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Show A FCCl CCNCXIT. . Something over 'fire years ago a Michigan man j named Burton talked his will inte a phonograph, and in the aame way explained where the most af bis fortune could be found. H gave the record in a roll te a lawyer with inatrnctiona to keep it secure for five yeara and then have it read to bis heirs that they, might hear hia will from hia own voice. The time waa pp the other day and the heirs assembled. as-sembled. The lawyer came, entered tha kitchen, undid the precious package and atarted for the phonograph pho-nograph and the heirs in the drawing room, but stumbled en a step out of the kitchen, fell flat and smashed the precious roll into smithereens. There sre several lessons to be learned from thia. The first one ts never to have a atep between the kitchen and the other rooms, for there ia alwaya danger of stum tiling oa it and spoiling tha dinner's soup or tnrkey, beeidee humiliating the waitress. The second sec-ond tnt B0 m should hide his fortune from those who are dear to him. Tha third ia that no man should be presumptuous enough to imagine thst his own voic will outlast hint for five years. The final one is that what a man haa to do, he should do now. ' " - r- |