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t Mow Williams Came I To Go Back East Williams of Ithode Island was down on hi luck. Jie hud been five years In the gold State, and had confidently looked forward to each succeeding year's enabling hiui to go buck home and make things comfortable for the woman and little ones. Hut earn suc ceeding year hud found him precisely w here the previous one had left him a sanguine prospector, with a wealth of hope and a pitifully small outtit. Hut tills Ial find had been different. He had taken out sixty dollars a day for awcokt u!ii wit h this aiibHtanth.l evidence of coming prosperity had writteji a letter which 11 lied the far away home Willi sudden Joy. Then the vein had disappeared, and he had picked and shoveled and hauled away dirt until liis money was exhausted. Hut the t"ld wan there, he was sure of It; and his conlidence had Induced the trader at Three Forks to advance him funda. However, there had been a shaft t'i sink, a solid rock to cut through; and it had all been expensive. When II was accomplished the money was gone ti ml (here was no vein. He was still conlident; hut the trader was angry, and had accused him of false pretenses, only this morning" he had received Intimation that the Sheriff was about to levy on his mine on his .Molly, named after the dear one it was to do so much for. He was aroused by approaching foot steps. When he looked up two men stood before him. one of them was the owner of the adjoining claim; the other was the Sheriff. "I have come to " began the offi cer. "Yes, yes, I know." Williams of Bhodo Island rose heavily to his f?ct. "It's all right. Just go ahead. I can do nothing." The sheriff looked at him curiously. "(Ill, 'taln't quite so bad as that." he laughed. "I did 'low on makin' a levy; but Kansas here has been tellin' me something that has changed my plans. Ton needn't bother about the bill Jest tow." "I s'pose you heerd 'bout my luck?" Kansas asked, blandly. "I've got. a pretty vein," Kansas went on frunkty; "but hit dips to'ard you una' land. If ttiar's a pocket I 'low hit's acroKt your line. I don't s'pose ye'd be wllfln' to sell out, clean; but If ye'U go pards I'll give ye ten thousand for a half share." He waited a moment, but aa there was no reply, added: "I'll wake It twenty for a clean job; but of course ye won't quit?" Williams of It hod e Island looked down Into the valley, and up the moun tain; and then across to the east, where the sun was just rising above the pines. "Yes, I'll quit," he said, huskily; "you can buy me out clean-. I'm going home." Philadelphia Times. FISHING IN THE YELLOWSTONE. Trout Caught and lloilcd In the Same Mrram. People returning from the west fre quently have some wonderful stories to relate of how they caught trout iu the Yellowstone I'ark and. without changing llicir scaL lifted the lisli out of the stream of cold water, over into a boiling spring, and cooked it with out removing It from the hook. These stories are all very well in tl'ieir way, tiut when told in the manner above outlined one can safely put them down aa yarns, without the slightest foun dation In fact. To catch a lish in a stream pf cold water and lift It over Into a spring of boiling water Is one of the many curious things that am possible only iu the Vellowstono l'ark, but. should the person so doing at tempt to draw the lisli out of the boil ing spring the head would pull off the thoroughly boih-d and perfectly noft body and he would thus lose the llsh. The most wonderful phenomenon of this wirt In the Yellowstone l'ark is one that has thus far escaped those who are fond of telling big lihh yarns, mainly for the reason that the locality Ilea outside the beaten track of travel ami visitors and can only be reached after considerable difficulty. At the point Iu question a stream of clear, -cold water flows through the park, recelTlng In Its course the scalding hot waters of olio of the numeroub boiling springs of that region. This boiling water, as It reaches the cold at ream, flows for a considerable dis tance along one bank before the waters finally mingle and become one In tem perature. Into this spring of boiling water. In sects, bug, toads, grasshopper and the like are continually dropping and Ulan losing their lives, and all mien Insects are, . as a matter of course, wept Into the cold water stream. Now In the cold wati of this stream a Dumber of hungry trout are continual ly skirmishing along the edge of the hot water, taking good cure not to ven ture too- close, for the purpose of h nap ping Up and devouring the liwecta brought down by the hot water and which happen to float over Into th cold water, or near enough the liorder for the trout to pick them up, no that II la powdble for a fisherman sitting ou the bank, to catch a trout, with a kook and lino, draw bliu two feet from where be took the hook, and boll him good and done, all In the same mam, and without even lifting the Ann from the water. The flahiTtnan would, of course, have to have a scoop net to remove the boiled trout from the water, for other wine the bead would pull off, leaving the bod In the water. Hut, barring this, aoya the Washington I'oat, It la wltkla the bounds of trvU for one to say that the Yellowstone la the onlj place on t-arth where It is possible U catch and cook a flub In the tiami stream. A FABLE FROM REAL LIFE. How Author of "Fablea in Slang' Lived L'p to Ilia Theory. There Is a class of people and tbej are not all women, elUier who can not be convinced that whatever an au thor writes Isn't autobiographical. If a man writes a love sonnet, he musl be iu love, a theory which. If carefullj applied to some of our poets, woulc prove that they out-Solomon Solomon Such persons are rather vexing, foi one Is sure they would nevec tead Shakespeare's sonnets If they uUin'1 believe there was a woman Involved ami they simply glory In the fact thai poor little liavid Coppertiold Is said t be tin1 boy Dickens himself. To al' such this story may have interest. It Is about a fable by George Ade. the past master of slang. The fabh tells of two men, the one who wouldn't leiini botany, but got out and Dug foi the Hocks, or something of that sort; the other who said, "Nay, nay, a cul tured mind Is the real thing; I'll g through college, and then be It," 01 something of that sort. Anyway, th first who had "bloodshot hands" (thai quotation Is exact), got out aud rustled for the cash so effectively that by th( time the second was earning ?,"X) a week us n professor, and was still only an A. M., he came to the same college with $oM!K he had forgotten to tak out of his pocket when he changed his "pants" (the professor doubtless Wore trousers), saw a new gymnasium was needed, gave the $50,000 and was made a I'll. D. The laugh seemed tc be on number two. Now, according to James O'Donnel! Bennett, who Is well known In the atrlcal circles, being now connected with the business end of Miss Mar lowe's productions, George Ade him self might stand for number one In some way, and Bennett and several more for number two. "You see," said Hennett, "befor Ade was famous, when he wag just a newspaper man with the rest, a lot of us used to have quarters In Chi cago where we retired at night, when the day's grind was over, and stud iously set about Improving our minds Hut Ade wouldn't Join us. While w were reading the sixty-seventh volume of the 'Life of Johnson' he would b down in nil sorts of Joints, setting up cheap variety actors and the like tc beer and ham sandwiches. "'George,' we would tell him, 'yot are not doing right by yourself. Yot should study and improve your mind not waste your spare time In cheat and riotous living. Come with us; wii culture, not slang.' '"Hut Ade kept ou setting up the beei and learning slang. We cut the leaves In the sixty-eighth volume of RoswelL And now-and now, we have minds more or less Improved, but Ade draws a salary of $000 a week, and goes tc the Waldorf! There's your fable, to the life." New York Tribune. Where Wax In Mined. In several parts of the world a resin ous substariecenlled ozocerite and bear ing considerable resemblance to bees wax Is found, usually In connection with rock salt, and coal. There are de posits in Austria, Hussla. Konmania, Egypt, Algeria, Canada and .Mexico, but ozocerite has, so far. not been dis covered in t-nlliciciit quantities to pay for mining anywhere except In the dis trict of Horyslav, in Austrian G.alleia, ami on un Island ou the west coast of the Caspian Sea. In mining this mineral wax shafts are sunk until a bed or "nest" of ozo cerite Is struck. Then connecting gal leries arc driven. There Is considerable danger and many lives have been lost In consequence of the sudden forcing up of the soft wax into the shafts by I he enormous pressure to which It Is subjected. It Is used largely for man tifacturing ccrcsln. Fays the Brooklyn Citizen, which Is employed, together witli beeswax, for making wax candles, as well as in the manufacture of phono graphic cylinders, and for many slmllai purposes. J'l-ogresa of Cremation. That veteran advocate of cremation, Sir Henry Thompson, has published In the Lancet a statistical account of th progress of this movement whlcfc should Interest those who regard cre mation as the only satisfactory mode of disKislng decently of the dead, hav ing regard to the safety of the living. At Woking 2.0!7 cremntlous have ta ken place, beginning with 3 In th year 18.ST) and ending In 11)01 with 273. In l'.MIl there were, Ih sides 1)5 at .Man chester, 40 .it Liverpool, 18 at Glas gow, 17 at Hull and 2 at Darlington. Leicester will have a crematorium In a few mouths, and the Institution la course of erection In the north of Lon don will be ready before the close of. V.m. The United States has 20 ere nuitorlcs, of which 24 are In use. At Fresh Pond, N. Y., CM bodies were cremated in 11101, ("did at Han Francis co (Odd Fellows), and 182 at Chicago. In Purls, from 1W1) to 11(01. 2.21M) prl vnte cremation took place. San Fran cisco Chronicle. Taking; Her llimn, May Yen. I have accepted him. lit says I'm a prize. Kay Consolation prtoie, I presume. Nobody else would hare bliu. I'hlla delphla Hulk-tin. Woral I'atlenta or All. Touug Doctor-Which kind of pa tlcuts do you II ml It the hardest to cure? Old Doctor Those who have nothing the matter with them. Judge. The girl who learns to play tit piabo wall luuat be mighty tired, MODERN AID8 TO NOVELI8T8 Manner In Which the Popular Writers Collect Their Material. Just aa rapidly as the public demands loythlng in large quantities, nature supplies the mechanism which will jratify the vant. At the present timej there la an Insatiable market for his torical novels of all sorts and kinds. When, therefore, the historical novel ist sketches out a plot, he would, if left to himself, require several mouths of hard study In some large library In order to obtain accurate material and local color. Creative genius does not enjoy research and Investigation. What he does, therefore, is to make a plot or scenario of his story aud a requisition for material. This will in-elude--a description of the towns and -cities and the times wherein tire story Is placed, pen pictures and anecdotes j of any historical characters introduced Into the piece, and a brief collection jt the sayings, jokes, poems and popu-1 Iar songs of the period. He then goes I lo the libraries and Interviews several professional bookworms who have late ly developed this work Into a recog nized Industry. These patient purvey ors of Information are known in the li braries us "the shadows of the novel ists" who employ them. Their work i& pleasant but monotonous. I,ong prac tice has made them familiar with the books, so that they know exactly where to turn, which is nine-tenths of the battle. One of them, a middle-aged but bright-eyed Daughter of the Revolu tion, who has become a specialist In this Held of work mid calls herself "A Hcarcher for Novelists," showed me lier order book and chatted with me about her work. "Mr. X , who is running a serial story in Marker's Monthly, wants ten Jokes about Gen (nil Israel I'utnam. I scut him fifteen, rom which he will select ten. If I .ad not done this he would have jrowled and declared that any school lioy could have gotten these from a Fifth Header." Detroit Free I'ress. MISUSE OF "AWFULLY." hprncer Criticises the Speech of Hit Countrymen and "Auiericaniania." In bis "Facts and Comments," Her bert Spencer has a brief article beaded "A Few Americanisms," in which he protest, and very justly so, against Hie use of certain "new words or new uses of old words." Various examples i tire given aud the article winds up; with the following remark: "Perhaps a little might be done If iu return for criticisms on Americanisms like those given above, Americans were syste-1 matically to expose deteriorations In the language as spoken here. They ! might, for example, mercilessly ridi-' cule that vulgar misuse of the word 'awfully,' which has now continued foi more than a generation." This reminds me of the following rather good story told to me by a friend now deceased, says a writer in the London .Spectator. A certain dis tinguished philosopher happened to be staying at a country house in which my friend was also a guest, and one morning a youngster lookout of the window, observing a large (lock of rooks alighting ou the grass, cried out, "What an awful lot of crows," upon which the philosopher, In a tone In tending to convey aa geutle rebuke, inquiringly said: "Well, my young friend, ure crows really so very aw ful?" The lmy quickly answered: "I iidn't say, 'What a lot of awful crows,' but. 'What an awful lot of crows!" The ' philosopher remained silent and he boy whispered to my friend: "Had llm that time. I think, sir!" This Is a .rue story. WIII1E BLACKBLRHIES. White blackberries are the latest ichlevement of horticultural science. They have been bred from ordinary Jlaek ones by the famous wizard gar lener, Luther Uurbank, of Santa Rosa, 2al. As a mere freak they would h nterestlng, but they are something norc, namely, a valuable new variety, XssesHln(( a flnvor su)crlor. It Is said, any black blackberries. Before very ong they will be on the market, so Jiut public may be able to Judge for itself aa to their excellence. Htrtko anil Ijoi.-k-Out at Once. He tried the door with bis key, bm the thing was locked on the inside, ocked and bolted. And, Just as he wag ibout to apply the knocker, a voice, (tern and admonitory, reached him , from above. "Halloa! Who are you? What do, fouwont?" j "My amr," no called, "Isn't that a .rifle gratuitous? I want to come In. D'ye seer "Where have you been till this hour?" "Club, my dirllng. Been down dis poning the strike." "Very woll, then. Now yoq can go wt'k and discuss the lock-out Doea It itlll rain?"-Bait I wore Bum. OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IMPORTANT SUBJECTS The Right of Way. ONE remark in the brief colloquy between the President and the niotorman who came so near to killing him was eminently characteristic. We are told that the parting words of the motorman, as the President turned away, were: "Your driver had a right to get out of the way, anyhow," Tae remark was aj insolent as -it- was slang? ,-and as brutal as it was insolent. Hut it was typical and illumin ating in a high degree. It expressed with exp-tness if not with elegance the too frequent attitude of the strong and swift toward the less strong and less swift upon our highways. Their rule is simply au arrogant "get out of the way." The trolley car motorman claugs bin gong and expects all other vehicles and pedestrians to get out of the way. If they do not it is their owu fault if they get run over. The automobile motorman blows his raucous horn and ploughs furiously along the middle of t lie road, expecting all others to get out of the way. The driver of horses attached to some cumbrous vehicle, or the driver of some swift trotter, acts similarly toward the hapless pedes trian. "Get out of the way!" is the insolent mandate of the strong to the weak. As a matter of fact, that is an unlawful attitude. The weak have equal rights of way with the strong. If there be any discrimination between them it is iu favor of the weak. The steamship must yield right of way to the sailing vessel, and the vehicle to the pedestrian. It is reasonably and right that it should he so. So far as trolley cars are concerned, it is especially so, for they have no proprietary right in the street. Tliey occupy the street on sufTerance, aft tenants at the will of the reul owners, and it is incumbent upon them to respect the rights of the owners. The President's carriage had a superior right of way to that of the trolley car which ran it down. It was not so much incumbent upon the driver of the carriage to get out of the way, as the motorman declared, as it was upon the motoruian of the car to yield the right of way to a vehicle, no matter whether it was the carriage of the President or of the humblest private citizen. New York Tribune. The Lesson of a Fad. THE appointment of a receiver for the bicycle trust affords an interesting object lesson. The reason for such action, or rather the causes which have led to it, are obvious. Bicycling a few years ago was neither au industry, nor a sport, but a fad, and a fad is bound to pass away. We do not say it is a fad now. Most manifestly it is not. It is both an industry and a sport, and as such will doubtless be perpetuated. Hut the penalty for its period of fadship must be paid. The vast inflation of it for a tew years, when everybody seemed to lie bicycle mad, has been followed by inevitable collapse. After a time, and after vari ous fluctuations, a rational status will be established. People will continue to use bicycles, for business, for pleasure and for health, and the industry of making and selling them will he a steady and prolitable one. The automobile has come to stay, as did the bicycle. But it has not come to stay as a fad any more than did the other. The bicycle which abides is not the featherweight wheel of the humpbacked scorcher, but the substantial and trustworthy wheel of the rider who rides for business or pleasure or health. The automobile which will alride will not be the wailing, clat-tci-inir, snorting, smoking, stinking thing in which the be Itocgled scorcher now delights to rush through slaughter of others to his own destruction. It will be a safe, comfortable. IniNlworthy engine, convenient to its users and inoffensive to all others. That is a prediction which may be made with abso lute confidence, and those who are first to accept it as a fact and to act tiion it will be in least danger of loss when the inevitable rencrion comes against the beginnings of an in tolerable fad. New York Tribune. The Intellect of Women. WHILE there seem to be no directions in which men cannot excel women intellectually, there are a larze class in which women are not wholly disqualified, so that a clever woman can beat an ordinary man: and there is another large class, where even the ablest women are so far behind as to be entirely out of the riiie. Til-nigh men excel in both directions, the kind of mind that is almost peculiar to men may be fitly called the mascu line. It will be interesting to distinguish between th" two types more perfectly. Women can leain ianguazes nearly as well as men, especially modern languages, in which it is some times possible to secure rational tuition. It is only in the higher walks that they fall behind. In such subjects us history, women are again not, as a rule, behind men, except in the higher branches. Mathematics is to some extent anomalous. It is a subject that requires very close attention and concentra tion, but little more in most branches. It docs not demand Buy high order of intellect. The reasoning is close, but it is purely deductive. It is a study from which women have never DO WHOLESALE COOKING. Novel ('Ollinin KHtublishineiits Supply KcstMiirtintH with Cooked Food. if It were asserted without any ex planation that there were restaurants In New York which cooked large quan tities of food day aud night and yet which never sold a mouthful to a pcr-f-on within their doors It would certain ly arouse doubt or ridicule. Yet such as the fact. There are more than forty establishments of this class In New York. Their customers are not hungry null, but restaurants, eating booths, oyster Mumls, aud free lunch counters. There was a time when every place of this sort owned and used Its own kitch en, but the Increase of rents, the de crease In the size of store property and the greater economy necessitated by keen competition have brought the wholesale restaurant Into existence and made It a financial success. Most of these affairs are on the east side and are managed by Germans. He brews, Swiss arid English, their num bers being in the order named. They supply roast beef, lamb, veal, unit ton, corn beef and pork, pot roasts, baked mid boiled fish, fried oysters, clams, scallops, eels, llshballs and soft-shell crabs, boiled potatoes, cabbage, turnips liiul beets. A few supply a larger bill of fare, but (lie demand for their goods Is compara tively limited. They purchase good, wholesome material, employ excellent cooks, own efficient delivery wagons and run affairs upon a good business basis. When you pass an oyster stand and ee nicely fried oysters and soft-shell rtnbs neatly piled upon a platter, and decorated with little sprigs of parsley, . vice out of three times you look at I 'ip wares of these establishments. The I ny restaurants In the business dls ricts, and especially those which cater 0 clerks and worklngmen, depend al iosi entirely upon the wholesale res- 1 irants for their food. Oddly enough, y the New York Post, they can sell ielr cooked food to the retail restjiu ii ' m for less than what the latter onhl pay for the raw materials. This .oniea from buying wholesale In very t large quantities. In cooking on a large scale and in utilizing all the waste prod ucts. AN ODD COLLECTION. Why a Hook I.ovr Ituya Old Hihlc and Hymn lluoka. "All book collectors have their weak nesses," remarked a man who is often seen poring over (he sidewalk counters of second-hand book shops, "and mine, I confess, runs In the line of old Bibles and hymn books. Not particularly be cause they are Bibles and bymu books, but because I simply cau't stand It to see such books tossed about as dusty, almost, worthless second-hand goods. Except In the case of rare old Bibles or quite ancient hymn books, such books cost but a trifle; religious books, as a rule, ure almost unsalable In a second-hand shop, and 1 buy a great many. Only, however, such as contain family names and Inscriptions of pa thetic character. "My first purchase of the kind was an Episcopal prayer book, battered and torn, with the name of an old friend of mine In gilt on the cover. It gave me a shock to find It on a second-hand counter, so I paid the required dime and carried it home. The man Is dead, and his children are living In other cities, well to do. I have no Idea how his prayer book became public proper ty. People are queer. I offered It to a remote relative of the former owner, hut she said she didn't cure about If. Since then I have bought In oilier old family Bibles and hymn books which belonged to people 1 had known, or which contain Interesting written mat ter. It Is pitiful to see a lilble In scribed, 'To my dear sou Henry, from his devoted mother,' or, 'Elizabelh, from a loving father, or, 'Little Wil liam's birthday gift to Uncle William.' "When these books come Into my hands I erase or tear out fho Inscrip tions, and If my shelf of old Bibles and hymn books ever gels started out again us 'religious Junk" It will all he anony mous and wanting In that distressing nallty widen has made nie, perhaps, bsurdly sentimental over 1L" Detroit rce Press. been precluded, yet they have never done anything In tha- higher branches. No woman has even invented a calculus, neither do women apply mathematics to solve physical prob lems. The creative and the original seem absent from femi nine mathematics, as from most feminine work. When we come to science we find women are simply nowhere. Ths feminine mind is yuite. unsMentific. ..Men . are curious aboal things, women about people. While those of his sex read the works of a great man, women read his biography and letter There may be brilliant exceptions here aud there, which are too infrequent to count, but, broadly speaking, the scientific woman does not exist. One of Cuba's Needs. AMERICANS regard Cuba as being exclusively a sugai and tobacco country. I venture the prophecy that within a very few years she will supply the United States with oranges, winter vegetables, winter straw berries, coffee, india rubber, indigo, bananas, com and beef cattle all of which can lie cultivated much more econr omically than is possible in the United States or South Amer ica and without any danger of loss or destruction by frost, at Cuba is below the frost Hue, being protected by the gull stream. While all of the industries above mentioned may be gona into on a large scale, they are particularly attractive to the man with small capital. When it comes to the culture of sugaf cane ami tobacco more money is needed, which is also par tially true of the pineapple industry, as pines are iufmitelj more profitable when cultivated on a large scale. The capital ist and syndicate naturally turn to sugar and tobacco, both of which can be made enormously prolitable. But Cuba to-day stands in great need of the small farmer, and the small farmer, if he but knew it, has been looking for Cuba all of his life.-. Collier's Weekly. Haiti's Unfortunate Condition. HAYTI, never heard from save for some bad cause, will soon celebrate the centenary of its political indepen dence, proclaimed Jan. 1, 1804. It has had a century of self-government. In that time no President has been legally elected. No govern ment has been secure. Life has never been safe from mili tary execution. Taxation has been organized plunder. Bar barism has succeeded semi-civilization. Ilayti might have the best, most profitable sugar planta tions known. It can grow the best coffee of the West Indies. Its ports are at the very entrance of the Caribbean Sea. It should be the house of call for the commerce of a score of islands and some 5.000 miles of coast. Its mineral resources are unknown, but there is every reason to believe them large. It has steaming coal which it does not raise, copper it does not sinelt and gold for which it makes no search. It is a tramp country. Its population, part of which ia cursed by voodooism and all of which is lower than the aver age Asiatic, squats on a rich 10,O(X) square miles and keeps it useless. No evil is absent. There is no real education, no efficient civil administration, no protection for trade, property or life. A tramp country like this cannot go on forever. No man would be allowed to make rich land a nuisance of inhuman cruelty, the hiding place of plunder and murder. Neither can a country. There is no divine right of peoples any mora than of kings. Philadelphia Press. Where Prosperity Originates. T is a fact which many persons seem to forget that all the material wealth comes out of the ground. The pathetic stories- from the large cities connected with the fresh-air aids have told more than once of little children who had never seen green crass and who had no idea of the onen eounfrw until given these outings. There are grown-up people of abunr dant wealth who are equally ignorant of what the country is in its relation to general business interests. They assume that when stocks go up 10 points the country is richer thereby, and that when a great syndicate takes $50,OO0,0tX) worth of property and capitalizes at if.VXl.OOO.OOO, this paper perform ance has created Sf-loO.oOO.lHM) of new wealth. They buy and sell and go speculating through life on this sort of assumption, and do not stop to think that it is only as the iron and coal are dug up aud as the sunshine and the lain bring the grain to the harvest that anything is added to what already is. Meanwhile it is well to bear in mind that while speculators can grow rich in their big deals, the world ,-an wateb with wonder their great achievements, still they are not producers. Somebody else gives up what they get, and it is the unnoticed producer who furnishes the tangible material elements of prosperity. Kvcn legitimate buying and selling, what goes Inder the general name of trade and keeps so many people busy, adds nothing to what already is. When two men trade horses there are still only those t,wo horses at the end of the trade. Hartford Couraut. Lives in a Fairy House. The water spider runs about on the leaves of aquatic plants and catches the insects that live among them; but the nest In which ibis spider lives is a silk bag, filled with a -, and it is anchored beneath the wati Its opening points directly ilownvvai ,t, so that no air can. escape when the spider enters it. After the nest has been made largo enough, the spider proceeds to fill it with air in the most remarkable wny. She curries It in, just as human people might carry coal or wood or water Into their house. Going nearly to the sur face, she puts the end of her body out of the water for an Instant, then Jerks It quickly under with a bubble at tached, crosses her hind legs over It, and descends to the nest, iuto which she then allows the btibblo to escape. This is repeated until the nest Is filled with air. ' The spider has chosen this singular abode to escape Instruction by water fowl. The leav of most 'aquatic plants lie flat upon the water, and offer only few places where the spider could hide from enemies. The thought of a house of silk, filled with air, cays tin New York Tribune, and anchored In a crystalline, sparkling liquid, would do Tor a fairyland sfory, but here It Is In real life. A Fuvorlle of the King. King Edward Is a great lover of dogs and has had many favorites. The pres ent chosen nnd constant canine com panion of his majesty is an Irish terrier named Jack. He came Into the King's possession November last nnd now lives with bis majesty, travels with him and lies beside the King's chair all day. Hate In His Ifciioranoe. Belle He has money, yon know. Emma Yes, I appreciate that fact, but how am t to live happily with a man who is my Inferior? "Don't tell him and be'll never know it" Modern Society. After the average man reaches fifty, the sacrifices be has) to make In order to afford luxuries for his children be gin to I. ow more plainly la his clothes I i