Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — FOR THE LITTLE ONES. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR THE LITTLE ONES.

How the Spider Btretches a Cable Acrotr a Wide Open Space. Last summer a large spider had its web in the top of a decaying peach tree with so few leaves that it was in plain view. I caught sight of her first while watching some birds with my glass. She seemed to be climbing from the top of the tree on nothing to a telephone wire some fifteen feet away and somewhat higher than her web. When she reached the wire, she went around it and then back. In studying the situation I found that the web was so located that it required a cable to hold it up, and the spider had in 6ome way got one over the wire so far away. This cable was, of course, a slender silken thread which evidently she had thrown out, and on account of its lightness it had floated to the right place and became attached there by its glutinous properties. It seems remarkable that it should have adhered to the wire firmly enough to allow so large an insect to climb over it, which she did every day. A Melancholy Event

Mr. Stick Candy and hia aiatrr Mandy Decided to (five a aotree. Bo they aat down to write, their friends to inrit*. To Chocolate afreet, number three.

But when the guesta came (Meeere. Uumdrop by name, Carrie Melt and her friend, Bellle Luna) They found that the hoet had been chewed up almost. While the hoateee had melted and run. —Peake in Brooklyn Eagle.