Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 3 January 1895 — Page 6

THE AMERICAN GIRL. Ehe Is One of the Most Picturesque * Types of Feminine Humanity. Mre. Amelia E. Barr Writes of Har Good ! =mnd Bad Polnts—She ¥s Physically Lovely and Should Have the _ : Best Mental Training. : |COPYRIGHT, 1894.] | g % NE of the most & ,%, {o_« AT interesting, ; ég ’F ,'*‘{33 ‘pigquant and : ﬁ-';‘i’k ‘f’:,"ﬁi d picturesque of 7 OGN all types of femb /@ inine humanity lIW}J y is the American i = girl-not the g hothouse variety, reared for the adornment of luxury, but the everyday, everywhere girls that throng the roads leading to the public schools and the normal schools; and who even in a higher state of culture fill the halls of learned colléeges with a wondrous charm and brightness—girls who have an aim in life, a mission to fulfill, a home to order, who know the worth of money, who are not ashamed to garn it, and who manage out of limit#d means to compass all their desires for pretty dresses and summer vacations, and even their pet dream of an ocean voyage and a sight of the old ‘world. F _, “Physically, these girls enjoy life at its highest point. - Look at their flushed cheeks and bright, fearless eyes, and watch their light, swift, even steps. They haVve no complaint to make of ‘the heat or the Sinshine or the frost; they have not yet heard of

the east wind. Rain does not make 4 them cross; and, as for the snow, it throws them into a delicions excitement; while the wind, blowing their dresses about them in colored clouds, only makes them the more eager to try their strength against it. ; That these girls, so physically lovely, - should have the proper mental training is a point of the gravest personal and national importance. And it is the glory of our age, that this necessity has been nobly met. For the American girl, “wisdom‘ has builded her house and hewn out her seven pillars;” and

as she'points to the lofty entrance she cries to all alike: “Go up: the door is . open!” If the girls of fifty years ago could have known the privileges of our era how would they have marveled and rejoiced, and desired ‘‘to see their day.” " 'But manifold ‘as her privileges are, the American girl generally knows -bow to use them. She proves daily that the parable of the ten talents did - not refer to men only. Indeed the fault girls are most likely to fall into is the belief that they each'and a}l ‘possess every one of the talents. ln reality this is so seldom the case that it is impossible to educate all girls after one pattern; and it is therefore a grand thing for a girl to know just what she can, and cannot, do. For if she have only five talents, there is no andvantage to be gained by creating fictitious ones; since the noblest education is that which looks to the development.of the natural abilities, whether they be few or many—fashionable. or unfashionable. v ~ Ask the majority of peopls “what is education,” and they will be apt to answer ‘‘the improvement of the mind.” Bat this answer does not take us one step beyond the starfing point ' Probably the best and most generally g gsefnll rule for a girl is -a deliberate and consecientious inquiry into her own nature and inclinations as to what she wants to do with her €ducation. When she has ‘faithfully answered the inquiry she is ready to prepare herself for this end: For it is neither necessary, nor yet possible, that every girl . should know everything. Besides which, the growth of the individuality . has made special knowledge a thing of great value; and on all occasions of « importance, we are apt to defer to it. df we cross the Atlantic, we look for a-captain who has a special knowledge of its stormy ways. If we are really © lill, we go to a specialist on our ailment, no matter what ‘‘pathy” we prefar, Special knowledgg- has a prima Yacie worth, and without inquiry into a subject we are inclined to consider . specialists on the subject better informed than those who have not this, . qualification. Hence the importance’ of cultivating some one talent to such perfection as-will enable a girl, if needs: ' be, to turn it into money. e “There is another point in the preparation of the American girl for the: -t duties of lifé which' is often undervalued, or even quite ignored—it’ is the little remembered fact that all our moral and intellectnal qualities are _very dependent for their value on our surroundings. 'The old Quakers used to lay great stress upon being ‘‘in one’s right place.” ‘When the right person is Tn the right place there is sure to be a success in life; failure in this respect is almost certain misfortune—a fine accountant before the mast, a fine lady in the wilderness, are out of their places and have lost their opportunity. - And so educational pecomplishments, . which would bring wealth and honor in’a great city, may be detrimental to . happincss and a drag on duty in an isolated position. " Henee'the importance of a girl find- ' ing out first of all what she wants to do with her edvcation. Forin this day she is by no means cramped in her choice; the most desirable occupations - are open to her; she may select from the whole world her arena; and from the fullness thereof her reward. But i hfpr objeet be a more narrow and . ‘eonventional one, it all she wishes is to be loved and popular in her own small community, then—if she is wise - —she will cultivate only such a happy arrongement of gradeful, usual ace

complishments as prevail among her class and friends. For a very clev@r woman cannot bé at home with very many people. SBhe is too large for the regular grooves of society; she does - not fit into any of its small aims and enjoyments; and though she may have the kindest heart, it is her singularities only that will be taken notice of. 'lf then popularity be a girl’s desire, . .she must not obviounsly cultivate her“sclf, must not lift herself above her . surroundings; nor Ilift her _aspirations higher than the aims " which all humanity have .in comB SN R il RO A ~ mor WWVWKM thing for ~ humanity that so many nice girls are content and happy with.such a life ob- ~ jeet; for the social dnd domestic graces _mre %eﬁt “é;twnce the ‘elodast; which sweeten its bitter griefs ;‘,@" en its dreariest hours. o o s withogt fauits, PhysicR gy and mentally, siie’ may ' st \iﬁ% her ﬁ“‘“?ﬁw’ Ny woman kﬁg TR T R e e

world; morally, she has the shortcomings tha.ﬁ‘ are the shadows of her excellencies. Principally she is accused of a want of reverence, and, setting. aside for the present her faults as a daughter, it may be admitted that in general she has little of this gquality. But it is largely the consequenceof her, enyvironments. Reverence is the virtue of ignorance; and the American girl has no toleration for ignorance. BShe is inquisitive, speculative and inclined to rely on her own investigations; while the spirt-of reverence demands, as its very atmosphere, trust and obedience. It is therefore more just to say, that she is reverent in great things but not respectful in small ones. And there is much excuse for this attitude, forshe is so alert and eager herself, that when she meets old men and women, who have learned nothing from their last fifty years of life, and who therefore can teach her nothing, she does not feel any impulse to offer reverenee to mere years. But if gray hairs be honorable, either for matured wisdom extensive information, or practical ?iety, she is generally inclined to give that best of allhomage—the reverence which springs from knowledge and affection; and which is a much better thing than the mere forms of respect, traditionally offered toold age. == : : It is also said that the American girl is a very vain girl, fond of parading her beauty, freedom and influence. But vanity is not a bad quality if it does not run to excess. It isthe ounce of leaven in a girl’s character, and does & deal of good work for which it seldom gets any credit. For & great deed a great motive is necessary; but how numberless are the small social’ and domestic kindnesses, for which vanity is a sufficient force; and which would beneglected or ill-done withoutitsinfluence! As long as girl’s vanity does not, derive its inspiration from self-love, there is no necessity for her to wear sackeloth to humiliate it. We have all known women without vanity, and fou,;nd‘ them unpleasant people to know.

1t is however, doubtless, this vanity or self-appreciation which leads the American girl to her extravagant love of flne dress. She likes to make pictures of herself, and if she has the means to do so without injuring others she has the right to accentuate all her best points,/and wear the garments that are most becoming to her. The wonder is, that with all her self-suf-ficiency, her originality, and her strong common sense, Rhe does not see that one style for dark and fair, big. and little, lean and stout, plain and handsome women, is destructive of all that individnality which in other respects she prizes so much. If this fact ever 'should appeal to her sense of the fitness of things, she has the will and the power to curtail in gigantic proportions, our present extravagant kaleidoscopic system of dressing. L

There is one fault of the American girl'which is especially her fault, and which onght nbt to be encouraged or palliated, although it is essentially the shadow of sbme of her greitest excellence—the fanlt of being in too great a hurry, at all the turning points of her life. When she is in the nursery, she aches to go to school.’:- ' When she is a schoolgirl, she is impatient to put on long dresses, and become a young lady. As soon as this fact is accomplished, she feels there is not a moment to lose in choosing either a career, or a husband.: She is always in a hurry about the future, and so frequently takes the wrong turn, at the great events of life. She leaves school too soon; she leaves home too soon; she does everything at & rush; and does not do it as well, as if she ‘‘made haste slowly.”

. But what a future lies before these charmingly brilliant American girls, if they are able to take the fullest possession of it! The great obstacle in this achievement is the apparently wholesome opinion that education is sufficient. But the very best education will fall short of its privileges, if it be not accompanied with that moral training, ‘which we call discipline. Discipline is self-denial im all its highest forms; it teaches the excellent means between licénse and repression; without it a girl may have plenitude of knowledge, and a lamentable want of sweetness; so ‘that ome, only secondrate on her intellectual side, may bea ‘thousand fold more lovable than one who is first-rate on her intellectual side, but lacks that fine flavor of char‘acter, which comes from the expansion of noble inward forces, disciplined and directed to good ends. * Every one understands .that no char‘acter, thowever intellectual, is worth anything that is not morally healthy; but morality in a woman is not in itself sufficient. She must have in addition all those charming virtues included in that word of many lights and shades and subtle meanings—‘womanliness; that‘W(gi, which signifies such a variety of #hings, but never anything but what is sweet, and tender and gracious, and beautiful.

AMELIA E. BARR. I Nothing Wasted at Ealing. "At Ealing,'in England, the waste | heat from a plant for consuming garbage is now being applied successfully in operating an electric-light plant. One of the useful by-products of the { works are the ‘clinkers” resulting | from the burning of dead cats, dogs, | and other refuse matter. These are | used for making artificial stone. The ! whole of the concrete used in the build- I ings of the lighting station was made l from such ‘‘clinkers.” Love’s Labor Loss, Biddle—Jimson has given up hés contemplated great gencalogical work. Riddle-—How is that? , - Biddle—He fornd among hﬁ;ances- | tors, only one hundred years back, three murderers, two horse thieves, a I ‘bigamist and several other objectiona- | ble people.—Truth. B : A Last Resort. ’ i Little Girl—l've glued my doll’s hair on twice, and it came off both times. Mother—Oh, well, try it again. = ' Little Girl—l'm goin’ to. This time | I'm goin’ to mix the glue in a hair re- 1 storer bottle.—Good News. ‘ It’s an 111 Wind, Ete. 4‘l Mrs. Dix—Your husband must suffer terribly with his coughing and sneeztn%]ﬁ'hen he has that fearful cold. 1 - Mzs. Hicks—To be sure he. does; but: you ean’t think how itamuses the baby. W R Reggy—Oh, 1 have no trouble finding o finoee, The mystery 1s o hold her Bl B bl v ke e D WECE L et

- A "ROCKING-HORSE.

Fielding Ta\kes One to a Nephew

in New Jersey.

He Meets with Many Adventures on: the Way and Arrives with Both the Horse and Himself in a Dilapidated . y ; Condition.

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. At this appropriate season 1 have been making others happy. It is easy enough to do that, if one will only sacrifice himself. If he is willing to do something exceptionally foolish, and let his friends and relations se¢ him do it—especially that large majority .of them who have always said that he was that kind of a man—he will increase the sum of human happiness to an extent absolutely incredible by one who has not tried it. i :

“The reason we haven’t had a good time on Christmas in the past ten gears,” said I to Maude, ‘‘is 'that we aven’t been where there were childreft. 'The little folks are the ones who enjoy the day. Thirteen thousand years ago—l will not pretend to be exact, but it seems as long as that—when I was a boy, we used to have great times.” : « : Then I made a proposition that we go and spend Christmas with my

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cousin Horace Fielding, who lives in New Jersey. The place where he lives doesn’t matter. It isn’t on any map except that of the real estate agent who sold him the property. i There are plenty of children at Cousin Horaee’s house; indeed, under ordinary circumstances, one is what I would call plenty, or even a slight excess. But at Christmas time, supposing that a fellow isn’t tied down to it, but, on the comtrary, can say in his heart every minute or two: ‘I can get out of this infernal racket any time I want to,” a lot of children blowing horns, and beating drums, and fighting with one another and their parents, are really agreeable. Cotisin Horace had written that he’d be delighted to have us come. He’s a fellow who really enjoys company, even if it isn’t what one would call cheerful. He wanted us to come a week in advance 80 as not to miss any of the fun. That looked like a good suggestion to me, g 0 I sent Maude out there on the date agreed upon, and -remained in town myself. Thus she didn’t miss anything out there, and I didn’t miss anything in town, for we are too old to miss each other. I played billiards with the boys five evenings in succession, and it didn’t cost me a cent, for I saved it all Dby not giving Maude something which I had previously intended to buy for her as a Christmas present. - It was necessary, however, to remember Cousin. Horace’s children. Maude had done something in that line before she left the city. She had bought things for the three girls, but had left the boy’s present to me. I don’t know what a boy wants. Probably the boys in these days are very different from those who formed ‘‘the crowd” in the old times and are now scattered all the way from Fifth avenue to the poor house, Still, it seemed well to recall my own desires as the easiest way to .arrive at a conclusion regarding those of Horace Jr. For a long timeT couldn’t think of anything I wanted in those days, except a chance tokill the schoolteacher. iy Finnally I remembered that I used to want a rocking-horse. Perhaps that antedated the other desire referred to, but our recollections of childhood are seldom accurate in‘the matter of dates or ages. Moreover, I remember that I didn’'t want the rocking-horse for its own sake, but rather because another boy had it, and I hated that boy. It was all that I could think of as a gift, and that probably determined my choice. I was rendered somewhat doubtful about it by my inability to remember whether Horace Jr. was the youngest or the oldest of the children. It was one way or the other, as in the old case of the egg and the brine, but I couldn’t remember which. However, I bought the rocking-horse. I' did it on Thursday. . & ‘‘Send it out to Piney Point,” said T to the saleswoman in the toy department of a big dry goods store. The place is called Piney Point, by the way. “We will send it there if we can,” résponded the girl, ‘““but we cannot gunarantee delivery on time. It may not reach there till after New Year’s day. The express companies are very busy at this time of year.” - e : I said—well, never mind what 1 said, go long as the saleswoman didn’t hear it. Then I tucked the rocking-horse under my arm and tried to get out of the store, and out of town without being seen by anybody who knew me. I seemed to me that I saw many familiar faces in the throng that pushed and jostled about the store. On a rough estimate I would have said that there were two or three hundred ladies of my acquaintancé in. that store, and that they were all "looking at me. Subsequent investigation has shown me that there was but one, and that she didn’t see me until I attempted to elude her observation. That was just what Idid. @

I dodged away in the direction of a gide door used by the delivery department and opening into an alley. I was just sneaking out, congratulating myself meéanwhile on having escaped the crowd on Twenty-third street, when a heavy hand was laid upon my shoulder and a stern voice inquired what | had in that bundle. It was Sherlock Holmes in disguise, employed by the proprietor of the store as a private detective at fifteédn dollars a week. His researches in the field of deductive reasoning had led him to the convietion that-when a suspicious-looking person glides softly out of the back door with a large bundle, which he is evidently anxious to conceal, that person was o thief. At least I suppose ‘that that was how hg knew it. G

.1 explained to him that my character and conduct would stand the fullest investigation, but they wouldn’t stand it just then because they were in a hurry and if he attempted to stop them there would b: more assault and battery committed than he had ever seen consolidated in one place and one second pefore. He did not bluff worth a cent. Instead of taking fright, he calmly asked for my ticket. Everybody who buys anything in that storé must wait for a ticket which is usually wrapped up in the bundle. I told him that was where my ticket was, and he began to tear the wrappers off the rockinghorse. When he had made that unfortunate beast look as ragged. as the garboard strake of a tramp’s pantaloons he found the ticket, and tendered his apologies. Just as I was about.to insist that he should have the wooden animal properly blanketed with brown paper, again, the lady whom I knew appeared, edging over toward that corner of the store. So I hoisted the beast under my arm, and dodged out into the alley. : ' Thealley led to Sixth avénue, and that to Twenty-third street, when I began to ascend the stairs of the L road station. . There were a good many people going up, and at least an equal number coming: down. All of them had umbrellas, for it was snowing hard, and that fact made it still more comfortable to get through the crowd with a rocking-horse in my arms. At the head of the stairs I encountered a truly typical woman coming down. She knocked my hat off with her umbrella, swiped me with her elbow, and turned me round like a top until my foot got tangled in the horse’s rocker and I fell into the woman’s arms while the horse trotted down the stairs at about 2:031§ with fire flashing from his nostrils.

~ When I had apologized to the woman who had caused the trguble, and had thanked the man who had stopped my horse (with his stomach) I gathered the animal to my arms once more, and successfully mounted the stairs. The man at the window sold me a ticket, and the chopper chopped it up, but the trainmen wouldn’t let me get aboard with so large a bundle; the chopper wouldn’t return the ticket, and the man inside the window held on to my nickel. Such being the discouraging state of the case, I descended to the étreet, and boarded a surface car, the conductor of which made me stand on the front platform. - When this entertaining ride was over there remained a considerable distance to walk. On the way to the ferry I fell in with a gentleman of my acquaintance who lives somewhere in the Piney Point region. He suggested having something to drink. I did not attempt to dissuade. So I accompanied him, and drank hot lemonade. As he stopped at every saloon on the way I accumulated more hot lemonade than I really had use for, but I couldn’t break away from my genial companion because. he knew all about the trains, and I knew nothing. He know so much about those teains, in fact, that 'he was able to say, when we came in sight of the ferry house, that we had missed our boat by not more than two minttes, and that there wouldn’t be another one connecting with a train for an hour and a half.

However, the other fellow enjoyed the Scotch whisky; indeed, he enjoyed it so much that he missed the next train. We caught one at 10:30, and it was 11:45 when the train reached Piney Point. [ arrived there at 12:30, for I had incamtiously fallen asleep with my arms around the horse’s neck; and had thus been carried on to Winkumpaw, which is the next station beyond Piney Point. Of that walk back through the snow I retain a very slight but sorrowful recollection: It was colder than the place where wicked Esquimaux.go when they die. The horse had gained a good deal in’'weight through accumulations of snow and ice, despite the fact that his head and many other important parts of him had fallen by the wayside. e ! -They found me—l am told—sitting on the horse in the snow, on the front

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steps of the house crying: ““Ah, goof” and ‘‘goo gah!” and using other expressions reminiscent of innocent childhood. : : P T i . When they brought me to myself inside the bouse I asked for the horse and when he had been :‘brought I grieved to see the state to which he had been reduced. ' e

“Little Horace,” said I, “will ecry when he sees this.” S

Then they told me that little Horace was sixteen years old. He doesn’t care much about rocking-horses. He 2an get all the fun he wants by going around among the other boys and telling them what a blamed fool his Uncle Henry is. HowARD FIELDING.

Unalterably Oppnsod.

‘T’m against it, sah,” said Col. Cyahter, of Virginia. ‘l’'magainstthis idea of women’s voting.” = : “What’s the objection?” - “If they vote, it’s only logical to expect ’em to run foh office, sah.” “Well?”? ) ;

“An’ the woman that’s the most attractive is going to get the most votes in my district every time. The idea, sah, of getting up in public, sah, and expressing the opinion that any one woman is mo’ attractive than other women who have been mentioned by name, would be a breach of gallantry, sah, unworthy of any but the most barbaric circles of society, sah.”—Truth. . Just the Person.- - . Public Library Official (tearing up card)—What idiot let you have a book on that card? 1t expired a month ago. Near-Sighted t‘feu'ty—-—liha' was a sourlooking, light-eomplexioned _young squirt with eurly hair and—why, Lord bless me! it was youl—Shedfield Teles graph. - ‘ ; L o ‘;hm; He Thought About It. She—l'm sorry I married you nice girl out of amighty good husband.

Labor Leaders Did Not Spend ' Christmas in Jail. Judge Woods Grants a Stay of Proceedings in the Debs Case—But This May > Mean a Longer Term for : . the Defendants. ’ CaiCAGO, Dec. 26. — When Judge Woods took his seat on the bench Monday morning Mr. Gregory, reprepenting the defendants, said that his clients desired to test the constitutionality of the Sherman act; they knew that this could not be done so long as the sentence' imposed in the Santa Fe case was concurrent with the sentence in the government case. He asked the court to so modify the sentence that it become cumulative, giving precedence to the government sentence, and to stay execution until the defendants could take the issue before the supreme court. - ) The Government| Agrees. The counsel for the government asked a few questions of the opposing counsel touching the issue and, aftera brief consultation, Mr. Walker said that it was evidently the desire of the defendants to test an issue which had never been passed upon by the supreme judiciary, and he and his associates could not see any reason to object to the granting of the reasonable request of the counsel of the defendants. -

The defense was willing to take the chances of having the accused spending twice the original sentence in jail for the sake of having both cases decided by the court of last resort. On that point the court issued an order in compliance with the request. = | - STORMS ABROAD. The British Isles and the Continent Suffer from Fierce Gales, « ' Loxpox, Dec. 25.—Reports of the storm received from all parts of England show that immense damage has been everywhere caused by the recent gales. The loss will reach tens ofthousands of pounds. Many buildings have been blown down and telegraph wires have suffered greatly. Traffic has been completely suspended .in many places on account of the floods. Many ships have been driven ashore by the winds. Over fifty persons haye been reported dead .in differentgplaces as a result of the storm, while hundreds have ‘been injured. Eight persons, while attempting to escape from a bark driven ashore at Holy Head, were drowned. A chimney at Sheffield was blown down -and it is reported that five persons were killed and many injured. e Three fishing smacks went down Saturday night off Stornaway, on the Scotch coast, and all three crews, numbering twenty-two men, were drowned. At Teelin a house collapsed and the three occupants were killed. In Stanglar two _persbns were killed by a falling chimney. Dispatches from the continent say that northern . France and Germany suffered severely from the storm, although the loss of life and property cannot be estimated. At Hamburg many vessels went adrift and collided or grounded. :The tide was the highest seeén since 1882. The lower parts of Wilhelmshaven on the North sea were flooded and the dykes would have gone if the garrison had not worked energetically for hours to strengthen them. Luebeck and Colberg also suffered much damage.' At least thirteen persons were killed and sixty injured, many of them fatally, by the wreck of the Manchester express on the London & Northwestern railway, at Chelford, Saturday. The accident in reality was caused by the recent storm, which has wrought so much damage throughout England.

‘Paris, Dec. 25.—The storm which has swept northwestern. Europe has done great damage in Belgium. ' The Dendre overflowed its banks at Termonde, -and the inhabitants @ were aroused at midnight by ringing bells to flee for their lives. In Rotterdam the water rose 1% feet above the usual high water mark. The streets were under 2 or 3 feet of water, and the inhabitants paddled about on raft and in boats. e

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION.

Less Than Two Thousand Miles of Track Laid Since Last January. -

* CHICAGO, Dee. 26.—From advance sheets of anarticle on railway con- - struction in 1894 to appear in the next ‘number of the Railway Age it appears that notwithstanding the many diffi‘culties railroads had to encounter during the last eleven or twelve months nearly 2,000 miles of new track have been laid in the United States during the year now closing, while grading and preliminary work has been done on a considerable additional mileage. In thirty-four of the forty-eight states and territories track has.gone down on 153 lines to an aggregate, according to latest returns, of 1,919 miles, and it is possible that a few miles more may be reported in the final statement. i There are fourteen states and territories which have made no additions to their railways. These are Vermont, ‘Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Indian country, lowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Washington, Nevada and Idaho. Oregon barely ¢scaped omission by adding less than 2 miles, and Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Virginia kept in by building from 8 to 7 miles each. The number of new roads in 1894 was 153, against 244 in 1893 and - 829:in 1892. e

The steam railways of the United States now aggregate in length 179,672 miles. Of this mjleage 54,300 miles were added in the last ten years, hn average of 5,430 miles each year. v - SKATERS DROWNED. ' -

Three Young Men Perish in an Airhole at St. Paul. it ST. PAvL, Minn., Dec. 25.—A sad accident occurred at St. Paul park Monday afternoon, resul{ing in the death of Mathew Uhl, aged IY, and his two cousins, Frank and Alphonso Lan.ders, aged respectively 19 and 22 years. At 2 o'clock Monday afternoon the young men were skating. on the river wWhen young Uhl and ‘Frank Lander fell into an airhole. Alphonso Lander went to the rescue, when he, too, was drawn into the river and drowned. Matthew is a son of President Uhl, of the German M. E. college, and the affair has s flogs the community.) All b bodion ware Tueovoned, < -

7 LOCKED IN-A -VAULT. - | Narrow Eseape of a California County . Treasurer—Robbed of $B,OOO. 1 SANTA RosA, Cal, Dec. 29.—Santa Rosa had the biggest sensation in its history Friday. The county treasury was robbed of nearly $B,OOO and County Treasurer Stofen was left insensible in' the vault by the robbers, who locked the door. The. robbery occurred about 9 o’clock Friday morning; but was not discovered. until about 5 o’clock in the afternoon. - All this time County Treasurer Stofen" lay on the floor of the vault gasping' for breath, fearing every moment during conscious - intervals would be his last. Had it not been" for the timely arrival of his wife, the only person in town who knew the combination, he would have died. She had been at Cloverdale, and on her return here about 4 o’clock learned the treasurer had mnot been home to dinner. 'The children said they had taken his dinner to him and left it in front of the office, but that they could not get in. ; i Mrs. Stofen, suspecting something wrong, rushed down to the office, which is on the south corner of the courthouse and adjoining the sheriff’s office. The door was locked, but with. the aid of the janitor she opened the door.- Between the front part of the office and the treasurer's front office is: a wicket gate. 'This also was locked. Once inside, Mrs. Stofen found her fears realized, On one desk was her husband’s coat and hat. On the floor in confusion were money trays oh which the treasurer carried ‘money from the. vault, which is in a rear office. About that time a faint knocking was heard from inside: the vault. Mrs. Stofen cried out that her husband was in the vault and that jshe could save him if she could ‘rémember the combination. . The first time she:. tried she failed, owing to her great excitement. Next time, realizing that her husband’s life depended upon her coolness, she was' more successful, and the big iron door of the vault slowly swung open. ' Trease urer Stofen was found on the floor un‘conscious. The safe door was open and most of the money removed. Treasurer Stofen, as soon as revived, said he opened the door as usual about 9 o’clock. As he was ‘carrying one of the trays with money from the vault a_tall man in stocking feet stepped into the door of the vault and with uplifted dagger in his right hand told him to drop the trays, which he did. As he stodped over to lay the trays down, the robber struck. him a pow“erful blow on the back of the head which rendered him unconscious, for how long.-he could not tell. He says the man was tall and wore chin whiskers, and must have gained admittance to the office during the night and waited for him to open thessafe.

| IN GREAT NEED. Further Reports of the Destitution in Southwestern Nebraska. . . OMAHA, Neb., Dec. .-29.—Mr. Robert B. Peattie, the staff correspondent of the World-Herald, one of the most reliable and accurate writersin the west, has just returned from a two weeks’ tour into southwestern Nebraska in order 'to investigate ~ the reports in circulation of the destitution in that portion of the state. *The results of his search through-the counties of Buffalo, Dawson, Lincoln, Keith, Perkins, Hitchcock, Chase, Hayes, Dundy and Froxntier may be thus summarized: e In these counties, particularly. in Keith; Perkins, Chase, Hayes and Dundy the destitution is extreme. : Almost two-thirds of the people in these. counties are’ dependent wupon charity for support. There 4is little or no fuel in the country, cow chips are in many places the only fuel. The remarkably mild weather is all that has prevented loss of life by exposure. There is no money in the county treasury to help the destitute, because in fifteen counties of the state almost no taxes have been collected since June 1. The shiftless have left the country and .only the farm owners remain. -There is almost no water there. No crops were raised at all last year except in the occasional irrigation diteh districts, and ditch irrigation is not possible in some of these counties, because there are no streams. Most of the destitute live in sod houses. Thefe have been only three crops raised in nine years. Heartrending casesof destitution and suffering are heard.of in every tm‘vnﬂxip. The present cold wave will certainly cause death to large numbers of settlers if it continues and no aid comes. Fuel, provisigns and clothing are needed, and the railroads will generally ship them free if sent to the county commissioners at the county seats of these counties. : : Bl e

KILLED: HIS FATHER.

A Young Man Commits Parricide While Shielding His Mother. .

JACESONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 20.—W. W. ! Coleman, a well-known merchant of | Baldwin, was shot and killed Thurs- | day by his son, Otis, a youth of 18 ; years. The elder ' Coleman ' had | been away’ from home on a| spree for several days. He re- ; turned Thursday and as was his| habit, when he was drinking, began ; to abuse his wife, and when about to | beat her the;son grabbed a dOubleé! barreled shotgun standing in a corner | and let him have a full charge of buck- % shot in his breast at closerange. There 1 is much sympathy for the young man. | : Fort Worth’s Semi-Centennial. 2 l Fort WortH, Tex., Dee. 29.—1 n: the | spring of 1896 the state of Texas will | Je 50 years. old, as will also _ the name Fort Worth, the military post | established by Gen.- Worth, of New York, after the Mexican war. -The Gazette has inaugurated a semi-cen= tennial celebration to be under the | auspices of the Texas state government, and to beion a scale commensurate with the size of the state. The legislature will bemsked to act early in Japuary, and the commercial bodies of Fort Worth, under the lead of the | chamber of commerce, will act. at once. e e e , . Great Suffering Reported. = - South Exm, 0. T., Dee. 20.—A snow- | ‘storm, accompaxgie& 'by terrific wind, ‘began Thursday. Friday morning the thermometer registered 10 degrees bolow zero. There is great suffering among seftlers, as many of them are without shelter and clothing. The loss of horses and. cattle will be con~ siermblec ol e 0 e @yé’ﬁ?ﬁ i s “ Consalolh Thivstay. shiit &t Hicss et reoils o e s e R ek ﬁ”’*’*imgﬁw’w

SY B R gt ot R WA | ‘The’Rigors of Winter Felt Throughous | 81, Pavr, Minn:, Dec, 29-—-Thuraday£“l was the coldest day of'the winter im Minnesotd. Out in the state the mng ; was from 26 below at Grand Rapids, to 20 below at Stillwater. Not over 3 ' inches of snow has fallen at any point ' -and loggers are having serious trouble }in moving logs from the wools. -~ P WEST SUPERIOR, Wis., Dec. 29.—The ' cold snap has not moderated, and & l‘ cold, sharp wind has made traveling disagreeable. The thenfnometer stood at 2 degrees below zero at 9 o’clock p. ‘tm.‘Thurqday.* sl e e - MoreNcr, Mich., Dec. 29.—The storm Hn this neighborhood was responsible . E for the death of one man. Ale . bert Neehaus, who resided about-2 tmiles from Morenci, was found dead ‘ in a fence corner ‘on the public high- ' way about a quarter of a mile from . his home early Thursday morning | having evidently succumbed to the exi cessive cold. , : i CHroA@o, Dec. 29.—The blizzard I.which raged all of Thursday badly ! affected tramsportation lines of all . kinds. Horse cars, cable and electric ilines were utterly unable to follow ! schedule time at any period of theday. | Trains on all lines of railway were . greatly delayed, and the passenger stations wsre filled wi¢h travelers who. i had missed connections. : | MarTiN’s FERRY, 0., Dec. 29.—John’ ! Moreland was found frozen Thursday , morning at Gliem’s Run, near his {home, - He was an, old' soldier, and . worked in the Elson glass factory. ' . He started to walk home from here ° | Wednesday night, and was caught in the storm. O - !> . New York, Dec.-29.—Reports from all sections of this state and New Jer“sey tell of the severe northwest snow-. | storm of Wednesday night which was /| : swgeneral in its extent: From one to i two feet- fell. But few casualties are | reported, and ‘railroads as a rule, suf- | ' fered only slight delays. ‘ e | At Corning, N. Y., as Excise Commissioner Harrison Howe -was shoveling . snow Thursday morning he dropped dead of apoplexy. He was a leading | citizen and was prominent in G. A. R. ~ and magonic circles. - W | Clearfield, Lock Haven and|Hazel- = | ton; Pa., report snow having fallen to . a depth of from 20 to 80 inches| Rail- - way traffic was badly hampered . through the coal regions, and street : _car trafic was abandoned. ; | -OMAEA, Neb:, Dec. 29.—A veritable ‘blizzard came upon this state Wednes- . day night and Thursday. At various - places in the state the temperature “ marked 12 to 18 degrees below zero. |

The mercury dropped 84 degrees’ in. twenty-four hours. ‘ il AuBURN, N. Y., Dec. 29.—The storm has caused great incenvenience to railway travelers. One train from the west pushed through the drifts at noon Thursday, but could only get as far as Skaneateles Junection. .

CaMpEN, N. J., Dec. 29.—The storm In this vicinity was the most severe since .the cyclone of 1886. Electrical wires’of all kinds were torn from their fastenings and poles were blown down by the high winds. Market street, one of tle principal thoroughfares, was literally blocked with the debris until late in the day. At Seventh and Birch . streets seven two-story houses were unroofed and several.of the inmates injured by falling bricks and plaster. Trees by the score were uprooted in different sections of the city. BosToN, Dec. 29.—The worst stormin three years--a veritable blizzard—burst upon New Englandat 9:20 o’clock Wednesday night and it howled till daybrealr, when the snow turned to rain, and all day there was a deluge. Many: ships have been wrecked, cafising great loss of life. The storm came from the gulf, and established a world’s record for speed, traveling 500 miles in twelve hours. =

. The wind played a large part, unroofing the South Boston Baptist chureh, the Bigelow school and numerous dwellings at City Point. In:the harbor hundreds of craft dragged anchor, and there were numerous collisions. 7 .

Reports from all along the coast bring tidings of wrecks, and so thick has been the “weather that life-saving crews could not see more than 100 yards from shore. At least a dozen vessels were driven ashore and their crews rescued with difficulty. -

CONVICTED AND SENTENCED.

The Lexow Committee Secures a Great and Substantial Victory. e NEw Yorg, Dec. 98.—The Lexow committee, scorned, laughed at and considered a huge joke when it first began itsiwork, has secured its first ° great victory in the ecriminal courts. . Ex-Police Capt. John L.Stephenson has been sentenced to three yearsand nine months 4in the penitentiary at Sing Sing and to pay.a fine of $l,OOO. .. ( . - The laughter that first greeted the Lexow committee ceased long ago, but Wednesday marked an epoch |in the . history of its labors, nevertheless. It was the consummation of @ its first great case, and now mno one can doubt that an almost endless number of convictions; with. their accompanying sentences, will follow. - The jury found Capt. Stephensom guilty after a trial ending December ' 12. The crime charged against him ‘was accepting bribes from street mer- - chants and peddlers, although [the only case conclusively proved that he had accepted four baskets of peaches from a fruit merchant named Martin U. Edwards. It was of this that he was convicted, but there were so many other matters . that looked suspicious that the conwviction was generally regarded as one for general “‘boodling” and bribe-tak-Inge e e e ‘ o CHINA WANTSZHIS GOUNSEL. ‘Hon, John W. Foster Asked to Aid in--47 . Negotisting Peace, . . - WasHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Hon. John ~W. Foster has been requested by the ‘Chinese government to g 6 to Japan ‘and meet the plenipotentiaries of the former government to aid them in’ their negotiations for peace. He hus acoepied e invitation e “%ﬂ:?@ﬁ%wm ~within a day or two, sailing from Van‘unless informed of a dela) y o the dee SRR T g LSS S e S g s Rel B e et e e T