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The Exeter Times, 1889-3-28, Page 3Settling Old Scores. I dollars when teenage was settled either way, " When I hed oloted tee deor on my new oltent, melted Mr. Ordway if he had been up to the house, or would he go ? That I could go with him and get eome diener, intd giv ellipand the kid a chance to see him. He laughingly interrupted me by say- ing he came on butinees, but es McDentild had forestalled him, he had as well go hones, " 4 Wily, Uncle Ordway,' said I, are you going to law? 'I'm obliged to,' he answered. Ao- knowledge now, wasn't McDonald wanting your serve:see in e proseoution against me "'Just so,' paid I, 'though we came to no definite understanding, and you oan, at leasb state your case.' "'Well, I wanted to secure you to defend me, but as he is ahead of me, go down and speak to Jones about it, and go home.' "'Oh, I come new, I don't like Jones I I'd hate awfully to be beaten by him, even if you did win. Sit down and let's talk lie over.' "'Well, Bailey, you know I'd rather have you, but I'm sure McDonald ocin't sum coed m any feir way, though I may ewe him Betrothing. I oan't be right positive. We've neighbored or a long time. I've kept ac' count of everything, except once or twice in case of alokness. We've just kind of swap- ped good turns, and I never 'dreamed of being; drawn into a laweuit. It hurts me. It's just all raked up because we had to deal with that wild Sootohman Archie of his. Little sottlawag Did you ever think, Bailey, about that Scripture, "0e sinner destroyeth much good ? ' Here's Aroh MoDonald, nothin' much one waynor another, only that he's full of animal spirits, an' no liking for books, a chip off the old block, and he's like to set the whole neighborhood by the ears.' "'Are the other MoDonalds hard to deal with?' I inquired. No, there are only Ned and little Maggie, nicest kind of a little girl. My wife loves her nearly as well as she does her own girls. And as for Ned—well, to be confidential with you, I expect to have Ned McDonald for a son-in.law some day, and he's a good boy in ell respects. Takes after his mother, though.' "'Why, this does put a serioua faoe on the whole business,' said I. "'01 course it does,' said my old friend. '1'm troubled about it, and what's worse, my wife's troubled too. She sets great store by Mrs. Mao, who is a weakly, dis- couraged sort of women. Mac doesn't mean to be unkind, but he is rather coarse in fibre, and his circumstances not being very good, he hasn't supplied Ms wife with muoh that a delicate, relined woman covets. "'Mrs. Mao is fond of hooka and litera- ture, which he atfeots to despise, and he never supplies the mono for little niceties in dress that women prize, and.my wife and girls, in their friendship in the family, have met this want in a measure. They take as much pleasure in little Ida,ggien fineries as they do in their own.' "'Dear me,' said I, it is a pity you should quarrel I' "'1 say eo, too,' replied Mr. Ordway, but of course when auld Sandie McDonald makes up Ms mind to be "at oots "with me, that's all ended. I can't let him pick my pocket, even to gratify his spite. If he must needs gratify his ill -temper, we'll have a hustle, and I'd better go and see Jones." "I had been formulating a plan of which I had thought when McDonald was leaving, SO I said, Mr. Ordway, let me tell you what we'll do. I'm coming down to your house early. Wednesday morning. Do you and Aunt Ruth be ready, and go with me over to Mao's. We'll go to dinner. You can put up with his coolness for one day, at least. Bring your accounts along, and yoar own 'and your wife's melee:cries, and we'll see how we shall prosper in the character of peace -makers.' " • rit do it d said he, slapping his knee. 'He can't prosecute till you get ready, and may be so,' and his eyes twinkled) may be so we can arbitrate ?' " was growing late, and he took has leave without coming down to the house, much to Nellie's regret, when I had told of his visit. On Monday I sent anote to McDonald, telling him to ask Ordway to come over on Wednesday, and between us I fancied w a could bring him to terms; at any rate, that would give us a good hold on him whether he mane or not. , "On Wednesday morning I went down on the early train, and walked on to the home of the McDonald. 'I had never met any of the family but the fathee, and I was not surprised to find the mother fully up to the disoription given me by Ord way, a refin- with great reluctance, expecting to lose you, ed, handsome, though faded woman. I but I feel that I have never sufficiently valu- couldn't but think as I contrasted the couple, ed you heretofore. I do not feel as thouga I "Ah, there you are rdetatten Lewyers, though not usually ranked among peace- makers, ere yet far from being, ae a class, fond of fomeating strife. I know there is an impression abroad that we are apt to en• courage strife, and so make butinelie ; but I think if the fraternity had a fair "leering, there might be a cheep in your judg- tner So spoke my friend, John Beileyt as we left the supper -table and came into the eitting-room of John's pleasant home, where I was speuding a shore vaeation. John, after going terough college with me, had abudied law and settled in our native village, while 1 had sought fortune abroad. It was on the occasion of one ot my visits to my old.hoem .that I had accepted. John's earnest iniditation for an old-fashioned visit. I had r4aarked at supper upon the epti, tude of layers for smelling litigations afer, widish had provoked the denial I have quoted. "No, sir," repeated John, as he wheeled an easy-ohair around to the fireside corner for me, and seated himself and baby boy in another, "1 essjoy nothing better than zneks ing pectoe, and finished up a job of shat kind lane week that gives me eatisfaotion every time I think about it. Waut to hear about it 7" "Of course," I replied. "You know when I first beoame acquainted with my wife she was a schoolena'am in rhe lower pert of the county. Well, she board- ed all the time she taught there, about three years, with the family of an old Pennsylvanian named Ordway, James Ord- way. They came to consider .her as one of the femily, and she felt a good deal that way too. So when I persuaded her to give up die - trice echoonteaching and make a ieleob scholar, as a matter of course they took me into their good graces, and ever since I count theirs as one of the homes to whion we go occasionally to have a 'thoroughly good time. "Uncle Ordway has always been on the school board of the district, is rather above the medium farmer in education, and has more than Average intelligent*. He is a genial, broad -shouldered, broadspirited, big- hearted old man, who, though very kindly in disposition, is pone:awed of a etrong will, and is nob easily turned aside, when once his mind is made up, or in defeuce of what he thinks is right. "So when, this winter, Archie McDonald, his neighbor's son, took it into his bead to run the school, notwithstanding the remons- trances of his inexperienced teacher, Mr. Ordway, with one other director,—the third was Archie's father,—promptly took the matter in hand, and convinced young Mc- Donald that he must be obedient, orleave sithool. The elder McDonald took affront, and oisme up to town to inquire of me if he could nne, by the aid of the law, reverse the action df the "ineddlild directors, usurpin' to themkelves authority, an' Wain to them- selves over -much power," "1 read him the school law, and gave him no encouragement of the sort he wished, bub coneiderable friendly advios in a manner calculated to coneole his wounded Sootcla spirit. 1 got matters so smoothed over that no further action was taken and , the boy treat on his way in better behavior, e hoped, and the neighborhood was, I flatter- ed myself, saved a deal of ill -feeling that a lawsuit would have engendered. "Mr. Ordway, now that his'spirit was up, 'N'ilfs almost disappointed that there had not been a suit, but expressed himself satisfied as matters were. Mr. McDonald was not satisfied. . • "I was eurprised when, two weeks later, he came again to see me. He was about to begin a suit at law against his neighbor, Mr. Ordway, for a debt of fifty dollers on me count, and wished to retain me as his coun. sel. "1 gave him a chair, and asked him a few questions, which he answered very read- • Ordieriy and himself had neighbor- ed a long , whitey'. there had been, awnings back and forth.; exchange of work, of geed corn and oats; they had harvested, thresh. ed and gathered corn cm both f anise The most of exchanges he hied kept' adcount of, some little he trusted to his ineinory ; but now—and in his excitement the Scotch brogue esserteditself--" If he maun be so vary perticler, if *easter .0r-rdwey mann go ineettin' people' to motet al ogether he maun straighten up: I'llhave done wi' him. He mann be mite Me 'leeftY dollars that I can take oath to; an' he,matin aettle "'Have you -hiked ',him, to. settle ?" I inquired. " Sootinly, an' he denies the account.' Does he deny any indebtedness?' "'Oh no, but says it's none much; that he'll pay me twenty.five dollars, if I say do, but that he'll no pay me the feefty. But rra determined he shall pay it all. He's been tryin' to make rarbeiy the scapegoat for the neighborhood, an' he'd better look out. He's got little boys hissen, an' he should ne throw stones I" - " ' Why, Mr. McDonald,' said I, I have always thought that you and Mr. Ordway were on the best of terms, I've often heard him speak very highly of you. Will it be wise . to iet tbis little school matter disturb your friendliness ?" "'Oh, it isn't j est the aohool matters; it's been aspelin' up- for a good spell. This school affair has jest showed me what he is. Hens awfully, set in his way, an' because he's, got a bit learnin' more than the rest of us, an' has prospered in this orides goods, he wants to manage the rest of us. Must needs build a new sohooldhbuse in spite of ns, must pit the new bridge where he said; but I'll have done wi' him V . "'Does your wife know of the coolness between you and Mr. Ordway? Or are your wives on good terms notwithstanding?' "'Oh, blows your life I My wife thinks the sun rises an sets ba Mistress Ordway, an' I suppoee nothing leiss than n oyblone would distufb theit relations. Neyerthe- leas, when I'm done with the Orilways, my family's done With 'em. ,rm: free to acknowledge, though, thee geese Ordwitedri a fine woman. I'm ear - tee" sure that our Maggie wouldn't be Mike, to -day ff it had no heed for her. She came right in when we thought die of scarlet - fever, when help nem sympathy could no be had for love nor money. My wife down sick, an' us adthiiakin' that our one girl were gip - pin' away from us; Mietrese Ordessiay come reet in, an' nuraed her back to life, an' Maggie levee her now next her mother. But, straightening up, 'I'm done wi' them "Jost then there was a rap at the office door, and when I went to open it, who ehould stand there but Ordway himself! ?NSW° 'Shook Mende heartily, as we always did, and though the neighbors spoke to each other, it was Manifestly a forced courtesy, and McDonald took his hat, toying he Would call again. "I followed him to the door, and told him I had business in his, neighbourhood the next Week, and *Mild ciente to hie house on Wed- man hired?' 4 Why, of dourness Jetties don't needey morning. It Was a happy thoeght, you mind you tone him—Olaf we calla him almost an inepiration, that prompted the —to work a Week in Mt. Multi corn, and he measure, but he assented readily, oulyeeying made uil all laughso when he came home 6.0 he turned to go that he Weald pay me fifty saying he hadn't spik one vord all veek," because they couldn't understand You remember it, Nirs, DILDetwad, don' him' Adventures of an Aeronaut! actione of the Bonen authorities towards I TBINKB SAE IS IN IIE.A.V4N, roe. They were published with many hitter remember you were (limn with rheumetism, ' A A S EX VER" j°11"nui'' • S*an" 111411"1"11tCu°43 Wbue in It you?' Giel "'Certainly,' Amid Mrs, MoDonald. 1 1 end outeiug remarks of the editors of the BOME OF THE B,Pli RIC BL LeNCEB ' RUFUS G. ViELL8. :Atter a mouth's hard tabor I gained par. though Alec, and knew nothing about at. mission to make e seemed asrent ore FALLING 'THREE TULES AT MILAN. John ,liodmer, an employe of the steel Ned niaile that entry in the book; is it not — 8 14 works at Steelton, Pe., has long been known than I0,00Q francs were received we the deh hie writing ?' *4 In rio mine,' said MoDoneld, shortly, hia Sooteh sense of justice aseerting 4-wopilf, „I went Rome 1809, not Mil only for the though as yen witheee Pelee. easore of seeing her grand ranee and " 011 yes, I- cle , remember about Olaf," ePlend° galteries onvtahutre.eeePeeht11Y seid OrdwaYs. but I never Put Oat down; for the nurPosie of enSeeleg a!ids °Ye view of the Emend City. I found, mud: diffioalty I never yet made a eharge &gurgle neighbor who was fiat on his back and helpless.' In, ')btsillinv PeYmimi°4 fr°M4IM P°Pea who pit ib ()dos°, us,e‘titiee; meth aid. sfhioe:ornotdooltir 0, ftrop7tilleteribalekaallooeoilltseea 4, 'No, yo k „vet, Belleypi .tesd oretwey. murder l whieh 'had occurred aleont ten Years won't'1oenyeewr tient to make a charge and 1 pb es: 27, °."4 nr e/tualitilanngaLnonahuot.death • of SignCr I was determined, however, to make an not to be too long with my story, we went on through the books. ascent, and, afSer waiting patiently for We found charges on one book for seed -r. tjhovilupgbh5etvheetoTtahneenlitclorf. corn that had been considered by the loan and Brittele 0011eule, obtained pennies other as an offset for eeed-buckwheat. Once there was an exchange of sweet pota. elm of the POIMend $ignor Bendt, the Gov - toes kr cabbages with eabalance eot dOwn in erilcbr 01 11°n', to oerrY met; My purpoite. one book to one nateti nedit, which the One difficulty being diepesed of,. anether to i other man would not allow, b,e teat wali 014 'finding of, nenutable place by"oMneorme:ittl,t,'Cin.°t1tTio.wth4ePwunlIbtehiPe lurniahed rtfill whieh to melte the eeeellehm*. fused to allow another ascension, to be made For some reason the Prince Borgliese re• gave oredit, ,and the neighbor refused , it. The wives were called to no often that they from his °harming 'ilia' the best enammre forgot their cheerful vieiting Send lietened. atIalilleadvaainlabileetefrovrietwhe wpuitrhpoAsen. tenew, the Mrs. MoDonald called to her husband's Pope's aeoretary, and asked him to uae his mind, how owe when he wee sick Ordway' had sent teams and brought in their winter'einfluenced in my favor. A letter a recorn- mendation from Joseph Severn, who was a wood.' Ordway called to her mind 'hoar distinguished painter as well es the British McDonald had nursedhirn tenderly through gonsul and an, old resident of Rome and a fever, consequent on a broken leg, when friend of Antonelli and Pio Nono, and an - no one could lift him so carefully as her husband. other from the very illustrious ,astronomer, Padre Swat, had great weight with the "McDonald gave several credits which Ordway would not allow, and I begen to authorities as well as with the Prince Bor fear that Mao's bill would at least appear - ghese., At length the Prince consented that should use his villa., provided I gave half just; but presently we cone to a year in the receipts taken for the anensions to the which Ordway had charged a hundred bushels of corn, six shoats, a young horse, and seve- Imitorettelir succeeded in ral smaller animals, and Mode book was a obtainingpermission blank! nob an entry. two months bad elepsed. In the meantime I built two balloons one for gas and the "I glanced up at McDonald for explanation otlaor a. Montgoafiare. and his brows were knitted, and he seemed As my largest balloon, '11 folosseo, was striving to remember something, but sudden- sixty feet in diameter and eighty feet in ly his face cleared and he exclaimed: height.—about ten times the capacity of that "'Why, what an oversight I Not a credit of Signor Piani--Governor Bandi and the down: 'Tis the year that 1 went back to police authorities were desirous of seeing it Sootland 1 Ned was sick all the time 1 was tried lefore they would permit me to adver- away, nay hogs all died of the cholera, and tise a public ascension. They were fearful the best horse I had was stolen I Meeeter lest suoh a gigantic aerostat would net as - Ordway, if I mistake not, you should have a eend because of its great weight. charge here for work' Tae others are all At last I concluded to make the trial in correct, pit them doon, Bailey.' the,presenoe of the seoretaries of the English "However, we came on down through the and American consuls and about thirty years and the books agreed very. well. The friends, as it was then becoming late in the last page was reached at last, and I nanded season and .the minister e would soon be my figures to young McDonald, requesting leaving Rome. With the aesisteame of him to make a clear draft of them, and we twenty men I inflated the leviathan in about would both reckon. half an hour, and taking my seat in the oar "There was evidently small need of gave orders to let go the ropes. In a few reckoning, matters weuld have adjusted minutes 1 was riding several thousand feet above Rome, slowly paining towards the themselves without my aid. I glanced at the old Soot and saw that memory was at far-tamed:Tivoli. in about an hour I was work,and would conquer. paesinglover this ancient city, eighteen miles "Ordway was speaking to Mrs. McDonald, from .tome and about one mile above it. I when quick steps ia bhe hall told us that could distinctly hear the roaring of the school was out. A thick -set, broadfaced waters of the Anio'which. form a beautiful boy whom I recognized as Archie, opened the cascade 320 feet in height. door, and the moment he did so, a little girl It was my intention on leaving Rome to behind him flung away the coat and hood make but a trial trip with my Montgalfiere, she was in the act of hanging on the rack, eot having taken any fire,ballast, or anything and with a suppressed cry bounded toward to eat or drink with me ; and I was very Mrs. Ordway, flinging her arms about her much surprised at the expiration of a half neck and covering her face with kisses. hour that my balloon did not descend, as is usually the ease with e balloon billeted only "Uf coins. I knew it was little Maggie. Her mother stoke to her gently, and both by heated air, unless ftre is carried along to she and the sturdy Archie came to me and keep up the rarefaction. I had no means to offered their hands in greeting. cause a descent—no parachute. I could not "When Ned had finished his copy, we went out or tear the balloon open, and thus form a to work, and were soon able to announce the parachute, as has been safely done by differ - result, both having arrived tet almost the ent aeronauts, for there was no net over it to exact figures, at the same moment, and Mr, keep it from flying apart and killing me in MoDonald was found to be in Mr. Ordway's the descent. debt an even twentyfive dollars! As the balloon had been well varnished to "Though I ha& anticipated some such re- be used as a gas machine, and was 01 gigan- suit from the books, I Was hardly prepared tic proportions, the heated air could nob es - for what' followed. cape. The heat of the sun on that day be- " McDonald rose to his feet, and address- ing considerable, it kept the air within iron- ing Mr. Ordway, said: " Neebor, I am a tinually rarified for seven hours. Therefore, man of few words, as you weel know. I hope I was forced to remain in mid air a prisoner you will believe me when I say Itruly thought until old Sol had lost hie pow r. you owed me. I'm glad 'tis the other way, I continued on my course, bearing, as the and I'm owin' you. There is your money, winclechanged, more to the East, passing and I hope you will forgi'e me, for I've been over the ancient Campania Felice end enter. in the wrong." ' ed the regions above Sannio Irpino. nob far "Ordway hestitated ,a moment, and in from Ferrell Guedini, where MountVeauvius that moment I thought I never had seen a could be seen smoking in the distance. finer specimen of manhood. He had risen About 5 o'olook in the afternoon a cloud shut from his chair and his face was glowiniz with off the golden rays of the declining sun, the feeling, an he stepped round the table to enclosed air in the balloon became condensed where his old neighbor was standing and ex. and I was pleased to see that I was descend - tended Michaud, saying Ing in an excellent place just a short time '"'0i1 friend I came' here this morning after I had passed over the last peak of the Apennines. idateeteneeese airee I landed about fivaerailes trom the tower of Benevento. My oar came in contact with a pole on the top of a low country thatched house, which brought me to the ground rather suddenly, but without injury. My balloen ASTO/NSHED THE NATIVES EXEEDINGLY. of May at negate?, Mauy distioguiehed Italians, Americans, English, Pre:Ache Germans and others would Mtve been highly Pleasedto make an /oriel voyage with tee. Among the Americans were the *United Statee consul, Mr. Cush - mete and Mise Charlotte Cushman, the actreee, „Mita' Hoosier, the will -known Kulp- tor, T. Buchanan Read, the poet and pallet - en He was very anximis to ascend and I was equally desirous to have him. I invited our itelebnited poet, Henry W. Longfellow, to meke an aerial flight over Ronne, but he said he would prefer to remain on tome firma. He witnemed my aeoensions and was a great favorite with, everybody at Rome. It would have been worth thousands of dollars to me if 1 could leave induced him to ascend and Write a fine poem, giving a des - °Option ot his impressions of the. city and eurroundiug country. The Queen of Naples and Padre Secohi would have taken seats in my spacious oar if the authorities had allowed me to take up paeaengers. As I left the great multitude assembled in the splendid gardens, great 'shouts arose from the grand arena,. Perhaps Rome in her ancient days Lod never witnessed mach magnifioent spectacle as was presented on tnis ocureeion, , 1 creamed the Tiber, which apeeared like is band of giver stretched among the tuildings, and meeting another current, was wafted directly over Fort Angelo and the Vatican, where Pio None, surrounded by his friends, was intently watching the progress of the balloon through a large telescope and power- ful field -glasses. I was informed beiat the Pope had watched the flight over the Apen- nines for more than an hour on my fleet as- cent. The splendid gardens of Rome, and especially bhat of the Vatican looked very lovely, but at the same time remarkably small. St. Peter's Church had the resem- blance of a small Mohommedan mosque. After remaining less than two hours above the city I descended in a fine garden about a mile from St. Peters. Thousands follow- ed me on horseback and escorted me back to the city. as they were making me welcome in their old country fashion, that she had carried the heaviest part of their mutual life burdens, and was tainting by the way, while he' was yet fresh and vigotoue. "He informed me that he had sent Ned over to the Ordways, requesting his presence, and then introduced Ned a fine, scholarly - looking fellow of twenty or thereabouts, with lather's physique and mother's features and our acquaintance was scarcely formed before he excused himself, oourteously, and went out to welcome the neighbor; a Wel- come indeed from himself and mother, but there was not much welcome in Auld Sandie's curt salutation, though the old fellow did un- bend a little when he greeted "Mistress Ordway." "With no pretence ot sociability, I pro- ceeded to business in a very lawyer -like man- ner. I displayed no friendship co the Ord - ways, but played the disinterested legal adviser to the best of my ability. "McDonald ,suggested that we men go to the front room, but as a part of my plan de- pended on the women; I protested against leaving them, and had my way." "Mr; McDonald placed lie chair at one end of the table, and drew out is drawer front which he took a big account -book. I seated myself. aboub midway of the side of the table and Mr. Ordway brotight'his ao- tonna-I:mirk to the leaver end. ' "Ordway began by saying, "By your request, neighbor, I've brought my book, though 1 can't say it has been very correctly kept. it Mr. Bailey seyslowe you twenty- five dollars, I'll pay it, but no mote." "1 wished he' had said nothing, for Auld Sandy put on his most belligerent air, and said dogniatksally, "1 shall trust friend Bailey to determine how much you owe." "I set about with a pretenoe of system, but in reality very informally, to get to the bot- tom of their differenclaa 1 took paper and patiently tot down debit and credit, as they each beano to it." "After we had gone through the accounts of two or three years we came to a credit on MoDunald's book of a week's work by a Swedish man in cortegathering at a dollar per day, of which Ordway% book showed no record. "Tho two men looked puzzled a bib, and tnally Mr. Ordway turned to his Wife and said, 'Rath, did we ever have a Swedish had anything to forgive, and I am too well oonvinoed of your sterling honesty, to doubt for a moment your motive." "Tho two shook hands, and :Ordway re- ceived the money. " Mao then turned to me and said: "Bailey,. I promised you fifty dollars whether you won mycase or no. Here is, your money, and I give it cheertully. You hae dune sveel." "1 remonstrated, told him I had my money's worth, double, in the satisfaction I felt in their restored friendship, in which I hoped for a share. I saw however that he would be offended if I persisted in my re- fusal, so I told him I really could not ac- cept more than half the proffered amount, and be, with apparent reluctance, con - 'seated, and I handed him haok half the money. "Ordway, handing the twenty flee dol- lars which Mr. Mao had just paid him to me said he wanted to pay his share. I took it promptly, carefully smoothed, it and laid the money together. Then while the boys had gone for the team, and Mao and Ord- way were diseuesing some matter connected with their church work, and little Maggie was helping Mrs. Ordway with her wraps, I conversed a short tinne with Mrs. Mo - Donald, and gave her the roll ot bills. "She refused at first to take them, but I assured her I had not earned them in any sense and would really feel happy in the thought that she could use the money in any way she chose as her own. "01 course I need not tell you that that in the end of my story. I had not done much that day to inoresee my income, bub I don't know that I ever felt happier in winning any calm than I did when I eat down to supper thab night with Nellie and the baby, beer that sediment. "Two good neighbors reetored to their old frieridaltip and all old scores settled to the satisfaction of every one That was a awyer a triumph worth striving after I" A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. One of the editors of the 11 Secold made an ascent at night with me. We descended six miles from Milan about midnight. I fastened my aerial steed to a tree and went to bed at a farmhouse near -by, while the the editor returned to the city. In order to save the gas I engaged several men to tow the balloon back to Milan while I re- mained in it. The wind became too strong for the men to transport it, so I cut the rope and made a very rapid ascent until the bal- loon became so full that I was obliged toopen the valve to check its upward career and present it from collapsing. On ace count of the rapid ascent it appeared that Milan and the villages Nattered over the beautiful Lombard Plain beneath. me .were rushing together at a rapid pace. North of Milan could be seen the charm- ing lakes at the foot of the distant mountable, so celebrated in song and story; on the South the beautiful Po. Presently the heat of the sun expanded the gas until the lealloonbecame perilously full. I had been about an hour enjoying the.highly picturesque and enchant- ing mines beneath me and had concluded to cross bha Alps and make me, first entry into the Swiss Republic should the wind continue to waft me over the mountains. I was deep- ly interestelin making someacientifio experi- ments with my barometer, hydrometer and thermometer, when suddenly the balloon burst open at the top in several places and and around the center completely separating into two hemispheres and allowing all the gas to escape at onoe. as the winkedeet men in Steelton, writes a Herrieburg oorreepondent. He ktaa a wife and tvvo daughters, ono a strikingly bean* ful girl of fifteen. Seine weeks ago Rey, D. W. Keefer, pastor of the Church of God at Steelton, Aarted revival meetings in hie church. The Churoh of God is one of the many curious religioue denominations peculiar to this order of Pennsylvania. It is of the 'tankard order, and evangelical in the strict- est sense. In Nine way "Wicked Johne Bodmer was induced to attend one of these meetingss and he became so interested in thena that three weeks ago he was converted. John Bodmer'a conversion was followed by a tremendous religious "awakening," Dad the little ebonite at Steelton has since been orowd- ed nightly, and 200 converts have thus far been made. As Non as John Bodmer " received the blessing," as the term is in the Church of God, he began laboring with hie two daugh- ters to eaduoe them to follow his example, and they finally atbended the meeting. A week ego Friecty night both " reeeived the - blessing." A few minutes after Lillie was converted she fell into a state of trance. HER EYES BECIAME FIXED and her form rigid as though in deeth. Aa i this condition s a common one among "mourners' when they receive the bleasing in the Church of God, nothing was thought of in She remained in the trance so longe however, that she was carried to John Par- themoee's house, not far from the church, where she has lain ever einem She has returned to consciousness at in- tervals, but is unable to stand or see. She insists that she is in heaven, and that all about her are angels. She has taken no nourishment in all that time, except the juice of two or three oranges and a dish of ice- . cream. Her cheeks remain full and are in high color. The mosb curious part of the phenomenon is that this girl—who is hardly able to read, and who, her father declares, has nevereto his knowledee seen the inside of a Bible, because he never had one in the house until his conversion—in her conscious moments refers to chapters in the Bible, and will repeat many paseages nearly literally. She answers rationally all questions put to her, but frequently, while talking, the sing- ular rigor overcomes her and she strike back into the trance atate. On Thursday she came oat of the trance and said: "Auntie will be here at 3 o'clock," An aunt of here lives bs New York. No one expected her at Steelton that afternoon,. but on the arrival of the train at the hour mentioned by Lillie she appeared at the Parthernore house. Soon afterward the girl mentioned the name of a neighbor and said she was fetching her some toe cream. They seemed paralyzed and 'would nob come near until I told them I lead come from Rome and was not the man in the, moon, as some of them appeared to thinkn The inhabitants could scarcely believe nae when I informed them that I had sailed over the Apennines that day, making a Right of 200 miles in seven hours. 1 telegraphed im- mediately to my friends in Rome and soon received an anewer informing me that I would not be sale in returning, for the au- thorities threatened to imprisenrne for leav- ing the city without my passport. The sec- retary of Mr. Severn, the English consul, called with Mr. Gott, a friend of mine and son of a distinguished English artist, upon the Governor and explained the affair to him and the next day I received another despatah according me permission to return. I went with soma friends to see the governor, Signor Sandi, who informed me that I had forfeited my right to make another loo,Iloon womb from Rome. The chief of police bad the title of marquis, and eeemed quite indig- nant that I should have the audacity to as- cend without his premium. I was told that this august marquis, on hearing that I had made the ascent, hastened to the observaeory and asked my friend Padre Seochi how long I could remain in the air with a Montgolfiere balloon, The great astronomer told him thee I mud deirtsend in less than an hour. He then hurried to his office and gave ordere to have his polioe fellow me and bring me back as soon as possible. They followed me Bev. eralmilee, but when they saw me floating over the mountains, they concluded to give up the chase and retnrned to the office of the marquis. Many gentlemen who were in favor of Victor Emanuel taking Borne were highly amused at the unsuccessful charm of ehe police. The authorities not only refused to give me permission for another aecenilion) but even prohibited me from giving any descrip- tion of no extraordinary serial voyage in the Roman journals, A young Roman wrote a pooh on my trip Dooms the Apennines, but was not permitted t� have it publiehed in any IbUrnal in the Pope's dominione. He had steno cooieit printed, but could not sell or circulate thewithout pertniesion. I wrote long dm eaoriptions of thy trip over the Apennines and sleet them to °ides in /lady Outside of the Pope's clorainiond, gleing a Conditioned Goodness. Mrs, iijones was fitting a pair of new trousers on Johnny, whioh were Made out of his father's old ones, when he asked : ,g Mamma, will go to heaven when 1 die ?" "Yes, Johnny," replied hie mother, "ib you are a good boy." "Well, .f11 be a good boy then, if—" "If what, Johnny?" ii If I don't have to play a harp in heavea The upper part rolled up in the net, while the lower part oloeed together, it being tied with a strong cord to the concentrating hoop. As I was about three miles ir height, I fell with almost the rapidity of a stone several thousand feet, twill I had thrown away my. ballast, water and my small anchor. The stram on the rope of the small anchor during the night had made the knot so hard that I could not 'uncle ib. I had los,ned any knife to the editor to open a wine bottle during the night lend he had thoughtlessly put it in his pooket. I let down the heavy amber the length of the rope, so that it would strike the ground first and lessen the shook. My hat, flags and even pieces of the balloon were carried by the force of the wind. It seemed as if a ter- rifie hurricane had suddenly arisen, and I was gborne aronncl in a vast upon the invisible wings of a mighty and irresistible cyclone. If' the editor had not kept my knife I would have taken my stand on the hoop and cut away the anchor and oar, which would have considerably checked my extremely rapid descent. 1 felt that I had made mylarit balloon ascent and might be in a few minutes a mangled corpse. The events of any past life rushed before me. Many times on land or gem and ha the air death has appeared to stand near me, but never under circumstances' so appalling as on that day. At taste on looking in the car, I found a piece of broken glees, which I would not have estehanged at that moment for all the gold of Califoruire. With it I cut the tough cord which held the lotver half of the balloon to the hoop, which then flew up into the net and formed a parachute, and, checking the descent, brought me safely to tne earth, but with ooneiderableforce, much more, indeed, than I ever hope to experience again. Long desoriptions of my thrilling adven tare were published in many parte of the world. Through a mistake it was said in the French journals that I was killed. My friend, Me de Fonvielle, editor ef La Liberte, by his Italian ettchangesi, learned that it was untrue, and corrected the error' in his journal. I was not aware that I tvas dead until I read an account of it in a work on ballooning Written by James Welsher, M. Plammarion, Wilfred de Fonvielle and Gaston Tissandier, publiehed in French at Pared. M. Flammarion says that I was killed nese Milan, in July, 1869# while M. de Fonetielle in the same book denies it.—Rufus G. Welke A rEw IviiNIITES LATER. the neighbor entered the house and had with her a plate of ice cream. Lillie has fre- quently come out of a trance and said thee - slush and such persons were ill in Steelton, Harrisburg and other near -by places, and. inquiry elicited that such was the fact, al- though the girl could have had no knowledge of it. Several Harrisburg and other physicians had visited the girl and studied the case but are unable to explain the phenomenon by physical laws. She complains of no suffering, but her words and the expression of her faoe denote the greatest peace and happiness. Hundreds of people from the village and the surrounding country have flocked to Parthemore's house to see the girl, and the profound impression it has made is mani- fested by the throngs that besiege Pastor Keefer's ohuroh nightly seeking religion. The paetor spends most of his apare time at the side of the Bodmer girl, He, him- self, seems overwhelmed over what he calls an "awful demonstration of bhe divine spirit." WIRELETS. A Colchester despatch says navigation is open on Lake Erie. The late John Carruthers, of Kingston, left an estate worth $575,000. An outbreak of gold fever is reported from the.Sweet Grass Hills in Montana. Great floods are reported in Southern Cali- fornia. The new IL S. gunboat Yorktown le com- pleted. Frank a ones, of Portsmouth, N. H., says he has sold his brewery for $6,300,000. Chandler, who shot Mr. J. A. Sheffield in Montreal, has been sentenced for life. A movensent is on foot in Hamilton ot establish a Young Women's Christian Asso- ciation. A verdict of manslaughter has been re- turned in the Haffield wile murder case in. Winnipeg. The Conservative press of Mexico attacks Harrison and Blaine as being ambitious to possess Mexico. The bill incorporating the Supreme Court of the Order et Foresters, after some amend- mentsthaspassed the Banking and Commerce Committee at Ottawa. Mr. Payseur, a grocer and distiller living in North Carolina, discovered his wife and one of his clerks in a compromising position on Saturday night and shot and killed both of them. made out of papa's old one." true secount of my terial voyage and the 811101de at )30118,HW. BELLEvirmn, March 26.—A man nettled D. Smith, aged about 32 yeare from Gloversville, New York State committed etti- old e at the Hendereon houseinthis city the other evening. He had retired to his room in the second storey of the hotel about 0 o'clock, and in about half an hour he com- milted the deed. The inetrument used wag a small penknife, which he thrust into hie nedlt in close proximity to the right ear, cutting the jugular vein. He then raiaed the window and jumped to the sidewalk be. low, a distenos of about 15 feet. HO eivase immediately tarried into the hotel, but breathed his lo,st before meclioM aid ckb sninitionecl. The muse which led him to comrhit the deed as unknown, but it is sup, posed to have been drink, A FOOLISH ROBBER. Me Seamed $8 and Started forl Canada, but Was Caught. WATERTOWN, N. Y., March 14.—On Sa- turday Mr. F. L. Smith, cashier of the Nor-. wood Bank, was alone in the building about noon, when Charles Phelps, the post -office clerk, entered and asked for some stamps. Mr. Smith stepped into the vault to get them, when Phelps quickly dosed the door and turned the combination, locking the atelier in. The robber then turned to the money drawer and took all the paper money that it contained, $278, leaving several hundred dollars in silver. Phelpt had a horse ready and with it he started for the Cana- dian bonder. Meanwhile a customer efitered the batik, hoard the taehier calling to him from the vault, and being inetruoted as to the combibation, released him, Phelps was captured on themideight train end deliver- ed to the efficers. Phelps has fallen into badiihabits et lete, and is said to have become aal oplunieeater. Master Ned (to the Rev. Dr, Trehern) : Wish I'd been here last when you lbaptized the company. Her, Dr. Trehern What: do you mean, mg son ? I did not baptize any, body. No? Well, mamma said that wh you came in last night you threw colen d water On everybody.