Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-31

lNAoAA sAio hoSusts NIA.l CnrOnlcle
 He left $9, 900, 900, a moiety of which was divided between eighteen relatives, 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. MT. Hopkins never married The daughters of Epaminondas were that hero's famous victories. The children of Johns Hopkins are the splendid institutions he has left to learning to mercy and to science. There never was stronger man. He started life with $4o0 and built up, by his own ex- ertions, colossal fortune. From the begin ming, he declared he had mission from God to increase his store, and that the golden flood that poured into his coffers did not be- long to him or to the hundreds who sought to borrow or beg 1t 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 graspine avaricious and narrow minded man he was accounted. He nevertheless helped secretly many worthy persons, and after his death it was discovered that not few merchants had been saved by him from financial em-
 barrassment and sorrow. But in the com mon acceptation of the term he was not lib- eral. His mission" prevented that. To- ward 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 infexible fidelity. Clifton was his pride. and upon
 it he spared no expense. Here the great uni
 versity was to be founded; but in this his
 design will be baffed. The city authorities
 have taken some seventy acres just in front
 of the imperial mansion, and the noble chest
 nut grove he had nurtured not one tree of
 which would he cut down even when with
 cred, has fallen before the remorseIess axe of
 progress. The foundations of vast lake for
 the water supply of Baltimore are already in
 course or excavation, and the engineers and
 their rude implements occupy several of the
 beautiful chambers of Clifton !"
 An uncanny old tramp used to station him
 self undsr giant oak that stood sentry by
 the lodge of Clifton" This made Mir. Hop-
 klns nervous and became mortal offence.
 did not know how to abate the nuisance
 Why not pay him, uncle, and send
 him away ?" queried the young man
 ''Pay him money!" MT. Hopkins shrieked,
 while his long arms flew about like wind
 mills Pay him money? God forbid
 When l do that there will be hundred yag-
 abonds here instead of one !'' "Well. then. D added the nephew, If I were you, Uncle
 Johns, would kick him out" II cannot do that, /" the old man pleaded, .'I am afraid.''
 What, "the nephew retorted, s'are you afraid of such cur as that ?" '.No, no !' MT. Hop
 AiAs WuispereQ nOarsely. ''1 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 that story and burn in hell forever?" That ended it.
 On one of the last days of his earthly ex- istence Mir. Hopkins called his devoted gar dener and said ''I am beginning 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 ami malls bear away the ears of corn and that the weaker ones pursue them squealingly, in hopes that all or some of the treasure will be lost or dropped ?" The gardener replied that the sketch was true one. "Weil, then" said Mr. Hopkins, 1T 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 r' ''Sir," he said, turning brusquely to the gardener, ''do you think very rich man is happy?" The gar dener answered: "The extreme of poverty is sad thing. The extreme of wealth, no doubt, bears with it many tribulations.' D MT. Hopkins rejoined: You are right, my friend next to the hell of being utterly be- reft of money is the purgatory of possessing a vast amount of it. I have mission, and under it's shadow have accumulated wealth, but not happiness. 6