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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 DELICATE *o«* FEMALE REGULATOR. IT IS fl SUPERB TONIC ano exerts a wonderful influence in strengthening her system by driving through the proper chan nel all impurities. Health <IDd strength are guaranteed to result from its use. My wife was bedridden for eighteen months after using BRADFIELD'S FEMALE KEGU LATOR for two mouths, is getting well.— J. M. JOHNSON, Malvern, Ar' BBADFIEI.I> BEGL'LATOB CO., ATLANTA, GA Sold by all Drugpata at 81.00 per bottle. 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. FREE tu^ tt If son send your name and address, mention ing this paper, tc Dr. Hathaway <fc Co , 22% So Broad St, Auanta, <4a.. you will receive their vainaoi* 64 page Reference Book for Men and Women. This book has just been Issued and is full ol valuable Information to those afflicted with any of those delicate diseases peculiar to men and women. It tells how to cure diseases. Dr. Hathaway & Co. are considered to be expert in the treatment of such diseases, and are without doubt the leading specialists in the line of dis eases wnlch tney make a specialty of. SPECIALTIES. Specific blood poi soning, nervous de- 7 bllity, kidney and urinary difficulties, ZC/T strictures, varico- I / v ' ytjky cele, hydrocele, pirn- • ' pies, piles, rheuma new, skin and blood diseases of all forms, sSSSSjfc. catarrh and diseases : zzvjgJjJsSgaiaStS SsSw*- of women. AddrusH . orcalion Dr. Hath- BmNti away & Co., 22% So i roau st, At-»nta. Ga Mail treatment given by sending ’or symptom blank No. 1 for men. No. 2 for women. No. 1 for skin diseases. No. 4 for catarrh 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, LLORENS, PACETTI & CO , Props- Manufacturers of the following CELEBRATED BRANDS'. La Pal oiii a <ll liana. Three Friends, Ei Parveuir, Our Utile Havana, Star ot America, Flor de Key West, El Machete. 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.