gould’s estate
holds over $12,000,000 of Wakash Rail-
way stock, which shows a loss between
$4,000,0C0 and $5,000,000.
As long ago as 1884 Mr. Gould was
known to hold about $8,000,000 on first
class railway mortgage bonds upon
roads other than those controlled or
managed by him. Besides these items
he had large investments in a great
number of properties concerning which
the general public know nothing. His
holding of = Union Pacific and Kansas
The Grizzly Giant has the greatest
They are the “blue gumed
in West Australia.— Sz.
—— God loves everybody, but there
naire,
lieved that he owned of late years much,
if any, Unicn Pacific stock.
From the toregoing figures, which are
approximately correct, it is easy to fig-
ure up in the neighborhood of $75,000,-
000. Of late years his fortune has in-
rapidly. His income from
Western Union and Manbattan stock
and of his investments in bonds has
been about $3,000,000 a year has proba-
bly exceeded that amount.
The dead wan leaves behind him five
children, all of whom are living--three
sons, George J. Edward and Howard,
Helen and Annie.
They and they alone, will mourn for
him deeply, for, while his hand was
against his fellow-man, he was a loving
and indulgent father.
EN a ar
The Palace Car.
What it Costs and How it is Usually Equipped.
It costs only $50 a day to hire a com-
pletely furnished and paiatial dwelling
ouse on wheels, containing seventeen
beds. In frontisan vbservatim room.”
Next come two drawing rooms, both
hen he broke d in the fi Mis- | gold market in Merch, 1369, and the dis- fairly spacious. Behind these is a din-
RR nity This in ' astrous culmination In the episode of ! ning room twelve teet long. The mid-
November, 1891. The Missouri Paci- | Black Friday. The price of gold in | dle part of the car is occupied by berths:
which are comfortable sofas during the:
day. In the rear are k good sized kitch-
en, a china closet, a pantry, a bathroom
and a cold storage closet. All linen for
table and beds, tableware, crockery and
every other necessary are supplied.
Three servants are provided also with-
out extra charge—a skilled cook, a wait-
er and a porter, who are under the orders
of thetenunt. Heating and lighting are
thrown in. After ten days the rental
is five dollars less per diem. Thus luxe
uriously housed, the occupant can trav-
el wherever he wishes all over the con-
tinent by paying the railways eighteen
fares for transportation. However, if
more than eighteen passengers are ear.
ried in the car, so many extra fares must
be paid, He can stop at whatever
points he desires and have this car side
tracked, making his home in it during
his stay.
If be chooses he can bring along his
own servants, linen, tableware and
wines. He is at liberty to furnish the
commissariat - himself, or the company
will supply everything in that way for
him, charging only 15 per cent. over
and above cost rendering to him the
bills. The latteris by far the better
plan, in asmuch as trouble is saved and
affairs are attended to more satisfactor
ily by the company, which understands
the business and can buy goods cheaper
besides. The enok is always a capable
person, and, having a time schedule for
ajourney across the continent, he will
telegraph ahead to various points for
such luxuries as may be obtainable at
the markets in different cities, thus ar-
ranging for fresh fruits, butter and eggs,
and even for a newly cut bouquet to be
put on the table every morning at
breakfast. All of this is susceptible of
variation. One can engage an ordinary
sleeping car for $40, a sleeping car with
buffet for $45, or dining and observa.
tion car combined for $40. | A hunting
car, provided with kennels for dogs,
racks for guns, fishing tackle, ete., costs
only $35 a day. Service and all inci-,
dentals are in every case thrown in.
But one can do better than ‘this if he
has plenty of money to spare. He can
hire a complete traveling hotel for $210.
a day, in the shape of an entire train
consisting of four sleeping cars, a dining
car and a baffet smoker. An observa-
tion car may be added at an expense of
$40 more. The buffet smoker represents
in some respects the highest development
of the modern parlor car. It includes
a bar, a barber shop, a batkroom and a
library, where in can be found books,
writing materials and the newest maga.
zines and pictorial and daily papers.
In short, itis » small club on wheels.
There is no other country in the world
where luxury in traveling is so highly
appreciated as it is in the United States,
Abroad it is said that the only people
who go by rail “first class” are the no-
bility and the ‘Americans. Of course
the person who charters a whole train
must pay the railways for transportation
at least eighteen fares per car, though
west of the Mississippi the minimum
rate is usually fifteen fares. No car ¢an
be rented for the prices above given for
less than three days. !
It has recently become the fashion for
actresses to travel in private cars. Nowe
adays a conspicuous star usually insists.
on being provided with such a convey-
ance as part of the contract for the tour
which signs with her marager. Bern-
hardt always carries a small menagerie
with her, which could not very well be
accomodated in a public vehicle. Thea-
trical companies very commonly hire
one or more cars while traveling that be.
ing a convenient and agreeable method
of transportation.
Dining cars are usually owned by the
railways and ure managed by the palace
car companies. Ordinarily they are run
at a considerable loss, being attached to
trains merely as an attraction to passen.
gers. The expense of conducting them
is enormous.
Arrangements made between the
palace ear companies 2nd the railways
regarding sleeping cars vary very much,
Sometimes the latter pay as much as
two or three cents a mile for the use of
each sleeper, where, as is particularly
apt to be the case in the South, the pas-
senger traffic is not sufficient to repay
the car companies. In such cases a rail.
road is often obliged to provide the nec-
essary conveuvience at a loss to itself.
The item of washing is a very costly one
in the running of sleeping cars, inasmuch
as no piece of linen is ever used twice
without going to the laundry. A sleep.
er, on leaving New York for Chicago
or St. Louis, receives a ‘stock’ of 120
linen sheets, 120 pillowslips and 120
towels. This gives change for two
nights. Fifteen or twenty clean towels
are always kept on the washstand. The
washing is done in New York, Boston
Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis and other
cities, being given out in great quanti.
ties at the Jow rate of one dollar per
hundred pieces. An equipment of lin.
en lasts about one year, at the end of
which it must be renewed. It is pur-
chased by wholsale—$50.000 worth at a
time.
——
——Paps, what are marines ?
Soldiers on shipboard.
Renssalaer and Saratoga railraad. The
Pacific bonds, which have never been
result was an advance 1n the price of the
stated, must be large, but it is not be-
‘What are they for?
They use ’em chiefly to tell lies to.
ey —.