Show SORRY THAT Each Delaware Han Finds it Too Easy to Die Poor OC w York World Alexander Jackson of Camden Del wishes he to give away his before ha to the most deserving He finds it would have been far better to have disposed of it by n ill illas as other do He has been simply overwhelmed ith letters and personal appeal for a share of the Mr Jackson is 75 years old He fig figured out a few days ago like the Psalmist that his days were numbered So he decided to save lawyers fees and to give away what he had to leave be before fore he passed to that bourne whence no traveler returns Having no chil children dren he quite know what to todo do with his wealth He would give It Presto His decision reached the four corners of the country Widows aget pensioners Sunday schools seminaries a hundred wrote a day for fora a slice of that It looked as if all struggling humanity saw In Mr Jackson a chance for comfort and aid Bach mall swamped him with letters in Increasing quantities They in geometrical ration The report tha he had few kith or kin had spread Ilk it began to look as if every everybody body in United States felt entitled o at least half of tile Mr Jackson had accumulated The C m den postmaster began figuring whether he would resign because of or demand that his be put jn an another other class proportionate to the of mail matter handled Things today reached such ft that It took two horses to carry Mr Jacksons mail to his home from the railway station where the letters sorted I have made a mistake Mr Jack Jackson son confessed as he stood amid a pile of 1000 letters which had just arrived by the last mail I should have quiet quietly ly handed my bequests to my benen without saying a word about It But I and now I Ive got to stand it I know ther were so many poor people in the United States who needed immediate assist assistance ance An eager solicitor who had heard of the distinguished Camden citizens took the liberty to write a few lines and before he had finished his letter numbered twelve pages im importuning Mr Jackson for a part of his Another man was old and a t of a afew few thousand could alone save him from going to the Old Mans home One woman had just been left a with five children none able to help earn the daily bread One Sunday school had just obtained a new organ and owed a balance that would make them lose the fine instrument unless hey had immediate aid Mr Jackson sent after two nephew o one of whom he had given a farm near Marydel and the other a fine store n Camden and set them to work opening and tearing up the letters as part of their return for his munificence Among the prominent educators appealed to Mr Jackson for a oe queSt was the Conference academy through its principal the Rev Vaughan S Collins Mr Collins succeeded in getting a longer talk with Mr Jackson than did the other applicants cants who appeared In person but Mr Jackson replied that he curtain was down the first and ast act of this wonderful romance of wealth |