rilK TIMKS. NKW HLOOM KlKLl), PA.. OCTOBKll j 1881.
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AN HOUR IN THE AIR.
THE outlook was magnificent. At a
height of over two thousand feet
our balloon, the "Carrier Pigeon,"
hung buoyant as a feather In the still
August air.
Beneath us the earth, like a map, lay
bathed tn the warm yellow sunshine.
paradise Itself could hardly show a scene
more pleasant, more rich tu color, or
more pastoral or homelike tn aspect.
Leaning out of the basket, I sent my
last handful of circulars fluttering down
tuto the glowing depths, then for some
moments, sat gazing on the beautiful
panorama below.
"Lovely, isn't It,? ".said my campan
nnn an voyage, who was looking out on
the other side. "Yet I confess I wish
we were safe down,,' he added.
"Why," I exclaimed, "It's a beautiful,
quiet day as ever was I"
"Too quiet," remarked my friend.
"Unnaturally Btill. But Just look to the
northwest, over the mountains there.
Bee that white, pillar-formed cloud, like
a torn bale of cotton t There will be a
thunder squall herein less than an hour;
and these thunder gusts are not pleasant
to meet In the air. If only that crowd
of people would stop gazing at us, or if
an air current would carry us ofl'a dozen
or flften miles, I for one, should be
most happy to take to the ground
again."
This was my second ascent with Prof.
Lamoille, as he was then known to the
public; and though not a professional
teronaut, it was my business I was
then on the staff of a New York journal
to especially report this balloon ascent.
To me, however, the professor was
simply Ned Brown. Young Brown
was, however, an enthusiast, in the
business; and he always gave the pub
lic Its money's worth.
We had ascended from Rockwood
that day on the occasion of a grand
political rally and mass meeting. The
balloon ascent, as will be guessed, was a
feature devised to draw people out. Ned
had in.hls pocket a check for two hun
dred dollars from a prominent politician.
For nearly an hour there seemed not a
breath of atr. There we hung as if
asleep In mid-heavens. Yet still in the
northwest the white thunder-caps push
ed their snowy heads higher and high
er. Still soared those great fleecy masses
of vapor In the distance; and soon under
neath them dark, watery-looking vol
umes began to heave up. Anon, there
was a low, far-off growl. A vast, black
shadow, miles away, was stealing along
the sunlit earth, steadily nearlng us. It
seemed to devour the golden landscape.
"It's coming rapidly," said I putting
up my notes.
" Oh yes, It's coming," said my friend
cooly.
" Can't we rise above it V" I asked.
"Yes If you will kindly jump out
and lighten us, otherwise not. You see
I canuot spare the little ballast I have
left."
" Thank you," said I, " I prefer to
stay with you. But why not descend J"'
" And catch a ducking, and get my
balloon bursled If nothing worse. No !
I have calculated the chances. We will
run before the storm."
" But this doesn't look much like run
ning," I said. " We are not moving a
hair's breadth."
" Walt a bit. There will be wind
enough, I promise you, within five min
utes," observed my companion. " You
Bee," he continued, " every shower has
its own wind, and it always leads the
thunder clouds a distance of three or
four-miles ahead. When that catches
us, we shall scud in advance of the rain,
I think."
Just then the gigantic shadow swept
across the sun ; and almost the same
moment a great cold wave seemed to
break agulust us. The balloon rocked
like a boat at sea.
One after another the vast terlal bil
lows struck us. We bobbed up and
down on them like a cork. A moment
or two later, the fresh damp current
caught us on its mighty wing. The
" Carrier Pigeon" ducked her lofty head
to tho leeward, then slowly gathering
headway, sailed majestically off before
the shower."
"Bee that!" exclaimed Ned. "My
theory holds."
At leugth the shower spent Itself.
The flashes and the loud, rattllug peals
ceased after a time ; and the black wall
of clouds broke, up in mist. It was get
ting toward sunset.
" It will soon be roosting time," Ned
remarked. "Now hunt for a soft spot,"
and untying the valve-line, he gave a
a steady pull at it. Instantly, the whis
tle of the escaping gas sounded the first
warning notes of that most trying and
perilous ordeal of an meronaut's life a
descent. For the first time that after
noon, a look of gravity overspread Ned's
face.
"It's easy going up, aud sailing after
you are up," he used to say. . " It's this
getting down again that tells the story."
It Is a curious sensation, (bis going
down ; you feel yourself too light sink
ing sinking as if a floor beneath was
falling. Still borne on by the air current,
the ballon niffjjed slowly towards the
earth, as if strung an a long, descending
guy; or rather I should say, the earth,
with all Its array of orchards, farms and
fields, rose steadily to meet us.
We are now not, more than eight or
ten hundred feet from the ground, tend
ing slowly downward, when suddenly
we seemed to strike into a fresh, quick
wind which whisked us along with it.
Bo sharply did It strike us, that the bas
ket lurched and swung.
"The ground current!" muttered Ned.
" I was afraid of it. Generally after a
shower there's a fresh, breeze along the
ground."
We Instantly let go the valve-llne, to
close the throtle, and threw out the little
ballast we had left ; but it was too late.
We had let out too much gas to rise but
a brief distance. The great silken globe
above us, wrinkling with a deafening
noise, like the rattling of sheet-iron,
swayed and shook, and then tended still
lower.
" A hard lighting this time, old fel
low !" exclaimed Ned. "Is your neck
Insured V"
"Four thousand dollars on It, my
boy 1" said I. " Policy runs to my dear
old mother."
"All right, then. Hang hard! I'm
going to throw out the grapple,'.'and my
comrade tossed out the first of the two
anchors. Two hundred feet of line went
whizzing off the reel. Still, the anchor
did not touch the earth, but swung clear,
and went dangling over roofs and tree
tops, as we flew along with the speed of
a railway train.
Our grapple-hook rattled on several
roofs; then dangling for some distance
above the main street, caught the sus
pended rope of a large campaign flag,
which we hauled after us for a mile or
two. A tremendous hoorahf roBe-ln the
rear. 'Twas a Hayea and Wheeler flag.
We carried tt far enough for me to read
the names.
A moment after it tore one of the top
railB from a fence and caught in a pile of
apple-tree brush, a snarl of which we
dragged after us across several fields and
pastures till we struck a road which
chanced to run in our course.
Just then, I saw on the road ahead a
load of wheat piled on a rack cart, drawn
by a yoke of oxen.
" Turn out ! Turn out !" we both yell
ed down at It.
"Gee, Buck !" shouted the man driv
ing. But before he could turn half round
we were overhead. A young fellow ou
the load gave a yell and a leap oft' at the
same moment none too soon, either,for
we took the rail off the rack on the high
side, and left the apple-brush on the
load !
"By Jiug!" I heard the fellow sing
out. " Ole Splithuf hleself's ou a flshln,
to-night! D'ye see bis big hook V
But " dad" was screaming, " Whoa
blsh! Whoa-hlsh 1" trying to stop the
oxen. The cattle, frightened half to
death, were trying to run away, despite
the whacks the old man dealt them with
the pitchfork. We could look back, as
we flew on, to see the result of the mis
chief we had unavoidably caused.
A minute after, our basket almost
grazed a ledge of rocks on the crest of a
hill, and lo, right down in front of us
lay a great pond. In the dim light it
looked like a sea. A fog hung over it.
"That's fatal for us, I'm afraid I"
cried Ned. " We shall be down Into it.
I can't even see the other side 1"
We were not half a mile off from it.
Black and cheerless enough the water
looked.
Ned gave one glance and decided what
to do.
" Goodby, Frank I" he exclaimed.
" Stick to the basket. I'll drop off and
take my chance. Then the balloon will
rise, and you will cross the pond." Be
fore I could even speak, he swung out of
the car, and went down the anchor line,
hand over hand. The rapid motion
whirled him round and round. The
grapple Itself was trailing and bouncing
along the ground. We were close to the
water before Ned was half way down the
long line.
"Drop!" I screamed "or you'll bo
drowned 1"
He looked downward, but even then
was too late. The Hue switched him
violently through some willow tops, and
the balloon sailed out over the water.
A man of less nerve would assuredly
have lost his presence of mind and full
en Into the lake. For, oi cevrse, no one
could bold on to a small line like iul
for many minutes switched and jerked
about as be was.
For my own part, a thudder of horror
went through me. I began to haul him
up with might and main as rapidly as I
could. To my surprise, Ned called out
to me to " hold on !" to " stop 1"
Glancing down, I saw that he was still
cautiously descending, hand over hand.
There was less wind, and the balloon
was ruunlng slower.
" Ned I Ned !" I shouted. " Are you
crazy ? Are you going to drown your
self V You never can swim ashore with
your clothes and boots on !"
But already hU feet were spattering In
the water; a moment more he was waist
deep borne along like a huge bob. For
some distance he was carried on thus
and then I began to divine his motive.
The pond was not bo wide as we fear
ed. Immediately I saw that we were
close In to a wooded shore.
The wind had died away, almost, and
so well checked was the balloon's speed
that, directly Ned's feet touched the
shore, with a dexterous turn of the line
around a stump, he brought.lt to a
standstill. I had then only to let out
the of the gas; and thus our voyage
ended.
An Irishman's Strange Fight.
IT WAS In the Island of Borneo.
A queer place It Is, I- tell you, and
the queerest lot of people I ever saw in
my life.
But, at the same time, If a man gets
used to their ways, an old Bailor might
have a happy time living among the
Dyacka.
I landed from my ship one day, and
with Ned JIcKltrlck, a boy from the
green Isle, I started for a cruise on the
shore.
Wereckonedon a hunt, and brought
guns, though we didn't know what
kind of game we were likely to scare
up.
And, If I must tell the truth, we
didn't neither of us know much about
a gun.
"Seth, acushla," said Ned, " phat
kind av a counthry is this at all at all?
Look at the threes. By the great gun
of Athlone but did ye iver see Bech big
wans in all yer loife?"
Where we landed there was a little
river making its way down to the sea,
and while we were walking up to the
woods, a big water snake, as thick as
my arm, went buzzing up the stream.
Ned gave a war-whoop and jumped
four feet from the ground ; for If there
is anything on the face of the earth that
an Irishman hates It Is a snake.
"Look at that fellow." he cried.
"Shoot him, Seth. Kill him. Whoop!
I niver saw seen a baste in all my loife."
I got him quiet after a while, and
went on Into the woods.
Ned was wild at the fruits and flowers
he saw, and If I had let him, he'd have
poisoned himself a dozen times before
we got a mile on the road.
We kept the river for a guide, because
neither of us knew the country, and if
we once got lost In the trackless woods,
there was little chance of our ever gel
ting out alive. .
Many a queer sight and sound disturb
ed us, and at last we sat down under a
tree and took our lunch.
I had just mixed a little stiff horn of
grog, when Ned started up.
" Look yer here, Seth," he said. " See
the hairy man. Get out av that, ye
black thafe av the world."
Not far away, standing in a stooping
posture, with his long arms swinging by
his side, was a huge orang-outang,
looking at us in the queer, inquisitive
way which seems bo natural to monkeys
and those of her tribe.
He was a big fellow, nearly as tall as a
man ; and no wonder Ned, who had
never seen anything like it, thought it
was a man.
I didn't say anything, and Ned stood
looking at the orang in the ugly way
peculiar to an Irishman who thinks
himself imposed upon.
"Look here, ye rascal," he said,angrl
ly, " d'ye want anything out av me 1"'
The orang did not move or make any
Bound, and Ned began to get mad.
He shook his bead and walked to
ward the orang in a fighting posture,
and I followed, because I didn't know
what he was going lo do.
"Now, look," said Ned, extending
bis hand. "I've got five fingers or
four fingers and a thumb, which manes
the same thing as well as you, an' be
the powers, av ye don't spake till me,
I'll show ye how they do the trick in
ould Ireland."
"I wouldn't stand this nonsense, if
was you, Ned," I said, setting him on.
He didn't need any backing, and went
closer.
" Now smell av that fist," he said,
" an' mark me while I spake. Av ye
don't beg me pardon for not answering
a civil question, may I nlver see ould
Ireland again av I dont knock ye into
Bmlthereens."
The orang uttered a harsh, grating
cackle, which Ned took for a laugh,
and he at once slapped the orang across
the jaws and danced around him with an
Irish yell, his hands up in true fighting
style.
Nu one but an Irishman would have
ever thought of such a thing, and I was
bursting with laughter.
"Step up, ye villain," roared Ned.
" How d'ye lolke that, now V"
The orang gave a yell like a panther
and sprang at Ned's throat, his claws
going like a windmill.
In less time than It takes to tell it,
Ned wns the worst-looking Irishman In
or about the Island of Borneo.
I don't know what would have hap
pened to him If I hadn't got out a knife
and gave the orang a dig, for I didn't
dare to Are at him while he was hanging
on to Ned and clawing Into him.
The minute the orang felt the knife
he lit out, leaving Ned mad with rage,
dancing wildly about, and blood run
nlg down his face from a dozen scratch
es. " D'ye call that fulr fighting, ye black
thafe?" he roared. " Howld on ( I'll
come till ye."
To my surprise he set out on a run
after the orang-outang, which was run
ning away 'among the trees, looking
over his shoulder with an angry snarl,
and licking the blood which flowed from
his wounded arm.
Ned wouldn't stop.aud the only thing
I could do was to run after him, for I
didn't know what kind of trouble he'd
get Into If I wasn't by to help him.
I didn't fully realize myself how dan
gerous it was to chase a wounded orang,
but I couldn't have left Ned anyway.
He was a good runner, and was over
hauling the man-monkey hand-over-flst,
when four or five more dropped from
the trees and joined their companion.
" Hold hard there, Ned," I yelled.
" Don't you see he's got help If"
"Sorraa bit I care!" roared Ned. "I
can whip the party, av they'll ouly
fight fair."
Theorangsset up a chattering and
yelling such as you never heard In your .
life, three of them, the one I had hurt
among the rest, began to come toward
us with such mischief in their eyes that
I knew were in for a fight.
"Look out, Ned," I cried. "Fire at
them or you are gone."
I pulled on the big fellow I had hurt,
and he keeled over beautiful.
Ned, who began to have a faint idea of
.the truth, had the good luck to break
the leg of another.
The pitiful yell he uttered brought the
others at us, and I drew my knife, a
regular old bowie, and waited.
Ned clubbed his rifle and dashed in.
But the ourang at which he struck leap
ed back to avoid the blow and stood chat
tering. My antagonist made a jump at me,
and I felt the sharp claws In my throat,
and struck out wildly and at random,
and heard a half human groan, and my
enemy lay dead at my feet.
As I jumped to help Ned, I saw him
astride of the ourang which had pitched
into him, pummeling him to his heart's
content. "Ah, wud ye, then V" he
yelled. "Taste that, an' that, an' that.
How d'ye loike that?"
"Come away, Ned," I said. "You'll
have a whole colony of the hairy things
on your back If you don't look out."
"Whoop I I'll tache thlm to pitch ln
til a thrue hearted Irish bye that nlver
harmed tbim in his loife. Taste ay that,
me jewel."
I dragged him off and got him away.
I didn't tell him that they weren't
men we were fighting with until we got
to the ship, and he was bragging how
many Dyacks he'd licked.
Then I told the story, and a madder
man you never saw In your life.
Of course it came to a fight, and I had
to win.
An Old Maid's Opinion.
She had been called an old maid, and
rather resented It. Said she, "I am past
forty. I have a good home. I think
you know I have had abundant oppor
tunities to marry. I have been brides
maid a score of limes. I ask myself with,
which one of the beautiful girls that I
have seen take the marriage vow would
I exchange to-day ? Not one I Some are
living apart from their husbands; some
are divorced ; some are uivet of drunken
men; some are hanging on the ragged
edge of society, endeavoring to keep up
appearances ; some are tolling to support
and educate their children, and these are
the least miserable; some tread the nar
row line beyond the boundary of which
lies the mysterious land, and some have
gone out in the darkuess and unknown
horrors, and some are dead. A few there
are who are loved and honored wives,
mothers with happy homes; but, alas,
only a few."
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