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industrial plants are an ice plant and a planing 

 mill. The borough has five fine school build- 

 ings, a high school completed in 1911 at a cost 

 of $400,000, a Carnegie Library, t \\vnty-t wo 

 churches, the United I' n Home for 



the Aged and Columbia Hospital. There are 

 no saloons. The original name of the place was 

 changed from McNairville to Rippeyville, and 

 the lattt-r to Wilkinsburg, in honor of William 

 Wilkins, who was Secretary of War in 1843- 

 1845. It was incorporated as a borough in 1887. 

 The population increased from 18,924 in 1910 to 

 23,228 (Federal estimate) in 1916. 



WILL, in law, an instrument providing for 

 the disposal of one's property at death. To 

 avoid the probability of a successful contest it 

 is advisable to have a will drawn by an attorney 

 or some other authority who is familiar with 

 the customary legal form. The one who makes 

 the will is called the testator, if a man, and the 

 testatrix, if a woman. If there are different 

 parcels df real estate going to different persons, 

 each parcel should be sufficiently described, to 

 assure complete identification. Personal prop- 

 erty should also be described so that it can be 

 identified, though the omission of such descrip- 

 tion does not render the will void. 



The testator can dispose of his property in 

 any way he chooses, provided the disposal is 

 not contrary to law. The will must be signed 

 by the testator and by at least two witnesses. 

 It usually names some person as executor, 

 whose duty it is to see that the wishes of the 

 i tor are complied with after his death. If 

 no executor is named, the court having jurisdic- 

 tion over estates sees that the provisions of the 

 will are carried out. 



While a formal will is desirable, it is not an 

 'lute necessity. Any person may write his 

 will in simple language, and it will meet all 

 legal requirements, if the provisions are so 

 plain that they will not be misunderstood. But 

 whatever the form of the will, it must be 

 signed by the testator and by two witnesses. 

 The following is a simple form of will which 

 is in all respects legal: 



I, John Thompson, do make my will as fol- 

 lows: 



All my estate I devise and bequeath to my 

 wife, Marion B. Thompson, for her own use and 

 benefit forever, and hereby appoint her my ex- 

 ecutrix, without bonds, with full power to sell, 

 mortgage, lease, or in any other manner to dis- 

 pose of the whole or any part of my estate. 



JOHN THOMPSON (Seal). 

 Dated Jan. 10, 1918. 



Subscribed, sealed, published, and declared by 

 John Thompson, testator above named, as and 



for his last will, in presence of each of us, who, 

 at his request, in his presence, in presence of 

 earh other, at thi v same time have hereunto sult- 

 .-erihed our names as witnesses this Jan. 10, 

 1918, at the village of Oak Park, County of 

 Cook, and State of Illinois. 



FREDERICK PRINCE, 

 MARTHA NEAL, 

 JAMES MCMAHON. 



A codicil is an addition made after the will 

 has been drawn up, which modifies it in some 

 particular. A will may be altered in some 

 respect or be destroyed by the testator at any 

 time, and such alteration will be legal provided 

 the testator is of sound mind and it can be 

 shown that the alteration was not caused by 

 undue influence of parties interested in the 

 change. 



Each state of the Union and each province of 

 Canada has its own laws governing in detail 

 the execution of wills. See PROBATE. 



Consult Borland's Law of Wills and the Ad- 

 ministration of Estates; Schouler's The Law of 

 Wills. 



WILL, that form of mental activity which 

 is concerned with choice and action. Every 

 idea impels to action, and we would carry 

 every idea into action if environment or con- 

 tracting ideas did not restrain us. Think of 

 the stars and you involuntarily look upward. 

 The thought of a cold bath on a frosty morn- 

 ing may cause you to shudder, but when this 

 thought is succeeded by the thought - of the 

 tonic effect that follows, you may plunge in. 

 The will is sometimes called the motor ele- 

 ment in ideas. Actions are of two classes im- 

 pulsive, or involuntary, and deliberate, or vol- 

 untary. 



Impulsive Action. A child is born with 

 tendencies to perform certain acts, as nursing, 

 or moving its arms and legs, or crying. In the 

 beginning there is no conscious purpose in these 

 movements, but through them the child may 

 derive satisfaction. The feeling of hunger is 

 satisfied through nursing, the tension of the 

 muscles is relieved by movement of the- limbs, 

 and attention from the parent is secured by 

 crying. In time the child associates these ef- 

 fects with the movements by which they are 

 secured, and whenever hunger or muscular stress 

 is felt relief through the proper action is se- 

 cured. What was begun as impulsive and pur- 

 poseless is in the course of time changed into 

 purposeful, deliberate action. As the child de- 

 velops, many actions, such as reaching for ob- 

 jects, standing, walking, cooing and the like 

 are developed in a similar way, 



