Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-06-13

VINE cellar or on the boutelus Ne
are the selected ones. Thev A. laeg
families, the names Of them ~ - Ars
yulgaris, the zilla, and tha sPa
plumipes. which the entomolo,,ia' 7paa
tell you are the grand web-sninne.N WY
the spider world. ''e's o,
But what money is there III i
ask. Mon Dieu, money. mn,on 'va
ways money. |, who love nv ny, IL
be always thinking Of Wbat MI.
for! | viii tell you now. and thas sT4
will talk no more of money ana
show You something. 4 eus,,o,'
comes 10 me. He is wine ma,..n
from New York or Philadenbis
perhaps he writes He saws nI.
has jus, stocked cellar with fiyn,y..1
old port, or Burgundy, or sonA.,t.'
else. The bottles have been brs,
clean in shipping. They look new onl
common. They will not sell I'll u,
wine. He has attached TO them loh.5-
of twenty, thirty, or forty wears ag@
some year of grand vintage. He IAN,
me so many hundred bottles. kn,n
how many of my Pets will soon coya,
his cellar in cobwebS of the fines IA
kind put them Ia little. small aana,
boxes, pair in box. | ship Thorn !,
a crate, with many holes for air
Maybe ] send two, three. -four hupdrad
spiders. For them | ask half frn,,
each, $40 for every hundred.
In two months YOU would think b,s
cellar was not disturbed for the ,as,
ten years. 1t has cost him $40 y ia
maybe. but he may sell the wine for
S1,000-yes, more than that-abave
what they had brought without nv
pets had dressed the bottles n fha
robes of long ago. The merchant takes
the parvenu and the nouveau richie
who are easy TO fool and play Win
He leads them down into the dark r4I.
lar. BY the light Of the candle she
customer sees the rows Of bottles
Their necks are deep in dust. Il i
easy to blow over them dust. The
eobwebs drape them: they stretch from
cork to cork-it is plain that there (
here great age. All my cobwebs. mon
ami. The customer has what You call
the pulling of the leg to him. lie Is
proud. But 1t is good for him. Good
wine is only meant for the man who
knows il.
Perhaps man has quickly made
great wealth and keeps a grand estlb
lishment. He must have a fine wine
cellar Perhaps he buys himself old
wines, dusty and cobwebby But the
cobWebs are broken and en- deshabille
when the bottles are moved to his eel
lar. They have not the tone, the look
of the real old age, of the long years 81
gentle rest in the undisturbed dark
nest ce pas? Then he drives out 10
see old Pierre. or writes from New
York. Saprlsti, | send him my pets,
They work for him. Soon he can take
his rich friends into his cellar. and
they say: Mon Dieu, this is superb, Il
is magnificent. We give you congrltu-
lations, my boy This is what money
cannot buy My pets stop working.
and they do what you call wink the
other eye Then they resume Their
toll.
''ColbIeau, it is a science, this rails.
ing Of spiders have on hand at one
time about 10000 spiders, old and
young brought some eggs rom
France. and the choicest webmakers
10 BE found. Here is the queen Of
them all. Her children are the superb
Spinners. Many hundreds of my rets
are her descendants 1t is the kind
bred 10y my gedt uncle in France"
The old man led the way to glass
dome i'll the corner, beneath which a
filmy web Of beautiful pattern
stretched across nearly two feet
Pierre touched one of the meshes and
a huge black spider danced nimbly out
from her downy nest and ran by The
vibrating thread to the old mans fin
ger He gave her a fly and she ripped
back within doors with her booty.
"Thls is Sara said Pierre. "She
has the grace. the chic, the slender
beauty Of The divine Bernhard. she
is the pride Of al my pets. All, here
is Zola looking at you."
4 hideous hairy monster had craWled
up the fine wire netting that kept nm
within bounds and stared sardonicaHy
not a foot away from the writer's
nose. A start and an exclamation were
natural, but Pierre looked grieved
Il do not blame YOU much, slid DE-
"Zola is good-natured and would lot
hurt YOU. but he has the horrible look
He has fits of bad temper somea nes'
Then. ventre bleu, look you out ~
is the bird spider Of Surinanl, ~
body is two inches long. AMI s.
catches and eats small tinches ana
Sparrows when in the woods. His hlte
is bad poison. | doubt not i "ouiu
kill YOU. But tame him with KIM
ness. Yet lie II not pleasant 70 thllA
of running around a room. lie lnisA'
have the bad temper. He woula 81
all my pets in one day. But ne =
king Of all spiders lie grand monarch
Therefore. call him lola, the iuos'
superb Of writers.
"When The mother spider wishes -