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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

were even and then he swung off with
cry of triumph.
a cry of triumph that changed in
moment to one of horror and then ~
came inaudible as he swung in migbt,
arc Of nearly 5000 feet.
His hands dropped from the ropes and
II ne mad net been fastened to the seat hs
would have dropped to the river below
hes tainted" said two or three a,
the boys. And he had. Such a tremendons
rush through the air was more than hs
could stand, pluclxy as he was and ba
knew nothing after the first few hundred
feet.
Back and forth he swung, Involuntary
letting the old cat die.
And such a large old cat
Just before he came to stop Mr. Mer,
j rlWeathed on his broncho appeared among
the boys. 1t did not take long to explain
matters TO him.
Whose idea was it? Ny boy's?"
mo. sir, it was Morleys?"
well, he's been punished enough
| don't see how he's going to get back"
He pulled himself up before"
Wei he won't have strength enough
when he comes to-
And now came the strangest part of the
affair and the only part of which was
an eyewitness. I'd been out riding and
| 40 pdSseu came IN SlSnI OF the grOuD
just after the sheriff reached them so
| saw the conclusion of the episode and do
not have to trust to others eyes.
Bronson canon is sometimes called tha
| Canon of the Big Wind because of a
curious breeze that visits it about as often
as once or twice a week.
1t may be as calm as a day in June in
the country surrounding the canon, but
in the deep gulch this wind blows with
| almost cyclone fury and always from
north to south. There is no one who IA
very scientific in Maxon City and 80 no
one has ever been able to explain the
| phenomenon. But that wind was the sal.
walton of Morley.
| AS Mr.. Merriweather stood there wona
dering how he was going to rescue the
/ boy from his perilous situa ton the wind
| began TO blow, slowly at first, but steadily
| increasing in volume with a giant and mu.
steal roar like the deepest bass tones in
| big organ.
The swing bearing the unconscious Nor
ley swayed a little with the advance guard
of the hurricane; then it began to lift
slowly and al last the ropes stood out as
stiff as if they had been made of iron
| and when the wind reached its height
! Morley was even with the top of the
canon.
Sheriff Merriweather was a quick wittei
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

quarters in summer hotel or boarding
houses? OF course, If one owns a country
mouse the advantage of the change is OBJ
ylous; but for The great majority Of persons
who make the annual exodus from New
York home comfort in town wou d be a
luxury compared TO the privations which
they endure year by year for the sake o,
custom prescribed nominally for the
health's sake by Dame Fashion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

with their toes over the brink and looked
down the sheer 2,OC0 feet
ut would be easier to fall down there
than to come back" said Ardsley, without
a shudder If his mother had known what
he was doing she would have tainted just
as promptly as she could, but fortunately
she did not see him and as Morleys as
c4ear-headed as he, he did not faint or
think of such thing. He gazed into the
gloomy abyss and thought minute, rum
ming his eye up and down the canon with
a swinging motion. Then How'd you
like to swing in the chasm?
"How do you meanT' asked Arosiey'
"yvbv mean how would you like to
nn+ a great beam across to the other side
ana hen have a rope about two thousand
feet long and make a swing out OF H.
woof wo,lldn't it make a fellow Jingle
to 90 sweeping through the air.
you bet it would. What you
dropped?"
.0h ia tie myself TO the seat. I'd risk
# If there was a swing there. Say We
make one. It'u be the biggest thing of its
kind in the United States"
How can WEI?
"Whv we can set a beam across the
top and then tie rope to it. It's only
question of length A l2-inch oeam VIII
| stand the strain all right.
Bows if you think I'm carpenter
enough to tell you just how those fellows
| did that engineering job you're mistaken.
| Morley has told me half dozen times
| since l decided to write this up, but
| must confess to a certain stupidity about
| such things and l don't know how they
| did it. but when saw it, after the affair
| Ii was across the chasm all right and in
no danger of slipping and the boys of
| Maxon City had done the whole job with
| out help from their elders.
The thing that interes ed me most Yves
| the fact vouched for by all the boys that
| Morley fastened the ropes in place after
| the beam was secured instead of tying
| them on before they put the beam across.
| Yes, sir. he walked over to the middle of
| the canon on that tweive-inch beam and
| he got down on his knees and calmly tied
| first one end and then the other end of
| that rope with nothing but 2,000 feet be-
| tween him and the Littlefork river be-
low.
The seat had rope in either end
through which the rope had been passed
| before it was tied to the beam, and when
Morley had finished the job they played
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out the rope slowly with the seat at the
end until it swung in the breeze one thou
sand feet below.
The boys feared grown-up interference,
and nothing had been said about the al
fair to anyone not engaged in the work.
But little Esther MeTriweather had over
heard the Toys talking about it, and she
told her father, big Sheriff Merriweather,
and just about the time that they were
ready for the swing he was on his way
to the canon from Maxon City mounted On
his broncho.
There were ten fellows interested in the
scheme, and not one of them but was
crazy to have the first swing, but as Nor
ley had planned it he insisted upon being
the first to try it.
He put piece of stout clothes line in his
+ outside pocket, drew on pair of gloves
TO that he wouldn't skin his hands and
then he slid down the rope to the seat as
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

boys had fashioned the biggest swing
since the creation of man, but they had
forgotten TO contrive a way 10 start it,
When Morley was securely dashed he sat
still moment and then he burst out
laughing. How hollow that laugh sound
ed, cowing up out of the depths
Say, fellows, how am | going to start
it?'
II struck all the boys as being very
funny and they slapped their knees and
each others back as they thought of it,.
Then Merriweather said: You'll have to
come back and walk way up the edge
and then jump or"
And be dashed 10 pieces on the other
side OF the chasm? / guess not" came UP
Morley's voice from below.
Then Mortimer West said: IF you
stretch rope across the canon about a
thousand feet up you can go out 10 the
middle of it and then make your start
and you'll swing off all right"
That's it," said Morley. GO ahead and
I'll come up"
Mortimer went up to where the chasm
is only eight feet across and he lassooed
tree on the other side and drew the
rope taut.
In the meantime Morley had made the
discovery that he didn't know how to get
up again. 1t was out of the question
for him to come up a thousand feet hand
over hand, " was equally out of the ques-
ton for a boy to stand on the beam and
pull him up 1t began to look as If he
would ncve to stay down there for the
rest of his life and have his meals low
cred to him.
1t was Ardsley who made that sugges-
zion and 1t led 10 another Immediately.
The boys had ab.ut three lines AZ
much rSpe as they needed. for Arisley
had lad the buyirg CT 1t ana he was ono
ot those boys who never get merely
enough for a thing. II he'd been going 10
p.cnie with another fellow he, would
nave taken along FIVE dczsn eggs instead
OF two do2 n. He had a large western
way Of doing things and so he had bought
ihree thousand teet of rope at Maxon
City. ln
They hung the rope over the beam and
let Gown the two elc to NJ r ey and ba
pulled himself ana the swing 10 10 the
beam and made h way to solid ground
Then he walked back to the taut rome
ana got the swing rores clear of kinks.
WIN the swing stu bound 20 him he
went Gu to The middle OF the rope hung
Tor minute to he sure that the ropes
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

man and he saw that there was chahv,
for the boy il the wind did net suddehT
die down. He called TO the boys 10 !or
low him and they all ran on the Dnosan
breeze. He snatched up a piece OF rop
as he ran and as soon as he came oppo'Iss
to the flying human kite he lassce1 II duu
with quick jerk he landed boy and sw ~,
The wind had no force outside OF n,
gulch and IL did not take Merriwe aIue.
very long to cut the cords while l ren
for water TO dash into the face OF Inc W. W..
conscious boy who had just taken 'h7
longest swing on record.
But incredible as 1t may seem Aio.le,
took it quite hard because his "a,
wouldn't let him try the swing ana Il ~
had not in his capacity as sherih, ~,
hidden any boy to have anything 70 ~
with the swing believe every BOY ~
Maxon City would have tried for hlins'n
the sensation of moving through the ''
at the end of half a mile of rope.
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The Power of Artillery.
From the Contemporary Review

From the contemporary review
The power OF artillery, properly handled
and sufficiently numerous. Is now so great
that 1t is impossible to conceive an enemy
capable OF maintaining an aimed fire
against it at all If 100 guns conoentra e
their shrapnel on front of trench Of,
say 500 yards extent, the number Of bullets
delivered is so great that every mans
head and shoulders showing above the
crest will, on an average, receive four
hits a minute, and. II that is not sufficient
to hinder steady aiming, the binding
clouds of dust, and smoke from the burst
ing shells effectualy screen all the at
lacking objects from the occupants of the
trench, and under such conditions 1t is
absolutely immateriai what formations
they adopt or what colored uniforms they
wear They will meet a storm of bullets
certainly for the enemy will contrve 10
fire at them somehow, but their fire will
be so absolutely random that the number
Of hits viii vary simply as the amount Of
square feet of vulnerable are exposed ana
the duration Of such exposure. The longer
you are out IN the rain the wetter you Will
get. and YOU will be just as wet in khaki
as in scarlet.
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The Mammoth
Swing.
The Hair Raising Experience Nor
ley Bacon Had.
BIZ CHARLES BATTELL LOOMS.
(copyright 1900 BY c. B. Loomis.)

Copyright 1900 by C. B. Loomis.)
Wen call it Bronson Canon because
that isn't its name, and the people who
live in the vicinity do not like to be
talked about. When 1 said 1 was going
to write up the immense swing they beg
ged me to give a fictitious name, and
promised that would, although why they
should hate publicity 1 am sure I do not
understand, as they did nothing mean or
underhand
Morley Bacon was the one who planned
the swing and Morely is boy OF about u
years. I guess, a handsome little fellow
with the head of an inventor. When I say
he has the head of an inventor l mean
that he has invented a number of things
and therefore he is an inventor and as he
has a head it must be the head of an IN
ventor.
Morley had read about the Ferris Wheel
an enormous mechanical continuance for
giving people rides in the air, and he had
actually seen the EFffel Tower. for he had
accompanied his father to France on one
of the latters business rips and it be-
came his ambition upon his return 10 de-
wise something equally big that should be
engineered entirely by boys.
Bronson Canon was about three miles
from Maxon City, and it IS 1000 feet deep
or 1900 feet high according TO your posi-
ton in relation to It. 1t is just fifty feet
across and one mile long, and at the bot
tom runs the Ldttlefork river.
One day Morley and his bosom compan.
ion, Ardsley Merriwea Their, a boy of about
the same age, were standing on the edge
of the canon looking across.
Wouldn't that be a great pole jump"
said Ardsley. locking across the great
chasm, mighty chasm.
"M'mm, said Morley, but suppose the
pole broke or you didn't quite clear it?"
Both boys stood on the edge of the canon
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-27

coolIy as if he had been in his sisters
eight-foot swing in the back yard.
Daring as the boys were they all held
their breaths as he made his way down,
for they knew he had not once chance in
a million if he lost his hod. But Morley
had muscles OF iron and he didn't lose
either his grip or his grit, but made his
way to the seat and then dashed himself
to 1t.
But, Will you believe Il? Thosa clever
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why some men become richer every time
they fail.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
AREMINIsCENCE OF VICTORY

From the New York Journal.
 The nomination of Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice President was an inspiration. It is not merely that MT. Stevenson is an ad- mrable candidate in himself. It is still more for what he represents.
 .Adlai Stevenson was the Democratic part of the last ticket elected by the Democratic party. He was one of the standard-bearers in the great victory of 1892, whose results were thrown away by treacherous leader ship. His renomination for the position to which he was elected then is an announce ment that the Democracy has not cut loose from its past. The party that is going to elect Bryan and Stevenson is the same party that once elected Cleveland and Stew enson. Unfaithful leaders have been thrown overheard, but the true men have been kept, and the masses of the party remain the same.
 The country will be trying no experiment in electing Mir Stevenson. It tried him four years ago. It remembers him as one of the best Vice Presidents that ever pre- sided over the Senate. Cool, level-headed and tactful, he will be an ideal occupant of that chair to which MT. Bryan's robust health will probably confne his duties. And if, by any unforeseen chance, he should be called upon to succeed to the Presidency he would rise to the full measure of his new responsibilities.
 MT. Stevenson is a perfect mate for Bryan. The contrast with the fiighty, k-jumping Roosevelt speaks for itself. Nothing remains but the withdrawal of MT. Towne to insure the union of all the reform forces of the country upon an ideal ticket. That this withdrawal will be promptly announced cannot be doubted.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
WI l. DRAW VOTES

From the Philadelphia Times Ind
 Upon this platform notwithstanding it's many serious faults and weaknesses, it is not to be doubted that the Democrats can make strong campaign. Events that have carried the Republican administration into wide departure from cherished American traditions have raised opposi- ton where none existed before. The in- creasing power of combinations of capital and their influence in public affairs has caused widespread alarm. Upon both of these paramount issues the Democratic deliverance is bold and forceful and will be generally regarded as sincere. It is likely to draw to Bryans support very many who have sympathy with his financial theories and who may dissent from many of the doctrines proclaimed in the Kansas City resolutions. but who regard the methods and tendencies repre- sented by Mckinley as more dangerous at the present time.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
Woman Suffrage in Oregon.

Idaho adopted woman suffrage in 1896, and at the recent June election in Oregon a like proposition was submitted. It was defeated chiefly because it was impossible to poll for it majority of all votes cast. Electors to the number of 27,2S3 neglected to vote on the proposition and the consti- tuition of the State requires the approval of a majority of all votes cast in order to carry constitutional proposition.
 { The city of Portland voted against the proposition. but outside of Portland it com manded a majority of the votes cast upon it. Out of thirty-one counties in the State twenty-two cast more votes for the proposi- tion than voted against it. The indifferent vote defeated it.
 The vote is considered encouraging by the friends of equal suffrage and no doubt an- other proposition will in due course of time be submitted. Female suffrage is slowly but surely winning a way to the popular heart, and nearly every far Western State is inclined towards 1t. In Colorado Utah, Idaho and Wyoming it is already well es- tablished, and in Kansas women vote in municipal elections. In perhaps dozen other States women vote in school elec- tions or on questions of taxation.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
Secretary Roots Army Bill.

Secretary Root is now preparing bill for the reorganization of the army. He wants regular army 75OOO strong. He says he needs it in the Philippines. which the Spaniards controlled three centuries with an army 5000 strong on the average The truth is, the Philippine excuse is but an excuse for the creation of large army which the combines and all other pluto crats have bargained for; and if McKin- ley and Roosevelt are elected excuses will be found for establishing an army perhaps fiuences that control the Republican party demand large army, and the Republican party is expected to furnish it.
 It is said the new bill is to be pushed Kansas City platform is voted down "the not less than 75.00O men proposition may be considerably exceeded. It will be urged, for example, that the artillery arm of the service should be increased, and if the ar tillery arm is carried up there must be cavalrymen and infantrymen and engineers in order to give the army due proportions.
 The Democratic platform denounces mili- tarism and a great standing army, as alike a waste of money and a menace to the liberties of the country. The question is fairly before the people, and if they want regular army jumped up on mere pretense from 25, 900 men to 75,O00, they can readily secure it by voting for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10

proud roll of those who served the State that had been robbed.
 Mr. Owen.s index extends to twenty double-column pages, and it is absolutely without fault Take, for example, "Aut-
 tose Town" which scarce a hundred Ala
 bamians remember to have ever heard of, historic though it be, and there are six references to it. "bank," fourteen refer
 ences: "Bienville," twenty-two; Catholic church." thirty-six; and so runs the best of all possible indexes.
 Mir. owens chapter on the literary his tory of Alabama is very full and very in- structive The extent and value of our literature as set forth by him, will astonish even the best-informed Alabamians. All of us are more or less familiar with at least
 the names of Pickett Le Vert, Wilson, Garrett, Brewer, Meek, Peck, Loveman, Johnston, Ryan, Taylor, Smith, Phillips, Wyeth, Lupton, McCorvey, DuBose and Owen himself, as well as others; but MT. Owen requires nine pages for simply run ming references to Alabama literary his tory. The first Alabama author was Judge Harry Toulmin, whose first book, "Magis- trates Gulde,' appeared in 1897. Mir. Owen devotes ten pages of terse references to Alabama bibliography alone, and he gives an extraordinary volume of information. History of Alabama And Incidentally of Georgia and Mississippi, From the Earliest Period. By Albert James Pickett. Annals of Alabama, 1S19-19OO. By Thomas McAdory | owen. Birmingham: The Webb Book Company. Publishers, 19OO." Such is the | full title of the handsomely bound volume | of 773 pages, beautifully printed in large, | clear-faced type. This book Is necessity | to every Alabamian who desires or may de- sire to know anything about the history of his own State. In bringing it out the Webb Book Company has done a great service to the State.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
Trusts Favored in Cuba.

The new Cuban tariff went into effect could desire. It was prepared by the few's trusted agent, Robert F. Porter. Under the the direction of the Republican leaders and the representatives of the trusts-in most cases the same persons--he prepared the schedules in Washington, and his trip to Cuba was d mere pretense, for he did not consult the wishes or procure the views of anyone in Cuba. He stayed in Cuba but three days. He graciously granted two hearings in Havana. but he paid no atten-
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
Paramount Issue.

The Democratic platform declares that imperialism is the paramount issue but it Is wholly beyond the power of plat form to say what the people will consider the paramount issue. The chances very largely are that the grasping trusts based on a robber tariff will receive in the next four months much more attention than the subject summed up in the word imperial ism"
 When 75,00o,0o0 of people are placed by legislation at the mercy of a handful of trust managers, not exceeding 10000 in number it is very likely the voters will forget the dangers involved in dangerous but distant general policy, and consider the schemes that are robbing them daily-that are eliminating competition while they drive to the wall small dealers and small industries-that shuts factories as a boy turns over a toy-that everywhere grasping profits up if possible to the tariff limit, and that is nowhere and at no time a blessing.
 The Democratic platform denounces the trusts and the tariff that bred them in un- measured terms, and it will be strange in deed If an evil that is ever present in its vilest forms is not attacked by the voters as the paramount issue. There is no reason why it should not be, for 1t is first cousin to imperialism anyway, both being chips off the oligarchic block. Whoever votes against the one will necessarily hit the other, and by voting against Mckinley and Roosevelt the entire scheme of rule by the few can be attacked. We need not quarrel over the precedence of issues.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
NO ROOM FOR KICKERS
From the Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register.
 Those who think they can do the inde- pendent act this year as they did during the past four years are mistaking the at- mosphere of the situation. The parties are more inside the lines than ever before, and the man who flirts with the independents is going to be held to account There may have been some excuse for past vacilla- ton. It must be remembered that party men were confronted by entirely new con- dtions; they were called upon to assert their belief in their principles or their fideI- ity to the party; and many of them did not know which had the stronger claim upon them. All that is over now. In four years man ought to know what to do, especially as no new problem has been presented in that time. Inexperience is no longer any excuse for defection from party, and we will be much mistaken if those who have received party favors, and now refuse to stand strenuously by the party, and es- pecally those who have run in the party primaries and now seek to defeat the par tvs nominees will not be held to close &C., count.
The age-herald., 1900-07-10
HER FIRST GLIMPSE OF BRYAN

Mrs. w. J. Bryan in Philadelphia Press.
 My personal knowledge of MT Bryan dates from September, 1S79 saw him first in-the parlors of the Young Ladies' School, which I attended in Jacksonville He en- tered the room with several other stu dents, was taller than the rest and attract ed my attention at once His face was pale and thin; pair of keen, dark eyes looked out from beneath heavy brows; his nose was prominent-too large to look we'll, I thought broad, thin-liped mouth and a square chin completed the contour of his face He was neist, though not fastidious in dress, and stood firmly and with dignity