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CHAPTER III.


For some years Henry Hilton lived IN
der the same root as his wife, thus
avoiding the mishap of a divorce and re-
alizing gradually that what at twenty
four enthralls may at twenty-eight ap-
pal.
It was pubic property that Mrs. Hilton
was a wife without a husband.
The Savoy hotel sheltered both husband
and wife, but they were seldom in it at
the same time.
Mrs. Hilton drove frequently alone. It
was her chief amusement.
Mr.. Hilton was never alone. Life would
have seemed to him absurd played as g
game OF solitaire. A man who is never
alone takes the world into his confidence.
Henry Hilton gave it entrance even to
the secrets of his heart.
1t was known then that the debtors
who stood in lines before his door were
not because of eXtravagances inspired by
Mrs. Hilton.
1t was known that a woman whose at
no haberdasher's ledger had literally
kicked her way into his heart.
Sylvia Gerrish had what were advertis-
ed as poeticaI legs. She showed them on
the stage of the Casino, where Henry Hill
ton first caught sight of ner. His rapture
became so overwhelming that it burst
into expression in a garden of flowers
and a StOr6hoUSe OF JeWelS'
At the instant that Sylvia Gerrtsh came
upon the stage, night after night, through
the season of 1889, Henry Hilton appeared
in a box Two were hired by him for the
season. The other held the flower garden
destined nightly TO be thrown at her feet.
For time she reigued Tiotously. She
had little singing ability, but the designer
OF challenger for the America cup drank
out of her slipper. It was enough! Since
the day of poor Bettina Girard it has
been herald of fame. The episode add
ed fire TO Henry Hilton's enchantment.
He followed Sylvia Gerrish with dia-
monds in his trail Her apartments We're
talked of with bated breath. They were
gorgeous beyond realization, unless one
saw the bills.
And these bills They became a source
of endless troubles. Out of them grew
difficulties that belong to the vulgar.
From day to day the public heard them
accredited to Henry Hilton.
Suits and countersuits that might have
spoiled ones temper and damaged one
peace were his. They occasioned scenes
with his father that were tumultuous in
displays of temper. They were presages
of a day Of reckoning, a day when Judge
Hilton should make his last will and tes-
lament.
In 1898 there was registered at the Grand
hotel of this city-H. G. Hilton, wife and
| maid.
Was it the wife who had been alone day
| after day in sadness?
| No. And hearing of this episode which
was recorded widely in the public prints
Mrs Hilton passed out of her husband S
! life forever, silently.
| Sylvia GerriSh remained in It.
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laid With gold. He fancied immensely
selves into realities reached the ears of
his father With terror he began 10 Won
der if his son might not be bit diSsi-
pated
He demonstrated gently He petit med
even humbly. He gave advice. discreetly.
And finally he conceived a stuDendous
idea. He made bid for the estate of
! Judge Henry Walton at Saratoga. n
great graystone mansion It was, In the
midst Of a wooded part of about 1890
acres. There he put stock farm for
Albert. and adjoining the stables he ere
ated WoodlaWn Oval, the finest athle lie
field in this country.
This was for Henry. Father and son
had had their talks and their rows. but
now Ill was forgiven. Peace reignel at
Woodlawn. Henry was pleas sd-for
week.
At the end Of 1t he flew back TO town to
his friends, to his amusements, TO h 3
nightly revels that lasted beyond train
time, TO escapades that furnished the
smoke of scandals behind which there
were visible flames.
Suddenly hope, that some day springs
eternal. once more arrested the father 3
unhappineSs.
His son seemed to have turned over
new leaf. He was suddenly less heard of
in the gay world, less seen in the haunts
the ease with which he might pick it UP.
So did his followers. He showered it
upon them, upon himself, upon women
who became his admirers. He was the
typical jolly good fellow. He had mar
velous wealth and an impressive appear
ance. He weighs zoe pounds and is over
six feet tall.
Presently rumors that shaped them
that seemed to hold him captive. His
father believed in him again. His mother
caressed him with her glances. He was
reclaimed. The family sang paean.
The father lifted his head with the
pride of influence, the mother with the
Joy of love. The cid phrase-"a chip of
the old block -foated once more like a
halo about bis head.
And 10, the transformation was due to
an influence, to a love more potent than
any Judge Hilton or his wife had engen-
dered
In Brooklyn, eighteen years ago, there
was girl named Agnes Sanxay. She en-
boiled at that time for Henry Hilton
every virtue, every beauty, every grace,
every accomplishment that had been
shared before by others of her sex. He
eXtoled in ecstasy the beautiful lines of
her head as she bent over her fathers
ledger in an effort to keep his accounts.
1t was in Henry HiltOn's eyes one more
of her accomplishments.
Agnes SanXay was cashier in her IA
Tiers haberdashery store Judge Hilton,
though he had dreamed of an heiress in
a marble palace, consented to the union.
He endeavored even to make the bride
happy with $4,000, which he gave her on
her wedding day. He built for her at
Wcodlawn, in the midst of fIXuriant for
ests and garlands OF flowers, the Lodge
1t was his son, enticed back to the
world that his kind call ''life.'' who
caused her unha DDineSS.
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THE UNH0LY WAR.

BY Henry Lahouchere.
nat are We really fighting for? Ger
fanny not for Uitlanders or their ,riaI,-
aLces' Tor the majority of those Of them
VINO are not mere spectators hoping TO
make money by the reduction of. taxafiop
VI mines ana the ups and downs Of the
STOCK e&change-the real workers in the
IfansVaal-haVe shown their desire To he
aHoWed to continue to earn large wages
Is II TO extinguish a conspiracy among
our colonists OF Dutch origin and the two
BoeF republics to drive the Anglo-Saxons
out Of South Africa?
Such a conspiracy is the widest fig
ment OF the imagination. We are para
mount. No war is needed to establish
our paramOuntcy.
IS 1t to secure to Uitlanders the right
to vote in the Transvaai after five years
residence in that country? President
Kruger offered it.
Is it that Mr.. Rhodes, reckless adven-
turer that he is, in part possessed with
lust for power, in part with lust for gold,
should seek to create a situat ton by
means of which he may crafty them?
These two lusts can be understood but
" by should the English minister be pos
sessed with the desire to drag US into an
unjust and impohttc war?
I can only account for 1t by the fact
of Chamberlain personal antagonism to
EFeSlueHI AfuSHr Tor having once got the
better of him; his restless ambition, his
mania for attracting attention to him
self.
Tt is sad he should have besn allowed
from these motives to convert South
Africa into a battlefield, to create race
antagonism the enbers of which, he him
self admits, will last for generations, and
cause the death of innumerable British
soldiers and Boer farmers. Glad, indeed,
am that the Liberal party, by a vote of
the majority Of its representatives in par
lament. refused to accept any share in
the responsibility for the war now, alas,
raging.
Who is the god of battles to whom
Chamberlain blasphemously appealed to
give him victory in his war? AS we'll
might Jameson and the capitalists of Jo
kannesburg have appealed to Divinity to
aid them in their raid
To what god did he appeal? Surely not
to the God Christians worship
Would He interfere to give US victory
In order to give the money-changers oc
casion to swindle fools out of more
money to enable grUbbers after gold to
crimp more blacks to DO their work to
secure to Uitlanders in the Transvaal
a vote after five years residence in that
land to make the Anglo-Saxon race par
amount over men of Dutch origin in
South Africa, and substitute slaughter
for a more peaceful mode of settling a
dispute? A vast number Of our own
countrymen have sOlemnEy affirmed that
right is not on our side, and that the war
IS a result either of Chamberlain's per-
sonal ambition or of his abysmal folly.
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LINCOLN AND MKINLEY.
How One Handled the Black Man
and the Other the Brown.

w ]. Bryan in New York Journal.
Those Republicans who would crush
the aspirations Of the Filipinos for self
government should read Lincoln's sreech
of 1853, in which he said:
What constitutes the bulwark of our
liberty and independence? 1t is not our
frowning battlements, our bristling sea-
coasts, our army and our navy. These
are not our reliance against tyranny. An
of these may be turned against us with
out making US weaker for the struggle
Our reliance is in the spirit of liberty
which God has planted in U.s. Our de-
Tense is in the spirit which prizes lib
erty as the heritage Of all men in all
lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit,
and you have planted the seeds of des-
potism at your own DOORS
Thirty-ffve years ago the Republicans
declared that no white man could own
q black man under the American flag;
now some of the Republicans assert that
this nation can rightfully purchase
brown people from an alien monarch at
two dollars apiece, and then put them to
death If they object to the bargain.
The Republican party was largely in
strumental in securing a constitutional
amendment which prohibits slavery in
the United States, and yet, according to a
recent report from Manila, the admins.
tration has made a treaty which recog-
nizes slavery In the Sulu archipela go,
and provides Gin article X) that amy
slave in the archipelago of Suiu shall
have the right to purchase freedom by
paying to the master the usual market
price" Presto, changed But will all the
Republicans change with the party7
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fairy tale than an actual occurrence in
real life. Many have made fortunes in
South Africa during the early days, hut
the majority, and especially those men
toned in this article, acquired their rich
es by bulldog grit and sagacity With
Robinson It has been different; his
wealth, beyond the dream of Monte
Cristo, was secured simply by pure, IN
adulterated luck
WAS ON his UPPERS."
John B. Robinson and his wife arrived
in South Africa from England in the
early '70s. possessing about $500 when they
arrived at Cape Town. The couple de-
cided to make their way to Bloemfon elm,
capital of the Orange Free State. 1t was
long and tedious journey in those days,
but after months travel In a bullock
wagon Robinson and his wife arrived at
the little capital They decided to open
a grocery and general merchandise store
Customers were long in coming and those
of the Orange Free State burghers who
did trade withsRobinsCn asked for credit,
which was freely extended to them He
was new to the business, but the burg
T.
The grocery keeper did not progress;
trade, 1t is true, became brisk, but ii was
nearly all on credit. The crisis came in
the latter part A6f 1876. AS Robinson in
creased his credits ne was going deeper
in debt. His creditor4swere clamoring fer
their money, but eShad none to give.
One morning in 1873 an Orange Free
State official took charge of the Robinson
store. A day or so la8er the whole outfit
was sold at auction. Z Burghers from all
parts Of BlcemfontetR came to see the
sport but none of fth2se who owed Rob-
irson money made aEE effort to pay him;
mayhap they had never intended to do
sc. While the auction was going on Rob
inson stood by in a dazed manner hardly
realizing what was taking place.
A TRAMP AND BEGGAR
AS the hot African sun sank in the west
that evening Robinson, then nearly forty
years of age, found himself homeless
and penniless. South Africa IS the worst
place in the world to be without money;
1t was so then, 1t is SO now. Robinson
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CHAPTER ".
A Forest of Wild Oats.

Sylvia Gerrish spent money at the rate
OF $4,000 year. Henry Hilton's devotion
kept him in constant litigation.
He was sued in turn by his tailor. his
cigar dealer, his coachman, his business
associates. His stables were seized for
debt. He was sued by Henry c. Miner,
the theatrical manager Only few days
before Miss Gerrish herself had publicly
paid for him $3.50 obtained In judgment
by livery stable keeper.
The downward path must have seemed
to him uncommonly rough. Even in the
gilded cage at Morris Heights, where he
has retired, there are ugly edges. They
appeared ungarnished when the woman
for whom Henry Hilton has sacrificed his
wife, his share Of 100000, the right to
greet his family, was made the cause
Of suit brought by one Barnard Mockell
coachman, who alleged that she offered
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CHAPTER 1.
y hen He Was Young.

When He Was Young
Intoza homo filed with such luxuries as
are accounted elevating.. Henry Graham
Hilton was born some forty years ago.
His mother had money, inherited from
her father. Edward Banker. His father
was a partner of the we'll known firm of
Campbell & Bell. He had been a Judge
of the court Of common pleas, and,
most important item, ever since his son
could remember, the friend and adviser
of Alexander T Stewart, the millionaire
shopkeeper.
Henry was a boy to be proud Of He
had shaggy mass of dark hair inquiring
eyes, a sturdy frame a fund of independ-
ence and fist ready to lick any boy
who sought to impose upon him.
The father built castles for him, mag
mary castles AS the years wore on they
became real. as far as the visible stones
and. mortar They were the scenes of
plots that centered about this second son
HeAry-that developed in grandeur in pro
portion to certain appointments which
Judge Hilton had experienced with regard
to his other children.
For instance, the eldest son, Edward
had given evidence that he would never
Of choice become a business man. He was
OF a retiring disposition He had none Of
his brother Henry's aleTtness He watch
ed him with wonder when he traded jack
III = anu MAJ D4SS' Will WOIIueF IndI
grew TO esteem when he saw that invari-
ably Henry came out ahead in his bar
gains.
In those days their elders, who prided
themselves on understanding character
said: Hes a chip of the old block"
Pacing day after day in his library.
tracing and retracIng the lines Of his own
life, realizing its mistakes, commanding
It's wise actions, he mapped out for his
son career that should surpass his own.
The fortune that was piling up into tens
of millions was to be divided among his
sons. They were to be great powers in
the world Of commerce and finance. They
were TO marry aristocrats and heiresses.
Judge Henry Hilton laid his plans with
all the care and, he fancied, all the as
tuteness Of a Thoughtful man.
They were dashed to pieces by the chill
dren Of his own creation
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him $500 to protect her from the assaults
of Hilton.
This same Moekell obtained judgment
against Hilton for $165 on account of I'M
paid salary He sought delay by having
him arrested on a charge of stealing. The
charge was dismissed and the coachman
brought suit for $50, 900 FOR false imprison-
ment.
This scarcely sounds like the record Of
a man who has sacrificed everything just
to have gay life and merry one
does it? -
His father, grown weary and old
signing a trail of checks to help on his
sons pyrotechnic display, finally forced
him to retire from the firm of Hilton,
Hughes & Co. He received $125,00O for his
share of the business.
1t is important here to repeat that
Miss Gerrish was spending money at
the rate of $4,000 year.
She was the cause of suit fer SLAM
der brought by Hilton against Benja-
min l. Carr, a builder. In Cars an
swer he said:
For long time prior to Nov. 2, 1898,
the plaintiff resided with Sylvia GerTish
who was commonly known as and called
the wife of the plaintiff. although the
plaintiff had a true and lawful wife who
long ago had separated from him and
since had been supported by plaintiff
father"
Henry G. Hilton sought revenge for the
accumulation of his unhappiness. He
brought suits without number. His fam,
lily said he was trying to ENJOY
them. He protested he had reason
SO in the search of gay life and a
merry one he sued his brother Albert
| TO recover personal property valued at
| S45 The case was discontinued
| He sued Mrs. Albert Hilton for per-
| sonal property valued at $4,000 A ref
| erence was denied him.
He tried to recover a chest of solid
silver in the custody of his wife Agnes
p Hilton and was refused a warrant.
| What Mr.. Hilton owns and what he
| does not own is matter for conjecture.
1t has been asserted that he has property
| consisting of household furniture. silver.
| Jewelry, horses. carriages, harness. robes
| etc. But all this. it is said, is so min
| gled with the property of Sylvia Gerrish
! that 1t is difficult to disentangIe it.
/ This, the financial condition of a man
who might have shared in the equal
| division of lands beyond valuation and a.
| fortune of $100eO,000
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CHAPTER II.
The Rake Appears

Into families where the facilities are
almost nil, ambition to become kings In
the business world enters overwhelming
ly. Into the Hilton family it came so
lasgardly that one might not even call it
q willingness.
Presented with possibilities unequaIed.
nth an entrance into one of the greatest
stores ever founded, the Hilton boys were
eentemptuoUs Of their opportunities.
Arriving at years Of discretion, Edward
decided he would have nothing to do With
trade. Without concealment he declare d
It was not to his liking
Albert, commonly known as the colonel.
developed a taste deeply engrossing for
rare stamps.
- The father looked with eyes that had
IN then still tho hope OF comfort upon
Henry He at least made no resistance
to entering the firm, where the path was
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CHAPTER v.
The Inharrfanna


Out OF these ten millions Henry Hilton.
oy the terms of his fathers will, "a to
snare with his wife, $25, OO0-at the dis
cretlon of the trustees only.
his two sisters and his two brothers
nave fortunes that he must surely esti-
mate at his leisure.
ne recalls his fathers love for him,
his pride in his boyhoad. On the ground
that he must have been undu,y inffuanc 4
ne Will contest his last desires
mas II been worth while? An honora-
Ole share of $1O.OO00O0 sacrificed to have
what? To hold what?
He sought-as have men with les,
prospect-for happiness.
he bad enough to buy what he thought
would make It. ~
II would be interesting to know if he
found tt-even for an hour
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of the Transvaal were discovered, and
this was especially the case with John B.
Robinson, who was absolutely penniless
in the latter part of 1878.
This story is of John B. Robinson, who
is unQuestionably the richest man in the
world. This man, with his immense
wealth, does not travel round. the world
in a private yacht; he does not possess
palatial private railroad car; he does
not parade his stupendous riches in an
ostentatiotis- manner; neither is he given
to perform acts ofseffarfty.
The career Of Mr.. Robinson in Africa
is far stranger than fiction. the aequisi=.
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Bicycle Music Boxes.

Music boxes for bicycles are now man-
ufactured by firm in Hamburg. The
round. boX-shaped apparatus, which Is
said to give the sound of a better-class
accordion. IS attached in front TO the
lower part of the handle bar and con-
nected with the front wheel in such
manner that the revolution Of this wheel
causes the music to play.
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Henry G. Hilton, and his wife, Agnes s.,
or to or for the use of either of them,
such sums and amounts as my executors
shall see fit or shall consider proper and
expedient"
A little over week ago this same Henry
Chiffon appeared in the surrogate's office
Z to oppose the admission of the will. Be-
hind these Two facts there is story as
old as the Book of Books. 1t shows how
the wind was sown. how the whirlwind
was reaped, says the New York Journal.
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magnificent estate in England
OF course. these days are a vast diff
ference to Mrs. Robinson, but she Is not
like her husband The grocery sore ex-
perience has not embittered her nature,
She gives largely to charity and no ona
appeals to her in vain for aid.
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In Advance.
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and
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Free Trial Treatment

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And R sno9 wrote thus III dumped
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Now Counts His Fortune by the
Hundred MiiliOns-He Made "a IRE
mendous Strike in the TransvaaI
He Is Now Reputed to Be Worth
at Least $4oO,OOO,O0O-He Once
Ran Grocery.
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Within twenty years four men have
been made multimllllonaircs in South
Africa. They are John B. Robinson, es-
timated wealth. $4o0,QcO. 900; Albert Belt,
$780, OooQco; Cecil J. Rhodes, s25. Od0. OOO and
the late Barney F:arnato. who left an
estate valued at over S5.OOO,Ooe. All of
these men were poor before the diamond
mines of Kimberley and the gold fields
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WRECK OF A RAKE
HOW YOUNG HENRY HILTON'S IN
FATUATION FOR SYLVIA
GERRISH
HAS COST HIN HIS SHARE

HAS COST HIN HIS SHARE
: e 81 the 1'Stewart Millions" - Cut OF
With $4,000 = His Coming Con-
test of His Fathers Will Adds One
More Chapter to the Curse of A.
T. Stewards MOney"-A Forest OF
49, Wild Oats.
On Aug. "a Judge Henry Hilton died.
leaving q fortune estimated at $4,000 900.
In his will there was this clause:
Ny executors are hereby authorized
-,- IN their discretion TO set apart out of my
estate the sum of $25 600. out of which
they may from time to time, as they may
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-13
Kniehts of Honor.

Yerba Buena Lodge of the Knights of
Honor is arranging for a smoker on a
larger scale than any previously given,
and the lodge expects TO obtain beneficial
results from the meeting.
The recent action of the Supreme Lodge
at its session in Detroit, Mich, in revising
the assessment table came in the nature
of a surprise to many of the members,
but an explanation of the causes that led
to the action has led to the approval Of
The various lodges Of this city and
vicinity are working actively to make the
excursion TO Los Gatos on the 9th of Sep
tember great success. Yerba Buena
Lodge will require three cars to carry its
members TO the picnic grounds.
Joseph Schlute, founder of the G. H. NJ.
Curry Lodge at Monterey. has organized
a new lodge at Salinas. which will be in
stituted by Grand Dictator Archibald and
other grand officers.
The grand dictator has just returned
from a visit to the lodges in San Joaquin
County and reports them all in good con-
ditiOn.