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Spider-Crabs of Japan.
The crab spider Inhabits the ocean
bed, terrifying the submarlno world. It
Is hideous In appearance and habits.
It is the most formidable and repulsive
creature In the seas.
More than one daring pearl diver and
coral hunter has battled with this hairy
monster and been driven to seek the
safety of a boat's deck.
Though frequently found In cool wa
ters, the great spider-crab flourishes
and attains his greatest size In the wa
ters of the Japan seas.
Though often encountered by coral
and pearl hunters, the monster Is sel
dom trapped, and so only four speci
mens of full-grown spider-crabs are to
be found in this country.
A line specimen Is In Rutger's College
Museum of Natural History. Two are
In the collections of the Leland Stan
ford and Cornell Universities. The
fourth specimen is in a private collec
tion in Philadelphia.
While the largest and most ferocious
of deep-sea crustacea, the spider-crab
Is the most defenseless. Nature has not
provided it with a single weapon of de
femsc against its many enemies.
Still, the appearance of the spider
crab is his best defense, and be is mas
ter of the scaled and tinned tliiugr that
live in the ocean's depths.
The spider-crab is so named because
of its strong resemblance to the famil
iar spinning insect. Its habits are,
however, those of the crab family. The
long legs, which often exceed forty feet
in length, are thickly covered with
coarse black hair. The body, often fif
teen feet In circumference, is also cov
ered with hair, 111 which barnacles, sea
weed and tiny shellfish make their
home.
The spider-crab when attacked ex
udes an overpowering odor, which per
meates the water around it, while It
hushes its long, hairy, fearsome arms
until the water seethes.
The food of the spider-crab is for the
most part decayed animal matter. The
creature Is abnormally indolent. It will
fasten on a clump of coral and remain
there immovable for many hours.
The Japanese pearl divers assert that
the touch of the spider-crab is as fatal
us the sting of a cobra's fang, but the
usual fighting method of the monster
Is to embrace its enemy, flsh or human,
lulls huge, hairy tentacles, where death
by smothering comes slow but sure.
The spider-crab's human victims are
not numerous, though just how many
coral and pearl hunters have been suffo
cated in its terrible arms no one will
ever know.
Shaving.
Man is said to be the only creature
that shaves. Hut this is not so. A South
American bird called the "mofmot" ac
tually begins shaving on arriving at
maturity. Naturally adorned with long
blue tail feathers, it Is not satisfied
with them in their natural state, but
with its beak nips off the web on each
side for a space of about two inches,
leaving a neat little oval tuft at tho end
of each.
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pains caused by Ovarian and Womb
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fering women will realize the truth
and importance of my statement, and
accept the relief that is sure to attend
the use of the Pinkham Medicine."—
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St., N. E., Minneapolis, Minn
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THE AVOMAN A-WHEEL
WHAT SHE WEARS WHEN OUT
> FOR A SPIN.
Petticoats Hold Their Own with
Bloomers and Outnumber Tlicm in
Moat Cities—Voluminous Wardrobe
of the Sportinff Lady.
New Things in Cycle Skirts.
BICYCLING ims
made the athlet
ic side of the
fashionable wo
man's life to be
A — A quite as import
ant as the purely
rylHr social, but In no
phase of her va
Pdj does she ever di
vest herself of
_ the never falling
query: "What
shall I wear?"
Nor is it possible
for the most mildly athletic woman to
provide herself with a single costume,
saying, "This is my gown for athletic
exercises," for such costumes are as
varied as the flowers of the field, even
when designed for the same kind of ex
ercise. There are as many different
kinds of cycling costumes, for instance,
as there are bicycles, and as much dif
|
NOVELTIES FOLT THE BICYCLE GIRL.
forence of opinion as to which is cor
rect. The comparative merits of two
wheels form a sufficient topic of con
versation for any two cyclists, be th<\v
men or women; and the coreet costume
for women n-wheel is discussed by ev
erybody, regardless of wheeling pro
pensities. It is the person who does
not ride who is most critical. The
bloomer has come in for the greatest
share of criticism, and the effect of
such criticism is beginning to show it
ET OF NEW YORK SOCIETY LEADERS.
self by the gradual wane in popularity
of the bloomer. Take the percentage of
skirts and knickerbockers in any largo
city, and the petticoat will be found to
do much more than merely hold its
own.
First, there is the ordinary short
skirt, not very full, niul without any
unfeminine modifications. In spite of
assertions to the contrary, this is the
skirt which is worn by the general run
>f people. Prominent fashionable wom
en have not been riding the wheel for
very long, and are not ready for the
advanced costume yet. Nor does the
everyday woman wish to make herself
conspicuous by appearing in public in
the much criticised bifurcated costume.
Mrs. John Jacob As tor wears a skirt
when she rides. So do other ladies of
fashion. This milch must be said for
tin' bloomer, however, that it usually
goes with the petticoat but does not ap
pear except in cases of emergency.
Some women have adopted the practice
of wearing a skirt while riding in the
city and then removing it and rolling it
up in the carrier provided for the pur
pose by enterprising inventors.
A more convenient arrangement than
this is the new Bygrave skirt, named
after its inventor, who is an English
woman. The skirt is the product of her
own experience and is very simple, yet
very effective. The Idea was to ar
range the skirt in such a manner as not
to interfere with tho free management
of the pedals and to prevent its catch
ing on the wheels. The skirt i£ prac
tically converted into a pair of bloom
ers by drawstrings running up and
down the middle of the front and back
of the skirt. These strings may bo
ft
EXTREMES IN OVCLINO COSTTMEB.
pulled as tight as is desired, raising or
lowering the skirt at will, and they are
provided with catches to hold them in
place. The skirt, may thus become a
pair of knee bloomers, or be allowed to
hang loose like a divided skirt; and
when worn amid "the busy haunts of
men" it appears as a plain, ordinary
skirt, with never n suspicion of mas
culinity about it.
The divided skirt comes in two va
rieties, thus making up the four men
tioned at the beginning. These are the
IDEAL AMERICAN WOMAN CYCLIST,
regulation .Tenuess Miller skirt, and the
one that is only divided in the back.
The latter style is the special prop
erty of a large New York store, and has
many qualities in its favor. Off the
wheel it hangs like an ordinary skirt,
and 011 the wheel it stays put, in exactly
the same folds each time, being cut and
fashioned to tit the saddle. In the front
this skirt usually has a broarl box pleat
to admit of the free action of the knees
while pedaling. Some of these bicycle
skirts arc surprisingly full around the
bottom, being stitched down in box
pleats from the top, and then allowed
to flare for about fourteen inches.
The girl who rides a diamond frame
gets no advantage from this Louis
skirt, as it is called, because of the un
divided front. Nothing but bloomers
or wholly divided skirts will serve her.
One can buy bloomers just like n pair
of trousers, separate from the rest of
the suit. The best material is alpaca,
but they are made of satin for the ex
travagant few.
The English tweeds in popper and salt
mixtures are the favorite materials,
brown and white be ing the fashionable
as well as the serviceable colors. Whip
cords, cheviots, brilliantines and cordu
roys are also popular. Mrs. Langtry
wears a corduroy suit with leggings of
the same. Some of the prettiest cordu
roy suits are double breasted, and but-
ton up diagonally to onch shoulder.
This stylo Is more sensible tlmn the
Eton jacket, which flares open and
cntches the wind. The Norfolk jacket
;s very popular because, besides being
well adapted to the use for which it is
intended, it affords such good oportuni
ty for the display of the new belts
which are so pretty and so plenty this
year.
Leggings usually match the suit with
A TYPICAL ENGMBH
which they are worn, but they can be
bought separately in any material de
sired. Most of them are buttoned tip
on the outside. Others lace up part
way and are then fastened with Foster
hooks, with a couple of straps at the
top. It seems to be the general verdict,
however, that knee shoes are preferable
to leggings and low shoes. As to hats,
the public favor is divided between the
Alpine hat and the Tain O'Shanter.
A pretty hat that combines the ad
vantages of both Is now on the market.
It has a rolling, narrow brim that Is
stitched to make it stiff, with a Dres
den silk Tain O'Shanter crown. It Is
trimmed with a couple of quills stand
ing up 011 one side. These hats are
more becoming to most people than
the English lint, and at the same time
furnish a good shade for the eyes. Ili"y
--<jc caps seem to have entirely gone out
of use among feminine riders.
Perforated gloves are among the nov
cities invented for the comfort of lux
ury-loving wheel-women. An expe
rienced wheel woman recommends an
outtit for a feminine cyclist which
seems very reasonable: A full suit of
cheviot or tweed, with an extra pair of
bloomers and two pairs of equestrian
tights. With these a pair of high bicy
cle shoes and one pair of low shoes with
leggings to admit of changes In the
?vent of being caught in a rain storm
while riding at a distance. A couple of
hats and one pair of gloves especially
devoted to cycling, whether perforated
or not. complete the outfit.
The sweater is worn by enthusiastic
cyclists, and there are many new de
signs that are very attractive. Some
of them are made with a blouse effect
which is rather prettier for the purpose
intended. They can be bought for al
most any price from .SI.OB to .$5 or SO.
Any costume described may be worn
for other purposes, but in general it Is
better to keep it for its special use,
though it adapts itself to hunting and
mountain climbing better than other
athletic exorcises.
A lady's sporting wardrobe bids fair
to become very voluminous. What
with her yachting costume, her tennis
gown, her yachting rig. her bathing
costume, her golf, rowing and hunting
SARAH 11ERNIIARDT ON HER IHCVOLE.
gowns, she will need several trunks to
tarry them, and not have much room or
time for the old delight for gauze and
ribbons and lace.
SOUTH AFRICAN RUINS.
Ituildinsn nt Zimbabwe that May fie
of King Solomon's Time.
It would seem that, at some far dis
tant dute, a people more civilized than
any of the present Kafir tribes had
penetrated into the region we now call
Mashonaland, and had maintained It
self there for a considerable period. Re
mains of gold-workings are found in
many parts of that country, and even
as far as the southwestern part of
Matabeleland—remains which show
that mining must have been carried on,
by primitive methods, no doubt, but still
upon a scalo larger than we can well
deem within the capabilities of the
Ivallr tribes ns we now see them. There
are, moreover, In these regions, and
usually not far from some old gold
working, pieces of ancient building exe
cuted with a neatness and finish, as
well ns with an attempt nt artistic ef
fect, which are entirely absent from the
rough walls, sometimes of loose stones,
sometimes plastered with mud, which
the Kafirs build to-day.
These old buildings are, with one ex
ception, bits of wall inclosing forts or
residences. They are constructed of
small blocks of the granite of the coun
try, carefully trimmed to ho of one size,
and are usually ornamented with a
simple pattern, such as the so-called
"herringbone" pattern. The one excep
tion is to be found in the ruins of Zim
babwe, in southern Mashonaland. Here
a wall thirty feet high, and from six to
twelve or fourteen feet thick, Incloses a
large elliptical space, filled with other
buildings, some of which apparently
were intended for the purposes of wor
ship. There are no inscriptions of any
kind, and few objects, except some
rudely carved heads of birds, to supply
any indication as to the ethnological
affinities of the people who erected this
building, or as to the nature of their
worship. Such Indications as we have,
however, suggest that it was some form
of nature worship, including the wor
ship of the sun. We know from other
sources (including the Egyptian monu
ments and the Old Testament) that
there was from very early times a trade
between the Rod Sea and some part of
East Africa; and as we know also that
the worship of natural forces and of the
sun prevailed among the early Semites,
the view that the builders of Zimbabwe
were of Arab or some other Semitic
stock, is at least highly plausible.
Two things are quite clear to every
one who examines the ruins, and com
pares them with the smaller fragments
of ancient building already mentioned.
Those who built Zimbabwe were a race
much superior to the Rnntu tribes,
whose mud huts are now to be found
not far from these still st rong and solid
walls; and those other remains scatter
ed through tlie country were either the
work of that same superior race, or. at
any rate, were built in imitation of their
style and under the influence they had
left. But whether this race was driven
out or peaceably withdrew, or became
by degrees absorbed and lost in the
surrounding Bantu population, we have
no data for conjecture. If they came
from Arabia they must have come more
than twelve centuries ago. before the
days of Mohammed; for they were evi
dently not Mussulmans, and it is just
as easy to suppose that they came in
the days of Solomon, fifteen centuries
earlier.—Century.
He Got It.
Pick You know that feller workln*
in shaft 17 who was always kick in for
u raise?
Mick—-Yes.
Dick—Well, he kicked over a can of
dynamite to-day and got it.—Up-to-
Date.
A woman who is too old to wear a
sailor hat is also too old to wear an
accordion pleated skirt
TRUMPET CALLS.
Hare's Horn Sounds n Warning Note j
to tlic Unredeemed*
rn HE devil works
r I the hardest on
- 1 - Xmi.lny.
Itj/' —\ Wish the cut
look is not good
we best serve
V* others.
* ® v The man who
has no god to worship worships him
self.
A fault will attract more attention
to us than a virtue.
A prayer may be long, and yet not
ask the Lord for much.
The man who has the "big head"
often wears a small hat.
It is not the longest prayers that
are answered quickest.
The sermon falls that does not tell
somebody that God is love.
The spots we see on others are near
ly alwayston our own glasses.
No man who is trying to serve the
Lord doubts that there is a devil.
Get in the habit of resting nil your
weight on the Everlasting Arms.
Every man who does wrong is help
ing to lead an army of boys astray.
Wherever Jesus went, the devil took
pains to send some scribes and Phar
isees.
There are people who never care for
music except when they play the first
fiddle.
The man who is doing the thing God
wants him to do Is engaged in a great
work.
The devil's presence in the heart Is
often shown by what comes out of the
mouth.
The man who Is sure that there is no
hell will generally be found trying to
make one.
The man who works for the Lord by
the day will never be satisfied with the
pay he gets.
The man who is trying to hide be
bind ft hypocrite now will not do it in
the judgment.
The man who Is willing to do God's
will will not long be kept in doubt
about what Is God's will.
Some people talk much about what a
happy place heaven is, and do nothing
to make their homes resemble it.
It will be time enough to talk about
giving up the Bible when we find
something better to take its place.
When the devil knows that a man is
kinder to his mule than he is to his wife
he likes to hear him talk in church.
Men do not have to commit all known
crimes to miss heaven. It is lost by
having nothing heavenly In the heart.
It sometimes takes a moderate drink
er a long while to find out that the dev
il's claws have been run through him.
The people who go to sleep under
the preaching, will be wide awake
wlieu they watch the preacher's prac
tice.
The devil would have been whipped
long ago if he had not always been
able to find something good to hide
behind.
Instead of praying for their daily
bread souie men tell the Lord what
kind of weather is needed to make a
wheat crop.
Uncle Sam's Menagerie.
The sovereign power of the govern
ment lias won a victory in a legal con
troversy which is officially labeled "the
United States vs. seventeen boxes of
snakes and twenty-three monkeys." It
was a peculiar case, and appears to
have been the outcome of the Jealousy
of a clique of importers of snakes and
monkeys in New York toward a rival.
The members of the clique made up
their minds that they would not toler
ate a new dealer, who might become
a formidable competitor in the mar
ket. When they were called on as ex
perts to fix valuations they unmtd
their estimates so high that the con
signee of the snakes and monkeys
could not afford to pay the duty assess
ed. The goods were detained by the
custom-house authorities and placed
In bond. Government officials did not
know how to take care of the goods.
Snakes should have a bath every day.
and these did not get proper treatment.
The monkeys, too, were not well cared
for. The result Is that about all the
reptiles are now dead, and the deci
sion of the court is that the govern
ment need not make good the largo loss
if the consignee. This may ho good
law, but wherein the justice of it con
sists It is impossible to see. Buffalo
Express.
The Eskimo Character.
We found the Innuits very quick-wit
ted and Intelligent; with unvarying
good nature and a keen appreciation of
fun, they proved themselves compan
ionable In spite of their uucleanlint'ss.
Tliolr skill manifested Itself in many
ways during these long excursions.
Later in the year it showed itself, on
one occasion, in a particularly interest
ing way. Having found it necessary
to cross a glacier on a hunting trip, our
Innuits passed at the edge and hal
loed to ascertain the direction of the
echo. On the return a storm of snow
and fog bad obliterated nil landmarks,
but the Indians easily found the way
by meaiiH of the echo.
There was always a charm In their
strange melodies, and particularly at
night, ns they slowly rowed along the
black waters among ghostly, beautiful
icebergs, under the starless sky. And
such melodies! They were like the
sighing of the winds, low, contented,
full-breathed, yet with an undertone of
sadness. But at times their songs are
vehement with Joy and action.-Cen
tury.
or course there Is such a thing ns
love, or there wouldn't be so many di
vorces.
Old ago Is .11 ice the whooping cough:
everybody gets It.
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The Sfitrk .'true.' Nurseries, this pity snti '
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from nature, etc. f-evorul departments uivo ,
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I People rto nn discover until too tat* that wash-
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