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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-09-27
REGULAR STAIRS

old about the pc~isson
OF windows and FORTH house In which certain
transaction occurred.
good sad will b good
tell tho ho~ the stairs the honseI"
unsettled a How do
the runL- he gueried.
do the stairs runO"
Well
10 dsy oop~-Natonsl Monthly.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-09-27
THE PHONE AND THE HYMN

An admirinE parishioner OF young divine in Ohio
had telephone Installed In the clergyman's house The
delighted with the convenience and used II Immediately
church.
When the time for him to announce the rrs,
the first lines with his usual mpresslyencas and conclud
LET all unite in hymn O three. "-Lippincoti
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-09-27
BETTER MEAT NOWADAY,

Ogden Armour. defending packing methods lunches
in Chicago. said:
meat
ms a a
called house and took order Of mutton Then
called again.
YouH that mutton
"Yes7
"The Sleeps improvn.' said boy"-washington
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1912-09-27
PRETTY SLOW


fre-s-why aid discharge errAnd boTf
Buscher-n~atomers complained he slow: said he
TOOK 80 arrived beef"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
SPIDERS 0M DUEL TO THE DEATH
HOW \ SAGACIOCS INSECT FOUND \ NEW HOME AFTER HER
OWN HAD BEEN DESTROYED

and by that alone she lived. No,
there was nothing for 1t but to take
the last step that any creature could
take-go to war. And go to war she
did.
] saw her turn back into her den.
ana when she anne out again it was
to draw carefully the web envelope
Una. vailed IT over the entrance. The
reason tor this was plain. She had
icft hrr cocoon inside. instead of, as
was Nor invariable rule before. taking
1t on her journey. Then she set off.
a was a wonderful war. If she
mad been cautious before it was Moth
ing TO that which followed. Her
Journey up and down the scullery wall
was nothing but n miraculous.
steaithy glide. She scarcely seemed
to move her legs at all. so carefully
were they slid along. But there was
a great difference in he. maneuyer-
inss to those she had used p%reviousIy
when crossing the dangerous area of
lurking spiders. Before she had avoid
cd every web and Granny. Now she
sought them and approached them
Nothing stirred. however: not a
spider moved. 1t was as if they knew
ina h was deliberately trying to
Iure them out to fight or course
sh' could Lot go in and tackle them
apart from the impossibility of get.
tlng at their vital parts in the cran1n-
ed position. spiders dens arc ALWAYS
hedged about with a network Of web
entanglements. Once caught in ono
OF these even temporarily for a sec
ond. 1t would have been all I'M with
heT-for spiders can get caught in :,
web. YOU know.
give separate webs were tried. With.
OUT me slightest sign on the part of
me owner. Indeed, one would think
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

four limbs. each had eight. and a pair
of powerful jaws to boot. The fight
lasted n minute twenty-eight Sec
onds exactly, and at the II of that
time l saw my spider suddenly spring
clear, She remained quite still for
a moment, then sprang in and away
like lightning. Then 1 realized that
the fatal death bite must have been
given before she sprang clear the first
time. for the other spider never nov
ed away from that spot. His legs
waved and his jaws moved slowly
and more slowly. till at last he was
still. And the mother spider bound
him up in his W web.
Instantly after hat she tore off to
fetch the cocoon returned in a minute
with her precious burden. placed it in
the captured den. and for the rest of
the morning occupied herself in
mending the vanquishcd ones web
and feeding on its owner.
She lived to catch many flies after
that. and, to the best of my belief, is
asleep in hat den now.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.

The notorious case of John r. Ear
lS. the "leper." is revived once more
by news from Tacoma that he has
been discovered trying to make 3 liv-
ing for himself. wife and ~4-year-old
child on a small ranch in Pierce
county. which h was buying under
contract. and hat the Washington
state health authorities have separat-
ed him from his family and isolated
him In his home. three miles outside
the city.
No more outrageous instance Of
huncling has been recorded than the
attitudes of tn" various health officials
toward this man . Originally a North
Carolina paper mill worker. he serv-
ed IN the army in the Philippines. In
1905 IN" Washington, u. c., health
authorities declared him suffering
from lcprosy and isolated him. Later
a New York specialist in skin dis
cases took him IL New York for oh
~serVation and after an exhaustive in
N~estiGation declared that he had no
trace of icprosy. Early himself said
tho eruption was similar TO tina of
many other mon in thc North Caro-
lima paper mills. aud WAS nothing
more than ash tree poison. He was
then allowed tho live in BROOKLYN I'M
Ill a European l.per expert. to whom
a piece If his skin had been sent. re-
ported that he had discovered the
bacalius Of leprosy in il. When the
ncishh"rs heard of this the T.arlys had
10 NOW. this time 10 Connecticut. and
later lack To the national capital.
he was again isolated until he
shipped back TO New York in .
freight car and once more examined
and pv nounCcd untaintcd by leprosv.
W. thus have the remarkable fact
Of 4 man pronounced to be a lepcr
travelling thn breadth Of the country
uithou' restraint ~ prccaution. Yet
Isolated in va communities as a
pia.u" spot. i, must seem that if he
is Il I"p"r h" should not have been
permitted 10 roam at will over tho
country. or If h.. is Mo that he should
not be harassed hE otficious authori-
tics. The ~incongruity is heightened
by III" fact that the governments pen
Sion Of SO a month granted to him
when supposed TO be a leper, was re-
duced 20 $50. Surely there ought to
be some authority that would take the
responsibility of seeing that the un-
~fortunat" ma is protected. if he is
NOT a ieper. or that the public is
protected if ta is.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
Curious CONVERSATIONS
'Taken from Exchanges.

'iHh'll llh1u Exchanges.
-oNerShoeS are now being made of
a mixture of rubber and asbestos.
An Italian university professor
claims 10 have found radium in or
binary den.
Milking machines have made dairy
ing extremely profitable in New Zea-
land.
a total of 150,:3o persons were
tried in the criminal courts OF Scot
land in 1910.
In Ireland the mortality from
tuberculosis has steadily declined
since the year 1905.
Esperanto has been officially rec.
ognized as a language by the United
States patent office.
Judges and lawyers show a larger
proportion of bald heads than any
other profession.
There are -four species of man
like apes-,he sibbon. the orang, the
gorilla and the chimpanzee.
Playing cards when first %introduc-
ed into England We're looked upon
purely as a holiday pastime.
The big bell at Moscow weighs
20. tons, and next in size comes at
Burmese bell weighing III tons.
-For arguing that our world is on
~ one OF many. G%iordano Bruno was
burned To death in Rome in 1900.
According TO the Czarina. Rus
sia's present troublous times are due
entirely to the education Of women
Through telephone service be-
tween New York and Los Angeles will
probably be established by next No
vember.
An ingenious German baker uti-
Lies a windmill 70 mix and knead his
bread as we'll as grind his grain into
-four.
The whales caught last year in
the North Pacific We're the latest ever
known. The blubbcr lay fifteen inch
IS deep.
~-Crumblins masonry in two Ham
burg bridges has been remedied by
boring holes into the structures and
pumping cement into them at high
pressure.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
WAS SAVED BY A BUTTON
REMARKABLE ESCAPE OF MAN WHO HUNG SUSPENDED IN 4
FIVE HUNDRED FOOT SHAFT.

the obstruction. Then the miner at
the bottom placed a li-hted candle
in the bucket, which now began to
rise towards Lee SO slowly that it
seemed an eternity in ascending n
foot. The wire cable was beyond Lees
reach. but when the bale of the buck
ct was opposite his foot he touched it.
Instantly the bucket stopped. Lee
pushed 1t with his foot. and as it came
close he caught the rope with his
hands II placed both feet on the rim
of h bucket. Then it moved up
ward half an inch and stopped. This
continued until Lee was free from Tho
board. BY that time Lee was a pref
ty nervous man. lie slid into the
bucket and the swaying Of the rope
told the engineer that Lee either had
fallen to the bottom of the shaft or
was safe. When Lee reached the
surface he was too weak to walk. The
engineer was in a cold perspiration
and had to quit work. for the day.
1T was the closest shave 7 have
ever heard Of" said a Denver man
who is in New York. II have known
or heard of a number of cases where
men have been lifted off buckets in
just that way but Lee is the only
man l ever knew to escape
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

She used TO climb On the table at
supper time every night. standing
on the white cloth just in front of me
waved her front pair of legs in the
air. 1t was AN uncanny proceeding
NJ suggestive OF some strange secret
her. the spider. and me. the man.
One night she came to the table
strangely altered. 1t was as if in
t~wenty-four hours her body had in
creased in bulk threefold. Only her
legs were the samc-long and wavy.
! should have thought her a different
spider had she not stopped to make
secret passes in the air at me as
usual. Then the truth was revealed.
something she carried beneath her,
and close inspection showed a sort OF
little yellowish- white sack
of silk attached to her spinnercttes.
Beautifully woven it was, too, as fine
as the finest silk fabric. and as COM
pact, She had become a mother. and
inside the cocoon were her eggs.
In spite of this weight. however,
she ran her nightly race against time
round the lamp and stayed late to
drink. One hour she was drinking
altogether, in two shifts. one of forty
and n of twenty minutes. Then she
started for home.
Now. spiders hibernate during win
ter. as bears do, and it necessary. in
order to hibernate, to get fat first. This
spider was engaged in getting fat
just as. l suppose. all other spiders
in the scullery were. But the process
was amazing.
She had outside her denim which,
by the way. she deposited her cocoon
when at homc-a web. 1t did not
look Very much of a web-just a limp.
loose. triangular affair. quite small and
very dirty-hut there were the car
casses of twenty-sevcn flies on the
copper beneath it. all the same. I
used to wonder how she did it with
that poor web.
Next morning. by a stroke of good
luck. she captured a bluebottlc. one
of the last of the season, ! think. and
was just engaged in winding the buzz
ing thing up in the web when the
servant came and swept the whole
thing away
But the next morning she had con-
structed another web, and within an
hour had caught another bluebottle.
The buZzing. however, again attracted
the second time the web was swept
/ saw the spider come out
and peer at h site of the vanished
web. and saw her start running about
round and round in an odd, stricken
kind Of way.
Next morning there war no web up
there outside her den. though she wal
there. Calamity nae indeed descend
ed upon her. She had NJ web left in
her to spin. Spiders. 1t seems, can
only produce web at a certain rate,
and. having once used up their store,
must walt some time for more to COL
fect within them. But our spider could
wait. 1t was, as I explained, i'm
perative for her to get fat quickly II
she would live through the winter,
and how could she do that-how could
she live at all. let alone wait for win.
ter. II she had no mar to catch game
in? She was not m of those spiders
who could stalk their prey, you see.
Her only method was the web snare,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
New York Press.)

One Of the narrowest escapes from
death recorded in the western mines
fell to Harry Lee. commissioner of
mines of Colorado. Before going
down in a shaft one day Lee button
ed the top button of his canvas coat.
The walls of the shaft were covered
With lining boards, which were nailed
to the timbers. One of them was
loose at the top. and projected. When
Lee went downward in his bucket this
board caught beneath the skirt of his
coat. passed up the back and held
him suspended, while the cmpty buck
ct continued to drop. Lee was so
choked by the pressure against his
throat. due to the buttoned O that
he could not cry out loud enough to
be heard. However. ne could see.
He watched the bucket go toward
the bottom. saw a mar come toward
it. heard him pound on the air pipe.
but could mo- hear the subsequent
conversation. Then he heard the en-
gineer, $50 feet above. call to him.
but he could not answer. Then Lee
saw the man at the bottom of the
shaft. 300 feet below. AXE a candle
and move it slowly back and forth
until the engineer above could locate
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

Marshall present a vivid picture Of the
Australian gold fields. "Honking for
Swccny" is the title of a laughable
story by Charles r. Barnes, telling
how Dan Swccny invested in a quick
action buggy and set out to break a
John L. O'Hara has an amusing story
of two piratical sea captains who
break into a lottery. Poems are con-
tributed by Walt Mason, Berton Bra
ley, and Robert Y. Carr. The cover is
from a striking painting by II. T.
Dunn.
The March Scribncr's.
Sir Henry Norman. NJ. p. writing Of
an automobile journey in Africa in
Scribncr's magazine for March says
that the comparatively small part OF
the Garden of Allah which exists out
side Of Mr.. Hichcns's luxuriant i'm
the hotel. II was originally an old
garden of the Biskra oasis and was
walled around and elaborated at great
cost by it's eccentric owner, Count
Landon.
Nansen. the Arctic explorer, has
written or the March Scribner a pa
per in which he gives a most encour-
aging ccoun of the chances of Scott
and Amundsen to reach the South
roe now III idct, the announcement
of it is duo in the very early spring.
He describes the excellent equipment
of each of them.
Robert Grant has been for many
years Il judge of probate in Massachu-
settS; he therefore writes with unusu-
al knowledge on the subject of wills
and how they are broken in the
March Scribner. His series, The
Convictions of a Grandfather" has re-
vived great interest in Fred and
Josephine.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

they had no owners at all. those webs,
but she knew better. Then at last.
at the sixth web. something happened,
and happened so quickly that the eye
could scarcely follow it.
Without the slightest warning the
web shot down toward her about half
an inch. like a loosed spring. That
was because the spider who owned it
had let go the master line of the
web from the shelter of her den. 1t
would have caught my spider if she
had not leaped aside n cleared it
by a fraction of an inch, with mir
aculous agility. ON the heels of the
spring" web came its owner. She
looked like a little black streak, so
quickly did She move. suppose she
trusted to the line catching her enemy
at the first attempt. Be that as it
may. though. he had made his mis-
take, and saw it. Before he could
stop himself my spider was upon him
l a flash and grappled.
Instead of each combatant having
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

the army to the Popular. tells how
the fear of the dark ohscssed Il sentry
Walking post in a lonely spot in the
Philippines. Arthur Stringer has "a
capital yarn called The Calamity
Chaser" Introducing q man who suf-
fcrs from the extraordinary complaint
of too much success. In Zone Days
Work." Peter Is. Kyne relates the
scoop" of foxy young Wicks, the re-
porter. Charles L. Van Loan, the
sporting expert, spins an entertaining
yarn of a boxer whose legs looked like
stills. An airship race in Alaska is
described by Frederick Palmer. Rob-
ert Dunn has a thoughtful study of
two widely contrasted mon who went
into the North-the practical mar and
the dreamer. F.. Phillips Oppenheim
continues mis- captivating serial. The
Tempting of Tavernake." In Ores
wick's Find" ]. II. Greene and A.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16
Review of Current
MAGAZINES
The Popular.

The fortnightly Popular magazine
has won acclaim for its strong western
stories. The first March issue con.
tains several stirring yarns Of the
west. notably Frederick r. Bechdolt's
novel, The Pot of Cold" which mar
rates the adventures Of a couple of
gold hunters in Death Valley. Califor-
mia. B. NJ. Bowers serial. Good In
dian.' a tale of the range. has for hero
u man with Indian blood in his veins.
Donald Francis McGreW. who has
been contributing a series of stories of
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

What has become Of the old FASH
toned man whose life was SO simple
he could afford to take a a every
afternoon?
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

There is some prospect that the
whale will become extinct, but the
use of the harpoon is going to con-
tinue fashionable.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

Even if a man gets anything
but a sample copy, it is hard for him
to wait until the mail has been dis
tributed,
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

1t should be remembered that the
white goods sale advertisements are
also quite Il strain on the modest ex-
change editor.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

AS there is nothing ornamental
about the herring, we have some Curl
osity to know the idea in drying them
and shipping them inland.
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= .
THOUGHTS OF OTHERS

. ssss
Aviation prizes are pretty large;
they have to be.
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AM
Polly of the circus

Miss Ida st. Leon in Frederic
Thompson,s polly Of the Circus
which Will b." the attraction at the
Metropolitan tomorrow night. is "A
wonderful play with a wonderful rec
ord. y circus story, wherein strong
~ contrasting characters. meet, mingle
and make a ale of absorbing human
interest. The play ran for one solid
Year al the Liberty thcatcr in New
York city. and will be presented here
with all its vast and elaborate scenic
equipment and the wonderful circus
features that won it fame and success
i'll its original production.
Charming. fascinating. petite Polly.
The circus ridin' girl" is born of gen.
crations of circus folk and when her
mother. the greatest rider of her day,
dies a Victom of her own ambition,
Polly is left alone. But she is not
without friends, for Big jim" the
boss canvasman. with a great big
heart as generous as tho breadth Of
his shoulders. and Uncle Toby's'
pathetic devotion to their ward is one
of the most charming touches of the
story the atmosphere of sawdust and
tinsel. Her mothers spirit lives in
her and she becomes her worthy sue
cessor as Il star OF the sawdust ring.
The rockies abandon OF her riding
brings her grief. She falls from the
~ vi IVl hoI &C. III Is carried un.
conscious to the parsonage nearby and
there is set the combination of Mandy,
the motherlv old colorcd housekeep-
err: the manly, susceptible young pap
son, John Douglass: the fascinating
little convalescent: the we'll meaning
but narrow csurch folks, and Polly's
parents who want her back in the
circus, all pulling wires that makes
Polly of the Circus an appealing
story from beginning to end.
In reviewing Polly Of the Circus'
the New York Herald SAYS: 1T Is a
gripping story of the sawdust ring
that brings us fond recollections."
The World says: 1T has originality:
every boy and girl up to seventy
years old should see it,"
The Balkan Princess.
Louise Cunning (thc Princess
S%tcphanie of BaIaria) accompanied by
her royal escort. d. retinue Of seventy
five. which includes the famous chorus
Of forty B%alkanesc beauties, is max.
ing a tour of America.
After rcignIng supreme in London
for one year and at the Herald Square
and Casino theaters In New York for
six months. The Balkan Princess" ia
meeting with royal O%vations in the
principal cities Of the United States. |
She will hold her first reception in
this city on Saturday. February "a.
All OF h comedians. condolences
song birds. who have been iden-
tilted with her merry reign in the
Metropolis will Re in attendance in
regal raiment on this gala f~estivai
night at the Metropolitan.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-16

Cowboys were creatures of the
prairie country, and there is too much
tall timber on the films which intro
due them to the picture shows,
when Monday wasn't a suitable day
for wash day. Reconstruction rank
ing high in my list of pleasant pas
times."-Rufe Hoskins.
Speaking of our well known halls
of justice, as lawyers do at times, be-
ing humorous cusscs, the witness for
the defense frequently doesn't get it;
SPORTS
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WHICH Is

FRIDAY. FEB Is, 1919.
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4 subscriber 10 the Times sends 'he
following Communications and asks
thar SOM ~o7sid"ra;i"l 10 given 1t in
yt.s column;