Show A mysterious legacy DY ANNIE SHIELDS it wa 4 an old piece of business nil all round it ad I 1 am the only 0 1 3 ly person IV who ho knows all about it T io 0 lie bo sure you nay may say choto was VM the lawyer labye r who drew draw up tho the will but ho he did no not know the tho motive and na as for mrs mia kern herself if she aha was ill the ilia most of nil biow I 1 have to myself bobear to hear her tor for she bho was wag quite confidential with rus me why doctor slie she would say 1 I 1 ta never ever saw old urs mrs dorwyn la ia my life I 1 had hearil hear of other her but never until I 1 came cicma to merten it is t the be thing mra kern was not a native of merton alerton but came there willian invalid husband ual and two mites of children for country air I 1 being tho the only clark was soon boon culled called to in tu to a ec c a mr kern ceru who was slowly dying I 1 0 of f con flump tion and had bad been pont cent froma from a large city to try to t keep the feeble spark adark of life aglow by country air air and ana diet mrs kora kern was a splendid eplen did musi ciati and had bad obtained tho the position of organ itt in our froni from lettera of indro to boano oak of our leading main hers in ID the same bame WHY way she started a data class 0 I 1 scholars Ba iolas amongal our wealthy wi althy P people eople aud and was thoa thas ahl able a to support her family with comfort if not very luxuriously their cottage WM waso mall but nicely furnished bud tild tho little girls ware ceru patterns pit pAt terna teras of neatness it was not long before my profession al interest was as aa much given to mrs kern as aa to my fay actual patient patie ut and with ut far greater concern because in her case recovery was while with her bisband Iiii band wo could do no boio ti linn smooth his bis passage to J tho he grave she was a deader blender delicate I 1 looking coking woman refined in manner gentle ad pleasant sant and with tho the moot cheerful che erfal face to meet lueel troubles tron lles I 1 oversaw ever over linw saw Show pretty and ami her dress always the ho per faction of neatness catu ess was vas of the cheap eat lat lier her brailo was like and her voice never took it a dolorous twang under ander any yet with will nil all this thia sunny sweet even temper toi aper and gentle care cara for tiie he invalid mrs kern kera was ono ona ot of those quiet mart ia aitra to who bear tho ilia ills attendant upon overwork ind and mental menta etrain raj unflinchingly day and right eight he attended her husband I 1 only leaving in 9 him to give her music legoo lassoer lassoes las nf and then leaving him with jennie a middle aed agad servant wor wormack malk who did aid the work ol of the small email lio I 1 have bavo seen her bar uita great drops of perspiration vr wrung uns from her by severe bevera physical pain u upon von her face heading bonding over tho the abick led ler her voice low bull anil soothing Booth ms her hands bands in active ministration with no ile sign of her own agony save lava those involuntary ones my alone do de I 1 vainly tried to male make her save me herself net iler watchword was duty and her will overcame her weakness weal prostrate ono day with the agonizing headaches of 0 physical sho she was waa out tha next basy baay nith liar hor scholar or tip I 1 ill night lending houding her husband when b lio a died rho aha jay lor or days on en passive pat sive nil all energy gone tor for the time liker ber heart cra fiLed with irith grief her frame for once without alio rolina power to aroneo it to action bat rho ibe was not the t to 0 lot each grief over come lier ler manifest ilnay and nit mother love came caine to rouse her bar unoo once moro more the dreary tread treadmill mill b began g a a tu to seat air latr lody body low cow still 1118 sa I 1 fitted for its ita burdens buri leni tin an d 1 I 1 could only i help her to temporary relief relict and strength that perfect rest 1 would res tolio to 10 its r cattral strength one of the lio tau abot t perfect I 1 evs eve saw aull auk ask any n lo in this thia connary what mile hill a I 1 dare dara not name of his patients and in lio he will toll tell you at nee over anxiety ra eking the brain overa oi r cr cranou eliou nou the body tilt allm gillo set ever going on OB ami his not the lio poor only but ith tin til realy wealthy yet et loop up the grinding tares cures it business all ali how I 1 longed for maimy in fit those days Ys who when n I 1 wali wat elied mis MIH kern tread lieal ing a path I 1 knew anen must awl in in death il phout the ibo power to stop to her ter for bior her chil children dreu its fur for her husband elio eho toiled tin out her home duties were veto so BO elio B lie never lover turned from the ills palls calls of hu or charity chant many a bell bei citera poverty were ltd its darkest frown frami will was soothed by her gentle I 1 many a dainty dish came from berhand lier bunds sto to thoo poorer than ihna licis elf it was for me ino to avoid knowing all this us as rio 11 0 of merton hail bail no lie in tint lint lint but it was it in vain that hint I 1 nigerl mrs hirs ceru eru to spare barbell ono one would think I 1 was nm hicl 60 boull say to me IBO when I 1 only have bavo a cough that I 1 havo have had for bull and sometimes neuralgia 1 are aie you 3 ou ever freo free from pain paia V well no not entirely but bat it is la bearable and so BO I 1 come to tuy my mysterious legacy I 1 had lauy t times mes toll mrs kern that it she would give up her scholars null and obey nio me implicitly for six eix motthew niort lis she blie could ile ba ana at last batt I 1 ilij dij what wo we of the healing profession Bion shrink most from doing I 1 told her that thai if sho she did not cot she must arvak down hopelessly 11 but bat toe see the ehe pleaded jiow how ofton often I 1 break down and yet iet get up dp again I 1 cannot give up my work mail ami see bee my my children starve what could I 1 say aay I 1 had argal upon her lite necessity necea sity of rast placed before her the danger in which she mike stood and I 1 was waa powerless to do more it was just at this timo time that mrs dorwyn abo owner of balf merton and heiress to three fortunes liter her fathers tier her mother s and hor her hubai iila wan wal tadeu dangerously ill she waa oleo ol of my patients of course but B aa hall but bat beldom called upon my professional services eel vices having carried ber eighty y cars of life almost without pain or cr disease e 60 still wo we ivere the boat ot of friends frenda charitable Oban table and kindhearted kind hearted she le often made me the medium of distributing her charities chan ties where I 1 knew ct jessing need aud and when my professional services acre not required she ahi gave mo me cordial welcome atsa friend 0 of thirty years her illness was fatal from the first but elo jul bit but t little 0 bun ednag mad and her c was wonderful many a talk lalk we wa had when I 1 had finished my visits and in ia one ona of these she sail ni 1 to mo me 11 tolt tell nio me of somo some charity chanty for merton to which I 1 can leive leave I 1 n portion of my wealth my husbands money I 1 have left to his hia relatives lint I 1 burn riot licit one living who cn can claim chin me as related to him I 1 stand alone and I 1 liiva ili posed of my own property ia benefits bandits to publio public institutions but bat I 1 shoals like to do some borne other good goal liero hero you know so BO many of 0 our poor people tell m mo 0 where small sums say aay tivo five hundred dollars each can be distributed to do some good with much wo we inada oat a list and then the she said 11 I 1 have still ten thousand thou dollars for foe merton like an inspiration canko to me ma the thought of the preciou lite that money speaking would save BAVO the hie income at bt ton ten thousand dollars would give civo mrs kern a support enable liar her to devote herself to her children to bo be the good angel of many n poor homo home and yet to rest from tie the momo monotonous labor that was waa wearing out outlier her strength 1 and I il depriving her of her power of usefulness ful ness it was a bold thing thine to do and mrs dorwyn looked rather scanned at the a of my proposal but bat I 1 allied her or to leave the money in in oua one sum BUM to a 3 total stranger who was not na an object of charity 11 bat you toll tell me she mile earns a comfortable for table support she said at the price prica of her life it is such it a strange thing to do to leave so BO largo a sum BUM to nn ito entire stranger Bt ranger I 1 enid ifft if it were only lono done oftener ottah ener ene it if the millionaires who leave ind im sums to to la be doled out in in temporary relief would sometimes look out for few faw of 0 the hardworking individuals who bie struggling beyond their strength and give them a sum buin to intaro au an income fuz fox life I 1 how many noble true women who would glend their time in usefulness must work their alren strength ath away in toll toil for daily bread olang illing lit at lital last in sin an hospital or dependent upon the grudging hospitality of relatives a BB poor Bs it wan waa one me of my hol holweg hobb Wea iea this an n fering eriar of what may lu bu called 11 genteel poverty the ibl class IOD PrOUd to ask for or help bel p while brainer brain or baud ona can work bad and yet unlit ted to meet the ha morigh blasts bUsta of poverty and I 1 used nil all say my eloquence mrs gre dorwyn to lo ile bo un nn convinced chor I 1 loft hoi her it was such in an odd tiling thing to dot it is thing to 10 lo do I 1 dijol 16 but it will restore a faful lifo life to health and strength streng tb five it mother to two anro children tin an I 1 filmily believe Leli evo I 1 d do moro more good than the same money will ill i do split up in small email charities or dist distributed r ili in publio 1 when 0 old ld mrs dorwyn died I 1 had gous gone to cincinnati to nt arl tho the fan anner or al ol of my BOOB wife und and I 1 win VM absen t two weeks a brother practitioner arora hiilton II ilton ten miles milea distant I 1 irom merton merlon taking tailing my place on oa my return in giving me ma tin n no ao I 1 count ol of hia bill madd no mention of mrs mra kern arn anil not I 1 annil lie be had not been called I 1 ia a to moo BOO her ber I 1 know that pho ho was waa not fond of now cow taws and conclude 1 that mile blie had bail preferred to trust to her own judgment if until myre turu I 1 but tit olo ol of my first cilla wa at the little cottone cot toge where I 1 found fauna my friend in it kato of bewildered excitement I 1 doctor I octor aha li esail babil you hivo often ilea I 1 ina ills health if I 1 woul I 1 div up ru ni be colars and obey ou imi illicitly chii inu still promise that 1 I 1 thinh I 1 c au 11 under 11 der 11 hiir orders thou then my icho larow lire are already arnol to fetn got it low teacher doctora mis doreyn dm 3 n lia left mu me ten thou thousand sAud dol IMBI I 1 never saw herl and the in lu dovake is in it t bo i paid from ills date of lir ft death ilent li until the is la f tit it id lien ilia capital wilt wil t lie ba tit nt my mv disposal why ion a do bell haftl so M d nil its I 1 anal attal liroi Brou ight alit liin hall to my Perke eit af I 1 put tit on oil au an ol of surprise and I 1 think the llin plea lewira lo wira vita already visible I 1 hobt no io tune lines in sending rey luy lot for the winter to it 11 softer climate than our new enelina will explicit 1 lint directions for her liar dully I 1 lifto IN aal ta lud resi justified I 1 lopen lit in lite hie ieng spiking mrs kein hern to merton without tiia dangerous amp torn tom willi vilu her toft boft eydi bright with health lie alth null her form ened and vigorous vigo rons there is not in nil 11 merton n more useful energetic orgelio ou wom woin own nn than llian my former pati out and it if mrs dorwyn could tta see the ilia tansy many acts ot of gentle that coma eoina ironi froin the iko little cot contag tag hawe wight still taink her legacy tit it a fi tranger waa after all ony only another form if distributing the in charities it may luay bo be that this pago horn from my iny experience makes make but it a dull story but it made mada a deep impression upon area me as the ibe practical working wf hin of one ona of my favorite theories that more good can often be ba dono done by much be luesta than in the iho more recognized form forin ol of charitable legacies evon even it if the recipient is like arn kern karn deeply my mystified stilled at her strown own foi tuno I 1 anew new york lodger Leil gei |