The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 14, 1906, Page 6, Image 6
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THEY WERE LOST.
A Sad Tale of the Wreck of ghe
Valencia.
TWO WAY W A RD GIRLS
Who Ran A;,- !!-rm Tr hr HOres and
th'. Yicung Mea Who .Wznt With
Them Finds a Wsery Grave
NNben 1he S;um.er Was
Sunk.
06 the one-hundredl and thiry-twc
persons who perisried in tne founder
Ing of the steamship n a in tIE
"graveyard of the seas" If the c ast
of British Columbia In Jaouary, three
-a young man ana two ycung wU
men. bth in their te:ns-sere over
taken by death in their flght to escape
facing an esrthiy trrdbuual.
Roy H. zzard, of Los Angeles, Cal.,
ana Mabel and Lu'u R.wizlnd, of Ox
nard, Cal., were pastengers on the
Valencia when she foundered, and the
sea in a relenting mood as since giv
en up the bodies of the man and one
of the women as grim proof that the
fugitives escaping from man were ap
.prehended by a higher power.
While earthly justice was balked
and the pursuit of man rendered vain,
relatives, friends and acquaintances of
the three foroear to ask whe her
Heaven did not exae an awful pun
ishment upon them.
01 that terrible night, when the
stanch ship, carried far from her
ccurse by fierce storms and hopelessly
lost in the densest of togs, struck on
the treacherous and ragged rocks of
Sea Bird reef, none fought harder,
more desperately and more persistent
ly to save thei. o xn lives than the
young man and the two women.
In these hours of terror, which:
seemed centuries long to all who pass
ed through them ana li'. d to relate
their experences, Ray HLzz :rd, Ma
bel and Lulu R.wlaad st.ruggled fot
their lives as uIouga they aared'noL
die. With almost supernuman might.
they, inexpexencd as they were with
vessels, climed the wind-xhipped rig
ging and clung with the teuacity of
despair ana hcrror to the ropas until
their senses were benumed and one
by one tney were beatv n by the piti
less gale into the hungry, leaping sea
wnich engulfed them.
Was tneir terr.ble fate a fitting
fiasi to the elcsing chapters r f their
lives? tnose wnu are a,.antou
have askea onk another.
"WeiJ I guess it is for the best
that it nappened that way, fur I was
going to disinnerit them botn any
way," R L. Rowland, a prospercus
business man ct Oxaarci, father of the
fugitive girls, is said to have declared
when in nis grief and shame ne was
informea of tee f gat of his children
and uf their trag:c death at almost
the s me time.
Tne same day'he received a tele
gram reaarg, "'G~rls oodies here,
come anai ideztify : e-n," ne .hao
been handlea a lett~er fro.m Ray Haz
za ttiung him that Mabel aind Luu
had fled nozt.wvarci fr' m San FXancia
co with him on the Valencia. Tuis
letter was dateca Los Au~geles and was
to have beens posted tne day the shi>
sailed so that pure ui~t would have been
impossie, bu. somehow it was not
deiver:.d to tu.e mails until the day
of the wrect .
E. L. th zusrd, father of the young
man, and under bail of $5.000 in an
action at iaw in which pretty Lulu
Rowland, sixteen years of age, was
the proscuting witness, received a
telegram worded e~ac..iy as was that
to the lather of the girls.
Both men hastened to Seattle and
thence to Victoria, where the real zs
tion of all of'Utneir fears was experieL
ced in the i-eatification of the dead.
Both knew at a giarcC the body of
Ma oel Rowland.
Tnough death had sealed her lips
her fatner knew m;>re surely than if
she herself had confessed it that she
had plottea wito R >y Hazz trd to take
L21ia fiom Los Angeles and from the
juisdiction of Californila courts that
E. L. H.zz ard might not be campelled
to face her a c.utions.
Too late the father remembered how
Mabel had coined an pleaded, aidEd
by the irnduence of E. L. Hlazzurd,
who is a real estate broker, to ce as
lowed to go to Los Angeles and keep
house for Lulu, who was Hazzsrd's
stent grapher.
Too late the father learned that
Mabel, two sears Luu's senior. It
stead of be fr.ending her sister, i~ l11
enced her to fligut rather than remaio
In Los Angeles and give her testimony
against her empiyer in a suit wnich
had been brouight against him by the
State.
R jy Hr zz>.rd had said: "I will get
thar, giri cut cf the country and save
my fashber."
He did so and he forfeited his own
life in tue enterprise.
The co operation of Ma-cel wasearly
secure-, R Jy accomphishing tis him
self. It was represented to har tha:
Luu might ti e tne country with him
and that they mig~ht live in British Cc
lubaor aoyh hre thd r fancy shouk r
c ocee. They would have money in
plenty. But the elder Bazz trd mu~t
not be fac d by the girlina L~s An-j
geles court.
In tr'eir modest, comrortable hoet
No. U153 South Hc pe str et, L is Ar
geles, Mabel persurded Lu u to cor
sent tol 11 gt with Rey Ba zz ard. She
was ycung and romantic, and the
eider sister painted a bright future for
the girl. They sht uld go, the three
of them, to the nort h; a splendid ocean
voyage awated the m and sights and
scenes in lands they nad only dreame-:I
The younger girl was rocn brought
to content, and Riy H. zz.rd mad-:
the klyaus fcr a'e journey it:a: was to
save his father f:omn prosecution an
pos b e ruin and c i grace.
Altuotgn his dauzmtter wts to be
important wl~ness in a suit aguns
the mau who had ea p o3 c ner, Rto.'-:
land, th.e fatnar, in. Ls c:mforta-ale
Oxnard Loxe felt r& s e ',as sate.
V.M not her cIder: si~r M; el, wi-hI
.L was this fasa se 'se ns curt.
that enah~ed *ea 1.e i.zar tn
carry cut~ a a mano i
to inform t Uaier:fte t.abt o
his girls, on Joi S ; te) left L o
Ag hs for~ ~at F -.c ce, wreretue
were jnd ;I v~ 11I. zz rdl, so bad gonze
on the dav preni us to s-erure passag
on the Ya:eecia. which, ne knew
would carry cham fi: beyond pt'rsuit
by humnan law in a few hours.
O0 te- ah~p's regst"r thar names
were enite?; d as Mr. West, M ss Mar y
tin and My Sampscal. MabeI, Ior|
th pur-Ce ~f enna a.m..:lt, was "Miss
Samnson" and Laiu was "Wss M ar
tin." Tnir relationship to Hazz ird,
or "Wes;," was not discovered by
their fellow passengers until the Val
cucia. had struck the rocks ani was
pouir,dng herst If to pieces upcn thr m
The Rowlazd girls (ccupied state
r-rm 18. next to that occupied by
Professor Bunker and his family. Pro
feis-r Bunker afterward told of hear
ing the girls addre;s each .ther as
"Lulu" and "Mabel." He saw them
in C. mpany witn young zzz .rd, ut
hoogwt nothng of it at the time.
s* o:ing them more acquaintances,
as readily spring up on any vo
age.
FL'ITiVEs wERE cQNsCIENCE sTEICE
EN.
The early hours of this trip were
vpent uneventfully enough. For hours
:he goid ship ploughed her way north
wardi or a fair sea. T en she eocoun
tered a heavy fog which, as a close,
waite pall, eniclded her, and from
which she was not freed until she was
a shapeless wreck on the cruel fang
like rocks that jut from Sea Bird
Ree.
As the weather grew worse and the
;ea rcse to meet the wind with vain
atte;ings, the Rwland girls were
oompelled to remain in their state
room or the cabins of the ship Their
misery must have been terrible to
to them. fleeing as they were from
all they loved and held dear, and em
barked, as both knew in their con
scifnces, up)n anything but a prcm
ising or honorable course. Seasick,
conscier.c-.stricken, homesick and
lnesome' both bewailed their fate,
nor could the words of encouragement
of young Hazzard, in scarce better
plight than themselves, rouse or rally
them.
To the three fugitives the murk
ipess and storm without found its
ctvoterpart in the dread, uncertainty
perplexity and fear which possessed
their hearts.
Young Hazzard knew that ic taking
L :iu from Los Angeles so that she
migtit not testify against against his
fatte: he was committing not only a
civil but a moral wrong as well. He
was forcing the girl to go f ar frem her
home and friends, and he knew not
what the future might bring forth.as
.a result. His cffer and promise of
marriage might even be broken
once far from danger of jursuit he
knew.
Matel Rawland felt that she had
sinned against her sister in ectering
up n the jl) which was to force her
to marry a man for whom she cared
nothing. Sne even suspected that
I Hazzird would not keep nis promise
but she had been dzz'ed by nisman
ner and persuaied by his argumenrs
to conspire against her s!ster. Then
she remembered how false she had
hen to her father and mother in in
.ercepting letters which htd been
written them concerning Lulu and
whici hefded in time might have pre
ventvd all of this trouble.
As for Lulu, her grief and fear fa-r
ly uvzrwheime d her. She bad desir
ed to face the e der H: zz .rd in court
to denounce him and to tell every
tning that she knew about him. and
j ist how much she herself was tc
oiame, for berg acquainted with the
facts to .which sne had had been sub
pjenad to testify. S ne was a fugi
nive fram justice, t1.:eing up in the
prmise of marriage to a man for
whom she had do aff ction.
Little wonder, teen that when in
black middight the stanch ship struce
the nidden reef with a fearful shock
then backed cff into deep wa::er and
negan to sink, these three--H. zz trd,
M b: and L-21u Rowland--were par.
e-ricken t he thougt of death in
a measure ten fold greater than that
which smote tune other passengers ano
most of the crew.
Hazzinrd found the gi-ls in that
scene cf heartrending confusion wheu
mother and babs were torn asunder
only to be engulfed in a common death
a mcment later in the black and boil
ing water where husband and wife
ied together, when the great waves
washed from the decks eac. time tney
oroke over the strnuggling ship a score
of human livis
Hazz -.rd found the Rowland girls
and even above the roar of the.storm
above tne shoutsof the ctfici~rs of the
sinking shi p as they gave their orders
abcve the yells of men, the screams
of women and the piteous wailing or
children, the voice of his conscience
accused him with being the aluderer
of these girls for had it not b e for
him they would never have left their
homes.
E ven in those terrible..hours those
wo escaped that experience say H~iz
z ard and the two girls cluog cilse to.
gether. The swamping of two of the
steamers boats before they could be
cut loose and the horror of the cries of
thirty or forty people drowning to
gether so terroized the man and tho
girls that they refused to even at.
tmpt to leave the ship in the other
oats and life rafts which followed.
Together they faced peath, and al
though they could not cheer or en
c urage one another, they fought for
life side-by side with a frenzy which
showed how they feared to die. As
the vessel sank lower and lower in the
water these three and others left on
the wreck by the waves climbed the
rigging. For hours-hours almost
neverending in their excruciating
gony-H. zzard and Lulu and M.stei
R wland b.ttled with the wind
fugt with tr~e sea and struggled to
resist thy cold tat slowly ov.:ro'me
them so that one after another th~y
were washed from their places ann
i~sntly lost in the raging b:eak
E. L. Hazzird's accuser is dead
Te esisfI witness the State of -Ca.Ii.
f rta was to have trought to cor].
front him has departed far from re
call or rt quisition. yet he may not
ecape p' osecution, as the testimo~ny
of Luu Rowland was takren at the
oreim nary hearing, which was very
(0 :piete, and as though a voice from
re very dead, it may finally accuse
But Hazz'ird has been punished
m'r crushingly, more sternlv, more
merciles ly, than mortal just c ->could
e I out to any man. H, is crushed |
trief strcken, alm;ost hopeless m in,
for e fes that.Lhe w~rat-n of Heaven
bhas faller jBevdly.
Y >ung2 0y Ha~zzard, but twen*y
:ears-of age, was 'he hope of his fa
ther In this ycuth all of his ambi
ti.n was cen ternd and 1he felt that
this yudhIlho bore his name wculd
chive in :te scrld a na-rnea
o ae- of whipn he btould be pr. n.
a a mckerv everythingr has ha
cm. to tha.t maxp. Ti e drowrirv I
ms boy R -y and the two gPI T hal
e Lula Rowland. was 1ut an inc
ca..t, (one trsgeds of the many in tn~e
swamping of tne Valenca, but in its
sus it is5so menacing, so ~si g~e~
iv of the Sr irt interference by po-v.
ruts -en and terrnble in its r-sckor
i:'g that ail of those familiar with
thseirumstances are appalled.
Hr zzar~d feels that no worse can r-e
al hn thxa the loes of his sn, mw
forfeited his life that Lula Rowlar d:
might be taken far frcm L !s Ange s.
The loss cf the lives of tee girls, ne
cannot but feel, was due to the great
fidelity of his son to his Own cause.
le is crushed ccmp'etely, the fat-ure
to him was darkene d the same hour
th-at, strezigth'ess tlirou 1 ior'g bat
tling with wiznd and wave, and nerve
iees though the benumbing of the
cl,'1 that youngz man-his son-and
thosa two gIrls. who bai been abduct
ed through misrepresentations and
impozble promises, had been lel to
leave Las Angzeles and board the Val
encia on her wild voyage to destruc
tion, perished in the ocean near Cape
Beale. -New York American.
MILLAR UIVES BU.
JUDIGE HYDRICK IS3UES TUE
ORDER FROM EDGEFIELD.
Cash Band Pat Up by Pickpockets'
Represtnative-lhe ' Nixe"
Gum.
Harry G. Millar, the Chicago repre
senzative of the pickpockets c;nvicted
recently and who was himself placed
in jil on the chs.rge of bribing Deputy
Sneriff Cathcart, was relpased Tours
day on a cash bond of 81 500. The
State says Clerk of Court Walker re
ceived the order from Judge Hydrick.
wbo is at E gefield, Thursday, and
word wais sent to Millar at once. Mi
lar apparently hd the 81.5C0 ready
ror it was at once deposited and the
man was released. He went to the
C lumbli. hotel and was given room
92, but d d not regbter and left
for Chic:go FLiday morning.
Millar saHi that be would positively
be here in June to stand trial. He
was asked if he nad any statement to
make. 'Ntbing, except that I am
not guilty ard I will be here in June
for trial. I nave not been treated
right, although I have no ccmplaint
to make of my treatment at lail, and
I will leave for Chicago at once," he
said.
Millar showed the reporter for The
State letters from various firms iu
Chi;c.go with whm he had been em
p.oyed se collczator, advartising writer
and commercial agent. They recom
mended him as an honest man of
ability. He said t ,at he was not a
regula lawaer but that he was up on
catmercial law and that he wcu'd
cume uack crepared on criminal law
in order that he might defend his own
case.
"Did you ask for bail before Judge
Hlydrick? 'he was asked.
'I wanted to give bail in the sum
of $1.003 and c(ff.red this amount
when I was in court last Saturday,'I
he said. "The juge took the matter
under advisem-no and sent bick an
order placing the bail at $1 500, which
I pro, uced at once."
"What about that chewing gum
you gave the deputy sheriff?" ne was
asked. The gum, iV will be recalled,
was wrapped in papers with the words
*Nixe won't tell," printed thereon.
"I represent a firm putting out
this am and it is for the man wno
occasionaly takes a drink and does
not wish the odor on his breath.
There is no significance In the wrai.
per and I meant no harm in giving it
to the deputy sheriff Here is a pack
age you can have." and Millar pulled
out a package of the gum and handed
it to the reporter. He would have
uothirg further to say about tne
case and said that he preferred to
wait until his return in June. He
would not say waether he woud bring
back his client, J. W. Parker, with
nim. Pozker, it will be remenmbared,
was one of the trio arrested at the
fair grounds and was released in the
same bond given by Millar.
Millar, according to his statement
made the motion for bail before Judge
Hy drick, after court had taken a re
cess f ir the day. Solicitor Timmer
man, when here, gave the Impression
that the motion was yet to be made
and that it would be mada before
some other circuit judge. The order
Thursday, therefore was somewhat of
a surprise.
SERV.2D HIM BIGHT.
A Dastardly Tramp Whipped for
Insulting a Lady.
A dispatch to the News and Courier
says news hasp reached Gaffney City
that a tramp on Friday afternoon en
tered the htu~e of Mr. Mose Pinson,
SE ction master. on the Southern Rail
road, at Thickety, and attempted to
assault Mrs. Pinson. It seems from
what can ne learned that the tramp
entered Mr. Pmnsan's house, and asked
for som'e c iee and something to eat,
and after Mrs. Pmnson gave it to him
ne attemped to put his hands on bier.
but she frightenpi bim off. The
tramp pss1 Mr P n on and his ga! g
just aft-r N i. 12 passed, C iming to
wards G -ffoey and when he went back
to Toickecy they learned ot the at
tempt to assault and started immedi
ately in pursuit of the tramp.
Tae man was caught by a mob on
the edge of town and a new raw hide
buggy whip was worn out on him and
he was told to g at a m- ye on himself
and not go througrh G if 1ey or Blacks
burg, or they wouli get him and fit.
i-n him. The mob wanted to lyncb
hinr, but the fa ther or Me. Piason,
M'r. Jesse Pinzon, p-evented them
rom carrying out their plan. Wnen
the man wss let loose he lef iin a run
for the Nurth Caroliria line. He
owned that he was the man that
maude the asault.
Biew Oac i~ israins.
At St. Pete. sburg, Russia, the ac
used member of Father Gapon labor
o ganization who, committed suicide
Thurseay w1kle the charge that the
orgaciz ttion aGnapteclreoney from .he
governoent w'a..Uaing investigated,
was named Secbcf. Father Gapon
was prebent when Sechtff killed him
elf. Sechtei made an impassioned
pech, in which he declated that he
culd not support the inf.my involved
lai the charge that the o~rgan'zation
ad been in ieagu3 with the govern.
tent nor the obloquy heaped on him
self, as both he a:.d thp organizttion
w're-Tnn, cent Secheff then called
pon Fathetr Gapod tdo atc'are in the
resci ce 6! his fellowvs whether he
(ece) iMd r clived a cent from the
~overiflt. Father Gason arose and
tnd7rate-d Sc& if, whereupon the!
aber st~id: '1caill now give you su
r me pr af of mv .horues y," ani.
fira.ing a revy ver, he blew out his~
bains.
Got 13'z'.
The Greenville p ,1c pturrcd four
aaions of I q-ior on Tuesday night la:
i, hack. Besides- the driver, there
were two negro women in the back.
he hackmuan wassant -to -tie-c ain
:ao, the w. mnen wefdismise-i and
WORDS OF ADVICE
TO YOUNG MEN CONTEMPLATING
TA.KING A WTFE.
How They Kay be Guarded A gainst
Marrying the Wrong
Woman.
A lecturer dramatically irqu'rad:
"Can any one in this room tell me of
a perfect man?" There was dead si
lence.
"Has any one," he continued,
"beard of a perfect woman?"
Then a patient-looking little woman
rose in the back part of the house and
said: "There was one, I have often
heard of her but she's dead now. She
was my husband's first wife."
Be prepared for imperit etions. No
b-dy is always consistent. Toe man
or woman who never made a mistake
is a nyth.
Man, are you looking for an angel?
How would you look alongside of an
angel?
When real life comes to the best
and happiest pair, with its trouble
and its care, the tower of romance
will fall, leaving us in the mud-hut of
every-day reality.
Man and woman are like two shells
of the oyster-they were made for
each other.
. The man who avoids matrimony on
account of the cares of wedded life
rivals the wisacre who secured him
self against corns by having his legs
amputated.
Some one has said that it is in life
as it is with a kite, it will not fly very
bigh unless it has a string tying it
down, and so the man who is tied
down by a half dczen responsibilities
and their mother will make a higher
and stronger fight than the bachelor
who. having nothing to keep him
steady, Is always f lundering in the
mud.
If you want to ascend in the world
tie yourself, to somebody.
A crusty old bachelor, hearing that
his friend had gone blind, said: "Let
him marry, and if that does not open
his eyes, nothing else will."
But that sneer has been confuted
by the experience of many blind schol
ars like Hood, famous authority on
bees. and Fawcett, political economist
of Cambridge and Eogland's most fa
mous Postmaster-General, whose high
ly q-ialified wives were eyes indeed to
their husbands.
Marriage remoulds character, bright
ens prospects, g'ves faces to clouds,
meaning to words, will make the birds
siog more sweetly, the sun shine more
brightly, elevate your hopes, arouse
ambition and give purpose to life. It
will double joys and diile sorrows.
Our so;cial chariots should be attach
ed to the stars of love.
All history and experience have
proven that marriage is the world's
civiliznr, the safety valve of business
life, the cabinet room where is devised
most of the great things of life.
The only permanent builder in the
sccial arrangements is love between
man and woman.
A wise marriage leads to the truest
and happiest life. Many men think
themselves self made who are really
marriage-made.
Napoleon won his greatest victories
wble Josephine was his wire, and
while he loved her. Wnen our coun
try's interest hung in the balance at
Valley Forge, Martha Washington
hastened to her George,' ana urged
him up and o'n :' victory. Bismarck
and Disraeli, who for thirty years
were the controlling powerssin E arc
pean politics, both owned that they
owed their success to their wives.
Thousands of wives have been to
their husbands the inspirers of lof ay
thoughts, majestic aspirations and
sublime purposes.
Whetner a man shall be made or
marred in marriage depends altogeth
er upon his choice of a partner.
Solomon, whose matrimonial ven
tures, were rather multitudinous,
says: "A prudent wife is frcm the
Lrd," leaving us to inter where an
imprudent one most come from.
Wadsworth paints the woman you
want.
"A creature not too bright or good
For human nature's daily food,
Tne reason firm, the temperate will,
Edurance, foresight, strength and
skill;
A perfect woman nobly planned,.
To warn, to comfort and command,
And yet a spirit still and bright,
With something of an angel light."
Don't marry for beauty alone. Soc
rates called beauty "a short-lived ty
ranny," and Theophrastus pronounced
it a "a silent cheat."
The man who marries for - beauty
alone is as silly as the man who would
buy a house because it had fine flowers
In the front yard.
It takes more than a fair skin,
bright eyes, beautiful form and dleli
cate hands to make a really beautiful
woman. The highest type of beauty
is never merely physical; it is in the
outgleamings of internal virtues and
sweet gracas of character.
The bez uty that lasts shines in the
virtuous life, sweetens the voice of
sympathy, sparkles on the brow of
wistrn and fishes in the eye of love
A lovely soul will glow in the face.
The really beautiful woman has a
beauty which changes not with years,
and this is the only beauty that can
be relied upon for a permanent infiu
er ce with men.
The violet will soon cease to smile
F-o a ers must fade. The love that
na nothing but beauty to sustain It
soon witbers away.
A teautiful woman pleases the eye,
a good woman holds the heart. The
one is a jewel, the other Is a treasure.
L0k well to the temper of the
woman you think of marrying. Soc
rates said he "married Xantippe and
endured her for self-discipline."
The story is told of him that when
his wife gave him a lecture he walked
>utside the house, sat down and<
laughed. This angered her the more;1
she rushed upstairs and poured down
a bucket of water on him. He walked 1
away and smillingly said. "That is all
thbat you can expect, a shower after a 1
thuder.torm."1
But the men who look at the mat
ter in this light are like the philoso- 1
>her himself--dead.
I am ratber inclined to take Solc-c
on's view of the matter. "It is bet
ter to dwell in the carner of a :bouse
tcp than with a brawllr g woman in a
wide house." -'
John Wesley's wife used to sit in J
the middle aisle in City Road Chapel 1,
Lud, it is said, made a mouth at him I
while he preached. One day he was
eiling his congregation how he had ~
een assailed by his enemies and de
~laring that he had been accused of
'iuat ng every commandment except
lrunkeness. Wnereupon his wife s;
rose and said: "Mr. Wesley, you n
now you were drunk." e:
Wesley threw up his hands and ex- ti
aimed: "Thank God, the catalogue a
Wesley's experience, therefore, en
Ibled him to give good counsel, a-nd
when one of his young preachers wrote
to him for advice on marriage, saying
that he was hesitatirg between two
women-one was a pr, fessing Chris
tian, but had a terrible temper, while
the other made no religious profession
but had a sweet disposition-Weslev
immediately sent back word: "Mar
ry the wornan with the sweet disp.s
tion."
Marry a good hLutekeeper.
The story is told of a teacher of In
dians who was reading them the para
ble of the Ten Virg-ns by the aid of
an interpreter. As she read she no
ticed a smile cn the facts of her usual
l sobe-visag,,d pupils, and. s'opping
to I: quire the cause, discovered that,
owirg to the limited vocabulary of
the Indian dialect, whch made the
same word serve for virgin arLd old
maid, the parable as it read through
the interpreter was to the effect that
"ten old maids lighted their lanterns
and went out to look for husbands."
Woman's education - one hundred
years ago was the lighting of a lantern
to enable the girl to better look for a
bu band, and her education was ir
the arts of :he kitchen and the parlor,
and the obj ct cf educmtion was mere
ly to make a useful hcusewife. Now
the pendulum has swung to the other
extreme.
When men select women for wiv. s
in quiet homes, where domestic graces
prevail, the finery of the worl- wib
sink into Insignificance.
The most fascinating women are
those who can enrich the every-day
moments of li'e.
The time was when women of the
verylbest society became their hus
bands' friends and companions, con
bidered their interests identical and
did not hold them as so much fair
game for graft. They made their
houses homes and not mere passing
places for vanity to g> through. '
Give us women content to be what
Gcd and nature meant them to be;
but no, the Ideal life set up by the
girl of the period is plenty of fun and
luxury. Dress dwarfs her intelligence,
while virtue gives up the. ghust at her
nod; fed to order, she must be nursed
like a baby and kept from a hysteri
cal fit by a sugar plum.
It may be a scardalous thing to say
but the scandal of toe fact is so much
greater than the' scandal of confess
ng it that I will risk criticism for
the statement of the fact-the d( me:
tic life of this cLuntry is in an appall
ing oendition.
Many a man has given up all high
ambition for study, for Eelf-denying
service of his fellowmen, stifled the
voice of his conscience when it de
manded sacrifice and devoted himself
to the one object of gaining the wherc
withal to keep suobhine in his hous;
by the urlimited indulgente of a fash
ion pampered woman's fancies.
The fault lies with the parents; un
less they can give their daughter a
fortune when she marries, they per
petuate a fraud upon the young man,
if by lack of domestic training they
make her unfrt for the position -of
wife in the home of the young man
who has to make his way in the
world.
Just as it is a man's duiy to provide
for his family, so it is the woman's
duty to adorn the home with all the
excellences of grace and good taste,
and either by her own industry or the
well-directed industry of those wvho
serve her; to fill it with h.althfut in
fuences of cleanliness, good order and
neatness, so that everything may min
ister to the comfort and enj )yment of
those she loves.
The state of life into which it has
pleased Jrod to call our daughters Is
plainly, for the most part, and which
entails the duties of the housekeeper
and the home-maker, and for those
duties the learning acquired Ia the
schools often does much to unfit
them.
The result of this unfaithfulness in
the foundation education Is seen in
extravagant hab ts of our modern
housekeeping, the ignorant waste
where the young women finds herself
uable to teach and direct her servants
In cases where she Is not required to
do the actual work herselr, and,
wearying of her attempts to be queen
0her own household, she allows her:
little kingdom to live without a head.
Her husband finds that the expense
of married life Is far greater than he
had anticipated and the comfort- less.
As the expenditures Increase, he sees
that his hard work on one side is only
to supply the means cf wastefulness
on the other side, and that his chil
dren are growing up with notions of
life which nothing can satisfy.
We need not wonder that great dis
contentprevails among many men.
It is this extravagance and inccom
petence. among women that account
very largely for the fact that there
are more than three millions of men
in the United States past thirty years
of age who are not married.
I would make all the improvements
of education and the accomplishment
of manners subordinate to the duties
of the home-the means to make the
home happy. God speed the day when
French will yield to fritters, poetry
to pies, when the most studious will
exal in stews, and the professor of|
music will play upon pots and parns,
and the female president will rule :Ln
roast, and students are taught to be
women rather than ladies.
Crew Rtescue.
The crew of the schooner .Tohn R
Bergen, Fernandina, Fla., for New
Yor, wnich was abandoned in a sink
ing condition, arrived at Philadelphia
last week on board the bark T'llie
Baker. Capt Nickels of the Bergen
said that during th~e severe gale -last
week his sails were carried away and
he schooner experienced such rough
weather that the seams opened and
he vessel became water logged. While
*n this condition, and when hope of
escue had practically been abandoned
he Tillie Baker was sighted and
me to the aid of the crew. At the I
ilme the Baker was sighted the Ber
ten was completely at the mercy of I
ihe waves and one small boat had -
>een carried away. At the paril of
1heir lives the sailors on the Tilie
Saker finally succeeded in getting all
if the Bergen's crew safely on b-ard
heir vessel. The rescue occurred(
.bout 100 miles cff the Deleware i
Murder ed Three. C
T wo armed negroes entered the
tore of Frank Botto, an aged Ital
an, at Gross Point, Near New 0:e- 2
sans, La., on Monday nIght and shot 2
lm dead, fatally wounded his two
ans, aged 13 and 14, and then robbed
e store.
T weave Dead-.
A dispatch from Birmingham, Ala., n
ys passengers arriving from points B
ear the Piper mines, where a gas|
plosion occurred late yesterday af-|
arnoon, report that twelve miners 13
re dead, seven fatally hurt and halft
A .,en others badly ininred. I
A BOY STOLEN.
rhe Kidnappers Ask Big Sum
for His Release.
fHEY MAY KILL HIM
"if You Would Save 1W," Writes the
Boy to His Father, "G:ve Them
What They A k,' Boy's
Mother Begs Father to
Pay Ransom.
Daeo mystery attends the kidnap
ping of Tony Bzzum, the eldest son
of John B(zzam, a wealthy banker of
No 1149 First avenue New York city.
Threats of death for the son h ave
beenreceived by Mr. Bozzom, whose
family are begging him to give up the
$20,000 demanded by the kidnappers
as a ransom so that the boy may es
g torpe beintureacd to death in tLe
way of the bmdits in Italy,
Tony B zzum is fourteen years cCd
and unusually tall and slender. Be
has a long.thin face atnd when be left
home was dreszed in dark clothes. His
parents b :lieve he is held a prisoner
somewhere in the I.alian colony in
First avenue by a Sicilian band of
bandits, wno in tneir native lano
were accustomed to sand an ear or fi. -
ger to friends of some c p5i ve to re
mind their friends that taere must
be no delay in the ransom. Mrs.
BZZ 1 is in momentery dreai that
suaon memento of her missing b-y wil:
come to her thruga the mail if the
$20,000 is no' palid.
Mr. B zz..fM, who has been a prl
vate banker for ekven years in .New
York, lives witb his wife ar.d eight
cuildren at No, 339 E st. S:x..--.;econd
streec. Tony was nis motners p-t and
a punil at St. Ann's Academy, where
he was b~ing prepared for the priEst.
hood. Last Sunday afterroon Tony
was at the bank with his father. who
sent him to the sub-postt ee station
near by for $10 worto of stamp,. Tnat
was the last seen uf Tony by anyone
who knows him.
Mr. B zzuffi, after Tony f.dled to
return went to the e en and learned
that the b.y had got tue stamps, and
told the c erk he was g >ilg rign& ock
to the bank. A relative of Tony saw
some one who koked Lke him walk
ing with a man in Second avenue. Ali
Sunday night Tony's parerts. his
brothers and sisters were unable to
sleep, and some of them roEm;d the
streets looking for the boy.
E rly on Monday morning Mr.
B zz M saw an envelope under the
front s'oop. It was addressed to him
and in it was a letter in Tony's nand
writ ng which Mr. Bczz ffi says was
dictated by the point <.f a revolver
The letter wasiu I .allan, and here is
the translation:
Iam in Brooklyn, a:d you do me
the favor if yeu want my lhfe saved
to please these individuals accosiding
to the letter whic i they have written
to you which, I nop", you have receiv
ed and you wi.1 understand. In the
letter you will dad the anun.
Bat do not absolu'.elv adv..e the pc
lice, for if you do my life wll be lost.
If you with tro see me soion give the
sum to the individuals, as I have told
you, but do not advise the p~lice. If
you will aovlse the pol~ce I will leave
this world. Then I pray you to ask
them as soon as they get the money.
I will be free and sound and I
will return right away home. Do UoL
disturb yourselves Tnat. is, if you'
will give them the money I will be
free. Tell mama not to worry. Your
loving son aTIIO.
The message from the boy xurziish
ed no clew a s to his place of captivity
and Mrs. Bt zzum~ was disconsolate
Mr. B zzum was disconsolate. Mr.
Bt zuo1 did not want to appeal to the
police, thinking he might get a clew
otherwise. In the mail on Monday
morning came a registered letter ad
dressed to Mr. B~zzuil, in Italian.
which he read to his wife. It was
mailed downtown in Matnuattan.
When the mother heard toe death
threat she begged her husband to cahl
the police. He went to the D..tec
tive Bu eau o.n Mulberry street and
also ouglt tie aid of Captain L sn
gan, of tl4.E .st S xty-seventb street
station. iMr. Bczzutm turned the sec
ond letter over to tne podece, Transla
ted it read.
Dear Friend:
We fet yon know that we hold in'
our power.your son, therefore we pray
that iniyQur interest and In the inter
est of yotir said boy's life, you send
the suit of $20,000. We advise ytou
that we: do nut intendi to be satisfiec
with a dallar less. Tals is a bsolu'.e
an-' do not try to aeek any further
agrejr-ent or barter with us because
it woul be .the same as not wishing
to have your .soin sare. Any other
argument would be disastrous.
We also ttcmdously for the peace
nd trangiit'y o-y ourself and fam
ily ac vis you . not to hazard the
Eoughtigyohur- nind of notifylrng
she police&u'se at the -least n:.tice
Ghat you ha avised -the police,
ven in the mt ihuaential way, we
would immt diately'know'.'Oi, as we
iave amongst us persons who art. ina
Josision to immefilately info&ts
Lherefore the legge notice wi uLa mean'
he instanit deataLyour son and the
un of your com'pleliefamily. You
gill understand that'egrd.gher die.
ourse would be in tho ten'or of me
lances.
As you will undegsfand the tone* 01
ihe present-oniy~ 10.ter::-the only
ne that comes, and dosi not, come
rom persons who meniance with their'
nauths, but frtm those woi.cani
t with with deeds. TnereforE if
on have a heart and a father's '.love
end the above nar.aed som and -you;
rill have your son, sale and sound. f
)Nrgan Is not vincietiveness, but
olelyor the sum, tenx'uce of extreme
rant. Your son will be set at liberty,
good healhh, as soon as you h.v
onsigned the money all at once and
rithout any fear from us.,I
The money shall be, brought and
onsigned by your brother to tne per
n thaT, will say to him, ' Where is i
be Brooklynl Bridge?'
The way he is to go about It Is
his: Leave the bank at 7 p. m.,
al straight up First avenue, tow
rd Harlem, and the man will ap- t
roach you and ask you "Whereis the
rooklnl Bridgt ?"
As soon as vCU receive this so that
e will know that you accept minute-' r
-all that we.pray and state to you t
ie day and the hour we appoint, then I]
u sall cmuse to be published in the1 e
raper ' But'e-no Dala Stra" nthe
olongward-: "Wtanted-Attillol
R -golo as Joaun accepts the condition
of the sale.
Therefore we understand eech
uther, ar.d you as an intell'gEnt pez
son with your great experience of life
it !s rLot necessary to prolong our
writing. Adivis'ng y u- again that
this letter sball be the ouly o;..e that
we wi 1 wri.e as we have not time to
lobe. With you rests the dE cision as
to the fae of your son With the
money you shall return with this let
ter.
With regards,
S van blank line3 were drawn un
der the words, "with regards." But
no sigoature.
Te ' With Rgards" is underscored
sev-n timEs
"I wou'd willirgly pay the $30,000,
said Mr. R:zzuffl, "to save my boy
Lrom be'rg torturE d to d ath, 1-ut I
do not thit k those who hiv 3 61, len
aim will dare to kill tin. it would
re unwise for me to give anything to
these mer, for it would only fix a
premium on this kind of work, and I
would soon have to pay a ransom for
another c*ild.
"I will do everyttirg I can to find
Tony. Many Italians deal with my
bank and it is said among thesa that
I am very wealthy. I will spend the
money I have to punish these kidrap
prs. bu nt a penny for ransom,
Mr. Bczz; tf) spends much of bb
tima en Lhe street waiting for some
one to ask him, "Wnere is the Brook
lyn B.idgt?'
THE BOY TURNS UP.
Antonio Bczzffl, the 14 year old
boy whc was kidnapped on Sunday
and held for a $20,000 ransom, return
ed home alone Thursday. He escaped
from his captors, ne stid, by stealing
,.,u of a room ab-,ve a saloon In Fifty
ninth street while one of them who
wes guardir g him turned his back for
a moment. No attetrpt was made to
pursue him. He told ww bewas te:
roriz-:d irto writing a lett r to hi,
father, John B zmuffi, an Er.st side
banker, informing him that $20.000
must be paid and that if the polhce
were imformed his life wculd be
taken.
A DASTARDLY ATTEEPr
Maueto Burn the Opera REouse Al
August*, G+,
The Augusta Chronicle says a bold
attempt was made to burn the opera
house in that city on Thursday night
while the cheatre held the audie..ce
whih was gathered to see the per
formarca of the Fremont stcck c)m
panx, tut the bL z , was dis:overed
in time and extinguished without the
spep-aorever learning cf the jc
pardy. in which they were placed.
This very thrilling act behind the
szenes was en c .;d mid aay the pro
gram, between acts while the meing
picture was the specialty tfat beld
the attention ef the assembly. Oae
I(f the employes happening to enter
the. Lv .try u-ider the rear stairway
leading to the top gallery found th,
.vhole room abl- z e
Manifesting rare presence of m'nd
he made no outcry ttnau would have
stampeded the audience, but dashed
across the street to the Hock and
Ladder company, which is j ast the
opera house, and gave the alarm
There was a marvelously q:1'ck res
ponse by A s'istant Chief Schaufele
and his brave lads, and the ral.
idly spreading fia~mes were soen
Excinguished with the hand machines,
Investigation showed that some.
miscreant had filkcd the urinal with
gasoline and sprinkled all up the side
of the wall, and then set fire to it.
The possibilities of such a blaze c n
easily be cnrjected. O ily the very
prompt discovery, followed by the
quick and intelligent work of the fire
men, prevented a disastrous fire whic'
would have wrecked the building and
cost the lives of many people. In just
a few mrinutes the fL m s would ha~ve
gainEd such neadway that they c.,uld
ot have b.zen checksd before the
bulding was destroyed.
Much of the sm Are f~und its way
up into the anditoriun but as the
house was darkened for the moving
picture exhibition it was not very nc.
ticeable and whatever suspicions the
ieenscented may have had were dik
pelled by the seemingly frank and in
nocent manner in which the clever
comedian came upon the stage with a
water sprinkler in his hands and
apologized to the-audience for the
smoke made by the picture msc nine!
The entire audience went home
none the wiser and slept very peace
fully without ever knowing the great
danger in wh c'2 they had been placed.
The matter was kept a profound se
cret by the managem--nt a'td only
leaked out way after midniglit. A
rigid investigation Is being made,
however, and if the guilty person est
e discovered he will be severally
dealt with.
TE CHEISTIAN ChURCH
1 Making Preparation for Great Cen
tenunial Cereoratien.
The Christian Church, or Disciples
of Christ, in this country are prepar
ing for a great Centennial Celebration
in Pittsburg Pa., in 1909. In 1809
near that city T Jomas Campbsll put
lished his now historic "Declaration
and Address" embracing the chief
principles for which this religious
body stands. -The churches are now
in the midstof what is known among
them af~ (Tour Years' Campaign"
leading- up~to-the Centennial Celebra
tion. -" --
This .-pzopie has certainly m'
marvelous growth and now nDb
rat less than 1,238,000 membex 10n
this country alone. Their member
ship hroughont~ the world is not less
tog4 500 00j. In 1832 they num
b-'d 1,0;. in 1840, -4o 000; in 1860, 1
25,000; in 1880, 475..000. Last year 1
mney raisr~gl. f r all miosions $874 52'7;t
!or educgn n'i Senevolence, $486,- ~
)23, a tot . of 81-363.553.
-The .gn Christian Missionary ~
ociet na -drganiz ition of this
hu;ch; d'o s work In thirteen foreign a
:ountries. It supports 466 missIonary ~
workers, 40 schools and colleges, oyer
O0 orphans and 18 hospitals and dis.
esies. Last year It sent out six 8
en new missionaries and its receipts b
mounted to 8225,922, a gain of $44, ~
02 over the previous year. The firstj
uday in Ma cc Iis known as Foreign
{ission Day in this church, and an
specially active and widespread in
erest is being taken in the matter
his year. It is expetted that no les.j
ban $30,000 will be raised.''
The Christian Church in this joints i
'ith its sister churches throughout i
ae World in one of the largest oiler
igs that has ever been made for F.jr
MA&Y wXooVER OLD BONDS.
I11stery of C :rneison H >ldings May
Be CLeared from Australia.
It begins to look now as If the mys
ery conieted wiih tVe disappE.al
%nce of s)me State bonds owned by
Mr Adolph Cornelson will be cleared
up. There are $10.000 worth of them
with interest due since 1900 and it Is
t Ought they have be-n stolen. Tnat
they are still in existence is estab'ih
-:d by the fact that the interest cou.
p'n for 1901 have been Presented for
paym-nt, and that they are held by
persnsaK not entitled to them is be
Deved from several interesting facts
aLd circumstances that have come to
.to Igut within ths pait few weeks.
Mr. Ad31ph C jrnelson. who original
ly o wned the bonds was Ia brother of
r. Geo. H. Cornelson, and was for
many years a resident of this city.
His nealsh failing he wen traveling
in Europe and finally reached Aus
tralia. Before leaving he converted
part of his property into bonds carry
i'gabqutanEqu:l amount in cash.
Ele was a b -.eielor and In many ways
was eccentric, living to himself and
keeping his own counsEl. A few years
agG be died suddenly without leaving
awill. Hehadgoneoutfr a walk
and %gas found sitting against a tree
dead. Death was the resulL of heart
trouble.
He had deposlted in a bank in Aus
tralla ten thousand dollars, which his
aeirs after some little delay recvered
tu- no dEfinite trace has been discov
ered of the whereabouts of the bonds,
interest or' which the State had paid
regulary e. 0i year uo to the time of
Mr Cornelson's death.
F.ve years having elapsed si ce any
coupons were presented for pay
-ment, It was the b dief of all interest
ed in this Saate that the btnds had
been lost, and at the-last session of
'he Legislature Representative D C.
H rbeit, of Ozangeburg, introduced
.4 bill locking to tne issuance of stock
certificates to the heirs for the lost
bonds, the h-irs to put up an In
cemnity bond to protect the Statein
cnse the bonds were ever found. This
step was taken to obtain the interest
accruing on the bonds.
The morning the bill was favorably
reported by the House. committee on
,ays and means'the State treasurers
oflice was taken i ff its feet by pre
sentment of the Interest coupons for
1901, these being ,if :red for payment
tqrough the -Palmetto Bank. The
matter was reported upstairs and the
bill was-withdrawn.
Immediately the treasurer's offioe
institute d an investigation. Mr. S.
D Carter of that oflice traced/he
ecupons to the New York bank which
s.!nt thein to Columbia, and btained
he names of the brokers who soc=r
ed them from Ausuralia. At first
these New York brokers refused to
give any Information whatever, but
changed their minds when they talk
ed to very plainly, and gave the names
of brokers they cime from in As
tralia Tne coupons had passed
through the Bank of Australia, near
where Mr. Cornelson had lived.
After spending quite a sum in
cablegrams, Mr. Geo. H. Comelson
got i- frmation that the bonds could
cot be traced until mroreeinformation
was forthcoming, there b ing a change
of consule at Free Mantle. Mr. Cor
nelson has written fully to his repre
tative at Free Mantle and we hope he
will soon succeed in locating the bonds
and recovering them from the person
who now baa them as they were evl.
dently stolen after the death of Mr.
Adolph C -rnelson -Orangebnrg Times
and Democrat.
Til man Wilt Tackle Panama.
It Is reported frL m Washington
that the conditions prevailing on the
Isthmus of Panama in connection
with the Am-erican canal digging w1ll
be brought to the attention of the
country In a forceful manner very soon
through a speech by Senator Bain Till
man, of South Carolina. It is said
;hat he has baen furnished with some
very ,sensational data and that his.
psech will b e ir- the nature of
an exposure that will open the
eyes of the counrty. The Atlan
ia Journal says "Tmmlnan can
be as deep and as classic in
his oratory as the best in the senate
when he wishes. It Is one of the
tistoric facts of the senate that his
speech three years ago on the subject
of the negro in the South took rank
with the ifrts of the old-tims ora
tors, and that speEch is today regarded
as the ablest contribution that has yet
been made to the race question in
modern days. No matter what they
say of TIllman's'style, his lack of con
servatsmor hssectonalsm-they are.
all afraid of his blunt honesty and
the sting of his lashing tongue. He is
known to be fea:1:ss, incorrupt
able, tireless, eiren If he is not
polished and pampered like some et
the "down east" senators with their
cllege educations and their curly
whiskers. Everybody in Washington
wants to hear him when he sp aaks and
all who are fortunate enough to sit in
the galleries on these occasions are
given something to think about as
vell as ample entertainment. His
prospective Panama speech, therefore,
s being looked upon with considerable
nterest by those who have been in
ormed &f Its approach. He has told
its friends tbat he will lay bare the.
acts, and if any one tries to upset
hem in the order he has arranged the
!tcfolk is bandy and will be brought
nto play whenever it is f und'neces
ary." _________
T HE Springfield riot puts General
arren Keifer in a rather pec aliar
insiton. Keifer represents in congress
he Ohio district in wh'ch Spring
eld is located. Keifer wants the
epresentation of all the southern
tates in congress cut down the Idea -
bat the southerners do not treat the
egro right by not allowing him to
ote. An the next day after Kelfer
itroduced the bill his constluents at
pringfield turned the laugh on the
onorable and vanerable Ji. Warren by
gifying that they did not want
e negrces.to even live.
BERE is the pithiest sermoD ever
eaced: "Oir Ingress Into life is
ked and bare, our progress through
fe is trcuble and care, our Ingress
it of It we know not where, burt do
g well here we shall do well there;
could not tell more by preaching a
a."