Pittston Gazette

              /■F*- YKMSnEI) 1850. D VOL. XLI1I. NO. 14. ( Oldest Newspaper in the Wyoming Valley. PITTSTOX, LUZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1892. A Weekly Local and Family Journal. i #i.RO PER ANXUM ( IX ADVAfe "FELICE NOTTE!" without power of computation—the other half appeared au age. When it ceased I became gradually more quiet, but a new fear retained me. I knew that five minutes would elapse without ringing, but at the end of that short time the bell would be rung a second time for five minutes more. I could not calculate time. A minute and an hour were of equal duration. I feared to rise lest the five minutes should have elapsed and the ringing be again commenced, in which case I should be crushed before I could escape against the walls or framework of the bell. I therefore still continued to lie down, cautiously shifting myself, however, with a careful gliding, so that my eye no longer looked into the hollow. This was of itself a considerable relief. GENERAL MOURNING. He waited a few moments until hie glance of the uiau referred to fell on him, and then with much deliberation drew forth his watch and looked at it. JAY GOULD GONE. leather merchant named I.eupp, who advanced him money. Leupp became hopelessly involved in bankruptcy and shot himself in his magnificent house on Madison avenue. rescue and saved him from bankruptcy by taking his Elevated railroad slock off his hands. The stock fell from 17a to 120. He got his foothold in the Western Union iu 1881 and has since absorbed every company that attempted to compete with it. kvk writes of n. c. Until It Was VUcovered Who the Great worked m n lighthouse). He had eleven hemorrhages on the way here and was brought on a mattress to the honse, but the follow'ag morning he quarreled with the man who brought his trunk, and breaking the poor baggage man's jaw with a single blow declared he would not live in such a —— lawless country and rode back to East Hampton, Mass., on my bicycle. We only ask that people who are benefited by our climate will give it proper credit. It grieves us like everything to have friends come here breathing with anything they can get hold of and then go away with large, nice, new red lungs and claim that it was Bears' soap that did it. That makes us irritated and choleric. fiod send the little golden bees of sleep To murmur in the blossom of your ear TLeir gentle summer music hushed and deep. Their softest fciuiuber songs to you, my ileorl Sadauilya Wat. The Hindoo, if not inventive, is a capital imitator, and not without a wit as refined as anything to be found among English speaking people, as is plain from a story related by the Eev. J. Ewen. Many year* ago, when the Mogul emperors reigned in the imperial city of Delhi, a policeman, walking along one of the streets, met a potter in mourning. The man across the aisle saw the moveuieut and instantly lifted his own watch from his vest pocket. TELLS HOW HEALTHY IT IS WHERE HE LIVES. The Ureat Financier's Remark* Gould engaged In his first railway enterprise iu 1857, when he bought the bonds of the Rutland and Washington railroad at ten cents on the dollar. He sold out afterward at a fair profit. As in all the other Gonld properties there has been a tremendous increase In the Western Union's debts and securities since the Wizard came into power. Every rival company had to be crushed, no matter what it cost. And may the gypsy fortune telling dreams Draw you beneath their painted tent and take Your palm and tell you fortunes- rosy gleam" Too sweet to be remembered wh?n you wake! "It never fails." said the successful experimenter as he pocketed the five dollars. "Look at your own watch and it's as catching as yawning. Try it yourself on somebody." — St. Louis Chronicle. able Career Closed. Sad Story of a Man Who Taught Blm Between 185B and 1860 Jay Gould first 'legan to blossom out_in Wall street. ... as .i. characbiaCtnd 's try ♦.he How to Play Poker—A Young Man CONSUMPTION KILLS HIM. Wanted to Open Oysters and Do Other rjoce may your liyacinthine lids unfold Bathed in the limpid pallor of the moon. The happiest Mars in heaven may yet behold. And pray and sigh for Joy, and slumber soon. — Irene Putnam in I.ippincott'a. t Within a ver short time he v. in the front ran teristic wai cautiousness reserve. Hemaa friends with vfew and was enemy of most his associates first great sc in which Oou became inter' Wall street w the gobbling the Erie rail: Erie was theu of the actii stocks. He begt by dabbling in and finally becan its controlli His Fare Private Life. Things—A Chicago Servant. "Oh, potter, for whom do yon mourn?" be asked. We Passes Away Snrronnded by Hi? Ia 1888 Gould took some friends into his private office and showed them his strong box in his safe. It contained *23,000,000 worth of securities, according to the stories which were circulated at that time. [Copyright. 1891, by Edgar VV. Nye.] Birdie Swartout, of Cripple Creek, writes in good faith to know if color may be detected by the degree of heat or the odor—in other words, is color perceptible by means of any other sense than sight? An Invariable Rule. Loved Ones. "Sadamiya," was the reply. "Bow's yon' health. Uncle Eben?" "Well, 1 feelB pooty poo'ly, 1 does. Bnt 1 ain't no vrisa skyart." A MAN IN THE BELL. "Dear, dearl Is Sadamiya dead?" cried the policeman, and he hurried off to the corner where the barbers sat plying then trade. In private life Gould's record has been that of a mo»t exemplary citizen. He loved his family and spent all of his time outside of his business hours in their company. His style of liv lag has not been pretentious, although bis mansion on Fifth avenue is furnished richly and in a manner that compares favorably with those of the wealthiest of the town, and his country seat at Irvington-on-the-Hudson is provided with everything that wealth could puichase. One of the notable incidents in Gould's Wall street career was his public chastisement by Major Selover, a big Kentuckian. in 1877. "Why? 1'rom Poverty He Arose In m Few Tears "Rase October's inos' gone, an I've alius noticed dat when i iibis fro de month ob October 1 libs fro de whole yah."— Washington Star, to Colossal Wealth—He First Went to In my rtmnger days bell ringing was much more iu fashion among the young men of than it is now. Some fifty years ago about twenty of us who dwelt in the vicinity of the cathedral formed a club which used ta ring every peal that The cessation of the noise had in a great measure the effect of stupefying me, for my attention, being no longer occupied by the chimeras 1 had conjured up, began to flag. All that now distressed me was the constant expectation of the second ringing, for which, however, I settled myself with a kind of stupid resolution. I closed my eyes and clinched my teeth as firmly as if they were screwed in a vice. "Shave my head and beard," said he. "I am going into morning for Sadamiya."New York to Sell a Patent Blouse Trap, Jf in The scheme !d tsrested entered Le Fontaiuo says yes. He even goes so far as to saj* that people who are color blind may lie quite accurate by means of other senses—taste, touch, smell or even th » feeling of warmth. He named in his List work—viz., "Color Blind People and Blind Colored People Contrasted"—a case in which a locomotive engineer, who had been color blind for twenty years and held his position by means of the sense of smell, claimed afterward that a red light had an odor like red flannel, while t'u# green light had a smell like green flannel. He tost his place, however, while suffering rrom a do1vtDhk of flip nocA Come freely with your abcesses and faraway looks, your little-Eva-goodby- Uncle-Tom air, your tallyhoes and tubercles. Bring them all. Come and cough up with the country. But when the glow of health as you ride horseback comes to your well rounded cheeks, and also to the place under the saddle where the hair is worn off the back of the dejected horse, do not goTback home and say that you owe it entirely to a protective tariff. but the Scheme Was a Failure—How lie anil Jim Flak Manipulated the Erie Shortly afterward duty took the police man to the kotwal—chief of police—and at once the kotwal asked for whom he waa mourning. Tired of It. Railroad and Planned the Great Gold Simpson — Whatever induced your uncle to marry the widow of a man who was hanged? Conspiracy That Brought on the World Owe Sunday 1 Went with another into the belfry to ring for noon prayers, but the second stroke we had palled showed n* that the clapper of the bell we were at waa nmSed. Some one had been buried that and it had* been prepared of coerso to ring a mournful note. was called for. Famous Hlack Friday—The Squeezing m -W of railroad, •me "For Sadamiya, that illustrious person."of Cyras W. Field In the Elevated Rall- Jiinpsou—He bad been married to a widow before, and says that he was tired of having the virtues of a former husband constantly flung in his face.—Tit- Bits. road Deal—Gould's I*ure Home Life. "Ah, dear me! Is he dead?*' exclaimed the kotwal. "Well, well, all die in turn Call the barber." It I* Said That His Estate Will Foot Selover had lost money in speculation and attributed his misfortune to Gould's treachery. He came across him one day in Exchange place, and after pummeling him and shaking him up roughly he dropped him over an iron railing into an areaway. Gould took his punishment philosophically, but it is said that for a long time after that be never went around in Wall street without having some one near at hand- who could render him assistance in case of an attack. At last the dreaded moment came, and the first swing of the bell extorted a groan from me, as they say the most resolute victim screams at the sight of the rack to which he is for a second time destined. After this, however. I lay silent and lethargic, without a thought. (Tp at Least «100,®00,000. r Presently the kotwal had occasion tc visit the vizier, who was surprised to 6ee him in monrning, the more so as he did not know that any of hia family were ill. New York, Dec. 3.'-Arrangements are not fully completed for the funeral of Jay Gould, who passed away Friday, but it will be held from the house Monday, either at 10 a. m. or 4 p. m. The services will be very simple, and It is stated on good authority that there will be no address or eulogy of any kind. The interment will take place at Woodlawn, where several of the family are buried. The item in the Atlanta Constitution is true, but not complete. It should have ajjfcl that while Mrs. Smith was celebrating her seventieth birthday Mr. Smith, her husband, was working alone on my justly celebrated well, which is 102 feet deep, and bringing np the granite fragments in a bushel basket held in his teeth, running up and down the rope hand over hand like a cat, and cleaning out the well preparatory to putting in the plumbing. Mrs. Smith is his second wile, and they have lived together as mau and wife for fifty years. Dnriug the war they lived on a bank of edible clay and a distant relative. Mr. Smith regards his present health as a result entirely of the ozone and unrestrained ballot of this state. Works That Way Sometimes. SDITH KINQDON OOCLD. acquaintance with James Fisk, Jr., began several year* previous, and the two made one of the strongest teams Wall street has ever known. We did not know of this, but the remedy was easy. "Jack,'' said my companion, "step np to the loft and cat off the hat," for the Way we had of muffling was by tying a piece of an old hat or of cloth (the former was preferred) on one side of t\»e clapper, which deadened every second toll. Ticker—Wliy did yon take your advertisement ont of the papers? Dicker—Too expensive: business got ho good that all my clerks stmck me for a raise of salary —New York Herald. "Who is dead?" he inquired. ft \r=~ "Alas! your honor, the illustrious, high minded and dignified Sadamiya has be on called away." When it ceased I was roused a little by the hope of escape. I did not, however, decide on this step hastily, but putting up my hand with the utmost caution I touched the rim. Though the ringing had ceased it waa still tremnloue from the sound and shook under my hand, which instantly recoiled aa from an electric jar. A quarter of an hour probably elapsed before I again dared to make the experiment, and then I found it at rest. I determined to lose no time fearing that I might have lain then already too long and that the bell for evening service would catch me. When Fisk and Gould- went into Erie Daniel Drew was the controlling spirit, and the Brie deal originated in a war between Drew and Commodore Vanderbilt. The latter wanted to get hold of Erie. He bought at every opportunity. Drew, Fisk and Gould laid plans to defeat him, Gould engineering the scheme. Securities were issued by the bushel, and then Vanderbilt resorted to litigation. Injunctions were obtained to prevent Drew from issuing stock. "Oh!" exclaimed the vizier "'I am sorry to hear you sayeo. What a loss! Will you please call the barber?" Practice Alkkei Perfect. In whatever official positions Mr. Gould held, suoh as president of the Missouri Pacific and Manhattan railway companies, he will probably be succeeded, for a time at least, by George Gould. A needy travelei applied for assistance to a benevolent lady, who gave hiin a trifle, and, in order u» put something more in his way, got him to beat her carpets. The poor muu went to work with so much gusto and evident skill that his benefactress could not help asking: 1 complied, and mounting into the belfry crept as usual into the bell, where 1 began to cut away. The hat had been tied on in some more complicated manner than usual, and 1 was perhaps three or four minutes in getting it off. during which time my companion below was hastily called away—by a message from his sweetheart, I believe, bnt that is not material to my story. The barber came, and the vizier went into mourning. Duty took him into the presence of the emperor, who was startled at his changed appearance. The utmost secrecy was observed at the health office regarding the certificate of the death of Mr. Gould, which was filed in the bureau of vital statistics. An undertaker called upon Secretary Clark and requested that t he representatives of the press should not have access to the certificate. This is all that is known of the certificate—that it was sigued by Dr. Munn aud that it gave the cause of Mr. Gould's death as pulmonary phthisis, Mr. and Mrs. George Gould, Misses Helen gjid Annie Gould and Edwin and Howard Gould were at his bedside when he died. Qr Muqii and Dr. Janeway were in attendance.Washington, Dec. 3.—Secretary Foster. Of the treasury department, said that the death of Jay Gould wguld have no appreciable effect ou finances or stocks. There in the secretary's opinion, no possible danger of a financial panic. Mo Danger of a Panic. "Your highness, I grieve to inform you, bnt that sublime custodian of goodness, of honor and of learning, Sadamiya, has been taken," "Who is dead?" he asked. "I suppose that is yonr regulai occupation, or perhaps you are a furrier by trade?" Vanderbilt lotei 97,000,000. Finally an issue of 60,000 shares of Erie was authorized. This settled Vanderbilt, and he retired from fight with a loss of (7,000,000. Warrants were issued for the arrest of Drew, Fisk, Gould and the other directors of Erie, but they escaped by fleeing to Jersey City with the securities. It is said that 16,000,000 were carried over the ferry in oue coach, Erie was then incorporated in New .Jersey, and, New York legislators were bribed, it is said, to legalize the new issue of 50,000 shares of stock. Peter B. Sweeney, as reoeiver of Erie, got $160,000 as his fee by order of Judge Barnard. It is said that Gould went to Albany with $500,- 000 in his pocket for use. in the lobby. He was arrested and brought to New York and went back under the charge of a deputy sheriff, who let him escape. The result of this battle was that Drew took his profits and withdrew from the management, aud Gould and Fisk came in. This was in 1888. Gould was first president in that year and continued at the head of the company until 1872. He has been mistaken several times for another William E. Smith, of Lower Fork township, who is one of the profoundest liars in the state, barring none. This'has given Mr. Smith cause for much sorrow, and he has often wished that he was dead, but that is out of the question in this climate. The person who called him was a brother of the club who, knowing that the time had come for ringing for service, aud not thinking that any one was above, began to pull. At this moment I was just getting ont when I felt the bell moving. 1 guessed the reason at once. It was a moment of terror, bnt by a hasty and almost convulsive effort I succeeded in jumping down and throwing mvself on the flat of my back nnder the bell. "Call the barber," said the emperor to his attendants, and soon he was mourn ing with shaven head. When he ap peared before the empress she inquired " Whp is dead?" "No, inf}' am—a schoolmaster!"- Eulenspicgel.This dread stimulated me, and 1 slipped out with the utmost rapidity and arose. I stood, I suppose, for a minute, looking with silly wonder on the place of my imprisonment, penetrated with joy at escaping, but then rushed down the stony and irregular stair with the velocity of lightning and arrived in the bell ringer's room. My hands were torn and bleeding; my hair disheveled and my clothes tattered. HE WAS HEADED. A Cane of Bhmu Pain. 4ft Race Which the Wrong Bona Won. "Alast that J should have to say it! Sadamiya is dead." They ate peanuts and discussed general topics until the 2:30 trot was called, when the young man in pallid trousers began to get excited. Several time* liefore the end came Mrs. George Gould (nee Edith Kingdon, the actressy wan seen at the window, pale and wan from her night's watching. Dr. Mtinn told the reporters that Mr. Gould had died without a struggle and had passed away "like a bird." This may or may not have been true, but day before yesterday we had on the Pullman car Asphyxia coming north a man who said that the race problem had induced him to go south for the month of November, wfyere he found that the colored man was well treated and rapidly becoming so wealthy as to threaten the supremacy of the white race. He believed that in a very few years the trade and commerce of the south would be in colored hands. He said that in one county where he visited there were but two colored men who owned a mule, each, free of incumbrance, twenty years ago, and now there are three of them. TEACHING NYE POKER. Asbeville lias a large and prosperous cemetery filled entirely with people from the north who waited live or ten minutes too late before coming here. Health here is so good and one feels so perfectly vigorous that the monotonous longevity drives some to drink. The pale, white juice of the Early Dent corn is used for this purpose, and yields a grateful warmth, folloWed by a healthy glow, and afterward by coma, stertorous breathing, incoherent mutterings and other signs of the third party. A valued friend writes from Chicago, "We certainly not only rival New York, but far exceed her in one thing—vis., the mpudence and worthleasness of servmts." Continuing, she says: "I have ived in Chicago for nearly forty years likI never yet have seen such utter lorror in the outlook for employers if servants. We get as many greer and "But who is Sadamiya?" she asked, foi even in India women are endowed with curiosity, •Tve got money on a horse," he ostentatiously announced. "Sadamiya I Sadamiya 1 ( never thought of asking, bnt the vizier knows. 1 shall ask him." The young woman without suspenders was visibly impressed. "Did yon ever!" phs raptuously exel aimed. "Oh, yes. Got money on Fly-Up-the- Creek." The room in which it was was little more than sufficient to contain it, the bottom of the bell coming within a couple of feet of the floor of lath. At that time 1 certainly was not so bulky as 1 am now, but as 1 lay it was within an inch of my face. 1 had not lain myself down a second, when the ringing began. It was a dreadful situation. I leaned against the wall, motionless and deprived of thought, in which posture my companions found mc when in the course of a conple of honrs they returned to their occupation.—Blackwood's Magazine. Mr. Gould had been suffering from disease of the lungs for a number of years, though the fact had never been known even to his most Intimate friends. He had several hemorrhages from the lungs recently, the first one on Thanksgiving day, another two days after and an alarming one on Wednesday. The vizier was summoned and the eraD peror demanded, "Who is this Sadamiya we are all in mourning for?" "Really, your highness, I nevei thought of asking, bnt the kotwai knows. I shall ask him." —Life. The young man in pallid trousers tried to look indifferent. But the kotwai could not toll.. No more could the policeman, bnt he would ask the potter. The explanation of the blue of the "vaulted canopy above us'1 is not to be sought in the fact that the air, or its constituent particles, reflect the readily refrangible rays of short waved length and let the less refrangible long waved rays throngh. The short waves of light —the blue color—are much more strongly reflected than the long waved red ones. Lord Raleigh has proven the bl ue reflected in the light from the sky to be four-fifths times stronger than the yellow color and six-sevenths times stronger than the red. The violet is sixeighths times stronger than the yellow, or aboat nine-tenths times more intense than the long waves of red light. Wby the Sky b Bine. Be Had Been There. It was then that every expedient known to medicine was resorted to. Death was merely a question of time after the first jiemorrhagfe. Everybody supposed that Erie was squeezed dry at that time, but between these yCW» the debt Of the railroad in preased from »4,000,000 to #115,000,000. Prew speculated in Erie after Gould got in, and before he knew it he was cornered in earnest, and Gould relieved him of 11,- 600,000. "Is Fly-Up-the-Creek a horse?" inquired the young woman without suspenders, after a pause. I Ho failed to hear her. He was nervously watching the gate when the racers entered. Over me swung an immense mass of metal, one touch of which would have crushed me to pieces; the floor under me was principally composed of crazy laths, and if they gave way I was precipitated to the distance of about fiftyfeet upon a loft, which would in ail probability have sunk nnder the impuke of my fall and sent me to be dashed to atoms upon the marble floor of the chancel a hundred feet below. A boarding bopse in Detroit advertised for a hall boy. Among a host of applicants was a raw boned, lanky youtb, who rang the doorbell and was met by the landlady herself. "Who is this Sadamiya we are all in monrning for?" the policeman inquired of the potter. hu Flurry In Wall Street. Colored children, too, he says, are more plentiful, and parents seem more economical of them. He says also that there is a strong atmosphere of progress pervading the gatherings there, and though color blind he says that the other senses may be readily educated, if at all sensitive, so that even in tlie darkness one may detect almost at once the color of the complexion pervading the meeting, though this of course refers to the primary colors and not to delicate shades. ' 'You—you—do—not—-mean—to—sa; —yoa—are—mourning—for Sadamiya?" he stammered. Dealing* ou the Stock exchange were comparatively light and were confined to the Gould stocks. Missouri Pacific was "Want a boy?" he asked, shifting from on# foot to the other. "There he is! There he is!" He leaped to his feet and yelled. . "Who is it? Tell me! Who do you see?" Gould was ousted from Erie in 1873 by a combination of the English stockholders, but for years afterward it was in the hands of a receiver. Gould is said to have made $12,000,000 clear out of the wreck. "Yes, J am, and so is the kotwai, and the vizier, and the emperor." "Yes," said the landlady, taking an inventory of the applicant. "House ran by a missis?" "Yes." "Be you she?' servants as New York, or morev . witt arrogance an J impudence added for every mile they come by rail. Can you I jK vk i Awj li |jy4 J uaT6- ll CAM E, THE GRAVEYARD AT ASHEVILLE. She clutched his arm and stared at (he track in a bewildered way. "Dear, dear! Whatever will become of me?" cried the potter. "In mourning for Sadamiya! Why—Sadamiya is my —donkey!"—Youth's Companion. Thia w in g had k more* on me. beli smote which crock; it did nov Tery soul, aimost u' the sens* Every .is my first terror, but the ring-ot continued a minute before a wful Cind immediate dread came The deafening sound of the into my ears with a thunder nade mo fear their drums would there was not a liber of my body * thrill through. It entered my thought and reflection were :terly banished; I only retained The Gold Conspiracy, f hp gold conspiracy of 'l8U» was one of the most remarkable episodes of Gould's career. It was engineered by the firm of Smith, Gould & Martin. Gould went about this scheme openly and WM persistent in ftdroc*tM)g ft movement to advance the price of gold. He argued that it wonld be a great benefit to the farmer and to the business intereats of the country. In order to get the government into the deal he interested A. B. Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Grant, in the scheme. During the summer of 1869 President Grant came to New York, and Gould and Fisk entertained him and his party on one of the sound steamers. It was at this banquet (hat Qould first got f* the ear of Grant. Gould wanted to put gold up to 143. He had bought the big load he was carrying at 180. Grant finally seemed to be impressed with Gould's theory and wrote a letter to Boutwell, the secretary of the treasury, expressing the view that it was not a wise thing to force down the price of gold. Gould kept buying, but It took a purchase of #50,000,000 to raise the jnarketfrom 135 to 14a Then Fisk and several other friends of Gould came into the scheme and assisted him by buying gold. Early in September of 1889 it began to look as though the scheme was about to succeed. "Who is it?' she demanded more importunately.He turned a withering glance upon the young woman without suspenders. "The horse, of course." "What horse?" "Why, Fly-Up-the-Creek." "Oh, is Fly-Up-the-Creek a horse?" "Yes." "An you want a boy to tend door, run errants, trot to the grocery, sit in a cold hall, say you're out sixty times a day, and keep agents and tin peddlers and kids offen th' steps?" Household Economy. I believe that many curious anecdotes might be related regarding the wonderful distinction of color by people who are blind or color blind. I know of a yonng lady whose father was very wealthy up to the time he began to teach me the game of poker, and she suffered from color blindness, at one time elapiug with the colored coachman and not discovering her error until two years had swept by on untiring pinions. My friend pow is broken in health and in fortune, living with his son-in-law, and all day long he sits in the sunshine thinking of the past and singing or telling stories to his little black and tan grandchildren. These relations of intensity must therefore cause the reflected light to appear to be mostly bine. The bine of the sky is also connected with the phenomenon known as the polarization of light, that color in the colored waves always being polarized in the same direction, which is quite independent of the nature of the turbid particles of the atmosphere. As long as present conditions exist the sky will be of blue colors of varying intensity.—St. Lonis Republic.The clocks tolled the hour of midnight as he awoke. The perfnme of many flowers, borne upon the soft, warm air. pervaded the room, but his nostrils perceived it not. The royal moon bathed the world in a subdued glory, but his eyes were blind-Jo it. Crickets chirped a comfortable and drowsy song, but his ears were sealed against their melody. "Yes," said the astonished woman: "that's just what I do want" The young man with pallid trousers made no reply. He was engrossed in the scoring. "Much money in it?" queried the boy. "Two dollars and fifty cents a week." "Promises or cash down?" "You get your money regularly if you earn it." moment I saw the bell sweep within .. 1 inch of my face, and my eyes —1 could not close them, though to look at the objoct was bitter as death—followed ir instinctively in its oscillating progress nntil it came back again. It was in vain 1 said to myself that it coold come no nearer any future swing than it did at first; every time it descended I endeavored to shrink into the very floor to avoid being buried under the down sweeping mass, and then, reflecting on the danger of pressing too weightily on my frail support, would cower up again as far as I dared. *ion of agonizing teiTor. "They're off!" "Who's off?" Cheers rent the air. The yo.ung woman without suspenders looked puzzled. "What are they yelling for?" The young man in pallid trousers heard her not He strained his eyes to penetrate the cloud of dust that enveloped the racers. "Fly-Up-the-Creek was headed in the stretch" The young man in pallid trousers was very solemn and impressive. "You dont mean it." » His hair, which was iron gray, vras standing on end. "I'm your huckleberry, missis. Wot kin I dew first')' Start out on a collectin tower, or make the fires in tbe sick hoarders' rooms, or watch out for the &llow that is going to slide his trunk out 'ithout pay in his board?" His whole being was intent upon the words that fell from the lips of his sleeping wife. tbe only stock of the Gould group that showed any decided weakness. Subsequently when it became known that all the stocks with which the sage financier had been identified with had been trusteed, they became strong and advanced in some cases. Western Union was especially strong. 4AT OOCLP, "Oleomargarine," murmured the slumbering woman, "seven cents pound—but ter twenty-eight—save"'  Customer—Waiter, do you remember me? I came in here yesterday and ordered a steak. pCrMT«rin(. "Look here," said the landlady, "you know too much. 1 guess we can't make a trade." The man raised himself upon liis el bow and held his breath. WANTED—Young man who can sliave a few guests, open oysters,and milk; gooil home; permanent. iiinkson House, Paoli, Pa. Waiter—Yes, sir. Will you hare the same thing today, sir? "All right, mum. If 'eperience and know bow don't go for something, 1 ain't in it But you'll be sorry, mum. when the butcher comes around with bis last year's bill. I'm a pacifyer of l,he first water, but you don't"  "twenty-one cents—every poundten pounds week—save"  His face was growing livid. "two dollars and ten cents—ten !fbe amount of Jay Gould's wealth has often been estimated. Figures have been giveu that run from $100,000,000 to 9800,- 000.000 and even higher. The young woman without suspender* feigned incredulity. "Yes, ma'am." "Fiy-Up-the-Creek?" "Fly-Up-the-Creek." "And is that the horse you've got money on?" She waa becoming more and more animated.The above advertisement is sent to me by a valued correspondent at Wyoming, Del., and 1 should be glad to give the notice farther circulation, thus insuring some good young man with genius a warm welcome and permanent employment. The advertisement is taken from a Philadelphia paper of great estimableness,Customer—Yes, if no one else is using it.—New York Herald. At first my fears were mere matter of fact. 1 was afraid the pulleys above would give way and let the bell plunge on me. At another time the possibility of the clapper being shot out in some sweep and dashing through my body, as 1 had seen a ramrod glide through a door, flitted across my mind. The dread also, as 1 have already mentioned, of the crazy floor tormented me, but these soon gave way to fears not more unfounded, but more visionary and of course more tremendous. / not say a word that will cheer and units us? A friend of mine hired a new cook, who cooked, stuffed and served hot a baked goose without removing anything except the outer wraps of the bird. This is no joke. It is the everlasting truth. The girl never admitted that she was utterly green and knew nothing regarding the use and abuse of the American people. The Top Notch of Style. weeks—save''  It is safe to declare that Mr. Gould haa left a fortune of tl00,000,000. The populai estimate of his property is about $150,000,000. Mrs. Hayrick—Mrs. Lawnmo says all the folks at her house is fashionable people. The veins swelled like cords upon hi* forehead. She hired him.—Detroit Free Presa. The only danger was that the treasury might unload its gold $nd break the market before th« conspirators oouid realize their profits and get out. Gould finally got alarmed. It got abroad that the bears would attempt to ohangethe administration's polioy. Mr. Gould and Mr. Corbin decided to act promptly. President Grant was then at Washington, Pa., thirty miles from telegraphic communication. Mr. Corbin in a letter to the president stated the situation, and Gould and Fisk selected the messenger to tuke the letter to Grant. General Horace Porter, the onaidnnt's private secretary, says that the fact that this messenger came all the way from New York excited Grant'* distrust, and he began to feel that Mr. Corbin's interest in the gold policy of the administration had for a foundation pecuniary motives. President Grant directed Mrs. Grant to write a letter to Mrs. Corbin, in which Mrs. Corbin wae instructed to notify her husband that if he bad any interest in gold speculations he should retire from tbem at once. This letter way received on the evening of Sept. 82, two days before Black Friday. Gould got this news from Corbin, and it was resolved that on the next day, Thursday, a gigantic) effort should be made to "twenty-one dollars — hat cost twenty dollars—one dollar left." With a moan he sauk into a recum bent position. He TFu an Original. George Gould, the eldest son, who married Edith Ringdon, the actress, has for a long time been prominent in managing his father's affairs, and he will probably remain at the helm now that bis father is dead. Mrs. Meadow—I guess it's so. All the women has dogs, an all th' dogs is sick. —New York Weekly. The people around the little mountain town oalied him Old Comparison, and I knew in a general way why the soubriquet had been given him, but I did not during my month's stay have an oppor tunity to test it, though I had a speaking acquaintance with him. One day 1 was passing his house, and he was sitting on the steps of the little vine clad porch in front. "That's the horse." Opening oysters and sliaving a few customers seem to go hand in hand. When fatigued with this he might also shave the oysters and open a few customera. I used to have such a man myself as a body servant, but he is dead now. He sometimes impersonated me and acted as my understudy, often trying a new lecture for me. Pliny's Giant. Thenceforth he wandered through thi world as one whose idol had been shattered.—Detroit Tribune. "And what was it that happened to him?" "Headed." Galabra, the giant whom Pliny mentions as having been "brought out of Arabia" during the reign of Claudius, was ten feet high, of Hqo proportions and weighed upward of 400 pounds.— Million. Gould's Remarkable Career "Think of cooking and serving a goose without inti*ding upon its private affairs! Think of carving itand passing it to a person of noble birth who wa« thinking of buying thirteen lots in one of our new additions! It has been truthfully said that Jay Gould was one of the most remarkable products of American civilization. He was pre-eminent amid ing lights wit{i whom he was associated in Wall street for move than thirty years. Among the lead- I ers in the opposition to his schemes ] were men as ambitions and as greedy of gain, if not equally as brilliant, as himself. Bat he succeeded in overreaching them all, and at the close of his career stood without a rival. Although his methods have been greatly criticised he succeCxled in gratifying his greatest ambition—amassing the most colossal fortune ever accumulated by one man. "Hpw per-fectly i-ovely. Do you think you'll win?' Bit ud Little. The roaring of the bell confused my intellect, and my fancy soon began to teem with all sorts of strange and terrifying ideas. Tbe bell pealing above and opening its jaws with a hideous clamor seemed to me at one time a raving monster raging to devour me; at another a whirlpool ready to suck me into its bellowing abyss. As I gazed on it, it assumed all shapes. It was a flying eagle, or rather a roc of the Arabian story tellers, clapjring its wings and screaming over me. Briggs—Yon Bee that fellow over there? He is in the lumber business, and the fellow ha is talking with so earnestly is a maker of toothpicks. the throng of shin- She beamed upon him radiantly, but Us feelings did not seem to respond witb the buoyancy to be expected.—Detroit Tribune, "Good morning," I said. "It's a lovely day." That was the way he met his death. He wanted to be busy all the time. He would on rainy days dig worms for the feeble minded hens, and at night he would crochet Tam O'Shanters for the poor. Couldn't Be Imposed Upon. Griggs—How funny 1 What is the lumberman so much in earnest about? "Finer'n silk," he responded, "How are yon this morning? "Frislrier'n a colt." "How's yonr wife?" "Pearter'n a pnllet." "Servants now ask the questions themselves entirely: Do you have much com- Wnv? How mnnv in the familv? etc. e had a gill come last week to apply lor a place, and. Mr. Nye, you could not exaggerate, if you tried, the list of questions she asked. Emboldened by my perfect helplessness and horror, she went on and on till she could think of nothing more. Then she said: 'Well, I presume that it will do if I come Monday. I have some engagements for the rest of the week.' Then she started for the door. The amateur farmer looked wise. He &D.d tramped or driven over a large portion of the farm, bad passed judgment on the richness of the soil, and had talked of the purchase of some improved machinery. Altogether he was very favorably impressed and announced that he had about made up bis mind to buy the laud. Obeying Orders, Briggs—He wants to borrow some money.—Truth. Mrs. Q -, whoi had kept French servants, decided that they w#e too wise and witty for snch employment, and engaged a German instead, who was recommended as being a young man who wonld obey orders to the letter and make no remarks whatever about them. "The weather is very hot and dry for this season, don't yon think?" But one time he tried a new lecture for me in an uncultivated town. I was not sure of the lecture myself and told him to be on his guard, for some of the ideas were keenly expressed, and the treatment was vigorous. He got part way through the window, but it was violently shut down on him, severing him in such a way that the committee got the end containing the box receipts. Wanted—A Mu. Ci, // y "Hotter'n a run hoss and drier'n a clean shirt." As I looked upward into it, it would appear sometimes to lengthen into indefinite extent or to be twisted at the end into the spiral folds of the tail of a flying dragon. Nor was the flaming breath or fiery glance of that fabled animal wanting to complete the picture. My eyes, inflamed, bloodshot and glaring, invested the supposed monster with a full proportion of unholy light. One day Mrs. Q came down stairs tn a great hurry and said to Johann, Who was waiting meekly in the hall: Then he noticed a little pool of bubbling water. "I suppose you went to the wedding last night in the meeting house? A pretty bride, I thought." a speckled dog." "The young man is very rich, I hear?" "What's that?"' he asked quickly. "I am in a great hurry to get down tpwn. I want yon to go right out and Wng to the door the very first carriage yon come across." " 'You have forgotten to ask one question,' 1 said. 'You have forgotten to ask if I wanted you. I do not. You may run along now. Illinois people are called Suckers, but there isn't such a general run of paresis here as you may have ljeen led to believe from reading the New York papers.' She then went away." "A spring," replied the old farmer, "one of the purest, coldest springs it this country." GEORGE GOULD. boost the market higher unload. Accordingly all the Gould brokers went scrambling for gold. Gould, however, who appreciated the (act that the game was up, "By the way, are you willing to sell me those sawlogs Brown couldn't take off your hands?" "Richer'n fertilizer a foot thick." He had a wife in Beaver Dam, Wis. She buried him there. You can find the tomb there today. She married agaiu, and had bad hack with her secopd husband also. His tomb is there too. On the large marble shaft which his insurance paid for is this inscription in large, beautiful letters: "A cold spring!" exclaimed the amateur farmer. Mrs. Q meant of course the first pnblic carriage, but Bhe did not say so. En a few moments Johann came back and bowed Mrs. Q to the door. She went out and foimd awaiting her there —a hearse!—Youth's Companion. "Yes, sir, and as clear as crystal." "Look here," said the amateur fanner gternly, "do I look like a man who can be imposed upon?" "Why, no"'  "Williner'n a giri to get spliced." Of Jay Gould's early life very little was known until within a comparatively recent time, for of all men living be was one of the closest mouthed. It would be endless were I to merely hint at all the fancies that possessed my mind. Every object that was hideous and roaring presented itself to my imagination. I often thought that I was in a hurricane at sea and that the vessel In which I was embarked tossed nnder me with the moat furious vehemence. The air, pet in motion by the swinging of the bell, blew over me nearly with the violence and more than the thunder of a tempest, and the floor seemed to reel under me as under a drunken man. Bat the most awful of all the ideas that "When can I see them?" '•Quicker'n a lamb can shake his tail." And the old man grabbed his hat and stick and led the way to the river, offering no remark, but answering all questions as usual.—Mercury. He was born on May 87,1836, near the little town of Roxbury, in Delaware county, tbi9 state. We are all suffering from the same cause. Only those who employ colored girls warranted not to crack are perfectly happy. "Would you pick me out for a man who doesn't know his business?" Accurate. "Of course not. I"  The widow of a young German officer went to the pension office for the purpose of drawing her pension. She presented her usual certificate of the mayor of her Tillage to the effect that she wa» •till alive. Oil, hero we have a widow bereft— : Hit-hard cm the l and Henry on the left.: "Then do you expect to unload this farm on to me handicapped by that thing?-' Girl (with utonishing rapidity)—Burglars is broke into the house—two on 'em; they're there now; onr kitchen chimney's afire an we ain't got no water ia onr well; father'* away an mother sent me out an tola me to bring horn? the first man I met, so pleaae oome boms with me, quick !—Life. His father, John B. Gould, was the owner of a small farm. He married three times, and his first wife, Jay's mother, died in 1841. The boy was christened Jason, and he was known by his full name until he was nearly twenty years old, whi.a ht changed it to Jay. I used to write freely of the servant question and said some bright things about it, but that was when I was a bachelor. Now I am keeping house, and I am more reserved. I am writing a book, however, on the servant question, which will be published after my death. It will be filled with facts and written in a terse yet well chosen style that will in a great measure take the keen edge off the general public grief over my irremediable loss. Very Clou. Below it some one has added In an academy in a country town not long ago a class of boys was undergoing an examination in natural history. The instructor was testing the pupils' knowledge of the various races or families of animals. : And if blie should outlive a i Mitile itioro, I She could plant out behind mid the other : before. "Why, what's the matter with it?" "Mutter with it! Don't you suppose 1 read the papers? They kill crops." "Springs kill crops?" WHERE GOULD WILL BE BURIED. was quietly selling while all hia associates were buying. "This certificate is not right," said the official. In bis earliest days little Jason used to tend his father's cows. He did not likC- farming, however, and when he was ten years old he began to walk fifteen miles to the nearest school and started out Sunday nights, returning on Saturday. There he soon learned to read, write and figure. At fourteen he became a clerk in a country grocery, but he studied at night and soon determined to become a surveyor. During this period his genius for driving sharp bargains began to develop itself. In one case he overreached his employer in a small real estate deal, which is said to have cobt him his position. "What is the matter with it?" Another correspondent asks of North Carolina: "Is it a healthy state? Would it be a good place for hip disease, and could you give employment at once to one so afflicted?" "Cold springs do. Yon can't fool me, old man. if I do look like a city bred uian. A cold spring is worse than a backward wpring, according to The Young Farmer's Weekly, and yon wouldn't dare try to sell me a farm with 4 backward spring on it." "Yon may tell me, Jones," he said, "the name of the animal which stands as the type and representative of the canine race/' The next day, Black Friday, came the panic memorable In the annals of Wall street. The most intense excitement prevailed at the Stock exchange, and the pricq of gold was run up to 105. Suddenly the announcement came that the treasury was selling freely, and the bottom dropped completely out of the market. "Because it bears the date of Dec. 21, but your pension wm due Dec. 15." "What kind of a certificate do you seized on me were drawh from the supernatural.In the vast cavern of the bell hideous faces appeared and glared down on me with terrifying frowns or with grinning mockery still more appalling. I found I was becoming delirious, and trembled It Didn't Work. Brace—One of our eminent scientist* has discovered enough disease germs on a bank bill to kill a whole regiment. Bagley—Pshaw! Hand oVer the five you owe me. I'm no coward.—New York Herald. want?" This is a healthy state. I have said so before. The western part of the state has a climate like that of Turin. I say this without wishing to keep any one away from Turin. To show you how people retain their faculties here, I copy the following from the Atlanta Constitution:All these long words hopelessly puzsled Jones, who stood silent. "Come," said the teacher, "surely you know that." "We must have a certificate that you were alive on the 10th day of December, Of what use is this one that says you were alive on the 21st day of December, dx days later?1—Texas Sittings. leet reason should utterly desert me. I feared lest, when utterly deprived of rajr senses, I should rise—to do which I The old man leaned against a rail fence and didn't know whether to laugh or swear as he watched the amaterr farmer stalk haughtily down the lase —Detroit Free Press. When it was learned that Gould had gone back on his friends and sold them out the most bitter indignation was felt, and it would have gone hard with him if the angry mob had been able to lay its hands upon him. Jones fidgeted, but said nothing. Cbopson—Hey? What? Rain all next week? How does anybody know? Who W» HP? Unfavorable Sign. "Hal What animal, now, is more closely attached to man than any other?" Explained. was every moment tempted by that It was late in the night. The police reporter was the only man on duty in the office, and thinking that his work was oyer for the night he had just coiled himself up on the desk for a nap. He was at the point of dropping off into a dove when there was a ring at the telephone.Bow Be Was Killed. "1 fell into the pond today, and it wu up to my neck." said Walter. strange feeling which calls on a man . whose head is dizzy from standing on the battlement of a lofty castle to precipitate himself from it—and then death would be instant and tremendous. When I thought of this I became desperate. I caught the floor with a grasp Jones' eyes gleamed with intelligence. He had not been swimming in the millpond on summer nights ever since his fourth year for nothing. He then engaged as chain bearer to a surveyor,who was to pay him twenty dollars a month, but did not, and Gould was compelled to make a "noon mark" or sun dial for a farmer in order to get food. Gould completed the map of Ulster county his nbsconding employer was at work on and made (500 on the deal. After being ousted from the Erie management Gould went into Union Pacific In 1873 and was for ten years Its master. He made millions out of the road and increased its debt. Dr. E. S. War lick reports a case in the South mountain section of Burke county, N. C., which Is on# of the most remarkable on record, if we except the Scriptural story of Sarah. Mrs. William E. Smith, of Upper Fork township. Stave birth to a child, a circumstance which would have created very little comment in the Sonth mountain had it not been that the day on which the child was born happened to be Mrs. Smith's seventieth birthday. The child was alive and well formed, and the physicians all say this beats the record. "Nonsense," said Jack; "the water in *Jie pond isn't more than a foot deep." "Oh, but 1 went in head first," said Walter.—Harper's Young People. Revised. Staikes (sad, but firm)—I do. I've arranged to have my house painted next week.—Chicago Tribune. "That's a neat motto,'' said Briny Billins to a building society man who asks, "Why pay rent when yon can own your own home?" "Bloodsuckers!" he shouted.—Youth's Companion. Gel Credit Gould's connection with the Union Pacific ceased in 1883. An action was brought by the United States government against the Gould directors for misappropriating the assets of the company, but no satisfaction was obtained. n Unseen Visitor. which drove the blood from my nails, "Yes," was the reply, "but I have just had a tenant who revised it in a way that made me dislike it. He says, 'Why pay for a home when you can ow» the rent?' "-Tit-Bits. Perdita—111 give him credit for getting me an engagement ring. Penelope—I understand thafa what the jeweler did too.—Jewelers'Circular. A Queer Duel. and I yelled with the cry of despair. I called for help, I prayed, I shouted, but all the efforts of my voice were of course drowned in the bell. As it passed over my mouth it occasionally echoed my cries, which mixed not with its own "Well, has that duel between Barbancasse and Chalumet come off yet?" No; they are not going to fight." "Why not?" "They've apologized to each other."— New York Herald. He Qum to New York. Springing to his feet the police reporter seised the bell crank, gave an answering ring and yelled "hello" in an energetic voice. Gould came to New York in 1853 with an ingenious mousetrap which he had invented and which he intended to exhibit and perhaps dispose of. He got into a horse car, placing his package on the seat. A thief who imagined it might contain valuables tried to run away with it, but Jay caught him. During the past fifteen years Gould has been interested in nearly all the great rail, roads of the country. One of his chief boasts was his development of the Southwestern system. He obtained control of the Missouri Pacific, upon which the Wabash system was grafted. The Missouri, Kansas and Texas, St. Louis and Iron Mountain and Texas Pacific were also brought into the system. It is not so common at the age of eighty or ninety to be able to read fine print in the mountains, because some have neglected to read coarse print while young, but health and long life and a pleasing mixture of children and grandchildren are features of this most wonderful air. Just as Catching as Tawnlng. "Do you see that gentleman sitting opposite?" said one man in a cable car to his next neighbor. "Yes." "Hello," came the reply; "have you heard of the man who was killed on the west side, just about midnight, on an electric car?" Help Wanted. sound, but preserved their distinct character. Perhaps this was but fancy. To me, I know, they then sounded as if they were the shouting, howling or laughing #or tne nends wun wfilch my Imagination had peopled the gloomy care which Iswung orer me. Pin twenty minutes the ringing was ' done. Half of that time oaased orer me Editor—John, write to your ancle out in Putnam county and see if we can't engage bis hired man. The Other Side of the Picture. There's something very "fetching" And artistically catching About a simple etching To hacg opon the wall. "No; how was he killed?" asked the reporter, with eager expectancy in his every word. Assistant—What on earth do we want of him? "Ill bet five dollars I can make him pull his watch out of bis pocket aud consult the time without saying a word to him." The invention was not a success, and Jay went back Into the country and made his living at surveying for several years. During this time he made the acquaintance of Zadoc Pratt, of Prattsville, who owned the largest tannery in the state. Gould became Pratt's partner and made considerable moosv and it fa atieCaM •'tiinfid a But I hardly feel like engaging help here that is troubled with hip disease, for half of these cripples recover so soon that they run away before I can supply their places. 1 got a good man to help t&e With lieht •work (as lw had forraerlv Editor—1 want some competent person to collaborate with our poet in writing geauine dialect versa,—SJtfm Field's i Washington. Gould also secured control of the New York Elevated roads. Cyrus W. Field was swamped in the collapse of the bull move-3ent in Manhattan in 1888. Id Gould has C&lSVd was picking electric currents off the wire," came the reply, and the re porter heard a derisive yell, as though a soon of fiends were amused at his dis tettmlfhrft—Nfew YWWIWfctiry. "All right," said his friend, "it's a go." And the first speaker proceeded to iff the wpeilmenh And when yon come to frame it. And get the bill—why, blame ltl Ton find that all the same it Pauline (half awake)—Lige! Liget Wake upl Yo's snorin loud 'nough to wake de neighbors, so yo' is!—Truth. i Makes a "fifty" very small. —Smith & Gray's Monthly.