The Press., 1892-12-08

AND, by the way, when you are select ing your periodical reading supplies for . 1893 don't forget "tGood Housekeeping J Catch any housewife now enjoying it's use to permit of it's being crossed from the list at her house! In the December number the opening paper is from the pen of Miss Parloa, under the title of Pretty Things for the Holiday Table," The frontispiece is scene entitled ''Pop- ping Corn," with poetical setting; while the special papers, both those adapted to the season and such as pertain to the gen. eral welfare of the home, combine to make a number of marked excellence. This admirable magazine, "in the inter- ests of the higher life of the household in the homes of the world,' is published at $2 year, or $1 for six months, and no more acceptable gift than subscription . can be given to any wife. Clark w. Bryan Company, publishers, Springfield, Mass.
 THE news of the death of Jay Gould establishes certainty. Any report of the probability of such thing would have been received with grains, yes, tons of suspicion in Wall street. The great manipulator has met a foe whom he could not out-maneuvre. He died Saturday morning, Dec. 3d, of consumption, aged 56 years. .
 In life he has been "terror,' man of wonderful business capacity, and remorse- less in exercise of his powers to the end of his own enrichment. Says the Hart ford Courant:
 "He has walked into marvellous wealth, but not into that best possession, the es- teem of his fellow men. Even in business he was feared rather than respected. The choicest dividend-paying stocks, stocks that any reputable Hartford man could readily borrow upon, have, so The Courant was informed at the time, been refused as collateral security by our local banks when offered with Gould's paper. Every body said the security was complete, but, if the man, with his immense money DOW CT, should for any reason choose to refuse payment, collection would be delayed by every process of slow law, and those who had made the loans would be open to criticism in having lent to one of his known ways.
 Of course not Gould nor any other man can stay the natural laws. The great shifts in trade, the booms, the short crop seasons, and so on are beyond control, but he was a manipulator without an equal, because no one could find him out. He was always ready to talk, and some times said what he meant. That was what confused people. The power that he held was enormous. Twenty or thirty thousand or more persons working on flp.<n An ov,A %n1n o1, IL wages altered if he so wished, and thous- ands of fellow shareholders could have their dividends stopped if he so directed. No one man ought to hold so much pow CT, especially, where as things go, he can use it all to increase his own wealth end extend his power.
 Gould has been in feeble health for some time. The pictures of him that have been printed and reprinted for years past, and that are blooming out again now, are not in any sense likenesses. He was little, very little man. His form bent somewhat; his neck was slim, his wrist slight, his little coat couldn't help wrinkling, and his manner had the out ward appearance of nervous timidity. He gave no sign to the stranger of the power of planning, and of the remorseless de- termination, that have so contributed to what is called his success.
 Good Housekeeping for December tells of Pretty Things for the Holiday Ta- ble, ,"'A Christmas Dinner, The House hold Laundry, ,""The Food of the People," Maids Christmas, D "A Noble Girlhood,o "A Christmas Goose, ""tA New Vehicle" " Popping Corn" with illustration, and a half score other poems, besides depart ments for all kinds of household, literary topics, quiet hours for the quick witted,'' kitchen table, etc. $2 year. c. w. Bryan & Co.,, Springfield. Mass.