The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1899, Page 19

THE 8 FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY 26, 1899 MARCH 19 HAVE had my wish. Ten mil- llars In gold {s mine. I I am rich! Good-by to worlk. ste Tyson in the kitch- County farm a o re ar spoke of a Humboldt ¥s ag £ room of the farmhouse sat lawyer from Sydney, v moments before had she was her uncle's heir- iid draw on his lawyers for t till the estate is finally set- en he.first told us Elsle was dum- 4, and I thought the young Eng- an was joking. But he wasn't. He aveled almost around the world ng for Isie, and nce having r lost no time in telling her ot told me afterward, ‘I the young woman's iden son resembles her unc uld have picked her the kitchen, where ipped from her sat all doubled nted w )d for that Uncle 1g0. We had but § was so mu vou hear me, he world It 1s nice to is no at I n I can®see. Tt know w appy. Per- come to he pain ives I may first me. appy.'’ were her forward to greet ralia, by wa You know, - all week enjoy the trip.” T sald 1e answered, “I will not ar old white hen? Did she ickens? know the ducks quack I too much noise, worlds to hear used to give ler Do ald scornfull will no friends: it ot buy my dea iving beings buy just like to hold hand .and pres: my cheek. No, feeling. brought me mother and it nds hav- out of my pebbles would en ago I went over to the big hotel across the way. T had, when I once s it 3 I would 1 t ere. the charm had fied They owe through the gilded = nished in silk and velvet. They chowed me works of art and bric-a-brac But it was cold, cheerless, empty and lonesome and made me long for my cozy & the Humboldt County forest. There was love and affection up there “ have been everywhere; to the opera, ers. concerts and have seen all the interesting pol of San Francisco, I have hought a wardrobe of fine clothes, but they don't give me the pleasure that used to, even though it ¢ dollars, “Wherever I turn is poverty that I can- T gave beggar a large sum ~xpecting that he would d bring joy to his he didn't even feve nker would and kept ing for more. v ail this money can bring me come by 1 alone f how T to think Uncle Ja “They say he looked 1 ke father, and I almost see him he 1 groan- where the before the little sons mong the st, a boy e would n the world care of own ¥ place to t r, a hard-hearted well,” but the hed as she put into the othing she had made earnest of the for- in far-off Australlia. home. It was months i from him, but at last rst chapter from ‘Rob- tin her sc > he w his only left hea on came to the quiet old “home farm 1y letters passed be- tween the and her t When the mothe 40 years and her H An man of 70 these old . und in the iron box where »n kept bi a and the re- 1 his great wealth. When he these letters were used to birth back to Scotland. The er told Mr. Wilson, the e of the sons and four mes went to Aus- nts out- tralia their p: side chyard. The name of de appeared 1 1 record and not among one He had married 48 years before Twenty years death, he had re- his father's es to America. s followed the trail of America and to the only ad- en | letter from who wrote to his years ago. e er to Orange, N. Y. the record of little Jim- “‘eldest son” of Thomas td Mr. Wilson, “I rea- Jimmie w the ‘eldest son’ be you s. T could find every one nost despairing of the lost he I started into the ceme- tery where Jimmic was burfed. I was surprised to in much be othe ve little grave was on than any of the s some attempt at flowers a > little marble cross evidently been placed o va much later than the grave been made. It gave me an idea ted up the old verger, or caretaker, as xou call him. He was as decrepit as the graves he kept. But he had a bright little grandchild.. While T was asking about 2 grave she exclaimed: ‘Oh, grandpa, 1 know. That is the grave the lady used to write about, and she sent some mc No, don't you re- I had some of the money be- On, I member? cause I kept the weeds pulled up. remember.’ “‘Can’t you find me one of those old letters? T asked “The iittle girl ran up stairs and pretty soon came down all dusty, with her checks red with excitement. She had a bundle of letters, and I found ueveral written by Eliza Coates and giving ner addres “I went to Tilinols. The house was gone whose number Mrs. Tyson had given. I went to the records again and the ceme- tery. There were five little Tyson graves, and with them the grave of fathgy Thom- : She | as Tyson. But I found a woman who had known the family, and she told me about them. After her husband's death 3liza Tyson sold what property they | ! nd with E the only child left of her fam ven children, she came out to (i jected Miss Tyson, telling her part of the story. “Mother's health wa ry poor. I think it was trouble which broke her down. When Jimmis a she could not bear to stay in r so father sold the place and we S Bt 200 W° snakes. They are the meanest, lowest, s Do and Tommie mMost indecent animal in existence. They i Mollle died. Then Jack died; e not one good trait. was § vears old and the only boy, and Tyson was a leader in the ‘round-up. : epdinadinns h is called the blackest spot in the P Australia. To his dying day ingle, and Tyson believed heartily that those dozen o squatters did a service for which they should have been publicly honored by their countrymen. In range the son of a cattleman w by natives. His murder was but one dozens, unprovoked and without cat The squatters decided to take matte into their own hands. They formed a cordon and drove all the black fello men, women and children, into a pac dock, just as they rounded up cattle. Then they shot every living one of them It ended the troubles with the 1 was riding over h killed of Mother came avior: anrning bteH o We renteq for a time even more effectually t p ceand Iraised chick her Doisoning had cone a few years before. she needed, but she was Mr. Ty s first years In Australia were % about me. I did not filled with reverses which would nted to live. She overcome a weaker man, but he held on. hd then I could not bear His dream in early years was to own a e house alone. I felt all the cattle station of his own. Once he had 3 > must com ck, and every enough money saved from five years of time a door opened I looked up, expecting hard labor to set up for himself on the to see he Billytong River. He had purchased part “Then some neighbors were golng t0 of his bullocks, when the bank where his They came up to take up e ToBten up here. ve money was deposited failed. a homestead and raise sheep. The ked ery penny and had to go back to work me to come with them, and T did. EVery- Tiree times misfortune took every -cent :‘;,Kr;\—h:;{".(”‘ fl‘%“‘m“;’:"-“‘q ‘:fl‘d“:"m‘;';:“; from him. Then came the discovery of was my stock of turkeys and johicken? gold in the Bendigo mines. Tyson started hed ‘ot used to the Ilfe, andi 1-lovelihe it oRcelor the diexiugs, brt Bof withid B ey are ahod company when Shovel. He bought ail the bullocks he sehihn s s G sl could and drove them toward the mine: Miss Tyson is quite at home in her lux- There he sold them at an immense profit, il e i, for Attorney Wilson &nd then bought more and sold them. He has placed her where she can want for Dought cattle wherever he could and nothing more. No one would imagine drove them to the mines, and that was that the quiet little woman, going and the beginning of his fortune. Then he coming in her shopping, had just fallen bought land and droves of sheep and cat- heir to so much property. She is getting tle, and everything he touched prospered. some “clothes as are cloth She is a He had no idea of his wealth. When he country hred woman with simple man- eold his beeves he sent the money to his ners, which belong with & genuine agents in Sydney and they bought land straightforward character. and built blocks for him. He would go to “I keep finding myself economizing; it Sydney only when he was obliged to second nature.” she said. “But money do so. nice. It is nice to think It is there. . tried to get him to do the town once I really rather like it all. But it {sn't wmr wilson sald, “but he would not. To- what you would think it would be. T am not different a_ bit. You might think it would be llke an earthquake with me, and that I would feel different. T don't. I only feel that T am alone, and keep think- ing if mother and Nellie and Jack and father and all the rest were only here. ward night he got on his Rorse as usual and rode outside the town. He found an open place and under a tree lay down on the ground with his saddle for a pll- low. On questions of religion his creed was as simple as the rest of his life, and T swas %o interested mm every chicken he cared nothing of what people said of and turkey, and when a coyote got five him. It ain't my business’ he used to of my ducks I belleve T thought more say. ‘I do what I think is serlously right. 1 stand to take my chance, and I am not afraid.” I once asked him if he were happy in his lonely life, for he lived about it than T do about this money. I had no time to think of anything else, and T did not often feel lonesome. But, now? Why, I only have to think of what alone in his cabin, owning the land for I want, and T know I can’t have what I scores of miles in every direction. His really want, and so I don't want what reply was: ‘You see the fun is in the litfle I have. Fame. Every man who chooses has ais “I never was go sad, so unhappy In jittle game, with a fair chance of winning all my hfe. Lo you know I Jdon't e if he keeps straight. Tt is better worth know whom I can help. 17 love to give pig while to do what he thinks is seri- things to those who need as motaer and gV Lok e® 16 he does not he fa hound J used to, but I don’t know anybody and everything is so strange. I'm homesick and 1 have no home now, only little game as to lose. Yes, T have had my and enjoved it, and I am as happy alread s 2 st people. a iot of money. Even the old home n ™It PEOP ; £ S Do BT heSalmorent tority op . S DvEonineyer mactled, (anil ever course, shall give them just as much 7y .4 not the nerve to even suggest it roney as they can use. All this mone, T o : ney “her. He saw her only twice, and vet s like the ocean, and I don't believe I'll : ':\ r grln;v a tail and fins so I can swim all his life he kept her image with him— in it.” his ideal. “She s not unlike old Tyson,” Mr. Wil- _Mr. Wlilson, who knew the old man, James Tyson, as well as any one could know him, says his niece is not unlike him in appearance and character. Going to Australia so young, Mr. Tyson grew up to be a typical Australian of the ¢ that 1s almost extinct. Simple, frug: honest, he had no use for the money he amassed. He was a man more than six feet in height, he had never been sick in his life, and was wont to boast that he had never slept in a city, never worn a white shirt, never washed with soap—he used sand—never been inslde a church, a theater, a school or a public house. He considered a church just as bad as a pub- lie house, if not worse. A clergyman was to him an unfathomable mystery. As New South Wales increased in population a church was needed on one corner of Mr. Tyson's land where a village had grown. up. After a great deal of discussion, it was decided to ask Mr. Tysoa to help the church, though he had never been known to give away money. ‘She has very much the same disposition—Scotch and square-cut, which nothing can make any different. His histary is almost a history of the pas- toral industry of Australia. He went to the ‘bush’ so young that he became a perfect example of the bushmen who have made Australia what it is. They are most'y all dead. He was queer, ac- cording *o our notions, but he considered us and our ways much more ‘queer.’ He began first as sheep herder on a big sta- tion. His ambition was to own a sta- tion. When only a boy he had saved a few huncred pounds and went down to to buy cattle to stock a range. “In those days any one could take land, for they were all ‘squatters.’” But Tyson did not get his cattle. The man who was his partner went further than Syd- ney and never came back. When Tyson got to Sydney he found he had no money 80 he went back. He followed the Murray River, walking and living on fish and When he struck across country son said. game. ¥ . HETN f “ he was lost and nearly starved to death. “Yes, I'll help you,” he replied. 3 Send Then when he.arrived at his employer's me the bill for the whole thing. TI'll pay it, but don’t come to me again.” He wrote the natives. No one who is not an Aus- out a check forthwith not only for the tralian can quite comprehend what the cost of the church and furnishing but also black fellows are, They are worse than for a year's salary for the rector. The they were having station trouble with the News From HAustralia. CALIFORNIA GIRL IS HEIRESS TO NEARLY TEN MILLION DOLLARS. s an Orphan and Was Feeding Her Chickens on a Moun- tain Farm When the Lawyer Searching for Her Brought 1DeaINNING OF TYSON'S | GREATEST FORTUNE . DRIVING HI5 BULLO(KS 2 TO THE MINES. e next year the trustees of the church asked Mr. Tyson's assistance again. The old man was very angry. “I gave the Al- mighty a house. If he can't take care of it he not worth helping,” he said, and 10t another cent would he give. Mr. Tyson had no idea of the value or the .power of his wealth. He cared not a bit what was done with the money which his fortune earned. ““You know about handling the stuff,” he would say to his lawyers ‘just you buy whatever wul pay best.’ He neverquestioned theinvestment. He wore to the end shabby, ready-made clothes—the cheapest in the market. His cabin he cared for himself, and never, unless under the most urgent circum- stances, would he sleep away from home. “We often tried to get him to make his will, but he would put us off with a chuckling laugh. “‘You lawyers know everything. You'll miss me and want something to do when I'm dead. You can find some one who will take the money and things off your hands.’ “It was only after his death that we found that he had come from Argyl He never spoke about his antecedents. “Now he is dead and gone, and the only living relative he has in the world will g0 out to Inherit his millions. “I do nmot know what I'm going to do vet,” she said. “I shall give everything they can use to the friends who have been kind to me. “Mr. Wilson says that will scarcely be one day's income. I suppose I shall get used to having so much money. Some- times T like to think how rich I am or chall be, but T never felt so lonely in my life. I am going to travel, and I shall MAILLIONAIRE study and have masters and all that—I do not know what else. “There is =0 much—it is more than T can understand. Now that 1 can have everything 1 do not know what T want.” B If you cannot understand why your toothache grows as the sun sinks below the horizon, and why, when you are lying in your bed, tearing pains in your ears, head and eyes are added to your miseries, read what Dr. Goldscheider has to say in the Journal of Nursing. “Light,” says the professor, quieting effect on the merves; hence it heals more and quicker than do me cines. It plays a very important part in the pathology of pain. This is especially noticeable by persons addicted to worry, or those who are in any way oppressed. Their seemingly jolly disposition during the day is completely transformed as night draws on; while in bed they become greatly distressed, and insomnia is the result. Such persons usually find tempo- rary relief by lighting the gas or by sit- ting up till the gray light of the morn “has a TYSON PREFCRRED SLEEPING OUT DOORS i il T begins to appear. “There are any number cannot sleep without the sun's rays beam- ing directly down upon them. These per- sons have acquired this as a habit from £ persons who heir yo “But it work both ways. its good qualities which will not a poor rule that does no# The darkest night hat for there are headaches disappear until all thy light is excluded from the room the pa tient is in. Nervous, excitable persons when their state of excitement becomes unendurable, will find wonderful relief if they sit for only a quarter of an hour iz a room completely darkened. Therefore, in such cases, a total relaxation from work several times during the day 1s es- pecially to be recommended.” e e——— There Is no plant which animals so de- test as the castor-oil plant. A goat will starve rather than eat it, and those de- stroyers of everything green, the locust and army worm, will not feed upon it. A blind bat avoids wires and obstruc- tions as easily as if it could see per- fectly. is