The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1875-12-08

ats into q tender memory. Like tnt
late President Lincoln be sprung
1t from the very dregs, of the people
q and vet attained to the second hon
or of the Republic, as the other old
c to the first. The career of sboth ad
e mirably illustrated the free genious
of our institutions, and the absence
of those barriers of caste and priv.
!. ileges which block the way in les:
favored lands.
WILLIAM B. AsToR's DEATH.
Naked out of the world, naked
and poor as be came into it, goes this
I week the wealthiest man on this
/ Continent. Mr.. William b. Astor, on.
ly surviving son Of John Jacob As
tor. He leaves properly mostly real
estate, estimated at the lowest to be
500, 00e, 600, and probably these fig
ures are a good deal too small, big as
they are. He was born in this city,
in 1892 and was therefore So years
old. His father died in ls4S at the
same ripe age leaving o fortune Of
over $40, 600, 600, more than half of
which fell to William B. whose por-
ton, increased by q legacy from his
uncle Henry, has steadily grown to
this enormoes sum. He owned more
than 2,506 houses and building lots,
many of the houses being among the
finest in the city. 1t has been a rule
with the Astor family from the begin
ming never to sell any real estate, but
to buy. which they have done with
rare sagacity and good judgement
ever since old John Jacob got q good
start in life. While William B. may
not have so original genius for mon
ey making as his father, be was GER
tainly in all other respects bis superb
or. He possessed an excellent judg-
ment and great aptitude for business
affairs, and managed his vast con-
Germs with wonderful intelligence and
order. He was one of the best land
lords in the city, strict, to be sure,
and exacting his own, but taking ex-
cellent care of bis tenements, holding
them at a fair rent, and so just, and
reasonable that people always liked
to get into his houses; and he took
care to make it for the interest of
good tenants to stay. He nearly
doubled the old mans bequest for
founding the Astor library; indeed,
it is said that be inspired the idea of
it in his fathers mind, for it is not
generally known that be was a ripe
scholar and found bis chief enjoy
ment in the society of his books.
His life was quite u~neventful, be liv-
ed much more simply and unostenta.
tiously than hundreds in this city do
who are bothered to make both ends
meet, and worked more hours a day
than most men who merely gets liv-
ing from hand to mouth. So that in
lite be had no more enjoyment of his
wealth than We all may have and,
perhaps, do have out of our small in
comes, and all of his millions could
not buy him n hours respite of the
stroke of death.
How much did T-leave ?"
asked one friend of apotber, when q
rich man of their acquaintance died.
He left all be had," was the wise
reply. Fortunate, indeed, and bless
ed are they who leave more than ma
terisl wealth, houses and lands, and
silver and gold; who leave names
which pass along down the ages in
the kindly speech of the lowly and
miserable, lifted up comforted By
their thoughtful aud tender b~enefac-
tions.
MOODY AND sANKBY AGAIN.
Moody and Sankey, those mighty
captains of tbe church militant, have
abandoned the siege Of the fortress
of sin over in wicked Brooklyn, and.
removing with all their impedimenta,
have set them down before the easier
Eslls of the Quaker city. What ef-
feet their holy artillery wrought in
Brooklyn is not easy to discover.
There was q large attendance upon
them, many professedly anxiuos in,
quirers, and all that, but little is
known Of the numer of conversions,
and in SO short Q time, nothing of
what change has really beep wrought
in the lives Of the new professors.
1t is ssid in Brooklyn, that their ef-
forts are bat TIE beginning Of q series
OF such, and that during the winter
marvellous doipgs may be looked for 5
in the churches, Let US hope so, and
bid God speed to Oh efforts by whom
ever made to lead the rses to better !
1t might be said here that
Rev. DR.. Storrs, who has been great,
" tempted by offers from 6 rich
church in New York, has finally de-
cided to remain with the church of
the Pilgrims Of Brooklyn whose I
pulpit be has filed now for thirty !
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SIS. fkF COL. ,
1T has been said that the wosSt use I,
% pvt Q usn to is to hang him; butt,
hat can't possibly be true in this /
1t nov and then happens that !
} criminal is promptly hunted ioWn,
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