The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-06-02


water began to slowly syphon out |
through the cloth wicks, thus keeping |
the refrigerator wet. The evaporation |
kept the contents cool and we were |
surprised to find the splendid condition
of the food stuff It's all right except
in a dust storm. Now, while | am tell |
ing about my inner life. let me tell
about how Mrs. Hired Man does her
carpets, on bed room floors, when they
begin to wear out. She makes some
-four paste, and puts patch under the
frazzled section and sticks it down. 1t
does mighty we'll, too. You can stick
down the ragged strips to the piece
| you put it under, and it really fools
most anybody, the way that old carpet
| wears.
The Hired Man witnessed mortal
combat the other day that was posi-
lively tremendous and unsurpassed by
any ordinary fight. An ant had caught
spider that was little too much for
him and the battle royal was immedi-
ately on The spider had the ant and
the ant had the spider. | could not
hear their cries for they must have
been very small affairs. God says he
hears our cries, although they must
certainly be less in proportion. The
ant got one arm over the spiders neck
and appeared to- be trying to shut OFT
his wind, but the spider withstood the
attack or else got along without his
wind, for he put one front leg across
the ants back and caused a sensation
of immense magnitude, for the victim
let loose his death-grip on the spiders
throat. The ant took his hold with
his pincers and twisted with all his
might and for moment it looked like
the spiders vertebrae mechanism was
to be yanked out of gear, still no cries
, fell upon my ears. Other ants that
: passed close by only halted in their
, mad rush for businesss and appeared
: to understand that their brother would
win the battle, which he did little
} later. The spider went into his own
7 eyes occasionally and seemed to be ex-
E tracing some sort of stuff that he was
| putting on the ants pincers. 1t might
e have been tears of pain he was wiping
f out for | could not tell. Some times
y it looked like the spider was reaching
!. in his pocket for knife, but the ant
: checkmated this operation by a good
g swift kick with hind leg. Once in
t while the ant would lift his antago.
t mist off his feet and thrash him up in
o the air and fall on him in a new way
e when he struck the ground. The spi
It der got in some killing punches ant
!. labs but was outclassed. The wire
|, out of which the ant and his legs were
n made was OF little better temper thar
c those from which the hy-catcher wa
It manufactured. Little By little the con
a querer did his job. The legs of tn.
: spider one by one were folded bacl
d and fell out of the gigantic struggle
1t His head dropped forward the an
r gave one last thrust of his dagger ant
j. his prize was ready to be carried ava,
l. home. OF course it was not fgh
re between elephants, not the tussle o
If the prehistoric ichthyosaurus no
% mastodon nor mastodonsaurus, but
was a conflict between two units o
lie and one put the other out of com
,f mission and took it for its food AN
,p food 70 IT'S Young.
a Little six-year-old Margaret Ham
e. mer, Ruths sister, witnessed quite a
he unusual scene the other day magpi
Id and a mother CO: on-tail had hgf
ey over a tiny bit of baby bunnie. TIL
k. mamma rabbit saw the magpie sei2
H. her babe and start 10 fly away with
a The little fairy girl rushed upon tn
OF battle ground and did all She could
IN help mamma rabbit rescue her cryin
OF baby. The load was a little too heav
to for The maybe and the precious thin
I'd Twas dropped TO the ground but II
rk mother rabbit had no quick plan
nd carrying il away. and SO the magp
nd grabbed it once more and started II
We her nest. This was done two or thr,
is, times, until at last Margaret laid h
lite gentle hand over the bruised al
es frightened speck of rabbit life and 10
ingly lifted il to her bosom and maj
Ike haste to the house to show her pri2
The little bunnie was nearly all hea
Its heart pounded like an irrigati'
Die pump-of course | mean a nigh
,as small irrigation pump, but 1t pound
,rn all the same 1t did not know VIII
nd the fairy meant by carrying it ava
It's. but then just anything was better tn
OF the pinching and biting beak of tn
on maybe. The mother rabbit remel
nal bers that PEOPLE and dogs and coyot
.w. are all enemies to its kind, and so h
tch happiness it disturbed even while h
yn. child is in the hands of one of t
ON sweetest little girls in all Idaho a
ore one who would not harm hair of
the for four cones of ice cream. Soon
the little prisoner gets big it is goi
. to eat down three rows of Mrs. Ha
IT mers garden peas, so glad it is of