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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

Most of the tailor made gown of the
moment fit closely and are much braid
ed. Bright colors appear in Innings
and baird and the edges and skirts
OF such gowns are deliberately braided.
If you were lucky and bought smooth
cloth last season, it will be worth your
while to have it made over for an early
spring gown by having it deliberately
braided. This will meet the difficulty
of the expensive cloth gown, which
after being renewed with braid once
or twice at the hem has lost length.
Such a skirt can be vandyked at the
edge and show a braided under piece
that matches cuffs collars and vest.
In the pictured tailor rig the materi-
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

Coal. Sold by ]. G. MEHAN; quick
sale, small profits. Tel. 2S3. 30 I'm
The G. A. Showers Furniture conf
pany make prices on their furniture
that surprises and gladdens the heart
Of the close buyer. 2-19-tf.
Columbia bicycles, SIS. w. E.Roach
Roofing felt, pitch and as
phalt at Henry Pauly's. Tel. IS.
11-6 I'm
how you will enjoy mounted on a solid
Sterling Bicycle. w. E. Roach.
A visit to the G.. A. Showers Fur
niture company is absolutely necessary
If you want the best goods for the
least money. 2-19-tf.
-Kodaks, w. E. Roach.
o. RIEBE & FRITZ STEINER.
Undertakes and embalmers. 223
East Commerce street. Tel. 341.
For the Mardi Gras celebration
at New Orleans, La, Tuesday, March
2, 1897, the Southern Pacific-Sunset
hOuUt-Hsii Stti IOuhu hfShCsC
Feb. 20, q and 2S, and March 1; also
for train No. 10 arriving at New Or
leans March 2, good for return up TO
and including March II, 1897, at rate
of one fare for the round trip. 2-5-tf
Cool beer always on tap at the
CRYSTAL Saloon. 6120-tf.
See our goods and prices. They
convince you we sell the cheapest. g.
A. Showers Furniture company. 1s-n
CEMENT AND LIME AT HENRY
| PAULYS. TELEPHONE S. 1S-1me
Solid Sterling Bicycles. w. y.
Roach.
Lawn mowers Sharpened at 6fn
East Commerce street. 2-26-1mo.
Craig Williams Furniture company
old court house, Soledad street. 19-lm
Columbia bicycles, sS5. W. E.Roach
Columbia bicycles. SIS. W. E.Roacb
Half and Half on tap. Bull Bros.
saloon. ii - u.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

prove just right; indeed this dress was
sketched in salmon colored taffeta. 1t
was cut princess, had a short train,
and it's turned back fronts were edged
with galoon. The front was taffeta
yelled in white tulle, which was pretti-
~ embroidered at the hem. Around
the shoulders was a pleated collarette
edged with galOon and extending into
n blouse front caught in the belt. Ruff
flies of taffeta edged with galoon fin
ished the elbow sleeves. and the back
of the dress was shaped in a vatican
pIcat.
Changeable taffetas are still to be
had, though no one thinks of using
them for gowns unless they are figured
as well as made changeable and woven
in rustling daintiness. Such material
adapts itself especially to an emery
ency dress. the sort of gown that is
always good investment. A good eX-
ample of this type was rustling, chang
able taffeta showing cinnamon brown
and flame color, with raised black
dots sprinkled all over it. 1t was a
demure looking silk with the merest
CLINT of the flame At least so it look
led with the high necked bodice with a
bolero drapery of heavy lace. high
black satin stock. gauntlet cuffs, and
high satin folded belt.
/ But You should have seen it with its
low necked bodice. with crisp black
tnOusseliue de sole at the neck and at
Me arms. with dashes of flame color
ribbon. aud with tiny flame color
ksek With black net IL frontm
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

for many seasons. A little newer will
be mixed straws, tipped very far above
the nose and the trimming presenting
a landslide from a height at the back
right down over the crown to the tip
of the brim in front. At the back the
hat is lifted on banks of flowers or on
big puffy choux of silk and velvet.
These hats in brown, black and stone
colored effects will be worn under
coarse mesh wells
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
FORCING THE BIKE SEASON.

FORCING THE BIKE SEASON.
The enthusiastic wheelwoman does
not wait for warm weather but she
mounts her machine whenever the
ground is clear enough. Her winter
wheel rig may be stunning affair, so
she welcomes the opportunity for a be-
coming change of costume. Velvet,
corduroy and cloth have all been en-
ployed in the winter wheel dress and
a saucy and picturesque notion is a
blouse of chamoise cloth close fitting
in the back and loose in front, and
cut out about the neck to show the I'M
der bodice The sleeves of such a
blouse are hardly more than caps over
the under sleeves. a trimness of effect
is apparent in such costume, and the
chamois secures warmth.
Her toes and hands are what bother
her in cold weather for even an expert
cannot risk letting go of the handle
bars entirely and carrying n muff. A
trick rider, though she might dare to
carry her little heels on the handle
bar, could hardly put her toes in a
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
Wednesday
SAFE USES OF TAFFETAs.

There is a great deal of silk in the
stores now at very low prices because
so much cloth is to be used in spring
gowns. These silks are good value for
Innings and trimmings but house dress
es are about the only gowns into which
they can be wisely put. For the dainty
boudoir gown pictured here they will
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

ed vest covered with black net in
front. Then the skirt flashed flame
colored lining. The long ends of NOUS
seine de sole weighted at the tips
with a flare of flame color waved and
undulated, and appeared in all sorts
of unexpected lights, till it seemed as
IL someone had put a torch to the de-
mure gown and made regular sunset
of II.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

healthy babies. Weak women sometimes
have healthy babies, but the chances are
against it. Every woman can have
healthy, happy children if she will tale
proper care of herself. DIR. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription is what she needs. 1t
cures the weaknesses and diseases pecul-
lar to women. 1t makes perfect women
of them-women capable OF maternity.
Its use obviates the dreaded, and gener-
ally useless, physicians examinations !"
and stereoty1ed "local treatments" It is
the only u'cdicine for women sold by
druggists, devised by a regularly edp-
Gated, experienced, and skillful specialist
In these diseases, and its sale exceeds the
combined sg1es of all other medicines adj
yertised for ais class of maladies. Taken
during the period of pregnancy, 1t pre-
pares the whole womanly organism for
its time Of trial and danger. 1t practi-
. cally does away with TIE danger and with
nearly all o. the pain.
women who care to know all bout the "a
lite Prescription" and all aoout their own
t-sical being. and the best way to take care OF
5ouid send ~ ouc-ceut stamps 70 pay Tor the
ling orb re copy OF Or res 1872 4 ~
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
FASHION ABOVE THE BELT.

Bodices that are thoroughly novel
are too often so striking that their
beauty, providing they are possessed
Of any, has but little chance to assert
itself because of the garments unusu-
al features. So the bodice pictured
here. is rare one. since it is
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

muf there or mittens. No matter how
well and how fast you ride, hands and
feet will get cold. Worse than that,
numb, unless gloves and shoes fit east
ly. Toed stockings are almost GER
tain preventative of cold feet, but a
shoe to accommodate foot so cover
ed must be at least a size larger than
usual A good stout sole, a stocky
cut of toe, and a saucy mannishness
of cut will go far to preventing the
shoe. even though very large, from
looking very clumsy. A kid glove lin
ed with woven wool, or a kid covered
init glove, to put it another way, is
perhaps the most comfortable wear.
In spring wheeling rigs, which are
soon to be worn and are already Of
fered for inspection, there is little
that is new. Many ingenious devices
had trial last season by women rid
ers, and so few of them stood the test
that this year a crop promises to be
few to the hilr' as the farmer says
to the potatoes. The costume shown
here is a new one, and it's designer
assured the writer very positively that
bloomsrs are to prevail next season.
However she was promoting her own
affafr93 and her confident prophecy will
hardly. reach fulfillment. But il
bloom, 5 are to be, then this pattern
is cert inly preferable to immodestly
scant mes. They were met by leg
gings ind held by a broad leather belt
The issket was tight. its vest drawn
across md white ehemisette hlled
- al
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
Bathing tns

Bathing tue
baby is one of the
joys Of young
motherhood. The
baby's bath is
the pleasantest
feature of the
day. This, oil
course, onl y
when the baby
and the mother
are both healthy,
mot much pleas
ure can be gotten
out of bathing a
peevish, sicklyl
fretful baby. If
the mother isn't
healthy, she can
not get muc b
pleasure out Of
a n vt h i IL &
Healthy mothers,
who are careful
always have
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
MATZos, MATZOS.

Send your order for Matzos mealete.,
to B. Moke's millinery, No. 122 w.
Commerce ST.. next to Wells Fargo EI-
press. 2-3-6w.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

ture, a salmon cOlored satin gown
trimmed with white tulle. The skirt
was draped with pleated tulle, a plain
tulle forming the front breadth. The
bodice was in surplice fashion, and
over it was handsome boIero of ap-
pliqued satin, the tiny sleeves having
pleated tulle frills for trimming. APP
pie blossoms at the left shoulder com
plete the garniture.. and the general re-
suit was characterized by extremely
ornate simplicity. Satin and tulle are
used so generally for ball gowns that
they may almost be said to be the only
material for such use.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28
Ladies' Advisory Department.

For advice In CAGES requiring special
directions, address, giving symptoms,
LADIES' ADVISORY DEPARTMENT,
THE CHATTANOOGA MEDICINE CO.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-02-28

gerOuS rOckS KnOWn as The 7 urn OF Lie. tt IS
the only remedy in the world that Nature
intended for female troubles. You can take it
at home, and nobody but yourself will know
about your sickness. You will get well with
out telling your secrets 10 doctor.
Sold at drug stores for 81 a bottle.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
A HORSES SWIM.
Strange Race in the Thames Mt Bat
tersea.

tersea.
From the London Daily Mall
There was an exciting river chase at Bat
ters ca last night, and q great saving of lifc
The chase was about mile in extent and
a good deal of life was understanding
approaching ton.
The hero of the adventure may be de-
scribed as Dobbin. AS general rule he IS
a cab horse but he has ambitious mo-
ments, in which his soul rises to the level
of Roland'S. and is equal to another charge
of the Light Brigade. Such moment came
last night. He stood in Milmans street
waiting for fares who did not come. big
wind was blowing 1t was cold, and the
futility and aimless monotony Of cab
hcrse's life entered his soul.
Dobbin shook his name and stamped his
white foot. Atavism asserted itself. The
spirit of the ancestral Derby winner
Cured. Dobbin dashed down the street.
and. having no interfering person to pull
the reins he went his own course. This
led to the gutter and the river wall. AT
the gutter there was a portentous smash.
The traces broke. wheel came off. the
cab collapsed. Freed at last from hum
wall, which at that point is low, looked at
the dark river, thought it was tempting,
and forthwith fell over.
Instantly there was hustle on the bank.
There was shouting and the noise of boats
being cast OF from barges. The horse
swan to the middle of the stream, with the
boats splashing behind. He swan through
Battersea bridge, and struck out again.
He headed through a middle arch of AL
bert bridge aid to his disgust found that
the boats were gaining. The stream helped
him and he dreamt of the excitement of
Newmarket and the glories he had been de-
MED. But there were shouting crowds on
the .embankment, and lanterns, and that
was something.
1t was a gallant race. but the odds Were
against the horse. The white boats headed
him off, and drove him to the side. Oppo-
site Battersea park there was a patch Of
mud beneath the river wall. To this the
boats drove him, and with shiver of soul
full disgust-or was 1t cold?-he landed.
Ultimately they got him to the roadway.
and took him back to his stable.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

communing with nature made him better
man. Possibly it did. This was his diet:
Coffee, strong and black, three times a day,
bread baked in his Dutch oven, beef and
mutton bought from ranchmen. deer and
antelope venison, quails, wild turkeys,
ducks, geese, jacksnipe, bass. perch and
potatoes. At the end of two years he was
as strong as an OK and weighed 200 pounds.
He had lungs like bellows and a voice like
a bell He sold his outfit in Fort Concho
and went to San Antonio. On the day he
got there the little hotel doctor died OF
typhoid fever and Thompson went to the
funeral Then he found Grogan in the
stockyards part of the town, drank with
him for half a day. denied the justice Of
Ireland's cause, fought him a long. hard
fight and whipped him. He did not go
back to Boston. No plains are there.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

An interesting announcement Of the Hote
Enpirs--sse ac., gage 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
DECEMBER WILD GEESE.
These birds Very Late i'm Their
Southern Migration This Season.

rom tne HARTFORD Times.
1t is unusual to see the southwark migra-
ton of the wild geese 50 late in the year.
Ordinarily these big birds come flying over
Connecticut from their far homes around
Hudson bag, and hundreds of miles beyond
that rugged shore, from the middle of Oc-
tober till the middle of November. Most OF
them seem TO have gone by as carly as the
first week in November or earlier. Their
two long wedge-shaped lines, converging to
point at the head in the person of an ex-
perienced old gander, are familiar objects
to country jewellers in fall and spring
When they are seen going north IN the
spring it is considered one of the welcome
signs that the winter is practically gone;
aid fin the ate autumn, when their south
ward flight is seen in the last October days
and early in November these feathered
migrants, sweeping by at a height which
sometimes makes the birds themselves but
dimly visible in the gray-clouded sky. are
supposed 20 be fleeing from the early but
fast extending northern winter. This year
the bulk of their migration southwark
seems to have been delayed till December.
Large flocks have been seen flying over this
part of Connecticut for the last week al
most, if not quite, every day up to today.
Some of the latest fiocks were the largest.
Just what such a belated southwark mi
grafton may mean as To the character of
the season upon which We have now en-
tered does not appear TO be wholly clear.
The obvious first thought is that the win
ter has been. very lagsard this year in
shutting down" on the shores of the
Greenland seas. But whether it may also
indicate an ''open winter" for this latitude
is by no means so clear. Ordinarily, the
semi-annual migrat!ons of the wild geese
are pretty good season indicators, but not,
perhaps, beyond the fact of the beginning
or ending OF the winter They go south to
the shores of the Gulf Of MeXico-but their
home is in the far north. There, in iati-
tudes as high as man has reached, they
have their breeding places on the cold and
desolate shores of the Icy seas. They fly
fast-after they do start on their long Jour-
neys-ard achieve vast distances between
the pauses for rest and feeding. These be-
lated December geese, for example, could
perhaps, if endowed with human attri-
buie5, give US the latest news of Andree1s
balloon expedition to the pole-and IL would
be apt to be very recent indeed. They
probably know the secret of the pole
whether it is a mild open sea there or not.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
Maynard Dixon. New York: Continental Pub

Maynard Dixon. New York: Continental Pub
fishing Co.
Eight stories onItAe puebfos and even
more mysterious regions Of farther south
are here told by .F'wf1ter who has thor
oughly imbibed the. r6tmosphere of the
Aztec and Indian 1ore. The tales are in
teresting and well .Aet forth.
Belief. By Dwishe Hintkiey oimstead. Third I'd
ss g.. q S''a 'ef %':
nea1 gs.a'q Tsss author Hs'
1 11sr sns f. a ses Y By Annie
Fenno & Co. ,Wadangsdn: Brentano's.
Penn Shirley author Of s..ie a Mss ssf Wee.y ~
Young Master kiTke,IIe The Merry Five.
% ss VIM f sssniynf
Great Lakes: War of 1912 Series By Ever
EFT T. Tomlnson. author Of The Boy Sol
Ses Of 1sl2 w etc Lee
carey aotho4 Of BY Rssa
oa 1d st0ry eSe Pn1Rsaspna Lip
A DArGHTER OF STRIFE BY Jane Helen
sew York Graves
Washington: Brentanos-
HER PLACE IN THE WORLD By Amanda
Douglas. author Of I'm Trust" .'Claudia, y
etc. Boston: Lee &, Shepard Washington:
VIM. Ballantyne & Sons.
THREE MARGARETs. By Laura E. Richards
author Of Captain January" Melody, =
Queen Hildegarde.., etc Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Estes Il Lauriat.
PACIFIC SHORES: Or Adventures in Eastern
Seas. By Oliver Optic Illustrated. Boston:
Lee 6 Shepard. Washington: VIM. Ballan-
tyne & Sons.
AT THE FRONT: The Blue and Gray On Land
Series. By oliver Optic. Boston: Lee &
Shepard. Washington: VIM. Bnllantyne &
Sons.
ON PLYMOUTH ROCK. BY Samuel Adams
Drake. Illustrated Boston: Lee & Shepard
Washington: VIM BallaEtyne & Sons
THE SINNER By Rita" author of "a Woman
In It," "a Husband of No Importance" etc.
Chicago: Rand, McNaly Co.
THE GOLDEN DAY; and Miscellaneous Poems.
By VIM. g. Dumas. Philadelphia: The Levy
type Go.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
TraIn Loads of Xmas Trees.

From the Philadelphia Press.
Ar entire train load OF Christmas trees
arrived a few evenings ago in the freight
yard of the Pennsylvania railroad in West
Philadelphia, and one of the employees said
that other train loads would come in daily
from NOW until the holidays. TIE ever
greens. he said, came from all parts OF New
England. northern New York. New Jersey
and Pennsylvania, but most of them were
from Maine. They are consigned 10 con-
tractors principally, who VIII distribute
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

those young gentlemen's coats exactly ac-
ccrding to their cloth. But instead of
Keeping 1t quietly to himself he rashly dis
closed part of IL to one OF his customers
that morning, and now he is being sued by
y. for damages equal TO the loss inflicted
by the merchants withdraw al from the
projected partnership. Perhaps the loss is
lrreparable. Anyhow, the law suit is GER
tain to prove entertaining.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16
To investigate Chieaeo's Police.

Senator Lundin. republican, introduced a
resolution in the Illinois legislature yester-
Gay, calling for the appointment Of
LeNow committee TO investigate the chica-
go police ferce.
The resolution states in effect that on ac-
count Of numerous scandals that havo
arisen regarding the management OF tho
police in Chicago, tho morals, safety and
security of the people OF Chicago requires
an investigation.
Senator Lundin claims to have enough
votes pledged to pass IL.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

them among the dealers. The trees are
packed IN bundles with the branches bound
tish,Iy TO ire trunks and are loaded upon
gondola cars with unusuaIIv bieh sida.
Many ears are now on the side tracks in
the yard waiting to be unloaded. Owing TO
the large quantities OF eversreens OF ali
KINDS now arriving 1t is believed that prices
years, il not lower
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

THE HISTORY OF OUR NAVY; From Its Origin
to the Present Day. 1775-1S97. By John r.
Spears. author Of THE Port Of Missing Ships, -
The Gold Diggings Of Cape Horn" etc. In
-Four Volumes New York: Charles Scribner'S
Sons. Washington. Rrentano'a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

Dispatches from five towns in western
Kansas state that all that section of the
country is in the path OF the worst blizzard
ever experienced In years.
Three negroes were lynched near the
town OF st. Gabriel, In Iberville parish,
La, Monday night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

Wellington's Charges Ignored.
The grand jury at Baltimore yesterday
ignored the indictment against Gen. Felix
Agnus. publisher of the Baltimore Ameri-
can. for alleged criminal libel Of Senator
George L. Wellington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

II matters little what 1t is that you want
whether q situation or servant-a
want" ad. In The Star will reach the
rerson who can fill your need.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

DEFIANT HEARTS By w. Heimburs, author of
my Hearts DaAhg y Good Luck" Her
Only BrotheT" eta Translated by Annie W.
Fenno & Co. ,Wasaangsdn: Brentano's.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-16

SOCIAL. LIFE IN OLD VIRGINIA BEFORE THE
WAR. BY Thomas Nelson Page. With Illus
trations by the Misses COwles. New York:
fann