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doubtless sees, though he may think 1t
far away, the very grave in which he
is to lie. 1t is solemn and heart
searching hour and very depressinS
performance. Il bequeath my body.
whence 1t came and my soul to God
who gave 1t, hoping for happy i'm
mortality through the atoning merit OF
our Lord Jesus Christ, the Savior OF
our world"
memorandum book, which he kept in
his desk, william E. Gladstone COM
mended himself ''to the infinite mercies
of God in the incarnate Son as my
only and sufficient hope"
And the testimony of J. Pierpont
Morgan to his faith in the great truth
of the Scriptures gives to his will a
religious value which the church and
the world will always recognize. Il
commit my SOUL" so this remarkable
document reads, into the hands of my
Savior, in full confidence that, having
redeemed 1t and washed 1T In His most
precious blood, He will present 1t
faultlessly before the throne of my
Heavenly Father; and I entreat my
children to maintain and defend, at all
hazard and any cost of personal sac
rifice, the blessed doctrine of the COM
plete atonement for sin through the
blood of Jesus Christ, once offered, and
through that alone"
Husbands are still leaving all their
worldly possessions to their wives, but
more and more of them. witnessing
the mutations of life. are placing their
estates. through the agency of trust
companies. beyond the reach Of over
fond mothers. speculative sons and I'M
wisely welded daughters.
About the saddest sight one can
imagine Frederick H. Golf, president
of a large bank. a lawyer grown rich
in the service Of millionaires. whose
wills he wrote incidentally. told the
author of this article, lis an aged wom-
an reduced to poverty, who was once
accustomed to plenty. I have seen
many such cases."
Billions Of dollars. actually, In stocks.
bonds and mortgages, belonging to
corporations. are held in trust by the
banks of New York. Hundreds of mil
lions of securities are also held for
individuals. One Of these banks. at
the head of which is Alexander J.
Hemphill, has capital Of 100000,
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unless he manages to come again.
Paris had as close shave as Nine
yah. But admire Nostradamus! wheth-
er 45 degrees be the sensational and
unprecedented trajectory Of German
great guns (Which astonished the
world), or some new deviltry from
Zeppelins, how could Nostra damus, in
1850. have imagined such "sky-burn-
ing for 1915?
There is much more, much confused:
but I must skip.
Admire the happy ending!
On the head of the king obviously
of Prussia. the German empire having
crumbled). the Pope TAugur) places
a protecting and pardoning hand. be-
cause he has come to sue for the
Italian peace" And, really, I must
quote what follows textually:
"A la main gauche viendra changer 10
sceptre,
De Roy viendra Emperor pacifiaus,"
In a word, the Pope fixes it all I'D,
He will change the sceptre to Will
liam's left hand 1--WE ali know VIII.
liam's infirmity): and he who was EN-
peror becomes pacific king. / admit
that Nostradamus gets 1t upside down
he says that the king becomes pacific
emperor. Seers have these diversions.
letters Of word.
I say there is more, much splendid,
some mixed.
For instance. which is Ferdinand the
Blond-he of Bulgaria or Rumania:
Both are blends. by birth and habit.
the Coburg and the Hohenzellern.
And Ferdinand the Blond will be along
To quit the Flower France. feur de-
lys), follow the Macedon (Greece),
II reeds be, weakening his route
OF march against the Myrmidon will
liam).
Now, I'll bet anything that it will all
clear up, as events proceed. Is 1t not
wonderful? You can buy these texts
and read them, printed clean in 1905.
and in great libaries see the originals.
What could Nostradamus. in 1860, have
guessed of the two Ferdinands and
their crooked calculations in 1915?
1t is timely. II cloudy.
Nostradamus expressly stated. in his
letter to Henri II. that he wished to
spread himself on the common fate In
mysterious and enigmatic oracles." so
as mot to scandalize the weakness OF
mind of those who read"
He did it. STERLING HELLO.
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do not know how, but I see them going
with the speed of BIRDS" He predicted
the second empire. the republic and
the grand monarch-who has not yet
arrived and shows no sign. Before
the grand monarch he places 1.-The
great unhappinesses," with blood to
the horses belly-bands." His woe to
Paris begins in the eighth paragraph,
but:
"s. Between the cries of All is lost"
and All is saved" there will be, SO to
speak. no interval, no more than the
time to turn a fap-jack (virer une
galette)."
The equally famous cure of AIRS, in
1855. foretold two more Germanic in
vasions of France" The first came
with paragraph -:
r2. They (the Germans) will de-
mand more. and return.
'13. This time they will fight for
good. But how they will fight; oh,
how they will fight.
IA They will let Paris burn. and
be content.
as. But France will beat them, and
chase them for good"
/ must give it as it is written. In
most Of these prophecies, the threat
against Paris is as strong. almost, as
it was against Ninevah. Yet Ninevah
was spared; and so, 1t seems. Is Paris.
/ must choose among the thirty-two
prophets. There Is not space for half
of them.
That of Anna Catherine Emmerich
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G774-1s24) has had vogue everywhere:
Her books of piety are still sold in
England and America. Foretelling the
world war, she gives wonderful in
dication of date-the demons" being a
irrelevance common enough in true
prophets.
II saw that the great city (Paris)
was undermined. A number of demons
activated the subterranean work, and
the city seemed on the point of caving
in. on spots where great buildings
raised themselves"
OF course, it is the metropolitan sub
way. whose cave-ins astonished the
world less than a year before the war
broke out. In 1905, when the baron
copied the prediction, nobody dreamed
of the possibility of such thing.
Nostradamus. greatest of them all,
is full Of personal touches. The most
brilliant accomplishments of his CEN
turtles must be picked out of seeming
irrelevancies.
So, more or less. with all. The gold
is found in clay.
Indeed, the favorite counselor of
Henry II, Francis II and Charles IN
of France, in constructing his grabbed
verses, willfully accumulated complica-
tions of style and language.
Yet, as events happen, those who be-
lieve in Nostradamus seem to find the
curtain of incomprehensibility lift itself
and the entire history of France since
Valois times comes out according to
the centuries,
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Conkling. Of Utica, N. v" so it reads.
do make. publish and declare my last
will and testament as follows: I give,
devise and bequeath to my wife, Julia,
and to her heirs and assigns forever.
all OF my property and estate, whether
real, personal or mixed, and ! consti-
tute my said wife sole executrix of this
will"
AS executrix. Mrs. Conkling settled
the estate, paid its debts and collected
its credits. and thus saved a fee which
necessarily would have gone to some
one else for performing that service.
The settlement of an estate is often "a
heavy tax on the principal.
:,
The literature of wills. could it be
gathered into book, would make a
humorous. unique. and. in spots, pa
thetic story. Shakespeare, in the will
he prepared a month before his death,
omitted all mention of Ann Hathaway,
his wife. A codicil, however, gave her
my second best bed with it's furni-
ture."
Il remember" wrote a man in Boston,
all of my cousins, aunts, uncles and
grandfathers, but I give them nothing "
Leaving property: mostly in farms.
ministrator Of Abraham Lincolns es-
tate, a senator in Congress and a JUS
tice of the Supreme Court Of the United
states, earnestly enjoined ION my chill
dren to love each other. to take care of
the estate given them and to divide it
without controversy and in a spirit of
good will. consulting each others
wishes. and to act in harmony in all
matters while they live. and, finally, not
to suffer any Of the poor relatives of
their mother or father to come to want.
You can in no better way" he put down
with ink on paper. 'honor the memory
Of your father and mother"
Anciently. when British Wills were in
Latin, an acre or COW was at times
set apart that a rood light might be
kept burning in the parish church." A
provision in the will Of David Dudley
Field, the celebrated New York lawyer,
was similar in character. The sum of
5000 WAS given to the town of Stock
bridge, Mass. "in trust. to be applied
forever to the care and decoration of
the cemetery wherein repose the bodies
of SO many members of my family, and
where I wish my own to rest, and to
the ringing. once a day. at least, of the
chimes In the tower built by me and
overlooking the cemetery"
In writing his will many . man
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1 can only take up Nostradamus for
the present war and events immediate
ly connected. For example. the French
republic will last until 1921. Thus he
dates it (and the republic was chased
away several times and returned):
t'She who was chased. returns to rule,
Her enemies conjured.
More than ever her time triumphS,
Three-and-seventy to too-sure death. '
II we take the year 1S4S as the end
of monarchical government in France.
the addition of seventy-three years
brings US to 1921.
Before which must intervene the
great war.
Nostradamus brings in Italy, Turkey.
everything! by the power of three
temporal kings, the seat of the Pope
will be removed, for the Sovereign
(vIII 99). France and Italy will smash
Turkey, "crying victory over great
Selin Crescent. by the Romans the
Eagle acclaimed"
The eagle seems to be England.
:.
Nostradamus calls the kaiser the
SKY burned"
He gives an. exact date for. the Ger
man aggression:
1.-THE year when Saturn conjuncts in
water
With the Sun, a powerful king
At Rheims and AK is received and
ONT,
After conquests numbering innocents.'
Away back in 1909 the Paris Echo
du Merveilleux calculated that there
would be conjunction of the sun with
Saturn in the sign of the crab in 1915.
1916 and 1917. Men talked about it
and understood nothing.
Here we have the kaiser-just his
style. He was at Rheims in 1914, ar
ranging, exactly, to be anointed king
of Francois he told everybody at the
time--but missed the connection. Now
he is at AK, any day he pieases (AiN
is still. for the moment, Germany. In
between, we see him pounding down
toward Paris-and the battle of the
Marine:
What hideous mortality approaches,
Except that an offense there be par
donedl
Five-and-forty degrees burning the
sky,
To approach with fire the great new
city"
Evidently the offense was pardoned-
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Tnere are trust companies of estab
lished reputation and large resources
the officers and principal Shareholders
of which are the most honest, success
ful, experienced and prudent men of the
communities in which they live. II
anything human is sound and safe 1t
must be a trust company SO owned and
anaged.
Occasionally. however. there is a
trust company of A different character.
A man, accordingly, must choose WISE
ly when he names a trust company in
his will. Having done So there is no
danger of his estate being looted after
he is in his grave.
"A trust department in trust COM
pany is separated from the rest of the
bank. Our trust funds are kept In a
safe by themselves. Two sets of Of
ficers know the combination of the
vault, and two other sets the combina-
ton of the safe inside the vault or
course, there might be collusion be-
tween high officers of a bank, and an
estate could be depleted. In that event,
the bank would have to make the loss
good"
Can trust company speculate with
trust funds?
NO; at least, not in the state of New
, York. 1t cannot touch funds left in
it's care. Nor can the beneficiaries
under a trust speculate with its funds.
/ have already told you how an estate
must be invested. If it is not handled
as the law directs the bank will suffer
Would it be possible for man to
leave his estate in the joint custody
of a trust company and his wife, or
his children or friend?"
That could be done. Indeed. L have
more than once recommended such an
arrangement. The only objection to a
plan of that sort is that the wife or
friend might be i'll or absent when
some business of the estate ought to
be transacted A bank is never Ill or
out of town.
Your question" Mr.. Hemphill con-
tinued, leads me to saw that it was
a common practice formerly for men to
leave their estates to the care and
management of sons. brothers. friends
or partners. The tragic history Of many
an estate, however, shows that 1t is
disastrous. very often. to turn ones
property at death over to ones rela-
tions. business associates or comrades.
"A solvent. sound and sane man to-
day. may be insolvent, unsound and
half crazy a year hence. No one can
cannot tell. Then there is the man
who is sure that he will put it back
tomorrow or next week. But he doesn't.
1T may not be known generally"
Mr.. Hemphill said in conclusion, that
trust companies also take care OF the
property of persons who are away
from home, collecting the rents due
to such persons, attending to their divi-
dends and clipping their coupons. So.
picks the right kind OF trust COM
pany, his business is looked after
promptly and with painstaking care"
Copyright. 1918, by James B. Morrow)
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S.scal Correspondence of The Star.
PARIS. September 8. 1915.
n re Paris and Rome to have a
M great scare-from fleets of Yep
N\ pelins or armies with can
e y non?
Between the cries of "All is lost"' and
Gall is saved" will there be scarcely
time to turn fiap-jack"?
Many claim that the thing has already
happened to Paris. at the battle of the
Marine. In that great danger. miracu-
lousy averted. the "sky-burning" can
non of the kaiser were, undoubtedly,
pointed at As degrees" on 1.-The grand
new city"-but did not have time to
explode.
prophecies, which contain no ultimate
threat to civilization. Or the contrary,
like that Of Mont St. Michel. they pre-
dict the triumph of sweetness and light.
4
Preserved for centuries in the treas
ury of Mout ST Michel, the prophecy OF
Richard de Toussaint, dated 1922. Is the
most curious Of them all.
1t is composed entirely of pictures.
They are eight Oiu paintings ""i>ii
now, for the first time. coincide and ex-
plain themselves.
The first picture shows eight crowned
figures, by name. France. Spain Glow
countries), Germany, England. Italy,
Poland and Muscovia. eve know how
wildly Poland is concerned at pres
emit; and Muscovia is Russia.) Only
Germany bears arms and shield. Into
her ear the demon of discord whispers.
The second shows a palace in city
all commotion. Men look anxiously
over a balcony. 1t is Paris, and the
inscription runs: "Woe to thee: repent,
city of philosophers"
The third is Rome, with the arch of
Titus, etc. Its inscription. which was
always deemed incomprehensible. indi-
Gates the date of these dire doings:
Woe to thee; repent, Rome. when thy
walls shall hear the praise of the let
ter k
The fourth shows seven figures, Ger
many being omitted. They stand in
field, their naked swords on the grass.
A flying angel hovers' above one OF
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poverished by careless. Incompetent or
dishonest trustees that banks in recent
years have undertaken the manage
ment of estates under laws. in many
instances, regulatory of their fees and
the nature of their investments. They
see, in the first place, that the wills of
the men, whose property ultimately is
to be administered by them. are clearly
written and proof against successful
attacks in court.
short will, by the omission OF some
simple requirement. may not be worth
the ink with which 1t was written.
This will is wholly in my handwrit-
ing" Justice Lurton of the United
States Supreme Court added at the end
of his testament, nevertheless II was
void in the District of Columbia for
want of witnesses to the signature.
James K. Polk, President of the
United States, a university man, a stu
den, in law under Felix Grundy, leader
of the Tennessee bar. and very sue
cessful lawyer himself, wrote a will
that was set aside after trial before
a Judge.
Dying, he left his home and several
acres of land, on which his tomb was to
be located, to his wife. and, at her
death. ito the worthiest relative bear
ing the name of Polk and at the death
of that fortunate person. to another
worthy Polk. the designation to be
made by the governor Of the state. The
property, situated in Nashville and val
d
among all the heirs -at-law. the court
holding that Polk had attempted to en-
tail HIS estate.
Formerly many estates consisted in the
main of houses and farms--not Of stocks
and bonds. fuctuating in price-the
value of which remained about the
same from year to year. 1t so hap
pened. therefore. that wives came into
the property by will and managed 1t in
their own names. George Washington
in a will filling twenty-four pages, left
all he possessed, with certain excep,-
tons. to my dearly beloved wife, Mar
tina Washington"
After minor gifts. Alexander T. Stew
art. the great merchant. gave, devised
and beaueathed" his store and other
possessions to my dear wife, Corne-
liza NJ. Stewart" James G. Blaine, ex-
cept $50 to each child and SIS to each
grandchild. and Roscoe Conkiing. his
enemy politically. left everything to
their wives. Conkling, a famous law :
yer. wrote a document that is pattern
of brevity and legality: Il. Roscoe
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their number. displaying the inscrip-
ton: Listen to him, because he is our
friend"
The fifth shows the Pope, seated.
blessing the seven leaders, not eight.
In the sixth they chase the Turks
from Europe. The seventh continues
the destruction of the Turkish en-
pire And the eighth, with the words.
Prophecy found in the tomb of Con-
stantine," shows a tomb covered with
emblems.
1t is the tomb of untruth.
I give them as curiosities.
1t is Gods own command, in Jere-
miah
When not sure, give them as curiosi
ties So went the word to those old
parties who were going about, saying:
Il have dreamed, 1 have dreamed"
'-The prophet that hath a dream. let him
tell dream. and he that hath my word.
let him tell it faithfully"
Yet. really, these seem different from
either.
They seem like pieces of a broken
lens. The light may come through
each fragment imperfectly. but, united,
the result astonishes. Here are thirty
in the past 500 years. have rolled up a
wave of predictions on apparently pres
ent times, some, which seemed dark,
becoming suddenly clear, others coin
Gliding with themselves and the times.
and yet others fulfilling. What shall
we think?
The oldest of them is that called Of
st. Thomas Aquinas, in the year 1927
Iiber Mirabilis). All through the in
tervening centuries it remained incom :
prehensible-when? At present, it
seems clear as noon; but who, two
years ago. could have made sense Of
the now plain Indications:
rs. Woe to you, Liguria (northwest
italy,, and to you, blood Elan
ders
IS. The schism will be overthrown
when the oak (England?). in its fall,
brushes the Wild Boar. els there any
doubt about the identity of the Wild
Boar?)
81. Weep. Babylon (prophetic name
for Paris). what sad days threaten
you!
IS. The kings advance from the four
corners.
80. The arrow from Italy. speeding
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ments likewise can be made in United
States, state and municipal bonds, and
in bonds of certain high-class railroads.
''In short, trust funds can only be in
vested in the securities that are open
by law to savings banks. Stocks can
not be purchased at all Bonds, you
understand, are mortgages on property
Stocks, on the other hand, indicate
merely an interest in the business OF
the companies which issued them"
But II . testator dies possessed OF
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certain railway or industrial stocks.
which he directs are to be retained,
must his trustees sell them and re-
invest the proceeds in such securities
as are described in the law governing
trust companies?" Mr.. Hemphill was
asked.
NO, the stocks may be kept. If. how
ever. no specific mention is made of
them in the will, they must be sold.
ago, cannot be invested in stocks"
could dishonest trust company use
an estate to its own proht2"
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ar Prophecies in Old, Treasured Paintings

Sunday Correspondent Paris Writes Odd Predictions
Foren Date Details Outcome the
Ksehen Shall Know the Letter * Eight Old Paintings
Which Coincide
nomprehensbe Investigations
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Alexander Hnph Head the World Tells How
Will May Be Drawn Up Such Manner Insure Safety for Wives and Daughters
Poverty Brought Wills Number
Notable AmecHowa Will Should Be WenWy Folks Will Was VGdNo
Speculation Possible When Right Kind of a Will Is Made
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WIDOW, her new and crinklv
k\ weeds smelling of black dye,
N\ handed the paying teller in
= y one of the largest national
banks of the middle west a check for
$4,000. signed by the officers of j New
York life insurance company.
man at her side. known to the
teller. said: The name on the check is
the name of this lady. ] identify her
with pleasure"
The man Immediately walked away.
A moment later he was seen pausing
at the door. The teller. when he was
in his cage, affected an empty and dis
Interested countenance. but one of his
eyes was telescope, while the other
was microscopic. He pretended to
scrutinize the check and then. as if it
were matter of routine business. car
ried il back to the president.
"A woman out there" he said, snap
ping his head toward the front door.
has slo.0D0 and a man is trying to
take il away from her
Send her to me-" the president re-
piled.
There was d long dialogue between
the widow and the president which
IL would be useless TO repeat, except TO
say that the widow thought il impos-
sible for any one to live on $500 a
year. the gum of the interest on $4,000,
at per cent. the going rate a the
savings banks in that particular city.
! friend Of her dead husband. and
she dabbed each eye with her mourn
ing handkerchief. knew where she
lat. z IA
she understood that bankers would dis
approve of the venture she had In
mind. but bankers-and this was said
very wisely. though pleasantly--bor-
rowed money as cheaply as possible
and loaned II for all they could get.
Were the fortunes of Mr. Rockefeller
and Mr.. Carnegie. she asked. smiling
confidently. built up on q return of
only per cent?
The woman, of course was merely
echolng the waiting man at the door.
In the end, but the end did not come
for week. the banker, and he Is re-
banker in the United States, led the
widow away from the pitfali which the
friend of her dead husband had dug
for her ruin. financially. All the rec
ompense he received was the con-
seriousness that he had helped the I'M
sophisticated wife of a man he had
never seen.
Every man who has been brought up
properly or has the right instincts" he
told the writer of this article wants
10 protect his mother and sisters and
after he is married. his wife and
daughters. but he dies. as likely as
not. and leaves them and their inheri-
lance unguarded against disaster"
,
The care of estates is becoming a
science in this country. SO many wild
ows and their children have been i'm
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The care of estates is becoming n
science in this country. SO many wild =
ows and their children have been i'm =