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THE NORTHWESTERN. BENSCllOTKR A QIIISOM, F.d» and Pob* LOUP CITY, • • NEB. Bats measuring nearly five feet from tip to tip of their wings have been round in a cave near Tanga, in East Africa. Mme. du Barry's hotel in the Ave nue de Pari3, at Versailles, is about to be sold. Ijouis XVIli turned the palace Into stables for many years past it has been disused. India is rapidly becoming an impor tant factor (n the coal market. The output last year was nearly 40 per cent In excess of that of the year before, and a still further increase will be seen this year. Exportation of coal from In dia has already begun. The coal is found over wide areas. Over 50,000 acres of unoccupied lands rn Nebraska, Wyoming and Kansas were disposed of during one week re cently, the largest amount in any one week in the history of the land depart ment. The majority of sales were to Dunkards, who attended the conference of that sect at Lincoln, Neb. Large numbers were Induced to give up their Eastern homes—most of them In Penn sylvania—and settle in the West. A national fencing competition has just taken place at Bologna, and the championship was won by Signor At tilio Monferrlto. This "maitre d’armes’’ Is only twelve years old. He fought the most celebrated Italian fencers and beat them all. He used to be the fencing room assistant of the celebrated fencer Sartori, and lis has now' succeeded in vanquishing his former employer and many other past masters of the art. The Zion Lutheran congregation at ! Lancaster recently made its annual ; payment of one red rose to the descend ants of Da* on Steigel, who over a con- ! tury ago donated the land on which the church stands. The anniversary proceedings, which are known as the feast of vhe rose3 were taken part in this yeai by thousands of people, each of them bearing a red rose. Miss Annie Boyer of Pittsburg represented the heirs of Baron Steigel and accepted the rose from the congregation. More people over 100 years old are found in mild climates than in the higher latitudes. According to th' last census of the German Empire, of ; a population of 55,000,000 only sevanty elght have passed the hundredth y ar, j France, with a population of 40.000,000. ! has 213 centenarians. In England j there are 146; in Ireland, 578; and in j Scotland, 46. Sweden has 10, and Nor- j way 23; Belgium 5; Danmark, 2; I Switzerland, none. Spain, with a popu- ^ iation of 18,000,000, has 401 persons over 100 years old. Of the 2,250,000 in habitants of Servia, 575 have passed the century mark. The submarine Narva), convoyed by the sea going torpedo boat Zouave, has returned to Cherbourg from a series of deep sea trials. These trials extended over a period of fifty hours, anti were eminently satisfactory. Rough weather caused great inconvenience to the tor podo boat, but the Narval sank out of tb*' rough surface water and remained below in perfect security. Five times she torpedoed the Zouave, and on her return to port it was found that she still had a sufficient supply of oil on board for twelve hours' consumption, although she had steamed from Cher bourg to St. I.o and back. The statue of the late Empress Eliza both recently unveiled at Godollo Cas tie. a scat of Emperor Francis Joseph, near Budapest, is a bronze figure of more than life size on a high pedestal in Gothic style. She is represented in a walking costume, such as she most frequently wore at Godollo; in one | hand a sunshade, in the other a few wild flowers, and she appears to be resting after one of tier long excur ; sions. Hei- head is crowned only with rich pleats of hair. The figure is tin work of the Hungarian sculptor Kona, and stands in a part of the park most frequented by the empress. It is hard to realize that the hoot black is an invention of the last half century, yet he Is now celebrating in London the fiftieth anniversary of his appearance. He came upon the scene In 1851, the year of the great exhibition in London, the. first of the “world's fairs.'' The city was full of visitors from all parts of the world, and the problem of (lie street Arab was a scri ous one. Mr. Maegregor of the famous Hob Hoy canoe suggested that the boys be organize 1 into a great boot blacking brigade, ami he himself made the first box for holding the “kit.'' the model of those still in use. Idlers Jeered the boys at first, and sometimes stoned them, but the public found their serv ices so convenient that, the trade was profitable. It has prospered ever since, and Is now, if not one of the learned professions, at least one with a his tory. A Baltimore man, convicted on a charge of “having wilfully neglected to supply a dumb animal—a horse— with the necessities of life," and sen tenced to pay the costc, told the Judge that he might have the horse for the fine, but the magistrate Insisted upon getting the money. $1.15. The most curious cemetery is situat ed at Luxor, on the Nile. Here repose tlie mummified bodies of millions of sacred cats. Their remains are side by side with the bodies of king and emperors in mausoleums. TALM AGE'S SEltMON. CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CAST SUNDAY’S SUBJECT. "Behold the I)»j» Come, Silth the Lord, That the rinnm»n Klull Over take the lien per’’—Au*os, I*-, 13—llw Fore* of the liible. (Copyright, 1001, Louis IClopseh, N. Y.) Washington, Jmy 7.—Altuough Dr. Talmage was hindered from attending the great annual meeting of the Chris tian Endeavor society at Cincinnati, his sermons show him to be in sym pathy with the great movement; text, Amos lx., 13, “Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plow man shall overtake the reaper.’’ Unable because of other Important duties to accept the invitation to take part in the great convention of Chris tian Endeavorers at Cincinnati, began last week, I preach a sermon of con gratulation for all the members of that magnificent association, whether now gathered in vast assemblage or busy in their places of usefulness, trans atlantic and cisatlantic, and as it is now harvest time in the fields and sickles are Hashing in the gatherings of a great crop, 1 find mighty sugges tiveness in my text. it is a picture of a tropical clime, with a s ason so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time, and the swarthy hus bandman, busy cutting the grain, al most feels the breath of the horse3 on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow, preparing for a new crop, ' Behold the days come, saith the Lord, •that the plowman shall overtake the reaper.” When is that? That is now. That Is this day, when hardly have .you done reaping one harvest of re ligious result than the plowman is getting ready for another. In phraseology charged with all venom and abuse and caricature 1 know that Infidels and agnostics have declared tiiat Christianity has col lapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete •book; that the Christian church is on ■the retreat. 1 shall answer that whole sale charge today. Orowtli of Clirl*t Innit jr. Cut now let us see whether the hook is a last year's almanae. Let us see whether the *■ arch of God is a Bull Bun retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing all the way. The great English historian Sharon Tur ner, a man of vast learning and great •accuracy, not a clergyman, but an at torney as well as a historian, gives • this overwhelming statistic in regard to Christianity and in regard to the number of Christians in the different centuries: In the first century, 500,000 tians; in the se< ond century, 2,000,000 Christians; in the third cen tury, 5,000,000 Christians; in the fourth century 10,000.000 Christians; in the •fifth century 15,000,000 Christians; in the sixth century 20.000,000 Christians; in the seventh century 21.0C0.000 Christians; in the eighth century, 30, 000,000 Christians: in the ninth cen tury 10,000 000 Christians; in the tenth ’century 50.o c.OOo Christians; in the eleventh century 70,000,000 Christians; in the twelfth et ntury 50,000,000 Chris tians; In tin thirteenth century 75, 000.000 Christians: in the fourteenth century 80.000,000 Christians; in til:• .fifteenth century 100,000,000 Chris tians; in the sixteenth century, 125. 0.00,000 Christians; in the seventeenth century 155,000,000 Christians; in the eighteenth century 200,000.000 Chris tians—a decadence, as >uu observe, in only one century, and more than made ■up in the following centuries, while it -is the usual computation that there were at the close of the nineteenth .century 470,000.0n<) Christians, making .us to lirlieve that before this century is closed the millentum will have I started its boom and lifted its hosati I na. Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! How lone-one it must he! Who will take it out of the poor house? Poor Christianity! Pour hun dred millions in one century. In a .few weeks of tills year 11.500,01)0 copies of Hie New Testament dbtrilmted. i Why, the earth is like an old castle with 20 gates and a p ak of artillery -ready to thunder down every gate. See how heathendom is being sur rounded and honeycombed and at tacked by this all e mquerir.g gospr 1. At the beginning of the nineteenth century 150 missionaries; at the close [of that century 81,000 misionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of the nineteenth cen tury there were only 50.000 converts. Now there arc over 1,0 )0,000 converts from heathendom. The Form «.f Hi • |;ibl«. Suppose the congress of the United States should pa s a law that there should he no more ilibles printed In America and no BibPs read, if them arc 00,000,000 grown people in the United States, there would be (10,000, '000 people in an army ti put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible. Hut suppose the con gress of the United States should make a law against the reading or the publication of any other book, how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you p.-t CO.003.000 pt»ople to go out and risk their lives in defense of Shakespeare's trap dbs o. Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's ' ll s tory of England?” You know that there are a thousand m m who would die In. the defense of this book wh r • there is not more than one man who would die in the defence of any other book. You try to insult tny common sense by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the centuries. How do I know it? I know It just as I know in regard to other books. How many volumes of that history are published? Well, you say 5,000. IIow many copies of another book are pub lished? A hundred thousand. Which Is the more popular? Why the one that I has the hundred thousand circulation. And if this book has more copies abroad In the world, if there arc five times as many Bibles abroad as any other book among eivi'ij'ed nations, does not that show you that the most popular book on earth today is the word of God? "Oh,” say people, “the church Is a collection of hypocrites, and it Is los ing its power, and it is fading out from the world.” Is It? A bishop of the Methodist church told me that that de nomination averages two new church es every day. In other words, they build 730 churches in that denomina tion in a year, and there are at least 1,500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Does that look as though the Christian church were fading out. as though it were a defunct institution? What stands nearest to the hearts of the American people to day? I do not care in what village or what city or what neighborhood you go. What is It? Is it tli" postofflee? Is it the hotel? Is it the lecturing hall? Ah, you know It is not! You know that that which stands near.st to the hearts of the American people is the Christian church. In Hip Hour of I>l*tr«?«". You may talk about the church being a collection of hypocrites, but when the diphtheria sweeps your children off whom do you send for? The post master, the attorney-general, the ho telkeeper. alderman? No. You send for a minister of this Bible religion.. And if you have not a room in your house for the obsequies,what building do you solicit? Do you say, "Give me the fin est room In the hotel?” Do you Say, ‘Give me that theater?” Do you say, ‘‘Give me that public building where I ran lay my dead for a little while we say a prayer over It?" No. You say, "Give us the house cf God.” And if there is a song to In- sung at the obse quies, what do you want? What does J ’anybody want? The "Marseillaise | Hymn?" “God Save the Queen?" Our : own grand national air? No. They want the hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her •last sleep, or they want sung the Sab bath school hymn which their litt’e girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon ; slie was out before sbc got that awful sickness which broke your heart, I appeal to your common sense. You know the most endearing instiutiton on earth, the most popular institution on earth today is the churrh of the lord Jesus Christ. A man is a fool that does uot recognize it. The infidels say: “There is great liberty now for infidels; freedom of platform. Infidelity shows its power from the fact that it is everywhere tol erated, and it can say what it will." ‘Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day as it was in the days of our fathers. Do you know that in the days of our fathers there were pronounced infidels in public author ity, and they could get any political position? Let a man today declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion and what city wants him for mayor; what state wants him for gov ernor; what nation wants him for president or for king? Let a man openly proclaim himself th" enemy of our glorious Christianity, and he can not get a majority of votes in auy tate, in any city, in any country, in any ward of America. What C'l;ri*<lanlfr Poet. A distinguished Infidel years ago lidir.g in a rail car in Illinois said, “What has Christianity ever done?" An old Christian woman said: “It has done one good thing anyhow. It lias kept an Infidel fiom being govern or of Illinois." As l stood in the side room of the opera house of Peoria, His., a prominent gentleman of that city said, “I can tell you the secret of that tremendous bitterness against ’’Christianity." Said I. “What is it?" “Why,” said he, “in this very house there was a great convention to nomi nate a governor, and there were three or four candidates. At the same tirn% there was In a church in this city a Sabbath school convention, and It .happened that one of the men who was in the Sabbath school convention was also a member of the political con vention. In the political convention the name highest on the roll at that time and about to bo nominated was the name of the great champion in fidel. There was an adjournment be tween ballots, and in the afternoon, when the nominations were being made, a plain farmer got up and aid: 'Mr. Chairman, that nomination must not he made. The Sunday schools of Illinois will defeat him.’ That end d all prospect of his nomination.” The Christian religion is mightier today than it ever wa°. Do yea think that such a scene could be enacted now as was enacted in the day3 of Robes pierre. when a shameless woman was elevated to the dignity of a goddess and carried lti a golden chair to a ca- j thedral where incense was burned to her and people bowed down before her ; as a divine being, she taking the place of the Bibb and Cod. while in the cor 1 ridor of that cathedral wore enacted . such scenes of drunkenness and de ; bauchery as had never before been wit I ncssed? Do you think such □ thing could possibly occur in Christendom ; today? No. The police of Washing ! ion, or of New York, or of Paris would ; swoop upon it. I know infidelity makes n good deal of talk in our day,. , One infidel can make great excitement, but I can tell you on what principle it | is. it is on the principle that if a mau , jumps overboard from an ocean liner lie makes more excitement than all tho 500 who stay on hoard. But the fact that he jumps overboard does not atop | the ship. Does that wreck the 500 pas pcugers? It makes great excitement when a mun jumps from the lecturing platform or from the pulpit into imi delity, but does that keep the Bible or i the church from carrying millions of passenger* to the shores of eternal safety? Ferfratlnn of Christianity What do they agree on? Herschel writes a whole chapter on the errors of astronomy. La Place declares that the moon was not put in the right place. He says if it had bejx put four times farther from the earth than it is now there would be more harmony in tho universe, but Llonville comes up Just in time to prove that the moon was put In the right place. How many col ors woven into the light? Seven, says Isaac Newton. Three, says David Brew'ster. How high is the aurora bo realis? Two and a half miles, says Lias. Ninety miles, say other scien tists. How far is the sun from the earth? Seventy-six million miles, says Lacalle. Eighty-two million miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million miles, says Henderson. One hundred and four million miles, says Mayer. Only a lit tle difference of 28,000,000 miles! All spilt up nmojig themselves—not agree ing on anything. * Here these infidel scientists have im paneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between Infidelity, the plain tiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict. Gen tlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict? No, no. Then go back fur another 500 years and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor miserable wretch in the city pris on tomorrow that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on tho verdict, and yet you expect us to giva up our glorious Christianity to please these men who cannot agree on any thing. Ah. my friends, the church of Jcsns Christ instead of falling back is on tho advance. I am certain it is on the advance. I see the glittering of the swords; I hear the tramping of tho troops; I hear the thundering parks of artillery. O God. I thank thee that I have been permitted to see this day of thy triumph, this day of the confusion of thine enemies! O Lord God. take thy sword from thy thigh and ride forth to the \ ietory! Secular and I’ren**. And then 1 find another most cn eouraging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and the puipit seem harnessed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every banker in this capital tomorrow, every Wall street banker tomorrow in New York, every State street banker to morrow in Boston, every Third street banker tomorrow in Philadelphia, ev ery banker in the United States and every merchant will have in his pock et a treatise on Christianity, 10, 20 or .20 passages of Seriptuje in the reports of sermons preached throughout the land today. It will be so in Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so in Cincinnati, so everywhere I know the tract societies are doing a grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth today equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Mondoy morn ing and Monday everting scattering ! that truth to the millions. What an encouragement to every Christian man! Then you have noticed a more sig uificant fact if you have talked with people on the subject, that they are getting disgusted with worldly philos opliy as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house. They tell you when they were sick and the door of the future seem ed opening the only comfort they could find was the gospel. People are having demonstrated all over the land that science and philosophy cannot so lace the troubles and woes of the world, and they want some other re ligion. and they are taking Christian ity, the only sympathetic religion that ever came into the world.. You just take a scientific consolation into that room where a mother has lost her child. Try in that case your splendid doctrine of the “survival of the fit test.” Tell her that child died because it was not worth as much as the other children'. That is your "survival of the fittest.” Not Ashamed or tlie HI hie. Young man. do not be ashamed to be a friend of the Bible. Do not put your thumb in your vest, as young men sometimes do, and swagger about talking of the glorious light of nature and of there being no need of the Bible. They have the light of nature in India and Cnina and in all the dark places of the earth. Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them comfort for their trouble? They have lancets to cut and juggernauts to crus-li, but uo comfort. Ah, my friends, you had bettor stop your skep ticism. Suppose you are put in a crisis Mko that of Colonel Ethan Allen. 1 saw the account and at one time men tioned it in an address. A descendant of Ethan Allen, who is an infidel, said it never occurred. Soon after i re ceived a letter from a professor in one of our colleges, who is also a descend ant of Ethan Allen and is a Christian. He wrote me that the Incident is ac curate; that my statement was au thentic and true. The wife of Colonel Ethan Allen was a very consecrated woman. The mother instructed the daughter in the truths of Christianity. The daughter sickened and was about to die, and she sold to her father: “Father, shall I take your instruc tion or shall 1 take mother's instruc tion? 1 am going to die now; I mint have this matter deride 1." That man, who had been loud in his infidelity, said to his dying daughter, “My dear, you had better take your mother's re ligion.” My advice is the same to you, O young man! You know how religion comforted her. You know what she said to you when she was dying. You had better take your mother's religion. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL | LESSON III.. JULY 21- GENESIS, 8:1-22. Colleo Tax 11 "Noah I’ounrl Grace In the Fyo* of the Ford"—Noah I* haeed Ip the Ark—Some Ite*ult* of tlia Fall of Man. I. Some Results of the Fall, Exempli fied iti the Early Ages of Man.—A period of many centuries had followed the fall, In which many men had grown wicked, and deeds of violence and crime tilled the earth, and "every imagination of tin* thoughts of Ms heart was only evil con tinually." "It was a world of men, tierce and energetic, violent and lawless, in perpetual war and turmoil." “The eaith ulso was corrupt before God." Cain was among the first of these evil-doers, but the world was becoming a race of Cains. There stems to have been two kinds of people: The children of men, who were degenerate, because without Ocd In the world; and the sons of God, the religious people who continued from Adam Gie worship of the true God. Then the godly race was led astray. "The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose." This In termarrying of religious people with the Irreligious Is to many ";he most danger ous form In which worldliness presents Itself." Usually the result Is the same. "Instead of the ungodly rising to tho level of the godly he sinks to hers." Compare the case of Ahab and Jezebel, "It seems." continues Professor iJods, "like a truism to say that a greater amount of unhappiness has been produced by mismanagement, folly, and wicked ness In the relation subsisting between men und women than by any other cause." From this union sprang a racu of giants," meaning, apparently, rather, fierce and remorseless chiefs, who, in their wild ambition, titled the world with blood and tumult, and all the excesses of unbridled depravity, tl.l it was clear that wickedness would very soon make a con quest of the whole race of man In per petuity. They may have been of gigan tic siae. like those to whom the same name Is afterwards applied In Palestine, but It is not necessarily Implied."— Gilkle. This band of true worshipers Stems to have grown smaller and smaller till at last It was represented by only one family, that of Noah. II. The Great Problem: What to Do 1 With W!< ked Men.—There were four pos sible ways of treating this condition of things: 1. To let it continue with the same Influences of good and evil as had been working for many centuries. 2. Gcd couat destroy the whole race at once, and leave the earth bare. This, too. would mean failure. 3. God could take away their free choice | but then they would no longer be men. There would be neither good nor evil. A world of good men who choose the good I while they might have chosen evil, this alone would be success hi tin creation ut man. 4. He could destroy the wicked l>y sonic net which would be a perpetual warning and pics rvlrg the good could start th nice afresh, without its overwhelming I evil environment, with a past experience j of good and evil behind il, and with hope, through a long discipline and many failures, of becoming the kingdom of God to his praise and g ory through all agt-s and all worlds. III. Building the Ark—Noah, the great gtandson of Munch, also walked wHh God. He was a holy, virtuous, pious man, in a world ruining Itself with wick- i illness. Ills was not merely a passive] goodness, lie was a preacher of right eousness <2 Pet. 2:5*. it is not probable j that he was popular with men, but. he] was In fuv r vvi h Gcd. God warned tin 1 pi. pie 120 y» ars beforehand that a flood would come and destroy them on account . ot ttnir wickedness. And Noah was coin- j inanded to build a great ark for the sal vation of himself and family, and doubt- ! less for any others who would believe i and repent. The ark was not a ship, j meant to sail, but a long, oblong building ! nnant to float with the tides, "a covered 1 raft, or floating house." IV. Bf aeon lights from the Ark.—1. I When men are so had that all Influences! to make them better are in vain, then I God lets destruction come upon them. | 2. God punish's men not because he hates them, hut became lie loves them. The Hood that destroyed most of the people ; was the real salvation of the human ' race. Oial warned and entreated tie people to repent, by Ills Holy Spirit, by j the preaching of a good man, and by his living example. 3, They ran blame only j them-elves for their punishment. lively 1 hi t soul Is a moral suicide. Itself turned ; the k*>y that shut it out front paradise. Illustration.—No philosophic historian ignores the function of great crisis in fit ting the world to u w pb nos of life and thought. ' The lire in London was a blessing.” says I.ord Macaulay. "It burned down the city, but it burned out the plague.” The irruption of the north ern trltos In like manner saved the Western Umpire from stagnation and de cay, although "it cost Kurope a thousand years of barbarism t" escape the fate of China.”—Kev. Jesse Ii. Thomas, D. D. Illustration—‘‘The modern theory Is based upon the true Christian doctrine that a convict is a man and a brother, not a wild htast.” "The great mass of men in our prisons are young men—overgrown, stupid, vi ci< us, unbroken colts. They must be broken to harness: and usually this means severe physical compulsion—not a constant nagging, but scientifically ad minister corporal punishment. The kcI ci.tific sitrg' on se ms cruel." ‘‘Physical Compulsion III prisons there must be. 1 ti lleve in making it short, sharp nnJ effective. With this must ho training, discipline, education and hope. Hope Is gained by the rewards of good behavior through shortening the sentence, and tho possibility of earning a little money by extra or meritorious work. This element ! in the new prison law of New York has proved of inestimable value, as the prison wardens themselves testify.”—Prof. Charles A. Collin, before the M issaclri setts Prison Association. Dredging That Pays. In the operation of dredging navig able channels at the mouth of the j Moruya and Shoalhaven rivers, in New ! South Wales, it was discovered that the mud contained gold dust. An au tomatic gold saver was then attached to the dumping machinery, and it is estimated that enough gold will thus be obtained to defray the expenses of keeping the channels open. 1 omlon** reputation. London, whose population was not more than 1,500,000 when Queen Vic toria came to the throne, has now as large an aggregation of human beings within its boundaries as the whole of Ireland. I'nifornied School Girl. C.irr.v Kllios. One of the features of the Memorial day parade in Pittsburg was a com pany of school girls who wore mili tary uniforms and carried regulation rifles. STORY ON STOCKINGS. + M,,ny nun«n Match Their Gown* With Tliair Hosiery. This Is the story of the woman and her Storking*. It is a stoiy that must be told in whispers, for the world In general is never supposed to think that the woman wears anything more per sonal than hosiery. But the stockings of the woman this year are something to dream about. The desire for thin footwear has come in with the demand for light und airy fabrics in dress goods, and the stockings are quite the thinnest of them all. There are no particular stockings for any particular purpose. Tho finest and most beauti ful of hosiery is worn for all purposes. Naturally, the more elaborate designs of lace and embroidery are reserved for evening and dress wear, but stock ings of the finest quality are worn for all sorts of outing purposes. It is ! natural that, with short skirts and low shoes there should be a desire fbr pretty stockings, and they come with fancy clocks, open work, and with em broidered figures in little neat pat terns, as well as in more elaborate do signs. The most elaborate silk stockings have medallions of lace running up over the Instep, handsome embroidery appliqued upon net, and vertical lines of lace set in with embroidered edges, and there are alternate lines of laca and open work. There are designs in roses, butter!lic3, bow knots, ctipids, baskets of flowers, and the eagle and violets In the L’Aiglon stocking. Many women like to match their gowns ir. their stockings, and there are tans and grays and blues. Blu s al ways are in demand, for bluo is a popular color; it comes nearly up to the black stocking, which is the most satisfactory in the long run. Bed stockings are sold to go with red shoes for house wear, and there are beauti ful white stockings, which are cold to the bride and to wear with white shoes. KEEPS KEYS OF THE JAIL. 4V<>uiau Km t'lmrjo of the County-# Homo for Mulof.-tctm». Probably the only woman Jailer It? the United States is Mrs. Anna McDon ald of Marysville, \V. Va. She occupies the position of a deputy sheriff ano lias charge of a jail in which some of the most desperate characters are kept. She is a widow and lives alone with her two children in the jail, in which there are now confined two of the most desperate moonshiners ever captured in the state and one man charged with murder. She was appointed by Sheriff Isaac Lewis over several oth er applicants because of her great personal bravery and her skill in handling a rifle and a revolver. She does not know what fear Is; she is a dead shot with either a ride or a re volver, and has a killed a good deal of big game especially deer which slit; is Very found of hunting. She will be 43 years old this month, is descended from one of the original settlers oi Grant county and has never been out of the country. Iler husband died last year, leaving her dependent upon her own resources. The jail is at Marys ville, but the county seat is at Peters burg, and when her prisoners arc want ed In court she has to take them ten miles under her own protection, but none has ever yet escaped from her Sam Self, one of the most notorious moonshiners the state has ever known, is now in her custody. Officers have been trying for many years to arrest him. but he always managed to eludo them till a few weeks ago, when they slipped up on him at night at his home at the Smoke Holes. After his arrest he said that he had ten gun.s on his premises when he was arrested. Scheme to Annihilate Dhtnncft. A description of the proposed ex press electric mono-rail line between Manchester and Liverpool was given to a committee of the House of Lords. The railway is constructed on an A shaped platform, on which is laid the lino which bears the carriage Two sets of rails at the side, against which two sets of wheels operate, keep the car steady when running round a curve at a high speed. It is intended to run these tiains at 110 miles an hour, so that if a line were constructed be tween London and Liverpool the, dis tance would be covered under two hours. There is no risk of collision, as by a system of blocking and signal ing the trains are kept fourteen miles apart.—London Daily Mail. Orange* for Maryland. There Is a prospect, It seems, (hat Maryland and Virginia may lie able to add oranges to their annual crops. The Department of Agriculture is mak ing experiments that promise w^ell for these states. Five years ago the first experiments were begun with the Jap anese orange, which Is extensively used for hedges. Later the sweet or augo was grafted upon this hardier stock, and trees representing the cross are growing vigorously in the depart ment grounds in Washington and are now covered with blossoms. Should the yield this year be up to expecta tions, steps will be taken toward planting the new variety exten.-lvely iu Virginia and Maryland. T.lttl* Flimm Ul I aide. The new director was positively revolutionary in his devices. "Instead of paying all this money to detectives for catching defaulters." said he, "why not U3e it to effect such an Increase of salaries a3 would place our help be yond the necessity to defalcate?" The old directors sneered wltheringly. "iou evidently don't understand bank clerks," said they. "Why, if wo were to raise wages that way, probably al most every man in the house would fall dead, and then where should wo be?” This made the new director feel very foolish, of course.