Show i Have You Y Y o oU Made Your Y Will Duty for People With little Property as Well Wen as for Men of Millions ILLS and nd testaments are supposed d W to be necessary when man and women omen ha have e large estates real or personal to bequeath to their heirs but people who have hae only a little property are often otten careless about this duty and und et to te attend to it Having lit little littleto little tle to til leave they either think they may mayas as well lea leave that little tg any an hap haphazard haphazard haphazard hazard chance or influenced by a av v vague ue superstition they put off ot consid considering considering ering the the e day of or their death Nobody likes to think of ot death To Tomake Tomake I make ones one will indeed brings the in inevitable inevitable i evitable hour tto no nearer but the th act forces on consciousness the certainty that the time hour is coming Furthermore though tRough the hour is itself certain th the time or method methol of at its approach is full fullor of or uncertainty VVe Ye may live to round out a Centura here and there a man does We e may ma die tomorrow by b sud sudden sudden sudden den Illness Inness or 01 accident The train may crash in a collision the steamer r spring a fatal leak the pleasure boat take lire fire the Ule mortal epidemic pounce on us s like a stealthy stealth beast of prey These are possible catastrophes Of course the probabilities If It we are well and strong are all in our favor Being in ordinary vigor obeying the laws of nature and nd occupying a healthful environment we should expect to live out our days to a I peaceful and ripe age as strong In this century at four score as men were at I forty fort years ago Everything in our modern life with I its comforts and luxuries should make I for longevity But sooner or later we must pass aSS on and leave room on the earth for our successors I Therefore Thera ore knowing that we can take nothing with us whether we own much I or little we should carefully look it o over er and decide how It Is to be divided In different localities the laws differ and a a layman should not trust tru t to him himself himself himself self to make his will unaided Secure the services of a good lawyer lawer and tell t ll him in plain terms how you want to divide di divide divIde vide your property property t R t R First Fir t In importance comes a mans provision for the comfortable maintenance maintenance ance of his widow If we have children he must secure them against want so far as he may ma Minor Nino children are tobe to tobe tobe be educated During the lifetime of or their mother sins and daughters should shourd not receive their portions if It by a di division division division vision of the estate she shall be left in independence Independence independence dependence or crippled in her means If a husband has confidence In his wife as a woman of honor justice and com common common common mon sense he m show his regard for her by b so fO making his will that she may carry on ou his plans and his children re receive receIve their portions at her death This of course is a matter for individual set settlement settlement settlement and depends d wholly on circum circumstances circumstances stances stanc Men Of or millions are re not ham hampered hampered hampered b by the rules that here apply app to tomen tomen tomen men whose estate includes only a few thousands Ans An will wUl must legally witnessed by as f any witnesses as the th Ii state approves Even an eminent law lawyer er has been known so to word ord his will that his hs legatees have hae fought bitterly over it J 1 I provisions in prolonged and furious CurIous lit j The will ilI of the late Samuel samu el J I Tilden is a case in point Mr Tile intended the bulk of his fortune to tn g go j toward the founding and perpetual en I I of a monumental library in i New York His heirs disputed It and an anable I able lawyers picked flaws in technical ties and otherwise so that eventually I the money mone was largely diverted from Iron i the tIle testators purpose The moral i 1 Is I obvious If you ou have much to bestow I enlist the best legal lesal advice you can ca i and an I have that in turn reinforced by other othe r I I I counsel e a a R r R r s I I The Time great majority of us are not mul I I We ire re e plodding pea peo PIe more or less thrifty y doing the best b be st t we can with what we nave lave Our farm f our house and lot in town our livestock our pictures our books and furniture and the savings of our hardworking I years are to be divided among our loved love d ones Among our loved ones Though we may ma be gone we want them to live JIVE liv e on under the protection of our thought under the shelter of our brooding care car e So we make the th ee most equitable will tic we e can and then sleep better at night nigh t in t the thought thou ht that life will not be b e wholly hard for them by b and by b In some states both husband and an wife to be safe devise each a will No Xo N I husband should keep his will a secret secre from his wife or If it it be the other way wa and the wife be the richer party should she keep keen her will a secret from her he r husband A will is sufficiently tant taut to be the theme of free tree and and candid candi d discussion and to be made an affair of or o f conjugal confidence Disagreeable sur sprung on the living by the dead I |