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CHAPTER VIII.
Continued.
"And you will not tell me -what that
sort of half-idea was?" interrupted
Clifford, eagerly.
"2s*o." answered Nell, firmly.
"And now?" pursued Clifford.
"Now I have no more idea who did
It than you have yourself. At first I
tried to think that this Mr. Lowudes
went to sleep with his head full of
thoughts of robbery, and that he
dreamed all that long story that he
told us. But the more I thought about
his manner of telling us, the more I
could not help believing that it was
not a dream, after all. And yet?"
"You saw no one go through your
room Dut Dim .'"No
one," answered Nell, emphatically.
"Could it have been?the?the servant,
the woman I saw in the bar?"
suggested Clifford, with lowered voice.
Nell smiled sadly.
"Poor Meg? No. She has been with
my uncle for fifteen years; and, you
know', they say it is only lately, since
I have been here, in fact," and again
she grew crimson, "that the thefts
have been committed. I am ashamed
to say that that night, when Mr.
Lowndes had told his story, I did go
into poor Meg's room, just to?just to
see if she was there. And she was
fast asleep; really fast asleep, not
shamming. I tried her with a lighted
candle before her eyes; you see I was
desperate," she added, in apology.
"And then I even went downstairs and
had a look at old Nannie!"
And Nell looked deeply ashamed of
the fact she was confessing.
But Clifford, who had naturally less
delicacy on the subject of Nannie and
Meg, secretly cherished a hope that in
some inexplicable way one or the other
of these estimable persons might get
them all out of their difficulty by
eventually confessing to the thefts.
But he was careful to give no hint of
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Clifford did not want to see George
Claris, but he felt bound to do so. The
Innkeeper -was, as he had anticipated,
very surly in manner toward liiin, and
he frustrated Clifford's intention of
opening his heart to him on the subject
of Nell by abruptly disappearing
from the bar .almost as soon as the
young man entered it.
Clifford did not see Nell again; she
t had entered the house at the back.
and he came in by the front, and although
he lingered about until it was
almost dark in the hope that she
would relent and come out and' bid
him farewell, he was obliged to return
to Courtstairs and thence to town
without that consolation. Nell, on the
alert for the expected visitor, was not
long before she discovered him. He
came, only a few days after Clifford's
visit, in the guise of a mild-looking
man with sandy hair and pale eyes,
one of those men whose age it is difficult
to guess until you perceive by a
close inspection of the wrinkles under
the eyes that the apparent lad is well
over forty.
George Claris had no suspicion of
his visitor's profession. In spite of the
rumors about the house, there were
travelers staying there about five
nights in the seven. But then these
were usually of a humble class, whose
pockets might be considered not '
worth the picking.
The detective himself, for such he
was, called himself a commercial
traveler, and professed during the four
nights he spent under the roof of the 1
Blue Lion, to do a round of business
calls in the neighboring towns, returning
to the inn toward evening, now
from one direction, now from another.
In n perfectly unostentatious and business-like
manner. On the second day '
he announced that he should have 1
money to receive on the fourth, and
he made this announcement in the I
presence of as many people as he <
could. Jem Stickels, who still hung >
about the Blue Lion with malicious
eyes on Nell, two or three other fishermen
and a couple of farm laborers '
were in the bar at the time. 1
Jem nudged one of his companions 1
and "winked knowingly. The detec- 1
tire, 'without appearing to do so, saw
the -wink and took note of Jem.
When the last lingerer had been 1
turned out, and the Blue Lion had 1
closed its doors for the night the detective
made a few notes in his own (
room before he went to bed.
On the fourth night, when he was
supposed to be in possession of the 1
collected money, the detective went
upstairs as usual, but not to sleep.
He had avoided such an accident by
a nap in the afternoon. Fully dressed
he lay down under the bed coverings, :
and for three hours, listening intently
to the slightest sound in the house, he
waited.
And presently, about two hours before
the dawn, the expected visitor
came.
Very softly, with the rapid, light
movements of an expert, the figure
crept round by the "wall, grcping,
searching. Tlie man in bed sprang
up. leaped out. and placed bis back
against the door.
Then for five minutes he waited in
vain. Not a sound betrayed vae presence
of another person in the room.
He took a box of matches from his
pocket and struck a light. He could
see the greater part of the small room,
but no trace of a human being beside
himself.
After the lapse of a few minutes it
occurred to him that the intruder
might have concealed himself in a cup
board "which filled the recess between
the wall and the fireplace on the other 1
side of the bed. Trusting to his uwn
nlnibbuess to prevent the escape of i
the thief lie climbed quickly over the
,bed, and had his hand on the cupboard
door wheu a sound behind him caused i
him to turn his head just in time to |
see the door of the room flung open 11
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by the shadowy figure, who must have
been in hiding under the bed.
The detective sprang to the door,
and caught the disappearing figure by
the arm. Instantly it was as still as
a statue.
"Now I have got you!" cried the detective
between his teeth. "Let's have
a look at you." '
Still holding the arm in a firm grip
he struck a fusee from a case he found
in his handiest pocket. Before he
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the light was promptly blown out by
his prisoner, who began to struggle
violently. Still holding the glowing
fusee he tried, while holding his captive,
to distinguish her features by the
red glow. In her frantic efforts to free
herself she flung the back of one imprisoned
hand right upon the fusee,
and uttered a short cry of pain. The
next moment, by a dexterous twist,
she had wrenched herself away.
The next thing of which the detective
was conscious was that there was
a sound like a fall at the bottom of
the stairs, and then the back door was
opened and shut again with a bang.
CHAPTER IX.
Cursing his own ill-luck and the
deftness and fleetness of foot of his
antagonist, the detective hurried down
the stairs and dashed out by the back
door just as he heard the voice of
George Claris from above calling out
to know what was the matter.
Now, there was by this time enough
daylight for the detective to flatter
himself that the chase would be a
short one when once he got out of
doors. He was surprised to find,
therefore, that the mysterious creatine
hf> was nursuinc had vanished al
together, leaving no trace. Dashing
out among the cabbage-stumps he had
a wide view over the fields and across
the little river. But there was not a
sound, not the flutter of a skirt, to
help him in his search. He went carefully
around the house, in the first
place, trying the doors of the outhouses
and peering about for nooks
and corners in which the thief might
lie hidtfen. As for the house itself,
the lower windows were secured by
shutters and bore no sign of having
been tampered with, while the front
door was securely fastened from the
inside. He then made his way to the
group of cottages which stood near,
and questioned a laborer, who was
just leaving one of them to go to his
work, as to whether he had seen any
person within the last few minutes.
The man answered in the negative.
Returning to the back of the inn
the detective was struck by the cirMimctunpo
tliof- n mint xrhifh h.itl hppn
moored at the inn side of the river
before he made his tour of the house,
was now fastened to a post by the opposite
bank. He had just noted this
circumstance when the innkeeper
came out. He looked very surly, and
he went up to the sham commercial
traveler in a threatening manner.
"So it's you that's been turnin' the
place upside down, is it? An' all for
what? That's what I'd like to know?
All for what?"
"You'll know all in good time," said
the detective, dryly. "I want to see
the women folk in your house, if you
please, ladies and all. I dare say you
know what I've come about. I don't
want to be of any more trouble than I
can help, but I've got to clear this
business up."
"Well, you may ferret it out your
own way, then," said Claris, sullenly.
"I'm not going to have nobody disturbed
by you."
"Well," returned the other, in a conciliatory
tone, "I don't want to put
the ladies to any inconvenience, I'm
sure. But if they'll answer a few
question they'll help me, and you, too.
For I'm sure, sir. it's by no wish of
jrours that these tales have got about,
and that you'll be very glad to hear
the last of them."
"That's ns it may be," said George.
"But I'll not stand any inquisitor's
nrork to set them all in hysterics. And
anyhow, by this time they're all out
an' about, and if you want to talk to
them, you may find 'em."
The detective took Claris's insolence
rery quietly. Remembering the incident
of the fusee, he was able to
chuckle to himself with the thought
that he held the clue of which George
Claris knew nothing.
"There'll be a burn on her hand,"
iic muugui iu inmseii, lor many u
ilay."
Returning to the house by the door
through -which he had left, he noticed,
now in the broader daylight, that
there was a large cupboard immediately
opposite, under the stairs. Opening
the door of this cupboard, -which
lie found unfastened, he saw that the
contents -were In some disorder, and
he waited about until Meg, the servant.
came to it to fetch her brooms.
The -woman started -with a gruff exclamation
at his appearance.
"There's nothing for you to be frightened
about." said he. quietly. "I only
want you to tell me whether that is
exactly the state in -which you left
the cupboard when you went to it
last."
it had needed only a very few moments
for him to decide that this was
not the woman of -whom he was wi
search. Stout, broad, clumsy of movement
and heavy of tread, the robust
figure before him had certainly none
of the nimbleness of the thief of whom
lie was in search. He had had experience
enough to know how to assume
an entirely reassuring manner with
persons of her stamp, and it took her
only a few minutes to recover her selfpossession
and to answer him intelligently.
'
"Why, no it ain't." she said, with robust
surnrise and vehempnrp. "Tho
things 'as been knocked down an'
trampled on. an' all my cloths mixed
up. Why do you think. 6ir," she went
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'isself has been in here?"
And she looked back at her brooms,
her pails and her cloths with a mixture
of amazement, fear and respect.
"Well, somebody's been in there,
that's evident, isn't it?" said he, goodhumoredly.
And he decided in his own mind that
the clever thief had opened and shut
the back door loudly as a blind, and
had secreted herself in this cupboard
until he was safely out of the house.
"I suppose you don't happen to have
seen him about this morning?" he
went on, in a jocular tone.
"Seen the thief! Lor, no, sir. If he's
been in the house he must have gol
out again pretty quick, for-1 got down
pretty near as soon as the mastei
j himself; an' there was nobody aboul
then, for sure, out 'im ana me ana
Miss Nell."
"The poor young lady was frightened,
I'm afraid, by the commotion?"
"Oh, well, we're used to these setouts
by this time," replied Meg, philosophically.
"Miss Nell did look very
white an' faint-like, an' she was all of
a tremble, poor thing, when she heard
about the fuss. So master packed hei
off to the colonel's, and told her as she
was to stop there till he sent for her."
"The colonel's! And who is the cola
nel?"
"Oh, an old gentleman as lives a lit
tie way from here along the Courtstairs
road. Miss Nell takes them theii
milk there l'rcsh from the cow every
morning and evening."
"Oh," remarked the detcetive, highly
satisfied at having tapped the founl
of Meg's loquacity. "I should have
thought she was too much of a fine
lady for that, your Miss Nell."
"Ah, but she wouldn't do it for anybody
else," replied Meg, anxious to defend
her mistress. "You see, the col
onel an' his daughter are real gentle
folks, only they're poor?very poor
An' they don't keep no servant, an'
Miss Theodora does all the work her
self. So, you see, as she's been klnc
to Miss Nell, an' got the master to give
Miss Nell her fine eddication and
French an the planner, why, Miss
Nell don't seem to know how to do
enough for her. That's how It Is, sir
I'd be glad to take the milk myself
or we could easy get the boy to do It
only Miss Nell likes to do it herseli
like."
The detective was about to interrogate
Meg further, when the voice ol
the innkeeper, shouting to her to kno-rc
why breakfast was not ready, prevented
his hearing any more. And,
much to his regret, he found on his
next meeting with her that the poison
of suspicion had been instilled intc
her mind by her master, and that she
was communicative no longer.
Finding this source of informatioE
dry, therefore, the detective, whc
shrewdly concluded that Nell would
not return until ?he had taken his departure,
sent a boy off toward Stroac
-with his luggage on a barrow, and
paid his bill and went away.
But he did not go very far. Over
taking the boy he made him leave his
luggage at Stroan station, and as sooc
as the lad was out of sight he had 11
taken to one of the inns of the place.
This done he had his luncheon and
walked back to the Blue Lion.
He did not want to put in an appearance
until he knew whether Miss Nell
had returned from her visit to her
friend. But it was a slack time oi
day at the inn, and there was nobody
about of whom he could ask a question.
He managed to get a peep fntc
the bar as he walked past the house,
but there was no one there, either in
front or behind. When he had hung
about the place some time, keeping as
much out of view of possible watchers
us lit: cuuiu ue saw me juuusi uyuie
of Meg at the side door. She was
shaking out a cloth. She started and
uttered a little gasp at sight of him.
"Why," said he, getting, by a dexterous
movement, between her and the
door, "what's the matter? You look
scared at the sight of me."
"Well, I don't want to have any
more to say to you, and that's the
fact," replied stalwart Meg, with her
hands on her hips. "It seems you're
nothing better than a detective chap,
what's coming ferreting about the
place, asking questions and trying to
get us all into trouble. Ugh! I'm
ashamed to be seen talking to you!"
"Well, now, can't you see that it la
for the good of all of you that this affair
should be cleared up, and that It
should be known who it is that has
brought the bad name on the house?"
saiu me ueiecuve, persuasively. 1111
very sure you ladies must be frightened
out of your lives to hear the
things that are said. It'll end by your
all going away from the place like
Miss Nell has done."
To be Continued.
Old Age in Spain.
A Madrid correspondent says that
since many municipalities announced
that they would confer a pension for
life on all persons in their respective
localities who had attained the age of
100 years on tne first of January, hundreds
of centenarians have appeared.
At Seville there is a beggar in his
108th year. Barcelona boasts of a
farmer 110 years of age, while Valencia
rejoices in a mason who claims
to have attained the great age of 130
years and is still hale art' hearty. At
tiie age or tnirty-eignt ne was oia in
war against Nanoleon and remembers
the principal episode in the great
Bonaparte's career. At Tortosa there
has been baptized a ;;irl named Elisa
Sagarra, in the presence of her mother,
granamother, great-grandmother,
and great-great-grandmother. The latter,
who was ninety-eight years of age,
stood as godmother.
WaJte Up, England.
Chalmers Roberts writes from England
for the World's Work a vivid description
of the present English industrial
problem. " Everywhere," says
Mr. Roberts, "is the same exhortation,
tlm filmcist lilnintiro crv "IVilliP TTn.
England." So fast have Germany
and the United States been forging
ahead and so conservative have English
manufacturers and merchants
been that English pride is beginning to
be hurt. "But." the writer concludes,
"these men who have set the seal of
progress on all nations will not lag be
hind, once they realize they are assailed.
When they are fuily awake to
any danger, they meet it with the
qualities tuat have conquered the
world."
F*^^meio)0ie<eie!e^emG^
I Attractions
at St Louis Fair, jf
Says the St. Louis Republic: As one
of the principal attractions of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in
1903, Mr. Henning TV. Prentis, principal
of the Hodgen School, suggests a
gigantic Coliseum?the largest that has |
ever been built Rome's famous am- f
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phitheatre was elliptical in form,
' j about 020 feet by 515 feet, with an
. [ arena 2S5 by 179 feet. Its actual seatI
: ing capacity could not have exceeded
i i 50,000 people. The "Jefferson ColiI
na?im >> am Tift* T>t?nnfle no 11a if fa /Id.
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signed to actually seat GO,000 adults,
| with standing room for 15,000 more.
Its proposed dimensions are 900 feet
by 700 feet, with an arena 400 by GOO
feet The outer wall is about eighty
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feet In height, consisting of three
stories of twenty-five feet each, in the
three orders of classic architectureDoric,
Ionic and Corinthian. The
main entrances are reproductions of
two great ancient structures, the
Arches of Constantino and of Septimus
Severus. Below the seats are
1500 feet of exhibit space, besides a
great natatorlum, or Roman bath.
The Society of Metal Construction,
with headauarters at the City of Mesi
co, says the St. Loius Globe-Democrat,
. has suggested a World's Fair gigantic
I hall, which it proposes to make a cen
tral figure of the St. Louis Exposition,
! If encouraged in the idea. The hall,
' which will be erected for the accommodation
of congresses, conventions
i and inaugurations, will be surmounted
, by a statue of the Republic, bearing
i a flambeau. Electric cars will run to
; the base of the statue, where a mami
moth restaurant will be conducted,
i 1100 feet above the ground. The
i structure will be 1340 feet in height,
i about 300 feet higher than the Eiffel
tower. The projectors claim that it
will be the largest structure in the
world. It will be of metal, except the
entrances, and can be constructed, so
It is claimed, in twenty-two months.
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Artificial Ice Not Modern.
Although the manufacture of Ice by
artificial means has vastly improved
in recent years from a scientific point
of view, it cannot he strictly regarded
as a modern innovation. As far back
as the sixteenth century the natives of
India produced ice by exposing water
in shallow pans to the night air. The
result?if luck attended the operation
.?JTIID n Till 11-. 1 K.r nf tliill lfivnra nf i< (>
i which were afterward pressed together
I into a thick cake. In the seventeenth
j century Italy was the centre o; a small
I ice trade. The peasants would collect
snow and ice from the Appennlnes
and make stores in the mountainside
caves. By this means Naples was supplied
during summer time.
A Giant VTaep.
A female giant wasp has just been
captured at Chapelgill. in Peeble-hire,
and is a rather formidable looking insect.
It measures from tip to tip of
wing two inches, and from end of ovipositor
to end of antennae two and a
half Inches. The wings are glossy
brown, and the body black, with two
Bets of orange bands round it?Pall
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In 1900 five cities had more than 102,
coo population and less than 103,000?
St. Joseph, Omaha, Los Angeles, Memphis
and Scranton.
It must be the spur of the moment!
that makes time co so fast. 1
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The Five-Horned Giraffe.
Sir Harry Johnston's discoveries In
Uganda are of great importance. One
of the new animals which he found
was the "Okapi." It has no near living
relation unless it be the giraffe,
and belongs to a group of ruminants
only represented at the present time
by the giraffe and the prong-horned
antelope, so-called, of North America.
So far as can be ascertained the okapi
is a living representative of the Hellatotherium
genus, which is represented
by extinct forms found fossilized
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in Greece and Asia Minor. The Hellatotherium
may be described as a
poor relation of the giraffe, which has
lost all but minute traces of its former
horn cores, for the giraffe, it "will
be remembered, has on its skull three
bony prominences from which horns
or antlers sprang. The animal is about
the size of a large ox. The coloration
is, perhaps, unique among mammals.
The body is of a reddish color, the
hair is short, and the appearance of
the hide is extremely glossy. The
legs are cream color, but the skin between
the stripes is often white; the
legs and hind quarters only of the animal
appear to be striped.
Another animal which Sir Harry
Johnston has found in Uganda is a
five-horned giraffe, and our illustration
is made from the drawing by Sir
Harry Johnston and reproduced from
the London Graphic, to which we
are indebted for our particulars. The
(Discovered Id Uganda by Sir Harry
Johnston.)
specimens of the five-horned giraffe
were shot in the country lying to the
east of Mt. Elson in the north-eastern
part of the Uganda Protectorate. The
females had only three horns, while
both the male specimens exhibit fivehorned
coros.?Scientific American.
The Amateur Gardener's Fad.
A new departure in gardening la
coming into vogue, or rather a very
old fashion is being revived. It consists
in the grafting of two or three
different sorts of fruit, also roses of
various descriptions on one stock. The
Romans greatly affected this form of
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horticulture, and Pliny describes a
tree growing in the garden of his
friend Lucullus which produced
oranges, lemons, pears and roses all
off the same stem. The Chinese show
great skill in grafting such trees,
which, however, require extreme care,
imd are seldom lone lived.
Pullman Cars as Kcadlnjj Kooms.
There arc now no fewer than fivo
book and paper stalls in Paddiugtou
Station. Growth in the number of
travelers, in the number of readers
among travelers, and in the number of
newspapers published, accounts for
this increase in the facilities for the
distribution of reading mutter. But
the development is one which was not
anticipated by the original promoters
of railways, who, among the advantages
they hoped to confer on the
public, did not enumerate any in the
department of literature. The old idea
that people staid at home to read
gives place to the newer notion that
the railway carriage is the modern
substitute for the library. "I have no
time to read except when I travel,"
\\ as iue coaiessiou tuuut; u. pouu*
oian of name only the other day.?
London Chronicle.
The largest needle manufactory In
the world is said to be at Redditeh,
Worcestershire, England. Over seventy
million needles are made ther j
weekly.
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THE British Museum, iu intelligent
anticipation of the
Winchester commemoration
of King Alfred the Great, arranged
a special exhibition of all the
relics contained in the national collection
relating to Alfred and his times.
It Is not a large collection, says the
London Graphic, but it illustrates the
many sidedness of Alfred's character
in a remarkably effective way. The
manuscripts naturally appeal more
especially to the scholar, but the authorities
have taken pains to make
them as attractive as possible to the
general public. The manuscript copy
nf thp Hfo nf fit \ont In Tj.itin. fnr in
stance, Is opened at the page in which
the story of Alfred and the cakes first
makes its appearance, and one of the
three fine copies of the "Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle" is opened to show the account
of the great battle of Ashdown,
when Alfred and his brother, Ethelred,
defeated the whole army of the Danes
on the site which is supposed to be
marked by the well-known figure of
the white horse cut into the side of
the chalk downs of Berkshire, near
Didcot.
Several of the most precious MSS.
bear unmistakable signs of having
passed through the ordeal of fire, having
suffered severely in the outbreak
in the Cottoniau Library in 1731. Then
there are the laws and charters of
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RELICS OF KING ALFRED EXHI
1. The Alfred jewel (replica), original at
the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
2. Ethelwulf's ring.
3. Anglo-Saxon ring.
4. Silver spoon and fork, 800-890, found at
Sevington, Wiltshire.
5. Ring of Ethelswith (sister of Alfred),
Alfred, and an early copy of his will
In Anglo-Saxon. One of the most Interesting
volumes Is a manuscript copy
of the well-known Life of Alfred by
Asser?the monk of St. David's, who
first came to Alfred's court about 887
?opened at the page describing the
King's occupations and character.
Of the personal objects by far the
most popular is the facsimile of the
famous Alfred Jewel, the authenticity
of which has just been vouched for by
Professor Earle in the elaborate book
on the subject published by the Oxford
University Pi*ess. The professor's
opinion is that the jewel must have
been made by Alfred's order after his
own design, and that it was probably
a production of his youth, before he
assumed a share in puUlic affairs by
the side of his brother, Ethelred.
The collection of Anglo-Saxon rings
in the exhibition is remarkable. The
massive gold ring of Ethelwulf, King
of Wessex, and father of Alfred the
Great?discovered at Laverstock and
presented to the museum by the Earl
of Radnor?and of Alfred's sister, Ethelwith.
Queen of Mercia?found in
Yorkshire and presented by the late
Sir A. W. Franks?brings us very near
to the actual personality of the King,
and are In themselves wonderful
pieces of workmanship for the period
to which they belong. So skilfully
made are they, indeed, that It has been
suggested that they are more probably
the work of Roman smiths than English.
But there are other evidences of the
skill of these ninth-century craftsmen.
A curious silver spoon and fork will be
found among the domestic examples,
and the collection of coins is very fine.
Another relic worth noticing is a leaden
trial-piece, with a cast on the reverse
side for a silver penny of King
Alfred, from a die by the moneyer
Ealdulf. This was found buried in
St. Paul's Churchyard in 1811. The
design was apparently rejected and
canceled, but a very similar die of the
same moneyer was on another occasion
authorized by the King, as specimens
of the mintage are extant. Round
the edge of a circular silver brooch of
Saxon workmanship?with an openwork
centre evidently representing a
bird of prey?is the inscription, "Aelfgivv
me an" (Aelfgifu owns me),
Tvhich corresponds with that on the
goid ring of Aethred, also exhibited.
The brooch was found near Chatham
In 1S22.
Tile bronze seal of Ethelwald (Bishop
of Durham about S50), another of
the relics represented iu our illustra,i
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A cobweb is a much stronger thing
weight may be hold up by one steel vr;
cobwebs, seven iron wires, four platii
wires, four copper wires, four brasB 1
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? I tlons, was found at Eye, Suffolk, nea)H
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j subsequently damaged by fire. Th<
? central device occurs on a silver pent
^ ny of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred
> the Great
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' Movements of Stone*. t- '
Nearly everyone has observed tb"{
! jauntlly-tllted appearance that headi
stones and monuments acquire In ol<f
grave yards, and those who havq
stone walls with insufficient founds*
tion surrounding their premises are
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0^ STOAJ^N. t vfl
EEMONSTBi-TING THE MOVEMENTS OF
STONE AFFECTED BY M0ISTUEE.
greatly troubled at the regularity wlthiM
which they tumble down. At the lasfH
meeting of the Royal Society, of Lon*H
don, the "Small Vertical Movements ogH
a Stone Laid on the Surface of thai
r*nAitn/1" TPAO /KO/iiicoa^ hir Hr TTnro/t/K
V7iuuuu nuo uiov.ucocu uj u.v&u.x.cr
Darwin. By means of a stone with 4
liole bored in tbe centre, through/
which passed a rod deeply imbedded
in tbe ground and a finely graduated
micrometer, readings were taken oveis
a considerable period of time. It was
found that tbe movements of the stonei
-were directly connected with the mois-*
ture of tbe ground. To graphically
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BITED AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
855-SS0); found in West Riding o|
Yorkshire.
6. Trial piece for silver penny of Alfred
found in St. Paul's churchyard.
7. Ornament with inscription, "Aelf gifo
owns me," found in Kent, 1822.
8. Bronze seal of Ethelwald, found at
Eye, Suffolk. . 4
illustrate this point the accompany .rig
curves were plotted.
Forestry a New Profession.
Under the Jurisdiction of the De?
partment of Agriculture are such lm*
portant bureaus and offices as Fores*
try, Public Roads, Animal and Plant
Chemistry, Entomology and Textile
Industries. Hundreds of experts are
employed in these bureaus. In fors
estry In particular is the Government
trying to educate and instruct a large
corps of practical, scientific men, "who
can take proper charge of the forest
lands of the country, and show to the
private owners how best to make
them profitable and productive without
destroying them. Forestry may
be called a new profession, and Government
experts are trying to find a
body of men sufficiently in love with
trees and their preservation and versed
in the lore and science of timber culture,
to make them of practical utility
41? miltf
tU tUC V.UUUUJ . xu*;oc ivicoivxg
be something more than mere timbercutters
and woodsmen; they must
have a knowledge of the needs of
trees, a practical working familarity
with the different varieties of growths
and a fair knowledge of entomology.
The insect ravages are so great in
many of our forests that the forester
must be able to check their Increase
and ravages. Many practical foresters
to-day, whether employed by the Forestry
Division of the Department of
Agriculture, or by private owners of
large timber tracts, receive from
$1200 to $2000 a year.?Collier's Weekly
Fink Snakts In a Hot Spring.
Harry Jackson, one of a party who
have just returned from a hunting and
fishing trip to the country around the
hnsr> nf Mount Jefferson, zives a re
raarkable account of advecture in that
almost unexplored region. One of the
most wonderful finds of the party was
a hot spring, or series of springs and
pools, in which the water was so hot
as to preclude all idea of bathing.
Strange to say, these hot springs are
Inhabited by snakes of a pink color
about two feet in length. They are
very numerous and swim about with
great rapidity. Though they occasionally
come out on ttie rocks to bathe
in the sun, they seem to prefer the water,
and whenever pulled out (with a
stick, or course), tney tvriggie Dae*
as soon as possible.?Morning Ore*
gonif.n.
There are eight submarine cables of
over 2,000 miles in length.
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than mast people thick it. The same
re the diameter of a cobweb, five
2um wires, four gold wires, four silver
ft-ires.
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