Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 45, Number 134, 15 April 1920 — Page 17

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1920.

PAGE SEVENTEEN

SPIDERS WHO SPIN hid m iccco

innt.Hu run ulhooloj WORK WITHOUT PAY

Favors Big Bonus

ishe was a handsome lady; that he had 'six daughters and three Bons; that he

belonged to the Baptist church and

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I was not a member of the Democratic

party.

(New York Sun and Herald) Over In Hoboken, N. J., In a large surveying Instrument factory, there la a colony of 200 workmen who never receive wages, yet who are perfectly contented. They toll from early in the morning until late at night, and their only recompense Is a housefly

or two apiece during day. They are

spiders large, black, energetic spiders and they comprise probably the

most indispensable part of the entire working force. It is their duty to

spin the thread that is used for cross

hairs in surveying instruments. Dur

ing the two months of the year when

they work they produce thousands of

yards of the almost invisible but in valuable fibre.

This spider web is the only material that can be used successfully for cross hairs in surveyors' telescopes. Human hair has been tried, but when

magnified by the powerful lenses It has the general appearance of a mammoth dirty glass pillar, for human

hair is transparent, and it is alto

gether too large for this delicate pur

pose. Platinum wire, finely drawn

is the best substitute for spider web, but it is too brittle. Spider web isj not only small and tough, it is very! elastic I The epider colony works during August and September. A. strike among them may sound amusing to the reader, but it is really a serious matter. For the purpose of urging the little workmen to their tasks four girls, trained to expertness in their unusual duties, are employed; it is their task to co;.oc the spiders to work . whenever they enow signs of reluctCoaxing the spiders really means irritating them. The girl places one on her hand and pats or taps it until it jumps toward the ground, leaving one end of it:i thread behind. Before the spider can reach the ground the girl quickly attaches the thread to a wire whirling frame, which she revolves in her hands. As the spider struggles to reach the ground she continues to wind, and in that wav sometimes gets several hundred feet of thread from a single spider. The factory maintains a large cage

for the Bpiders and feeds them on a

PROMINENT among the supporters of the Drooosal for a large sol

diers' bonus is Representative Joseph W. Fordney- of Sa'ginaw, Mich., chair

man of the house ways ana means committee. Some of Mr. Fordney's

colleagues oppose a soldiers bonus at

J W. FOQDNE"

this time, arguing that it would greatly embarrass the government In the midst of its present financial difficulties to be compelled to find an additional $2,000,000,000 for the returned soldiers. Mr. Fordney favors voting the money now and looking for it afterward.

roneressman Fordney was born In

tsiacKiora county, inuiaua, - 1S53. He received a common school

education, living with his parents on a farm until he was 16 years of age.

He went to Saginaw, Mich., in June, 1869. Upon his arrlvel In Saginaw he took up one business and stuck to it, and he still takes an interest in It. He heenn workinc at 16 years of age in

thfi lumber woods of Michigan, log-

?in? and estimating nine timber. He

thus acquired a thorough knowledge of

the pine land and lumber mausiry And he put this knowledge to good fi nanelal use.

While it is not generally known, for his annearance and mode of living

would give no such impression, Mr.

Pordnev is reputed to be several times

a millionaire. And he made most of it

nut. of the lumber business. In later

years he acquired an Interest in some Pacific coastwise ships which have

netted him a good return. At the love

feast which the house of representa

tives held a year ago Mr. Fordney told his colleagues that he was married in his twentieth year; that his wife was

nne vear younger than he was: that

Poe Had Prophet's Eye

' For Troubles of 1920 (The Sun and New York Herald) Along about 1840, as nearly as we

can determine from an undated collection of his writings, Edgar A. Poe

wrote: "The modern reformists, Phil

osophy, which annihilates the Individ

HAD TERRIBLE COUGH

IN BED 3 YEARS

In 3 weeks, she was out on the

street again, feeling fine.

cuvuitiM. uuuuy "ui.ub me la.i In lgl5 j ha(, ,& ?r,ppe followed by

ana eaiiy winter tne spiaers usuauy pneumonia, which left me with a so

die, and so tn entirely new colony i vere cousrh. I cousind constantly

must rnf niitnrl onli cnrln tr Vnr! from monilnK till nlirht, and then

Bf.Uv.fmo. (ho .nirW tho mmiwuri wake up In the night and cough

.. K" J Htid choke. I lost flesh and my appe-

cBUUoya a numuer oi uoys, to wiioni i tie was V(,ry poor. I doctored with

u gives a course or instruction so tney will know the right variety of spiders to select.

specialist for over a year, and had sev

eral other doctors, but got worse In

stead of better. Last winter I was

bed-ridden, had chllla and fever and KOt up so weak I could not sit up in

bed 5 minutes without fainting.

"In February, 1919, started on Milks Emulsion. I was then in bed, but in 8 weeks, I was able to be upand on the streets. Just think of it! For 3 years I have been a physical wreck, in bed most of the time, and Milks Emulsion

No matter what tooth powder, paste had brought me out In wonderful

snape. iviy rnenas an leu me now well I'm looking, for they didn't expect me to be living today." Miss M. lloussell, 1003 Opelousa-st., Algiers, Ga.

In thousands of just such cases Milks

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they return home full of satisfaction and narrative'." There may be some who will conclude that Poe, no less than Butler, was favored with a profetic eye, politically speaking. A VEGETABLE POACHER OF FISHES One of the most curious enemies of fresh-water fish in many parts of the world is a small floating water-weed.

the bladder-wort. Along its branch-

lets are a number of small green resides or bladders, which, being fur

'nished with minute laws. Bleze UDon

tiny fish, which are assimilated into

ual by way of aiding the masses; and ,t8 substance. This is a subtle poachthe late reformist. Legislation. itUtAi,!

reasonable because many acquatio with three or four, thousand symbols

Plants actually have such air recept

acles for that very purpose. The tiny bladders attached to the leaves and leaf stalks are each furnished with a door, the whole acting on the feel-trap principle, entrance being easy, but exit impossible. Any water creature that ventures In to look around out of mere curiosity never by any chance emerges alive.

is all that the average native has, and

it is said to be possible to get along with a vocabulary of 1,000.

prohibits pleasure, with the view of advancing happiness, seem to be chips of that old block of a French teutial

law which, to prevent young partridges from being disturbed, imposed

penalties upon hoeing and wepding."

A number of depressed gentlemen

of this day, querulously complaining of these times, will be disposed io aMc

what "reformists" and legislation bothered Poe in his time, or "How did he get that way?"

And, having mentioned Poe, it is

interesting to recall that about three-

quarters of a century ago he was so

distressed about a not unfamiliar subject of this date, that he wrote about

it as follows:

"Samuel Butler, of Hudibrastlc

memory, must have had a prophetic

eye to the American congress when he defined a rabble as 'A congregation or assembly of the states-general every one being of a several judgment concerning whatever business being under consideration. They meet only to quarrel,' he adds, "and

been

wort is a fairly common aquatic plant, and no very special interest attached to it ere its fish-eating propensities were discovered. Its tiny vesicles were known to contain air, and the only use of these, so far as was known, was to keep the plant afloat a belief, he it remarked, all the more

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