Stewart MacDonald , M.D. and lived in the past. Milburn sold his farm in Little Sands and moved down to Eldon. Ida who was an excellent housewife cleaned up the Eldon house, threw out the old beds and replaced them with new ones. After a year of more old Andrew preferred to live in his old way of life. Milburn bought his old farm back for $500 more than he sold it for and Milburn, instead of getting most if not all of Andrew's estate, only got one thousand. This is a sad lesson of trying to help a person too much. I often heard him say that when one gets to 65 years old he should be given chloroform to end a useless life. When he was getting near that age he stopped talking about the 65 year age (no old age security in those days). I recall him plowing and shouting to his horses. He took appendicitis and went to hospital and died a couple of weeks later. Little did he realize that nature would take care of his 65 year old idea. I recall that a short time before my mother's death she awakened me to say that Milburn's house was on fire. We could see the house all lighted up. This is hard to see today as there are heavy woods between our house and theirs but there were no woods 70 years ago. She told me to go and wake my uncle up and see if we could help. After I dressed we looked and there was complete darkness. We waited for a rap at the door as we knew we were the nearest neighbours. A few weeks later they brought the casket home and they had to take the win¬ dow case out to get the casket into the parlour and the house was all lit up as it was that other night - was this a forerunner? 10