rwwn EESIS]V%'A > Safe In n Thundercloud. TO be in the very heart of a thundercloud nnd escape un harmed is an unusual If not a unique experience. That is what happened to the Rev. John M. Bacon and some companions in one of g his balloon ascensions from Newbury England. Mr. Bacon in telling of the experi ence, says: "In scarcely more than twenty minutes from the start a sud den nnd surprising change took place In our circumstances. Our environ ment, which had appeared absolutely "aim and clear, began changing with ' ae rapidity of a transformation scene. Below us the few hundred feet which separated us from earth began filling in with u blue haze quite transparent, but growing palpably filmier, while ahead, as also right and left, the horizon at the level of our eye nnd higher opposed a dense fog barrier of an aslieu hue. Overhead of course the sky view was entirely hid den by the huge silken globe. At this time we were being swept along on our course, which remained sensibly unaltered In direction, at a speed which we subsequently were able to fix at approximately forty miles an hour. "To ourselves the full significance of these circumstnnces was not Im mediately apparent, but the onlookers k at our point of departure—the town gas works, now some live miles in our wake—clearly detected the npproucli of n heavy thunder pack and as they reasonably asserted, coming against the wind. It towered above the balloon, now seen projected plainly against its face. It came on rapidly nnd assumed formidable proportions. The balloon was flying due west at high speed, and at apparently no great distance overhead the thundercloud was progressing at a moderate veloc ity not accurately determined, but due east or directly opposed to the surface current. "And now with a whistle a blinding sheet of hail attacked the aeronauts, stinging their faces so sharply as to give the idea that the stones were falling from a great height, and Im mediately afterward from all sides and close around flashes of lightning shot out with remarkable frequency and vividness. We were, in fact, fairly embosomed in the thundercloud. Oilier and near observers narrowly watched the phases of phenomena now in pro (' gross. These were the countrymen who became interested spectators and who presently came to our assistance. They seemed to have imagined that the balloon must be infallibly struck, inasmuch as it appeared to them com pletely encircled with lightning. It was, indeed, the worst storm the countryside had known for many years. At Devizes, only a few miles ahead, It lasted for five hours con tinuously. A little way on our right a house was struck and burned to the ground, and on our left a couple of soldiers were killed on Salisbury plain. "Though the storm progressed, it also appeared to lag behind the wind that bore It along. It did not seem to advance against us as a whole, but rather about us, forming Itself out of what a few moments before had ap peared mere empty and transparent air. "The lightning as seen by the people In tiie balloon seemed to leap from cloud to cloud and not from the clouds to tlie earth, and the noise of the thun der consisted of short, sharp reports like tlie explosions of gun cotton without any of tlie rolling reverbera tions heard on the enrth. The nero nnuts passed through the thunder storm uninjured, but it was trying to the nerves. The question is: With the lightning playing all around it and houses and men being struck on tlie enrtli below, why was not the balloon demolished by a thunder bolt?"— New Orleans Times-Democrat. £lilpwrecked Sailor* Kat Comrade*. The Empress of India, from China and Japan, brought a story of ship wreck, murder and cannibalism on the high sens, from Singapore, It was the narrative of two derelict seamen. Hjahman .Tohannessen, a Swede, and Miguel Marticoreana, the only sur j vivors of the bark Angola, who were \ '. aiided at Singapore by a Chinese k Junk, which picked them up on the Island of Soubi, in the South Natuna group. Angola sailed from Cnvite, r. 1., and was wrecked on a reef (100 miles away from Manila a week later, nnd as the boats were smashed the crew had to take to two rafts made out of wreck age. Of the smaller of these rafts nothing further Is known. Tlie two survivors and nine others were on the larger one. The unfortunate mariners were for forty-two days exposed to every torture of the ship-wrecked and the natural results followed. A Frenchman was the first of the poor wretches to go mnd, nnd he slew the first mate with a lintchet, drank his blood nnd ate his brains. The other men then killed the Frenchman and drank 'is blood nnd ate his flesh. Thev drifted day by day, nnd under the glaring equatorial sun the wretch ed autvlvors died off one by one nnd i were cast out to the sharks that fol f lowed their frail craft. Eventually only the two above-named were left, and they drifted ashore on Soubl Island, where they wer* ted on cocoa- nuts anfl fish by the natives nnd were thus kept olive until they were picked up by the native Junk which brought I them back to civilization. In detailing the story of horror to J the court of Inquiry which sat at Singapore to look Into the wreck, Joliannesscn and Martlcorenna snld that when they and nine others left the wreck on their raft they knew nothing of what had become of the remainder who left the wreck on the other raft. They had four tins of dried meats, and when this gave out, a Frenchman who went mad wnnte.i to eat an American sailor who died. When Captnin Crocker prevented him he tried to kill the captain, and on the mate Interfering he killed him with an axe, and it was then that the cannibalism commenced. The French man ate the mate's brains nnd drank his blood, and the remainder of the crew killed and nto the Frenchman. They did this because the second mate had said that it was better to kill the Frenchman thnn let him kill them all, for he was mad and ran amuck with an axe on the raft. They all drank some of his blood and ate the flesh raw. Soon afterward two others, an Eng lishman and a Russian, went crazy and jumped Into the sea and one by one tlrfy died, till only the two were left nnd they subsisted by catching small fish with a bent nail and a line made from small strips of canvas. When they were washed ashore on Soubi Island, they were too weak to walk, and with sores all over their bodies were crawling along the beach when tile natives found them. They had regained their strength somewhat when the Chinese junk which took them off arrived, nnd they went on tile Junk to Pulo Mail! and then to Singapore, where they arrived in mid April. At the Inquiry the master of the Chinese junk testified to having seen the raft of the two men nnd of how the natives had told him of their being washed ashore. Child Alone In a Balloon* A balloon ascension was to have been made at West Liberty, lowa, re cently by Baldwin Brothers, of Quincy, 111., and in the crowd watch ing the preparations was Carlton Meyer, twelve years old. Boy-like, ho was eager to aid in the undertaking, nnd was helping to hold the balloon down, when suddenly It sprang into the air, with young Meyer hanging head down, with his feet en tangled in one of the ropes. The aeronaut who was to have gone up in the balloon had the presence of mind to call to the boy: "llung on to the rope." The boy bravely clutched the lino and squirmed around until he caught one of the dangling parachute ropes, and lie did not once make a slip as he twisted himself about and gradu ally worked himself up to the balloon. Mrs. Meyer, the boy's mother, fainted as she saw him carried away. Straight upward shot the balloon with its little captive. When It had reached an altitude of about a mile a current of air struck it and it began to drift away. Then began a novel and exciting chase. As the balloon moved the crowd followed It, expecting every instant to see the boy dashed to death on the earth. Along the roads, over fields and fences they ran, and when those on foot were distanced the pur suit was kept up by men in wagons or on horseback. After five miles had been covered the balloon began to slowly descend. As the air in it cooled It steadily settled, wavering now and then, and drifting about with the breeze, as though to torment the anxious and nearly spent followers. Finally it came to earth In a field of grain,, where the youthful aeronaut was gently dropped. When his friends came up lie met them with a broad smile. A triumphal procession was formed and the boy was carried back home. There a purse of 5100 was raised to reward the little fellow for his pluck. lloscuud by a Horse* The almost human sagacity of the horse was demonstrated when eleven year-old Ray Campbell, whose mother was drowned In a cloudburst near Marion, Ohio, told his experiences dur ing the frightful night. According to the boy's story, he nnd his mother were driving along the road about 0 o'clock, the water being well up over the animal's knees. The rain was yet falling in torrents, and it was dark as pitch. Suddenly the horse stopped. Mrs. Campbell hit It 'with the whip, but it didn't budge. Against the little boy's entreaties she lilt the animal a second time, when It plunged forward and liorso, buggy, boy and mother were in a torrent The boy was thrown on a log, one of tlie many being washed down the creek. The log was driven into a piece of high ground and stuck fast Several hundred yards below the boy heard his mother crying for help. He answered her. but was afraid to trust himself to the swift current At his second answer he heard n horse's neigh, and soon the animal appeared swimming out from the bank. It came to liini and rubbed up against him. He then quit his hold on the log and grasped the horse's harness, when the animal swam With him to the bank. There he must have become uncon scious as It was midnight when he reached a farmer's house, half a mile away, and the watch found on his mother's body had stopped at nine o'clock. The Pacific Ocean covers forty and a half per cent, of the water surface of the globe, the Atlantic twenty-one per cent, and the Antarctic nineteen per cent. _ HOUSEHOLD Latest In Finger Bowls. The latest idea in finger bowls Is to have them in beaten silver, with a de sign of dolphins or other fish at the bottom. The fish are executed In col ored enamel, and they look beautiful as they gleam through the water. To Clean Delicate Lacc. Delicate lace mny be cleaned by spreading it out on fine white paper and covering it with calcined magne sia. Place another paper over it and lay It away under a heavy weight for two or three days. A gentle shake will remove the powder, which will have absorbed the soil from the lace. Daily Care of the Lamp*. All lamps should be wiped off nnd filled dally. Keep the wick below the top of the burner when not lighted, or tlie wick will feed over through capillary attraction. Turn up a short distance when first lighted, but never turn low and leave. When extinguish ing a lamp or oil stove turn the wick down until it shows only a blue flame, when the flame will flicker a short time and then go out. This precau tion prevents the unpleasant odor which accompanies the blowing out of a lump. Cleaning Cilt Furniture. Clean gilt furniture with sifted whit ing made into a cream with alcohol. Cover a small space at a time and rub off before it hardens. If a spot sticki touch it very lightly with clear alco hol. If there Is much dirt or deep tar nish, wash quickly witli borax soap suds, wipe dry, then cover with the wet whiting and let it dry. Brush it off with a stiff brush and polish after ward with a soft leather. Tills Is the beSt way of cleaning all manner of gilt frames: With very big ones cover with a sheet, then lay tlie frame flat, and leave it thus until after the brush ing. A gilt frame specked but untar nished needs to be rubbed with a flan nel wet in alcohol and polished after ward with a soft leather, stretghed smooth over the palm. Cabin FurnlfihlnKft. For mountain cabin furnishings nnd dens in country houses consistency should be the great object. Furniture left in its natural state, unstained and unvarnished, is much used for these places by fashionable folk. Straw Morris chairs and lounges, stumpy, ■olid little tables, plnln table desks with drawers, plain wooden book shelves built to the walls are favorite pieces. Then the chairs and lounges should have simple denim-covered hair cushions, and the decorative ones should have covers that slip off to launder bandanna handkerchiefs, crash, chintz or pretty dimity. All the ornaments should be durable wooden photograph frames, birch-bark match holders, waste baskets nnd letter rack. Try this scheme and see how success ful the effect is. Eggs with Rice—Melt a piece of but ter in a frying pan, ndd milk or thin cream, two tablespoonfuls to each egg; salt and pepper to taste. When the milk is hot drop in the eggs one at a time, and with a spoon gently stir and scrape them from the pan as they cook. Have a platter spread with boiled rice, and with a tablespoon ar range on it the scrambled eggs, and put over two or three tablespoonfuls of cream, nnd set In the oven until the cream is heated. Pineapple Sponge—Put in n sauce pan one and a half cupfuls of pineap ple which has been grated, and place It on the stove to simmer. Add sugar if needed nnd half a cup of water. In fifteen minutes put In one-fourth pack age of gelatine which has been soaked in one-fourth cupful of cold water, tond strain through a cheesecloth. Place In a dish of iee-wnter to cool rapidly and stir constantly uutil It be gins to thicken, then add the Juice of half a lemon nnd the beaten white of two eggs, and beat tlie mixture until very soft. Place in a mold, cool and serve with whipped cream. Prune Souffle One half pound of prunes, two tablespoonfuls of pow dered sugar, four eggs, one small tea spoonful of vanilla. Beat the yolks v. the eggs and the sugar to a cream, add the vanilla and mix them with the prunes. The prunes having been stewed, drained, tlie stones removed nnd each prune cut into four pieces. When ready to serve fold in lightly tlie whites of the eggs which have been whipped to a stiff froth, a dash If snlt having been ndded to the whites before whipping them. Turn it into a pudding dish nnd bjike in a moder ate oven for twenty minutes; serve as soon as It is taken from the oven. Stuffed Teppers—Select large, bell- Shaped peppers. Remove and save tlie tops, with the stems, and take out all the seeds. Stand the peppers upright In a large bowl, put a teaspoonful of salt In each, cover with cold water nnd nllow to stand for twe|jty-four hours. The filling consists of two quarts of finely chopped cabbage, a half cupful of grated horseradish, a quarter pound of white mustard seed, three tenspoon fuls of celery seed and two tablespoon fuls of salt. Fut the mixture into tlie pepper, leaving room at the top of each for a small onion and a very small cucumber. Tie the tops on se curely, put them In a Jar and cover with cold vinegar. Half ——Jlll i i r.fMmTiwFiwwri-wTiiUiMUM-iJ " I first used Ayer's Sarsaparilla in the fall of 1848. Since then I have taken it every spring as a blood - purify i iLg and nerva strengthenine medicine." R S. T. Jones, Wichita, Kans. M If you feel run down, are easily tired, if your nerves are weak and your blood is thin, then begin to take the good old stand | ard family medicine, Ayer's Sarsaparilla. It's a regular nerve lifter, a perfect blood builder. 1.00 a bottle. All draggistß. B Ask your doctor what ho thinks of Ayer's R Sarsapnrllla. Ho knows all about thia grand H old family medicine. Follow hit advice and ■ we will bo satisfied. B J. C. Aver Co., Lowell, Masa. R Liver Fills That's what you need; some thing to cure your bilious ness and give you a good digestion. Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They cure con stipation and biliousness. Gently laxative. A n dru"ii.t,. I moustache or ben i d a boautiful I brown or rich black ? Theu use ( BUCKINGHAM'S DYEt^^js Colored Troops In War. In view of Mr. Chamberlain's asser tion of our right to employ our colored teoophi In nuy war, 1t may be astted wlh ether any other EuroiKUm Power has ever used such a right The ans wer Is that France used African sol diers from Algeria iu the Franco-Ger man war. Several regiments of Turkos and Spahis fought all through fbe campaign, and the former particu larly distinguished themselves by their bravery against the Bavarian troops hi the terrible engagements of Welssenburg, Worth and Razeilles. The term "Turko" was really a nick mime given to infantry regiments composed of negroes and Bedouins and specially organized for service hi Al geria. Their uniform was similar to that of the Zouaves, except that it was pale blue. Their black faces were of so sinister a cast that it is said the German Government circu lated pictures of them among its army in order to accustom the sol diers to the sight of these African op ponents. Many of the Turkos fell in action and large numbers were taken prisoners. A few of them managed bo got back to Pariy at the time of the Commune. There, without the re straint of discipline, they gave way to drink, aud evemtualy made them selves such a nuisance that the Paris ians were very glad 'to see the last of them. A period of five seconds between n flash of lightning and thunder means that the flash Is a mile distant from the observer. Thunder has never been heard over 14 miles from the flash, though artillery lias been heard at 120 miles. The first patent was granted to Samuel Hopkins in 1790 for making '•pot or pearl ashes." Putnam Fadeless Dyes do not spot, streak or givo your goods an unevenly dyod appear ance. Bold by all druggists. It has been estimated that it will re quire eighty-five men working every day until 1947 to unearth the entire ruins of Pompeii. IVow'ft Til l*i ? We offer One Hundred Dollars Howard for any case of Catarrh that cannot bo curod by Hall'B Catarrh Curs. F. J. Cheney A Co., Prons., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Che ney for the last 15 years, and beliovo him per fectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obliga tion made by their firm. West A Truax, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Waldixo, Rinnan A Mabtin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Curo is taken internally, act ing directly upon the blood and mucous sur faces of the system. Price. 75c. per bottle. Bold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall's Family I'ills are the best. Kansas City, Mo., has a city forester whose duty it is to plant and protect trees on the public streets. Boat For llio Rowels. No matter what ails yon, hcadacho to a ennoer, you will never got well until your bowols are put right. Cascabets help nature, cure yon without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost von Just 10 cents to start getting your health back. Cas cabets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. C. C. •tamped on it. Beware of imitations. A chestnut tree, planted by King Ed ward, grows beside the tomb of Washing ton at Alt. Vernon. For Of) Years Froy's Vermifuge Has been curing ohildren of worms. It la sure. Novorfalls. 23c. Druggists and country stores. The home consumption of our bitumin ous coal lost year was 170,000,000 tons. A now rifle is now undergoing ex haustive trials In several of the French army corps. It is the inven tion of nil Italian watchmaker named Lamacchia, living near Toulon, Who has tieiit over ten years in perfecting It. The rifle k* on the lines of the Lo bel, but is much lighter and carries 19 rounds In the magazine. If restless and unable to sleep, take a Gar field Headache Powder; it will soothe and quiet the nerves mi 1 bring natural rest. Bend to Garfield Tea Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., for •amplei. A sfng'e American firm has rented sir teen shops in Vienna, Austria, to sell Y&nkee-made shoes. A new and odd cut glass pattern In a circular upiral effect is called Um ••Orchid." Black walnut is lees than half the weight of a corresponding quantity of ebony. FITS permanently cured. No fits or nervous ness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise froo Dr. It. H. Kline, Ltd., 931 Arch St., Phila. Pa Tho footpad naturally breaks into a •hoe store for booty. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children ! teething, soften the gums, reduces in flam in a- ! tion,allays pain, curewwind oolic. 25c a oofctle , The man who makes alarm clocks ought I to do a rousing business. Tiso's Curo is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of thront and lungs.—WM. O. Expslky, Yanhuren. Ind., Feb. 10,1900. Three-fourths of the entire area of Nor way is not capable of cultivation. . Unlike the majority of remedies for head aches, Garfield Headache Powders contain , nothing that harmn or deranges tho system. ; Thin is tho simpleit and most rem edy offerod. A trial proves its worth. Herman Elegan, of St. Louis, Mo., has constructed a Turkish bath bouse to be run as a trolley car. J S9OO TO SISOO A YEAR We want intelligent Men and Women a9 Traveling Representatives or Local Mintage™, salary Jyoo to fi.sco a year and all expenses, according to experience and ability. 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