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picking up dollars if they're "strewn along your path
way. Neither can you resist the bargains we are offer
ing in summer clothing, underwear and furnishing
goods. Our marked down sale is bringing an eager
.populace "Friendward" and our summer goods are
going—we want 'em to go. We told you last week
about the backward weather—you knew it already—
and we told you why we marked down our goods.
Plenty of customers came in and will look like tailor
made people on the Fourth of July and it didn't cost
them much to look that way either. Our summer
stock is going to go. It's nobby, up-to-date and is
being sold at a price
Can't
We don't advertise a "marked-down" sale unless we
marh down the goods. Honesty is what has given
us the largest trade in this section and honesty is
what will continue to build it up as the years go by.
Please bear in mind that all—that means every stitch
of our summer goods—will be sold to you at such a
price that you'll be a friejnd to Friend hereafter. Our
"mark-down" pencil pressed the button—you'll do the
judgment. Remtember our
its originators.
rest if you'll use good
"marked-down" sale am
•••IMIiaillllMailMlliafM**—
Sipa
J. "Friend & Son
Bostdn One Price
CcCsh
I HACKING A CHILD.
fhowlnff That a Bloodhound Is Not Al
ways a Fierce Beaat.
80° many terrible storiea of the feroo
lty of bloodhounds have been told that
it is refreshing to read a true atory of a
ehaae by a bloodhound in which tbe
banter and the hnnted were equally
satisfied. It is vonohed forbya writer
in Good Words, who bad it from an
•jtwitnear
The bloodhound was enjoying a stroll
with his master on the sands of WeBton
'.taper-Mare, quietly following the horse
his owner rode. Neither was thinking
of a Chase. In fact nothing seemed far
ther from the character of the dog than
4 desire to interfere with any human
being. The group of pleasure seekers
scattered over the sands saw nothing
unusual in him, nor did tbe poor dis
trmoted woman who ran from one group
to another frantically asking tor tidings
of-* lost ohild. Nobody knew anything
of the missing boy, and .when in her
desperation she approached the gentle
man on the horse he also shook his head.
Bat thongh he knew nothing of her
boy, he was not so sure that he eould
not help her find him. He alighted from,
his horse, and thrusting his arm through
the bridle bent over the hound, putting
both hands carelessly round his head.
Then he took from the woman some
thing that looked like a ohild's hat and
held it toward the dog, talking to him
the while. The honnd sniffed and whined
mournfully, as if unwilling to leave his
master. Soon, however, he lifted his
head in the air, ottered a short, sharp
bark or bay and began sniffing about the
sands.
For a minute or two he followed the
scent in a aigzag fashion, and then,
with a long, loud bay, turned off at an
amazing pace, ran in a straight line
across the sands, crossed the parade,
and, baying as he went, turned down a
side street
1
That was an exolting chase—the field
the streets of a populous watering place
and the game a lost ohild. The loud
voioe of the dog could be heard in the
distance, guiding those who followed.
The mother's feet were swift, but she
oonld not keep np with the dog. On he
went till he had run his prey to ground.
Then he stopped and fawned upon the
little lad, who was overjoyed to find so
friendly a playmate. When the mother
oame np, hunter and hunted were the
best of friends, so much so that neither
was willing to part with the other.
The gentleman had more than onoe to
summon his dog before he would con
sent to. leave the child. As for the boy,
he oonld not be led away while
Clothing House
Rough on Abdul Axis*
When Abdul Aziz, sultan of Turkey,
was deposed, Queen Victoriu tele
graphed to his captors in French,
"Soignez le bien," or "Take gooil care
of him," The wires said, "Saignez le
bien," which means something very
different—namely, "Bleed him well,"
an error of the wires which reads grew
somely in the light of the fate which
befell that unhappy monarch.
Contentment.
"I saw you last night as I passed by
your house. What in the world was that
contrivance you bad sticking out from
your forehead?"
"Cute, wasn't it? You see.'my wife
lets ma smoke in the hoase, but I have
to wear an arrester1 to keep the smoke
from soiling the. ceiling. Olever, ain't
it?"—Cleveland Leader.
Elder Wm. Tennison
OF BUFKIN, IND.,
Tells of the Great Benefits-Derived From
Dr. Milee* Heart Our*.
HEABTeasily
DIBEASE ot long standing Is
not cared, but it is CURABLE.
Elder Wm. Tennison writes: "I was
afflicted (or tlilrty-Sve yean with heir*
dis
ease, In tact, troubled with It nearly all my
lite I think It heredi
tary as my father was
afflicted with It. I have
suffered great distress,
my heart palpitated to
[such an extent as to
shake my whole body.
J~"
remained, and after the h««
—--m!he was still
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So distressing was It I
I could only with great-
estdlffleulty compose myself to
sleep. About
two years ago I began taking Dr. Miles'
Heart Cure. The first bottle gave me no
perceptible benefit, but after taking the
third I began to feel muoh relief and I con
tinued tor ao|j»e months. I have good rea
son to believe the cure Is permanent.
i- »•!„.• »«medles are sold by all drug-
ELEVEN YEARS OLD. EXIRA, IOWA THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1897.
Hamlin Department.
McGuire shipped one car of hogs
last Monday.
Baker A Shoesmitli shipped six
cases of eggs Tuesday noon.
Alex Ferguson is out and around
but does not feel very stout.
Tuesday the creamery shipped 1,
260 pounds of butter to Boston.
Abe Anderson has taken a thirteen
year-old boy to raise up in the way
lie should go.
J. E. McGuire and his torce of men
are cutting down the hills near the
Doc" Phipps place.
Mr. Kelson Percy, of Dexter, is
here to pass a few days with his
brother, Harry, and family.
John Doak was down Tuesday and
drove home some butcher's stock that
he purchased of W. D. Stanley.
Word comes from Neola that Mr.
and Mrs. Theo. Gearheart's children
are very ill of whooping cough.
The blood poison in J. E. Banuing's
little girl's system is being scattered.
Sores are breaking- out all over her.
The Holiness Meeting at the Evan
gelical church, in Hamlin, last Friday
was largely attended and a very profit
able meeting.
The Old Hamlin literary.dld* not
elect officers last Saturday night but
will meet Saturday evening, July 10
for that purpose.
Miss Clara Sizer and Mrs. Edwin
Schoonover drove up to the W. B.
DaviB home, near Audubon, last Tues
day and passed the day.
There will be an all-day meeting,
at Sheets' Grove, held by the Evan
gelical church people, next Saturday
to which you are all invited.
McGuire has put a force pump at
the rear of his store and attached a
long string of hose. Will says that
in case of a blaze he's a whole lire
company all by himself.
Tyler came home from his Texas
trip Saturday and reports an enjoy
able trip. Mr. Tyler is loud in his
praise of that country and says it is
sure to be the garden spot of the
world.
O. P. Tyler received a letter, last
Monday, from his niece, Miss Emma
Dormer, stating that she had arrived
at her home near London, safely. She
sailed from New York in the steamer
Majestic.
The Methodist meetings at Old
Hamlin, next Sunday, will be held
at the same hours as heretofore. This
society is becoming very strong at
that point, there being upwards of
feixtymembers at thisj^e.
Uncle'S. D.'CoonrtS was out on
the streets of Hamlin, Tuesday! lie
wished us to inform his friends at
Old Hamlin that- he would be at his
post of duty in the Sunday School
and at the class meetings, next Sun
day.
Mrs. Will McGuire drove up to
Audubon Wednesday and passed the
day with friends. Returning she
brought her friend, Miss Lizzie Schri
ber home with her and that lady will
pass a few days with her at the Sta
tion.
They had their faces all fixed up
to witness a wedding at the Presby
terian church, in Old Hamlin, last
Sunday, but as no bride and groom
appeared they were obliged to let
the smile on their faces gradually
grow dim.
Mr. Fred Spencer, the North
Westery Railway road master, has
purchased the Len Wright eighty
acres and an adjoining eighty acres
belonging to Frank Bradley. His
brother George bought the eighty he
owned, a short way east of the Sta
tion.
Supervisor W. D. Stanley has a
very fine bunch oi fat hogs on his
well stocked farm that he is holding
for a higher market. There are four
teen in this bunch and they average
450 pounds each, all except the king
hog of this bunch and he's an elephant
—weighs 550 pounds.
An old mammy coou and three
cubs were sunning themselves the
other day in the W. D. Stanley
woods when Mr. Stanley spied them,
blazed away and killed the mammy
and one culi. The other two cubs he
is raising as pets for his children. The
old coon was pretty large, weighing
about twenty- five pounds.
v»ttle
The Evangelical Children's Day
exercises at the Sheets Grove, last
Sunday were attended by over three
hundred persons and were thorough
ly enjoyed by all. Andrew Smith
took a four-horse .load of the Brushy
College school up there. The Station,
Fair View and Champion Hill Sab
bath Schools were ably represented
at this meeting.
James East, of Old Hamliu, was at
the Station, Tuesday, and informed
us that his cherry crop was a big sue
cess, that he gathered -tWo and one
half bushels of fruit off of one tree.
He also infored up all other kinds of
fruit on his place was yielding im
mensly this season and that he would
I.ave more than three wagon boxes
full of black berries.
The July number of the Delineator
is called the Summer Number is its
resume of the latest styles of hot
weather attire, with especial reference
to the needs of sojourners at seaside
and is|&nd resorts is .rendered graphi
cally complete by
glowing color plates
and scores of accurate wood cuts. In
the fiction department the stories are
particularly fine. The department
devoted to crocheting, knitting, tat
and the work table is complete.
18th
H. Fred Fischer, Pre*.
John Polxin, Vice Pres.
Best Binding Twine and lowest
prices on sameat Greenwaldt A Grot
eluschen's.
J. F. Luee, of Ross, for representa
tive is meeting with much favor in
these parts.
W. J. Lancelot and C. Eugene
Mertz were business visitors at the
hub Thursday.'
Ready made screen doors and ex
cellent wire cloth at Greenwaldt A
Groteluschen's.'
(lite Packard is mowing weeds on
some of the streets this week. Hite
is usually doing something that is up
to-date.
The rain of last Sabbath interfered
with the much Anticipated mingling
of Cameron and Viola township
people, in picnic assembled.
Willie Evans, nephew of Mrs. Wm.
Lewis, of Cameron, after a short but
pleasant visit araone relatives here,
returned to his Chicago home Sun
day.
Tramps are getting quite numerous
in these parts ana they are getting to
be good foragerstoo. When begging
for food in a smaH village like ours
they call at every, house.
Miss Pearl Aucias closed a very
successful terfnot soliool aHht Bar
ger Friday last" and 'Monday' started'
for Audhbon to at fend .the review
school. Miss Pearl was engaged for
the next term.
Earth is kept refreshed with gentle
showers these days to such an extent
that crops of all kindB are maturing
finely. Harvest will soon be here
and barley harvest especially assures
satisfactory returns.
John Benson, of the famous Benson
house of this city, returned from
Clinton Sunday and stayed long
enough to pack his goods and ship the
same to Clinton where he expects to
reside permanently.
One ot our young men went wrong,
which necessitated the appearance of
Frank itrainard, county attorney,
upon the scene of action. We under
stand that obtaining a suit of clothes
under false pretense and criminal
libel of the character of one of Lin
coln township's respected daughters
was about the extent of his actions
but that's enough.
The Band Boys' social last Satur
day night was not very largely at
tended on account of the rain, but
the boys entertained those that did
patronize them in an ever to be re
membered manner. In fact their
work, with the assistance the
young ladies rendered them, was
worthy of much older heads, aud
demonstrated their ability to take up
the art of entertaining when we are
ready to lay it down. The result was
satisfactory.
Three trains were wrecked on the
great Milwaukee system betweeu
Coon Rapids aud Templetou Thurs
day of last week. The first was
caused by a car leaving the track
which caused several others to follow
suit. Some of the passengers were
injured and wires were torn down
The wrecker was telephoned for but
another train was betweeu the
wrecker and the wrecked train
When near Teinpleton this middle
train and wrecker came into collision,
seriously injuring Dr. Williams, of
Manning.
The greatest social event of the sea
son was held at the very pleasant
home of Wm. Lewis over in Cameron,
and the following worthy people
were participants of their hospitality:
Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Lancelot, Dr. and
Mrs. Beers, Mr. and Mrs. W. J.
Audas, Mr. and Mis. S. C. Randies
and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. P.Wiley.
The delicacies of the season were
served for refreshment' »ml when the
rlut'k on the ma hi lu indicated the
small Imnrs ot llio night fast iip
priMr.hing, these friends returned to
their several homes feeling that one
of the most pleasant evenings of their
life had passed.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
Tttic IIEST SALVK in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns and all Skiu
Eruptions, and positively cures Piles
or no pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or money
refunded. Price 25c per box. For
sale by C. W. Houston or
.L. Blsom, at Braytop
Geo. P. Wiley, Canhier.
IMUIH Oroteluaehen, Ann't Ch'r.
RESPONSIBILITIES. S50.000.
Farmers Exchange Bank.
GRAY. IOWA.
Do a General Banking Business, receive deposits subject to
check at sight. Buy and sell domestic and foreign exchange.
Interest paid on time deposits. Money loaned on good com
mercial paper or approved collateral. Co-partners individ
ually liable—H. Fred Fischer, John Polzin, Geo. P. Wiley,
Louis Groteluschen. Collections made and promptly
remitted.
The GRAY PHARMACY,
C. EUGENE MERTZ, PROPRIETOR.
DRUGS, MEDICINES. CHEMICALS
Stationery, Perfumery, Jewelry, Paints, Oils, Class, Etc.
Prescriptions Carefully Compounded,,,,,,,,,,,
Gray Department.
Roe Corner.is visiting his numerous
friends in Guthrie county this week.
Bob Snell, of Clinton, Iowa, is
making his sister, Mrs. John Benson,
a visit.
Ross Department.
Markets: Hogs $2.90, corn 10c,
eggs 7c, butter 8c.
Big dance at Wat Frye's Tuesday
night of this week.
Luse sold a fine buggy Monday to
a Melville township farmer.
Large invoice of Bhoes received at
the Farmer's Store last Friday.
The Dedham and Viola Center base
ball nines will contest at Dedham
July 3.
Sunday school convention at Bren
ton's Grove, Viola township, last
Tuesday.
Mrs. Rob't Hunter and daughter,
of Audubon, visited friends at Ross
Tuesday.
J. F. Luse commenced shelling his
corn Wednesday. He will shell about
10000 bushels.
H. D. Hollister marketed at Ross
Tuesday four tubs of his fine dairy
butter and 'tis needless to say he re
ceived top price.
Carload ot Piano binders and
mowers arrived at ROSB one day this
week. This is the second carload of
Piano machinery this season.
H. D. Hollister, of Melville town
ship, purchased a Jones Chain Mower
of Luse Tuesday. Last Friday Mr.
Luse sold three mowers and a buggy.
When you are at Audubon Btop at
the TWINING HOUSE. Big square
meal 15c, day board 50c, board by
the week only ,$2.50." Drop ia and
tlfm*
W illie "Evans left- SaturrW^ fbr'
Chicago, his home. He hps been
visiting the past week with his
cousin, Mrs. Chas. Tucker of Viola
township.
Several Cameron township young
people are attending review school at
Audubon. Among them are Miss
Emma Reid, Miss Mabel Cozine, and
a son and daughter of Wm. Swaney.
Wm. ICrauel, one of Cameron
township's up-to-date hog raisers,
sold to John Wagner Tuesday fifteen
head of tip top hogs—average 280—
for which he received $2.90 per hun
dred.
Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Moreland, of
Viola township, have returned from
Texas. Mr. Moreland signifies his
intention of going to Texas until he
secures land, this being his third trip
without-buying.
Mrs. H. M. Preston, of Fort
Dodge, arrived Thursday of last
week for a week's visit at the home
of her brother, Geo. Everett, in
southeast Lincoln township. She re
turns to her home Friday.
Grandma Detwiler, mother of A.
X. Detwiler and Mrs. Morris Gibson,
of Lincoln township, passed from
this lite, at Iowa City Friday of last
week—cause of death, paralysis.
The lady was about seventy-five
years'ohl and very feeble. Mr. A. N.
Detwiler lelt Saturday for lo wa City
to attend the funeral and will return
Thursday of this week.
Melville Township News.
Mr. Campbell is delivering loc corn
in Audubon this week.
The gentle rain of last Saturday
made all our farmers grin.
J. M. Black has one of the best
stands of corn in these diggius.
We don't see why Harlan Emely
don't visit these parts any more!
Some of our farmers have been de
livering 12 aud 15c corn in Audubon
the past week.
Most of the young folks around
here, as well as the older ones, intend
celebrating at Irwin
Mr. Taggert was a business caller
at the county seat last Saturday and
attended the big cattle sale.
Ben Black sports a new buggy that
he purchased the other day. He says
life is too short to go plugging around
with an old buggy.
Elb. Potter was among the few
boys from here who, accompanied by
his best girl, attended divine service
at Audubon last Sunday.
Corn that was plauted the third
time is growing so rapidly that we
would not be surprised if it would
catch the corn that was planted first.
The Smith farm was 8old recently
at $25.00 per acre. We did not learn
the purchaser's name but understand
that he will farm the land next year.
Mr. Smith is one of the lucky ones.
A short time ago a swarm of bees set
tled in his front yard and he quietly
hived them and they never touched
him.
Mr. Smith, the boss hog raiser,
marketed forty-six head of fat ones at
Dedham, last Friday, at three cents
per pound. They averaged 300 pounds
each.
It is reported that the cattle men
of'this township and Gutbrie county
are scouring these parts for 9c corn
and are paying as high as 20c a bushel.
Some think that's not the top notch.
Dyspepsia Cured. Shilohs Vitalizer
immediately relieves Sour Stomach,
earning up of Food Bistros, and is the great
kidney and lirer remedy. Solb by Houston.
MOUNTAINS OF JAPAN.
Am
for
It
I was dreadfully nervous, and
relief took Karl's Clover Root Tea.
quieted my nerves and streagtheaod my
whole Nervous System. I was troubled with
Oouatipattoo, Kidney and Bowel trouble.
Your tea soon cleansed my sratem so
thoroughly that I rapidly regained healthand
streDgth. Mrs. 8. A. Sweet, Hartford, Conn
Bold byO. W. Houston.
Limber
111 .Jim. 1
Record a:as --Can show a 2:30 gait
HE pacing stallion, Limber
Jim. is 11 bright bay, weighs
1200 pounds and is a model
homo in ewry respect. Sired by Adjut
ant, lie by Administrator. Dam sired
by IJilly tJreen, lie by Green's Bashaw.
-n
LOCATION:—He will stand during
the entire souson of 1897 at the livery
barn of Chas. Benton, Audubon.
TEll.MS:—}^r_J0 to insure mare with,
foal. $1:2.00 to insure colt to stand and
suck. Care will le taken to prevent
accidents but will not be responsible
should anv occur.
ROB'T HENDERSON, Owner
BENTON, Groom
BaUt Upon Small Softie, bot
AM Verj Picturesque.
The Rev. Walter Weston has is
sued a book on mountaineering in
Japan. Although the ranges of
mountains in Japan are vesy beau
tiful, they do not, the writer in
forms us, "display the glories ot
glacier shrouded peaks, and the
aeole on wbioh they jtrtrtoiillfc is artly
two-thirds that of the fainons iti^i
of Switzerland. But the picturesque
ness of their valleys and the
mVg-
nificence or the dark and silen^ ior
ests that clotho their massive-flanks
surpass anything I haw'inet with
in European Alpine wanderings."
Asama Yama is the name of one
of the most wonderful volcanoes in
the mikado's kingdom. An easy
walk from the ridge brought Mr.
Weston to the edge of the mighty
crater, "from whose honeycombed
sides vast volumes of sulphurous
steam roll up with a roar that rises
and falls with awful weirdness. In
the distance it resembles a great wa
terfall or the thundering of the
breakers on the Pacific shore heard
in the stillness of night. The cir
cumference of tbe crater is about
1,300 yards, but its yet unfathomed
depth' is probably greater still.
Those who have made the ascent of
the volcano, as I have since done, by
night and looked down into tho
cavernous abyss at the fires below
will never forget the unearthly
scene."
But Japan claims another peak
which Mr. Weston declares is "one
of the most striking peaks in the
world." "From the summit," we
learn, "the view is that of some vast
relief map. Varying tints and
shades lie over lake and forest,
river, sea and plain. Westward and
to the northwest the grandest ob
jects of the landscape are the snow
clad heights of the Japanese Alps,
with the Komagatake range and
nearer still the Koshu peaks and
Akailshi rising up between us and
them. Far away east and south
stretch the blue waters of the Pa
cifio, whose breakers curl in white
lines at the mountain's base, 12,400
feet below. At our very feet the
great crater presents an extraordi
nary sight Excepting where the
inner walls rise too abruptly from
the crater floor to allow it to rest,
ioe or snow spreads a dazzling wind
ing sheet over nearly the whole
mountain top. Here and there huge
icicles hang blue against the deep
dull red and purjtle of the rocks in
side the crater lip. All is oold and
Btill as the grave. It is soon a posi
tive relief to turn from all this
deathly whiteness to let the eye rest
on the vast expanse of country clad
in all the tender freshness and
warmth of color of its youag spring
lifei.'1
Like other countries, Japan has
its legends. One of these is about
Ariyaka Saemon and his wifa "On
all the great sacred mountains of
Japan a limit line has until the last
few years been placed at tl\e height
up to which womankind might
oUmb. The limit is called Nioh^nilo,
'Woman's way,' but naturhllv
enough it varies a good deal on
[-00 PEK YEA
Nervous Headach
A Tumor Like a Scrofulous Bui^.n
on the Back—Painful and Trou
blesome-How it Was Cured.
"My first trouble began with nervous
headaches which would last for two or
three days. The doctors could not do
anything for me, and advised a change of
location. At theage of 55 a tumor formed
on my Bpine, which was very painful but
did not rise or discharge. The doctor
thought best to cut it out, but I objected.
It finally broke and discharged a great
deal. The doctors said they could do
nothing for It. I received no benefit at
the Springs which I visited, and the tu
mor finally began to rise inwardly and
discharge. Seeing an advertisement of
Hood's Sarsaparilla I thought I would
try it. Before I had finished taking one
bottle I found I was much relieved, and
when I had taken two bottles the rising
began to break inwardly. I continued
the use of Hood's SarBaparilia and after
I had taken 12 bottles I was entirely
cored." W. D. FOBB, GlUiam, Missouri.
Yon can get Hood's Sarsaparilla at all
druggists, fl six tor |5. Get only Hood's.
TIME TABLE.
C. R. I. P.
Trains going north Trains gWqg south
A. M. P. M. A. M. STATIONS. P. M. P. U, A. U.
8:30* 8:15 7:00 ..Atlantic... 2:00 6:45 10:55*
8:47* 3:39 7:25 ... Lorah ... 1:30 6:24 loi-38*
8:59* 3:58 7:45 ...Brayton... 1:10 6:08 10:26*
9x06* 4:11 8:05 Extra 12:45 5:55 10:f?*
Jg. fJ25 .. Hamlin ..12:15 5:40 10:05*
0:30* 4:45 8 4fi .. .\uaXibon.. la.-fff 5:25
•Sutfday traiitt. Others daily except Simdnv.
C. & N. W. Timetable--As Adopted
May a, 1897.
Trains going south. Trains going north.
P.H. P.M. A.M. STATIONS P.M. P.M.
*12:45 2:35 7:15 ..Carroll.. 12:55PH 7:15 *7:15
1:10 3:05 7:50 ..Halbur.. 12:30" 6:50 *6:55
1:35 3:35 8:15 .Manning. 11:55AM 6:20 *6:35
*1:59 8:55 9:10 ...Gray... 11:20" 5:50 *6:15
2:20 4:15 9:35 ...Ross... 11:00" 5:30 *5:55
2:40 4:35 9:55 .Audubon. 10:40" 5:10 *5:40
*Sunday trainB. Others daily except Sunday.
was ait the top of tlie wonderful
peak or so desirous, new woman
like, of emulating her husband's
feat that she transgressed the
bounds of Nionindo and essayed to
reach the actual summit. Her rash
ness met with its due reward, and
she was immediately transforms
into the Oba-ishi, which still bears
witness to her sacrilege."
A SPIDER FIGHT.
It Wu Faat and Furious and to the
Death.
I once had a spider pet of a kind the
books enabled me to identify. He was
.fine, big fellowV I caught him in the
garden, carried
nearly two monthg
Interest in each 1
Jntroji^gd to
im home, and for
and I took a olose
he for the flies I
iTme.
fflr..Wr TT_°3'
1 ker'
:ept him
titac, letting him ont
ited him, specially delight-
mysw with allowing him to drop
from one hand by his fine span thread,
and
athen
either oatching him in the
otber or gently compelling him toolimb
back again by apparently eating his
ownladder.
One day I oaptured another spider of
the same species. I kept him for a few
days in a separate box, aud then, with
the kindly idea of oompanienship, I in
troduced him to Tiger. I have seen dogs
flgl}t I have seen chanticleer fight and
slay his man I have seen rams fight
till, with his skull crushed in, one lay
dead at the foot of the other I have
seen men fight I have seen women
fight—at least, they once were women—
till they became a. confusion of blood
and hair and shredded garments but
the fullest sense I ever realized of mad,
murderous passiou let ungovernably
loose, centered in one destroying aim
and summoning every physical energy
to its dbvilish service, 1 realized when
those two spiders rushod to mortal com
bat. I stood in boyish terror aa their
tangled legs dropped off, torn by mo
toal rase, and as, with vicious dexteri
ty, they struck each other with the
poisoned fangs, using for their own
straotion the weapons and appliano
with whioh nature has provided th
for the oapture and slaughter of th
prey, I visibly turned pule.
Tiger was the victor, but even wh
with brntal wrath, all mangled as
was, he bit and spurned his dead
limbless foe, he was seized with sy
toms I took to be paralytic, and
minute or two I helped him to
death. And this fearless gladiato
afraid of, I remember, and never
tackle, a big bluebottle fly. W
oourage?—Manchester City New
It Made No Difference*
There had been a little famil
she was sulking.
You have no right to refuse me,
she said. "When 1 promised to marry
yon, I told you that I always wanted
my own way, and you said that made
no difference.''
"Well, it doesn't, does it?" he retort
ed. "You don't get it, d* you?"
Thus it happened that she called him
a mean thing.—Chicago Post.
Trolley Cars For Headaohe*
A Brooklyn man has told a reporter
that a ride in a trolley oar cuies his
headaches. After along day's work in
his offloe he starts home with a head
ache, and after riding three miles the
headache is gone. He thinks the air of
the oar is filled with electricity, and
that the care is due to that Perhaps,
however, it is only tbe fresh air that
works tbe cure.
A Bnuen Girl.
Miss Highup—It's perfeotly scandal
ous. Did you hear about Miss de Pink?
Miss Tiptop—No. What has
she done?
"Oh, tho most immodest thing imag
inable. She's let all the world know
•he is orazy to get married by goi
and joining a cookery sohool."—*
York Weekly.
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ferent mountains. The wife of Ari
yaka Saemon, however, was eithei
to impelled by curioaitv to see what
Ther« is to be seen at Schwarzei
in Saxpey, a linden whose trunk
fe%Jjj|i circumfereuoe, and two ot
Scl'^peberg, one 16 feet aud tl
14 et in olrouwfert^ice.
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