The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1881-06-18
JOHNS HOPKINS.
Anecdotes OF the Liberal Patron OF Higher
Education

The Augusta (Ga.) ChIoni6Le has tho
following: lie left SO, 900, 900, 4 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 contradicted
him. Mr.. Hopkins never married.
The daughters OF Epaminondas were
that hero's famous victories. The chill
dren 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 ex-
ertions, colossal fortune. From the
beginning he declared that he had 4
mission from God to increase his store,
and that the golden flood that poured
into his Golfers did not belong TO him
or to the hundreds who sought to bor-
row or beg il from him. He declared
that 4 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, avaricious and narrow
minded man he was accounted. He
nevertheless helped secretly many wor-
thy persons, and, after his death, il was
discovered that not 4 few merchants
had been saved By him from financial
embarrassment and sorrow. But in the
common acceptation of the term he was
not liberal. His Emission" prevented
that. Towards the close OF very long
life he became stingy and suspicious,
but the end he had proposed never suf-
fercd any change, and that was the mis-
tress of his soul towards whom he main
tained an inilexiblc fidelity. "Clifton"
was his pride, and upon il he spared no
expense, Here the great university was
TO be founded hut in this his design
will be baffied. The city authorities
have taken some seventy acres just in
front of ,he imperial mansion, and the
noble chestnut grove he had nurturcd,
not one tree OF which would be cut
down even when withcrcd, has fallen
before the remorseless axe of progress.
The foundations Of vast lake for the
water supply of Baltimore are already in
course of excavation, and the engineers
and their rude implements occupy sew
cral Of the beautiful chambers OF Clifton.
An uncanny old tramp used to station
himself under a giant oak that stood
sentry by the lodge Of Clifton. This
made Mr.. Hopkins nervous and became
mortal offence. He told one of his
nephcws of it, and said he did not know
how to abate the nuisance. ''why no,
pay him, uncle, and send him away ?"
queried the young man. "Pay him
money!" Mr.. Hopkins shrieked, while
his long arms flew about like wind mills.
"Pay him money! God forbid When
! do that there will be hundred vaga-
bonds here instead OF one - "Well,
then" added the nephew, "if were
you, Uncle Johns, l would kick him
ont" al cannot do that" the old man
pleaded, 81 am afraid - "What :"
the nephew rctor,cd, ''arc you afraid of
such cur as that - "No, no - Mr..
Hopkins whispered hoarsely, al am not
afraid of him, but afraid of God. Did
you never read in the Bible how Dives
treated I.azarus9 Would YOU have me
repeat that story and burn in hell for
ever?" That ended it.