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Model Steam Laundry I infill Diainion ds ROMANCE OF AN EXPLORER. Remarkable "Inform at ion that George Grenfell Brought to Light. , - George Grenfell, the African explor er and missionary,, who died the other day,, had lived nearly a third of a cen tury on the Congo. In all that time he had visited his home in England only twice. While, white men were, dropping ail argund him he seemed r to bear a charmed life, but he died at last of a disease that carried off many of his co laborers. This little man, modest and slow of speech, was a. leader among Congo ex plorers., No other man ever brought to light so many of the rovers, so many of the tribes, so much of the country as Grenfell did. Alexander Delcommune supposed him for a while in the extent of his discoveries but in the long run the laurels were with Grenfell. Stanley's gheat name overshadowed them both, and his discoveries extended from Vic toria Nyanza to the Atlantic. Stanley's greatest geographical dis tinctions in the Congo. basin were his revelations of the Congo for 1,800 miles of its course, his exploration of the Aruwimie and Jiis dramatic jour ney through the vast northeastern for-, est. But in working out the. details of this second greatest hydrographic sys tern id the world both Grenfelt and Del commune for surpassed him. Delcommune's work was chiefly the exploration of the upper - part of the Southern Congo system which Stanley never saw. Grenfell's field was the north and. south tributaries of the middle . Congo in the 900' miles between Stanley Pool : r.nd Stanley Falls. ' It was here that he completely revo lutionized our ideas of. Conjo hypro graphy. In his little missionary steam er Peace he pushed up one of these great tributaries after another, explor ing them as far as he could force Jus Vessel. ' None of the thousands of natives he met had ever seen a white man before and the most remarkable thing about him, they thought; were his white skin and his gold bowed spectacles, which seemed to , them e fetich charm of re markable power. .'.The first words that Grenfell wished to learn in ; any language or dialect "peace." He was a man of peace and never harmed a native in his life. Scores of times his puffing little steamer was attacked by showers of poisoned arrows and all the time Gren fell would stand behind the wire net work that protected the roof and deck of his vessel holding aloft strings of beads and lengths of brass wire and calling out "friends" and "peace" to the infuriated natiyes on the banks. . He never ran away from them. He would wait till they were convinced that he meant them no harm. Then he would r.parley with, them, learn all be could about their life and habits, give them presents and, on his departure, he was usually invited to come again soon. It was Grenfell who -brought tq light the , dwarf tribes, of the- middle Congo. Years before Schweinfurta had, found a pygmy group hundreds of miles to the northe.bjtreejws te first to, see 'the 'much larger gr6u'ps ;ef dwarfs on the southern tributaries of the Con go, and as he steamed up the river many of the nimble little fellows would clamberout on the branches of. trees overhanging the water to fire their ar rows at -him. .... .- - - v He discovered that our ideas of the great southern tributaries were wrong, for. Stanley's inferences .had led . us ,io suppose that they came " from the far south and flowed almost due north, Chuapa, Lulongo and other great streams rise in the, east and flow far to the west before joining the Congo. It was his maps of their courses that rectified the delineation of the south ern affluents on our atlas sheets. - One day Grenfell was ascending the Congo when he got amoung a group of islands.that concealed the mouth of the largest Congo tributary. It came from the north, is called the Ubangi and it-is 1,500 miles long and larger than any European, river excepting the Volga and the Danube. Grenfell ascended it 400 miles where he was stopped by the Zombo Falls. It was found later that the Ubangi is the lower part of the. Weile, discovered seventeen years earlier by - SchwTin furth and supposed- to flow northwest to Lake Chad, on the edge: of, the Sa hara Desert. . v Grenfell's greatest scientific work was. his mapping of the Congo for 900 miles between Stanley Pool and Stan ley Falls. It was the result of years of surveying along the shores of the river and pf the islands that often divide it into 'many channels. v' 7 " He took infinite pains to assure ac curacy, and it will probably be many years before the map ' df. this long stretch of the river is supplanted in our atlases. The map was published in six large sheets by the Royal Geog raphical Society. Grenfell never wrote a book, but his reports of t his many discoveries were published at length in the geographical periodicals. Years ago he married a bright young negro woman who, had been well educated at the mission school at Accra, on the Atlantic coast far north of the Congo She accompanied him on many of his geographical expeditions and has been referred to by those who knew her as a competent and . faithful -. helpmeet. When Stanley was last in this country he told of "Grenfell's two beautiful fchildreh." ; In his; Ions African .career fij-pmfpil aid much good Uo; the- Congo, people, mnojo uc icuuuuu as one of the pioneers of discovery in this part of the Dark Continent. " 'State, Bail Leads to Tragedy. Americans returning from a sum mer in London are talking excitedly bt Lady Thurso's great ball, which Iejd :; to such terrible" consequences. Head all about it in '"The House bt i Defence,' E. F.. Benson's, wonderful r-oTei, wnicn this paper will publish serially and exclusively, - beginning Sept. 3 r before it appears in book form. "The House of Defence" is fifth of-the celebrated $150,000 series of new international novels issued by the Authors . and Newspapers' Asso-: 'elation. " ;.,?. , .;.,v. ; Red Eyes' and Eyelids,' Weak Eyes and Tired Eyes need Murine Eye.Tonic TfiE CHARLOTTE NEWS. SEPTEMBjEB HOLDS BALLOON KECORD. Aomnaut Went 1000 Miles in Ni ine- teen Hours in 1859. From the Philadelphia North Ameri can. ';'" ' While aeronauts, reveling in their rediscovered sport, are exciting them selves and the public over "record breaking" trips, a voice from the past reminds them that - startling teats in ballooning are not new. For instance the recent trip of 225 miles by Dr. Uulian'.PThomas of New York was hailed a areeora rroies-soi- John Wise- of , thi3 city ;and Lan caster for outstripped, this , half , a cen tury ago. ' . Dr. Thomas and Khabenshue, . start ing Sunday, August 5, from New York, traveled to Brant Rock, Mass., and were eighteen hours in the air. Com-! pared with a triip by Professor Wise and three -companions in July, 1859, in which more than 1000 miles were covered in nineteen hours, this recent feat fades into insignificance. Professor Wise was the most noted aeronaut of ;the country." ' He made many long voyages in the air, not a ffew of which exceeded 300 miles in length, and on one of 5which he finally lost his life. t His most, memorable feat, however, the establishment of i a record which bias never been approached by any other aeronaut, and to equal fwhich.Dr:: Tiiomas 'and Knabenshue. would nave had to travel some 775 miles .further, was made on July 1; 1859.; . , j. With Professor Wise on this journey yere two other aeronauts and a re-; porter from a St., Louis newspaper;; The trip was made to demonstrate the feasibility of Professor's Wise's dream of a balloon voyage across the Atlantic ocean. , ,, .. f i Leaving St. Louis at 6:30 o'clock in the evening, the four voyagers sailed ill night through the air. In the morn? fng they made a temporary landing hear a small town in Ohio and anchor; d their balloon to a post . while theji; had breakfast in, a farmhouse. , i During the day they had ' thrilling Experiences. Travelling at express? train speed, 'they sailed out Over Lakej jSrie at.ahout 8 o'clock in the morningj .nd for nearly four hours were abovd the water. si ' While they were still more than 100 miles-from shore, they were overtaken by a thunderstorm, which had been following them for hours, and which was accompanied by a wind of terrible velocity. When the storm struck them the balloon was hurled almost on. its side,' the big gasbag offering more, re sistance to the gale-tfian the. car, ..and it.;-was thought safer,,to descend near er the lake-. In the descent shifting currents drove the . balloon down tp the water, in which the basket dragged for nearly, an hour 1 , r Ballast was. thrown overboard, "and at last the big,. balloon began to con quer the force of the storm, rising slowly and travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour before the wind. In a short, time land was sighted, and the wind was still blowing a gale.r ., From a' point high in the air the party could see Niagara Falls. By this time the ballast was running short, and the balloon began to descend. Everything that eoiilil be. spared was thrown overboard, but rapid con densation of gas overcame all efforts to rise again, and the balloon , rushed along above a great forest in uncom fortable proximity to the tree tops. . Then the coats, hats. .and even shoes of the balloonists were thrown out as ballast in a last effort to defeat the elements. Finally the car of ' the bal loon was dragging, in' the tops of tne trees. After nearly an hour of terryfylng experiences the balloon reached a small place which was partially clear ed of trees, and descended. Skimming along . over the brushwood, it made its way rapidly toward a large tree on the opposite, side of the clearing, and the last hope of the aeronauts was gone. Seeming to :howl with joy . over the destruction it was causing, the wind caught the balloon . up and hurled it into a giant oak, while its human freight, clutching blindiy at the ropes, resigned themselves to their fate. Held tightly by the tree and unable to go any farther, the-gas bag .was flat tened by the force of the wind, and in a moment exploded with a roar like a cannon, allowing the car with its oc cupants to drop to the ground, fifteen feet helow. The big gas envelope was ripped, and torn into fragments and the pieces were carried high in the air by the tornado, while the aeronauts untangled themselves from the wreckage, of net work and congratulated each other on their escape from death. Professor Wise made his last ascen sion in 1879, starting from St. Louis. The wind at the time ' was blowing strong, and the balloon floated toward tue north. : Nothing was ever heard of the master aeronaut after that'dav. and about a week later the body of his com-1 panion was found" on the shore of Lake Michigan at the edge of the Michigan forests. No trace of the professor or his balloon was ever found. A pig belonging to av widow named Murphy mysteriously vanished one night, and Pat Hennessy, a ne'er-do-well, was suspected of (having had something to 4o with its disappear ance. 1 He denied all knowledge of the pig, however, and as theFe was no evi dence against him he was allowed to go: free; 'but' at Mrs. Murphy's instiga tion, the priest . went : to see him. "Pat," said the priest, "if you've no fear of the law in this world, at least give a thought to the hereafter. When you're before the. judgement seat, what are you going. t& say about that pig?" '!Sure, I dunno," replied Pat. "Will they.be after askin' about .th!; pig in purg&toryi ,-Ker: ; river ince?!' v V ,-: s "Th eya wjll'a paid v;the pries V v. . ,'IWiJL'Mrsu. Murphy-ibe. tere yer riy erince?" ,i - -, i mrij. . "Yes, Pat." "An' th! pig?" - : . "Shure, I'll wait an' give it to her thin, yer -riyerince." L,et Yovr - Competitor D?,, lt..: "Don't advertise ; if you thing you are wasting your-'moriey.' -.LW. ypjir competitor : waste his money- on adver tising, and, perhaps in this way you can put ' him ' out ' of business.: Fix his clock works for him: Just stand back and laugh at him when you see Mm squandering his money for pi inter's ink. Exchange. ancientTshoes. The First Footwear Was Probably of Reeded Skins. -- f . Nobody knows who was the first shoemaker.. There must have been a time when everybody went barefooted, and the . first shoes were probably made of woven reeds or skins The original shoemaker doubtless sought comfort more than style. The Celt, who at times wondered over moor or moorass, at others over mountains, invented a shoe that suit ed his purpose exactly. A sole of hea vy hides protecting his feet from the snarp stones, while, uppers or legs of lighter, skins protected his ankles anl legs from the thorns and bushes. The buskin was so constructed that the water exuded from it as soon as the foot ceased to be immersed. In the modern shoe the idea is that water kept, out, . not let out. .The Celtic buskin was tough and elastic and could be replaced wher ever there were untanned skins at hand. Every Celt was iu his own shoe maker. With the Norman conquest came the introduction into the British Isles .'pi tanned i leather, which had long been in.use in Normandy, where it had been introduced by the Romans. Shoes then, began to take on style, and the styles haye never been depuli cated in later days. From close fit ting, shoes fashion went to long, point ed toes, which in time grew so long that they had to be iastened to the wearer's kneesv Shoes were, gorgeous affairs in the middle ages. King Richard, the lion hearted, had his .boots stamped with gold. John Lackland, his brother, wore boots spotted: with golden, circles; while "Henry II wore boots checked which-was enriched with a., Hon. Car dinal Wplsey's shoes, were . ' "Of. gold and stone precious Costing many thousand pounds." Sir Walter. Raleigh wore shoes stud ded with diamonds said to have cost 80000,. The gallants in Charles IPs time wore their high boot tops turn ed down, to the ankles, to show the gorgeous, lace with wnich they were lined. Indianapolis News. ' Mrs. Fleming, of Harvard,, Is one of : the Noted Astronomers of the World. St. Louis. Republic. To be. accredited as the discoverer of more stars than any other "living astronomer .must be gratifying. Es pecially should, this be the case when the lucky discoverer is a woman. Such distinction .... belongs to Mrs. Williamina . Paton Fleming, of Har vard Observatory The results of her investigations have interested the' en tire world. ... , . In. addition to her achievements in this- line, -she .'is distinctive in being the only woman occupying an official position at Harvard, University. Eight hitherto unobserred stars ia the novae have been discovered by her. Of fifth-type stars .she has found eighty four, as compared, with fifteen located by her compeers " in scSence. Inci dentally she has. found 200 new va riables. In recognition "of " her ? work Mrs. Fleming has .just Tbeen elected a mem ber ,pf the ,Royaf Astronomical ' Society of .London. S'!Ce is' the, first Atherican woman and the' t&lrd of her sex to re ceive such hohor'. , "More , star discoveries are accredit ed to Mrs." Fleming than to any other person in the history of science," is the remarkablo ' assertion recently made concernihg;:th6 work of this wo man, And the;' assertion appears to be true.. - ;,; For that 'reason sh attracted t.h at tention of the' savants of the Royal Astronomical Societr of London. Members of that body as a rule are cold-blooded. Th6y do not admit any one to. equality '"with.- themselves un less1 the right to comradeship has been clearly established." One September night last year Mrs. Fleming, examining negatives of pic tures of the sky' jist taken, discovered .a 5 new star of the"' transient variety, known to astronomers as belonging to the novae. ' This was ' her latest discovery in that . line. - Since 1572, when the first discovery of . such a star was. made by Tycho Brahe, only fourteen of them are ac credited .to Mrs. Fleming. For the last twenty years Mrs. Flem ing has been adding to Harvard's reputation in astronomy by her studies of the photographic archives and work of that university. -. Mrs. Fleming discovered her. first star in 1887. ; Since, then, her method has been the same a recognition of peculiar spectrum lines on a negative shows the spectra of the. stars, and then, verification f ' ota te regular star negatives., With the modesty that usually' an imates pioneers, in; any field, Mrs. Fleming has persis'lod in disavowing any person credit for herseuf, al though such, .credit ha3 been freely given f rom other sources. She asserts that every encomium, should be passed upon the lato Doc tor Henry Draper, who invented the. peojeess by which the discovertes were made, and that credit should also best with Mrs. Dra'pcr, whose munificence maae ... .possible the : work or Keeping nightly records of the skies by means of photographs. Tq hear Mrs, Fleming tell the story of new stars discovered inclines one to the belief that it is the simplest thing in the world. Discovvry of ( still other stars must come, she thinks. ' ' Such progression in; astronomical knowledge, to her, is only another step of the scientific, world, ' ..So modest is r thic ' aelver- into the mysteries f of Vthe heavens that -..she signs her name simply " "M. Fleming, astronomer" Were . it no& for her friends, her fame, perhaps, would Jiever wave reached the , outside world. Mrs.. Fleming 'bas passed the." for tieth, milestone, of Jlife'sl journey; rut, unlike many persons vho devote them selves to scientific' ends; is, affable and charming of personality: . : ' ' In her nrnniinriatinn of words a slight burr reminds the hearer that she. FRIGHTFULLY BURNED., Chas. w'r' Moore, a '" machinist,; of. Ford City, Pa had,, his band fright fully burned : in an electric furnace. He applied Buckley's Arnica Salve with the usual result: "a. quick, and perfect cure.. ; '. Greatest healer - on eartb lor Burns, Wounds; Sores, Ec zema, and : Piles. 25c at Woodall. & Sbeppard's. druggists l , 1906, is a 'Scot in fact, she is a native off Dundee, in the land of oatcakes. She I was educated there and taught-school there for five years.-!. . t. Her. father, Robert Stevens, a man whoce .inclination leads to scientific researches, and " he was the first in that section to t?.e an interest in the then new daguerrentype process of photography... The daughter, however, was . not con tent to remain amid the ricid environ ments, of the Old World.. . More than twenty, yearsi.a so. she came to America and soon obtained -a. iRPsitioti, at Har vard observatory ,fiS cp,mip,uter:.5pt, l'or some .time, Ivor ; work- the-ce , was of the simplest character, but, as -the value of. her. serivces was recognized, she was quickly advanced from one post to . another. In 189,7 she was appointed curator of the astronomical records of the uni versity and. since then her work has been directed to a study of the heavens. At present she Las in charge more than 150,000 glass plates, each cover ed with almost countless images of stars, and which make a complete record of the. heavens since 1886. Every night, when the weather per mits the Harvard observatory scans the heavens, both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. , -. i -' Favor C. C. Moore. From all parts 'of the . south' there comes a protest against Mr. Richard Ciieatham serving longer as secretary of the southern cotton association be cause of his gambling proclivities. ; A movement has been started in North Carolina to have Mr. C f! ATnnrp of Charlotte succeed him, and we; hearti ly endorse tne suggestion. Mr. Moore has as much, if not more ability than Mr, Cheatham, he is enthusiastic to a degree, and, besides, he is not a gam blerGreensboro Telegram. Speak Out, Mr. Chairmap. 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