Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1913 — Her Identity. [ARTICLE]

Her Identity.

A lawyer who hail* from the Sunny South tells this story. “1 had a rich client who died. Her will set aside a certain amount to be paid to her negro maid in monthly installments. "The beneficiary could not write her name, and each month I had her mark the receipt with an X. One day she handed me the receipt, signed with a circle “Didn’t 1 tell you to mark an X to that paper?" 1 asked. "Yes, Jedge," she answereed, “but I’g married now. I done- changed mt name •• „ i ■■