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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
U-B0ATS LOSING
IN RACE TO BEAT
SHIP BUILDERS
Figures Show New Craft .Ex-
coed Number Sent to the
Bottom. - 49,
(By Associated Press.)


LONDON. May 24-The enemy is
destroying British, allied and neutral
tonnage at the rate of about 100000
tons yearly, while Great Britain and
her allies and the neutral countries
will soon be producing tonnage at the
rate of about 100000 tons yearly,
Archibald <Hurd. the naval expert,
writes in the Daily Telegraph. That
favorable situation declares, should be
reached in few weeks and thencefor-
ward the upward curve in favor of the
allies should proceed in manner to
convince the Germans of their failure.
Realized in Germany.
There are indications, the writer
points out, that the Germans them
selves realize that the submarine cam
paign was a political blunder. The
allied navies have not been weakened
he notes, and the submarine, which
brought America into the war, has not
been able to interfere seriously with
the transportation of American troops
and material.
AS a result of the elaborate prepar-
atoms made by the admiralty last year
Mr. Hurd comments, the sea is becon-
ing an inferno FOR the submarine pi-
rates, and the morale of the officers
and men employed in the enemys sub
marine service is steadily declining as
is shown by evidence of the most con-
elusive character.
Losses Decrease Two-Thirds.
The naval correspondent of the Daily
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
Will Recount Votes IN
Two Townships, June 3

Monday, June 2, was the date set
by Circuit Judge Fox for the recount
ing Of the Republican votes for the
office of trustee in Dalton and Center
townships.
Alexander Abbott who was defeated
by Harry Macy in Dalton township
by single vote. contested the nomi-
nation. Milo J. Harris, defeated in
Center township by two votes by DAN
lei B. Medearis, also contested the
nomination.
George L. Gates and Fillmore Riggs.
Republicans, and @. E. Duffin, Demo
crat. were named by Judge Fox to act
as special board to recount the
votes in the Dalton township case.
Lee B. Nusbaum and F. NJ. Lamb,
Republicans, and w. B. Dye, Demo
crat, were named to recount the votes
in Center township. This counting
Will begin at 1870 o'clock in the after
noon of June 3.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
GENERAL MERCHANDISE.

Butter--Creamery whole milk extra
461a; centralized extra, 44c; do first.
411a; do seconds. 401a; fancy dairy,
"a; packing stock No. 1, Csc, No. 2.
24c.
Eggs-Prime firsts 0oss Off, 30hc;
firsts. 291Ac; ordinary firsts, 27kc:
seconds, &c; goose eggs, Coo; duck
eggs, SIC.
Poultry-Broilers under 2 lbs, 450
soc; fryers over lbs, 30c; ROSTERS
1shs; culls. los; white ducks, 3 lbs
and over. 23c: colored do soc; geese,
choice full feather. zoe; do medium,
1Sc; guineas, Sc per dozen.
Apples-Pippins. $55G6$6 per brl.
Ben Davis, $4.50@5.50; Ganos,$5@5.5C
per brl; Winesaps, s6.5O@7O0.
Beets-Home-grown, $1@125 per
bushel; Florida, $2.25@2.5O per crate
Onions-Yellow, $1.75@2 per 10O-lh
sack; Texas crystal white, s2@2.25
per crate; Spanish. s1@1.25 per crate
Potatoes Wisconsin, $14O@1.45
per 100-lb sack; Florida, $2.5O@4 pei
bril-
Tomatoes-Florida, s375@4.5O per
crate
Sweet Potatoes-Genuine Jersey
seed, 81.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
MARK TS
HEAVY RAINS have
s EFFECT ON MARKET
(By Associated Pressl

CHICAGO. May 24.-Heavy rains
tnat threatened to interfere with
planting put the bears in corn today
at a disadvantage. In this connection
a dispatch from Ohio sent by leading
Chicago crop expert attracted consid'
cradle attention. He said there was a
large area to plant yet. Opening
prices. which ranged from 1-s off to
Lac advance, with June 1877 IL and
July 1879 ga to 140 IA, were followed
by a moderate reaction and then A
fresh advance.
Oats merely paralleled the action
Of corn. Trade was almost entirely
local. After opening unchanged to
5.Sc lower, with July 66 to Sc Is the
market hardened all around.
Provisions weakened in line with
the hog market. Lard, however. show
ed relative steadiness as compared
with pork and ribs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
LIVE STOCK PRICES
( INDIANAPOLIS, May 24-Hogs-

INDIANAPOLIS, May 24-Hogs-
Receipts, 1900, lower.
Cattle-Receipts, loo; steady.
Calves-Receipts, $50, higher.
Sheep-Receipts, so; steady.
Steers--Prime corn fed steers. 1900
and up, s16.5O@17.25; good to choice
steers, 1900 and up, $l6.2o@ ll.oo'
no. s15.7561625; good to choice steers
to medium steers, 1,15O to l,2oo'
s15.5O016.0O; good to choice steers
COO to 1 1000 lbs. $13.50@14.25; fair to
medium yearlings, $9.75@12.OO.
Heifers and Cows-Gooo to choice
heifers. S11.50@14.50; common to fair
hrfers, $9.00@10.25; fair to medium
cows, $9.50@1O.25; Gamers and cut
$7.50@9.25.
RnIls and Calves--Good to prime ex.
nort bulls, $12.OO@12.50; good to
choic, butcher bulls. $11.o0@12.00;
common to fair bulls. $9.00@10.75;
common to best veal calves, $9.5OQ
$14OO; common to best heavy caves,
.5O6s11.0O; stock calves. $50 to 4oO
pounds, $500 10.50;good TO cno'ce
lights, $4,000 1915.
Suckers and Feeding Cattle-Gooo
to choice steers. 700 pounds and up
under 700 pounds, $1O.OO@11.00; good
to choice steers, under 700 pounds
slO.5O@12.0O; common to fair steers
under 700 pounds. $9.OO@105O; med
ium to good heifers. $500 90;
medium to good feeding COWS, $Sooq
$50; springers, $S.00@9.50.
Hogs-Best heavies. $1750@l76o;
medium and mixed, $1750@l760;
good to choice lights, $17.6O@17.65 ;
common to medium lights. $17.5OQ
1880; rough and packers. $15.5Oq
1925; light pigs, s150o@16.25; light
pigs, $15.O0Q17.25; bulk OF best hogs
s17.5O017.6O; best pigs. $17.5OQ1S
Sheep and Lambs-Good to choice
warnings. $l5.oO01s.Oo: common t.
fair yearlings, $125O@1S75; good tt
choice wool sheep. $4,000 1900;
bucks. 100 pounds. $10.OO@llOo gooe
to choice breeding ewes, Sl1.OoQ
1000; common to medium sprlni
lambs, $14@15.75; good to choice WOO
lambs, $1600@1S.0O.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
Registrars OF Webster
Township Will Organize

WEBSTER. Ind, May 24.-Webster
township registrants will meet here
Tuesday evening. May %. for the pur-
pose of effecting an organization. The
meeting will be held under the
auspices of the Cambridge City selec.
tive service board. All registered men
In the township are expected to
attend. ]. c. Kline, Wayne county
agriculture agent. will preside.
A patriotic talk will be given by
Hal Pod, emphasizing the necessity OF
hearty cooperation between the far.
mer and the United States Food ad.
ministration for the successful out.
come of the war
Ivan Moore is the chairman of the
meeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

News, analysing the shipping losses
for April, points out that the total of
allied and neutral sinkings was hardly
more than a third of that of year
ago, while there is not any likelihood,
he says, that there has been any
marked decrease in the shipping en-
tering and clearing ports of the United
Kingdom.
Although the effects of blocking the
bases at Zeebrugge and Ostend and
the placing of the great new mine
field in the North sea are not yet
known, the Germans in the whole first
quarter of 1918. the correspondent
shows, sank little more shipping than
they did last year in single month.
while the total losses for each quarter
from April. 1917, up to the present
have steadily fallen.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
FRUIT & VEGETABLES
Corrected Daily by Eggemeyer's)
SELLING PRICES

Onions. yellow, $1.?5@2.00 per 100
lbs: white $1.75@2.O0 per 1O0-lb. sack
Texas Burmuda onions, white. $2.15.
crate 40 lbs; yellow, s1.65, crate 40
lbs.
VEGETABLES
Wax beans, 20 cents per pound !:
asparagus, sc bunch: new cabbage.
sc lb.; green beans, 15c lib; carrots.
to sc h.; spring carrots. &c bunch ;
spring beets, loo bunch; cauliflower
15@25c head; cucumbers 5@10c; egg
plants 15c; kohlra5i 1Oc bunch; leaf
lettuce zoe per pound, untrimned;
leak. 1Oc bunch; mushrooms, 75c
b.; onions, New Burmudas, SC Id !;
young onions, sc bunch, for 10c;
oyster plant, sc bunch; parsley, sc
bunch; mangoes. 2 for sc; radishes,
&c bunch; spinach 10c h.; toms. Csc
h.: turnips. new SC h.; water cress,
sc per bunch; artichokes, zoe each ;
celery. 8, 10 and 15c bunch; potatoes,
$1@ 1875 per bu.; rhubarb, 3 bunhes
10c; green peas. 15c ID; kahl, 10c ID
FRUITS
Calf. cherries, Coo h.; watermelons
81 each; peaches, 15c h.; hot house
toms, soc h.: sour cherries, Csc h.;
apples, to 10c h.; grape fruit, 100
15c; lemons. 40c per doz.; bananas,
1Oc h.; lines, soc per doz.; oranges,
40c to Coo doz.; pineapples. 25c each
MISCELLANEOUS
Eggs. Csc per dozen: Strawberries,
20 to Csc qt.; butter, creamery, SIC;
country. 45c per pound. sassafras. sc
@10c per bunch.
PRODUcE-(Buyine)
Butter, Csc; eggs &c; potatoes 75c 3;
chickens zoe.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
NEW YORK STOCK LIST

NEW YORK, May 24.-The closing
quotations on the stock exchange were:
American Can, 483s.
American Locomotive. 66N.
American Beet Sugar, 70 bid.
American Smelter, ex div, 771s.
Anaconda, 65A.
Atchison, SAY.
Bethlehem Steel bid. SAX.
Canadian Pacific. JAG.
Chesapeake and Ohio, So.
Great Northern Pfd., $685..
New York Central. 1885.
Northern Pacific, $685.
Southern Pacific. $685..
Pennsylvania, 1874.
U. S. Steel Com, 1878.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
CITY GOES
Icontinued From Page one.1

the proceeds Of a Show given by
some boys of the GA grade Of the
Starr school.
Four thousand dollars subscriptions
have been received during the cam
paign. They were given by Mr.. and
Mrs. William Dudley Foulke. The
American Seeding Machine company.
the Starr Piano company and s. w.
Hayes.
A check was received from the Atlas
Underwear Company Friday afternoon
raising the city total $500. The amount
reported at the luncheon was $3O.S
1o5 Dollar SUBSCRIPTIONS.
Honorable mention was given Fri
day to Isaac Burns, solicitor In the
French army, who went out alone
Thursday afternoon and obtained $1Oo
in dollar subscriptions.
The generals of the various armies
expressed their appreciation Friday OF
the support given them by the mem
bers of the companies.
John NJ. Lontz, commander in chief
Of the drive, made a short talk at the
close of the luncheon, pointing out to
the men who had aided in the CAM
paign, that they had aided the men on
the other side to make better fight.
When the men learn what we have
done here in this Red Cross campaign
they will know that they have the
people at home behind them" he said.
when the boys come home, and see
this list of contributions, they will
know who have been their friends.
LAS to the people who refused to
give, there were not many am in
favor of leaving them to their own re-
Elections and their conscience"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

CHICAGO, May 24-Hogs--Rece'pts
2s 900: market weak; bulk of sales,
S17.25017.50; lights $17.20 q 1885;
mixed $16.95617 So; heavy $500 a
$17.35; roughs, $500 q 1850; pigs,
$1475@17.40.
Cattle Receipts 5000; market
steady; steers $1O.40917.oO stockers
and feeders. $9.256 1880; cows and
heifers. $725614.S5: calves $SG14.5O
Sheep Receipts 1000; market
steady: sheep S9.75@14.S0; lambs
S13.25616.65.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
Industrial Company
Will Elect Trustees

Subscribers to the Richmond Indus
trial Development company will meet
Friday night at 40 at the Commerce
ial club to elect five trustees of the
organization. The matter of approx
ing the contract with the Kilo Elec-
trio Meter company will probably be
brought up at the meeting.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

H. w. Thornton has been appointed
British brigadier-general of railways
and movements in France. General
Thornton formerly was superintend-
ent of the Long Island Railroad, New
York, and later was general manager
of the Great Eastern Railway in Eng
land
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
$40, 900 Damage Suit
Settled out of Court


The $4,000 damage suit of Millicent
Dennis against the Pennsylvania and
Big Four railroads. which has been
hanging fire in the circuit court for
almost four years, was dismissed Fri
day morning at the request of the
plaintiff. The suit was for personal
injuries. 1t is understood that set
Element has been made.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
easier; lambs $1I00017.50: yearlings
$13.00@13.50; wethers $14.0O014.50;
ewes $6.00@13.50; mixed sheep $3.50
@14.00.
PRODUCE MARKET

CHICAGO. May 24-Butter market
lower; receipts 34@41h.
Eggs-Receipts 1880; market low
er; firsts, 30k311ac; lowest. 261a.
Live Poultry, market lower; fowls
26c.
Potato market, unchanged, receipts
q cars.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
SUES TO QUIET TITLE

Suit was filed Friday in the circuit
court by Ross Hiatt against jacob
and others, asking that the court settle
the title to two lots in Greensboro.
The plaintiff alleges that he is the
owner of the lots but that they are
claimed by the defendants.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

PITTSBURGH. Pa, May 24-Hogs
Receipts $1,000 market steady;
heavies s1775@1s.OO: heavy Workers.
s1s.70@1s.s0; light Workers $1s.75 a
$1s.s5; pigs $1s75@1S.S5.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts 500;
market steady; top sheep $1425; top
lambs $1735.
Calves-Receipts 100: market &C
tive; top $15.25.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

EAST BUFFALO. N. Y, May "a
Cattle - Receipts 315; steady to
strong. Calves - Receipts 2.700;
steady; $7.O0@16.00.
Hogs--Receipts 1000; active and
easier: heavy $1S.0001S.25; mixed.
s1S.30@1S.40: Workers $3.50 q 1850;
tight Workers. $1S50@1S.75; pigs $751;
IS; roughs. $1,000 G16.25; stays, $1,000
1880.
sheep and Lambs--Receipts 1000:
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
JUNK

prices paid by Sam Jaffe)
No. l rubber boots and shoes. &c per
h.; No. rubber boots an:, shoes, 40
Acc per lb.; automobile tires, 4c per
h.. inner tubes, S@16c per h.; bicycle
tires. SC per h.; buggy tires, 3H@4c
per h.. baled paper. 40c per hundred
lbs; country mixed rags, $3.50 per
hundred lbs; mixed iron, $1.OO per
hundred lbs: heavy brass copper from
13@18c per lb.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
LOCAL QUOTATIONS

Corrected Daily by omer G. Wheian)
Paying-Oats, zoe; ear corn, $1.35
@1.5Q; rye. $3.50; straw, $500 a ton.
Selling-Cotton seed meal, $500 a
ton, $500 a cwt; tankage, $4,000 a
ton, $475 cwt; oil meal. $63.5O a
ton, 1925 a cwt
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

lier's Weekly to illustrate the state
y the news. Here is Photographic
C proof so far published and is SO con-
aders.
ersal Film Manufa curing Company.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
WILL ELECT OFFICERS

Officers will be elected at the meet
ing OF the Woman's Franchise League
to be held Saturday afternoon at 800
o'clock at the Commercial Club rooms.
All members are urged to be present
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT
state of Indiana. Wayne County, SIS:
Notice is hereby given that the un-
executrix of the last will and tesla
ment of Margaret Hoar. deceased, late
of Wayne County. Indiana. Said es-
tate is supposed to be solvent
KATHERINE HOAR
Executrix.
Kelley & Kelley, Attorneys.
may24-31- june7
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
BRIEFS

MAKE WAsHDAY A PLEASURE
No more Blue Mondays by using
MITcHELL'S MAGIC MARvEL-For
sale by Conkey Drug Co.. 9Th and
Main; Haseltine's Grocery. 1O2 Rich
..,ond Ave; u. o. Hogin. Cor. 3rd and
Natl Ave. d. w. WALTERS, Mgr,
1O7 South 9th st.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
Advisory Board Will
Meet With Miss Short

Members of the advisory board OF
the Wayne County Better Homes as
ISOLATION, will meet Saturday after
noon at o'clock in the office of Miss
Nina Short, county home demonstra-
ton agent, at the court house.
This board was recently chosen at
meeting of representatives of the
various women's clubs throughout
Wayne county. one member of some
club being selected from each town
ship. The board will conduct the
business of the association.
Tropc1ofod from Hawaiian Huku1e1e"
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

THREE-QUARTERS SUBSCRIBED.
WASHINGTON, May "a Three
quarters Of the s1OO.000,OOO second
war fund of the Red Cross was found
to have been subscribed when totals
were made this morning at national
headquarters and optimism was felt
that there would be large over sub
scription before the drive ends. The
total today was $74,269,S25.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24
GRAIN QUOTATIONS

CHICAGO, May "a. - The range OF
futures on the Chicago Board of Trade
follows.
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. No trading in wheat.

TOLEDO, O., May 24.-Wheat:
Prime cash, No. 1 red. 1920.
Cloverseed: Prime cash, $lS.25;
Oct. $14.2O.
Alsike: Prime cash, $15.25.
Timothy: Prime cash. 1910: Sept,
$3.50; Oct. $397k; Dec, $4.O71a;
March, $4.15.
CHICAGO, May 24.-Corn: NO.
yellow. $1.76; No. yellow, $l.ooW
1.73: No. 4 yellow. $50.
:, Oats: No. 3 white, 74@74E; Stand
ard, 76@77c.
Pork: Nominal.
Ribs: $21.45M 22.O1.
Lard: $24.00G24.Oo.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

bove reproduction Of page from Col
that the Germans fagrantly falsif
handed. 1t is the first photograph
hat you will lay it before all your re
L LAEMMLE, President of the Univ
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CINCINNATI, May a. -- Hogs -
Receipts 1000: market steady; pack
ers and butchers $17.50@l7.65; pigs
and lights, $13d1765; stays $4,000
COX
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1918-05-24

Translated from Hawaiian, "ukulele'
means jumping flea
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29

bunch Of frozen turnips, ccol and I'M
comfortable. We were close enough to
make the roar of the cannonading
seem intolerably loud and could see
the bursting shells, particularly those
fro1 the British ships
Then we came across some Turkish
prisoners who were sheltering In an
old barn, 1 guess it was, and we
stopped for shelter and rest They
told us that their troops were very
tired from long fighting, but that they
had plenty of men. They said couple
of shells had dropped about a hun
dred yards from the barn just before
we came, so we knew the batteries
were trying to get our range and we
did not say any longer, but went
away from there and on our road.
About 500 yards farther on we came
to ruins, and when we went inside
we found 80 or 60 of our boys cooking
and sleeping and not giving a thought
to the shells or shrapnel. The mules
outside were banging away at the hay,
as though there never had been a war
in the world. There was no shell made
that could bulge them away from
that hay unless it hit them.
Then along came a cart making q
lot of racket. One of the fellows in it
had half of his face shot away and
was all bandaged up, but he was try
ing to sing and laugh just the same
as the rest were doing. They were
Anzacs, and were pretty badly shot up
The word "Anzac," as you probably
know, is made from the initials of the
Australian and New Zealand army
corps. They had regular town, called
Anzac, on the peninsula. At Suvla
bay and around Gaba Tepe the Anzacs
got further into the Turkish lines than
any other unit in the allied armies.
They were wonderful fighters.
By this time the Turks were making
an attack, and all you could see to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29
Depew goes over the top in an
attack on the Turkish trenches
and has some close calls before
he gets back to his own lines.
Don't miss reading about it in
the next instaIIment.
CTo BE CONTINUED
WASP MUST HAVE REASONED
Case on Record Where Insect Used
Stone as Hammer to Pound Dirt
More Firmly.

So far as known, only one small in
sect-a wasp of the sphex family
among the millions Of creatures belong
ing to a lower order than man, has
ever employed the aid of a tool ac-
complish desired result. The mother
wasp of this family digs a tunnel in
the ground, deposits her egg in 1t and
provides caterpillar stung to death
or to condition of paralysis for her
baby to feed on when Matched. The
grub subsists upon the caterpillar I'M
til it passes through the pupa stage
into the perfect winged insect. Then
it digs its way out of the tunnel and
begins it's life above ground as
wasp.
But after the mother wasp has made
It's tunnel. and deposited the egg, 1t
finishes its task by -amming down pei
let's of earth, little stones, ETC., into the
mouth of the tunnel. This is the race
habit of these wasps. 1t is recorded
on undoubted authority that one In
ventive mother, when the mouth of the
tunnel was covered to level with the
rest of the ground about it, brought
quantity of fine grains of dirt to
the spot, and picking up small peb-'
BILE in her mandibles, used it as ham,
mer in pounding them down with rapid
strokes, thus making the spot as firm
and as hard as the surrounding sur
face Then she departed, brought more
dirt, picked up the pebble again and
used it as a hammer. as before.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-29
IN SOME HURRY TO EXPLAIN
What He Thought Was Error of
the Death Angel.

A southern man of whom we read in
Everybody's tells of a balloon ascen-
sion made from Charleston one hot
summer afternoon. A thunderstorm
came up. The balloonist, amid buckets
of rain, the roar of thunder and the
flash of lightning, was blown about
like a thistledown. On toward mid
night he found himself over a planta-
ton and threw out his anchor--a grap-
mel at the end of long rope.
1t happened that negro had died in
one of the huts of this plantation. The
funeral was to take place in the morn
ing. A dozen friends of the deceased
sat in the soft summer night before the
hut telling ghost stories.
Suddenly in the darkness above them
they heard strange noises-a tapping
as of great wings, menacing cries. And
they saw dimly formless black shape.
All but one man ran. This one man.
as he covered ON his stool, had the Ill
luck to be seized by the grapnel.
The grapnel going at a great pace
whirled him up for four or five feet
In the air and ierked him along at the
rate OF 10 miles or so an hour.
"Oh, massa,'" he yelled, squirming
and kicking in that strange flight, IFS
not de one rs not dc cawpse!
Henry's in de house dab In de house
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