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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-03-15
The Candidate.


The candidate the candidate!
He's with us early, with US late;
He swings on every f. ler's gate;
He's tough as taxes suIe as fate:
He takes the stump. and then the State;
He fishes. while you dig the bait.
And with the best he fills his plate
The candidate, the candidate,
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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-11-23

has been provided with a greater or
less number of army balloons. Even
conservative China has decided 70 add
balloon corps to her military forces,
while Russia. Italy. Spain and Portugal
have long been vieing with each other
TO get their balloon service completed
at the earliest possible moment. The
employees in VI. Yon's esta blishnent
are kept working al high pressure try
ing 10 supply this great demand But
in spite of every effort, months, prOba-
bly, even years. viii elapse before many
Of the orders can be executed By that
time Europe may be III the throes Of
war
II must not be supposed that the
balloons which arc thus made 10 order
for any nation enbody in them the best
results attained by the researches Of the
French military bal!Oonists- \ great
part Of what has been accomplished
is kept concealed for tho benefit Of the
French government Regular schools d:
ballOoninc have been established az
Mendon near Paris. and al I-agoubran,
near ToulOn. b. the war department f.,
and the discoveries that have been
made the Iaaneuve-s that are taught,
and the experiments that are n prog
ress, are Kept profound secret,
" hile the schools themselves are -
closely guarded as though they were
prisons. What success has rewarded
50 much laborious investigation 10 one
can tel. bl. the expert smiles slEnlii-
cantly when The subject j. referred %,
and now aad then On . calm ca. the
people Il Paris see q cigar "a ped aIr.
ship use slowly from the heights =
MeEdan. sail with even notion 0ver
the city AMI then. hearing - ne right
ox - the left. swing back II q cTez;
ll-c.e i-.1--IF -F----s - s-i-----t tfs - 80
very point ron which = sta--@.- Ae-
sccntIlZ . rhe earth a. EASILY and
lightly a = bird settles DOM upon a
branch This = ne r-ueh li~-rss-t
usviEahle balloon WHICH has rezcos1
SIS hi-hes- point q deveioP-.eu. 4
these schools
TEr FIST succcssf1l attempt - c---c'
:Ec fi-ht q BALBOA zzs r-scc ~
GifTzrt- Tie Invea:cr - fhe s-,z-1 ~
jec.or which h~--s ai1 EzE-. n i-s-
For Tie trz- t.rle tzc F--t e-s.s.sT'7.-
beilo71 was employed g.. -=-T.a --s-s
sb--; .--l5-S ska; Tz-z- go tas rgoes
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which descended from the net and held
the cage were passed through sort of
wooden rest. In this way rigidity
was acquired which rendered il pos
sible for the air ship to respond to the
government of rudder placed at one
end OF the balloon and formed Of q
wooden frame covered with thin cloth
The motive force was given by small
three horsepower steam engine
weighing about three hundred and
thirty pounds. The engine turned
three-branched screw about three and
a half yards in diameter at the rate OF
one hundred and ten revolutions per
minute. The courage of the aeropaut
who was willing 10 risk his life in a
voyage through the air with blazing
furnace suspended few yards below
balloon containing thirty-one hundred
cubic yards Of an inflaInnable gas mist
have been immense. Every precautiol
was taken TO guard against danger
from fire. The furnace was inclosed
IN a specially constructed case and the
chimney was conducted downward
through the floor OF the cage. The
experiment was crowned with success.
although no attempt was made 10 beat
against the wind. The strength Of
the machine said Giffard, was not
great enough to warrant me in trying;
indeed l never thought OF the matter
in that connection All that wished
to do was to perform several maneu-
vers in swerving to the right and 70
the left just as inclination prompted
me-"
The next important step in the same
direction was taken when Capt. Renerd
and Capt. krebs made their famous as
cent in La France on August 9. 1854.
This balloon was constructed, under
the direction of the two officers. in the
workshops attached 10 the military eS-
adjustment at Chalais-Nendon. and
for some considerable time maaeuvered
with the utmost docility in full view
Of thousands of people who cheered
the yentureSOme eeronauts enthusiast
tically. Ia his account of the trial trip,
Capt Renard says: ''As soon as we had
attained an altitude little superior t.
the wooded plateaus of the Chalais val
ley, we started the screw and had the
satisfaction of seeing the balloon obey
Immediately, and reply in the most sat
isfactory manner 70 the deviations
from a straight course indicated by the
rudder. We felt that we We're abso-
lutely masters of the vessel, and that
we could steer q course in the air AZ
casliy AND d> r-s-- ooIy rs q steam YES
sci can be directed upon water" The
voyagers proceeded as far as Villa
coublay. about two miles from ChalaiS
There they turned off in the direction
of Petit Bicetre, from whence they're
turned 10 their starting point. This
journey, equal 20 distance of FIVE
miles, was accomplished in shout
twenty minutes, or at a speed Of about
fifteen miles an hour. and the descent,
always a critical point, was made with
the greatest facility. Six times was
this experiment repeated, always with
the same success; UPON one occasion
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shifted IN Developing them 70 a point
OF perfection which makes them a pow
er that viii have 10 De seriously taken
into account in the next war. Strange
battles may even DC fough; in the air
by hostile balloons, As GiiTard said; Il
zee the air ensanguined by war rs the
waves and the plains have beea-" Tbs
military balloons viii surely carry dvna-
mite bombs and deadly explosives,
which they viii shower down upon tbs,
buildings and people living helpless
three a. four miles beneath They Will
be fitted with powerful search lights
SO that night ATTACKS VIII become al
inpossibility. In thousands OF ways
they will be utilized either directly Or
indirectly in the destruction Of human
life, and the horrors of war viii be
augmented by the hopelessness Of try.
ing To guard against the attacks of an
aerial enemy.
IL Is much pleaSanter 10 think Of tho.
assistance the balloon may be in ths
field OF astronomical and meteorolog-
ical discovery and investigation. In
France 10 Is already not uncommon for
astronomers 20 use balloons when thick
clouds obstruct the view. making IL
impossible % take important ohserva-
tons. On one occasion Camille Flam-
marion rose 20 height of thirty-thres
hundred yards, taking n small
telescope with him IN observe
an eclipse from above the clouds
Who knows what the balloon
may enable scientists 70 discover In the
subject Of r1steorology? BY is means
the secret of the physical construction
of the upper atmosphere may be di-
closed. The variation Of the pressure,
its temperature. the formation If
storms, hurricanes electricity, the mys-
teriss Of the solar radiation may -
made as clear 20 us By the help Of
Montgolisr'S invention. as some II tho
secrets Of organic life have beer dis
closed under the microscope. Perhaps
the north pole may be reached in =
balloon The question has been
mooted, and may be carried out in tho
near future A balloon with cubic
contents Of City thousand Zee; and cap
able Of lifting twenty tons, furnished
with @ number Of smaller balloons con-
tanning = reserve supply Of hydrogen.
would certainly seem 10 give every
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that drew tears of sympathy from
every face-card in the deck.
In the category of remarkable res
cues attributed to dream warnings,
think this adventure stands at the very
head.
One more remarkable case was re-
Gently brought to my attention. Mr..
E., man of the most unimpeacha BILE
veracity, was awakened one night by
three loud raps on the head board of
his bed. These raps. he tells me,
agencies. The fact that the back Of
his head was sore all the rest of that
week is a mere coincidence.
Just as Mr.. B. struggled ont Of sleep
into consciousness, he heard a voice
say: Charley is dead" Now, this
happened in New England. where Char
ley is so common name that many,
parents prefer to christen their sons
Zimri. Therefore, Mr.. II. was not.
much wiser after the spirit voice had
spoken than before. He rapidly ran
over the list Of persons named Charles
who were members of his own family;
and, having decided that none of them
was likely to have left him any money,
he went to sleep.
In the morning, however, the re-
membrance of the dream troubled him.
He made inquiries, and learned-to his
satisfaction or the reverse, as il hap
peped in each individual case-that
all the Charleys were alive and we'll.
Nothing had happened to any of them
during the night.
And yet the dream 'came out" as
the fatalists say, for almost week
later he discovered that on the night
in question, and perhaps at that very
hour, old man Bowden, who lived nine
miles out of town. had suffered the loss
Cby DEATH of horse named Charley,
aged twenty-three years, four months
and nine days.
/ believe that this is the first case of
the kind on record. Telepathy be-
tween a man and horse. If II can
be esta blished, is likely to become
fad. especially with men who play the
races.
AS for me, ! should be inclined TO
believe that what Mr.. Il. heard was
simply the voice of nightmare, If the
animal had been named Julia
In conclusion. and BY way Of verihca-
ton. VIII say that NV method OF in
vestigation is strictly in accord with
that employed by the Society for Psy-
chical Research | always endeavor to
learn which one of all the persons cog
infant of any unusual happening has
the most powerful Imagination and
the most comprehensive grasp of the
elements Of successful fiction. Then I
get him to tell the story.
Howard FIELDING
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tie journey being made dead against
the wind.
The motor in this case was an cleo
.-ic dynamo u nine hOres power weigh
ing only two hundred and twenty
pounds This latter condition was real
II drawback. a. everything was
sacrificed &c ,,pfain liChtness. with the
Consequence that Il was impossible ~
carry along sufficient fael fo- length
ened Journey without overvseightIng
the balloon The length q the bal
loon was abca, Gfty-ave yards and
contained something ike SIX thousand
one hundred ca bic feet IL CaA Inside
the balloon there was contained =
smaller balloon in which. hy means of
little pump the az could Dc com
pressed OF rarided. The importance Il
this discover. due o. Montpelier. can
not - OTerestimated- Is its means
the ascenSiouAl force a. the balloon
could be varied without touching the
ballast. which could thus De RESERVED
for moments q emergency. Another
point - difference between Ia France
and al the baIiooas that had preceded
Il was that Il VS. shaPed Ike huge
Manila cigar. swelling cot sharply
near the front point and Csf-tnsas.ias,
slowly right - the TACK. = firm that
~ss sid % augment TIE possible sped
YER ccnsiderab.v
4 military balloon diFe-s from "A
ordinary balloon II many waTs u =
much smaller and ia made. = p,o-si be,
WITH greater care Il cAr-ies co-c-
y etc eq1i prnent - The scisntifc In
f.-uue1ts uc~cxsa-r' for taxing mo
rrl0st extensive obscrvztions, E1ca 40
telescopes. feld-Elasses- Photography
cenerss AID signaling appliances II
connected vith :he yru7z1t - mans
- 3 cable a telephone - czET-ar3 alfsns-
The ae-gaats- e. this IN qusfs- F---ssoszA4
eo-n--r.r.-e... 20 wi.h TIE oE-ocr eoss-
rsandlss- re amy, 2at cz1 inform
hin az .-e greatest length q anT
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lo.8-e i- r,---l1@ ps-- hvdTossr vhich
give t--o rr -kr~e tfr8a- tae Hing
u.s-r- - -la a-l1nz-y "a .. con
rre-re- u 1. z.lch ny. erp~nsFr~.
h--~s-sr 1furr hycrszyr- costing sbsout
cent 30 cz5sr foot - ikzt even fa-
$40. ballaoa t1e "a needed ,o-
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but, to my mind. It is the best part Of
the story.
This trifiing inaccuracy reminds me
OF the difficulty experienced by ghost
! which appeared in my fathers house a
good many years ago II awakened us
all in the dead Of night by playing on
the piano. j listened 10 the supernat-
ural music IN horror. as the others did,
too no doubt. Ny musical ear is good.
and il is exceptionally accurate in the
matter of absolute pitch. Such being
the case. was soon able TO make ont
that the ghosts tune consisted Of only
two notes, high c and a way down IN
the bass.
This means something. said I, IN an
awed whisper. &C. A. must De the in
itials of the ghost"
Then ! rose and followed my father
down TO the parior. where we found
our eat previously supposed 10 have
wandered away and died standing on
the keys of the piano. She had her
left hindfoot on c. her right forefoot
on A, and was reaching ont after T.
Nothing but the system Of musical no
tation prevented her from revealing her
identity completely Ny father drove
her away. anu She never came back.
which Is good ground for believing that
Il was not the cat at all. but her ghost
Another case even more remarkable
scGn this occurred on the banks Of the
50. Lawrence this summer.
lady whom We will call Mrs A.
because that viii make il easier for the
Society for Psychical Research TO enter
this story on Its records. had gone 20
this region with her husband who had
: great passion Cor outdoor sports, and.
In fact. sports OF any kind. Mrs. 4 re
tired 10 rest on the night Of August ls,
believing that her husband was then
returning down the river from ESD
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| fortunate. I once dreamed that was
| lying Oh a pile of stones when the sa-
| cred white elephant came along and
stepped on the third button of my
waistcoat. This happened in Worces-
| ter, where | was working on news
paper from nine o'clock in the fore
noon to three clock the next morning,
seven days in a week, with an allow
Gnce of five minutes for meals, includ-
ing piece of mince pic at one a. m. l
knew that this dream contained q
| warning. and at first l thought it re-
ferred to the pie. But on second
thought decided to throw up my Job.
/ did it, and have never dreamed the
same thing since. which makes it look
like plain case to nae.
When l think of my existence there,
il seems natural that I should never
have been warned again. A man cam
not reasonably expect Providence to do
too much for him. A favor of that
size should content him for life. How
ever, it has been hard for me to listen
to SO many nice ghost stories and re-
feet that | have never enjoyed any
thing Of the sort myself 1t has been
some consolation to investigate, by my
own scientific method, the experience
of others.
Here is case which I vouch for. I
became acquainted while in Boston
with an aged victim of the game Of
policy. 1t is game in which q man
can bet one cent il he has no more. and
l,a 20 7 no
lost his self-respect. He was a great
believer in dreams, and his stories of
what they had done for others were
worth much more than the small sums
which bestowed upon him from time
to time. As he always went to bed
hungry, he never lacked dreams. The
only trouble, as he explained to me,
was in the Interpretation. For in
stance, he would dream Of a death,
and then play the dead gig" e-19-2e,
''when," as he would inform me, after
the drawing, "any cussed fool ought
TO have known that the coffin gig was
the right one for that dream"
One day found him in luck; and also
somewhat in liquor.
Il hit it this time" he said
dreamed about Ben Butler for three
nights running. What did it mean?
1t took me long time to study it out.
Finally it came to me like fash I
asked a fellow how old the general
was, and he said he was sixty-two. So
played sixty-two dayed, to lead. ard
IN the cap. 1t was the first number out
In both drawings I've got money to
burn"
He had. in fact, won nearly a hun
dred dollars.
And the curious thing about it was
this" he continued, thoughtfully, "the
fellow that told me Buffers age lied;
the general was really siXty-four."
Some persons might think that this
initiated against the dream theory,
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are no signs of horses. however, the
sheds are not large enough to form a
rope-walk, and instead of the scent of
hops and malt characteristic of brew
cry, there is always an unpleasant odor
of gas and varnish hanging around the
place. On certain days in the week
huge brown spheres show themselves
above the palisade and surge to and
fro as though they were the backs of
angry mammoths. II the visitor is of
an inquisitive turn of mind he will
learn upon inquiry that this is the
home of the military balloon-the place
in all the world where the best bal
looms for the purposes of war opera
tons are constructed. The esta blish-
ment belongs to NJ. Yon, civil en-
gineer who has won international fame
by his success in the manufacture of
this species of military equipment.
From his workshop Oh the Champs de
Liars almost every modern nation
with the sole exception of Germany
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.nP trip on which he had started early
he

.ne trip on which he had started early
that morning.
| And she dreamed a dream. She be-
held her husband and old Abe Grover.
the river pilot. coming down through
the rapids in Abe's boat The waters
whirled around them madty. and Abe
grew white around the gills. He
caught crab with his starboard oar.
and the boat turned a.dozen fip-fops II
the hurrying tide. Mrs A. beheld her
husband struggling with the current.
She was conscious OF making frantic
| Efforts to reach and save him, probably
remembering that he had money in his
| clothes, although she does not tell the
story that way.
In the midst of these struggles she
aw~xe. The dream still ran riot in her
min /. 1t was certainly warning. Her
husband was in peril
Mrs. A. was 50 deeply moved by
these reflections that she arose, dressed
herself hastily, curled her front hair
and sped through the darkness 20 the
cabin of Abe Grover, which stood on the
river bank not far from the cottage IN
which Mrs. A had dreamed her dream.
Nobody knows what she intended to do
there. Probably she wished to weep
with Mrs. g.. and to ask her how she
thought that she (Mrs- A. would look
in black.
There was bright light in one end
of Growers cabin. while the other was
dark. Mrs. A. precipitated herself las
they say in French novels against the
door of the lighted room. She landed
almost in the middle of the floor. Her
eyes took in the scene at glance.
Four men sat around table. There
were cards and chips and bait in
large. black bottles.
Mr.. A. sat behind an ace-full, and he
had just footed old Abe, that guileless
countryman. to the extent of the limit.
Mrs. A. seized her husband by the up
per fiapper of his right ear, and led him
gently homeward.
And when they were gone, Uncle Abe
laid down four five-spots with sigh
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New Pullman Service Sans Fe Route
Leaving Wichita at 1910 D. M, daily.
the Santa Fe route are now running "A
twelve section drawing room Pullman
palace sleeping car, Wichita to Chicago
without change or transfer at any point
enrouIe. This Is ali innovatiou-make a
note of 1t. Using the tain mentioned to
Chicago 1t allows a half day at home be-
fore starting. ana this train ON which YOU
leave will make connection az Chicago
with all divirgIng lines on the following
day. Ii Is always on time and makes few
stops; has a rock ballasted track the entire
distance; try it. Leaving Kansas CITY it
carries dining car. serving meals on the
European plan. You pay Tor what you
get. For Pullman reservations call at
city ticket Office, $50 North Main street or
Douglas avenue station 5tf