SJ'IDEIiS IN BATTLE. THEY CONDUCT THEMSELVES WITH ALMOST HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. A Fight to the Flnlah Itrtniwn B Itlack Tlftvr ftptcler end a. Tnlr From tlia Clmy Bill Trlbc-Tlie Ilnnl by IIomiiiIk -All "lilt to Rlrrp." Though the Itlnck Won. In ttio quirt Inborntory cf n Nl-illi Itreot chnmlst tho othrr Any thorn wns Hroctod n littln trnnedj which nffnrdrrt n dnmmifltrnted lesson in the etiiinWf of duolinm m it in conducted nmoiig thn spiders. Fow rcnlizn the intclliKTicn these inconspicuous little crcntiircn often display, mid in fuct few people, becirics scimtiHts ro to the tronhlo of spending an honr or so watching them. The doctor espied it spider in the cor ner of tho laboratory window sill. Ha procured nwido mouthed jur, and with a stick endeavored to push the spider into it. The insect turned Snvauelv on it and darted quickly np the stick to ward hi hand. frttick and spider were dropped immediately on to tho sill, from which in another Instmit tho crea ture was scooped into the Jar. He lay sullen and bunched up at tho bottom. His body was fully three-quarters of an inch long, the thorax mottk'd black and preen, the abdomen pursy, round and marked with well defined stripes of black and yellow; the legs not Tery long, but stout, hairy and ending in unusually strong, don bin claws, while the head was armed with a pair of eh la iii g black mandibles that looked like small steel pinchers. One of the neighbors said afterward that it was a "tiger spider," and there was uo ques tion as to the aptuess of the name. His behavior was so ngly and fierce, that ho made a good subject for testing the papsaoity of spiders with their kind. Tho doctor was familiar with bis own home, and having made the capture he went up into his own garret, where the walls and corners were profusely deco rated with "will you walk into my par lor" contrivances. He singled out a typical web and proceeded. Tho mouth of the web was opened out over quite a considerable area and ran back as a naarow tube, the whole being liko the most dnlicately woven gray white silk. Throwing a tempting bait into the web In tie shape of a fly, the doctor had no difficulty in sweeping two gray spiders into another jar. He got a deep sided salad bowl and damped the gray spiders in. They at aaoe began running around the flat bot tom, making wild dashes np the sides and tnmbling over each other in their aaoiled efforts to escape. As soon as the tiger spider was shaken oat of his pickle jar into the bowl the gray spiders oenaed their wild actions and took np a crouching position at one Me of the bowl bottom. The tiger spi der made no effort to escape, but after one or two rapid reoonnoitersof his sur roundings squatted just across from aad faaiam the hill tribe. The flsat offensive movements came from the gray spiders. These were in the a stare of slow advances and retreats along the eirenmferenoe line of the bowl ballon), with the evident Intention of takisff the tiger spider on the flank. At each advance, however, the tiger spider sat up, testing on his four posterior and middle foot, while the two anterior legs were stretched out like the arms of a wrestler, and the strong caliper shaped Jaws were opened to their fullest extent Suddenly one of the spiders made a charaoteristio but fatal dash. He seemed actually to leap at the big spider. But quick as tho hill spider was, the tiger spider was equally so. As the long drab spider darted in, the big black and yel low fellow sprung np and faced him. The next instant they closed, and in a moment three, of the hill spider's legs lay on the glass, and the tiger spider, holding his enemy in a bearlike hug, was burying his mandibles in the oth er's throat. The killing had not been done, how ever, without rooeipt of injury on both aides. One yellow and bluck leg lay With the three drab ones, and (here were two drops of black juice on the pursy abdomen of the tiger spider, Which showed where the gray spider had planted his jaws in the rush. Meanwhile, too, the second gray spi der had not been idle, but was olroling round and about the struggling pair. Then, seeing his opportunity, he dashed In, only to be faced by the burly fight er, who, to meet the new attaok unen cumbered, threw the body of the dead otmbataat from him with gesture that was almost human. The olinoh did not follow so qniokly Mats tin. Mm gray spider succeeded in gattiag ta and away, clipping off an other fellow and black leg as he did so, bsri la the second rush be was caught, ad the tiger spider's Jaws were looked In his throat 80 ended the fight he tiger spider held on to hit second (its tee ee long and quietly that I thought bias dead also, until I stirred him with my pen, when he staggered furiously agaisst it, opened his jaws and rolled over, a corpse. Glnolnnati Commercial Mhasie. The Maw Waalaaa. The wtoler'a woolens are handsome a varied. ' Iridescent effects, rich heather mixtures and bonole effects are MnaereM, having, for example, medi um or dark woolen ground variegated by i 11 sating threads of silk, or the ton is a bine or deep red, for in- with a Tery shaggy raised de af floaty black wool on the sur These materials will be much with the small addition, per- h of a corded silk vest to matoh the ilk intermixture or else the baok- Tery tittle decoration is needed 1 bowy textile. "bit true that Pidger la eaanclally eajliaiiasssiU" "He la awfully In debt but It doesn't Mm to embarrass him any." Chicago Eeoord. BICYCLE GRIPS. The Habit or Holding the Handle Bar at the Cantor. Assume, If yod please, that the grips are properly placed at the ends of tho handle bar, from 13 to 18 iuohes apart, and that the propnr place for the rider's hands Is on tho grips. The fact remains that the averse rider seldom touches his grips in riding, but grips the naked bar on either side of and close to the top of the steering head. Are wo to in fer from this that the standard of handle bar construction is all wrong and that the grips should be at tho top of the bar nnd not more than eight inches apart, or that the bar should bo left lung to meet the exigencies of rough riding, while the materia) of which tho grips are made should cover the entiro bar up to within an inch or two of tho center, or that it would be well to havo a pair of supplementary grips at tho place indicated by the position assnmed by the rldor, or what? Undoubtedly the present standard handle bar is correct Tho average rider, for one thing, has his grips drop ped so low that he cannot reach thorn conveniently, so that his easiest position is with his hnnds on tho top of the bar, and again many riders, with level or up turned bars, who are able to reach their grips comfortably, have acquired tho habit of grasping the nickel in defer ence to the popular idoa. We think that every rider is obliged at times to use his grips. Full handle bar leverage is neoessnry whenever steering is rendered diffloult by rough surface or otherwise. At such times every rider finds that the standard bar comes in handy. Supple mentary grips would detract measura bly from the trim appearance of tho handle bar, and it may be doubted whether cyclists as a olass would toler ate them. A bar entiroly covered with cork or other grip material would speed ily become soiled and make a sorry looking object in comparison with the bright nickeled bar. American Cyclist. MARRIAGE FOR MONEY. Dr. Parkhnnt on tha Tandincy to Dcarado Marriage to tha Laval of Commerce. "I cannot dismiss this matter withont deprecating the tendency so conspicu ously operative among ns to degrade marriage to the level of commerce," writes the Rev. Charles H. Parkhurst, D. D. , in The Ladies' Home Journal in paper on "The Young Han and Mar riage." "This is not denying that there are material considerations that in this matter, as lu all others, require to be re spected. A ,oor young man marrying a poor young girl, with only the prospect that their life will become more and more complicated as time goes on, is a fool. I have had affeotiouute oouples wait upon me to be married and then ask me to trns. them for the wedding fee. I think that we who are clergymen ought to refuse to marry applicants who cannot show to our satisfaction that there is no likelihood that either they or their possible offspring will ever eome upon the town. "Nor, oa the other hand, does my objection lie against any amount of contingent assets with wbioh either or both of the contracting parties may ohanoe to be endowed. My only conten tion is that in every marriago not es sentially unholy the basal element is love, and that marriages whioh are 'ar ranged,' marriages which mean, first of all, an affair of perquisites or a bar ter in commodities, are a distinot in fraction upon the spirit of the seventh oommandment. The voluminous dis plays with which we know such unions to be sometimes oelebrated only aggra vate the mischief and operate to teauh onr young people in all conditions of life that marriage may be reduced to a peoies of trafiio, differing from the dealings on the Stock or Produce Ex changes only in some of the details with whioh the bargain is consummated. Such examples are distinctly alien to the entire genius of the institution of uarriuge. " Conalatanoy. She was just S years old, but she was capable of, emotions whioh in their in tensity would strain the capacity of much larger breasts than hers. "I am mad as a bull," she cried. "I am going to grow me some horn and run everybody out of the house." Her grandmother overheard the re mark and called the little one to her aide. "Ton wouldn't run your grandmoth er ont of the house, would youf" she asked. "N-no," the tot replied, relenting nnder the personal appeal. "Yon oould bide." "Would yoo run your mamma out?" "No. Hheoould hide too." "Your papa and Aunt Mary and Jack what about themT" persisted the grandmother. "They oould all hide." "But, my dear, what use would your horn be if we oould all bidef" "Oh," she replied with delightful inconsistency, "but I oould And yon, i though. "New York Mail and Express, j Moutaia Ollmhlag. . 1 In a sketch of Sir William Martin Conway, the mountain climber and ex- Jlorerof the Himalaya, The English llustrated Magasine says that he ha the "climber' walk" that is, a gen-, tie roll of the body, with no unequal j steps, but swinging hi legs with rhyth-1 mio precision. He i a slim man, but tough, full of energy and with iron muscles. When climbing the Himala ya, he spent 84 day on mow and gla cier. During that time he traversed from end to end the three longest known glaciers tn the world outside the polar region and landed on the summit of Pioneer peak, 91,000 feet high, the greatest height jet reached by man. Mail from Mew York to Batavia will be delivered in 41 day from the data of mailing. rainbow in the morning foretell rainy weathr during the day. I The Kvar Hnagry Kuala, j Peace or war, Russian aggression net j tr stands still, and it Is most character 1 Istio of her patient and farsighted di ! plomncy that she reaps more in peace ! than at the close of her most successful I wars. To explain this ceaseless and 1 pauscles advance upon all her neigh bors they tell ns that she wants an open port on an open ocean that it Is absurd ; to ask an empire like Russia to put np ' with an outlet to the sea that is blocked , by ice four mouths in every year. But that is no answer to the accusation, if accusation it be, of universal aggres sion. The possession of 'inch a port Is not the end, but the luo.'ns. ' Thero is no end to Russian ambition. 1 Each point won la a stepping stone, to thn next. Eastern Siberia has no glut of merchandise struggling for a vent at , Vli.divostnk, nor would Constantinople : be any bettor fitted for tho export grain ' trado than Odessa. The port may foster ' a trado as yet in its infancy, but this la ! just another roason for saying that it is ; not the goal of Russian aspiration, but ! only a milestone on the road. If not for I empire and for competitive trado why j seek an open port at all? Still less can . the constant absorption of now territory be explained by any superfluity of popu j lution in the old. It is nothing, after all, but the genuine earth hunger, the lust of unlimited dominion. Bluok wood's Magazine. The Advantages of Rest. There is no bettor preventive of norv ous exhaustion than regular, unhurriod, muscular exercise. If we could moder ate our hurry, lessen our worry and in crease our open air exercise, a large proportion of nervous diseases woald be abolished. For those who cannot got a sufficient holiday the best substitute is an occasional day in bed. Many whose nerves are constantly strained in their daily avocation have discovered this for themselves. A Spanish merchant in Barcelona told his doctor that he always went to bed for two or three days when ever he oould be spared from his busi ness, nnd he laughed at those who spent their holidays on toilsome mountains. A, hard worked woman, who has for many years oondaoted a large wholesale business, retains excellent nerves at an advanced ago, owing, it is believed, to her habit of taking one day a week in bed. If we cannot avoid frequent agita tion, we ought, if possible, to give the nervous system time to reoover itself be tween the shocks. Even an hour' seoln sion after a good lunoh will deprive a hurried, anxious day of much of its in Jury. The nerves can often be overcome by stratagem when they refuse to be controlled by strength of will. House wife. The Ufa of a Clam. The clam's body is completely en shrouded in the mantle, exoept for two openings, through one of which the foot ean be pushed out The other is for the siphon, or what I eommonly known a the "neck" of the clam. In some re spects the clam may be better off than we are, for he has a little brain in his foot and also a gland for secreting strong fibers. With this he spins a bys us by whioh he oan attach himself to whatever ha likes. He does not even have to searoh for his food, but waits for it to come to him. He makes a bur row in the mud or sand, attaehiug him self to the bottom by the byssus. Then he thrusts his siphon np throngh the mud and water until it readies the sur faoe. The siphon is made np of two tubes, the water flowing in through one and out through thn other. When the inflowing current, laden with minute plants und on' .l-.uls, reach es tho gill chamber, some of them are lifted out and retained for foori, while the water and wastn matter flow out throngh the other tube. Mursnrot W. LeighOon in Populur Sciouce Monthly. Tha Dark Slda of Chiiatlan America. "We have now in America a popula tion of 70,000,000 of people, and yet 750,000, we are told, belong to the criminal olass," writes Dwight L. Moody in his paper in "Mr. Moody's Bible Class" in The Ladieg'Houie Jour nal. "And this in Christian America. It Is said that in six months 80 gradu ates of two large European universities were found by ono rescue mission in New York oity. Nor are the American oollegea without representative in the great oity slums. Onr daily paper are bnt a living ohroniole of the fearful held whioh ia ha upon n a a nation. A man must have lost all his tense who say that sin 1 not inherent, that it is only a phyeloal weakness wbioh culture may ultimately overcome. Ven eering the eater man will make him no better within. " One hatara father sararisiag to an Amerioaa la that every park lscasd for ae. There 1 aa fear lest the grass may be injured, bat in every ground; adapted for theaa are erioket and foot ball Held, pi onto greaada, croquet lawn, casus coasts, bowling green, the use of whieh is permitted for a mere ly nominal payment Every park, large or small, has aae or more oonoert each week during the summer, paid for by a neighborhood MtMoription. Lea need exists for large park than in American oitlea of the same aiae, beoause the bet ter class of house all have ample gar dsn. George f. Parker 'p Century. Malaaaatte. "Yea," ahe said, "we had our fust fight yesterday. Charley was real mean, and be talked awfully cross. I should have talked ernes, too, but I happened to think that I wanted to go to the theater. So the trouble was all over right away." Boston Transoript The blue violet I symbolic of love and the white of modesty. In Germany either ia eoaaidered a symbolic of reti cence. A Silas ian' lover can make hit sweetheart no more aoooptabl present than a bunch of violets. Rata and mio are generally very active and noisy Jut before a (torn. m. w. Mcdonald, FIRE, LIFE and ACCIDENT insurance. I have a largo line of Companies nnd am prepared to li audio lurpo or smull linos of Insurance. Prompt attention Iflven to nny business Intrusted to my caro. Ofllco tn Nolun Block, Rcynolds villo, Pa. L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse-stioer and General Blacksmith. Horse-Hlionlnu done In Ilie tinniest manner and hy tho latest. Improved method. Over HKi different. klmlH of Mioes mnde for correc tion of faulty art Inn and dlneawd feet. Only the beat make of Hlioes and nulls used. He pulrlnff of all kinds carefully and promptly done. HATtsnimoN (t!AiiANTr.r.i. Lumber men's supplletion hand. Jackson St. near fifth, Koynoldsvlllo, Pa. in ' B .a ro V 3 ei "1 w 5 I I T ..3 "d M4r7 r I S d a g 8 ID a e W h s a 4 (A S ' "E T! C o &. '3 & H SIP r"l rH -4 W " O 1 as w O -si 3 s a PS o O p 1 1 s a Li a '3 rv O) So rC3 li S B S tn a a" 2 o cu ra j M S 1 .60 . T rt a n H 6h tw c a a WHEN WE TELL YOU That the beet Pianos we know of are the ChlGkerlnQ, Krakauer, -Hardman, Ludwlg Pianos Thore's the weight of 65 years or busi ness experience, behind the advice. Easy payments if you want. MELL0R & H0E.NE, 77 Fifth Avenue, 1'Utntmrg, Va. Hon. W.J. Bryan's Book All who ar. InUrMted In fartharlna thft aal. Of Hon, W, J, Mrynn'i mw book ahould oornwpond rfc ImmadiaMlj with Ch. SaOI'ihara. Tha work ajlll aontaia . . . VI ICCOtJXT of tn Vf liiPiidii rotm. in nooRinrr. III SWT WPOMilT IPIKISi TiiiaraiTiorTH Ummiu M ims. UTUV S? Til nimoiLimiiTioi. a e AfMNTfJ WSRUI e a Mr. aTraa aaa aa aoanoaS hla toUaHoa af farotlat aaa-kalf at all aty alMaa U tankarlaa Ua aaaaa af Mmatalllaah Thara ara alraad? ladloatlaaaaf aa aaarmoaaaala, Aawraaa W. S. CONKfY COMPANY, faallaaws 344-1M Oaerhera M.CntU60 s Ha 1 0 CQ O t t f t t OP g ca a 03 o m $Pii 1 oaI ft Ph If T 1 ft -POINTER! You wont get stuck on prices if you buy Skates, Pen Knives, Guns, Revolvers, ALEX. RISTON'S. We are always receiving new goods and can always give you good values in Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Hats and Caps, We carry a complete stock of our ukuuukies and rKUVlSIOJNS always up to standard in quality, and the very lowest price. We invite a share of your trade. January Clearance A. D. Deemer & Co. offer their stock of Boys' and Youths' CLOTHING below cost. You will find some very desirable suits among the lot. AH Underwear Reduced. It will pay you to buy for next year. We have a few Ladies' GOATS and GAPES left. They will all be sold at a sacrifice. We need the room for other goods. ToDacco,- Gloars, &c.,i -AT- Shoes, Etc. everything and you will find JEFFERSON SUPPLY CO. Sale! A. D. Deemer & Co. a" . .'::'
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