Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-05

ent day had lost much interest in her
The announcement that she died on July
1 opened the pages of the history OF our
country at one of it's mist thrilling chap
ters Perhaps we should speak kindly
of Mrs Stowe now that she sleeps, but
no southerner familiar with his race and
it's traditions can forget the cruel blow
dealt our people by the hand of this wo-
man. That she lived to see the genius
and manhood of the south once more
dominating the affairs of the nation in
a measure comDensates for the wrong
she put upon us by impregnating, years
ago, the body polite with the insidious
poison contained in Uncle Toms Cab
in
Speaking of books and authors. Swim
burne's latest poem, Sir Balen has not
been pleasantly received by the critics.
1t has been published by Messrs. Serb
ner, but is said to be grievous disap-
pointment to the admirers of the English
poet One thus writes of Swinburne and
bis poem:
"Algernon Charles Swinburne is with
out doubt the most melodious of living
English poets, yet his new book, Sir Ba-
len, is likely TO attract little attention
from the general public.
ut will not do to say that this is be-
cause the public is unintelligent or deaf.
The public ear for melody is almost al
ways reliable. Not every melodious
poem becomes popular, but none ever be-
comes and remains SO unless either in it's
words or in the air to which they are
set it is constructed on the same princi-
pies which give Swinburnian verse it's
remarkable power of taking hold on the
ear and the memory.
but in order to reach the heart of hui
manity it is necessary to have. positive
message, while that of Swinburne is
wholly negative. He sets pessimism to
music, but the world rejects it in spite
of it's music When a poet tries to pop
ulariZe his despair, or his dyspepsia, or
his incipient govt, or his threatened at
tack of nervous prostration by putting 1t
to tune the world, which has all these
diseases and is sufficiently familiar with
their symptoms, is not deceived by the
music. 1t has grooming and writhing
enough to do over it's own stomach trou-
bles without being deceived into sympa-
thy with the troubles of literary men
who set their real or imaginary despair
to music.
1.-The world needs music badly, but it
needs hope and courage more. The man
who can set hope and courage to the uni
versal tune which is inherent in the ears
of all men is never likely to fail of use
fitness, as Swinburne has DONE
After laborlng for more than thirty
years to produce photographs in colors,
James W. McDonough of Chicago has at
last been successful, and it is now posi-
BILE to photograph not only positive reds
and yellows, but many and various
shades This is wonderful discovery,
and will necessarily revolutionize certain
forms of art. Instantaneous pictures can
be taken by the new process, aud it is
expected that experiments now being
made will result in transferring the art
to painting. 1t is a simple process, and
there is no longer any doubt that in the
near future, at Very little increase of cost
over the present photograph, pictures will
be made with all the most delicate shades
and tints of nature being faithfully re-
produced.
An experiment has just been made with
a Japanese panel, in which there were
seventeen different shades, and each one
was reproduced in the color photograph.
The following description of the new pro-
cess is taken from a New York exchange,
and will be of interest to amateur ana
professional photographers:
1.-The process requires specially ruled
screen and specially ruled paper. A
multi-colored screen, ruled by very fine
lines formed of dots or small particles, is
employed. Fundamental colors of the
spectrum are preferably used for these
lines-say orange red, yellowish green
and violet blue.
"The screen is ruled with lines in these
colors, about 800 to the incn. This screen
is placed in front of and in close con-
tact with an orthochromatic plate, which
is then exposed in the camera to the OBJ
ject to be photographed The ordinary
black and white negative Is thus obtained
in lines corresponding to the screen in
register.
'sFrom this negative a positive Is made
in the ordinary way on glass or paper.
If now the screen, or similarly ruled
one, be laid on the positive, and moved
until the positive and screen are in regis
ter, the picture comes up in original
colors."
Matilde Agramonte. the Cuban Joan OF
Arc. was recently killed in fierce en-
gagement on the coast of Cuba, in which
she and her brothers were in the thickest
of the fight. She was the daughter OF an
ancient and wealthy Cuban family, as IS
we'll known, and her father, General
Agramonte was killed leading the patri-
OTIS in the ten years war. Matilda is de-
scribed as having been tall and graceful
with black eyes, rich olive complexion
and greatly beloved in the island by the
peasantry, as we'll as by the people of her
own class She was at the outbreak of
the present war in Cuba, left alone on the
family plantation, all her brothers and
male relatives joining the patriot army.
Soon afterwards her property was de-
stroyed and her slaves murdered by the
Spanards, when Matilde decided to join
the Cuban forces, wear a uniform and do
her part for Cuba's freedom. Her death
a. few weeks ago has caused intense sor-
row over all the lSianu, anu the SoiulcfS
mourn one who seemed more like Joan
of Arc than a maiden of this nineteenth
century.
At the graduat ting exercises of Dart
mouth college recently the degree of mas
ter of arts was conferred upon Miss
Katherine NJ. Quint. Miss Quint is
graduate of Wellesley college, class of
1890. and is the first woman to be SO hon
ored by Dartmouth.
The granddaughter of Joseph Jeffer-
son, Miss Josephine Jefferson, was mar
ried a few days ago at Buzzards' Bay
to Mr.. Charles Rolfe son of Prof. William
Rolfe of Cambridge. The ceremony was
performed in marquee on the lawn in
front of the brides home. Many notable
guests were present, among them Mrs.
Cleveland. who wore a pretty costume of
violet silk, brocaded with white figures.