The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-05

ding, household utensils and furniture
with the exception of my great arm chair
which, as it came in on the Jones side,
wish 10 go to some deserving member Of
that family. L also give my nephew
Samuel FIVE dollars, with which to buy q
reference Bible in my remembrance, and
also the sealed paper of instructions ac.
companying this instrument, which ]
wish him to read, a year hence, in the
presence of the witnesses now assembled
for the reading Of this my will. II.
The remainder of my property, both
real and personal, with the exception of
the legacies hereinafter named, I be-
queath to the American missionary socie-
ty, neither legacies nor bequests to be
paid until year and aday hence"
When the lawyer was through reading,
I had no clear idea to whom these lega-
cies we're devised. but I remarked that
the American Missionary society was q
most worthy organization.
The nature of the will was soon made
public. Popular sentiment was that of
resignation, not to say of satisfaction, on
my account. My companions, who. had
never seen why deserving merit in my
case should meet such disproportionate
reward, while their own plodded along
on weekly stipend with no great-aunt's
estate in prospective, naturally expe-
| rienced a revival of confidence in the
equitable government Of the universe.
Elderly friends in church and Sabbath
school FELT that I had cause for. rejoicing
| in being spared the snares and tempta-
tions which accompany, wealth. My.
employer privately expressed the opinion
that I lad been getting above my busi--
| ness, ard he WAS glad to see, me taken,
down a peg. Evelina said. = "Neveri
mind; re don't care for money! But,
not mary days after, Eyelina told me she
had begun to realize what,a solemn ordi-
nance was matrimcny; she and were
both young, and had our way tormake,
and she shought perhaps, for the present,
it would be better for US to consider our
selves only friends.
I said /: "Very WE'LL" and felt that l
was lonely bark tossed on wild and
watery taste.
I had read of instances similar to mine
where the sealed packet or the old Bible
proved IT, contain bank-notes but, finger
the paper left me as I would, 1 could
make nothing of it but paper.
For year went calmly but hopeless
ly forward in the dry-goods and grocery
way, and we then assembled for the
opening oI my sealed orders-the lawyer,
the doctor, the minister and myself.
The first words that met my eyes as I
unfolded the paper we're, "And;all former
wills by me made I do hereby; revoke"
etc. With palpitating heart I passed the
document to the lawyer. After provis-
ions and lsgacies similar to those in the
first instrument, this latter document
proceeded as follows:
"To the American missionary society I
give and hequeath the sum of twenty. FIVE
thousand dollars.
''To my beloved nephew, Samuel O.
Haynes, who ] hope may have learned,
during the year that has elapsed, lessons
of wisdom more valuable than money, /
bequeath the sum oftwenty-fve thousand
dollars, which direct my executor to
pay over to said Haynes as soon as may
be convenient. I further direct my ex-
ecutor to annually pay to said Haynes
the income from the remainder: Of my
property, both real and personal, and to
pay from ahe principal to said Haynes
on his 30tt birthday; ;if he be living, or
to his heirs or assignsif deceased, the
sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and
to pay to said Haynes on his 35th birth
| day the remainder of nv property, be it
more or less"
I went dcwn to the store just as usual,
the next morning, for wished to show
people that I had too good sense to have
my head turned. When I filed our best
customers snolasses jug with kerosene,
I knew had demonstrated my cool
ness.
The chairman Of the board of select
men wanted to know what should ad-
wise in regard to rebuilding the Piper
stone bridge; the doctor asked what my
candid opinion was concerning the COM
parative merits of muriate of ammonia
and iodide of potassium in q case Of
pleuritis WHARF egophony denotes slight
efnsion, but with strong indications of
adhesion of the mediastinum; and the
minister sail there was an article on
"Semi-P -Pelagianism in the Fourteenth
Century" in the Bibliotheca Sacra he
thought would enjoy perusing. AS I
stood on the hall doorstep after singing
school, that evening, Eyelina came out
back Of me, and said she, with little
| shiver: "Oh, how da-ark it is r.
It flashed across me, as offered my
arm for escort home, that to the feminine
Imagination matrimony on the income of
seventy.ive thousand is naturally less
solemn ordinance" than on precarious
salary of eight dollars a week, and moth
ing found but peppermint drops.
Presently Evelina remarked: "Aren't
you lonely sinae your aunt died ?"-ten-
der emphasis on the lonely. Ny aunt
had been dead a year, and Evelina
Engaged" at least once in the mean
time.
"Not at all my time and attention
are likely to b. entirely absorbed in bus
iness." ID
''No one can rejoice more sincerely in
your good fortRne than do I, Samuel"
II don't dou:>t it, Evelina shall al
ways feel confident Of your friendship"
leave Eveliaa at her cottage gate, and
feel that -a. "a'-.@ ..''..
Of all the glad woras Of tongues OF of pen,
The gladdest are these-'1t wasn't to have becn.nI
The next afternoon, my employer in
vited me to be seated behind the. railing
that fenced in our Office, and said he,
laying his hanG on my shoulder with o
confidential, parental, sacrificial
air: "a -" 4
Samuel, have been rejecting upon
my duty to you. You are a young man
just starting in life, and starting in some
respects under favorable circumstances,
but everything depends upon your start
ing right. You nave always been faith
full to my interests, and I have deter
mined to show my appreciation of that
faithfulness. I have decided to sell out
to you P'
A glance at the door showed me that