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Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1906-01-19
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GIRL WON'T TAKE. DARE:
MAKES PARACHUTE LEAP

with the parachute and landed about
two miles and a half from her START
ing point, uninjured, but completely
unnerved.
Wish several companions at the
park she stood near the balloon while
it was being inflated. Suddenly Miss
Daily took her position on the trapeze
and told the helpers to cast off. The
balloon sailed swiftly upward with
Kelly, the %aeronaut, sitting on the
trapeze. There was a gasp from every
one. The crowd below expected every
moment that Miss Daley would fall.
but she clung tenaciously to the trap
exc.
When she had assembled nearly
5000 feet the parachute was seen to
drop. The young woman fell like a
streak of lightning. Then the para.
chute opened and Miss Daley, sus-
pended from the trapeze, ffoated gent
ly downward.
She was found by her friends, much
frightened by her experience, but also
elated at the successful outcome Of
her first balloon ascension. She said
that she enjoyed the trip to the clouds
immensely, and after descending the
first few hundred feet she got over
her fear and only wished to go high
er. When she cut loose from the ball
loon the rapid drop toward earth took
away her breath, but when the para
chute opened she enjoyed the nSa-
ton.
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feathers flying about from burst beds,
says the Youths Companion. Then
she kindle a fire on the hearth, brought
in a few broken chairs from the lit
tered yard, and when-as she knew
would happen-friends and neighbors
began to visit the yet smoking ruins
she was ready, still the hostess OF her
home, to receive their condolences
with dignity, herself display the ex-
tent and manner of the devastation,
and refresh them with a cup OF tea
before their departure. 1t was funny,
perhaps-some people found it So
but it was an heroic survival of hospi-
talfty none the less.
Still another housekeeper, one of the
over-cleanly, evep-working, ever-wor-
rying kind, fell seriously i'll; and her
ruling instinct remained dominant
even in deIirium. She was haunted by
a dreadful vision of the new kitchen
maid. with greasy hands, making a
dado of smeary fingerprints round the
walls Of the newly papered dining
room. Watched by two nurses, for
many critical nights she wept and
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IN THE PUBLIC EYE.

George Westinghouse, the inventor
Of the air brake, has been described as
"a hundred horsepower man.
Mayor Schmitz, of San Francisco.
when first elected three years ago was
leader of an orchestra in a theater.
Mayor Ekers, of Montreal, IS ad-
dressed personally as your worship
and in the third person as his Wor-
ship"
Twenty-Five years ago Secretary Taft
was law reporter for the Cincinnati
Times and later for the Cincinnati
Commercial.
President Diaz returned from a hunt
ing trip the other day with three
mountain cats and II deer. Mexicos
president is only rs.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid sent a
check from London recently for the
Miami university library fund, IN
honor Of the fiftieth anniversary OF
his graduation in June.
Former United States Senator Fer
fer, of Kansas, has not disappeared
He is only In retirement compiling a
summary Of the Congressional Rec
ord from its beginning, classified by
topics.
Bob Taylor, the ex-governor OF Ten
nessee, who has Just won a United
States senatorship at his partys prl-
maries, was the author of the remark
about Mason and Dixon's line that II
was 'the line of demarcation betWeen
hot biscuit and cold bread"
Former Congressman Jefferson NJ
Levy, of New York, has received a re-
production of Paul du Bots statue
military Fortitude," presented by
france last September. 1t is in return
for the statue of Thomas JEFFERSON
presented by him to the French nation
al museum at Algiers.
Judge j. T. Fleming, of Oklahoma
is unique. He served in the confeder-
ate army, voted the first time in his
life for Grant, and the last time Tor
Harrison. He believes that every union
soldier should be paid a pension Of sou
a month, inasmuch as they saved the
greatest union of states or earth.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Jumps on Freight to Make Quick Trip
Home, But Train Does Not Stop
at Point Expected-Baseball
Game Causes Trouble.

Kingston, N while his family
and friends were frantically search
ing for him, assisted by sheriffs and
police, Watson M. Freer, a Kingston
millionaire and son-in-law of Col.
Frank Hecker, of Detroit, was seeing
the country from the hobo's vantage
point, the bumpers of a freight train.
After five hours of this diversion the
millionaire, dust and cinder begrimed,
returned and allayed the fears of his
family that he had been kidnapped for
ransom.
Mr.. Freer is a baseball enthusiast,
and the other day he planned to take
in both games the Hudson River
league played in Kingston. The base
ball field is a stones throw from the
West Shore station and n of the
exits opens upon the West Shore
tracks. When the morning game was
finished, Mr.. Freer left the social set
with whom he had been sitting, and
without attracting any particular at
tention from anyone left the grounds
through this gate.
Maple Lane Farm, the magnificent
country place of Mr.. Freer. is situated
on the Saugerties road, two miles
north of Kingston. The entrance to
the estate is a short distance from the
north yard of the West Shore rail
road, where nearly all freight and pas
senger trains stop for coal and water.
When Mr.. Freer saw a north-bound
freight train about to pull out OF the
station he decided that it would be
much easier to ride on it as far as the
coaling station in the north yard than
to walk home or wait until his horses
could be sent to town. So, without
attracting attention, he boarded the
freight and took up a good, secure
position on the bumpers between cars.
AS the freight, with Mr.. Freer
aboard, moved up the north yard, the
solitary passenger commented to him
self upon how much better the u
try looked at close range than from
the interior Of a passenger coach.
Then, as the train approached the wa
ter tanks and coal elevators, he pre-
pared to alight.
Instead of slowing down the train
seemed to be increasing its speed, and
when it reached the usual stopping
place it was travelling 80 miles an
hour. It bumped over the Saugerties
road crossing, less than 200 feet from
the entrance to Maple Lane Farm,
with sufficient force to bump off even
an experienced hobo, but Mr. Freer is
athletic and he chung tenaciously to
the car
It was a fast freight that Mr. Freer
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Was an Armless Farmer.

Tupledo, Miss.-James Walton. an
armless farmer, who planted and har-
vested crops for many years on his
plantation near Aberdeen, met a tragic
death while working in the field behind
the pillow. The man had for years been
in the habit of doing his blowing by
of reins placed around his neck.
Trained mules have been taught to
obey his call, but when he experiment.
ed with a horse hitched to the plow
the animal became frightened and ran
away. A sudden lurch and the farm
er's neck was broken. He was removed
from the field unconscious, and died
soon afterward.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06

The ruling instinct of the house
keeper sometimes persists under sim
gular circumstances. 1t is told OF one
mistress of an exquisitely kept home,
which never seemed to her quite ex-
uuisite enough, that her first remark
one morning, on being Informed that
the house had been entered by burg
lars during the night, was
'sThis house really must be kept in
better order, if people are going to
drop in so unexpectedly"
Another woman, a village house
keeper devotedly attached to the old
homestead in which she lived alone,
the last of her family, had the crush
ing misfortune tt lose it by fire. Only
the broken shell of the main building
and the charred ell and kitchen re-
NAMED.
The fire occurred in the evening;
early the next morning, before anyone
was astir, she slipped out of the neigh
boris house where she passed the night,
returned to her own, and proceeded to
sweep the kitchen as clear as possible
Of SCOT. splinters. water and the singed
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A AND TRAFFIC.

The trade of Chilli is almost entire
ly In the hands of Europeans.
France imported 100000 worth Of
apples from Canada last summer and
fall.
In 1904 Denmark sem to England
over $4,000 tons of butter, valued 1T
$45, 900. 900.
1t is thtimated that 1,0G0,00o tons Ct
steel rails for 1907 delivery are under
negotiation. and that fully half that
tonnage has already been placed.
1t is said that the hides of American
live cattle sent to England to be killed
and eaten are by Encouragement all
sent back across the Atlantic, there to
be tanned, and, mayhap, reshipped to
England as leather or in boots and
shoes.
Shipments of anthracite coal during
May amounted to 3,254,320 tons, against
6,O05, 15S tons in May last year.. For
the year, to date, the shipments aggre-
gate 10, 7O9, 1888 tons, contrasted with
24,S72, 1854 tons in the corresponding
period last year.
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An shin Answer.

A certain merchant of Baltimore.
who is we'll known for his philan-
thropic spirit, was approached one
day by an Irishman, formerly in his
employ, who made a touching appeal
for financial assistance. Said he:
Il trust, sor, that yen find it con
vanient to help a poor man whose
house an everything in it was burned
down last week, sor."
The merchant, although he gives
with a free hand, exercises consider
able caution in his philanthropy, SO
he he asked:
Have you any papers OF certificates
to show that you have lost everything
by fire, as you say?"
The Irishman scratched his head as
if bewildered. Finally he replied:
Il did have a certificate to that eft.
feet, sor, signed before a notary. but
unfortunately, sor. it was burned up
with the rest of me effects"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Snake Cured Rheumatism.

Washington, Mo.-John Chambers, of
Amweil township, has discovered a
new cure for rheumatism. While cut
ting weeds on his farm he came cross
a black snake six feet long. The rep
tile darted it's head several times at
Chambers foot, and, although he felt
a singing sensation at the time, no
trouble resulted. He killed the snake.
Since then Mr.. Chambers says rheuma-
tism. which had troubled him for sew
eral years, has completely disappeared.
He believes the snake did it.
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THE RULING INSTINCT.

moaned and raved-and ali ner raw
ings were of grease. A patient of the
same unfortunate temperament exas-
perated her physician std retarded her
own recovery by her constant fretting
over the slack housekeeping of her
husband and half-grown daughter
while she was i'll.
Let me get up just once" she
begged, with tears, before she was
even allowed to sit up in bed, 'and
crawl over to the corner and poke out
the dirt from under the stove. There's
just rolls and rolls of it there, I know
there is, and l shall never get we'll
till l can poke it Quit"
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
When God Will Not Guide.

God never opened the way to a half.
hearted man. II we pray to the Fa'
Their aShow me thy will" and with.
hold any energy from seeking to know
and to do his will, we cannot expect
light. If it has been clearly revealed
to us that a certain thing must be
brought to- pass, and an insurmount
able obstacle blocks the way, 1t is use
less to ask God how to remove that
obstacle unless we are ready to lay
down life, if need be- in throwing our
selves against it. Only when we offer
all that we have, does God offer all
that he has.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Graceful and Gallant,

It is reasonably safe to assume from
a story in the New York Tribune
that the late Henry Harland, the nov
elist, was seldom kept after school in
his boyhood.
Among Harland's early teachers
was a charming young lady, who
called him up in class one morning
and said to him:
Henry, name some of the chief
beauties of education"
aSchoolmistresses," the boy an
swered, smiling into his teachers
pretty eyes.
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RICH NAN TAKES 4
RIDE ON THE BUMPERS

had boarded, and the engine had taken
on coal and water before starting. At
the end of two hours the train slowed
down and finally stopped at Ravena.
Wiping dust and cinders from his
eyes Mr.. Freer, hardly recognizable
through his coat of dirt, climbed
down, looking more like a hobo than
a millionaire.
Passenger trains on the West Shore
railroad do not run as frequently as
they might run, and Mr.. Freer faced
a wait Of three hours. While he was
debating how to meet a dinner en-
gagement a south-bound freight came
into sight. This time it was fiat cars.
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receive letters from his young wife.
Suddenly the letters ceased.
Six months passed, for Knieff a
time of dependency and suspense.
when, as he entered the prison yard
one morning for his daily exercise.
he saw three women at the other SIDE
of the yard. The first of them had
her head wrapped up-it was winter
and in a thick cloth, but as she
passed him she raised the cloth ana
smiled. 1t was his wife, who had got
herself arrested to be near him.
Kneiff's wife caught but a Few
glimpses of him during their 1mprls-
onment. Occasionally he caught
glimpses of her walking in the yard.
and they exchanged signals from u
distance-but never had the oppor-
tunity of speaking to each other.
The sacrificed her life for
the happiness of knowing that she
was neal her husband and that She
was aiding him to bear the awful
burden of prison life.
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Mental and Physical Wrecks.

The scenes after the release of the
prisoners defy all description. What
came forth from those horrible holes
were not men-but animals; mind
and soul were gone, and only the
horrible remnants of the human bod
les, clawed, hairy, ~unspeakably foul.
with Eyes that revealed horribly the
cunning born of fighting for bits OF
food, the madness of starvation.
abuse and solitude.
Graft by the keepers perhaps was
more responsible for the starvation
and w~retchedness of the prisoners
than the inhumanity of the rulers.
The guards sold the food sent to the
prisoners, and supplied them with
refuse, deeayed meats and wormy
beans.
Madness resulting from ill-nourish-
ment and solitary confinement in
damp, sunless cells killed almost as
many as did disease. The majority
of the long term prisoners released
were insane-and even more were
coughing away their lives with con-
sumption.
Many of them had lived only in
hope of vengeance, fought for life for
a chance to kill a guard, to die with
talons clutched in the throat of some
representative of the oppressor. Re-
lease has robbed most of them Of their
ferocity. The reaction has left them
mainly helpless, mumbling, half-wit-
ted wrecks of humanity, incapable of
executing the wild deeds their mad
dened brains planned during their
long captivity.
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Tailoring Town.

In Amiens, France, a city which Is
known to Americans chiefly for its
magnificent cathedral, there is a large
tailoring industry. Thousands OF
pairs of trousers are made by women
who do the work in their own homes
and receive four cents a pair. They
furnish their own sewing machines.
needles and thread.
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Nh. FREER CHUNG TENAC1OUSLY
TO THE SWAYING CARS.
loaded with steel rails, but Mr.. Freer
Jumped it" and headed for home.
The same Providence that provided
the freight for the millionaire way.
farer neglected to provide that it
should make the usual stop for coal
and water, and without a halt the
weary wanderer was set down in
Kingston, almost at the spot where he
had boarded the northbOund train
earlier in the day. Another ball game
was being played inside the grounds.
but Mr.. Freer did not attend.
Mr.. Freer's disappearance had ere
ated intense excitement among his
family and friends, and they were
greatly relieved when he showed them
that he was safe and unframed.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
The WHIPPING POST

BY the amnesty of October 30, 1905,
many Russian political prisoners
emerged once more into the light OF
day from the gloomy fortresses where
they had been confined, in some cases,
for years. Among these was one Mar
tina Grusenberg, who had been a cap
tive in the fortress of Schlusselburg,
near Lake Ladogor, for over II years.
A Jewess by faith, she had unfortu-
nately dabbled in nihilism, and was
crushed by the j~uggernaut of Russian
eutocracy. Some 20 of the leaders of
the unsuccessful revolt in Moscow were
lately sent to the Schlusselburg. await
ing them a life Of hardship and suffer
ings.
Prior to 1889 it appears the condi-
lions prevailing in the fortress were
comparatively humane, but in that
year a new era of severity was initial
ed. Three important concessions were
withdrawn from the prisoners. They
were forbidden to read any books save
religious ones, they were forced to take
their restricted exercise daily alone,
and they were not allowed the use of
artificial light on the plea of intended
immediate installation of electric
light. All candles were removed from
the cells and what that means may
be imagined when it is remembered
that in mid-winter darkness sets in in
Russia as early as three o'clock in the
afternoon.
Prisoners Seldom Live Long.
The bad food served out to the pris-
oners is one reason why so few OF
those sentenced to long terms of i'm
prisonment live to complete their sem
fences. At one time the staple diet
was a sour, almost nauseous soup,
called "stschi." 1t was good enough
for the health, and when, under a pre-
tended attempt to improve the diet, its
use was discontinued and other less
wholesome food substituted scurvy be-
came a regular visitor to the prison,
the result of which Is that the inside
of the mouth becomes torn and LAGER
ated and the teeth begin to fall out.
In many cases prisoners have lost all
of their teeth.
The prolonged darkness is a fire.
uuent cause of mania, but those pris-
oners who retain their reason become
torpid, %apathetic, and insensible to
physical pain. But the sense of hear
ing. under these conditions, becomes
extraordinarily acute. Many cells
have plastered walls, SO that com
municating by tapping on them be-
comes easy, but even those prisoners,
the walls of whose cells are bare
stones, become experts at interpreting
the taps heard on the locks of the
doors and converse with each other all
day.
Cell Occupied by Bakunin.
While wardens are venal enough to
accent brides from friends of prison
ers to allow their charges to break
minor regulations, such, for instance,
as receiving letters from the world
outside, they were not to be induced
to connive at a captive's escape. 1t
was too dangerous to them, as their
completely instantly would have been
suspected and they would run the risk
of having themselves to take the run
away's place. The forced inactivity OF
the mind is insupportable.
In the Schlusselburg fortress, the
Dresden dictator, Michael Bakunin,
the revolutionist of 1848, was once con-
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Knew His, Place.

what did you think of your daugh-
ter's graduation essay?"
Il didn't permit myself to think
about it," answered Mr.. Cumrox. Il
simply did my duty and admired it"
Washington Star.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
inexperienced Young Lady Horrifies
Friends by Going Up in Balloon
Lands in Safety.

Middletown, N. Y.-Rather than
"take a dare Miss Margaret Daley,
aged 20, of Middletown, made a bal
loon ascension and parachute leap at
Midway park, a summer resort near
here. 1t was the first time the young
woman had ever been higher than the
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top of the tallest Office building in
Middletown. She knew absolutely
nothing of %ballooning or the manage
ment of a parachute.
Her horror-stricken friends watched
her cut loose from the balloon thou
sands of feet in the air. She dropped
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Treasure City Of Raamses.

Among recent important discoveries
made by the Psychologist, Prof. Film
ders Petrie, is the remains of the
Temple of Onias, IS miles north OF
Cairo. There is little doubt that this
is the famous treasure city of Ram
ses, built by the Israelites in bondage.
as referred to in the first chapter Of
Exodus
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Too Cold for Comfort.

Instruments found on an expert
mental balloon sent up by the Zurich
Institute of Neurology show that the
balloon reached a height of 32,7O0 feet.
and that 104 degrees below freezing
were recorded.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
MI Glittering Steel,

Mrs. Newrich-Why will you keep
on eating with your knife?
Newrich-Wal, Maria, a fork re-
minds me so Of a muck rake.-N. 7.
Sun.
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1T SAVED MY LIFE"
PRAISE FOR A FAMOUS MEDICINE
Mrs. Willadsen Tells How She Tried Lydia
E. P~inkham's Vegetable Compound lust
in Time.

Mrs. T. @. Willadsen, of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham -
"I can truly say that you have saved my
life, and / cannot express my gratitude to
Won in words.
The Tupelo journal., 1906-07-06
Killed Three Wardens

While, as a general rule, six months
in the prison saps a mans strength to
such an extent that he is incapable of
any resistance, this is not always
the case. On one occasion a man
who had been imprisoned for seven
years. and always had been regarded
as of a peaceful disposition, in a sud
den fit of frenzy, fell upon a warden,
wrested away his rifle. and stabbed
him in his neck.
Another warden instantly fired at
the prisoner and wounded him in the
shoulder. However, he lodged round
the yard, fired the cartridges which
were in the magazine of the rifle and
killed two wardens. He then dropped
to the ground apparently mortally in
jured, but on the wardens rushing
I'D to secure him, he raised himself
and killed a third of his antagonists
with the butt of the rifle before he
was overpowered. Not being consid-
cred insane he was hanged.
In 1897 a revolutionist named Knieff
was brought to Schlusselburg. He
had just been married, and, by brib-
ing the warden, he was enabled to