SOME QUEER
SILK-SPINNERS.
SJ LK WORMS DC) NOT HAVE A .MON
OPOLY ox Tin; RUSIXESS.
Silk Spiders of Madagascar and America.
—Remarkable S.>a Shells that produce
a beautiful silk.
Silkworms are iuot the only silk-spin
ners; for instance, there are certain sea
shells that are allied to the common mus
sel ami which, extraordinarily as it may
seem, produce a strong ami beautiful
quality of silk.
The pinnas (from a Latin word signi
fying a wing) as they are called because
of their shape, posses- the power /112 spin
ning. with what is called a fo.it, a large
number of thread* in the aggregate form
ing the cableor byssus by which they
moor themselves U) the particular spots
under the water that they select to oc
cupy. Gibbon the historian tells of a wo
man in ancient Koine who w ore a, magni
ficent dress woven of pinna silk. There
is now in the British Museum a pair of
gloves made of the byssus of the giant
pinna, a species that sometimes attains
the length of two feet, and gloves and
purses of tlie same material may be
'bought it any time in the cities on the
Mediterranean c ists.
The Queen of Jinvaria is said to have
once worn a dress of a still more re
markable fabric woven of silk actually
spun I • clothes -moths, whose specialty
has alwa,' - been supposed to have been
to destri'v. rather than to pi-'luce ma
terial- i ! which clothing i- made.
A Mr. Hal.enstreet, it appears, having
noticed that the larva, or grub, of a par
ticular kind of clothes-moth called the
Tinea padella spun an extremely delicate
and fairy-like -ilk, set to work to make
fabri. - composed of this silk. An op- ;
portunity keurmo-untably difficult first j
encountered in carrying out his purpo e
was the fact that the flat patch of silk i
spun by each of these larvae measured '
only about half an inch square; but by
placing t!»<• laiv ie and making them spin .
in close proximity to each other he dis
covered that the squares united at the
edges and produced a continuous fabric.
Mr. Hal enstreet constructed a number
of models of paper, oiling the parts not
to le covered with *ilk, and by setting a
great number of the clothes moth larvae
at work n the -urtiee of hi* models he ;
succeeded in producing a balloon about
four feet in diameter, two shawls liter
ally as light as a feather, and a seamles*
dress with sleeves. This dress, presented
to the Queen of Ifcivaria and worn by her
over her court costume, a frock for which
babv clothes-moths not only spun the
material but made it up as well, is the
most delicate thing imaginable. That
which, in the well-known fairy tale, the
King's son drew through a finger ring
scarcely could have been finer or more
compressible. It is, indeed, light to a
fault—the merest zephyr is enough to
carry the whole dress away.
fn the first half of the eighteenth cen
tury an enterprising and enthusiastic
little Frenchman, M. Bon, turned his at
tention to spider-webs, and discovered
what to liiin was a new and interesting
fact: that female spiders when they had
laid their eggs, immediately proceeded to
weave webs of strong silken threads,
forming cocoons about them. He had
conceived the idea that spiders might, to
some extent at least, take the place of
silkworms, and be made to furnish ma
terials for silk and satin fabrics. It is
true that the web used by spiders to cap
ture unsuspecting flies proved on trial al-
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together too lrail and flimsy to be woven I
into fabrics; but he belb-wd that he had (
found what he ivallj rei|Uired in the - ilk
of which spiders* cocoon- are composed. ,
After eon jMstitive contest in which
Bon set all the different French species of i
web-spinners spinning cocoons to dis
cover which was the most available for
his purp se, lie was led to adopt the
"Thoinisus" spidi r, or "short-legged silk
spider,'' us he c I]ed it, the most pro- ;
duclive. He collected all of these that j
he could, hiring a number of persons to ;
go in search of them.
As soon as he had procured one he put
it by it elf in a little perforated paper '
box. After a protracted imprisonment
in thee miniature Bastiles, during which
time Bon found his time principally oc
cupied in catching flies and feeding them
to his prisoner-, he inspected his paper
cells and found to his ••real. <b light that I
the majority of the spiders had beguiled
the weary hours of their confinement by j
spinning cocoons. Bon removed the co
coons from the paper boxes, put them in
to warm water and washed them tlior- i
oughly. Next he lmih-l thciu far three
h urs in water in which was dissolve.!
soap, saltpeter and gum Arabic. W hen
taken out, and the soap rinsed from
them, the cocoons were seen to be com
posed of fine, strong, ash colored silk.
They were carded after being dried thor
oughly. The carding was an easy mat
ter. and he affirmed that the thread he
obtained were finer and stronger silk
t.han those produced by the silkworm*.
However, there happened to be a rival
experimentalist in the field at the time -
the cole' sated Bene Ant-oine I'Vrchault-"de
lfeamur. soon as the latter lee. me
aware that an ol score individual of ihe
name of Ron w is presuming to find out
some things about spider-, lie lost no
time in having himself de-patched by
the Royal Vcadeiny of Paris, of which he
was a prominent, member, to inve ligatc
the matter. I here could be only one re
ult: Ail ( Boil's statements were dis
i credited and his claims incontinently
'di smis-<-I. In vain the poor nntn wore I
• glovi - and stockings of spiders' - ilk and
| presented them to learned societies. \f
i ter the expenditure of time, labor and
MM lie v.he ret ired to hide his head in the
■ ./.neurit; ft'-: which he had tetnp- rarily
emerged, while the i:ol:ly-born de Rca
mur Hi'i'tea paper on the possibility of
piders being used to produce silk—a
famous paper, which became so widely
known that the Chinese Kinperor caused
it to bo Ira its kited into Chinese. Rut the
noble I'ren h people never forgot g. - -I M.
15-1 111 nd I : -.piders.
I'ere Ca 1 mi, a I'rench Roman Catho
lic niissiona>:\ . when sent t<> a mission in
Madagascar, noticed with t-:urpri-e the
enormous -piderwebs that son ! net
works of golden w ire over the tree- and
bushes in the gardens of the quarter oc
cupied by his fraternity. The threads
composing these webs were fo strong
that, remembering Ron and what he had
accomplished with French spiders, it oc
curred to him to try w hat could be done
with the greatly superior silk of the
Madagascar spiders.
He began by collecting the numerous
webs, and with infinite patience he carded
and spun them; but the fabric woven
from this silk, though immensely strong,
was commercially of no value, on account
of ilie irregularity of the threads. De
termined not to be beaten, however, he
tried by every means in bis power to ob
viate this difficulty, and at last managed
to draw the silk directly from the abdo
men of the spider, inclosing the insects
in old match-Wxes for the purpose, it
is precisely this principle which is fol
lowed in the schools of Madagascar to
day, and the good father can honestly
claim to be the inventor of the system.
The French have taken the fcubject se
riously. and profev-ional schools have
been founded for the scientific propaga
tion and the cultivation of the spiders
and for the instruction of the natives in
winding, spinning and weaving the silk.
These schools are due to the initiative of
General (iallieni, and are the most useful
works instituted by that energetic officer,
supplying- a- they do immediate employ
ment for the natives, as well as forming
a nucleu- of an industry Tj'hose end in
this age of progress it is impossible to
foresee. The spider, which the natives
i call "Ilalal*," belongs to the Xcphila, a
j genus <>f largo spiders found in tropical ;
j and tropica I countries, and noted
principally lor 11M- ai/.« and strength of i
tin: webs they spin. Captured in the j
'i Jiigo groves and brought to the school !
:ti Inrge, square ba ■ keithey icquire im
' nii ii uv al.ntion, or the opening oi tho i
•a. , sad U> relate, will reveal in eaelt ■
| a striking and undeniable instance of the j
" nrvivnl of the fittest" in perhaps one!
solitary survivor, who has eaten up all 1
j its I'elluw-prisoni .
Not only does ni\ lady feed upon her !
; companions, but when Decision offers has i
, no hesitation in devouring' her litis! end. 1
Indeed, he is an iu-ignil! ant, half- j
ir\cd. dingy-looking; mite, not m re j
j than a tenth the size of his- mate, whom j
lie fear-, and worships. When united to !
the -pider of her choice, having incoiiti
: nentl) eaten all her uiisucce-siul suitors, i
I .Miul.ime Hahibe begin.- to look about her
if< r -.«) ie locality when provisions fori
herself and her eoniing brood an; likely
to be found close at hand. Many of the j
-pider ■> discover these in the immense ;
in::''go groves of the lioyal (iardens at
Tanv.narivo, the t ipital of Madagascar,
and lin.' the creatures are to be found in
gre .t number~.
A-. so -n as they are i iken from the
biskei- the v are placed in ' ease divided
into pigeonholes or s pia-re cells like those
in which letters are placed in country
jio, -oil':.- A spi !er is pi... i in each
cell, with t!i" a ! . loiaen proje ting on that
side ■ the 'ell from . iit.li lb -ilk is to
I.- «i- iwii. The I.iilly i-augiit and se
cured 'H a ll it pieee oi wood in which a j
ha if-moon-shaped notch is cut. This
pi- slide up and down ;• -ro-- the buck '
of the tvfl, and i- adjusted to catch the |
spider jusi. in front of the .b lomen and 1
hi Id it la (ionless, '1 lie leg- are brought
forw.iid, and lhe\ and the head and for- i
ward |■ irt ol (lie ! oily in.in t!u- cells,
wh-le the a. lolnen iclucs te.ond it Oil
the lnrther side of the notched.pieee of ;
1
the .-pkl -rs in their elJs -o as not t
hurt them.
The tin .id- an- n ,v dr.s n from the
abdomen of the ha'abes. This i- done by
gently I ying a linger on each spider in
turn. Hid -oftly . ilhdrawing the hand.
?
and by light and skilful manipulation
manage to draw the silken filaments
Iron all the -piders in the case at. one
time. Tie thread thu ■ extr:-. led is led
to a -iicelmnicai twister, whie'j in turn
sends it t a reel. The insects thus lirm
ly held yield without resistance a goodly
supply of lilaments. fwdvi- thousand
live hundred yards of silk can .el iken in
a month in four or live suc.e-sive wind
i: . fr< m a single after v.hieli,
IIO.M er, the particular spider operated
on dies, a mart r to commercialism.
lu general the spider- are not drawn
up n to the extent o; utter exhaustion; i
but when a certain amount ot silk has
been yielded they are at to a place pro
vided for them where they gradually re- '
gain their full vigor and spinning capaci
ties.
The thread drawn from this spider i- !
really marvelous in color, as well as in
quality and quantity. We are accus
tomed to think of spider webs as white,
and so they are in most instances. Some- j
times, however, the web is a steely blue |
and often, says Professor MeCook, "with
a luster like spun glass." In the silk j
used by spiders in making- their cocoons I
there also are a variety of hues yellow,
green, brown, and even various shades of I
red. The thread drawn from the halabes '
has a decided col r. No gold was ever
more brilliant, no yellow ever more pun
in tint, writes Whitley. "Its extreme
fineness, its elasticity and tenacity, in
which it far excels ordinary silk, allow it ;
to be woven into tissues of fairy-like 1
linen. of exquisite suppleness and sub
stantial enough to stand the wear of
ages." Those wh vi-ited the colonial <
section of the I'aiis Imposition perhaps <
will reiuetnl.or of seeing' a specimen of
the tissue into which this beautiful spi
der-Bilk can be woven, made into a coin- ; i
plate set of bed hangings, while hahibe,
spiders were exhibited a 1 work. But we I
have in our own country a near relative
of this French-African spider, and one
apparently ju-l as capable of being made
of value. Like the hahibe, it, spins a
great quantity of strong, beautiful, gold- !
en -ilk. and like the lialabe yields thread
that can be spun and woven into lustrous !
and substantial fabrics. This is the
Ncphila Wilderi. named after its ■>-
cov. rer, l>r. 15. (I. Wilder.
"I found in a tree on a desolate island !
a little south from the Harbor of Charles- !
town. South Carolina," he say a, "a Very .
large and handsome spider whose web .
was at least three feet in diameter. 1 j .
entangled her in her web, anil carried her i
to my tent. The creature was very quiet 1
and did not attempt to escape; but pres
ently after crawling slowly along my
sleeve she let herself down to the floor, i
taking first the precaution, after the j
prudent fashion of most, spiders, to at
tach t > the point she left a silken line j
which,, as she descended, came from her
body. Uather than sei.e the pider her- !
self, I caught the thread and nulled. The
spider ..as not moved, but the line read
ily drew out and. I cing wound upon my
hands, it seemed so strong that I attach
ed its end to a little quill, and having I
placed the spider upon the side, of the
tent, lay down upon my couch and turn
ed the quill between my fingers at such a i
rate that in one minute six feet of silk ' .
was wound upon if. At the end of an I
hour and n half I had four hundred fifty j
yard- of the most, brilliant and beautiful
golden silk I ever had seen."
Much greater quantities of silk after
ward were wound up with rude appli
ances constructed for the purpose. The
doctor tested the strength «;f the line
spun by this spider by attaching a single
silken filament, one four-thousandth of
an inch in diameter, to a lixed ]H>int and
tying the other end of the spider thread
to the arm of an accurate balance. He
found that it would sustain ttfty-four
grains before mushing tho breaking
point. I>y a simple calculation from this,
Dr. Wilder found that a solid rope of spi
ders' wilk one inch in Uiswueter "would
j sustain a weigh. i>f more thaii seventy
! tons, while a I>:ir of steel of -iniilar di
; mensions will sn a tin i weight <>f" fifty -
I six, and one of iron twenty-eight fc ns."
It -I'CIII- Strang. • thai thi- diseovcn
of Dr. Wiloer's. of v. ij.ih •• complete and
| ino.-t i »i 1 -1 ii<;_: ae-ount was given in
! "The Atlantic .Monthly" for \ugust,
| iMili, !i - - not been made of .me j• r.*vti
-1 eal tis . It r.voni- pi.tin Unit the particu
i lar spider noticed sin every was the
equal if not Ihe super; i of its conqueror
1 in Madagascar. It is easily kept and fed
l on soft meat, .such n■ the liver of chick
-1 ens, win re in-'et are not to he had; it
j is not vei mums, and does not require t
j plantation in wliji to re-tipeiute, as do
| the Madagascar ipidcrs. Moreover, it
! spins tv. » kinds of ilk a beautiful gold
;''ii sort that is il i .t.n and another, an
i inelastic variety, that In- the color and
the luster of silver.
'I he subject 1 . one o' really more than
; ordinary interest. It has been proved
iov and over again that the -ilk of cer
• I'lin s: oof spides is stronger and
more lustr ii-, than that of the silkworm,
that spiders of his silk-producing -ort
are not •!il"lcult to keep when their na
tu-'e and want-, arc properly understood
and attended to, and thai they are not
• I 1 ftlieult to Ineed or keep in good
| health »r -upply with their proper food
'as the delii ito and pampered worm.—
• -'as. Carter iieard in Ciiiea.") Sunday
i Magazine.
THE WINE-MAKING INDUS
TRY OF NEW YORK STATE.
By John S. Steele.
Ihe wine-mal ing industry in New
York State i- now in full swing. It ho
' ;an luring the first week in September
;)id will continue t ill late in 'he fall,or
;r 1 1 her the preliminary proces of press
; ing the "rapes will continue until then.
I he other pice..-,e- of v. ine-uinking con
tinue m\"|- the entire i ir. and in the
ease of champagne, t-1 least, whieh is
the* most imp.-rtan; part of the X«w
\'"i kSi Me industry, the proee of man-
I ite making of till wines is completed
a fa> - a the . li' e work o: tlit? wine
i aker is concerned when liar fermenta
tion is finished in the fall, but of course
\ :ture% part;, that ot in. titrintr the wine
by tna\ be extended indefinitely.
It is a fact t: t g< tei 11'••• known that
in some respects the wine industrv of
New \ ork is the most important ill the
I nited Stales. Ihe output of California
is greater in quantity. tind in \ >lu<> it
that of N.- . York. !i is esti
mated that th- a vera '/e annual pr-'duc
t ion of wine in ( ilifornia is between
J twenty and thirty millions of gallons,
vhile that of New York is only from five
to -even millions of gallons. In value,
however, that of California is only about
i si.'i .ooo.ooo, while the wine output of Xew
York is valued at about !?:i.000.000. This
is explained by the fact that the Califor
| nia product is largely of clarets
1 and Sauternes, w hen as Xew York is the
greatest producer of champagne in Amer
; ica, and champagne runs into value
| ijuicker than other wines. Absolutely,
however. Now York is seeond both in
quantity and value in the United States,
with Ohio third.
Xew York pa- isse-' the largest cham
pagne plant in tin- country, and one that
compares favorably with some of the
famous European plants. There are reg
ularly carried in storage there and in the
proee-- of maturing 1,500.000 bottles of
champagne, and the regular annual out
put is about 250.000 bottles. All this
wine is made from grapes grown in the
neighborhood of Washingtonville and at
I laniuiondsp. rt, X. Y. About 400 tons of
grapes arc annually crushed to make,
champagne at this plant and an equal
quantity, for the manufacture of still
wines. In the Hudson Valley alone there
are 10,000 acres devoted to the growing
of grapes for wine making, and in tl\e
Like Keuka district about 15,(MX) acres.
11l the whole of New York State there
are about 50,000 acre- un !er wine grapes.
Xew York ports and cherries have taken
their place in the market with the Eu
ropean wines. Xew York claret andSau
temc types are rapidly taking the place
u the higher grade imported wines, and
her champagnes, while handicapped by
the popular prejudice against a native
wine, are rapidly forging to the front.
The process of making champagne is
an exceedingly intricate one, and one
requiring a long training. A successful
champagne maker must not only be an
expert viticulturist. but lie must also be
a competent chemist, ('hampagne is not
the product of any one. grape. It is a
blend of the juice of several varieties,
and as the constituents of these grap-s
vary in different years, they must be
combined each year to produce . a uni
form and perfect wine. The grapes used
112( r champagne making in Xew York are
the Elivira and White Diamond, which
are white grapes, the Duchess, a black
grape, the familiar red Delaware, and
the ICtnelon, which i- a dark grape. The
juice . 112 these is expressed separately in
the fall, allowed to undergo the lir-t fer
mentation naturally, and then allow*d to
rest iu immense easks until spring. Then
the juice of each is analyzed, in order to
determine the proportions of each needed
to produce the perfect blend. In their
separate state they are known to the
wine makers as champagne wines. A
perfect champagne should contain about,
ten per cent of alcohol, seven-tenths of
one per cent of tartaric acid, two or
three ]wr cent of sugar, and the rest the
water derived from the natural juice of
the grape. In seasons like the present
when, owing to a cool and wet summer,
the grapes are watery and deficient in
natural sugar, it is sometimes necessary
to add a little pure cane syrup to the
wine to bring up the percentage of sug
ar. In all cases the sweet wines are pro
duced by the addition of sugar. The dry
wine is « natural champagne. When the
right proportions have bwn determined
by a ohenuoaJ analysis of the champagne
wiuce in th* spring, the blend iu in ado
und the wine bottle I. It then enter* up
011 Ilu proc - of fermentation in the
bottle, which i- the distiugu: '..ng char
acter of title f.'iaillJ ■:»;■ lie. Many cheap
sparkling wine- aie m a.dp s[-• kiing 1»;
charging them with gas. The gas in
champagne is developed by the fermenta
tion in the bottle. I lii-- proves-, take-.
a-bout three. years. The bo; tie . 1 • •lit.l;
corked and s«urcd with thick wires, are
piled one on top of tin other in stacks
containing thousand' of hottles, in a
moderately warm cellar. There they re
main undisturbed until tin- 112. .mentation
is eornpiete. The only n 1 ,i , that the
ii-aikcr has to know when this is so is by
the broakirip of the bottles on account of
the enormous pressure of tin L IS devel
pt i in the fc.rincntnti' a. About five
per cent if all champagne made is lost
by (bis breakage, and often whole stacks
ij l.'ottles an' shivered before the pro
cess can bo checked. When th breakage
IK'COIIIIS so great that it is evident that
the fermentation is complete, the bottles
aio removed to a coolei cellar and there
■et out neck down in slotted t <h]< - for
the final process of clearing. Hie object
if this - to allow file sediment in the
bottles to -ettlc on tin corks, and to fa
(ill 1 itc this settling ( .ueh bolt: • niii-t be
ho ken twice a day for a period ranging
from fourteen <!!t\s to a month. A force
of forty men is employed at shaking bo!
tins during tin season at Washing
villo.
When the settling process ~j co M .
that of disgorging follows. ,e is
removed and the cork with «.. J.ment
resting on it is < \ polled by t .--tire
of tb" gas. If the wine i- to dry the
bottle is then tilled with a little old
champagne, and if it is to be wet a
dosage of cane sugar i- added. The hot
ties are then finally corked and labeled
and arc ready fir the market. At this
-t i;;o the vine i- in *,fir c( mi ii- n. Il j
i
tit."/, when the iniprov a meat < - ;s ; '
it is liable to deterioration.
The other types of wine a: !e in New I
York State are determine.! by the kind .
... i • , ;■ . ■
manipulation in a. tj.it;- . H.et y ■ i.•de !
from the Foile Blanche arape a*..! i>. I
in a bato I ro-;m. '!'< k.t is . !< | lv t i
the old raisin grape and is a perfectly
!:•■■■ v ; t! 1 "■
wi.tn age and dot not acquire its best
qualities until it i: ab at t« % years !
oil. Clarets and Sauterncs are tiie I
simplest types of wine and are m.tdc
from various types of grapes.
Nearly all the American l.p , of wine >
grapes have i con developed from the!
American wild crape. It is : fact .veil j
known to viticulturists that see iliug;
gapes arc seldom true to tape. Hal; i
dwtiMi seed- from one berry will, if plant
ed, produce probably as man different I
types of grape, and the chances are that i
they will all be worthless. The valuable
types are .ill propagated by cuttings,!
which will always remain true to the!
parent typo. Viticulturists are constant- :
ly experimenting with seedlings in!
search of new varieties, but if they ob- j
tain one of value from a thousand -eed- ; ,
1 in*;s they consider themselves iortunate. !
Many of the most p pillar varieties have .
been discovered by accident.
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I 1
"Several years ago I took a late train
from lioston to New York," said a man
in business in Kansas City. "In the '
morning I was awakened eiulier than
usual by the porter, who said tliat a rob
bery had been committed on the sleeper
during the night, and that all the pas
sengers would have to get up. Some 0113
had taken six SIOO hills from the cloth- '
tag of a gentleman who occupied a berth :
in the middle of the ear.
"Every section had been taken.before
he lett. Ho-ton, and as the train had been '
almost constantly in motion, it seemed 1
certain that the person who had com- 1
mitted the theft was still on the car. ]
The porter said 110 one had been aboard 1
but the passengers, and t-lia* none i : 1
them had left. It was proposed to seare'i '
everylfdy. \
"A man who had ab- rth directly on J
posite from the on who had been r bhtd
objected. He told bis name and said an;
one might easily find that he was a man {
of good reputation. In the meantime
some oflicers lmarde.l the car, and after a |
little sweating g t the money from the
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colore*! porter, who was the guilty one.
■'Then Ihe passenger who ha 1 refused
r.o be searched asked the* ofli.-r- to ex
hut ho insisted. In an inside pi•• k«-t they
i l.al .-ix if*K '' Id!'-. It Wa- Iv ft
coincidence that he should have the same
amount nf money r::, the other pi -i-nucr
h:id I it-', s.is-d in exactly the -.line dfliomj
inations, but !.-o knew that inder t'tc
circumstances lie could hardly
)»;> innocence. How was th : fo; a 1 i»«
of < ,11m-lantiul evidence ."-
GEN. MILES A PROMOTER.
Wants Government to Adopt Rice as
Food for Army.
11. \H on A. Miles, U. 3. A ctired,
hi 1 nt1• j • i upon a liusin< career.
I lively tin null the effort< 01 the of
ti'-ial ' : tin' Santo Fe R' .id, iie !i be
.intei rsted, with Burton D. 1 Turd,
i the r. eiitl v organi/'d Amei i• 1 n Rice
Cereal Company, which has undertaken
to induce the government to ad''pt rice
- a food staple for the army.
In a recent, announcement by 1 ie Santa
I'e regarding tie.- Pr ect. it • .is stated
lhat a former army olHeei ha in
vest: itiiiL; rice culture in Tex is, with a
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ed as 'II anny f< "d. ' ut it va; r, .t pub
iir!. known until yesteiv t:,a> i'ueof
iici.-i! r;". rn d tn -was tile •' «r-« <-r Com
mander-in-chief.
It :ip|» ir.s that 10 p 'j"- the
railroad an ! Vereal company iave farm
ed extends further than at lir.-t an
i tii'i i*d. ri I i.i- stated thai t .i-ii. Miles
o< n 1 hi es tela let! ; ur i.f Eu
r " ith a vie <, 1 dueatin • K'.iropc ill
.0: niiuint'- regarding th« \ ;lao of rice
pail a lime-. V , . «:: tnt of
evera! ! . rop.-.tii trip-, i- '! kno.vn in
t
rog 1 rding army food- arc mon or less
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What Ailed Tier Pittas.
'run tv i .** and her up- . te had be
- "I.', "i an • more
at IJie mi 'jer --ice of t> \-t atid liw
* I'i>\ -a tot had bo- ' " Jit to
hr I Iside. '•'llr- i-n't half <!' i 'Ugh."
"i ■' j 1 'id to .: e hi!; i'i--t yet,
dear." said liei mother. Vol.; i r is
not quite all ut a. Y-..tr '• is( is still
too quick."'
"But i 1' you see. maurged
H - - ie. ' tl. t it's 11 y ox.-ite:-' ' i . au-e
1 can't got enough to ell that 11 ,kes my
pulse -tl (jui'-k •;■'
Not His Fault.
Aunt d'ri-nis —1 am shock,- ; at you,
Maude. You permitted your.i Mr.-Jones
to kiss you.
Mamie —He only touched me m the
nose, auntie.
Aunt Prisms—lt was quite out of
place, dear.
Mantle lie knew it was, umtie: but
you came in so suddenlv. voti see.-Tit-
Bits.
o
Here i- a story we heard thy other da/
that is go:al if it is old: '"A man was to
be operate! on for appendicitis. When
the doctors began the work he asked for
a preacher. They enquired what he
wanted of one and he said that he wish
ed to be opened with prayer."
The Kidneys
When they are weak, tor
pid, or stagnant, the whole
system suffers. Don't neg
lect, them at* this time 9 but
heed the warning of the
aching hack, the bloated
face, the sallow complexion,
the wrmary disorder, and
begin treatment at once with
Hoo#sSarsaparilla
which contains the best, and
safest curative substances.
For tes'iroonicls of remarkable cures
Si 2nd for Lock on Kidneys, IVo. 8.
Co i. Hood Co., Lowell. Mass.
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