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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. HAYNE, PrcB't. P. G. FOED, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided l*r?n:a } SI 10,000 Facilities of our magnificent Kew Vault containing 410 >afoty.Loct Boxes. Differ ent Sizes ar*) < Cored to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to $10.00 per annum. THOS. J ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDGE FIELD, S. G.; WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 6. 1901. THE Pays Interest PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. ou Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hoyne, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVI. NO. 45 ? Diamonds, ware, Libbey* Bric-a-Brnc, i Wedding Invitations, Engraved "V Plate and 100 Cards SI.05. Watch mond Setting aud Engraving don OLD GOLD NEW GOOD* 1 WM. SCHWEIGER! g 702 Broad St., S3? aa New York City.-Nothing serves the purpose of an all-round useful wrap more perfectly than the golf cape. It ls worn for traveling, driving, walk GOLF CAPE. lng, bad weather, almost every occa sion except the game from which it takes its name. On thc way to and from the links it may, and often docs, lave ?J! sucV^-^^But fw^ctaai play lt is impossible and never seen. The smart May Mr-nton example shown is cut after the latest English model, and is absolutely up-to-date in pvery detail. The priginal is made pf tan cplored cloth wita plaid under side, but plain cloths and cheviots are quite ps often seen, while light colored broadcloth makes an admirable even ing wrap. The cape Ie circular and fitted by tm t Ka YOKE Bl means of shoulder darts. The hood is graceful and carefully shaped, open ing slightly at the centre back to give a pointed effect. The storm collar ls cut In sections and fits snugly at the tfcrii3i-wJdl^i?-fiarla ^ ?L??** Tipward toward the head. Shoulder straps are arranged on the inner side which support the weight and obviate all strain. To cut this cape for a woman of me dium size two and three-eighth yards pf material fifty-six inches wide will pe required. Toko Blouse Closing at Bade. Fancy blouses that close at thc back are and will be much worn both aa part of entire costumes for indoor wear and* the odd bodices that find such an Important place in every com plete wardrobe. The dainty and at tractive May Manton design illustrated in the large drawing includes sever il novel features and ls adapted to many materials. The original is made of Nile green louisine silk, the yoke and sleeves being enriched by applied dises of paune in a deeper shade and edged with a narrow fancy braid, while rhc undcrsleeves are of cream chiffon, but all soft silk and wool fabrics are ap propriate. The applied dises dre en tirely new this season, but do not ip yolve any excessive labor while their effect ls smart in the extreme. The lining fits smoothly and snugly, but closes with the outside at the cen tre back, The yoke is applied over the foundation, on indicated lines and is met by the smooth backs and full fronts, The sleeves are cut after the latest model and Include full soft un der puffs, with slightly bell-shaped over portions, the edges of which are curved to match tile yoke, The stock collar to plaie and ls attached to the neck, LE Ry. Patches, Jewelry, Sterling Silver 3 Fine Cut Glass, Clocks, Vases, Ste. 'isiting Cards. Eepairing.Dia ? by experts. TAKEN IN EXCHANGE FOR S. SEND FOR CATALOGUE. i & CO., Jewelers. Augusta, Ga. closing with the blouse at the centre back. To cut this blouse for a -woman of medium size three and a half yards of material twenty-one inches wide, three ana a quarter yards twenty-seven inches wide, two and three-quarter yards thirty-two inches widt or one and three-quarter yards forty-four inches wide will be required, with five-eighth yards twenty inches wide for undersleeves. A Prctt;'- New Material. White net dotted all over with tiny jet spots and with a border of black lace applied on the white ground and heavily encrusted with jet ls among the most exquisite of the new robe materials. Silver Tissue Much Used. Silver tissue is being much used as a background for the fine laces and embroideries of the season. Woman's Tailored Shirt Waist. Simple severe tailored waists are much worn and suit many materials far better than any other sort. The May Manton model shown is made of Saxony flannel, woven in Roman strips of pastel tones, one of the newest and most fashionable waisting materials, ?neris ?rnliier.Tly sajare, out is equally desirable for embroidered stripes, the heavier flannels, corduroy, velveteen and all the materials which call for simplicity. The original is made over a fitting lining that renders it*peculiar ly' cnn? and becoming, but the waist can be made unlined whenever pre ferred. The foundation is fitted with single darts, shoulder and under-arm seams and closes at thc centre front, out sep ^OUSB. arately from the outside. Thc back of thc -waist is plain and smooth across the shoulders, but drawn under In gathers at the waist line. The fronts are laid in five narrow tucks each) tirac-cxteuff- nom rne"'Shoulders" and" neck to yoke depth, and provide be coming fulness below. The sleeves are in regulation shirt style with nar row square-cornered cuffs. The neck is finished with a stock of plain silk edged with turn-over portions, and closes invisibly at the centre back. To cut this waist for a woman of medium size three and a half yards of material twenty inches wide, threo TAILORED SHIRT WAIST. and three-eighth yards twenty-seven inches wide, three yards thirty-two inches wide, two yards forty-four inches wide will be required ? HOW BARLO? "It's not only the money he has tal en," Mr. Ritchie was saying, "hut it the thought that I trusted him an that he has cheated me. I liked hin I liked him the first time I saw hin j and I've trusted everything to him ai i most from the first week he came-au ! that is over a year ago. Now, it i!?ad dens me-the thought that he was thief, after all. Only catch him an half the ?1000 he has taken ?hall b yours. Put him in the dock. I don' care what it costs me. Let me S3 him punished. Let me see him caught Gor for him for all you're worth, Ml Marlow, and the very day he i charged I'll give you a check io ?500!" The detective's thin face flushed He was young and unknown, and s< far had never had a chance. Now i had come; and he might not onlj make his reputation but ?.r>00 as well and that last would give him all tha was best in the world to him-the gir he loved for wife; and without it i' might be years before he could aflore to marry. He turned eagerly and gathered ul his papers and noteboook "I'll lose no time," he said. "I'll dc my best." But all the same it seemed an almost hopeless task. Fred Ember son, the thief, had had a good 12 hours' start He had gone at 4 o'clock the day before to the bank to pay money in and to cash a check as usual ready for paying the men's wages on the morrow, and he had never returned. The check had been cashed, the money never paid in, and Fred Emberson had vanished. Mr. Ritchie was a hard and bitter man. He had been soured five years before by the disappearance of his only daughter. She had met, at the house of some friends she had been visiting, a man with whom she had fallen in love. He had been ineli gible In every way-a poor man with no prospects, with apparently nothing to recommend him-but that made no difference to her. Mr. Ritchie had stormed and raged, had refused emphatically to se? him, and had forbidden her ever to mention him again. She had refused. She had tried fer some months to induce the two men to meet, she had persist ed in sticking to the man she loved, and then she had run away and mar ried him. Mr. Ritchie never forgave her never would. He had returned all her letters unopened. He washed his hands of her and settled down, bitter and soured, to live out the remainder of his life in hard work. Now to find that he had been de ceived agam ?eeimra tu malta Maunaut bitter than ever. At first he could not believe that his trusted clerk had really done anything wrong-he would turn up and explain, he thought, and he waited until the morning before he sent for a detective. Now the last doubt seemed removed. Fred Ember son had not been seen at his lodgings since the morning before, and from his desk at his office had gone every paper except those bearing directly on tho business of the Arm. Mr. Ritchie looked up at the detec tive. "He's arranged it all, of course," he said, angrily. "He meant to go. He always goes to the bank on Fridays to draw the money ready to pay the men on Saturday morning, and he thought he'd seize the opportunity, of course. You see, he's left nothing be hind in his desk-not a scrap of paper to betray him. Not a thii j! Every thing was arranged." The detective nodded. "I must see what there is at his lodgings." he said. "A criminal al ways gives himself away somewhere, He can't help it. If it wasn't for that the world would be a dangerous place for honest men. But they always leave something undone, and very often it is the cleverest thieves who are the easiest to catch in the end. They're, too clever sometimes." Mr. Ritchie nooded, Detective Mar^ low pocketed his papers and went out from the office into the noisy streets of the busy Midland town. He sent his men to ihe station to make inquiries, and then made his way towarus the roams in which Fred Emerson had lodged during the year he had been with Mr. Ritchie. He went up to them, questioning the land lady as he went, and getting no infor mation, except that she had not seen Emerson since he had left for his office the morning before. Upstairs Marlow found everything in order. The rooms were just as Em berson had left thom. He might be comi.ne baals in half an hour. Thc chest of drawers was full of clothes and littered with knick-knacks-pipes and pouches and tobacco. There were boots arranged underneath, carefully polished; brushes and combs lay on the dressing table, and a writing desk stood close at hand. But in it Betec-' tive Marlow could find not a single scrap of paper, not a letter or an en^ velop or a bill. Emberson had arranged everything. There was nothing to be= tray him-pot even an ink mark on the blotting paper. Marlow looked round in some dismay when he had finished. He couldn't find a single clew, not a thread to start a search, not a thing to go upon, and he made a close search, too, for the thought of the ?500 reward made him strain every nerve. He was almost giving up at last when suddenly a tiny scrap of cardboard fallen between the mantel-piece and the wall caught his eye. Tie took his penknife and began forcing it up. It might be nothing, ol' course, but he had turned over every scrap of paper and every book in the room, and he would miss no chance. The cardboard came up slowly. It was wedged in firmly between the mantel-piece and the wall, ' but he loosened it at last and held it up to the light When he saw it he gave a little ges-* ture of disappointment. It was the photograph of a child. Thr.t it be longed to Emberson seemed the last thing likely. He called up the landlady and held it out to her. She shook her bean over I GOT HIS THIEF, i it. She had never seen it before, but it must have belonged to Mr. Ember son she said, for her own daughter! had occupied the room before he ?ad had it, and the photograph was pf|no child they knew. Marlow looked at it again and made a note of the photographer's name, which was printed on the back. It bore the address of a small town, and he frowned a little as he looked atilt. What had Fred Emberson, a thier./to do witina little child? He shut his pocketbook with a snap j and gave a final look around. He was just turning away when' his man came back from the station wiUcrj the information that Emberson" had been seen taking a ticket-not to Lon-j. don, as they had expected, but to "*iv little place called Staybridge, half war down the line. It was a trick,'*'-;.? course. He would go on to Euston :an| pay excess fare, and be lost at once i| thc London crowd. Still Marlow sent his man to tele graph to the station at Staybrldg)! and waited, still impatiently, searc ing the room, for the reply. It came promptly. Only one pcrsoj had come by that train on the day ber | fore, and that was a mechanic in ? : working suit apparently on the laokj out for work. Evidently it was ?nol Emberson, and Marlow decided thal his only chance now was to go to ; Topping, where the photograph hai-| been taken. He started immediately, sending his man cn to London to try to get soma information there, and meaning tb . wait for him at Topping. He got out at a little, quiet country station. Th? town lay behind it-a sleepy market;! town full of sheep and cattle and farm- i ors' gigs, and bright with the spring j sunshine. He found the photographer easily enough, and there a copy of the pho tograph he had brought from Embc son's rooms. It had been taken jd about a year ago. The photographer remembered it distinctly, because-thte woman who brought the child'broke, down, crying at the finish for no rea son at all that he could make out "I suppose you know nothing of 'her, do you?" asked the detective, and the | photographer shook his head. "No; but she came from a place hoi far from here.." he said. "At any rate, 1 I sent the proofs there:-to a placo.' called Staybridge, about five miles away." Detective Marlow started a little;' Staybridge! Ho was on the road;-.jB7 last, surely! Staybridge was the pl?ci to which Fred Emberson had boofSsv'. -thc place at which the workingnj^v> ho/1, zai-nutt_-DutectiyOr~^ip^c\^^*' pulse quickened, and ten minutes lat er he was walking away from Topping toward the distant village. It was a hot walk that day. The roa^.s were dusty, and he was tired when he reached lt at last. He made his way slowly through the straggling houses and quiet shops toward an inn. He would hav? to stop, of course; perhaps for some days, certainly for one night. He went in and had some tea. and then set out to look around. He was all impatience. The thought of the ?500 stirred him. He was remembering with a beating heart the girl he meant to marry thinking that it would not be long now-when a bend in the road brought him suddenly upon a small cottage. It lay close to the road, a low wall hemming in its little square patch of garden, and a little wooden gate lead ing to the flagged path, bordered with wallflowers and lupins and lavender. He looked up half carelessly, won dering if Emberson was living In a cottage like that-if he was in Stay bridge at all-when the sight of a little child sitiing on the wall brought him to a standstill, Something about her was familiar. At first he could not tell what, and then he remembered the braid on her frock and the braid on the child in the pho tograph. It was the same dress, the same child, only now she was older and prettier. He stopped and went toward her. She was such a little, thin child, and her face was pale and delicate In spite of the country air. She looked up at him with bright eyes and smiled, and somehow he felt oddly uncomfortable before her. He hesitated before he spoke, and then his question came with a gruff, sharp jerk. "What is your name?" he asked. Her round eyes searched his face. It looked stern enough just then, hut it dd not frighten her. She slipped down from the wall and held out her hand. "It's May," she said. "And-what is your father's name?" In spite of himself Marlow hesi tated. "Father's called !F'd darling,' " she replied. " 'Cos mother said so, An* he's been way such a long time, and I don!t fink he'd ever come back." Tho detective looked down at her. "Fred, darling!1' ''When did he come back?" he asked, abruptly. The child, all unconscious, took her father another step nearer prison. "Only the day before this day," she said, "and I was s'prised. "I just couldn't fink who it was. But mother knew, and she cried, and lt made her iller, and the doctor was very ang'y." "Where is your father?" asked Mar low. The child's eyes dilated a little. "He mustn't be 'sturbed," sae said, .'He's wif mother and mother's dre ff ul ill. "That's why he came back all In such a hurry." She stopped, looking up at the detec tive with eyes that almost unnerved him. Perhaps something in his face began at last to impress Itself upj her baby mind, for a sudden dre came to her lip. "I 'spects father's very boverejl," she said, slowly. At that Instant thc cottage door was flung open anda man looked out. Wlten ho saw Marlow he made a half-moj/e ment backward and then altered Jais mind and stood still. : Marlow looked at him and recbg nt?ed his man. This was Fred sjm race ipjn rojp berson, the thief; this was the man he had come to catch-this was the man whose capture meant ?500. And between them stood a child whose mother was very ill. She turned delightedly. "Why, there's father/' she cried. Detective Marlow took a step for ward and Emberson, suddenly making up his mind, came down the little flagged path. "I know who you are," he said hoarsely, "and I know why you've come. I suppose it's all up; but I j couldn't help it, and perhaps- aft??- I ward-the old man will forgive her." He jerked his head backward. "Have you guessed who she is?" he asked. "Did Mr. Ritchie guess? Per haps he'll take care of her when when I'm shut up. But I never meant to take the m or. ey-I shouldn't have ^?reaini^^?-^-iiL^iaJia4n't been so ill. They say she-she's almost" dymg-,-?nro we had hard, work to live on the sal -ary Mr. Ritchie gave me-and I couldn't help it It's saved her per haps. I got down last night, and I got her everything I could-all the luxuries I could; but she doesn't know I stole the money. She mustn't know .^ill she's well again. The neighbors . will look after her, and .1 want you ..to take me quietly, so that nobody -Will see. I admit everything, I'll ad mit everything to Mr. Ritchie, but I did it for her, and perhaps when he knows she's his daughter he'll forgive her and take the child. I can go. I'll promise never to trouble them again, .but it was the thought of her dying that made me do it." I He broke off abruptly and turned r-rback to the cottage. p:?'Let me wish her goodby," he said ^huskily. "You'd better come in." . He pushed open the cottage door with a weary air. I "It's the end of everything," Em berson went on. "Mr. Ritchie trusted ? me for a year-I served him faithfully .. and perhaps he will remember that, hfor ber sake. I went to him on pur ' pose1-my wife and I arranged to try tc get his forgiveness in that way if |re could. It seemed the only way, and it might have been all right if I had not been mad at the last, but I had a "telegram saying how ill she was and l l could not help it. 1-I-did not stop ;;to think. I-,;-' "I went to him a year ago, for the I child's sake. My name isn't Embor l.son, of course, but I couldn't go in I* my right name lest he should recog j.nize it We wanted to win his for . giveness first. It hasn't answered, .But' he'll take care of her-and the j child. Oh, God knows, he surely ^osldn't refuse to take care of her and | ' the child." He faced round eagerly to the de tective, and Marlow, suddenly, euri j*ously weak, held out his hand, and made a bewildering remark. fest?n hanged if I'll take the ?500," "he said"--' " -~~ * * ? * He has said since that he is not of the stuff of which a detective should be made, for he did not arrest the thief after all. Instead, he waited till the morning, and then they dressed the child in her Sunday best, and he caught the first train back and took her to see her grandfather. What he said to him I do not know. How he went to work I cannot tell, but when he went bark to Staybridge the old man went with him. And when Fred met them at the cottage door Ritchie had the child in his arms. He looked into Fred's face and then held out his hand. "It's half my fault," he said. "If I hadn't refused to sec you at first five years ago, when my daughter wanted me to-you wouldn't have had the temptation. I see now how cruel I have been." ? * ? * Detective Marlow got married a few weeks later. Mr. Ritchie said he had caught the thief, and persisted in gk? , lng him tho ?500 after all-Tit-Bits CJllnoeo Nol-VCB. The Chinese have no idea of what Americans mean by comfort. W? wear hats at all seasons. They ask why we should wear a hat in summer any more than heavy gloves. If the sun is too hot and you are delicate, there is always the umbrella; if it is too cold, there is always the hood. In "China's Open Door," Mr. Rounse vell Wildman says that there is ab solutely no standard of comparison between the Chinese and the Ameri can. In discussing the economics of the Chinese, there is no place where you can stop. Nothing is lost. Every an imal is eaten, regardless of flic cause of his demise. The sardine and fruit cans that wc extravagantly throw into the dump are born again as tin cups and cooking utensils. The weed that cannot be eaten is used as fuel with which to cook the weed that may ba edible. In autumn the leaves of trees are gathered by children who are too young to labor, and pounded Into bricks and dried for their winter fuel. It may be put down as an axiom that there are no Idle people in Chi na. A visitor In Canton or Pekin may be struck with many cases of coolies or shopkeepers sleeping in the street or in their stalls, regardless of the deafening babble that surrounds them. It is not idleness, however; it is a habit that is responsible for much of the endurance of the people. The Chinese sleep when they have nothing else to do; and they sleep the sleep of the just where a well bred Eu? ropean dog would not be able to get so much as a "catnap." They can sleep or work in any position, and keep it up for hours at a time. A ner vous Chinaman I have never seen, and an exhibition of "nerves" among eith er sex if, unknown. It ls the absence of nerves that ena bles the Chinese to endure pain as well as toll. Every missionary doc tor or hospital surgeon who has worked among the Chinese relates stories of operations that have been performed without the use of chloro form that are hardly conceivable. Yet in almost every case the Chinaman seemed to feel little pain, and recov ered almost Immediately.-Youth's Companion. Some judges indulge in epigrams while others are fond of long sen tences. A SPIDER'S GENIUS. ?. Feat In Engineering Tliat Suggests R True Intellect. I have considerable respect for the Ten?ale spider, notwithstanding the fact that she does not treal the male very considerately. I had an oppor tunity last summer to watch a large ene that had a web in the top of a decaying peach tree with so few leaves that it was in plain view. I caught fight of her first when watching some birds with roy glass. She seemed to be climbing from the top of the tree on nothing to a telephone wire rome 13 feet away and somewhat higher I than her web. When she reached the wire she went around it and then tack. In studying the situation I found the web was so located that it required a cable to hold it up, and the spider had in some way got ono ?VCr_th<k_.wino-tuv- a.. -" le was, of course, a slender silken thread which evidently she had thrown out, and on account of its lightness it had floated to the right place and become attached there by its own glu tinous properties. It seems remark able that it should have adhered to the wiro firmly enough to allow so large an insect to climb over it, which slip did every day as long as I watched her, evidently to mend or strengthen it. The spider must have brains in which the ability to construct its web and adapt it to conditions is highly developed. In an article in Chamber's Journal the following account of how the spider forms it? silken threa? i * is given: one of the most interesting feat ures in the economy of spiders is their power of emitting slender threads of a silk like substance called gossamer, with which most of them construct mesh like nets, and a few long, dang ling cables, by which they are buoyed through thc air with nearly as much facility as though they had been fur nished with wings. The apparatus provided by nature f r elaborating and emitting this gossamer is a beau tiful piece of mechanism. Within the animal there are several little bags or vesicles of a gummy matter; and these vesicles are connected with a circular orifice at thc abdomen. With in this orifice are five little teats or spinnerets, through which the gossa mer is drawn. It must not be con cluded, however, that there is only enc film cf gossamer produced by each spinneret; the fact is, these teats are studded with thousands of minute tubes too small for the naked eye to perceive, and each of these emits a thread of inconceivable fineness. These minute tubes are known as spinerules, and the films which proceed from them unite like so many strands of a rope to form the thread of gossamer by which a spider suspends itself. The finest thread which human mechanism can produce is like a ship's cable com pared with the delicate films which flow from the spinnerulcs of thc larg est spider. The films are all distinct ly separate on coming from the spin neret, but unite, not by any twisting process, but merely by their own glu tinous or gummy nature. Thus the spinning apparatus of the disdained spider when viewed by the eye of sci ence becomes one of the most won derful pieces of animated mechanism known to man. Tlie animal has great ? command over this apparatus, and can apply it at will as long as the re ceptacles within are replenished with the gummy fluid, but as soon as this gum is exhausted all its efforts to spin are fruitless, and it must wait till nature by her inscrutable chemis try, has secreted it from thc food which is devoured."-Dr. M. L. Hoi brook, in the Phrenological Journal. Not Fnch a .Toke; After AU. "Yes, I lost that dog at last. I had ; been hoping against hope that some body would steal him, and after that J chance seemed exhausted I happened '. to think that it was wrong to hope that a fellow man might commit a ? crime, and so I desisted. And then i one day he walked away deliberate ly and never came back." "How did yo'.:r wife feel about it?" "She was all broken up. She made me advertise him. I did. I named a reward too." "And you didn't get him back?" "Not much. You see I worded it : like this: 'Dog lost. Please return ? to owner and receive $3 and no ques tions asked.' Then I gave the street and number of the home of a man I don't like." " Did the joke work well?" "Work well! I should say it did. The last time I saw him he said he'd give $50 to find out the name of the scoundrel who worked the infernal sell on him. But he could well af- i ford it." "How so?" "Why, picked out half a dozen of the dogs that were brought to him and sold 'em for an average of $20 a piece!"-Cleaveland Plain Dealer. T*oasjint Coif nina* In Ireland. A certain number of peasants in the wilder and remoter districts of Ireland still wear something like a national costume. About Lough Mash plenty of the lasses are to be seen in the picturesque red petticoats that artists loved to bring into their sketches of Irish life. A sprinkling of the old high hats may be seen; thc older fishermen and others wear them, but the younger school shun such an tiquated headgear, as the English peasant of today does the smock frock.-London Express. Trying to Conceal lt. Judge William E. Wierner of the court of appeals recently related the alleged experience of a prominent country lawyer, who, becoming nettled at the rilling nf a judge, picked up his , hat and started to walk out of Ute courtroom. He w:is halted by tho I court with thc inquiry: " Are vou try \ ing to express your contempt for the ' court?" "No, your honor." was the reply. "1 ; am trying to conceal it."-New York j Times. T'x-,1: ned "Say, Pop. what ekes this mean? 'United wc stand, divided we fall'?" "It means five dollars, my son. If (hey are In a single bill they are easy to keep, but let them he broken up ! and they simply spend themselves." San Francisco Bulletin. ; OOGOOOCOOOOOCCOCOGCOO?COOC ] ? Relies of King Alfred. ? ! ^ An Interesting Dlsp?ay Shotrn in O Q tho British Museum. j?? O 6 OOOOCOOf30GOOOOOOOCOSOOCCC3? y ft" "V H? British Museum, lu intel 9 ; ligent anticipation of the Winchester commemoration of King Alfred thu Great, ar ranged a special exhibition of all the relics contained in the national collec tion relating to Alfred and his times. It is not a large collection, says the London Graphic, but it illustrates rho many sidedness of Alfred's character J in a remarkably effective way. The manuscripts naturally appeal more especially to the scholur, but the au thorities have taken pai^s^j^joiafce I^BraT~p??)??e. The manuscript copy of the life of St. Neot, in Latin, for 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 ac count 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, hav ing suffered severely in the outbreak lu the Cottoniau Library in 1731. Then there arc the laws and charters of RELICS OF KING ALFRED EXHI1 1. The Alfred jewel (replica), original at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. 2. Ethehvulf'a ring. 3. Anglo-Saxon ring. 4k Silver spoon and fork, S00-S90, found at Scvington, Wiltshire. 5. Ring Ethelswith (sister of Alfred), Alfred, and an early copy of his will in Anglo-Saxon. Oue of the most in teresting volumes is a manuscript copy of thc well-known Life ot' Alfred by Asser-the monk of St. David's, who first came to Alfred's court about SST -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 Tress. The professor's opinion is that thc jewel must have been made by Alfred's order after his owu design, and that it was probably a production of hi? youth, before he assumed a share in puTilic 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, aud father of Alfred the Great-discovered at Laverstock aud presented to the museum by rho Earl of Radnor-and of Alfred's sister, Eth elwith, 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 Avonderful 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 Eng lish. But there arc 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 linc. Another relic worth noticing is a lead en trial-piece, with a cast on the re verse side for a silver penny of King Alfred, from a die l>y the moneyer Ealdulf. This was found buried in St. Paul's Churchyard in 1811. The design was apparently rejected ima canceled, but a very similar die of the same moneyer was on another occa sion authorized by the King, as speci mens of the mintage are extant. Round the edge of a circular silver brooch of Saxon workmanship-with an open work centre evidently representing a bird of prey-is tho inscription. "Aelf givv me au" (Aelfgifu owns me), which corresponds with that on *''0 gold ring of Aethred, also exhibited. The brooch was found near Chatham lu 1S22. The bronze seal of Ethelwald (Bish op of Durham about 850), another of the relics represented in our Illustra THE STRENGT! A cobweb Is a much stronger thing weight may be held up by one steel w cobwebs, seven iron wires, four plat! wires, four copper wires, four brass J lions, was found nt Ero, Suffolk, near i the site of the monastery, and was subsequently damaged by fire. The central device occurs on a silver pen ny of Edward the Elder, son of Alfred the Great. Movements of Stones. Nearly everyone has observed the jauntily-tilted appearance that head stones and monuments acquire in old grave yards, and those who have stone walls with iiisuilic!euf founda tion surrounding their premises are DEMONSTRATING JHE MOVEMENTS OP ? . STONE AFFECTED BY M0ISTUI?E. greatly troubled at the regularity with .which they tumble down. At tho last meeting of the Royal Society, of Lon don, the "Small Vertical Movements of a Stone Laid on the Surface of the Ground" was discussed by Dr. Horace Darwin. By means of a stone with a hole bored in the centre, through which passed a rod deeply imbedded In the ground and a finely graduated micrometer, readings were taken over a considerable period of time. It was found that the movements of the stone were directly connected with the mois ture of the ground. To graphically ?ITED AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM S?5-PS0). found in West Riding ot Yorkshire. 6. Trial piece for silver penny of Alfred, found in St. Paul's churchyard. 7. Ornament, with inscription, "Aelf gifu owns me." found in Kent, 1822. 8. Bronze seat of EtL-chnrid.,- found at~ Eye, Suffolk. o illustrate this point the accompanying curves were plotted. Forestry a New Profession. Under the jurisdiction of the De partment of Agriculture are such Im portant bureaus and offices as Fores try, Public Roads, Animal and Plane' Chemistry, Entomology and Textile Industries. Hundreds of experts are* employed in these bureaus. In for-; estry in particular ls the Government; trying to educate and instruct a largo corps of practical, scientific men, whoj can take proper charge of the forest? lands of the country, and show to thej private owners how best to make; them profitable and productive with-! out destroying them. Forestry may be called a new profession, and Gov-, ernmcnt experts are trying to find ti body of men sufficiently in love with trees and their preservation and versed in the lore and science of timber cul ture, to make them of practical utility to the country. These foresters must be something more than mero tlmber cutters 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. Tiie insect ravages arc 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 For-'' estry Division of the Department of Agriculture, or by private owners of: large timber tracts, receive from' $1200 to .52000 a year.-Collier's Week ly. _ Pink Suakts 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 base of Mount Jefferson, gives a re markable account of adventure in that almost unexplored region. One of the most wonderful rinds of the party was o- hot spring, or series of springs and pools, In which thc waiei ?voa ou w,*. as to preclude ell idea of bathing. Strange to say, these hot springs are inhabited by snakes of a pink color about two feet In length. They arc very numerous and swim about with great rapidity. Though they occasion ally come out on the rocks to bathe in the sun, they seem to prefer the wa ter, and whenever pulled out (with a stick, of course), they wriggle back as soon as possible.-Morning Ore gonian. There arc eight submarine cables of over 2,000 miles in length. I OF A COBWEB Ri'm n u n Ifflrrn rW? "nH^ ti Ttl ri D than most people thiuk lt. Tho same ire thc diameter of a cobweb, five num wires, four gold wires, four sliver wire? .-.?