Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-04-16
Anecdotes Of the Late IOhns HOP
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he lett $4,000 GOO, m0tety OF which was d.
Vided between eighteen relatives, and the
buik retained for a university and several
hospitals. the nephew who was often at va
rance with him received almost twice as
much as his brothers who never contradicted
him. Mr.. Hopkins never married. Tue
daughters OF Epaminondas were that hero's
famous victories. The children OF Johns Hop
ktns are the splendid institutions he has left TO
learning, TO mercy and to science. There
never was stronger man. lie started life
with $500, aud built up By his own eXer:tons
colossal fortune. From the beginning he
declared that he had a mission from God to
increase his store. and that the golden flood
that poured into his Golfers did not belong to
the hundreds who sought 10 borrow or beg il
from him. He declared that a supernatural
power prevented him from taking money from
BIS pocket TO beStow foolish aims, and that
some day the world would know that ne was
not the grasping avaricious and narrow minded
man he was accounted. He nevertheless
after his death, 1t was discovered that not
few merchants had been saved by him from
financial embarrassment and sorrow. But In
not liberal His mission" prevented that
Toward the close OF very long life he be-
came stlngy and suspicious, but the end he
had proposed never suffered change and that
was the mistress of his soul toward whom he
maintained an indeXtble fidelity. Clifton"
was his pride. and upon it he spared no ex-
pense. Here the great university was 20 be
founded; but In this his design viii oe banled.
The city authorities have taken some seventy
acres just In front OF the imperial mansion
ana tse nope chestnut grove he had nur-
tuTed, not one tree OF which would be cut down
even when witbered, has fallen before the re-
morselesS axe OF progress. The foundations or
a vast lake for tie water supply Of Baltimore
are already In course OF excavation, and the
engineers and their rude implements OCCUPY
several OF the beautiful chambers OF .iClifTono
An uncanny Old tramp used TO station him.
sell uDGer giant oak that stood sentry By the
l0dge OF "Cllfton." This made Mr.. Hopkins
nervous ara became mortal offence. He t ia
one OF bis nephews OF IT and said he did not
Know how 70 abate the nuisance. why rot
pay HIM, uncle. and serd him away?" queried
The young man. PAY him money!'t Mr.
a a9phin5 s shrleked While his long arms few
God forbid! When 1 DO that there VIII be
hundred Vagabonds here instead OF ONE"
"Well. then. added the nephew, III were
cannot do that" the old man plead dist II am
afraid. ''Wbat!' the nephew retorted, "are
you AFRAID OF such cur as that" mo. no!"
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 he'll forever That ended 1t
On one OF the last days OF his earthly ex-
istence, Mr.. Hopkins called his devoted gar
dener TO him and said: az am beginning to
hate LIS place. because it does not bring In
money. lhate 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 corn and that the weaker
all or some OF the treasure win be lost or
oropped?" The gardener replied that the
sketch was true enc. "Well, then" said Mr..
Hopkins, 81 am that strong hog. Ihave that
big ear OF corn, and every pfggish rascal in
Baltimore Is intent upon stealing 1t or wrest-
Ing It from met" ''Sir," he said, turning
brusquely to the gardener, do you think a
very rich man is happy?", The gardener an
swered: THE extreme OF poverty is a sad
thing. The extreme OF wealth. 10 doubt.
bears with 1t many trfpulatlons" Mr. Hop
k1ns Teloined: You are right. my friend; next
to the hell or being utterly DeTeft OF money Is
the purgatory OF possessing a vast amount OF
It. have mission, and under its shadow
nave accumulated wealth. but not hanniness