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Some 45 years ago in Durham, Me. "Rev." Frank. W. Sandford, a magnetic little man who had been an able baseball player, founded the Holy Ghost and Us Society, built some gilt-domed frame houses on a hilltop which he called "Shiloh." He named himself "Elijah," claimed he had the ear of the Holy Ghost, collected money in abundance from 1,000 followers...
...Sandford staged cures and claimed he raised the dead, but at least 20 people died without medical care at Shiloh, and "Elijah" was thrice tried for manslaughter. He was convicted of nothing, however, until 1911, when he returned from a world voyage on a leaky schooner. Six followers had died of scurvy, exposure or starvation. Tried for manslaughter, Sandford was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Penitentiary, was released after six, then disappeared from public sight...
Amherst villagers declared last week that Sandford, now a bearded prophet of 76, was to be seen of moonlit nights near the cult's farm. Neither Dean Neidlinger, however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized...
...headed Publisher Henry Holt told Artist Mitchell that Life's life would be short, advised him to stay out of a field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...Life's final issue in its original vein, Edward Sandford Martin, now 80, was recalled from editorial retirement to compose its obituary. Wrote the man whose name appeared in Life's first masthead with that of Founder Mitchell: "That Life should be passing into the hands of new owners and directors is of the liveliest interest to the sole survivor of the little group that saw it born at 1155 Broadway in January 1883. ... As for me, I wish it all good fortune; grace, mercy and peace and usefulness to a distracted world that does not know which...