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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 |
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“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.
Unconcerned. i
An incident {llustrating the placidity, |
if so it ma; be called, of the Duke of
Wellington has reference to a naval |
officer, a near connection of the duke. |
The ship which this officer command. |
ed was lost, and he himself was drown: |
ed. When the news was communicated
to the duke, he merely exclaimed,
“That's the second ship he has lost!”
Hard to Please.
“Your audiences seemed shocked by
the show.”
“At first,” answered the manager,
“but we expurgated it.”
“And then?”
“Then they seemed disappointed.”-
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for a runaway balloon with two pas- |
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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
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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. Whis-
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it royally on others. If his pgckets
were empty, he managed to refill them
in a way that still amazes M. Oulevey,
who, In proof of it, told us of the night
when, after the cafe where they had
squandered their last sous on kirsch
had closed, he and Lambert and Whis-
tler adjourned to the Halles for sup-
per, ordered the best and ate it. Then
he and Lambert stayed in the restau-
rant as hostages while Whistler, at
dawn, went off to find money to pay.
He was back when they awoke with
300 or 400 francs in his pocket, He
had been to see an American friend,
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