The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-06

zema and eruptions of the skin. Price
Toe a box.
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
interest in cities. When notified that he
had money to invest he would say to his
lawyers: Get what you like with it. You
know about handling the stuff. Buy what
will pay best"
And they did. They bought for him-and
Elsie Tyson now oWns-$1 100000 worth of
property in London, and in Australians
every province and town land, houses,
stocks cattle.
Tyson was an atheist. Though he never
entered church, he once gave the money
to build one. Then he was asked to insure
it aga. INST fire
THAT 1 will not" he said II have CIV
en- church 90 Almighty God and If He
cannot take care of it for Himself He does
not deserve to have it,"
Il tried to get him to do the town once"
his lawyer says, but he would not To-
ward night he got on his horse as usual
and rode outside the town. He found an
open place, and under tree lay down on
Nthe ground, with his saddle for a pill
low"
THE little game he used to say, that
is the fun. Fighting the desert has been
my work I have been fighting the desert
all my life, and I have wont I have put
water where was no water, and beef
where was no beef. l have put fences
where there were no fences and roads
where there were no roads. Nothing can
undo what 1 have done, and millions will
be happier for it after 1 am long dead and
forgotten.
Religion amt my business. 1 do what
1 think right and I stand to take my
chance. That's enough for me.
Yes. they call me a woman-hater, but
I amt 1 don't think much of most of
the women there are now. They scold
and they think too much of dress and they
are spiteful toward each other. Their
minds are full of small things. Dear, dear,
there's a deal for husbands to bear
@Maybe lis as well 1 never married. I
have been happy; sufficiently so. If wo-
man'd been kind to me sh'd have twisted
me round her finger, and my work
wouldn't have been done. A wife would
have wanted me to settle down like other
men.
There was a woman-a long time ago.
when I was young fellow. She was good
and kind and I thought she was beauu-
full, though maybe you wouldn't. She
We'll she was the only woman l ever
thought of marrying"
So thinking still at Il of the girl he
had met fifty years ago James Tyson
went to his death and left to his lawyers
the quest of heirs for a fortune between
900 and $50, 100000
ne quest
When Wilson, Laurence & Wilson of
Sydney Australia, began the search for
old Tysons heirs they had not a shadow
of clue. Wealth passing the fables of
the East was begging for an owner
But in Tyson's diggings they found an
iron box, and in the box some yellow.
time-stained letters-his mothers letters,
written when he first went to Australia.
From these faded old tokens of a
mothers love Thomas Wilson traced Ty-
son to his birthplace. There he learned
than of the sons and daughters of the
elder Thomas Tyson all were dead with
out issue, but Thomas, the younger,
James Tyson's brother He was traced to
Orange N. j. There Wilson found the
record of the death of Jamie Tyson, cid
est son of Thomas and Eliza Tyson. This
was another clue.
Wilson looked up the grave of the lad
and found that it was well cared for and
that flowers were kept growing upon It,
From the Caretaker's little daughter he
learned that a lady had sent money regu-
larly for time. to be used in keeping the
grave in repair. Through these letters
the lawyer traced Elsie Tyson to Cali
fornia. The story of the girls wander
ings is thus told by herself:
Mothers health was very poor think
it was trouble which broke her down.
When Jamie died she could not bear to
stay in Orange, so father sold the place
and we went to Illinois. Then the first
winter my sister Nellie was born, and
Tommie and Mile died. Then little Jack
died. Hid was years old and the only
boy left, and father never got over the
shock of his death.
Jack fell off the barn, where he was
helping father ehinge and father blam-
ed himself for letting him go up with
him Then Nellie died. | was the oldest
in the family and I have closed the eyes
of every one of my brothers and sisters
except only Jamie; and his DEATH and
being carried to his bed in the night TO
say good-by to him while my father held
me in his arms and some one else stood
near holding two candles. is the first of
my life that ] remember 1t has ell been
like that night.
"Mother and I came TO Southern Cali
fornia. We had only about 500 and no
way Of earning much more We rented
little place and ! raised chickens. Mother
had everything she needed but she was
always worrying about me. I did not care;
/ only wanted her to live. She died, though
and then / could not bear to stay in the
house alone.
Then some neighbors were going TO
move up here TO Humboldt county. They
came to take up a homestead and raise
sheep They asked me to come with them
and | did"
The Heiress.
Elsie Tyson is a wee and winsome Scots
lass so plump ami demure and Gray-eyed
and brown-haired and dainty that In
! Argyleshire they'd surely call her Els
peth were she not great heiress
Humboldt county is still talking Of her
of her naive delight when money was
put into her hands. of her first trip to the
opera. of the generosity that insisted upon
a reward for all those who had befrlend-
| ed her.
DESPITE her good fortune. Miss Tyson
was In a respondent mood before her de-
paISure for Scotland. She had learned too
| quickly James Tyson's contempt for mon
| ey.
"Oh. am so unhappy" she said. now
| that can have everything want Money