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?HE NATIONAL BANKOF AUGUSTA L. C. HA TNF., Pree't F. G. FORD, Cashier. Gipitai, $250,000. Undivided Profits } ?110,000. Facilities of our magnificent New Wilt oontalulng 410 safety. Loos Boxes. Differ ent Sises am ( Uored to our patrons and the public at $3.00 t $10.00 per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND AVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposits. Accounts Elicited. L. C. Hayne, President. Clias. C. Howard, Cashier. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 5. 1902. ?DIAMONDS, ? ?JEWELRY. W? carry trn larg? Fins Diamond.?, > Sterling: Silver an Diamond Setting, Watch and J OIJ tio.d taken in exchange foi ?JEWELERS, ? . i'- i ' [' -? i The.Tiro Apple?. Said the apple red to the apple green; "I have more beauty to be s>eeu. "T ripened quickly, and my cheek Is the color harvesters all seek. ' "Why arc you noe as" fair as I? Why do yon wear that green look? Why?" Said the apple green to the apple red; "All in good time shall my youth be sped. "All in good time shall I glow as you With a healthy, full-blown, crimson hue.1 "Meanwhile I marvel not at fate, For I am a fruit that ripens late!" That night lhere came a blighting frost, And the ripened at>p;e soon was lost! It pierced its heart and nipped its cheek. And braised it3 stem which had grown quite weak! ?Thc apple green on tho other hand liad met no blight that it could not stand! And it thought that day, if it thought at all, Shat pride goes always before a fail! -Christian Register. I'.ear i:i Beaver Trap. When the trappers in the old clay set their traps by the Canadian streams they sometimes caught other animals besides beavers. A hunter re turning to see what luck he had had noticed that one trap -was missing. He also saw sigas that a bear had been in the neighborhood. "*y and by he heard sounds in the big forest as o? a big c eature clumsily forcing its way through. Hiding himself, ho be held a great bear come limping along ^ t>w^ ?Aga *h? f-.iviii-bedti?k-cn-- - tangled In the missing trap. The bear raised the imprisoned forepaw to ex amine lt more closely, turned lt about with a very puzzled look, knocked the trap on a rock, and finally licked his foot as if in pain. Perhaps it was kindly of the hunter to shoot him, as there- and then he did. for this put an end to Bruin's troubles. Making o Newspaper. The game of "Making a Newspaper" is excellent practice for boys and girls in their teens, and has been tried with great success. Either the host who gives tho party, or some cae else is . appointed editor-in-chief. To each of the players is given a sheet of foolscap paper, at the top of which is written the heading of a department, or the title of an article, and a lead pencil. It is then ex plained that it is the duty of each to rill out his department after the man-, lier of a daily newspaper. At the end of half an hour all the papers are gathered together, and the results arc read by the editor-in-chief. As a mat ter of course the more absurd the writ ings are made the greater the amuse ment, and the paper provides an ample opportunity for cleverness, wit and humor. This can be played by any number of boys and girls for an even ing party.-Home Magazine. Grandma's Present. "It was Gertrude's birthday, and around her plate, at the breakfast table were piled J undies of all sizes and shapes. One by one Gertrude opened her presents, while mamma and papa and brother Harry looked on, smiling at her delight. There was a silver thimble from mamma, a new doll from papa, a pretty little ring from Uncle George, and a box of candy from Harry- And at the bottom of the pile Gertrude found a bo- th.it the postman had brought, marked "from grandma." Grandma lived way off in the coun try and Gernude had not expected she would remember a little girl's tenth birthday, but she had. "What is it, mamma," she cried, after she had opened the box. "Little green, and red. and blue sticks, and a funny little handle." "The little sticks are sealing wax, dear, for sealing letters, and the little handle is called P. 'seal.' See, there's a 'G' on it for Gertrude. After breakfast I will show you how to use the seal, and then yon must write grandma a little note to thank her for remembering your birthday." '? Gertrude did not eat much break fast that morning. Between the mouthfuls she stopped to look at the new doll or to slip on the pretty ring and thimble. After breakfast was over mamma showed her how to melt one end of the sticks, how to rub it on the paper and how to press down with thc "lit tle handle" and make a "G" IE the middle of the wax. Then Gertrude wrote this letter: "Dear Grandma-To-day is n'y birthday. I got a doll, and a ring, and a thimble, and a box of candy, and some seling wacks. I like the seling wacks ard the little seler. Thank ycu very much for thom, with love from ' GERTRUDE." And on the envelope she made three seals, a red. a green ard a purple one.-Brooklyn Eagle. Thc deaf mute may no! bc an orna ment to a debating sc?ety, but he can lt least make th; motion*. ?st zni most complete stock of ?1 (Vatches, Jewelry, Cut ?lass, ^ d Pla ed Ware in the South. gg ewslry Repairing;. &k r new gocds. ? m? & Co,, 1 Augusta, Qa. 2 CHlNtSE DCC^ "?RS. lament For th? Dac^nvracy of ?fallve Physicians. Although medicine is a small science, yet it concerns thc lives of men. The Tso Chuan says: "Unless a doctor be longs to thc third generation of doc tors in his own family we should not take his medicine." Fan Wenkung in his youth had an ambition to help i the world and often remarked: "If I I cannot be a good statesman I will be j a good physician." Su Hsuankung in his old age studied the healing art an.l j when he saw a good prescription copied j it with his own hand, saying: "This j is also a way to give life to men." In the Hau dynasty we bad Ch'ang Yul, Chang Chuug-ching and Hun T'o, in the Chin dynasty Ko Hung, in the Tang dynasty Sun Ssumao. AU these were famous physicians and left some writings behind them. Alas! how the present race cf (Ice tors has degenerated. How many of them trade ou the ignorance of their patients, quite forgetting that though they may deceive men they cannot escape the eye of the gods. Tseng Kuofan heard that in the West all physicians must pass a stringent examination in the seien c and art of medicine before they are allowed to practice. Hence their patients rarely suffered death under the hands of doc tors. This ls the very antipodes of thc entire absence of law and control of physicians in China, where anybody with or without a smattering about ? pulses, etc., can hang out his shingle and begin practice. Individual govern ors have tried occasionally to examine physicians. But the Government should take It In hand. At present the number of Chinese who have confi dence in Western medicine is very small, but increasing especially among intelligent men. Although hospital's cannot suddenly be called Into being,, yet a beginning should be made by compelling aspirants in the medical art to pass regular examinations, and only on receiving oiplomas to begin operations.-Shen Pao. WISE WORDS. Fearing leads to fretting. Tall trees need deep roots. Tiny hands make mighty links. Uniformity is not essential to unity. The heedless life will not be weed less. Fretfulness is the cause of fearful- ! ness. Diversities in truth are not divergen- ! cies. Conduct shows the content of char acter. Every act has a cause and is a, cause. Sincerity is the one great secret of success. Better be a poor man than a rich machine. It takes a great man to escape unde served glory. The most needy man is always my nearest neighbor. No duty is too small to embrace the ' sublimest principles. The true furniture of Ufe ls made in j the factory of drudgery. It is the touch of selfishness in our ! ambitions that turns them to sin. If you cannot have what you prize it is a good thing to prize what you ? have.-Ham's Horn. Courtesies of Life. The Toronto Sun comments on thc allegation that people are losing their democratic dignity. An instance is cited of certain ladies of the smart set at Vancouver entering th? royal ship and carrying off as souvenirs anything they could lay their hands eu, and ; even clipping the trimmings of the ! royal bed room with scissors. Such an offense is virtually theft, ? and too gross a form of misdemeanor to be termed au indignity. The in- ! stance, however, causes us to ask, ? "Are we losing whatever considera- ! tion and regard for others that we ever i had?" It should not be forgotten, as 1 it too often is, that life is made pleas- I ant. not by great things, but by the j little acts of kindness. A timely word ! of encouragement or comfort, a pleas ant smile, in fact, a thousand little considerations for the comfort of oth ers, which cost the bestower nothing, all go to make the world brighter. Not ! only this, but they return to the fouu- j tains to enrich the nature by which j they are so benignly prompted.-Lon- j don (Ont.) Advertiser. Hts First Society Item. The new office boy has a longing j to become n newspaper contributor. | In his spare moments he practices as- j siduously on the typewriter, and it brings joy to his youthful heart to lie j sent to the telephone by tba city etil- j tor to take a news i em. Tko otner night he branched out cn bis owu re- j spousibility and handed the following j "society item" to thc young woman : who has that department in charge: 1 "A pedro party was held at the home i 0f-Monday evening. Several of the boys of the Get-Together Club ; were invited to attend, and it would 1 have been a complete success had they j not of charged 10 cents' admission, after the boys expected lt was invita- i tional."-Cleveland Leader. "DAINTY We don'i got anything to eat to our house any moro Th ire's never any solid dish comes through the open door. For ma and nil tho girls work liko thoy was amohines - A-makia' "dainty dishes" from the fashion m.-igaziues. They give us dabs o' this an' that, with ii unes wo can't pronounce, With sprigs o' stuff around them all, just i.ko ?i little flounce. A stn!:; or two o' spinnago takes tho placo o' "mess o' greens" - Wo'ro oatia' "daiuty dishes" from tho fash ion magazines. RAIDING THE An Episode in the CattI It is a story of which littie has been told. Most of those who rode with "Flopping Dill's" vigilantes have left tne state or crossed the Great Divide. Those who have remained are reticent. As lo the 30 or more desperate horse thieves and cattle rustlers who operat ed in northern Montana in the early eighties-well, bleaching bones on wind-swept prairies tell no tales. In 1S85 the cattle and horse business in northern Montana was becoming more and more unprofitable, for the reason that there were organized bands of horse thieves who had stop ping places from tho Canadian line to Mexico, and who made more money in the business of stealing horses and live stock than the real owners could in raising them. Of course more horses than cattle were stolen, because they were easier, to get away with, and in those days were worth a great deal more money. The stealing became, so serious that the cattlemen of northern Montana were forced to do something, and in the fall of 18S5 they did it. When the cattlemen start to do anything they do it up brown, and it was so in this case. The tale of the hanging of road agents of 1JJG3-64 by thc vigilantes of Alder Gulch has been told so often, that it has become known from one end of the world to the other, and it is looked upon as the biggest thing of its kind which was ever pulled off in Mon tana. This is a mistake, and the cow boys of northern Montana during the year of 1SS5. from September to No vember, hanged and shot more men than the vigilantes of Alder Gulch ever dreamed cf. This may seem like a fairy tale at this time, but it is a fact, and there are men in northern Mon tana at the present day who have the papers to prove the assertion. During; the fall round-up of the Ju dith in " "-.'-,J-1 to do i the ma held, i one of lantes within nis, an living Butte, of year but th< tion of L..v . . . der thc uircction of "Flopping Bill" Cantwell. "Flopping Bill" was a desperate character himseif and work?d against the rustlers because lt paid better than to work with them. From September. 1SS5. until the weather became too cold to ride, "Flopping Bili" and his band of cowboy exterminators worked, and when they had finished there wa- no count of the men whoso candles had been snuffed, but there are men in Great Falls today who can name at least 26 of them, and it has always been estimated that about 30 peoplo were hanged or shot by "Flopping Bill's" band during that fail. The first performer in tue bloody drama of extermination was a half breed near Fort Maginnis. Some one believed that he had stolen a steer and butchered it, and one night during August, 1SS5, he was taken near the ranch of Reese Anderson and strung up to a co'.'onwcod tree without a chance to sr.y his prayers, if he knew any. That was ?kc beginning, and shortly after "Flopping Bill" called for volun teers to sc.M L-h for horses widen had been stolen .'rom the herds of several well-known stockmen. Thc requisition was made upon Hie round-up. which was camped c a the Musioishell aboui CO miles abo-. 3 thc mouth, and reck less riders and desperate men only were chosen. The posse made a hard ride that day. and by night they came to thc cabin of a man nan:ed Downs, near the mouth of the Mussdsliell. Downs kept a sort of trading post, and was suspected of being in league with thc thieve?, lt was early daylight when the posse ar rived, and they at once surrounded the cabin, and' when Downs came out it. was "hands up." A search of thc corral and vicinity discovered 22 D. II. S. horses, and Downs was asked to explain. He saw that he was up against it. and gave a full list of all the mer: connected with the "rustling'' business, and .dicated where they had their rendezvous. Th? Missouri runs cwift and deep where the waters of the Musselshell enter it, and the banks are high and steep. A rope was placed about the neck of Downs, and a convenient tree was looked for. Some ono spied a largo grindstone which stood alongside of the cabin. "Tie it lo Ms ne k and drop him in the river," was tbe suggestion, and it was carried out literally. Today the big round grindstone, with the bole ic the centre, lies in ibo holton of tho Missouri, near Ibo mouth of the Mus selshell. and if time and water have not proven (co much for tho hempen rope H;e neel: boner, at Icart, of Jim Downs arc the grimfctahe's companion. Armed with the information derived from Downs tho posse rode south to the mouth of Lodge Polo Crick, where there were cevarai "rustlers' located, md in tho early morning light three of .bom '.ver? captured ar.:? strvag up on son e cottonwood trees which sur rounded M:r cabin wscra ;:.>>. had lived. Ono nf ihc h?mp?n ropes with which thc !.anging war don? swung in tho breeze for many years, and ppp bapi is lhere yoi-it w$s up io five ; years ago. DISHES." Tho grocery bill's n-bummia' now-I tell yon it's (i sin, Wo got to buy tho dainty stuff fin1 things to cook it in I'm blamed if I'll cull boan soup any "con sumniay do beans !" But lt's iu "dainty dishes" in the fashion magazines. I want a steak - I want it quick - I'm hungry as a boss - I want it with thick pravy-no now fangled kind o' "sauce." An' listen kerf ii I an' you'll know just what the ol' mau nioaDs - I want no "dainty dishes" from the fashion magazines ! -Boston Gazette. 2 RUSTLERS. - I e History of Montana. & Some of the cowboys in the posse bogan to get more than they had bar gained for, and wanted to quit the business, but "Flopping Bill" pointed out to them that they would he hanged by the civil law if tneir share in the impromptu hanging was known, and that, together with other cogent re?? sons, prompted them to remain. The next bunch of rustlers was lo caled along the Missouri. They passed as woodchoppers, and a large number of them had a rendezvous at Long John's Bottom on the Missouri, a short ways below the mouth of the Mussel shell. "Flopping Bill's" posse came upon the camp early one morning, and was discovered by the horse herder, whom they promptly shot, and charged upon the camp. There was a block house wita a stable attached, belong ing to the rustlers, but most of them were sleeping in tents, and when the shooting began one of them was snot while getting to thc blockhouse. 'Once there they oefied the posse, and it was only by strategy that they were dis lodged. While the posse kept up a. hail of bullets against mc house, one of the cowboys sneaked up through the grats and set lire to the stable, and it in turn fired the blockhouse. JuFtho v many rustlers were killed will never be known, but there' were at least ll in thc house ann six were taken pris oners, while one escaped. The one who got away was Dixey Burroughs, a half-breed, and weil known in northern Montana. Bur roughs managed to get away from the house, and was stopped by one of the outer guards, but dropped behind a log and at thc fourth shot managed to get his man, and escaped. Who the cow boy was that was shot has never been divulged. He was buried where he fell and a hint given that nothing waa to be said about it. crossed the Missouri on a raft, and m old man James and his two sons, Die und Jim, together with two other This part of the gang had not bee heme when the cowboys called, an when Dixey told his story they saw that there was death in the air, and >.Lartod down the river on .a raft. They knew the cowboys wpre after them and that they would be shown no mercy, and ?o when near Poplar, they surren dered to a sergeant and a detail of :-cven United States soldiers, and asked to bc taken to Fort >.iaginnis for trial. Thc sergeant and his detail started with the prisoners for Magiunis, and "arly thc third morning tuey awoke 10 lind themselves in the nands of a dozen masked men. "Hitch up your outfit and drive straight on." said the leader of the ??arty, "and we will not injure you at ail; refuse and we -.viii kill you all. Tito prisoners are ours." The sergeant, whose name is not re called-the whole affair appears in the records of the post during this year hitched up and drove on as requested, and the dozen masked men were left Itch ind. The prisoners were never ?:ccn again, except that a couple of years ago an old-timer told a story of meeting Dixey Burroughs. over the Canadian line, and he said he had been spared his life by promising to ?rave tho country. After tins the hangmgs were desul tory, but the aggregate for the two r.-.onths cf September and October la believed to have amounted to about thirty. The cowboys would be riding the round-up, and tome night word would go around and in thc morning -ti of thom would be gone for a day or 11 week, and no questions asked. That winter, it is related, a crowd of men rode up to the place where the cowboy vigilante crew were quatcrcd, and served notice that every one of Hiern must leave the country or dir*. Tho majority of them left, and have met. death in one way or another, but there are still two or three of the posse remaining in northern Montana, but they do not boast of having be longed to "Flopping Bill's avengers" in S3, "Flopping Bill" also found it ad visable to leave the country many years ago, and less than two months ago Iiis death was recorded in old Mis souri-for Bill was c Missourian and ?tari ridden with Quantrel). Tho 1SS5 episode of the rope and gun has not been written about very much, but 1 he advertising it got was such as to discourage "rustling" in northern Montana for many years, so that it ii o?, . reviving the bxsiness-the real old-timer of thc bad lands would not lake any one's stotu ar, a gift-but "Flopping Bill." the man of nerve, without human feeling, has gone ovsr tho divide, and perhaps the stock in? spectors may bc given more work in consequence.-Anaconda Standard. Pictorial Distortions., "Po you are net in favor of sup pressing thc caricaturists?" "Ci rtalnly not.'" nmr.vercd the om ine:.! statesman. "What's tho use of suppressing the caricaturists so long ss you can't do anything with tbc\ amateur photographers?"--Washington Star. ? j 1 THE GREATEST HAIE-CUT IMPROVEMENTS IN THE METHODS OF SHEARING THE SHEEP. Professional Cutters l!e;in Shearing tlie I*ot-k4 In tho Northwest In Karly *|iriii!i -Working M'est wind and Ending 'I hoir Season in Ca ll torn I n-Wages Ate Good. Man is not the only animal that has his hair cut at regular intervals, anti it might be interesting to note that the most extensive bair rut In this or any other country has no referent whatever to the human biped, writes G. E. W. in the Country Gentleman. Up in the northwest professional hair cutters begin shearing thc flock's early in spring, and as the season advances they work their way westward and end up in Nevada and California, when it is about time to return to the original starting point and repeat the opera tion. In the course of the year they cut something like 500,000.000 pounds of hair. The present consumption of wool iu the United States is estimated at about GOO.000,000 pounds, and, though the statisticians of the department of agri culture say that we have about 41,883, 065 sheep on the farms and ranches ol the United States, these are unable to supply the full demand for wool, and we import some million pounds every year. But thc task of shearing over 40,000,000 sheep is not one to consider lightly, and as the woo: piles up, new wheels of commerce are started in their revolution. Sheep-shearing time in the earlier days of our countrys history was a season of jollification, and thc farmer and his hired help would go down ro the sheep pasture to make merry with the frightened animals. One by one they would be caught, and while ono held the animal securely the other would proceed to clip off the wool with a huge pair of hand ?hean, j Sheep-shearing time would often occupy weeks on the large farms, and when it was over, the great mass of soft fluffy wool was piled up in the sheds to bc cleaned and worked over or shipped to the market in its rough state. Not a little of it was woven into cloth on the farm by the wife and daughters of the owner. But with the multiplication of the sheep, the necessity of better and quicker methods of shearing was felt. In the northwest and on thc Pacific coast there arc farms and ranches with from 50.000 to 300,000 sheep, and to shear such flocks in the old way would be an almost impossible task. It is these new conditions that have brought the professional hair cutters into ex istence, and they move from farm to farm in a regular circuit every season. These professional shearers are ox ers lake their positions in rows, while thc sheep are brought to them by as sistants. The cutting instrument is au enlarged and improved sort of barber's clipper, which takes huge swaths of wool off at once. An expert operator will handle Ike machine so dexterously that tho wool will come off almost in a ! solid mass, and it looks for all the world as if the animal was being actu ally skinned alive. But when the opera tion is finished, it Wlil be found that not a bruise or scratch has been made cn the skin, and the animal scampers away shorn and shaved within a small fraction of an inch of its shin. Thc wool is gathered up by another oper ator aud carlo:! to the packing house, where it is tramped Into huge burlap bags, each weighing when filled about 335 pourris. The shearers reeeiv?! from seven to ten- cents per li ead for shearing the sheep, and a day's work for one pro fessional is from 125 to 250 head. That .is an inconceivable operation for a barber who cuts tho hair of his human patients; but then, while ibo latter is operating on one person, the skilled sheep shearer would cut thc wool from the backs of half a dozen sheep. The sheep sheared by a dozen professional operators in lite course of a week quickly mount up into thousands, and tuc modern ranch, with as hundred thousand and more sheep ready for the bair citt, doe;; not present such a for midable problem as formerly. The revival of the wool industry in the past few yean; has added material ly to the number of sheep on the farms in thc United States. The actual amount of wool can only bc cit ?mated from year to year until the shearing season has ended. Tho number of Si.eep in thc country docs not accurate ly forecast tile wool supply. Some of the moderate high-class wool sheep give two and three timos as much as thc old common animals, and an esti mate of the wool can be made only ap proximately unless the breed of the animals is known aiso. There are ove-r 75 grades and breeds of sheep in tuts country, and they vary as much in the quantity of wool they give as they do in price and general valua tion. A Herr? In Kues. The other night thc police picked up from the street a ragged man who, they thought, was drunk. At the sta tion he said he was not drunk, but nearly dead from cold ami hunger. He made known bis identity, and proved to be Dosjnrdins. one of the men who made heroic rescues at the Bazaar de la Charit? lire, in 1S97. Ile was decorated, but explained to the judge that bc was ashamed to wes.- ! his medal over bis rags. Thc chief ot ' police will probably take measures iu bis behalf.-Paris Correspondone? ! New York Herald. Thc largost ogg laid by any Euro pean bird is that of tho swan; tho smallest (bat ol' tito golden-crested wren. ODD COSTUMES IN SWEDEN. Garment!* Worn by I lie Old and thc Yonnjt Differ Very Slightly. The costumes of the Dalecarlian vom?n in Sweden are unique, a dark jlue woolen skirt, very full and gath ered in tucks at the waist; a white jlouse, a vest of red or green cloth, jcautil'ully embroidered in colors and jften with gold and silver threads; x broad red belt of knitted wool; a ong apron of red woolen, with stripes )f black, white and green; a kerchief .'old ed three-cornerwise about tho seek and fastened with a gold or sil ler pin, with many glistening pend mts, and a headdress in the shape of i cornucopia made of black felt with *ed trimmings and streamers. Long earrings of gold or silver and brace ?is of curious forms are commoD. The men wear long blue frock coats tvith full skirts, faced with red broad ?loth and edged with red cord. Hooks md eyes are used instead of buttons ind the collar is cut similar to that )f a Church of England parson. The rest is made of the same material md is also edged and faced with red. Thc knee breeches are of yellow moleskin, ornamented with red cord md tassels at thc garter, which holds ip thick woolen stockings. Broad sil ler buckles are worn upon the shoes. The hat is of black felt, with a low ..rown and broad brim resembling ?hose worn by Quakers in the United States. Small boys are dressed exactly like their fathers. A coat with a long skirt is the ambition of every your ir ater, like tue first pair of trousers of American boys, and he usually at tains that honor when he is ten yiars sid. The little chaps you see going ?uout in long-trailed coats and buck skin breeches look as if they were rlressed for the stage. Little girls in the same way imitate their moth ers with skirts reaching to their an Ides and quaint, homemade jewelry af silver and gold. Every little girl liopr-3 to have a brooch with jingling pendants. The jewelry is of simple pattern, the gold or silver being ham mered into thin sheets, cut into squares and diamonds and fastened together with rings. Thc costumes of the Dalecarlian cromen differ according to locality, tn some of the parishes red is the prevailing color and in others green md blue. Their hats are shaped and .rimmed differently also, and in one Df the parishes a sort of "tam o' shanter" is worn, with a band fitting closely around the head and a broad :cp. In the Mora country the men ?rear jackets of white fet cut square it tho corners and fitting closely to thc neck, with white buckskin knick erbockers and leather aprons to keep ir.uiticn In the Kremlin at Moscow. It is a perfect sphere, and so j.ure as to appear almost transparent. It weighs ?)? grains. The next finest in the world is known as the Hope pearl and is owned by an English nobleman. There is a remarkable pearl in the rrown of an image of the Virgin at Saragossa. Spain, and another of equal value in a cross in the cathedral at Sevilie. which is said to have been brought from A morie- by ono of tho early conquistadores. A few years ago an American trav eler purchased for 100 marks an an tique gold brooch that he found in a bric-a-brac shop in a small town in the interior of Germany. In the centre of the setting was a spherical jewel that was supposed to be hematite, a species of iron ore, but when thc brooch was brought to the United States and sent to Tiffany's to be cleaned the piece of iron turned out to be one of the most beautiful gems ever exposed to view. It was a black, pearl valued at $12,000. An attempt was made to trace tho ownership of tho brooch, but it could ouly bc learned that the pawnbroker had re ceived it from a stranger some years before as security for a small loitn and that the owner apparently had no knowledge of its value. The romantic story of Cleopatra's pearls dissolved in wine was writ ten by one who was not familiar with their composition. Pearls cannot be dissolved in wino or vinegar, but they can bo eaten by certain powerful acids, which would have burned the beautiful throat of Cleopatra so that she would have died instantly.-Wil liam E. Curliss in the Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Value of Standardizat?on. The apparatus which the manufac turer considers standard and which, therefore, is built in large quantities and carried in stock is usually shown in bis catalogues and price lists. This apparatus ct.-ts less than unlisted or special apparatus; it can be furnished in shorter time, and it is more likely to prove satisfactory in operation. A greater amount of thought has been bestowed upon its design than it ii practicable to give-assuming thc ful fillment of reasonable dates of dcliv cry_to any new designs that can LP specified. The buyer, therefore, will sometimes find it to his advantage even to go out of his way in an en deavor to make standardized appar atus answer bis requirements when it does not seem to be exactly suitable. -Engineering Magazine. .* Vclcplnjr." According to thc Newcastle. Eng. Chronicle, the annual ceremony of "yclcping," or. as it is now put. "clip plug," thc parish church has just rc rived at Painswick, in the CotswoMs, Gloucestershire, where, after being performer! io-.- many hundreds of years it was discontinued by the late vicar. On tho patron saint's day (St. Mary's! the children join hands in a ring round ?ibo church, and circle round tho build ing singing. It is the old Saxon cus tom of "yclcplng" ti:;' church on l!?o anniversary ot' its original dedication OOOOCCOGOCCCGOGOOOOOOGOOO ? first Models af ? g ?reat Inventions, g QOQQQQOGGQO GCJGOCGGQCGGGB That vast mausoleum of wrecked hopes and blighted ambitions, the model department of the United States Tatent Office in Washington, is illum inated here and there with the original models of the very great inventions. In oue of tile cabinets is to be seen FIRST WASHBOARD-FIRST PAIR Morse's origma! model of the telegraph instrument, fashioned by his own hands. The model is very crudely made, but it iuspires reverence in the visitor, and even a certain sort of awe, when he pauses to think of what the telegraph lias done for the advance ment of ti.j world, and what a slow universe this would be if we did not have telegraphic communication with cur fellow beings the world over. In another eabiuet, inspiring the lllttl tflllClllllg 1U HIL' Ult/a ui ui/uu, when it was all done by hand. . Elias. Howe's first sewing machine Is almost as crude as Morse's telegraph sounder, but in both cases the model ? operated exactly as described in the. specifications, and the patents wore accordingly granted. Not a whit less interesting is the . model of the first typewriter, the in- j vention of R. T. T. Allen, a Kentuck ian. It is still more roughly made than the models of the telegraph and sew IIOWE S SEWING MACHINE. lng machine, but it proved to be quite as important au invention. The first pair cf peg shoes is another interesting invention exhibited in the model rconi. The patent on peg shoes was granted to S. B. Hitchcock and J. Bernent on July .10, 1811. Then lhere is the first washboard. It is as fresh-looking to-day as when It was first placed in the cabinet, and shows not a particle of corrosion, al though the name of the inventor was S. Ru~t, and it was Rust himself who made tho mcdel. The patent is dated February 9, 1838. The first arc elec tric light was made by Collier and FIRST ELECTRIC ARC LIGHT Al B.ikcr. and patented by them May li 1S?S. The first incandescent lamp wa the Invention of Gardiner and Bio! sent, o whom a patent was graute June 29, 1S?8. Botli the arc and th? incandeseenflights, it will he noticed were invented in the same year. Noth ing could be more different than the incandescent lamp of 1S3S, and that ol to-day. When you happen to be In Wash ington go over to the Patent Office and spend a few hours looking around the model roora. You will lind your pains well rewarded.-New York Mail and Express. . Electrocutes thc Rodents. The electric mouse trap is the latest rEG SHOES-MORSE'S MODEL. novelty to aid in exterminating t*?? pests which infest dwellings and other buildings, and the inventor intends that it shall be the cause of many a shocking death. There is no compli cated mechanism about the trap; in fact, it ls so simple that thc wary rodent is not at all likely to regard the device with suspicion. Everything is in plain sight, and the animal is not compelled to insert its head in a noose or to enter a cage in order to reach the bait. In this case the tempting morsel is suspended within easy reach, but the instant the electrical current is completed by the rodent itself death ensues without the bait hting dis turbed. The trap consists of two me tallic plates connected by wires to an electric light circuit, the plates being insulated by a plate of non-conducting material placed between. The bait holder is suspended from a supporting"""' nwh aaonroA ?? ? '??? ~-Timm A VEr.T SHOCKING AFFAIU. inventor also intends it for use in de stroying reaches and bugs of various sorts. The electrocution is accom plished hy the passage of the current from one plate to the other through the body of the rodent or insect. The inventor of this ingenious device is C. M. Shafer. -'irr The Three-Meal Habit. ' . Our three-meal habit is a fearful tax on our working capacity; it treOtes the temptation to over-eating: our cham pions stagger under th? weight of a .physiological handicap; one-half the functional energy of the system is di verted by the exigencies of digestion. No other hygienic mistake has done so much to make us a generation of dyspeptics., as thc custom pf after dinner work. Its victims, moreover, Incur'thc risk of contracting that form of moral dyspepsia called pessimism. It tends to rob the working day of its reward-E. L. Oswald, M. D., in Suc cess. Th? Clergyman's Error. An English clergyman was address : ing a congregation of fishermen,' and (.in order to .appeal the more, to his j hearers he introduced a number of ? nautical' smiles. He pictured a cap j tain navigating his craft through a ' dangerous passage, surrounded with ; rocks and currents, and he described 1 the voyage in detail, At last he reached his clima::, when it seemed inevitable that the ship should be lost, j "And what shall we do now?" he j made his captain cry. "Bless your soul, guvnor"' replied a voice at the I back. "That captain o' yours can't ! do nothiu". He's saiiin* his ship I slam formost." S'D FIRST INCANDESCENT LIGHT. ?, New Zealand sent Great Britain 1, s ' -JS7.197 hundredweight of mutton. :-| valued at $15,000,000 in the course of d {last year. . .. . _