Show WHEN TO GIVE the only sure way of having ones plans canted can ted out died the other day in Kew York an old merchant who had been always conspicuous for directed energy in business and for simplicity 0 not put down on the the great millionaires nor even on that longer one of men who though not millionaires were still very wealthy the modesty of his living had on the list of the fairly well to do hiis success in business his unostentatious life his high character as a man a citizen and a merchant all testified to hia good sense judgment and ability when his will was mhd philadelphia ledger it was found that possessor of several millions variously rop sibe to ten it was also a vcr of his bayo the cabe of caca af and as to again demay strife his good sense and sound judg c hopah he elul not as so many do M make a one sided anac mortem bargain with the recipients of his bounty that they should use it in the erection of buildings or in the endowment of chairs or in any other way leading to the perpetuation of his name and his charitable disposition he made no bargain at all with them but ordered the various bequests to them to be used as in the judgment of the colleges should to them seem best wise and generous as he was in giving well he lacked the wisdom of giving timely aike so many others who have greatly desired that the wealth accumulated by them should go to the helping of the world he In trusted the work of distribution to executors instead of doing it himself the result is the rather common one his will is contested is if possible to be set aside and bisbe nevolena purposes are to be defeated had lie himself done in life that which he directed his executors to do when he was dead be would have had the assurance that it was certainly and well done the great schools alie usefulness of which he desired to increase would have had their usefulness increased beyond peradventure and his light of charity would have so shone before men as to servo as an example and an incentive to others to emulate it As it is his purposes of well doing may alli be frustrated and the millions which he wished should and which he anticipated would be employed in extending the beneficial influences of enlightened education may be spent in costly legal contention or otherwise less profitably than he who wrought for them intended they should be spent to give most every man should himself give acad give timely during bis orvn active life to the end that his designs shall not be set aside |