The St. Cloud journal., 1870-03-03

. D1cA, unoer lamp-post; and ever
? body else said "Good-nisht, goot
night"
!, CTO BE CONTINUED
THE GREAT BANKER AT HOME.
The nare Of Jay Cooke, despite til
attacks that have been made upon il
stands as tower of strength 10 til
: land. There is in his career a lesso
Of unwavering honesty that should ca,
~ a weishty moral to all men -pf b,
profession. People believe ia what b
, says-here at home, Is this especi
ally true: There is not smother bank
ing firm that could have put six mil
lions Of stock upon the market-as ia,
Cooke did of his Northern Pacific Rail
road and had it ill taken within tw,
weeks, principally on account of faitt
in one man. His brain is busy ooe
q and spins webs ,ha: cover the cont
nent. They are not entirtly selfst
either. Underlying them all, is the in
tent to benefit men. The Northern
Pacific opens up rich agricultural and
mineral country, we'll watere], well
timbered, and with a climate bette,
than that Of New England. 1t is 4
scheme Of his to have the grant to the
company Of some fifty millions Of acres
50 minutsly surveyed aud mapped, that
a settler cau make choice Of forty-acre
farm even, knowing its full situation,
before he sells the one he has, or starts
on his journey westward. He will do
1t, too, without question. All his
schemes are large. His Life Insurance
Company was magnificent plan, carried
out on = magnificent scale, and destin.
| ed-there be few doubters-to a still
greater triumph. Once having settled
upon an enterprise as beyond doubt
good-once having carefully and pa
tiently surveyed his ground, forthwith
there goes up the biggest building on
it that it will. contain, and he himself
is the tireless engine in it that keeps
all its vast machinery and numbsrless
wheels moving. :.
There are few of our readers who
would not like to see him photographed.
If the photograph were of life size, 1t,
would show a man about forty-6ve,
We should say, little over the medium
height, full faced but not corpulent of
body, heavy, full whiskers slightly
sprinkled with gray, short upper lip
with no mus:aohe on it, keen, quick,
kindly brown eyes, hair rapidly getting
grayish, pushed ncgligently off a not
remarkable forehead. He dresses plain
ly aud even carelessly. Has a brisk,
energetic, fluent way Of speaking
and talks about his railroad as if he
had been over the whole ground him
SELL and his knowled 60 OF details in
other matters is equally surprising.
There is none Of the cool reserve of tho
ideal banker and. financial man. 1t is
impossible not to feel at eose with him
and impossible not to SEQ that he is a
Fman Of sf Large heart and quick symp.r
thies. Hi, social nature has hardly
any limits. At Chelton Hills where
he resides in the summer, distant only
about eight miles, .hsrtas mansion Of
| ffty:t1o' rooms, aud they are usually
toll from the beginning to the end q
the sesson.! At that place, too, he has
found time to gather a Bible class oi
about one haudsed and fifty members.
Those say who ought to know, that be
comes before that class as fully pre-
pared as if he had nothing to do ba,
make preparation for it. Where Nj.
Cooke goes, churches and Sabbath
schools and public enterprises: flourish
1t is no small thing 10 our eyes that ".
have constantly increasing number oi
tprominent men in business circles re-
coguizcd and known for their: positive
Christian character. Mi: Cooke is Re;
oognized at tho. east as one Of the pill
lara Of the evangelical: wing Of tb,
Episcopalians, aud he has the least pos
sible patience with the ritualistic ten
dency. Nj = NJ CHI.
-"The Maiden Widow" A seque
to the Family Doom or, The Sin Of Z
Countess, is the name of. Mrs. 'Emm'
D. EN-. Southwcrth's 8 new novel, nov
in PRES, and to be published in few
days By T. B. Peterson &, Brothers
Philadelphis. 1t will command a yer,
large sale, as tits one Of Mrs. South
worth's most powerfully written: efforts
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