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elegant walking outfit as woman OF
style could wish.
Wheels, wheels, wheels no won
der they get into ones head. King
Richard cried, "My kingdom for a
horsep Nowadays he would call for
a bicycle. Dowagers, who fear 10
mount horse say they must learn
the wheel in order to chaperono the
younger folk" on their morning spin
in Central park.
Mrs Hcrmann Oelrichs and her sis
ter, Miss Virginia Fair, the rich young
California heiress, were at the bicycle
show. Mrs. Oelrichs is exquisite in
her selection of toilets. / have seen
her often. but never looking more
recherche than then. The costume
was OF brown covert cloth. The plain
skirt hung faultlessly. The jacket was
very dressy; double o-breasted, with
rows of silk twisted cord brought from
under each arm lengthwise down the
front, forming corslet in effect
Folds OF silk velvet finished the top OF
this; and the collar was velvet. Tho
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
INSTRUCTIVE TO ]
THE nEsr WAY 70 nrarN

The best way to enter the po
business is to begin with smalL
and gradually enlarge. the object
being to.learn and also to breed for
the kind of fowls desired. No one
can succeed who goes on the market
and buys his hens, OF all sizes, breeds
and characteristics, for he will know
nothing OF them, and may lose all
from disease or inferiority Of the
stock. BY breeding his stock he gets
those best suited to the objects de-
sired. 1t takes at least year or two
to bring together flock of several
hundred choice hens. for they are not
often sent to market except in small
numbers. The market is filled with
fowl that are sold because they are
not as serviceable on the farm as ON
the stall. Hon. Il. L. Dawley.
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jacket came only to the waist, and a
broad belt of the cloth was worn. 1t
was open just enough at the throat to
show white tie. The sleeves were
of tho medium size, leg-of-mutton
pattern and the skirt was of the new
est Paris cut. Mrs. Oelrichs wore q
large brown straw hat covered with
nodding plumes, and the effect was
striking enough to make few of us
forget We were there to SEQ wheels.
She carried one of the new spotted
skeleton umbrellas in brown.
The cast side of Central park has be-
come veritable Rotten Row. The
hours for riding and driving are the
Same as in the famous London Row in
Hyde park. On nice days the benches
arc thronged and the adjacent foot
paths filed with promenaders. Here,
MS in London, one sees the beauty and
fashion of great metropolis--'nc-
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15

Under the operation OF the child.
labor law in Illinois, as enforced by
Miss Florence Kelley, Chief Factory
Inspector, there has been a positive
decrease in the number of children
employed in the factories. This do.
crease has continued notwithstanding
the fact that larger percentage of
children usually finds employment in
these concerns during dull times, their
cheaper labor being sought and idle
fathers sometimes finding it necessary
to send them to the shops. The num-
Der OF children found unlawfully en-,
ployed in 1896 was 81 per cent. of the
total number of employees. as against
4.5 in 1895, So in 1894, and s.5 in
tlS93. This decrease is the moro
mar Ee6 lSecause the inspectors covered
2o67 more establishments than in any
previous year. In tre stock yards
there is no noticeable chAsSe in the
number of children employed, Tnt the
reverse is happily the case in glass
factories, where the report says the
dwaring of children by their arduous
labors seems to have been decisively
checked. Sweat shops are still the
greatest evil to be contended with,
one-sixth of all the children employed
in the State working in the garment
trades. The ratio, the report says,
increases yearly in SPITE of persistent
prosecutions of violators of the law.
The only complete remedy, the In
spector says, would be the prohibition
of tenement manufacture.
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An Imposter Detected.

"Some time ago, !" says the Phila-
dolphin Record, "a we'll dressed young
woman was taken i'll in the street, md
was removed. in supposed dying
condition, to a hospital uptown. The
woman recovered shortly after admis-
sion, and it was then that peculiar
bleeding of the gums was noticed. As
the doctors Mt the hospital had never
seen similar case, the woman was re-
quested to remain, that it might be
examined. After several weeks they
gave up in disgust, and the woman was
discharged. This program had been
carried out time and time again, until
she had visited nearly every hospital
IN town. Several physicians became
suspicious and laid plot, which the
.unsuspecting woman walked into.
Strict watch was kept from over tram
som, and just before time for the doc
tors visit she was noticed sticking n
needle in various parts OF her gums.
By the time tue doctor arrived her
mouth was in a frightfuI condition. |"
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Mr.. Peary, U. s. NJ, the arctic ex.
plorer, told some interesting things Of
the polar regions at recent public
dinner. He said he could talk OF only
one thing, and then laid hold of the
pole. Picturinga man standing over the
north pole, he said that this person
would have but one point to his COM
pass, and that would be south. He
could not move. except south. Time
would be unknown to him. He would
know no night or day. Experiences
of Nansen and himself during the last
three years, he said. had shown that
the ideal party to discover the pole
must consist of only two OF three per-
sons. The old idea of large party
must be abandoned. BY modern meth
ods the pole could be reached without
any of the horrors of the Franklin and
Greedy expeditions. He considered
that the man who makes the discovery
will rank with Columbus. The ques-
tion as to what good it would be to
such man to discover the pole would
be like asking what good was the
wreath at the Olympian games. 1t
would be tribute to endurance, on.
crgy, persistence, the conquering of
obstacles. 1t would be the peerless
prize of the day, and should go to an
American. 1t had become possible,
with all the recent light on the sub
iect, he said, for him to advise and
propose within the last month prac-
tical plan to get there. There were
only 260 miles beyond the highest
point already reached to be traversed.
He thought the only way to reach the
pole would be to follow up Greenland
as it reaches toward The pole. A Ger.
tain tribe of Eskimos there could be
reli9xdpon to furnish assistance. A
fund of $150,000 would keep such
small party as he advised for ten years
working away, Under the arrange
ment he proposed, he said, to reach
the pole would be "entirely possible
and entirely practical"
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
A Remarkable Mexican.

Aejandro Ruiz, a Mexican antigua.
ifian and traveller, whose collection of
antique eurios, paintings and carvings
fills private museum at his home in
Puebla, Mexico, at the age of seventy
is learning the English language as q
means of occupying his time. He has
travelled in almost all parts of the
world, collecting whatever Of interest
was old. He has been an intimate
friend of President Diaz since long
before the time of HIS elevation to the
Chief Magistracy of Mexico, and the
President visits his home whenever he
travels through Puebla.
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
The Flying Proa and Double Canoes.

In describing Some Queer Craft in
ST. Nicholas, Gustav Kobbe says:
The fore-and-aft rig derives its ease
of handling by direct borrowing from
the lateen sail, which is as effective as
it is simple. The craft OF the Lad
rome Islanders are SO swift that they
are called flying proas. They arc
long and very narrow. and alike at
both ends-double-enders among sail
ing craft; for by simply shifting the
sail, bow and stern are reversed as
they are by reversing tho engines OF
ferry boat. Thus the proa is not
obliged to ''go about" The same
side is always to leeward and this is
fiat SO that she can be sailed very close.
The windward side is rounded, and to
prevent the proa from capsizing on.
account of the extreme narrowness of
beam, an outrigger, to which d hollow.
boat-shaped log is attached, extends
from this side. SO that the proa is
catamaran with one hullmuch smaller
than the other In sailing her man
sits in each end, steering with pad
die when the end in which he sits
happens to be the stern. No iron is
used in the construction of the proa.
The sides are made separately, and
sewed together at tho ends with bark,
The peculiar bnild Of the aying proa
-douule'oad'd, With differing sides,
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An Industrious Novelist.

For sustained industry there is no
worker in Europe who can beat the
Hungarian novelist Maurus Jokai, who
has written in 32 years 200 volumes Of
romances, many short stories and sev-
erai plays, essays, translatohs, etc.
he has also edited two newspapers
during large part Of the time, and
taken an active part in politics as a
member OF the Hungarian parliament.
In the leisure which these occupa-
tions allow him, he has become an ex.
cellent gymnast, fencer and horticul-
turist lie can also carve bnsts in
ivory and paint beautiful pictures.
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15

An adventurer's share" in the New
River Company was sold recently in
London for S625, 900. The company
was started in 1000 by Sir Hugh Myd-
dleton to supply London with water
from the Hertfordshire hills, forty
miles away. Half the shares went to
James the First as tho kings moiety,
the others to the thirty six adven-
turers. Myddleton was ruined by the
speculation, but the company owns
great deal OF property in the city OF
London and the counties of Middlesex
and Hertford. The interest on
share is about $13, 900 year.
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The Answer Was FAVORABLE.

"Esmeralda," said he. hoarsely,
"I'm waiting for your answer.
"Oh. forgive me, Tom, I was think
ing"
"What were you thinking off"
- was thinking how wouFl hayo
my Wedding dress made, dqur, y Odds
md Eada.
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The revers narrowed to nothing at
the waist. There wrre buttonholes
on them and buttons ON the coat, with
two directly at the bottom of the re-
vers at the waist and two tiny pockets
with button on each. The whole
was well stitched, aud Miss Elliot car
ried herself with tho consciousness
that the coat showed her figure lines
10 perfection. A large black has With
three black feathers arranged with a
hrnad effect, aud . handsnme cut steel
ornament sarusa tbs fraut, aud Of
course llacs gloves, taINhed ots Rs
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tresses in smart dog carts, and many
of the well-known bellies on horse
back, riding in pairs, and accompan-
led by their grooms. Mrs Duncan
Elliott -Sallie Hargous that was--is
still ono of the most beautiful women
in America. She is seen in the park
every afternoon on her Kentucky.
thoroughbred; Slender. With raven
tresses and southern eyes, a clear olive
skin, with brilliant coloring from her
lealhful exercise, sue is a beautiful
aud bold rider.
Laat week she wore whole oalAt
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
Looking for Something Better

"Buy your wheel from me, sir, >
said an enterprising dealer to pro.
spective customer, ''and ] will make
you present OF cyclometer."
"You are not tho man I am looking
for" replied the shopper. II am try
ing to find seller OF cyclometers who
VIII throw IN 0 bicycle. ~ Harper's
Baapr
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Cost Of Travelling In d Private Car.

Travelling in a private car is lux
ury that may now be enjoyed npon
most American railroads by anyone
who will pay eighteen railway fares,
and for eighteen berths, and bear the
cost OF the cook, meat and drink; but
it is most frequently enjoyed. free Of
cost, by those who can perfectly well
afford to pay for it. The charms Of
this method Of getting about may be
greatly oyerrated; and ! have 6ne
friend who.ridea in a special cs nnd
tslla me that to travel In ii yia
not always agreeable. -~SpFill
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
Art ana Letters IN Franna

There are in France 2150 women
authors and journalists and about 700
women artists. The provinces con.
tribute most of the writers-about
two-thirds-while Paris is represented
IN the same proportion among the
artists among the writers 1000 are
novelists, 200 are poets. $50 educa-
tional writers, and the rest Of various
kinds. Tie artists comprise 1O7
scnlptcrs, and the othcra are paintsrs,
ranging over al! branches Of shc pic,
ltcglal ath
The sea coast echo., 1897-05-15
GOTHAM FASHIONS.
Handsome Gowns Worn by Fair
New Yorkers.
Elegant Riding Habits Seen in
Central Park.
(New York Fashion Letter.)

American girls are as chic as Pari.
slams. They carry their gowns in a
less serious way than their British
cousins. Still We seem to follow Paris
fashions less than formerly. We are
looking to London for our models.
A long waist line is the cry in Eng
land. English girls positively refuse
to get "plubby;" they walk miles at a
stretch and they don't eat leo cream
(chiefly, perhaps, because they can't
get iD. l used to pay six-penco for a
little humbugging glassful, with the
bottom of the glass way up near the
top.
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Gbf Sea GOast Gfbo.
Published every Saturday at Bay ST.
Louis, Miss.

BY recent decision OF Paris court
"confrmed gambling" is regarded as
sufficient ground for divorce. A
good many impecunious foreign noble
men will doubtless continue to regard
it as also sufficient ground for mar
riana
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29

steers; and the effect Of this was to
straighten out the run and bring the
advance straight toward precipice
This precipice was wash in the prai-
rie, forming deep ravine fully thirty
yards wide, and in a shorter time than
it takes to tell of this contretemps
the head of the column was pouring
over, horrible cascade Of beef, plung.
ing madly into destruction while flee.
ing from an imaginary danger.
When Mr.. Wilson and his ieuten-
ants saw that it was impossible to
save their cattle they saved them.
selves by dexterously turning at right
angles at full speed and riding out of
the way. They next returned to the
flank and held council of war. A few
seconds decided them, and all hands
commenced shooting into the herd, the
object now being to build a breast
work of carcassses and save the rear
end from the destruction that had ov-
ertaken the front. The gully was
nearly full of cattle by this time. They
were snorting and believing, crashing
and tearing, and still heaping up; and
when the firing began the wounded
OHtS ONCl Oh luC othClS, anu
in short time the gully, like the sun
ken road at Waterloo, was bridged by
carcasses. The herd surged up in bill
lows, like an ocean, and bent now,
because it could not do otherwise. The
semicircle was formed, and Wilson
and his men crossed the gully below
and rode around the opposite side and
recrossed; and forming an incomplete
letter o, and there they stood, blow
ing, believing, shivering. All hands
remained on watch all night, and in
the morning, when a count was made,
It was ascertained that 2700 head
were missing. There were afterward
200 pairs of horns taken from that
gully. 1t was called Stampede Gul.
ly for many years afterward, and
perhaps will always, with some PEG.
pie, be remembered by that name.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29

Bavaria, Baden and Wurtemberg had
come into the confederation, which in
1857 was fully organized, with twenty
two states and $4,000, 900 inhabitants,
Prussia being in effect the supreme
head, as Bismarck had all along de-
termined it should be. He had been
made a count in 1865, and as reward
for his magnificent services in forming
the North German confederation he
was made its chancellor and president
of the federal council.
The squabble over the proposed cession
of Luxembourg to France afforded Bis
marck an excellent excuse for strength
ening his armies in preparation for
the irrepressible conflict with France,
which came in 1870, and enabled him to
witness the fulfllment of his lifelong
hope, when William was crowned en-
peror of Germany in the palace of the
French kings at Versailles. 1t was
Bismarck who dictated the terms of
peace tothe utterly vanquished Franks,
as it was also he who bore prominent
| part with his king in the campaign that
led up to the glorious victory. In that
month, January, 1871, he was made
chancellor of the newly made empire,
and in the following March his grateful
master created him a prince.
Thenceforward until he was retired by
the presept emperor in March, 1890, he
was virtual controller of the affairs OF
the grea. empire, although he nominally
retired from the presidency OF the state
ministry in December, 1872, to resume
the Office again in the following October
The old king died and the new king
WHO forgot, II he was not envious of, the
Immortal service rendered by the great
chancellor, sent him off to Friedrichs
, \ rnhe in disgrace, with the added title o.
: duke OF Lauenburg. In calm dignity
the proud old man endured his sen
tence, making no complaint. The peo
pie did not forget, nor were they want
ing In gratitude to the man their OLD
king loved and trusted. They, too
waited In silence, biding the good tim
of his vindication, which came like tn
rush of a mountain torrent April
1895, the eightieth anniversary of Bis
marck. Then the king and princes
i and rulers, citizens and the army vie
!. with each other in seeking to do homo
{ to the man who had placed German
n foremost among the nations of Europe
! Never before had the world seen sue
honors heaped upon a private citizer
Il and never before was there privat
It citizen who more richly merited tn
distinction. WILLIAM RossEB C0BBE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29
HISTORIANS IN SESSION.
Texas Historical Society Meeting In
Turner Hall.

Texas Historical Society Meeting In
Turner Hall.
The State Historical Society is in
session in this city today. It was
opened in Turner hall this morning
promptly at 1890 O'clock by Mr.. VIM.
Corner, about fifty persons being
present.
In the absence of Ex-Governor Rob
erts who is indisposed and was unable
10 attend the meeting, Prof. Garrison
read the paper of the ex-governor, en-
'titled: Evidences of the Prehistoric
Man in Texas" 1t was lengthy and
timely article and was enthusiastic
ally received.
At the close of the reading a discus
sion of the subject was invited and
Mrs. Lee Hardy, Judge FILLMORE, Mr..
VIM. @. Corner, Rev. Father Smith
and Capt. Kennedy, the latter the no
ted Indian fighter, all made few in
teresting and appropriate remarks.
Prof. Garrison then announced that
Maj. buttons paper would be post
poned until this afternoon and called
| for historical paper by Rev. Father
| Edmond Smith on the relation OF
| Hueherau st. Denis, of early Texas
history to the st. Denis of early Indi.
an history. AS Rev. Smith had left
| the hail Mr.. Corner read the paper
which concluded the morning session
The afternoon session is now in pro
gress.
A reception to which 500 invitations
| have been issued, will take place il
the hall tonight.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29
cK oF A. OFFICERS.

st. Mary,s branch of the Catholic
knights of America held its annual
election of officers last night, which re.
suited as follows:
Spiritual director-Rev. c. J. Smith,
o. NJ. /.
PRESIDENT. A. Mccormick.
ce-president-Wm. Dobrowolski.
Recording secretary-P. ]. Scully.
Financial Secretary-A. A. ZizIk.
Treasurer-Ben Kiolbassa.
Sergeant-at-arms--ConstantiIt Weise
>Sentry-Jas. Moraweitz,
Color bearers-Ed. Dobfowolski
Herman Froebel, John Fl. P3tonowitz
Trusee for three years-lfr. George
Bowen.
Delegate to the state contention IL
Galveston next May-Wm. iDobrow
DISK.
Auditing committee Michae
C5SiS..-sy, DR.. Geo. Bowen andl Angus
Miller.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-12-29
PRINCE BISMARCK.
Brief Sketch OF the Long, Busy Life
of the "Iron Chancellor"
Achievements of This Great Man. of
Which the Drowning Glory Was a
United Germsny-Honored on
His Eightieth Birthday.

Prince Karl Otto Won Bismarck
Schoenhausen was born at Schoen
hansen April /, 1915, studied at Got
tengen, Berlin and Griefswold, entered
the army and subsequently, became 8
lieutenant in the landwehr.
Politics attracted him early IN life
and at the age Of thirty-one he became
a member of the diet of Saxony, and ir
the following year, ls47, was in the
general diet, where his radical though
courageous utterances brought hin
into wide fame. is
Entering the diplomatic service In
1851 he was placed in charge of the le'
cation at Frankfort, and in the follow.
ing year was transferred to Vienna,
because of his rigorous jealousy of the
power of Austria. Six years later a
pamphlet, Prussia and the Italian
Question:" ascribed to Bismarck, ex-
cited widespread attention. II urged
a triple alliance between France, Prus-
STA and Russia as check to alleged ag-
gressions of Austria. After serving as
ambassador at st. Petersburg and Paris,
he was called home in 1862, to become
minister of the kings house and of for
eign affairs. Then began his phenom-
email career as director of the affairs of
Prussia in the name of the king. His
career as soldier and diplomat with
his intense loyalty to prince and father
land eminently fitted him for the role
he had now assumed. Rightly did he
bear the name of the "Iron Chancellor"
for he knew no law but that of the king
and his enemies were made to tremble
before him. Scarcely had he assumed
the duties of his station when he dis
solved the chamber of deputies because
it had rejected the budget, and those
newspapers which protested against
the act, as well as number of officials
who showed hostility to the govern
ment, were vigorously and relentlessly
prosecuted. When in the following
January the deputies in an address to
the king charged him with having vio-
lated the constitution, he protested
against this accusation with extraordi-
nary vigor, insisting on the rights of
the king and the subordinatiou of the
popular will to the monarch's authority.
Bismarck thought he saw an oppor-
tunity for German unity when he
formed an alliance with Italy and made
war against Austria. After the victory
over the latter country, with utter dis
regard of the rights of the smaller prov
inces and kingdoms, he began to annex
them to Prussia, Frankfort, a free city,
being the first to feel the strength of
his invincible arm. Hanover was COM
pletely absorbed, it's autonomy being
destroyed, and by the end of 1886, or
less than six months after the conclu-
sion of the treaty of peace with Austria,
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Friday and Saturday

A de llul novel and funny comedy,
entitled Miss Francis of Yale" comes
TO the Grand opera house Friday and
Saturday with New Years matinee.
after having scored a great laughing
triumph in New York last season. 1t
was written by the well-known dram
atist Michael Morton and will be pre-
scented here by the famous English
comedian, Etienne Girardot who was
the original ''Charley's Aunt" in this
country and an excellent company of
comedians, under the direction of MIR.
Brenton Thorpe.
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