st Rl 5 I gi Bellefonte, Pa., January 29, 1909. Cupid on The Air Line. By LITTELL M’CLUNG. Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Literary Press. “Look, Grant!” exclaimed the girl, touching the arm of her companion as they passed the exhibit of vegetables on the fair grounds. “There's the cap- tive balloon they've all been talking so much about. Bessie and Sam went up fn it yesterday, and they thought it gimply dandy.” The young man glanced ahead to where a crowd surrounded some taut guys that stretched up to a big balloon floating gracefully in the air 300 feet over their heads. A man stepped upon a platform and began to address his auditors In sten- torian yet persuasive tones, “All right, Lila, we'll see it through, too.” declared Grant Allen, and they hurried up close to the speaker. “This way, ladles and gentlemen!” he cried. “Who'll be the next to goup in the big gas bag? chance to see the world as a bird sees it! This balloon is as safe as a trolley car and safer. Experts say so. “It is fastened securely to the earth, ladies and gentlemen, and stays up ten minutes with each ascension, giving you plenty of time to enjoy the mag- nificent scenery. Come! Who'll be the next? The balloon holds only two ata time. Tickets are 50 cents apiece, two for a"— “I'll take two tickets for the next trip.” said Grant, pushing forward with the necessary dollar in his hand. The man handed him the coupons to fame and stepped down from the plat- form to engineer the next ascension, By turning a sort of handle and wheel device that resembled a wind- lass the balloon was towed back to earth. A young man and a girl step- ped out of the “basket” smiling tri- umphantly, and Lila and Grant step- ped in, The wheel to which the guide rope was attached began to turn again, and slowly the balloon rose above the | fair grounds. When the rope gave out the basket was high enough for its oc- cupants to see the level country for miles around. «Oh, isn't it just perfectly grand!” cooed the girl, clapping her hands and peering down at the upturned faces. “Yes, it really is,” he answered. “You feel apart from the world and above everything in more senses than one. No wonder aeronautics are almost epl- demic.” The great bag above them swung off in a semicfrele and then stood motion- less, the basket swinging gently to and fro. Suddenly Lila glimpsed a thick cloud of dust whirling spiral fashion across the fair grounds. “What is all that dust, Grant?" she asked innocently. “Why, it's a whirlwind,” he ex- claimed, “and u big one at that, and, what's more, it's coming directly to- ward us. If it strikes us we'll get a lively little swing around in the air. I hope it does!” But the girl seemed apprehensive and clung to his arm. Evidently his wish was shout to be realized, for the whirlwind, gathering momentum ev- ery second, was bearing straight down on the guide ropes of the balloon, car- rying with it a dozen or more hats it had gathered from the crowds. In another second it hit the balloon, whirling it around like a bubble in a hundred foot circle. Lila gave a little shriek of fear, but Grant laughed. “Don’t be nervous,” he said. “We're getting a fine ride.” Then his face whitened as the sound of snapping ropes struck his ears. He glanced below to see uprooted pegs and stakes flying into the air. An- other crack followed, and the balloon tore loose the last line that bound it to earth, For a second it paused; then, like a rocket, it shot cloudward several hun- dred feet and, encountering “upper currents,” floated off across the fair grounds. Over the girl's face flashed an ex- pression of terror, but by a superhu- man effort Grant kept calm. Below they coald hear the wild shouts of the people who were running in the direc- tion the balloon had taken. “Keep your nerve, Lila,” urged Grant quietly. “There is really no dan- ger. Don't you see the gas can't pos- =ibly get out of the bag. and we'll be- gin to go down when the wind slack- ens a little” Put the wind continued strong, and the balloon declined to descend an inch. Neither did it rise. It simply floated along rapidly, but steadily, about six or seven hindred feet above the ground. la five minutes the fair inclosure was fading in the distance, and in another five minutes go was the town. “Don't you see, Lila,” said Grant, with assurance, “we are perfectly safe? We've joined the first class aeronauts, and we're going on a tour of the world. Just think how famous we'll be if we discover the north pole.” This forced levity dispelled Lila's terrified look, and gradually the color «game back into her face. “I'm glad of one thing,” she said as her courage returned. “Papa, mamma and all the folks are up in the coun- try today. Maybe they won't hear of our aerial disappearance until we land somewhere and start buck. They'd be frightened to death if they did.” Here's a glorious | ] “Don’t worry, Lila,” he answered, selling now that there really was very little danger, afier all. “Just look out over the country and let's enjoy the trip. Maybe we won't have another one like this soon.” Their airship was sailing beautifully now, flying over orchards and farm lands and throwing into a state of in- tense excitement hundreds of peaceful country folk. “It is simply heavenly,” the girl sud- denly exclaimed. “I'm not a bit afraid now, Grant, and I don’t care much how hard we sail. I've always longed for some exciting adventure, and sure- ly this is it, and you are with me. I'm so glad it's you!” “Why are you glad it's me?’ he de- ! manded, seizing her hand and ignoring the cries of the farm hands in the val- ley below. “Oh, 1 don't know exactiy, just be- cause—isn't that reason enough?’ she questioned, her eyes a-twinkle. “Guess it is, dear girl,” he replied, and he might have, but at that second the careless balloon careened sharply to starboard, reminding him that he must keep the ship “trimmed” if he ever expected to lnnd safely. They were now passing over a good ¢lzed town. and hundreds of people were out in the streets gazing sky- ward. Of a sudden the wind died away, and the balloon sank within 200 feet of the housetops. Then, with- out an instant’'s warning, there was a violent tug at the basket, and its flight ended with startling abruptness, Grant felt his heart bob up in his throat, but he peered over the side; then he drew breath again. An iron peg dangling from the end of one of the ropes had caught under the edge of a slate roof. “Well, Lila, we're certainly anchored at last!” he announced. “Guess they'll be hauling us down pretty quick, for! they're running into the house.” His surmise was correct, for in a moment several men climbed out on to the roof through the skylight and seiz- ed the rope. Then hand over hand they began pulling down the balloon, while the street throngs shouted en- thusinstically, cross were slain relentlessly and with in another moment Lila and Grant | ciambered out of the basket, greeted by a dozen men, barded them with questions. They did not know which way to turn until a tall, mild eved man in clerical garb made his way through the throng. “It's my house tlt caught you" he laughed. “We received a message asking us to be on the lookout to be who bom- | he said, a paluter. “And. do yon know, he had the bad manners to abuse the situation: he insisted on my looking at his pictures” “The Life of James Mac¥elll Whietler.” by E. R. and J. Pennell, The Ascassins. The Assassins were a religions and military order who came into exist ence during the «leventh century in Persia and who devoted themselves to the destruction after stealthy approach of all who opposed the Moslem faith in any way. The crusaders inet with a branch of these desperate zealots in Syria, and many of the warriors of the mysterious suddenness in consequence. The Tartars exterminated the Persian Assassins in 1256, and fourteen years later the Syrian band of murderers was wiped out by an Egyptian ruler. But the name they bore remains as a designation of dread. Herbert Spencer's Regret. Mr. Tollemache in his reminiscences tells this story about Herbert Spencer: “Toward the close of his life Spencer frequented a boarding house, and. chancing to meet a lady who had often dined within earshot of him, I asked her if she could remember any wise sayings of his. After pondering for some time she answered: ‘1 can re .member one of his remarks. He said that “making good melted butter is a lost art in England.” ’"” The Eccentrics. “I understand the Neweds are hav- ing trouble,” remarked the spinster boarder. “ome people take her part. haired bachelor at the pedal extremity of the mahogany, “there are a few ec- centric people who mind their own business.” Chicago News. 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IF YOU WISH TO BECOME. i A Chemist, £ Teacher, An Engineer, A Lawyer, : An Electrician, A Physician, A Scientific Farmer, in short, if you wish to secure a training that wiil ' THE PENNSYLVANIA teiephione | for a runaway balloon with two pas- | sengers which was drifting in our di- rection, and we are more than glad to have been able to rescue voth you and | the balloon.” Rapid fire thanks and Introductions followed, with handshaking all around, and after the balloon was made fast to a chimney and a man set to guard it the minister led the way to the skylight. In a few minutes the young aeronauts | The courses in Chemist: found themselves In a spacious parlor | hemmed In by an animated, question- ing group. ~~ “Lila,” whispered Grant at the first opportunity. The girl inclined her head. “Lila, don't you think, dearie, it Is gort of providential that—that we land- ed at a minister's house? Don't you hope so, at any rate?” For a moment she was silent, the color deepening in her cheek. “Don’t you?" he repeated eagerly. “No—that is, yes, Yes, 1 do, Grant, dear,” she whispered back, giving his arm a little corroborating squeeze. Five minutes later Grant Allen was hurrying up the street. On the corner he met a policeman. “Which way to the office of the marriage license clerk?" he asked breathlessly. Weeping Marble. The activity of surrounding busi- nesses may have jeopardized more than one portion of the sacred edifice of St. Bartholomew the Great, but it was not always safe even at the hands of its own congregation. In the sev- enteenth century the parishioners, in their combined wisdom, thought the cloisters would look better If they were whitewashed and promptly pro- ceeded to carry out their original idea. They then found, however, that two marble statues, which may still be | Seen, did not show up well enough aguinst the white background, so in order to remedy this defect they had the images tarred! The same people wanted to get rid of the fourteenth century baptismal font in the church on the ground that it was too old for use. The most curious monument is that in “weeping marble” to Edward Cooke, scholar and physician, with the inscription: Unsluice, ye briny floods. What! Can ye keep Your eyes from teares and see the marble weep? Burst out for shame, or if ye find no vent For teares vet stay and see the stones re- lent, For a long time the marble “wept” without restraint, but since the church has been reroofed and heated its pe- culiarity of “relenting” through damp has ceased to exhibit itseif.—London Globe. Whistler and a Supper. Though frequently hard up. 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