The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1893-09-15
SHE MADE HER WILL.
But Her Many Relatives Were
Hardly Pleased With It.

Miss Gallipot was certainly very rich
and was said to be enormously so. And
her wealth hadscome TO her quite unex-
pectedly.
| 1t would have been natural that her
cousin, old Josephat Gallipot (of the
firm of Gallipot & Jams), who was
known to be millionaire, should have
left her something handsome. But no
one could have guessed he would make
her his heiress, least of all after she
had quarreled with him.
After he had been widower twenty
years old Josephat Gallipot made up
his mind to marry his kitchen maid,
who was not more than forty years his
junior and was engaged to the milk
man.
Then Miss Gallipot wrote him let
| ter:
| "MY DEAR Jos: don't suppose 1t will make
| any difference whether write to you or not.
But have regard for you. and feel 1t on my
| conscience to do what can to prevent your
bringing great misery on yourself.
you have perfect right to marry again II
you choose, and you can certainly afford to pick
q wife who has nothing but herself to recon-
| mend her But the girl you are choosing would
be dear at the price II she brought you her own
weight in gold and she's no feather by the look
of her.
"She will make you miserable, and would
beg you to draw back from giving her the OPP
portrnity. She has no affection for you and II
you have any for her it will make it the worse
for you Your sincerely affectionate cousin,
| SARAH GALLIPoT."
| To this letter no reply was sent, and
week later the milkman's fiancee be-
came Mrs. Gallipot. No further com.
munication took place between the
cousins, and couple of years after
ward Josephat Gallipot went the way
of all flesh.
No one was more simply astonished
than Miss Sarah Gallipot when she
learned that she had succeeded to his
entire fortune. He wrote:
"To my wife beQueath my memory, know,
| ing that my love has been enough for her. and
| that she has saved well during the two years OF
our welded life for do not believe that our
| household expenses have been seventy-five
| thousand dollars per annum.
ITO my cousin, Sarah Gallipot bequeath
| absolutely all my real and personal estate, in
recognition of her candor and sincerity, and
with unavailing regret that did not profit by
| her warning"
The will was dated fortnight before
proved and administered.
Then Miss Gallipot discovered how
tenderly she was loved, and how count
less were her kinsmen and kinswomen
For fifty-nine years she had been in
the habit of considering herself as
rather alone in the world. In her six
tieth year she found it was not SO.
Nieces dropped from the sky, neph-
ews rose from the earth. the clouds
distilled godchildren on to her head and
cousins fell around her like hailstones.
| Nor did they come empty.
Some brought game from the coun-
try, some sent choice fruits from their
hothouses.
| If she had lived to be seven hundred
and eighty she could not have worn
out the cozy bedroom slippers that
were worked for her, and If she had
had as many mouths as the Nile she
could never have drunk up all the wines
that were sent her.
Devonshire cream came out OF the
west; cakes of all sizes, shapes and de-
| scriptions came down from the north
and oysters from all quarters came rap
ping at her door,
And the letters of affection that ac-
companied theml These pass all de-
scription, and should have convinced
their recipient that of all the old ladies
that had ever lived she was herself the
dearest, most charming and most be-
loved by her freiends. $3.50.