Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-11

ture, In all that powerful and nrofrcs-
siye island colony.
In tho year 1851 Mr.. Towgood up,nt
three months IN California and was 70
charmed with the country aud climate
that ho made extensive purchases OF
real essAte In aud about Fresno, buying
among other tracts ain So-aere rais,n
vineyard At Oiennder, nesr Fresno.
Ihis lie proceeded 10 cultivate, but he
soon felt the disadvantage at which
the nonresident owner Is placed, ana
tour years ago sent out his eldest son.
Arthur y Towgood. 10 take charge "
tbe rnnrh. TWO yonrs ago Alice Tow.
GOOD was threatened with lung trouble.
and after consultation with the bnst
specialists on The Island At was decided
best for the young Girl to Join her
brother In California She therefore
came to Fresno ana took up her resi-
dence with her brother. but later. find
ing that the Fresno climate did not
seem the best adapted to her. made
several trips 10 the southern portion OF
the state. dividing her time between
Ii and the warm Interior valley In
San Diego, having considerable liter
AIRY talent and remembering the quaint
Legends OF her Island home, of which
she had made a study. abe wrote nud
published IN local magaaine several
Maori legends which attracted conaid-
"fable attention.
Last November she came TO Santa
Barbara and made her home with
eatimRhle citizens, who became great
~ attached TO her and who are among
those who most deeply mourn her ear
ly death.
Tall. graceful. with dark hair. iu-
minous brown eyes and delicate
pink flush in her cheeks, a bright con-
versntionalist, ana with mental pow
nhpVp tim "a lhna rgkytrtn1
was u girl OF gay and happy tempcra-
ment She enjoyed life to the utmost
and entered with gest into the pleas
uros OF tho fair Southern city. Boat
Ing. riding, Dumping out-all manner
of social pleasures-shc enjoyed with
the vigor OF unspoiled youth. To
some she seemed to live only on the
surface OF things and for the tran
scisnt pleasure OF the moment, ana,
although those who knew her best
realized that beneath the careless
laugh and lively manner there existed
II sweet woman's forethought. and
gay young men who sought her So
clety often unexpectedly received
words OF gentle womanly counsel, the
general Impression that she gave was
that OF thoughtless, merry girl. Joy-
fully accepting the attention that her
benuty and her charming mnnnera
commanded. and few stepectcd the un-
selfish capacities Tor self-snorlnce and
devotion that Rhe nfterward doHcl-
oppd
Among the acaunintnnees that she
made In Santa Barbn was that OF Il
young girl OF sixteen, Margaret k.n,,
cnid. Miss Kinraid's mother had died
In her Infancy, aud her father man
who has hold important public Office
in Santa Barbara. and who was uni
versnily respected, was killed In
shoe manner last Anrll by q run,
nwas ) State street The orphaned
glrl continued TO rcRlde with n brother
alone IN n romantic spot on the com
mnnding heights back OF the Mission
md In the rem OF Arlington Heights,
whore they lived for many years, hnlf
mile from any nelghhor Late ~
the summer she tell sick with typhoid
fever Alice Towgood, who was fond
OF tho young glrl, realizing her lonely
and Isolated position and the difficulty
! of procuring proper care for her, vol
unteered 70 nurse her. II was moth
ing more than she had been doing all
/ her life, Cor IN her New Zealand home,
wherever there was sioltnCBH, she had
always been ready TO ofrcr her sor-
vices. She even had her peculiar
| Ideas IA TO the manner she should
carry into the slclsroon, She had Of
1 ten said TO her brother;
people have no right to 80 into n
| slctro1m with solemn faces. There IL
] no Christianity IN that When ! 30
near the sick | always think OF those
4 scrlpiural words: Rejoicel oh. ro-
jolce""
Her patient care aud unsclnsh devo-
tlon, and above all her cheering pres
/ ence helped the sick girl to conquer
the dlsaase, md she became GONZALES
cent Then the fever seized her un-
| Rrlilsh nur-e. For many weeks she lay
between life and death aud ut lnat
the glad news went abroad that she
was on the high road to recovery. Her
brother who had been summoned from
Fresno. went back. assured that all
dancer was past But even while her
friends were rejoicing over her recov-
cry. there came one OF those unex-
pccted rclapscs that 30 often attend
upon this dread disease. Before he
could be summoned, before any but
those nearest know that she was In
danger, she Ind passed away.
They laid her To rrrt In the Kncoid
lot bes'de the dead mother and near
the father OF the ornhnnc1 gli for
whom she hpd laid down her life, IL
will be month before the sad tidlnga
will reach the distant New Zealand
home whore voung slater. whose
nearest friend md counselor Alice has
aiwRvs been has been for many weeks
eagerly watching for the ship that
should brink her bpclt, for Alice was
10 hive started for home on the 18th
Of last month, md hnr return was only
deferred by her Illness Sad na thu
event IL. trauicnlly ne the blow will
fall upon waiting friends there. one
cannot hut recall the fnvorlte text NJ
the dying pirl; "Rsioice. oh, reiolcclN
For IN putting on the garments of
earth md In putting on Immortality
Alice TowFeod haa gone TO her mnkei
crowned with the glory OF noble
FLORA IIAtNfrs I,ouGuEAD,