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IN IBM OF GOLD
Death and Mystery Watch Over
the Sharon Millions.
So Far There Have Been Four Mur
ders, Three Suicides and Two
Disappearances in the Cal
ifornia Case.
San Francisco. —Frederick Fermor-
Hesketh, lieutenant Ninth Lancers,
British army, on seven days’ leave,
stood on the pier at Queenstown, Ire
land. The next day he was lost to
the world. Thus another tragedy is
linked with the name of Sharon, or,
as they phrase it on the Pacific coast,
with the long-dead argonaut’s money
bags. Stretching wide the list there
are disclosed four murders, three sui
cides and two disappearances. Lieu
tenant Hesketh, in the latter classifi
cation, was Sharon’s grandson.
William Sharon was one of the Gold
Hills pioneers. He stepped out of
cowhide boots into patent leathers;
from a mountain shack to a city man
sion, from the Crown Point and Belch
er mines in Nevada. He became a
senator from that state. The wealth
he left behind made a pyramid of
millions, and likewise a pyramid of
trouble.
William C. Ralston, who often had
shared the output of his battered cof
fee pot with Sharon In his roughshod
days, started the list. When the finan
cial pinch caught Sharon’s bank and
frightened San Francisco didn’t know
whether its money was good, bad or
indifferent, Ralston accused Sharon,
and then took his own life.
Ralston’s son, Samuel, went to Si
beria, where he believed there was
another El Dorado. He failed to find
it, returned and killed himself. Two
of his friends were murdered, another
died in a duel.
Getting back to Sharon, the Forty
niner. Some time after the death of
Mrs. Sharon Senator Sharon was sued
by a woman known as Sarah Althea
Hill. She entered into the contest for
Sharon’s money with enery and zeal.
Her counsel was David S. Terry.
Terry was elected chief justice of
the California supreme court, and had
served just long enough to become
Lieut. Fermor-Hesketh.
familiar with the judicial routine
when he and Senator David C. Brod
erick, entertaining conflicting opin
ions, adopted the hair-trigger method
of settlement at the prescribed fifteen
paces. Broderick waited for the sec
ond. Terry split it and fired. Brod
erick fell dead.
i Terry pleaded the cause of his ro
bust client before Justice Stephen J.
Field. Sharon died, but Sarah Althea
.Hill’s suit lived on. Terry one day
surprised his friends by marrying his
client.
Justice Field ordered the cancella
tion of the marriage contract on the
ground of forgery. Justice Field
stepped off a train. Terry and his
wife coincidently stepped from a train
at the same time. Terry stepped be
hind Field and slapped his face with
the back of the hand. A marshal shot
'Terry dead.
Charles Livingston, who was a pro
tege of Sharon’s, became manager of
the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Livingston had boarded at one time
with a certain Sarah Mitchell, -when
the fight to get at the Sharon millions
was at its height. Miss Mitchell came
to the front with a package of mys
terious letters. She demanded $50,000
for them, but she didn’t get it. There
-was talk of a conspiracy. Living
ston’s name was mentioned unpleas
antly in that connection. One morn
ing he was found dead in his room in
the Palace hotel with a pistol shot in
his heart. (
Sharon's two daughters grew to
womanhood surrounded by luxury.
Dne daughter fell in love with Sen
ator Newlands of Nevada and became
bis wife. The other, Florence Mily
Sharon, was married to Sir Thomas
George Fermor-Hesketh. Lady Hes
keth had two sons, both soldiers. The
lieutenant of Landers who disap
peared was the younger.
The Palace hotel and hundreds of
pther pieces of Sharon property were
burned in the fire which followed the
earthquake on the Pacific coast.
■Spoke But Once in Fifty Years.
■English, Ind. —Insane for the last
•fifty years and not having spoken a
word during that time, Philip Burk
hart of this place is dead at the age
of ninety years. During the Civil
war he lost his mind. He became
superstitious on the subject of witches
ind kept a gun loaded with needles
to shoot them. Three drys before he
died he broke his long silence and
predicted that he was to die. He
passed away within an hour of the
<ime he named.
HELPS ALL TO BUILD HOMES
Benevolent “Uncle John” a Money
lender But He’s a Hero in
His Town.
Sabetha, Kan.—ln this town is a
unique character. He’s really some
thing different. In fact, it 1b Just
about time for Ed Howe or William
Allen White to immortalize him by
adding him to their list of country
town characters. His name comes
down in the Ms, but his deeds are
away up in D. “Uncle John” Mow
der is our “village hero.” He has lots
of money but wears frayed cuffs as if
he didn’t have so much. In fact, he
had on a pair of frayed cuffs one day
he sat for the town photographer.
What’s more, the town “points with
pride” to his frayed cuffs as an indi
cation of his ordinary, everyday hu
man sort of style. His local fame,
gig
“Uncle John" Mowder.
however, is not due to his cuffs but
to his usefulness as a citizen —he’s a
benevolent moneylender.
There are many men and women
here who owe to “Uncle John’s” faith
in them the very roof on their homes.
For this farmer-capitalist is a money
lender who stands the very farthest
removed from Shylock. His hobby
is that every man in Sabetha should
have a home, and to humor that hob
by he has loaned, often on the most
meager securities, to everyone in
town in whom he believes.
A trip through Sabetha discovers
many a comfortable home which
“Uncle John’s” money erected. Many
of these were built by clerks and
widows with small incomes—the
seemingly impossible feats in other
towns. Yet, so far as can be learned,
“Uncle John’s” trust never has been
betrayed. No one recalls a case in
which the farmer-moneylender ever
lost a dollar. They always pay him
first when here’s a choice; and
widows cheerfully assume their hus
band’s debts if “Uncle John” happens
to be the creditor. He is Sabetha’s
private, benevolent, remedial loan as
sociation.
THE “HAYSTACK” MONUMENT
Shaft at Williamstown, Mass., Marks
Birthplace of American For
eign Mission Society.
Williamstown, Mass.—A monument
here, known as the Haystack monu
ment, marks the birthplace of Amer
ican foreign missions. It was so
named because in 1806 a small band
of students of Williams college met
at night, secretly, around a haystack
on this spot and organized the first
foreign missionary movement in
The Haystack Monument.
America. Out of these students’
meetings has grown the splendid
world missionary movement which
now sends many workers and mil
lions of dollars each year to the mis
sion fields in every heathen country
of the world.
Violin With Keys.
Paterson, N. J. —A violin which can
be played with keys, as a piano is
played, is the novel invention of
James L. Warner, of Roselle Park.
Many inventors are said to have striv
en for w-hat Warner alone has achiev
ed. It is built like an upright piano.
The keys and the sounding board are
the same as the familiar parlor in
strument. The violin effect is pro
duced by a series of flexible rubber
bows, one for each string, and oper
ated by a band which is set in motion
by a treadle. As each key is pressed
it brings the requisite bow in contact
with the key wire and produces sound
until released.
Hats for Matrons
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IN SPITE of all the jibes flung at
womankind for her fickleness as to
fashions in headwear, there are
some sorts of hats that are always
worn and always in style, or able to
defy the passing fads of the moment.
Among them are the small toques de
signed for elderly matrons and others
who affect inconspicuous and good
styles, the walking hat, dear to all
women, and the big picture hat, with
broad brim of graceful flowing lines
which is the rose in the rosebud gar
den of hats every season. All the
styles vary a little from time to time,
but hardly enough to identify them
selves as belonging to a certain year.
Three pretty and becoming hats for
matrons are pictured here suitable to
almost any season. The variation of
the English walking hat, with brim
faced with velvet, and turning up at
the left, is finished with a very ample
drapery of silk. The arrangement of
this drapery gives the impression of a
shape turned up at both sides, as in
the regulation walking shape. Such a
hat needs no additional trimming, but
may be adapted to young wearers by
the addition of a smart feather, or it
may be elaborated for anyone by a
tuft of ostrich half plumes. One must
look far for a more elegant hat or
a model so universally becoming.
Hats of this character require the
work of an experienced milliner;
nothing short of perfection in draping
and in finish is permissible in them.
Facings must fit; trimmings must be
placed by a practiced eye, otherwise
the hat is a dismal failure and im
possible.
The toque of silk or hair braid
shown in the second figure is easier
to accomplish. It is made on a light
wire frame which has an amgle head
size. The frame is covered with chif
fon and faced with maline shirred on
PRETTY PRESENT FOR FRIEND
Embroidery Scissors Holders One of
the Most Acceptable Gifts That
Can Be Made.
If you can do even the simplest sort
of crocheting, you must make your
self and your friends one of the little
crocheted silk embroidery scissors
holders. These consist simply of a
eork, crocheted around in silk every
where except the top surface, and
with a crocheted string or handle to
Which the scissors are attached. Then
when they are not in use the points
are stuck into the cork and they are
out of harm’s way.
An accompaniment of this, not quite
eo new, but very useful, Is a tiny glass
medicine vial without a lid, crocheted
all over very finely. Into it are
dropped broken needles and bent pins,
and they are far safer there than
thrown carelessly on the floor or in
the wastebasket. When the vial is
full slip off the silk—a little drawing
string at the bottom permits this—
and empty it, burying the needles in
the earth or throwing them into the
fire.
These two little sewing contriv
ances, attached by a bit of ribbon in
the same color, will make charming
favors for the next luncheon of your
sewing society.
CREPE DE CHINE WAIST.
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This attractive waist is of white
erepe de chine made with tucks in
different widths and trimmed with
bands of cream lace or embroidery.
The guimpe is made of bands of
Valenciennes insertion, the collar
edged with black velvet, of which the
knot on the front of the waist is also
taade.
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The coronet is covered with ruf
fles of the braid and the crown is made
by puffing a drapery of braid over it.
Black satin ribbon three inches wide
is puffed to the toque brim from the
back to a point at the middle of the
left brim. Here a ribbon plume is
set made by sewing short loops to a
wire support. Two jet ornaments or
pins fasten the plume to the hat, and
add a pretty touch of brilliance to the
lustrous surface of the ribbon. The
hat is good in any dark or rich color,
but is at its best in black. The ma
terials of which it is made must be ex
cellent in quality.
A hat with drooping brim and large
crown, of black hair braid, is made
strictly a mode of the season, but, as
it is patterned after the Corday hat, it
is not likely to ever be out of styla
It is an elegant bic of millinery, trim
med with ropes of Tuscan straw and
an applique of .eaves made of black
satin forming a close set wreath. One
or two plumes mounted at the side,
complete a hat to be proud of.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
GIVE COMFORT IN BOUDOIR
Dainty Bedroom Slippers Should Bs
a Standard Article for Every-
day Use.
A dainty pair of bedroom slippers
may be made from two lapped sec
tions of shirred three-inch ribbon (the
length, of course, depending on the
size of the foot) attached across file
front of a lamb’s-wool sole. This forms
the toe and instep portion.
The sides and back of the slipper
are formed of a straight band of rib
bon, lined with satin and sewed to
the sole. If desired, it can be stiffen
ed with bristol board. Flowered taf
feta ribbon is best for this purpose,
; but it should not be too flimsy.
A. drawstring passed through tha
upper edge of the sides may be tied
in a bow in front, or the upper edge
may be finished at the sides and back
by a two-inch wide portion lined with
the satin in a contrasting cover por
tion, turned down like a collar and
caught by a few stitches or a baby
ribbon rosette.
Bedroom Wall Papers.
Some of the cut-out borders are
charming used with simple, almost
plain, side walls, and chintz or cre
tonne curtains carrying out the design
of the border. Then again, if the wall
spaces are large, it is sometimes inter
esting to divide them up into panels,
either with simple ribbon or flower
borders or with floral crowns and
borders similar to the one illustrated.
The panelled rooms, however, have
the disadvantage of seeming to re
quire a little more elaborate furnish
ing than those in which the walls are
treated simply. They seem to de
mand Sheraton, Heppelwhite, or
Adams furniture. —Harper’s Bazar.
Wedding Silver.
The necessary silver for a bride fs:
Four sets of spoons, which includes
soup, dessert, tea, and after-dinner cof
fee; butter knives; four sets of forks,
including oyster forks, and two sizes
of steel knives with silver handles.
If the carving is to be done on the ta
ble, two sets of carvers will be needed.
The newest and prettiest chest to
hold these comes without drawers
now, and the silver is arranged in
piles, with the two sets of knives
spread in the cover of the box—the
whole lined with soft ooze leather.
Metal Fabrics.
Metal tunic draperies at the back,
flexible and glittering, are a marked
feature in dressy gowns, falling from
between the shoulders. Gauze and
small metal discs on thin fabrics give
much style to a gown.
REMOVES ALL THE SHELL'
Imploment That Will Find Immediate
Favor With All Those
Fond of Eggs.
Many persons decline to have boil
ed eggs for breakfast for the reason
that they are somewhat of a nuisance
to prepare, after they have been
brought to the table, and before they
can be eaten. A few are content to
have the waiter or servant do this, but
the pleasure of dispatching this dainty
breakfast morsel is marred by the
knowledge that it is almost impossible
to open a hot boiled egg without the
fingers of the opener coming into in
timate contact with the contents of
the shell.
This uncertainty is overcome by the
use of the device shown in the accom-
panying cut. The apparatus consists
of two porcelain cups about three
inches high, with a rubber egg holder
in the top of each, as illustrated. One
of the cups has a metallic pivoted
striker, actuated by a coil spring. In
operating an egg is placed in one cup,
as shown, then pressing the two cups
firmly together the striker is let go
with a quick snap, which will cut the
egg shell and permit the loose con
tents of the shell to be emptied into
an egg cup or glass. The remainder
of the shell contents can be removed
with a spoon. The empty shells may’
be loosened from the holders with a>
spoon. By using this device it is only
necessary to touch the egg when plac
ing it in the shelter, and even that
may be avoided by putting it in with
a spoon.
Broth for the Children.
A most delicious food for children
just beginning to eat and for invalids:
Buy a pound of the best round steak,
remove every particle of fat and put
through the food chopper. Put the
chopped steak into a two quart glass,
preserving jar, and add a tablespoon
ful of tapioca. Fill the jar with cold
water, put on the cover and see the
lar into a pan of cold water. Be sure
Ihat the pan holds water enough to
cover two-thirds of the jar, and as it
boils away renew it. Now put the
pan containing the jar into the oven
and cook for six hours. At the end
if that time remove the jar and strain
the contents through a fine sieve.
This makes a most delicious and nour
ishing broth. A cupful of this with
a few crackers or toasted bread
makes a fine dinner for a child or a
sick person.
Farina Bread.
Make porridge of Farina as for
breakfast. Amount when done one
luart. When nearly cooked add two
large handfuls of rolled oats. After
a few minutes pour into mixer. Add
two tablespoons of salt and teaspoon
bf lard and one cup molasses. Stir
ind cool lukewarm, then add dissolved
/east cake. Then thicken with white
flour and proceed exactly as with the
(vhite bread. Think I bake it about
one and three-fourths hours. I make
large loaves, so if you make them
smaller a shorter time will do. I
(ike this bread because the crust is al
ways tender and the bread is good for
Pearly a week.
To Whiten Yellowed Linen.
A woman whose household goods
had been packed away for several
years found upon unpacking them
that the doilies and centerpieces that
were embroidered in colors had
turned yellow. She was at a loss to
know how to whiten them, since any
thing of sufficient strength for bleach
ing would fade the color of the em
broidery. On the advice of a friend
she put the articles to soak in butter
milk for two or three days, then laun
dered them in the usual way, to find
them nicely bleached. Soak them in
an earthen bowl, never in a tin ves
sel, lest they rust.
Fruit Pyramid.
A fruit pyramid is an easily pre
pared dessert and calls only for pre
served fruits, lady fingers and whipped
cream. Draw all the superfluous
juice from two or three preserved
pears, an equal number of peaches
and plums, and a few spoonfuls of
canned cherries and berries, and pile
them in a pyramid with a circle of
lady fingers and rosettes of whipped
cream. Flavor the whipped cream
with maraschino.
Nippy Cheese.
To one cup of grated dry American
cheese add one tablespoonful butter,
generous dash of cayenne and salt to
taste. Work to a smooth paste and
add one teaspoon cream. Put into
tiny glasses and keep in cold place
until used. This is a good way
to use up bits of dry cheese of any
kind, such as Roquefort, Swiss, etc.
MACON, DUBLIN AND
SAVANNAH RAILROAD.
“VIDALIA ROUTE.” M
In effect Sunday, June 14, 1808, and
superseding all previous issues.
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and intermediate points. Also the C.i
of Ga., G. S. & F., M. & B. Ry., and'
Georgia Railroad.
At Dublin, witli the Wrightsville &]
Tennille and the Dublin and SoutW
western Railway. '
At Rockledge, with the Millen &
Southwestern for Wadley and inter-;
mediate points.
At Vidalia, with the Seaboard Air
Line for Savannah and intermedia^
points and for Helena and interme
diate points, and with the Millen &
Southwestern for Millen, Stillmore,
and intermediate points.
J. A. STREYER, I
General Passenger Agent, Macon, Ga.'
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