Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 27 January 1908 — Page 3

GREKNCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY, JAN. 27, 1008.

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liMLiittLLifei Fearful and Tragic Experience of Three Aeronauts.

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WAR ON INTERUR8AN

Itra/.il is Roused Over Attempt of (lie Trai t inn ('oni|miiy to Work, W hat (’lli/.eiis Call, Injustice by Rates.

Brazil and Terre Haute, Indiaua.!is and E.istern Traction Company are having a setto of considerable propositions. The husiness men of tlie city claim that the company has discriminated against Brazil in the matter of rates, and propose a boycot unless things can be adjusted. It is held that the company has established a rate that makes it possible to g.) to Terre Haute, cheaper from midway points than to come to Brazil. The business men met the Company and talked the matter over, but claim that they recieved no assurance of the alleged wrong being righted. As a result retalatory measures are being' talked of. In the mean time Attorney A. C. Miller has brought suit against the company for violation of the two cent fare law. He holds that the company lias charged fifteen cents fare for six miles travel, and he will see if the law will apply to traction companies. The company has not yet made public its side of the row, but doubtless has something to say worth hearing.

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The Terrific Cold and the Peculiar Sensations That Encompassed the Daring Voyagers at an Altitude of Over Five Miles—The Descent. One of the most terrific experiences in the history of ballooning was that of three aeronauts who in 1875 made an ascension iu a large and well made balloon, the Zenith. In tills voyage j the object was to reach the greatest possible ftltitude. The balloon rose to a height of 28,000 fi>et-tliat Is, about five and a half miles from the earth. At this point something happened— what, no one will ever know, since the only surviving balloonist, Tlssandler, was at the lime insensible. But tha balloon began a rapid fall and finally struck the ground with such a frlght- | ful shock that SIvel and Croce-Spin-nelli were killed instantly, while Ttssamlier’s life was spared by a miracle. The account of this voyage is perhaps best told In Tissnndier's own words: “At 23,000 feet we were standing up In the car. SIvel, who hud given up for a moiueut, was re invigorated. Croce-Spinuelll was motionless in front of me. I felt stupefied and frozen. 1 wished to put on my fur gloves. But without being conscious of it the action of taking them from my pocket uecessitated an effort that 1 could uo longer make. 1 copy verbatim the following lines which were written by me, although 1 have no very distinct remembrance of doing so. They are traced in a hardly legible manner by a hand trembling with cold: “ ‘My hands are frozen. I am all right. We are all right. Fog In the horizon, with little rounded cirrus. We are ascending. Croce pants. Ho inhales oxygen. Sivel closes his eyes. Croce also closes his eyes. Sivel throws out ballast.’ Sivel seized his kulfe and cut successively three cords, and the three bags emptied themselves, and we ascended rapidly. “When Sivel cut away the bags of ballast at the height of about 24,000 foot 1 seemed to rememlter that he was sitting at the bottom of the car and nearly iu the same position as CroceSpinnelil. For my part, 1 was in the angle of the car, thanks to which support I was al>W to hold up, but I soon felt too weak even to turn my bead to look at my companions. This was about 1:30 p. m. At 2:08 p. m. 1 awoke for a moment and found the balloon rapidly descending. I was able to cut away a bag of ballast to check the speed and wrote in my notebook the following words: “‘We are descending. Temperature, 3 degrees. I throw out ballast. Barometer, 12.4 Inches. Wo are descending. Hlvel and Croce still In a fainting state at the bottom of the car. Descending very rapidly.’ “Hardly had I written these lines when a kind of trembling seized me, and I fell hack weakened again. There was a violent wind from below upward, denoting a very rapid descent. After some minutes I felt myself shaken by the arm and recognized Croce, who had revived. ‘Throw out ballast,’ he said to me. ‘We are descending.’ But 1 could hardly open my eyes and did not see whether Sivel was awake. 1 called to mind that Croce unfastened the aspirator, which he then threw overboard, and he threw out ballast, rugs, etc. “At 3:30 p. in. I. opened my eyes again. I felt dreadfully giddy and 6ppressed, hut gradually came to myself. The balloou was descending with frightful speed and making great oscillations. I crept along on my knees and pulled Sivel and Croce by the arm. ‘Sivel! Croce!’ I exclaimed. ‘Wake up!’ My two compauious were huddled up motionless In the car, covered by their cloaks. I collected all ray strength and endeavored to raise them up. Slvel’s face was black, his eyes dull, and his mouth was open and full of blood. Croce’s eyes were half closed, and his mouth was bloody. “To relate what happened afterward Is Impossible. I felt a frightful wind. We were still 9,700 feet high. There remained In the car two hags of ballast, which I threw out. I was drawing near the earth. I looked for my knife to cut the small rope which held the anchor, but could not find it. I was like a madman and continued to call, ’Sivel, Sivel!’ By good fortune 1 was able to put my hand upou my knife and detach the anchor at the right moment. “The shock on coming to the ground was dreadful. The balloon seemed as If It was being flattened. I thought it was goiug to remain where It bad fallen, but the wind was high, and It was dragged across fields. The bodies of my unfortunate friends were shaken about In the car, and I thought every momeut they would be Jerked out. At length, however, 1 seized the valve Hue, and the gas soon escaped from the balloon, which lodged against a tree. It was then 4 o’clock. On stepping out I was seized with a feverish attack and sank down and thought for a moment that 1 was going to join my friends in the next world, but I came to. I found the bodies of my friends cold and stiff. 1 had them put under shelter Id an adjacent barn. The descent of the Zenith too!; place on the plains 155 miles from Paris as the crow flies. The greatest height attained iu this ascent Is estimated at 28,000 feet.”—W. U. C. l.atson in Minneapolis Journal.

Kipling at Work. “I have lounged In Rudyard Kipling’s den at Brattieboro, Vt, before he deserted America for England and saw him at his work. lie sat at his table iu a revolving chair. 1 had a book in my hand and said nothing unless I was spoken to. for 1 was enjoying a great privilege that was granted to uo one else but his wife. He would write for a moment, perhaps for ten or fifteen minutes at a time. If he was writing verses he would hum very softly to himself au air which probably kept the rhythm iu his mind. When writing prose, he was siltmt, but often he would lay down his pen, whirl round in ids chair and chat for awhile. It might be so'methlng relating to tlie subject he was treating or bear no relation to it. Suddenly be would wheel back again, and his pen would fairly fly over Hie paper. He can easily concentrate his thoughts and as easily descend from cloud land to the commonplace of the day, though in his mind and ou his lips nothing is ever commonplace. Some of his poems ho has written when speeding In a Pullman car at the Tate of sixty miles an hour.”—Pacific Monthly.

Birds Shot With Water. Shooting a humming bird with the smallest bird shot made Is out of the question, for the tiniest seeds of lead would destroy bis coat. The only wayin which flic bird can lie captured for commercial purposes is to shoot him with a drop of water from a btowgun or ti fine jet from a small syringe. Skillfully directed, the water stuns him. He falls Into a silken net and before he recovers consciousness is suspended over a cyanide Jar. This must be done quickly, for if he comes to his senses before the cyanide whiff snuffs out his life he Is sure to ruin his plumage In his struggles to escape. Humming birds vary in size from specimens perhaps half as large as a sparrow to those scarcely bigger than a bee. The quickest eye cannot follow them in full flight. It is only when, though still flying furiously, they are practically motionless over flowers that the best marksman can bring them to earth.—New York Press.

The Feeding of Dogs. “No* dog kept Indoors and indeed very few outside should be fed on meat nor should he be fed from the table at mealtimes, as be will soon become a nuisance, especially when there are visitors. If he is always fed at (he conclusion of a certain meal— dinner, for instance- he will wait patiently, until the prescribed lime. It Is a good plan to feed after one’s midday meal, giving plenty of green vegetables, bread and potatoes, with a very few scraps of finely cut meat, the whole well mixed and some gravy poured over it. If two meals are given, one should be at breakfast time and one in the evening. One should eon sist-of only a little oatmeal and milk or a piece of dry dog biscuit. “At uo time should the dog have more than he will eat. and if he leaves anything on his plate except the pattern his allowance should be reduced or a meal omitted.”—Suburban Life.

The Shoulder Strap. If It were possible to compile such data U would be extremely interesting to know to what extent women have Influenced the uniforms and equipment of their fighting stales. A little instance in point is the steel curb shoulder strap of the British cavalry. When Sir George Luck was setting out for Kandahar during the Afghan operations Lady Luck, knowing probably something of the fighting methods of the tribesmen, whose four foot knife can cut clean from shoulder to belt, sewed a couple of steel curb chains under each of the shoulder straps on her husband's tunic. As a protection from sword cuts these proved so effective that at the end of the campaign Sir George'made n report in relation thereto, with the result that they were adopted as a permanent feature of the cavalry uniform.- Harper’s Weekly. Seized Her Opportunity. He was not a very rapid wooer, and she was getting a bit anxious. Again he called, nud they sat together In tin* parlor, "just those two.” A loud rap came at the front door. '•oh, bother!” she said. “Who can be calling V” “Say you’re out,” said tlie deceiver. "Oh, no; that would be untrue.” murmured the Ingenuous one. “Then say you’re engaged,” lie urged. “Oh, may I. Charlie?” she cried ns she threw herself in Ids arms. And tlie man kept ou knocking at the front door.—Illustrated Bits.

A Rejection Slip. “Sir.” said the shivering beggar, stopping tlie prosperous magazine editor ou the street. “I have a long, sad story”— “Sorry,” briskly replied the magazine editor, passing on, “but we are only open for short, funny stories now; full of the other kind.”—Success Magazine.

No Thanks. "I broke a record today. Had the last word with a woman." "Didn’t think it possible. Hovtod It happen?" “Why, I said to a woman In the car. ‘Madam, have my seat.’I’hlladelphia Ledger.

Good Trade. “Oh, my business is good,” said the trombone player. “In fact, 1 am always blowing about it.” “Well, I’m sooted with mine, too.” said (lie chimney sweep. “And mine is out of sight,” said the diver.

Do one thing at a time and the big things first.—Lincoln.

A GAME OF CHECKERS. The Move One Player Made and His Subs>.qucr t Soliloquy. “It’s your move,” she smiled. He smiled hack at her, his baud hovering above the checkerboard. “Really?” he asked, looking at her In a witty sort of way "Hull huh,” she softly answered. “Really?” he asked again. “Huh-huh,” she breathed and demurely dropped her eyes. His success began to Intoxicate him. and ho felt that never before had be been In such strong form, never bad bis wit been so keen or his manner so engaging. Ills spirit soared, and he looked upon his opponent with a kindling eye. “There!” lie said, making his move at last. “There?” she asked, giving his ejaculation the appearance of having been conceived In subtle humor. "There?” “There!” he repeated. They made eyes at each other, and she moved one of her men. He briskly moved one of his. "No. no." she faintly murmured. “You must take me." “1 must what?” he cried, making a motion. "v, “Take me!” she whispered. “Take you?" She nodded her head without looking up, and the next momeut be had taken her and two hearts beat ns one “And will you always think o, me?” she asked as he was bidding her good by after he had measured her finger for the ring. “How could I help II?" he ask 1. “Always?" she Insisied. “Always!" he repeated. "Will you think of me ns you go home tonight?" “Every step of the way." They parted at last. “He loves me!” she whispered to herself. “OU, he loves me! I knew it from the first. Maybe this won’t make some of them Jealous! And I’m the first girl lie ever loved, and it's to he a diamond hand! Oh, oh!" And as he walked home he turued a troubled face up to the moon, halted suddenly and addressed the night: “When she began that I’uuny bus! ness a I suit taking her 1 ought to have sat tight and kept my fool mouth shut; that's w hal I ought to have done!”— Kansas City Independent. FOREST i : iP.r.S. The Watchful Rangers and the Way They Fight the Flanies. Iu almost any of the wesic.n luoun tains the traveler sees ibe lire warn lags of the forest service, and he Is likely to meet some of the rangers You will find them crossing the high Sierras in California, lu the Crazy mountains of Moutaua, among the Olympics In Wasbingiou or following the old Apache trails along the mesas iu Arizona Wherever he 1 the ranger keeps a keen lookout for (ho smoke of forest fires, and In Hie clear western atmosphere e\i n a Hi He smoke column can be detected from afar As soou as he discovers it the ranger takes his ax and shovel nud goes as only a western horse and rider can Man. small fires are stopped by this watchfulness, but there are others which take many men many hours to subdue. A lire in a chaparral so thick that a man can hardly force his way through it and parched by six months of drought makes hard and trying fighting. Then there are fires iu the big timber among the dead trees of old windfalls and overhead tires that spread faster thar a uinu can run. If unchecked, they will burn far weeks over thousands o' acres of timber. And all this destruction may be caused by a carelessly left campfire or a match dropped from horseback The sheep men used to set the forest on (ire purpose* , for the year after a fire Hie burned acres yield fine forage Happily this practice is discontinued. Sparks from locomotives now set more fires within the national forests than any other cause, t’amping parties are the next worst offenders. Indians, stockmen, miners and lumbermen who travel continually in the forests very seldom leave campfires to spread and do damage. They know too well the results. For a time alum t every year the citizens of Portland, Ore., love sight of some of the great mountains around the city on account of the smoke from the burning forests. There is little doubt that since the white man settled In the west more timber has been uselessly burned than has been cut and used.—Arthur W. Pago In World’s Work.

A Startling Dish. Over In Chelsea a schoolteacher was engaged in her task of teaching a class of foreign children the English language. .She was trying to make her pupils understand the meaning of the word fright and asked if any one in the class could give a sentence containing the word. Ijulck and confident w as the reply of oue little girl: “I have a sentence, teacher. We had fright eggs for breakfast this morning.”—Boston Herald.

Defined. Burglar Trust Manager—You will he required to turn night Into day, to throw aside all sentiment, to enter the houses of the best famifi -s regardless of their feelings, to act the hypocrite nud, if necessary, to go to Jail. Applicant—Um! You don’t want an ordinary burglar. What you want is u uewsiiauer reporter.—life. Two Powers. Tommy—Pop. what D the difference between firmness and obsti iacy? Tommy’s Pop—Merely the dliierence t>etween will power and won’t power, uxf Sou.—Philadelphia Record

[Copyright, 1SUT, by E. C. Parcelled There was a column of us riding | along the highway in sets of fours when oue of the cavalrymen swayed, lurched and pitched from his saddle Just as we heard the report of a rifle. At the edge of the cornfield twenty rods from the road was a puff of blue smoke to direct us to the bushwhacker. We had the fences down and were riding toward the spot two minutes later. War is cruel enough, but bushwhacking is simply murder. A farmer ambushes himself and fires into a column of marching men. Whether he wounds or whether he kills, tlie war goes on Just the same. The government would feel the loss of a mule more than of a

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“If your column Is bushwhacked, find the man and hang him. If he has a home, burn it. Those were the orders, and every man remembered them as we rode down on Hit* bushwhacker. We found where he had knelt down to take aim, hut he bad disappeared. Fifteen rods up the hill was a wretched pole cabin, with the roof sinking in. It had no door at the opening and no sashes at the w indows. There was no floor, and the cooking was done at a rude fireplace. A girl who could not have been over eighteen and who was poorly clothed and barefooted sat at the front door, smoking a pipe. She paw us swarming up the hill, but did not move. Our curses filled her ears a moment later, hut she puffed at her pipe and looked at us indifferently. “Where Is the man who fired the shot? You heard it. Y’ou must know who it was.” “Didn't dun hear uor see infillin',” she replied. There was only one room in the eabin. Lying on the floor under the rude bedstead, with his gun beside him, was the man. We hauled him outdoors without resistance. The wife on the steps did not rise up uor cease to puff. She did not look at us uor at him. The man was a squatter, perhaps twenty-two years old. He was “white trash." '’Bring a rope!” The man leaned up against an old cherry tree and looked at wife and baby. I was looking into Ids face all the time. It was emotionless and unreadable. Not one human sentiment swept over it. lie simply stared and stared and stared. The baby had been nursed and crooned to sleep. The womiui still held it. Her pipe had been smoked out. She still retained it in her black teeth. As the free end of the rope was thrown over the limb of another tree not fat away the woman seemed to look at her husband for the first time and

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"Jed, didn't I ‘tell you tin “Reckon.” "lie's bushwhacked one of my men and he's got to bang!" said the officer to her. “Told him not to.” "Will you go inside?" “Fur why?" “Y’ou don’t want to' see your own husband hung, do you?” “I’ll sit yere," she answered as she settled down. “Now, then,” said the officer to the husband, “do you want to kiss your wife and child before you go?" I looked to see soft fines come Into the man's face, but I observed not oue single one. It was a face of wood or stone. lie looked at the woman and at the child, and it seemed ns if he had not understood. She did not even look up. I doubt if they had ever exchanged kisses. Perhaps he had never taken the Infant in his arms. It seems cruel now, when peace has bt*eii upon the land for a third of a century, but blood ran hot in (hose days of war, and men did not stop to think. The man was walked to the other tree, the noose slipped over Ids head, and half a dozen pairs of hands drew him clear of the ground. Ids arms having been first tied behind him. He said no word and made no struggle. Y’ou would have thought that something like that had been part and parcel of his daily existence for years. “Now we must burn the house," said tlTe officer to the wife as the grewsome thing hung there, swaying iu the breeze. “Reckon you must,” site answered ns she moved aside for us to pass lu. We brought out everything and made a pile In the grass. She assisted us In no way. The baby woke up again, with a wall, but before nursing mid croon Ing again she filled and lighted her pipe. One of the troopers gave her a match. When ordered to move, she walked away about ten yards and sat down under a hush. The old cabin was fired, and In a quarter of an hour It had disappeared. What we had carried out could have been taken away in a wheelbarrow. The provisions consisted of a small piece oMiaeon and about five pounds of cornmeul. The bugle blew “Attention!” and the troopers began moving down the highway. I fingered behind to say to the woman: “Your hugbund is dead, your house burned down, and what will you do now?” * “Can’t reckon to say,” she replied In careless tones. “Got a father and mother to go to?” She shook her head. “Any friends to take you in?” Another shake. I took out and handed her a five dollar greenback, and she was inspecting it and giggling over it when I hastened away. M. QUAD.

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