Show HE LEFT A LITTLE GIRL 2000 Provision Made by Dr McAchran for a Child He Became Attached to When She was an Infant 1 I I By the death of the late Dr Mc Achran little Clara Virginia Dwyer r becomes the heiress to the 2000 for which he was insured in the AO U AV It came about in this way and Is but one illustration of how kindly the doctor doc-tor was disposed toward the little ones When the doctor and his mother reached her1 about eleven years agp I they began housekeeping and their one servant was Mrs Mary Dwyor who had recently come from Chicago bringing bring-ing with her the Infant daughter of her fclslcr who had died a few months before be-fore Mrs Dwyer wan afraid the child would not be welcomed Into the Mc Achran household but It was and the doctors mother formed a strong affection I affec-tion for the little motherless one Mrs Dwyer however tried to keep the young thing quiet when the doctor was I around for fear of annoying him When he learned this he Issued peremptory per-emptory orders that so far as he was concerned she could make all the noise she wanted to and If that was not enough he would assist Her to make more The doctors interest In the child increased as she grew older and they became fast friends Finally when Mrs McAchran died and the doctor abandoned housekeeping he did 1 not want to part with Clara altogether and so made her his ward providing for her from time to time When he became be-came a member of the A O U W he made her his beneficiary and she so appears on the papers of the lodge a lawful dependent So to a poor little child whose mother died soon after she was born In a city far away and whose father It Is said has never claimed her there comes when she Is just on the verge of maidenhood 2000 for her to fairly begin life on Tho doctor rarely spoku of this and even the members of hjs lodge were unable last evening to recall the name of his ward but one of them did remember re-member that he said at one time I have no children of my own and do not expect to have any the child needs Home one to look after her and as mother thought a great deal of her she shall be well cared for by mo during dur-ing my life and at my death Clara was present when the only father she had ever known passed away and her grief was something pitiable She knew nothing of the provision pro-vision that had been made for her Mrs Dwyer the aunt Is I now housekeeper house-keeper for Mrs James E Jennings |