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It 1c. a o n.. What the Sensation is When Aeronaut Cuts Away In Parachute - Drop to Earth. Augusta Chronicle. That anything unusual br out of the ordinary would occur in connec tion with the balloon ascension at the fair grounds yesterday was not known to the fair management, the newspa pers or any of the public. But it was unusual and decidedly out df the or dinary. In fact, there were but twc people in all Augusta who knew of any idea of a change in the balloon program, up to within a very few minutes before the time scheduled for the ascension, then a third party was taken into confidence by Mr. Broadwik, the balloonist, when he told the chairman, of the amusement committee of the fair grounds, and that made confidential. The regular announcement, as per the contract with the fair people was that Mr. Broadwick would make the ascent and dead parachute drop of 500 feet before the big umbrella af fair opened after leaving the balloon That's what thousands of people ex peeted to see as a part of the after noon program, and what many of iem went to the fair grounds ex pressly to see. Had there been any intimation of what was to take place there would have been more people beyond a doubt, but the treat came in the surprise. The balloon and trapeze were pre pared as usual for and by Mr. Broad wick and absolutely nothing indicatei that he would not go up. But, withir less than five minutes, in fact hardly more than two minutes, before the big bag ascended, and only after ev .erything was complete and ready, a young Augustan, who had never be fore had more to do with a balloon than watch the bag go into the ai or interview the balloon man, peelei off his coat and vest, took a seat or the trapeze, the guy ropes were re leased and the big air machine moun ted towards the clouds with Willian B. Seabrook, a member of the Au gusta Chronicle staff. There-were some hundreds of peo ple in ghe fair grounds who knew hin personally, and who were surprise< to amazement, but not more was Stheir irprise than that of his asso ciates in The Chronicle office, wh< had had not the slightest inkling of what was "coming off.'' How the ase-ent and descent wer4 made, and the sensations experienee< are told in Mr. Seajbrook's owi words: Up in a Balloon. (By W. B. Seabrook.) How 'does it feel to make a ballooi Sascension and parachute drop? Such was the gist of a thousant questiohs hulred at an amateur wh< nig4de his fi-st voyage among 't1< clouds from the Georgia-Carolina fai grounds yesterday afternoon. Not al altogether* easy query to answer; fo sensations are better experience than expressed. It was a glorious ride. Its thrillin joy is beyond the reach of imagina tion because the actuality upsets froi the first moment all the notions pre viously held as to what it must b like to dangle in mid-air on a trapez -bar no bigger than a broom-stick Pwith three-quarters of a mile of em; ty space to stretch your leg's in. In the first place, I had perfec confidenee in Broadwick. He is steady, level-headed fellow, wit twenty years of aeronautic experi enee. Last Tuesday I made friend with him and asked if he could al range to put me up on one of his ba loans, some favorable day later i the week. Finding that the reques was made seriously, he willingly a: sented and immediately went abo. teaching me the rudiments of his sei sational and fascinating profession. Yesterday morning we "doped up our arrangements for the afternool It was to .be a double ascension an I was to ride one of the bags wit P)roadwick 's own parachute, whi: Fred E. Rube, a well-known your professiona? . onaut in Broadwiek *mploy was to ride the other. At four o 'cloc-k the fires were ligh ed and the canvas began to belly the wind, as the blasts 6f hot air Lil ed the ba2s. Bouth swellea ruvpjil at a:id vest. IIe helpeYd me with ti le-preserver, which was to be woi as a precaution in case'the parachu descended in the canal or river, at I stepped into the trapeze, holdir the ropes as he had taugrht me. Just then the other ballooni, wh had been scorched, burst and collap ea oer the fire. so it was impossib iustruetions, I ran a few steps to ward thE rising bag, holding the rig ing taut. Then my feet were gent ly swung off the earth, and withou the slightest jerk I found myself ii midair. The band was playing, peopl were yelling and waving their handE all their faces turned upward, and i seemed that I was hanging station ary a coupie of hundred feet abov them. Then they began to get .;mal ler without seeming to move furthe away. The race traek looked lik somebody's small back yard and th main fairbuilding like a hen-house. Smaller and smaller they becam and I knew although there was searce ly any sensation of motion thate must be going nearly straight upwari at an immense rate of speed. Where was that sick "unsettle inside'" feeling one always experi ences in elevators, and which I ha imagined was going to partially spoi the fun? It was absolutely abseni There was no dizziness, scarcely an; feeling of movement, except an inde scribable floating in the mist of : perfect calm. But things below kep getting smaller and smaller, and th distance I could see 12 every diree tion began to widen proportionallb The entire ;anseape seemed compose of little geometrie splotche of coloi all of either shades. The r'ver seer ed a strip of heavy burnished cor per wire, stretching away to hazy ir finity in both directions. Housei mills, whole solid blocks of building in Augusta, looked like children' playthings. A Beautiful World. What a beautiful world! But b some peculiar mental freak I seeme in those three or four minutes t have lost my identity with the seen below. The houses I saw were reall toys. The river was but a strip o shining wiie, the fields no more tha squares of boundless cheeker-boar< Why, it was-a't even so real as tha it was a picture, a painted panorami a kindergarten landscape. I wasn high in the air at' all, I was in anotl er world that had no position i space, either high or' low, relative t the little picture that looked so prei ty and unreal. I did .not feel th dizziness that often comes wit height because I had absolutely lo~ the mental conception of height. In this dream I had forgotten a about Broadwick. the balloon, th fargounas5, myslf. everyting. B~ when I heard his revolver pop one and then g. sec'ond time I recollecte that he had told me he would sign: in that way the time when I reace a suffieient altitude to begin lookin for a place to make the parachut drop. Of course, the spell once broken, came back to reality with a rusi took a -firmer grip on the rope squinted upward at the ballon, an with this sudden relav4ion of m forgotten position came Te first at only moment of fright I experience 'during the entire trip. In a second Ihad passed. The air at that altitude is absolut l pure, and just sufficiently rare to I exhilirating. The sky is bluer b Scause it is seen undimmed by the du -that hovers just above the earth ar obscures ordinary vision. This san Sdust gave to the circle of the horiz< a border of gorgeous color, whi< e hanged to brilliant flame at ti point where the sun was dropping t ward the hills. But Broadrwick, on whose judi ment and equipmen?t I had risked n neck, had given his signal, and it' w; Stime to "cut,'' that is to part coi pany from the balloon and trust luck and the parachute. I felt a decided hesitancy in cor tplying with this part of fhe progra: -Mv teacher had told me the chute w *triged to dro.p three hundred feet li -a bullet before openn. That wc red me some. But I got a good gr on the parachute ring above my hea 1.settled into the little trapeze seat, ai djerked. hLoose From the Balloon. eThe bottom seemed to drop out geverything. For less than a fraeli< '5of a second I felt tiny wind curre: trickling upw\ard~ just behind r ears. almost. like watir. Then t nchute flared' wide and with a sha 1-jerk caught the air. After that slute saifety lay ahecad. eThe chute soon neared the ear .dand made direetly for a b ig elump pine trees. Thanks to Proadwiel in the A. B. C'. of halioonineg I nw li -ed to Iteer~ cla of ais tra21 3-only to find the Augunsta canal h: e tening upward to clasp me to: de m the liud o1 a 1ou1p Iiel. - A little later when I showed up at - the fairground my friend Broadwick - extended a grimy paw and told me t it had been a suecessful ascent. I i then learned that I had gone two a thirds of a mile high. With a grin, my partner also imparted the infor t mation that he had put me on his - 500 foot drop chute instead of the a 300 one. The drop was longer, but - t:he chute surer, he said. In that r drop of five hundred feet, absolute e ly the only sensation, mental or phy e sical. had been a slight tickling about the ears. STATE BANK EXAMINER SAYS FINANCES ARE SAFE The Banking Institutions of ThiF I State aie Reported to Be in - Splendid Condition - For I Sake of Convenience He Favors Clearing House Certifi cates. I The State. t Mr. Lee G. Holleman, the state e bank examiner, was very much pleas - ed 4o learn in The State yesterday ol the action of the South Carolina bankers' recommending the issue ol elearing house certificates by Colum bia and Charleston. "I believe that it will give us the ~ circulating medium we need jusi ' now." he said, "and therefore wil' s relieve the situation entirely. I hav( :no hesitancy in saying that the banks of this state are in srlendid conditiol and there is not the slightest dangei 7 of any trouble. The guara'ntee o the credit of the Charleston and Co lumbia banks would 'be behind sucl e certificates and of course this is al Y that is needed to make the papei just as valuable as government mon ev. L "The banks in other sections hav been taking the currency away and ft order to move the cotton and in faci to secure enough for the ordinar everyday business it may becom< anecessary to make currency more 0elastic. Therefore, I am very muel ~pleased with the action of the bank e ers, and hope that Columbia ani h Charleston banking institutions cat tsee their way clear to comply. '"The panie in the country will b E over within 30 days. I believe tha e matters are getting easier now, but i .t will be fuilly 30 days before confi e dence :s restoQred. And that is al dthe panic means-lost confidence.'' d Popular Names for Girls. g London Chronicle. e In the eightsenth cenutry girl were christened Sophia and Carolina I in- the early nineteenth, Emma an< 1 Jane; a little later, Laura and Clara 9 then came a crop of Dorothys an< d Marjories, who are now all callini Y their own ba)bies in a reaction agins d ''quaint'' Elizabeth. The names o d men suffer no such emphatic fashions it and yet -it is a pleasure to note tha there are certainly no more youn; 3 men called Alf and Gus, as were th r young men who walked with the crii 3 oline in the days of Leech. Good i~s th at sound of John, through all change! e Ecelsior Farmers' Union. n Excelsior Farmers' Union will mei h at Excelsior school house on Frida; e Novemiber 8, at 10 o'clock in th 9 morning. A full attendance of th members is requested. There will 1 - business of importance. ty John M. Schumpert, isPresident. to NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTIO] Notice is hereby given that a D< a- mocratic Primary Elect'ion will 1: n held on Tuesday, November 26tl S1907, in the Town of Newberry, S. C e for Mayor and Aldermen to serve f r- ore y;ear and Trustees of th*e Grad( i Schools forWards 4 and 5 to serve f< ,d, two years. Said Primary Electioni id cond'wed according to the rul< and reg dlations of the Democrati Party of the Town of Nexvberry, S. C of the polls lo be opened at S o'clock >~n . and to be closed at 4 o'clock p. ts There will be a separate votir 37 preeinet in eaceh Ward as follows: 1e Ward 1. Council Chamber. rPWard 2. Store of P>. F. Grillin it ( s u.S I- Tb: fllwin'r have >een appoint; mnana2ers of said electioin: thl Ward 1. F. M. Lindsey, J. H. Wi of linzhiam. M. M. Satterwhite. :'s WVard( 2. G. F. Longt, A. C. Wele f- J.bn .\. Summer. Ae Ward 3. Alex. Singleton, Warr< is oe,Mark Mills. tS jesw.A a m :,ud U> the following setLiou Rule 3. "The candidates receivir the majority of all the votes east f< the said offices of Mayor, Alderm( and Truatees of the Graded Schoo respectively at said election, shall I declared the nominees of the Dem cratic Party of the said town; provii ed, that on or before 12 o'clock not on Friday, November 22nd, 190 each of such candidates shall have le a written statement with the Chai man of the Executive 'Committee th; he is a candidate and that he wi abide the result of such election. I vote shall be counted for any cand date who has iot so pledged himself. If no candidate, either for the o flee of Mayor, or for Alderman, for Trustee of the Graded Schools a Ward shall have received a majo ity of votes at such election a secoi electio- for the nomination of a Ma or, Alderman or Graded School Tru tee, as the case may be, shall be he on Friday, November 29th, 1907, which second election only the tv candidates who received the highe vote at the former election shall 1 voted 'for: and in the event the should be a tie at the second primaj then a third primary shall be held Monday, Deeember 2nd, 1907. The candidates are assessed as lows: Mayor $10.00. Alderman $2.00. Trustee of Graded schools $2.00. No pledge will be accepted fro any candidate unless the proper a sessment is paid at the time of fili his pledge. By Order of the Executive Commi tee. 0. B. Mayer, T. H. Hunt, Chairman. Secretary. JAMESTOWN EXPOSITION. Rates from Newberry S. C., as < lows: Season Ticket $19.55. Sold -dai I April 19th to November 30th. 60 Day ticket $16.30. Sold dai April 19th to November 30th. 1 - 15 day ticket $14.30. Sold dai 1April 19th to November 30th. - Coaeh Excursion $8.55. Sold ea ITuesday; limit 10 days. Endorse 1 "Not good in parlor or- sleepi cars.'' y Througni Pullman sleeping cars, ~ : Atlantie Cost Line Railroad compar : Write for a heautiful illustrat - folder containing maps, eeseripti mater, list of Hotel, etc. For reservations or any infoi tion, Address, T. C. White, General Passenger Agt, SW. J. Craig, Passenger Tremei Man-ager, I Wilmiu'ton, N. C. IThe happiest mother in the little to' of Ava, Mo , is Mrs. S. Ruppee. S writes: "One year ago my son was do' twith such serious lung trouble that .< f physician was unable to help him; whE ;by our druggist's advice I began giv him Dr. King's New Discovery, an' tsoon noticed improvement.. I kept t i treatment up for a few weeks when e was perfectly well. 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TEND THE VETERANS REUNIOM JGUSTA, GA., 12th and 13th, 1907,. WILE ON ALL RAILROADS. ~ordially Invite g the Fair to call at 2428 Main street and seer xhibit of Malone's Music House. it at the fair grounds but at our store 1428 Main ins to offer you. ~ataogus,price, and terms, to , word tIi We are jusi E shipment of S Currants and ,11 Shelled A 0 Shell, Walnu1 Our stock Pickles and M and second t< - Spices of Ld* whole, Flavoi S- 0Fresh Cra [d Vegetables e it The Fattest o +Pickled Pigs Saur Kraut, in bulk. '0e Flour! We areoff have few equ * J. E. M. a Flour is sti - need you ha( 0 Anything: t- or staple gro< * You are c * and inspect o 0 S B. + Fant' h rialoriS First Tho Second The he If aman w( "j ed by his sE alwould accor SMoral. Act c and come Me buy your Cui Sterling Silve i and stationel a Prices m. -A CONFEDERATE m. AT AL NOVEMB3EF ONE CENT PER or~We C all who visit Columbia durir Piano and Organ E -Take Notice-We do not exhil street, and have some rare b a MALOnNE'S MUSIC WrtHor