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June 19—6 m
DANBU
lit A BALIOOfI W.TU A M.NIAC.
BT W. A. PETERS.
While r was prepaiing my great bal
loon, '-The Ooi ideat," in San Franciseoi
iu 1872, for a voyage to New York, I
boarded in a private I ouse with rooms
aljoining those of a uiiddle-aaed man,
ono of the "Argonauts" of '49, who, af
ter the wave had receded, was left upon
the barren beach, and like a sea-shell
•inking the song of its ocean Iv me )
would he, in melancholy voice, with ca
dence of the past, tell the tales of the
wines, and of his fabulous wealth which
oame as if by the rubbing of Aladdin's
lamp, and went as suddenly, when "new
lamps were exchanged for old," at the
g'iuiing table. His history was a strange
admixture of foitune and vicissitude,
with swectuess in tho cups and bitter
ness in the dregs; sorrows that chased
,his pleasures around the sharp corners
of life; fears that held a check rein on
his hopes, and fierce passions that drove
the rowels deep. But the saddest chap
ter of his life was this:
He had struck a rich vein, and his
fortune was made; tho hopo of his life
was realized, and with that buoyant,
life-bounding, palsing shout of '"home
again !" he hastened to San Francisco
to embark for home, and wife aud every
thing that made life dear in Now York,
the home of his youth and marriage
When he reached San Francisco he
found a letter awaiting him, tho hand
writing was his wife's Ah! how ea
gerly he tore it open to devour the con
tents of sweet and loving words; those
tender sentiment* that only a wife can
write; those significant sentences that
Only a husband can understand, which
make luminous in the soul the unwritten
things of the inner temple that glitter
like golden characters upon the heart.
Glorious anticipation was on his face.
He read the letter. Maik the change!
He sprang up like a madman ; his face
grew black as a thunder cloud; he
choked for utterance, and then strove to
choke the black oaths down 08, through
the hours of that long night, he paced
the floor of the dingy hotel room.
He toro the letter in pieces, then
gathered it carefully up and put it to
aether as if to retain it for evidence.
That letter contained a deliberate state
ment from hia wile that she had proven
false to him, that long she had loved an
other, that she hid sailed with him for
Europe, and that, ere the letter reached
him, she'd be basking in her lover's
smile beneath the voluptuous sky of
Italy. She calmly urged her husband
to forget her, as she would try to forget
him in the delicious joy of her new love.
And this was all of the past to him ;
the sweet smiles, the loving glances, the
gentlo tones, the fond caress, were to
him as apples of Sodom, turned to ashes,
or as gems upon the bosom, that were
turned to lifeless stone. Tte serpent
had glided into his Eden, and he went
forth among the thorns and the bram
bles. JVbat cared he for the fortune
now he had toiled so hard to make for
her Well, he did as others have done ;
he went to the bar and the gaming ta
ble; and just as the old grave digger
gathered the villagers in, so did the
gamblers gather in his thousands, and
then he went back to (he mines as hope
less and reckless as an outcast. Fortune
never suiiled upon him any more, and
if she had, he, would have turned his
back upon her, and taken up a poor
olaim ; he seemed to seek poverty as
earnestly as others sought wealth, and
with the smallest results he seemed the
beat pleased. His grief was too deep to
be broken in upon ; it was a scaled book,
but its contents had been surmised by
many.
Ooe by one the '4D's disappeared;
still he clung to the deserted bill sides,
and then the very intensity of the deso
lation drove him off too, and he returned
to San Francisco, where ho became a
book-keeper in a gloomy old warehouse,
in which he was still employed when we
met.
This was the man with whom I was to
hive the most fearful adventure of my
life; the man with whom I was to con
tend in awful and deadly desperation,
either to save both lives or to destroy
his, while his maddened, energies were
pat forth with the deaionism of a ma
niao to destroy both in the rooH horrible
death. Contend for the virtues of the
most celebrated hair dyes and praise
ihem as you will, but a few moments of
RY, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY
imens:fi,d excitement and fear changed
uiy glossy black hair to the untimely
Silver of ago, without any renewal of tho
application.
We became warui friends in the
boarding house, and he took a lively in'
terest in matters ol my profession ; in
fact, 1 found him so scientific in his the
ories of ballooning that 1 opened up all
my plans to him, exhibited my models,
and took him with me each day to note
the progress of completion on my aerial
ship. lie was anxious to ascend with
me and take the trip East, as he laugh
ingly remarked, that it was about the
only passage he was able to afford, and
that he wnu'd be literally a steerage pas
senger, if I would allow him to handle
the rudder occasionally byway of relief.
I assured him that I would be glad of
his company and of his scienlifio assist
ance ; thus it was arranged that he was
to accompany me.
We had many pleasant conversations
after we had entered into this confiden
tial arrangement, and he told me of his
great grief and estrangement from all
that had ever made life sweet to him ;
but, when I told him I had formerly
been a resident of New York and knew
many of the parties he had spoken of,
he seemed to regret that he had un
folded so much to me of the things that
had been sacredly hidden, and after that
he appeared mc re distant; but I thought
nothing of the change, merely attribu
ting it to the revival of unhappy memo
ries. When the day for our departure
was ushered in with balmy air atd glo
rious sunshine, he seemed in fine and
unusual spirits, which the exhilarating
anticipations of the upper air would nat
urally give one who was as fearles9 of
the voyage as ho appeared.
All things were ready—my huge ship
of the air, "Occident," swung gracefully
as a thing of life to her mooring, and
was as trim and beautiful as a blushing
woman waiting for her lover; expectant
thousands stood waiting tor the men to
cut the lines that moored my impatient
beauty down. I shall never forget the
shouts, the clapping of hands, the wav
ing of handkerchiefs, and the God speed
we received as we shot away like an ar
row into the upper blue.
I need not write of the grandeur of
the scene—it cannot be described by one
who has witnessed it, it cannot be under
stood by One who has flot; its effect was
like intoxication upon my companion;
it seemed as if his joys that had been
held captive to grief had been set free
like a bird from its cage. His eyes
shone with an unusual brilliancy, bis
conversation sparkled with gems of wis
dom and wit, and his mind seemed trans
cendental; but when we reached the
higher latitudes of rarified air, a change
came over him, and the inward pressure
updn his brain seemed having a strange
effect. The mirthful light of his eyes
gave way to a ferocious glare, and his
mnsical sentences were changed to words
of hate and revenge, directed to some
one he appeared to see in the air. Sud
denly he sprang forward upon me with
such force as to almost overturn the car
of the balloon, and, brandishing a huge
knife over me, I fully realized that I had
to deal with insanity in its worst mood-
He imagined that I was the destroyer of
his happiness, the lover of his wife; and
I then realized that his knowledgeof my
former residence in New York hsd'
shaped this idea in bis fevered brain.
It wai a fearful moment ? How was L
to act ?
"Ah, base demon, fiend (roui Hades !*'
he exclaimed. "Thou I'luW to my Pro
serpine, I've met thee.in mid air at last
where you've spread your blaok wings in
this hallowed atmosphere and polluted
the presence of the gods with thy foul
blot on nature. Hack to the heads of
Cerebus I'll send you, and may they in
flict apoo you the eternal borrors of in
fernal hydrophobia 1"
I was helpless in bis grasp ; I saw that
he was preparing to plunge the knife
into my throat, and that hasty action
alono eould save me.
"See Jupiter approaching !*' I ex
claimed, pointing upward with my hand
He hastily looked up, and tor one mo
ment paused in the downward stroke of
the knife. In awful desperation I grasp
ed his arm, and then the struggle began,
[lis power seemed superhuman, and bid
fair to overmatch me in a few moments
of fierce struggle; then 1 knew I would
either be lifted in his arms and thrown
cut of the car, or he would plunge the
sharp dagger into uiy quivering fl ah 1
roused to final desperation before despair,
fold the struggle was fearful, as wo
swayed the Irail car until bidding fair to
overturn us both in a swifi and awful de
scent to the earth. He overpowered me
and crUshtd uie down beneath him, his
band upon my throat. He raided the
knife to, strike the fatal blow, and dark
ness came over uie, when, fortunately,
I grasped a bar of iron which my hand
had touthed As quick almost as light
ning, in the fearful emergency, I struck
h ill a blow which knocked him back
wards This saved ine f'»r tho present,
for I brandished the bir with such des
P*s3ft*tyir{t, that even in his madness,
he denied caution tl.o belter pait ol
valo^:'''G^ ,
I tlifn tried to reasin him into a real
izatioo of our situation, and of I is dan
ger as well as mine ; and when he could
again realize that we were in a balloon, n
devilish idea ol d struction enters 1 hia
brain, lie climbed up the ropes to the
silk with the activity and feurlessuess tf
a monkey, ar.d said he wouid have a
glorious reveoge ob me. He would rip
open the balloon and die with me, just
to witness my tortures in the other world,
for the blight I had put upon his life.
I now saw that the situation was aw
ful indeed, as I iustantly contemplated
the crashing fall of 5,000 feet. Not a
moment was to be lost. Iliad the fac
ulty oT quick conception and action
On the instant I thought of a lasso
which I had iu the car firuily attached)
and in the use of which I had become
expert on the plains. I grasped it up
and threw it into coil, and, just as his
knife struck the first rent into the silk,
I threw tho lariet with desperate skill,
and with a fearful jerk I dragged him
from his hold on the ropes. With a
shriek of despair he shot by the car at a
terrible speed There was a twang of
the intensely strong lasso, a heavy jerk
upon the balloon, a strain and quiver in
every cord, and I was saved at an awlul
fCOst—the life of a human being, and
that ..one formerly my most confiding
frhpV. •>
For the first time I looked over the
aid* of the car and a horrible sight
greeted me. There was hid ghastly head
swinging in the lasso, severed from the
body by the great f. rce of the fall, while
the body had crished away into the
earth 5,000 feet below. I should have
fainted at the sight in that high latitude,
had I not have been reoalled to a danger
that would have made my fate as certain
as his. The gas had escaped from tbe
out in the balloon utitil I was descend
ing with a fearful velocity, that would
have dashed me in pieces. 1 sprang to
tbe sand bags and throw tbem over, cot
waiting to cut them, and a piayer es
caped my lips that no one might be un
der them. This arrested the swift de
scent so that I came down in safety,
although swifter than I bad ever done
before. I landed in a little frontier
town, and the scene was so ludicrous that
I almost forgot the sad and fatal experi
enoe I had just gone through. The
people had seen the sand bags fall »nd
thought it was the judgment day; uiy
balloon they mistook for the angel Ga
briel, and I never saw such fpeedy de
sertion of a town before in my life.
Wagons rattled over the roads at a fear
ful dri"e ; horses dualled by them like
the wind, with great, swaggering despe
radoes on them, white with fear, and
teeth rattling like bear.s in a gourd
Others disappeared through the cwn
fielda, while those who were too badly
scared to run, prayed, sang, cried, and
did almost every thing.
When (hey realized what it was, they
hung their heads, as full of shame as
sobool boys caught kissing their sweet
hearts, and those who had rushed on tbe
roads came dodging io from day to day
for a week afterward.
The whole town turned out with me
to search for the body of my unfortuo
ate companion. After several days we
found it, buried almost out of sight in
the earth, with the limbs driven up into
tho body by the fearful force of tbe fall.
We buried the body with the head, and
then bidding'adieu to tbe little town, I
etaited on uiy weary and mournful jour
ney back to San Francisco with my bal
loon packed oo an oz oart. That was
my last voyage In the air. I returned
to New York ; and I bave consented to
make a voyage across the ocean, but I'll
either go alone or have a sufficient num
ber along to tame care of the lunaiii*
23, 1879.
"Cen Ye Forgive a Feller."
One day, thiee or four weeks ago, a
gamin, who seemed to have no fitends to
the world, was run over by a vehicle on
Madison Avenue, and fatally injured.—
After he had been in the hospital for a
week, a boy about hia own size, and look
ing as friendless and forlorn, called to
ask about him and leave an orange, lie
seemed much cmbairassed and would
answer no questions. Alter that he came
d.iily, always bringing something, if no
more than an apple. Last week, when
the nurse told him that Billy had no
 banee to get well, the strange boy wait
ed around longer than usual, and finally
it he could go in. He bad been
invite 1 many times before, but had al
ways refused. Jiilly, pale and weak and
emaciated, opened his eyes in wonder at
the sight of tho boy, and before he real
ized who it was, the stranger bent close
to h;s luce, and sobbed :
"Billy, can ye forgive a feller? We
was alius lighting, and I alius too much
for ye; but I'm sorry ! 'Fore ye die
wou't ye tell me ye have n't any grudge
agin mo ?"
The young lad, then almost in the
shadow of death, reached up his thin,
white arms, clasped them around the
other's neck, and replied—
"Don't cry, Rob. Don't feel bad. I
was ugly and mean, and I was heaving
a stone at ye when the wagon hit me.
If ye'll forgive me, I'll forgive you; and
I'll pray fir both of U9."
pub was half an hour late tho morn
ing Hilly died. When the nurse took
him to the shrouded corpse he kissed the
pale face tenderly, aud gasped—
"D—did ho say anything about—
about me ?"
"lie spoke of you before lie died—
asked if you were here," replied the
nurse.
"And may I go—go to the funeral ?"
"You may 1"
And he did go. He was the only
monrner. His heart was the only one
that ached. No tears were shed by ot
hers, and they left liim sitting by the
nfw mnie grave, tfo big that
he could not speak.— lndependent.
Correct Speaking.
We would advise all young people to
acquire in early life the habit of correct
speaking and writing, and to abandon as
early as possible any use of slang words
and phrases. The longer you live, the
more difficult tho acquirement of correct
language will be ; and if the golden age
of youth, the proper season for the ac
quisition of language—be passed in its
abuse, the unfortunate victim, if neglect
ed, is very properly doomed to talk slang
for life. Money is not necessary to pro
cure this education. Every man has it
in hia power. He has merely to nsc toe
language which he reads instead of the
slang whieli ho hears, and to form his
taste from the best speakers and poets in
the country, to treasure up ehoice
phrases in his memory and habituate
himself to their use, avoiding at the same
time that pedantic precision aud bombast
which show that weakness of vain am
bition rather than the polish of an edu
cated mind,
How Gen. Gordon Convinced Him
self He was Alive.
At length a fifth ball struck Gordon
full in the face, and, entering his cheek,
knocked him senseless. He fell, and for
some time his prostrate form wis wrap
ped in the smoke of hattle. We hear
from Gen. Gordon's own lips a story
that, in a metaphysical point, is exceed
ingly interesting. lie says that when he
fell he was utterly incapable of moving
Fie gradually began to think of his con
dition, and this is the half dream half
soliloquy that be carried on : "I have
been 'struck in the head with a six-pound
solid shot; it has carried awuy uiy bead.
On the left sidi there is a little piece of
skull left, but the brain is entirely gone
And yet lam thinking. How can a man
think with his head shot off? And if I
am thinking I cannot be dead. And yet
uo man can live after his head is shot
off I uiay have my consciousness while
dead but not motion. If I can lift uiy
leg, then lam alive. I will try that.
Can I ? j Yc«, there it is ; lifted up. I'm
all riifht " The General that every
SiHge of this soliloquy is indelibly stamp
ed on his mind, aud that in his exhaus
ted stale the reasoning was carried on as
logically as ever man roasoued at his
NUMBER 33.
d;:tk. Doubt succeeded argument a d
argument displaced doubt just as logi
cally as could bo. lie aays he never will
forget with what auxiety he made the
tost of lifting his leg—with what agony
i ho waited to see whether or not it would
move in rest) MIKO to his effort, and how
he hesitated before trying it for fear it
I might fail and his dath be thereby
demonstrated— Atlanta (ffci) t'onsti.
tution
A Heroic Convict.
In Memphis, when the fever's deadly
breath (irst smote the city, a man, a
I stranger, offered his services as a nurse
i They were ncoepted, and be began his
duties in the hospitul. lie was skillful,
attentive, and unremitting in his cira
of the sufferers. It turned out later that
j this man had hut recently been released
from prison, where be bad served*out a
I sentence of ten years. Some of the
i physicians, upon lonrui .-jg this part of
j his history, regarded hiui a iittle suspi
ciously, and hinted that his attention to
| the kick was not without a questionable
motive. Tl:cy watched hiui sharply.
! Finally, from the funds sent by the
North, he was paid for a nionth't service
It was enough to have taken him out of
the fever stricken country, had he chosen
Ito go He was seen to go out of the
hospital on the day he received the
money, and a colored policeman followed
| him. lie hurried along the streets until
'he came to the post-office There was a
bi>x in which to deposit contributions to
| the fever fund. The ex convict dropped
| in every dollar he had received for the
| month, and then returned to his post at
! the hospital. Two or three days later
he w.-.s missed from his accustomed place,
| and it was not until the next week that
: bis body was found with that of an old
negro, in a miserable shanty. He had
I gone to nurse this negro who had been
left to die alone, and so met his fate, be
i ing himsef stricken with the fever.
There was none to offer as much as a
cup of cold water to him who had ten
derly cared for more than a hundred of
| the fever's victims. This man had spent
! ten years behind prison bars. Hiscrime
lis not toid. Perhaps/bo was a thief,
j perhaps a forger, possibly a murderer.
| 15ut however black his blots upon life'#
page, let it be said that his death wiped
I them out. If living he trod only the
paths of sin, bis death at least was di
; vine—for he died for others.
Change of Life.
Change is the common feature of so*
ciety—of life.
Ten years convert the population of
I schools into men and women, the youog
| into fathers and matrous, make and
! marry fortunes, and bury the last gene-
I ration but one.
Twenty years convert infants into
lovers, fathers and mothers, decide men's
fortunes and distinctions, convert active
men and women into crawling drivelers,
and bury all preceding generations.
Thirty years raise an active genera
tion from nonentity, change fascinating
buties into bearable old women, convert
lovers into grandparents, aud bury the
active generation or reduco them to de
crepitude or imbecility.
Forty years, alas 1 change the faoe of
I all society. Infants ave growing old,
| the bloom of youth and beauty has
passed away, two active generations have
been swept from tbe stage of life, names
onco cherished are forgotten, unsuspeo
ted candidates for fame have started up
from the exhaustless womb of nature.
And in fifty years—mature, ripe fifty
yaars—half a century—what tremen
dous changes occur! Mow time writes
her sublime wrinkles everywhere, in
rock, river, forest, and cities, hamlets,
villages, in the nature of men, aud the
destinies and aspects of all civilized so-
oiety 1
Let us piss on to eighty years— and
what do we desire to see to comfort us
in the world? Our parents are gone;
our children have parsed away from us
into all parts of the world, to fight th«
grim and desperate battle of life. Our
o'd friends—where are they T Wo be
hold a w'irM of which we know nothing
and to which wo mo unknown. We
weep fur generations long gone by—for
lovers, for parents, (or ofcildren, for
friends in the grave. We see every
thing turned upsid; down by the fioklo
band of fortune, and, the absolute desti>
ny of timo. In n word, we behold tit*
vanity of life, and are quite ready to laj
down the poor burden and he gone.