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"Now, then, Cousin Harvey," called
pretty Nerve Wilton, from her
perch on the veranda railing, "are
you coming or must I take Donna
out alone?"
It was half-past five of an August
morning, and the silver mists were
just breaking away before the sun.
"Do have a little patience with a
fellow, can't you, Nerve?" came back
in a rather sleepy tone from Mr. Har
vey Lisle. "It's an unearthly time to
get up, and I've nothing but cold water
to shave with. Hang a place
where there are no barbers!"
A mischievous laugh dimpled about
Nerve's mouth as the complaining
voice died in an incoherent growl,
but two minutes later Mr. Lisle's bedroom
door opened and he made his
appearance?a short, blonde young
man, a little careless about the brushing
of his hair and the set of his garments,
who had been in love with his
bright little cousin Nerve?baptismally
Minerva?from the time they were
children together.
"Well," said she, giving him a coolly-critical
look from head to foot,
considering the time you have kept
me waiting you might have got yourself
up in better style. Never brushed
your coat at all, I declare!"
"You know I was up late," began
Harvey, apologetically.
"You needn't have been," snappishly.
A shade of sullenness clouded Mr.
Lisle's countenance.
"Look here, Nerve, after making
me miserable last night you needn't
quarrel with me about it this morning.
You were flirting with that Roselle
until after midnight."
"And you stayed up to keep watch
of my actions," exclaimed Nerve
scornfully. "You may as well understand
first as last Harvey Lisle, that
I won't have you interfering with my
affairs."
"I have a right to interfere when
it comes to your slighting me for a
fellow no one knows anything about."
Nerve sprung down from her perch
with an impatient jerk.
"Mr. Roselle," she called, in her
sweetest accents, as that gentleman
approached through the dew-laden
shrubbery which bordered through
the path, "I am quarreling with Harvey
because he doesn't half appreciate
the favor of being dragged out for a
ride before breakfast."
"Mr. Lisle is sufficiently punished if
you have quarreled with him," gallantly
answered Mr. Roselle.
"There would be no more rides if
I had my way," said Harvey, sulkily.
"Horse thieves all around us. In my
opinion it was a piece of foolishness
to bring the creature here at all."
Nerve flushed with vexation, remembering
that she had been the
means of bringing them.
"Do you think there is really any
danger, Mr. Roselle?" she appealed
to him. "It would break my heart if
I were to lose Donna. I fell in love
with her the first time I ever saw her,
and she has been the object of my
undivided affections ever since."
"I have Mr. Lisle's word that it is
the era of thieves and this their locality.
Don't expect me to contradict
him, please. If Donna absorbs your
affections to the exclusion of other
lovers, you must expect me to wish
her well out of the way."
With that beginning in the morning,
it is scarcely to be supposed that
the day could pass satisfactorily for
Mr. Lisle, but the climax was reached
when Nerve came out where he
was stalking moodily about the lawn
that evening.
"I've been looking for you everywhere.
Harvey. I want to send Donna
away, and thought I would rather trust
her with you than Wolf."
"Kind of you to exalt me above your
hostler!"
"He Is really hardly reliable, you
know," explained Nerve, with provoking
innocence. "And Mr. Roselle says
there really is danger and that we can't
take too great precautions."
"Hang Roselle!" broke from Mr.
Lisle, whose small stock of patience
was more than exhausted. "This thing
can't go on, Nerve. You've either got
to drop him or me, and that at once."
Nerve flashed round upon him in
sudden passion.
"Very well. Consider yourself dropped.
Harvey Lisle."
"Nerve, you don't mean it. Nerve,
listen to me. The fellow may be the
worst sort of a scoundrel for all you
know; I more than half believe he
is?"
But Nerve was gone, and Mr. Lisle
was wasting his remonstrances on the
empty air. She sat in her room at a
later hour thinking over the events of
the day. She was not sorry to have
broken with her cousin, nor troubled
by his estimate of Roselle, but she had
no inclination to sleep, and the house
had grown quiet and the clock pealed
twelve before she made a movement to
retire. Even then she paused, leaning
out of her window, loth to leave
the dewy freshness and sweet scents
and brilliant moonlight, and then all
at once she thrilled with a sudden
shock.
Coming silently from the direction of
the stable, crossing a strip of the clear
white moonlight and losing themselves
In the shadows, moved two figures,
which she instantly recognized, one
horse and one human?Donna led by
Mr. Roselle.
All the blood drained from Nerve's
cheeks and surged back upon her heart
in suffocating throbs. It required no
effort of reasoning to tell her what that
scene meant; at Hashed upon her in a
single thought that Harvey's halfformed
jealous suspicions had only fallen
too far short in stamping the character
of Mr. Roselle.
She strained her eyes to catch the
first sight of their reappearance beyond
the shade, for a minute or two without
avail, then the man returned alone upon
his track. Nerve saw, while a whirl
of thoughts confused her brain. What
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I ought she to do?to alarm the house,
I to expose him to capture and possible
punishment?
She shrunk from the thought, but
started from her place with the Impulse
to act, and made her way out
with a vague idea of confronting him
and in some way defeating his purpose,
yet shielding him from the disgrace of
exposure. Roselle was nowhere in
sight as she flitted to the shadowed
spot where Donna stood, with her bridle
rein flung over a post, cropping at
the tender branches within her reach.
It was but the work of a moment to
release that slight fastening and lead
her out into the road, the next she had
mounted, and Donna, obedient to her
touch, was bounding away, for Nerve's
brave resolution had given place to
the worst kind of cowardice.
"It is easier to run away than to
look him in the face and know he is
only a thief." thought she, bitterly.
"Oh. Donna! I would almost as soon
have lost you as to believe this of him."
There was no time given Nerve to
think where she should go or what
would be the end of this crazy nightride,
for afterward she felt that she
wa^ crazy to have ever undertaken it.
Two dark forms suddenly defined
themselves at a turn of the road. Two
men. who had been stretched under a
neighboring: tree a moment before and
started alert at the sound of approaching
hoofs, gave a mutual exclamation
of surprise and darted forward to close
at Donna's head.
"Mighty kind and considerate of you
to save us the trouble of going after
the pretty beast, young lady," said
one. "But you needn't go any further
on our account."
Nerve gave a frightened cry.
"Come, no noise," more roughly from
the other. "We want your horse. Get
down and go back if you like, but don't
raise a row."
But Nerve clung fast and struggled
vainly to release Donna from the other's
grasp. Her puny resistance was
overcome in a moment: half-fainting,
she was lifted down,
"I'd kiss you for your pluck, my dear
?Hark! what's that?" It was the
clatter of hoofs unexpectedly arising
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"Here, quick!" to his confederate.
"Get the horse behind them trees and
I'll quiet the girl."
Nerve was lifted and borne forward,
her face crushed down upon the ruffian's
shoulder until it was impossible
for her to utter^kjjfcund. The rider
came on at a sweeping gallop which
carried him rapidly past, and then, as
the frightened girl's heart almost stopped
beating. Donna pricked her ears in
token of recognition and grave a piercing
neigh. The horseman instantly
wheeled, and in a moment had cleared
the screen of trees. The fellow who
held her dropped Nerve half unconscious
upon the grass, and through the
snort altercation which cusucu, cmphasized
by two or three pistol shots,
she only realized that it was Mr. Roselle
who had appeared upon the scene,
and then he was bending: over her,
holding: Harvey Lisle's black riorse by
the bit, while neither Donna nor her
would-be captors were anywhere to be
seen.
"You are not hurt. Miss Wilton?
Thank Heaven for that! It is all over,
but the scoundrels have escaped."
Nerve pushed back her hair from her
bewildered brow, then lost all other
feeling in one of indignant scorn.
"Stop, sir. If those men were not
your accomplices, you are still no better
than they. Oh, don't trouble yourself
to deny; I saw you in the act, and"
?breaking down?"I tried to save Donna
and you?"
"Donna . is safe. She broke away at
the first shot, and they took flight in
the other direction. You will find her
at home. I haven't a doubt. Now, will
you explain what you mean. Miss Wilton?"
"I saw you!" reiterated Nerve.
"You saw me perform a rather unwarranted
action." said Mr. Roselle,
with light breaking in upon him. "I
had reason to fear that an attempt
would be made upon your stable after
discovering that your man Wolfe had
been in the village drinking and talking
freely with suspicious looking characters.
I resolved to take the responsibility
of removing the horses to the
hotel stable where a guard is kept,
rather than disturb you at that late
hour. I found the black horse captious
and hard to manage, and so led
Donna out first. When I returned to
find her gone and the gate standing
ajar. I had no thought but that she
had got away of herself, and was simply
hui-rying in pursuit. Rut I am to
understand that you spirited her away,
and did me the compliment of taking
me for a thief of the night!"
"It was hard to believe," faltered
Nerve, not daring to meet his eyes.
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He bent his head as he answered, and
if only remains to say that Nerve ended
her adventure in the orthodox manner.
being now Mrs. Roselle.
THE END.
Career of Big Jim Ended.
"Big Jim," is no more. He has gone
to the "happy hunting ground" of
snakedom. For twenty-six years he
furnished material for all manner of
snake stories, and the voracious teller
of "dogday" yarns will now have to
get new material.
"Big Jim" was a giant rattlesnake,
four times the length of the ordinary
rattlesnake, and twice as long as the
diamond-back of the south. He is supposed
to have come from Illinois, possibly
driven out when towns went
"dry" under local option. Several times
during the summer he was seen in Sullivan
and Knox counties, and his great
size created terror wherever he roamed.
"Big Jim" became hungry, and his
hunger lead to his death. He wished
to feast on pig. and a huge boar
thwarted his desire. East Monday,
John Bascomb, an employee on the
farm of W. H. Thompson, In the southwestern
part of Sullivan county, heard
a commotion near the pigpen and when
he reached the place he saw a boar
fighting an enormous snake.
The boar had its mouth so fastened
on the snake's head that its fangs
could not be used. The giant reptile
was thrashing its body backward and
forward, attempting to get out of the
clutches of its antagonist, but the boar
held on, feet braced apart while Bascomb
ran to the farmhouse and got a
32-calibre revolver.
By the time Bascomb got back to the
pen the other hogs there seemed to
' have discovered that something was
wrong and were trying to help the big
boar in his fight. They jumped on the
body of the snake as it wriggled about
and tried to stamp out its life. Bas
comb entered the pen and grot a good
shot at the snake breaking its neck.
The shot caused the boar to drop the
snake's head, but the snake died almost
instantly. The boar had not been
struck by the snake and is in good
shape after its fight.?Indianapolis
News.
FISHING SUPERSTITIONS.
Various Queer Notions Exist All Over
the World.
In British Columbia the Indians ceremoniously
went to meet the first salmon
and in flattering voices tried to
win their favor by calling them all
chiefs.
Every spring in California the Ka
raks used to dance for salmon. Meanwhile
one of their number secluded
himself in the mountains and fasted for
ten days. Upon his return he solemnly
approached the river, took the first
salmon of the catch, ate some of it and
with the remainder lighted a sacrificial
fire. The same Indians laboriously
climbed to the mountain top after the
poles for the spearing booth, being convinced
that if they were gathered
where the salmon were watching no
fish would be caught
Very widespread, in fact, Is this native
belief of the necessity of caution
whenever Adam is on fishing bent.
In Japan among the primitive race
of the Ainos even the women left at
home are not allowed to talk, lest the
fish may hear and disapprove, while
the first fish is always brought in
through a window instead of a door so
the other fish may not see.
The Eskimo women of Alaska never
sew while the men are fishing, and
should any mending be Imperative
they do It shut up in little tents out of
sight of the sea.
Under no circumstances on the
northeast coast of Scotland will the
fisherman at sea mention certain objects
on land, such as "minister," j
"kirk," swine," "dog," etc., and the
line will surely be lost if a pig is seen
while baiting it. As on the land chickens
must not be counted until they are
hatched, so at sea fish must not be
counted until they are caught. It Is
good luck to find mice nibbling among
the nets. A horseshoe nailed to the
mast will help, and a herring caught
and salted down will produce wonders.
In the Shetland islands a cat must
not be mentioned before a man baiting
his line, and among the Magyars of
Hungary a fisherman will turn back
and wait over a tide if he meets a woman
wearing a white apron.
Every year the natives of the Duke
of York island decorate a canoe with
flowers and fern, fill it with shell money
and cast it adrift "to compensate
the fish for their fellows caught and
eaten."
It was always the custom of the
Maoris, the primitive inhabitants of
New Zealand, to put the first fish that
they caught back into the sea "with
a prayer that it might tempt other
fish to come and be caught."
If the fish did not come soon enough
in British Columbia the Indians used
to employ a wizard, who made an image
of a swimming fish and put it in
the water to attract live fish to the
bait.?Los Angeles Times.
"ROOSTER" AMAZED MEXICANS.
Eagle In Disguise Vanquished Their
Champion at Cocking Main.
On the Fourth of July a year ago
Andrew Crenshaw. Thomas A. Halloway,
Bert Graham, and C. B. Jameson.
members of a Texas syndicate
owning land near El Molino, went to
the town to celebrate. The most exciting
thing they could find was a
cocking main. They put up their
money on the favorite and lost. The
performance was repeated and they
lost again. Then they discovered that
they were betting against the entire
crowd of Mexicans, and that after
their bets had been placed the birds
were "switched."
Full of wrath, and bent on getting
even, they agreed to meet again on the
company's ranch, each in the meantime
to concoct a scheme of revenge.
Crenshaw had heard of the fighting
qualities of the eagle and he communicated
with the others his scheme.
They advertised for and purchased a
young eagle last winter and preserved
it for their purpose. This year when
they met at the ranch they painted
the bird and trimmed his feathers so
as to make him look like a rooster,
and with the disguised eagle in a sack
they rode into El Molino yesterday and
landed at the cocking main. The authorities
refused to enter their bird
without first seeing him, but the
ranchmen refused to disclose more
than his tail feathers. They offered
tempting odds that their bird could
whip anything in Mexico, and the
Mexicans took them up for more than
twice what the Americans lost the
year before.
A beautiful thoroughbred gamecock
was pitted against the American
?'Kir.K (iumneii from the
sack into the pit when the main was
called. The eagle squatted calmly in
the pit, blinking its eyes and stretching
its clipped wings, while the cock
pranced around it with lowered head.
Twice the cock lunged at the eagle
and the crowd roared and shouted
"Bueno!" when the eagle would stagger
to its feet and again squat in the
pit. The third lunge ended the main,
for the eagle reached out with one
powerful claw and grabbed the gamecock
and choked it to death.
The Mexicans raged, but the ranchmen
got their winings, and then replacing
their eagle in the sack, together
with the dead gamecock, which
was still held in its talons, they fought
their way to the exit, mounted their
ponies and rode to Guadalajara.?Hermillo
dispatch to the New York Herald.
pisrrltanrous grading.
STATEMENT FROM MR. JOHNSON.
Explanation of Complications In Magistrate's
Race in Bethel Township.
Editor of The Yorkvllle Enquirer:
In your paper of the 11th Instant,
there Is a news Item published in regard
to the election of magistrate for
Bethel township in the primary of
August 25th, in which is stated, that
Mr. Bigger received 74 votes, and his
opponents 70. It is also stated, that I
had thought of contesting his election,
but had withdrawn my protest. Some
people think from that statement, that
1 may have intended to ask ror something
that I was not entitled to, and
in order that I may set the record
straight, and let the people of Bethel
township know the facts In the matter,
I would ask you to publish my statement
of the case. About fifty voters
of Bethel township, usually vote at
Clover, In King's Mountain township.
About twenty at Yorkville, in York
township. The greater part of these
voters are my neighbors and friends.
On the day of the first primary, there
was a box at Clover, to receive the
ballots for magistrate for Bethel township.
There were also tickets for the
same provided by the executive committee.
At Yorkville, by some oversight.
there was no special box for
magistrate for Bethel township, nor
were any tickets provided, by the executive
committee. During the day of
the election, some of my friends did
not vote at Yorkville, for the want of
tickets, others concluded that they
would risk a written ticket, and ac- ,
cordingly, prepared and voted some
written tickets for mo, depositing some
of them in the magistrate's box for
York townshiD. others depositing theirs
in the state and county boxes. My information
is, that five of those were
counted and tabulated, and two were
overlooked. I received information
that two residents of King's Mountain
township voted for Mr. Bigger at Forest
Hill. The day of the official count,
which was two days after the election,
I came to Yorkvllle for the purpose of
filing a protest with the view of contesting
the election, if upon further investigation,
I deemed it necessary to do
so. In the meantime, the executive
committee had met and made an official
count, declaring no election having
been made in Bethel township for
magistrate, and ordered an election in
the second primary between Mr. Bigger
and myself. This having been done,
there was no necessity for any protest
being raised by me. The chairman
of the Democratic executive committee
had published a notice in The Yorkvllle
Rnquirer ordering an election in
the second primary between Mr. Bigber
and myself. On the 4th of September,
I received a notice from the
county chairman stating, that a mistake
had been made In adding up the official
count in Yorkville, and also declaring
Mr. Bigger the nominee of the Democratic
party for magistrate for Bethel
township. I answered the same, giving
the figures of votes cast as I understood
them, according to the information
in my possession, stating at the
same time, that I must insist that the
question be settled by the law and
rules governing a primary election. In ,
answer to this letter, I received a letter
from the chairman, requesting me to
come before the meeting of the Demo- ,
cratic executive committee to be held (
in Yorkville on September 10th; and (
present any protest that I might desire
to make in regard to the election (
of magistrate for Bethel township, also
stating, "that no protest had been made
by either party within two days after (
the election as to any irregularities."
By authority given him by the executive
committee,-it was his clear cut
duty, to declare the election in accordance
with the results shown by the
tabulated vote. I examined the law
and the rules governing primary elections,
and found, that I could not then
protest under the law after two days
from the first election, and having been
prevented from doing this at the proper
time by the action of the executive
committee, and for the further reason,
that the chairman and the state executive
committee had ruled and declared,
that no vote should be counted cast
at any primary election, unless the
tickets were furnished by the county
chairman of the respective counties,
and all the tickets cast for the magistrate
for Bethel township at Yorkvllle,
were written by the voters, and not
furnished by the executive committee,
as Is provided by law. Whatever the
irregularities, if any, may have been in
the matter, on the 10th of September at
the meeting of the executive committee.
or whatever their good Intentions
may have been, all my rights and privileges
had been debarred by their action
in locking, bolting and barring the
door. Neither the executive committee.
Mr. Bigger or myself can change
the law of the party, or the ruling of
the chairman of the state Democratic
committee. If any mistake or irregularities
are done. It was not my or ,
Mr. Blgger's fault.
H. E. Johnson.
ALMOST READY TO FLY.
Inventors Have the Solution of the
Problem Well In Hand.
Crude as was the balloon, pure and
simple, it has fulfilled its mission. The
big, helpless gas bag that rose or fell
at the turn of temperature or shift of
wind proved so much which before its
advent had seemed Impossible that for
all its inutility it commands respect, as ]
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they may be. Thus writes Capt. Ho- i
mer W. Hedge, founder and former
president of the Aero Club of America,
In the Boston Globe. Remove the motive
power from the greatest ocean liner
afloat, and It becomes as helpless as
the balloon, and Is equally at the mercy
of shifting currents of wind and i
wave.
From the days of Darius Green, or i
thereabouts, the possibility of man's
dominion over the unseen, intangible
realm of air was a demonstrated fact.
Failure to improve on it in no wise affected
the fact itself. Failure in ex- i
perlmentation is ever the stepping
stone to success. Failure Is one form
of discovery. This is the day and generation
of cumulative invention. Modern
ingenuity profits by the labors,
failures and discoveries of former
thinkers. The very dreams of dreamers
are turned to account, as witness
the submarine, conceived in the fanciful
brain of Jules Verne.
Airships Soon For All.
Seeing that the leading nations of the
world have entered into rivalry to solve
the question, and that positive and
convincing proofs of achievement are
daily recorded from all sections, it Is
no wonder that the United States of
America has stepped to the front, with
a determination to win the lead. And
New England, the cherished seat of
science and of learning, should be the
first to Issue some such notice as:
"From Boston to any point, regardless
of wind or weather, at the uniform
rate of fifty miles per hour, with ad
vantages even over the road of anthracite."
Lack of money, has been the great
hindrance. It takes money and lots of
it to experiment, and experimenters
have no time to make money. But until
the man of money has positive
proof that "there is something in it"
mere theory will not lure forth his capital.
While balloons could only "go,"
with no positive "return," and did not
appeal to the man of dqllars and of
sense. Now that the "open sesame" or
"proof has been given, the purse
strings are loosened and inventors, always
longing to pry apart the world's
secrets with their wits, but unable to
put Ideas into practice without means,
are stirred by enthusiasm, and still further
stimulated by competition.
The Wrights were right, and our
government is right, to keep the knowledge
gained by experiment secret until
absolute success is assured, but
already more is known by the few than
is dreamed of by the many.
It was not the mere delight of ballooning
which Interested me in the
study of aerial navigation, but its practical
side. What it will mean in time
nf wnr tha slmnlast mind ran errasn.
but, In the time of peace, think of its
possibilities! So much has been proven
that1 none will be much older before
seeing its accomplishment. I firmly
believe that most of us will live to come
to think as lightly of it as we now do
of the telephone. And the man who
worked that modern miracle. Dr. Alexander
Graham Bell, is not only a believer
in aerial navigation, but a successful
experimenter along one line of
thought.
What fear of failure is there when
by his name we can inscribe such
names as Wright Brothers, Farman,
Delafcrange, Herring, Ludlow, the late
Yangley and of Beachy, Knabenshue,
Stevens and Baldwin?the last four being
dirigible balloon enthusiasts?
Speaking of dirigible balloons naturally
suggests Zeppelin. H<is latest airship,
built under the auspices of the German
government, is 445 feet long, has
motors aggregating 400 horse power
and carries twelve people. Further, it
Is equipped with apparatus for wireless
telegraphy.
While the aeroplane will undoubtedly
become practical, though with what
carrying capacity none can say at
present, the dirigible balloon is likely
to lead more quickly to success. Ultimately.
there will be as many methods
of air travel as there now are on
the surface, from bicycle to electric
motor engine, from pushcart to flyer.
Mark this, that, differ as they may,
these-are all dependent on the wheel.
From the rowboat to the ocean liner,
vessels are dependent on the one principle
of shape. So with a thousand familiar
instances, there is abundant
proof that the dominant principles of
any of the great every-day Mechanical
aids to man's comfort is extremely
simple.
One essential reason for the comparatively
slow progress made in the development
of the aeroplane is that, as
with the bicycle, it is, and must be part
of the operator, and its operation has
to be learned. Though the driving
force be mechanical, it must be guided
by human intelligence. To experiment
with the workable, but primitive aeroplane
of today requires any amount of
pluck. When it has become a reanzea
fact, every operator will have to learn
how to operate the machine individually.
Birds, though built to fly, are
taught by their mothers, and If they
try it on their own account invariably
get a tumble.
Honor and thanks are due to the
Aero Club of America, which took the
initiative, and to such men as Gen.
James A. Allen and Cortland Field
Bishop, who have won the faith of
men of capital to the absolute certainty
and therefore money producing possibilities
of aerial navigation.
Benefits of Flying.
The influence exerted by the Aero
Club of America is new being felt all
over the country. Fraternal clubs are
everywhere. There Is even the Junior
Aero Club of New York, which is enlisting
considerable attention, and has
a successful boy flyer, with a machine
of his own invention. Arrangements
have been made for holding several important
conferences between the leading
aeronauts at the Hotel Astor, New
York, during the coming late summer,
fall and winter months, which can not
fail to be productive of good results.
The problem is so nearly solved that,
as a :lose observer and student of the
subject, and as an associate of the
leaders of the movement, I confidently
predict that within two years aerial
navigation will be an accomplished
fact. There will then be a thousand
minds at work to every one at present,
and modifications and improvements
will soon bring to perfection the first
successes. In war, supreme, almost to
the abolishment of war! In peace, delightful
beyond conception!
Inhalation of the rarified air of the
upper strata will prove to be one of
the greatest of blessings to suffering
humanity. A single ascension rekindles
life, and were a "regular course" of
air trips to be taken I firmly believe
tuberculous diseases would be cured.
Think of transportation inrougn me
free, pure air; the realm of absolute
liberty; no tracks, no franchises, no
need of thousands of employes to add
to the cost; and of the swiftness, the
glorious exhilaration; and last, but by
no means least, of Its broadening effort
pn the mind. Every drifting balloonist
knows what I mean. I am certain
there is not one who has not been uplifted
in every sense of the word, and
who has not realized more fully, more
surely, the immeasurable greatness of
the all powerful Creator of the universe.
The moral Influence which will be
exerted over all mankind by aerial
navigation Is beyond compute. Conquest
of the air is coming, Is almost
here, and most of us will be here to
see and to enjoy It when it comes.
THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE.
State Board of Health Sends Out Pamphlet
on Dread Disease.
Secretary C. F. Williams of the state
board of health has Issued an Important
pamphlet on "Tuberculosis, Its
Restriction and Prevention," and some
interesting facts as to this infectious
disease. Copies can be obtained from
Secretary Williams. The pamphlet
contains the following important facts:
Definition?Tuberculosis is a specific
infective and destructive disease, which
! may affect any part of the body, and Is
always caused by a germ known as the
bacillus tuberculosis. Tuberculosis of
the lungs Is generally spoken or as
"consumption" and this pamphlet deals
largely with this form of the disease.
Tuberculosis as a Cause of Death.
As no vital statistics have been kept
in our state until the last year, we are
hardly In a position to state definitely
how many of our people die annually
of this disease. Though approximating
the number from the statistics collected
during this period, it Is safe to say that
the mortality from this disease alone is
1,500 or 'more each year. Think of it,
1,500 or more of our people dying each
year from consumption?a preventable
disease. This not only means that we
are losing that many of our inhabitants,
but these 1,500 and many others
who now have the disease have and
are giving off deadly germs which will
Infect thousands of others. It is an
appalling situation and if those who
are victims of the disease are not instructed
how to protect themselves and
others, It means that their chances for
recovery are much diminished, that the
lives of their associates are jeopardized,
and that they are a menace to the
public at large.
How Is the Disease Caught?
In order for any one to contract consumption,
the germ causing the disease
must get Into the body. This germ
Is so small that It cannot be seen without
the aid of the microscope; but to
illustrate how they get into the body,
they are made large enough in an accompanying
picture to be seen with the
naked eye. When any one has consumption
of the throat or lungs hundreds
of these germs are In each
mouthful of sputum (spit) coughed up.
If the spit is not properly cared for and
Is deposited upon the floor, sidewalk,
or in some public place, and there allowed
to dry and powder- into dust,
these germs then rise with the dust and
are inhaled into the lungs of any one
who happens to come in contact with
them.
Another picture Illustrates beautifully
how the germs get into our bodies
and is indeed today a true picture
of thousands of homes all over the
world. The same picture is seen in hotel
lobbies, theatres, court rooms, work
shops, factories and in fact everywhere
where consumptives spit upon the floor
and the sputum is allowed to dry and
powder into dust. Not only do we get
the disease by inhaling these germs,
but they settle upon our food and drink
ana we iane xnem into our Doaiea in
this manner. Flies also carry the germs
from the sputum and faeces and deposit
them upon our food and drink.
We may contract the disease by getting
the germs Into wounds. It may be also
contracted by kissing one who has consumption.
Milk from tuberculous cows
Is often responsible for the disease and
consumption In cattle Is much more
common than Is generally known. Discharges
from tuberculous sores, scrofula.
white swelling, bone consumption,
are dangerous and may give one the
disease.
How to Restrict and Prevent Consumption.
"It Is In the power of man to cause
all germ diseases to disappear from the
world."?Pasteur. Possessing this power,
It becomes the duty of every living
man to do his part In the great work
that Is now being carried on throughout
the world in eradicating this, the
most deadly of all diseases. It Is evident
that the most certain restrictive
of tuberculosis is to destroy the sputum
(spit) from tuberculous patients
before It has an opportunity to dry and
scatter the germs.
Consumptives' Duty.
No consumptive should ever spit upon
the sidewalk, floor of a room, a public
hall, railway car, or any vehicle.
When coughing or sneezing he should
hold a handkerchief over his mouth
and nose, for the spray or little droplets
of sputum expelled in either act
contains the germs. Handkerchiefs
thus used should be boiled before they
are washed, to make sure that the
germs are killed. All dressings used
upon tuberculous sores should be burned
Immediately upon removal. He
should not kiss any member of his
family, and should not sleep with any
one else, and if possible, not In the
same room. No consumptive should
ever swallow what he coughs up, for
it may give him consumption of the
bowels. The bowel movement of a consumptive
should be disinfected, for
some germs are always swallowed, and
in consumption of the bowels the discharges
are dangerous. The urine of
persons suffering with consumption of
the kidney and bladder should also be
disinfected. This can be done by using
a sufficient quantity of a 3 per cent to
5 per cent solution of carbolic acid. It
is lur me cuuauuipuicn v>??u
that this is done, for it reduces to a minimum
the possibility of reinfection.
If the consumptive destroys everything
he coughs up and disinfects the
other discharges, as outlined above, he
will protect himself and will not spread
the disease to others. The careful and
clean consumptive is not dangerous
to those with whom he lives or works,
but if he makes no effort to protect his
fellowman he is dangerous and should
be shunned.
How Should the Sputum Be Destroyed?
If the patient is able to be up and
going around he should at all times
carry in his pocket bits of cloth or tissue
paper and expectorate upon this?
burning it the first opportunity. He
may carry envelopes in which to place
the paper or cloth when soiled, being
always sure to burn them. When in
his home he should expectorate into a
spittoon partially filled with a 3 per
cent to 5 per cent solution of carbolic
acid, or some other reliable disinfectant.
The spittoon should be scalded
and cleaned with boiling water each
day. Spittoons in all public places
should be treated in a like manner. Just
remember that the sputum (spit)
should not be allowed to become dry
and powdered into dust.
Advice to the Healthy.
Don't be afraid of a consumptive if
he observes the rules laid down in this
pamphlet. Don't hesitate to tell a consumptive
that it is his duty to protect
his fellowman. Don't under any
circumstances sleep with a consumptive.
Don't occupy a house where a
consumptive has lived without first
having the house properly disinfected.
When a house is properly disinfected
it is no longer dangrerous. Don't
spit on floors or sidewalks. Set the
consumptive a good example. When
you spit, spit into the gutters or into
a spittoon. Don't stay in a room with
the windows closed. Keep them open
summer and winter, at home and at
work. Sleep with the windows open;
but be sure that the entire body is
warmly clad. Don't be afraid of night
air. Fresh air, whether night or day,
moist or dry, warm or cold, is good for
you. Don't drink milk from cows not
tuberculin tested without boiling it,
for the disease is often contracted in
this way. Don't ever stir up a dust by
dry sweeping. Sprinkle water or moist
sawdust or moist bits of paper over
the floor before sweeping. Dusting
should be done with a moist cloth.
Don't ever neglect a cold or cough,
and be especially careful to- protect
yourself from consumption when convalescing
from grippe and pneumonia,
and when in a rundown condition from
any cause. Consumption is an insidious
disease?the most common symptoms
being gradual loss of flesh and
strength, cough, fever, night-sweats
and spitting up of blood. Any one of
these signs should arouse suspicion.
In the early stages the cough is often
absent and the symptoms may be of a
nature as to lead one to think he has
"malaria," "stomach trouble," "general
debility." or various other ailments. If
you have any reason to fear consumption.
consult your physician, for when
the disease is recognized In time It Is
curable. Remember that consumption
Is no respector of person and that the
strong are stricken as well as the
weak.
It Is stated on the cover of this
pamphlet that the disease is not hereditary,
but Is infectious, that is catching.
That statement is now accepted
as an absolute fact. Those born of
tuberculous parentage do not have the
same resisting power against the disease
as those whose parentage is free
from it, but It is an uncontradictable
fact that no one will ever develop consumption
unless the germ gets into his
body. Then make sure you do not get
the germ, and you will never get the
disease.
DEATH IN MANY FORMS.
Over Fifty Thousand Ways of Shuffling
Off This Mortal Coil.
In 1890 an ingenious Frenchman calculated
that there were 17,000 different
ways of getting off the earth, says a
writer In Manchester Ideas. I estimate
that the advance of civilization and
progress has now Increased the figures
? KO COO StoHotlra nrnvp that 1.700
people die every year through swallowing
things such as pins, needles,
studs, buttons, pieces of boq^upmastlcated
meat and false teeth. This is
due to hurry.
In London alone there are 4,000
street accidents per month. These accidents
arise almost entirely from the
anxiety of the populace to get there
quick. There is no other 'reason why
cabs, motors, bicycles, carts, tram
cars, and parcel vans should go dashing
along, hurling pedestrians to right
and left, cutting off arms and legs and
filling the hospitals with casualty
cases.
In ordor to keep up with the demand,
triumphant science is always devising
fresh apparatus to save time and accelerate
speed. Take electricity, for
example. You frequently read in the
papers that somebody has died suddenly
through touching a live wire. Doctors
all agree that this is the quickest
death ever invented. And as electricity
now plays so large a part in
modern life it Is satisfactory to know
that if any of us should happen to
come in contact with a live wire there
is no delay. We are hurried off at top
speed. It is quicker and more reliable
than chloroform?a fact which
apparently was not known to the chief
actor in this tragedy:
"After chloroforming two cats, a
West Hampstead artist killed himself
by the same means." We are not told
why the deceased artist did it. Probably
It was because this age is in too
great a hurry to patronize art. Or It
may be that he was so worried by the
danger of being alive and the endless
possibilities of being knocked down,
blown up, or otherwise cut off by violence,
that he chose a safe and easy
way out of it.
Statistics prove that home Is a dangerous
place. Progress and the desire
to equip ourselves with conveniences
have undermined home with deadly
wires and pipes, gas that may explode
and boilers that may burst. And,
agreeable to the demand for hurry,
houses are now run up by the Jerry
builder at such speed that they are
capable of coming down with equal
celerity. Walls or ceiling's may collapse
at a moment's notice, chimney
pots may crash through the roof, or
the flooring subside and launch you
hurriedly into the cellar. Consequently
it is proved by figures that you are a
lot safer in an express train than at
home.
Tillman* Is Homesick.?A dispatch
from London to the New York Herald
says: Senator Tillman of South Carolina
who is making his first European
tour, likes London very much, though
he sighes in vain for the delicacies of
the table of "down south."
"Young man." said the senator this
morning, "if you will only tell me
where I can get some real corn meal
in this town, you will make me your
debtor for life."
A friend who was standing near
supplied the information and the senator
was effusive in his thanks.
"Well, sir, I've had a hard time to
get something to eat over here. You
know a man used all his life to our
southern cooking Just naturally craves
for something that has corn in it. I
don't eat beef and I have the hardest
time everywhere I have been trying to
explain what I meant by breakfast bacon,
but as for corn bread and hominy
grits, why, sir, I haven't been able to
find a trace of them anywhere, so I
just thought if I could only find somebody
to tell me where I could get some
corn meal I would take it to my stopping
place and show the cook how to
make a nice yellow pone of corn bread
or an ashcake. Brompton road, did you
say? I am certainly much obliged.'
I-HUIYI UOE.MIN IV UUtnu.
Dream of Great Syatem of Interatata
Roads.
A recent news telegram from New
York savs: "The use of the automobile
as a means of long distance transportation
from one part of the United States
to another has so Increased within the
last two years that, in the opinion of
the officers of the Automobile club of
America, among whom are the president,
Judge E. H. Gary, and Cornelius
Vanderbilt of the board of governors,
it is only a question of good transcontinental
roads when the automobile
will become a common rather than an
unusual means of travel for seeing all
America.
One of the most convincing facts In
support of the rapid growth of the longdistance
utility and pleasure trips in
cars is the experience of the automobile
club's bureau of tours has been having
of late. The club now has a membership
which includes prominent
automobilists in twenty-three states,
and also has on its tour subscribers'
list hundreds of correspondents In
every state of this country and in
many foreign cities.
The business of the bureau of tours
is to lay out routes from any point here
or abroad to any other point. From
Its representatives In hundreds of localities
It gets first-hand data and furnishes
to its subscribers a fully worked
out itinerary, and, where possible,
with good road maps, data about hotels
and craragres.
At first its chief business was in supplying
what might be called local
routes for tours of 300 or 400 miles, and
in working out plans for European
trips. Of late, however, it has been
surprised to get requests from many
members in the west to supply routes
from their cities to New York. And in
many cases members in distant states
have desired, fn addition, full road information
for touring the middle Atlantic
states and New England. Frequently
these routes are for side trips
for some western or southern automobilists
who are en route for extensive
foreign tours. And already there is
a heavy demand for transcontinental
routes which will bring many automobillsts
and their cars direct to Savannah
for the grand prize race on
Thanksgiving Day.
For years past there has been a sort
of hegira of automobilists from distant
states to New York city, either on business
or to enjoy the opera or theatres
of the metropolis. Many of these now
make their New York headquarters at
the club. It is noticed, however, in the
garage office of the club, which operates
for its members and its guests
a huge machine shop and storage
plant, that, whereas, many of the westerners'
cars formerly arrived at the
club in clean condition, which would
indicate that they had been brought
on by rail or boat, the majority of the
cars now arriving from distant points
show, by dust or mud on their guards,
that their owners have used them for
long touring. And in consequence the
members' privileges extended with use
of the garage are gradually reaching
members from clubs at increasingly
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greater distance, in one year ?.uc oiuu
had under guest privileges In Its garage
more than 100 cars coming more
than 500 miles to New York.
There Is also, however, a large touring
movement in the other direction.
More New York members than ever before
are calling for touring schedules
to reach New Orleans, or St. Louis,
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul or other
great inland points.
As a consequence, the bureau of tours ,
is now preparing many copies of long
Inland trips, for, whereas, a few
months ago there would be but one
call a year for a certain thousand-mile
automobile journey, there now are six
or seven. At the same time that the
inland travel has Increased, there Is no
diminution In the foreign touring.
This increasing demand for routes
that will help the automobllist to "see
America" has stimulated the club's
touring bureau experts to extend its
work of mapping states still further
into the west Already the club has
published complete road maps of New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
and it is hoped that soon, with the cooperation
of the other clubs throughout
the United States, a complete road map
library, covering every state where the
sport is possible, will be available.
Already the club has collected all
data about many of the Important
roads and trips a thousand miles from
New York, and in every district where
automobiling has become active it has
gatherers of information which furnish
it with accurate accounts of road conditions
over a wide range of territory.
Tn the east, so complete is this system
of special correspondents, that the bureau
of tours gets almost immediate reports
of dangerous crossings, or roads
which have been changed, or of speed
traps established. These are immediately
recorded and furnished to its
large range of membership, local and
national.
ON AERONAUTICS.
Developments In Flying From 1886 to
1900.
The period from 1885 to 1900 was one
of unexampled activity in aeronautics,
and for a time there was high hope
that the age of flying was at hand.
But Maxim, after spending $100,000,
abandoned the work; the Ader machine,
built at the expense of the
French government, was a failure;
Lilienthal and Pilcher were killed in
experiments, and Chanute and many
others, from one cause or another,
had relaxed their efforts, though it
subsequently became known that Prof.
Langley was still secretly at work on a
machine for the United States government.
The public, discouraged by the
failures and tragedies just witnessed,
considered flights beyond the reach of
man, and classed its adherents with the
inventors of perpetual motion.
We began our active experiments at
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the Close or tnis periuu, ju utiuuci,
1900, at Kitty Hawk, N. C. Our machine
was designed to be flown as a
kite, with a man on board, In winds of
from fifteen to twenty miles an hour.
But, upon trial, it was found that
much stronger winds were required to
lift it. Suitable winds not being plentiful,
we found it necessary in qrder to
test the new balancing system to fly
the machine as a kite without a man
on board, operating the levers through
cords from the ground. This did not
give the practice anticipated, but it Inspired
confidence in the new system of
balance.?The Wrights in the Century.