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Show STORY OF A BALLOONIST. Miraculous Escape Made by an English Eng-lish Aeronaut. "M. A. P." tells a story of one of the adventures of Stanley Spencer, the English aeronaut. It was at Hong Kong and the balloon was rent in making mak-ing the ascent. However, rather than disappoint the crowd, Mr. Spencer determined de-termined to trust to his luck and gave the order to let go. The balloon shot up, the hot air pouring from the fissure. fis-sure. The aneroid soon marked 600 feet, and the parachutist was beginning begin-ning to get ready, when the balloon suddenly collapsed, and after a vain endeavor to loosen the parachute, he fell like a stone. During the whole of that fall he was conscious and felt no fear. Twice he turned completely over and then crashed on to rocky cliffs 150 feet above the sea level. Some jack tars among the horrified spectators specta-tors rushed to pick up his remains, and found him not only alive, but conscious. con-scious. "Are you hurt?" they asked, with the fatuity of men deeply moved. "Only carried away a mainstay, boys," was tke chery response, and then the plucky man fainted. He had broken his tibia, but that and some bruises were his only injuries. A fall of 450 feet onto rocks, and life! The explanation lies in the fact that the parachutist struck the sloping side of the liff aid slithered down to the botton . |