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The National tribune., 1901-07-18
81 Klegg and Shorty.
Their Transformation From
Raw Recruits to Veterans.
BY JOHN McELROY.
er 1000 Pages Of the Most Enter
tanning and Thrilling Adventures,
in Three Volumes, Profusely
Illustrated.
BY JOHN McELROY.

o r P OR AL ST
KLEGG AND HIS
COMRADE SHOR-
TY have become his
t toric characters.
They are the embod-
iment of the patri-
otfc Union soldier
who went into the
Army in 1861 and
fought through the
war to the finish.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

the commons with a long string at
tached to the parachute rope. When
the bag had risen to a hight of three
quarters of a mile the cord was pulled
and the chute cut loose 1t dropped
like a log for hundred feet, then
opened and came slowly downto earth.
Repeated experiments convinced each
that it was a safe trick with a man
in place of the bag of sand. Van Tas-
sci then went to Frisco to interview
the newspapers and get them to send
specials to Los Angeles, but while he
was away the impatient Baldwins ex-
perimented themselves. and Sam made
the first jump in history safely and
easily.
The BaIdwins were quick to realize
the money value of being first in the
field and they started east to inaugu-
rate the sport there. The greatly in
censed Van Tassel broke with them,
and getting an outfit, began making
ascents himself.
The new act leaped into popu-
lar favor at once. The incredi-
BILE daring of. the performance and
the seeming fact that 1t was
more than an equal chance that
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

means of making a little side money
during the summer No one has ever
compiled an accurate list of the num-
Der of men who depend upon the para,
chute jumping as a means of livelihood,
but estimates range from 300 to 500,
with no basis of guessing how many
local performers there are.
The public craze for novelty, COM
bined with the desire to excel. caused
a number of startling, innovations.
First came the man aid q woman,
then later the dog was added. First
the man and woman rode on the same
bar. Later they had separate para
chutes, tied to the same bar. When
the dog arrived on the scene he was
given a chute of his own. 1t was tied
to the bar. and when the signal came
all that was necessary was to unloose
it, Then came the man riding a BIZ
cycle in mid-air. When he left the
ground he was pedaling at great
rate This he kept UP as long as he
was in sight. 1t looked very risky
but it wasn't The machine was tied
stoutly to the parachute, with the
cutoff rope dangling down within
reach, while the rider himself was
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
FREE AMUSEMENT

Features of specially attractive nature will be pro-
vide Savannahs we'll known ability to excel will
be to furnish enjoyable .rtainment to every
visitor
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them. And early he develops into an
expert horseman, and II the truth be
told, an interruptions horsetrader. II
is no unusual thing to see a twelve
year-old boy chaffering with some
sharped- faced mountaineer, old enough
to be his grandmother over a proposed
swap" of more or less broken down
horse for a sturdy native trotting
mule. If the boy gets the best or
the trade. as usually happens, all is
well. If 1t goes the other way the
young trader comes in for a severe
beating from his father.
While the boys are riding in advance,
the girls of the family are i'm the wag-
on learning the special arts of Gypsy
womanhood. Some of them get to be
artistic designers of beadwork, or reed
weaving. All of them learn something
of fortune-telling and palm reading to
win the money of the easily be-fooled
country folk. A few learn that curious
trius5cal accomplishment which y,
may witness in many a Gypsy camp f.
penny and nowhere else at any pric'
the performance of a tune, castanet
wise by clicking the teeth with one
thumb hooked under the chin and the
extended fingers clenched to the other
hand which furnished the motive pow.
err. Sometimes the older girls are sent
forth to bargain for vegetables or n
chicken. Goodeating when on the trail
is the rule of gypsydom. They know
the best and will have 1t If II is OBJ
tainable, Sharper bargainers than
these gay Gypsy girls do not live. Mon
ey has no part in their operations
Sometimes they will exchange a bit Of
beadwork or woven basket for the
provisions they want but more often
they wheeldle the farmers wife by tell
ing her fortune or reading the future in
her hand. Occasionally they will do
some real service in exchange for n
gift. such as treating a sick or injured
cat or dog with herbs, for many of
them are wise in the properties of heal
ing plants which they gather in the
woods. There are not wanting cases
where some of the Gypsy women have
been too wise in the uses of the field
grown poisons.
When the wandering wagon settles
on the outskirts of some city for long
stay. then came hated times for the
children, II the head of the family be
of progressive tendencies. To school
they must go. and they hate IT as only
those can hate enforced confinement,
who have been long accustomed to the
freedom of a wide horizon. Neverthe-
less. they usually become apt stu
dents, keen to learn and of tenacious
memory. Few of them leave the ranks
of gypsydom, except to sink lower, and
become the scum of the great cities. A
few settle and become useful citizens.
but the Gypsy blood is strong even
where there is but a slight mixture
Of II. and those children who have
tasted the freedom Of the wandering
wagon life are little likely ever to
settle down permanently to a quiet
routine existence
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the aeronaut would be dasned to pieces
drew immense crowds everywhere the
leap was advertised to take place. The
man who rode the bag could COM
mand almost any price he asked. For
some time the three balloonists who
told each other hard luck stories in
Los Angeles had the field to them
selves. Most of the other aeronauts
We're afraid of it. With four assistants
and pushing manager the Baldwins
made tour around the world. In a
year and a half they netted cool $780,
900 in cash. To this they added big
money secured from the managers of
many Eastern resorts. Five hundred
dollars was the fixed charge for one
performance.
With the advent of other riders of
the bag" as the technical term of the
profession is, prices began to drop.
From 81 900 that was once paid for
Fourth of July performances at the big
resorts, prices went steadily downward,
until $3.50 was reached. Still more
recruits came, and nowadays the ruI-
ing price is from $25 to $40. due largely
to the presence of many farmers in
the business, men who use it as a
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

resentative Gypsy caravan out on the
trail every human being more than
years old has his or her allotted work.
often the tasks of the children are
harder than those of their elders. At
sun-up they are astir, for the true
Gypsy starts early TO make half his
days distance before the overhead sun
makes travel too irksome. out of the
wagon. or perhaps from under It, II the
night has been warm and fair. tumble
the boys and scatter through the dew
beaded grass this one 10 look to the
horses: that one 10 gather dry
wood for the breakfast, another 10
gather whatever seasonable wild fruits
are TO be found; fourth TO bring
buckets Of water. II the water near
which the camp is pitched is fish-in-
habited, there is a joyous mornings
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
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Enormous variety FlannenetS and Outings
French Flannel Plain and Fancy, 4Sc
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New Venetian and Broad Cloths
New and Select line Black Goods
Newest creations in Silk and Wooden Waists
Full Line L9dHS, Gents 0nd CnAdIenS Underwear
New Arrivals in Mattinss and Rugs
|OU Assortment Of All The Qb0Ve Goods is Immense
Whatever Your Fancy Dictates We Have 1t
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task in catching the speckled trout
and the gamy bass, or if not these, at
least the hungry and gay-hued little
sunfish.
Meantime there is plenty to occupy
their sisters. Breakfast things must
be got out and in order; shawls, cur
tains and bedding must be spread in
the sun, and tho wagon put to order
just as if it were house instead of q
household on wheels. The true Gypsy
is not a slovenly person. He takes
pride in the neatness of his wagon and
his fellow Gypsies Judge him from It,
so his wife trains the children to be
good housekeepers. After breakfast is
over and the things cleared up, the
family takes the road. This is the part
that the Gypsy boy enjoys, for there
are usually several spare horses and
he has the glory of riding one OF
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
BY H. T. Dobbins.

the parachute jumper is a compare
lively recent product in the profession
Of ballooning.
The first parachute jumper, the first
man to literally make the leap from
the clouds, was Sam Baldwin, now
successful manufacturer of balloons at
Quincy, Ill. Baldwin. his brother and
Prof. Van Tassel, three gas balloon
men. happened to meet in a Los Ange-
les hotel in the summer of 1887. Each
had hard-luck story to tell, and it
was unanimously agreed that the bus
mess had gone to the dogs. AS a
means of resuscitating it and rescuing
it from the canine grasp, Baldwin sug-
gested the parachute leap. The others
did not believe it possible for a man
to make the jump and live. Out of
the chatting came Il determination to
make the experiment. None of them
was willing to offer himself up as a
sacrifie, so a bag of sand was substi-
tuted. The balloon was sent up from
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

and foul weather, and its friendly or
unfriendly folk In the wilds of the
sharp.rfdged Alleghanies or on the sun
beaten trails of the great prairies. they
are as much at home as in camp on the
outskirts of New York, Chicago or st.
Louis.
1t is a wild and varied life they lead,
but by no means an idle one. Except
among the lowest classes of Gypsies,
the children are carefully trained to
the hardy life they must lead. Only
1.-THE ambulanters' Gas the Gypsies
cortemptuously call a class of wagon
wanderers upon whom even the tramps
look DOWN, let their little ones grow
up with no more training or instruction
than IL they were animals. In a rep
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

and should and will have the practical support of
county and every community in the state In other
way magnificent possibilities be well intro.
duced to the country-To THE WORLD
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22

The Boston Transcript says; For
the third time in the countrys history
and for the first time in seventy-two
years, a graduate of Harvard College
is President of the United States. John
Adams was graduated at Harvard in
1855, John Quincy Adams in 1857 and
Theodore Roosevelt in 1880, Gen. Hayes
attended lectures In the Harvard Law
school, but was Kenyon College
man."
The Savannah morning news., 1901-09-22
LIFE OF GYPSY CHILDREN.
Their Days Are by No Means Idle

Their Days Are by No Means Idle
and They Have Many Chores.
Wherever there is a trail over which
a wagon may pass there the Gypsy
travels and with him goes his family,
in which children, horses and dogs are
about equally numerous. They are the
most Travelled children in the world,
these, youngsters of the snug and gaudy
wagons, and that region through which
they once go they intimately know. not
as more fortunate children know 1t
from guide books or the lips of others,
but from varied and perhaps, bitter ex-
perience of it's ups and downs, its fair
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-11

while | add a word in behalf of the sur
vfvors of our great conflict our veterans
the "frail wrecks from that CORY sea.
Not in feeble language of my own-but in
the touching lines OF Frank Stanton, who
makes such loving appeal for
THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER:
Here he is in wreck of gray
With the brazen belt of the c. S. A.
Men do you know him? Far away
Where the battle blackened the face OF
day,
And the rapid rivers in crimson fed,
And Gods white roses were wrecked in
red
His strength he gave and his blood he
shed;
Followed fearless where Stonewall led,
Or galloped wild in the wake of Lee,
In the daring mad artillery
Shelled the ranks of the enemy,
For the South that was and the South
to be;
Or bore his musket with wounded hands
Der icy rivers and burning sands,
LeveIled straight at the hostile bands,
That swept like death through the rayag-
ed lands.
Men, do you know him? Grim and gray,
He speaks to you from the far away.
There he stands on the prison sod,
A statue carved by the hand of God;
He bore his rags and his wounds for We.
He bore the flag of the warning South
With red-scarred hands to the cannon
mouth
By Heaven! see as l did that day
His red wounds CLEAN thro' the rags of
gray.
Men of the South your heroes stand
statue-like in your new born land.
Will We pass them by? Will your lips con-
denim?
The wounds on their brave breasts plead
for them.
Shall the South that they gave their
blood to save
Give them only a nameless grave?
Nay: for the men who faced the fray
Are hers in trust till the judgment day,
And God Himself in the sweet far land
Will ask their blood at their country S
hand
soldier-you in the wreck Of gray
With the brazen belt of the C. S. A.
Take my love and my tears today
Take them-aIl that ! have to give;
But by Gods grace while my heart shall
live,
1t still shall keep in its faithful way
The camp-hres lit for the men in gray.
Aye-til the trump sounds far away,
And the silver bugles of Heaven play
And the roll is called at the Judgment
day.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-11
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
PALMETTO RAILWAY COMPANY.

J. NJ. SHERWOOD, Secretary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-11

Notice is hereby given that a special
general meeting of the Stockholders Of
the above named Company, will be held
at it's office in the city of Raleigh, N. c.,
on the 9Oth day of May, 1901, at o'clock
a. M, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration Articles Of Agreement OF
Merger and Consolidation of the follow
ing named Railroad Companies:
Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Raj
eigh and Castor Railroad Company, the
Raleigh and Augusta Air Line Railroad
Company, the Carolina Central Railroad
Company, the Gorgia, Carolina and North
ern Railway Company, the Seaboard Air
Line Belt Railroad, Company, the Chest
erfield and Kershaw Railroad Company,
and the South Bound Railroad Company,
heretofore entered into by the Directors
of said respective Companies, and at
which meeting a vote by ballot will be-
taken for the adoption or rejection Of
said Agreement.
BY order of the Directors.
JOHN H. SHARP, Secretary.
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]. M. SHERWOOD, Secretary.
TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE
RALEIGH AND AUGUSTA AIR LINE
RAILROAD COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given that a special
general meeting of the Stockholders OF
the above named Company will be held at
it's office. in the city of Raleigh, N. c.,
On the goth day of May, 1901, at 3 o'clock
a. M, for the purpose of taking into
consideration Articles of Agreement, OF
Merger and Consolidation of the following
named Railroad Companies: Seaboard
Air Line Railway, the Raleigh and Gas
ton Railroad Company the Carolina Gen.
trail Railroad Company, the Georgia.
Carolina and Northern Railway Company,
the Seaboard Air Line Belt Railroad
Company, the Palmetto Railway Company,
the Chesterfield and Kershaw Railroad
Company, and the South Bound Railroad
Company, heretofore entered into by the
Directors of said respective Companies,
and at which meeting a vote by ballot
will be taken for the adoption or reic-
ton of said Agreement.
By order Of the Directors.
]. M. SHERWOOD, Secretary.
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RALEIGH AND CASTOR RAIL-
ROAD COMPANY.

Notice is hereby given that special
general meeting of the Stockholders OF
the above named Company will be held
at its office in the city of Raleigh, N. c.,
on the goth day of May, 1901, at 0 o'clock
a. M, for the purpose of taking into con-
sideration Articles of Agreement OF
Merger and Consolidation Of the follow
ing named Railroad Companies;
Seaboard Air Line Railway, the Raleigh
and Augusta Air Line Railroad Company,
the Carolina Central Railroad Company,
the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Rail-
way Company, the Seaboard Air Line Belt
Railroad Company, the Palmetto Railway
Company, the Chesterfield and Nershaw
Railroad Company. and the South Bound
Railroad Company, heretofore entered
into by the directors of said respective
Companies, and at which meeting vote
by ballot will be taken for the adoption
or rejection Of said Agreement.
BY order of the directors.
J. M. SHERWOOD, Secretary.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-11
ARE YOU DRY?

If you are, call at any saloon in Raj
eigh, or in fact, at any saloon in the
State, and drink a glass Of that cool,
refreshing Schlitz beer which made
Milwaukee famous.
The Raleigh Steam Bottling Works,
one Of the Southern Branches Of this
celebrated brew, has just completed
a large and handsome bottling plant at
Raleigh, N c., where they viii supply
the trade with this splendid beer in
draft or export form. They also man
ufacture delightful soda and mineral
waters, carbonated waters, etc. All or
ders filed promptly.
If you wish to drink the best and
purest Of beers, drink Schlitz.
Raleigh Steam BOttIIng Works,
RALEIGH, NJ. G.
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LUCIERS.
THE MJTSICAL MARVEL,

IFIN NIUDIOAH VIAINF NLA
Mile Bessie, Hugh Lee, Miss Bessie
Lee and others.
Popular prices-10, 20, 30 cents.
A lady accompanied by the holder Of
80 cents ticket, reserved before 6 p. m.
will be admitted free Tuesday night.
Seats now on sale.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-05-11
uNTMPEACHFD.

OF all great Five-cent Cigars the Car
denas stands unimpeached at the head
of the list. 7-2w
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02

sreAmer, sending finn abundant means and assuring him allEwould be we'll.
 And when the news of his own mur- der was published in the Hong-Kong papers, without the faintast intima- tion to the officials of the bank as to his intentions, he was homeward bound and never heard word of it all until recognized by an officer aboard the Queen as the Coptic hoat- ed into Honolulu harbor. There he was arrested and turned back.
 Among Billy Benten's" few effects no letters, no such picture, had been found, nothing, in fact, to connect him with Foster. Col. Brent knew what had become of the carte-de-vis- ite, but how happened it in other hands than those of Benton? That, too, was not long to be mystery.
 One day in late December forlorn- looking fellow begged a drink of the bartender at the Alhambra on the Escolta-said he was out of money. deserted by his friends, and took occa- sion to remind the dispenser of fluid refrcshment that few weeks ago when he had funds and friends both he Adu SHCAG iddhy StoiiSIA SA1CA~s AV bartender waved him away.
 ''Awe, give the feller a drink" said boys in blue, in the largeness of their nature and the language of the ranks. "What'll you take, Johnny? Have one with us," and one of the managers hastened over and whispered to some of the fannel-shirted squad, but to no purpose.
 The "boys" were bent on benevo- lence, and "beat" though he might be, the gaunt stranger was made well come, shared their meat and drink, and, growing speedily confidential in his cups, told them that he could tell a tale some folks would pay well to hear. and then proceeded to stiffen out in fit.
 (To Be Continued)
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02

wicker basket. The cards in the game measure IA by two inches, have uni- form backs with blue dotted paper and are made of Spanish playing cards cut to size and having white paper pasted over the faces, on which are pasted two small disks of paper, inscribed by hand, each with the con- versationalized suit marks of two of the Spanish playing cards.
 Fhe pack from which they are taken is the Spanish pack of 40 cards, in which the eights, hines and tens are omitted. Each of the wooden he1nispheres, three-quarters of an inch in diameter, has corresponding disk bearing the device of one of the 70 cards pasted upon it's face. The cards are sold to the player for one copper (1Z American cents). The bottle is shaken and one of the hem ispheres is thrown out upon the ground or table, and is taken up by 1he holder of the card bearing the corresponding figure. The player who first receives two hemispheres bear ing the figures corresponding with those on his card takes the pool of 20 coppers, or less, according to the number of cards sold, paying the dealer one copper as his percentage or commission.
 This game is an old favorite in the various cities of the archipelago, but zs rarely played in the rural districts.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02
CHAPTER xx.

Walter Fosters mother learned by cable that the remains she awaited, and that reached port almost the day she got the dispatch, were not those of her only son, but of one who had practically died for him. And even in the joy of that supreme moment the woman in her turned, after all, in pity to weep for the motherIess lad who had been her boys warmest friend in his hours of doubt and darkness and despair.
 A weak vessel was "Wally," as Far quhar had intimated, and so easily cowed and daunted that in the dread of the punishment accorded the de- serter he had skullled in disguise at Hong-Kong, leaving all the burden of scouting, pleading and planning for him to Willard, his old-time chum, who had even less Knowledge and experi- ence of army official life than himself. Willard's early letters to Hong Kong gave Foster little hope, for at first the only people the recruit could ''sound" were private soldiers like himself. Then Foster read of the arr rival of the Sacramento at Manila, of the presence there of Maidie Ray, and then he wrote urging his quondam chum to endeavor 70 see her, to tell her of his desperate straits, to inn plore her to exert influence to get him pardoned, and, in order Vaat she might know that his envoy was duly accred- ited, he sent Willard his chief treas ure, that little carte-de-visite, togeth- CT with few imploring lines.
 Then not word came from Willard for three mortal weeks, but Fosters daily visits to the bank were at last rewarded by dispatch from home hidding him return at oEae hy first
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02
QUEEN MARIE AMELIE.
Spouse of PortugaIs Ruler May Leave Her Husband and Take the
 Vows of Nun.

The startling announcement is made In Lisbon court circles that Queen Marie Amelie, wife of Don Carlos, king of Portugal, has resolved to become ? nun. This is a direct result of the protracted quarrel between the royal couple over the kings attitude toward the religious orders of the country.
 The agitation against the clergy in Spain last month spread to Portugal, where trouble between the liberals and the clerical clement had been brewing for a long time. Queen
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-05-02
Theatrical 70 2s "a Fraternal
EDISON PICTUREs.

Interest continues strong in the Edi- son moving pictures that are shown each afternoon and evening at the Jacques, and the audiences number many people who find attraction ill this always facinating art of moving photography. The subjects illus trated are all of a kind to please, amuse and instruct, and there are in addition many stationary views which show the perfection to which the art of coloring has been brought. The graphaphone concert given at each eN- hibition is very entertaining, providing considerable amusement. The after noon exhibitions are given at o'clock each day except Saturday, when it will take place at 2:30. Prices are popular.