\Vn‘h EKLY— HIS LA AST ASCENSION. A NEWSPAPER MAN GOES UP IN A BALLOON. “'ilburfl'. Judd, of the Mminlcn. Conn., ., Record Stafl‘, Attaches Himself to :1 Trapeze Bar and Sails Away. llc De. scribes His Sensations. Wilbur W. Judd of the Record slall' ascended in a balloon Monday even- ing from Hanover Park. Newspaper ' men have made balloon accessions in cars or baskets attached to 5 gas bal: loon managed by a practicafiaeronaut, but to manage the air-ship alone and to drop with a parachute is entirely unprecedented. ,About 5,000 people witnessed the ascension. The story of the trip is told by Mr. Judd as fol- lows: “The idea of going up in a balloon is associated in the minds of most people with the terrible. The aero- naut is possibly doomed ‘to a horrible death and he holds the fascinated at- tention of theirspecmtors, ,but I feel as if I 11511-13119: descended from a serene world,"a‘s though for a few mo- ments [had been transported-into a clime L‘Where alluring quietude pre- vailed. It was the pleasantest sensa- tion, or series of sensations, that I ever experienced. Of course, there is some satisfaction in being on terra firma again, but it was not half so vio- lent an act as I had anticipated. “It was entirely my own idea. I made a detailed study of the mechan- ism of the balloon for two weeks, and finding Mr. Gould a very careful and practical man in the management of the graceful air globe, when he told me I- might go up any time I chose I began to consider the matter more seriously. “I have never had any tendencies to- ward the circus ring, and plebeian love of creating a sensation is not mine, but it would be a novel thing, and the idea of flunking never occurred to me. Gould Crosby and Burdette Worked assiduously to see that every rope of the parachute lay on the ground in perfect order. At last every- thing was ready. The balloon swayed with symmetrical fulness, the ropes at the bottom were gat "cred and the parachute attached. I got into the trapeze, fixed the wrist lock, and snapped the catch at my belt. “I stood firmly on the ground. The word was given to let go, the balloon arose from above the pit, the closely folded parachute was drawn up from the ground in a taut line. It seemed a slow motion enough but suddenly the trapeze drew me ’from my feet, and I was swept with great speed into space. This was the only frightful moment of the trip. I was dragged away from all things tangible; the earth was near so that by comparison I could be aware of my speed, but in a twinkling almost this terror left me. I tried to grasp by a supreme mental effort the facts of my condition, and I became contented. “I first looked down and saw the up- turned faces fade instantly until I could no longer see anything but a tiny circle. Then I let go of the rope with my right hand, and taking of my cap, leaned down and waved it. I felt a sense of‘ exhilaration and. thought I heard a faint murmur of .voices. “Then I looked up; the parachute ropes were twisted, but my weight caused them to unwind, and in a mo- ment every cord hung straight from the folds of the parachute to the ring from which my trapeze was sus- pended. I reached up and took firm hold of this wooden ring and moved more to the center of my seat. All feeling of fear was eradicated, “Now I looked down. I could not dis- cern a human being nor a group of » human beings. The earth was bathed in a translucent twilight, and it seemed as though far below was spread a wonderful carpet of soft green and woven with quaint patterns. ' The lake appeared very nearly under me; distances below were to be meas- ured in inches. The spot of water was about as large as a sheet of writing paper. I swept the green boundary of the green circle with my eyes. I could see countless villages and sev- eral cities and the sound. West Peak was like an ant hill. It is estimated that I ascended 4,000 feet. “A pistol shot disturbed me and I realized the moment to cut loose had come. sible results. I reached up my right hand, and, without allowing myself to think, gave the rope a quick and sharp pull. Everything gave way beneath me—I fell a dead weight probably over a hundred feet. I heard the swishing of the folds over my head; then a fold caught a gust of wind, then another, and I seemed to come to a sudden stop. I looked up. The parachute had opened and floated like a protecting bird overhead. It took. so I am told, over a minute and a half to ride down. “As when I went up the earth seem- ed to sink, so as I came down the fairy carpet danced up in the fields. The houses, woods and fields moved along in a procession. I thought I would land in an open meadow, but I passed over it. Yes, I was about to strike a house—I cleared it and fell easily through the.branches of a tree. The parachute spread itself over the treetop and I hung in a swing. It was a small tree and I was within fifteen feet of the ground. It was an easy task to swing out and slide down the tree to the ground. My first and only ascension was over.——Meriden Record. The Doctor’s- Diagnosis. Judgy‘WVell, doctor, what is the condition of the burglar’s victim ?” Doctor—“One of his wounds is ab» solutely fatal, but the other th are not dangerous, and. can be healed." No use to meditate on the pos- , ‘have been tremendous, I THE NEWS FROM CUBA Weyler Displays Extraordinary Ability as a. Fake Reporter. “Well,” inquired the Commander in Chief of the Spanish forces as one of the field oflicers entered the room. “what news?” “Sire!” exclaimed the officer, “I have to report that yesterday a body of nearly a thousand of our troops met a band of about two hundred in- surgents fifteen miles from the city. Within ten minutes of the time when they caught sight of us they were on the run, and”— “Stopl until I can cable Spain! The Home Government must be apprised at once of the victory.” “I wish to say, sire, that”— ‘Silencel there will be time for that later;” and turning to his stenographer he dictated the following despatch from the seat of war: Havana, July ’Steenth.—Yesterday a. small detachment of the Spanish army came suddenly upon several thousand of the insurgents strongly intrenched upon the hillside at a point about fif- teen miles from this city. Though outnumbered ten to one, and at a dis- advantage as regards position, the Spanish force quickly drove the enemy from their position and pursued them until nightfall. The Spanish loss was one man killed and two slightly wounded. The insurgent loss must amounting, probably to several hundred, but in the darkness they succeeded in mak- ing their escape and taking their dead with them. “Now, what was it you wanted to add, you tan-faced freak from the frontier?” gently inquired the Com- mander im-Chief. “I was on the point of saying, sire, that they were on the run toward us, and that it was only by throwing away our arms that we managed to escape with our lives.” But by that time the despatch was ready to be sent, and, inasmuch as it was correct in the main point that two forces had met, VVeyler thought it hardly worth while to make the other minor changes. THE DRAWBACKS OF GREATNESS. That is, of Foreign Greatness—Our Own Has None. Of all the potentates of the earth, the Czar of Russia. is probably the most powerful and absolute, as well as the richest. 'And yet when he un- dertook to accompany his young ‘wife on a visit to her royal grandmother in England, he did so under condi- tions which the humblest of his sub- jects would not be willing to accept. The mere announcement of his in- tention was followed by unusual ac- tivity among the police of two 1111- tions, With the not unnatural result of the discovery of a conspiracy to blow him up with dynamite. W e may hope and even believe that the conspiracy existed only in the imag- ination of the police, but the British authorities ‘were obliged to give the intended victim the benefit of the doubt. The poor Czar was ' guarded as closely as if he were invading a hostile country, and the precautions taken‘to secure his safety were such as to make him feel at home in the most painful sense of the word. What a contrast between the ruler of Russia taking his vacation between two lines of guards and the Chief Magistrate of our Republic playing lone fisherman in the quiet and se~ clusion of Buzzard’s Bay! Spider Architecture. No one who has spent much time in the country can have failed to observe and admire the beautiful webs of the little. garden spider. These webs, cir- cular in outline, with radiating threads running from centre to circumfer- ence and supporting a system of con- centric lines, are regarded by natu- ralists 41s the highest architectural achievement of spiders. The maker of the web sits at its centre, where the slightest vibration caused by the struggles of an entangled victim is instantaneourly felt. The threads are so fine as to be almost invisible in some lights, and at the same time so strong that no insect not too powerful for the spider to overcome is able to break them. The great ingenuity and perfection of these geometrical webs naturally give rise to the question, How did the spider learn the art of making them? The naturalist is not satisfied with the reply that it is a matter of instinct. He finds that there are wide differ- ences among the webs of different spi- ders, and his observations lead him to think that he can discern a sort of progress, which he calls evolution, in the art of web—making among spiders. The common house spider spins a web quite different from that of the garden spider. The house spider’s web consists of a silver tube hidden in a. dark corner with an irregular sheet of closely woven meshes spread before it. The tube is the spider's lurking-hole and place of refuge; the outspread web is its snare. The wolf-spider makes a tubular hole with a hinged door for a refuge, and spreads no snare. Still another species of spider constructs a far sim- pler tube of silk without any lid or door. Their Popularity Explained. “I thought he admired large wo- men,” he said. “That’s what he always said." she answered: “And yet he married a little bit of a thing,” he persisted. “Does that surprise you?” she in- quired. “Certainly, when he admired—” “Oh, that has nothing to do with it,” she explained, tempt for his ignorance. “Lots or men admire large women, but they don’t pick out that kind to boss around‘."—-Chicago Post.‘ . , showing some con. L Noaw ALK GA mm WHERE WOMAN FAILS THE HAMMER AN IMPLEMENT THAT DEFIES HER SKILL. Huxley’s Estimate of Results. The Sub- ject Scientifically Considered and Com- pared With Man’s Accomplishments in the Use of Pins and Needles. There exists a curious lack of sym- pathy between woman and the ham- mer. The nature and the functions of the hammer have «never been grasped by- the fair sex. Occasionally, says Pearson’s Weekly, a woman is found who can drive simple and easy tacks with a common tack hammer. but such a woman is even rarer than a man who knows what a gusset is, and can insert one into the neck of a shirt. The uniformity with which the woman who uses a hammer smashes her fin- gers is not due, as superficial obser- vers imagine, to her inability to guide the hammer by her eye. It would be strange, indeed, if it were, for the eye of a woman is so constantly and thoroughly cultivated, with the help of a looking glass, that it is far more accurate than the masculine eye. This is demonstrated by a simple and pleasing experiment. Let a man try to insert a pin into his collar while looking into a mirror, which, of course reverses the apparent position of both pin and hand. He will find that the pin refuses to enter anything except his finger, and' that he cannot place _ the point of it within half an inch of the position in which he desires to place it. Now let a woman seat her- self before the same mirror with a handful of hairpins. She will stick every one of them in her back hair, where they will do the most good, without an instant’s hesitation. Noth- ing comd prove more clearly than does. this experiment the superior accuracy of the feminine eye. Woman hits her fingers because of her entire lack of confidence in, and sympathy with, the hammer. She is afraid to strike a heavy blow that would force the nail or tack firmly into its place, so she strikes timorously and tentatively. The result is that the nail requires to be held upright between her thumb and finger, and in that po- sition they are exposed to the great- est danger. Prof. Huxley estimates that out of every fiVe blows struck by a. woman, two fall on the nail and three on the f: gers. From these facts it has been ably argued by another eminent philosopher and friend of women that were she to aim her blows directly at her fingers the latter would be hit only twice (out of five blows, and the nail would be hit three times. There is much force in this argument, but it is impossible to induce a woman to boldly aim at her fingers, and those to whom the suggestion has been made have in- variably rejected it with a scornful and irrelevant reference to fiddle- sticks. As there exists this want of mutual understanding between woman and the hammer it is not strange that she should prefer almost anything to the hammer as an instrument for driving nails. There prevails a curious female delusion to the eflfect that nails can be driven with a hair brush. If a tack is to be driven into the wall of a bed- room, or a hook to be nailed to the wall of a cupboard, a woman will in- variably try to do the work with her or preferably her husband’s—hair. brush. It must be confessed that the hair brush when thus used is asafe tool. It seldom if ever bruises the fin- gers, but it is utterly inefficient. Eith- er it breaks at the third blow or it flattens the nail sideways into the plaster. In either case the work is a failure, and the woman finds no re- fuge from disappointment, marred Walls, and broken brushes except in tears. There-have been women who have tried to drive nails with articles of glass or china, such as hand mirrors or heavy cofiee cups. The futility of such efiorts is, however, so quickly demonstrated that even before the fragments of china and glass have been picked up the fair nail driver makes up her m'ind that hammers must be made of sterner stuff. Brass candlesticks have become of late years comparatively scarce, but wherever they exist they are uniformly regarded by women as admirable substitutes for the hammer. Razor strops, gum bottles, books, knives, legs of broken chairs and heels of shoes are among the miscel- laneous hammer substitutes in com- mon use with the sex, but they give little satisfaction. There is no doubt that the genuine hammer is more ef- ficient and less dangerous than any substitute for it yet discovered by fe- male ingenuity, and could the mind of woman be brought into sympathy with the hammer, she would doubt- less drive nails with eminent success, and with only an infrequent and pure- ly accidental smashing of fingers. Three Fools. The other day a vicar in a little vil- lage near Liverpool was riding with his man across a common when he saw a shepherd attending to his sheep. The shepherd had a brand new coat on, and the vicar asked him in a haughty tone: “Who gave you that coat?” “The same people,” said the shepherd, “that clothe you—the par- ish.” The parson, nettled, rode on, 1:1u1n.u1ing to himself. At last he mined to his man and told him to go back and ask the shepherd if he would come and live with him, for he want- ed a fool. The man went back and delivered the message, concluding with "for his master wanted a fool.” "-1111 you going away, then?” said the sin-gillcrd. “No,” answered the man. "Then tell your master.” replied the shepherd, “his living won’t maintain iluce of us.”——Scrayn. ' l Puritnna, one bottle of l of Puritans. Tablets, all in onepackage. Price 0L Andrus is 1 FARE ONE DOLLAR. He Was a Quiet-looking Man, but 30 Know How to Shoot. The ticket agent at Big Bend was . not the man for the place, and he re- alized it as well as many others. He was a nice man, too, and knew his business, but he lacked sand.’ The fare from Big Bend to Black Hill was a dollar, but when any of the crowd wanted to go down they handed in two or three quarters, as the case might be, poked five or six inches of a re- volver through the window, and called out: “Ticket for Black Hill, waste too much time over - The agent always hande-a’. ._...t a. tick- et, and pretended that things were all right, and the boys played it on him till he had to throw up his job. 2‘ “Ll don’t ‘ One day the old man left, and the new one took his place, and four or five of the gang went to the depot to size the latter up. When they returned to camp there was a. majority and a mi— nority 1eport. Bill Thompson was spokesman for the majority, and he said: “He’s the softest thing in these yere parts. I’m not going to buy any more tickets, but I’ll scare ’em outer him. The sight of a gun will make his h’ar curl.” Bob Williams was spokesman for the minority, and was also the minor- ity as well. He looked very serious as he said. “IIe’ s a pale-faced, humble-lookin’ c1-‘itte1, but don’t make no mistake on him. He carries his forefinger kinder curled up, as if pullin’ trigger, and the first man who shoves a gun in on him is goin’ to get hot lead in return.” The camp was divided on the ques- tion, and after much talk Bill Thomp: son offered to make the test and settle the problem. In a day or two a score of us went down to witness the per- formance. We were hanging about the waiting room when in walked Bill with a whoop, and advancing to the ticket window, he grufiiy inquired the fa1e to Black Hill. “One dollar,” was the reply. “A dollar fur me—Bill Thompson?” “Yes, sir, for you or anybody else.” “And you won’t take a half ‘2” “No, sir.” “You won’t take it with this thing behind it?” continued Bill, as he shoved the coin along with the muz- zle of his gun. “No, sir, and—l” There was a pop! pop! pop! and six bullets were chas- ing each other into William’s anat- omy. He lost a finger, had an ear split, an eyebrow shot off, got a rake across the chin and another across the scalp, and he didn’t have time to fall until all was over. Then the agent opened the door of his office. and looked us over and said: “I didn’t shoot to kill, and he'isn’t hurt much. The fare to Black Hill is one dollar—exactly one dollar. Any one else want to get to Black Hill for a quarter?” Without a word in reply we picked Bill up and lugged him off. He was also a very silent man. We had got him all bandaged up and put to bed before he was ready to talk, and then he simply inquired: “Boys, who did all that shootin’?” “Why, the feller you said you could bluff,” answered one of the boys. “—-——! but I thought I did!” he growled as he turned his face to the wall and shed tears—Washington Star. . , . Heard \Vith His Elbows. The following accounts of an actual occurence illustrate how a simple statement may be distorted by a youthful messenger. Mrs. Warren, who boarded at Mrs. Smith’s, started out to spend the day with a friend living at the end of the village. Be- fore going half the distance she re- membered that she had left a win- dow open in her room, and seeing a small boy, she called to him: “Ned, will you please go to Mrs. Smith’s and tell her that I left my window up and would like to have it closed?” The boy went ofl whistling, and soon another boy caught up with him. This boy was going directly to Mrs. Smith’s house. So boy number one gave the message about the window to boy num- ber two to deliver. Smith’s, boy number two delivered his errand thus: “Mrs. Warren wants her winter clothes." If curerfrom fiend Io fiat. Puritana Trade Mark. Registered. To make ting cure of an" disease com- plete and permanent, the purifying, cor- rooting and building-up process must begin and end' in the Stomach. 0 cf all sickness is caused by a wrong Stomach. Puritana 0 makes the Heart right, the Lungs right, the Liver right, the Blood right, the Kidneys right, the Nerves right, the Health right, because it makes the Stomach right. The Puritans treatment consists of one bottle of Puritans Pills, and one bottle 8 ‘5- .....-u’ ' , applique. Arrived at. Mrs. ' SEPARATE BODICES. ' Suggestion: that Help in Selecting Fear ionable Garments. (By Special Arrangement with thaN. Y. Sun.) The eternal question of how we shall be clothed comes rapidly to the front wiflh interrogation points galore new that pale tints are fast losing their charm; and what is going to be the prevailing fashion is the subject of vital importance to the daughter of Eve. Each one is temporarily waiting to ‘be instructed anew in the art of dress as applied to the latest fashions, hurt-as yet there are no very radical changes in sight. Purple and red are both colors that will put in an appear- ance this season. Another feature of styles is that the seams will all be de- fined in the cloth or tailor-made gowns either by stitchings or broad stitched strappings. Fur boasare much shorter this season, especially those of Astra- kh-an and sable, being t'hus adapted to the thigh collars that appear on most of the winter models. Furs that promise to -be most fashionable are sable,mink, Sitka fox and chinchilla. Separate bodices are indispensable to a. woman’s wardrobe. This season finds them more chic than over. One of these illustrated may be made of plain material, ornamented with cloth It is in one piece and is pleated slightly at the waist, front and back. The model is of rich dark red silk, and the applied cloth may ‘be of the same color or a contrasting shade. The right side of the (bodice is trim-med with satin ribbon to the belt, where it is finished in graduated loops. TWO more bands of ribbon tie about the sleeves above the arm'holes. The epaulets are of material to match the bodice’s trimming, and are edged with pleated frills of silk. The collar has an upstanding trill. The tight-fitting Sleeves 'have small puffs at the shoul- der. At the wrist they are finished with a turn-back cud of the applique. The bodice is finished with a verymR-r- row basque cut into small van'dykes. The girlish waist in the next model is made of white ltaffeta de l’Inde, trimmed with insertions of .Valen- ciennes lace. The edge of the surpl‘ice front and the shoulder straps are of narrow black velvet, and the waist- band is of black satin, fastened with a. long bow. at the right. The next illustratiop shows a. charm- ing afternoon toilet. The trimming about the skirt is of light green ri'b‘bbn of different widths. The gown is cut princess fashion, and is opened from top to bottom on the left side and fast- ened with three large buttons at the foot of the skirt ulbove the hem and one at the top of the bodice. Frills of creamy ch'iifon are set around the neck and also appear in cascades on the sleeves. These mines are edged with the narrow green ribbon. The trill at the back of the neck is gathered very closely, so that it stands out like a ruffle. The neck opens over a chemisette of creamy mousseline dc sole. 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