Indian Women Fond of Fine Raiment and Costly Jewels There arc well-dressed Indian women as well ns American women. It •does not matter whether the red woman has her dresses trimmed and made up In latest styles, because the cost Is there—any money counts. Many women of the Kiowa. Comanche, Arapahoe and I'onca tribes have dresses costing from $750 to SISOO apiece. Some of these expensive dresses are shown in the photographs. Other women wear jewelry worth from SOOO to SSOOO. And all this among the full-bloods, too. The half-breeds are even more lavish in buying swell clothes and jewels. The swell costumes of these women are mostly made from tanned buf falo hides. The leather is soft and durable. It is made up into a comforta ble-titling skirt and loose waist. These dresses alone cost very little—not any more than a good silk dress. Hut the trimmings cost. Not less than a hundred elk teeth adorn the bosom of the dress and sometimes 200. These can be sold at from $2 to $lO each. Then a row of gold braid must go around the bottom and a string of pearl beads should adorn every swell belt. With other additions of elk teeth, pearls and oyster shells the dress soon be comes valuable. The Ponca women are eager for jewelry, and most of Ihcm have bought so much that they are now good Judges, of gold and precious stones. Rubies and opals are their favorites. !FALCONRY REVIVED| t' V* _ _ dg. i lie Sport Which the Smart Set Has Taken Up. nflW*« >-*9*e*9-**9*9***999¥9-vSi NOT polo, or tenuis, or golf, or fox hunting or yachting or horse racing—none of these is the most "swagger" of all sports just now. hut the noble ami an cient. sport of falconry. After being a sport which was in England more popular even than fox hunting, fal conry died out and was forgotten. Now it has been revived again, and before long it may cross the ocean and we may have the lieu yards of Long Isl and endangered by circling Jerfalcons, peregrines, goshawks or sparrow hawks. But no kestrels, and you would lie of true and good form, for by the laws passed by William the Conquer or, Edward 111., Henry VIII. and good Queen Bess, the kestrel is the hawk assigned by law to a knave or servant, while to royalty belonged the jerfal con, to the nobility the peregrine, to the yeoman the goshawk and to a priest the sparrow hawk. In England now most falconers hunt with the peregrine, always a popular hawk there, and one which is getting more and more rare along the liritish coast. It builds its nest in some almost in accessible niche of a rocky cliff, and an expert and bold climber is required to scale the eyrie and take the young for training. It' hawking becomes pop ular in this country it will be rather hard on the person who has just learned to say mashie, deck, fore, tee, brassey, etc.. to have togo to work and burn the midnight gas learning all the terms of falconry, from cop ing. crabbing, ctvance, crop, down to wait on, weathering and yarak. One term of falconry we have with us to tills day in rather «• "limon use but misapplied. That the word mews. In Kngland and in this country one sometimes sees a lane of private sta bles called a mews, such as Washing ton Mews. Just north of Washington tHV y FALCONS HOODED ■j|y ON THEIR BLOCKS M|u«rt> in tin* my. Ulun 4 ImwU moult* ahi' u » ti>l in lUt- ' ut III" k|Mlt ut lu I.'HIIV lit "U»l rW" Ull.i »U. |'1«I < UU' ri »lu.' JlUl lu Uiuull used to be called her "mew." Hence a row of such buildings were "mews." Hawks, not horses, belong in "mews." The training of falcons is an art re | FALCON UN HOODED, I I?e-ADY FOE? THE quiring judgment and patience. Their education begins when they are nearly ready tori.v. The young hawks are brought to their future home and turned loose in a shed open in front, but roofed in against bad weather and with sides and a back to it. Blocks of wood are pegged into the ground. These blocks serve the birds for roosts and for (lining tallies. On these blocks the falconer places the food for the young birds, consisting of fresh meat, dead rabbits or birds. The liawks soon learn to tiy and in a short time can be seen soaring above their home and swooping over the surrounding country. Although before long they can fly many miles, they always re turn at feeding time. This is the most II 111 lull* tllllf fill' I III' (nIfUIIHI. Ilf uiuai know jtmt w lu'U lu alt»ii llwa*> ••n ur»i..ii» fur In* yuttuu lia»h». fur if III! *l»r» llli'Ul lIU-11/ 100 long Ikl* nut unit Instincts of tlio bird wilt as sert themselves aud she will stoop to some natural quarry, such as pheas ant or a pigeon. If she begins to ir riuiroahs. At tli IM day the Itedonins tty their falcons and go following tlii'iu over the itaud.v plains of Tunis nnd Tripoli on their licet lior->cs Tile reiutrodltt't 101l of t'Ali'ouiv tts a h|w.rt into Kuro|H' has been MI SIII i i awful that illternutloual moefiUb's are now held. In a recent content of falcoiia at f|iii. 111 IKIIIIU. M'Verul print a »i-re taken by the hawks Ixluuuiuu to • ' K. ItudcljrAV. uu Kuuliahuiuu. who devoted ill mil I lull) to the a|HM't. Ills haw It* are ea|h'ciall.v well trained, and were Mlllt-li aduiircd at the meeting I Hi Igliiui. He has the advantage of mi U|M'U country arouud hla home at Warelutiu, iu IhiMel, thai wlieti gallic Is llllallt d tile falcoiia have a fair chauce of alrtklug their i|iiiirr>. It should IM* uliairinl that It LA the fv tuale hawk which la employed iu ful voiry l üb'oiia are foiiuil Iu alnioat all pail* of the Wuild. llUi| peit'tfiiUfa cnn be bought In this conn try and trained if the sport of hawking ever crosses tlie ocean, and it is likely to. —Xew York Press. (Government Contract With Indian*. The Crow Indians of Montana, who raise a great deal of wheat, have en tered into a contract with the United States Government to supply the Cheyenne Indians with flour. They have constructed a system of irriga tion for their farms, and have a good Hour mill at the agency, while they are building another at a distant part of tlie reservation. They have sold much farm produce annually for sev eral years to buyers in the country round, and many cattle and horses. They are rich in farms and flocks and herds, but this is tlie first time a Government contract or a railway con tract was ever let to an Indian—at least to a "blanket Indian" of the mountains. Fleet rlc Carlrlilices. An Italian electrician lias invented an electric cartridge, which he offers as a substitute for dynamite and smokeless powder in mines, rock blast ing and for heavy ordnance. The com position used in the cartridge is made up of carbonates of potash and chlo ride of ammonia, the proportion vary ing according to the use. The dis charge is effected by an electric spark, which produces electrolytic effects upon the chemicals. The inventor claims Hint the cartridges, until sub jected to tlie effect of electricity, are entirely inoffensive and perfectly safe, so that there will be no necessity for isolating the magazines where they are stored. London Commercial In telligencer. STUDY IN SALT. Kxlrtaelcil From the Oceans anil llollsct Into a Big ltale. Tlie London Daily Express says; Houghly speaking. If you take the salt out of sea water you deprive it of a thirtieth of its weight. Oil this basis one thirtieth of the entire weight of all the sea water in the world is salt, and as salt and water bulk about the same we may estimate also that, by bulk, one-thirtieth of the huge tmtss of the oceans is pure salt. What does ibis bring us to? Taking the 1"0 odd million square I miles of the five oceans lo a vertigo :t mile and a half deep, we have in them alone 2Dti million cubic miles of salt water. A thirtieth of this should give us the bulk of the salt contained in the great waters of the globe Hounding the figures we gel some thing like seven million cubic miles of salt. If it were all taken out and spread over the surface of the six con tinents they would be covered witli its snowy powder to a depth of twice the height of St. Paul's. To put it another way, if all the earth were salt water there would lie enough of the flavoring principle iu it to make two moons of solid salt but very Utile smaller than our present satellite. rut: a*I.T IN tills IN KANH. I'm these comparisons are almost 11io huge lor hiindliug: lei us inks something Himiller. The rolling win era ■■l the English Channel are familiar lo all lauidoiiers. Ilow much *ali Is there ill thet||'t Close Upon a hundred ruble lillli s. Made into a convenient block aud sw ling over the Uielro|Hdla by a giant derrick il Mould griuii Lou doll to Ihe dllsl. A limlllM ArllMie. Will II II gill lellds n IMink lo N 1111111 lo read she always marks the tlnug* ill il I hut she think* look the deeiM.t. N«a \oi k I'l'etta i DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. j SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED | DIVINE. Subject: Thfi Gnrilen of Itin Kliii;—Christ the Founder nml Guriteuer—Tlie Flow er* nnrl Fruits of ItnlicloUN Jlevulloil —Hie ISeauly untight 1.l Tins. (Copyridit in™.l WASHINGTON. D. C. —This sermon Dr. Talmage sends f.om a halting place in his journey through the valleys of Switz erland. It seems lo have been prepared amid tlie bloom and aroma of a garden midsummer. The test is Song of Salo mon v. 1, "I am come into my garden." | The liib'e is u great poem. VVn have in it faultless rhythm and bold imagery and startling authithesis and rapturous lyric . and sweet pastoral and instructive narra tive and devotional psalm; thoughts ex pressed in style more solemn than that of Montgomery, more bold than that of Milton, more terrible than that of Dante, more natural than that of Words , worth, more impassioned than that of j Pollok, more tender tnan tiiat of Cow per, j more weird I lian thai of Spenser. This ; great poem brings all the gems of the earth into its coronet, and it weaves tlie flames of judgment into its garlands and pours eternal harmonies in its rhythm. Everything this hook touches it makes i beautiful, from the plain stones of the j summer thrashing floor to the daughters | of Nahor tilling the troughs for the eam i els; from the fish pools of lleshbon up to | thu psalmist praising Cod with diapason j of storm and whirlwind, and Job's iin , agery of Orion, Arcturus and the Pleiades. My text leads us into a scene of sum mer redolence. Tlie world has had a great many beautiful gardens. Charle magne added to the glory of his reign by decreeing that they be established ail through the realm—deciding even the names of tlie (lowers lo be planted there. Henry IV'., at Montpelier, established gardens of bewitching beauty and luxu riance, gathering into them Alpine, IV renean and French plants. One of the sweetest spots on earth was the garden of Shenstone, th" poet. His writings have made but little impression on the world, but his garden, "The Leasowes," will bo immortal. To the natural advantages of that place was brought the perfection of art. Arbor and terrace and slope and rustic temple ami reservoir and urn and fountain here had their crowning. Oak and yew and hazel put forth their richest foliage. There was no life more diligent, no soul more ingenious than that of Shenstone. and all that diligence and ge nius he brought to the adornment of that one treasured spot. He gave .£3OO for it; he sold it for C17,00U. And yet 112 am to tell you to-day of a richer garden than any I have mentioned. It is tlie garden 1 spoken of in my text, the garden of the j church, which belongs to Christ, for my j text says so. lie bought it. He planted it, ■ lie owns it, and He shall have it. Waiter Scott, in iiis outlay at Abbots ! ford, ruined his fortune, and now, in the crimson flowers of those gardens, you can almost think or imagine that you see the biood of tha„ old man's broken heart. Tlie payment of tlie last £IOO,OOO sacri ficed him. Hut 1 have to tell you that Christ's love and Christ's death were the outlay of tlm beautiful garden of the church, of which my text speaks. Oh, how many sighs and tears and pangs ami agonies! Tell me, ye women who saw Him hang! Tell me, ye executioners who lifted Him and let Him down!- Tell me, thou sun that didst hide! ye rocks that fell! "Christ loved the church anil gave Himself for it." It the garden of the : church belongs t> Christ, certainly He : has a right to walk in it. Come, then, ; O blessed Jesus, today; walk up and down these aisles, and pluck what Thou wilt of sweetness tor Thyself! ; The church, in my text, is appropriately compared to a garden, because it is a place of choice flowers, of select fruits and of thorough irrigation. That would be a strange garden in 1 which there were no flowers, if nowhere j else, they would be along tlie borders or at the gateway. The homeliest taste will I dictate something, if it lie only the o'.d --! fashioned hollyhock or dahlia or daffodil. but if there be larger means, then you j will tind the Mexican cactus anil blazing azalea and clustering oleander. Well, now, Christ comes to flis Garden, and He i plants there some of the brightest spirits | that ever flowered upon the world. Some j of them are violets, inconspicuous, but i sweet as heaven. You have to search and j tind them. You do not see them very of- I ten. nerliups, but you lind where they . have iieen bv the brightened face of the j invalid and the sprig of geranium on the stand and the new window curtains keep | ing out the glow oi the sunlight. They I are, perhaps, more like the ranunculus, i creeping swiftly along amid the thorns ! and briers of life, giving kiss for sting. | nml many a man who his had in his way I some great black rock of trouble has | found that they liave covered it all over with floivarj jasmins running in and out ' amid the crevices. | These Mowers in Christ's jardeu are not I like tlie sunflower, gaudy in the light, but ! wherever darkness hovers over a soul that | needs to lie comforted, there they stand, night blooming ce reuses. ijut in Christ's garden there aro plants that may be [let ter compared to the Mexican cactus - thorns without, loveliness within; men with sharp points of character. They wound almost every one that touches them. They are hard to handle. Men pronounce them nothing but thorn*, but Christ loves tlieui notwithstanding all their sharpnesses. Many a man has had a very hard ground to cultivate, and it Iris only been thro igh severe trial lie has raised even the smallest scrap of grace. A very harsh minister was talking to a very placid elder, and the placid elder said to the harsh minister: "Doctor, I ilu wish you would control your temper." "Ah." said the minister to the eider. I ro'itrol more temper m live minutes than you do in ti 1 e years." It is harder for some men to do right than for other men to do right. The glare tlmt would ele vate you to the seventh heaven might nut keep your brother troui knocking a man I down. I had a friend who came to me I and said, "I dale not loin the chureh " I i said, "'\\ I■ "4Mi. he said. "I have s'.i' h a viiiicnt temper Yesti'iday loom ing I »«s crossing very early at the .lerscv luv ferry, and I saw a milkman pour a large ipiantitv of Water into the iioik tali, .mo I sa ll| t i him: 'I think thai will do.' ami he insulted loe and I knocked him do aii 110 \on think I ought tu )oin the church?" Nevertheless that »ery same man, win was harsh HI his behavior, love I i hrist. H could not speak of »■ i red things v. i|' it leu. of emotion ami affection Ti1".... without. sweetness Mil hill the he»t spcctiiieu of M> '.icall i.n tils I t \cr ass There are others p!antrd in Christ's garden win* are always radiant, always llopcesMiie more like liu* loses oi ii-i ,> 1 line thai we m i»mua!lt tuul, i died j "giants of battle," the M irtlll Lutheis, I St I'auls 110 \ *i»t.r.as, Wiilillr.. I„iii i loeis and v in ii I Ituthertoiii* W lia' in | other inch is i in them is a contli | gl il ion When thc\ naen t they ; great ilrups oi bio M| When tiuv |MM>, thin poller takes tile W hell tliev pli oli It I.i I'vlltMual W'llell the I light. II Is 1 | I lieiUM'p.''lae W lien tiny din, il is a inaitynfoiii Vmi tind a glial Many , in tlie gulden- but only a few "giant* nf | I tat ill M'II saV, Win ill.n I lull have more of ilii*ui in lli.* i iitirv't * ' I sa>, ''Win don t J iiu ban* 111 tlie wotld UWII llHMfluidta and ttVllngliMta * IIIMI |ii«« i lo same ten talents, to iithct* i,f|> Again, Ihe i hutch niat l.« 4ppii<; riat*!t Compared lo a garden, i" i a use il is j plait. ui Irtlll* I tat hr « •iMtijf* gat4«i* whikh tiaU ui il an Un.es, us plmr.i or peaehas or apricots. The coarse* fruits are planted in the orchard or they are set out on the sunny hillside, but tha choicest fruits are kept in the garden. So in the world outside the church Christ has planted a great many beautiful things —patience, charity, generosity, integrity, but He intends the choicest fruits to be in the garden, and if they are not there, then shame on the church. Religion is not a mere flowering senti mentality, Jt is a practical, life giving, healthful fruit—not fiosicn, but apples. "Oh," says somebody, "I don't se:- what the garden of tho church has yielded." Where did your asylums come from, and your hospitals, ana your institutions oi mercy? Christ planted every one of them. He planted them in llis garden. When Christ gave sight to Hartimeus, He laid the cornerstone of every blind asy lum that lias ever been built. When Christ soothed the demoniac of Olalilee, He laid the cornerstone ot every lunatic asylum that has ever been established. \\ hen Christ said to the sick man, "Take up thy bed and walk," He laid the cor nerstone of every hospital the world has ever seen. When Christ said. "I was in prison, and ye visited Me," He laid the cornerstone of every prison reform asso ciation that has ever been organized. The church of Christ is a glorious garden, and it is full of fruit. 1 know there is some poor fruit in it. I know there art some weeds that ought to be thrown over the fence. 1 know there are some crab apple trees that ought to be cut down. 1 know there are some wild grapes that ought to be uprooted. Hut are you going to destroy the whole garden because of a little gnarled fruit? You will tind worm eaten leaves in Fontainebleau and insects that sting in the fairy groves of the Champs Klysees. You do not tear down and destroy the whole garden because there are a few specimens of gnarled fruit. I admit there are men and women in the church who ought not to be there, but let us be frank and admit the faci that there are hundreds and thousands of &lorious Christian men and women—holy, lesscil, useful, consecrated and triumph ant. There is no grander collection in all the earth than the collection ot Christians. There are Christian men in every church whose religion is not a matter of psalm singing and churchgoing. To-morrow morning that religion will keep them just as consistent ana consecrated in their worldly occupation as it ever kept them at the communion table. There are wom en with n.s to-day of a higher type of character than Mary ot Bethany. They not only sit at the feet of Christ, but they go out into the kitchen to help Martha in her work, that she may sit there too. There is a woman who has a drunken hus band, who has exhibited more faith und patience, and courage than Kid ley iu the tire. He was consumed in twenty min utes. Hers has been a twenty years' martyrdom. Yonder is a man who has been fifteen years on his back, unable to feed himself, vet calm and peaceful as though he lay on one of the green banks of heaven, watching the oarsmen dip their paddles in the crystal river! 1 have not told you of the better tree in this garden and ot the better fruit. Jt was planted just outside Jerusalem a good while ago. When that tree was planted, it was so split and bruised and Parked men said nothing would ever grow upon it, but no sooner had that tree been planted than it budded and blossomed and fruited, and the soldiers' spears were only the clubs that struck down thai fruit, and it fell into the lap of the na tions, and the men began to pick it up and eat it, and they found iu it an antidote to all thirst, to all poison, to all sin, to all death, tiie smallest cluster larger than the famous one of Kshcol, which two men carried on a staff between them. If the one apple in Eden killed the race, this one cluster of mercy shall restore. Again, the church in my text is appro priately called a garden because it is thoroughly irrigated. No garden could prosper long without plenty of water. It has seemed as it Jesus Christ took the best. l''rom many of your household* the best one is gone. You know that she was too good for this world. She was the gentlest in her ways, the deepest iu her affection, and when at last the sickness came you had no faith in medicines. You knew that the hour of parting had come, anil when, through the rich grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, you surrendered that treasure you said: "Lord Jesus take it—it is the L' st we have. Take it. Thou art worthy." The others in the household may have been of grosser mold. She was of the finest. The heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindnesses shown theni by 'mmiii tills will not make tliem forget you. There they are, the radiant throngs that went out front your homes. I throw a kiss to the sweet d.irlui| are all well there. I notice that the tine gardens some times have IIIKII fences around them, and 1 cannot get iu. It is so with a king's gurueii. lli" only glimpse you ever get of such a garden is wlieu the king rides out in his splendid carriage. It is not so with this garden: this Kind's garden. I throw wide open Un gate aud tell \ou all to come in. Nil monopoly in religion. Whosoever will, may. Choose now Itetwcen a desert and a garden. Many <>t you have tried the garden ot this world's delight. Non hate found it his been a chagrin. So it was with Theodore Hook, lie made all the world laugh, lie makis us laugh uou when we real bis |t«ieius, but li" could nit make his own heart I.nigh While in the midst of Ins lestivitiis lie confronted a looking glass, and be saw himself und said "There, that is tine. I look just as I nil. done lift in body, uitud and plirse.* Nt it was ot Shcilst ine, of whose guide.i I told \iui .it tin' lie-jinnnu of my -I rinoii lie -it d MV ii uiuid those bowers and aaitl "I have lost mt road to hap ■ fines*. I am and envious and I iruiitic and i|c«j>i» • v\ l'lytliing around 1110 )ilst a • it liecnii.is .» madman to do." II ye weary M».II-> come into I hfUt'L ,:ardcn to tint and pluck a little hearts esse' ( bust is the «rily rest mil the only liardon tor i pen in bed spirit. Do you not thiol, your ib.i.ice h.i* almost come? Ni>u men slid Women who hate been wait ing t < ir alter tea,- for some good oppor* I unity in winch l« uei.pl Christ, but hate put (toned it lite, ten, twenty, thirty years do tou nut I eel us it now your hout of »titation hid come? t) man, whit trudge hut tlmu against tin poor seal that thou 112 lit not lei it lie sated? Some t- its aeo .» vessel struck on the 10. U-. 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