Show TWO MENS LIVES the review of reviews COD contains Milla excellent biographical sketches of public meo men and as aa those these are invariably free arm fr m personal bias or partisan taint they are more valuable than many mady that are placed before the world among the more noteworthy of its recent pre sensations in tho bo line hue indicated is ie an account of the career of jay gould aud that of leland stanford true to custom no invidious remarks are made no comparison is drawn but tile the reader not only has no difficulty in drawing one but has baa it come to him without effort the two types of character and nik method ethod were As aa widely apart as were the mens residence sone of the old crowded and stereotyped east bast the other of the roomier breezier and more youthful west gould was a olt felt created midas and he be converted into irold gold for or golds sake not because there was wag any a ay iy distinct distin it charm lu in the mote mere act of transformation tut but because the product itself was a source of endless gratification and aad the growth of appetite was waa the result of being led stanford too became a wonder worker worked among the acquisitive men of the earth but there was never at abaiy wi y time a suggestion of the wizard in what he did and his big life was wag not bound up to in the one idea of how to 1 his ac until at last he should be all powerful at home and abroad gould had but one family one that he respected cared for looked after and never at any an y time neglected or blighted alighted to his credit be it eaid anu and they were his bis social circle the limit of his watch care so BO for far as creating increasing or protecting happiness in others was wag concerned stanford was Stain stanford ford from first brat to last laef a man of many friends of boundless generosity of ceaseless hospitality pita lity of broad views and cosmopolitan tendencies and one whose increasing strides in the plutonian pathway took him not one jot further from old acquaintance or the associations hallowed by mutual contests with fortune and strengthened by the bands of a friendship which knew nothing of reward or the hope of reward as the cause of its being in the game of speculation the for mer of these men knew no motive botio but interest and acknowledged n ay criterion iut success it mattered riot not who stood in his bis way the car of croesus must not stol sto he was jr am as destiny relentless as fats fate and immovable as the pyramid of Cheo piu and if the fatal maelstrom whose narrowing circles swallowed up victims only to leave their posses behind for him to gather should bring in the widow the orphan or the hoary headed and feeble limbed with their all ail it mattered not it was wae a game in which to discriminate was to lose and he would not be a loser the other mai ma i never took tin an unfair dollar f from rom any one and from the poor and needy he never took at aj a while his purne was ever open at the call of charity or distress there re ire gould railroads gould steamers steamer gould mansions mansi and a gould mauleo leum but there are no gould um vert veri aties no gould asylums and no gould monuments erected out of the means or the gratitude and re menti xi brance bra nee of the people who knew hi him there are also stanford railroads and other enterprises but there are hogill bos pi add charitable so societies cleties where his name Is ib mentioned in fond rt recollection collection and there to is a stanford Stanfor 1 university second to none where cheto education the abe greatest boon that nian man an bestow will be conferred upon v the he rich and the poor mike alike it will be seen that while the men were both moneymakers money makers the differ ence beaw een them after afier that la is so wide aud marked that if one of then them bad been a pauper it would hardly nave been greater |