Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1891-09-27
THE POVERTY OF WEALTH.

Or course no one can tell how
the Hopkins Searles contested
will case will terminate; but in
advance OF all other testimony.
by what has already been devel-
oped, every person OF any refine
ment OF sentiment will despise
Searles. 1t seems to be- a clear
case that he worked upon the in
fatuation o. an old woman, old
enough to die, and for money
married her. 1t is as clear a case
OF bargain and sale as ever WAS
seen in Copstantinople, except
that in Constantinople that they
sell foolish girls that are brought
up in barbarisrl, and they really
have no more sentiment in the
matter than SO many Hereford
heifers, except that through their
dull brains has been driven the
thought that, by becoming the
property Of some wealthy Turk,
they will have nothing to do for
the rest Of their lives, except to
eat rich food and wear rich cloth
ing.
This man Searles sold himself
to this foolish old woman, and
was so careful Of the bargain that
he dia not let the honeymoon en-
chant him for single week, until
lie got that woman to transfer to
him one. half OF her whole prop
erty. And then he put in the bal
ance OF his time in getting her to
wiz HIM the other half when she
should die; then he sat down to
count the days until he should be
released from the old girl. There
is nothing more contemplate,
nothing more humiliating, nothing
more disgraceful in all the history
Of all the abnormal fortunes
which have been piled up in this
country, than this affair Of Mrs.
Hopkins and the decorator who |
came to adorn Ter house, and |
ended by despoilIng it.
If anyone had told old Mark |
Hopkins when he had worked all |
day, and then spent the night, up |
to midnight, in making up ac-
counts and writing letters which
a $50 clerk could have better done
than he, that all it would amount |
to would be, first, that his own
brain would break down, that he
would die alone in the most desc
late spot in America that then
his widow, when approaching
three score years and ten, would
give up half of that hardly OBJ
tanned fortune to a common scrub
to get him to marry her maybe
old Mark would have worked less,
and saved q few less millions, but
would have lived longer and died
happier. If someone had talked
to him this way: "Mr. Hopkins,
when you went into this rail- DAD
business you did not dream Of
making more than 100000. Now
you have made one hundred times |
that sum. Stop, do q little good |
with it il viii be better for your
own happiness, better for your own
happiness, better for the happi-
ness OF your family, better for the
honor OF your country, because as I
you are going On the ultimate re-
suit CT it all will be, to make poor
men and poor women pity you ald
'our family, and will make them
.ealize that Of all the receipts for
nsuring happiness in this world,
he possession Of an abnormal
'ortune is the very worst ;" it
night not have done any good, =
because Mr.. Hopkins had pur-
sued his dream, until money max
ng had got to be second nature
20 him, and he worked on just as
he yellow hammer or the ground
squirrel does after the nest is full,
gathering more beach nuts and
moro acorns.
But surely, while the possession
of seventy millions only aw kens
The derision OF poor devils who