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Show Fortune Is Cursed BOOSTED by VANDERBILT BONDS How THE MARLBOROUGHS, RISING IN ENGLAND ON Luck Has Followed These Connected With 111 the Fair Millions. MARLBOROUGH. OUT years ago .lames U. Fair died in San Francisco, leaving a fortune of some IIJO.tMiu.iHin fur his heira to For seveu squabble over. years they fought and spent more than f2.iMio.inui in iho fighting, and then, only twelve months later, of the fortune was in dispute again. Someone seems to have bewitched the late Kevnda Senators millions, for no one has yet hem able to enjoy pSpSf Ei I THE CREST OF AMERICAN DOLLARS, COME TO TRIUMPH AT NEWPORT one-thir- d his loves tliut Mrs. Fair him and later obtained a divorce. Ho free, too, that he left one will bequeathing $50 to eve y child wiio could provo his paternity. Neither did he forget the women, for to many he made gifts of shnres and deeds conveying real estate and to others presents of jewelry and handsome checks. Such gifts were often the result, appai-entlof a momentary caprice, or the documents necessary tor the transfer were seldom drawn by lawyers, lint penciled by the millionaire himself on scraps of paper plucked from Ids pocket book as be sat in the evening In i ho company of same fair deceiver. So frequent were these gifts and so commonly did tie have resort to his hundy pocket.lHiok that after his death bis heirs did little for a year save redeem such as were presented. The wiidm-sof t hi? father, if late iu developing, spread to the sons. One of them, the eldest, James, died a drunkard ten years ago, and th other, Charles, whose tragic end a few days back has utised again thn disMisiiiou of his fat tiers millions, was also addicted 1o drink. Twico he the gold cure r.u l twice lie reiap.-e- . He shared, too, tint old man's ungovernable love for the sex and although not so free iu his was none tin- less tumble to relinquish the idea of winning a woman once lie had made up his mind to do so. The story of his marriage is In itself a romance. He had been on a prolonged debauch up country in California. His father's wealth provided him with unlimited funds and he prolonged ills spree indefinitely. At Mill Valley he lost all he had with him In a gambling den and started for home. On the way lie fell into a creek, was fished out by his companions and put to bed. At 3 in the morning he started off again, clad i.-f- t y, snf-fi-u-- J.imrs G. Fair, their Iften ,r, strong, self reliant man as he was, was happier jxior than rich, happier In acquiring Ills fortune than in the enjoyment of it. The story it one which would bring shout s of ridicule hurtling round the devoted head of any an thor who date iiiumim; it. TH E AMERICAN DUCHESS The youthful Marquis of Blandford Duke of Marlborough. In September, 1897, the first of the two children of the duke and duchess was born. His Churchill, the hero of Blenheim, who name was made up out of those of his was created the first Duke of Marl- father and grandfather and of King borough In 1702. Like a number of Edward, then Prince of Wales, John William future British peers, he Is half Ameri- Albert Edward Spencer can. Churchill. It was in November, 1895, that Miss The Prinee of Wales was the boys Cunsuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Wil- godfather. As the heir to the dukeliam K. Vanderbilt, married the ninth dom he uses the second title of the will be, if he lives, the tenth in line from his distinguished ancestor, John family, a title created by Queen Anne, along with the dukedom of Marlbor-ough- . The young Marquis of Blandford is not wanting in American Influence. Ills step grandmother is an American woman and he harfan American grand aunt His younger brother, Lord Ivor Charles Spencer Churchill, is 3 years Our illustration is from the New York Press. old. From the day when they began to sccumulsre sway hack in 1865 the Fair millions have borne a curse. Everyone connected with them has had trouble and sleepless nights, they have twice awaited heirs in whole or in part and on each occasion disputed claims have been put forward. Even the method of their getting spoke romance and the method of their spending while old Mr. Fair controlled them was even more romantic. Horn in Ireland in 1831 Mr. Fair came to this country with his parents in 1843. lie was educated chiefly in Chicago till he was 19, and then ho went to seek fame and fortune in the California gold fields then, in 1850, attracting the attention of the world.' His was no rapid rise to wealth. For fifteen years he struggled on us prospector, digger and his daily bread liy miner, Raminthe sweat of bis brow and accumulating no more money titan would suffice for a single nights enjoyment. Suddenly the tide turned, dollars poured in upon him in one unceasing flood till in 172 he was reputed to he worth Jrirt.oiiO.OoO and his partners. the late John W. Mackay and Flood the two Irish and O'Brien, were equally rich. Then his troubles commenced. Up to this time he hsd been a steady, frugal man. He had employed his first $9,000, made in 18G5, in wedding a pretty Irish colleen, with whom he had long been enamored in secret. He spent the millions which came after largely in supporting other and less sacred ties. The details of his fortune are too well known, however, to need repetition. They are a part of the history of the went and as such will go down to posterity together with the '49 rush and the wild days of the ear!' diggings. It is the history of the fortune after it was made, the history of the maker and his d - aff'-ctiuii- s - that will lodge there will have a inches across, stained all over with for his next child. So every day a lot blood, was produced in court and They Guard Graves of Former Rulere of pebbles are burled, and two or sworn to as one of the toolB used of the Flowery Kingdom. three out of every hundred stick. to open prosecutrixs bead, the plan The Rev. Frederic Poole, who con- Well, a brother missionary was with adopted, according to her evidence, ducts the Christian leagues mission me, and he, tor an experiment, threw being two of them holding her down in Chinatown, said yesterday : "When at the nearest elephant two stones at while the other banged her with a I was a missionary to China I visited once. Both, for a wonder stuck. stone, the husband of the victim not the two huge elephants, each 30 feet Thereupon my friend turned to me Interfering as he did not know what in height, and each carved out of a and said, with a look of dismay, T the row was about. Dr. W. Hayes, acting district sursingle block of stone, that guard the hope not, Poole. Philadelphia that prosecutrix grave in Hankow of the last of the geon, proved Chinese emperors. They are impressbrought him a hole in her head on But All Were Real Ladies. ive and majestic beasts, and are the right hand side and a big lump The Mafeklng Mail published this on the other. After a patient inquiry known to be over 300 years old. How 1. or one they were transported to Hankow no extraordinary police report concern- Mr. Green fined Sophia one can understand, for their weight ing a lady with her head tied on: month, and the other two ladles 10 is enormous, and there is not a stone "Sophia, Michey and Maggie were shillings each, or fourteen' days. quarry anywhere near Hankow. The charged with casting Katrina to the The fellow who hides his light backs, of the two elephants are roundground on Sunday and beating her a bushel never blows it out. ed. yet balanced nicely on them lie with fists and stones. Katrina aphundreds of little stones for there is peared with her head tied on. in evia popular Chinese belief that he who dence of the damage sustained, and The luve o the bairn Is the malst ran throw upon one ot them a stone a jagged piece of rock about five unselfish In a the weary warld. TWO MONSTERS OF CHINA. Bon THE OLDEST WORKING LOCOMOTIVE This locomotive looks antlqunted enough to Americans sceustonied to the magnificent proportions and superb finish of the machines in use on IN THE WORLD. the railroad lines of America, but it goods train on a line In the north of still Ih useful as a working engine. It England. Ar showing the progress is Hit English machine, Iniilt eighty made in locomotive construction, the years ago, and regularly pulls a picture Is interesting and timely. saloon-keeper- hard-workin- only in an undershirt, held up a saloonkeeper for $4 and so reached San Francisco, whero a few hours later he was married. He appeared at the- altar so drunk that Maude Nelson, as she then was, refused to commence her efforts to reform him till he had sobered up, and accordingly he went back home to sleep off the effects of his debauch. Later in the day, however. Rev. Benjamin Akerly performed the ceremony and the young couple made merry on a single bottle of beer. Unable to control himself, old Fair was furious at his son taking similar liberties and broke off connection with the young man. His daughters followed suit and from that day till it became necessary for the family to reunite iu an effort to break the old man's will Mrs. Vanderbilt and Mrs. Oelricha saw nothing of their wild young brother. For his part he waB traveling in Europe, still drinking. but apparently enjoying the society of Mb wife. To mill to the romance old Mr. Fair disinherited his son as a punishment for his marriage and was only won over when the young woman deserted her husband for a spell, took a position as nurse under an assumed name ami tended llm crotchety old in her early days sho gentleman, bad been an actress and It must have needed all her histrionic abilities to conceal her interest in getting the right side of her patient. Still she succeeded. Mr. Fair relented, allowed his son money to live on and even became quite fond of the bravo young wife. So tilings went on till on Dec. 2S. 1S9G, the old man died, leaving such a tangle of wills that it took nearly seven years to straighten them out. - heirs, which is after all most roRemoving Boer Bullets. mantic. Lord Methuen has undergone a of With wealth and the cares successful operation In London, sevto Mr. Fair began wealth develop eral bullets tieing removed spout tendeneies which he had either held from his There is every leg. injured In cheek or not possessed before. He tired of his still linmlsonH! wife, he prospect of a speedy recovery, alIs expected that the limb manifested the Irishman's insensate though it love of the fair sox and he Bpent will be slightly contracted. niueh of his time courting the good The dog catcher's labors should be graces of those among them who enr--t ailed. took his fancy. So free was he with |