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The Glenwood post., 1906-10-06
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great hearth and chimneyplace were
to be found.
Some woman had seen him enter,
and in her weakness screamed-that
was the conclusion he reached, his
mind being bent upon securing the
precious papers.
Reaching the hearth he found fire
In the room.
Down on his knees went the soldier.
and for the second time mis- eager
hands touched the hearth-stone under
which he expected to find the realiza-
ton of his hopes or else despair
Fortune was kind.
When he had snatched the packet
of yellow papers from the hiding place
in which 1t had lain for years. hs hast
lily buttoned his coat over the prize.
. Then for escape.
kick sent the shivered glass fly
sing in every direction and left an out
'let for escape.
Through the window he made fly
ing leap and landed safely on the
}, ground.
He ran around the house. to where
ne nuQ lelU MS men, anu before reach
ing them saw sight that caused an
awful sensation to overwhelm him-a
spectacle that no man could look upon
unmoved.
In an upper window of the doomed
Southern mansion he saw a face and
waving arms.
1t dawned upon him then that the
screams he had heard as he plunged
into the house in search of the papers
under the hearthstone must have been
cries of distress.
Was it too late now?
John took in the whole situation
with comprehensive, glance.
Knowing the lay of the land he saw
there was a single chance of reaching
the room from whence the girl signal
ed SO wildly.
Shouting an order to the sergeant
he made motion of encouragement to
the fame-imprisoned girl above.
Then he burst in rear door and
sprang up the back steps three At a
time.
The room in which the girl was con-
fined was portion of the attic. for
differing from most Southern houses
the old Ridgeway mansion had high
roof
Who she was and how she came
there-these were questions that John
did not bother himself about.
Ascending the last Night Of stairs he
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found himself at the door of a small
room.
1t was closed.
When he tried to open It he found
himself baff1ed.
Then he shook the door savagely.
"Open-open!" he shouted
Il cannot-I am locked in. pris-
oner," came indistinctly from beyond
the door, for the flames were roaring
and cracking with the fury of demons
John threw his weight against the
door.
1t was not a cumbersome affair and
when one who possessed such strength
as nature had given to John Ridgeway
beat upon 1t with desperate energy,
something was bound to give way
Thus he entered room filled with
smoke, entered it to find no one at the
window, for the girl prisoner had
sunk down in a heap.
Seeing that she was too exhausted
to follow him, he Immediately swept
her form into his arms and turned to
retreat
Just as he expected his retreat was
cut of, for the flames seemed to have
followed him. and already the passage
way was roaring abyss.
Having already made up his mind as
to what he should do John moved
along to the short ladder that went to
the roof.
Here was a scuttle which he burst
through and gained the open air
I with his burden.
The whole east end OF the building
was already in the grasp Of the fiery
octopus and west wind blowing was
all that saved him from being suffo-
Gated on the roof
AS his only means of escape lay in
the extreme west end of the house,
it was in that direction John bore his
half-fainting burden.
Reaching the end Of the roof he
looked down.
Through the eddying smoke that
curled around the corners of the house
he could see that the ladder was com.
ing, that 1t would speedily be placed in
position.
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ESCAPE SEEMED LIKE MIRACLE.
Engineer Rode on a Boiler That Ex.
podeG Under Him.


1t will be long time before Tim
othy Ardwheel will have another such
ride as he had not long ago, says the
st. Paul Pioneer Press.
He is an engineer in the Benbow &,
Co. sawmill at Bidley Lake. in | @
Sueur county, and was engaged in
making some repairs in the mill when
the boiler blew up. He was sitting on
box on top of the boiler. and had
hold with both hands on one of the
pipes at the time Of the explosion
The boiler. which Is a large one,
flew out endways through the side Of
the engine house and curved up grace
fully into the air. Ardwheel was pro-
tected by being behind the steam
dome, and so was not injured when he
went through the side of me engine
house. Hanging on desperately. he
continued to ride the huge projectie
in It's flight. Fifty feet farther on 1t
turned sidewise, and, bottom first,
struck and crashed entirely through
large warehouse. Ardwheel coming
through the wreckage still uninjured.
On the other side Of the warehouse
is deep lake, and into this and to the
bottom of it went Ardwheel's iron ball
loon. followed by it's unfortunate rider.
A few seconds later Ardwheel rose to
the surface and swan ashore. some
what surprised and dazed, but net ct
all harmed.
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He crept down toward the gutter
If this failed him everything was
lost, but thank Heaven the old wood
was still firm, and John swung loose
upon 1t. That strong arm sustained
its double burden until he had acquir-
ed a certain momentum, when he
broke loose and landed on the lower
roof with some of the agility a cat
would have shown.
This done he made his way to the
edge
Those below had discovered him and
loud shouts attested the admiration
they felt for their dashing leader.
The ladder was reared aloft.
BY rare good luck it reached the
game was saved.
AS he reached the ground and stag
gered away with his burden, he was
surprised to feel the girl struggle in
his arms.
How dare you hold me SOL am
able to stand. Please put me down,
barbarian"
The voice-the maner gave him
shock, and mechanically he dropped
the strong arm that had carried her
from death to life-released his bur-
den and stood there amazed, gazing at
the face revealed to his eyes as she
shook back the mass of black curly
locks.
1t was Mollie-his girl wife!
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Automo obiIe in Thibet.

New York.--A special cable dispatch
from Lonion states that one sequel to
the British Intrusion into the forbidden
land of Thibet, from which age-long
custom excluded western inventions.
will be the immediate introduction of
the automobile. Captain Connor, Brit
ish trade agent at Cyantse. is taking
an eighty-horse power motor car for the
use of the grand lama OF Tash,
Lhumpo. The incongr;lity is in
creased by the fact that neither cart
roads ror carts are known IN the neigh
borhocd of Tashi Lhumpo and the mo-
tor will he the first wheeled vehicle
the natives have seen. The. Tashi
Lama will have road made from his
monastery to Cyantse, where there Is
. new British road.
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CHAPTER TX.
Fate Weaves the Fabric,

Amazed. almost stupefied. he looked
at the Georgia girl whom fate had
thrown across his path in such a re-
markable way.
Il beg your pardon II was rough
the case demanded action-it was a
question Of life and DEATH" he said at
length. recovering his usual gentle
manly manner.
Il would rather 1t had been any
body but you, sir, to whom I should
be indebted for my life." she said,
coldly. but John only smiled In a grim
way.
There's no use trying to fight fate.
told you we would meet again and 1t
has come true. Nor do believe this
to be the end"
"sir. remember that said I hated
you." she burst out with some show Of
temper that must have been assumed,
for no living woman could maintain
such feeling toward q dashing SOL
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BALLOON EXPERIENCES.
Lieutenant lahm's Voyage Over the
English Channel.

London.-Frank P Lahm. Sixth cav
airy, U. S. A. winner of the interna-
tional balloon race, arrived in London
Tuesday afternoon from Whitby where
he spent the night. The lieutenant
and Major Hersey, his companion dur
ing the trip, described .heir voyage as
having been most delightful the
weather favoring them from the start
until shortly before the finish, when
an easterly wind sprang up and took
their balloon, the United States" dan
gerously near the cliffs near Whitby.
At the start Lieutenant Lahm said
westerly wind carried the balloon
over western France and then veering
northwestward, took her across the
channel from just north of Caen to
eastward of Chichester. They had a
beautiful moonlight night for cross
ing the channel and greatly en-
joyed the experience. The balloon was
so low and maintained her equilibrium
so well that the aeronauts were en-
abled to see persons on the decks OF
the channel steamers.
took the United States almost di-
rectly north along the coast and
had the breeze continued favor
able, Lieutenant Lahm said, there
would have been no trouble in
reaching Scotland. AS it was,
an east wind sprang up and was
carrying the balloon back seaward, SO
the aeronauts made descent, the lieu
tenant climbing down the guy ropes to
inquire the way to the station. AS the
wind was favorable the Americans con-
tinued their journey toward the rail
road, descending not far from the sta
ton.
While the trip was entirely without
incident, Lieutenant Lahm gives much
of the credit for the success of the
United States" to Major Hersey's me-
teorological knowledge, and the ma
jor says that the lieutenant's manage
ment of the balloon was perfect.
Later in the day the Aero Club of
England received a telegram announc-
ing that Hon. c. S. Rolls descended be-
tween Sandringham and the sea at
$50 last night, twenty-siX and one-half
hours from the time of his departure
from Paris
The Glenwood post., 1906-10-06
Climbs Mount Mckinley.

New York.-Dr. Fred A. Cook OF
Brooklyn has reached the summit OF
Mount Mckinley. Alaska, 20,4s4 feet
above sea level. DR.. Cooks is the first
ascent of the mountain on record and
followed repeated failures. News of
his success was received Tuesday in
telegram from him dated Tyonek,
Alaska, to H. l.. Bridgman of the
Brooklyn Standard Union, which read:
1--WE have reached the summit OF
Mount Mckinley by new route from
the north and have mapped 5000 miles
Of country. Return to Seattle by next
steamer" Or. Cook was surgeon of
the Peary Arctic expedition In 1872
and similarly associated with the Bel.
GUM expedition.
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CHAPTER VIII.
Through Flame and Smoke.

1t was the fateful day of Atlanta's
iall. The Federal forces had so en-
vironed the city that nothing was left
to the Southern army but farther re-
treat.
Never to be forgotten were the
scenes that marked the departure of
che brave men who had battled against
superior numbers with valor the
equal OF which history has seldom
ehronicled.
Soon smoke arose in many quarters.
Here the retiring Confederates put
the torch to huge piles of cotton rath-
er than have it fall into the nands OF
the victorious Federals. In other
quarters houses could be seen ablaze,
perahps fired by one Of the numerous
bands of guerrillas that haunted the
course of the rival armies.
Through copse and over mill a squad
ron of Federal cavalry dashed, heading
for the region where we have witness
ed these strange scenes OH the pre-
vious night. At their head rode Colonel
John and near him the sergeant.
The house is on fire, kurnel;" cried
the latter, as they rounded bend in
the wood.
Flames burst from many windows
and his ancestral home was doomed.
Perhaps Crockett Ridgeway, determin-
ed to ruin If he could not rule, had
applied the match.
A headlong rush was made, Colonel
John threw himself from his horse,
determined to risk much in order to
save the papers. One sweeping
glance he took, and then dashed into
the hallway.
At this very moment cry was
heard-a cry that might have been of
distress and came in woman's voice,
reaching Johns ears while he was bat
tling with sitting smoke.
There was no time for John Ridge
way to consider the matter, for he
found himself compelled to buffet bill
lows of smoke on his way to the we'll
remembered dining-room. where the
The Glenwood post., 1906-10-06
Tho Auto Guarantee.

my brother bought an automobile
here last week." said an angry man to
the salesman who stepped up to
greet him. ''and he SAYS you told him
II ANYTHING broke you'd supply a new
part"
Certainly" said the clerk. what
does he want?"
"He wants two deltoid muscles, q
couple Of knee-pans. one elbow ana
about half yard Of cuticle." said the
msn. ""-d he wants 'em right away!s
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viii Honor the FLAG.

Yanktcn, s. DIN the future the
American flag will wave over the
school houses and find place in the
homes of the Russian Mennonites. who
occupy several square miles Of fertile
South Dakota land north of here. and
have refused to recognize the flag in
tie past. In deed OF land recently
purchased 1t Is provided that the nag
sLall be placed over the school houses.
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COME FOR A VISIT
OR ELSE 60 AWAY.
Those Who Come and Leave
Daily.
VISITORS AT AmERIcus HOMES
Your Own name or That OF . Friend
May sc Found Below In The Lengthy
List of People Who Came and Went
Yesterday.

Large assortment souvenir spoons,
at Bells, the ieweler.
f. n. Killian of Cordele was bust
ness visitor in Americas yesterday
morning.
S. Y. Swami of Arlington was bus
mess visitor in Americas yesterday
morning.
L, L. Norman of West Pont made a
business trip to Americas yesterday
morning.
Mrs. w. T. Simpson of Smithville is
visiting relatives tn Americas, arriving
yesterday.
Mr.. G, w. Byington registered at the
Allen House last night, coming from
Fort Valley.
D. n, Horne of cambridge came up
to Americas yesterday morning upon
business trip.
Mrs. Frank Sheffield has gone to AL
bany upon visit of several days to
relatives there.
Ed Harralson of Atlanta was in
the city yesterday, registering at the
Hotel Windsor.
Mr.. w. II. Jones came down from
Buena Vista last night, having bust
ness in the city.
Mr.. S. NJ. Carson was among the seve-
raj Atlantans coming to Amerious yes
terday morning,
r. c. Lloyd registered from Column
bus yesterday amongthe many arrivals
at The Windsor.
Capt John w. Forester, one of Lee
county's prominent citizens, was in
Americas yesterday.
Mrs. G. w. Afford of Savannah is
visiting relatives in Americas, arriving
yesterday morning.
Mrs. j. Il. Daniel has returned to her
home in Buena Vista after a visit to
Americas relatives,
r, T. Wallis of Marietta was register
ed yesterday among the several arriv-
ais at the Allen House.
Misses Elizabeth Harold and Ger
trnde Smith have gone to Columbus
upon a pleasant visit to their cousins,
the Misses Pfohl,
Rev. Walter r. Dye and Mrs. Dye of
Santa Fe, N. NJ, are guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. P. Boone, to the delight of their
many Americas friends.
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Our D1mity Bond pound papers is the
talk of the town. Try it-25c per pound.
NJ. S. HOLIDAY.
The city hospital is still doing an
excellent business and many patients,
both pay and charity, are being cared
for out there.
While Americas is in a building
mood let her secure the location of that
college as well as build the Western &
Gulf Railway.
Lightning often strikes in the same
locality, despite belief to the contrary
and, matrimonially, Taylor street still
has its rods up.
The doIlar-clad crowd is coming to-
day for business, and the advertising
merchants who invited them here will
reap a harvest,
And we are still getting our mail at
the same old stand. viii Uncle Sam
never hurry up and locate that new
building here?
1t is said that after January 1st the
Seaboard's night trains on this division
may discontinue handling freight on
trains 70 and rs.
Manager Wooten of The Windsor
wants more white help. Here is a good
home and good pay for girls who are
willing in work.
Other subscriptions to the agricultu-
raj college fund were pledged yester-
day, but there seems to be little ginger
in the movement.
1t is hoped that the erection of the
proposed college will not be quite as
slow as that of the long long promised
Y. M. G. A. building.
The building of the Western d Gulf
will mean more railroad shops for
Americas. And our merchants appre-
ciate the value of shops.
Court cOnvenes next week in Macon
county, and after that comes Sumter.
The session here will be one Of the
shortest in many years.
The swinging sign in Americas has
but three weeks to hang as menace.
Every sign in the city must be pulled
down by December 1st.
Thomas Dixon's great play 'The One
Woman" comes to Americus as an
early attraction, 1t is decidedly more
popular than The CIansman.
People smiled incredulousIy when
Americas threw off the yoke years ago
and built the little A. P. 81 l.. And she
can build the w. & 6. road, too.
Americas is dust-covered and dust
choked to the limit. The business
streets are sprinkIed daily, but in the
residence section it is distressing.
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simhn For the Old Daxs.

What stopped the old housewife hab-
1t of taking the tablecIoth out after
each meal and shaking 1t on the
ground to the ediflcation of the dog,
cat, chickens and birds? AS a boy we
used to delight in that shake, especial
ly if comedy matron or pretty girl
had hold of the cloth her body swayed
SO gracefully as she handled it. No
other motion, not even the rhythmic
dance, set off her figure to better adj
vantage, and the minxes knew 1t and
always managed to give those hirts
when admirers were handy by. But
some one invented brush and q. prst,
ty receiver, and a new fashion~ewas
set.-Washington Qa.) Press.
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Made Happy Foo Life

Great happiness came into the home
of S. c. Blair school superintendent,
at st. Adams, w. Va. when his little
daughter was restored from the dread
full complaint he names. He says: MY
little daughter had st. Vitus' Dance,
which yielded to no treatment butgrew
steadily worse until as a last resort we
tried Electric Bitters; and rejoice to
say, three bottles effected a complete
cure" Quick, sure cure for nervous
complaints, general debility, female
weaknesses, impoverished blood and
malaria. Guaranteed by Eldridge Drug
Co, Price soc.
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oE vAcRANcY GIVEN
Dy Supreme Court in Pass ng Upon
Case.

An interesting decision, which will
possibly throw some little light on the
state laws against vagrancy, and result
in their more stringent enforcement,
was that in the case of Loomis Carter
VS.. the State. from the city court of Ma
con, in which the court, in affirming
the decision of the lower court, held as
follows:
"One who wanders and strOlls about
in idleness, with no lawful purpose or
object, habitual loafer, idler and Yaga-
bond able to work, has no property, no
reasonably continuous employment and
no regular income. is a vagrant within
the meaning of paragraph of section
453 of the penal code, and this is true
Notwithstanding such person may have
a fixed place of abode where.,h he usually
lodges.
Especially would such person be
a vagrant when his loafng and loiter-
ing was about pool rooms, bar-rooms,
dives, lewd houses and other places of
like character"
There is only one loophole in the fore
going dictum of the supreme court, and
that is in the construction to be put
upon the words reasonably continuous
employment" Is it reasonably con-
tinuous employment where a man
works only two or three days in the
week and loafs around such places the
balance of the timer That is the prob
lem that is now demanning solution in
the cities of the state.
Americas might try this decision upon
a few of her leisure class.
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Sells More of Chambsrlains Cough
Remedy Than of All Others
Put Together.

The following letter from a locality
where Cham berlain's Cough Remedy
is well known shows by the UMPIRE
cedented demand for it that the medi-
cine sells on its own merit. Mr.. Thos.
George, a merchant at Mt Elgin,
Ontario, says: Il have had the local
agency for Chamberlain Cough
Remedy ever since it was introduced
into Canada, and / sell as much of it
as / do of all other lines l have on my
shelves put together. Of many dozens
sold under guarantee, l have not had
one bottle returned. l can pesonally
recommend this medicine as l have
used it myself and given it to my
children and always with the best re-
SUITS For sale by Eldridge Drug Co.
Americas Ga.
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SPECIAL RATES OVER CENTRAL
Excursion Rate to Savannah Account
Veteran Reunion.

On account of the Confederate vete-
rams reunion, excursion tickets will be
sold from Americas to Savannah, via
the Central Railway and return, at
1925, round trip. Tickets on sale No.
vember 18th and 18th, final limit No
vember 10th, 1906. For further infOr
nation in regard to schedules, ETC., ap-
ply to j. E. Hightower, ticket agent
Americas,
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lEfEr.es as llarrmct ers.

E1Sl.SS as b1stEEnESt%GS'
"In their way" said the old fisher
man, fishes are not such bad weather
prophets. If a storm is approaching
the fish stop biting, and they won't bite
again until the storm is well over.
They appear to know when a storm is
coming and when it has really passed.
And to fishermen and farmers living
along the shore fish foretell the near
approach Of cold weather. Hours be-
fore it comes fishes leave the shallow
waters inshore and seek deeper water,
which in its depths will stay warm apd
keep an equable temperature after the
shallower and surface waters have
turned cold. Oh, yes, fishes know a
thing or two about the weather.
Washington Post.
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PRESENTED a HANDSOME BIBLE
Beautiful Token of Esteem Given by
Officials,

1est st ths close Of the session Of one
u tAs ssu<t Vsrdsy morning Mr.. H.
X NAns1 upoA reuse Of several OF tho
usftaOuss otaaas. presented to Mr..
Allen Fort, Jr., very handsome Bible,
ME remarks being both eloquent and
deeply impressive Mr. Fort was taken
by surprise at this substantial manifes-
tatfon Of esteem, ald replied feeItngly
to Mr.. Ntsbet. Mr.. Fort has for several
years been intimately associated with
the county officials as attorney and
more recently as solicitor of the City
Court Of Amerlcus, and is held in high
est esteem among all. He leaves in a
day or two for Chicago to enter theo-
logical seminary to prepare for his min
1stertal career, which holds for him such
a brilliant future.
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NOW PREPARING FOR BUILDING
Start To BE Made Soon BY Allison
Co.

Preparations are being made to take
care of the vast amount of building ma
terial to be used in the construction of
the handsome building of the Allison
Furniture Co. to be erected on Lamar
street opposite the Hotel Windsor.
While brick-laying will not begin for
several weeks yet, material is already
beginning to arrive. The new structure
will front seventy feet on Lamar street.
with height of three stories, and will
be among the handsomest in the city.
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GREAT OAR CROP IN PROSPECT
Farmers Here are Getting Busy in
The Fields.

Despite the pressure of cotton pick
ing and the desire to harvest this crop
while the weather remains fair, many
farmers here are preparing to plant
that other important crop, fall oats.
And the sale of seed by Americas
dealers indicates that a full grain crop
will be planted here, The seasons
have been favorable, and if conditions
are good Sumter county will "feel her
oats next spring
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is LONG ON MELONS
Sumner Bombs are Still Ours for the
Dime.

Where is there such a country as
ours.-our own Americas country?
While the north is feasting upon snow
balls spiked with icicles we still have
the luscious, the glorious watermelon
to go along with our Christmas cake
and Thanksgiving turkey, our chitterl-
ings, birds and possums. What COM
bination astronomical could excite
such ecstacy? Melons are offered for
sale in Americas today. Look at them,
and join in the hosannas proclaimtng
ours an ideal Eden.