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A M urtler in the Clouds. There Is a inan living to-day who has gone through the whole thrilling horror-filled experience of killing a man in the clouds. The marks of grief and woe on his face and his shattered nerves tell the whole story. Robert F. Scanion was known through the Middle West as one of the most daring and even foolhardy ?, aeronauts and parachute jumpers in all the country. Rarely was a day t^ ? windy or district too dangerous foi nitii to make his ascension accordiv? to contract and on time. Then l," a day, in an hour, it was ah chafed. It wa& during fair wet k at Calioki.'i lit I'eoi.lo f....... ..11 ,i... surroundifg country and towns had come in ot the last day of the week to niak? Aierry when Scank>n was billef to make a balloon ascension ,.,ad parachute lead. *? He himself superintended the fill' ing of the balloon with hot air and coal gas by throwing light wood and coal oil on the fire in the furnace a few yards from the balloon. The gas was sent into the canvas bag through a tunnel and a pipe, the mouth of the balloon over the opening. The gas bag began to expand, puffing up in little jerks almost like the beatr / ing of a great heart. As it bev gan to expand the people packed in closer and shouted out in excitement. Around the bolloon like a fringe were tows of the bags of sand to weitht it down :ind in !id dition men from the crowd were pressed in to hold the guy ropes that the last possible mitre of gas might be got in before it should !> released for its shoot up in the air. The l&nllotm is lnl'lal?sl. Slowly the balloon rose until its tail brushed the ground bearing itself for a 1 light like sonic great creature of the air. Scanion in his tights and spangles had to keep running from one side of the balloon to the other and then out to the furnace to gi\e orders to his assistants. It was hard work and the thing might go wrong and that the ascension might lie a failure. Little by little be ordert d the men standing around the balloon, their arms upstretched holding the gu> lines, to slack their ropes. As the great bag tugged the men would be lifted off their feet, the balloon rolling from side to side as though drunk. Stretched out 011 the ground was the parachute fas^ tened to the bag of the balloon so that when the balloon shot up it would be swinging directly under it, fastened only by one rope, cord led up to a knife so that when the auronaut wanted to descend. he would have to but jerk the cord, cutting the rope and float down to earth in safety. Under the parachute the trapeze bar was hanging, a bright brass rod on which Scanion was to hang and go through his gymnastics while being wafted to the clouds. As the bag straightened up it bebegan to tug so that the farmers and townspeople swinging on it for ballast began to grow afraid and anxious to release their hold. "Hey, Mac," he called to his assistant, "throw in another chunk!" Mac knew what that meant, and on the "re tossed a small bucket of coal oil. A blaze of fire leaped through the tunnel and the balloon tore itself out of the hands of the ballast men. The balloon wobbled up. A muttering shout ran through * the crowd for the tension was at its height, and a man from theirmidst was about to be whisked up into the heavens. V omen threw up their hands and shouted out words of warning. "Hold on tight," called out an old man leaning on a gnarled cane for suppoit. "Oh, I know he will be killed," sobbed i woman, turning away her eys. "Let <?o or You Will be Killed." But all this was met with ut every performance and served in no way to unstring Scan ion s nerves. All his mind and energies were bent on clearing the buildings and tree tops. "Let her go hoys," he called out over the exclamations of the people, and the cracking of the fire. "Cut loose." Running back Scanion picked up the brass trapeze rod and seated himself on it, one hand on each rope. Then as the balloon slipped up into the air he ran forward under it, the long-folded parachute tugging him gently, thus saving himsel from being dragged over the giound. There had not been a hitch, the weather was perfect, he was getting a good start. The ascent seemed no different from a ' dozen others he had made. Rut there is where the risk of a balloon jumper comes in. He never knows what moment something will happen. Suddenly a drunken man burst through the crowd and threw his arms around Scanion. He was a big muscular man and in his eyes was the look of an intoxicated man who cares not the least what happens. Scanion had to grasp the ropes on the end of the bar to keep from being pulled off backward. The parachute bar was just being lifted off the ground, and Scanion had no way to fight back except by kiokinir "Let loose, let loose," he yelled frantically, but the man only tightened his grip and buried his face in \ Scunion's spangles, afraid to look ' down. For a moment the crowd stood too horrified to move, then several of the men, coming to themselves, rushed out and sprang wildly at the drunken man's feet. But they missed and a second more the balloon had risen above the tops of the | trees and the two men ovei the heads of the people. "Let go or you will be kit ad," cried Scanion, squirming in the man's grasp and kicking as best he could. But the man held on grimly without answering a ward. The horror of it flashed through Scanion's mind and made him fight more resolutely. Here he was sitting on a brass nob 20 feet under the balloon, riding a balloon built for only 150 pounds, plus the weight of the parachute, and hi himself was overweight by 1< pounds.Tlie man clinging to his am must weigh at least 170 pounds. To make the ascent this wa: would be absolutely folly. So hi . redoubled his energies tuwari kit king off the unwelcome pussen per. Letting go of one hand In clung to one swing, bending topi and with the other hand tried U tear apart the man's fingers, kick ing them madly in the thighu wit! his lu-els. "Lrop, drop, yon can muae ?i yet," called out Scattion, nlmos out of breath. Rut the man paid no heed hold ing on as grimly as death itselt ' nulling bold of one of the man' hands Scan ion tore it away Tin man freed his hand and fastened i it in another place. Surging bad and forth. Scan ion tried lo wrigglt out of the man's grasp, the couibin ed wave sending a wave clear up u tho balloon like a quick jerk trav filing along a rope. Breathing with quick intakes of breath, part ly from exhaustion and partly fioui the effects of the liquor the man clung to Scion without speaking a word. One idea was firmly tixed in his mind and that was that iie must hold on tight ant with the grip and determination ni a drowning man he carried out his idea. Working his hand up the man's hack Seanion got it against the man's face by a quick surge am pushed madly and blindly, but the man buried his face in tin othci side o! Seamon's back and the short advantage was gone. Rapidly but with startled dignit) the balloon rose into the air each second adding to the distance that one of thiui must fall. Scanion's hands sank deep into the bar ropes and they came down almost to tie level of t'ae bar his head was pullet hack itutiI lie <4iuid see nothing be the dropping skirts of the par. chute and the bulging sides of 'hi ballot n o\? r liiin. Stitiirmii ; m kicking he struggle d until hi l?r? al li whs almost spe I'i,. h; : , rruinst time, knowing :i.. i *..ei moment ll't* balloon v.. getting higher ami higher. Finally twisting his lu ad around Scaniou says thai t hey were fully lino feet high and that a drop moan instant math. lie eoiild see tin crowd Hiding almost as he hac loft it, seal rely making a sound, al laces tense and set, silent watchers of the struggle for life in mid air A Single Chance of Fscape. Suddenly the man gave a lungt and flung an arm over the bar then in spite of all that Seioi I u!d do he swung hack and hookec knee over it like an acrobat in ! show. Scion looked down into tin man's face. It was wrinkled int< lints of fear and determination. Hi: j eyes were wide open and staring but afraid to look down. Then I was not the slightest sign of drunk euiicss about the face, the terribh J struggle had completely cleared hi: mind. Scion could see that the mat was possessed of but one idea ant that was to hold madly to the swinging bar. His whole strengtl j and his whole mind was set on car rying this out. As Scion looked down at tin inan lie turned over every possibh chance of escape. To drop meant destruction. Tin parachute was built to carry onlj one man. Possibly one of then might go down in the paracliuti and the other ride the balloon dowi by waiting until the night air chill |ed the gas. It was but a straw, bu worth seizing. "All right, it's too late for yoi to drop off now," said Scanioi gruffly. "Swing yourself upon thit liar." The man looked up at him nion like a wild animal than a huinai being, like a. dog trying to under stand just what his master means So firmly fixed in his mind was tin idea that lie must cling to the bar that lie could not coniprehiu d wlia Scan ion meant. "Climb down, damn you!" growl ed Scanion. "We've got to stick i out together." Tlie light of understanding broke into the mail's eyes, at.d with rigid trembling muscles he drew hiuisel up on the bar and wound his arn aiot>,nd the supporting rope. Tht two sat crowded shoulder to slioul der, facing, with scarcely enougl room to move. "Don't hurt nie." whined the man speaking for the fist time. "Shut up and don't shake tk< balloon," snapped Scanion. The man kept his eyes on Scan ion, afraid to look toward tin earth. "Is it very?very far?" The Fight for Life. The man whimpered and shranV against the rope without lookinj i down. What are you going to do abou it?" demanded Scanion, taking tin {chance to punish the intruder. Th< danger now did not seem so imrni nent, and so Scanion was bound tc i impress on the man what he hat done. The man whimpered and shrani | away from the aeronaut. The figh was gone out of him. He dreadec the upbraiding more than th< kicking. "What made you do it?" demand ' ed Scion. "I thought?1 don't know?" A slight ripping sound over theii llOilflu Ufutiinn honu?v?rt " * but to the unwelcomed passenger i meant nothing. Scan ion glanced up His worst fears were confirmed. One of the ropes fastening to th< side of the balloon and supportinj the parachute had ripped down ? | few inches and the gas and smok< were pouring out. The bar rocket back and forth again and the ren enlarged. In a moment it migh tear larger and the two would g< rocking swiftly downward. The one chance for safety was foi one of them to go in the parachuti ; ?and self-preservation is the firs law of nature. "Don't rock the balloon," shout i ed Scanlon fiercely, although tin man was sitting quietly enough. Tin 1 man said nothing. "Why don't you look downward?' demanded Scanion with all th? fierceness that fighting for one'i life brings up in one. The man watched Scanion humh s ly a moment and then turned his ) eyes down. Wrapping his legs to (1 gether, Scan ion lunged at the man and tore madly at his fingers griper ped around the rope at the end of _ the bar. Silently the two fought, j their breaths coming quick and fast, their nails bringing deep gushes into 3 each other's hands. The bar and L, the parachute to the struggle, hut t that alone told the story of the stiuggle to the birds. Finally Scan, ion got the man's fingers loose from the rope, and in one surge of t strength pushed him off backwards. ; The other hand of the man gripped around the bar, undoubted. and without a sound, he went whirling through I lie air, turning grotesque^ 1>, his arms striking out as it' they , expected to catch something. ^ Fascinated, Sciuiion could not j keep his eyes off t lie whirling body. > So squarely under him was it that . hut for the turnings it did not set in , to l?e moving, it seemed t > lie rest_ ing in space. As it got farther away , it ceased to struggle falling like a ] dead mass. A sparrowhawk darted , toward it curiously then turned , away. [ Tin a the body struck the ground . in a small pasture lot. The sound L v hi? li travels upward 111 ?rc easily I cime to him with sickening dearI* ness. It seemed as though lie was j only a few feet away. Hut look as he liliirht Sen lli/klt fV^ll l<1 tw\i coo , win re tin hody has struck. It , seemed to have huiied itself in the I ?;round. liis courage almost gone. Scan ion r pulled the rope that served the . parachute from the halloon and dioppod to the groumi. When the people eaine runniiig up hi- was so , weak he could lia'dly stand alone, i That evening he was arrested, and . later stood trial I'm the man's . diatl toil w is .icipiitled on the , !',.< . ; . : .;eif-itetenci . j . lit it w?? Sea n ion's lust usee lion. lie is no\." as . fraid as death >aii on. ami wili -a-.irci |> look a flying machine j:. the air. llis ivis arc oomph >< l> gone, and as lie talk; lie keep* moving his haiiclaimli.slv loiind o\i r I :s h p and , km s. lie makes liis living during . i'o suminei in small towns ami during the winter in vaudeville h.v doing high diving. "It's the nights that make me t niisi rahle, he said, huttoniug and . unhuttoning his eoat. 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