New-York tribune., 1874-10-15

relate how he became saye and how ss At last ne
s'SsssS irSn sSd S s,se ie il worth
annum upon capital Of 100000 IL wac that aDsard
%sSs him slave always anxious often
always overworked For II years he toiled IS hours
SS Is s
capital Of sa,OoO,0oo, 1850 men employed the
a ane'i brick v0sas in n. paper
But he bad the slave Of this vast business
he had not taken care 70 dD ana "a
1t himself, as 1t was for the moment 80 he Kept on
called every morning al away 70 tne STORE oeUre
he remains till O. After hasy dinner he hurried away
to the mine getting home 70 tea at dark After tea
and estimate till midnight Then bed and instantly
TO sleep. But one night after such day OF toEthree
fair days work in oneseep came not TO MS eyeds ior
hours and when IL did was not the deep sleep
which he accustomed. Many such nights followed.
Then one morning. while he was in the midst OF an
aruse calculation suddenly his brain lost ts grasp OF
the problem. He could not fix his attention upon ~
He forgot early steps OF the process He was Obliged
to give up. short journey seemed to restore ms men
tai power but few days after his return az t1e same
think % Of ap,og hnss 10 FOR an @ tho e"r
lists and enjoy little refreshing agony He failed IN
this attempt to obey his physician, for while wang 10
to be carried home Now for the first time in his life
he took his case into as serious consideration & as
He studied tho brain as If 1t had been
a new kind OF steel He saw his error,
and what is much more dicnit ana unusual he vS 81,
his children spent every evening at home took time
for any tha fs nce a1 sar horses
drove them every tne day. and so gradually recovered
through smoky PttsS1rsh, seated in light wagon.
looking very welia happy broad-chested King Oh IRON.
axed habit OF overwor die of It in the midst OF their
days IL il not repeat Till fortune is won .nat we
can tell whether man is master slave and this is
particularly true OF the present time, when mere as
inhepan. like Fisk. can get controi oI @
nv fhair
few of the stupidest and vulgarest destroy
tnsp Children BY aaaIsence and neglect had
case In New York during the of father who gave
his SON aged 20, siC0 every Monday morning. Notmng'
indeed tests a rich mans manhood so much as the man
ner In which be deals with his children 40 mahe ,o
tune not easy but to bring up ona cb M G ndcates
with almost unerring certainty whether man Is mas rs
ter or servant OF his fortune ne ne bs Children Is he
slave Then he permits his wealth to eHemlnate anu
less. A man must DO exceptionally wise and strong
acquire riches and learn the difficult art OF Deing rch
Without doing his family any harm by IT,
HOBBIES OF WEALTHY MEN.
By their hobbies shall ye know them The favorite
hobby at present of the weahest slaves OF business
to give away bequeath stunning sums OF money Tor
unnecessary or impossible Objects-imposing upon pos
terity tasks that will not be performed Tne though'-
less praise ayished upon such people as Girard ought
not TO msead t0 the real merits OF the eh abu
the true character OF their acts. -,
The wsest and greatest man that ever lived could
scarcely even II he perfectly unshackled execute
such a will as Grards without doing more harm tnan
good. But that huge legacy. now worth, suppose w.
OOOOO has been administered by the gang OF poth0use
politicians who for the past thirty years have oons
tuted the Government OF Philadephia Ii Glraru,
ships with ali that gold scraped together By fifty years
OF msery socitude, and poured 1t out into the unatn
omabe sea- he would have rendered better service 10
Pniladephia than he did by leaving 1t to found an
orphan asylum scale far beyond the VIII OF mortas
TO conduct successrully-a huge boardingscnool or
thousand pupils. There printer In New YORK VINO
took it into head raise chickens on Staten Island
for the New-York market He bought farm, fenced II
in and began with small family Of 1900 chickens;
There never was known such time among tne Iarmers
He had beautiful contrivances for feeding, watering
and sbeterng His numerous flock patent nests % con
venien egg receptace and every device OF the chick
en- farmer But for unknown, scarcely any
eggs appeared few chickens were hached, the BIRDS
plned and dropped, and soon so many dead ones
strewed the ground OF morning that they had TO be
collected in @ wheelparrOw-ihe dead-cart OF this
chicken city. In short he discovered that chickens
Ust"V not thrive in masses Nor will children. You
Sd Sss ssay sas By SSv0 1ns S With
its schools DIVIDED into ,.gnSs grUaps
How can the Grards Of the world men who live without
love- upon whose knees 3 their own
kindred who know nothing OF any Kind OF power except
that which Is %n ne M
banking and stOcks-hOw can such people De ratonay
expected to create institutions the most
d,feult and delicate known to civilization once
heard from the lips OF Girards lawyer, the late Wlam
j. Duane of Philadelphia description OF the scene tnat
occurred Girard's house after his DEATH Mr. Duane
was executor, being in charge or the properly. AS
the breath was certainly ano%a Sad cIosed TO es
his eyes, 1t seemed "a il the spell had been suddenly
dissolved, and the numerous nephews ana niefes ana
their descendants who never before hau stOou IN
Girard's presence but with fear and trembling, Durst
into exutaton fierce joy shone In every race. inc
younger rushed down into the cellar ana prongnt
IN bottles their unces choicest wne boarded there
for years, Of which they mad never been invited TO
taste Some of them far gone In noxicatlon De-
fore the body cold. Older men rummageu Ine
rooms women searched the closets aud drawers. Inc
whole house scene OF wild riot. Tney penaved'
IN fact like q select party OF vutures which, from a
safe distance have followed and watched sick buffalo
aud when at last the monarch or the prairie oroops
lies down and falls upon his side, dead creature
then they swoop down from the sky, and pick 0ut ms
eyes his ytals and shrek exutant as tey 90
IT, each foul bird gariDg upon the rest and devour
ing with vuture eyes the whole carcass When they
Mr. Duane and demanded to know II there was will.
There He had drawn himsef two year Deiore.
I was I'm the in the where the dead man
lay Upon hearing this frenzy OF desire seizeG tne
to know It's contents and they insisted on nearing nn
knowing how the will would his client and reouke
this inhuman ndecency consented at length 70 read H.
when had opened the WILL" said Mr. Duane to me.
"and was about begin to read CHANGED to look over
the top of the document TO the company seated before
me- 1t was sight never to be forgotten There was
CHASTITY palor on every face, and certain LOOK OF
sure the greatest artist that ever lived could not have
done justice TO- Years have gone by, and can see 1t
He began to read. When 1t became evident that the
bulk OF the estate was left for public objects the aec
tOnate relations, who had been left only few thou
sands each, made not the least pretense OF conceang
their rage and know, they spent their legaces
in vain attempts break the WILL Unoved in hs life,
unbest DEATH such slaves Of business as Stephen
Grard They foolish to make so much money; they
are foolish leave IL for objects OF which they know
less nothing, and the public Is not wise Ia accept
ing their gifts. ,, ,,-.,
has been cursed with Institutions founded by mistaken
eneyOlence-conyents and m0nasteries-whch cost
convulsion TO suppress Let us beware OF re-
peating the error.
A MASTER OF BUSINESS.
In that same city OF Brothery Love, there once lived
q perfect king of business, noble contrast to this
barren, blind, well-ntentioned Girard. I mean the