Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-06-09

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cal1 No Eliuoe:s
4 an peatly blessed and highly
honored,~ SD Ellsworth, ny your
Kind confederation Of my bunglins and
ridiculous e6erts 70 serve you. 1 never
possessed the smallest grain Of tact
from the day / was born, and it is very
nice Of you to overlook my lack Of it"
I'VE are the heirs under the famous
Lyman will" said the old gentleman,
as if he were talking to himself. "Ab-
surd and monstrous! There was never
anything else like it."
1T was fathers aunt, Betsy Lyman,
who left the money" said Elinor. "She
was the dearest old lady-98 when she
died, three years ago-but SO eccentric
and so ~dreadfully precise! Her money
was in stocks and bonds, and she in
tended that We should get about half
of it, the other half going to various
charitable institutions"
"She had a singular idea that l was
not possessed Of good judgment in mon
ey matters" said Mr.. Lyman, continu-
ing the story, "and so she put my share
and my daughters in trust with a crab
bed old rescal of a lawyer. Moreover,
she set apart certain incomes for GER
tain uses-1OO shares of stock to pay
household expenses, Is shares for
travel in foreign lands 10 shares for
contributions to home MISSIONS etc.
Among the requests was i $1,000 of a
wildcat mining stock called the Star
and Crown, which Aunt Betsy set apart
to yield us an income for the purchase
of suitable raiment and for no other
purpose She never failed to add that
phrase to all her requests"
And there was a suit against the
estate" said Elinor, "and another law
more ha'eful-got all our stocks and
yer-not our trustee, but a man even
more hateful-got all our stocks and
bonds except the mining shares. He
thought they weren't worth taking, l
guess. What do they pay now, father?"
About $40, 900 a year," responded Mr..
Lyman, with a groan. "At the time
when the will was drawn the stock had
paid one small dividend, and it never
paid another till just after we were rob-
bed in that suit. Twenty thousand for
clothes and for no other purpose If
we should pay car fare out of that mon
ey Mr.. Ellsworth, we should cease to
be heirs, and the income would go to
st. Agatha's Home For Old Folks in
Steuben, Me. Aunt Betsy was born in
Steuben."
I'VE have all kinds of fun trying to
get along" said the girl. Fathers a
clerk in a bank on the meanest little
salary, but people think he must be
the president Of it. He makes the real
president look like Lazarus, for father
knows how to wear clothes. Oh, the
lilies of the field are not arrayed like
u.s."
Upon my word" said Ellsworth,
this is the most remarkable thing l
ever heard of. and the most exasperat-
ing. Yet there must be some way out
of it. why don't you sell the clothes to
your friends?"
'The will provides" said Mr.. Layman
that all our clothes must go to the
Steuben home when we cease to require
them. That's the wording of the docu-
ment."
Fancy one of the old ladies wearing
this coat" said Ellnor. Il shall send
it up there in a week OF two.
I'VE can't sell them, and we can't
even pawn them" continued the old
gentleman, land we are living, my dear,
sir, on the top floor Of a 1athouse in
the most magnificent squalor ever seen
on this continent"
And we're terribly din debt" said
the girl, with a laugh. because every
Dody trusts us, just as o were 60
ing to do. So there's a frank state
ment of our troubles, which l think was