The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-12-19

own, restored conhdeuce at once, and
the dead millionaire goes to join the
great majority. There is nothing that
calls for special notice about the man
except his money, stripped of that there
is nothing left to speak of. How differ
ent the case of Horace Il. Cla1in whose
death recorded three weeks ago,
When he died a wall went up from the
poor. The widow and the orphan whom
he had succorcd in their distress
mourned for him. The blessings OF the
bankrupt merchants whom he had saved
from ruin followed him to his grave.
The Wall Street gamblers were not dis.
turbed or shaken, for he knew them not,
nor they him, but his employees wcpt
like children who had suddenly lost a
father; and they had, for he had been
more than n father to them. There are
various kinds of charities: Mr.. Stewart
left Judge Hilton million, and Judge
Hilton was worth three millions before
he received the Stewart bequest. Mrs.
Astor never gave the city an obelisk,
but she has fed and clothed hundreds of
poor ragged boys and girls, and perhaps
when the balance-sheet is struck, when
she reaches the Pearly Gates the bene-
dictiors of these ragged unkempt waits
may count as much as n S500,000 hos
pital or an Egyptian obelisk. And so
one by one these magnates pass away.
A few days or weeks or months or years
at most, some scribe like myself will
write the obituary of Gould; and now
we are asking ourselves, how will he
die? Outside of his own immediate fam
lily no one will care how or when he
goes, except, perhaps, old Morisini, or
Connor his Wall Street broker. They
might have made their names immortal
with blessing; they chose the other way,
and it is not to be wondered at that the
public care very little whether they live
or die.
With only a 1.-THE of Vanderbilt 5
wealth the memory Of old Peter Cooper
floats down through the ages fragrant
and rich with blessing. Great as were
his benefactions, it was not so much
what he gave as the manner of his Civ
ing. While he lived lie showed thous.
ands of poor young men and women the
road to honest independence. For
years before he died he went daily
through the halls of the magnificent In.
stitutiOn which bears his honored name.
and deaf as he was, he could scarcely
fail to hear the blessings and prayers
that followed him. His dust returns tc
the dust, bat the immortal part of him
is seen every day, living reality that
will still exist, blessing with his bcnei!.
cent gifts untold millions when the
proud obelisk in our Park shall have
crumbled into dust and the stately
Medical College, reared a cost of $500.
OOt, Sldll nc Il nOpCltSS rum.
1t is a satisfaction to know that the
present representative of Vanderbilt
wealth is man whose life has beer
above reproach. He has had every ad
vantage to make him great; and wealth
that raised him above merccnary temp
| tation.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is a citizen o.
whom any community might well bc
proud, and if he only fulfills the promise
of his life so far, lhe community vii
have no cause to regret his father.
| death.
In Chauncey Depew he has faithful
and able counsellor. He was his father.
most tried and trusted friend, as he has
been the friend of every member of hi,
family for many years. Mr.. Depcw /,
evidently man Of the people, he i.
neither above nor below them, but o
them; his elevation to the head of til,
greatest corporation in the United State.
has not altered him hair and he car
negotiate for hundred million railroad
in the morning and compose a brillian
after dinner speech in the afternoon.
1t is not often that exhaust so mucl
space on the obituary of any one persol
but it has been the town talk for III,
past few days and could not be avoided
Brooklyn, as usual, furnishes us will
an exceptionally interesting item:-Al
individual by the name of Kruger wa
married to quite pretty wife, but tw,
years of welded bliss satisfied the bloom
ing young Benedict and he began to cas-
about for fairer fields and pastures new
In the course of his peregrinations h
met fair young damsel of eighteel
summers and he Immediately propose,
and was accepted, she suppOsing him
single man. He went home straightwa
and notified his wife he was going t
get married and invited her to the wed
ding, but he was ConsidcFate enough I
draw up a written agreement by whic
lie gave her his full consent TO MARI
whom she pleased promising not t
modest her on any consideration. Jus
in the nick of time an old sweetheart G
his wife's turned up, and he was willin
to take her, So the matter was amicabl
arranged. The preparations for tn
wedding went forward, and just as the
were about completed, wife No learne
that her husband, in his anxiety to &c
rid of her, had offered TO sell her for tw
dollars and half to hump backe
tailor. This was more than flesh an
blood could bear. She could stand bein
given away TO the man of her choice
but to be offered for sale at 81. so was al
outrage that cried aloud for vengeance
so she complained OF her husband 70
abandonment, aud he was arrested OF
the eve of his marriage And now Tn
wife is arrested for conspiracy, as it i
alleged that the husband and wife an,