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NEW YORK FA2fflON&
II Designs For Costumes That Have Be
come Popular in the' Metropolis.
t Nw Yoiik Citt (Spooial). There
-are so many way of finishing off a
bodice at the throat nowadays that
i the only difficulty is which to choose.
From tailor-made suits up, every kind
of costume has it neck arrangement
in laco, lisse, chiffon, satin, sillt or
combination of all of these. Iti the
cut on the left ire have a dainty
decoration for the throat io Alenoou
lace. The design is known as the
"Lonis Quinze" that tncmaroU hav
ing supposedly worn cravats of this
style. The stock has a foundation of
white satin covered with the lace put
ou plain, bat frilling about the upper
edge iu a very graceful way. This
frill is much deeper in the back than
iu the front. The jabot of very wide
lace is draped most artistically and
apparently held in place by a couple
of small diamond buckles,
.Sometimes the cravat is a combina
tion of cravats, such as the one in the
centre c f the group. There's no law
glitter with spangles that rival in
brilliancy an empress' jewels. Single
sequins are not heavy enough, so
they are sewed ou donble or triple,
and the brilliant, embroidery designs
really cover a robe from neck to hem.
Miss Marie Winthrop, one of New
York's famous beauties, wears such a
dress; hers is of faint-tinted yellow
satin, veiled with fainter yellou chif
fon finely plaited and filmy and all
a-gleom with silver spangles. The
low bodice is softened with tulle aud
lace, and from nnder this trimming
peep out pink aud yellow velvet roses.
XOVEb NECK ABRANffRMRNTfl.
nowadays against a woman's dressing
her neck with a 'four-in-haud, an
Ascot and a butterfly bow, all threo
at once, if she so desire. A plain
stock of white silk has a narrow finish
to its upper edge in black velvet. A
four-in-hand scarf in white silk re
peat the black velvet scheme iu its
border, three rows of narrow silk
fringe being each headed by a fancy
shecked pattern in black and white
velvet. The ends of this scarf are
rsut shaiply on the bias. The soarf at
its knot is backed by a big butterfly
bow in white lace. We thus have
length, breadth and two kinds of
Modern Petticoats.
Silk petticoats, even with morning
gowns, are worn almost as long as
skirts, and consequently are very
soon soiled and spoiled. For evening
the thinnest and most srossnmer of
colored muslins are trimmed with a
profusion of valenoienues loce. In
fact, there in hardly a silk or muslin
petticoat worn now that a few years
ago would not nave been considered
good enough for a dress. What a
change from the plain white tucked
skirts we used to wear, made in calico
or nainsook, or the quilted black
satins, or the heavy felU of twenty or
thirty years ago, when the dainty ex
travagances of the present day were
never dreamed of!
Hon Hobi Should He Worn.
Boas are generally now fastened at
the waist, aud most people are oon
tont to ns a jeweled safety pin, but a
clever invention is a fastener in the
form of n snake which imprisons
either end of the boa and does not in
terfere with the feathers. This can
be had in gold or silver, and prettily
set with jewels, for ours is oertainly
not nu economical age.
A Tape Made of Feathers.
A three-quarter, length cape made
eutirely of grey ostrich feathers was
seen ou one woman the other day.
The feathers are not iu plumes, but
cut short and look like so many
little grey bristles. The effect is not
pretty and only a desire to look like
some queer new bird will make this
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WHITE SPOTTED NET AND WHITE SILK AND LACE.
cravats, nil combined in a single ar
rangement for the neck.
The present fancy for Persian pat
terns finds special expression in neak
wear. The example shown on the
right of the out is a commendable
model tliat may be worn with almost
any species of bodice, though it is
most effective with black. There is a
stock with two deep pointed turnover
tabs of Persian patterned silk edged
with plain, bright green silk, stitched
finely. The stock proper, as the
parted tabs in the middle of the front
reveal, is of the green silk laid in
flattest, narrowest folds. The cravat
of the Persian silk has a cross fold in
Ibe plain green.
Costumes For Debutantes.
A wilderness of transparent stuffs it
in vogue, especially for the young
girls whom this season introduced in
to society. Miss Mary Crooker, who,
as befits a multi-millionairess, is
credited with wearing an evening
dress bat twice before discarding rt,
has appeared in a lovely gown of two
sorts of laoe over two pettiooats, one
of chiffon, the other of satin.
The upper part of the dress is of an
exquisite creamy silk net draped at
the corsage to give a clinging, jaoket
effect, aud tUon fulling in graceful
tunic. Upon this exquisite back
ground leaves aud flowers, some of
cream guipure lace and others of
Itlack ganze, are appliqued, and these
are flecked here aud there with tur
quoises. The lower part of the dress is made
of m deep flounce of blaok lace over
white silk, and the long, narrow train
flowing out from the waist at the back
i again of the net with cream and
3laok applications..
The bodice is cnt very low, as is
now the mode, and is sleeveless, a
Jarge bow of blaok and turquoise blue
v4vt being placed on each shoulder.
Turquoise blae velvet studded with
turquoises is introduced also amoug
the laoa folds of the corsage. This
lace and jeweled robe is mounted over
white chiffon and this in turn over
white satin. .
Simple gowns of white spotted net
are worn by many of the season's
debutantes, with dainty garuishings
of lace and ribbon, ruohings about
the low corsage aud tuuio, Cotl
pink velvet ribbon encircling the
waist and tied in a snood iu the hair
is a favorite finish to such a toilet.
Often it happens, however, that the
girlish net dress ir ttade to gleam and
fashion popular, even with novelty
loving women.
Far Trimmings the Fad.
The enormous quantity and the ex
pense of the furs that, are worn this
year is one of the niist noticeable
things in dress. It is rather sur
prising, in the face of its being, or
having beeu so far, a very mild season,
that the use of furs should have pre
vailed to such an extent. The fur
coats have not niado their appearance
except on the two or three cold days;
but no mattei how warm the weather
has been, no street gown with any
pretensions to being smart but has
been either trimmed with fur or worn
with a fur wrap a boa, a collar, or
cupe not of tlio poor, cheap kind of
fur, but of the most expensive, de
scription. In the aooompauyiug cut is shown
a long cloak of light gray cloth,
A NOVEL DRESS HANCER.
LONCt CLOAK TIUMMRD WITII FTJB.
trimnieJ with two bands of fur.
Wide revers are edged with the fur,
and the high collar ii also trimmed
with fur. 4
A Simple Contrivance That Flu Against
the Wall of Any llonin.
There are many different devices
for the caio of clothes, now that fash
ion demands that a woman's gar
ments shall not only be mado in good
stylf, fit well and be becoming, but
shall always be iu order. . This is not
so difficult when there is a capable
maid at hand to take off the gown, hang
it up, brush it, press it and put it in
order generally. A woman, however,
who has no maid and statistics prove
that there are more who do not have
them than those who do does well
to use all of the new devices for keep
ing clothes in shape. To throw a
skirt or a wrap over a chair when it is
taken off is a very foolish proceeding,
as every one knows, for if left lyiug
on the chair the garment soon be
comes wriukled aud shabby looking.
It is not always possible to hang it at
once in a closet with other clothes, as
it may be dusty, and yet there is not
always time to give the needed brush
ing then and there.
A woman who has always been ablo
to have the services of a maid has
lately invented a most useful article
for the help of womon who are their
own maids. This is a dress hanger, a
most simple appliance, which fits
against the wall of any room, tukes
absolutely no space and is of inesti
mable service. Like all clever inven
tions, it is extremely simple, and con
sists of a brass rod fitted into a half
sphere, 'also of brass, with a catch
which enables it either to hang down
straight against the wall when not in
use or to stand out straight from the
wall when needod. On this is hung
the skirt, cloak, wrap or waist, as the
case may bo, as soon as it is removed,
the rod being strong enough to sus
tain tho weight of the garment while
it is being brushod. When the skirt
is brushed and ready to be hung in
the closet, all that is ueededis to turn
the rod and it falls straight against
the wall. In somo bouses there are
two or three of these rods in every
room.
Iu the tight-fitting skirts that are
now so much the style such appliances
as these are of the greatest vulne.
The skirt can be hung up at once af
ter it is worn, and there is no danger
of its getting out of shape; after being
brushed it cau be put back into the
closet on ouo of tho hangers on which
all skirts must now noeds hang. Such
little inventions as these have far
more to do with keeping olothes in
order than could well be believed by
ar.y one who has not given atteutiou
to the subject. To put a skirt away
unbrushed means not only that it is
likely to be worn again without the
dust being removed, but also that the
dust will get into the fabric The
silk linings remaiu intact much longer
if the street dust is removed as soon
as possible. Hats and cloaks, too,
that so soon show the signs of wrink
les and wear, can be kept for a vastly
longer time if hung up, brushed and
the ribbons or laces carefully looked
after.
It is Baid that these hangers are
particularly good for women who go
out a great deal and who are kind
hearted enough not to want their
maids to sit up for them, and who,
when they take off their ball gowns
aud opera cloaks, hang them at onoe
ou these rods. The maid can then at
tend to them the next morning, aud
they will not have a traoe of being
worn, whereas if loft ou sofa or chair,
as the case may be, thoy are bound to
show signs of wear. Harper's Bazar.
Latest Novelties In Handkerchiefs.
Artistic designs, ' printed and, em
broidered in colors, are the touoh of
novelty given the new handkerchiefs.
The pure white handkerohief is no
longer a requisite of good form. All
the French handkerohiefs show some
color, either in the border, the mono
gram or the floral design.
Instead of a homstitohed border,
some of the handkerchiofs are finished
around the odge with a vine of raised
embroidered flowers. Tueseare ex
tremely pretty worked in purple vio
lets, yellow buttercups or blue forget-me-nots.
Others have a baud em
broidered flower in the corner, with
tho stem and leaves stamped iu color
instead of being embroidered. Then
there are handkerchiofs among the
uovelties with narrow colored borders
and bow knots, fleur de lis or butter
flies embroidered iu each corner match
ing the border in color. The colors
chosen for these handkerchiefs are
generally light shades, but there are
not a few this season with bright plaid
borders. Among the move expensive
handkerchiefs are those of sheer linen,
appliqued with transparent lace de
signs. These are beautiful, but per
ishable. ,
Tho handkerchief edged with a fall
of lace is uow considered out of date.
The correct lucu trimmed handker
chiefs of to-day are appliqued with
separate lace designs or have as a bor
der narrow bauds of laco insertion.
An effoctivo aud novel idea is to sew
the laoe design to the handkerchief
with fine, light oolored silk. The linen
must be out away beneath the design,
so that the luoe will be transparent.
Three Successful Women.
Three young women of Columbia,
Mo., have entered fields of occupation
which it is not yet frequent to find
women filling. Miss Pearl Mitchell
owns and operates a farm of 860 acres
few miles from Columbia, and it is
said that a well known model farm ad
joining her own has been put in the
shade by her carefully trimmed
orohardB, well kept buildings and
fenoes and practical methods. Miss
Mitchell is a graduate of Stephens
College, Columbia, and has had the
advantage of extensive travel, in her
own as well as in foreign lands.
Miss Birdie Raum, of Columbia, is
freight agent for the Wabash Railroad,
and manages all the freight and trans
fer business of that road in Columbia,
Aside from Miss Itaum's duties, which
require her to meet every train during
tlu day, she isaocoinolished as a cook,
and at the Colombia fair last summer
took several premiums for the best
pastry.
Miss Mary Louise Hale, of Columbia,
a graduate of the State University, is
a builder aud arohiteot and has
planned several largo buildings in her
native city. Hhe in now engaged on
the plans and construction of four
buildings in Columbia, besides a busi
ness blook. The contract for Christian
College she obtained in competition
with architects from St. Louis and
other Wostern cities. This is now
being built.JIt has a $C0, 000 dormitory
building in the Elizabethan style
architecture.
Verr Ornate llucklri.
Tho buckles that are used now dis
play a wonderful amount of work
manship. They are used iu hats aud
ou waists of dresses, and also with
belts. Iu the hats the gold, the
rhinestones and the cut steel and jet
aro the best. The handsomest that
are used on the gowns are made of e
combination of silver and gold, or
say it sub rona of imitation metal.
They nre in open-work dosign,and
are rounded no as not to interfere
with the size of the waist. Indeed,
the idea is that they make the waist
look smaller, for they are put just at
the baok aud reach from side to side.
Then the same sort of buckle is worn
in f rout, leaviug only a small part of
the belt visible.
The buokles on the fur or velvet
short coats are ofteu made large
enough to quite cover tho back of the
waist, that is the back of tho bolt,
then with the front of tho jacket
hanging straight down it can easily
be understood that a very slender
effect is given to the figure, and some
of the best dressmakers claim that
evon a stout womau can wear thin
Btyle of buckle, for it will mako her
look more slender. In the meantime
every gown that is made up has the
narrowest possible belt, and many of
the cloth gowns have the skirts to put
on over tho waist, the band finished
with the narrowest possible stitched
band of the same cloth. This cer
tainly makes the waist longer, and is
more bcooming to the figure.
American Women' Signatures.
A women of foreign birth and edu
cation, who had come to stay in Wash
ington, has been speaking to me of
tho way Americau women sign their
namos to the various letters they
write, says a resident of the Capital.
I have had many notes from Wash
ington women," soys she. "Some of
the notes have been of a semi-business
character, and all havo beeu from
women I am but slightly acquainted
with. My husband has had many
notes, too, aud to all of those we have
received the writers have signed their
names in full so, Sarah Brown
Jones. In my country nobody but a
woman's family aud most intimate
friends is supposed to know what her
Chrisliau name is. She signs none
but letters to hor most intimate
friends Sarah Brown Jones. To all
the rest of the world, aud especially to
persons to whom she writes business
letters, she is S. B. Jones, with Mrs.
or Mme, in parenthesis before it.
"It is just a little bit of reserve
which you liave not iu America. Here
a lady signs a note to her grooer, for
example, by her full name. With us
that fact would indicate that the
grooer was a friond. Witt you it
means nothing, but I think it a pity
that you do not follow our custom, for
you have no way of indicating by your
signature your degree of intimacy
with the person to whom you write."
llathrobes For Women.
There are all sorts of pretty soft
materials in bathrobes for women, and
the "mules" that go with them low
slippers, with only the toe piece, so
that the foot can be slipped in and out
easily are prettier and more satisfac
tory than any crocheted slipper that
ever was made. There is one thiug
about them that a woman likes. She
is not obliged to wear the large sizes.
There being no heel if the slipper is a
little short, it is not uncomfortablo,
does not look small for her and does
not proclaim to the world when it is
off that she is a large woman and ha"
a large foot.
Fashion Motes.
Shirred ribbon is a pretty trimming
for fancy waists aud for children's
frocks.
Some of the corduroy and volvetoen
aud cloth gownB are trimmed with
bands of white kid edged with beaver
fur.
Quite new are tiny ohorms carved
from coral. These include little
images, a skull and cross bones, rab
bit, pig, olover leaf, etc.
Do not oboose a one-piece skirt for
a girl. It will sag, and a short dress
that sags is simply horrible. It sho
is too old to have it on the straight,
malkO it with three or more gores.
Biao bauds and loops made of nar
row folds of mirror velvet and fast
ened at the ends with a tiny gold or
rhinestone button are a very effective
finish for oollar bands and veBt fronts.
Antelope gloves are worn by the
best-dressed women, and the un
dressed thicker tikius are also very
popular. White glaoe gloves are as'
muoh worn as ever for afternoon and
evenings at the theatre.
One of the fashion tendencies is the
favor shown to plaits, broad, narrow,
accordion and otherwise. Even fur
is plaited these days. There is every
reason to expect this feature to come
out very strongly in the spring.
The brass eyelet is beginning to ap
pear ou the woman's shoe to carry out
the effect of tho rounded toe, the pro
jecting sole and military heel. But
for house wear the other' extreme in
footwear is sought, extremely high
heels being in order.
The folding leather purse, which is
held by runuiug two fingers through
a soft leather strap, has, evidently,
come to stay. Every other woman on
the streets these days is carrying one,
and if women will oarry their money
in their hands this is the safest way
to do it.
Just about one womau in five hun
dred appears to have screwed her
oourage up to the poiut of purchasing
and wearing a long-tailed box coat,
and the frauk admission must be made
that the loveliest figure is utterly lost
and forgotteu when Bwathed in one of
these bed gownod shaped affairs.
The present fashion of dress has led
to a demand for long hipped corsets.
These are useful for narrow hips, at.
it is easy to tmpply the necessary
roundness under the curve of the cor
set without destroying the outline as
the hip bustles so generally worn are
certain to do. The latter reveal their
falsity at every step.
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GOOD ROADS NOTES,
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Improving the Highways.
Receut reports from California in
dioote that the use of oil on roadways
has been pretty thoroughly tested dur
ing the last year, and with very satis
factory results. Some seventy-five or
eighty miles have been made dnstless
in this way and seem to have turned
out well enough to lead to a continu
onoe of the practice. The method em
ployed to distribute the oil is by means
of a portable tank running on two
wheels, which are attached to the rear
of an oiltank wagon. Tho small tank
receives its oil from the wagon and
discharges it through tubes on its tin
dor sides. .These tubes are about six
inches apart aud are operated by a
lover.
The oil, it is said, "is run in fur
rows mode by a little hoe, and is cov
ered by other hoes following. This is
to prevent the oil from seoking a level
in any low place and becoming un
evenly distributed on tho road. After
all the oil has been applied the Tsarae
machine is used to incorporate the oil
and earth. Two horses are attached
to the apparatus, and by the means of
numerous other friction teeth, aud by
going over the road the rest of the day
for the purpose of incorporating the
earth and oil, the road is made ready
tor use. ine oil need is a heavy qual
ity of asphaltnm oil, aud is applied
hot. The affinity of the earth for the
oil when both are hot is very groat."
The quantity of oil required is be
tween fifty and sixty barrels for eaoh
mile of road eighteen, feet wide, for
tho first application, aud after that
abont twenty barrels a mile. Three
applications are required yearly.
When the oil, is thoroughly incorpor
ated with tho surface an elastic roof
or covering for the road is produced,
which prevents grinding, cutting or
the formation of ruts, and completely
dos troys all dust. If the road is prop
erly graded and rounded it is said to
shed water perfectly, aud no mud is
formed. It has been feared that road
oiling would prove disastrous to the
tires of rubber-tired vehicles, but
those who have tried it say that such
' not tho case. Country Geutleman.
New York WanU Million. .
The last annual meeting of the Xew
York Division of the League of Ameri
can Wheelmen proved one of the most
interesting in its history. The re
port of the Secretary-Treasurer showed
the division to be in debt $1000 less
thau one year ago, and the balance is
almost entirely due to division ofll
cials. The most important aotion
taken was a resolutiou asking the
State Legislature to appropriate
$1,000,000 for good roads during the
coming year. The resolution will be
followed by active work in its behalf.
Another resolution requested the
Legislature to provide for a cycle path
across the Brooklyn Bridge. A test
case of the responsibility of hotels in
cases where wheels are stolen from
racks, is to be tried at the first oppor
tunity. Delegates to the Nntinnnl
Assembly were eleoted and instructed
to vote against the further control of
racing by the L. A. W. It was de
cided to incorporate the division, and
this will be done at once. Plans for
1900 were discussed, and an active
good roads and cycle-path campaign
was outlined.
This Makes Excellent Itoails.
For some years tho people of Day
ton, Green County, Wisconsin, have
been naiag as a road-making material
a whitish substance which cropped
out ot a hill near the village mill. It
made excellent roads, and that was all
the villagers thought about it. They
are a bit exercised now by the dis
covery, made by a visitor, that the
white substance is the best quality of
silioa, and that it in worth from $10
to $20 a ton for the manufacture of
pottery. Silica is the commonest of
minerals and is universally dis
tributed, but the deposits differ in
degree of crystallization and in purity,
and hence in color. The silica that
bos been unearthed at Dayton is pure
white, and for that reason it is of the
highest value. The bed which has
been sounded is one solid mass ot the
mineral ten feet thick, and it is sup
posed that it extends back into the
hills for fully a mile. Investigation
has proven that there are great
quantities of it in that locality, and it
is believed that there are other veius.
It is rarely found in suoh quantities.
Waiting of ltoarii.
There are two chief causes: One is
the failnre to round the surface, so
that the water may flow off to the
sides; the other is the absenoe of cul
verts to oarry off tho wator that thus
flows from the roadbed. The too com
mou water bars on oountry roads are
an injury, rather than a benefit, for
they soon causo the hollows thus made
to becomo deeper and colleot the
water, thus becoming soft; every
vehicle passing digs out the hollow
and makes it worse. Culverts should
be made under the road at proper dis
tanccs to take the water trom the side
ditches and lead it to the other side,
thus checking the flow materially, and
preventing washingout of the ditches.
As often as may be possible the ditches
should disoharge their water off the
road. But even this method is only
a make shift; the right way is to take
the water of the culverts in covered
drains, thus wholly avoiding the com
mou washing of the side ditches,
A Good Kuada Kxhtblt.
Governor Mount, of Indiana, is por
sonally supervising an elaborate ex
hibit for his State at the Paris Exposi
tion. One of the features of this will
be a series of large photographs to
show the progress of the "good roads"
movement in Iudiana, where there are
now fifty thousand miles of graded
and graveled highway.
The Anil-Hut Campaign.
The California wide-tiro law, passed
two years ago, is inoperative because
of its faulty construction.
Madison County, New York, is to
try the experiment of employing the
jail inmates in road-making.
Governor General Wood says he in
tends to order work begun at onoe ou
the improvement of Cuban highways.
The L. A. W. has not diminished
its campaign for general good roads
because of the sidepath movement.
The paths are a oomfortable expedient,
but the main question is to have roads
everywhere.
KEYSTONE STATE.
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OI N TAUT.
TRAGEDY AT DRIFTWOOD.
Vliung Man Slain in Cold lllnod - KiinnliiR
Fight For Two 1I Men lli-tween runner
and Marauder In 1-nurnnter County
F.arlh Sink Under County Commissioner
Finn at Wllkes-llarre.- Other l.lve News.
Stephen Cnrey, n young man of Drift
wood, was shot clown In cold Mood In the
Lafayette Hotel at tliat place, Itohnrt Knne.
a young man about 20 years of age, Is
charged with the crime. Carry, who was
about of tho same age ns Knne, was sitting
lu the hotel shout 10 o'clock, conversing
with several young men, when Kane walked
lo. It Is said he spoke In nn Insulting man
ner to Carey. A dispute followed, snd
Kane, it Is alleged, without wnrnluff, pulled
a 88-onllber revolver from his pocket, pointed
It at Cnroy's bead and 11 red. The ball en
tered Cnr-y"s forehead and passed through
his hoad. lie fell to the floor nnd died with
out uttering a word. Kano ran from the
hotl and went to his home, where ho was
enptured a short timo later by a poese ot
citizens. He made no rehlstnnee. Word was
Immediately sent to Sheriff Swope, at Em
porium, nnd while awaiting his arrival the
prisoner was kept under close guard. The
shooting created Iniense exeltement nmciig
the citizens. A large crowd soon gathered
about the house whore Knne wns being held
prisoner, and for n time it looked as though
serious troublo might occur. A prominent
citizen of tho town, however, addressed the
crowd nnd counseled them to permit tho law
to take its course. Sheriff Swope went to
Driftwood on the first train, and Kane was
turned over to bis custody.
Almost F.ngulTed 111 Cnve-ln.
As County Commissioner Patrick M. Finn
Wns leaving his stable tn Wllkes-Barre, the
ground suddeuly sank beneath him Just as
he got outside the door. In nn instant he
had sunk up to his waist. He threw out his
arms, but the earth ou eaoh side of him was
sliding downward. Ho realized that there
was a cave-In aud that he was over the old
workings of the l'lue ltldge colliery, whero
he hnd worked ns a boy. With death creep
ing around him, bo made u desperate strug
gle to get out, and after a grent effort he
managed partly lo extricate himself and
reach the side of the barn, aud there he
caught hold of a projecting beam. Hehtiug
to this, but could get uo foothold, as thu
earth continued to slide beneath him. Fin
ally ho drew himself upon tho beam, and
crawled along until he reached a point where
he could got on firm ground. When daylight
came a hole thirty feet deep was found, and
the barn was on the ediie of It. The hole
was a steep pitch of nu old chamber, and had
Finn gone down he would havo been covered
with earth and smothered. The barn was
propped up and tbe hole filled during the
day. No further disturbance Is expected.
Tbe cave was caused by the roof of the
workings falling in and the earth rushing
down until it tilled the place.
After Home Thiovo.
A desperate clinse after horse thieves oc
curred near (lap, Lancaster county, nnd for
over an hour a running flrelietweeu pursuer
and pursued was kept up. Two attempts
have recently been made to steal a horse be
longing to William Trayner, and on Thurs
night Henry Runners, armed with n double
barreled shot gun, decided to watch Tor the
thief. His patience was not unrewarded, bp
about midnight two men approached the
barn, but found tho door to the horse Btable
locked. They went away aud returned
shortly with a crowbar, with which they at
tempted to break the padlock. At this point
Kunners raised his gun nnd fired. The ma
rauders dropped the bar and fled, thinners
giving chase. At frequent intervals tbe pur
suer shot nt the retreatiug figures, discharg
ing bis gun about fifteen times. The thieves
were armed with revolvers nnd shot a hall
dozen times nt Kunners. but none ot the
bullets look effect. The chase was kept up
In tho rain for about two miles, and just be
fore the men entered a honvy woods one of
them screamed that he wan shot. He man
aged to scramble to the shelter of the woods,
where Suuners abandoned the ehiue.
Treasurer lleaconi Injured.
State Treasurer lieueom bad n uarrow es
cape from serious Injury at Harrisburg. II'.1
was leaviug the udnituiHtrntion building aud
slipped on tbe Ice, falling heavily aud strik
ing on the back ot his head. He narrowly
missed hitting tbe edge of tbe stone step,
aud us It wns be was stunned for some time
He was taken Into thu treasury, where he
soon recovered.
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FOR JANUARY
Mine I'lre Kxtliiguinhcil.
A party of officials inspected some ot the
upper worklngsot the JJodson eolliery which
wns on Are for several. months, nnd found
that the flames had been quenched by the
water pumped Into the mine. As souu up
tho water Is all out the debris will bo re
moved and a large force of men will be ut
to work to make repairs and rebuild t )
breaker.
1'itrrliaited Stove WorkM.
The plant ot the Itaymoud J. IVnpU'U
Manufacturing Company, at Jllddletown.
was sold at sheriffs sale to A.xtwider J.
llalfour, of rhlladolpbla, foi ...
Includes an extensive stove works and foun -dry.
Mr. Balfour will make luiurovoiu-"!-nt
once and start the works.
Ashland Mluun Are Hr, ")..,(.
Humors of astrlke among His employ, .
nt the Heading Colli and Iron Company, lc
this section, lack confirmation. The in, t,
have steady work at the mines una e.vpr '
uo dissatisfaction over their wages, as tit y
are wbrking on the t2.59 basis with a sliding
scale which materially increases their earn
ings, Tbe company pnys every two weeks,
furnishes powder at tl.00 pur keg and keeps
uo company stores.
Wind Ulinr Him On" llrhlKe.
While crossing a foot log over the Youghio
gheny river, nt Indian ('reek, David Under
man was blown oft by the high wind and
fell to the rocks lu the water, a distance of
forty feet. His brains were dashed ou'.
I.lnderman was 28 years old and leaves u
wife and ouo child.
News In llrlef.
It. II. Kayre, Jr., has resigned tho poslllou
ot assistant general superintendent of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, Tbe directors
ot the company have elected Archibald
Johnston to tbe vacancy. Mr. Johnston bad
been superintendent ot the nrmor plate de
partment at tbe works.
Levi Florson, of Wilmington, a brnkeman ,
on thu Wilmington & Northern Hallroad, fell
under his train at Coatesville and was so
bad y Injured that bis left leg had to be am
putated above tbe knee.
In transferring powder from one keg to
another, a spark from a lamp caused an
explosion in the Ht. Nicholas Colliery, Mn
bunoy City, anil John Oregas and Hugh
Bnokas wore seriously burned.
The colliery ot tbe Jeddo Coal Company,
at Harlelgh, near Hazleton, will resume op
erations next month after an Idleness of ten
years. Employment will be glvea to dOJ
mou and boys. .
The Hmethport Extrnot Company, East
Hiucthport, capital I00,0tP, was chartered
at Harrisburg,
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Mnhjeclt The Vresehlne ol bl
Mafitiat, ke 111,, l.l7jaB(
l.nke III., 4 Memory v,N)t f
inentnry on the Dny,
IxTnoiHicTtox. John tlioji . 0i
months older than Jesus. '
Mary nnd Elizabeth, weirs "
was born nt Juttnb, a city n, Ci
ot Hebron, in the bill coin's si
For thirty years wo hour, .
except that lie was lu tin. .
denly he appears as prophet .,",w
tko forerunner of Christ, u but
store Nar.arlte in nppearni,.,nnl
and mode of life. He w i, "
tlon of Elijah of old. Ho , U"'
birth. He stands out In nei
With tbe spirit aud nniniier. i wll
CoNXF.cTixa Links. ,v Hi ' ,
seventeen years Havo pas, T
Jesus at the l'nssover f
Jle is still in seclusion nt Nf "H
forerunner appears on then, mi
1. "In the fifteenth y, -Cirunr
died In August, A. I) ? 01
years before his deatb, In Aj
he called Tlborias to ri'lio ,
t. Luke evidently reckons r .Rlc'
Tlborlns was n very b:ul n nn
drunkenness and cruelty. )!nl
late." l'liato was governor &tl"
ten rears, from A. I). 2.; to j
wi', bnd. He was llnnlly V eeti
:.ld to have killed himself. If "
tetrarch." Tetrnroli mniiut 11
ruler of a fourth partof a en1tn.
afterwards used with referm, " .
htitnry ruler. After the deiti ,
Great his dominions werd
wns Herod Antipns, tetmr A
who beheaded John, and ,
wns sent at the time of Hint.
....Abilene." Two provlut.
northeast of Judea.
3. "Annas and Calaplias." vni.
the son-in-law of Ahuhs, or A-'
Is supposed that they xr
priest's office by turns. Tin ug ,
for only one high-priest, m .,
hold offlco for life, but sur-i 'tfl
here. Clarke thinks that r In I
only a deputy, "Came unto .
Holy Spirit came upon him
where be was living. "Sou o tw
Bee chap. 1:6-03. "In tin
"The term wilderness was el
inoc wniou was not refill,; I
and Inhabited."
8. "The baptism of repnnt i
Was n repentance preachsr.
baptism requiring and npni-T" '
ward spiritual ahange; tlis
mission of sins to those a
penitent." he'f
4. "As It Is written." I,n;,em
tlon to Isaiah's propuecy r- t(n
sharaoter of the online
"Theprophee, Tr
"The voice.
tlon to the work rather :hfu
worker. mis voion was ci
loud. "Trepare ye." The
rlf
from the practice of east.'ne
who. whenever they took n j a p
harbluirors before them to v ,.
T ie Ti
country.
5. "Every valley, etc.'
tlve language. The words i,
be n thorough preparation
our King, will coma to u. Bt(
must "be brought low." IBzei
dishonest life must be "strain .
us remove the obstructions o:
cnruul desires. TT
0. "All flesh." OentllesiK-iT'
"Shall see." It will not be 2iL
depend on the testimony of Ci
7. "The multitude." Miitt -i
Pharisees aud Badducoos. I
tized." This was a bapilstn iyHu
nnee; it' wns not Chrlsiiv,
"Generation of vipers." "Un a g
"nits neuotes persons deceit:
clous." "A terribly uxpt'K
He called them snakes. v
"Let us remember that ir--severe."
John desires ttmliior
cape the Impending doom. L...
warned you." How cams ;
that by complying with au o.nei
you can escape the wrath older
un Inward change? of
8. "Fruits worthy of repent)..
did not stop with n protoi
must show their reformation:"!
duct, ltepentance include, teg
tlon; (2) contrition; (3) cou!i,ex
formation; and leads to eonve.'.
Jesus, Peter and Paul all RI
pentauce. "And begin not I F
"The naturnl impulse ot tlieiuj t
heart is to seek out excuse...
fnges when tbe conscious.'
John shatters two commou err eal
that baptism would be sum f' h
tho wrath of God awnv. iiini-hfu
because they are olilldren
therefore they nre safe, "l ' !
Undoubtedly a reference to l; '
tho Gentiles. Out of these k.fou
ernte hearts God is able to it -t (,
flesh and ehildren of Ahrnliunil,
9. "The nxo Is laid." There " 1
here to a woodman, who, haiIOm
tree for excision, lays bissi'l'
while he lays off his outer K iuc
der that he may wield m' J ,
blows. The Jewish nation l au
tho Ilomnus the axe, wlilcliffl,
judgments of Goil, was I'e( )er
down, j
10. "Tho people askel." T.'
classes of persons hero whu
question, "What shall wodojurj
swers given by John show tl .
stood the sins tbey were pranf
were moved by his faithful f.
name as honest inquirers, un
hesltnte to deal faithfully wit
11. "Let him Impart." Till'
able answer. Clothe the nnc
tbe hungry. Jas. 1:27.
SDlrlt of tue Gosnnl.
12. "Publicans." Tax-zutM
Ana lAtatA1 hw tliA .letvs. Vr
not condemn It. K
11). "Exact uo more." Tlie'T
rs collected taxes tor the H""-'
and "they exacte I more tin"
inent authorized them to ilc I
plus they pocketed.'
it. uo violence io no mu-.
rounds throe things ot the so
nre not required to quit tli !
they must bo Just and uprli;"C;
f
'i
flff,
their wicked life if bo baptlzr
exhortation nlninlv Imnliedt
war under certain olrcuinut"
destroyer aud harbarlzer, W
ruling provldeuue of God I'lf,
oivlllzor." r"
15. Whether He were the (Jli.
spoke with such uutborlty, ' I3.
power tbnt the peopld Lioga
was th Messiah. fQt
16. "One mightier than I.
Usui will effout what mlnsl'ff
do." "Not worthy." JspJ,
grontnesM by self-abasement- L
Fire Is the emblem ot the Hoi
17. "Whose fan." Tho M'
strument for purglnir, l
"Floor." His oliuruh. "
believers. "Ournor." Thu fk.
graoebere and of heaven IW
unquenchable." See Matt. t'JJCl
Teachinos. The preaolilui:
pel includes the announem81""
fearful Judgments. Great r
re always bumble men. 'rn"
one (( the ms-ks of true Krno
Tbe Keanarie )"
' The Kearaage demount1',
radical advances In the tM,
mor plating. The United Sc:
ship Iowa, launched In 185 r4
of limited length and twor'
but In the case of the JoJf
was not continued above
the Kearaage, and the -t
type, some of which rel
construction, the practice 'ju
to tbe main deck with ' j
mnr him betm followed.
nh..naa In (ha (rmnnlnZ 0
inent beside the adoption '
Imposed turrets. The aim "j 1 -nient
experts seems to 1h'V.
multiplication of gfln p8" "J
hnnvv atriicrurA. In till
can designers are followW
pie set them by Brltisn
hnttlenhina. In fact. "
bocomlng decidedly Enl1,:
itnce. Collier's Weekly-