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Show MORE WORK FOR THE LAWYER. Legal 'Light Explains Why Ho Had (Doubled His Fee. Five years ago a certain man made a will. Last week ho mado another one. 'The same lawyer drow up both documents. For writing the second will the 'lawyer charged twice as much as 'for writing the first one. "Why this difference?" asked the client "Have you attained such prominence promi-nence In tho legal profession In tho last, five years -that you are justified In doubling your fees?" "Not at all," said the lawyor. "There was twice as much work on this will as on your old ono. You see, at that time you were a married man and your will was short, for with .'h? exception ex-ception of a few minor bequests everything every-thing was left to -your wife. Changes In your domestic relations havo made anothor will necessary. You are now a bachelor, or a bachelor's equivalent, a childless widower. It Is much harder hard-er to write a will for a man ot that type than for a married man. Th man with -a family usually gives away everything he possesses In three or four clauses, but tho bachelor divides his property among so many relatives, friends and dependents and consumes so much tlmo In doing It that the lawyer Is justified In charging him double the usual fee." |