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About The Oregon scout. (Union, Union County, Or.) 188?-1918 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 6, 1886)
r f Mild AVlntcr Weather. Trom 11ms Now York Tribune. The' Canadian Weather Beview for November, just received, affords littlo comfort to the icemen, coal-dealers, plumbers and others who have been annoyed at the mildness of the winter thus far. For more than three months a wave of weather warmer than usual has been crossing the con- j tincnt. In September, which was a period of nightly abnormal cold east of the Mississippi, the temperature over Southwestern British America, and from Northeastern Montuiifv to ( Oregon and Washington Territory, I was 2 dep. or H dec. higher than the season called for. Two degrees look likoa trifling" variation; but, continued night and day for a month, it is tinus-1 ual and clearly discernible. By Oc-1 tobcr the warm tract had overspread the whole Pacific coast of the United States and most of the Bocky Mount ains, the greatest excess over the nor mal temperature being? deg. at Port land, Ore, Meantime the weather from Georgia to the St. Lawrence was be tween 1 dug. and 8 deg. coldor than it should have been. The sperial bul letin of the Washington Weather Bureau for November showed that the warmth was- subsiding in Oregon, t hough it had not entirely disappear ed; that the most marked departure from the normal was between thu Hockies and Upper Mississippi, rang-1 ing from 5 deg. to 0 deg.; that the east ern cold tract had gone; and that slightly abnormal warmth extended over the northern part of the United Stales to New England. i Dr. Carpniad's report for last month shows that in Manitoba the tempera ture averaged over 0 deg. above the mean of previous Novembers, while there was an excess of from 1 deg. to I deg. in Uie regions thence eastward to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. These facts, in the light of certain pre cedents, would' excite an expecta tion of mild weather in the Lower Lako region, North Atlantic Stales and New England through December and Janu ary; and, in spite of two or three cold waves, that prospect has thus far been realized. The average tempera ture of New York, for instance, for the last four wioks has been more than It degrees above the normal for Decem ber. Tii is persistent and unusual warmth may subside without a fur ther eastward movement of the wave; and there is some reason to expect that it will, oventunlly be followed by abnormally cold weather. From the littlo that is yet known of these weath er areas of slow movement, however, no great hope of a decided and lasting change before February or March would bo justified at present. Tlic TjJiw of liOii Liifo; Youth's Companion. Nathan Allen, M. D., LL. D., has given many years of study to physi ological laws in their relation to m eat social problems, lie has contributed to the New England Medical Monthly a suggestive paper on tho "Normal Standard of Physiology." Thisstand nrd, ho holds, consists in the perfect balancoo all the organs ami their harmonious working. lie compares the body to a complicated machine, so thoroughly and perfectly made that tho friction comes equally on every part, according to the design in its construction. A change at any one point destroys the balance, and thus becomes the entering wedge of disease. Hence, a perfect standard of health is where every organ is perfect in struct ure and function. Such a. standard indicates the law of longevity, as well as the law of health. Long life must depend on the harmonious working of a well-balanc-rd organization. Hence, we find that tho very aged are remarkable for ev enness in their mental, moral and so cial elemonts of character. Hence, too, the classes specially defective in body and mind are nota bly short lived. Hesphatio-i, digestion, circulation. auinilation and secretion must bo otpially sustained. A failure at one -point disturbs tho harmony of tho whole. The same principlo lies at the basis of tho law of heredity. Tho long-lived of to-day have had long-lived ances tors, froui whom they have inherited well-balanced oi nns. On this general balancenlso depends ihelaw of increase. I Ienec.a predomi nance of tho nervo tissue lessens the birth rote, and tends to th extinction of tho family and the race. This is illustrated in tho case of the European nobility. It is as signally illustrated I in New England. Within two or three 1 generations the birth-rnto of our na tive population has diminished more than onq-hulf. That of tho Irish, English and German among us is twice ns largo ns that of . tho "former. Tho power to nurso offspring baa oquaUy-aintinished. j Gcoi-kc J21HottsIifc. i "Sho was xeally one of tho most sceptical, unusual creatures I over know, and it was this sido of her char acter which to liio was the most at tractive. She told mo that it was worth while toundertnkeall the labor of learning French, if it resulted hi nothing more than reading one nook Rousseau's 'Confessions.' I can -ice her now, with her hair over her should ers, tho rahy chair half sideways to tho.fire. her feet over tho arms and a proof-in 'her hands, in that dark room at the back of No. 142, and I confess 1 hardly recognized her in tho paged of Mrs. Cross's on many accounts most inUuresting volumes. I do hope that in some future edition, or in ! some future work, the salt and spice ' will bo restored to tho records ol George Eliot's entirely unconven tional life. Asthe matternowstands, bhc has not had full justice done to her, and she has been removed from tne daw the great and noble church, if 1 may so call it of the Insurgents to one mote genteel, but certainly not eo interesting." Halo Whit'j in Lon don Times. I TlianooLWhittier recently remark- ed to afriend: . "I think I was bi,T with a'headadis." Farm and Household For tlio Uye of the Cook. IjAriiANDnu Cakks. Or.o pint of flour, 2 eggs well beaten, a tablespoon ful of butter, a tcuspoonful of salt, n. tablcspoonful of sugar. Pour into hot pans. Jenny Lisps. Two eggs, half cup of butter, a tablcspoonful of sugar, 2 tcaspoonfuls of baking powder, a cup of milk, .'$.1-2 cups. of flour. . Baku in gem pans. Birrrfiu.un.K Caki:. Ono cup of bilt tennilk, tho same of sugar, one egg, ono teaspoonful of saleratus and a piece of butter size of an egg. A Dei.icati: Cocoanut L-vyku-Cakk. Is nuido by tho following recipe: One-half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, ono cup of milk, three and one half cups of flour, threo tea-spoonfuls of baking-powder and tho whites of eight eggs; bako in jclly-cako pans. For tho filling, one grated cocoanut. three-quarters of a pound of sugar and tho whites of three eggs. Beat the whi; i of tho eggs to a stifT froth; then beat in the sugar: put this between the cakes, sprinklo a thick layer of cocoanut over each, cover tho top and sides with tho cocoanut and icing. Potato Chips. Select largo pota toes, peel them, slice them on a plnte or cabbage cutter, which may bo pro cured at any house-furnishing store, throw the slices into ico water or veiy cold water, and let them soak a while to draw out the starch; then removo to a clean towel and absorb all tho water from them with tho towel, throw them into a wire basket in hot lard, keep tho slices separate, and when a delicate yellow drain them from the fat. Spread on brown paper, to absorb tho fat, sprinklo them light ly with salt and put in a dish. They may bo eaten cold or hot, and are good for many days, as a littlo while in the oven will m.i.ko them as good as new. In New York and Brooklyn they havo been sold by the barrel. Con.v Bukad "Into one pint of rich buttermilk stir ono level teaspoonful of soda, until it foams. Add tho well beaten yolks of two eggs, then tho white Southern corn meal, until the mixture has tho proper consistency. To this add two tablespoonfuls melted lard and lastly the whites of 02gs well beaten. Use iron muffin molds well greased and heated. This recipe is for hiuflins, but batter cakes can be made in tho saino way, only make tho bat ter quite thin and tako half as much lard. The batter for muffins must bo soft enough to drop nicely into tho moulds, else tho bread will not be light." Note. Wo havo always found it a good plan when using soda with sour milk or but termilk to put it in tho very last thing, and its fonniingraises and lightens tlio whole mass. KontunUy ltluo Grnns. Probably no section of tho world is more famous for its pastures than tho blue grass region of Kentucky, and many a horso reared upon these fer tile meadows, has received tho admir ation of thousands, for the combined qualities of speed, beauty, and endur ance. Tho grass which forms tho basis of those great pasture grounds is well known over a large portion of the United States. That few grasses are so well known is evidenced by the popular names, green meadow grass, June grass, common spear grass, and others which have been applied to it. This is ono of tho earliest of our grass es, with a perennial creeping root, erect, smooth, and round steins, linear, flat leaves, and a spread ing.erect pan icle. In color theplant isa light green, tho spikelets often having a tinge ot brownish purple. As beforo stated, it is especially valuable for pasture, be ing much relished by stock. For hay it needs -to-bo outfit the timo of flower ing, as afterward it soon dries up. As a lawn grass it is most desirable, its fine herbago making an excellent turf. An eminent cattle breeder, writing many years ago of tho value of this species, said: Whoever has liniestono land has blue grass; whoover has blue Brass has tho basis of all agricultural prosperity; and that man, if ho havo not tho finest horses, cattle and sheep has no ono to blumu but himself. lllnckliorry unit lluxplierry Cimen. Mr. J. C. Plumb reniindi readers of Tho Western Farmer that last win ter's experience warns us to protect blackberry and raspberry canes. His own practico is thus referred to: "This is about tho last thing wo usually do, first taking up nil super fluous plants, cutting back all wo would of tho fruiting cane in bpring, and removing tho old wood. This leaves about onohnlf ns much to handle. Dig or plough away from tho row and loosen theplant at tho roots, so that tho bend will come entirely on tho ropo liko and pliable roots. Lay all one way and cover only enough to hold them down on tho ground,' and follow with a little mulch to shade tho plant after thoground is frozen. That magnificent berry, the Gregg blackcap, last winter proved only holfhardy on rich soil, and that also should ho got down under tho unow line whero prac ticable. Tho Cuthbert red will also do much better with this treatment." An Hmllage KxperlmenU Professor L. Wotherell stated at the recent dairy convention in Morrisburd, Ontario, that Mr. Lnwrenco of Gro ton, Mass., who makes fancy butter for tho Boston market for which ho gets seventy cents a pound from per sons who buy to sell again, tried giv ing a I jed of what ho considered nice ensilage to his cows onco a day, with out tho knowledge of tho purcnasers of his butter in the city. For tho first churning which ho sent after th use o' ensilage began, the purchaser returned thirty-five cents i pound, frith the inquiry: "What is the mnt :er with your butter?' Such exper ences, taken in connection with .the ecent action of the Swiss Milk Con densing Company in reject ins wholly milk from cows whoso rations include msilngo, it must be confessed, tend to insottlo the value of ensihigefor milch :ows. Professor L. B. Arnold. Frot Proof Cellar. Mr. Henry Ives once advised read ers to render cellars frost proof by tho simple expedient of tilling all crevices ibout doors and windows, and espe cially under the sills, with mason's roinnion lime mortar, such as is med tor house wails, .lube, of Zin acted an the excellent suggestion, and re ports that he was surprised to find now many small openings there were through which cold air came in with a .milling rush. These were perfectly 'topped, with the greatest care, and lie never performed half a day's back-, idling labor which gave more satis faction, his tored fruit and vegetables remaining absolutely secure during all the severity of the winter, without iny outside banking, or use of kero sene lamps during coldest nights. How rl Mioiil.l Vfosir TlnUr Sid it. l)ri' Their Iliilr, mill So Ou. Harper's Hiuar. Girls 1 1 years old wear their skirts long enough to come within two inch es of their shoes; these of 10 years old havo them reach to tho ankles. A jood foundation skirt of alpaca is m most dresses, and tho overskirt and 'ower skirt are draped upon this. There is a pad bustle and a short steel spring across the back breath in many dresses, but these must bo very mall or they will bo obtrtisivo and ungraceful. Exl emely narrow and very wide kilt plaits are used forgirl's skirts; others have double plaits all round, with one passing up to tho belt on the left side over tho apron. Full gathered back breadths, with braided panels on tho sides and box plaited fronts, are stylish skirts. Largo buttons sometimes tako tho place of braid on the panels. A wide band of plush or of velvet, or many rows of Hercules braid, are placed, n round the pleated skirts of wool dresses. Girls of 10 wear their front hair in r. short bang that may bo either straight or waved, and their back hair in a low Catagon loop, which is a thick braid of threo tresses turned upward to the nape of the neck and tied, there, with a ribbon bow. The long hanging Gretchen are again worn in either ono or two plaits by girls from 10 years upward; these are left unplaitedattho ends, and are tied with ribbons above the loose, fluffy ends. Flowing tresses are less used than formerly, and when worn by largo girls they are confined by a ribbon at tho nape of tho neck, instead of falling straight from the frown. Snfnll children wear a short bang that does not extend far on tho sides, and tho hair then falls straight down the sides and back onto the neck; a tress on the top, jast back of tho bangs is tied with ribbon to keep it back, instead of usinga round comb. Short cropped hair is also worn again, and is commended, as it strengthens and thickens tho hair. Standing linen collars and gathered linen frills are worn in tho neck and wrists of misses' dresses, and also by quite young girls, as their dresses are now finished with a standing band. For tho street a whito embroidered muslin necktie is worn, tied in a vetv largo bow. The large embroidered col lars are still worn by small children. lVomtwi Learning IIuxIiiokh Muthoilft. Many ladies in Chicago keep bank accounts and check against their de posits for household and personal ex penses, just as their husbands do in their business. They can thus do their shopping without tho bother of carrying around .bills. One lady, who has a regular allowance from her hus band, a merchant, takes entire ehiirgo of tho household, tho grounds, the stable, everything. Sho watches the domestic end of their a flairs as close as her husband does tho busines end. Sho issues her checks to pay tho ser vants, tho stablemen, tho harness re pairer, tho carriage maker, the grocer, the butcher and everybody. Shoeven takes charge of all homo improve ments and pays tho painter, tho ma son, thedecorator, tho carpenter, and so on. There is a sortol crazo among Chicago Indies for bank accounts and -.heck-books. r.irm Kspnrliicou New varieties of fruits and vegeta bles are to bo purchased with great caution. A few instances may occur in which ono finds an acquisition, but tho prizes aro exceedingly rare ns com pared with the disheartening blanks. Let no ono bo misled by a high sound ing name. Jumbo strawberries, scaly bark, Mid Cuban green watermelons, guaranteed to bear up u weight of 1,200 pounds; Ironclad, Boss, and others, all equally worthless, havo been put oil upon the public to tho great disappointment of purchasers. Now roses, new tomatoes, potatoes by scores, all have been an ant deceiv ers. It has been tho worst when a farmer who crows largely for market has been misled into plantinghis whole crop with Homo now "promising" kinds which have nothing but tho promises of sellers to recommend them, and the unhappy victims havo lose largely. Tho on'y fcnfo way is to experiment in a small way and test these vnrioties, but a safe way is to keep to tho old established kinds until something cer tain is known of the now ones. Of the now strawberries not one in a score is worth planting. Crescent, Milson, and Campion aro still at tho head of tho list for ir.arkot purposes, whero tho grower has rich, heavy Hoil and will nivo the best culture, and grow in hills two feet apart; Cumber land, Soth Boyden, Charles Downing. Colonel Chceney, and Kentucky will ivo pleasure and profit. All others are to be tried in a small way before any largo venture is made. To this list may bo added for domestic use Sharpless and Miner's prolific. Cuthbert Unspberry still stands nt the lnnd of tho red varieties ami Groiat the top of the list of black kinds, while Kit tat inny.not withstand ing its proclivity to rust, (but this onlv when its culture is neglected,) is tho best blackberry. Another vaunted fraud is the Mam moth Clover. It is coarse in the ex treme; makes wretched-hay, and' is only good for plow ing under. Alfalfa is another deceiver, excepting on dry arid soils, where red clover is all-sulli-cient. and is the head of all tho ciass of meadow forage plants. A remarkable improvement in the flavor and appearance of poultry which has been fed in coops or pens two weeks before killing has been no ticed by thosewho havetriedtht'plan. Clean corn and cold water havo been found to bo the only requisites for rapid and healthful fattening. Apples which have been gathered by ban 1 and carefully packed in bands and stored in cooi, dry cellars or fruit houses havo brought threo times the pru-o of fruit which has been shaken Iran the tree or ''nocked oil' by poles. The rfilTerenco in value consists in the longer keeping and the absence of dis coloration by bruising. An almost univf-sal experience is that the best keeping Winter apples only aro profit able. In fact, long-keeping quality is the groat desideratum in everything in the shape of fruit and, it may bo add ed, dairy products as well. Hepeatid warnings are necessary to guard farmers against tho nefarious designs of swindlers of various kinds who go about seeking whom they mny devour. At one of the fails tho great burden of complaint was of these rogues who depredate upon the public in so many ways and with such allur ing deceptions as to make victimsof men who have tho reputation of being shrewd and sharp. There is but one way to escape, and this is to have no dealings not oven parley with peo ple who go around t o farmer's houses to solicit business of any kind what ever. A firm, emphatic no is tho only relmfl these deceivers will submit vo. Soaking seeds in solutions of various fertilizing substances has often been recomnit-nded as a valuable aid to the earliest growth of the plants. Sev eral patents havo been taken for en veloping seeds in a coating of soluble fertilizing matter, but this method has had no advantago which has counter balanced the cost of the process. A German experimenter who has inves tigated this matter finds no benefit to accrue from the soaking of seeds in any solution whatever; pure water alone has given as good result nns any solution which has been tried. Other experiments have shown that soaking the seed in water alone hastens the germination oply sometimes, but not always, and is thereforo of very questionable utility. N. Y. Times.. On Hoard the "Alnlmnm." One of the best known personages along Brooklyn's wat er front is Charles Wilson, or "Dutch Charley." He is a river "speculator," and considers his profession one that is wrongly estima ted by outsiders, including tho police, lie makes no secret of his business, and explains it thus: "If 1 buy goods from men on boord ship and pay thorn good, hard, American money for them, what right has a policeman to interfere?" Wilson was for twenty two months of the civil war on board tho Confederatoprivateer "Alabama," and to a Union reporter he told a few incidents of his lifu with Captain Sem nies and how he came to enter his ser vice. I wns an ablo seamen on board t lie Boston ship "Pawnshop" sailing be tween the East Indies and Liverpool. This was in tho latter part of 1802, and wo were on our return voyage with a cargo of jute and linseed oil and but a few days out. It was my look out, and I sighted a ship's light ahead to tho leeward. I informed the mate and suggested to him that tho vessel might bo tho "Alabama," and got laughed at for my pains. I was re lieved in a lew minutes, but mean while tho bt ranger had hovo to, and presently wo were hailed liko this: "What ship is that?" "The 'Pawnshop.'" "Whero are you from?" "Boston." "All right; I'll send a boat over tc you." But tho Captain did not proposo tc receive any boat from the "Alabama," for it was her, and wo crowded on al' sail. Then they fired a gun at us, which missed its mark, but mado tin Captain think ho had better surrend er. Wo were nil taken aboard tho "Ala bama," including our Captain ami lib wife. Everything of value was taker off tho "Pawnshop," and sho was sel on lire. The poor old Captain ownec a shnro in tho vcsnel, and In cried bit terly when he saw her burning. Most of tho crew joined that of tin "Alabama," and those that did nol wore pu, ashore at tho first hand place. I did not want to bo dumped off in a foreign laud, so I took ser vico with him until wo got, tc England. Once, when four Ameri can cruisers had us penned up in e little bay on the Chinese Coast, Sem mes rigged up a counterfeit of tin "Alabama" as sho was then rigged, ol a bark, and while theenfiHcrs kept theii eyes on her (the counterfeit's) light we stole out in tho dark togged out ai a full rigged ship. That was tho beaut) of the "Alabama." You could nevei tell what sho was. Sometimes elu was a brig, and at others a bark. "Somnies must have had a vuluabli collecuons,of broils?" "Well, yes. lie hnd more chronom eters than you put in the Union's bus incss office, and gold, silver, tools, fur nituro and other Bluff. He was not i bad fellow at all, but he did not nihil deatroying property much." tJl'll.tMNO UPON Till: SAND. "TW well to won, 'tw ell to wed, Kor ko the world dilution!) Finn1 myrtle crow, anil roue blew. Ami tiiorniiiK brought tin-mum. Hut Imvo n rnro, yo .voum and fair; l!o sure yo plitlio with truth; Yte rrituin thut.vour love will wear Hi'.vonil the ilnyn of youth. For if ye a'uv not heart to honrt, As wt'll ns hiinil to hnnil, You'll tint! you've played the"umisepart" Ami "built upon the hiiiuI.'' 'Tin well to save, 'tin well to hnve A cooilly store ot colli. Ami hold enough of Htcilln; stuff For charit.v in cold. Hut place not till your hope ami trust In what the deep mine lirini;s; We cannot live on yellow dust Unmixed with purer tilings. Ami he who pili'MUp wealth alone Will often have tti tttuml ISeV.do hi foffet-fhent, tir.d own 'Tin "built, upon thu Hand." 'Tis good to speak in kindly Rtiise, And soothe whute'er we can; Forspeech should bind the human mind, And love link man to man. Hut Htny not at the gentle words; Let deeds with language duull; The one who pities starv ing hiids Should sen tter crumbs as well. The merry that is warm and true Must lend a helping hand; For those who talk yet tail to do, Hut "build '..pontile sand." Ki.iza Cook. lnug:liter.s of Hoiiiiiizii Kings. 1 saw a newspaper paragraph tho other day about Miss Jennie Flood, the daughter of James C. Flood, one of the partnurs of tho Nevada Bank, of San Francisco, and ono of tho rich men of the Pacific coast. It was nn ex tract from a letter written from San Francisco by a lady correspondent of tho St. Louis 'Globe-Democrat who was out to the Sandwich Islands last summer, and who writes about society at Washington every winter. Sho said Miss Flood is a very plain and a very economical young woman, and intimated that it was a lucky thing that young Ulysses Grant did iut marry her. Sho is very stout, has a round, red face and combs her hair straight back from her fore head. When Patti was in San Fran cisco last winter Sho had a box every night, and sat up in full and somewhat painful view, and held u her hand always a big bouquet, but she was quite unmoved by tlio most rapturousst rains of tho great Adeli na, s voice and (lid not onco throw so much as a single rose from her big bouquet during the entire season. This piece of gossip about Miss Flood suggests some interesting facts about the daughters of that very remarkable group of men who suddenly made enormous fortunes on tho Pacific coast. A daughter of Mr. D. 0. Mills, for a long time President of the Bank of California, but now a resident of New York, married Mr. Whitelaw Beid. the editor and principal pro prietor of the Now ork Tribune. She has a distinguished husband and is most happily situated in life. Ex Gov. Leland "Stanford, who is in Washington as a senator this winter, had but ono child, and that wususon, who died a short time ftgo in Italy. He is now childless and will prob able die so. An associate of his in the Central Pacific railroad syndicate wherein ho made his money was Mark Hopkins, who went out to California from Massachusetts in 1818. Iledied six or seven years ago and left thirty or forty millions. He never had any children, but his widow, who got at least 20,000,000 from his estate, and who is ono of tho richest women in tho world, had adopted a son and afterwards married him to a relative of hers. Tho young people now live with her, and will, no doubt, inherit tho bulk of her fortune. She is now building a residence at Great Harring ton, Mass.. her old home, that will have cost when completed about $1, 000,000. As sho is 00 years old, this splendid palace will probably bo on joyed not so long and so much by her as by her adopted son and his wife. James C. Fair, w'.o, liko ex-Gov. Sanford, is a senator at Washington, hails from Nevada, but belongs to the Pacific coast, tribe of rich men. lie has no grown daughters, but a num ber of children yet young in years. He is divorced from ins wife, but had his children with him in Washington winter beforo last. John W. Mackay has no daughters of his own, but tho story of Miss Eve Mackay, his adopt ed daughter, is well known. Sho u counted t ie blest daughter of one of Hie blest California millionaires, and has made a match that is called illus trious because her husband is Princo Colonna. Two other daughters of these rich men of tho Pacific coast married foreigners. Ono was Miss Sharon, daughter of ox-Senator Sha ron, who recently died. She is now Lady Heskoth, of England, and is said to be most a lovely woman. It was after she left California to live abroad that her father became involv ed in tho noNonio Sarah Althea Hill scandal, which was, of course, a groat humiliation to her, but which she bore with becoming patience and for titude. She was not in California af ter that scandal fell upon tho public and did not see her father in his lastillness. Iledied aniostlonely nnd uumourned death, having been almost entirely deserted by both family and friends. Beforo his daughter's mar riage he was very fond of her, aud al lowed -her every luxury that money could provide. lie fitted up Belmont for hor. the most beautiful country neat in Ainorica, probably, west of the Alleghanies. Jlor afllancea came to San Francisco for her in tho finest private yacht that over entered tho Golden Gate, and as her friends bid her adieu they said if there was ever a clilid of fortune, sho was the ono. Little did sho dream that the sky would so soon be overcast with thu cloud of scandal that darkened the last days of her father. It is a fact not generally known, perhaps, that Lady Hesketh's husband first propos ed to ft daughter of Charles Crocker, who is as ridi as Stanford and who vmwlehjsmonoy thesamoway. Ho was rejected, mainly because Mr. Crocker, a very plain and blunt gentleman, ob jected. He told the ambitious young toreigner one bright morning that ho thought hisdungutcrcould fund a man in America entirely good enough for her. Perhnpsso. but shewent abroad after all. She fell in love withayoung, impecunious Englishman who went out to San Francisco, and, Schilling like went to serving ns conductor on n street car. He was thus employed when Miss Crocker inetandlovcdhim. They were married secretly and lived apart from the enraged millionaire, father for two years. At tho end of that time tho old gentleman gavo a great feast at his house, and among tho guests that wero thero was this ttndntiful daughter and her English husband. There was areconciliation. The daughter was taken to Europe by her father on a pleasure trip and the devoted husband was given a lu crative place in tho main office of tho Central Pacific railroad. Miss Sharon, Miss Crocker and Miss Mackay wero therefore tho three California million niregirls who married out of their own country. There was another marital incident in thu Crocker family, of California, that excited a good deal of comment .t tho time and that is not yet for gotten. Charles Crocker had a broth er, now deceased, who wns Lno.wn as Judge .1. B. Crocker, lie also mado a fortune out of the Central Pacific bo nanza, being chief counsel for theconi pany. lie left, a widow and daughter. Tho former is known to-day as one of tho most charitable women on the Pacific coast. She has endowed sov eral worthy institutions, among them being the Old Women's Home and tho Indu trial School of Sacramento. Hoi art gallery has been said to bo tho largest and most complete in the United States, and this she throws open to the public twice a week, charging a moderate admission fee, which gods to a charitable fund. Tho dnnghlor grqwup with every wish grat ified, and was a true typo of the free and independent young woman. Sho was in tho habit of breaking over a good many of theconvcnfional rules of society, but was fair as a lily and was never under tho suspicion of wrongdoing. Sho was fond of driving and other out-door sports, and could niako herself interesting without .be ing a bono of propriety. Sho wns at last, however, unfortunate in ono of her acquaintances, lie was a young man who had no visible means of sup port and was exposed by tho papers. She took it to heart and wont over to England and came back with a trous seau, expecting to marry the man whose acquaintance sho had formed over there, but there wan a lawyer in San Francisco, Porter Ashe, who had long admired her. and her eyo had no sooner fallen upon him thanshechang ed her mind about tho Englishman, and without her mother's knowledge sho took Mr. Asho and tho trousseau she had brought over from Worth and went to a minister to bo married. Thoy Btnrted on a. South ern Pacific train to go on a wed ing tour. It so happened that this was thu very train that caught fuo on tho Tahacliipo grade threo years ago, and ou which so many people mob a sudden and terrible death. Young Asho and his brido wro in a drawing room car, atid escaped unhurt through a window, and tho first intimation that tho young woman's mother had of her marriage or her whereabouts, for sho had married secretly, was from a list of names in tho paper of thosu who had been saved from tho awful calamity. "Ono of tho saved was "Mrs. Porter Ashe, nee Crocker." Mrs. Crocker immediately telt graphed both brido and bridegroom to conio homo, which they did, and tho family seems to havo been happy enough ever Hincc. Asho, however, gave over tho practice of law, and now makes himself quite easy in life. IIu has one of the best stables in California. There aro other daughters of rich Californians that aro eminently worth writing about. The founder of thu bank of California was Robert Tullant, who died soino years ago worth eight or ten millions. Ho served in tho early days with D. O. Mills and Will iam 0. Italston, but was not so much known in tho East as either of these. Ho left a widow and two daughters, and both tho latter Misses Flora and Jane are still unmarried. They are worth i full million ft piece, and while not beautiful, aro bright and interest ing and independent. Thoy are Bo hemian in their tastes, aud liko to stroll through tho country, and row a boat. Every summer they comoEast, and spen 1 tho season at soino watering-place, having generally their own exclusive cirdo of congenial friends. Their mother has a house at Oakland ns well as in San Francisco. Miss Lydia Woodworth, of San Francisco, is probably tho handsomest ,of all these daughtors of rich Californians. Her father was Samuel Wood worth, the son of tho poet who wrote tho famous "Old Oaken Bucket." The family went to California many years ago, anil Samuel Woodworth made a great deal of money. Ho died and left a rich widow, who married a Lieuten ant Donnison, of the United States Na vy. Two or thi.ee years after tho mar riage Dennisou went to tho Palace Ho tel and blow out his brains, having become mentally unbalanced. No blamo over attached to Mm. Deunison, who is a cultured and excellent lady. Thero was ono son born of thissccond marriage who is called Woodworth Dennisou. A son by tho first marriage is now a student at Harvard. Miss Lydia Woodworth is worth at least SftOO.OOO in hor own right, and is a most attractive yourg lady, but asto niarriago h understood to have inde pendent ideas. She, like tho Misses Tallant, and as for that nearly all the California girls, is devoted to out door sports, and rides a horso ani handles nn oar with equal skill. Slu con vault a fence with a certainty ofn young Indian and with perfect modes ty and innocence. In ban Francisco sho is at tlio head of tho topmoat so cial circle and is loved and respected by a very large number o! friwius. Sam Jones, the indefatigable revival ist, has insured his life for $5,000,
