Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-05-19


AGAIN THE caY or 'axLPr RANG ouTr
pushed TO its greatest destroying pow
er, and hence was it that haste over
came dignity when the foam-flecked and
painting horses of the undertaken drew
up in front of the entrance To the cre-
matory.
The ice chest was snatched from the
hearse, borne hurriedly into the furnace
room, set upon the iron platform,
wheeled into the very center of the
white flames whose waving, curling,
twisting tongues seemed reaching out
To their fullest length, impatient for
their prey, and the iron doors slammed
shut with a loud resounding clangor.
At this instant woman, hatless and
breathless, with disheveled hair, burst
into the furnace-room.
Hold! Hold!" she shrieled. and then
her hands flew to her face and, stagger-
ing backward and striking heavily
against the wall, sshe sank limp and
lifeless in heap on the stone floor of
the furnace room.
DuJ LILO TWO ulCu Cu0IRC nGu
neither eyes nor ears for Mrs. Timmins.
As the doors closed they sprang to their
posts of observation in front of the two
peepholes, and stood there watching
the effect of the flames upon the huge
ice chest.
Its wooden covering parted here and
there with loud crack, laying bare the
metal case. from the seams of which
burst fitful puffs Of steam. Then came
a sight so strange and curious that the
two men held their breath as they gazed
upon it! BY the vaporizing of the water
from the melted ice the flames were
pushed back from the chest and it lay
there for an instant as if protected by
some miraculous aura.
Then happened something which
caused the men to reel and stagger rs
If their limbs were paralyzed by drink,
and which painted their faces with as
have laid upon them.
From the furnace depths came forth a
dull, muffied cry of Help! Help!"
Making a desperate effort, the men
tore open first the outer and then the
inner doors of the fire chamber. AS the
air rushed in, the lid of the metal chest
burst silently open. Again the cry ot
''Help!" rang out, and two hands quiv-
cred for an instant above the edge of
the chest, and then with loud and
defiant roar the flames closed in upon
it, and began TO lick it up ravenously.
The doors were banged shut, and John
Winkletip had his way.
But the Dingee million seemed to
draw back instinctively from the touch
of the worthless Cy Winkletip.
With loud cries of JOY, the various
benefciaries under Martha Delury's
will now discovered that Cyrus Wrinkle
tip was born on the eleventh day OF
August. and that as his father had de-
parted this life on the tenth day of Au-
gust, the son was not of full age when
his father died. But the law put an
end to this short-lived JOY by making
known one of its curious bits of logic,
which so often startle the layman.
II was this: The law takes no note of
parts of day. and therefore, as Cyrus
Winkletip was of age on the first min.
ute Of his twenty-first birthday, he was
also OF age on the last minute of the
day before-consequently on the first
minute Of the day before he was TWEEN
ty-onel
This gave the Dingee million to Cy
Winkletip!
VIGILANCE and tutelage, Cy Wipkletip
was, after several years Of as close APP
plication as was deemed safe in view of
his weak mental condition, admitted 10
the ministry in accordance with the
provisions of Miss Delury's will
Az last the wicked Dingee million
seemed safely launched upon its task
of undoins the wrong IL had done, but
Cy winkletip's mind ran completely
down in fvc years and he died a
wretehed, slavering idiot.
Mrs TImmins was inclined TO warn
off the Dingee million with a gesture
of horror. hut. yielding TO the solicita-
ton OF her friends. she consented a.
take title in order that she might
create a trust with il for some good
and noble purpose. To this end-bv
a last will and testameut--she created
end endowed the American Society for
the Suppression If Gambling aud
Wager-Laying and then died
The trustees at once began 10 erect
the buildings called for, but before the
society had had an Opportunity to sup
press a single gaming establishment
The LAWYERS. 81 tie prayer Of Mrs. John
Winkletip. Mrs TimminS' mother. fell
tpoth and nail upon the trust. when
was declared too vague. shadow and
indefinite 20 be executed.- and the Din
gee million. its roundness now sadly
shrunhen. made It's way across the
ocean - Mrs. John winkietip. Of Clap
ham Common. London
She died last year. and with her The
wanderings of Tire DinFee million cane
50 an end She willed IL - trustees
for building and maintaining hospital
fer stray dogs and homeless cas-. and
those learned IN the law say that tie