A a sgt? THREE HEROIC GIRLS. | The bhrav.r of the three Nebraska geveod tenchers, Miss Freeman, Miss Roy ce wid M ss Shattuck, in the ter rivle b zz 0 hat passed through M nnesots. D kos, Jowa and Nobras- ka to Janu ry, has been the subject of much new piper writing, but a complete nial © rroct recital of their self-sacrificing heroism has not yet been oid, Miss Loie M. Royce was teaching a school near Plainfield, Neb, on the At noon six the day of the great storm. of the children weut home blizzard coming np, they did not re- tarn. Miss Ryce and the three re mainirg papils stayed at the school house uubil 3 0 clock, the ful young lady determined aud and giving ut the to take her little ones to her boarding hous . situated only filteen rods from th: school house. They started out, but in the fury out of their way The storm increased, and after hours of endeavor the brave teacher savk down in the snow aud gathered her brood about her. Darkness Wenry and frightened, the little Oues begun to ery. Sinking to the snow covered ground, they sobbed themselves iuto a restless sleep. The brave young girl realized that this ex- posure would result in death to her little flock, and stretching herself at full length upon the snow, and to the porib, she huddled the three little oues to her bresst, covering them with her owa closk, sud thus shield- ing them from the wiod with ber own form. In the night one of the little boys sank into & silence which the teacher knew was death. The feel ings of the young guardian, berseil suffering with the awful cold, cannot be described nor imagined. At night the other boy died without =a word of warning, aod, with an effort and became lost. litle Came On, mid- the brave woman gathe tie Rosburg, aged 7, in her arms. The child became delirious, and tween her suhs came the pitital ap- “Oh, I'm so cold, please cover me up; #0 appeal tie peal : mamma, which rent the heart of the faithful teacher. At daylight the little girl died, At 6 o'clock in the morning Miss Royce reached shelter, both feet and her left arm and hand being frozen. since been amputated atl It is bel jieved her feet have the aokles, her wi ¢ saved. Though unsuc in her efforts to save the lives of her did Cou ] little charges, Luie Royce best she could, and the angels do no more, Another heroine is Miss Mionie Freeman, who was teaching a school in the M'ra Valley district, near Ord, Neb., The pupils were wrought up to the highest pitch of excitement by the | fary of the storm. In the midst of the teacher's assurance that would be well, a terrible gust of wind struck the rattled, the house shook and of the structure was torn It was then the young teach. the ] the door from building, its hinges. er realized the necessity of prepaing for emergencies, With an exhibition of rare judgment she gathered her little brood together, and securing a coil of with the largest children together by bodies, three abreast, ed, she huddled her charges around the stove. lished when the blizzard struck the bailding aud earried away in the twinkling of an eye the entire roof of the structure. leaving the frightened little ones exposed to the elements, The time for prompt action had now arrived but the plucky teacher was equal to the emergency. Taking the youngest aod frailest of ber charg @ in her arms, she tied the remaining and of the twine around ber own body, and wich all the words of encourage ment she could muster, the courageous young woman started with the fright eed little ones out into the fury of the storm. After a wearisome jour. pey of about three quarters of & mile, the little band reached a farm house and warmth and shelter, Qo the same night Miss Etta Shatwek, who was a teacher hear Emmet, Holt eonnty, Neb, took re. fagein a bay stack, and was (0 the elements for a period of seven. 1y-elght h Fiom Thursday night to the fillowing Suiday hp she was withov! fool of drink. ulike the Misses Hovee wnidl Freeman, sho wad not bes res with the cafe of Jistle pusse me AL of ber pupils had beew sant Lo shoir homes in time to strong, heavy twine, began ones and tied the the arms and This complet This was scarcely accomp- of the storm wandered | red litle Hat- | Both of | Arm ! essiul | the | windows | zai shy elise 1f he dre Ni. b ho 1] Mya # and : every obligatien, Afer each had been =ent home she started oiit hers gel, She wandered aro nd the prairie aot! she stumbled against a hay stack, and, tealing iv wus her only Coane of safety, she dug a hole in the stack, grmwied 10 nnd pur some ot the hay into the mouth of the hols over her feet. Thesn ow sifted Into md ovel the place, aud proweted ber from the cold. She sanz hymns und] she f It warm and comtortable, sod inshy went to sleep. She awoke ater » ume, out was lalled to sleep hy the howling of the storm, When she awoke again the snow had drifeed and wely bit, that although she tried with all her strength she coulda scarcely me ve. 80 she lay there helpless and hungry Friday, Saturday aud Sunday. lbe mice nibbled her hands, She was fant and weary. She losl all mecount of time, but prayed for de. livery from the prison, Her frienos searched for ber, but they finally gave fup. Ou Sunday a farmer drove to | the bay stack to get some bay. He poticed the hay bad been disturbed, and reaching into the hole, caught bold of the lady's overshoe, He quickly liberated her from ber living | grave. It was found that both of ber lower limbs were frozen aod both feet hud to be amputated. It was at first thought that she would survive, but deat relieved her sufferings early io the present month, aud the girl's re mains were laid at rest at Seward, Neb. The heroism and the sufferings these brave and noble girls have call- ed out the deepest sympathy snd bear tiest recognition from the good people of Nebraska. The Owaba Daily Bee, on learning of the devo tion of these teachers to their pupils immediately started 8 1estimonia fand. When the amputation of Mise Shattuck's feet became necessary, and it wes found she would have no way in which to earn a livelihood, the Heroive fund rapidly increased, and at the date of the noble girl's death $3.752.01 had been paid for ber bene- fir. Miss Shattuck’s father is a vet. eran of the late war, and by reason of wounds received in the service be is | incapacitated for labor. The family was dependent upon the earnings of heir brave daugh er, sod the above named smount, together with abou | $1,000 more from The Bee's special | fund, is to be paid to the parents of | the unfortnoate girl, A prominent lieweler of San Francisco sent a hand. | some gold watch to Miss Freemso. | The chai is wrought in semblance of a rope, as a reminder of the meaos by | which she lea precious lives from perl lto safety. Already the fund for Mise | Royce has reached 82.000, aod it » | oped the amount may be increased to | such a figure that the interest will pro vide — —— PRECIOUS STONES which this eountry has made during the past | With the artistic advance ten years, and with the wider distri bution of wealth men and women have | be their tastes, and a much some more critical aud exacting in higher ar In vething than adornment, standard now prevails is this more noticeable in matler in | which precio is stones play so promi. personal Sharp contrasts in the of seen, and instead of nent a part. | arrangement colors are seldom incongruous aoa lavish decoration there are shown = love of harmony and an art in ar- rangement which satisfy the eye and are in keeping with the principals of | beauty. In the list of precious the and stones, diamond, the ruby, the emerald, | the sapphira may be said to hold ao | equal place in public estimation. The American people are not only the | moat critical judges of fine gems, but | (are also the largest purchasers, | far as diamonds are concerned, they | buy more perfect stones than do the in Europe. European purchasers are more inclin- ed 10 be satisfied with the good gen | eral effect of a precious stone, not de- mandifg that perfection required here by the same class of buyers, Twenty years ago $25,000 would have been considered a large sum for soy family in this country to have invested in diamonds, while to-day more than one family holds gems valued at §500- 000. In 186% the value of diamonds and other stones imported into the United States was $1.818617 in 1875 it rose to $3, 478.757, in 1884 it wae $0,139,460, and in 1886 it r ached $8, 260747. From 1867 to 1886 fnclusive, the total value of imported diamonds and other stones can be set down in rough numbers st $85, people of any country exposed | 000,000. That five diamonds hold their value well has been evidenced by sales of collections of gems which were appraised for inventory more than, & century ago, when stones, bought by dealers to be soldat a profit, ‘brought astonishivgly high priose. Regardedsimply asa profitahie packed over the bay with such a for her during the rest of her Life, i the | So | chase. Tey are not ellicted by polit: | ical chavges or soc] disturbance, ag many securities are; and, although io ‘imes of financial stringency the own- ers of valuable stones may often have been compelled to d spose of them at 4 great sac ly due to special circum stances, rather than to any deprecation in the valae of the gems themselves, : In spite of ths enormous nomber of diamonds which have been thrown upon the market by the opening of the rifice, this has been gener: | wealth of the country, and New Mexico the finest garnets in the world, Yet notwithstanding the encourage ment that some writers flod in these facts, and in the general mineral for indulging the patriotic hope that the United States will become an important con- tributor to the world’s supply of precious stones, the few competent American experts generally see po expectations, south African mines, there never was ‘a time when fine diamonds were rarer stiffening more perceptibly; and people who own this class of stones may feel eous purchuses. Toa grest extent of curve, the laws of supply and demand as they do that of any other commod- | ity. Scull, as with all other luxuries | the pricesare largely a matter of | taney and are not governed by any | commercial schedule or kuown rule, | A great deal has been wsid as to the immense number of diamonds which have been thrown upon the market trom the mines of South Africa, sod a8 to the means which have been adopted by the owners of these mines to restrict the output within the bounds of legitimate demand, so that somethiog like a standard value wight be established, while, st the same ime, measures would be taken to prevent the product of the mines from reaching the illicit channels. [t should be remembered, however, that thou- snnds of these stones are of an inferior grade. The output of really fine stones is very limited. The Booth African mines are the chief source of the world's supply, snd a floctu- ation in or lowering of values of fine gems need not be feared. There is nothing the propeg purchase of which calls for more judgmest than that of diamonds, There must, | of necessity, be implicit confidence be. | tween the dealer and the bayer, for few | people who are not experts can detect | all the minute differences which go to | make up the flawless or the imper. fect diamond. American buyers run | great risks by buying stones in Earope, as these, when examined aller wards, are likely to show some defect which had not before been noticed by the purchaser. New ~uttings have lately been troduced, the proportions of each part in. heing hased upon scientific principles, {and bringing out = brilliancy and | heauty which the stones wonld not have heen thought rapable ten years ago. The Saal effectiveness inf & true gem is a work of art to which expert knowl. edge and skilled handicraft {oontribute in po less important | degree than the original stone. By | the latest impr wed cutting there is a | great gain a diamond being given | about one fifth more brilliancy than | hy the old methods, due to a more ex- mpliance with the laws govern- ing reflection and refraction, in pro portioning the “spre ad” of the stone to the depth below the girdle, to the | height above it, and to the facetting ! Even the polish is a matter of careful serotiny,-— unless perfectly done mar. ring to some extent the beauty of the cntting and its resoltant brilliancy | Attention of this character is, however bestowed only upon stones of the high sat grade. The business in really fine gems in this coungry isc nfined to a few houses, although there are dealers in inferior stones The combinations of diamonds with other gems largely need an eye for ef fect in arrangement, so 88 to give the | appearance of rounded harmony and completeness, Several American houses that have devoted themselves | to work of this character have able to produce combinations in harmony and delicacy are equal to any that have come from the famous workshops of Europe. Emeralds are now sought after, as, in fact, are all colored stones, rabies and sapphires especially. Rabies which come from Burmah are scarce, while prices are phenomenal; and a really blue dia- mond is unosually rare and of great value, What is believed to be the most perfect blue diamond in this country is owned by the large dia- mond importing hoose of Balley, Baoks & Biddle, Philadelphis, who have one of the finest collections of s stones in this country. In the Usited States, although gov- ernment reports place the estimated roduction of precious stones as fol. Bottoms: 1883, 874.050; 1884, $82 975; 1885, $73,450; yet this : made up a semi-precious gems; or, if any of t real precious stones be incl s they are of sgoh poor quality as to be of no prictical use for the finer purposes of he jeweller. In Maive and North Carolina systematic mining bas been earried on to some extent, but without profitable result. The geological for mation of Elliott County, Kentucky, ‘in singularly analogoay to that of the South African dikmond district: but of game L_ RELL fart C many been | whi h assured that they have made advatag- | regulate the price of diamonds, just) {a way of going around ted the Hebrew, | was afraid, other man of fi | nod turos pale, Mr. Joseph T. Bailey, who is not {only one of the best judges of gems, | but who has also made himself thor- or when the priceof perfect gems were | oughly familiar with those sections of | show any | {the United States that {signs of being the patoral | place of gem stones, | It is sometimes suggested that | much might be accomplished were the | state and national governments to of- | fer encouragement to systematic pros pectiog for precious stones in certain | promising localities; but the universal experience is that such development is best committed to private enterprise, aod unfortunately, there little to induce the investment money or time in it as a business, Joux V. Hoon. abiding of ——— A—— DEACON BURDETTE. HOW To MAKE KEYSY SPELLS, Mrs. Whitegoode (wearily)—I must see a physician, dear; 1 bave such bad spells every day. Old White goods (impatiently )—Bah, so has the typewriter girl at the office and she's bright as a cricket all the time. Live lier she is the worse spells she has HE LACT INFORMATION Are you the cow? asked the boarder from town, jrusiog before the pump No, replied the pump, speaking through his nose like a true Aweri- can, I am the milk made. Haw, haw, haw. And next morning the awe stricken guest ate his gruel in silence, nor once complained when he found a water spider in his cream I, OK PLEASANT 3 Some philaothropisi os think of a story Frederick of Prussia VILLAIN » always make is id Yi that of To: HK mortal apd holding brief conversations with his subjects which were preity sure to ierminate di aopleasant remark by Oue day he paused to speak to 8 Jew but the weary Hebrew took heels, The king pursned, and aller brisk chase ove k the fying ub ject Why did you m+ rascal? i ug had ug a common soe ledly in m «rirh 0 his a n away Irom Because, liankly sdmi t rong ni in treme th | na A scient 8 headed, “iH had Lime to read 11, DAL ou ns w 10 (ast ial Al YOu are r wi 54 quinine CRAVOT ' i #1 LE that sort won reqy I 2 universily 0 a raining enable 1a8e in sou id ¥ One Dried poGT mmigr a green hasn't Iw this enough even to make the he constitutioosi centennia ani, wi ir ik in Cast in | Gor we 1 1: Oration » iF get ob the police, can taste it with oOoe band tied behind hrm, just as e.sily as Jao L. Sulivan or President Elliott « Bat g real good; ROMS better and A mer 4 LH hin sClenee & thi fine you hk gel jess _aOY OLhell man io | Ca, a Deck a yar back stops and Ih sttered man who * en 1g! = - s down, al 18 Lhe theor a and nat ana uo b bw id 1 Boy nike has a Dell sav we'd like t one heal inst for fon, IN SEPTEMBER anyhow, \ » DAY Family man, In drag an vs into at b'g pawdn u put this up for In an awful burry. store man reads prescription I'm afiaid 1 can't do it to-day, sir; 1-1 think we areour of some of the ingredients, family takes back paper and reads: Half a d.zeu safety pins: Three nutmeg; A pound of West Chester butter: One quart of cider Vinegar; Two Jurde whith flannel; A paper of needles; A box of Rough on Rats. This wus the ‘hoping list his wife bad given him. hen the pre soription for himself that he bad got from the doctor must have been the paper he threw out the window, Thus does Jane W. Nemesis, avenger at law, keep her glassy eye nailed upon him who needs the most wat hiog. A WANING PLAGUE, “Abigsil”’ wants to know what is the best way to rid a room of flies. Go into the next room and try to dead Abigail and they'll follow you, every, Jast buzzing, crawling, tickling, bugger of “em. THE ONE YOU SHOULD WRITE FIRST. Let me tell you, said the contributor, about my fint poem. I haven 1 time, 7 caen in dae me right AWAY! Drug [wenrch there has not proved froiful | | Many semi-precious stones are, how. H ‘aver, found in the United States, «= | said the editor, gently, with a tinge wf wearioons, but 1 11 sit hero nil wight ul you'll tell me abodt your lt ones vw vasdment, | dinmonds are, ania puss | bury ls, aduamnsings, std iddenites | Brookign Banh, substantial basis at present for such | This view is shared by | has been | any | fellow, al great haste, rashes | Mao of | | top of him as be struggled and swuog N-w York Harvey | 11 LI A speeinl to the | from Scranton, says that ss 'R ers aud Charles Houck | driviog home through a piece 0f woods Lin Lehigh towoship, their horses prick. Led up their ears snd stopped suddenly of new | were | ! i i | head the {at something 0 the road | them, The dim light of | moon revealed the outlines of a object, but the mea eould not what it was, aud so Houck jumpd out of the sleigh and ran ahoad As | he got in froot of the team Houck ing in the middle of the highway, and he walked slowly toward bio and vas ahout to ask him what he was doing there all alove, when a low Houck then saw that insiend of 8 boy a large from the chject stopped him, bear, standing upright on 118 hasunch. es, was what the horses stuck up their ears at, Thinking that he conld easily scare | the bear out of the road, Houck his puis {led the mitten from big right | | | hand, dashed up 10 the bear and gave | ® | it & smart slap on the side of the head | n . | with the flat of his hand. No sooser | had he dove this, Houck said, than | | part of a vast majority of the farmers | the bear plunged at him and simost | downed him before he had a cbauee | to realize that he bad aroused the ao- imil's soger. Quickly recovering himself, Houck dealt the bear snother | | stinging blow on the head, soi tuen | there was such a roaring and soerling | around there that Rogers, who had | remaived in the sleigh, knew what kiod of a creature Houck bad run foul of. Again the bear sprang sat | Houck and knocked him down in the the furious { snow, but before beast | could trample on bim be got on his | leet again, Se. ing the bear was a fighter of the first order, Houck 1 fler and overcost and went st bruip w ang off wis muf- in earnest, giving 1t three or four Jive- [ostead of of treatment, Houck striking him in the face with his LOse, ly thumps oo the tarping tail at this sort the animal tackled raging rely, i I CIAWS, and making Houck much ther s hear was Loo for him, ran toward the sleigh, Lhe bear nd #80 wing close at bis heels, Rogers saw the maddened animal big That A 118 Desd r wid ash fur t soon shook the blank. repre bellowing On the ers had gone io ther planket, and aria toward him ré = rew the blanket over its yo the bear at the ostant und the neck. gled terribly to ire bung on like a good the same time telling Houck blanket. Jefore the {to get the ther : Houck could assist him roarder u 1s haunches and The floundered and pawed and jose up pers several feet away pped til it bad got its when it tried to re its rage being fright Tien they quickly placed the blak- thi k "- Then each grabbed ao | ets together, making a double ness of them. {end of | the infuriated bear plunged at W a ¢ double blanket, and, when them | again, they flung it over its head, | rushed upon the bear as they did so, | and falling upon it with all their weight, thus forcing the bear to the ground. Ounce or twice the powerful animal lifted both of them off their feet, but they kept the blankets over its bead by clinging 10 its peck with their muscular arms. They soon downed the straggliog brute, however, but he didn't stay down long. At this stage of the fight he rose upon his havock- es with a spriog, lunged forward and struck on his fore feet, and then sprang ap again and flung himeell to one side, The men still hung to the bear's neck for dear life, believing that they would be able to smother sad choke him to death io the course of a few gruupt | minutes more. The hear was apparent ly partially exhansted, for ib lay still a shor time, nud thea it reared up and | fl sunced about, but the men soon floors | od him ouce more. Alier another | gust of a few seconds the bear made a | deposi auigaph in get tid of We ! LOMO sting wid, bab Lacy had rested, Jad they Joeked shelr lingers to thor wieder bis thenaband., sept vo Loo : 5 — this way sod that, When the bear became quiet for an isiant the two men gol & gop on his guiler with both hands Then he | made an dher desperate stiuggle to ger loose, but they bad him enupletly 1a their power, sud they soon choked the life cut of him, Boh Boers and Houck were pretty well 1ukend oat when they lousened their holds ou the [limp and lifeless bear, nod hey sad dark | tell | that iit had not beens tor the bHinuk- ein, the bear would in sll probability have killed both «f them, When they got home What wight they fund that the corcas of the murderous brute | weighed 596 pounds, snd before uooa saw what he took Lo be 4 boy stand. of the next day the people of the ¢n- [Lire seulement were talking about the ternific fight that the two plucky tar mers had bad with the meddlesvme bear, TAI PROTECTION FOR FARMERS, A com nites of gentivmen who con- peated 10 assume the task ol ¢Xamin~- ing several thousand letters addressed to the New York Tribuue by citizens and organizations interested in agri- cu tars] parsuits, discussiog the wanff question, has prepared a loug aod io- teresting report, [tL giver tue conclusions reached as regards the geveral tendency of sen- tment manifested io that mass of correspondence The ouicome is strongly indicative of a belief on the of this country that the protective system, as developed io the lmposivion of customs duties upon imports, has been of great value in promoting the weltaie of agricultural «8 well as | ocher judusiries, Aud the views thus expressed are varified not only by theory aod coar- mon observation, bat also iv the form of ufficial statements. For example, the last census showed that the in- | crease in area of cultivated lands io | ten grest farmiog states of the west | between 1860 and 1880 was 160 per vent, lovolving, of course, a curre- sponding volume of sgriculiural pro- ducting, This would have created a disastrons glut if no ready means of consumption had appeared. Bot owiog to the enconragemen: sflorded 10 enterprise in all directions by the proteciive tariff the hands employed in mana. factures increased 251 per cent, the wages paid them 303 per cent., sud the material taey used 359 per ceut. The wages these mavsufacturiog operatives had to spend averaged $1.10 tur each improved acre of inod in 1860 and had advanced to $171 The materiale porchuased wasufacturing uses, mamy from farms, which averaged only 84 02 for each improved acre 10 1860, had f $7.08 in 1880 fur this atsmeated © ferived in 188, for ed an average « nsumiag manulacluring he soil could have jisposed of only a small poruon, com- paratively of their products aod their have suffered ruin Agriculture was susia fairly p wer from sclivilies, Lilers Of ndustry most us neq Ri remaoeralive only by the prosperity of masulacturing which naturally become tributary tot, Ii appears from the tesor of many letters that the writers, while appreciating the value of protection to manufscturing industries, are de- sirous of extendiog the system in such & WAY 8s LO cover more completely products of the soil, and bence the committee has incladed considerable information 10 Ils repori concerning Cress : { made inleresls of the | specific points in respect of which changes may be desirable. These are enumerated in the sab- joined draft of 8 memorial 10 con- | gress, which farmers are recomm. nd- ther or ed to forward either through SCURLOTS and represenalives through The Tribuve oilice: PETITION FOR MORE EFFECTUAL 0- TECTION OF AGRICULTURE. To the Spesker of the House Representatives: The undersigned respectfully pray that agriculture may be more etfect ually protected, by preventing fraud. aleot importations of esttle on pre- tense that they are for breeding only; By a duty of 20 cenis per bushel on FR of | bar ey, with proportionate increase of duty ou mail; By duties of 25 cents per bushel on potatoes and onions, $2 per 100 on cabbages, $3 per ton on bay, 10 cents pie pound on hops, 20 per cent. on beans sud pens, 5 cents per dozen on eggs, 30 per cent. on fowls and poultry and on vegetables in their natural state or brine, vot otherwise provided for, with no removal or redaction of daties on market garden products; By such increased duties on flax and on linen goods as will «fectaally encourage the preparations of fiber and manufactared goods; By abolishing all duties on sugar, with & bounty (0 home producers; By prevesting impos: of leaf to bacco suitable for at the duty imported on other leaf tobacco, and re. pealing all internal taxes on Sobsooo; By 1estoning to wool the substantial protection en onder the tani! of 1867, s0 modi as Wo meet the later forms of foreign competition and of evasion, Tue commities which has had this Jntier in charge voneisls of gentle. wen who are well known throp hot the country as friends of sgricaltaca enterprise, and most of them sre or have been connected «vl some haneh of i '
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