The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1874-11-19
WHOLE NO. 1884.
es and learn the difficult art of being rich with
out 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 wealthiest
| slaves of business is to give away or bequeath
stunning sums of money for unnecessary OBJ
jects-imposing upon posterity tasks that will
not be performed. The thoughtless pralse Law
ished upon such people as Girard ought not to
mislead to the real merits of the men and
the true character of -theirEacts
The wiSeSt and greatest man that ever Lived
could scarcely, even if he were perfectly nm
shackled, execute such. will as Girards with
| out doing more harm than good.s- But tnaC
has been administered by the gang Of pot
| house politicians who for the past thirty years
phia. If Girard, during the last year of his lie
| had loaded one of his ships with all that gold
itude, and poured it Out into the unfathomable
sea, he would have rendered a better service to
Philadelphia than he did by leaving it to found
| an orphan asylumlon scale far beyon the
wit OF mortals to succeed successfullY-a huge
| was printer in New York who took it into
his head to raise chickens on Staten Island for
| the New York market. He bought a farm,
| fenced it in, and began with small family of
! 1900 chickens. There never was known such
time among the farmers wives ofStaten Island
| for selling off their old hens.
| He had beautiful contrivances for feeding,
| watering, and sheltering his numerous flock
| every device of the chicken farmer. But, for
peared few chickens W Were hatehed, the birds
| pined and dropped, and soon so many dead
| ones StreWed the ground OF q morning II1aI
| they had to be collected in wheelbarrow-the
| dead cart of this chicken city. In short, he dis
| covered that chickens cannot be raised thous-
| ands in family. They will not thrive in
| masses. Nor will children. You could only
have a beneficial orphan asylum on that scale
by making an artificial village with its schools.
and the boys divided into groups as closely as
possible resembling families. How can the
Girards of the world, men who live without
love, upon whose knees children never sit who
repel and drive far from their hearts and homes
their own kindred, who know nothing of any
with the signing of checks; hard men, ignorant
of every phase of human existence except
nationally expected to create, institutions the
oSt complicated, difficult and delicate known
to civilization? 1 once heard from the lips of
Girard's lawyer, the late William ]. Duane, of
Phlladeiph1a, description OF the scene lhat
occurred at Girard's house after his death Mr..
Duane was executor, being IN charge of the
property. As soon as the breath was certainly
known to be out of the old mans body, and
Mr.. Duane had closed his eyes, it seemed as if
the spell had suddenly been broken and the
numerous nephewS and nieceS and their de-
scendants, who had never before stood in Gil
Tards presence but with fear and trembling,
burst into eXultation. A fierce joy shown every
face. The younger men rushed down into the
choicest wide, boarded there for years, of which
they had never been invited to taste. Some of
them We're far gone into intoxication before the
body was cold. Older men rummaged the
rooms; women searched the closets and draw
eTs Inc house was scene OF wild mot. When
they adraged all over the house, they came in
a body to Mr.. Duane, and demanded to knowif
there was a will There waS. 1t was in the iron
safe in the room where the old man lay. Upon
hearing this, a frenzy of desire seized them to
Knowing its contents; and they insisted upon
hearing it read then with such infuriated clam
or that Mr.. Duane, knowing how the will
man indecency, consented at length to read 1t,
and it was read. ---
"When I had opened the will, said Mr..
Duane to me, '.and was about to beginto read,
chanced tolook over the top of the document
to the company seated before me- 1t was sight
never to be forgotten. There CHASTITY pal
lor on every face, and certain look of mingled
sure the greatest artist that ever lived could not
have done justice to. Years have gone by, and
He began to read. When it became evident
that the bulk of the estate was left for public
objects the affectionate relations, who had been
left only few thousands each, made not the
least pretense of concealing their rage; and, as
teInpts to break the will. Unloved in his life,
unblest in death, are such slaves of business as
stephen Girard. They are foolish to make so
much money; they are foolish 10 leave it for
objects of which they know less than nothing,
gifts
Once already within the historic period Chris Z
founded by mistaken neVoience-convents
and monasteries-which cost nations convul-
SION TO suppress. Let us beware OF repeating
the error.
MASTER OF BUSINESS.
In that same city of BrotherlY Love, there
once lived perfect king of business, noble
contrast to this barren, blind, wen-intentic ned
Girard. mean the generous, the genial, the 2
wise, the public spirited Franklin, who knew
preclSely WnaI money can 90, ana what II can-
not do. At the age of y, when he had been in
busihessI 20 years, he had the most lucrative
and famous publishing and printing house in
all the Colonies. His Gazette was the best and
comic almanac. called tsFoor RicbaTd. was the
most popular publication of the Kind in the
ments; he had an extensive business in books,
stationery, rags, 1ampblack, and ink. He had
but to keep on to make a ridiculouSly great for
tune and become slave OF business. But hav-
ing acquired an estate OF about EdOO year. and
being deeply interested in science, he deliber-
ately resolved to retire and dedicate the rest OF
his life to the increase of knowledge. He sold
and gave himself up to electricity, from which,
however, he was soon drawn away into public
life. Twenty *, years he spent IN ae9nlrlng lnde,
chance to do the same. The remaining 42 years
ployed in the service of his country. Business
was his servant, never his master. Make mon
your reach and yoar ability. But when you
have won independence, withdraw and make
riage merely, any one can do that, but a hobby,
suited to your powers and MEANS; Choose II
breed of sheep or pigs, do that. If you dote
upon horse, raise colt to beat Dexter. If it
attracts you, pursue your favorite branch. If
you hate to see half the people here living-no,
dying--in tenement houses, widen the island
by setting on foot system OF bridging and tun-
nelling the rivers, and killing the fever and
If public life and immortal fame allure you,
run for Congress, and carry international copy
right II nature mas SlIteu you Win social ttsl-
ents and a friendly heart, throw open wide
your houie and entertain people nationally and
handsomely. If the sorrows of The poor and
the orphan move you, pass happy days in helm
ing them help themselves. If you desire to
found an institution, do it. Don't hire it done
after your death. If you bequeath money for
public objects, give it without conditions to an
Institution which has shown some right to eX-
ist by having existed Then may il be written
upon your gTaVe-stone, or your urn, if you pre-
fer crennation-:r ''Tnis person having fairly won
the right to his time, set up a noble Hobbyi
and rode 1t worthily all the rest of his days."