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Show Around this ring are arranged a number of bags of sand which are of convenience in ascending and descending, and within easy reach are the handles to a pair of wings, one extending outward on either side. These wings are the guiding agencies, as there is no rudder. When it is desired to rise, the operator cants himself backward in his seat, thereby throwing the1 wings at a slight upward inclination. The propeller being in brisk motion, the tendency is to draw the machine forward and to push it upward. The device is so simple that one would scarcely expect it to work, yet by this means the reporter has ascended often to heights of 1,000 to 2,000 feet. The operation is reversed when the aeronaut wishes to descend. In turning around, either, one or the other of the side wings is turned so as to offer its surface to the wind. The other side, meeting no resistance, swings around immediately. The operator may thus point the machine in any direction he When the wind is blowing pleases. very strong it is best to point the forward end directly to windward, as, owing to its peculiar shape, the balloon part of the structure offers very little resistance in this position. The air strikes the point first, and then seems to loose its force in passing around the convex surface. It is thought by soihe scientific men that an object may be even moved forward towards the wind under these conditions, it being argued that the wind passes around the sides of the structure and closes in behind, giving the whole machine a forward tendency. The ball nozzle' has been explained on this principle. During the sixteen or eighteen trip? made by the reporter in .practice an- - ifEXClTES INTEREST. T ., successful trip of the bicycle flying machine. ' , BLl n. New York World Reporter Easily The Sen-UtlSafely guided the Ship on of 4 iir. 4 Beink Up High In the 7 j , s XTRAORDINARY interest has been Aroused the by recent succes s f u I in rri h a- -j c:;. ! 7is) M t!cS i f ' in-actu- iU 22 'i1 ini, "a c t -- c! ilt3 '2 lo-- d the Or-hea- (; A of trip W o r 1 ds airship, The World, in New York, , In the eastern part of Brooklyn, where was the ascent made, little else has rs for weeks past. a story about U airship or a flying machine with a rdod deal of scepticism, but when one evidence in the shape Is Confronted with; operation, it of the machine to And that is believe. not is difficult was that thC sort of evidence provided fol1 thousands of persons just two weeks ago Satur4ay, who were so formate as' to be on the spot when The wCrld rose proudly and intelligently pb the air, or who chanced to be somewhere in the line of its flight from Brooklyn to New York .city, back to Long Island and thence to Yonkers, says the New York World. The entire trp was made pursuant to a set design of the World reporter, who operated the ichine. It was (no foolhardy venture, :d the outcome could hardly have been s ty M:b 11 al Only They Recognized Their Old Friend snd AVcre Overjoyed. Considerable excitement was caused In the big zoo at Glen Island by an incident which demonstrated the memory and sagacity of a huge African lion, and a lioness. The beasts bad been yawning before several thousand people, when something suddenly attracted their attention. They bounded against the bars of the cage as if in a vain at tempt to gain their freedom, and at the same time let out a series of roars that could be. heard half a mile away. The tigers in the adjoining cages became interested and added their roars and growls. In an instant every animal in the big zoo, and there are over 1,000 of them, had joined in the frightful chorus. The shrill bark of the hyenas and wolves was heard above the rest, and added actual terror to the scene. Finally the huge elephant Siam caught the fever and, holding his trunk high in the air, gave a roar that was plainly heard at the other side of the sound. The fawns and deer and the little baby zebu dashed into the sheds, trembling with fright, while the monkeys groveled with terror at the bottom of their cages. Walter Bannister, the keeper, and half a dozen assistants were at once on the scene to make an investigation. It puzzled them. There was no apparent cause for the excitement, yet the big lions continued their roars and bounded about the cage. Turn the hose on him; hes got mad, suggested one of the spectators, who said he knew all about lions, as he had read a hook on animals in his boyhood. Things were becoming furious, when an elderly man forced his way through the crowd. , 'sby. fin"? aths :opai ter. pur- - 2riaa eets, nine h to i the e ef of a im- 1 pale , the es of i ttera e ex sr a romance lately sequel toDEVELOPED. lat it 13 any plain, I , 3 3 thl is in plaia X3-- l with laci. enti la si ours 3, and v Met IBs Kin for the First Time Peter Bennett Ieft His Young Wife Before Their Child Was Born Comes Back to Find Her a Married Woman. ! IKE a page from fiction is the story of an affair that occurred at Sand Hill, near Montoursville, one day the past week. It was a meeting of child and father, neither of whom had ever seen each other, yet the child is now a woman of 20 years. This meeting is the sequel of a story, the first chapters of, which were enaeted more than 20 years ago near Huntersville, this county. There was living there at that time, with her parents, a pretty girl named Hill. One day a traveling salesman, Peter M. Bennett, not yet 20 years of age, met the pretty country lass and fell in love with her. Bennetts home was in Sullivan county, and after the first meeting with the girl his 'visits to Huntersville were of frequent occurrence. The marriage of the couple followed, and for a season their But cup of bliss seemed overflowing. their immature age prevented that stability so necessary in married life. Both were quick tempered, and in a short time their career was marked by frequent quarrels. In the heat of one of these disagreements Bennett left his wife. She believed his absence would only be temporary, but as the days wore on into weeks and he failed to return, she began to despair. She was in a condition that would in a short time necessitate extra care, and it seemed hard that the young husband should desert her just at this time. Two months after his departure a girl baby was born to them. Years rolled by and no word was received from the missing husband and father. The baby grew to healthy childhood and was subsequently adopted by kind neighbors. She was given the name of Lou. Mrs. Bennett procured legal separation from her husband on the ground of desertion, and afterward became the wife of Roland Else. Mr. and Mrs. Else now reside in Warrensville, this county. The child Lou grew to young womanhood, and a year or so ago was wedded to Horace Usmar. Mr. and Mrs. Usmar now live at Sand Hill, a village on the road leading from Williamsport' to Montoursville. One day the past week there came to the Usmar home a stranger. He was Peter M. Bennett, father of Mrs. Usmar, now a practicing physician of Detroit, Mich. He was able to prove his identification beyond doubt, and the meeting between daughter ana father was a happy one.- - Mr. Bennett spent several d days with his daughter and then returned to his home in the west, where he tas a family consisting of wife He came oast to visit and daughter. his mother, who is ill at her home in Sullivan j county, and while there learned fof the whereabouts of his daughter. Bennett has acquired considerable wealth, and is said to be a physician of high standing in Detroit. He said he never forgave himself for having left his young wife under the circumstances he did, but that their quarrels were of such frequent occurrence that he, in his youth, concluded they were better off apart. old THE AEROCYCLE JUST AS IT ASCENDED. fall. 11 bnt of fn ess W This is all my fault, sir, he said to than successful, although many other method of guiding or of assistMr. Bannister. fho saw the atscent marveled at the ing in guiding the airship was discovMy name is Tom Leaeronaut's daring, and expressed them-Bdvered. This is to incline the body In roy, and Ive handled lions all my life.'1 as being satisfied to remain on whatever direction it is desired to go, As he spoke he stepped over the railing, &e earth. The reporter, however, had In order to turn to the right or left, Mr. Bannister at once recognized the other es p experimented with the before making this ascent in public. He was fully aware, in the first tlace, that thef trip would be "just as tafe as a ride ih a trolley car, and, perhaps, indeed, aj good deal safer. And, to toe second place, he was perfectly confident that he would be able to piide the machine, though a rather stiff itod was blowing at the time. No claim is made here that the Worlds airship is a mechanical bird, or a miraculous invention, which can be made to fiy rapidly in the teeth of a fierce Any such claim is absurd on its But it s asserted with perfect sincerity that a machine has been de- and constructed which is capable toing guided at the will of the op-- I jnrcr, when the weather is anything tovorable. Such a machine is the airship. Such a machine was grids -- 4 which has solved the problem of alr-tM- carefully ! io tbs ilia fier r-- r. i , navigation. j j re' tlCU ri CoaJ- - i The reporter had become familiar manipulation of the airship at Walloon Farm of Prof. Carl E. i in I3 Ij Y. inventor, Herkimer coun-n con-Experiments have been i over a considerable period, the T 1 mgto make the ultimate trial at iork" city a success, and, to elim- v' mery possible feature to a failure. i e tie difficulty in that could The reporter getting the knack machine, and it wa3 not long handle it as deftly as the be-cou- ld rr himself. r '1 OWENY A GLOBE-TROTTEPostal Clerks Famous Hog- - Starts on a Trip Around the World. Oweny the postal clerks famous dog that has traveled over the United States, sailed from San Francisco the other day for a trip around the world. Early in June Oweny came to Tacoma and made a trip to Alaska. Returning, he inspected a China steamer lying at the-- dock, and seemed interested in It. The other morning. Assistant Postmaster Stockings made arrangements for him to go around the world. He will on the Northern Pago to Hong-Kon- g cific steamer Victoria as the guest of Captain John Panton. The captain will put him aboard an English mail steamer bound for London, via Indja and Suez. Oweny will thence be sent to New York and back to Tacoma. Oweny is now 15 years old. He started traveling from Albany, N. Y., many years ago. A postal clerk took a fancy to him and put about his neck a tag bearBe kind to ing the inscription: Ever since he has traveled Oweny. with the postal clerks. He is now fat and lazy, and will probably die eventually of overfeeding, as the clerks vie with each other in taking good care of him. direction desired. In fact, the whole process is so sim pie and the sensation of being so high in perfect safety and with the power to control ones movements is so agreeable, that once you have made a trip you will be a confirmed sky bicyclist. When moving about the upper atmosphere at pleasure the air navigator feels a sort of pity for those who are so unfortunate as to be forced to remain on the earth. They are subject to all terrestial conditions to earthquakes, lightning and tempest and due process of the law. The World airship navigator, on the other hand, may escape all these inconvenient things. Ha can approach the earth near enough to carry on a conversation in a moderate tone; and then, with a simple movement of the body, a slight change in the inclination of its axis, he soars upward above your head until his flight is stopped only bj the absence of sufficient air to breathe, or by fatigue of the leg muscles. In its present condition the airship is operated entirely by leg power, which, of course, is more or less unsatisfactory. In a quiet atmosphere, when there is no or very little wind blowing, one can get along very well by simply violent pushing the pedals. When awould be it gale Is blowing, however, more some to have vigorous desirable motive power. If some such power were provided the machine might easily make its way into the eye of tho . r Way for him. The man went close to the cage and thrust his two arms between the bars. The lions for a moment seemed frantic, then quieted down and began to lick the mans hand as the crowd fell back, expecting each instant to see the man in Jured. He explained to Mr. Bannister afterward that he had trained the lions to do many tricks years ago, and had traveled with them for many seasons. He had not seen them for some years, yet they recognized him the moment he came within sight of the cage, and made an uproar that was quieted as soon as he caressed them. The beasts had passed through several dealers hands before coming to Glen Island, and it was not known that they were trick lions until Mr. Leroy informed Mr. Starins representative. New York Tribune. Couldnt Swallow the Whale Story. Rev. Henry W. Pinkham, pastor of a Baptist church at Bridgeport, Conn., recently preached a sermon about Jonah, in which he took the stand that the whale did not swallow the prophet. Now, he is going to resign because his congregation says the Bible says the whale did swallow Jonah, and therefore it must be true. Rev. Pinkham became prominent some months ago, when one Sunday morning he placed on either side of his reading desk a kettle of beer, which he said he had bought on his way to church. " Baby Bliss Paelnj- - Hate. - 't dob-cotto- t child 16-in- ch 10-year-- 10-m- ile n 4$7-pou- nd Almost Too Tender. , Like mistress, like maid, Is a saying that is probably oftener true than like master, like man. The story is told that Mile. Augustine Brohan, a celebrated French comedienne, who was extremely human to all animals, no matter how humble, one day at table, found a fly caught on her plate. She took It up tenderly with her thumb and finger and called her maid. Marie, she said, take this fly be careful, dont hurt him and put him outdoors. The girl took up tho fly and went away; but presently Mile. Brohan saw her standing near, with a troubled expresWell, Marie, she sion on her face. No, said, did you do as I told you? mademoiselle; I have the fiy still. I couldnt venture to put him outdoors It was raining, and he might have taken Omahas smallest cycling expert is a 4 years old. She rides a Rooster, , Nearly Killed by She takes long rides in the wheel. Waterbury, Conn., girl A accicountry with her mother almost every named Teems met with a peculiar turn without lost her life. day, and can do a dent, in which she nearly of evidence least which the fatigue. She has She began teasing a rooster, exhibition several made rides at fairs, cold! face in the turned and attacked her at last the Ottumwa, where she Iowa, child The severing the temporal artery. with the rode God Baby Bliss, the physilas bleeding to death when 'bo i.i on a bicycle-Jc- o of rider now. Chicago. the ( dicentric ring cf steed cian arrived and stopped kd by a hune sail propeller, by a pair of pedal?, quite sim-- 1 a u?fd on a bicycle. The of the machine is shape I like a spindle, being a a lag of materb fill 1 with hydrogen. TI r n sitr.utrd in front cf the oi J 5 l- it is simply necessary to lean in the name and made tc remembered, according to option and illustration printed hurricane. tndoy World, that the airship 5 i g, ed R. man .... -- hot-head- ed latica J s an pre-tuf- new-foun- with HOGHDTY. Old-rashion- . j It THE REVAT.D ten-year-o- ld well-dress- .amel a BABY STORY. rTs. Theme, bnt the It Is Not Always Be to hs Make It Worth Teltlng:. Fa frj Inourj.ri The case Mrs. Samuel Gibbons, of Clarksburg, ja njrhi's while picking berries with her two paper of a reward of $lo lyq r fo ihe return of $5 0 r raimls rue rf a r irui small children and two nieces last Friday, had an exciting ad- lar anecdote only different, tai3 th venture. Mrs. Gibbons and the chil- ancient New' England nniL-- r cf tit It happt dren had gone up the did Eliza club to a Utica reporter. Keatchum road, which is unused and in Providence (It. I.) foity jears zti partially overgrown, and they were w'hcn the city contained but one milpicking raspberries. Mrs. Gibbons had lionaire, wiio was an old Scotchniar named Alexander Duncan. One da? left her boy with her Mr. shade in offit the his in Stella Duncan, Paving daughter a roll notes of and bank ir of a thicket beside a spring, she, dropped large with her nieces, Reda and Fannie Gib- the street. They crcapcl his eye, tuf bons, was busily engaged a short dis- not that of the small boy, who is arount tance down the road, when 'little Stella everywhere, and who pounced upon the came running down crying and scream- bills immediately. The roll containce ing: Babys crying, and theres an $300. When Mr. Duncan received it bt awful noise in the bushes, and it is a eagerly counted the money and, finding, big black thing. The mother was ac- it correct, he turned to the boy ana quainted with backwood districts, and said: I thank ye, my little man. Then, she knew it was a bear with cubs, and noticing the, look of dismay in the poot m his trousers the baby crying the chances of the lit- lads countenance, tle ones escaping were small indeed. pocket and fished out a coin, whPh h The mothers heart was faint, and she handed to the finder of his wealth. And told her nieces she couldnt bear the the coin represented what do you sight of her mangled child in the bears think? It fine-lookin- iding t BEAR AND TWENTY LONG YEARS. THE LIONS ROARED. Is motherhood multiplied by he-fe- it Five dollars? A dollar? A half dollar? A quarter of a dollar? jaws. Little Reda started toward the baby first and said: Ill get baby some way. Then the mother and the little children bravely hurried up the road. On Just half of that. t , ; , It was an old Spanish coin that we used to call a ninepence In New England and that you wrould call a shilling In New York-I- n other words, it was twelve and a hall cents which Alexander Duncan, the millionaire of Providence, paid to the honest boy who found andfTeturned to him $500. coming to the spot where the baby lay the mother screeched, and that screech was heard by her husband, who was haying In the valley a mile and a half away. The sight she saw was enough to madden any mother, for through that thicket came a bear, growling and showing no signs of fear. Reda darted ahead, grabbed the baby, and placed him in his mothers arms. They then ran, the children clinging to the mothers skirts and the mother clasping the crying baby closely to her breast. And they did not stop until they reached the back road, fully of a mile distant. There they met Mr. Gibbons, who had heard the screaming and was hurrying toward them from the hay field. This is the story that a Transcript representative gained in an interview with the mother and their children at , A POETS LICENSE. Squeezed the Hand of an Eiupren in tb - Fervor of Recitation. s Studies of the following incident: Tennj-so- n was one of the' party invited some years since by Sir Donald Currie on a yachting trip, the yacht provided being an ocean steamer of the South Africa line, known as .the 'Pembroke Castle. Mr. Gladstone was another guest, I think certainly he was on one of the two or three trips then taken. There was on board a young English girJ since married and dead, whose beauty and intelligence and charm were all. remarkable. Tennyson attached himself to this brilliant and sympathetic creature. He was ipften asked to read, and it became his habit to read holding her hand, which, in the fervor of recitation, he often pressed. The ship put in at Copenhagen, and the Princess ot Wales and thd Empress of Russia, them G. W. Smalley, in three-quarte- rs their home. It is believed two cubs were with the Men,-relate- . bear, for large and small bear tracks were seen in and about this, thicket Sunday, when an unsuccessful hunt was made for bruin. Mrs. Gibbons said she met an aged and thickset man .Saturday, who said he had seen a bear and two cubs on the niountain that day. There is much talk in Clarksburg of a on a visit to her old home, came on grand bear hunt. board. There was luncheon, and after DOs: Up Gold In Mlchlsran. luncheon Tennyson was asked to read; Frank Lounsbury and Augustus Fox and did, sitting between the Empress on dug up a box full of gold nuggets and one side and the English girl on the quartz on the farm of Lewis Potter at other: When it was over and they had Dimondale, Micb. It was worth $20,-00- gone up on deck,! he asked the girl Forty-fiy- e years ago an English- whether she thought the Empress liked man namqd Carr moved into the local- it. Well, answered she, her Majesty He was poisoned: Before his must have thought it a little unusualffi ity. death he hid all his gold in the vicinity. What do you mean? I mean that F He confided his secret to neighbors, but dont think the Empress is In the habit they never located the treasure.' Mr. of having her hand squeezed in public Potter thinks there is more gold on his even by poets. It seemed proper to farm besides that discovered by Louns- Tennyson to offer to the Empress his most humble apologies for his mistake. bury and Fox. The Empress laughed, and told him she Made Insane by Quack Medicine. had enjoyed the reading extremely. Mrs. Dora Remsen, of Jamaica, L. I., was sent to Bloomingdale asylum last Has Gray Whiskers and a Terrier. week, a raving maniac. Miss Remsen A bicycle seems to call out a mans was a stout young woman, and a few latent peculiarities with unfailing cermonths ago commenced taking a quack and there are always interestflesh reducer. In a short while the tainty, ing examples of such development to be so affected her mind that compound seen among the riders in the park or she became violent. on the roads. A gray whiskered man rides on the boulevard almost every day FINANCIAL SCHOOL. with a small Skye terrier in a wire fastened to the front of the bibasket Chicagos rich people returned to the cycle just below the handle bars. He assessors of last year $2,000 worth of riding this way for several' diamonds and $74 worth of silver table- has beenand is never seen without the months, ware. animals The expression Is a cudog. Massachusetts is one of the richest of rious of terror and ennui, combination the state, having a valuation of real and there is an alertness in his look and personal property amounting to which might he understood to indicate-- ' that he would jump out at the first opVirginia Is not so wealthy as before portunity. Other similar riders are to the war, at least in the estimate, of the be seen on the rokd every day, but unfirst families, but still has a valuation fortunately all of them are not so harm, 0. , of $318,331,441. less. New York Sun. Rhode Island, in proportion to size and population, is among the richest Plants Boarded for 50 Cents a. Month. of our commonwealths, 'being assessed Boarding houses for plants are a novat $252,536,673. el Institution, designed for the housing Only 27 per cent of the capital of this of plants for families who close up their country is owned by men holding be- city houses for several months during tween $100,000 .worth and $1,000,000 the summer. Every woman who loves flowers is at her wits end to devise a. worth of property. her plants cared for Mississippi, from being one of the means of having Is In the case of a. she while away. poorest, has attained excellent rank this becollection valuable and among the Southern states. Its wealth large Often matter. in thecomes a serious is valued at $110,628,129. anyone passing a When the last census was taken the spring and summer see window a strip in his florist's may value of the railroad property In this some other sign, of painted glass or, country was considered to be equal to Boarding .House the cost of construction and equipment, bearing the50 words: A few of Cents for Apiece. Plants, as reported by the railroad companies. accommodaoffer establishments No account was taken of the increased the covers a tions for 25 cents. This price valuation. for a single and board months lodging An authority on clothing estimates that every man, woman and child in potted plant. this country has at least $10 worth of Cleveland Flag:. clothes. This would make the valuathe eastward of Gray Gablee1 at Just tion of our national garment? exceed stands a flagpole, which towers 50 feet $600,000,000. high toward the clear blue of the sum, In 1880, to of returns the according mer sky. The moment he leaves th the tenth census, the United States was place an American flag, which wave the wealthiest of all nations. Great from the apex of the flagstaff, is lowBritain being second; and there is no ered, which tells all onlookers that the doubt that the last fifteen years have president is not at home, for when he greatly widened the gap between us is at home the glorious and the English. banner is always whipping about the In 1880 the real estate of this country sighing wind. Many a marine glass was estimated at $7,000,000,000, and the sweeps the flagstaff from cottages and many glass personal property at $5,100,000,000; in hamlets miles around, and owners smile whe$ they see the flag is 1870 the real estate was valued at while the personal property not flying and mutter to themselves, had diminished to $4,300,000,000; In 1880 Cleveland has gone fishing again. the real property had still further inMandlei Busy Week. creased to $13,000,000,000, and personal Following i3 a society item from Ceproperty had diminished to $3,900,000,-00dar Point, Kan.: Maud Hastings was It i3 not believed that the value busy while here last week. She cf the personal property actually de- pretty John broke most Sayres colt to ride, raked creased; the difference arising,In evad- alfalfa,' pitched wheat and killed a, probably, from Increased skill Come snake. Maudls. again. ing the assessments. - , j star-spangl- ed 0. y |