Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-10-04
The Hunters
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tOrls.u1'l Marcus Hunter Was left an orpda when hc was seven years old. lfc b-nl an hrothnrs or aist,es. nc hos aaI toouey.# no anytime fn Hnef" HaaI We well ro Go took him to=h.#h #hHeeI ;t@gi-tst his Hi'e.s MiShe-. ai H. hos life thcre U;s, one af h1.eA} When he WIS seventeen lf3r H=i..ss' '.t !. :;s.I tAcaunt turned tltr hoy ert=of she house, He found a ausficH is ciefE in q business house lu tun Netrs le5 set up for himself
 His reatiFcs Whe during thjs paEi4d had ignorcf him HOW began to mol pleasantly to him when they met hi"i and invited him to their hoeSes. The# aunt, who had made life q burdeh to him, reminded him of the pleasant days that he had spent under her roof and how happy it had made her to he q mother to him.
 Just as Mark was getting on his feet in q business way commercial panic came on He. needed a little as sistance to tide him over the crisis and applied to those of his relatives who were able 10 help him. He began by telling them that he would like to talk over his affairs with them with d view to getting their advice. He got no further than this, for each and every ono of them pronounced himself incompetent to advise him. This shut the poor fellow off, as they intended. He failed. Then his relatives dropped him again.
 When the commercial storm was over Mark went to work for man who was q business genius. He LOOK n great fancy to his clerk and pro noted him rapidly. finally making nm second only to himself. Then the eln= blower died chldless and left about all thcrc Was of the business to lis pr" tcge
 Marcus died q lnultmilllonalrc. JlSt before his deatl he made d Will, III which he directed that the house III which he had passed his lonely life hc never married should be closed by his cXee,Itor from the day of hlS dtalh till one Wcrl$ Hfter the funeral when au auction should take place of every
 
 aInittcd to the sale except his rclA- lives.
 Sirce ne lptt no ,,irect heirs. most ol the relatives, were lffrSegt Ut the read- ing of the VIII. eac! hoping for sub stantial remembrance. When they heard this singular provision ana learned that .the te$tator had lcft no legacy to any one of them they natu- rally inferred that he had concluded to remember them by leaving their lcsa- cies in different articles of furniture But what d singular way! Ten 'ho" sand dollars might be in hollow cane while but S1 .WU had been placed i'll a rosewood desk. Yet the cane might pe knocked down for q dollar, while the desk might bring S10O. Was there ever such a way devised for distributing millions of money? The will further stated that the amount realized rom the sale was to be expended pN tue exccutor for a monument to the de- ceased.
 When the day of the sale calle around it was astonishing NOW hG'h! relatives Hunter had left behind nm. There were Hunters innuncraoie booh by name and in reality. protest WAS made to the eNccutor that many of them were ns.t relaa.4-@'' .te, ,'hsy'ssla toy -I1 sNnulu not be admtfeu- '' ,c .rgncd that by the terms '' "' " ..>;u ,an s,le must take place then a'' ,hcre and there wHs Il" ''''e '' inc credentials ,;,;,.r vhi
 rhe crowd were kept waiting W u' " ,rti,.lo> were first sold that 'oo'' !" possibly contain ahNthing' ,. Ss,1n ~ [4. ~ noverctl vroeNery. on theSG o'
 were only such Lids as Wo"'o - ', to get them out "f the W''N.=3'fh
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