A WAYWARD DAUGHTER.

A Father in Search of One of the Members of His Household.

At police headquarters yesterday was presented a scene which, luckily for the honor of humanity, is of rare and infrequent occurrence. The spectacle of an honored father in quest of an erring and sinful daughter is indeed rare, and the persistency with which a rash and strong-minded girl continued to disobey the paternal mandate in the present instance makes the lapse from virtue all the more humiliating. The father is a respectable and well-to-do farmer residing in Hennepin county. A few weeks since there appeared in the GLOBE an item to the effect of a young girl named Stella being sent to the House of the Good Shepherd in this city. It was also explained that in appearance the girl was a handsome brunette, with black eyes, regular features and symmetrical form, being the second daughter in a family of four bright, intelligent girls. Wayward of disposition, and tired of home restraints, she came to St. Paul, without the consent of her parents. The father came, rescued the truant, and after some difficulty persuaded her to enter the House of the Good Shepherd. A few days since the father received a letter stating in effect that the young lady had procured honorable employment, and concluding with a request for $20, with which to purchase an outfit suitable to the business in which she was about to enter.

The father was rejoiced at the new turn affairs had taken, and confiding the news to his family, it was decided that he should visit St. Paul, for the purpose of better ascertaining and supplying her necessities.

Upon arriving yesterday morning he very naturally directed his footsteps to the House of the Good Shepherd, expecting to meet his once wayward, but now dutiful daughter. Imagine his horror upon being informed that the young lady had left the institution several days ago, it being the impression that she had gone home.

Stricken with grief and almost crazed with doubt, the distressed father reported his misfortune to the police authorities, who imparted information which resolved the terrible nature of his apprehensions into most dread and intensified certainty. The police officials were sorry to say that they had heard of the girl in a most disreputable connection. She had indeed fallen, and from the estate of a pure and holy maidenhood, had become a defiled and nameless thing.

To the aged father the blow came with a force that was absolutely staggering, and the visible suffering undergone would have moistened the eye of the most impervious stoic.

After leaving the House of the Good Shepherd she took up her abode at an infamous bagnio, and after a sojourn of two or three days, it is claimed, decamped with several articles of clothing owned by a female boarder.