The Washington herald., 1914-01-04

personal affairs being aired in public.
OF such tesfaments was that Of the late
e H. Hartman lie required less than
100 words to give his fortune OF upward
Of {7S.ooe.ooo to his wife absolutely. Rus
sell Sage did the same with his s64 ooD An
Il being said at the time that Mrs. sage
had clear understanding Of how he
wished the money to be spent Perhaps
this form Ct bequest may be traced back
to the win Of A. 7. Stewart When he
left his fortune to Mrs Stewart in a sim
pie win he 10 said to have written
letter with II requesting his widow 10
make provision for some Of his proposed
charities
Change of Burial Place.
The viii Of Capt. A. r. Simmons. a
civil war veteran. who died last sum-
mer. led to a sudden change of his
burial place from land to sea Cant.
Simmons died at the National Soldiers
Home. at johnson City. Tenn. and was
buried there. When his friends looked
UP his will they found that he requestets
that the ocean be his last resting place.
SO they decided 10 fulfiH his wish. His
body was exhumed. taken to the coast
OF Florida, and placed on a yacht. Capt.
Simmons wanted all his friends at his
funeral to be as gay as possible, and
asked that no religious service be read.
% the party went Oul u sea OH BlSCaYnC
Bay. read the will. fired three guns,
placed the flags OF the yacht at hail.
ncast, and swung the body overheard
This wish to consider death lightly was
also shown a few months ago by the will
Of a man in New Rochelle, who left
200 to be spent for a dinner in his
honor by his intimate friends.
The fear OF premature burial appears
every now ard then as curious phases OF
willis TVni0aI nj these q the
testament of Miss Laura White. Of Pitts
burgh- Unmarried. sixty-ive years old
when she died. supposed to be poor. yet
with 3.00o-volume law library, real es-
tate in Indiana. Montana, and California,
and a will containing 10000 in charitable
bequests. she lived a strangely isolated
life In a shabby house and had been
dead for several days before her end was
discovered. Her win provided that u
competent medical authority examine
| my body for ten days to ascertain that
death had occurred" and then thrust
dagger through my heart three times to
make sure i am dead" The body finally
was to be cremated-
Property Left to Horses.
One OF the oldest OF the recent 'ani-
| NAL Wills is that OF Emil Won Bizony,
| which is being contested in Hungary.
Mr.. Won Bizony, a brother Of - well
years old when he died, a bachelor whc
detested women. was on bad terms with
all his family. and lived so frugally on
J his large estates that he did not spend
! one-tenth of his income In his will he
| left all OF his property, worth about
SEQ 600, to his twelve draught horses. The
| Society for the Protection of Animals at
Budapest was named as executor, and the
bequest was made a perpetual charity by
a provision that upon the death OF one
| of the horses another aged horse should
| be substituted for it and cared for. SC
| that the number, twelve, should alway.
| be maintained The relatives OF Mr..
Won Bizony contested the will, but finally
/ offered the society $4,000 in settlement
/ The offer was declined.
Not many New Workers know that ir
! the Dodge family of that city there is
I literally a sacred trust" The details
| Of II came out in the will OF the late
| William E Dodge, who died on August
.. 1908. His grandfather. Mr.. Dodge,
I wrote in his will, had bequeathed to him
| a fund with the injunction that the
| same should be considered as a sacred
| deposit. committed to my trust to he
| invested, and the income therefrom &c
! be devoted to the spread of the gospel
I and to promote the Redeemers kingdom
! on earth. and to be transmitted unim'
I paired TO my descendants, TO be sacredly
! devoted to the same object" Mr.. Dodge
/ passed the trust to his son and daugh-
| tiers to be perpetuated.