The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-20
HElRESS DOES THE WASHING.
She Is Product of New jersey and I,
Worth $4,000.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
MISS Anna Charlier is worth some
thing more than 5000. She is 10 Years
old and very pretty.
When reporter called upon her at
her home in Roselle, n. j. she was
doing the family washing and hanging
1t out to dry. The townspeople have
not ceased to gossip over the curious
Will left by Miss Charters rich grand
mother, Mrs. Charlotte Routes Charlier.
at her death, more than six years ago.
The old lady was renowned during her
lifetime for eccentricities and put the
climax to her erratic career by making
a will which has taxed the ingenuity
of the shrewdest lawyers to unravel
it.
By this will she left half her for
tune to her favorite grandchild, Anna,
a portion to each of the other grand
children-Anna's two sisters-and all
the rest to son, who is supposed to
have been lost at sea, but who, his
mother always maintained, would one
DAY return. There seems to have been
no doubt that this son was drowned
as his vessel. a sailing ship trading at
south American ports. disappeared
years ago, with all on board. and was
never heard of again.
Mrs. Charlier had but two sons, the
father of Miss Anna Charlier and the
one lost at sea. To her daughter-in-
law the old lady left nothing. and the
property is so tied up that none of 1t
can be handled until Anna is 81 A
large part Of the town of Roselle was
at one time owned by the Charlier
family. Mrs. Charlier and her hus-
ago from Belgium, which they were
obliged to leave, it was whispered, on
account of political difficulties.
That the family was an old and ia
nous one madam claimed on the
strength Of beautiful diamond buckle
which. she said, was made from the
hlt of a sword worn by Louis XIV. and
which was presented by the king to
madam's father, who was physician of
the court, on account of his services
in saving the life of the dauphin, aft
erward Louis XVI, during a severe
illness. 1t seems that the Charlier
family had on two occasions earned
the gratitude of the king. Mrs Char
lier used to tell how her uncle upon
another occasion saved the prince from
drowning.
The famous buckle, which contained
rs large diamonds of the purest water,
was bequeathed by the old lady to
Anna Charlier, who keeps it carefully
guarded in a bank, together with much
ancient jewelry, also legacy from
her grandmother. There is a set of
turquoises also which all the villa gers
declare to be the most beautiful jew
elry ever seen. The heiress to this
wealth is the most unassuming little
girl in the world. She is thoroughly
independent, however, and has earned
for herself among the neighbors the
sobriquet of Miss independence" Pos
siby streak of her grandmother 5
eCCentricity gives this young woman
her decided touch of originality. Miss
Charlier is striking looking girl of the
French type. Her straight, 1.-THE fig
ure showed to advantage in the home
ly task of hanging the clothes on the
line. She has straight, black hair,
large gray eyes and delicate features.
Miss Charlier graduated at 16 from
the ROsclle high school. She speaks
in a low, well modulated voice. con-
verses easily and is free from affecta-
ton and self-COnsCiOusnesS.