Show HE curse on the Burnes millions has reg once more i T Sidney Love IB Is s down and out Wifeless without friends to aid him financially without the prestige i of success and good Rood fortune behind him and without the glamour that his luck Loves luck has thrown around him Love ove ve today is III at the bottom of misfortune while his beautiful wife who was MarJorie Burnes Burnea hides with their child chUd In London Lonon Lon on a prey to fears for its safety The young meteor of at finance the erstwhile pet of ot fortune is going west w est to start life anew ane w He is going E as all hundreds of young oung men are going every week practically broke And those who know pie lie he inside tale talethe talef t f the romance and tragedy shake hake their ads and say E Just another of ot the curse on the Burnes money moner Love married a Burnes Burnes He Herras Heas Was as doing well until then Now look at him The cures arse has hae come true once more Love Is its latest late t vie stun Mm I Scoff as one may at the power of curses cunes circum stances In this case certainly seem to bear out the belief bellet of ot those who are convinced that the Burnes for f fortune r rIs tune Hune is cursed Love Is the latest victim of the chain Of misfortunes that for tor some reason or other has pursued those connected with the fatal millions Loves eB rise rIe in the world of 1 nance and society was as like the rise me of the proverbial rocket From a clerk at 60 a month he became a millionaire Success seemed to follow ibIs his steps as a matter of course Gold Goldell Goldell fell ell upon him In showers with only the slightest ef of efforts torts forts on his part Society opened to him Its gilded doors and gave him Its Us choicest beauty for tor a bride And then thenus ao s soon Boon as a he had come under the alleged power ower of the curse the blaze blue went out and the rocket came ama down dawn to earth like a dead charred stick e Love lAve Pays Pay Like Many Others And d Sidney Love say sa those who know has like Ute dozens of others for tor the alleged wrong of A do aman amant man manlong t c id a tb 4 r c I i 4 1 at jot kr bt s 1 r F Fi i r 4 g 4 a ap p te e et t are P a fit t tf 4 1 c ck k 3 el r dr y it y tt k x a aL 4 L E k r vs i it A r t sr sri srA i A long Jong since dead to the husband of the woman who Applied the famous curse i Upon this money I lay a curse and upon the men ho own It ft and all who have aught to do with it and andem Ulem em and upon their heirs and those who shall come sitar attar mf tar them hem even unto the third generation With these words Mrs James Tames OBrien widow of ot frames iames OBrien O Brien one time partner of the founder of the Burnes fortune Calvin C F Burnes called calle down the wrath of the gods for the wrongs which she alleged had hEd made mede her penniless and driven her husband to a suicides grave Standing over the grave she cursed the wealth which Calvin Burnes had garnered In the early days of Missouri and all who should have have aught to do with it This is the curse which friends of the family aver has lias pursued the Burnes fortune of which has left death ruin insanity and all m of unhappiness unhappiness in its wake and which recently has caused caus d the matrimonial and financial wreck of Sidney Love be because because cause caulle of his marriage with Miss Marjorie Burnes Burne Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago society favorite and declared by Sir Philip Burne Jones Zones to fo be the most beautiful woman in the world Mrs Love whom all Chicago still thinks of as Burnes la one of ot the heirs of the trouble stoma ome fortune Her mother Mrs Frances B Burnes widow widow of Calvin Burnes flumes the founder of the fortune ne likewise is one of the principal beneficiaries t I Fate has teen been een unkind to them In many ways tved ved ones have been bD te n torn from them the by violent 4 a 1 t r rc c F v vom jY D om v l 1 it h n Q Qc i s c r a aS ad d S ic ics s t v I w t t 1 I c I 1 t tt t 1 I Iy y Ir t v e 1 by byi Ir IrS i U S y f r T 9 M A t K 1 4 4 r t Tm t k r i A Af f i b nh q pa to t c 4 ji C r rt t t i iH 11 H T t is I J e ex x d Y sf r u c a T T 29 J j t v t Y C 0 0 r ZO D f NV B U lh 0 v ct r 4 1 deaths Their nearest and dearest have suffered red severe 1 i 4 1 f w reversals of or fortune Ever since the acquisition of the t wealth upon which the widowed w Mrs Mm OBrien laid laic her r curse a strange chain of ot fatalities has followed follow d the troublesome tro dollars each branch ranch of the Burnes Barnes family l eti adding its t is link to the circumstances which seem to rv y f prove rove that the widows curse has as come true rue r c 1 N Story as Weird Ward W ird as Poes Poe s f The story true to the th last word is as weird a U t any effort of 0 Poe as consistent as the best yarns of ot s J J p Kipling In The Courting of Dinah Shadd the lat lata latter latter ter t r author auth r relates the t e his ory of ot a curse cUrle laid hild on a Y couple because of a slighted d love Jove loveIn Joven In n real re lUfe life there Is the tb story of the famous lamous Hope oper s diamond which apparently bear out the theory t eory that 1 I u 1 tr r ARl IA tANn UPON DAm Y AUGHT Br TO ro DO 00 WITH IT 1 y WIDOW WHO IJ LD iii RP OF OT s cursed objects do carry harm to those who own or orI have to do do with them the I But In do none of or these Instances has the f of the alleged curse been so se widespread so In its results as in that of the Burnes of ot the cursed fortune has basits its begin beginning beginning beginning ning in the pioneer days of Missouri when Calvin Burnes laid its Us in ventures in zinc mines and farming lands near Granby As his partner In the first of ot his successful ventures Burnes had James J OBrien like Burnes at that time a comparatively poor man man Luck favored them They struck if U rich Then came the schism which Mrs OBrien O averred 4 cost ost her husband his Is fortune anI his life Ufe The details of the trouble are hidden n In the past One thing is certain Burnes came out of them with witha a fortune OBrien found himself penniless Driven desperate by his losses It Is alleged he told fold th t the e story of at what he considered his wrongs wrongs and giving up P the fight tight committed suicide sul To his widow he left nothing but the hat hate that thatIs his Is story had Inspired Over his gr grave vp bereaved berv woman delivered d her kursel t V v You have hae the money she cried Take it Keep KeepIt It find that yo ll wish you yeu never saw a p penny of what should be mine Years afterward she dt d d sun still penniless l In InDen Den Denver Denyer ver yer S So much for the origin of the curse Little attention atten attention attention tion was paid to It at the time Burnes was wasI 1 I not superstitious Mrs words were lo looked ked upon upon as the maum of a woman b sU herself herMit with grief grier and for years yrs the mayor mater practically Uy was Wall forgotten f The Burnes fortune abw under th t the e dual management of Calvin F and his hili brother James Jamea Ja N If Continued Oil on J Jt t t k ks s w i t y 1 X M t 1 r r 5 5 E Y r ry rr r 1 rt y w K 1 Lp 13 i 1 t i Y s sI I i iF F L 3 5 N n nA A ni y yF F i n k y yut t ut r NtY C Jori A 0 7 JF 4 r JIM Q 0 oR 1317 I 1 r r M fJ D Dh h PAt t t I I UPON THIS GOLD GOLDI I LAY A CURSE Continued from First Page Burnes multiplied and grew apace I Iwas It was not long before the Burnes brothers brother were millionaires colossally rich fo for that section at that time and th the curse seemed to be a flat failure First Evidence of Curse Working Then came the first possible evidence that the spirit of Mrs OBrien still stin was wa earthbound and on vengeance set Cal Calvin Calvin vin B Burnes by his first wife had four fou children and one after another three thre of them died in infancy One survived a daughter named Mary She was help helpless helpless helpless less and mentally deficient from birth Next James N Burnes representative for the Fourth district of Missouri die died of a stroke of paralysis as he took hi his seat se t In the house of representatives Friends of the family looked at on one another and began relating the curse ii In awed tones It was on the widow of Calvin F IF Burnes Mrs Frances Byram Burnes that the burden of the curse was to fall fal most heavily First her brother Charles Byram be bt became b came involved in an army scandal at a military post in the west Whether By Byram Byram Byram ram really was responsible for the trou trouble trouble trouble ble laid at his door seems never to have hav been settled Probably he wa was the only man living who could have told th the exact truth of the affair and he was wa killed in a arising through th the same This was the first Intimation that tha Mrs Frances Byram Burnes flumes had that tha possibly the money to t which she ha had fallen heir carried with it a loud load o of woe Mrs Burnes moved to Chicago ant and became one of the leaders of the city social set but her worries never ceased In course of time her Isaac N Perry banker became in involved Involved involved In financial difficulties and was wa accused arrested and acquitted of th charge of burning his factory plant a at Hegewisch Death of Muriel Byram And all that have aught to do with them read the words of the curse It seemed stretching belief to intimate that the trouble involving Mr Perry was due to the fact that he was directly connected with the family which held hel the cursed fortune and yet at the time tim there were those who said It Is la an another another another other manifestation of the curse on the thi Burnes money Even unto the third generation Mrs OBrien had prayed that woe anc and trouble would follow the cursed dol dollars dollars dollars lars Miss Muriel Byram cousin of Miss Marjorie Burnes and her Inseparable companion was one of the second gen generation generation generation Like her cousin the famous Marjorie Burnes Miss Byram was one of the social favorites of Chicago Life LIf LIffor for this young yung pair was filled with gayety and pleasure Receptions balls dinners entertainments of all kinds kind wore were lavished upon the young beauties and for them at least it seemed that the curse had lost its ts power But In the winter of Miss rUss Byram was cleaning a rifle preparatory to tc starting on a hunting trip In the west She was an ardent sportswoman skilled in the use of firearms of all descriptions During the simple process of cleaning servants heard a shot a scream and e a fall and when they hurried Into th the room Miss Byram lay upon the floor dead killed by her own weapon The grief which overshadowed the Burnes family following this tragic event was so deep as to drive the beau beautiful beautiful beautiful Marjorie into retirement The Th cloud of tragedy hung heavy over the owners of the cursed wealth and It was months before the name of Marjorie Marjorif Burnes again appeared In the lists of ol those present at Chicago society events Marjorie Burnes Weds Love Later in the same year Miss Burnes was given a still larger share in the wealth left by the old Missouri pioneer When told that her personal fortune already of considerable size had been added to substantially lly the famous beauty shrugged her shoulders and said simply Is that so Beyond this she refused to display any feeling regarding her acquisition a q of oi greater wroth Perhaps even then she dreaded the money which seemed to carry with It death and trouble When finally Miss Burnes again en entered entered entered the gay swirl of society it was to be wooed and won as a bride by Sid Sn Sidney S ney C Love a graduate of the divorce court who had had one of the most spectacular careers in finance of any young man in the west From a clerk clerkin in a railway office to a millionaire in ten years was the record of Mr Love From a poor outsider to a wealthy member of the highest social life In Inthe Inthe inthe the city was the climb he had encompassed encompassed encompassed passed In ten years He was looked upon as one of the coming men in fi ii financial financial circles of the west and as a apolo apolo apolo polo player pla er cotillon leader and general genera society man he was the favorite of his set The marriage of Miss Burnes and Sidney Sid Sidney ney Love Live was looked upon as a love match Love was congratulated from one end of the country to the other upon having won the most beautiful woman in the world and among his Intimates there arose a proverb Loves luck Soon after their marriage the much feted pair went to New York to make their home Love aided and abetted by the friendship of W V H Moore for formerly formerly formerly merly of Chicago had entered Wall Wallstreet Wallstreet Wallstreet street as a broker The future looked bright Luck Fails ails to to Save Save SidneY Sidney Love Suddenly out of a clear sky came the he thunderbolt that tore Love from his seat among tho the Wall street kings and ind placed him so far as his own fl fi finances I nances lances were concerned among the down and outers it was discovered by jy his backer Moore that Love had been jeen caught short In several successive deals leals the amounts involved running up Into nto millions To cover cover his losses and ando to o prevent the conditions of his finances becoming known the young broker had hal hado halso so o Moore discovered pawned and sold bonds to the value of which had iad been left in his vaults for safe safekeeping safekeeping safekeeping keeping There Thera was a stormy session between Love and his backer back r and when Vh n it ended the he firm of Sidney C Co I brokers rokers took In Its sign and Love re reI I I I tired from front the public p eye But ut Mrs Love stood by her husband in his reverses so ran the Story tory The blow although hard was not crush crushing crushing crushing ing Love Lovo still retained the affection and loyalty of his wife She desired nothing so much as that he be should re tire from a public life Ufe and they enjoy e doy life on the large fortune which was hers This was the story given out at the time J Now abides es the final r the full details details of the complete wrecking wreaking of Mr Love His wife has left him himl j l They were estranged at tho the time of his hla failure Mrs Love Is going to apply for a divorce and Love Is cast off and andall andall andall all but penniless pen ll ss He has lost his money the thEr love of at his wife and his hla former proud position Ho Is sown own and out on his own confession and is go got gor t r ing neet t to start life anew He Heup w t tup up It like mie le a 8 rocket met the cursed ed f tune rind ind came down d wn like Uke a stick Hick HickIs Is x t L true Is the curse respond nail for n the tha harm that has ha fallowed f ll ti tt s fatal Will th tj e hoi hail good unto the third generation T Tt Ti t i j i 1 I 4 I J fJ f I n |