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Adventures of an Aeronaut,
Settlin Old Scores,
"Ah, there you are invitation ! Lawyers,
though nab usually reeked among poem-
makere, aro yob tar from being, as A oleos,
fond of foneneing strife, I know there le
an impl•ea0fon abroad that we aro apt to en•
courage strife, and so make Matinees ; bub I
think if the maternity hada fair hearing,
there might boa °Mingo In your judg-
mer h"
So spoke my friend, John Bailey, as we
loft' tho oupper•bable and wane into the
sitting•room of John's pleasant home, where
I wee upending a shorn vacation,
John, after going through college wibh me,
bad abudied law and settled in our native
village, while 1 had sought fortune abroad.
Ib was on the ooaasion of one of my visite to
my old .home that 1 had accepted John's
earneeb invitation for an old-fashioned vieib.
I had remarked ab op per upon the a ti•
lade of layers for smelling litigations afar,
which had provoked the denial I have
quoted,
"No, air," repeated John, as he wheeled
an easy -chair around to the fireside corner
for me, and seated himself and baby boy in
another, "I enjoy nothing better than mak•
ing peace, and 1 finished up a job of that
kind 'set week that gives me eatisfamnion
every time I think about ib, Want to hear
about ib?"
"Of course," I replied.
"You know when I first became acquainted
with my wife she was a wheel -ma'am in the
lower part of the county. Well, she board-
ed ell the time she taught there, aboub
three years, with the family of an old
Pennsylvanian named Ordway, James Ord-
way. They caino to consider her as one of
the family, and she felt a good deal thab way
too.
So when I persuaded her to give up dia.
tricb school -teaching and make a eeleob
scholar, as a matter of course they took me
into their good graces, and ever since I count
theirs aa one of the homes to whish we go
occasionally to have a thoroughly good time,
" Uncle Ordway has always been on the
school board of the district, is rather above
tan medium farmer in education, and has
Here than average intelligence. He is a
gonial, broad.ahouldered, breed spirited, big.
hearted old man, who, though very kindly
in disposition, ie p000000ed of a etrong will,
and is not easily turned aside, when once
hie mind le made up, or in defence of whab
he thinks is right.
"So when, thio winter, Archie McDonald,
hie neighbor's 200, took it into hie head to
run the school, notwithstanding the remons-
trances of hie inexperienced teacher, Mr.
Ordway, with one other director,—the third
was Archie's father,—promptly took the
matter in hand, and convinced young Ma -
Donald thab he meet be obedient, or leave
school. Tho elder McDonald took affront,
and came up to town to inquire of me if he
could not, by the aid of the law, reverse the
action of bho "meddlin' diraotore, uourpin'
to themselves authority, an' takin to them-
selves over -much power,"
" I read him the school law, and gave
him no encouragement of the sorb he wished,
but considerable friendly advice is a manner
calculated to console hie wounded Sootoh
spirit. I gob matters so smoothed over
bhab no further notion was taken, and the
boy went on his way in better behavior, I
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,
was almost diaappointod that there had not
bean a suit, but expressed himself satisfied
ae matters were. Mr. McDonald eau not
Bedded.
" I wee surprised when, two weeks later,
he Dame again to see mo. He was about to
begin a Bulb ab law agaiaat his neighbor, Mr.
Ordway, for a debt of fifty dollars on ao-
oount, and wished to retain me as his coup•
ref.
" I gave him a chair, and reeked him a
few queationo, which ho answered very read-
ily. Mr. Ordway and himself had neighbor-
ed a long while; there had been dealings
bank and forth, exchange of work, of seed
corn and oats; they had harvested, thresh•
ed and gathered Dorn on both farms, The
dollero when the oath watt settled either way,
"When I had oloeod the door on my new
lineal, I asked Mr, Ordway If ho bad been
up to the home, or would he go ? Thob 1
oould go with him and gob some dinner,
and give Nellie and the kid a ghanao to the
him, He laughingly interrupted mo by atty.
ing he camp on budgeter, but a0 McDonald
had forestalled him, he had as well go
tomo,
"' Why, Onolo Ordway,' said I, ' are you
going to law r
"'I m obliged to,' ho answered. ' Ao.
knowledge now, wasn't McDonald wanting
your oervi0ao in a prosecution agoineb me 1'
" last so,' said 1, 'though we Dame to no
definite underatanding, and ecu oan, at lomat
state your pate,'
"'Well, 1 wanted to aooure you to defend
me, bub as he is ahead of ma, I'll go down
and speak to Jones aboub it, and go home.
"'Oh, come, now, I don'b like Jones 1 I'd
hate awfully to be boaten by him, oven if
you did win. Sit down and let's talk is
over.'
" 'Edell, Bailey, you know I'd rather
have you, but I'm sure McDonald can't sue.
coed in any fair way, though I may awe him
something. 1 can't be right positive, We've
neighbored for a long time. I've kept ao•
count' of everything, except once or twiae in
case of eickneee. We've just kind of swap-
ped good turns, and I never dreamed of
being drawn into a lawsuit, It hurts me,
"' 1t'o just all raked up because we had
to deal with that wild Scotch man Archie
of his, Little scalawag I Did you ever
think, Bailey, aboub that Scripture, " One
sinner dostroyeth much good'!'' Here's
Arch McDonald, nothin' much one why nor
another, only bhab he's full of animal spirits,
an' no liking for books, a ohip off the old
block, and he's like to set the whole
neighborhood by tho ears.'
"Aro bho other MoDonalde hard to deal
with 1' 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 all respects. Takes after
his mother, though.'
' Wwhole y, t t
a does
said a odour' fact on
the
"' Of course ib does,' said my old friend.
' I'm trouble] about it, and what's worse,
my wife's troubled too. She seta groat
store by Mrs. Mao, who is a weakly, dis-
couraged sort of woman. Mao doesn't
mean to be unkind, but he is rather coarse
in fibre, and his circumstances nob being
very good, he hasn't supplied his wife with
inuoh that a delicate, refined woman covets.
"' Mrs. Mao is fond of books and liters.
tura, which he affects to despise, and ha
never supplies the means for little nioetiee
in dress that women prize, and my wife and
girls in their friendship in the family,
have meb this want in a menhir°. They
take as much pleasure in little Maggie'e
fineries ae they do in their own.'
"' Dear me,' said I, ' it is a pity you
should quarrel I'
"' I say so, too,' replied Mr, Ordway,
' but of courao when auld Sandie M °Donald
makes up hie mind to be "at oots "with me,
that's all ended. I aren't let him piok my
pocket, even to gratify his spite. If he must
needs gratify hie 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 toll you
what we'll do. I'm Doming down to your
house early Wednesday morning. Do you
and Aunt Ruth bo ready, and go with mo
over to Mao's. We'll go to dinner. You
can put up with hie 000lnese for ono day, at
leaeb. Bring your accounts along, and your
own and your wife's memories, and we'll
see how we shall prosper in the oharaoter
of peace -makers.'
"'I'll do it l' said he, slapping his knee,
' Ho can't; prosecute till you geb ready, and
may be so,' and his eyes twinkled, ' may be
so we oan arbitrate?'
" ' Ib was growing late, and ho took his
leave without coming down to the house,
muoh to Nellices regret, when I had told of
his visit. On Monday I sent a note to
McDonald, telling him to eek Ordway to
of, coma over on Wednesday, and between us
most of exchanges ho had kept account]
some little he trusted bo his memory ;but I fended we could bring him to terms ; at
now—and in hie excitement the Scotch any rate, thab would give us a goad hold on
brogue asserted itself—" If he mama be ao him, whether he Dome or not.
bre
K On Wednesday morning I went down
vary particler, if Meootar Or•rdwmean on the early train, and walked on to the
go a•sottin' people to reefs, al nether r he home of the MoDonalde. I had never meb
mann straighten up. I'll have done wi' him, any of the family but the father, and I was
He mann be owin' mo feefby dollars that I not surprised to find the mother fully up to
oan take oath to, an' he maun settle I bhe disonption given me by Ordway, a reflo-
"`Have you asked him to Retitle?" I ed, handsome, though faded woman. I
inquired. couldn't bub think as I contrasted the couple,
Sartinly, an' he denies the account, as they were making me welcome in their
"' Does he deny any indebtedness?' old country fashion, thab she had carried
"' Oh no, bub says it's no so muoh ; bhab the heaviesb part of their mutual life burdens,
he'll pay me twenty.five dollars, if 1 say so, and was fainting by the way, while he was
but that he'll no pay me bhe feefby. But e4 fresh and *inane.
I'm determined ho shall pay it all, He's been y g
tryln' to make my boy the scapegoat for the
neighborhood, an he'd bettor look out. He's
got little boys hiseen, an' he should na throw
stones I"
• "' Why, Mr. McDonald,' said I, ' f have
always thought that you and Mr. Ordway
were on the boat of terms, I've often heard
him speak vary highly of you. Will it be
wise to let thio little sohool matter disturb
your friendliness 1"
"' Oh, ft isn't jest the school matters ;
it's boon apilin' up for a good spell. This
school affair has jest showed me what he ie.
He's awfully eeb in hie way, an' because he's
got a bit learnin' more than the rest of us,
an' has prospered in this world's goods, he
wants to manage the rest of us. Must
needs build a new sohool•houoe in spite of
us, mush pib the new bridge where he said ;
bub I'll have done wi' him 1'
." Does your wife know of the coolness
between you and Mr. Ordway 1 Or are your
wives on good terms notwithstanding 1'
"'Oh, bless your life I My wife thinks
the pun rises an' seta in Mistress Ordway,
an'I suppose nothing less than a oyblone
would disturb their relations. Neverthe.
less, when I'm done with the Ordway*, my
family's done with 'em,
because they couldn't understand him ?
Tota remember Ib, Urea MoDoneld, don't
you r'
" "Oertainly," said Mai. MoDouald, ' I
remember you wore down with rheumatism,
though, Aloo, and knew nothing aboub it.
Ned made that entry in the book; io Ib nob
his writing?'
"' We no mine,' aild McDonald, shortly,
hie Sootoh sense of juatioe aseerting itectf,
though as yet without voice,
"' Oh yes, Ido remember aboub Olaf,"
avid Ordway, ' but I never pub that down
I never yet made a charge ugeintt a neighbor
w110 woe flab on his back and hetplose.'
Oh, but reed is reeb,' said McDonald,
pit it doon, Bailey'
"' No, you won't, Bailey,' old Ordway.
I never meant to make a obarge and I
won't now.'
" Well, nob to be boo long with my
story, we went on through the Boake.
We found chargee on one book for seed.
SOME OF THE REMARKABLE E%kER.
IENOES OF RC PUS 11. WELLS.
FAILING, VA IEEE NIMES ,U er1LAN.
I wont to Rome in 1860, not only for the
pleasure of fleeing her grand old ruins and
splendid galleries of art, but more ecpooially
for tete parpaoo of enjoying u bird's eye view
of the Ecernel City, 1 found much difficulty
in obtainingpermisoion from the Popo, who
then ruled Rome, to make a balloon ascan
elan on amount of a terrible aooident (or
murder) width hod occurred about ten yeara
before, resulting in the death of Signor
Muni, an Italian aeronaub.
I wan determined, however, to make an
ascent, and, after waiting patiently for
menthe, I finally, through the infiuonco of
ooro that had been ooneidorud by the Mr. Cushman and Joseph Severn, the Amar-
o rn as an Weed for eider d byheab, loan and Breath Commie, obtained permit.
Noe there was an exchange of sweat pots. stow of fee Pope and Signor Bondy the Gov-
Inae sob down to I Oneeatlf Roma, n tarry out of, ether o,
boas for cabbages with a ba a w One dilticulty being deepened another to
one book to ono menet credit, which the I be mob was the Ending of a suitable place
otter man would nob allow. from which to make the aseeneion,
"More than once we found help furnished For some reason bho Prima) 13orghese tee
by one man to bhe other when the reeiptenb fused to allow another a800n13ion bo be made
gave orodib and
the neighbor hbor refused 10.
from his charming if villa the boob enoloeu e
am r
The wives were palled to so often that they at all available for the purpose.
I had an interview with Antonelli, the
Pope's secretary, and asked him to use his
influence, in my fever. A le'ter of recom-
mendation from Joseph Severn, who was a
diatinguiehed painter as well as the British
consul and an old resident of Rome and
friend of Antonelli and Pio None, and an-
other from the very illustrious astronomer,
Padre Seaohi, had great woighb with the
authorities as well as with the Prince Bor.
ghost. Ab length the Prince consented bhab
1 should use his villa, provided I gave half
the receipts taken for the ascensions to the
poor of Rome.
Before I succeeded in obtaining permission
two mouths had elapsed. In the meantime
I built two balloons, one for gas and oho
other a MontgalSere.
As my largest balloon, 11 Colones), wee
sixty feet in diameter and eighty feet in
height—about ten times the capacity of that
of Signor Piani—Governor Bandi and the
police authorities were desirous of seeing it
tried iefore they would permit me to adver-
tise a public ascension. They were fearful
lest suoh a eigantio aerosbab would nob as.
eendbecause of its great weight.
At last I aonoluded to make the trial in
the presence of the secretaries of the English
and American consuls and aboub thirty
friends, as it was then becoming late in the
season and the ministers would soon bo
leaving Rome. With the assistance of
twenty men I inflated the leviathan in about
half an hour, and taking my seat in the oar
gave orders to let go the ropes. In a few
minutes I was riding savoral thousand feet
above Rome, slowly paesiag towards tho
far -tamed ,Tivoli. In aboub an hour I was
psoeindover this ancient oily, eighteen mike
fa .n Rome and aboub ono mile above it. I
oe, ' dietinotly hear the roaring of the
wee,. s of the Anio, which form a beautiful
cascade 320 feet in heigbb,
It was my intention on leaving Rome to
make but a trial trip with my Montgalfiere,
not having taken any fire,ballase, or anything
to eat or drink with me ; and I was very
much surprised at the expiration of a half
hoar that my balloon did nob descend, as le
usually the case with 0 balloon inflated only
by heated air, unless are is carried along to
keep up the rarefaction, I had no means to
cause a deoceat—no parachute. I could nob
cut or tear the balloon open, and time form u
parachute, as has been safely done by differ-
ent aeronauts, for there was no net over it to
keen it from flying apart and killing me in
the desoeut,
As the balloon had been well varnished to
be used as 0 gas machine, and was of gigan-
tic proportions, the heated air could not es-
cape. The heat of the sun on that day be-
ing considerable, it kept the air within con.
tinually rarified for seven hours. Therefore,
forgob their cheerful visiting and listened,
Mrs. McDonald called to her huabaad'a
mind, bow came when he was flick Ordway
had sent teams and broughb in their winter's
wood. Ordway oallod to her mind how
McDonald had nursed him tenderly through
a fever, oonaequenb on a broken leg, when
no one. oould lift him so carefully as her
husband,
McDonald gave several oredito which
Ordway would not allow, and I began to
fear that Mao's bill would at leasb appear
jueb; bub presently we Dame to a year in
which Ordway had charged a hundred bushels
of Dorn, six shoats, a young horse, and save-
ral smaller animals, and Mao's book was a
blank I nob an entry.
"1 gldnoed up at McDonald for explanation
and hie brows were knitted, and he seemed
striving to remember something, but sudden•
ly his face cleared and he exclaimed
"'Why, whab an oversight I Not a credit
down: 'Tie the year that 1 wont book to
Scotland 1 Ned was sick all the time I was
away, my hogs all died of the cholera, and
the beat horn° I had was stolen I Meester
Ordway, if I mlatake not, you should have a
charge here for work? Tne othera are all
correct, pit them doon, Bailey.'
" However, we came on down through the
years and the books agreed very well. The
lash page was reached at lath, and I nanded
my figures to young McDonald, requesting
him to make a clear draft of than, and wo
would both reckon
" There was ea dontly email need of
reckoning, matters would have adjusted
themselves without my aid. I gleamed at
the old Soot and saw bhab memory was at
work,and would conquer.
"Ordway was speaking to Mre. McDonald,
when quick steps is the hall told us that
school was out. A thick -set, broad•faoed
boy whom I recognized ao Archie, opened the
door, and the moment he did so, a little girl
behind him flung away the aoat and hood
she was is the act of hanging on the rank,
and with a suppressed ory bounded toward
Mrs. Ordway, flinging her arms about her
nook and covering hex face with kise;e.
"Of course I knew it was little Maggie.
'Her mother spoke to her gently, and both
the and the sturdy Archie came to me and
offered their hands in greeting.
"When Ned had finished his Dopy, wo went
to work, and were soon able to announce the
result, both having arrived at almost the
exact figures, at the same moment, and Air.
McDonald was found to be in Mr. Ordway's
debb an even twontyfive dollars I
" Though I had anticipated some euoh re-
sult from the books, I was hardly prepared
for what followed.
"McDonald rote to his feet, and address-
ing Mr. Ordway, said : " Neebor, I am a
man of few words, as you weal know. I hope I was forced to remain to mid air a prisoner
you will believe me when I say Itruly thought until old Sol had lost his pow r.
you owed Hie. I'm glad 'bis the other way, I oontinued on my course, bearing, as the
wind;ohanged, more to the East, passing
over the anofent Campania Felice and enter•
ed the regions above Sannio Irpino, not far
from Forohi Guadini, where Mount Vesuvius
ooul-1 be seen smoking in the distance,
About 5 o'olaok in the afternoon a aloud chub
off the golden rays of the declining sun, the
enclosed air in the balloon became condensed
and I was pleased to see that I was descend-
ing in an excellent place just a short time
after I had passed over the loot peak of the
Apennines.
I landed about five'smiles from the bower
of Benevento. My car came in °unbent
with a pole on the top of a low oounbry
thatched house, which brought Ino to the
ground rather suddenly, but without injury.
My balloon
ASTOINSNED TEE NATIVES EXEEDINGLY.
" He informed me that he had sent Ned
over to the Ordways, requesting his presence,
and then introduoed Ned a fine, eoholarly-
looking fellow of twenty or thereabouts, with
father'e physique and mobhor's features
and our acquaintance was scarcely formed
before be exoueed himself, courteously, and
went oub to welcome the neighbor ; a wel-
come indeed from himself and mother, but
there was not much welcome in AieldSandie'o
curt salutation, though the old fel' • d did un-
bend a little when he gree,,. .• "Mistress
Ordway."
" With no pretence of sociability, I pro-
ceeded to bueinbes in a very lawyer•like man-
ner. I displayed no friendship 0o the Ord -
ways, but played the dieintereeted legal
adviser to the boob of my ability.
" 'I'm free bo acknowledge, though, theb
Mistreat' Ordway's a fine woman, I'm tar-
tain sure that our Maggie wouldn't be Hain'
to -day if it had no been for her. She came
right in when we thought she'd die of scarlet -
fever, when help nor sympathy could no be
had for love nor money, My wife down sick,
an' us a-thinkin' that our ono girl were slip -
pin' away from tut ; an' Mistimes Ordway
come reed in, an' nursed her baok to life, an'
Maggio loves her now next her mother.
But, ebraighbeniog up, 'I'm done wi' them I'
"Just then there was a rap at the office
door, and when I wont to open it, who should
gaud there but Ordway himself!
1,"We shook hands heartily, as we always
did,
though
the neighborshbors spokeoke to eaoh
other,
ib was manifestly a forced courtesy,
and Mo)ona!
d book kis hat saying he would
gall again.
"I followed him to the door, and told him
I had business in his neighbourhood bho next
week, and would come to hie houeo on Wed-
nesday morning. 11 was a happy thought, you mind you
almost an inspiration, that prompted the —to work a week in Mr. Mao's corn, and he
measure, bob he oirientod as ho burned to go that he wound' pay me fifty saying he hadn'made us all t" apik one Vord all veek,so when he oame "
actions of the Boman authorities bowarde
tne, They were published with many bitter
and putting remarks of the odltors of the
jouroole,
Af ter a month's hard labor 1 gained per-
mieelon to make a oeooad accent. More
than 10,000 frees* were received on the Etch
of May at the gates.
Many 1lel logo tithed Italiana, Americana,
English, French, Germans and othera would
have been highly pleased to make an aerial
voyage wibh ate, Among the Americana
were 110 United Statea consul, Mr. Cub.
man and Mise Charlotte Cabman, the
aabreo', lilies Hoamer, the will known soulp
tor, T. Buchanan I1 al, the poet and paint.
er. He was very xione to aaoend and I
was equally deeiroue to have him, 'invited
our celebrated poet, Henry W, Longfellow,
to make an aerial Sight over Rome, but he
said he would prefer to remain on terra
firma. He witneeaed my aooeneions and was
a great favorite with everybody at Rome.
It would have been worth thousands of
dollen to me if 1 could have Induced him to
aeoend and write a fine poem, giving a dee.
caption of his impreeefone of the city and
surrounding country. The Queen of Naples
and Padre Soouhi would have taken seat* iu
uthoritiea had
my apaofoua ear 1f the a
allowed me to take up passengers.
As I left the great multitude aesembled in
the splendid gardens, great ehouto Arose
from the grand arena. Perhaps Rome in
her anoicnt days had never witnessed such
a magnifloenb spectacle ae was presented on
this occasion.
I crossed the Tiber, whioh apleared like a
band of silver stretched among the ruildloge,
and meeting another current, was wafted
direobly over Fort Angulo and the Vatican,
where Pio Nono, am rounded by his friends,
was intently watching bhe progress of the
balloon through a large telescope and power-
ful fleld•glaeses. I was informed that the
Pope had watched the flight over the Apeo•
ninea for more than an hour on my first as.
cent. The splendid gardeoe of Rome, and
eepeoially that of the Vatioan looked very
lovely, but at the same time remarkably
small. So, Peter's Church had the reaem-
blanoe of a small Mohommedan mosque.
After remaining lees than two hours above
the city I deeoended in a fine garden aboub
a mile from St. Patera. Thouaanda follow-
ed me on horseback and escorted me baok
to the oity.
and I'm owin' you. There is your money,
and I hope you will forgi'e me, for I've been
in the wrong.
" Ordway hesbitated a moment, and in
that moment I thought I never had then a
finer specimen of manhood. He had risen
from his chair and his face was glowing with
feeling, as he stepped round the table to
where his old neighbor was standing and ex-
tended his hand, laying
." 011 friend, I came here this morning
with great reluctance, expecting to lose you,
but I feel that I have never sufficiently valu-
ed you heretofore, I do not feel as bhouga I
had anything to forgive, and I am too well
convinced of your sterling honesty, to doubt
for a moment your motive,"
" The Iwo shook hands, and „Ordway re-
ceived the money.
' Mac then turned to ma and said :
"Bailey, I promised you fifty dollars
whether you won my case or no. Here is
your money, and I give it obeertully. You
hue dune wool."
" I remonstrated, told him I had my
money's worth, double, in the satisfaction I
fah 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 he, with apparent reluctance, con•
embed, and I handed him hack half the
money.
" Ordway, handing the twenty five dol-
lars which Mr, Mao had just paid him to me
said he wanted to pay hie share. I took it
promptly, carefully amoothed, it and laid
the money together. When while the boys
had gone for the team, and Mac and Ord.
way were dieouooing some matter conneebed
with their ohuroh work, and little Maggie
was helping Mrs. Ordway with her wraps, I
oonversed a short time with Mrs. Mc-
Donald, and gave her the roll of bills.
"She refused at first bo take them, bub I
aosured her I had not earned them in any
Renee, and would really feel happy in the
thought that she could use bhe money in any
way she chose as her own.
" Of course I need not tall you that that
is bhe end of my story. I had not done much
thab day to fnoreas° my income, but I don't
know that I ever felt happier in winning any
cane than I did when I sat down to supper
thab night with Nellie and the baby, over
that settlement,
"Two good neighbors restored bo their
old friendship and all old scores eootled to
the satisfaotton of every ono 1 That was a
awyer a triumph worth striving after 1"
" McDonald suggested thab we men go bo
the fronb room, but as a part of my plan de-
pended on the women, I protested against
leavingthem, and had my way."
" Mr. McDonald planed his chair at one
end of the table, and drew out a drawer
from which he took a big a000unb-book. I
seated myself aboub midway of the side of
the table, and Mr. Ordway brought hie ao.
count -book to the lower end.
"Ordway began by saying, "By your
requeeb, neighbor, I've brought my book,
though I can't say it has been verycorreobly
kopb. If Mr, Bailey toys Iowa you twenty-
five dollars, P11 pay it, but no more."
" I wished he had said nothing, for Auld
Sandy pub on his moot belligerent air, and
said dogmatically, "I shall trust friend
Bailey to determine hew muoh you owe."
"I set aboub with a pretence of system, bat
in reality very informally, to get to the bole
tom of their differences. I took paper and
patiently tot down debit and orodib, a0 they
each oamo to at."
"After wo had gone through the aoconntb
of two or throe years we mime bo a credit on
MaDunald's book of a week's work by a
Swedish man in morn -gathering at a dollar
per day, of which Ordway's book Dhow no
record.
"The two men looked puzzled a bit, and
finally Mr. Ordway turned to hit' wife and
said, Ruth, � did wo ever have a Swedish
man hired? Why, of oottr0e, James ; don't
Conditioned Goodness,
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Ibtrungo Atli Ot'atl4r1 Whhle tu,a
"Grenetel
John Bodmer, an employe of the oteeL
works at Steelton, Pa., has long been known
as the wiokedeab men in Steelton, writes a
Harrisburg correspondent. Ha has a wife
and two daughters, one it strikingly beauti-
ful girl of fifteen, one
weeks ago Roy, 1),
W. Keeler, maw of rho Muratl of Gad at
Steelton, started revival meetings in his
church. Tho Church of God is ono of the
many auriouareligieusdenomioation8 peculiar
to thio order of Penneytv:mia, lt of the
Daokard order, and evangelioal in the atriab-
es0 sense. Iu some way "Wicked John"
Bodmer was induced to attend one of these
meetings, and 00 beoamo se interested in
them that three weeks ego he was converted.
John Bodrner'e oonveroion was followed by a
tremendous religious "awakening," and the
little ohuroh at Steelton has since been crowd-
ed nightly, and 200 aonvorta have thud far
boon made.
As soon ea John Bodmer "reoeived the
bleseiag," as the term le in the Church of
God, he began la$oring with hie two slaugh-
ters to induce them ba follow his example,
and they finally attended the meeting. A
week ago Friday nighb both " reoeived the
blessing." A few minutes after Lillie was
converted she fell into a state of trance.
IrE7:a LYE* BECAME FOXED
and her form rigid a0 though in death. As
this condition is a common ono among
" mournere•' when they receive bhe blessing
in the Church of God, nothing was thought
of it. She remained in the trance ao long,
however, that she was carried to John Par-
themore'a houee, not far from the church,
where she has lain ever eine,
She has returned to consciousness at in-
tervals, but is unable to stead or see. She
initiate that she is in heaven, and that all
about her are angels. She has token no
nourishment in all that time, exoepb the juice
of two or throe oranges and a dish of ice.
Dream. Her cheeks remain full and are in
high color. The moat ourHoue part of the
phenomenon is that the girl—who is hardly
able to read, and who, her father declares,
has novenae his knowtedee 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 pal tages nearly literally.
She anowero rationally all questions put to
her, but frequeutly, while talking, the sing-
ular rigor overcomes her and she sinks back
into the trance state.
Oa Thursday she came out of the trance
and Bald : `Auntie will be here at 3
o'clock,,,
An aunt of here lives in i cw York. No
cue expected her at Steelton that afternoon,
but on the arrival of the train at the hour
mentioned by Lillie she appeared at the
Parthemore house. Soon afterward the
girl mentioned the name of a neighbor and
said she was fetching her some tae oream.
A FEW MINUTES LATER.
the neighbor entered the house and had with
her a plate of ice cream. Lillie bee fre-
quently Dome out of a trance and saidthat
such and euoh persons were ill in Steelton,
Harrisburg and other nearby pleats, and
inquiry elicited that ouch was the fact, al-
though the girl could have had no knowledge
of 11.
Several Harrisburg and other physicians
had visited the girl and studied the case
bub are unable to explain the phenomenon
by phyaicat laws. She complains of no
suffering, but her words end the expresaion
of her facie denote the groateeb peace and
happiness.
Hundreds of people from the village and
the surrounding country have flocked to
Parahemore's house to the the girl, and the
profound impression it has made is magi•
fatted by the throngs that besiege Pastor
Reefer's ohuroh nightly seeking religion.
The paean. speudemost of his epare time
at the aide of the Bodmer girl. He, him-
self, seems overwhelmed over what he calls
an " awful demonstration of the divine
opirib."
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
One of the editors of the 11 Secold made
an ascent at night with tae. We descended
six miles from Milan about midnight. I
fastened my aerial steed bo 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 out the rope
and made a very rapid ascent until the bal-
loon became so full that I was obliged bo open
the valve to check its upward career
and present it from collapsing. On ac-
count of the rapid ascent it appeared
that Milan and the villages soattered over
the beautiful Lombard Plain beneath me
were rushing together at a rapid pace.
North of Milan oould be seen the charm-
ing lakes at the foot of the distant mountains,
so celebrated in song and story ; on the South
the beautiful Po. Presently the heat of the
sun expanded the gas until the balloonbecame
perilously full. I had been aboub an hour
enjoying the highly picbureequeand enchant-
ing scenes beneath me and had concluded to
Dross the Alpe and make my Bret entry into
the Swipe Republic should the wind continue
to waft me over the mountains. 1 was deep-
ly interested in snaking somesoientific experi
menta with my barometer, hydrometer
and thermometer, when suddenly the balloon
burst open at the top in several plaooe and
and around the center completely separating
into two hemispheres and allowing all the
gas to escape at once.
The upper part rolled up in rho net, while
the lower pare closed together, it being tied
with a strong cord to the concentrating
hoop. As I was about three miles it height,
I fell with almost the rapidity of a atone
several thousand feet, untill I had thrown
away my ballast, water and my small anchor.
The strain on the rope of the small anchor
during the night had made the knot so hard
that I could not untie it
They seemed paralyzed and 'would not
come near until 1 told them I had come
from Rome and was not the man in the
moon, as some of them appeared to thinkn
The inhabitants could scaroely believe me
when I informed them that I had sailed over
the Apennines that day, making a flight of
200 miles iu seven hours. 1 telegraphed im-
mediately to my friends in Rome and soon
received an answer informing me that I
would not be safe in returning, for the au-
thoritioo threatened to imprieonme for leav
ing the city without my passport. The see.
rotary of Mr. Severn, the English consul,
called with Mr. Gott, a friend of mine and
son of a distinguished English arbiet, upon
the Governor and explained the affair to him
and the non day I received another despatch
according me permission to return. I went
with some friends to see the governor,
Signor Bandl, who informed me that I bad
forfeited my right bo make another balloon
ascent from Rome. The chief of police had
the title of marquis, and seemed quite indig•
nanh that I should have the audaoiby to as-
cend without his pre0enee. I was told that
thio august marquis, on hearing that I had
made the aeoent, hastened to the observatory
and asked my friend Padre Secchi how long
I could remain in the air with a Montgalflere
balloon, The groat asbronomer told hen that
I moat descend fn lath than an hour. He
than hurried to his office and gave orders bo
have his police follow me and bring me back
As soon as possible. They followed me Bev
oral miles, but when they saw mo floating
over the mountains, they oonoluded bo give
up the ohaao and returned to the office of
the marquis. Many gentlemen who were in
favor of Viotor Emanuel taking Romo wore
highly amused at tho unsuooeoaful chase of
the polloo.
The authorities nob only refused to give
me permission for another asconaion, but
even prohibited me from giving any de0orip-
thon of my exbraordinary andel voyage in the
Mrs. Kjones was fitting a pair of now
om ti roto a
le A youngR a w
out of Roman journals. .aro nada u
on Johan which w J
trousersy,
his father's old once, when he asked : poem on my trip Roams the Apennines, Mut
i ublished in
" _ emihhed to have h
when Iwas nob r
Mamma, will I go to heaven w pp
die?" any ,journal in the Pope's dominions. He
"Yes, Johnny," replied his mobber, "11 had some copier; printed, but could not sell
you are a good boy," or oirculato them without permission. I
well, I'll be a good boy then, if—" wrote long dosoripbione of my trip ever the
" If what, Johnny 1" Apennines and sent them to pities in Italy
"If I don't have to play a harp in heaven outside of the Pope's dominions, giving a
made out of papa's old ono." true amount of my torial voyage and the
I had loaned my knife to the editor to
open a wine bottle during bhe night and he
had thonghtleesly put it in his pocket. I
let down the heavy anchor the length of bhe
rope, so that it would strike the ground first
and lessen the shook. My hat, flags and
even pieoee of the balloon wore carried by
the force of the wind, It seemed as if a ter -
rifle hurricane had suddenly arisen, and I
was gborne around in a vast circle,
upon the invisible wings of a mighty and
irresistible Dyclone. If the editor had nob
kept my knife I would have taken my stand
on the hoop and out away the anchor and
car, which would have considerably checked
my extremely rapid descent. I felt thab I
had made my last balloon ascent and might
be in a few minutes a mangled corpse. The
events of my paeb life rushed before me.
Many times on land or sea and in the air
deabh has appeared to stand near me, but
never under circumstances so appalling as
on that day. At last, on looking in the car,
I found a piece of broken glass, which
would not have exchanged at that moment
for all the gold of California. With it 1 cut
the tough oord which held the lower half of
the balloon to the hoop, which then flaw up
into the net and formed a parachute, and,
checking the deecont, brought me safely to
Inc earth, but wibh considerable force, much
more, indeed, than I over hope to experience
again.
Long desoriptione of my thrilling adven
tura were published in many parte of the
world, Through a mistake it was said in
the French journals that I was killed. My
friend, M. de Fonvielle, editor of La Liberte,
by his Italian exchanges, learned that it
was untrue, and oorreated the error in his
journal. I was nob aware that I woo dead
until I read an account of it in a work on
ballooning written by James Glaisher, M.
Flammarion, Wilfred de Fonvielle and
Gaston Tiosandier, published in French at
Paris. M. Flammariou says that I was
killed near Milan, in July, 1869, while
M. de Fonvielle in the same book denies
it.—Rufus G. Wells.
A National Langer.
An engineer, on being asked how he ac-
counted for the great frequency and height
of floods for a few years back as compared
with the peat, replied that it was due to the
removal of the forests from the country.
We may, therefore, look for an increase of
the evil from year to year. This has been
the experience of all countries whose early
condition was that of forest. Not only do
annual floods carry decantation and en0uiag
disease to the ohm and farmateade along
the river banks bill either the river water is
fenced out by dykes or the people are driven
from the shores. Thetas perhaps the leash
part of the evil. The land that has been de.
nuded of trees becomes denuded "loo in mune
of time of soil, the rush of waters after heavy
rains carrying off those qualities of the soil
which fit it for the food of vegetable life, and
Mlle that at one time furnished sustenance for
happy villages become a poor home for
economical sheep and goats. The surplus
of population becomes a problem which can
only be settled by emigration. In countries
not peculiarly favored, as Great Britain la,
with near aurronndinge of cloudy seas, the
evils of the drought are greater than
evils of the flood. Ingthe absence of foredo
which are the great reeervoiro of moisture,
retaining it in the day of plenty and giving
it forth gently in the time of need, counbriee
with large land areas experience long
droughts. Canada has just begun to know
what droughts mean. She need nob imagine
that these are merely occasional visitations
againab which no provision is to be made.
We have been for a century making prepare,
alone to welcome the droughts of Asia and
when they Dome they coma to stay. Then for
the watering of our now heaven -moistened
soil we shall, unless we are wise to time, be
reduoed like bhe fellahs of Egypt to irriga-
tion, a procceewhich the prices wo get for our
products will nob Dover. We have laid bare
muck land whioh it will never pay to culti-
vate, but which will bear trees as well ae
any. Such land should all be reburned to
forest. In some places it is oufflaient to lot
ib alone, simply protecting it from all des-
truotive influencers and thinning the wood as
it grows. In other places it will pay to plant.
Though the Drop is not soon reaped„ yet it
adds to bhe money value of the land, and in
any case it is a debt due to the country and
to posterity, Mon may indeed hope thorns
selves to profit by bho good to which bhey
contribute. In some of the western regions
whore forests wore wanting, the land Dom•
paratfvely barren and the rivers nearly amp.
1 by or twenty years which has even made
the rivers navigable. We need only say
gthat an came of ptevontion is worth a pound
of euro and lar ohoaper.
Suicide at Belleville,
BELLEVILLE, March 25.—A man named
H. D. Smith, aged about 32 years, from
Gloversville, New York Steto, committed ani
side at the Henderson house in this city the
other evening. Ho had retired + hie room
in the second storey of the hate. about 9
o'clock, and in about half au hour he oom
mfbted the deed. The lustremonb used wa
a small penknife, which he thrust into his
In ok in oboe proximity to the right oar,
nutting the jugular vein, Ho then refried
the window and jumped to the sidewalk be.
low, a distance of about 15 feet. He was
immediately carried into the hotel, but
breathed his last beton medical aid oould be
entnmoned. The canoe which led him to
I oommit the deed is unknown, but ib is sup,
posed to have been drink,
The Queen Spain of Regent afn to the Pura.
17
poen Courts—" Kiss the baby, gentlemen ;
he's out a tooth i"
i Customer (angrily)—Look here, Halton
what do you mean by sending me this ooat
bill a second time 1 Why, lean, I paid that
, bill a mouth ago, and gob to 0050ipb for 111