The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-11
discovery of his remains in the SOudan.
But the most curious part follows
Ghost APPEARED at Osborne.

On the day when Queen Victoria died
at Osborne, in the Isle of Wight. when
the gates We're closed to all but the
family, and guardsmen stood at the
gate, a small, dark man appeared and
walked past the guard, who seemed
not TO notice him. He entered the gate
Five minutes afterWard the nag on the
castle fell to half-mast. Those who
saw the small, dark man aver he was
RuStin-
Strict orders have been issued to
make no reference to the occurrence,
but it leaked out, nevertheless, and,
OF course, is generally ridiculed? Still,
the mystery remains. who was Rustin
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! In New York City the name of George
} Bell is synonymous of wealth. Those
who know him say he is worth 10000
/ 00o That is, he was worth $4,000, 000,
/ but he is rapidly getting rid of il. Some
years ago Bell conceived a violent dis
/ like for his two sons. one OF them,
the elder, he is said to have had rea-
/ son to dislike The younger took his
mothers part in some family quarrel,
and Bell now hates both sons impair
/ TALLY.
Bell. determined that his sons should
not succeed TO his wealth, ordered his
! lawyers to draw up will leaving his
property IT, the state. The lawyers
drew the will, but they advised Bell
| that it would not stand under a con-
/ test and as a contest was certain, Bell
| resorted to other methods to accom-
plish his ends
Last year, at the age of 6S. he esti-
mated that he had but five years to
| live, and that to rid himself OF his
money he would have to spend or
otherwise dispose of $4,000, 600 year
His first move was to take passage to
! Liverpool, where he attracted atten-
| tiOn by f1inging money into the streets,
/ that the crowds might scramble for it.
! Gold, bank notes, rare coins, all these
were tossed about, and gamins and
| well-dressed persons alike flung them
| selves upon one another in the wild ef-
! forts to get what Bell threw away.
Then he varied the monotony by Civ
| ing little girl in the street violin
valued at $1,000 which the little girls
parents as promptly sold for 81, zoo. The
violin was an old StradiviriUs that Bell
| had bought in the morning The incl
/ dent attracted the attention of the pc
( lice. Bell was arrested, but quickly
demonstrated that he was entirely
sane, and it became necessary TO re-
| lease him.
From Liverpool Bell went to London,
| where his lavish expenditures, or more
exactly, his eccentric throwing away
! of money, created a sensation equal to
that in Liverpool He made a turore
by purchasing treasures of antique
furniture and giving them to the most
casual acquaintance, or even to
strangers. Again the police interviewed.
but, as in Liverpool. without effect
firing of London, Bell went to Paris,
which city is now enjoying the sensa-
ton of having money thrown at it In
Paris his fad takes the form of pur-
chasing rare china, which he beStOWS
! upon the first passer-by at the shop
where the particular purchase happens
| to be made. Limoges ware is his IA
| vOrite, and families who had never
known anything better than enameled
ware are now wondering what to do
with plates worth $50 apiece
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Years ago George Dawson lived a
poor lad in Yorkshire village in Eng
land. The family had scarce enough
| to keep soul and body together yet
/ Dawson fell in love The object of his
| affections was Sybil Lake. who was
! the neighborhOod beauty. Her parents
were as poor as DawSOn'S. Dawson
saw that while ne remained in Eng
/ land there was no hope of his better
/ ing his condition or of marrying the
| girl of his choice. So one day he went
/ away on foot. At Hull he found q
/ steamer about to sail for India BY
/ just as she was about to sail. Whether
/ he was a stowaway or had arranged
/ to work his passage is not known At
all events he reached India
! There fortune seemed to shy at him.
/ For years he almost starved, and il
seemed to him he would be no better
] off than he had been in England. He
! determined not to write to Sibyl Lake
until he could tell her of fortune abroad
in his favor of course-because he
could not have been worse off.
Dawson drifted about in India until
/ he reached Burmah. There tin mine
made him rich, almost in a day. He
/ hurriedly sold out and returned to Eng
/ land There he rushed to the York
/ shire village of his youth to. seek Sybil
! Lake but she was gone. Her parents
/ were dead. and no one knew whittier
she had drifted.
Dawson was desperate. He still had
/ the photograph of Sybil Lake, taken
in the days of their youth-nOw twelve
8 years gone With this as his only clew
! he set about his search over England.
! Detectives were engaged to find her,
/ every photograph gallery in the United
] Kingdom was searched, every city pla-
carded with advertisements Offering re
/ wards for information as to her where
abouts. Two years have thus elapsed.
Still the search goes on, a battered,
/ weather beaten, haggard man haunting
/ the streets and detective agencies in
! search of his lost love. OF wealth he
has an abundance-Of happiness none.
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Lieutenant Fredericks was a sub
altern in a British regiment stationed
: his pay. One day there came a legacy
/ from England. A small legacy, to be
; sure, only S200 but it was ready
money. or ready money he had had but
! little in months.
/ Lieutenant Fredericks went to the
/ races at Poonah- He had the S200 in
! his pocket, and he scanned the lists at
/ the betting stalls, determined to keep
| the money in his pocket.
But something whispered to him:
! Bet on BendigO!" The odds on Bendigo
we're d hundred to, one, and no one at
the race track imagined that the horse
! had the slightest chance of winning.
/ There was much surprise, therefore,
/ when young Lieutenant Fredericks
went to the bookmaker and placed his
entire legacy on Bendigo. But the book
I makers smiled. 1t was like finding
money.
The race was run. Every one was
/ astounded. Bendigo had won. Young
/ Lieutenant Fredericks now had 100000
/ (S100.000). With that sum his wSgers
I grew heavier; yet he almost always
won. Then. when he had grown rich.
Frederick resigned his commission and
! went to London
There he continued betting. But his
luck had deserted him. The half-mil-
lion pounds he had brought to England
dwindled rapidly. Half of it he lost
on a single race, when Baron Hirseh's
/ La Fleche was defeated by Sir Hugo
for the Derby.
] With the remains of his once great
fortune in his pockets, young Fred
; ericks, now somewhat aged by his re-
verses, returned to India TO gather Up
again the thread of his former luck