Show J II GUTS ThAT V j W A G a man with wilh a a. total Income of T TO loss less than 10 a week the gift of ofa ofa ofa a fine house with four tour acres of ot gardens is surel surely a white elephant of oC the most pallid description The Time residence in question was given Iven to a n London clerk h by a fond aunt and the result of his endeavors to live there thero and keep hee the time place up tip was his appearance appearance appearance appear appear- ance not ve very long a ago o at the Central criminal court on a charge of oC falsification falsification cation of his employers' employers books boks and the embezzlement of oC The TIme case recalls the plight of ot the young oung London grocer who in September Septem Septem- ber 1908 VO won the tho first prize offered b by the National A Association of Grocers This prize was a shop full fully stocked and d up to time the aluc value of of 2000 Out of this total the extravagant sum of or 1500 was spent in fittings s and Incidentals leaving Jn only about for tor forthe forthe the purchase of oC stock in trade A Against that the winner inner had to place for expenses incurred In the time In interval be between between be- be tween giving up his old work and nd en entering entering en- en on the new Thus he had only for bu buying ing stock lie He on for tor two years ears and amid then was forced to give UI up A curious and tragic stor story was told in a coroners coroner's court during luring the time inquest t ton on a woman who wiio died from fromn the time effects of oC taking poison polson The owner of feho Wie house in which she and her husband i lived for man many years earR left a proviso In his will to the time effect that the couple should be allowed to live on In their rooms rent free for forthe forthe forthe the remainder of their lives Jives This was a legacy so at once the London tax gatherer swooped down with a demand for tor 60 legacy dut duty He might as well have asked for a a. million The man was Ill and out lout of ot work Worl and for weeks he and his s wife ife had existed on 1 3 to them b by b a a charity The doctor who 10 examined time tl e woman's womans body hOdy said t she had been sta starved halt ved The result was sui Ide A fla flagrant example of or the dom of giving 1 large lane sums awa away thou thoughtlessly thoughtlessly thought thought- ht- ht lessly Is afforded b by the peculiar case of a certain waiter at Saratoga N. N Y j The hotel In w which 1 ch he lie served was visited by the time late J J. J W V Gates the I Chicago million millionaire ir Gates who had I Just m made a hU huge e deal teal on the tho stock exchange oa Was gas ell lec with a dinner which specially pleased him and to show his ims gratitude handed the time theLI LI waiter er a n banknote I The valter looked at It saw It U It was for 50 and fell oli on omi the n nearest chair nearl nearly fainting tainting Recovering Reco he lie rushed off ocr to the mana manager er promptly gave notice notice no- no no no- tice and arid went on a spree days later later-in and In rags and penniless penn penni less ho was before beCore the mug magistrates char charged ed with being drunk and as assaulting as- as tie the police He got a months month's I Im Imprisonment in rI son mu eM ff An An n Italian cool cook i l l dd T resl Tf rone living In Turin recently pur pur purchased chased four fout JoLter lottery tickets the numbers numbers numbers num num- bers of which she ha had been revealed to her In n w dream She dreamed rightly for Cor one ono drew the grand prize of oC N Naturally Teresa Terca gave e a up cooking at once and flushed with success allo allowed ed herself hersel to be he photographed and inter Inter- viewed Her Hm picture appeared in a local news sheet and happened to at attract attract attract at- at tract the attention of a detective to whom the features seemed somewhat familiar Turning up UJ time the police records ho he found that the woman had some time before be been n sentenced In default of ot her appearance In court to two years' years Im Imprisonment Im- Im The Tho unfortunate Teresa was waR arrested in the midst t of her friends in whose company compan she was celebrating her good fortune The wife of a lL m. m naturalized American named Kaufman had a le legacy acy left to her In Russia which it was necessary to claim before a a. certain date She was In delicate health at r and the tho doctor warned her against attemptIng attempt- attempt In lag Ing a sea voyage Two days after leaving New w Y York rk she he became seriously ill m Ill and arid next da day died and was W burled buried at sea sea In an nn er endeavor el en- en deavor to take advantage of of- the riches which had been left her she he had sacrificed her life j |