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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-12-11

the great glass manufacturer. founded De
PAW University, in GreenCastle, Ind, and
Dc PAW Femaie College. at New Albany,
and has also expended large sums IN the
erection Of churches and the endowment
Of other institutions IN Indiana and other
States, his public requests exceeding in the
aggregate Sl.0J0,000.
Chicago also has reason 70 be proud Of
her philanthropic record. John Crear be-
uueathed g, 500 900 for public library and
other purposes, and William b. Ogden. tho
first Mayor of Chicago, gave 1921 900 to
the scientific department OF the new Uni
yersitv of Chicago. Charles J. Hull. noted
alike for his eccentricity and philanthropy,
las enabled more than 5000 people to
build their own homes IN Chicago and
other western cities. and -. X. PearsOns.
who made great fortune in Chicago real
estate. hos given away more than $1,000
600. Beloit College Lake-Forest College,
Knox College. and the Chicago Theological
Seminary have all received large donations
Of money from him. The gifts OF Henry
4. Rust 10 the new Chicago University
have been very large. and Philip Armour,
the great pork-packer, has given more than
: 100, 900 to the Armour mission. founded by
his late brother. Armour ia one Of the
most charitable rich men in America. His
gifts aggregate $500, 900 O year. and there
il not a charity Of any kind in Chicago
that does not yearly receive his unsolicited
check. The late Henry Shaw, Of 81. Louis,
presented 10 that city Tower Grove Park,
n splendid garden spot, improved and
beautifed 10 the highest degree, and
representing an expenditure of $500. 600.
John Burnside. a native Of Ireland, and at
the time Of his death the largest sugar
planter in the United States, donated
100000 to the State Of Louisiana for
charitable distribution, giving the State
full discretion az to the manner in which
il should be dispensed. John NcDonOgh, a
strange, taclturn man, whose methOdical
eccentrcities were long the by-word of the
people OF New Orleans. and who made a
great fortune IN the coasting trade between
New Orleans and Baltimore, at his death
set aside one eighth of the income of his
property 20 establish a farm-schOOl near
Baltimore. Mr.. McDonogh specified in ms
legacy ihlt 1t was 10 be farm-schoOl
where Door boys could be given a plain
English education" and so wisely have
his wishes been carried out that the Nc
Donogh SchOOl-Earm is now one of the
great educational institutions of the coun-
try. John Twobig for many years the
richest man in San Antonio. left $1,000, 600
20 the Catholic Church. OF which he was a
devout member. and William NJ. Rice. now
of this city, but who for many years was a
leading merchant of Houston, has lately
given S33O,0OO to found college in that
city.
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SPLENDID GENEROSITY.

There has been in recent years no more
splendid example of generosity than that
Of Leland Stanford, of California. He
has donated S20,000O00 in land and money
TO found the Leland Stanford. Jr.. Uni
versltv-sO named in honor of his dead
son-at Palo, Alto, Cal. and it IS more
than probable that the larger part of
his fortune, amounting to $4,000, 600,
will be devoted 70 benefcent pur-
poses. Though the members of the
great Bonanza firm, composed of Fair,
Flood, Mackav. and VBrien. have
mover been noted for their philanthropy,
William O'Brien, the first of the Quartette
10 die, gave $500 to Catholic orphan
asvlum in San Francisco. and John Mackay
is always ready 10 give relief TO those
in distress. After Leland Stanford, james
Lick was the most generous of Cali
fornia's philanthropists. His philan-
field and involved the expenditure
OF millions. He gave in 1874 S3,000,-
900 to various public and charitable
enterprises. He donated Sl60.000 for the
erection of statues in the streets and parks
OF San Francisco: endowed an old ladies'
home with 800. 600: set aside Sl50000 for
free public baths in San Francisco. and de-
voted S540.0O0 10 the California School Of
Mechanical Arts. The sums which he gave
for the construction ana endowment OF
the great observatory which bears his
name were something more than 800, 600.
No review of American philanthropy,
however brief, would be complete without
mentioning the work and name of George
Peabody. Peabody died worth $4,000. 900.
bat gave away. while living, SS,500000 TO
educational and charitable institutions. to
say nothing of the hundreds OF thousands
that he dispensed IN other ways. His
charity extended to Yale and Harvard. to
each OF which he gave Sl50,OO0. He gave
So .0O0.0 600 TO the Southern Educational
Fund: 81. 800, 900 to the Peabody Institute
of Baltimore, and $4,000 to the Peabody
Academy ID Massachusetts,. Born poor,
Peabody's great wealth came TO him as the
result Of strict problty, tireless energy, and
splendid mental gifts, all Of which were
used 20 noble purpose, for his life was
spent in doing good. have thus shown
how more than 100 rich American men and
women have spent their wealth wisely and
freely for the benefit OF Others, and while
no attempt has been made to make the
records complete the facts given teach
most luminous and instructive lesson.
RUFUs X. WILSON
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UUTIUE II
fortune.

The list of Baltimore philanthropists il
n splendid one. Johns Hopkins. who was
born OF Quaker pareniage 10 1895, dying in
1872, and who for many years was the
leading banker of Baltimore, gave S4.5O0.-
0J0 to found hospital in that city, winch.
without regard TO race. creed. or color,
should be free To all corners, and. SO, 500, =
900 more TO found the Johns Hopkins
University. He also presented Baltimore
with public park. and his private chart
ties were large and ceaseless. Moses
Sheppard left fund which now amounts
to several hundred thousand dollars 70
found free insane asylum. This asylum
was opened in November last, and patient Is
are admitted for treatment from all parts
of the country. Alcaeus Hooper, another
wealthy Baltimorean. recently gave $780,
900 for a woman's college at the Johns
Hopkins University. few years ago
Enoch Pratt gave 81. 100000 10 found and
endow a free public library in Baltimore,
and 1t IS said 10 be his intention to use all
of his great fortune, which amounts TO
Ss, 900, for the benefit of Others Mr..
Pratt ~ in many ways remarkable man.
He is now past 81 years of age, but has
never worn glasses. He walks four or
five miles every day, and has said that
although he has worked hard since a bow
of IS years, when he began his business
career IN Boston, he feels as young and
active to-day as he did fifty years ago. He
has never suffered q days sickness in his
life.
Washington had in the late William w.
Corcoran a philanthropist whose fame was
worldwide. Corcoran was a man who
spent his life in doing good. He was once
the partner of George Peabody, and seems
TO have taken him as q model In his giving.
He once said. with a sigh, Peabody gives
so much that fear shall never get up TO
him. but IN this he spoke far too modest
" of his own efforts In lS47 he contributed
literally to the suferersIn the Irish famine.
In 1857 no commenced in Washington the
erection OF the Corcoran Art Gallery, on
which he spent at different times $500. 600.
Another of his noble charities was the
Louise Home, in Washington, home for
reduced gentlewomen. This he built at a
cost of 900, 900 aud endowed with S258, 900
more. His gifts To the cause of education,
religion, aud the reliet Of the poor aggre-
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1892-11-03
JOHN BRENT
By THEODORE WINTHROP.

Copyright. 1891. by American Press Associa-
s'It sometimes makes me little mel
ancholy," he continued, 'sto speak Of
those happy days. Not that regret the
result have at last attainedi All, no!
But the process was hard one. have
suffered, sir, suffered greatly on my way
to the peace and confidence have at
tanned"
"You have attained these2" said.
eyes; thank God and this Latter-dsy
revelation OF his TRUTH / used to think
rather carelessly of religion in those
times. I suppose it is only the contact
with sin and sorrow that teaches man
to look from the transitory to the eter-
nal. Shade makes light precious, as an
artist would say. / was brought up, you
know, sir, in the Church of England, but
when I began to think its Journalism
wearied me. l could not understand
what seemed to me then the complex
machinery of its theology. I thought,
sir, as no doubt many people Of the
poetic temperament and little experience
think, that God deals with men without
go betweens; that he acts directly on the
character by the facts Of nature and the
thoughts in every soul.
eft was not until ! grew old and
sad that began to feel the need
of something distinct and tangible
to rest my faith upon, and even
then, sir, I was skeptical Of the
need Of revelations and Messiahs
and miracles, until learned through
the testimony of living Witnesses
yes, of living witnesses such
things have come in the Latter-daY.
Yes, sir, the facts of what you call Nor
monism, its miracles, its revelations.
which do not cease, and its new Mes
siah, have proved to me the necessity of
other like supernatural systems in the
past and given me faith in their evil
dences, which before seemed scanty."
"Ah! old Mother Church of England!'
thought, .scould you do no better by
your son than this? Whose fault is this
credulity2 How is it that he needs phe-
nomena to give him faith in TRUTH
ssBut 1 have not told you," the old
gentleman went on, "about my disas
ters., Perhaps you are getting tired OF
my prattle, sir-my old mans talk.
am really not so very old, if my hair is
thin and my beard gray-barely fifty,
and after this journey expect to be
quite boy again. I suppose you were
surprised this afternoon when spoke of
having worked in a coal mine, were you
not?"
The old man seemed to have some lit
tie pride in this singularity of fortune.
1 expressed the proper interest in such a
change of destiny.
"You shall hear how it happened" he
said. "You Remembering, you are too
young to remember, but you have heard
how we all went mad about mills and
mines in Lancashire some twenty years
ago."
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1892-11-03

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Maud-"She is a woman who has suf-
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Ethel-"Dear me! What are her be-
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Maud-"She believes that she can wear
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Eyes" said ]. sit was then that steam
and cotton began to understand each
other, and coal and negroes became i'm
portant."
ssWhat panic Of speculation we al
rushed into in Lancashire!' said the old
gentleman. "We all felt, we gentlemen.
that we were mere idlers, not doing our
duty, as England expects every man to
do, unless we were building chimneys
or digging pits. We were all either
grubbing down in the bowels of the
earth for coal, or rearing great chimneys
up in the air to burn it. I really think
most of us began to like smoke better
than blue sky; certainly 1t tasted sweeter
to us than our good old English fog.
"Well, sir" continued he, 81 was like
my neighbors. I must dabble in milling
and mining. Twas willing to be richer.
Indeed, as soon as began to speculate /
thought myself richer. l spent more
money. went deeper into my opera
tions. One can throw great treasure
into coal mine without seeing any re-
turn, and can send a great volume of
smoke up chimney before the mill be-
gins to pay. It is an old story. / will
not tire you with it. was all at once a
ruined man.
He paused moment and looked about
the dim, starlit prairie, with the white
wagons and the low fort in the distance.
"Well," said he, in the careless, airy
manner which seemed his characteristic
one, '.if had not been ruined should
have staid stupidity at home and never
worked in coal mine, or travelled on
the plains, or had the pleasure of meet
ing you and your friend here. It is all
fresh and novel. If it were not for my
daughter and my duties to the church,
should take my adventures as lightly as
you do when your gun misses fire and
you lose dinner.
.'The thing that troubled me most at
the time Of my disasters" he resumed,
'was being defeated for parliament.
There had always been Clitheroe there.
When my father died I took his seat.
used to spend freely on elections, but
thought they sent me because they liked
me, or for love of the old name. When
lost my fortune there came snob, sir,
and stood against me. He accused me
of being free thinker, as if the Clith-
eroes had not always been liberal! He
got up a cry and bought votes. My own
tenants, my old tenants, whom I had
Toasted out of pure good will hundred
times, turned against me. l lost my
election and my last shilling"
at was just then, sir, that my dear
wife died and my dear Ellen was born. ~
He turned sadly around to look at his
daughter. She was walking at some
distance with Brent. The earnest muir
muir of their voices came to US through
the stiffness. l felt what my friend
must be saying in that pleading tone.
Everything went disastrously with
me-" continued Mr.. Chtheroe. II tried
to recover my fortunes, fairly and hon
estly, but it was too late. Ny creditors
took the old hall. Hugh Clitheroe i'll
Harry the Eighth's time built it, on land
where the family had lived from before
Egbert. Host it, sir. The family came
TO an end with me. found sheriff's
officers making beer rings on my old oak
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suited him by condesccns!on. How his
cradle he found it toecralnp himself and
save shillings in a cottage, with the
house in sight where lie had lavished
pounds as lord of the manor! How he
longed to have his daugher as well
dressed as any Of the young ladies about
her interiors in blood--for no one there
could rival the Clitheroes' lineage. How
he wished himself back III his mine, in
his Industrious clerkship, and how time
hung drearily on his hands. with nothing
to do except to dream of bygone glories.
saw that he had sighed to be great
man again and had a morbid sense Of
his insignifcance, and that this had
made him touchy, and alienated well
meaning people about him. He spoke
with some triumph of his arguments
with the rector of his parish, who en-
deavored to check him when he lent
what influence he had as gentleman to
get the Mormons hearing about Cfith-
eroe. He did not, as he said, as yet feel
any great interest in their doctrines;
but he remembered them with good will
from his coal pit days, and whenever an
emissary of the faith came by he always
found friend in Hugh Clitheroe. They
had evidently fattered him. 1t was
rare, of course, to find protector among
the gentry, and they made the most Of
the chance.
Poor old man! / could trace the prog
ress Of his Disappointment, and his final
fall into that miserable superstition. He
had been free thinker; never indus
trious or self possessed enough to be-
come a fundamental thinker. No man
can stand long on nothing-he must
think out religion or accept a the
ology. Now that busy days were over,
and careless youth gone by, Mr.. Clithe-
roe began to be uneasy and was ready
to listen to any scheme which promised
peace. If Jesuit had happened to find
him at this period, Rome would have got
recruit without difficulty.
Instead of Jesuit Sizzum arrived.
Sizzum was far ADLER than any Of his
Mormon compeers. He was proselyting
about Clitheroe, where he found it not
difficult to persuade the poor slaves up
In the mill and down in the mine to ac-
cept faith that offered at once broad
range on earth and, in good time, a high
seat in heaven.
Sizzum was the guest Of the discon-
tented and decayed gentleman. He saw
the opportunity. There was an old name
and man of gentle birth to rally fol-
lowers about. 1t would be q triumph
for the Latter-day Saints to march away
from Clitheroe. a thousand strong, head
ed by the representative of the family
who named the place and had once been
In parliament for 1t. Here was q prose
lyte in class which no Mormon had
dreamed of approaching. Here, too, was
was some little property. And here was
"a beautiful daughter.
| could divine the astute Sizzum's
method and success with his victim. en-
feebled in body and spirit.
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WHAT IS THE NATTER
Time Halt Was Called Before We GoSFar-
3 ther.-It Is Certainly Most Dangerous
Ground We Are Treading.

Ground We Are Treading.
IT is TIME WE LOOKED THE MATTER IN THE
FACE AND DECIDED JUST WHAT wEFHAD
BETTER DO. lido NOT DELAY, FOR DELAY
MAY BE FATAL!
What is the matter?
Why DO so many people. like Senator
Plumb, Senator Zach Chandler, Congress
man Ray and Secretary Windham drop
suddenly dead?
Only what is the matter with thousands
upon thousands of others, brain and
nerve exhaustion from overwork, fret and
worry and the cares and anxieties of the
pushing and hustling age in which we
live, and which finally end in the dread
paresis, insanity, heart failure, nervous
prostration and sudden death.
Men without number are straining their
brains and nervous systems in the mad
race after fortune and fame. and exhaust
ing their nervous and physical energies,
until sleepless nights, failing power,
complete nervous exhaustion, paralysis,
insanity or death must be the inevitable
end unless help from some source Is re-
ceived.
Thousands. of women are overworked,
exhausted, worn out in nerve force and
power until they feel tired all the time.
Clerks, students, mechanics and laborers,
from close confinement, long hours, strain
upon the nerves, dissipation or other
causes, are losing their vitality, and be-
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You, reader, are rushing on blindly to
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day and every hour of your impending
doom. How? By those strange sensa-
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head, that restlessness, irritability and
nervousness by those more or less sleep
less nights, from which you wake tired
and unrefreshed; by the weak, trembling,
cold limbs, by the langour and sense OF
nervous and physical exhaustion which
Fgrow upon you more and more. These
are danger signals, and not to heed them
is the folly OF fool.
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What is to be done? The answer is
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How TO BECOME FIEsHY.-Dr. Miles
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BY the light of that afternoons scene,
over the tea, could comprehend the
close Of Mr.. Clitheroe's dreary story and
see how at last Sizzum had got him in
his grippe, property, person and soul.
Did he wish to escape?
No. Onl oni he must go on. Only
some force without himself, interposed,
could turn him aside.
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l am proud to say from personal ex-
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worthless medicines, but use the best
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First Guest-Awful bore, isn't 1t?
Second Guest-Dull as funeral. knew
it would be. First Gucst-You knew 1t
Then why did you come? Second Guest
Had to. My wife heard that the for
mula for writing regrets had changed,
and she couldn't find out what the new
style was. So she sent an acceptance.
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HELP WANTED. - Young man to
Ii learn Sawyer's trade. Also an OK Team
ster and one man in woods to cut timber.
Stafford Springs. K. W. BROOKS.
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-05

In short time Barnum & Bailey's
greatest show on earth" will visit
Sslina. 1t IL the only great tented
exhibition we shall see In this city
this summer. The leading feature
Of the show, this season, Is the grand
Columbian Spectacle. Nothing that
can he written would convey al idea
Of its great magnitude and extent.
To say that 100 people are OH Its
pay rolls, aud that those 200 per-
sons are all the finest circus, hip.
podrome aerial and other wonder
full performers, conveys but q faint
idea, for among them are operate,
dramatic, tragic, pantomine, scenic,
classic, terpsichorean and other &C.
complished artists, actors, dancers,
and experts. The spectacle Of
Columbus alone embracing nearly
every phase OF histrionic art from
comedy To tragedy, aud with the
most magnificent ballet ever devised
requiring 800 dancing girls. Then
there are nienageries Of trained and
wild beasts, three circus rings, ele-
waited stages. racing track, one mon
ster stage, $50 feet long, enormous
tents, at least two acres Of elegant
SCENERY, sud-welI, IL must be seen,
II cannot be described.