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SUNDAY MORNING ,mED ’isE'Sif. i GfeO (5& ~| ( re fci , i? r aßi¥irg | How He Felt While Falling 110 Foet. ~1~ EWIS MASON. boilermaker I z anil ironworker, says that a A fall of 110 feet Isn't so bail. Masoa tumbled 110 feet Sown the smokestack of the American Sugar Refinery at New Orleans. La., mil fifteen minutes later was o implalu- Ing because the nurse wouliln t let him smoke a cigarette. “It's all a bluff.’’ declared Mason, “this thing people tell you about not thinking or feeling while you are fall ing. X thought about a lot of things and knew everything that was doing. No, I didn't think of death. It never occurred to me that I was going to die. 'Mason,’ says I to myself, the first sec ond of the journey, ‘you've always been a lucky dog; you will be now. You are going to escape.’ and I did. I hit the bottom on a coil of rope, and then I went to sleep for fifteen min utes. “We had put up the big iron smoke stack at the American Sugar Refinery. The scaffolding and stay work were ou the inside of the pipe—not the out side. "I was up 110 feet, working with a steel poker. Of course the ledge was narrow and a man had to watch his balance, hut being accustomed to it the height never bothered me. I worked up there just the same as on the ground. “In this case 1 was putting a good power in the hand rod. and was lean ing over considerably off a perpendic ular. Suddenly the poker came out and I lost iny balance. "The first sensation was the only one of fright I had. After the first Instant I was never frightened. I made one grasp at a rope but missed it. 1 knew then I would go to the bottom of the shaft. There was plenty of time to think and I reasoned everything out. The first was—were there any cross hoards near me. ‘No,’ I replied to my self, ’they are all out.’ That relieved me. I felt pretty good. I knew I had a long fall, but I reasoned that 1 liad always been lucky, and why nor now - That was another consoling thought, two; no boards and always lucky. I thought it all out just as 1 am telling It now. “The black sides of the smokestack were whirling by. Have you ever gone down in tin elevator very fast? Well, just imagine you are going a little fast er and yon have an Idea of if. “When about half way down I had reasoned it ail out and was satisfied. I crossed my arms tightly, determined, if possible, to fall light side up. Then the sides of the big stack began to ring. Tlie din was frightful. 1 thought a million wagons were running over iron crossings. I was not doing so much thinking now. The noise changed to booming cannons. They bellowed and roared. 1 thought the whole thing was moving, and that l was gracefully floating in the air, sailing in an airship, with the objects moving about mo. Nothing hurt me. I must have still had my reason, for I remember distinctly whatV happened. One very bright thought come to me. and I wondered why I had not reached the bottom. It seemed that I had stopped en rcaite. Then I wondered if 1 had slipped by tlie coil of rope and was not going to stop there at ail. “The sensation was growing more pleasant. Just as I thought to myself how comfortable I was feeling a beau tiful light broke in upon the darkness. There was a green lawn and some hoys playing tennis. So far as 1 know per sonally I never hit the bottom. 1 went to sleep—a beautiful sleep—as the pic ture flashed upon me. That must have been when 1 struck, but I never felt anything “Fifteen minutes later I opened my eyes as they were carrying me to the ambulance. I pulled up a leg, then an arm, and I knew I was still alive. 1 said to myself. ‘Mason, you’re luck is with you.’ Somebody asked me if I knew what had happened, and I re plied that of course I knew; that I had fallen down the smokestack. 1 felt a little pain in my back- as they carried me in the hospital. “In the hospital—l’ve got no use for ’em—they won’t give you anything to eat and they won’t let you smoke and roll on the grass. They treated me like an invalid, and only gave me milk toast and some other soft things. So when the nurse went out of the room I jumped out of bed, got all my clothes I could find and left the place.” Mason is twenty-four years of age. weighs 170 pounds and stands five feet eight, inches in height. “There is only one day I didn't work,” said he. “The day I fell.” An Exciting Canoe Run. Now, before us. says a writer in Scribner's Magazine, telling of Cana dian adventures, ran a strange, wild river of seething white, lashing among great, gray-capped. dark-greenish bowlders that blocked tbe way. High, rocky banks standing close together squeezed tbe mighty river into a tu mult of fury. Swiftly we glide down the racing torrent and plunge through the boiling waters. Sharp rocks rear above the flying spray, while others are barely covered by the foaming flood. It is dangerous work. We mid men paddle bard to force the canoe ahead of the current. The steersmen in bow and stern pry and bend their great soven-foot paddles. The bowman with eyes alert keenly watches the whirling waters and signs of hidden rocks below. The roar of seething waters drowns the bowman's orders. The steersman closely watches und follows every move his companion makes. Down we go, riding upon the very back of the river; for here the water forms a great ridge, rising four or five feet above the water-line on either shore. To swerve to either side means sure destruction. With terrific speed we reach the brink of a violent descent. For a moment the canoe pauses, steadies herself, then dips her head as the stern upheaves, and down tve plunge among more rocks than ever. Right in our path tlie angry stream is waging battle with a hoary bowlder that disputes the way. With all its might and fury the frantic river hisses and roars and lashes it. Yet it never moves—it only frowns destruc tion upon all that dares approach it. How the bowman is working! See his paddle bend! With lightning move ments he jabs his great paddle deep into the water and close under the left side of the bow; then with a mighty heave he lifts her head around. The great canoe swings ns though upon a pivot, for is not the steersman doing exactly the very opposite at this pre cise moment? We sheer oft’. But the next instant the paddles are working on the opposite sides, for the bowman sees signs of a water-covered rock not three yards from the very bow. With a wild lunge he strives to lift the bow around, lmt the paddle snaps like a rotten twig. Instantly he grabs for another, aml a grating sound runs the length of the heaving bottom. The next moment he is working the new paddle. A little water is coming in, hut she is running true. till Hear rhiwrA Him. “Bert" Bantu, deputy sheriff, Is in Colorado near Oreede. spending ids va cation with his brother-in-law, E. E. Putnam. In order to show his “ten derfoot” relative a good time Mr. Put nam organized a fishing and hunting party, and with a camping outfit all went up into the Rio Grande canon. It was while there last week that Mr. Bantu had an experience with a bear that will furnish food for many a nar rative when the deputy sheriff returns home. The Creede Candle tolls of Xr. Bantu’s experience in this way: “Mr. Bania was fishing along the river, deep in thought of the last bear story told at breakfast that morning, and lie had a rifle hanging over his shoulder. He considered himself a worthy hunter, and wore a badge ten dered him in consideration of his cour age, and he came to the conclusion that he was just as brave as the peo ple considered him. Just then lie heard n noise, a snort, then the bushes crash, and to his horror a big bear making toward him. He dropped his rod and gun and started and tbe bear gave chase. “Along the river hank they flew and the big brute was elose upon him. as lie could feel her hot breath, and he thought all was over but the chewing, and he imaaWed lie could feel the boar’s sharp (daws and teeth tipping his very flesh, when suddenly he enme upon a small tree and with a bound he ill ten feet from the ground into the branches. At almost tlie same instant the hear plunged into the trunk of the tree with such force as to break it down. Banta gave a yell and resigned himself to death. The tree was over hanging the river and into the water he and the hoar both plunged. On ris ing to tlie surface both swain for the shore, lmt the bear stopping to shake gave Bantu considerable start, and lie put for camp like a wild Indian. He overtook a jack rabbit and, giving it a kick, hollered ‘Get out of tin l .way and let a follow run that wants to run.’ On reaching camp lie never thought of stopping, but kept tearing on down the canon, anil lie kept his lead, for the bear was compelled to stop repeatedly to paw tlie mud out of her eyes occa sioned by the dust from Bantu's heels.” Kansas City Star. Heroic Hoys Cilve Live.*. William J. Carroll, aged fourteen; Amiel Ivologewskl, aged twelve, and an unknown hoy, aged about fourteen, were drowned in the Allegheny River by sinking into a hole left liy a sand dredge. The boys were stripped and wading along a gravel bank left by the dredge. About fifty yards away were a number of hoys swimming in deep water. One of the lads was seen struggling and crying for help. Another rushed in after him, but the drowning hoy clutched him and both were swept off their feet. TliefSkird boy went in after bis com- and was succeeding in get ting to safety when he was carried off his feet, and the three went down to arise no more. Long Drop of a Woman Miner. Mrs. X. E. Brooke, one of the few successful woman mine operators in the Cripple Creek (Col.) district, had a narrow escape from an awful death re cently. While being lowered down the Mabel M. shaft, on which property she is leasing, the brakes for some reason failed to act and the bucket fell ninety feet before the engineer regained con trol. Mrs. Brooke, accompanied by a miner, was riding on the rim of the bucket, but both fortunately kept firm hold on the cable, and while badly frightened, were uninjured. The depth of the shaft is 135 feet. When the bucket was stopped Mrs. Brooke took the ladder way for the remainder of the distance, both in and out of the shaft.—Denver Republican. Big Product of Orange Tree. An orange tree in full bearing has been known to produce 15,000 oranges; a lemon tree 6000 fruit. There Is a demand for gutta pertha 600 times greater than the supply. THE BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS. A Prudent Mahl. Misa Dorothy Dot, before going to Takes her little tin bucket and litt!#un spade. And Bobbie and she work away with a vim Till her litde tin bucket is full to the brim. ‘ With this sand we can build us a little dry s]>ot If the ocean’s too wet,” says Miss Doro thy Dot. —Harriot Brewer Sterling, in St. W^~%m u , ,'KSW St-'M ~ 2@S||p 1-r UESDAY, Wednesday. Tlinrs- day and Friday all wore named from the gods of Norse mythology. In another way also these stories of northern lands are closer to us than tlie Greek or Roman myths, for they were born in the minds of our own ancestors. Teutons, and handed down by them. Though we may not find the same dainty grace we may well be proud of the deter mined will and mighty power which characterize these spirit children of the north. That same will and power have made the Teuton nations the masters of the world to-day. We are less surprised to know that our ancestors thought tlie earth fiat Ilian we are that they divided it into nine different worlds. Had the Ten tons of those early days possessed a written language their geographies would have contained a map yf the world something like this: Highest of all was Asgard, the homo of the gods, over which Odin, or HISTORICAL. PUZZLE.' Find King Charles and Governor Andrews, who were particularly inter ested when Wadsworth hid Connecticut's charier. Wodan, ruled. Midgaril, around which flowed the river Ocean, was the home of men, anil Jotunheiro. on tlie same level, but separated from Midgaril by the Ocean, was the upper giant world. Below these lay the under world, con taining fotir of the nine worlds--Nifl lteitn, the lower giant world, cold, dark and damp; Uril’s Realm, the kingdom of the dead; Mimir’s laud; and to tin west of Mimir’s land the home of the baner, the demigods of tlie north. The bridge Bifrost (the “milky way”) and the world tree were ail which united these worlds. May we not lie thankful we have not so complicated a geography now. Gen erations of scholars have worked their lives out in simplifying the ideas scat tered through the Norse and Icelandic literature into this map. Think, hoys and girls, of having to be able to give the boundaries, products and inhab itants of nine worlds! Tuesday comes from Tyr, the un selfish god of war, who sacrificed his arm to save Ids fellow-gods from dan ger. Loki, the god of evil, had three mon strous, terror-bringing children. One 'S' V 1 * V **/ I y* Si JoTliNnEifA fftibOAßD Vo £ 3 Roo rs <> y* iNieinggA ft iwir; Realp Riau Rcg-oa o- p o*ToHr. Brre Fieri DALES. MAP OF THE WORLD ACCORDING TO NORSE MYTHOLOGY. the wolf Fenrir, was not full grown when it came into the hands of Odin. He, not realizing the danger to come, brought the monster to Osgard and bade Tyr watch over him. Tyr for a time succeeded well, but as the wolf grew he waxed so strong that even Tyr began to doubt his power to guard him. The gods, therefore, held a coun oil, and decided to hind him with an iron chain. Immediately the smithy was set at work anil a great chain, more powerful than had ever been made before, was forged. With tills the gods proceeded to Feurir and asked him to amuse them by trying his strength on it. The wolf gave it bul a J \ : \ y j Sp “THE 0,010 DECIDED TO BIND HIM WITH AN' IKON CHAIN.” glance and (hen submitted quietly (o he bound with it, for he know he could break it instantly. And so he did. With one stretch of lus mighty limbs he links parted in half a dozen pin ees. Chagrined as they were, tii? gods were still determined and proceeded at once to have another chain made with the utmost skill and care. This was so heavy when completed that as Feurir saw tlie gods come (Bragging il along tlie ground he suspected their purpose and refused lo he hound. With taunts which appealed to His pride they finally persuaded him. however, and stood back to watch the struggle. But the result was no better Ilian lie fore. In dismay the gods then appealed to the (lark elves, for sometimes tlieit magic went beyond the skill and knowledge even of the gods. Were it not so the gods never would have pul tlicir trust in the silken string which the dark elves sent back. Yet well might it be strong ns well as soft and smooth, for it was made of the foot falls of a cat, Iho heard of a woman, the roots of a mountain, the sinews of a hear, the breath of a fish and the spittle of birds. To mislead Feurir the gods then planned a trip to a rocky Island, where they would engage in wrestling, rac ing, shooting with tlie how and all lrials of strength. After the games one of (lie gods drew out the silky cord and said to another: “You would not think this strong, but try to break it if you can.” When he failed il was passed about wonderingly until ail but Fenrir had tried it. Then, jokingly, someone suggested that if lie did not scorn to be bound by so slight a bond he also lest its strength. But Fenrir refused. No taunts nor insults would move him. At last, however, he agreed to allow himself to lie hound if one of the gods would place ids right band In the wolfs mouth during the process, as surety of good faith. With a laugh Tyr, whose arm was almost tlie strongest there, thrust his hand into Fenrir’s mouth till he was tied. Mad with j rage and despair when he found he could not burst the bonds, the monster Hit oft' the arm of the unselfish Tyr. And That is why he is known as the "one-armed god of war."—-Leila G. Fish, in the Chicago Record-Herald. Lucifer. The first box of matches ever sold is said to have been bought by an old coach driver for a shilling. Sir Isaac Holden did not invent the lueifermatch. Though he discovered it himself, he had been anticipated by two years by John Walker, of Stockton-on-Tees. This inventor refused to patent his discov ery, and made a present of it to the nation. Czar’. Physician*. Seven physicians are attached to the personal retinue of the Czar. (JSSaJ' Talks A bout W^i^womankind^ A Reminder of the Sixties. The bobbing brims of children’s hats weighted down with a bunch of flowers in front reminds an elderly woman of tlie days of the 00’s. when to the front of similar wide-hAmmed hats was attached a “puller,” or nar row ribbon, which was used to pull down tlie brim to secure the effect now obtained by the weight of flowers. The YTeddinsr flown Box.. The wedding gown box is one of tlie latest fads to be adopted by the bride to-be. That every bride possessed of any sentiment wishes to keep her wed ding gown in a state of preservation is a foregone conclusion, and this re ceptacle is admirably suited for the purpose for which it was designed. It is made of light wood, enameled white, and has the bride’s initials in silver letters on the top. It is lined with tufted white satin, and the lock is of silver. Cabochona For Fall Trimming* The new caboclions are of very large size. They are flatter than they have been, and are often in arabesque.! open work set with cut jet or steel, or in chaste oxidized silver or dull gilt. Some of the gilt caboclions are sold in pairs, tile two joined by a dou ble festoon of gilt beads. These arc uselt to trim tlie timler side of hats. When a feather is placed on or under the edge of the brim, it will often he -fastened by a large eaboelion. says tlie Millinery Trade Review. Anew orna ment is provided to serve this purpose, it is a chaste metal snap 1 hat clasps over the edge of the brim, securing the feather to it. Shoals of osprey or aigrette are sometimes fastened in this way by their middle, to tlie edge of a plateau. Milliners are also using small gilt or steel buttons to fasten down straps of ribbon. Ostrich Flume* unri Feat hern. By what lias gone before, the Im portant place which ostrich feathers occupy at th(> present writing will he realized. It is understood that the trade is prepared to satisfy a very large demand for amazons and also for feathers of medium length and tips. High class milliners will do a great deni in shaded and variegated feath ers. The arrangement referred to above, namely the twisting around of the tip of the feather into a pouf, gives a massive and rieli effect to an ama zon. lmt only the very largest can he so treated. Plumes of cock’* feathers in natural colors, as well as dyed in different bright lints, are likely to be very much favored, possibly, however, white more than any, says the Millin ery Trade Review. Wings continue in much request, particularly large, stump shaped wings and quite small ones, such as those of blackbirds and para keets, ami there is si renewed demand for couteaux, which are mostly asked for in pairs. They are not very long, but wide and often dyed in variegated lints, including cheeks and plaids. (Some ore colored to imitate leaves and broad grasses. In fashionable shops frequent mention has been made of fruits. These will divide favor with seasonable flowers for the autumn mouths. It. is understood that black flowers, mounted with green leaves, I will be worn, they already having been | shown on some hats. New Method* of Making: Bow*. Special interest must he attached to the different new methods of mak ing up hows, rosettes and other ar rangements of ribbon or piece mate rials, as applicable to early winter hats. Louis XV. hows are now made of quilled ribbon wired in the ordinary way. A piece of the quilled ribbon may be sewn in a circle round the centre of the plateau, and the rest of l lie ribbon bo arranged in a very large wired bow resting on the buck of tlie hat, which shelves down In the neck. The under sides of some hats are trimmed with narrow Pompadour rib bons laid on flat in the form of Louis XV. bows. Bows made of No. 12 rib lion velvet are often placed under the brim, loops and fends hanging down behind the ear. Fan shaped bows, with a great many loops, for the backs of hats, are sometimes made of this ribbon, sometimes of piece velvet. Large bows of four or more large loops, fastened in the centre by a buckle, are laid flat on plateau hats, says the Millinery 'Trade Review. An other arrangement consists of a wide piece of accordion pleated satin, form ing a big flat rosette, the pleats being smoothed out on either side. Ball ro settes about the size of a big orange are very fashionable. These may he made of loops of rather wide ribbon or of a fold of material closely gath ered. Wide Pompadour and plaid rib bons may he used for the purpose. Large flat rosettes or cockades are equally favored, particularly made it) two shades of bright green or golden velvet, or of chine flowered ribbon bordered with black satin. The Women** Hot* lx. Tlie following data are collected in the interest of the movement iu cities for housing and feeding women work ers en masse. It is “girls, girls, girls,” that appear chiefly as beneficiaries of tlie movement, hut any self-support ing woman should be entitled by right and not by grace to tlie advantages of the collective home or hotel. Re ports from ninety of these homes in forty-six cities are given very fully in Bulletin 15, 1898, United States Labor Department. The first started in New York City in 1856. Almost none has become en SEPTEMBER 28 tirely self-supporting in the half-CP fcury of development. This fact Will show tn history the small share of the commonwealth allowed the work ing women of the country at this period. Tlie wages of our working women iu Boston are a little below those of New York and Chicago, while the cost of subsistence is much higher. Taking data from one of our more recently established homes, the board ing house under Unitarian auspices, formerly on Berkeley street, we learn that in its tirst seven years in a hired building, with about forty boarders and few transients, the average cost per capita for board, laundry and other incidentals, was $3.30 per week. (Price of-board anil lodging sl.) The cost of raw material of food averaged $2.15 per week. There was a surplus of $(!00 or S7OO per annum to go toward the salary of superintendent and rent. In Chicago, a woman's cluh, grown to 100, self-managed, for some years cov ered all costs of their homo at $3 per week per member. There are thousands of working girls anil women in Bostou who cannot pay even the lowest rate charged by the present homes in Boston, including the latest, the Franklin Square House. $3.50 per week, and must still live iu garrets, or worn-out lodging houses with “relief” in plain sight. One im portant fact, not strictly apropos to increase of wages, is front the Marla Louisa Home for temporary guests. New York City. In 1800, 501,000 pieces were laundered at a cost of seven eighths of one cent per piece. This item, if nolle other, decides for such a home against the average private house, with ils picayune methods, where the difficulty of washing a hand kerchief makes the thought of clean liness a perpetual nightmare.—Boston Evening Transcript. PMgovdofr* Chat itrs. John \V. Maekay was declared in Loudon to bo the richest widow in the world. A bronze medallion of Susan B. An thony will bo presented to Rochester University Ilii.s fall. It was Miss An thony's efforts which made co-educa tion possible at Rochester, N. Y. An international exhibition of wom en's arts and crafts will open 1n Paris soon in the great glass building on the banks of the Seine, in which were held the horticultural shows during the World's Pair of 1900. Tile woman who lives in the suburbs might pot a lot of ferns from the woods, and when they are Ulriviug in the fall get orders for them. Being so popular they ought surely to bo in de mand, and it not, there would be no loss incurred. I Representative George H. Fall, who introduced and championed the bill which recently passed the Massachu setts Legislature making mothers equal guardians of children with fath ers, states that two-thirds of the credit for its passage is due to Mrs. Fall. He is a lawyer, and after her marriage Mrs. Fall studied law also. Mrs. Clara L. Kellogg has raised modern embroidery to an art. She fur nishes entire homes in embroidered textiles, producing harmonious effects throughout. She travels abroad every; year, studying embroidery and design. AH her designs are original and are founded upon suggestions received from old paintings, mosaics, furniture, anything, in fact. Chantilly is a revived classic. Persian effects are still favored. Embroidered linen discs are smart. Jeweled velvet bands are very good. Crystal and jet figure with spangles. Pongee blossoms in applique are here. Some passementeries boast five ma terials. Lace appliques adorn many parasols effectively. Posies of taffeta often adorn Chan tilly applique. Linen applique is used upon dresses of hop-sacking. Bulgarian embroidery is the rage on ctamine as well as linen. Chenille in a color touches point de Ycnise most attractively. Orchid patterns in delicate shades of chiffon are Ideal on silk gabze. Striped veiling makes very pretty gowns and requires but little trimming. Soft shaded Roman stripes are ap pearing iu some of the wider white ribbons. Many new designs are being pro duced iu fobs, which have become a pet feminine fad. Silk mull waists are very much tucked this season, the tucks being of i lie wide variety. Pongee suits in the natural color are trimmed with bands of black taffeta, stitched with white. Linen gowns in the pretty new shades of green, blue, pink and gray are made with Gibson waists stitched with white. A yellow pongee gown with yellow and white embroidery, and a tucked white silk vest and front of skirt, Is artistic In the extreme. Silks in black and white and blue and wldte checked effects are expected to be very fashionable in the fall for gowns and separate waists.