The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1883-07-19
Mammoth MiIlionaircS.


dreading them is their incapacitv for
4 spending their fortunes in amusing
| themselves. A man who has made
twenty millions sterling, say byovast
F'.corners' s. in railway shares, finds that,
unless he goes on making money or is
one OF those fortunate, persons who can
continuously devote themselves to an
object, the excess to which his fortune
transcends that of other rich men is of
very little use to him. He can, of
course, get out of it all the personal
luxury, in the way. of fine houses and
! good eatings and purple and fine linen
generally, that he may happen to wish
for, but in those things there is for him
no special satisfaction. Anybody with,
say. t50, 900 a year, or other bread
az1d-butter fortune of that kind, can
buy all the personal luxury he-can en-
/ Joy, including in some places social
| Difference, and the mammoth million
aire wants. something more He wants
tofeel the value of the difference be-
tween his resources and those of the
merely rich, to do or, enjoy something
| which they cannot attempt. % Elephant
tine amusements may be amusing, but
they are only elephantine, and he is a
mammoth, wants larger trees, to crush
through, bigger forests to. browsein,
/ a deeper swamp, in which to gam
Dol and roll. In a little planet like
ours this is, not easy to obtain. He
| desires like the, rest of us, to utilize his
special advantage, which IS the com
niandsof ths1hodern form of the wish
ling cap in degree to which no one
]. else can pretend, and it is difficult TO
wish for anything that nobody with a
4 smaller cap can get. He can travel
about if he likes, traveIyery pleasantly;
i5but so can the ordinarily wealthy man,
money beyond certain amount adding
little either to the enjoyment or the
eonveniencesl of travel. The present
writer. was travelling once on the track
of an Empress, and was so inc6nven-
fenced by her wealth that he watched
to, see what it gave her It was very
little, indeed, nothing compared with
what she obtained from her European
rank. When crossing the Alps she
swept up for two days in advance every
available horse, engaging at one point
no less than eighty; but she could only
sit in one. place in one barouehe, and
moved, on the whole, no quicker. than
other people. The huge suit seemed to
be merely burden, choking up the
roads, calling forth tiresome crowds,
and sometimes creating wearisome de-
lays. There was a physician, for in
stance, who actually fell ill, to the loss
of eleven hours. The Empress upset
the travelling arrangements of a great
line for three days by her requirements
IN the way OF special train and extra
precautions; but any one rich enough
to hire a saloon-earriage for himself,
and pay for pilot engine in front would
have Travelled with just as much per-
sonal enjoyment. The Empress rank,
no doubt, helped her greatlyin opening
inaccessible castles attracting experts
as cieeroni, p and securing her near
Naples paradise to live in which no
money would have purchased; but the
commander millions of Itself produced
no more than thousands would have
done. & CsS fGbog fclg efa
As to creating grand place-t the
idea which Edgar Poe puts into the head
of his imaginary millionaire-it is to be
done. no doubt, with skill and iudg-
lnepf; but when the colossalonce enters
into an enterprise of the kind 1t becomes
unenjoyable. No private man would
be happier even in his own thoughts for
creating Versailles, and short of Yer
sailles, half q millions well laid out will
do all that is required, To ''found a
I family inD the English sense, is in
/ America or Australia impossible; and a
/ great estate gives comparative little in
t1uence, and beyond a certain limit
I quite attainable by any. rich man, no
particular pleasure What is the use
of owning square miles when nobody
7 viii gap To you. or vote for you, or
recognize your greatness in any way
| that is not half hostilep OF course, il the
mammoth millionaire is a collector, he
can make mammoth collection; but
| when once you have acquired all the
snuff-boYess or jade bowls, or fine cats
eyes to be procured, a thousand more
specimens add very little to your graft
fication. A collection loses its charms
/ when once it is magnified into a
museum. Besides, all these things cost
| comparatively little. They can, any
one of them, be done to any reasonable
extent by man with q hundred thou
sand a year; and we are talking of the
| millionaires, to whom that income seems
respectable poverty. The true mann
moth Cresus is forced to accumulate
by the difficulty of getting rid of his
money, and soon finds that really ito
use 1t with visible result adequate to
the power expended, there is no way
except to increase his business opera
tions. That is the reason why, in
America, he continues his trade; and
why his son. withistill greater wealth,
will be tempted to continue after him,
and to keep on rolling up the SNOWFALL
till smaller men declare as they are, de-
claring now about the railway kings,
that its bulk is becoming dangerous 14
| London Spectator. $40 Tof 9.ll
Miss Fannie Mills. Of Sandusky, o.,
| is not an overly big woman, but she has
a great foot on her. One of her shoes,
| now on exhibition in a museum, is
seventeen inches long, seven inches
wide, eighteen inches around the ankle
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