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Show oo AFTER THE RICH DIE. A lesson for the rich man or woman is to be found In this paragraph from the Helena Independent. "Get rich; hang on to all of it; make a will, and diel Then, if you can, observe ob-serve what the mourning relatives do to your life ideal. For instance: Mrs Frank Leslie was widow of a rich man, the noted publisher of a decade or so ago. She was way up, socially. She was famous and flattered and lived In luxury, but she had an ideal, and when she came to realize that she must die some time she willed her $2,000,000 estate to the cause of equal suffrage. Wanted at last to help her fellow women, you see. It Is to laugh. She had forgotten relntives and lawyers. law-yers. If Mrs. Leslie can look at her estate she's dead now she'll find it in court, while loving relatives and lawyers are tearing at her will and her social standing and everything else that was hers. One lawyer wants $193,500 for legal services. A nurse wants ?25.000. A doctor wants $12,-350. $12,-350. The executors have spent $71,382 in looking after things. And tho contesting con-testing grandchildren set up the claim that Mrs Leslie uas tho daughter of a white man and a negress slave. The good that the rich would do hardly hard-ly ever lives after them. There's a moral for you. if you've got $2,000,000 or thereabouts!" ,1 |