Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1877-03-29

accompanying this instrument, which
wish him to read a year hence In thu
presence of the witnesses now assem-
bled for the reading of this my will.
The remainder of my property, both
real and personal, with tho exception
of the legacies hereinafter named,
bequeath to the American Missionary
Society, neither legacies nor be-
quests to be paid until q year and q
day hence.
When the lawyer was through read
ing, I had no clear idea to whom these
legacies were devised. but I remarked
that the American Missionary Society
was most worthy organization.
The nature of the will was soon
made public. Popular sentiment was
that of resignation, not to say a salts
faction, on my account. My com
panions, who had never seen why de-
serving merit in my case should meet
such disproportionate reward while
their own plodded along on a weekly
stipend with no great.aunt's estate in
prospective. naturally experienced a
revival of confidence in the equitable
government of the universe. Elderly
friends in church and Sabbath-schools
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 had been getting above
my business, aud he was glad to see
me taken down = p 6. Evelina said,
"Never mind we don't care for
money!" But not many days after,
Evelina told me she had begun to real
ize what a solemn ordinance was mat
rimony; She and were both young,
and had our way to make, and she
thought perhaps tor the present, it
would be better for us to consider our.
selves only friends.
said, every WE'LL" and felt that l
was a lonely bark tossed on a wild and
watery waste.
had read of instances similar to
mine where the sealed packet Of the
old Bible proved to contain bank-notes:
but finger the paper left me rs would
/ could make nothing of it but paper.
For year went calmly and hope.
lessly forward in the dry-goods and
grocery way, and we then assembled
for the opening of 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
do hereby revoke" etc. With palplt'
ing heart passed the document to the
lawyer. After provisions and legacies
similar to those in the first instrument,
this latter document proceeded as
follows:
To the American Missionary Society
I give and bequeath the sum Of $685.
600.
To my BELOVED nephew Samuel 0.
Haynes, who hope may have learned,
during the year that has elapsed, les
sons of wisdom more valuable than
money, bequeath the sum of $25..
900. which direct my executor to pay
over to said Haynes the income from
the remainder Of my property, both
real and personal, to pay from the
principal to said Haynes on his thirt.
ieth birthday, if he be living, or to
his heirs or assigns if deceased, the
sum of $25, 900, and pay to said Haynes
OH his thirty.fifth birthday the re-
mainder of my property be it more or
less.
Invent down to the store just as
usual the next morning, for I wished
to show people that I had too good
sense to have my head turned. When
! filed our best customers molasses
jug with kerosene, l know had de-
monstrated my GOODNESS.
The Chairman of the Board of Select
men wanted to know what I should
advise in regard to rebuilding the
Piper stone bridge; the doctor asked
what my candid opinion was concern
ing the comparative merits of muriate
of ammonia and iodide of potassium
in case of pleuritis where egophony
denotes slight effusion, but with
strong indications of adhesion of the
mediastinum and the minister said
there was an article on ''Semi.P ella.
gianism in the Fourteenth Century,
in the Blbliotheca Sacra he thought I
would enjoy perusing. As I stood on
the hall doorstep after singing-schoo]
that evening, Evelina came out back
of me, and said she, with little sill.
yer, ''Oh, how da-dark it is -
1t flashed across me, as offered my
arm for escort home, to the feminine
imagination matrimony on the income
of seventy five thousand is naturally a
less ''solemn ordinance" than on a
precarious salary of SO week, and
nothing found but peppermint-drops.
Presently Evelina remarked, "Aren' t
you very lonely since your aunt died 2
tender emphasis on the lonely. My
aunt had been dead a year, and Eve.
lima ''engaged'' at least once in the
meantime.
mot at all my time and attention
are likely to be entirely absorbed in
business
''No one can rejoice more sincerely
in your good fortune than do I Sam
uel.''
II don't doubt it, Evelina; l shall
always feel confident OF your friend
ship
leave Evelina at her cottage gate
and feel that,
OF all the glad word of tongue or of pen,
The gladdest are these--"lt wasn't to have
BEEN"
The next afternoon my employer in
vited me to be seated behind the rail.
ing that fenced in our Office, and said
he, laying his hand on my shoulder,
with confidential, a parental, sacri.
fetal air:
''Samuel, I have been rejecting upon
my duty to you. You are a young man
just starting in life, and starting in
some respects under favorable circum'
stances, but everything depends upon
your starting right. You have always
been faithful to my interests, and
have determined to show my appre
citation of that faithfulness. have
decided to sell out to you -
A glance at the door showed me-
that the way of escape was not cut
off.