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IX.
r iliE WEB OF A SPIDEI
WONDERFUL SKILL EXERCISED IN ITS
CONSTRUCTION.
The IntrlllKPnre Displayed by the
In*«*ot In Mnntpnlatlnjg Its Silken
Thread Almost Savors of Iteunon.
I’liulOKrniihiiiK u Net.
Dr. Henry Laney of Cumberland, who
does considerable experimenting along
scientific lines, has been studying the the-
yphonides, a species of spider that builds
ita weh over water along streams and riv¬
ers, with interesting results. The inves-
tigation was made for the purpose of get-
ting photographs of tho web. The web
was obtained by placing a small wooden
frame in the spider’s way, and it was
quickly covered with tho perfectly woven
silky thread. After securing tho
which in its natural state is comparatively i
invisible for photographic purposes, Dr.
I .alley proceeded first to make it tenacious
by Bpraying it with an alcoholic solution
of shellac from a medical atomizer.
Though still comparatively invisible after
this treatment, tho web could be handled
with caso without fear of tearing it. To
develop the boautiful work of tho spider,
Dr. Haney, with another atomizer, sprayed
the web with a solution of gallic acid,
which made it appear as if frost had set¬
tled upon It. The web now seemed to be
oovored with the morning’s dew. To
complete the effect Dr. Laneycaptured the
spider, put him in tho death box and then
coated him with shellac. Deftly placing
the insect in the web in a natural position,
he was sprayed with gallic acid. Using
black velvet as a background, Dr. Laney
succeeded in photographing ono of tho
most beautiful and delicate pictures found
in nature.
Dr. Laney sayR: "The spider displays
wonderful intelligence and mechanical
skill in making these nets. Its instinct
is far above that of the ordinary animal—
indeed it quite borders on reason. When
a large spider desires to make a web for
himself and he has some distance to stretch
it, ho does not swing himself, as most peo¬
ple suppose, and lot tho wind or his own
momentum take him tvhero it will. IIo
begins his well by starting tho first guy
very close up to tho corner of tho angle.
Ho attaches to the other side of tho angle,
making a short guy. Each guy increases
in length, tho spider always using tho last
guy made to carry tho next ono over until
ho attains the position in which ho wishes
to place his net. Tho last guy may bo 10
foot long and tho first one only a foot in
length.
“The last two guys become the support
of tho not. These will each bo re-en-
forced by at least six strands, all laid in
tho ono cable, for tho thorough support of
the net. After this tho spider travels to
tho point on tho cable from which ho
wants to locate his net, attaches the web
to that point and lets drop the next guy,
thereby laying tiie first angle guy of the
not. Then ho crawls back over tho same
guy to the top again and repeats the ac#
until he has spun eight strands, which
make 82 angular divisions in tho net. All
spiders, ns I have observed, make tho samo
kind of a net, with tho same number of
strands and divisions.
"Now he proceeds to put in tho network
by starting from tho center, where he at¬
taches his web, then with circular motion,
traveling from guy to guy, spinning web
as he goes, and by its natural moisture
sticks it to each guy, carefully carrying
the web in his hind-feet to prevent it from
touching except at the point desired by
him. When he has a small distance of the
inside completed, ho goes to the outside of
the net and finishes out any irregular part
of the net that does not coiuo within the
radius of a circle. After the circle has
been attained tho same rotary motion is
kept up until tho net is finished to the
center.
“Here comes the most comic feature of
net building—the test of the durability of
the work by the spider himself. As soon
as the net is finished ho puts every guy
through tho severest test by sharp, brisk
jerks, seemingly sufficient to tear the
whole net to pieces. Tho spider’s antics
just then are certainly amusing. If the
spider finds the web is not taut, he will go
to the end of the guy rope, stretch it until
the net suits him and reattach the guy. If
the net still seems loose from the center,
the guy will be carried from the center to
some convenient point to give tho net its
proper shape. This is only done when
necessary, displaying the groat intelligence
of the insect.
“The nets are perched sons to catch
mosquitoes and small insects. Tho strug¬
gles of the prey generally seriously dam-
ago the nets. The spider himself in tha
morning demolishes the rest of the web
for the day, with tho exception of the main
guy ropes, retires to a secluded quarter
and again appears late in the afternoon,
abdut 4:30 or 5 o'clock, and renews his
net It requires him about an hour and a
both male and female spiders are equally
industrious. The baby spiders are taught
industry, beginning net building Tight
after their birth. They will select a cor-
ner in the big net of the parent and build
a small web with the same accuracy and
p Ti 8 uf ? s m*, 0 , g ^cumulation
thfi of insect
life In it® meshes, and when his work of
building is finished he pounces upon them
ravenously, consuming them in toto. \ou
cannot knock or blow these spiders out of
their nets, nor can they be taken un-
awares. When they fall, their own net is
attached to them, and they can almost
touch the water and then quickly run back
on thesilken string which they spun while
failing ‘ The web is always attached
them. When the main guy of the net be-
comes too full of insect debris for conven-
lence and comfort, the spider goes out,
consuming all before himandat thesamo
time spinning a nne web behind, entirely
renewing the guy.
“The silken thread is first liquid, but
instantlv becomes solidified when it comes
iX£p«o«olhi.S5.-ltSui»,. in contact with the air and when the
it
is indeed funny tosee him run back again
in an instant over the thread which he
epun while falling.” Pittsburg Gazette.
Worry and Hurry.
It is not work that makes one so “dead
tired.” It is worry and hurry. A clever
woman once said to a nervous, excited sis¬
ter, “My dear, don’t use a pile driver to
pin on a bow of ribbon.” It’s good ad¬
vice. It means simply don’t use a double
or a triple amount of nerve force in the
performance of some duty that can be done
as well or better with less.
Only 20 per cent of the
mitt«l yearly in America and Europe are
ever found out.
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PREPARING FOR WHEAT.
Jlood Ti! <&.«.• and Liberal 'liinnrlrj
N ‘^‘ U “ 5 For u ‘ PO “-
YvJiii it vs important to break land
quite d i for a v. heat < top it isequally
ii»T' rrn t that the bi a lung be done
It.; g • non«li in advance of the seediug
dow . for the sal. t t.il to settle and be-
come rather solid. If it has a crop of
P fca vines on it, the pea vines should be
plowed under a moderate depth only,
say three or four inches; therefore the
turn plow should lie followed with an-
other plow to break the laud still deep-
er. Before turning under the pea vines
. . broadcast five
a PPy to ten bushels per
acre °* freshly slaked lime. Beginning
about the 1st of October, the laud should
be gone over several times with some-
tiling like a disk harrow set to run shal-
low, so as to bring tho surface soil in
finest tilth.
Wheat is not a very heavy paying
crop at best, and it is very doubtful if a
yield less than 15 bushels to the acre
pays when labor is expended to put land
in good condition and when liberal
manuring is practiced. If one un¬
dertakes, therefore, to raise a good pay
ing crop, he should not spare labor or
manure. When a wheat crop is put in
in a slovenly manner, simply sowing
the seed on unplowed ground, plowing
it in and perhaps drawing a brush over
it, a yield of five or six bushels per acre
may pity out, because so little labor or
expense is incurred, but there is no
profit ia such a crop. Early plowing of
wheat laud and keeping it free from
any growth upon it diminishes the lia¬
bility of injury from the fly. A crop of
wheat succeeding another on the same
land is very liable to be injured by the
fly if the first crop has been infested
by it.
Tho Southern Cultivator, the source
of the foregoing, also warns against
plowing orchards later than the 1st of
September. New growth of wood is no
longer desirable. It is better for all the
energy of the trees to be expended in
maturing and ripening the growth al¬
ready made. Note this growth, and if
it is too short oi if the leaves seem yel¬
low and unhealthy, seed down the or¬
chard with crimson clover, to be plowed
under early next spring. In addition it
may bo necessary to give a dressing of
potash during the winter, for fruit trees
exhaust a soil as other crops do, a fact
very often ignored. It is not uncommon
to see orchards cropped as regularly as
other fields on the farm, and they are
then liable to double exhaustion by the
trees and by the crop planted among
them.
Convonlpnoe* For flnalcing: Time,
From west of the Missouri, where
much of the corn crop is husked from
the standing stalks, the following hints
for fast work came originally to the
Ohio Farmer from a correspondent:
Each busker should be provided with
team and wagon, which will straddle
the last husked row while the uext two
are being husked. The lines are tied on
wagon, and the team eats along, soon
learning to “move up” to keep the
wagon opposite tho husker.
The side bourd shown at Fig. 1 should
be the length of the wagon bed and at
least two feet high with 1 by 4 inch
cleats nailed or bolted on either side.
Slip cleats down one inside and the
other outside of wagon bed on side op¬
posite the husker, and he will sling
corn at the rate of 60 bushels a day
without throwing any ears over. Many
eastern farmers who never husk stand-
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SIDE BOARD AXD SHOVELING BOARD.
j n g corQ would find one of these boards
verv convenient, as they are used in
joking a n kinds of grain, fine manure,
with basket or SCO op. They pre-
over and one H
do cleaner and more rapid work,
The use of a patent end gate which,
wh£u let down, forms a continuaticx of
the wagon bottom at the rear, is a great
be jp j u unloading not only corn, but
coal cidey ap pi es , etc., as well. Strange
as it now sec-ins, we never saw a shove]-
iu S board until we catue west. In Ohio
v?e always filled the wagon bed full
and the dug absence for a of start the when patented unloading^ end gate In
take a wide board (it must be wider
than tbe shovel) about five feet long,
place one eu d on top of rear end gate,
letting * the other end rest on the bottom,
as shown , M * ti g. 2 -
Kaffir Corn ’
An Oklahoma correspondent .... writes to
Farm, Field and Fireside about Kaffir
coru . We have had onr best success this
vear with this our leading gram and
fodder crop, ' and the following was onr
. ,
The ground was first thoroughly ,, disk- .
ed. Whioh destroyed the weed, tt a rt.ng.
This was a little later than nsual corn
planting time, for I have found it best
I0 defer IMS.
combired’lister planter was used,
thus plowing and planting with one
implement and at one time. The ground
being warm the com came up quickly,
but nothing was done with it until four
inebe* high, then it was harrowed
aLnt twice at intervals. This filled the lists
one-half, when i,™ let s.and
until it was a foot or more high. It was
then plowed once, filling the lists and
all the weeds. It is probable
^ gfaou]d have plowed lt twice , the
first time earlier; but, harvest coming
A SILLY FOOL.
One evening last week I was sitting ij
my room at the boarding house smoking
my second best pipe and thinkingof noth-
ing when the door was banged open and
my chum, Bill Morse, flung himself into
the room, slammed his valise on the floor,
threw bis bat on the bed, and cursing
himself as the greatest fool alive dropped
into a chair.
For two weeks I had been envying that
fellow. Engaged to a pretty girl, who had
not made the common mistake of being
born of poor parents, he had gone to pass
a whole month’s vacation in the same
Connecticut village where his sweetheart
and her mother ware staying.
I was too surprised to do more than
stare r.t Bill in astonishment. He looked
too disgusted with himself for me to offci j
sympathy, and 1 waited patiently for the
story I knew was coming. I’ll omit th-
preliminary blessing on himself and star!
with the facts.
“This morning,” said he, "Alice and
son!B °f her girl Iriends started up the
mountain for a hen picnic. Mount Riga,
^asTholo in the ground About Wide-
clded to take a walk and accidentally
meet them. I took a roundabout way,
because there was sure to be more or less
giggling when I made my appearance, no
matter how nicely it was managed.”
Here Bill helped himself to my first best
pipe and heaped a few more blessings on
his head.
"Well,” said he after a few strong pulls
at the pipe, * ‘ I soon reached a cursed little
hill which sat up against the mountain
like a pimple besides mammoth wart and
perched on the side of the measly bunch
of dirt was an enormous rock, left there
by a glacier, I suppose. The day it was
dropped there was cold, but the day Bill
Morse found it was still colder. Climbing
up to the lower 6ide and leaning back
against it, I took a look around. .Tust
then some one set off a blast or they began
cannonading off Mole St. Nicholas. Any¬
way the jar seemed to shake the hill, and
that stone moved. I braced myself against
it instinctively, the motion stopped, and
then came one of those flashes of intelli¬
gence for which I am famous, as you know,
old man.
"You have seen a schoolteacher take
his class into the yard and demonstrate
that one boy can keep a ladder upright by
looking out for the center of gravity, etc.,
and that it takes them all to stop its fall¬
ing when you let it tip. Oh, I knew all
about it! Bill Morse knew. If I let that
stone get started, It would crush me,for it
was so broad I could not spring out of the
way. I bored one shoulder into the dou¬
ble dyed thing and finally twisted round
so as to face it, worked my way to the
edge, the cold sweat standing out all over
me, and jumped clear. Things were dark
for © moment, but I soon straightened out
and looked to see where the rock had fall¬
en. It hadn’t budged.”
I was going to ask Bill if he was angry,
but he had jumped up and was kicking
his valise around the room, anil 1 thought
it unnecessary.
"Bob,” he cried between the kicks,
“words are poor things. I agree with the
man who said language was intended to
conceal your real thoughts.”
After a few more kicks and a fresh pipe¬
ful Bill resumed: "I rushed round to the
top of that infernal rock, determined to ;
push drop itself. it over I if moved it didn’t it about intend to take a |
an inch, and
to do more than that would require all of
the king’s horses. Oh, but Solomon was a
wise one! Ho said all men were fools.
That stone. Bob, was a rocking stone.
When I realized what it was, I wondered
why Solomon had not mentioned me par-
ticularly. I began talking to the stone
and was just beginning to do myself and
that beastly chunk justice when that hen
picnic came screaming down the moun¬
tain side. They had soen tho whole circus.
Alice gasped out, 'Oh, W-Will, it’s too
fu-funny,’and then put her hand to her
side and absolutely shrieked with laugh¬
ter. I gave her one look and then told
her a plain truth that I know she’ll never
forgive. Then I rushed back to the hotel,
got my things, and here I am. It’s all
over. I’m a fool, and a wretched one, my
boy.”
I agreed with him, but didn’t mention I
it. Then the light was turned out and we
turned in. I slept, but I don’t think Bill
did He moped around the house and ate
precious little. The landlady was sure he
ought to see a doctor. If I tried to oheer
him up, he only scowled and cursed him¬
self, Connecticut, the big hill, the little
hill and everything except the girl—a
mighty sensible girl, too, as you will see
—for a few days after, as I was entering
the house, out rushed Bill as happy a man
as you would want to meet. He had re¬
ceived a note from Alioe and was on his
way to see her. This is what she said:
“Dear Will —We reached home today.
I told mother I simply would not stay
there another hour when I found you were
not coming back. Do come and see me
and bring your forgiveness with you. I
know I was just what you said, ‘a blanked
silly fool,’ for laughing so, and if you had
not been angry you would not have been a
6ure enough man, and I would not have
cared a bit for you. As it is I love you
more than ever. Yours only,
ALICE
«p. s.—But it was too awful funny to
see you save your precious life in that
manner and then hammer that poor, help-
the P S. Rnhlrt they are going to
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p^jsed w» h by the *iK public KiF at f half his value. i "
Hla mo6t precious endowment was his
a ? d spontaneous humor. The or-
gamzation of the Bentley firm reminds
me of one Instance of this. George Bent-
J®/ P*e ST^^thfne^Jdkor^fiL^ITa Bar. anil tne new editor selected as a
“otto for the title page the sentence,
•'-jf’ sa5d u ^ J ake a
walk down , Fleet street.” To this day
most people believe this to be a quotation
Boswell. Aatuch i, has taker it*
place in English literature. As a matter
of fact, it was an emanation from Sala’s
*™£edHr. genuine bumortst-London
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Cruel Woman.
Greymair—My wife didn’t say a word
when I got home so late the other morning,
Betterhaws—That was kind,
‘*As * was saying she didn’t say a word
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Chinese Babies.
Chinese babies are fed on rice and noth-
ing else after they ^ a few n^th* o]<L
Cow’s milk is never given to them. Chi-
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THE THIRD GEORGIA
IS ORDERED TO CUBA
War Department . Issues a General
Order For the Embarkation At
Once, Naming the Georgia Reg¬
iment as the First to Hove.
Washingtion, Nov. 3.—The war
department has issued a general
order for the movement of troops
to Cuba. The first troops will leave
about November 22, and will com-
prise a brigade under Brigadier Gen-
eral Carpenter. 1 he brigade will
betaken from the Seventh army
corps, and one ol the regiments or-
dered to go is Third Georgia. The
brigade . will . be sent to Neuvitas,
Puerto Principe.
Orders were issued this morning
making the Third Georgia regi¬
ment a part of the brigade of Brig¬
adier General Carpenter. The
headquarters of the brigade will be
at Neuvitas, which is in the prov-
ince of Puerto Principe, on the
north coast.
The Third Georgia will be sta-
tioned at Neuvitas, with six troops
of the Eighth cavalry.
The quartermaster’s department
has been ordered to furnish the
Third Georgia and the Eigth cav-
airy ^ with sixty days , , rations at
once, and they will proceed imme-
diatelv to Savannah, Ga., embark-
ing * on ' 1 or u before ° ° c November 22. It
. understood that three .
is transports
have been ordered there to take the
regiment off. The Third Georgia
and the Eighth & cavalry will be the
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first ot troops to go to Cuba, but
they ine > will " 111 be De rj ranidiv p’ ai > followed lonowea bv D\
other commands, for the president
nas expressed d w ms intention intentio „ of ot put put .
ting fifty thousand soldiers in the
island of Cuba a* rapidly as it can
be done. Brigadier General
penter is now atIHuntsville and is
n in w h om the nre-ident ” and
the , officials , . of the war department
have great reliance.
The distinction given the Third
Georgia in being sent first is con¬
sidered a great one here. Neuvitas,
being in the north part of Cuba, is
considered a particularly healthy
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troops will arrive at their destiua-
lion before the first of December
and the officers and men of the
Third Georgia can look forward to
“
a pleasant service. It is the inten-
tion of the war department r to have
General Lee’s sail about tne .
corps
last of December, and the g.eater
portion of it is to go to Havana
province. It is expected that the
transports will enter Havana harbor
about the last of the year ; that on
the first of January they will be
able to disembark and March into
Havana with a triumphal entry.
Major J. S. Cohen, of the Third
Georgia,who came here to see about
the assignment of his regiment,
had a conference with the president
today, and afterwards with Secre¬
tary Alger, when the orders were
issued. As soon as the major lear¬
ned the news he telegraphed the
officers of Third Georgia. Major
Cohen will return to his regiment
at once. It is due entirely to his
efforts that the Third will go to
Cuba soon.
NAVY DEPARTMENT IS OFFICIALLY
ADVISED.
Washington, Nov. 5—The navy
department has received a dispatch
from Lieutenant Commander Har¬
ris, who was with the Marie Teresa
when she left Caimanera, saying
he reached Charleston last night on
the wrecking tug Merritt, with the
officers and men foiling the crew
of the Teresa. The cruiser was lost
about 30 miles north of San Salva¬
dor Tuesday last in a northeast gale
of exceptional violen e. This was
all the advice received by the depart¬
ment up to 2 o’clock p. m.
Upon the receipt of the news
the navy officers attached to the
navigation bureau immediatel y
consulted the charts to locate the
scene of the disaster. The first
glances satisfied them that the last
had been seen of the ill-fated Maria
Teresa. As near as they dould cal¬
culate the vessel lies in about 2,900
fathoms of water.
The location is 24 degrees north
latitude by 74-30 west longitude,
about 235 miles distant from Nas-
sua. At the time the Teresa sunk
she was about 310 miles distance
from Caimenera, the port from
which she started a little over two
days before.
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full assurance of being fairly dealt
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In a snug little groito beneath a high
bank covered with foxglove and ferns
lived a sly old gray fox. He was so very
old that he . mid not go far to search for
his food, so ho was obliged to play all sorts
of tricks to get it. One night as he sat at
the mouth of his hiding place feeling very
hungry from having had nothing to eat
for a long time he observed a fine fat
young hare lazily feeding on the juicy tur¬
nip tops.
“Oh, dear,” sighed the fox, "if I were
only a little younger what a rare supper I
could make off that young thing! But I
can’t catch her.” Then an idea struck
him.
"Hem! Hem! Hem!” said he in a loud
voice.
Tho hare was startled and looked round.
"Sweet miss,” said tho fox coaxingly,
"I’m old and feeble, and I can’t fetch my
supper. Will you get it for me?”
"Oh, yes!” said the hare, who was a
giddy, thoughtloss thing, but very good
natured. "What would you like? Some
fresh, dewy clover?”
"Dear me, no!” said the fox. “That
would not suit me at all.”
"Oh, it is delicious!” said the hare.
“But what should you like?”
"Just walk into my house,” answered
the fox, "and I will show you the sort of
things I like. ”
Now, his den was strewn all over with
the bones of rabbits and ducks and pheas¬
ants and chlbkens.
"Wait a minute,” said tho hare, "till I
finish this turnip top.” Then she skipped
gayly up to the fox. “Now I’m ready, ”
said Rhe.
And so was the fox. Ho just gave her
backbone ono nip, and she was as dead as
dead could be.
Do not listen to the fine words of stran¬
gers, whoever they may be, and do r~>t
choose your friends until you know somj-
thing about them.—Children’s Friend.
Jack and Hilly.
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Nicholas.
Honesty Is Priceless.
Honesty is a very precious thing—some¬
thing so rare that when it is once sold it
can never be recovered. No price can be
high enough for which to part with hon¬
esty. Yet boys have been known to sell
this precious thing for a lead pencil, or a
stamped envelope, or 8 cents wrong
change, or even a counterfeit 5 cent piece.
Some years ago a boy was engaged in a
large factory where lead pencils were man¬
ufactured. The regular arrangements of
the factory turned out so many finished
pencils from one department a day, so
many packages from another and so many
boxes from a third. It was all done so
systematically that nothing remained un¬
finished or in half sets at night. The new
boy had never seen such a wealth of lead
pencils before, and cut of unnumbered
hundreds, as he supposed, he took one and
put it in his pocket. At night there was
a box with one pencil missing. It was
easily traced to his department, and then
to him, and he was discharged, not be¬
cause the factory could not afford to lose
one lead pencil, but because the proprie¬
tors could not afford to keep a dishonest
boy. It was reasonable to suppose that a
boy who held his honesty no higher in
price than a lead pencil would doubtless
be tempted by something greater.—Chris¬
tian Work.
Ten Little Tin Soldiers.
Ten little tin soldiers lay all in a row,
Stretched out on the nursery floor.
Just where they could see with their
sharp little eyes
Through the crack that was under the
door.
Their captain had left them all there for
the night
And said as he crept Into bed,
“If any one tries to come Into the room.
You must fire and shoot him stone
dead.”
The hours went by, and the ten little guns
Were aimed at the crack near the floor
When all of a sudden the crack stretched
and grew.
And somebody opened the door.
Bang! Bang! went the guns—the soldiers
all fired,
But nobody seemed to be dead;
Instead they all heard a soft kiss in the
dark;
“Good night, dear!” a loving voice said.
Then all the ten soldiers shook badly with
fright
And whispered low one to another:
“How lucky it was that our guns were so
SQX3.il •
What if we had killed Tommy's moth¬
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—IJIla Thomas Elder in Youth'# Coro pan-
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