PRESENCE OP MINI). flOs AN AERONAUT 8AVED HIMSELF IN THE OPEN AIR. A Long Piece of Rope and Kent Cnlcn lntlnn rreservnl the Llfo of rrnfmnor III WindTint For This the Ri-orter Conlrtn't Tell Thin Intrreatlns; Vnrn. Wind wns his nAmc Hiram Wind, bnt ho told Tlio Ecu reporter that they called him Hi for ihort "For a long time," snid ho, with n half knavish srallo, "I didn't like the abbreviation, hnt when I vrns U8 nitd took to ballooning a a basincr it kind , of sortor deemed a if Providen.'o memit thnt I should have had that iiame and no other. Professor Hi Wind," ho add ed with pride, "in a nnme that is bonud to Hoar through the loftiest realms of pane. " "Did yon never have nn accident?" Inquired the reporter. "Several, bnt they have never been the fault of the Wind." The professor began to show signs of noenmbing to the pnmp. "Of course," he admitted hesitat ingly, "a man can't walk the earth ev ery day without bumping up agninst something out of the ordinary occasion ally, and the air is no except Ion. I've had experiences that yon might call narrow escapes that is yon might, and then again yon mightn't It would de pend on how yon looked at things. Some call 'em narrow and somo don't I don't mysolf." It was plain that the professor under stood that a good thing was a good thing when he saw it "Suppose yon narrate one for my sako, " suggested the reporter, "and let me add my testimony to that of your other admirers." "Thanks. I don't care if I do," said the professor, and there was that in the tone which recalled the reporter to man's highest duty to his fellow man. After which, sitting at a amall table, the professor continued : "I was out in Indiana about four years ago. Indiana is a great state in the season, and I had made an ascent for the benefit of a Bun day school picnic to kind of offset going np on the Sunday before for a lager beer sociable function. Mighty particular pious these Sunday school people are, and everything was lovely. My balloon was a gas balloon, and she fairly kicked np her heels while I had her tethered, and when she got away she seemed like she was heading right for intinity and was going the limit or bust a ham string. "I guess she must have gone np a mile and a half or two miles when I felt something give way, and in a min ute or two she began to go back the other way not fast, yon understand, but slow and sure, and in a way to make yon feel mighty uncomfortable I couldn't tell what the matter was, and after letting her drop to within about half a mile of bottom I tossed out a lit tle of my ballast I was short on para chutes that day, too, as mine was out of whack. And boing careless, I thought I'd take my chances. About this time I 'began to wish I hadn't, but I didn't say a word for obvious reasons. When I let the ballast out, the balloon responded only a little, and the way she did it convinced me that something serious was the matter. By this time I bad to throw out some more ballast and it wasn't a minute till tbore wuun't any thing loft in the basket besides mysolf and about 1,000 feet of rope with a grapple on the end of it " "The balloon had begun to sink again, and rapidly. And yon may guess that this was a time for a man to do some pretty active thinking if he ex pected any good results from it, and you may be assured I was calculating. . Every instant now the balloon was gathoriug velocity, the last movement downward having begun at a point .aboot a quarter of a mile from the ground, and I knew that in a few sec onds I was going to be a shapeless mass .that couldn't even be photographed for a newspaper unless ' something hap pened. There was only one thing to do, and that was to relieve the balloon of its weight and send it book np again. The rope and I were heavy enongb to lesson the weight considerably if we tthould get out and 1 proposed to do a great act Getting a good hold on my clasp kuife, I waited for the now whizz ing earthward balloon to got within about 1,000 feet of the ground. Then, with the rope tied around my waist and the other end fast to the balloon, I jumped out feet foremost straight for the earth. I knew that if the balloon remained stationary I wonld just about xeaoh .the ground at the end of the rope, but I figured on a good deal of reac tion. In fact I calculated the rise of the balloon would about meet the fall of myself At such a point as to make my (all comparatively light, and then, when aha began to sink again, I would be so near the arth that before she got to going at breakneck speed I wonld be close "enough to ont loose and let myself down easy. As it turned out, I might have hod a leg broken or been shaken np pretty badly, but luck was with me. When I ont loose, I dropped about 85 feet and lit square on top of a big straw stack where some men were thrashing. As for tha balloon, the was so nearly exhausted and was ooming down so fast that the loss of my weight only gave her strength enough to go a couple of bnndred yards across the field and drop into a pond. So yon see, " oonoloded Professor Wind, "that a little presence of mind is valuable even to take np in balloon with a man, for if I had not had it and had not used it at the end of that piece of rope I wonld not now be here telling this story to you. Of course it was not as serious a mishap as I bava experienced on other occasions, bnt still it is interesting. . What do yon think of it?" , , . "tJm r," hesitated the reporter, "have yon got pieoe of that ropa I could look New York Son, CORDOVA AT MIDNIGHT. Oayetjr la the Spanish City Is Thea at It Greatest Height, In the evening, after dinner, about 8 o'clock, we drew chairs out npon our little balcony above the Pasoo. Listless groups had gathered about its cafes. Two gypsy children, as bl.irk as ne groes, in their scant white shirts, with persistent hands and voices were carry ing on Spain's one flourishing business, but it was not a stimulating sight and, tired out with the day's journey, we went at once to bed. It must havo been two or three hours later whon we wero awakened by a loud crash of cymbals and blast of trumpets. Our first thought was that soldiers were marching through the town, and we hurried to the win dow to see. Bolow a great mass of peo ple wero seated under the palms. Open enrriuons were passing up and down on each side, and men on horseback. Very smart nurses, with great bows of ribbon on their heads, had brought wide nwake babies oat for an airing. Great trucks and vans of merchandise rumbled by. Workmen wore about Half way down the Paseo a band had just begun to play. The cafes were ablare with light their tables crowded to overflowing. Cordova at midnight had come to life. The air was hot and cloo, used up by that vast multitude, and the dust, stir red by their ceaseless march, choked us where we stood. It was hopeless to try to sleep again, and we waited by the window. Of a sudden a bell sounded loud above the voices of the erowd. At once the band was hushed, carriages were stopped, the people on the chairs under the palms were on their feet, and not a man but stood, hat in hand. We looked to the end of the Paseo, for ev erybody was looking that way. From out the doors of the Moorish minaret crowned church came a procession of men in white surplices, with flickering candles and tall lanterns, and a priest carrying the sacrament under its golden veil, to the dying. Men who a moment before had been drinking fell upon their knoes, and we could hear nothing but the tinkling bell and the murmur of a low chant, as the priest walked slowly on between the rows of kneeling people, praying there in the starlight under the palms. And so in Spain today, as yes terday, does life in a moment change from fooling to prayer, as the shadow of death passes by, only to return to its folly as readily when the shadow has passed. Once the priest had gone back to the church, and the doors were shut, the mnsio, louder than ever, went on where it had left off, carriages rolled on, and horsemen pranced after them. There was no sleeping any more. We dressed and packed our bogs, and when in the first dawn the band went away and the lust few stragglers were going home and a few peasants were ooming in with their donkeys and cafes were being shut we took onr places in the hotel coach and drove off to the station in time to catch the express from Mad rid to Seville. Elizabeth R. Pennell in Century. NEW HAND UNDERSTOOD. A Woman's Testimony as to the Value of a Knowledge of German. It was juRt a little informal gathering of women, and as they sipped tea with their hats on and gossiped about church sociables and of the preponderance of girls among the babies that had recently arrived, one of them let fall a German expression. "Oh, dear rue! Do yon speak Ger manT" asked the tall woman from down east, who plumes herself npon having married a German broker and thinks she speaks Gorman herself. "How delightful!" "Certainly," snid the stont woman who was addressed. "I should think I ought to. I lived in Germany- for ten years before I was married. It is a very useful thing too. My husband does not speak Gorman, but I remember one in stance when the knowledge of just one little German word was of great help to him. Von see, I always made it a prac tice to begin teaohing German to my children when they were babies, and just teaching them one word at a time and saying that one word whenever it was appropriate nntil it was indelibly fixed in their memory. Mow, when my last baby was beginning to walk, I wanted to teach her that the fire was hot, and so whenever she went near to it I wonld pull her away and point to the stove and say, 'He is I' I said it a great many times, and by and by she learned that 'neis' meant hot Now, one day my hosband was breaking in a new man at his factory, and he wanted to warn him about some dangerous place. The man was a German, and my hus band was at a loss as to how to make him understand until, all of a sudden, he remembered having beard me in structing the baby. So he pointed to the place and called to the man, 'Heist' 'Heist' The man's face lit up, and he turned to my husband and exclaimed i "'I understand yon perfectly.'" New York Sun. Bereafoarers Brevity. Lord Charles Beresford is a man of few words and those very innch to the point Speaking in the house of com mons one day in referenoe to the Arab slave dealers, he said, with great em phasis : "Mr. Speaker, we ought to catch these men, give 'em a fair trial and then hang 'em. " Reoeiving an invitation to dinner at Marlborough House one evening, he re plied by wire: "Sorry can't come. Lie follows by post" San Franoisoo Argonaut Tho Decline of the Jaw. And now it is olaimed that the Jaw bones of civilised peoples are gradually becoming attenuated, chiefly owing to the prolonged use of knives and forks. There need be no fear, however, that ws will lose the as of tha Jaws. Tha habit of chewing gum will soon restore these portions of our anatomy to their priatlns strength. His Qaeet Kven the benevolent, unworldly old gentleman who surveyed the occupants of the car now and then over tho tops of his gold rimmed glasses recoguiwid the fact that tho man who took a seat next to him was not a member of the polite circles of society. He did not avoid him, however, but responded when his companion mnda rome casual remarks about tho weather. " Von never poss the tlmo by tryin four luck with a puck o' canls now nu then, do you?" asked the newcomer, after a quarter of an hour or so hud elapsed. "Never." "Well, it's a good way to kill time." "But you run so mneh risk of meet ing professional gamblers." "Oh, yes. Of course us ordinary gents have to take our chances on little things like that But I munngo to get through a doal or two now an then nn not get scared very much, either." "Do yon travel much?" "I've kep' on tho move all my life. I traveled with a circus fur three years an I've been in several other branches of commerce since thut took me n good deal away from home. At present I'm sorter tourin on my own account. " "My friend," said tho benevolent gentleman solemnly, "I am sorry to hear yon say this. It is an old saying and a true one that a rolling stone gath ers no moss." "Mister," was the reply, delivered with equal solemnity, "I'll lot you into a secret I nin't lookin for moss. I'm ont fur the dust "Detroit Free Press. Renan's Penanee. Jules Simon, in one of his reminis cences of Kenan, relates that at one time he differed with his professor about the interpretation to be given to a certain passage in Scripture, quoting tho He brew text as his authority. After ho had frankly stated his objection his superior meditated for awhile and then fold him mildly, "Abbe, yon will repeat in kneeling position, the seven penitential psalms before the holy sacrament ' ' Re lating this incident to Simon, the latter inquired, "And what answer did yon make?" "I answered what is customary in such cases to answer, 'I thank you, reverend fatner. ' " "And yon did pen ance?" "I did, and then proceeded again in my investigations, and ever reooived the samo reply. But I could not pass my whole lifo reading the penitential psalms." And he did not He began to consult, instead of the priestly oracle, the oracle of his reason and of his own conscience, and he becuuio the great toruhbearer, tho biographer of Jesus mid the npon ties from a rational point of view, unolouded by snpcrnaturalism and miracle wor ship, and he wrote the "Origin of Christianity," and he throw the won derful light of his erudition upon the iutrieata problems of orientul philology and Biblical archaeology and the com parative history of religions and brought suiiRhine into thousands of minds where superstition and uncouth credulity reigned before. Monorah Monthly. Bleefre. The very namo of Bicetre dnngoon, madhouse and cloaca of obscene infa mies becamo of dreadful import ; not tho ConcierRone, the Chatelct Fort' I'Evoquo, Vinccnnes nor the Bastille it self inspired the common people and the bourgeoisie with such detestation and pnnio fear. The general imacina tion, outvying rumor, peopled it with imps, evil genii, sorcerers and shapeless monsters, compounded of mon and beasts. Mediaeval Paris, at a loss for tho origins of things, ascribed them to the fairies, the dovil or Julius Cicsar. It was said that the dovil Slighted in Paris ono night and brought in chains to the "plateau de Bioetro" a pauper, a madman and a prisoner, with which three unfortunates he sot agoing the prison on the one side and the asylum on tho other to minister to tho menus plaisirs of the denizens of holl. Such grim renown as this was not easily sur passed, but at the end of Louis XIV's reign the common legend went a step farther and said that tho devil had now disowned Biootre. Rhymes sincere or satirical gave utterance to tho terror and abhorrence of tho vulgar mind. Temple Bar. Hopeless. The young man who was sitting straight up on his wheel drew alongside a man who was riding with a hump on his bock. "Roads are fine this morning," he observed. "I've seen better," briefly answered the other. " Of course. Bnt I mean they are good considering that it rained day before yesterday." "H'mphl" "Ever try one of these pneumatio sad dles?" "One of whose pneumatio saddles?" "Anybody's." "No." "What do yon think is the proper gear for a 93 pound roadster machine?" "Haven't any idea." "That's a mighty fine wheel you're riding, anyhow." "On the oontrary, it's the poorest ma chine I ever saw. I'm going to trade it off and get a better one. " The young man gave it np and fell back. Chicago Tribune. A Mild Request. Fair patient la there no way of tell ing exactly what is the matter with mei Dr. Emdee Only a post mortem ex amination would reveal that Fair Patient Then, for heaven's sake, make one, I don't see why I should be squeamish at such a time as this. Pick Me Up. Silk dresses rustle muoh more loudly in dry weather, because they are almost devoUl of moisture and the friction be tween their folds is considerable and noisy. When rain is Impending, tha silks absorb a portion of the moisture and become almost silent THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL. the Is a Mlnlatnre Woman and Is Tanght All Feminine Arts, iowever innocent she may be, a little French girl is much more of a little woman than a child of any other na tionality. She does not romp; she is demnre and quiet in her games, which are often imitations of a grown person's life. She is trying to learn how to be the mistress of her hnnsn by means of her dolls, furniture, kitchen and dishes. Feminine arts are still a part of every well arranged French education. Men really care more for these accomplish ments than for others, as they make stay at homo wives who look after their households, and as a Frenchwoman's principal aim is to please her future husband every mother prepares her daughter for this end. This is why she does not permit too close an intimacy with little boy eonsins, because ten years later a jealous husband would take a dislike to these friendly cousins, nor would ho liko his wife's bosom friends, in whom she confides and who never leave her, any better. Mothers, thercforo, permit few if ony intimacies, and these are all winnowed and selected with the greatest care. One advantage of this system is that the name of friend is not carelessly bestowed right and left. It takes time and good reasons for simple acquaintances to rise to that rank. The mother not only wards off little boy cousins and inti mate girl friends, but she discourages the little girl in showing off her knowl edge out of the classroom, for she is fully aware that nothing could be less attractive in the eyes of the expected lord and master than a bluestocking. A bright little girl I could name had by chance picked up some astronomical scraps, togother with other scientific facts, which allowed her to shine now and then. One evening, while playing in the garden, she heard a friend of her father's exclaim, "What a dazzling start" "That is not a star, sir," she said; "it is a planet" Her mother was in despair, for she would rather a hun dred times have found her ignorant than have seen her "show off," or capa ble of committing the enormity of con tradicting an older person. "I hope," she said jestingly, as a sort of excuse, "that when she is 18 the poor little thing will have forgotten a great part of what she knows today!" Th. Bent con in Century. His Preference. She blushed prettily as she told the ister of her best young man that she thought, she would buy a birthday pres ent for him. "You know him better than I do," she said, "so I have come to yon for ad vice." "Yes?" eaid the sister inquiringly. "Oh, yes, indeed. What would you advise me to gut?" "Oh, I don't know," replied the sis tor carelessly. "I could only advise you in general terms. Frem what I know of him, however, he will appreciate something thnt can bo easily pawned better than something that cannot. " Chioago Post A Short Cut to Health. To try to euro constipation by taking pills Is liko going round in a circle You will never reach tho point sought, but only get back to tho starting point. A perfect nu tn nil laxative Is Bacon's Celery King, tho celebrated remedy for all nerve, blood, stomach, liver and kidney diseases. It regulates tho bowels. Reynolds Drug Store will give you a samplo puckugu free. Largo hIzcb 25 Cunts and CO cents. U HALF A CE'ITURY OLD, Is a sure rcmct!y fort Coughs, Coldo, V hoop ing Cough, nn! all Lunge diseases when used in I season. Fifty ysnrs ago, I V Elder Downs was given I up by his physicians to I aio wiiii uiisriiipiiun. Under these circumstan ces he compounded this! Elixir, was cured, and I lived to a good old age. I Yon can try It for the I price of one doctor's visit i r or sale everywnere. CURED ACTUALLY. For sule by It. Alex Bloke. GET AN EDUCATION EDUCATION end fortuue so bend in bend. Gel an edu cation at the Cen tral Htate Normal Mobeel, Leek II . v.n. Ph. First- class acoomtnodatlons Slid low raus. btal Aid to students. For circulars end lllus. est., address JAMES KLIrON.Pb. Ifc, 1'rl-olsal. awu NerauU UkMlTLeek Sum, Pa. L. M. SNYDER, Practical Horse-sboer . and General Blacksmith Hnnut-aliniiliiif dime In tho neatest manner and by the lnu-si lmimivi.il methods. Over luuaitrurent mini oi shoes uivia tur cor- t.lnn ilf fttllllW uj.tii.n Mild lllkMhUbHd feet. OlllV the best make of sIiimm and nails used, lie pairing of all kinds citrwfully and promptly dune. BATiHrAOTioN Uuahantbku. Lumber men's suppllua on baud. Jackson 6u near Fifth, Heynoldsvllle, Pa. LvAL 3V?.-j4v.-iv A y -J Snyder & Johns, FASHIONABLE TAILORS. E have just received a large line of Piece Goods and samples, embracing the very latest styles cf Foreign and Domestic Suitings for Fall and Winter wear, which we are prepared to make at Hard-time Prices. We cordially invite the public to call, examine our goods and get prices. Special attention to Cleaning and Repairing. Next Door to Hotel McConnoll. F IRST-CLASS KESH INE W. R. MARTIN Has a large stock of fresh groceries, consisting of Sugar, lea, tJollee, Kice, Canned Goods of all kinds, Potatoes, Butter, Eggs, and everything usually kept in a first-class . Grocery Store. W. II. MARTIN, MAIN 8TRKET, Capes! AT OUR You will find the most complete Btock of General Merchan dise in town. Prices never were so low. Our line of Capes and Jackets includes the LATEST and prices away down. We Stock of Clothing, Hats GOOD cheaper than any one in this and Fancy Groceries. We invite all to call and see us. Jefferson Supply Co. A. D. DEEMER Blankets lVc got a whole case of Cotton Fleeced Blankets. They arc not ivhat ive ordered; they are just a shade narrow, wide enough for single or children's beds. They'll do for covering or sheets. We have marked them way down. The price will sell them. Lota of other blankets that are full length and width. You will get them at a trifle more. Another Blanket Special is "Our all-wool blanket. When we speak of "Our Fac tory" we mean the Reynoldsville woolen mill. No shoddy goods from them. UNDERWEAR For Men, Boys, Ladies, Misses and Children, in fine wool, part wool, cotton, fleeced lined, all styles and sizes. Oneita Union Suits, cotton and wool, two garments in one. These cold days will make you look out for heavy underwear. You'll find this store is all right in Flannels All grades, price and quality, heavy lumberman's. COfTS AND OflPBS We've lots of wraps and will receive more soon as they are made. The most correct styles and latest cut. Main Street. Groceries, REYNOLDS VILLE, PA. STORE STYLES Have just received a New and Cape. We are selling . . Shoes vicinity. Full line of Staple & GO. and Haps Factor u" quality ana price. from the fine French flannel to the , Jackets! fl. D. Dnier & Go. . . ...
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