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The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
FOR A SUNNY WINDOW.

growing plants. The French are an es-
sentially flower loving people, and the
poorest Partisan workwoman cheerfully
exchanges one or two of her hard earn
ed sous for a bright blossom for her
sewing table or packet of seeds for
the tiny window of her modest apart
ment under the caves. Recalling these
facts in introduction to an illustrated
article on the summer window garden,
The Standard Designer further remarks:
It is somewhat of a surprise to find
this same appreciation of the beauties
of nature in the phlegmatic soul Of the
sturdy Briton, yet one has but to take
a stroll through the narrow side streets
of London, with their interminable
rows of brick dwellings, to realize how
the aesthetic taste of the Englishman
has been belied. Scarcely house but
has its quota of flowers in the window.
In more aTistocratic regions the floral
effects are really superb. Every house,
club and hotel contributes to the gener-
al display, and window and balcony are
alike ablaze with bloom.
Fortunately for it's popularity, which
is slowly but surely increasing, even in
America, the window garden demands
no great amount of care when it is once
fairly started, though good deal Of
ingenuity and forethought is required
in its arrangement. The first essential
is properly constructed box, for upon
this the ultimate success of the whole
experiment depends, hence it will be
found most satisfactory in the long run
to intrust a competent carpenter, who
is accustomed to just such work, with
the making of the box.
The journal quoted portrays an i'm
provised bower with a quantity shaped
canopy, and particularly designed for a
sunny window. The box is filed with a
well chosen variety of inexpensive
blooms, among which are included a
centerpiece of geranium, with its SPLEEN
did pompons of vivid scarlet, root of
Nierem bergia gracilis, with its dainty
lavender stars, and another of the ever
popular lobelia, with its myriad flowers
of rich, deep blue. Trained along a wire
to the canopy is the Humulus japonicus,
or variegated japanese hop, whose dark
green foliage, marked delicately with
silver white, retains it's beauty through
out the summer and into the autumn,
while from the center of the canopy is
suspended basket filed with ivy gera-
nina
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
Cupid, the Beggar.

How Love
goes a beg
e n G for a
little kindly
tire atm e mt !
How m a n Y
women turn
their backs
on the little
\ fellowi They
give freely
4 of their time
and attention
to fashion or
social pleas
u T e s, b ut
seem to re-
gard happy
'ifehood and
Motherhood as
mere second
~ considera-
on.
Th y take
o nd of
ou Bile over
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
NOTES AND NOTIONS.


To Reduce Flesh.
Great fancifulness Is permitted for tea
napkins and teacloths. Floral embroid-
cries. violets, peoples, forgetmenots and
ferns are much favored, and are very deli
cate There are also multicolored embroid-
cries in the r ussian and Hungarian styles,
with openwo-k effects.
Ivory objects that have become yellowed
by time may be bleached to their primi-
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
THE PREVAILING. SKIRT.
Tight Gloves and Shoes Not In Taste
Dressing the Hair.

The skirt of the period is close around
the hips, faring at the foot, especially to-
ward the back, and has no godets in front
or at the sides. 1t varies in cut accord.
ing to the material employed, its weight
and width and the size of the person foI
whom the skirt is intended. All skirts
are ordinarily lined, excepting those OF
muslin and other transparent, sheer goods
and also have an inside facing at the foot
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
SUMNER WINDOW GARDENS.

This Attractive Decoration Grows Steadily
In Popularity.
One of the most striking and effective
features of the average European city
in summer time is the almost universal
custom of adjoining the windows of pri-
vate residences with boxes filled with
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
By Properly Utilizing
The Advertising Columns
Of The
Sentinel

You can do this. Now is the time to begin.
Get an early start for the seasons trade.
Tell what you are doing and why you are
doing it.
The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1897-08-12
A Real Blood Remedy.

and gets at the seat of disease and forces
it out promptly even after other so-called
blood remedies have failed. S. S. 5. Is
guaranteed purely vegetable.
o Books on blood and skin diseases viii
be mailed free to any address by Swift
Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
Fort Som Houston News.

Private McMannus, troop d, Fifth
cavalry was discharged yesterday.
First Lieut.. f. NJ. NJ. Beall, Eight
zenith infantry, is serving as officer of
the day today.
John Faulds, formerly of the Twen-
! ty-third infantry, re-enlisted yesterday
for company b, Eighteenth infantry.
The official order reducing Sergeant
Cooper, troop X, at his own request,
To the grade of private, was issued
yesterday.
Corporal Evans, troop ID, Fifth cav
airy, who has been ON three months
furlough, under g. o. No. so, 1890,
A. G. o., took his discharge yesterday.
Second Lieut.. Wade and Private
Morris, of the band, did not accom-
pany the cavalry squadron out to the
target range yesterday. They will go
out today. at
Capt. Paddock, Fifth cavalry, who
has been on sick leave in Mexico, has
returned to the post preparatory to
going on two years recruiting service
at Milwaukee, Wis.
Private Robinson, formerly of Light
battery f, Third artillery, now sta
toned at Fort Preside, San Francis
co, applied for re-enlistment yester-
day in troop ID, Fifth cavalry.
Sergeant Jenny, company A, Eight
eenth infantry and Lance Corporal
Eskridge, company Il, in charge of
fourteen privates, all of whom have
been in charge of the target range at
Camp Leon Springs since the return
of the infantry battalion to the post,
returned last evening and reported
for duty, the cavalry squadron hav-
ing relieved them of their charge.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
PREPARED FOR THE WORST.
The Hotel Didn't Burn, but IL It Had he
Would Have Been Fixed.

| me hOtel Dtdnt hurn nut III ~ hAu ht
Would Have Been Fixed.
do you believe that we are some
times forewarned of great dangers?'
asked the commercial traveller. Ibid
you ever have-what you call it?--pre-
monitionss Well, l was premonished
the other night / had to put up at a
junction hotel, and they sent me clear
up to the top of the building into one
of those rooms with a slanted ceiling.
You know the kind. You pay for the
room, and the roof occupies it.
"There was one window. / looked
out of the window, and it seemed to be
at least 60 feet down to the ground. 1t
was wooden building, and an old one,
understand? While was looking out of
the window freight train went by,
and the engine threw out a million
sparks.
"'Well, / says to myself, Il can see
my finish right now. There'll be 40
trains going by ON these two roads to-
night, and it's four 10 one shot that
this hotel is going to catch fire.
looked out again. There wasn't any fire
escape, and they didn't have any rope
in the room. You see, in good many
places like that they have big coil of
rope in one corner and sign that says,
In case of fire take hold of the rope and
Jump. A man reads that sign and then
he can't sleep all night.
"Well, / looked out of the window
again, and a switch engine pulled past
and shot out lot of live cinders as big
as your fist. That settled it. Invent over
to the bed and found it had two sheets
/ took out my pencil and figured that /
could tear each sheet into four strips,
and, allowing for the knots, each sheet
would make about "a feet of fire escape,
although, of course, there would be
some waste where would have to tie it
to the bed. I figured that could push
the bed over to the window, fasten one
end of my rope to the headboard and
play out about 40 feet. l had it all
fixed-some water all ready in the bowl,
SO as to dampen the knots and pull them
hard. OF course still had some dis
lance to fall after / got to the end of
my rope, but that was all right You
know, as soon as had my rope fixed |
was going to drop the mattress, so as to
have something to fall on.
81 took my cardcase, watch, money
and keys and tied them in a handker-
chief, which very carefully placed on
the window sill, SO that it would not
be overlooked in the hurry of getting
away. There didn't seem to be anything
else that l could do until the alarm was
given, so turned in and fell asleep
right away. wasn't worrying, because
/ was ready, no matter what happened.
had been asleep about three minutes,
it seemed to me, when somebody pound
ed at my door and told me to get up;
that it was O'Clock. / got up and
dressed, and you can imagine how badly
l was disappointed. Oh, l was sore!
But, say, suppose the hotel had caught
fire. Wouldn't that have been star
story?"-Chicago Record.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
BOWLING NOTES.
Mass Meeting Today to Form a
League.

Mass Meeting Today to Form a
League.
The mass meeting of bowlers to be
held this morning at 10 o'clock at
Mission garden will be very interest
ing teh attendance will be very large.
There are ten clubs available to the
league in this city, viz: The Casinos,
Turner Seniors and Turner Scrubs,
newly organized, Missions, Sommers,
Hayseeds, Ivys, Harmony, Govern
ment hill and the BeethOvens.
Each club will likely have regular
appointed delegates in attendance
The Casinos desire to join the league
in order that some of the games may
be played on their alley.
The Turner Seniors delegates are
Messrs. Edwin Witte and Henry
Holtz.
The Turner Scrubs delegates are
Messrs. Herman Herweck, Chas. Ros,
sy and Otto Anderson. This new
clubs officers are-President, Ed
Schunke; secretary, Otto Anderson
Captain, Fred. Mueller.
Last Thursday night the Scrubs
bowled a game with the Turner Sen.
iors, champions of the last league
and worsted them, at which they feel
much elated. Mic Tengg says Aug
Brian couldn't Jonah" him. The
Turner gentlemen's section Friday
night, captained by Edwin White and
Chas. Rosy respectively, had two
friendly games, won by Whites team
and he did the honors to all hands ov.
er the result.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
COMMISSIONERS COURT.
Bids for the Contract for Pipelaying
From Courthouse TO Jail.

Bids for the Contract for Pipelaying
From Courthouse to Jail.
The county commissioners opened
the bids yesterday for the laying of
water pipes from the courthouse to
the county Jail, and took them under
Amusement until Monday, when the
contract win be awarded. The bids are
as follows:
H.M.Severance & Son, for material
labor and laying of pipe, 1850 feet
long, $1,126
West & Gutzeit, for pipe, $3.50, and
for laying same. $4S5
II. Il. Collins Mfg. Co., for cast iron
water pipe, standard weight, weigh
ing 10 pounds to the foot, $2S per ton.
Shafer q Braden, for labor, material
and complete laying of pipe, S1,2S5.
Charles +. Stevens was allowed $40
for damages for injury to horse
while crossing bridge on the San
Jose road August 10, by the animal
stepping on rotten plank and falling
through the bridge.
The clerk was instructed to ac-
knowledge the receipt of several gold
fish from G. II. Prouty, of Eagle Pass,
with thanks of the court The gold
fish were placed in the courthouse
fountain where they are now swim
ming about under the care of Mr..
Fritz OhnesOrge.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
The Peacock at Home.

The real home of the peacock or pea
fowl is in India. There they were and
are hunted, and their flesh is used for
food. AS the birds live in the same re-
gion as the tiger, peacock hunting is a
very dangerous sport. The long train of
the peacock is not its tail, as many sup
pose, but is composed Of feathers which
grow out just above the tail and are
called the tail coverts. Peacocks have
been known for many hundred years.
They are mentioned in the Bible, Job
mentions them, and they are mentioned,
too, in / Kings x. Hundreds Of years
ago in Rome many thousand peacocks
were killed for the great feasts which
the emperors made. The brains of the
peacock were considered a great treat,
and many had to be killed for a single
feast. st Nicholas
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
Our TRUE HOME INDUSTRY

As can be seen by the reports of the
Internal Revenue collectors office,
during the past year the City brew
cry manufactured and sold 100000
kegs of beer more than any other
brewery in the whole southern states
south of st. Louis. What is the cause
Of this? Knowing ones say it is be-
cause of the excellent quality of the
beer, which is pushed along by adj
vertising and live, progressive
management
San Antonio is justly proud of her
fine breweries
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
SERPENT POISON.
The Venom of the Cobra Is Deadly Al
most Beyond Belief.


most Beyond Belief.
1t was in the autumn of 1891 that
Calmette, while acting as director of
the meteorological institute of Saigon,
Cochin China, first commenced his ex-
periments ON the naturalization of SER
pent venom in the animal system. He
had exceptional opportunities in the
matter of serpent venom wherewith to
carry out his Investigations, inasmuch
as a band of cobras had recently attacked
a village in the vicinity of Bac-Lieu,
and by order of the governor of the dis
trict no fewer than 80 specimens of the
terrible Naja tripudians, or cobra de ca
pello, were forwarded in a barrel to the
institute.
Forty of these reptiles arrived alive,
and several were at once sacrificed to
secure their venom glands. Each gland,
resembling both in size and shape a
shelled almond, contains about 80 drops
of venom, and in this transparent limp
id liquid is embodied toxine of extraor-
binary strength. AS is well known, this
cobra is the most dreaded of all serpents,
and it is widely distributed over India,
Burma, Sumatra, Java, Malacca and
Cochin China. Until Calmette, however,
set to work to systematically study the
nature of this reptiles venom, but little
precise or reliable information had been
obtained as to its character. 1t was, of
course, necessary in the first instance to
ascertain, within as narrow limit as
possible, the exact degree of toxic power
inherent in the venom, and to deter
mine, if possible, the precise dose lethal
in respect of each variety of animal ex-
perimented upon.
A correct calculation of the quantity
of venom required in every case was,
however, found to be quite impossible,
for so virulent is the poison that sim
gle drop of an emulsion produced by
pounding up glands in 800 grams
of distilled water is sufficient, when in
troduced into the vein of rabbits ear,
to kill it in five minutes. All the mann
mails to which Calmette administered
this cobra venom, such as monkeys,
dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, rats, sue
cumbed more or less quickly, according
to the size of the dose. -Longman' IS
Magazine.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
DIED IN SAN MARCOS.

An old man named Higgins, well
known for many years in San Antonio
and who has been blind for a long
time, died in San Marcos last Thurs
day and his remains have been
brought to this city for burial beside
those of his aged wife, who died about
three months ago.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
wooSicock Eggs.

Owing to the inhabitants of Sweden
being very partial to the eggs of the
woodcock, it is more than probable that
the breed will be greatly diminished, if
not at last totally extirpated. The eggs
of the above species are to be seen for
sale in large numbers in the various
markets in Stockholm.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
AGENTS WANTED.

Living picture machine agents want
ed. Most profitable automatic nickle-
in-slot machine ever manufactured;
just out; repays cost in few days.
Stirrup Mfg. Co., Y Fulton street,
New York.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
BIRTHS REPORTED

Aug. 20.-Boy, VIM. Pieper and wife,
No. 619 Crockett street, Ward g.
Aug. 26.-Girl, T. H. and Lulu
Clairidge, No. $50 Plum street, Ward
z.
August 2s.-Boy, George Wynn and
wife. colored, No. 524 Indiana street
Ward Z.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29

A fine specimen Of the white footed
antelope Of northern India, the mother
of two fire youngsters, is at present
owned in England. The animals are ex-
tremely rare.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29

BE A MAN AMONG
MIN. How to do this
has been the study of
DIR. Hathaway & Co. /,
for years and the ex-
peIience they have
has enabled them to
build many q man TO
a condition of perfect
health even after
other physicians have
failed. In the sue
cessful treatment of
those special diseases
peculiar to men and
women DR.. Hathaway
& Co , maintain the
lead and intend to
keep it. SKILL, Hon.
RsTY and EXPERIENCE
always count, and
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29
DESIRABLE CHAPS

ALWAYS FIND A WELCOMEAMONG TIE
MAIDS, but the chaps who are UEDEsIRABLE
meet with COLD RECEPTION. tits, therefore,
o the interest of those persons to BRACE UP AND
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-29

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skin and blood diseases of all kinds, .catarrh
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209 Alamo plaza San Antonio. Mail treatment
by sending for symptom blank No for men,
No. 2 for women. No. for skin diseases and
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

The laYman will try and secure an
election to the moderator's chair of the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church to be held in Winona, Minneso-
ia, but he will get left. Benjamin Har-
rison and John Wannamaker are both
mentioned as candidates, and Harri-
son much the stronger of the two, but
that policy is against all the precedents
of the church and a minister will fill
the office when it comes to the cleo
ton of presiding officer. Cleveland's
name is not mentioned.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13
ANTI-PoLITICAL NEW YORK.

There is a strong feeling in Republi-
can circles in New York and Brooklyn
that it is unwise as well as unneces-
sary to drag party politics into an cleo
ton for the government of Greater
New York. This feeling is eminent
ly conservative and will commend it,
The magnitude of the interests that
are committed to the keeping of the
| government of that new municipality
with it's millions of citizens, is such
| that the character of the official head
of that city is of more Importance by
| far than his politics. The power that
! the new charter lodges in the hands of
the mayor is so great that only the
wisest and best should be trusted with
candidate for that position can only
be assured by leaving party politics
out of the question and coming square
ly to the fitness OF the candidate re-
CARELESS of party affiliations. There is
nothing in the government of that
municipality under the charter that
makes it a matter of great moment
who exercises power, in so far as 1t
affects the party machines, unless it |
as party machine that the mayor is |
elected. If the business men Of that |
great corporation can at the outset d.
vorce its government from political en-
tanglements and put the city admins
tration above political craftsmanship, it
will be a move that will be indicative
Of disposition to give the city the
best possible show for a pure and able
government of it's affairs. Divorced of
political entanglements there will be
no party ends in the distribution Of
place, no incentive to cover misdeeds
lest they reflect upon party manage
ment and so endanger party success.
no allegiance to a party to handicap
the efforts of the mayor, none on the
part of the assembly and council to
at any time pass measures that SAVIOR
of party leaning, and thus the free
dom of both from corrupting influence
or at least from any leaning uncon-
'ciously toward that which would BEN I
eft party, would be secured. At the t
opening of the new order of things is
the time to commence this new depart
lre from the old methods, and it is a
favorable sign of better times in the !
government of that great aggregation I
IF wealth and population that it's gov s
eminent is seeking to relieve itself I
rom the burden Of restraint of party
and claims.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

If one third of one per cent of all that
is related of Turkish barbarity is true
in this present war. then it is to the
everlasting disgrace of Great Britain
and Germany and France that an ex-
tlnguisher has not been put on Turkey
long ago. Russia is as barbarous as
turkey and nothing better was ex-
pected there. Fourteen villages put to
the sword is too much to tolerate.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

Great Britain is happy in the
thoughts of that jubilee, but she is not
happy in the reflection that the jubi-
lee ode is to be ground out by poet
laureate Austin. Austin is unpopular
there. Austin is also Unpopular in Tex
as, not in herself, but on account of
her fool Legislature.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

A supervising architect in the treas
ury who will supervise is what Is
wanted, no less than a president in the
presidential chair who Will preside.
This is what the country is looking for
1t has the president all right, elected
him in November, and now it is look
ing for the other.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

When Culberson signs the bill maxi
ing it unlawful to sell peppers and
other dangerous weapons to minors,
then there will be a deal of getting
around the law and buying on the sly.
Cui bono?
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

The fact that the Sultan has denied
the call to holy war; coupled with the
order for the modifying of his forces,
makes the situation very uncertain.
That denial is mighty suspicious.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

Weyler has grown tired of his inef-
fectual attempt to crush out the in
surgents and wants to divert public
attention from his failures by engag-
ing in railway building. Does he in
tend to use the bones of murdered Gu
bans as ballast. He might do it for
many miles OF road.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-13

Mclean would like to be senator
from Ohio as we'll as Matthews. There
be many called but the chosen ones
are not likely to be found in that camp
for a little season.