Connecticut western news., 1885-09-30
T GIVE AND BEQUEATH.
Interesting Facts About the
 Making of Wills
The Case of Wealthy New York Lady
 who Died Intestate

 without will is easel in point, Mrs. Morgan was in a sense an invalid. She had disease most generally prov ing fatal; which obliged her to take great care of herself, and which limit ed her diet to comparatively few arti- cles. This disease she did not die of, but the fact of its probable termina- tion was constantly before her.
 Mrs. Morgan spent her life, as it is known, in collecting about her rare plants and precious works of art. Her orchids, which occupied the extensive glass houses over the stables and in the rear of the house, comprehended the rarest examples. For one variety, of which there is but one other known example, she paid $1200-the king of Holland or Belgium possessing the other and less sums were commonly expended. With these she was most generous, and constantly surprised her friends with the gift of large boxes of strange-hued and strange-formed fioY- CTS.
 The pictures and bric-a-brac were known as among the choicest of the town, and the comparative seclusion in which Mrs. Morgan lived was usu- ally broken by her desire to please her friends by showing them some new treasure of art. To the house in which she lived in Madison square she attached great deal of sentiment Mir. Charles Morgan was not man addicted to the arts. The drawing room of the house he himself had fur nished in a handsome but horid style inadmissible in these days. This room Mrs. Morgan would never have changed, and it remained an anachro- nism in house in which modern dec oration had in parts transformed, and was transforming at her death, into one of the richest interiors in New York. Mrs. Morgan spoke familiarly to those with whom she discussed these matters. of the ultimate disposi- tion of her things. Certain works of art it was her intention to give tu the Metropolitan Museum, others were to be legacies to different people. The residence, on account of this sentiment for her husbands memory, would probably have been given to Mir. Nor gan's grandson, the son of his only daughter, now living in New Orleans; at least such were the intimations given by her to different persons.
 Leaving New York in as good health as usual, Mrs. Morgan was stricken by another swift illness at Saratoga, and in a few hours died, without moment of consciousness. Dying without a will and without children, the immense property, works of art, orchids. souvenirs, house goes to her own family. That tho bulk of her property would have been thus disposed of if Mrs Morgan had made will is inevitable, but it is as certain that she would have made some per- manent disposition of her works of art and other special possessions, which will now pass into the hands of the law.
 The making of wills with many people is attended with all sorts of su- perstition. There is an American now living in Paris who has been there for many years. and has accumulated a large fortune in valuable and unique works of art. This man is bachelor, and his heir is a brother whom he hates. Moreover for years he has had rheumatic gout. These attacks have often brought him to the verge of the grave. Each time his will, guarding his fortune against this unloved broth CT, has been made, but no matter how low he has been, it has never been signed, and regularly, on recovery, has been torn up, His friends all know of the situation, and most ridiculous scenes have been the consequence. One time when it was surely thought that the end was near, the supposed dying man was held up with quill in hand and general scurry was made for witnesses. His walters were brought up from the dining-room, but an American lady happening by yen- tured the information that the laws of the United States required two Amer jeans as witnesses. Here was one, and messengers had to be sent right and left to find another native. This is only one of kindred scenes whenever , an attack comes on. It is question among the mans intimates if the P brother will not inherit after all. The making of wills abroad is full . of liabilities. Different States have 7 different laws touching wills made in , foreign countries. In Pennsylvania if we mistake not, the law demands residents of the State as witnesses , The difficulty of securing them would
 easily invalidate any will made out
 side of Pennsylvania. One of tho
 most methodical business men in Phil t adelphia had a curious experience
 When young man, some few day! /! before his marriage, moved by some 3 fear of sudden death, he wrote hi:
 own will, leaving to his betrothed a, 7 his wife, third of his property H. : lived to raise sons and daughters, but