The evening times., 1895-12-07
old SOCRATES s"QUEERV WILL
Well -EnsVa New York Character Bsqueahs
Money for I Communist College.
True Marriage and the Brotherhood
Of all Mankind After Christ's Ex-
ample to Be Taught.
New York sun.

| new OTA sun
| The will Of Charles Burton Phillips,
formerly a resident OF Chicago, who died
in October last in the Presbyterian Hes
| pital, was filed here yesterday. PhiIliIs
was character about Smith & McNeir'
| Hotel, in Washington street, and the vii
| was filed by Charles w addell. a clerk of the
hotel, having been found among the dece-
dents effects.
1t was written in a small memorandum
book, in purple ink, and the testator after
ward went over the writing with broad
nibbed pen and black ink. II was datet
January 3. 1878. and was dra wn in Chi
cago. The witnesses are Charles Gardpe
and Willis +. Dickinson.
Phillips leaves TO his daughter, Elizabeth,
all the property he owns in Cairo, Ill.
This consists of forty lots, and he says that
there is an equity in them worth $4,000
il properly cared for by DIR. Thomas Wright,
ITO whom" he says, my children with
their wife and mother have gone. intending
to forsase me-" He says lie decided these
lots to his daughter ~iD GOES equence OF her
affliction with fever sore that caused
her iameDess, supposed at the time TO be
incurable.' Fi~
To his son, Thomas Charles Phillips, he
leaves eighty acres OF land in johnson
county, Ill. This limited amount, he SAYS,
is left to the son because the latter treated
him shamefully aud wrote him insolent
letters when he. the father, was borrowing
money at the rate OF per cent per month
TO keep the sou in college. He then says:
s.AlI the rest and residue of my estate
direct shall be economically expended in
building a polytechnic university, in which
all the useful and la wfuI pursuits of life
shall be taught scientifically, Nd no teacher
shall ever he emplo ycd in il unless he shall
advocate first the New Testament of the
Lord Jesus Christ as the foundation OF all
teaching, and the acts or the disciples when
they had all things in common, ma king man
the brother, and rot the pirate and the rob-
Der of his fellow beings. The teaching
shall be the organizing OF the human race
into vast partnership, through whose
agency 10 member shall ever be brought
to want 50
The testatoT says that the doctrines OF
the new university shall be founded on
his books on True n arriage and The Best
Form OF Civil Government 'r'7'He gives
b is idea of marriage in the following way:
part of the instruction shall he on the
marriage bond. which cannot be consum-
mated by a religious ceremony or civil
contract at all, but like Christianity, it is
divine institution, and dependent upon the
heart: % srwise the domestic relation
falsely c.0td maria ge is nothing but legal
Prostitution
The trustees OF the university named are
the Oneida Community, Thomas D. Bryan
and the senior judge OF the Supreme Court
of Illinois and his SUCCESSORS. The will di-
rects that the university be erected upon
lands bought by the tesla tor for the pur-
pose some years ago in johnson county, H.,
and he says that the trustees shall also ac-
quire three or four thousand acres of land
adjoining, which is on an island in the Cache
river. The design OF the university building
and grounds, he sa IS, shall be similar to
Barnum's Iranistan at Bridgeport.
The following peculiar document was
with the will when 1t was filed, but was
afterward taken away by Mr.. Waddell:
"why not reduce the interest on our na-
tionIl bonds down to par on legal tender
in coin, and thus save the people
part at least OF the complicated, mystified
piracy. The plain answer is
that it would not be la wyer-like to stop this
piracy o: hell or relieve the suffering peo-
pie at all. Add the salary grab to other
frauds and rObberies. and then nominate the
leading lawyer advocate for the Presi-
dency with his hands full of corrupt money,
and represent him on paper pictures all over
the country as 4 farmer moving with
scythe, and the silly people. gulled by the
sham denagogery, will hurrah, and elect
il possible. any such cut-throat to rob them
Why, lawyers say they cannot afford to
serve the people in Congress for less than
81 3 to S100 day, with all the stealing and
perquisites superaddcd. The suffering peo
pie do not want their internal services any
side OF hell"
Phillips was known about Smith & Nc
Selrs as "Old Socrates" He used TO
say about the hotel, where he had rooms
It from So TO S3.15 a week. that he was
4 millionaire. and he was believed. He
lresscd like a tramp. but spoke four OF
i've languages. He carried large gold
watch with a monogram. which he said
le had received from Catharine Wolfe.
Some years ago he left his waisteoat In
\ closet at Smith & McNeirs. In the pocket
was SIT 900. A bootb!ack found it and
,eturncrl ii, and there was much COM
nent on the fact that he gave the boy
nothing- These comments so angered the
nan that he left the hotel and went 10
Everctt's. near by. He however, left his
runks at the former place. aud in one
1f them the will was found. Phillips al
ways carried large amounts Of money on
his person, and IL is said that when he
was taken TO the Presbyterian Hospital
here was $4,000 In his pockets, which
IS held at the hospital.
Phillips body was inferred By Henrietta
D. Lyon, a niece, who lives Mt Rossvile, s.,
|. The contents of the trunk were removed
IN Wednesday by Miss Henrietta F. Dupont
Lyon daughter of Henrietta ID. Lyon, and
heir lawyer. Townsend wandeli. A rep
resentativc of Pavey & Earring called on
Mr.. wandell saying that he represented the
,hildrcn of the deceased. Mr.. Wandell said
that the trunk contained chiefly
papers in litiGaticns. ss
A litigation of the deceased Is now pend-
ng in the United States Supreme Court
the South Park commission.
which. Mr.. Townsend said. might result
argely in favor OF the estate of the de-
.eased He said that they were Just work
ng to find out what he had left but so
ar lie could not give an estimate. He
aughed ami nodded h;s head In the nera-
i've when asked IL Phillips was million
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