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The Duries of Durrisdeer and Ballantrae were a strong family in the south west frotn tho days of David First. A rhyme still current in the country side:

Kittle folks are the Dtirrisdecrs, They rida wl' ower rnony spears bears tho mark of its antiquity and the name appears ia another, which common raoort attributes to Thomas of Ercildoune himself—I cannot say hoir truly, and which some have applied—I dare not say with bow much justice—to the events of this narration:

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Buries in Durrisdeer. Ane to tie and ano to rido, An ill day for tho groom

And a waur day for tho brido

Authentic history besides is filled "-•""with their exploits which (to our modern eyes) seem not very commendable and the family suffered its

full share of those tips and downs to which the great houses of Scotland have been over liable. But all these I pass over, to come to that memorable year 1745, when the foundations of this tragedy were laid.

At that time there dwelt a family of four persons in the house of Durrisdeer, near St. Bride's, on the Solway shore a chief hold of their race since the Reformation. My old lord, eighth of the name, was not old in years, but he suffered prematurely from the disabilities of age his place was at the chimney side, there he sat reading, in a lined gown, with few words for any man, and wry words for none the model of an old retired ,* housekeeper: and yet his mind very '\f lurished with study, and reputed in the country to be more cunning than be seemed. The Master I of Iiallantrae, James iu baptism,took from his father the love of serious

I reading some of his tact perhaps as well, but that which was only policy in the father became black dissimulation in the son. The face of his behavior was merely popular and v' wild ho. sat late at wine, later at the cards had the name in the country of "an unco man for the lasses aud was ever in the front of broils. But for all he was the first to go iu, yet it was observed he was invariably

the best to come off and his partners in mischief were usually aloae to pay the piper. This luck or dexterity got him several ill wishers, but with the rest of the country enhauced his reputation so that great things were looked for in his future, when he should have gained more grav.ty. One very black mark he had to his name: but the matter was hushed up at the time, and so defaced by le- ,') /rends before I came into those parts .,/ that I scrupple to set it down. If it was true, it was a horrid fact in one

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BY ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON.

OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTEE'S WANDERINGS.

CHAPTER I.

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The full truth of this odd matter is Miss Alison held the other side, be*rhat the world has long been looking cause it appeared romantical and for and public curiosity is_ sure to the master (though I have heard they welcome. It so befell that I was intimately mingled with the last years and history of the house and there does not live one' man so able as myself to make these matters plain, or so desirous to narrate them faithfully. I knew the master on many secret steps of his career. I have an -authentic memoir in my hand I sailed with him on his last voyage almost alone I made one upon that -winter's journey of which so many tales have gone abroad and I was there at the man's death. As for my late Lord Duiuisdecr, I served •him and loved hitn

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and thought more of him the moro I lenew of him. Altogether. I think it not f.tthat so much evidence should perish the truth is a debt I owe my lord's memory and I think my old vears will flow more smoothly and my white hair lie quieter ou the pillow. when the debt is paid.

if false, it was a hor­

rid calumny'. I think it notable that he had always vaunted himself quite implacable, and was taken at his word so that he had the addition among li'is neighbors of "an ill man ossi.

To these four came the news of Prjnce Charlie's- landing and set them presently by the: ears. My lord, like the "chimney keeper that he was. was all for temporizing.

did not agree often) was for this once of her opinion. The adventure tempted him, as I conceive he was tempted bv the opportunity to raise the fortunes of the house, and not less by the hope of paying off its private liabilities, which were heavy beyond all opinion. As for Mr. Henry, it appears he said little enough at first his part came later on. It took the three a whole day's disputation, before they agreed to steer a middle course, on son going forth to strike a blow for King James, my lord and the other staying at home to keep in favor with King George. Doubtless this was my lord's decision and as is well known, it was the part played by many considerable families. But the one dispute settled, another opened. For my lord, Miss Alison and Mr. Henry all held the one view that it was the cadet's part to go out and the master, what with resentless and vanity, would at no rate consent to stay at home. My lord pleaded, Miss Alison wept, Mr. Henry was very plain spoken all was of no avail. '*lt is the direct heir of Durrisdeer that should ride by his king's bridle," savsthe master. ''If we were playing a manly part," says Mr. Henry, "there might be sense in such talk. But what are we doing? Cheating at cards!" "We are saving the house of Durrisdeer, Henry," his father said. "And see, James,"said Mr. Henry, "if I go, and the prince has the upper hand, it will be easy to make your peace with King James. But if you go, and the expedition fails, we divide the right and title. And what shall I do then?" "You will be Lord Durrisdeer," said the master, "1 put all I have upon the tadle." "I play at no such game," cries Mr. Heney. I shall be left in such a situation as no man of seuse and honor could endure. I shall neither fish nor flesh!" he cried. And a little after, he had another expression, plainer perhaps than he intended. "It is your duty to be here with my father," said he. "You know well enough you are the favorite." "Ay?" said the master. "And there spoke Envy! Would you trip up my heels—Jacob?" said he, and dwelled upon the name maliciously.

Mr. Henry went and walked at the low end of the hall without reply for he had an excellent gift of silence. Presently he came back. "I am the cadet and I shall go," said ho. "And my lord here is master, and he says 1 shall go. What say ye to that, my brother?" "I say this, Harry," returned the master, "that when very obstinate folk are met, there are only two ways out: Blows —and I think none of us could care to go so far: or the arbitrament of chance—and here is a guinea piece. Will }rou stand by tho toss of "the coin?" "1 will stand and fall by it," said Mr. Henry. "Heads, I go, shields, I stay."

The coin was spun and it fell shield. "So there is a lesson for Jacob," says the master. "We shall live to repent of this," says Mr. Heary, and flung out of the hall.

As for Miss Alison, she caught up that piece of gold which had just sent her lover to the wars, and flung it clean through the family shield in the great painted window. "If you loved me as well as I love you, you would have stayed," she cried. "I could not love you, dear, so well, loved I not honor more," sung the master. "Oh!" she cried, "you have no heart—I hope you may be killei!" aud in

to cross!." Here was altogether a young nobleman (not yet twenty- and she ran from the room four in/ the year '15) who had made a' tears to uar own chamber. figure/ in the country beyond his I It seems the master turned to my time o^f life. The less marvel if there lord with his most comical manner, were Uittle heard of the second son, jand says he, "This looks like a devil Mr.I^enrv (mv late Lord Durrisdeer) who

myself novyet with bow little color of justice a man may there acquire the reputation of a tyrant and a miser. The fourth person in the tiouse was Miss Alison Graeme, a near kinswoman, an orphan, and the heir to a considerable fortune which her father had acquired in trade. This money was loudly called for by my lord's necessities indeed the land was deeply mortgaged and Miss Alison was designed accordingly to be the master's wife, gladly enough on her side with how much good will on his, is another matter. She was a comely ,girl and in those days' very spirited and self-willed

of a wife." "I think you are a devil of a son to me." cried his father, "you that has always been the favorite, to my

was neither very bad nor yet able, but an honestj solid sort id like many of his neighbors. jie heard, I say but indeed it was! shame be it spoken ase of little spoken. He was JWn among the salmon fishers in lirth, for that was a sport that and repeated it again the third time, assiduously followed he was an Whether it was the master's levity, .cellent good horse doctor besides or his insubordination, or Mr. Henad tjoli a chief hand, almost rv's word about the favorito son, om a boy,, in the management, that had so much disturbed my lord, the estates. How hard a I do not know but I incline to think jart that was. in tho situation of, it was the last, for I have it by all that family, none knows better than accounts that Mr. Henry was more

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hour have I gotten of you since you were born no never one good hour,"

made up to from that hour. Altogether it was in pretty ill blood with lii's family that the master rode to the north which was the more sorrowful for others to remember when it seemed too late. By fear and favor he had scraped together near upon a dozen men, principally tenants' sons they were all pretty full when they set forth, and rode up the hill by the old abbey, roaring and singing, tho white cockade in every hat. It was a desperate venture for so small a company to cross the most of Scotland unsupported and (what made folk think so the more) even as that poor dozen

for the old lord having no daughter was clattering up the hill a. great of his own, and my lady being long ship of the kind's navy, that could -dead, she had grown up as best she have brought them under with a coight.,. |single boat, lay with her broad en*..

sign streaming in the bay. The afternoon, having given them a fair, start, it was J$r. Henry's and he sfcqe soff alt by himself,-to offer his sword and carry letters from... his father to King George's government. Miss Allison was shut in her room and did little but weep till both were gone but she atitclied the cockade upon the master's hat and (as John. Paul told me) it was wet with tears when he carried it down Whim.

CHAPTER II.

In all that ipllowed Mr. Henry and my old lord were true to their bargain. That, ever they accomplished anything is more than I could learn and that they were any way strong on the king's side indie than I believe but they kept the letter of loyalty, corresponded with my lord president, sat still at home, and had little or no commerce with the master while that business lasted. Nor was he, on his side, more communicative. Miss Allison, indeed, was always sending him expresses, but I do not know if she had many answers- Macconochie rode for her once, and found the Highlanders before Carlisle, and the master riding by the prince's side in high favor he took the letter (so Macconochie tells me), opened it, glanced it through with a mouth like a man whistling, and stuck it in his belt, whence, on his horse passageing, it fell unregarded to the ground. It was Macconnochie who picked it up, and he still kept it, and indeed I have seen it in his hands. News came to Durrisdeer, of course, by the common report, as it goes ti'aveling through a country, a thing always wonderful to me. By that means the family learned more of the master's favor with the prince and the ground it was said to stand on: for by a strange condescension in a man so proud— only that he was a man still more ambitious—he was said to have crept into notability by truckling to the Irish. Sir Thomas Sullivan, Colonel Burke and the rest were his daily comrades, by which course he withdrew himself from his own country folk. All the small intrigues he had a hand in fomenting thwarted my lord George upon a thousand points was always for the advice that seemed palatable to the prince, no matter if it was good or bad and seems upon the whole (like the gambler he was all through life) to have had less regard to the chances of the campaign than to the greatness of favor he might aspire to if (by any luck) it should succeed. For the rest he did very well in the field no one questioned'that for he was no coward.

The next was the news of Culloden, which was brought to Durrisdeer by one of the tenant's sons, the only survivor, he declared, of all those who had gone singing up the hill. By an unfortunate chance, John Paul and Macconochie had that very morning found the guinea piece (which was the root of all the evil) sticking in a holly bush they had been "up the gait," as the servants say at Durrisdeer, to the changehouse and if they had little left of the guinea they had less of their wits. What must John Paul do but burst? into the hall where the family sat at dinner and cry the news to them that "Tam Macmorland was but new liclitit at tne door, and— wirra, wirra—there were nane to come behind him!"

They took the word in silence like fold condemned only Mr. Henry carrying his palm to his face, and Miss Alison laying her face outright upon her hands. As for my lord, he was like ashes. "1 have still one son," says he. "And, Henry, I will do you this justice, it is the kinder that is left."

It was a strange thing to say in such a moment but my lord had never forgotten Mr. Henry's speech, and he had years of injustice on his conscience. Still it was a strange thing and more than Miss Alison could let pass. She broke out and blamed my lord for his unnatural words, and Mr. Heni'y because he was sitting there in safety when his brother lay dead, aud herself because she had given her sweetheart ill words at his departure calling him the flower of the flock, wringing her hands, protesting her love, and crying on his by his name so that the servant stood astonished.

Mr. Henry got to his feet and stood holding his chair it was he that was like ashes now. "Oh," he burst out suddenly, "I know you loved him!" "The world knows that, glory be to God!" cries she and then to Mr. Henry: "There is none but me to know one thing—that you were a traitor to him in your heart!" "God knows," groans he, :it was lost love on both sides!"

Time went by in the houle afte'r5 that without much change only they were now three instead of four, which was a perpetual reminder of their loss. Miss Alison's money,

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are to bear in mind, was highly needful for the estates and the one brother being dead, my old lord soon set his heart upon her* marrying the other. Day in, day out, he would work upon her, sitting by the chimney side with his finger in his Latin book and his eyes set upon her face with a kind of pleasant intentness that became the old gentleman very well. If she wept he would condole with her, like an ancient man who has seen worse times and begins to think lightly even of sorrow if she raged, he would fall to reading again in his Latin book, but always with some civil excuse if she offered (as she often did) to let them have her money In a gift, he would show her how little it consisted with his honor, and reminded her, even if he should consent, Mr. Henry would certainly refuse. Non vi aed soepe cadendo

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was a favorite word of his and no doubt this quiet persecution wore away most of her resolve no doubt, besides, he had a great influence on the girl, having stood in the.place of both her parents and for that matter she was herself filled with the spirit of the Duries, and would have gone a great way for the glory of .Durrisdeer, but not so far, I think, as to marry my poor patron, had it not been (strangely enough) for the circumstance of his extreme unpopularity.

This was? the*work of Tim Macmorland. There was not much harm in Tam, but he had that grievous weakness a long tongue, and as the only man in that country who had been out (or rather who had come in again) he was sure of listeners. Those that have the underhand in any fighting, I have observed, are ever anxious to persuade themselves they have been betrayed. By Tam's account of it the rebels had been betrayed at every turn anci by every officer they had they had been betrayed at Derby and betrayed at Falkirk the night march was a step of treachery of my Lord George's, and Cullocen was lost by the treachery of the Macdonalds. This habit of imputing treason grew upon the fool until at last he must have in Mr. Henry also. Mr. Henry (by his account) had betrayed the lads at Durrisdeer he had promised to follow with more men and instead of that he had ridden to King George. "Ay, and the next day!" Tam would cry, "the puir bonnie master and the puir, lfind lads that rado wi' him, were hardly ower the scaur, or he was aff—the Judis! Ay, weel—he has his way o't he's to be my lord, nae less, and there's monv a cauld corp amang the Hieland heather!" And at this, if Tam had been drinking, he would begin to weep.

Let any one speak long enough and he will get believers. This view of Mr. Henry's behavior crept about the country by little and little ifc was talked upon by folk that knew the contrary but were short of topics, and it was heard and believed and given out for gospel by the ignorant and Jthe ill-willing. Mr. Henry began to be shunned yet awhile and the commons began to murmur as he went by, and the women (who are always the most bold because they are the most safe) to cry out their reproaches to his face. The master was cried up for a saint. It was remembered how he had never had any hand in pressing the tenants as, indeed, no more he had, except to spend the money. He was a very little wild, perhaps, the folk said but how much better was a natural, wild lad that would soon have settled down, than a skinflint and a sneckdraw, sitting with his nose in an account book to persecute the poor tenants. One trollop, who had a child to the master and by all accounts been very badly used, yet made herself a kind of champion of his memory. She flung a stone one day at Mr."

Henry.

"Whaur's the bonnie lad that trustit ye?" she cried. "Mr. Hery reined in his horse and looked upon her, the blood flowing from his lip. "Ay, Jess?'' says he,

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'you too? And yet ye should ken me better." For it was he who had helped her with money.

The woman had another stone ready which she made as if she would cast,"and he, to ward himself, threw up the hand that held his riding rod. "What would ye beat a lassie, ye

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screaming as though he had struck her. Next day ^ord went about the country like .fire that Mr. Henry had beaten essie Broun within an inch of hi life. I give it as one instance of how this snowball grew and one calumny brought on another until my poor patron was so perished in reputation that he began to keep the house like my lord. All this while you may be sure he uttered no complaints at home: the very ground of the scandle was too sore a matter to be handled, and Mr. Henry was very proud and strangely obstinate in silence. My old lord must have heard of it, by John Paul, if by no one else, and he must at least have i*emarked the altered habits of his son. Yet even he, it is probable, knew not how high the feeling ran and as for Miss Allison, she was ever the last person to hear news and the least interested when she heard them.

In the height of the ill-feeling (for it died away as it came, no man could say why) there was an election held in the town of St. Bride's, which is the next to Durrisdeer, standing on the water of Swift some grievance was fermenting, I forget what, if ever I heard, and it was currently said there would be broken heads ere night, and that the sheriff had sent as far as Dumfries for soldiers. My lord moved that Mr. Henry should be present, assuring him it was necessary to appear, for the credit of the house. It will soon bo reported," said he, "that we do not take the lead in our own country-"

It is a strange lead that I can take, said Mr. Henry aud when they had pushed him further, "I tell you the plain truth, he said, "I dare not show my face. "You are the first of the house that ever said so, cries Miss Alison. -fe,., a!.

We will go all three," said my lord and sure enough he got into his boots (the first time in four years —a sore business John Paul had to get them on) and Miss Alison into her riding coat, and all three rede together to St. Bride's.

The streets, were full of the riffraff of all the country side, who had no sooner clapped eyes on Mr. Henry than.' the lu»sicg.» began, and the

hooting, and the ories, of /Judas and 'r Where was the master and Where were the poorlads that rode with him Even a stonejwas cast but the more part cried) shame at that, for my old lord's saiie and Miss Alison's. It took not ten Minutes to persuade my lord that Mr. Henry had been right. He said never a word, but turned his horse about, and home again, with his chin upon his bosom. Never a word said Miss Alison no doubt she thought the more no doubt her pride was stung for she was a bone bred Durie and no doubt her heart was touched to see her cousin so unjustly used. That night she wag never in bed 1 have often blamed my lady—when 1 call to mind that night,I readily forgive her all and the first thing in the morning, she came to the old lord in his usual seat. "If Henry still wants me," said she, "he can have me now. To himself she had a different speech: "I bring you no love, Henrv but God knows, all the Ditj in the world.

June the first, 1748, was the day of their marriage. It was December of the same year that first saw me alighting at the doors of the great house and from there I take up the history of events as they befel under ray own observation, like a witness in a court. (TO BE CONTINUED.)

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

There are twenty-seven American merchants in China. The first pipe organ was made by Brchimedes B. G.

General Butler was seventy-four years old last Saturday. Venison is worth from 7 to 10 cents a pound at Bangor, Me.

A full grown elephant is capable of carrying a load of two tons. The British Museum has thirtytwo miles of shelves filled with books.

The Cincinnati Hospital Library receives regularty 150 medical journals.

A snow white deer was killed on Saturday in Clinton county, Pennsylvania.

Complete cable communication was established in 1872 between Australia and England.

The value of infantry was not fully recognized by mediaeval commanders until the fifteenth century.

There are seven Jewish member8 in the British House of Commons. aU of whom were re-elected this year.

An old Salina. Kas., woman has been arrested for stealing the oiled packing from the boxes of railroad cars.

In England, during the financial year 1891-92, over fifty-seven million ordinary inland telegrams wera transmitted.

Peeresses of Great Britain, Scotland or Ireland, by birth, marriage or creation, are free from arrest or imprisonment in civil process.

The man who sat three weeks in a recent religious convention says that every sneaker invariably used tho phrase,

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course of his remarks. "So, sir!" said the poet indignantly, "you refuse to give me the treatment due a bard," "No," replied the editor "I do not. I am perfectly willing to treat you as a barred poet." "There is nothing like giving your enemy election tips," said a young man." "Why?" "If he wins you make him your friend, and if he looses you have your revenge."

The governor of tho electric light works in Sedalia. Mo., broke the other night and the engine jumped from 500 to 2,000 volts. The globes burst in the street cars and there was excitement enough for awhile,

A giant sewing machine has lately been finished at Leeds,Englaud. The machine, which is to be used for attaching cotton belting, is said to weigh 5} tons.

The name of the first famous man dressmaker in Paris is said to have been Rhomberg. He was believed to have been the son of a poor Bavarian peasant who lived in Munich.

A horse gets up fore parts first, a cow hind parts first, because the strength for the second movement of rising is posterior to the horse, but anterior to the cow. Savannah News.

Ia Tornadoes.

Harper's Bazar.

Those living in portions of ovir country exposed to tornadoes will be glad to know that scientists tell ua there is always warning of the ap proaching of a tornado to those that arc observant. Clouds may be seer, hurrying together in the southwest and west, a low dull roar of the wind iu those clouds may be perceived while their is a great stillness and sultry heat in the air all of which s'g is" are sufficient to bid peo pie look for safety. This safety the.v will never find in an easterly direction. One who faces the cloud as itcomes should seek safety to the right. The only absolute safety, however, is to be found under gi*ound, iu tho cellar of the house, if it is a wooden house, as the storm will whirl off tlu beams and boards of the structure but if it is a brick or a stone house the shattered walls will only tumble in the brick or stone house, more over will fall sooner than the wooden one, which yields and gives. In th tornado countries, especially in thi more open portions, there should an under ground place provided fo1 refuge, with its roof arched an strengthened by beams, so that it cannot be broken by any thing hcay,v falling upon it.

DEATH OF JAY G0ULD.

The ""Wizard of "Wall Street" Succumbs to Consumption.

Incidents in the Life ol' One of till ICiclicat Men in the World,

Jay Gould, the "Wizard of Wall Street" and one of the richest men in the world, died at his home in New York city on the 2d, of consumption. He has been in po6t' health for two or three years, seeking relief in various ways, in one way by pnrchasing a yacht and making an extended aea voyage. His precarious illness has lasted for several weeks. Not until Nov. 23d, however, did the family realize ai proaching dissolution.

INCIDENTS OF HIS LIFE.

Jay Gould was born at Roxbury, N

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in tho year 1835. His father kept a storel and ti 1 led a small farm. His mother died when he was about six years of age. si' Yo-ing Gould received a fair education and gava evidenco of that lovo of books

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and art •Allien afterward afforded him' some of the leading pleasures of hi3 domestic leisure. He was sixteen when ht began his business life, but his famed invention of a mouse trap preceded his engagemeut in the store of 'Squire Burhati. .*• J*T

a street car iu Now York city, on „the oc- tiT.w casion of his lirst visit to that place. The lad's chasing the thief resulted, first, in the fellow's disgust upon discovering, thai showy box being opened and the mousetrap disclosed, that he had risked his liberty for a thing of so little value, and, second, iii his being dealt with under requisition from the Governor of a neighboring State. At the "'Squire,s" young Gould's historic feat was buying a piecoof.^', land in Albany, proceeding in the matter upon information he had gathered by overhearing a conOdeutial disclosure of cheapness addressed by his employer to r,y some friends. In 1856 a map of Delaware county was published in Philadelphia containing the words, "From actual survey, by Jay Gould."

Gouldsboro, Pa., was named after the subject of this sketch, who in his early manhood formed a partnership with Col. Zadock Pratt in th« tanning business at that place. Pratt was a busy, prating politician, of whom it is said that one of his most popular speeches was the work of his young partner, to whom he paid 8100 for the production. At Gouldsboro, Gould fell into trouble with the authorities by his persistency defending his pos- ^5 session of an old tilding, from which he was tinally expelled by the military. He managed to get clear of what-threatened to be a sorious s.crapo, and during theTasT. period of his tanning experiences was the proprietor of the business.

Mr. Gonld removed to Now York city in 1859, and began business as a broker. He had no vices, and showed clear headed perception in availing himself of the condition of the country from then, previous to and throughout the war,to his personal eurichniont. Ho become a millionaire during the war. When he entered into the railroad business in connection with the Erie, that corporation owed him four million dollars. With his skillful handling of Erie stock began his greatness as a, railroad kin^. To detail Mr. Gould's op- ,, orations in Cleveland & Pittsburg stock,.' his gigantic investments in Union Pacific, his dealings in tho stock of Wabash.Kansas & Texas and other roads, would be a tedious task, were it practicable.

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Mr. Gould's wife is dead. He marrhul tMiss Ellen Miller, daughter of a well-' 1 known New York merchant. HehoBsev* 'r ..l eral children, of whom the eldest, Gaorge'P^ j, J., is in business on Wall street. The tirm of which young Gould is a member Jf started in business with a capital of •!,- Jg ()0O,OCO, as is reported, of which he was .f provided with one-half by his father. Mr. Gould loved his home, which, wheth» ,*• er made in his mausion in New York or at his country seat, Lyndhurst-on-the-Hufl-aon, is as refined and elegant as wealth and cultivated taste can make it. Kara books, works of art and curiosities abouud in the wealth of his personal possessions. Ho bought his country seat at Irving ton for *255,001. It is now worth about half a million. Nearly two years ago, the conservatory, va!u id at $200,000, Including tho plants, was almost destroyed by liro. Jay Gould was fond of solitary rides on horseback. Outside of this his enjoyments wero indoors, and those of the father a?"? student.

His appearance was remarkable not. withstanding that ho was a small, light man, not weiehiug over 120 pounds pro bably. He had a swarthy complexion, well made features, and a pair bf black eyes whose searching glance is not soon forgotten. Ilis manner was quiet, gentle and courteous, and tn admirer rediarks on the "candid and humorous intonation of his voice." Mr. Gould had many admirers and detractors, as a matter ol course. His onemies allege that he is unscrupulous, and1 claim that the disasters of "Black Friday." the dark day or September. 1869, were attributable to his schemes. Nobody accuses him of quarrelsomeness. He loyes retirement and peaco hutiiad the courage necessary t,o yast, undertakings while wanting in physical self assertion.

An apocryphal story is told-at the expense of his veracity. A speculator in a small way of business got points from Mr. Gonld which, excopting on one occasion,, lie invariably reversed and made money every time by going contrary to his adviser's instructions. On one occasion, howevor. ho took the giant financier at his word, and was almost, ruined by doing so. Mr. Gould was a man who gave liberally without ostentation. Tho widow of the late Jaraos Fislt has publiclv stated hor obligations to him for friendly generosities. The Grant fund includod $25,000 received from Mr. "Gould, whose large benefactions to the yellow fever sufferers of Memphis and to the needy frontier farmers of Kansas are remembered by readers of the newspapers.

The salary of the Prince of Wales is $200,000 per year Duke of Connaught, $125,000 Duke of Edinburgh, $125,000, and the Duke of Gambricfce,''^ the Queen s* ce^sin, $60,000. The royal family eosts the British tax* payers $|0,0Q0 a week. „.