Arizona weekly enterprise., 1881-12-31
Anecdotes of the Late Johns Hopkins.

He left $9, 900, 900, moiety of which was divided between eighteen relatives, and the bulk retained for a university and several hospitals. The nephew who was often at variance with him received almost twice as much as his brothers who never contradtcted him. Mir. Hop kins never married. The daughters of Epaminondas were that hero's famous victories. The children of Johns Hop kins are the splendid institutions he has left to learning, to mercy and to scl- ence. There never was a stronger man. He started life with S400, and built up, by his own exertions, a colossal fortune. From the beginning he declared that he had mission from God to increase his store, and that the golden flood that ! poured into his coffers did not belong to | him or to the hundreds who sought to borrow or beg it from him. He declared that supernatural 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, avaiicious and dnarrow-minded man he was accounted. He nevertheless helped secretly many worthy persons, and after his death 1t was discovered that not a few merchants had been saved by him from financial embarrass- ment and sorrow.
 An uncaLny old tramp used to station himself under giant oak that stood sen- try by the lodge of "Clifton." This made Mir. Hopkins nervous and became mortal offense. He told one of his nephews of it and said he did not know l how to abate the nuisance. "Why not pay him, uncle, and send him away?' | queried the young man. "Pay him money P Mir. Hopkins shrieked, while | his long arms flew about like windmills; "pay him money! God forbid When 1 do that there will be hundred vaga- bonds here instead of one !" "Well, then" added the nephew, eff w re you, Uncle John, l would kick hlm out" 1T cannot do that" the old man plsaded, "I am afraid P ''What !" the nephew retorted, "are you afraid of such a cur as that ?' "No, no p Mir. Hopkins whispered hoarsely, II am not afraid of him, but afraid of God. Did you never read in the Bible how Dives treated Lazarus? Would you have me repeat the story and burn in hell forev- err" That ended it.
 On one of the last days of his earthly existence Mir. Hopkins called his de- voted gardener to him and said: {" I am beginning to hate this place, because it does not bring in money. hate every thing that does not bring in money. Did you ever feed hogs? Have you not observed that the strong animals bear away the ears of corn and that the weak CT ones pursue them squealingly, in hopes that all or some of the treasure will be lost or dropped P The gardener replied that the sketch was a true one. |" Well, then," said MT. Hopkins, "I am that strong hog. have that big ear of corn, and every piggish rascal in Baltimore is intent upon stealing it or wrestling it from me Sir," he said, turned brusquely to tho gardener, "do you think very rich man is happy ?'' The gardener answered "The extreme of poverty is sad thing. The extreme of wealth, no doubt, bears with it many tribulations. MT. Hopkins reioined "You are right, my friend next to the hell of being utterly bereft of money is the purgatory of possessing a vast amount of 1t. I have mission, and un- der its shadow I have ao umula ed wealth. but not happiness.