Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1913 — Lika Some Other Epitaphs. [ARTICLE]

Lika Some Other Epitaphs.

“I was called in by a close-fisted eld merchant the other day,” a Boston lawyer remarked, smiling. “He wanted me to draw his will, and this I proceeded to do, following his verbal Instruction. Presently he said: “ To each and every clerk who has been in my employ for ten years I give |10,000.’ This seemed like a considerable sum to me, and I ventured a slight pretest, aa he had a number of daughters and his entire fortune was not large. “ ‘Oh, that’s all right’ he said, with a little crooked smile. ‘You know people hare always said that I was close and hard, and I want them to think well of me when I’m gone.’ "I was a little touched and said something, but he waved It aside and we continued with the draft When it was finished and as I was about to leave the office, the (rid fellow smiled again his little crooked smile. “‘About those |IO,OOO legacies,’ he said, “there isn’t a clerk in my place who has been with me over two years but It will look well in the papers!’" —Qreen Bag.