Mistake, mistake!" Once he roused, and with great vehemence asked to have his lawyer sent for immediately.

But, when the lawyer came, the delirium had returned again: it was too late; and the old man died without repairing the injustice he had done.

The last intelligible words he spoke were, "Mistake! mistake!" And he had indeed made a mistake.

When his will was opened, it was found that the whole bulk of his large estate had been left to trustees, to be held as a fund for assisting poor young men to a certain amount of capital to go into business with,--the very thing which he had never done for his own children.

The trust was burdened with such preposterous conditions, however, that it never could have amounted to any thing, even if the courts had not come to the rescue, and mercifully broken the will, dividing the property where it rightfully belonged, between the wife and children.
Early in February Mrs.Carr died.