enterprises
in which he was interested. There was a pile of newspaper
clippings
in which his name was mentioned with praise for his sustaining
power as
a pillar of finance, for his judicious benevolence, for his
support of
wise and prudent reform movements, for his discretion in making
permanent
public gifts--"the Weightman Charities," one very complaisant
editor
called them, as if they deserved classification as a distinct
species.
He turned he papers over listlessly. There was a description and

a picture of the "Weightman Wing of the Hospital for Cripples,"
of which he was president; and an article on the new professor in

the "Weightman Chair of Political Jurisprudence" in Jackson
University,
of which he was a trustee; and an illustrated account of the
opening of
the "Weightman Grammar-School" at Dulwich-on-the-Sound, where he
had his
legal residence for purposes of taxation.

This last was perhaps the most carefully planned of all the
Weightman Charities. He desired to win the confidence and
support of
his rural neighbors. It had pleased him much when the local