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PRESENCE OF MIND.
HOW AN AERONAUT SAVED HIMSELF
IN THE OPEN AIR.
A Long Piece of Rope and a Neat Calcu
lation Preserved the Life of Professor
Hi Wind—Rut For Tilts the Reporter
Couldn't Tell This Interesting Yarn.
Wind was his name.
Hiram Wind, but he told Tho Sun
reporter that they called Lira Hi for
short. - .
"For a long time,” said ho, with a
half knavish smile, “I didn’t like the
abbreviation, but when I was 25 and
took to ballooning as a business it kind
of-fcorter seemed as if Providence meant
that I should have had that name and
no other. Professor Hi Wind,” he add
ed with pride, ‘‘is a name that is bound
to soar through the loftiest realms of
space. ’ ’
‘‘Did yon never have an accident?”
inquired the reporter.
"Several, but they have never been
the fault of the Wind. ”
The professor began to show signs of
succumbing to the pump. .
“Os course,” he admitted hesitat
ingly, “a man can’t walk the earth ev
ery day without bumping up against
something out of the ordinary occasion
ally, and the air is no exception. I’ve
had experiences that you might call
narrow escapes—that is you might, and
then again you mightn’t It would de
pend on how you looked at things. Some
call ’em narrow and some don’t. I
don’t myself. ”
It was plain that the professor under
stood that a good thing was a good
thing when he saw it.
“Suppose you narrate one for my
sake,” 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 small 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 Sun
day school picnic to kind of offset going
up 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
up her heels while I had her tethered,
and when she got away she seemed like
she was heading right for infinity and
was going the limit or bust a ham
string.
“I guess she must have gone up 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
hther way—not fast, you understand,
but slow and sure, and in away to
make you 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 being 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 had to
throw out some more ballast, and it
wasn’t a minute till there wasn't any
thing left in the basket besides myself
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 you 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
gathering velocity, the last movement
downward having begun at a point
about 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 back up again.
The rope and I were heavy enough to
lessen the weight considerably if wj
should get out, and I proposed to do a
great act. Getting a good hold on ray
clasp knife, I waited for the now whizz
ing earthward balloon to get 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 would just about
reach 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 ns to make my
fall comparatively light, and then, when
shejaegan to sink .again, J would be s<r
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after using BRADFIELD'S FEMALE KEGU
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near me eartn tbat beloYe She got to
going at breakneck speed I would be
clone enough to cut loose and let myself
down easy. As it turned out, I might
have had a leg broken or been shaken
up pretty badly, but luck was with me.
when I cut loose, I dropped about 25
feet and lit square on top of a big straw
'stack where some men were thrashing.
As for the balloon, she was so nearly
exhausted and was coming down so fast
that the loss of my weight only gave
her strength enough to go a couple of
hundred yards across the field and drop
into a pond. So you see,” concluded
Professor Wind, “that a little presence
of mind is valuable even to take up in
a 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 would not now be
here telling this story to you. Os course
it was not as serious a mishap as I have
experienced on other occasions, but still
it is interesting. What do you think of
it?”
"Um—e»,” hesitated the reporter,
“have you got a piece of that rope 1
could look at?”—New York Sun.
The Pace of the Camel.
As a matter of fact, and in spite of
its having carried Mohammed in four
leaps from Jerusalem to Mecca, seven
miles an hour is the camel’s limit, nor
can it maintain this rate over two hours.
Its usual speed is five miles an hour
—a slow pace, beyond which it is dan
gerous to urge it, lest, as Asiatics say,
it might break its heart and die literally
on the spot.
When a camel is pressed beyond this
speed, ahd is spent, it kneels down, and
not all the wolves in Asia will make it
budge again. The camel remains where
it kneels, and where it kneels it dies.
A fire under its nose is useless.—Times
of India.
British Rulo the Cables.
Nearly four-fifths of the submarine
cables of the world are in the hands of
British companies, who own a length
of more than 150,000 miles of cable,
laid at a cost of over £30,000,000. Os
14 cables across the Atlantic to America,
France has 1 and Great Britain 10.
while so popular are the British cables
that 9 out of every 10 telegrams are dis
patched over British lines.
TRADEGY IN TWENTY WORDS.
One In Where Bievity la Certainly
Not the Soul of Wit.
The unique announcement in a Dead
wood paper some years ago:
“John Thompson, gunsmith, endeav
ored to melt the bullet from a loaded
rifle—he succeeded—age 42,” has prob
ably not been equaled, though perhaps a
communication received by the Chatta
tanooga Times from an Alabama town
approaches it. It was as follows:
town, Ala., Oct. 10.—Bill Bat
tles died first of this week. Coroner’s
jury rendered a verdict—came to his
death by the Brown boys. Farmers are
having splendid weather for gathering
their crops.
WHERE TO PAY
Parlies indebted to the
electric light company
will find their accounts
at the Merchants Nation
al Bank- Please call and
pay same CE. Wood
ruff, Receiver.
THE LITTLE FRENCH GIRL.
She Is a Miniature Woman and Is Taught
All Feminine Arts.
However 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
demure 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 house 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 home 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 dose an intimacy
with little boy cousins, because ten
years later a jealous husband would
take a dislike to these friendly cousins,
nor would he like his wife’s bosom
friends, in whom she confides and who
never leave her, any better.
Mothers, therefore, permit few if any
intimacies, and these are all winnowed
and selected with the greatest care. One
advantage of this system is that the
name of friend is nos 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, together with other scientific
facts, which allowed her to shine now
end then. One evening, while playing
in the garden, she heard a friend of her
father’s exclaim, “What a dazzling
star!” “That is not a star, sir,” she
said; "it is a planet.” Her mother was
in despair, for she W’ould 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 (lie [oor liitlo
thing will have forgotten a great part
of what she knows today!”—Th. Bent
ion in Century.
THE ROME TBIBUNE. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1896.
FOR FALL BUSINESS
Every Advertiser Should Be
Represented
IN TBE TRIBUNE’S TRADE EDITION
VVII Wi’l Ba Issued E rly in O etc her
and Eclipse All Previous Efforts
In This Line.
Readers of The Tribune have
learned to look forward to each new
and successful achievment of Rome’s
great daily. We have issued several
special editions since the present
management has been in charge and
we are happy to say that each and
every one has been an improvement
on its predecessor as has been evinced
by the popular public favor with
which they have been received.
Early in October we intend to issue
a special edition which will eclipse
our previous efforts. Rome is steadily
growing and there is healthy and sub
stantial improvement going on all
over the section of country tributary
to the North Georgia metropolis. Now
is the time to keep our advantages
before the people.
In no other way can this be done
quite so successfully as through the
medium of a widely circulated news
paper like The Tribune. Every edi
tion of a special character that we
have gotten out has gone abroad on
its mission of progress and the results
have been made apparent by the at
tention attracted to this section of
country.
We have endeavored to make every
edition as full and complete as possi
ble, but in this one we want to cover
the whole ground. All that we ask is
the liberal co-operation of the people
for whom we have labored so earnestly
and for whom we expect to continue
tn worit as long as we control the des
tinies of The Tribune
Hit will be to the interest of every
business or professional man in North
Georgia and North and East Alabama,
to secure space in this great issue
The merchant, the manufacturer, the
land owner, the mine operator, the
professional man and all who are in
terested in educational, industrial
work, or emigration work, will he
benefitted by represention in its col
umns.
Not less than ten thousand readers,
in every part of the country, and
especially in the West and Northwest,
wjll read this great edition and profit
by the information gained from its
columns. Our solicitors are already
out and will make a thorough canvass
of the country contiguous to Rome
and we bespeak for them the consider
ation which they are entitled to in
promoting this laudable enterprise in
the interest of our city and section,
Electric Bittere.
Electric Bitters is a medicine suited for
any season, but perhaps more generally
needed when the languid, exhausted feel
ing prevails, when the liver is torpid and
sluggish and the need of a tonic and al
terative is felt. A prompt use of this
medicine lias often averted long and per
haps fatal bilious fevers. No medicine
will act more surely in counteracting and
freeing the system from the ualarial
poison. Headache, indigestion, consti
pation, dizziness yield to Electric Bitters.
50c and. $1 per bottle at D. W. Curry’s
drug store.
Glowworms are much more brilliant
when a storm is coming on than at
other seasons. Like many other mys
teries' of nature, this curious circum
stance has never been explained.
In 1865 there was a fire in Constan
tinople which destroyed 2,800 buildings,
shops and bazaars.
The first stereotyping was done in
1813 in New York.
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Tax Levy, 1896.
Rom 5, Ga„ Sept. 14. 1‘96.
The Board of Commissioners of Roads and
fit venue of Floyd county, Georgia, having
taken into consideration the levying of taxes
for the present fl-cal year, the taxab e property
of the county bring found from the tax digest
to he $7 584 014 00
Tie state tax on the foregoing is
4.66 mil's, making the sum <T 84,583 10
The follow nu taxi- hereby levied:
SPKt'IFiC TAX.
To pa’ prltcipai and >nte-est on
county bond , eight per ct nt. on
State tax 2,766.65
To run chaingang, 6 per cent on
Slate rax 2 074.99
To bridge fund, 10 per cent, on
State tax 3,45-1 80
FOR OOU 'TV PUnI’OSES.
To poor fund 6 per Ct. i n State tax 2.074.99
To jail fund, 6 per or. on Slate tax 2.(74 99
roj-tryiund 36p’-rct. on State tax 12,449.9?
To general fund, 47 3 10 on State tux 16 357 31
$41,2 7.04
The same being 5.44 mills on the dollar, of the,
tax .ble property <>t th- county miking in all
for state and county purposes one dollar on the
one hundred dolla s.
Ir. 1 • >•! dared (hat such notice be given of th s
ev- as required by law.
wttne-a the lion. John C- Foster, chairman
of the board.o The September 14.1896.
9-15-3ld MxX,MiJYBRHARDr, Clerk,
PROPOSAL!
NOT FOR YOUR HAND, BUT
FOR YOUR TRADE.
We have the largest and most varied stock
of goods ever brought to North Georgia. . .
We Need Your Dollars,
And to get them we make this proposal : no
matter what you wish in our line we will
save you .
From 10 to 25 Per Cent
On every dollar spent with us. This may
seem at first glance a rash promise, but we
are prepared to prove it, if you will give us
the opportunity. > • » » »
SUIT OF CLOTHS $2,50.
Men’s Shoes SI.OO.
GOOD ALL WOOL JEANS
From 15 to 30 Cents Per Yard.
All Wool Undershirts 50 Coots
SOMETHING NICE.
When you come to Rome don’t buy one thing until
you have seen us. We are head quarters-for everything
you need.
Ladies’ shoes 75c. 100 Children’s shoes 25c to 75c.
Calico 4to sc. Cotton Checks 4to sc. A. A. A. Sheet
ing 4 to sc, the best, A. C. A. Bed Tick 13c.
Men’s Work Shirts 25c- Jeans Pants 60c to 125.
WHY NOT COME TO THE
CUT PRICE HOUSE
and get your goods cheaper than anybody else in Rome
can sell them.
We are your friends and have been for years. Buy
5 our cotton and pay more for that than anybody in Rome.
We have bought very largely this season expecting a
large cotton crop but it has been cut off and we have got
these goods on hand and they must be sold regardless of
cost.- So cima and See for youiself hour cheap you can
buy from
THE MAMMOTH CUT PRICE HOUSE OF
W. H. COKER & I’o.
19 &21 Broad Street.
ROME, - - GEORGIA.
; jiit aii 11 n i ■
jrrrnxi ra m rxnxrS
People Don’t Buy Pianos
For looks alone. If they did, any one of
the pretty piano cases, offered for sale,
with the tin-pan attachment inside, would
do very well and not cost much.
A few months’ use serves to show the
difference between a good and bad piano
between a piano carefully made of ex
cellent material and a piano made of
cheap stuff, slapped together anyhow.
The Conover is as good a piano as was
ever made. You may see it any time you
will come in. Seeing’s free.” ‘
E. E FORBES,
Music Dealer, 327 Broad St., Rome, Ga.
Save AR You (an
ON YOUR
Grocery Purchases.
Yet get the bestof everything. We know
your needs and we are making every ef
fort t> supply them. We have a new ■
stock of
Flour—the best brands.
Meal—always fresh.
Canned Goods.
Fish —all kinds, in barrels and cans.
Salmon, Mackerel, etc , Fruits, Vegeta
bles, Butter, Coffee, etc., Teas, Sugar,
Syrup, pure and -delicious.
Crackers, Candies, Pickles, Sauces, etc.
All kinds of Fancy Gjods, Cigars and
Tobacco.
Give us a part of your trade. We will
save you money. We will make every ef
fort to give you the best of everything the
market affords.
WE DELIVER YOUR GOODS.
J. R. DUPREE,
No. 8 Second Avenue, Rome, Ga.
Opposite Armstrong Hotel. 9-18tf
kPaloM Cuiui Cigar Factory,
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We guarantee that all our Cigars
are Cuban hand-made, and are of
the very best quality.
We solicit a trial.
OFFICE AND FACTORY
81 W. ALABAMA ST.,
ATLANTA, GA.
DYEING!
But Not Dead Yet.
Ladies’ and gentlemen’s silk and
woolen goods of all descriptions cleaned
and dyed in a superior manner. Prices
to suit the times. The oldest Steam
Dyeing and Cleaning Works in Atlanta.
’Phone 880.
MRS. J. E. KREIS,
No. 18 Trinity Avenue, Atlanta, Ga
EXTRACTED POSITIVELY
Without Pain.
By the use of Vitalized Air, the latest (
and best anaesthetic known to the
medical profession.. EVERYBODY
can take it. Painless extracting, 50c.
Warranted first class Crowns, Bridges,
Fillings and Plates.
Philadelphia Dental Parlors,
38 Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Ga.
Moncrief Do wan Go.,
Manufacturers ot
Galvanized iron Cornices,@<-
-jg Metal Sky Lights,
Conservatories and Hot Houses, Tin *•
and Slate Roofing' Heavy Iron
Works of every description.
Be sure to get our prices. Work
done anywhere in the South. >
’Phone 525, 57 South St.. Atlanta,
vail us up from Rome.
is not satisfactory when in Atlanta
call on
GOODELL & PIERSON,
The most successiul
Eye glass and
Spectacle Fitters
n the South. Examination free.
ATLANTA OPTICAL ROOMS,
68 Whitehall Street. 3rd Fl< or.