The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-09-10

| a f1nancfer, ard the times were mend1ng
| In one year she studied, schemed ant
| manipulated so that she made 81 900, 00(
| clear profit upon her stocks. Her whole
| souf was bound UP In the university.
On Dec. 3 last she obtained the courts
permission to distribute the estate. A
| little later she reported that she had pait
debts amounting to $l,1S2.173 and legacies
| aggregating $5,115,OO0 On June 1 she
| decided property amounting to $1,000, 00
| to the university.
| Afterward she decided over her Sar
| Francisco mansion to be an academy OF
history, economies and social science
She has also given 100000 for an orphan
asylum In Albany, which will be a me-
mortal to her father and mother, the
| Lathrops, of that city, whose old home
stead is utilized for the site.
NOTHING LEFT OF MILLIONS.
Today she has nothing left. Every rug
chair, vase, table and picture in her pos
sion belongs to the university. She has
an allowance Of $4,000 a year, but owns
nothing. When she dies, unless she saves
enough from her allowance for her fu-
neral, the university will have TO Dur!
her.
There are more than 1000 students.
They can live for SIS month each, and
teaching costs them nothing. They look
on Mrs. Stanford as their patron saint
Mrs. Hearsts course, on the contrary,
has been dictated by normal love for
her fellow beings. She is still in society.
She still entertains generously. Her beau-
tifui home in Washington Is full Of
guests. She loves to surround herself
with bright young girls and TO make life
summers day for them. Her life is
full of happiness and usefulness and love.
She has given away perhaps some 81
600 0C0 but it has been given with whole
and healthy heart
"She gives of herself said an old
friend recently ''and that is the rare and
beautiful part of her giving. 1T is not
just her money. 1t is first herself, her
heart, her sympathetic human kindness
then her money. Re she had been a
rcor woman she would have given of her
self in this same beautiful way"
Ms. Hearst mother was a Miss Whit
lire, originally of South Carolina, and q
member of the noted Randolph family
Her father, DR.. John Apperson, was born
in Arlington, Va, but married in Frank
lin county, Missouri, where Mrs. Hearst
was born. The latter was educated in
ST. Louis, where she became an expert
linguist She married Mr.. Hearst in 1862.
Thirty years later in Washington she was
still called "the beautiful Mrs. Hearst,
ana looked scarcely more ludIl thirty live
year sold.
MRS. EEARST'S GREAT PLANS.
Her charitable work began with the
founding of kindergartens, as did that of
Mrs. Stanford, and in Oregon and Cali
fornia she has built up no less than four
teen kindergarten training schools.
The National Congress of Mothers re-
ceives S., 900 each year from Mrs Hearst,
who has also given 100000 to Bishop Sat
terlee with which to found a school for
girls In connection with the Episcopal
cathedral in Washington.
She has founded boys home in Wash
ington, where twenty-five boys are
housed and cared for under the direction
of the Episcopal Brothers Of Nazareth.
Mrs. Hearst contributes generously to
the Little Sisters of the Poor and to the
Ladies Decorative Art society. She IS
a member of the Washington Women's
club, and through 1t has aided many
bright women who needed assistance to
make their positions in life secure. She
takes a deep interest in those mining
towns from which much Of the Hearts
wealth was drawn, and in others where
she has no personal interests, and has