-Al-vc?Ttiisinpr I t ri Tie hore srd trl r le iti )1i i c.l tl r C'w. raia (i n virci It to tl e If tors He nuVflM-l ' I I II ?JK iMIItVIII t. lEsrrt.d ai lit M!ilcl w nirr: 1 lr.pl.. 8 'ne ...... 1.64 I Hirli.S muMr'.. .............. ...... I Inrti, 6 Dombs.... .......... ........ n.to 1 Inch year 5 t 2 Im-he. e minim..... a o 1 tcirt.es y er 5o 6 ll.rbn monies .. fc 00 Inches. I year 12 oo eiiiamg 6 month.... .......... 10. 0C ',' culama. 6 months... XI mi y e lniun 1 year 8.1.00 I col'iai, a w on lu 40 (to 1 o.jmn, lye.r ... 76 00 HufniM itiwrn, ftr.t in'e-tinn. per tin suh.uent Insertion. 6- per I'na tin 0' -"',' and txecuur' Notices W.W Aa uiut'i Notice .. it.! if o l umi'iir N.Hin I M aKcniifbit'osia or pr.ioealnif. ol any corora tlon or ixiciely and eoruiiuoi-5atlons designed to rail tiei.ti.n lo ny ni utter .t liuittid or Indl virtual in-erfM must l fur ndvfrtienierit H k and Jol Incline i.f a. I Llndi tmtly and tiMimii) il'rrt l I lie loweel rice. Aid rtob't tt trKet II. (iDLMrWWlf' mm l l ib i v. " - x. z - m . a - " j SIBSCRIPT10S KATES. . ...... oun In idTUM, JO (nf"l J ' irD0t paid within 3 months. 1.76 J" 'o ll not paid within 6 monihi. .00 J" . ir not nal.i within the year.. 7 is Jo u ' 1 - - - , ...-r-uns residing outside of the county cvaru will the above term a b a--..i h..M hA ilnn i AinxnlL tnelr r" ' " . j t, iiiiinn In advance must not et r..tll Liu II .uvuv . - -- " JAS. C. HASSON, Editor arte Proprietor HE IS A Fit .34 AM W HOM THfc TBCTH MtEU FhtK Al ALL AWE PLAVtS BESIDK ' 8I.50 anc pootatie pi year in itvance. " i . i iWd on'ttie nam looting as those who fx '" ir ''"t be distinctly understood rrotn .'!!' i, r;.M. ,b viiuri'til-er before you nop It.tfatop irl TT"f V Y"YV ;,,! iiuifcalawsitt .10 wlherwlsa. I V liUiUlj .aViV T K15ENSBURG. PA , FRIDAY. DECEMBER 1. 191. NUMBER 47. ai:iwax lllo I loo nirr. f mria Freeman, , nbllatiea Weekly at .nsuiihg. - - - penn'Aj r.V JAMES . HASf-OS, (jor:.it- Circulation. - WOO A rf''tfi-'-'V,-' th.e U vimi or your boy with honest, reliable Clothing, Furnish- Hats :it LOWER PRICES than any other house in the ... lare business we are doing enah'es us to offer Extra 15 ir.iuis every J iy in the year. We want to make this m nth. and have marked Overcoats and Suits so low you 1, buy inir thorn if you see them. j in.'- 111 city. a b ,:in't I i t-ifo:i ts mill Suit-; at .'.. i ivi-rc.;it! ami Suits nt '.'.T".. tKiMv.iiiis mnl Sails at -S'!.."!!. is .i ni.its uiul S'lits at-l.(K. COME EARLY ND AVOID THE CROWD. n-n n ,tl. A Trn l A 7 0l T A YPO 111Q rWDTltrl AttD Lnrscst Clothiers ALTOONA, PA. ;E . V. il'in. :.ft::s for V. I.. liomrln SIiopn. -.ill- in ur r ;.! iihK your -Ml I'm- rnlulouilf. Minn' lUl? II "i " i. .t! lljfl!! Iir n. WHY IS THE" V, L- DOUGLAS S3 SHOE CFNETN t:- -c:-t c hqe i:i the v. who toa the money? v, ith int i.icUrt t p v:l tltr ;nl : m:h of tin Lot lino ralf. 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I'Diitclii-i' name ni pr.ee arc .-;auii 1 li ilit lot!im of i-ui'h tthoe. W. U iX'L'-l.AS. lifx-ktuu, Mass. C. T. ROBERTS, ! ts. ill. I hriohnrii, tul-J3.6m Ljf .n'iii';--" ..(-OTT.N-workCitj 0ILS!ILSl Tiu' Sr.indard Oil Company, of Pitt.-biirir, Pa., make a specialty of nnmifii'turin? for the domes tic tr.nl.1 tllO finest brands Of itou ,.i anil Lubricaiin Oils, Xajh:!;a and (Ia')Iine That eiin lie IDE fEOil PiTHBltli. Wo i hallfUire 'comparison with tvi-ry kiviwn product of petrol f"ai. If you wish the most 15 : Mrnlj : Satisfactory : 01 ia the market ask for ours. STANDARD OIL COMPANY, riTTSP.URG. VA. UOIiEUT EVANS, . - -rr. . i- 4 -Sw"5s 4 UNDERTAKER, AM) MANVFACTCKEK OK ct If.ilrr In ll klndx ol FL'KNITL'KE, "A mi ;np ,,i Ci Wets always on band-ft Bodies Embalmed W MEN KELlt'IKEI). 1st zz si fl 1 1 fl 1" arm Tumor. 1'l!rr ; no Irntfe 111 ' i j ! ft l. IC tt.-r. ITU (iltATIDNY A III.KH ', r'" 'r ii ti r nin'Ts ol Miutlilul err. rf . e.ir i ',' 1 - i ' ' ' 'j i'k ne- . lo-1 mtinh'Hid . elc , I , , ' ! i .i::. it it ttriitHe ( -cn.fi ) ctint.-iinlriir t"-i,, ,r. t- r ttouif- curifl V W'.K of chari'i. "'''' "'"al work, should bo ra I ''T er , ,rvi n and ili-ti!lt:itd. Aldrn , r'' t. I OH 1.1. It, Mf4IUM. una hrif-t- is ew -'-4 i . rv 7 r -'V k"- '-W v "i n-f -suite on?' V3$Xe& - iw. myournexV house-cleaning a.nd behevppr j out over the many homes of this corjitry, we see thousanda "".en vtarinfj away their lives ia household drudg-ery that might Le -dly kaseaed by the use of a few cakes of SAPOLIO. If an hour S:" 'i i ,1, . ... . ..mo cane is usea, ix l,U3e tlie toil is lightened, she s:ate to make the experiment, and he a churlish husband who 1 rudfT the few cents whici. it Peopl l."i.ix Mi ll's ()v ii-oats and Suits at )0.(K. 1S.I1 Mimi s t vTi'oats anil Suits at KMm. f-.D.Oil Mt-n's Ovt'ivoats ami Suits at ?15.(i. .'".() McnV OvcrtMiats anil Suits at ?1S.. and Furnishers, THE Si W WEBSTER Successor of the Unabridged. "WEBSTER'S INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY A GRAND INVESTMENT For Cuo ("auiily.tlio Srhool or the Library. Thvorkof revialon ocnplel over ten rriii-n. moro than m hundred editorial lav-iitr-ri. h-i inyz been employed, and over .v;-:,).(Mio nrciiHl before the lirt copy . .n niicted. COLD ALL BOOKSELLERS. A 7 s:r.7!i!et of pacimen pnRes, iUnstrationa, ' . ;:i:niiii:iJcct wnt free f.jr the publishers. C.nlioTi i nmnicd ia purchasina; a dirtiona rv, . i il:i tuTmphic reprinta of a comparatively i i ! : i :. - -i h u n of Webster are beino; marketed u .i .i. r v : rii ma names, nftoa I'v misrepresentation. GET THE BEST. ". ..f Inlf rnitioaal, which bears the imprint of G. . C. MERRIAM A. CO., PUBLISHERS, .v? r.rJCFJCLU, Mlais., U.S.A. ! seplg.iot. NOT DEAD YET! VALLIE LUTTRINCER, KAinrrACTtrKm or TIN, TOPPER AM) SHEEMROX WARE Keapeottully tnrltea the attention ni bis trlendf and the publloin areneral to the laet tbat he la atlil cnrrylnir on ruslno at the old stand opposite the Mountain House, thenjhutv. and It preparei to supply from a larxe stork:, or mannraetarinir to or der, a,ny article la his line, from the smallest to the lancest. It, the bet manner and at the lowest linn prti'ea. i penitentiary work either made or sold at this establishment. TIN ROOFINd Sl'KCIAl.TY. lre me a mil and eattry ynnr5lrrs as ! ru ..rli an I nrtee. V l.t' ITK1NUKK. Ltii.lurK. April IS, 183-11. ow i.HTiiKiini: Tobm a ht Hon or Kid, and we bare the :ock to releet from. We have them In Doable Barrel BREECH LOADERS, tllOl VS() I P. SINGLE BREECH LOADERS, FROM S4.00 I P. Krrech L.nadlns? RltlfS, i'i CO and nt) : also com plete lire ol Shell. To.i!s. etc. Jjre aasnrt mom ol Diamond. Watches Jewelry, SliTerware, and Clocks In PennJlrnl. K S M I T . Five atrvre. In one 932 ana 934 Liberty street, and 703. 7i5 and 707 Smlibncid atrcrt. I'lti.ti urn, Ti. H Send Inr nr new annual dun t?a'a lctrue. Ni. 18, Iree ol cbarice. ep3.91 3m AVall Papkh. Send 1V. to our Mail Topartni-nt for now samnlt'Sfif lrtl. Nir' Pajnrs for ''.; Solid (lilt, from l.V. to Fine Knibossfl ami Irridi-sent l'aix-rs from 2.") to .". roll. J. KERWIN MILLER & CO., 543 Smithfield St., PITTSBURG II, PA. (Mention this paix;r.) Marcho-tfl-lyr Mountain House STAR SHIVIIIG PARLORI CENTRE STREET, EBENSBUR&. rnHIS well-known and long established Sharing J. pHrlor ia now loCHted n t!entre street, op-i-elte the llrery rtable ol O'Hara. IMtIs ti Luth er, where the bua'neas will e carried on in the future. SHtVIVC. HAIK ( UTIINU AMU MlAMPOOIMI dona In the beatest and must artialic roaiincr. ('lean Towels a specialty. tL4dies waited on at tbelr residences. JAMES H. II ANT. Proprietor raone.OA a jemr 1. b.lns mail, ay JohK R. Goodwlo,'lro,.N.Y.ImiHll form. KNdw, you OMijr not m.k. .. nmch, ba w . ra Inch y tyii.lt ijr how lonn fraai lit. Sie a day .1 lt. .tart, and mof a. yon re on. SWib oenKO, ail aa. la aai, uart of Aaaarica, ytMi can conmirara at ham . , air ma all rour ttin.ir ir moaomta on 1 T to tli. work. All U n.w. (.ml pmy til kS foe mr mtirtLor. U alar! you, faralahina; e.ythlnc. F.ASII.V, M tV.HILI barant. r A K 1 1 I L A Hi HitK. Adilma at oar. ari.NMis a to., ioutlami, nut. '1 'UK FRF KM AN U the lareest paper In Nortb- (uiri. iHin'l lorxet it. flood revenue. : a "-aw J one less wrinitle gratners upon ice must be a foolish woman who cost. WCf Id w A SPENDTHRIFT. He made a strong tow he would rise from the ranks And not herd with the poor and the com monplace Rocks. So he squandered his earnings on sarlnes backs And lavished bin earnlnir on stocks. Threw away all his earnings on stocks. And every yenr all the money he made. He wasted It all In this pnxllal way. Ia lands und inrc-trni ntt or merchanllle trade He upcnt ull hia money, they say. Just wasted his money, they say. And this prodigal spendthrift (rrew worse every year. And all of his fortune did wretchedly waste On bonds und investments and stocks it is queer That umun should develop such taste. Such crude and deplorable taste. " A bit; millionaire, but a very small man". Said men as they pazed cn his funeral pall, " A man who wxs l.tillt on a mighty mean plan, A mere m'.Uionmtv tht is all. Commonplace tuillit ncirr. tbat is alL S. W. Kcss. in Yankee Blade. RIDING AN AVALANCHE. A Survivor Rocovmta the Thrilling and Awful Sensations. There are many and vanoas ways o descendinr from the summit of a hardly-attained peak. . There is only one way of petting1 up. The steady tramp up the zifjza paths to the hnt, the shady way through the pine forest, and the arrival at the Ciulihutte, are ail in cidents which come into every moun taineer's experience. The sardine sup per or the snowstorm which lasts for two days may not happen to every body, but there are, at any rate com mon to all who climb the start by . lamplight and the consequent use of bad language over broken shins. Such experiences everyone has to po throuch. Further on, each mountain has its own characteristics. There may be a suc cession of glorious rock climbs, or a few hours' step-cutting' across an ice roiiloir, or over the top of a hard arete. In this respect an infinite variety is presented to the climber; but, after all, every peak has to Ihs conquered by steady work with head, foot and arm. Uut with regard to the descent, as I have said before, there is a variety of ways. A man may come down with the aid of his rope and his own strong; limbs. lie may unceremoniously be bundled off his ledge and come down a few thousand feet lower certainly without a stop, but, to say the least of it, in rather a dilapidated condition. He may, too, find himself obliged to descend with unnecessary velocity by a brute of a stone that detaches itself from above and plunges its way with kim as a companion into the glacier below. Then there is the hardly less pleasant tnatn'rr tie dfxrrndre when be finds the snow through which he is plunging suddenly loosen itself and go rolling and roaring into the depths be low, Waring on its crest or in its midst the unhappy people who had put their feet upon its treacherous surface. This last has been my experience, and, though certainly not nnique, is uncom mon enough for relation. It was' some time ago that I found myself in company with two friends at that pleasant and agreeable mountain eering center Grindclwald. Sur rounded by peaks above us, and equally surrounded by heavily-booted moun taineers, it was small wonder that we soon fell into the prevailing enthu siasm, and were not satisfied until we had engaged our guides and made all arrangements fir the ascent of the Wetterhorn that mountain that Is to the mountaineer what Caesar's Gallic war is to the classic. The weather was bad. There could be no doubt about that. But guides hare a vivid imagination, and ours saw in the sky indications of fine weather that, I must confess, none of us could per ceive. But it mattered little to us as long as our bearded conductors thought we might make a start. They said that it might "go" -"it" was the mountain, not the weather and so we Kent too. Arrived at the Gleckstein hut, the same weather prevailed. Dark clouds, smart showers every now and again, and in the far distance a flash or two of lightning, did not make us much easier in our minds. I had already, a year before, gained the summit of the Wetterhorn, and so had not the same anxiety and eagerness as my comrades to mount in spite of wind and weather. But the young are proverbially foolish, and at four the next morning we were all off in the highest state of joy and excitement, having made the single proviso that we should not mount by the couloir, which in that weather would have been particularly danger ous. It was uninteresting work, the tramp from the hut to the first snow. Now and again the clouds cleared a way and discovered Grindwald already gay with its flags for the railway was to be opened that day. But such glimpses were few and far between. Nothing but the black mist and the oozy grass could be seen. Sometimes the leading guide told us to be careful not to kick our shins against projecting rocks, or utter a deep curse at the weather. But we as obedient as Ulysses' crew plodded on without a word, and looked in vain for the promised change in the ladened blackness of the mist. But not a rift appeared in the enveloping pa.lL A continued and monotonous darkness was around us, and when we were roped together we I speak for ourselves and not our guides, of course had no more idea of where we were than a benighted Englishman on a Scotch moor. Our intention had been to "traverse" the mountain and descend on Rosenlani, and so when we came to a kind of ice fall our head guide did not cut very big steps, but simply satisfied himself with providing us with footholds sufficient for the ascent. This work of cutting steps was long. The particles of ice that were flying from the ice ax of the guide were most ingenious in finding their way down our necks and dissolv ing themselves between our shirt and our skins. As the guide said himself, you must be a mountaineer to really enjoy mk;i little incidents. When ouce we were on the top of this slope of ice the guides called a halt and we opened the sacks to eaL I no- ticed iu one of our sacks a stick about two feet in length, and attached to it a huge red flag. On inquiry I found that it was intended to do the double duty of marking the first ascent of the year as well as that of doing honor to the fete in Grindelwald, which was being . held that day on the occasion of the j opening of the railway. I did not look upon it with friendly eyes. It seemed to me a bad omen. With the same impenetrable mist around us we packed our sacks and con ; tinued our way. Soon we legan to hear ! the roaring of avalanches all around us. I consulted the guides, but they said that the slope up which we had to j go was so slight that it was almost im possible to start an avalanche. And I I must say that, from my subsequent ex perience, I should now be of their opinion. Certainly the south wind that j was blowing was making the snow ' very soft, and every now and again small patches would detach them. j selves and go hissing away for about twenty yards. In fact, so frequent were the noises of avalanches around ns and the slipping away of these small patches of snow at our feet that familiarity with them made us if not contemptuous of them at least very regardless. We were plodding on up the slope in single file, and each one was bewailing the monotony of it- Now and again a little excitement was obtained by one of us dropping into a crevasse and be ing pullei out again as best we could manage it- One of these incidents had just occurred, and we were again on our way, when we heard a crack and a hiss, and without a warning found our selves rolling and tumbling on the crest of an avalanche. I can only speak of my own feelings at the time. I remem ber thinking to myself: "Well, we are all done for now," and at the same time I had a bitter feeling of regret for hav ing persisted in our attempt in spite of the bad weather. The first effect of the avalanche was to throw me on my back and to carry me head downwards some twenty yards. Then by a great effort I managed to turn myself round and get on the top of the moving mass. I saw Andreas the leading guiue but a few feet from me, and I perceived too that he was in great pain, for his face was contorted with agony and he was groaning. I had this view but for a few seconds, for I was once again turned upside down and my head was buried in the snow. I had often heard that in great crises of danger little things remain impressed upon the mind that one would think would not even be noticed. I remember that in the rough and tumble of the avalanche the clastic of my "goggles," or snow spec tacles became undone, and I remember equally well being determined not to lose them. I grasped them tightly and never let go of them during the whole of this ride on and in the avalanche. It is useless, of course, to deny that I was in a most terrible "funk" all the time and heartily wished either for a stoppage or a quick death. A 11 the previous accounts that I had read of avalanche adventures passea tnrougn my brain, and I had the horrible re membrance that death generally re sulted either from suffocation or from the pressure of the mass when it stopped. I looked forward, therefore, to death in any case, but I hoped and prayed it would come to me by the pressure of the snow rather than by suffocation. But, of course, these thoughts flashed through my head like lig htning, and when next I came to the surface 1 per ceived that the mass was slowing up in front, and the death I anticipated seemed to be near at hand. But it was not to be, luckily for me. The mass stopped, as it were, altogether, and there must have been but little pres sure. The front guide seemed to suffer , a little, for he gave an extra big groan and then all was quiet. As soon as I could extricate my legs from the mass of snow I looked around, and was very thankful and glad to see my compan ions all above us all safe and sound, but left in rather a heap by the ava lanche. I need hardly say how quickly a run was made to the brandy bottle, and how we refreshed ourselves and drew fresh courage from it. Nor did we delay. Gathering up our things, we fairly rushed down the rest of the snow slope, the guide throwing away with a doep German curse the flag and stick he had brought up to commemorate the first ascent of the Wetterhorn. We came down the ice-fall in double quick time, expecting it to be swept every moment by another avalanche. Once in safety away from the snow, we burst into words, and each recounted his own experiences in his first and it is to be hoped his last ride with an avalanche. Pall Mall Budget. ROTHSCHILD IN DISGUISE. How the Paawnsrri Were Rebuked and One M m wanned Fains. "I was the lion of the dny once in my life," sai l Sam Davis the. other night, as he sat with Judge Beatty and a party of friends at the Palace hotel, San Fran cisco. "I was on iny way from Ogilen " to San Franeisco in the days when the porter had the run of the sleeping cars, and we had a lot of eastern tourists alward. My berth was near the rear, and when the porter reached me he was mad. The largest tip he had received was a nickel, and in some cases he had lieen given one and two-cent pieces. I had paid for one night, and when he ap proached me I said: " 'Uy the way, are you the man who blacked my boots?" " 'Yes, boss.' " 'That was a nice job, and here is three dollars for you. "When he had passed on a Maine man sii ''d over cautiously and asked me confidentially if tliat was the usual tip. 44 'Tip!' I exclaimed; no, sir, I was simply paying for services rendered. 'The fact was I had simply paid for my berth, and had given the porter nothing. As a result the information spread through the car and the porter reaped a harvest. A few moments later I strolled into the smoking room and the porter said: 'That was a gol re buke you administered, loss. It shan't cost you a cent to get to 'Frisco. I'll just tell "em you're one of the Roths childs traveling in disguise. 'The word was passed and in a few minutes I was famous. Every atten tion was shown me. and when I reached here I was burdened with all sorts of iavitatious." French Ingenuity. An ingenious advertising dodge is to be found in Paris. Small-pointed paper bags, somethinglike those grocers twist up, have been noticed on the pavements. These, when opened, have beeu found to be handbills, which would never have attracted any notice unless curios ity had prompted somebody to look and see whether there could be anythiug in these old screws of papers. - - . , AVILION. "I am polnir a long way To the Island valley Arilion. Where fails not hail, or rain, or any snow; Where I will heal me of my frricvoun wound. Morte d Arthur. We seek that Island of the blest. Where ull things breathe ot perfect rest. Pearl f the ocean s mysteries. Far. far fro-n here, neatU summer skies, Amid unsounded seas it lies. Deep in the (roldeu gleaming west. There never blast of hunter's horn Alone the shadowy glens is borne: There never echoing war-note swells, Uut lilies d-oop thi-ir i-hin'.nvr bells la silent fields anil dewy dells. Where slow streams murmur night and mom. There never care the slumberer frets. The soul its weipht of woe forjrets; Deep is the couch the mosses spread, Kit for a weary monarch's bed; The pillow fur Km; Arthur's Lead Is all ot clustered violets. Low is the surf upon the shore. Soft the cloud-shadow's drif ling o'er. Here, stcrms across life's i cean blow And billows toss us to and fro; Ah, thither, thither let as go. And Und repose forevermore. Where golden-hearted suns-ts dream On slumbrous poo: and gluii ict stream; Where grass is lush ami winds are low. And shadows flicker to and fro. And all the cares we used to know Like youth's forgotten fancies seem. Nay. sail you east or sail you west. The isle shall never greet your quest ; For only hero:y, overwro-.iut With mighty tt.ils. are tlnth r brought. And Und the boon of rest unsought tiod's last and greatest boon of rest. A spell the fairy lsl ! doth bind. That those who seek it s'-all not find. Then spread ibo canvas to the breeze And steer, forgetting dreams of ease. Right onward through the unknown seas; Some day la pause of wave and wind. After long stress of storm and gale, Uy sun ight cleur or mo nlig'at pale. At morn or eve, 'ncata unk.iown skies, We yet sbail see lieforo enr eyes The isle's cncbauuxl U r arise. And drop the auch r. furl the salL -Alice Stone BlackwelL iu N. O. Times-Democrat. TINY SKILLED W0HKERS. Marvelous Accomplishments of Some Spiders. Though. Not Attractive la Appearance They Command Admiration for Their A laaaaat Incredible A hievemeats Fairy-IJke ft-cta. The best known mechanics of the in sect world are the bees and ants, wasps and hornets all ot whlcii are very skillful in cooperative house build ing; but it is only of late that pit ple have Itegun to look at the spiders and t - find out that, ugly as they arc, and unlovable and selti-.hevcn among them--elvcs, they are wonderfully skill ful little workmen ia several trades, ilow many more trades a longer ob servation will discover we cannot guess, but already it is known that there are masons, tent builders, bal loon and diving-b-11 makers, and waterproof-silk manufacturers, le sides the common web-weavers which we all know. The mason spider, uniortunately for some other insects, does not earn bis living by his trade, although no one can deny that he is a "skilled laborer." But he does not devote himself entire ty to bis useful calling; in fact, he makes it subservient to his better liked, if less innocent occupation, that of a highway robber. Like any other bandit the mason spider finds it necessary for his safety to spend much of his time in hiding; so he excavates for himself a cave, not very wide but from one to two feet in .ength, sometimes running downward in a more or less slanting direction, and sometimes on a leveL As he is luxurious in his tastes like many another highwayman nothing less will please him than silken-hangings for his retreat- 'Like nearly all others of his family, he is by nature a silk spinner, and it is with silk of his own spinning and weaving that he so beau tiiully lines the entire length of his " cave. After the silken hangings are finished to his satisfaction, he proceeds to a la bor which requires all his skill, both as a mason and a silk weaver, and that is the trap door which is to close and hide his retreat. For this purpose he first spins a web exactly covering the mouth of the cave, but attached to it only on one side. Over this web, which though so very fine is also very strong, he places an extremely thin layer of earth; then over this he weaves another web, and again puts on a layer of earth, and so on, layer after layer of alternate silken web and earth, cementing all together with a strong cement of his own pre paring, until the door is thick and firm enough to answer his purpose. Of course the part of the web which is at tached to the side of the cave fdrms the hinge to the door. In most cases the pider leaves open the door to his re treat when he is out of it, only shut ting it when he seeks safety within, and opening it easily by pushing it up from the inside when he wishes to get4 out. But there are some of these cunning workmen who wish to secure their caves from possible capture while they are absent; so these extend the silken layers of the lid on the hinge- side in ...uch a way as to form a sort of handle or lever, just above the hinge. Having done this they can let the door or lid fall shut after they have passed through, and when they wish to re enter they have only to press back upon the lever, thus opening the door. As the outside layer of this door is of earth, the robber-mason-spider's con cealment is complete, for the most prac ticed eye can hardly, by the most dili gent search, discover the door so in geniously made. Thi3 curious spider is found in several places, but his liabits have been observed chiefly on the Is land of Zante, in the Mediterranean sea. The tent-building spider is callad by naturalists Clotto JJuruutliL To form the fairy-like tent in which it lives and raises its young, it first weaves a tiny, silken sheet with seven or eight sides which form so many angles, to which are attached the slender silken ropes which hold the tent to the surface of the ground. So fine are the silken sheets that several of them, laid closely upon each other, are required to make the tent strung enough to resist the rain and protect those under the shelter of the tent. As the spider must protect its young from other enemies than the weather it has cunningly contrived that the different layers of the tent shall form a labyrinth through which it alone can find its war. To do this it fastens toget her some of the sheets on one side and some on others, so that having entered by the outermost open ing it has to travel as many times from side to side as there are layers to the tent before it can reach the tidy little apartment where its young are kept safely dry and warm. The more effec tually to conceal the tent from possible enemies, the outside layer is carefully discolored with mud. so that it may re semble the color of the surrounding soil, but the interior is beautifully clean, soft and white. Another spider, the maker of water proof goods, is a corsair, and of course needs a ship to sail about in; and, equally of course, considering its nature, it prefers to get its ship by stealing. So, having determined to en ter upon its piratical career, it looks about to find the cast-off shell of a water snaiL Having found one of suit able size it enters and immediately be gins to prepare a door of varnished silk, which is perfectly waterproof. Behind this door, effectually protected from the water, our cunning corsair lives and floats about, waiting for his prey. Like all other corsairs, he sails under false colors. It is to deceive his victims until tliey have no time to make their escape that he passes himself off as an innocent water snaiL All spiders are said to dislike a wetting nearly or quite as much as cats are known to do, yet there are othr spiders, besides the corsair waterproof silk maker, which habitually live in or under the water. All such spi.lers are, of course, skillful in the manufacture of the varnished silk, which enables them to live under water without injury. One such spider, called by naturalists the Arqyranct from two Greek words signifying silver and spun, lives in stag nant water, on the surface of which it swims about with perfect ease, keep ing its abdomen inclosed in a little globe of varnished silk, which shines like silver; and, being filled with air, acts as a life preserver, keeping its wearer from sinking. The female of this spider constructs for itself a sort of diving-bell, in which it can live all winter beneath the water. This diving-bell an oval-shaped cocoon of varnished silk, well filled with air, is anchored securely by multitudes of strong but very slender silken cables to the surrounding plants. In it its maker lies in wait for prey, or deposits and jealously guards her cocoon of eggs, or shuts herself up during the winter. Still another spider is a skillful pa per maker, and Dr. Livingston found many specimens of it living in central Africa, where it makes its nests of small sheets of thin, gray paper, re sembling that of which hornet and wasps build their nests, pasted so close lv to the walls of te natives huts as to almost escape ooservatiou. The balloon-making sp'der has at tracted great admiration from the skill with which he s-pins, weaves and in flates a tiny balloon underneath which it remains in safety, while the breezes waft it away. Another little air traveler is able to make long aerial voyages without the aid of either wings or balloons. It is known as the Gossamerspider.and great multitudes of them have been found on ships fully sixty miles from land. The Gossamer is only about one-tenth of an inch in length and of a dusky red color. L'pon first coming in contact with the rigging of a ship it always seems to be attached to only a single thread, but in a few moments is surrounded by a mesh of floating web, which appears to be produced simply by the entangle nent of the one long single thread. When the Gossamer is on land and vishes to sail off through the air it rawls upon some little eminence, ele ates its abdomen, sends forth a single bread and immediately the slighest reath of air bears it away at a line on level, or nearly so, with the height rom which it started. Mr. Charles )arwin, who tells us about this spider, ays that be thought be could perceive hat before sending forth the floating bread the spider connected its legs to ether by other delicate threads; but f this he was not quite sure. If this lservatioi be correct it may be that he delicate threads uniting to the pider's very light body may form a ort of parachute and aid it in its flight. Another tiny spider while placed on he top of a post shot forth from its pinners four or five threads, each ibout a yard in length. These threads 'littering in the sunshine, looked like leparated and waving rays of light, on which it soared away as if on wings. "Its supply of silk," says Mr. Darwin, "seemed inexhaustible." This might probably be said of most spiders. A very keen and accurate ob server has told me tbat be once traced -vhat seemed to be a single continuous hread of spider's web extending from a point on the shore of the Hud son river near Cold Spring to another point on the opposite shore near the West Point landing, at the height of about a yard above the water. My in formant was in a rowlwat at alout five o'clock of a very still June morning, and rowed his boat quietly beside the thread of web for the whole distance. This is another fact to prove the im mense productiveness of the little spin ners in proportion to their own size. Helen E. Smith, in N. Y. Independent. The "IVlrkc l I'.lble." Among the curiosities of literature p .-assessed by one of the big libraries of Xcw York city, after a Ion? search, is the cdili:;i -.f the 4n;riptures, published , in several :.ia.ill volumes, known as the i "Vii;'.;:l liiblc." There are two sets of ' books t.i which this title applies. One was published ia England in 1C31 and the other hi Germany about a century later. Their ieculiarity consists of the omission of the word "not" in the Seventh Commandment. Both editions are perfect i:i other respecty. The his I lory of Bible printing :,hows that the I types have played many wild freaks I with the text, but uover anything equal t.) tl.is. Th "Wicked Bibles" are ac cordingly very highly prized by collectors- Money T91 Years Ago A good illustration of the chau're in the purchasing power of money is given by the following entry in the public record office of Iondon: ".luni "', 151C.I, License to Peregrine Bertie, youngest son of Ixrd Willouliby, of Eresby, to travel for three years with his tutor, two servants und two horses and sixty pounds in money." Nowa days a young gentleman with such a retinue would hardly 1e able to travel thirty days instead of three years on three hnndnil dllrir in mnev. SOME DAY. When the purple shadows hover In the twiliL'Ut gray and stiiL And the wing o! mjLl is resting Hofily on the distant 1.111 ; When the be Is of sunsi t chiming Echo with eternal ca.m. Lle the la-t graud t h rd harmonious Of l.fj's cloin;; cvauig I halm. Then the tow aoin nanious sleep. When the hush ft slef pi"g myriads Rhymes with tbc sound of s. i-res. And the tread ot pahsing moments Marks the end t.f earv years; When tiic solemn tid" is ebbing Softly from tuc pebbly hhore. And thi! shirs Jo out of harbor To come bucic tfiia no more. Then we cease to siyh or weep. When some day we weigh life's anchor, Slowly drift out on liie tiJe, Death our l-ilot. and our haven Over i e theolh'T side; When tbc v. i.iic trusts leave the water And e Ucur tlic signal bell. When tbe nicr;:i dawns before us. Where no uil-tin;-ut ever fell. Then, be oven, all will be well. Maud.' M retiith, in America. AN ARAB MARTYR. Horrible Denth of an Mohametan. Apostate For Hia rowarrrin; Christian Faith. Ilia Persecutors a.t Una Alive In the Center of a lllock of Ueton. The other day, as I was listening to some old familiar words which have been sounding now for eighteen hun dred years and more, my rniud traveled back to a fort in Algiers, the Fort des Vingtquatre Ileures, made of huge blocks, which for three hundred years remained immovable and silent. But in 1S.V5 a martyrdom which some peo ple looked upon as an idle tale, others as a tuperstitious legend, was brought to light, and the very stones them selves, with undeniable witness re vealed the pathetic figure of the Arab martyr, Geronimo. Jut three hun dred and forty-seven years ago a little Arab baby was taken prisoner by fome Spanish soldiers and brought ict Onn to be offered up for sale as a slave. The god vicar general, Juan i'aro, bought him and took him to bis own house to educate him. and he baptized him under the name of Gerouimo. When the chil l was eight years old a few Arab slaves made their escape from Oran, and lelieving they were doing the boy a kindness they took him with them; so for some years he lived with his people as a Mohametan. But the holy faith which Juan Caro had plant ed in the child's heart had taken such firm root that his relations could not tear it out. lie remained with them till be was twenty-Sve, and then he took a step which he knew no Arab could forgive, and which, if he should be recaptured, would lead him with certainty to suffering or death He lied from his home and returned to the vicar general, and, telling him of the dangers of his flight, he ; aid. simply: "It is because 1 wish to live henceforth in the faith of the divine Saviour." Juan taro was so deligMed that he received the y i"ng Arab like a lost child, and Geronimr, on his side, coui 1 not show his benefactor love and grat itude enough He soon entered the Spanish guard as a paid soldier, and he performed such brave deeds that he at tained very high military honors. But the height of his joy ami ambition was gained when he heard that the vicar general gave his eonsmt an.l approval to a marriage between hiui and a young Arab girl (also a convert) with whom lie had fallen in love. For ten years nothing but happiness fchone on his life he won the respect and confidence of all around him, h was Juan Caro's right hand, and his wife was as a daughter to his adopted father. No shadows seemed to cross their path; no troubles seemed drawing near them. But one bright May day in 1"0'. news came to Oran that a small Arab en campment bad been noticed a short distance off. The rumor did not seem of importance; a handful of Spaniards could easily manage the Arabs; at least, so Geronimo must have imagined, for he only took nine soldiers and manned a little boat, intending to land on the coast, where the Arabs had as sembled. They rowed out of the safe harbor with the snn shining on them, and sailed along the blue sea past the coral fishery of Mcrs-el-Kebir, nevr dreaming of danger, when suddenly two Moorish brigantines, which bad been lying secretly in wait for then, chased them and ran them down. The nine soldiers escaped, but Geronimo. who was too marked a man, was seized upon at once and carried off to Euldj AIL, the C'alabrian renegade. A great cry spread like wild lire among the Arabs throughout Algeria that the apostate was captured: that he, the traitor, who had abandoned his own people, denied his own faith, was lj'ing a prisoner in the fortress, the "llagno." The Moors who knew his history, made a solemn vow that thej' would restore him to his old religion; so they began by sending MaraVrnts to con vert him with arguments and fair promises. But they returned discom fited to Euldj Ali, their line words had availed nothing; the apostate remained immovable. A fresh treatment was next tried; he was loaded witli - chains, and treated with the utmost cruelty, and when he was faint with torture and scarcely able to speak, the Marabouts stoo I around him, offering him liberty, power, honor, riches. But no offer made him deny his faith, no longing for freedom made him forswear for on? single moaieut his religion. Once, after some most horrible threat, he raised his poor suffering head, and with a voice so weak it could scarcely be heard, he said: "Thev think they will make me a Mohametan; but that they t hall never do, even if they kill we." For four months Euldj Ali gloated over the daily torture he was inflicting on Geronimo; but at last the very sameness of his cruelty palled upon him, and he was determined to inveut a new anil more hideous revenge for the "apostate's obstinacy." One morn ing the idea caiue to him; he was ex amining the works of a f i rt by the gate of Bab-el-Oued. when he saw a block of tieton standing by the great stones. This block was a tfiold in the shape of the immense stones, filled with a kind of concrete; when the con crete was sufficiently hardened, the wall was to be built with iL !Iere was the height of torture! Here was the most exquisitely painful death mail might devise! The dog of a slave should Ikj laid in a similar mold; th liquid plaster should le poured -over him: he should ls built alive into the wall; the renegade should le turned into very stone! But as Arabs never act hastily, the Pacha deliberated mo . carefully whether this really could b. the most brutal death he could con ceive; and then. Itelicving there was n more effectual means of barbarity, b called to a Navarrese mason, who wa also a Christian slave. "Michel." h said: "you see this empty m '1 J lwton: for the present brave it; I liav mind to ni ike beton of that dog Oran who refuses to come back to t ' faith of I dam." Poor Maitre ?li ' had to oley, but he finished his d; work with a sad heart. As soon as entered the "Ban r" (for he also v a prisoner) he found out Geron.ino a told him Euldj All's co:umamL Gen. imo heard the co nmrind in pcrf silence, and then very cam'y I answered: "God's holy will bo do" Let not those miserable men th they will frighten me out of the fi. of Christ by the idea of this cru death. May iny bless -d Saviour oil pardon me my sins and preserve me mv soul!" The whole of that night this brave young Arab spent in prayer and pre paration for the death tortures whi h he knew were awaiting him. Mustn-' the memories of bis high military honor and fame, the kindness of Juan Caro, Ihe love of his fair young wife, liav flashed through his overstrung r .: 1 ke nome beautiful, glittering dr-a Was nothing loft? Nothing real? Noi ingbutdei th death so ghastly in it, fearful savagery that the very life be yond seemed hidden uwaj'? Ah! it was not too late even now. The sen tence could still be recalled, and great er earthly power than Geronimo ha 1 ever had was yet within his reach! livery line in that martyr's face, as 1 e t-toud before his jd .stcr cast, to d u what his cry must have been then: to us silently how his cry for btrc . was answered. Between two and thr--e o'clock the next morn ng a guard sum moned him to the 1 aelia's preseiice There be stool, a suffering, p: ti nt prisoner in chains before a great ini.. titnde of Turks and Arabs in all their gorgeous magnificence. Then he wa dragged by a booting crowd. stri':.:i him and beating him. to the gate Bi -el-Oued. where he ugain stood befi.e the Pacha in the midst of his poinpo - . retinue. Eu.dj Ali then addressed hii:i slowly and clearly; he puiated oi: every detail of the fearful death; b showed him the block of ln-ten, an every torture of such a death w as cart -fully explained. Then he ended b speech with: "Dog! you refuse to re turn to the faith ot Islam?" "I am : . CVr'''t''Pi. :"d : :"' 4 -in I will ! e." was the noi.ie .-..r;Li s answer. ". y.'. will." replied the Pacha. "Tlv-n I. ;!-..' pointing to the beton, T,! ad you 1 buried alive." 44 Do y r.r will. D shall n..t imke me abuud'-u i.y li..i were G -r I' i.no's last words. 'i Pacha r:. is. d his hand, some soldi stepped forward, they removed 1 chain from the prisoner:; letr, t1 bo-md . hnr. Is 1 M id I ' back. ro ,e' :o., leg, :io i 1 . I l.iem; . " r y too.': liliu ii'i ::tid 1 li 1 i.i..i tvit.i . .te downward iiiUj the iokL iaster was poured over him, u . .-'mango, a reuega le Spaniard, wa. . -ig to show what a fervent Mohameta was jumped on Gerouimo's bo .ud broke his ribs This ait plea., .aldj Ali so much that others folio we nis example. For twenty-four hour l-eroniruo lay bleeding, suffering, dy ing in tliat lock o bcton: the j r .nd oaths of his enemies mu.t h " been ringing in his e'irs. the Afrie sun in its intense power must h. poured upon his aching head; but bra-, iaithful and nnmnriiiuriiig, this rob Arab lav there till th weary day a: night were over, and another mom broke upon that 1 rivttWtii .'. ' -'and. But in the land above, .. lieve the gates of the kingd a o heaven were thrown open, and Gi ronimo, bearing the palm in his ban.!, was admitted into the noble army ol martyrs For three hundred years this t.lorr was banded from one genera" ion ton other, till some p ';)! t.""atf 1 it us romance; but thirty-eight yars ag' when alteration, were being ma ie. ar the wall had to be taken down. 1 workmen came up in a str i ig boll place and some human i-oncs 'i i governor, remembering this story, ! rceted plaster of parls to be throt; into the mold, and very soon the lif -size figure of Geronimo appeared, pro claiming the truth of the martyrdox.i The cast i.s now kept in the museum t Algiers; it shows a slight figure, a fae with the veins all raised, a poor moe.t.i closed with a patient, determined ex pression: the hands are tied, the legs are swollen; even the very broken ribs are lying there. Three hundred year of historj' holding its peace; and lo! the very stones as it were, cry out. and the noble Arab's mar'vribra is brought to light. London tpectatot. Lively Wires. It was a couple of hours after mid night and a light rain was f.iiimg. A couple of nev. snapor men were gHng homo after a hard night's work. ; .-.d-denly there was a break in the line of tie? Uadiing cleetrie lights. The lamp directly opposite the two men was spluttering and sending only a few gleams th-ough the darkness The two men involuntarily stopped to look at it Then cc.me a tiny lt:i.1 from t:ie lnittom of the pole. "Look! There i ; a live wire hanging down," fa.-l .-ie. Suddenly there cumc another flash di rectly in front of the men, and then another and another just beyond. "Take care!" shouted t ie other i::an. ''The wire is on this side of the street. The two scribes hastily backed ::v::y, and prepared to beat a m.-.sarlv retreat- A moment more and the wh.de street seem-d alive with these danfer ous 11a dies while visions of the horrors of electrocution brought gray hair to the beads of the repot tcrs. "Pshaw! They're ouly lightniug bugs'" Two hats were jammed down over the owners' ears, 1 th.- : i -n splashed along thioiiyh the ruiu. Ali uuy Argus 1 ! I..V..1 .., . , ,1 ton,-. A it : t. t t-r . i ' ' 1 - V - i i ;i t.ujvr-ring ir, raid to hate I . e .-. ,e -f raii.in-r ' 1 - -rithi.s, r aK :.: '. . ,k.H its own Ui-i- l;! .f '. ;-r;Mp... :- ! i- ; U-i-ii i:u:e'i :-tii:sirt-d in ci-i:. e.,eerce. A ln:."iu , i.ii-.:i ' ; . : ; : , . i !ohu Lo- '. ie, r.V : :: r v n t '.,. :iee- - '-- - 1 . r-1 . ... it:. , - or. iiu'.Vi'ir", 1 . ' i . :;g :!', , t., and b- ing aide te t ;! -n l.iOO grains
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