'4 V I, V: r" . 5.: ~ > -’ ' I ' ‘1 ' v ._——.__._..... ..- .__._......_.._. ._____._.. HELEN ilOULD’S AIMS. PATRIOT, ANGEL OF MERCY AND PAR— . AGON OF WOMANLYVIRTUE. Ambitious to Clear the Stain From Her Father’s Ch aracter—She is Endeavoring it; to Make Her Youngest Brother 3. Cap- ' ' able Business Man. Miss Gould is an old-fashioned girl. "I do not dislike society. I am simply too busy for it,” is her calm reply to all persuasions towards the gay world. And she is busy. Her creed is a busy one. “I expect to pass through this life but once; any good that I can do,‘ let me do it now: let me not neglect it or defer it, for I shall not pass this way again.” But it is not work without faith. In her the two are admirably blended. She is a sincere, earnest Christian. a com- municant of the Presbyterian church, and to her this world ‘is but the pre- paration for another and a better one. She is not beautiful, though her face is womanly and sweet. As she says herself she is busy. She set for herself three tasks in life. One was to fit herself for the proper care of 11(1‘ fortune, another to clear her father’s memory of the blackmailers put upon it, and the ilird to make a good business man of lcr youngest brother, Frank, who is ;.ot yet of age. No one can say that MISS HELEN GOULD. she has failed in any of these. while the first two are accomplished facts. ,Her spirit is ' absolutely dauntless. She is so unswerving from a’purpose that her family and immediate friends have dubbed her “the woman of no compromise.” When Mrs. An- gell claimed in the court that she was the first and only legal wife of Jay Gould, one of the brothers in the fam- ily council suggested that the impos for be given a few thousand dollars to spare them further annoyance, but to this Helen would not listen. “Never,” she said. “I will spend my life, if necessary, in clearing up this mystery and proving our family in— mocent.” And she did. 'l-Ividence nn- n'iist‘ake-a‘ble was secured and the ini- ‘gposter confessed on ailidavit. In order that she. might properly grasp business details Miss Gould took a course at the New York Law University, and is a thoroughly equip- ped business woman and lawyer. upon whose shoulders the mantel of her father’s fin-an-ciering ability seems to have fallen. combined with many sweet womanly qualities. She is very liberal, and her charities are so unos- tentatiously managed that he'r right hand scarcely knows what the left hand doeth. She gave $150.000 to her law school. She completed a gospel hall at Chautauqua. N. Y. She found» ed a scholarship at “'ellesley Colltge and another at Mount Holyoke. Prac- tical always, she not long ago gave $10,000 to the University" of New York for its school of engineering, MISS GOULD'S noun A'l‘ LYNDHURST. ' and in 1895 a gift of $250,000 to the same University, made on the condi tion that the name of the giver b kept secret, is believed to have beer. from her. She gave $100,0005for tin relief of the sufferers in the St. Louis tornado. This is her way of doing good. “'hen she made the magnificent gift of $100,000 to the government to hilt in the war with-Spain it was under pledge of secrecy, and it was to he! genuine surprise and regret when the. matter' was made public. a memorial church upon the site oi her father’s home at Roxbury. N. Y. and at Woody Crest, near he.- hmm on the Hudson, she has her pet char- ity. a home for poor children. In- tensely fond of children. she calls this her “recreation;" she personally super-intends every de tail of the place, and when at Lyndhurst goes across every day .1c Woody Crest to personally visit an 'little friends, who are usually crip pled. maimed or deformed. She is :. strictly temperance woman. and was a great admirer of Francis Wil'ard She is level-headed and studious never self—seeking and intensely pa tri otic. Foreign travel she does not care for, as she conceives her country to be best 'of all possible lands. Shv is neither a belle, like her sister. nor a secretly ambitious woman, like liel charming sister-ln-law, Mrs. George Gould. She was her father’s favoritz. child, and is a shrewd business wom- an with a mind of her own. This wal \ stain ‘ She built ’ evinced peculiarly when she sturdily :efused to sell her elevated road stock 1nd thus broke up the elevated roads combine. She is independent, but not dashingly so. She does not strike one as being a typical “bachelor maid." Evervone has known that Miss Gould was a patriot from the time when she caused 50,000 copies of the national hymn, “America,” to be printed and distributed among the public schools of New York, saying. “I believe everyone should know this hymn and sing it. if he knows no other. I would like the children to sing it into their souls until it be- comes a part of them.” But it was when the war began with Spain that her patriotism shone forth most brightly. She responded to the call to arms by the only way in which she then thought she could be of use to her country—by a check for $100,000 to the government. Then she took an active hand in furthering the Red Cross plans and was a useful member of the Woman’s War Relief Association. But in both of these so- cieties she was rather as a rich mem- ber .than a personal worker, and this did not satisfy her. When the sick and wounded soldiers were landed on Long Island. there she was in the midst of them. Then :her eyes opened to see the work mapped out for her, and she did not shrink. There was no time for formality or red tape; the men need-ed money, care, com forts, luxuries. She started diet kitchens, hired cooks and servitors. and telegraph-ed Mrs. V‘Valworth, the head of the lVornan’s War Relief iAs- sociation, to draw upon her to the ex- tent of $25,000 for necessaries needed at Montauk. while she herself stayed at Camp Wikoff. All at once, it seemed to her associates, the execu- tive ability of this quiet, slim little woman had flashed out, and she was indeed her father’s daughter. When te camp was to be broken up it was Miss Gould who arranged for the care of convalescents, and her home at beautiful Lyndhurst was literally strewn with sewing‘being made ready for needy soldiers. Instead of a home it looked like a “sweatshop,” one of the visitors comically remarked, but it all showed the reality of the work and siderations in the one great: present fact. DELIGHTED WITH THE INFORMATION The Experience and Chagrin of a Visitor at an Insane Assylum. Happening to be at the seat of one of the State insane asylums, a De- troiter who likes to see and learn all he can attended one of the dances for the patients. What surprised him most was the difficulty he found in distinguishing between those who were rational and those who were not, and he was more chagrined than amused when several whom he met were evidently trying to find out just what was wrong with his mental ma- chinery. At length he was introduced to a woman who particularly interested him. He convinced himself at once that her eyes were supernaturally bright. and her conversation soon con- vinced him that she was bright. All this made him pity her the more, and he set about in his mos-t diplomatic way to discover what form of mania possessed her. Subjects and persons were discussed. till he thought he had about exhaust- ed the matcrial. when he happened to speak_in rather flattering terms of the doctor. At last he had touched the hidden spring. She beamed upon him as he sang the doctor’s praises. She added approvong sentences of her own and adroitly drew out the praise which seemed so‘welcome to her. Her eves grew even brighter and her tones were unmistakably those of af- fection. “Doctor." said the Detroiter a little later, “I don't know whether you are aware of it or not’. but that handsome patient of yours, over there in the. heliotrope silk. is hopelessly in love with you. She’ll be making an open declaration, trying to elope. with you, or doing something else equally'em- barrassing. I never saw a clearer case. and I thought I’d just warn you. She‘s dead gone, I tell you." “Delighted to hear it,” laughed the doctor. “That's my wife.”——Detroii Free Press. ' Frederick the‘iGnmatgnd America. The superstition that Frederick the Great showed marked sympathy for America during the revolution is sin- gularly enduring, and most ‘school children have been taught that he sent a sword to Washington with the message: “From the oldest General in the world to the greatest.” Mon- cure D. Conway writes to the Athe- naeum to say: “There was no such sword or message.” student of Washington’s life, and he was told by Carlyle, the. greatest au- thority on Frederick, that there was absolutely no foundation for the le- gend. He also contradicts the singuv lar assertidn which Bismarck is said to have made, that Frederick was the first sovereign to recognize the inde- pendence of the United States. Louis XVI. recognized our independence. but Frederick never did, and never expressed a word of sympathy with our cause, while he allowed Hessians to be sent to crush the rebellion of the colonists. “What's that button you’re wear- ing?" asked the - Young Thing; “not Sons of the American Revolution?" “No,” said the major, “I should think not. I’m proud of that button. It is the insignia, 'the outward and visible sign of the largest military society in the United States." ' “What’s its name?" "Society of the First Man up San Juan HIll."--Philadelphia. Press. the absolute sinking of all other con- . equally . He speaks as a" ,RATHEIi PECULIA‘R. _ You Have Noticed This Fact Many a Time and Probably Have Spoken About it. To publish in this paper an endorsa- Lion like that which follows without the endorsc’s permission would be fraud. and to publish it. without. his knowledge would bcjmpdssible. Both could be. done repeatedly if this publi- cation were printed in Kalamazoo. Mich, for the chances are a thousand to one that few people in NOl'thlk, CL, ever see a Kalamazoo paper. Now, look through the columns of this 1) iper at the statements which appear in the advertisements about. medical prepara- tions. Novice this pezuliarity. Eva-y one of themwas originally obtained— if obtained at. all——in some distant part. of the Union. here. there and every- where, except your own corner of the state. Read this and mark the dif- ferent. impression it makes: Mr. George N. Warren, oyster plant.- er and dealer, of No. 2 Chestnut street, South Norwalk, says: “I have been subjected to inclement weather, and it. is quite possible that exposure while superintendiug different branches of my business induced kidney troubles. At all events, when consignments are being- shipped to Europe, and this is the busiest part of the season, I feel my back troubling me most. I knew l~had kidney complaint for a long time. and chancing to see Doan’s Kidney Pills advertised as a kidney remedy and not a cure all, I had confidence enough in them to get a box at a drug store and try them. The first. box convinced me that. they were just. what I needed, so I took another, and I did not require any more after that for my back he- came well. I prescribed them for my son, who has had a. weak back from boyhood. They cured him.” You can obtain incontrovertible proof from Gleudening. the drug‘g’ist, thin Doan’s Kidney Pills do just as . represented. Call and see him. Doan’s Pills for sale by all deal- ers. Price 50 cents. Mailed by Foster - Milburn (70., Buffalo, N. Y.,sole agents for the U. S. Remember the name Doau’s and take no substitute. A Rare Relic for the Professor. ‘ A certain professor in the Chicago University is an enthusiastic anti- quarian. He loves to communicate his tastes in this direction to others. and always encourages the members 'of his history class to collect curios of historic interest. During the spring quarter one of the seniors in the class stood in im— minent danger of “flanking.” Heroic measures were necessary in order to pass, but he, was equal to the oc- casion. One day, after class, he approached the professor with a curious fabric made of woven rings in his hand. “Professor.” he said. “I have here a valuable relic of the Indian wars. It is a piece of chain armor worn by General Dearborn in the memorable siege of Fort Dearborn. It was used by the general to protect himself against the arrows of his Indian foes. My grandfather dug it up years ago on the site of the old fort. I wish you would accept it as a present and place it in the museum.” The professor was overcome delight, and placed the curio in the college museum, and saw that the donor got a good mark in his final ex- amination. Later the professor learned that the “chain armor” was in reality nothing more than that 11Seful domestic uten— sil. an iron dishrag.——Chicago Chron- icle. ,How to Make aSavage Your Friend. Mr. Rougemont, the modern Robin- son Crusoe, who has lived so long among the aborigines that he learned to understand them thoroughly, pleads against the ignorant habit which white men have of shooting at black men as soon as they see them. All that is necessary to do, if you wish to make a black man your friend ' is to clap the'hands smartly on the back of one’s trousers, at the same time putting out one’s tongue. This is a universal sign, in the sign lan- guage which all the blacks understand that the stranger wishes to sit with them and to bob nob with them gener- ally. If to these signs the stranger will only add a few steps of a livelv jig, accompanying himself, if possible, upon a whistle, the severest savage will be instantly placated and will abandon his hostile attitude. ‘— ..——-—~ .139 New Speaking Clocks. In Switzerland they have begun making phonographic clocks and watches, w'hich,’it appears, leave any! thing heretofore accomplished far in the shade. By merely. pressing the button on the new timepiece it an- nounces the hour distinctly. The alarms call to the 'sleeper: “It’s 6 o’clock; get up." There are some which~neven aid the words: .“Now. don’t ”go to" sleep again." Theform can be changed to suit the buyer and make the warning more or-less emphatic. This application of the phonographic principle is due to a French watchma- - 1 ker settled at Geneva. He introduces into clocks and watches little slabs of vulcanized rubber, on which the de- sired words are flags: .. . 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