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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04
WINTER SKIRTS.
Warm and Comfortable Garments for the
Cold Season.

Warm and Comfortable Garments for the
Cold Season.
The incest winter skirts are those
made of some glace, dust-shedding
wool, with a little stiffening, like an
alpaca, and lined with flannel. Black
alpaca is the best. Cut The skirt with
two breadths at the back and wide
front breadth, which should be just
about double the width of one of the
back breadths. Gore the front breadth
on each side. Cut the back breadths
with one gored side and one, straight.
The straight side OF the back breadth
should join the front breadth, and the
two gored seams be united together
in bias seam, which must be strongly
stayed with stout tape of black cot
ton. Cut out breadths of flannel to
correspond with the breadths of al
paca. If you have an old flannel or cloth
dress of any color, clean it thoroughly
and use it for lining, by cutting
breadths from it. Basic the black al
paca front breadth on the one of fan
mel. Lay the back breadths of alpaca
over on the front breadth of alpaca and
the flannel on the flannel. Lay the four
edges of the two seams carefully to-
gether and haste them closely. Stitch
up the seams and turn back the back
breadths over each other. Press these
seams with a damp cloth and hot iron
and then stitch up the bias seam in the
back without concealing it. Cover the
one raw seam thus left inside with
cotton tape that acts as stay and
Tor that purpose must be stitched down
edge, covering the seam. Put row Of
feather bone across the bottom of the
front breadth of the petticoat on the
inside, and ornament it on the outside
with box-plaiting, about six inches
wide, of black alpaca. This plating
must be hemmed on both edges and put
on with slight heading. Put yoke
or band on the skirt. Fit the skirt to
either by six little cores in the top
of the front breadth and by plaits in
the back breadth. When alpaca of a
fair quality for this purpose costs but
25 cents yard, and an old flannel dress
skirt is utilized for lining, an inexpen-
sive, as well as useful, skirt may be
easily made.-N. Y. Tribune.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04

Mrs. A. Hauser has succeeded in
raising some fine banana fruit from
her garden on Bowie street, which has
ripened nicely, but which has not the
same fine flavor that the imported
fruit possesses.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04
NOT EASILY MOVED.
What Was Needed to Induce Mr.. Blank to
Go Home.

Go Home.
A pretty girl living near New York is
affected with a large number of would
be beauG, but has no use for any OF
them. For one, in particular, she had
less than no use, says the Sun.
He showed up one evening in a hi
cycle suit and while he sat in the par
Tor with the pretty girl, the pretty
girls little brother sewed the bicycle
cap firmly down to the corner of the
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04
BRAVE YOUNG WOMAN.
How Anna Mcdowell Killed an Eagle
with a Hatpin.

How Anna Mcdowell Killed an Eagle
with a Hatpin.
Miss Anna Mcdowell, 10 years old,
and n resident of Ouakale valley, near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, is at present super
intending the work of a local taxider-
mist who is stuffing one of the
largest bald eagles ever seen in that sec
ton. The giant bird was killed by the
girl while it was endeavoring to carry
off a three-year-old child named Nettie
Hinkle. The little one was playing
along a small trout stream near the
main road, running through the valley.
Miss Mcdowell was on her way to visit
her aunt. when she heard the child's
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04

hall table and then dumped all the
oil from the callers bicycle lamp. But
Mr.. Blank never murmred while he
picked the stitches from his cap as he
said goodnight, and walked the two
miles and half without complaint.
OF course, the pretty girl thought
that Mr.. Blank would never show up
again and gave little brother half a
dozen bear hugs as reward for bounc-
ing him. But ten days later Mr.. Blank
appeared again as if nothing had hap
Pened; this time in evening dress, with
silk hat, It was am awful hot night.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-01-04

The Harmony Bowling club. after
a two weeks lay off, will resume
their regular weekly bowl at the Mis-
sion alley tomorrow evening.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
1.-THE DIAMOND JUBILEE"

4 REVIEW OF SIR LEWIS MoRRIs's ODE.
From The Saturday Review u
..noioice, give thanks. for Mr.. Gladstone
knight,
Who used to thrill the Nonconformst ladies
With Epics fresh from Hades,
Genes forth again to-day for our delight
With lyric blatherskite.
Lo, sweet Sir Lewis Morris OF Penbryh'
Wosld soar where plaintive Austin pads the
ground;
Nor academic Courthope fears
Nor lorn lie Galliennes tears,
But easily Outshnes
Even Theodore Watts-Dunton Of the Pines,
And vaults the Holy Hill with brisk elastic
bound.
Great Bard. whose Misunderstanding voice
Hath chcered many a Cambrlan BOSOM rude
With tender platitude
Come tell US all about the Jubilee.
Hadst thou place whence thou coudst clearly
Those pretty sights that make the Muse rejoice
Unmarried by tricksy boys
Boys that disturb bards fond revere?
Saw'st thou the Premiers, one by one drive by
And dost thou them still with fancys eye,
And hear the rumbling horse-artillery?
The violet Papal Nunco did'st thou scan.
And the bland Chinaman.
And Captain Ames whose helmet smote the sky?
All! yes, for future ages
Thy finger writes it on the stored pages,
In struggling metre like n lullaby.
And vast thou very much impressed?
Thou vast and in thy O,e it stands confessed
The ode before us now. in which indeed,
Thy STYLE is (as humbly beg TO statc),
Though Loyalty Immaculate,
Extremely difficult To initiate.
But oh, so much more difficult to read.
We are afraid thou may'st not like
This way of noticing thy ode;
Rmt should it reach thy Cambrian chaste
abode,
HE with it swiftly on thy sumptuous bike,
Far ND ;he winding dim Carmarthen road,
And in thy Druid forests read the dread re-
vicw,-
n read before thou strike!
sin wilt thou hear, through ALL the voice of
Fate go
Proclaim Thou shalt be great"
Much Of this latter language, 1t is due
TO thy pure Muse to add is true,
Irntampered- and genuine Lewis Norris;
And many a shade Of ancient time
And many a poetaster once sublime,
Shall gather round murmurng pathetic stories;
And tears shall flow from orbits bind,
And ehostly lips console thee. whispering kind
Never you mind!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

masculine pleasure from the Gaunt misshapen
lines of the factory which, even when empty,
suggests to the imagination the tone and spirit
Of men in mass. Crime does not offend him.
UnreasOn, whether it be Of some agglomeration
of people or of the great scattered public, ap-
peals to his sense of size and power The strike,
which is the central episode of his latest novel,
1.-THE Mutabe Many" is a subject well suited to
his special skill One need only turn. however.
to his individual characters to discover that his
skill is superficial. Mr. Barr shows little in
sight and freshness in presenting such types as
Sartwe, the stern factory manager; Edna. the
sweet-tempered heroine; Barney, the parvenu
artist; Mrs. Hope, his acidulous mother, and
most impausible of the lOt-Marsten, the noble
and high-sprited riser from the ranks. He has
not yet learned the art of Characterization.
Against a capital background he has placed only
conventional and lifeless figures
There are probably few scenes in the fiction
Of the year which furnish better reading than
the first chapter of Miss Gertrude Atherton's
latest story, Patience Sparhawk and Her
Times Srawny, frecKled little Patience and
her Spanish playmate, as. in the midst Of their
chatter they try to urge their jogging nag
across the hills from Monterey, are natural
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

original and interesting figures Nor in the first
seventy pages that follow do they dsappoint the
readers expectations. Unfortunately, even here
however, there are premonitions Of the surfeit Of
absurdities which is to come. There is the "in-
sidious elixir of Byron which 'drifted into the
crystal stream" of Patience's maiden thoughts;
there is the hooting owl, whose eyes full
Of utterable nothings" Cleverness without
discretion is sorry gift for novelist, yet it
seems to be the gift which the modern novelist
most of all prizes. What sounds well he never
rejects whatever its irrelevance His ambition
reaches out for-Miss Anterior will pardon the
liberties taken with her vocabulary-the unut
terable everythings Of life. No wonder, then,
that it takes a mixture Of metaphors to char
acterize Miss Athertons work. She PUSHES the
slides in and out of her stereopticon in heller
SHELTER fashion, turns the limelghts upon and
off from her meodrama at climax and anti
climax harangues from her pulpit over motley
array of terrible examples in misplaced zeal,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

cynicism, religion and worldncss. Finally to
complete her sensations with an indispensable
conclusion, she seats her heroine II the electrical
| chair at Sing Sing Seldom has the desire Tor
cleverncss, after so promising a start, reached
so impotent a conclusion.
Whoever added the word "decadence 10 inter-
airy nomenclature chose his term wisely. The
distinctive characteristic of the decadent schooi
is mental disntegration. In place Of plot, one
finds chaos; in place Of order. within; in place OF
composition too often nothing better than de-
composition Bagehot has somewhere stig-
matted the kind of mind to which plot seems
thing to hang plums on. There is no know
ing what he would say of those who treat a
character i'm the same superficial fashion, who
to change the fgure-bepaint and bejewel 1t by
all sorts of merely verbal cleverness, but never
think to give it the beauty which comes from
self-consistency and FEASIBILITY Ouda's latest
story, "The Massarenes" is full Of paltry and
conventional figures-anamic lords imperiously
cynical ladies, pert children and pudgy bour-
geois. In essentials they differ not whit from
the whims of society characters which haunt
sentimental shop-girrs dreams. and the innumer-
able succession of ingenious phrases with which
the author tries to adorn them is sufficiently
futile for the purpose to put one out of sorts with
cleverness.
Denude Ouida's work of its ceverness and
one has Sir Robert Peels BIT of Fool" 1t is
inartistic reporting Of witess actions To be
sure, the author has attempted to portray a self
consistent character and to present phase of
life as he thinks it actually exists. But he mas
failed to recognize that such useless fellow as
being Photographed and that vulgarity is none
the better for being kept dull To find meanhess
interesting one needs as significant hero as
Barry Lyndon and as penetrating an author as
Thackeray. Sir Robert Peel should turn to other
fields
The virtues of Amos Wcklin-Octave Thanets
missionary Sheriff''-are obvious. one wishes
they were a little less marked. character with
so shrewd instinct for guessing right, so
American twang, such homely independence
and such ingenious adventures, is given but a
poor chance when put into the strat-laced
pose of the Sunday school story-book. But it
speaks not n little for Octave Thanets appre-
citation Of the picturesque aspects OF western
life that her hero, with all his conventional
prophecies is after all passable companion FOR
an afternoons reading The familiarlties or that
son of the soil, the Sheriffs deputy; the exciting
rescue of the Brown family from maraudinS IN
dians. the music lessons of the amiabe Arm
strong family under the missiles OF the'r
neiChbors. and. best of all. the mysterious dlS-
appearance Of old Twentypercent-these' WITH
racy vocabulary and the authors sen'ehtiouS
picturcs of local manners and customs by the
way constitute the sou zee of the interest when
gathers about the estimable Sheriff and his'hu-
name detective work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

he had known some years before and whom he
had betrayed and then deserted AS the judge
prOnOunces a sentence Of Imprisonment on the
unfortunate woman, the juryman feels that he
is really the guilty person. and determines to
make what amends lie He visits the pris-
oner's cell and tells her of his intention but she
repulses him. saying her love has turned to
hatred. Notwithstanding this he accompanies
her into exile in Siberia, sharing her hardShipS
and thus doing penance for his own sin.
our portrait of Count Tolstoi is taken from a
recent photograph printed in Mr.. Logans joy
full Russia a handsomely illustrated volume
just issued by the Appletons.
A meeting was held in Liverpool the other
day to start subscription for a memorial to
Mrs. Hemans. 1t is ex )cctcd that the memorial
will take the shape Of fund from which an
annual prize will be awarded in a lyrical COM
petition. The successful poet will receive
considerable sum if the committees expecta-
tons are fulfilled
Dodd Mead e Co. have In press THE Romance
of Civilization in the United States" 1t is by Mr.
c. Barnett Smith, and will cover the period
from the earliest times to the landing of the Pill
grim Fathers.
Students of theosophy will be interested to
learn that "Theosophy,' the official magazine OF
the cult has been enlarged and improved 1t
now makes a comely octave periodical Of about
seventy pages. and its list of contributors has
been increased.
Readers of Kipling who have not happened to
see Slaves of the Lamp may be directed To the
current number of "McClure's Magazine"
wherein the story is printed in full.
The biography Of Professor Huxley, which his
son Leonard has been preparing Is now SAID 10
be pretty well advanced. 1t is expected to ap-
pear in the autumn
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

"The Century Magazine" announces an inter-
estng competition, of which the full particulars
will be found in the September number The
competition will be open to persons who receive
the degree of Bachelor of Arts in any college or
university In the United States during the COM
mencement seasons of 1891, 1898, 1899 and 1900.
During these four successive years three prizes
Of $3.50 each will be offered: First-For the best
metrcal writing of not fewer than fifty lines.
Second-FCr the best essay in the field or biog-
raphy. history literary criticism, of not fewer
than four thousand more than eight thou
sand words. Third-For the best story of not
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
SUMMER NOVELS.


THE MUTABLE MANY. BY Robert Barr
Duodecimo. PIP. 49, Frederick A. Stokes Com
pany.
PATIENCE SPARHAWK AND HER TINES A
Novel by Gertrude Anterior. Octave PIP 4SS
John Lane.
THE MASSARENES BY Oudia. Duodecimo DID.
5S3 r. L. Fenno & Co. "
BIT OF FOOL. BY Sir Robert Peel Bart
Duodecimo. PIP. 345. II. +. Fenno & Co.
THE MISSIONARY SHERIFF. Being Incidents
In the Life of Plain Man Who Tried to DO
His Duty. BY Octave Thanet Illustrated by
A Il. Frost and Clifford Carleton. Duodecimo
PIP. PAS. Harper & Brothers.
For Mr.. Robert Barr crowd has zest. He can
sketch in bold coarse strokes a mob of work.
ingmen, and while he satirizes, make the reader
feel the sway Of their passions. He gets a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25


his invitation. and found his house was little
more than cottage. such as a well-to-do trades
man might live In over here. | knocked at the
door, and Il was presently opened by the Chief
him. His mode Of life was simplicity itself
Yes, he was most remarkable man.
The Appletons have launched a new and uni
form edition of the works Of Mr.. Hamn Gar
land. "Wayside Courtships," "A Member Of the
Third House" and "a Spoil of Office have been
received. Jason Edwards" is to follow. The
enterprise is gracefully undertaken 1t must
be encouraging to Mr.. Garland to see his books
re-issued in this way, with attractive type ana
binding. But we do not see the necessity for
the REISSUE just the same. Mr.. Garland Is
novelist who always shows certain uncouth
strength in his work. but who never yet has
produced a book which is pleasure to read
and privilege to remember
Henry Provide is about to publish for thu
Egypt Exploration Fund part of a papyrua
book found at Behnesa, the ancient OrynXhyn-
chas, some 10 miles south of Cairo. on the edge
CT the Libyan Desert, by Mr. Bernard +. Gren-
fell, of Queens College, and Mr. A. 5. Hunt, OF
Magdalen College oxford. 1t is presumed that
the papyrus was written at the beginning of the
second century or earlier. The sayings are de-
tached without context. and each begins with
ON ne p Ssa Of aprus q nene ~
MISUNDERSTANDING very clear.
The Macmillans announce "The Household Of
the Lafayettes." by Edith Sichel 1t is to be per-
sOnal, anecdotic discursive, and will have many
illustrations. Presumably it will offer some in
formation regarding that noble bearer Of the
name who is of the most interesting figures
in own history.
What THE London Academy" calls "a rather
pleasing bowler" has recently been committed
by one of its contemporaries, society paper or
the English capital Here it is. "Messrs. Hacon
81 Ricketts, have just issued dramatic poem by
that ripe scholar and finished writer, Matthew
Arnold, entitled 'Empedocles and Etna.'" In
American journal the other day reprint or
Calverley's "FlyLeaves' was hailed as the
latest work of living writer.
Nelson's famous autobiography consisting OF
twelve pages of manuscript was sold at Sothe-
bys the other day with some Of his correspond
ence. The lot brought fIO0O An important
Commonplace Book" Of Robert Burns was sold
at the same time for $3.50 Apparently history
has still a claim over poetry which collectors will
not ignore.
Count TostOi is writing new novel, and It's
plot is said to turn upon one of those moral
crises which from the beginning have had
such fascination for the great Russian writer
and philanthropist. According to an English
correspondent the scene Of the new novel opens
in a Russian law court, where young woman
is tried for theft. and found guilty. During the
trial one of the jury recognizes her as one whom
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25
LITERARY NOTES.

Colonel Hays speech on the unvein/ Of the
bust Of Sir Walter Scott i'm Westminster Abbey
has been put into book form. John Lane an
nounces it for immediate publication
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

simple. He had known Washington and all the
other makers Of America and would tell most
interesting stories of them. | gladly remembered
his invitation and found his house was little
more than cottage, such a wellto-do trades
man might live IN over here. | knocked at the
door. and It was presently opened by the Chief
Justice himself. If he had a servant. | nevee
saw him. His mode of life was simplicity itself.
Yes, he was most remarkable man."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

Prosle- Mermees Letters to an Unknown,
which have been circulated more or less in TINS
country, both in English and the original have
been translated anew b" Henri Pene du Bols
This translation, which is 10 be issued by the
Brentanos is announced as the most complete
yet made.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

fewer than four thousand or more than elSht
thousand words
This is the right kind Of competition, and
ought to appeal to college graduates with con
siderable force Ii is doubtful, however, If 1t VIII
he more Interesting to them than to the outside
world. Every one will closely watch the results
of the experiment. 1t is made on high ground,
and should produce excellent work.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

Dodd Mead & Co. have in press THE Roman
of Civilization in the United States" 1t is by y
c. Barnett Smith, and will cover the peri
from the earliest times to the landing of the Z
grim Fathers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-07-25

Readers Of Kipling who have not happened
see Slaves of the Lamp" may be directed to III
current number of "McClures Magazine,
" herein the story is printed in full
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-03-25
Office M ariOn Hon

The boys on 10North, No. 3 pit
have social club between turns Of
cars since the slack run began, the
rooms being as follows 10, II, u,
70, "A, Is, rs, II, Is, 70, but 50 is
lull of frost. AS all dread cold
weather room so can't join.
D D. Coplin. formerly OF Tenn,
VINO went to Arkansas IN the tall
of 1898, moved to Thurber, Texas,
recently. MIR, Copin was well
known around Jasper. Whitwell
and Tracy City III 1878 he went
TO Alabama. Mr. CopIin WIS Il
cever nan but in many respects
he was peculiar. He was a crack
,hot with rifle or revolver, a good
woodstnan ana a professional hun
ter. The forest was his resort in
winter and summer
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-03-25
No Room for Doubt.

Proof, yes overwhelming proof can
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qualities of DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
II caught cold which led to cough
and pain in the chest. (pneumonia?) l
bought DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup, and
after taking one bottle of it, the cough
began to disappear; when I finished
taking the second bottle I was cured.
Gustav Thurmaster, 40 Hickory St.,
Cleyeland,O." Dr.. Bulls Cough Syrup
costs but Is cents. Take only Bulls.
JUST try loo. box Of Cascarets,
the finest liver and bowel regulator
ever made.
Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1897-03-25
For Sale.

A limited quantity of the famous
Niagara grape vines, uuquestion,
ably the best grape for this section
Orders may be lett at the News
office bat should be done at once
as they will be soon sold.