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Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
Run the First Enp.ira

~Sheboygan, Wis, Feb. 15.-David S.
Jenkins, who ran the first steam loco
motive in Wisconsin, died Tuesday,
aged 60. He was well known in rail-
way circles throughout the state.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
Victims OF TIC Gala

Philadelphia. Feb. 15.-Charles Sum-
mers. a letter carrier, aged 60 years
and Joseph Evans, aged 60, were frozen
to death Tuesday.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
Robbed post onice s.fe

Toledo, O., Feb. 15.-The safe in the
West Toledo post office was blown with
dynamite Tuesday morning and the
contents taken. Twenty-Five dollars,
stamps and several registered packages
are missing.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17
piAced on the Ketfr.d ,i.t

Washington, Feb. 15.--Brig. Gen.
William Sinclair hus heea retired
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17

Grip sufferers should take Miles Nervine.
Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-02-17

presided
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father wished him TO become "A clergy
man, and the young man was -ducat ted
with that career in view, but escaped il
by taking the professOrship of mathematics
in the Royal College at Mauritius. that
strange island. washed by the Indian
ocean on which the scene of Pierra's IA
mouse story, Paul and Virginia, is laid.
Besant met Rice in 1873 and they worked
together nearly ten years. They made an
admirable team but the novels written
by Besant since Rice's death have shown
no falling off in interest.
Hampstead, suburb of London. is Wal
ter Besant's abiding place. There he has
an ideal home and there his house shelters
a collection of books second To- few pri-
vate libraries in all London. The house
is an unassuming semi-detached villa. The
authors study is on the ground floor and
opens upon a long and pleasant garden.
His collection of books is carefully class:-
fed one OF the shelves being devoted to vol
umes treating of eighteenth century top
les; another to masterpieces OF French lit
erature and critical works thereon: a third
to local guide books and histories of Lon
don, ard on.
But, Notwithstanding its woTkshop-like
appearance, Sir Walters study is furnish
ed with due regard for the workers COM
Sir Walter is the head and front of the
Incorporated Society of Authors, which has
no duplicate in America. and he dcvotes
two days a week to its affairs az its offices
in Lincoln'S Inn. Next to Andrew Lang
he is theAmost voluminous British writer
of today. He has visited the United States
twice, the second time in 1S3. He then
declared himself especially impressed by
the cities of Chicago and Buffalo.
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tive woods in its decoration was to suggest
every section Of the country. All the ma
teral was to be contributed and the labor
was to be done in the railroad shops. This
scheme was SO attractive that presently it
expanded into a plan for an entire train
for the Presidents use, to be an appanage
of the executive office, not Mr.. Mckinley's
private property. The elaborated plan pro-
Vded for a baggage car to contain dyna-
mo for heating and lighting the other cas-,
sleeping coach for the Presidents secre-
tary and clerks, and a special car for the
President and his guests. AS planned, The
Presidents was to be 50 feet nche
long, or 15i2 feet longer than Queen Vic
tor!a' s; while its width was to be 9 feet s
lnches AT one end was to be the Kitchen
and quarters for cook and porter. salon
In the middle of the car, two bed rooms, a
bath room and an observation room were
also in the plans.
Nothing has been done toward building
this train, and the project seems to have
lallen through. So the President in his
outings will use other persons cars, as
most Oh MS predecessors have done.
Paying for the Journey.
sleeping car companies put at the dis
posal of the President their finest Aars,
and railroad officers tender the use of their
private coaches because as they go about
the country they areba peripatetic adver-
tisement for railroad and sleeping car COM
panies; and either one would be very glad,
II II were necessary, to pay something for
the privilege of carrying the chief magis-
trate. r. II
only one railroad man Aisagrees with
this proposition so far asnis known. He
was the general passengerIagent of a line
running east from 81. Louis when Presi-
dent Harrison visited that city. The rail-
ROAD man who was managing the trips was
ailled with the same interests as the gen.
eral passenger agent, Though on a different
line. He declined determination of another
road to take the Presidents train east,
through loyalty to his own people. And
then the general passenger agent made
MIN pay the full frst-class, rate for haul
ing the Presidents special. 1t was repaid
to MN leter-and that is about as near as
President of the United States has come
to paying fare in long time
Mr.. Cleveland Paid.
When President Cleveland made his first
trip west he paid fare for himself and all
the members Of his party. The interstate
commerce law had just gone into effect
and he was afraid of being criticised for
violating it. But the FIVE or six first-class
tickets which his private secretary bought
did not pay for the fine special train that
he used.
Hauling the Presidents special is an ex-
pensive undertaking. On most roads it
means side-tracking all other business for
the time. One of the big coal railroads
once put every freight car on side tracks
all night because the President was going
over the line. Another road sidetracked
hundreds OF cars Of grain and live stock
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and left the track clear between the be-
ginning and end of the Presidents journey
AS additional precaution, pilot en-
CINE is sent ahead of the Presidents train
to see that the track is safe.
Expert Work.
To arrange the schedules for a presiden-
tial journey is no small undertaking. Mr..
George w. Boyd, assistant general passen-
ger agent of the Pennsylvania road. has
done more of this than any other railroad
man. and he could arrange to take the
President safely around the world on forty
eight hours notice When the President
wants to make a long journey he usually
calls Mr.. Boyd in for consultation as an
expert. Mr.. Boyd looks up the regular
schedules of all the roads to be covered
and calculates the running time of their
trains. He has to balance everything with
great nicely so not to bring the Presl-
dent to a big city at in the morning or
land him at a terminal without provision
for continuing the journey on some other
line. When he has mapped out the trips
he telegraphs the officials of all the rail-
roads to ask if they can pick the Presi-
den'S train up at this point at that time
and take it through to the other station at
such an hour. This schedule includes all
the important stops, with an allowance OF
five or ten minutes for each daylight sta
ton on the route. When the railroads
agree to the schedule it is finally delivered
to the President.
You see the President personally has
very little voice in the matter. He must
pass through certain places en- route to his
destination. Public sentiment demands that
he stop for five minutes here and for a
half hour there. Between these stops the
speed capacity of the railroad must be con-
sidered, and the President seldom travels
at the highest rate. for fear Of accident.
AT the end of the route the President has
to go through a program of speechmaking
and dining and sightseeing arranged for
him by the local committee.
President Harrison and President Cleve-
land always took newspaper correspond
ents with them on their journeys. Presi-
dent Mckinley SO far has generally refused
to do so, and his secretaries have made up
report of the incidents of the trips to be
given to the press, with copies of the
Presidents speeches at the large cities
where the Presidents train stops The
speeches are not prepared, except for i'm
portant occasions. The President has his
own stenographer take note of what he
says in his impromptu speeches. and then
carefully reviSeS the manuscript All this
business is handled for him by his pri-
Vate secretary, George b. Cortelyou, who
always accompanies him.
The President chooses the members of
his party. With the exception of the train
crew, every man woman aboard is his
guest. One feature of the expense of the
Journey the President usually pays for. 1t
is the provisioning of his car. 1t is no small
part of the cost of trip, for in much of
the sparsely settled western country
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The President of the United States
Lives in Luxury.
how THE ARRANGEMENTS ARE MADE
Precautions Taken to Insure the
Safety Of the Train.
PREPARING THE ITINERARY

Written for The Evening Star.
George Washington was the original trav-
cling President and in his day it was no
try. He set an example for his successors
by trying to become acquainted with the
country and it's people between the ses-
sions of Congress. Two summers he spent
in his private carriage going into New Eng
land and through the south to achieve this
object.
1t is only in recent years that presiden-
tial journeying has been made spectacular.
The early Presidents could travel about
without being mobbed. Jackson and Toy
lor walked the streets of Washington and
stopped to chat with a friend like any other
citizen, and when they travelled @ one
thought of standing gazing at them or of
forcing himself upon them for a hand
shake. Then the President of the United
States could travel as simply and as I'M
ostentatiously as he pleased. Now he goes
in special train and the band at every
crossroads station plays Hail to the
Chief" horribly
There was only one President who had a
private car. That was Lincoln, the man
above all others who was simple in his
tastes. 1t was not a very fine affair. To
day it would not be used for second-c.ass
traffic. All the other Presidents have trav-
eled in private cars offered for their use
by railroad companies or sleeping car COM
panies.
Planned Special Car.
Just after the election of President Nc
kinley some railroad men got together and
planned special car for the President
which was to be finer than that of Queen
Victoria's 1t was 10 be built throughout
of native products and the blending of ma
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SIR WALTER BESANT.
Ihe DISTINGUISHED EngIisI, yoyaI;s
and the Marked Success of Igis ~,

me DISTINGUISHED EnpIisb No.,:.
and the Marked Success of His NoyaI.
10 be made knight of the realm and
ever thereafter to see Sir" written hefore
ms name, as befeu Walter Besant. the noy-
ehst' on the queens birthday in 1898
would be pleasing to any Briton. as If nm
uoupted!y was to Besant. Yet in his eyes
tnat honor was of far less account than
the realization in stone and mortar some
time previously of the peoples palace an
institution which first lived in his imapi-
Hi-tion, and was described in his book IAN
sorts and Conditions of Men"
Ihougn not considered his most rneritor-
louS work by the critics this is far and
away the pest known of BeSants writings
III was the first production Of his pen after
the virtual dissolution of his writing mart
nerShp with James Rice. Its plot and
scope were discussed and approved nv
Rlce, but he fell i'll before il was begun
ana died before it was finished In the
story the peoples palace was the idea of a
woman who had learned much about the
Ire OF London'S working folk by dwelling
among them for a time, during which she
discovered one of their greatest lacks TO
be the means of healthful amusement The
institution she devised to supply this lack
was successful in Besants fiction, and so
has been IFS duplicate in real life. 1t was
opened in person by Queen Victoria more
than twelve years ago, and similar insti-
tutionS have since been established in sew
eral CT the worlds cities, including some
in America.
Walter Besant is now sixty-one. His
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habilitated and are occupied; the most of
them are in ruins and cannot be put to
such use; others have been restored" and
exist now as specimens of a composite
architecture representing the old style and
the new.
Such n mission is that of San Gabriel,
which was erected the same year, III, as
San Antonio but few months later. The
main walls and the quaint belfry tower
are still intact, and somewhat as the origi
nal designers may have intended them, but
the roof is covered with shingles instead of
tiles, and thus presents rather incongru-
Gus appearance. San Gabriel, being within
a few miles of Los Angeles, is one of the
show missions of the collection, and owing
to the donations of visitors has been able
to keep up an appearance of thrift.
Old San Fernando.
To the north of Los Angeles, and near
the railroad, lies one of the finest of the
missions, that of San Fernando, founded
in 1897. A long time abandoned, the main
structure has of late served a farm
storehouse, and the long corridor, which is
yet intact, is numbered with agricultural
machinery and piled high with sacks OF
grain. There is, in fact, more of an agrl-
cultural and pastoral atmosphere about San
Fernando than about any other, for it oc-
cupies the center of a vast estate, which
was once irrigated by means of works
which still exist though unused.
The great gardens and olive orchards
may yet be traced, some remains of both
having been preserved, and two large
palms indicate the grand avenue which
once led to the mission buildings. A de-
scription of this mission exists. in a rare
book called Life in the Far West, writ
ten fifty years ago, which brings before
us the delightful life led by the padres be-
fore they were so rudely disturbed by los
Americanos." The mission OF San Fernan-
do is situated a small river called Las
Animas. The convent is built at the neck
of large plain, at the point of influx of
the stream from the broken spurs OF the
Sierras. The savanna is covered with luxu-
RANT grass, kept down, however, by the
countless herds of cattle which pasture it.
The banks of the creek are covered with
a lofty growth of oak and poplar, which
near the mission have been considerably
thinned for the purpose Of affordng fuel
anu building material for the increasing
settlement. The convent stands in the
midst of grove of fruit trees. its rude
tower and cross peeping above them and
contrasting picturesquely with the Wild
ness of the surrounding scenery. Gardens
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Padre Junipero discovered the site. and
II that worthy man found the heat as OPP
pfeSSlFe as | cid. he was a saint indeed
not 10 mention it. The thermometer at the
motel where l took conveyance registered
It's degrees in the shade. and even the ma
tVes allowed themselves to speak of it
not dfsparagingly, but with pride, as an
instance of what California could do when
she tried. 1t was their proud boast that
IN no other section of the union. proba bly,
could man endure such a temperature and
1--we.
1t seemed rather ridiculous then that nv
driver should sip a gun and a stack of
loaded shells into the buggy with the in
iofH2Iion that the open season for doves
began that day, and he was going to be
beforehand | have shot many sorts of
game. in hot wea Their as well as cold. but
never with the mercury up to the century
mark.
But the wisdom of my Jehu was made
manifest as the shades of evening fell and
We gained the oak openings interspersed
with grain fields, for the doves were in
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Fishing in SnOyvbaHks,
From the New York Sun.


A snow avalanche with very unusual re-
suits is reported from Norway. 1t gave the
people of Christiania something to talk
about fer a week. The unique phenomenon
occurred among the low mountains back of
the capital on March 13. There had been
an extraordinary fall of snow and then
came big thaw, which melted a great deal
of the ice in the little Lilledal river. A
very large number of fish had their home in
this stream, and what happened to them is
the unusual feature of this avalanche
In the night large mass of snow on the
nils on one side of the stream Slipped from
the slopes and glided with great velocity
down into the river. The face of the ava
lanche was about a mile in length, and for
that distance it slid into the river, not
sharing the river bed with the water, but
Violently ejecting the stream and the fish
living in it.
The force of that conclusion must have
been very great, for the water and fish were
hurled hundreds of feet. Next morning the
people were very much surprised to find,
high on the slopes of the nils bordering
the other side of the valley great number
OF fish scattered over the snow. For some
Gays there was most unusual sort OF fish
ing in progress. Men, women and children
We're foundering about in the snow gather
ing the fish in baskets, and the people liy-
ing along the valley had all the fish they
could eat without batting a hook
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ed through a fInnel-shaped fume upon a
primitive turbine wheel sunken in a nit
Both mill and wheel Were the invention of an
uneducated Indian, who obtained his ideas
II Is said. from observing the balance wheel
OF a water me m1iistones are gone the
pit is nearly filed with sand but only a
Few years ago the wheel would revolve and
turn the stones, which We're in small
Structure of masonwork above and connect
eu ny shaft. still standing erect. A sad
renlnCer OF the once porulous mission in
IT'S prime is the cemetery near inclosed
with-n broken wall of adobe. There are
thousands buried there so tradition states
more dead Indians. in fact than there are
hVe Cnes a.ohg the whole stretch of Goa st
al the present time. 1t might be said also
that there are more dead Spanards in Cal
lorna today than there are living sons of
Spain within its confines
As They Are Today.
The question has often been asked: What
good purpose can these old missions serve
today? This might be variously answered:
some of them have been in q measure re-
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and orchards lie Immediately in front of
the pudding ana a vineyard stretches away
to the upland ridge Of the valley The huts
OF the Indians are scattered here and there,
built of stone and adobe. sometimes thatch-
ed with flags and houghs, but comfortable
enough
As 1t Used to BE.
The convent itself is a substantial build
ing. of the style of architecture characrerts
tic of monastic edifices throughout the
world Loopholes peer from its plasIered
walls, and on a fiat portion of the roof n
! c"mically mounted 'zingal," or wall-piece
carrying two-pound ball, threatens as
saliahts IN time OF war. At one end of tht,
obiong building a rough irregular arch of
sunburnt bricks is surmounted by a rude
cross. under which hangs a small Out deem
toned bell, the wonder of the Indian poems
ana highly vencrated by the "frayles'' them
selves, who received ii as a present from A
certain venerable archbishop of old Spain
ana who, while regarding it with reveren-
tia! awe, tells wondrous tales of its adven-
lures on the road to its present abiding
place.
OF late years the number of the canon
zeal inmates has been much reduced there
being but four priests now to do the duties
OF the eleven who formerly inhabited the
convent, Fray Augustine, a Capuchin of
due capacity of paunch being at the head
of the holy quartet. Augustin is the con-
Ventual name of the reverend father who
fails not to impress upon such casual visitors
to the ultima thule as he deems likely to
appreciate the information that he might
add the sonorous appellation of Ignacio Sa-
banal-Morales y Fuentes, his family being
of the best blood of old CASTLE, and known
there since the days of the great Cam
peador, etc.
An Easy Lot in Life.
Nevertheless, his lot is no bad one with
plenty of the latest meat to eat whether Of
beef or venison, of bear or mountain NUT
ton, with good wine and brandy, of home
make and plenty of it; fruit of all climes
in great abundance; wheaton or corn bread
to suit his palate; a tractable flock of ma
tives to guide, and assisted in the task by
three brother shepherds; far from the strife
of politics or party; secure from hostile at
tack-not quite, by the way-and eating
drinking and sleeping away his time one
would imagine that Fray Augustine Igna-
clio Sabanal-M orales y Fuentas had little to
trouble him. and no cause to regret even the
vega of Castilian Ebro. held by his family
since the days of Ell CaElpeador.
There Is no doubt that the life led by the
fTayles well-nigh idyllic. and it seems
pity that they should have been so rough
ly turned adrift. first by the MeXicans and
then by the incoming Americans. But they
are gone now their converts in ruins, their
vast fields waste and their Indians dis
persed. F. A. ODER.
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focks. and the temperature fell as sudden
~ as the birds before our gun. There We're
not only doves IN abundance, but rabbits
tcottOn-tGi.s and jacks. besides large
hocks of quail: so that the monotony of the
drive was broken by some little sidetrips
into the fields after game. 1t was then
close season for the quail, but when We
reached the little hamlet of JOlon, covered
with dust and eeking with perspiration,
and found shelter for the night with Mr.
Dutton. an olG-timer. We had quite a bunch
of doves and rabbits TO show for our eff
forts.
Exploring the Rivers.
Early the Text morning we We're off for
the mission, arriving there before the heat
became oppressive. and spent the day ex-
ploring its ruins. A few years ago the roof
Of the church fell in, and as the mission
had not attracted the attention of the
restoration cranks," it has not been rem
dered commonplace. With the earthen tiles
still covering in patches the ancient corri-
doris whore the fathers used to take their
constitutionals. great beams falling slant
wise across the nave of the church. and an
aGaTe To give a tropical aspect to the ruin
rare old San Antonio seemed rather to
pertain to Spain or Mexico than to the
United States
1t is sixteen years since the last padre
was here, the Rev. Father Ambris. d Mex
lean Indian from the district of Lake Cha
I;ala. He was a good old man, a lover of
flowers, which he kept in great pots all
about. TIE delightful garden, attractive
even IN its decay, in which are to be found
pOmC granates from Spain peaches and
pears and white Castiian roses. was always
full of his bee hives and blooming with the
flowers he so tenderly cherished. He was
the very last of the mission fathers and
when he died, in 1883, the Indians ceased to
come here.
The nearest Indian settlement is at Mil
pitas. about fourteen miles away, at the
base of the Santa Lucia mountains. They
ing more upon the wild acorns they gather
and store, like the wnodpeckers, than upon
the griSt from their aboriginal mill turned
by a jack.
When, d few years ago. a celebration was
held here but three four of the old mis-
SION Indians were alive and present
Among them was old squaw who had
never been off the reservation in her life
and who was nearly a hundred years Old.
She was cared for tenderly and fed with
ice cream. among other deica cies but in
sisted on blowing upon it to cool it, saying
1t was hot.
Educated the Indians.
AS in all the other missions the Indians
We're taught all manner of trades, and some
of them became very expert as builders
masons. carpenters and even machinists.
In front of the main building al one side
are the ruins of the grist mill, where the
water from the irrigation ditch was conduct