The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-02-01

Bodoin's Instructions before death. L
nave brought with me a part of the
cash in bank for your immediate needs
should Q be in adverse circum-
stances. AS the sum is quite large,
$4,000, | Sugges that we go to a
bank together. where you will give me
Il receipt when it is deposited"
To pass over other details not ne
cessary to the story, what does the
reader suppose Cal" Walters did at
the outset? Got on an
spree, taking in the whole bioulous
part of the town? II is very ppos
able. from his bad reDutation-but he
didn't II S sudden accession to for
tune appeared to have startled and al
most shocked him.; to have braccd and
sobered him, SO that he forgot his lar
I'm" WhlSkey. ReSerVing several hum
dred dollars from the bank deposit he
first fitted himself in a handsome
suit of clothes. thence he went to the
old home. and entering the sitting
room found his brother crouched in
his rolling chair. Laying $100 down
on the table, he said: 'Elwood, and
you, Jane, there will be no more pow
erty for you all. There is 500 for your
PRESSING needs: do not stint yourself,
tor there is plenty more No, l have
no time for hanks I have much to
do and he left the house. He took
AtAS oSoS " 11 LIZ HULL, / ! Z
lived until a finer hotel was built,
when he took the best room in that.
And now a new feature in the al
most Kaleidoscope character of this
stran'e man came out strongly. He
was a voluntary Of a mild type, sy-
baritic i'll his taste, liking dainty
food, finely served, the bath tub, and
a handsomely furnished bed room. He
must have been very sure Of himself
for, although he was not known to
lake brandy or whiskey any more, he
drank q small bottle of wine every
day at dinner. Except for an occa-
sional drive OF walk about town, he
spent most of his time in the hotel
lobby, reading the late papers and
magazines. He gave his brother a
liberal lncome; as for his own, more
than he could spend, in spite of his
delicate tastes, much of it Went in
prOmlScuOus charity. He erected beau
tifu1 monuments over the graves Of
his parents, and built AN attractive
residence for Ellwood, but he insisted
on taking the old homestead himself.
This he repaired and refitted, and put
a care-taker in charge of it, but would
listen to no proposition to rent it to
the day Of his death.
Thus Gal" Walters passed three or
four years Of life. when a change came
over him. He Would sit in the lobby
With a paper on his knee, unread.
while he seemed absorbed in melan-
choly reverie. One or twice he called
a physician in, who. passing through
the lobby after the visit, carried
a grave face. h good things of the
table passed him by unheeded, and at
times his face was SO white as to eX-
cite remark. One night the clerk at
the desk noticed, as he went up the
stairway to his room, that his face
wore a look Of pain, and that his foot
CT nY1r uvn~a ~ H. YCIz-
morning-he never locked his door
he was found dead, his face calm, his
cheek s"~~Orted on the palm of his
hand. Heart failure was the YER
dict Of the coroner and his ati~od-
ing physician.
His will was found carefully writ
ten, concise and clear. A
considerable sum was left to the wild
ow Of general Blank, his brigade
commander during the war. who was
Did, infirrn and poor, the income Of
which would keep her in comfort as
long as she lived. Liberal bequests
We're made to several Confederate
comrades, and to distant relatives. The
bulk of the large estate was left to
EllWood Walters and his child. It
would almos seem that the ~testator,
in framing his will, was grimly heap
ing Goals Of fire On his brothers head
after death, by his generosity. A paper
was found, dated only two weeks be-
fore, giving explicit directions about
his future and burial. 1t indicated the
STYLE of coffin, which was costly and
elegant in design: it specified the spot
where he wished to rest in the ceme-
terry plat, it requested that the only
exercises over his emains should be
one prayer and one hymn. Finally,
it rave explicit directions as to his
monument-the design. the material.
the heioht. etc. and on it's pedestal
was to be inscribed his. and only
this:
Here Lies
r. G. WALTERS.