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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-26

u o. GALL,
| Il, ATTORNEY T-LAW and LAND AG'T
| Hilsboro, Hill County Texas.
Specialties oI collections and land busine y
generally Refer to business men Of alias ans
banks Of Hilsboro, Texas.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27
NOVEMBER 81. 1884.

you working idea of what you are after.
When you have covered the whole canvas
with broad colors, you have finished the
easiest part of your work. The petty but
all-important details must be gone through
with.
"My plan is always to fix in my mind
some salient point, and having brought this
out in the exact shade and breadth Of color
ing required to fix that point in just the po-
sition desire, 1 begin on the next most i'm
portant point. So gradually work from the
most important point down. Afterthe great
effects have been portrayed to your satisfac-
You find little detail here and a small
point there that must be touched up and
toned down. The harder you work the
more you have to do, and itsometimeS seems
as if the work were almost interminable.
You must work for light and shade, and pro
portion in everything, and very often tint
may not be the one you want. Then you
have got to try again. Sometimes l have
been forced to try dozen times on one sim
gle little detail before l got anything like
satisfaction. Even then the fault against
which have to contend is harshnesS and
coldneSs.
ga painters genius is very often liable to
run him into difficulties. n certain amount
of innate talent may be good enough, but
hard work is better. Reubens hada fault OF
always making his women too bulky
His idea of beauty was large figure,
and in that he was superb, but nearly
every one Of Reubens' figures are the same.
Again, almost every one of the great mas
ters was lacking in finish of some detail.
Place them in the nineteenth century and
the chances are that they would be torn to
pieces by critics. One Of the greatest troub-
les of painter is certain-often unknown
but always eXistent-tendency to eXaggerate
and too highly embellish one part of pic
ture at the expense Of others. A sculptor
can 60 around his marble, proportion each
part by measurement, and come to mathe-
matical eXactitude, but painter cannot.
"An artist may be misled by his eye or
his appreciation, but from his standpoint
may be perfectly correct. A connoisseur
sees the work, and without understanding
the artists motive, finds fault. 1t is much
easier to blame than to correct. One thing
1 want to impress on you is ths-be not dis
couraged by failure. Rub out bad points,
and try and try again until you get them
exact. All great artists have built up fame
on failures. How long does it take me to
paint picture? Well, that depends. Some
work take hold upon when the inclination
seized me exactly, and | will finish neat
piece in few hours. Other studies occupy
me week or a month before feel satisfied
to trust them to public criticism. 1t usual
ly takes me day of good, hard work to paint
the general effects, and a week to finish the
details ready for glaZing."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27
HOW PICTURES ARE PAINTED.

"NOw," said the artist to the reporter, in
answer to query how to paint pictures,
"to start at the very beginning you must
have a canvas and a pine frame. These
form the groundwork of the picture. The
canvas overlaps the frame, and is drawn
taut and tackled down perfectly smooth.
For fear lest the frame should give some
what, you had better have about eight thin
pieces of wood, called keys, to fit into the
frame and thus keep the canvas always
tightly stretched. Now you must have a
number of fine camels' hair brushes of as
sorted sizes and with long wooden handles
a palette, as we call the flat glazed board
with thumbhole and notch for the hand
10 rest easily and retain the brushes. Next,
and most important of all, you want some
coors. Now you have all the materials
any well regulated painter needs, except
an easel or frame on which to place your
stretched canvas at the height most conven-
lent to you.
"Well, now, let's begin work. Take your
charcoal pencil and on the white surface OF
the canvas trace out as carefully as you can
the design which you intend to paint, pre-
serving the distances by making the lines
heavy or light, as you wish an object to APP
pear in the foreground or rear. OF course,
what is known as aerial perspective cannot
be delineated SO well, for your paints and
their varying shades are needed to tx
these. Now, your lines are in, and you see
what you are going to work at. Don't be
afraid to rub out faulty point and fix it
over again You may have to work for Il
day or more ut the charcoal sketch, but it's
better to have the groundwork perfect than
to attempt to correct errors when you lay
in the paints. Now take your paints and
squeeze out of the little cases some cOlOrs
which will blend in 4 faint neutral tint.
Mix these on your palette and work III your
outlines in these neutral tints. Now use
your first colors, looking mainly to the
masses Of light and shade, with Il general
perception of tints. Don't hurry, above
all things. Now get back from your picture
and examine the general effect. Ten TO
one you'll find something wrong, some line
out of place, or some massng that does not
suit. Take your brush and correct it care
fully, going over the bad place a dozen
times, if need be.
"Well, now you have your picture pretty
well under way. So far, all Of US work
about alike. At this point the difference
begins. Some artists, having laid in the
groundwork, begin painting the tar-of ob-
iects first, and gradually work down to the
front. OF course you understand that L
am speaking of the perspective, and by the
far-Off objects mean those which should ap-
pear dim and indistinct. You follow my
plan and let's see what the result will be.
We will first perfect our light and shade.
This brings relief in the picture, and gives
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27
it's branches scraped the roof on windy

it's branches scraped the roof on windy
March days.
1t was hazardous thing to do for any one
who was not swift Of limb and accurate OF
eve; but jamie alighted, like cat in the
fork of the tree, climbed lightly down until
she reached it's lower bough, and thence
leaped breathlessly to the ground, springing
swiftly across the meadows toward Ralph
Parsons carpepter-shop.
eff he is not there" she thought, ''some
of his men will be-"
"Janie, what is it 2"
Ralph Parsons himself rose up out of the
green hedges, directly across her path.
81 was drinking at the Ice-Cold Spring"
he said, "when 1 heard your footsteps.
What is it?"
She told him as we'll as she could for eX-
citement and breathlessness.
Gomez she cried. "oh, do make
He paused only to blow small willow
whistle which hung on his steel watch
guard.
"That will bring my workmen," he said.
"It's a signal we have agreed upon, among
ourselves, for just such an emergency as
this. You and Jones, jamie, shall go around
watch the front, and I'll go up and settle
the fellows"
jamie glanced with shy admiration into
his set, determined face. After all, it was
something to be man.
The little campaign was skillfully con-
Quoted. The two thieves were taken red
handed, the diamond-rings, were delivered
into jamie Barr's keeping, and the ruffians
were dragged to the nearest Jail.
"Oh, Ralph!" said jamie, when all the
little crowd was gone, chow can l ever
thank you?"
He smiled.
"By letting me put on those shingles for
you," said he.
81 can'tw said jamie, laughing and blush.
ing. ''They are put on already. But III
promise you my next job of carpenterlng.,"
"Will you let me be your carpenter al
ways, JAMIE" he asked. "Will you promise
one day to be my wife,"
The words had risen almost involuntarily
to his lips as he held her hand in his-the
words he had so longed, yet dreaded, to
speak.
And jamie hung her head and colored
like carnation, and said 'she would see."
And Ralph Parsons knew that he had
won the day.
Mrs. Barr and the boarder were alike
amazed when they returned home.
"Our jamie to circumvent gang OF burg
lars! J" said the proud mother.
''To save my three diamond rings?" hys-
terically cried Mrs. Lepell.
"But that isn't all l have done, mother"
said jamie, laughing. 81 have sshingled the
roof And-I have promised to marry
Ralph Parsons next spring. Upon the
whole, think it has been rather an event
full day, mother, don't you:"
And Mrs. Barr did not quite know what
to answer.-Heien Forest Grares.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27

PERSONALITY IN HANDWRITlNG.-Per-
sons writing naturally doso without thought
regarding the peculiar construction OF their
writing. The hand operates the pen as it
were automatically through the sheer force
of habit, by which all the innumerable per-
sonalities are unconsciously impaired to
writing. Learners and forgers think re-
specting their writing, and hence, the more
stiff and formal style of their work; there
is wanting the easy, graceful flow apparent
in thoughtless or habitual writing. Lines
show more of nervousness and hesitancy
while the whole construction of the writing
is more exact and formal; and, besides,
every different handwriting abounds in
wellnigh numberless habitual peculiarities,
of which the writer himself is unconscious,
and cannot, therefore, avoid. Thus, two
other insurmountable difficulties are placed
in the way of the forger: First, to observe
and initiate all the characteristics of the
writing he would simulate; and, second, to
note and avoid all the habitual character
istics of his own hand. Habit in writing
becomes so fixed and arbitrary (not to men
ton the great artistic skill required to eX-
actly initiate an Impractical handy, that wy
do not conceive it to be possible for any oye
to simulate the writing of another, or t3so
dissemble his own writing, in any consNer-
able quantity, as to defy detection Though
a really skilled expert eXaminatioY-
COlntinQ- Room.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27


THE OIL-SPOT.-AbOut ten miles to the
south of the Sabine River, which forms the
boundary between Texas and Louisiana,
and about mile from the shore, there eX-
lists a natural phenomenon known to sailors
as "The Oil-Spot." In fine weather there
is nothing remarkable to attract the atten-
ton of a stranger; but when an angry gale
from the northeast sweeps the ocean and
great crested waves rise in battle array,
this charming natural harbor reveals itself.
No visible boundary divides it from the
tempeStuOus ocean around, but within a
space of two miles in length the 'caters re-
main perfectly caine, their only change be-
ing that they become turbid and red, as
though the oil bearing mud were stirred up
from below. A broad belt of white foam
and towering breakers mark where the
mighty waves, rolling shoreward in their
might, with all the force gathered in an
unbroken sweep Of 700 miles across the
Gulf, are suddenly arrested and sink down,
conquered and powerless, as soon as they
come within the mysterious Influence OF
the gentlest of rulers.
Unfortunately this peaceful haven is very
shallow; its depth is variOusly stated at
twelve and eighteen feet, so that only
vessels Of light burden can here take shelter.
But to these, blessed, indeed, is the change
of passing suddenly from the wild tossing
Of the outer ocean to the wonderful calm of
this strange harbor, where the weary crew
may rest as securely as though within an
encompassing coral reef. Indeed, the stran,
ger approaching this wall of breakers would
naturally assume it to be caused by a dam
gerous reef, and would, as amatter of course,
seek safety by steering away from if.
We believe that no scientific eXamina-
ton of this so-called Oil Spot has yet been
made. Sailors who have here found refuge
state that the bottom is of a soft, soapy
mud, into which they can easily push Il
pole to a considerable depth-a mud which,
when applied to deck-scrubbing, is found
to be exceedingly cleansing. I"p"ttT Sci
ence monthly.
In MENICO.--Minng in Mexico, until
Americans or other outsiders came, was car
ried on in the most primitive fashion. n
recent traveller says that all hosting was
done on the backs of the native miners.
The shafts are almost perpendicular, with
notched poles set zigzag, their lower ends
resting on shelves cut in the rock. The
notches are barely large enough to let the
foot i'm, with the toes Of the shoes cut away.
With POO pounds or more of ore in Il sack
fastened upon their backs by Il strap that
also passes over the forehead, men toiled up
these poles from mines hundreds Of feet
deep, depending upon the precarious clutch
of foot and hand in these notches. y mo-
ment's dizziness or a failure to reach the
notch with hands or feet would be certain
death. Even SO simple a contrivance as a
hand windlass amazed them, and MeXicans
came long distances to see one, set up by a
miner from California. 1t was some time
before any one dared to use it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27

The Defeated Candidate is Serenaded and Makes
az Address-He Is more Tenomoms than He ,ras
during the Days Of Reconsfrnction-IIe says thu
Solid South VIII Grad"aly Usnrp the Political
TOIrcr of the NOrth
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27

Bay~ Keenness in man is not always to be
taken as a sign of capacity, for it is generally
observed most in those who are selfish and
overreaching; and his keenness generally
ends in that kind of penetration into other
peoples interests which will tend to benefit
his own.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-11-27

different. DR.. Shuchburg first introduced
the song into this country in 1855, and this
was also in contempt of the ragged colonial
soldiers At Concord and Lexington, the
British, when advancing to fight, bravely
were were defeated the Yankees, as they watched
their retreat, struck up "Yankee Doodle."-
"Ctup," in the Cleveland Leader.
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01

William Fl. Vanderbilt hopes the presi
Dental race will be close, and says he himself
may not vote at all.
Elk Governor Oa lesby was at Rochelle
Friday and Naperville Saturday, He wa!
listened to at 10th places by large audiences
A large Republican meeting at Valparaiso
Ind, was addressed, Friday, by Hon. Will
lam H. Calkins. There was speaking from
two stands.
Secretary Post, of the Democratic con.
gressional committee, says there will be no
fusion between his parry and the Butler men
in Pennsylvania.
Butler men of the Thirteenth Indiana dis.
trict have nominated d. K. Harris, OF
Michigan City, for the long congressional
term and B. j. Shively, of South Bend, fol
the short one.
Hon. Carter Harrison addressed as.
semblages at Havana and Jacksonville, Ills.
Friday. There were large crowds at both
places. Congressman Springer was at the
latter meeting.
At a Tammany meeting Friday night
Thomas F. Grady's resignation was received
and accepted. Reports were heard from all
the districts, which declared perfect harmony
existed, except in the Twelfth, where an Gin
vestigation" is in progress.
Milwaukee is preparing for two of the
greatest efforts of her life in the way of
political demonstrations. The Democrats
proposed to jollify Oct 8 and the Republi7
cans on the 4th, but the former are now said
to Big discussing change in their date to the
same night as the Republicans.
The national council of the American ALI
anse has issued an order declaring William
L. Ellsworth, of Pennsylvania and Charles
H, Waterman, of New York, the candidates
of that party for presidentand vice president
respectively, and ordering state councils to
prepare electoral tickets accordingly.
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
EPIDEMIC OF FLAMES.
Cleveland Again Suffers from the
Incendiary's Torch.
Furious Flames Havage the Lumber
Flats and work Immense Dew.
astatiOn-Guests Driven from
u Burning Hotel.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 27.--What prom
Uses to be the greatest fire Cleveland has yet
had is raging in the lumber flats. The i'm
mense buildings of the Cleveland
Saw-Mill and Lumber company are ablaze,
and property, railroad and otherwise, is ig-
hitting In every direction. The whole fire
department is present and frantic appeals
for help have been sent in all directions as
usual The cause is unknown, but in
cendiarism suspected. The excitement is in
tense.
LATER The fire is sweeping everything
before it, and unless there is q change of wind
the disaster will be terrible. Already u space
over 500 feet square is roaring furnace,
mills, lumber piles and railroad cars going
like powder. The flames are spreading toward
and close upon the immense trestle-work of
the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio rail-
road, which is q mile in length,
and it will probably go. This fire is just over
an embankment from the great fire of the
21st, and thousands of spectators and visit
ors to the Blaine meeting fill every available
foot Of space within mile of the scene The
fire department is badly crippled and hun
dreds OF volunteers are engaged in tearing
down lumber piles and saving property.
STILL LATER.-The confagration is right
among the tracks and trestles of the New
York, Pennsylvania & Ohio railroad and
-Plate.and Connoton Valley roads, and
bounded on one side by bend of the Cuya-
hega river If the wind changes the fire
can be driven to this bend in the river and
got under control, Over 100000 feet of
lumber and the Connoton Valley railroad
trestle are now q roaring furnace, but the
firemen are making great fight toward thu
river
The LATEsT.-Reports from the scene of
the confagration say that it is now under
control
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
RAILWAY NEWS NOTES,
The Chicago md MISUNDERSTANDING
York Central Directors.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29-The directors of
the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad COM
pany, after their adjournment Saturday
afternoon, issued the following: "The
only business of the board of
any interest was the resigna-
ton of Messrs Jay Gould, Sid
ney Dillon and j. B. Redfeld, and the cleo
ton in their places of W. K. Vanderbilt,
Horace Williams and D. P. Kimball, of
Boston. The changes are Of no significance
as to the friendly relations between the com
pany and parties resigning. Messrs Kimbal
and Williams represent the interests of the
Blair roads.
New YORK, Sept. 29.-In regard to the
New York Central debenture bond issue, it
is stated that j. S. Morgan & Co. have taken
S6,500,O00 of the bonds. The directors of the
road, at a special meeting held at the Grand
Central depot Thursday, authorized the is
suing of SIS, 900 debenture bonds, to run
twenty years from Sept. 1, 1884, with inter-
est at the rate of per cent,
PORTLAND, Ore, Sept 29-In the case of
Nelson Bennett against the Northern Pacific
Express company the jury rendered verdict
in favor of the plaintiff in the sum of S19,-
500. Bennett is big railroad contractor.
Some time ago he sent the sum of $4,000
from Portland by the Northern Pacific ex-
press to Ainsworth, Washington territory.
The package arrived at its destination safely,
but before it was delivered into the hands of
Bennett it was stolen from the Office.
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
Rock River Conference.

ROCKFORD, Sept 90 Saturday session Of
Rock River conference was devoted to
general business and rapid progress was
made. The following brethren were elected to
deacons' orders: Walter M. Evans, William
e. Wilkinson, Andrew Bradt, John w. Linn,
Daniel B. Kellogg and Henry Baker. The
Woman's Foreign Missionary society report
was read, showing s4,472:g5 raised
aTslight decrease oyer last year. The report
of the Freedman's Aid society was discussed
and showed prosperous condition of the
work Orrin FL. Cessna was elected local
elder. The following travelling deacons were
elected to elders orders: J. 7. Robert, Wat
son Tranter, Newton M. Sunderland and
Lilies W. Satterfeld. The deacons of class
No. were: Robert H. Pate, Frederick w,
Nazarine, Charles D, Hempstreet, John
j.. Kellogg, and Frank III. Har-
din THE latter were elected to both
deacons and elders orders. The matter of
adjusting appointments is rather backward,
but it is expected that the conference will
adjourn Monday
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
Rlaine ana Loran at c,eve1.nd


CLEVELAND, Sept. 29.-Mr. Blaine's trip
from Buffalo to this point was a pleasant one.
AT every point where the train stopped there
were'gatherings eager to see tho Republican
candidate ard he was warmly welcomed evi
erywEere This city was reached at about
There was q great gathering in and around
the depot The winding roadway lead
ing from the railroad level to the
bluff on which the city stands was lined
with men, women and children, and when
Mr.. Blaine came out of the depot and was
driven toward the hotel he received cheer
after cheer The Office and corridors of the
hotel the Kennard house, were crowded,
and, as at other places, there were policemen
present to clear the way and keep order Nh!
Blaine went at once to- his room, but was
soon called out by the Young
Mems Republican club, who came
to pay their respects. Mr.. Blaine accordingly
taking the arm of Gen. Logan, who had ar
rived in the city early in the afternoon,
went down to the balcony and standing there
with his running mate" bowed to the i'm
mense crowd. The sight of the two gentle
men together eeemed to thrill the vast
audience ami the all was rent with huzzas
In response to repeated demands for aspeech,
Mr.. Blaine said:
thank you for this cordial welcome to
Cleyeland-a city that I, always visit with
pleasure and leave with regret, / thank the
young men who do me the honor to call upon
ME so promptly. / think it a hopeful and en-
couraging sign that in the year 1884 the
young men of the United States more than
at any time | have known, are taking an
active and prom nent part in the national
contest. I augur from it good results. Again
] tender you my thanks for the very kind re-
ception you have given me, and bid you
goodnight. TCheers1
The two candidates then reviewed the pro-
cession, which was long, and twas midnight
before they got to bed. Another large meet
ing was held in the tabernacle at the same
tile, addressed by the Hon. Handibal HAM
lin aud others. :
On Saturday Mr.. Blaine breakfasted with
Mrs. Garfield at. her residence, where he
spent the balance Of the day, leav-
ing by q special train in the
afternoon for Elyria, where h- o,,,,aa ,od h.
AYAo : "--se demonstration. Returning to
this city after the meeting he was again the
guest of Mrs. Garfield until Monday morn
ing
In the party accompanying Mr. Blaine to
Elyria were Mayor Gates, Of Elyria,who
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Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
Fire Panic i'm n Hotel,

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., Sept. 29.-About AS
a. m. Saturday, the guests of the Rocking
ham house were awakened and told to hurry
out Of the building, as the basement was on
fire. The guests ran out into the halls, which
they found rapidly filing with smoke. They
CROPPED their way to the street, some of the
ladies being almost stided with the smoke.
The fire burned rapidly, and in short time
the building was totally destroyed. The
house was very fine hotel. The loss is
put at Sl45, 600; insurance, about $?5, 900.
Morris tribune., 1884-10-01
Blazes Among sEae Furniture,

BROOKLYN, N. Y, Sept. ga fire broke
out Saturday morning in the large furniture
factory of John Anderson, 81 to 90 Devoe
street, Williamsburg. The buildings, with
the large stock. Of goods and machinery,
were nearly all destroyed. The loss on the
buildings, which are owned by the estate of
the late c. W. Cooper, is estimated at S17,-
900, and on the stocks from $4,000 to $780,
600. John j. Flannery, fireman, fell from
the roof and was seriously injured.