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Making One's Will

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Parent Issue
Day
5
Month
August
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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The making of one's will does not hasten one's death; on the contrary, it has a calming and soothing1 influence tipon the mind. A person who has done it feels that he has done his duty, says the New York Mercury, thathe is sof ar preparad to die. He has no burden. upon his mind, in reference to what he shall do ia sickness. TV'hen sickBess comes he has no Tegrets on this subject; he has donehia ïièfit to prepare for the inevitable hour. 1Í he has made his will aright he has attempted to do good ia his death as well as in his life. This is not enly areminderthatevery man who has property to dispose of Bhould make his will, but also that those who can do 6O without injury to their natural heirs sho'ild give a certaln portion of their property for the public beneñt. Ufo man has (fot wealth without it from society at large. It is the gTOwth of population, it ís the general industíy of the country from whigh he has beneflted. He could not have got his wealth, in an unor ganized society. Society has done much for him. Let Mm do something' for society when he dies. The time will come wlien a man will not feel himself to be dying creditnbly -who does notdieg-enerously.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier