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Show - AN EDITORIAL BY i FLORENCE DAVIES T V REPRIEVING VOI R LEGACY; Old houses, yield strange seorrets sometimes. Here was one In Worcester, Worces-ter, Mass. according to a news dispatch, dis-patch, which had kept hidden for 77 years a sealed envelope, addressed to one James Munro Schofleld. When ..pen. d, the envelope was found to contain tidings that un estate In Scotland: Scot-land: valued thon at nearly $1,000,000 had been left to Mr Schofleld. Seventy -seven -.ears ago. In 18 15 the letter wa-i hidden away In the secret se-cret cubbyhole not to be rovealed till the old house was torn do.vn Schofleld Scho-fleld and perhaps his children and grand-children, if he had them, dead and gone Without knowing of the ! ffacyl Pinching perhaps. If not downright powrty, in the Schofleld family or even If there was wealth there, an extra million would have don.- many things, and no one knew of the beiuest! Hid an enem hide the letter, or did the man to whom It was addressed tuck It awaj for somo reaaon known only to himself? And then, ono won-ders, won-ders, what happened'.' Somo sudden stroke of misfortune that out him down before ho could open end read the letter' Or did ho forget, an so many do, where hi had placed It" A hundred romances start to life If one I. ts one's mind run on the strange case of the hidden letter. And in.iNbe It was best that the money didn't oome to the house of J imes Munro Schofleld. then and there. So many times tho dollars bring anything but blessings In their train. And how will It be now, with that Scotch estate which must have Increased In those 77 years to a value th thought of which Is rather breathtaking? breath-taking? will Dte heirs of the family In the old dismantled houso come into their own? Strange, not to know what wealth Is yours, till tho better part of a century has come and gone. V. a, and there aro other legacies of which tho beneficiaries are Just as Ignorant legacies that would bring only Joy and blessing. Riches of tho mind and of tho soul, that might be ! to bring tho dearest wish of one c hi . i It' one understood aright. Health that belongs of right to nil mankind. It right living and light thlnglng were ora. tlced. There is a new society called the Pathfinders, whose mombora ore dedl-cated dedl-cated to the tolling of these legacies that descend to all of us, for us to lay hold of thern and make good uso of them. If we will. "Character builder." build-er." tho Pathfinders call thomsolves. "Human FiiKlneers," tolling to children child-ren and to grown people tho laws by which thoy may become master men and women, as well as master mo- ha nice, master artists, master scientists scien-tists "An ounce of formation Is worth a ton of re-formntlon." saj h tho Path-finders, Path-finders, hut they carry their good news into t .ml housed of correction as well a-'j Into schools and churches, and poverty-stricken souls who never knew of tho legacy of spiritual power, by which they may master themselves, are forming their lives am w. House-w House-w reckon may reveal wonderful secrets but the Pat hflndors. lighting the way to higher things, bear even greater tldlngH. |