Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-09-07

in his habits. He never splurges, and care
/ nothing for fashionable society or for any bai
the set habit has flung him among. He nov
and then gives great DINNER party. Hi
guests are found among the substantial com
mercial men of his acquaintance. AtStewarts
dinners the service is of solid gold. He car
and does entertain splendidlF.
1t is useless to speculate in regard TO tn
! disposal of this vast property, when its pres
/ ent owner passes from among US.
/ Mr.. Stewart is only sixty-four. Girard liE-
ed TO be ninety-two and Astor was ninety
! Mr.. Stewart is more likely to live to be ON
| hundred, than either Girard or Astor at sixty
four were likely TO live to ninety.
| In 1886, Stewart was worth one million
! FIVE hundred Thousand dollars. He has aver
aged from that time to the present bushes
| of four millions year for twenty-four year.
past. His profits have been fifteen per cent.
! that is, six hundred thousand dollars q year
or fourteen million dollars. His half share 1
seyen million two hundred thousand dollars
add compound interest to that and to his orig
/ inal capital in 1886, and it reaches fourteen
millions. The rise Of real estate owned bl
| Stewart, over the price paid. isin l860 ovel
! five millions and 1 do not believe that be i
worth to-day less than eighteen or twenty mil
| lions of dollars, and large portion is in rea
estate that is rapidly rising in value. 1 stated
few lines back, that in ten years Stewart
would be worth one hundred million dollars
! will now prove it.
His business to-day is eight hundred thou
sand dollars a year profit to himself. In ter
years at compound intererest, ten millions
Add to that seven per cent. or twenty millions
and mpound interest for ten years, and with
the Use of real estate, and Mr.. Stewards
! wealth will reach pretty near eighty or one
hundred million of dollars.
IF he lives TO be ninety years old, he viii be
worth two hundred and fifty millions, and the
richest man in the world-fnr exceeding the
Marquis of Westminster in England, whose
income is d million and a half sterling, or
about seven millions of our money III dollars.
As three to three and a half per cent il
quite good income from property in England
the Marquis may be set down as fairly worth
two hundred millions Of dollars, which at three
and half per cent gives him seven millions
Of dollars annually. or million and q huff oa
pounds sterling.
The best thing Mr. Stewart can do to corn
an earthly immortality, is to buy Ireland be
fore he dies, from Great Britain, and set her
up in business on her own account among the
nations of the earth.
Il have taken it regularly until to-day. Il
Inailc me so sick, that l omitted ii this morn
ing"
at wont do to give up medicine because it
makes you sick. No use employing physi-
cian and going contrary to his directions
"a know il but l have tried it SO long
without any apparent benefit, that it seems
useless to continue it. ] grow weaker every
day
Had he made any remark to this, or had
his countenanee exp xpressel coEeerRf she would
have added what she knew he was not aware
Iof--absent as he was, nearly all day at bus;-
pess-that for a week she had only been able
to walk from the sofa to the bed id the next
room, and had, during that time, eaten nothing
but cruel. She kept silent, however, for she
thought he looked annoyed, and in few mo-
mcnts he said:
well, you had best continue the medicine
punctually, until these bottles are finished
the bottles are paid form order to give it a
fair trial. Then if you are no better, l shall
send for DIR. r.
That night at twelve o'clock Edith's hus-
band was awakened by her violent coughing.
He folded the pillow over his ears, as was his
custom, knowing that nothing he could do
would be of any use. The paroxysm was un-
usually severe, and once he thought she spoke.
1t sounded like g Allie perhaps she was
afraid of awakening Allie. Still it continued
grew more violent it seemed as if she
would never again draw her breath. He grew
alarmed, threw aside the pillow, started up
aud raised her in his arms
This is the hardest time you have had
Can get you anything?" :" Nc answer, but
| that dreadful cough then struggle, then a
gasp.
Why Edith-Edith Why good heavens
what is ii, Edith? What is it ,"
1t is nothing now! She has slipped from
his arms, she lies quiet on the bed. She will
never breathe again
Two gentlemen stood by the roadside, op-
posite the graveyard. And SO our Old
school-matc Edith Wynn, is dead" remarked
the elder of the two. Il remember her a lit
tie dancing warbling thing, / heard of her
marriage in my Western home, but since then
have known nothing concerning her. She
died of consumption, did she not ?"
People call it consumption, but she died Of
cold aud starvation" calmly. and slowly re-
piled the other-the bachelor friend of Edith
What do you mean? asked the frs!
speaker, cycling his friend curiously, and no,
without suspicion.
al mean that there is slow freezing and
starving of the heart, which though more
lingering, is often as fatal to life as the lack Of
! bodily warmth and food"
Il do not fully understand you"
You did not know Edith, and love her as
did. Long before she dreamed of love, had
elected her for my wife but I kept the swee'
secret in my own bosom, and toiied to make
myself worthy of her. When she was still
very young, l left home to travel year OIL
two. No matter how it happened when
returned she was married. It was crushing
blow to me, though God only knows if I coult
have won her. She married a man just one
remove from the curious talking automaton:
the Germans are SO fond of manufacturing
! He has intellect but no heart"
l have met her at intervals, since her mar
riage, and have seen her gradually changing
from the warm hearted impulsivc ambitious
woman, to the automaton like himself out
wardly mean-for the anguish of the famish
ing spirit within none can know. He fed anC
clothed her body, but ignored and slighted he
affections. They could not cling to him, bu
they fixed themselves in a better country
where the All Merciful has taken her at last
Her husband is erecting costly slab of mar
BILE to her memory. Heaven forgive the bit
ter thought, but if the truth were told upol
ii, it would read
DIED OF BROKEN HEART.