Show w In the prosperous city of Fordham an Illinois city of ot mills factories and railway ran shops lived Elias Ellas Clybourne urne a 8 cynical lonely man whose riches made madeno no one 01 the tte happier h Pier not even himself To him hel h hsi called one raw March evening Medford the attorney y ya a man m as u hard bard closefisted and greedy as wag himself I I am ant past seventy Medford the man said and I want ant you to draw thit up my toy will win I have never made madea a will you Yeu en see and I dont want that scamp of f a Harmon my cousin nor that lazybones of a Henry Clybourne my nephew to dance over my grave and dance they would if It I should die intestate So Ill make a will wring a tear or two from their eyes The Tha grim old fellow tellow laughed as 8 he spoke It was not a pleasant laugh to io S competent little body bod the young and with her ber st t the outer tt 6 living Jiving problem and her herl the tha inner side Bide at home this the two lived ia in comfort and peace POnds And now it was wu wasHa Ha ha ba the o a tr tin tl For the crabbed old lawyer lost lest no notime notime time in declaring himself a softer suiter for forthe forthe forthe the hand of the widows widow daughter Louise refused him hint flatly HU Ria of his ways and means mean of liv living livIng ing lug his setting forth of his hta wealth and ability to give Louise and hr mother a life of luxury and aDel ease ha bad a ano no effect deet He was WA persistent t and a alast at last lut Louise to put an end to his hi atten atan attentions at tn Hons introduced him to Henry T ton her promised ed husband A band some manly fellow tellow was this fame rame young Thurston withal possessed of nt I ci I t T Ts J s 1 t I 1 ti I 1 s hear so i thought even the hard old him Coin Gott to leave your money to char charI I suppose e Charity Well Wen you may call It that fiat niI old Clybourne by lay back In hi his bis chair closed his eyes and seemed to have forgotten the existence of Jo Josiah slab Blab Medford The lawyer l wyer waited with patience He had hud wen een aee the workings s of hatred in his gay Iy and knew the malignant desire to hurt sometimes forced to action un unwilling unwilling willing hands bands This will he under understood understood understood stood was ras to be reluctantly made but since it i must be done it was for the th purpose alone of disappointing th tha ex cx expectations of the rich mans relatives This much puch the lawyer guessed as he laid his writing materials out before him on the tabe table and prepared himself elt to writs write whenever the spirit should move old Clybourne to dictate Make it short and sure the old man plan said aid at last Short and sure I want to give and bequeath bequeth devise convey and all that you I have haye in money lands and personal per onal everything thing I possess at the I time of my death to my grand niece Louise Amberly Now you make it all 11 as tight tJ ht as a drug with your ras ran rascally rascally cally phrases Louise Loul e Amberly echoed d the sur stir lawyer I 1 know kno you had any such niece You have bave to know it till Ull now did YOu retorted the old man And now that you know it it do you just keep keepit it to yourself please for no one else eJ knows it I quarreled with Amberly before he was married and I dont be b believe lieve liew he be ever spoke poke of me to his Ills wife The lawyer bent over his writing and said saM nothing His client ent looked at him now almost approvingly When the paper had been roughly drawn up corrected and then re rewritten rewritten rewritten written it was handed to old Cly dy Clybourne Clybourne bourne After looking it Jt over care carefully carefully fully tully he signed it It first calling in two servants servant as 8 witnesses Jad Jac Amberly had bad been a black blacksheep blacksheep sheep He had bad died a glorious death one not in keeping with his life lite on the field of or battle hattie in the civil war warAn An berlys poor little wife had bad almost alIno t faded out of memory since the soldiers death Old Oki Ford Fordham Fordham ham friends did not even burden their minds to think whether she had a child or net nei But old Clybourne knew what I he h w about Without Wit out doubt Loul Loui Amber Ambe Amberly was th Ute widows daughter daU and the fact that her existence ed tenee was entirely unknown to those who hoped to be heirs to the old mans mats fortune had led relish for the grim nEt he h was playing with Death for tor a partner so So S fd Josiah Jest h Medford as he be hein in i the ie rain from his to the tb bare uninviting bachelor quarters quart rs in which he lived He Re was waB of days this man of law J Jt It was wa a 8 tradition that he had been bean married aa that his wife had died I l lOng ng nr loa lona ago and the tradition was supported by hy a 8 certain ghostly marMe marble stab b hi the he Fordham burying barring ground RO grOu But no on ORe one had bad thought of Josiah J Medford T as a 8 man of family for j these many my years Now N it t t happened that upon this very Tory night in upon which tile the lawyer bad had drawn wn up old Cly Oly Clybourn bo bourn will the dream dM of matrimonial bliss which visits at t times the most hardened devotee of single blessedness edness enthralled the soul of Josiah Medford lI Th The morrow Iv saw w him Im on his way to tot th t I D T iIO M Pr 11 h veiled inQ inQui i rt f JI I some reason to be believe lieve Louise 1 Amberly and her widowed mother in therIn In that city be he made madea a short shott stay and rind then returned to Fordham In May the old 1 J yer er declared that he stood in need a 3 t vacation and without more ado i 1 i his doors and departed dep rt He Betook took book up a temporary residence re den e in ina Ina Ina a hotel in Chicago Chicaro and was introduced by an elderly clergyman with whom he bad had renewed ren a slight acquaintance to tvs Mrs Amberly and her daughter Lot e Amberly Ambery was a pretty roy rosy cheeked checked girl who oho worked for her bread and that thalo of her mother She was a very little of ot this worlds world I We are to be married as aa soon as we have saved enough eD to t make ke a little hone home for tor ourselves our explained Louise with a world of love Jove and pride in her voice Josiah iah Jo Medford went home bome raging ra Ill rn spoil her prospects for her ber the minx he muttered and he be went straightway to old Clybourne with the Hell see aee what a fool tool she is to throw over money and naiL marry a poor grubbing railway clerk cler and aDd ItU be the he heend end of that will so the disappointed suitor reasoned Old Clybourne listened to the law lawyers lawyers lawyers tale He Be said nothing and Medford went ent away feeling puzzled The next morning old Clybourne wrote the widow Amberly rIt It has bas done me good he be ended his letter to know there is 18 such auch a thing as real love in the world To Io be sure sure money cant nt buy everything Do come and visit me you and an Louise LouIR and I will help belp the girl girt out in her preparations preparations for marriage I am pm thankful to have it proved to me that money is ill not all aJl In hi all an to everyone as it is I and al always always 1 ways must be to me it has not made me happy happ And so 80 the old lawyer was complete completely ly routed horse foot loot and dragoons but old Clybourne thought none the less of him after all an for tor his enter enterprise enterprise prise price Its failure had made a bright spot in his shriveled up old heart Louise Amberly married her ber young lover and old Clybourne is I alive yet No one but his attorney shares with him the secret of the wilL Some day chuckles chuc old Cl Clybourne some day therell be a surprise But no io one will ever be more any sur surprised than was Wal Elias Elms Clybourne when wen he be found out that money d nt rule me everybody Copyright nOl liOl by W R B Hearst o i u m FAMOUS DO Declaration of Independence denee IB Is oW Practically Blank p Louisville As a physical seeable thing thine the famous Declaration of Independence is Ie no more snore The stirring text and the signatures of the members of the tile continental congress have bave faded away This precious document is preserved in a cabinet in the state tate department library but ft it is now practically noth nothing nothIng ing more than a large sheet beet of t parch nh parchment p parchment ment on which no legible gible I writing ap appears appears appears pears Part of ot the words worda Declaration of Independence which were written in large letters with many ornamental flourishes are decipherable Not a signature is visible to the naked eye One hardly discernible stroke of JAn Jhn Hancocks pen is all that remains of or his bold and vigorous autograph which he purposely mule made large larae as to show the British government that he had no fear of or being known The declaration is preserved in a narrow drawer glass covered which slides in a steel safe with heavy double doors locked by a heavy hea 7 combination After its removal to the state depart department depa ment went from Independence ball bail in Philadelphia Phila delphia where the continental con congress cc gross gress held its session on July 4 1778 1716 the declaration n was placed in a glass case and exposed to the view of visit visitors v visitors lt ors Owing to the strong light to which it was subjected it began an to fade and was wag then removed to the drawer in which it is l now preserved The fading continued however until now DOW the not noted noted noted ed document is nothing not bing apparent apparently t ly Iy than a mere blank |