The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-01-16
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Mr.. Gould's habits are simple, and he
does not hold his cane by the middle
when he walks. He wears plain clothes,
and his shirts and collars are both made
Of the same shade. He says he feels
sorry for any one who has to wear q
pink shirt with blue collar. Some day
no hopes to endow home for young
men who cannot afford to buy u shirt
and q collar ut the same store.
He owes much OF his neuralgia to
lack OF exercise. Mr.. Gould never takes
any exercise ut all. His reason for this
Is that lie secs no prospect for exercise
TO advance III value. He says he Is
willing to take anything but exercise.
Up 70 within few years Jay Gould
has always slept well ut night, owing to
regular hours for rising and retiring, and
his careful abstinence from tobacco and
alcohol. Lately neuralgia has kept hun
awake n good deal at hight, but prior to
that ho used to sleep rs swGetly and
peacefully US weasel.
The story circulated some years ago
to the effect that professional burglar
broke into Mr.. Gould's room in the
middle OF the night aud before he could
call the police was robbed Of his tools, is
not true. People who have no higher
aim in life than tho peddling about OF
such Improbable yarns would do well to
ascertain the truth, Of these reports be-
fore giving them circulation.
The story that Mr., Gould once killed
u steer and presented the hoois to the
poor with the remark that 1t would help
keep sole and body together, also turned
out 10 have no foundation whatever in
fact, but was set ailoat by ali English
wag who WIS passionately fond OF q bit
OF pleasantly, don't you know.
Thus II is that man who has ac-
quired competence by means OF hon.
est toll becomes the target Of the barbed
shaft Of Contumely.
Mr.. Gould is said to be q good con.
versationalist, though he prefers to close
his eyes and listen to others. Nothing
pleases him better than to lure man on
and draw himout and encourage him to
turn his mind wrong side out and empty
it. He then richly repays this conf
dence by saying that II II doesn't rain
any more we will have a long dry time.
The man then goes away inflated with
the idea that no has q pointer from Mr..
Gould which will materially affect val
ues. A great many men are playing
croquet at the poorhouse this summer
who owe their prosperity to tips given
them by Mr.. Gould.
Mr.. Gould's career, with Its attendant
success, should teach us two things, at
least. One Is, that 1t always pays to do
a kind act, for great deal OF bis large
fortune has been amused by assisting
men like Mr.. Field, when they are in q
tight place, aud taking their depressed
stock OFF their hands while ina shrunken
condition. He believes also that merci-
full man should be merciful to his stock,
Jay Gould Is also u living illustration
OF what a young man may do with moth
ing but his bare handsin America. John
L. Sullivan and Gould are both that way,
Mr.. Gould and Col. Sullivan could e
into Siberia tomorrow little as they are
known there-and with small Gordon
press, a qulre OF bond paper and a pail
Of INTERCHANGEABLE gloves they would
soon own Siberia, With u right OF way
across the rest Of Europe and frs
mortgage on the Russian throne. Al
fast as Col. Sullivan knocked out {
dynasty Jay Gould could come In ant
administer on the estate,