The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-23
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE JOHNS
HOPKINS.

| and the bulk retained for university
and several hospitals. The nephew who
was often at variance with him received
almost twice as much as his brothers who
never contradicted him. Mr.. Hopkins
never married. The daughters of Epa-
minondas were that heros famous victo-
ries. The children of Johns Hopkins are
the splendid institutions he has left to
learning, to mercy and to science. There
never was a stronger man. He started
life with $500, and built up, by his own
exertions, colossal fortune. From the
beginning, he declared that he had mis-
sion from God to increase his store, and
that the golden food that poured into his
Golfers did not belong to him Or to the
hundreds who sought to borrow or beg it
from him. He declared that super
natural power prevented him from taking
money from his pocket to bestow foolish
aims, and that some day the world would
know that he was not the grasping, avar-
icious and narrow minded man he was ac-
counted. He nevertheless helped secret
ly many worthy persons, and, after his
death, it was discovered that not a few
merchants had been saved by him from
financial embarrassment and sorrow. But
bin the common acceptaton of the term he
was not liberal. His emission" prevented
that. Toward the close Of very long
life he became stingy and suspicious, but
the end he had proposed never suffered
change, and that was the mistress of his
soul toward whom he maintained an in
flexible fidelity. "Clifton" was his pride,
and upon it he spared no expense. Here
the great university was to be founded;
but in this his design will be baffled. The
city authorities have taken some 70 acres
just in front of the imperial mansion, and
the noble chestnut grove he had nurtured,
not one tree of which would be cut down
even when withered, has fallen before the
remorseless ak of progress. The founda-
tions for vast lake for the water supply
Of Baltimore are already in course of ex-
cavation, and the engineers and their rude
implements occupy several of the beauti-
| full chansbes of "Clifton."
An uncanny old tramp used to station
himself under giant oak that stood
sentry by the lodge of "Clifton." This
made Mr.. Hopkins nervous and became
a mortal offense. He told one of his
nephews of it and said he did not know
how to abate the nuisance. 'Why not
pay him uncle, and send him away?"
queried the young man. "Pay him
money" Mr.. Hopkins shrieked, while his
long arms flew about like windmills.
"Pay him money! God forbid! When
l do that there will be hundred vaga-
bonds here instead of one!" "Well then,'
added the nephew, eff were you, Uncle
Johns, I would kick him out. II can.
not do that" the old man pleaded, II am
afraid!' ''Whatn' the nephew retorted,
"are you afraid Of such cur as thatn'
"No, no." Mr.. Hopkins whispered
hoarsely, 81 am not afraid of him, but
afraid Of God. Did you never read in
the Bible how Dives treated Lazarus!'
That ended it.
On one of his last days Of his earthly
existence Mr.. Hopkins called his devoted
gardener to him and said: 81 am begin.
ming to hate this place, because it does
not bring in money. I hate everything
that does not bring in money. Did you
ever feed hogs? Have you not observed
that the strong animals bear away the
ears of the corn and that the weaker ones
pursue them squealingly, in hopes that all
or some of the treasure will be lost OF
dropped?' The gardener replied that the
sketch was true one. "Well then,
said Mr.. Hopkins, II am that strong hog
have that big ear Of corn, and every
piggish rascal in Baltimore is intent upor
stealing it or wrestling it from met
"Sir," he said, turning brusquely to th'
| gardener, edo you think very rich mar
is happy?" The gardener answered
"The extreme of poverty is sad thing
The extreme Of wealth, no doubt, bear
with it many tribulations." Mr.. Hopkin
rejoined: "You are right my friend
next to the hell of being utterly bereft o
money is the purgatory Of possessing
vast amount Of it, l have a mission, an,
under its shadow l have accumulated
wealth, but not happiness. u August
(Ga. Chronicle.