Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-07-08

father and mother. And. yes, there was
 grand uncle. Be he, rich, ever was
 there to be expected from him gift of 1 money? Why. he was a began. But, 10! the began dies, after long 1 practice at his profession, dies at the aught save rags and bottles? Yes. at
 Baron Rothschild's banking house in 1 Paris, there is found to the credit of the l ancient mendicant and miser, the great sum of 2,000, ,00o francs-s400,0 600.
 1 A willy and experienced man was the ! old beggar; he knew the right fields in which to pursue his fortune hunting. Equipped with an appealing story of
 dire distress, he plead his case before the rich pleasure seekers on the Riviera,
 he haunted Nice and Monte Carlo. And when he came back 10 Paris he would de- posit his gold with Rothschild. He not
 infrequently fell into the hands of the police. but managed to keep on at the
 business in which he was adept. Four
 hundred thousand dollars is a tidy sum. even for niser to have boarded.
 Still another bit Of stranger-than-fic- tion truth about this man of wealth, that leaves to his poor relations enough gold to lift them from poverty 10 af- flualce. concerns his early boyhood. When he was ten years old he was kid naped, and. as soon as it could be done. he was conscripted into the Russian army. Finally he escaped to France. and in that country lived and begged. invested and hoarded.
 There are several descendants among whom the legacy will be divided; the quilt-maker in Brooklyn is only son of the miser's next of kin, and the father has given him his share. about l 200 900 francs With sl0.000 year. the ques- ton of bread and butter will not be such a pressing one as in that past, when the quilt-maker had to labor from dawn to dark to feed and clothe his family of nine.
 A representative of the New York World visited the household. whose out look has been so marvelously altered, and found the father very sure of the fortune across the sea. the mother in- clined to doubt until the gold gleamed in reality. The man was asked what he would do with so much money. and his reply was: Well will buy nice house with some of it. and new clothes for all my children. and the boys shall go to college and grow up to be fine business men. instead of having 10 work so hard ss their father does. And shall get 9 silk dress for my wife and a piano and all the diamonds she wants. and will set myself ID in nice busi- ness. No more quilt-making for me"
 But the heir was not all bound up in . the material lGxuries for his immediate household: he had thought of that pair . in Odessa. Then in the summer time . we will all go back to the old country ] and see my father ard my mother and all my family. and then ve will get them 1. new clothes and 2 fine silk hat for my father. and then we will bring them all over here 10 America. and they won't have to work any more, but spend their last days in comfort The mother. snstching time from the cooking ard nending and cleaning and care of the new thres-wseks-old baby. showed some enthusiasm in the subject. some faith in that glorious future Q. ease and comfort But her joy vas chiefly for her man "Oh. am % glad for ny husband. if this is all true. as he believes fl. Anybody will tell yo1 what good man he is. and how hard ha works for all of Us Nc one deserves such fortune more than he does
 Whether the fairy tale proves more than dream or rot. st any rate there has cone into the lives ot these poor for ' aigners a bsautfful glimpse into fairy lard. and which ths reality might dis solve x
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