The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 9

eople below that came up te THE SUNDAY CALL ether mome s had ke fl ’ i Hoft, ut to me to 11d sdve me. I I was 100 fright- » be sensible, and d T had an idea v to keep me still with his perform- kept on screaming down.on the earth promised to be the after if he would save fellow talks when a lucky thing the pro- ng to hold me to my must be a good sort me again and again while t air put of the bai- me trying to jolly me by be on land pretty soon. little himself, but eling between here s0 he kept his e thought that I was tan- v ropes and feared 11d carry it away. ant sure death to me likely to him, too, fo1 irop the balloor cautiously he tting out the he work of By this time I began to belleve that he All T could do was te hang on. It was a hard I knew that if Tonce let go and foot T should probably not be to raise myself to an upright sition. You can see the marks on my 1s now: the a souvenir of my trip that I sh: carry for some’ time. I am told that the bailoon was a thoue sand feet above grouna when it started to return. 1 suppose a hundred feet would have made me as dizzy. It doesn’t e much difference to a man in my position exactly what the distance s, so long as it is too great to be bridged by & by my se Hoff discharged he carried with nd my head sice. Ome of the balls n the back of irn and knocking » £0. 1 remember balls and sparks nd me and with the nd with my hands ery minute. I shouted 1ld and nobody heard »een the noiselof the ap- safe jump. After the roman candles had ceased to gleam the darkness was so thick that I couldn't realize my height. even by looking downward, which I didn’t very often do, anyway. People tell me that very few of the crowd knew what I was that was being carried up in the rops. I rose so quick- 1y that only a few noticed me before I was ought of sight. Those that aid notice thought me a.sack of sand. Wish I had been, It seemed to me that I was shouting loudly enough for all San Jose to hear. And I was barely getting the attention of the aeronaut, just below me. Little by little we came down, and my hands were growing slippery and I thought I could not hang on untll the ground was reached. Hoff didn’t call to me as much as he had. He was growing tired, I suppose, and I lost confldence in both him and my- self. But I didn’t care much any more; I was tired, so tired that all I knew was that it seemed as if somebody was fore- ing me to hang on and I dldn't want to: it was such hard work, and I begged to be allowed to let go. I don’t know whether I begged aloud; I wonder. It was In an orchard that we came down. I felt something_strike against my feet and I looked and ‘saw the top of @il Ty} Iz f flllm & tree. What a fealing of relfef cams over mel Tops of trees seem pretiy high and risky to & landlubber, but when you've been salling a good many hundred feet higher yet, there’s a very substan- tial sensation about stepping upon tree- tops, Only for a second I felt it, then I forgot again, and the first I knew was that I Wwas on the earth. It all seemed like & scene In & play where I was looking eom, but bhad part, Hoft fell heavily upon Ms face and jarred loose two of his fromt teeth, but I dldn’t know enough to go to his assist- ance. I collapsed. Hoff asked me questions and I heard him, but I couldm’t answer. I was comscious that he was cutting the ropes from me and putting me on my feet and then I obeyed him and walked whers he led. That was back to the park. People crowded around and talked and shouted and congratulated, but I couldn’t listen, I don’t know what they said. I guess I was a little rattled. Dewet, J’hey J'ay Js pParnell. HROUGHOUT Ireland there is a widespread bellef that Charles Stew- art Parnell {s not dead, but that it is he who is now fighting against Lord Roberts in the Transvaal under the name of Christian Dewet. ° This extraordinary statement is made by the Dublin correspondent of the Paris Temps, and it was published in that paper 1 “Many people in Ire- s the correspondent, “believe that, Instead of dying, Parnell simply withdrew from public life, intending to walt u a more favorable time arrived for putting his cherished plans Into exe- cution. This bellef has now become so firmly fixed in the people’s minds that the great patriot's tomb is to-day neglected, though it was for several years a Mecca for patriotic Irishmen and the rendezvous of all the Nationalist socleties in Ireland. And, if Irlshmen sympathize with the Boers, a main reason 1s because they be- lleve that the Christian Dewet who fs battling with Lord Roberts is their own Dr-’c\M! leader, Parnell. was present at the funeral of ths great Irishman and I could not help no- ng that there were mocking smiles on the faces of very many persons in the immense throng. I expressed my sur- prise to a venerable patriot, who was walking near me, and he whispered thess strange words into my ear: 'It's a dum- my we're going to bury and our leader himself is following the coffin, disguised as a priest. The people even say that @i HE old tradition that the hours of sleep before midnight are hours of ‘beauty sleep” means only that late hours take away beauty. Thousands of night workers will testify that eight hours of sleep from 10 to 6 is worth ten hours taken after retiring at 4 o’clock in the morning. Darkness is the proper tims for the sleep that does the most good. It is not well to sicep In a room In which plants are growing. Their food is carbonic acid gas. If they can live there the room is a bad place for you to sleep in. Besides, plants use up a good deal of oxygen and give off efluvia and pollen irritating to the human system. The soundest sleep is during the first three or four hours after going to bed. This has been ascertained by scientific experiment, though most people think they sleep soundest just before the time when consclence tells them to get up. Insomnia often comes from overeating. A little dieting may do mere good than a lot of doctors’ prescription: More per- eors suffer from overeating than from oo el For Those Who Cannot Jleep. they had great troubls to get him to cut off his beard. It's a clever trick he's playing, and won’t England be surpised when she finds the dead Parnmell coming back alive some years from now!" “During the following fo tinues the corresponde tionalist member of Pa been an intimate friand of Parne told him what I had heard “He was not in the leas he gave me a curious expla popular belief that Parnell ‘You know as well as I do,’ we have just bidden an ¢ to the great champion but it is our duty find that the Irtst convinced of his fmmorta rifament therefore live the imaginat men." " There 1s sald to ba some physical resent= blance between Gen t 1 nel those w leader. mystery cently spread Lord Rober other than C: ent antagonist !s none les Stewart Parnell. il el ) overworking. Long, deep breathinz kept up as long as possible 1 generally recomm sional sleeple such cases s to thinking. This i3 some the strain of keeping some point in the « will fixed on the effor the smallest any man to sleep in spite of hi Most psychologists a deep study of a ing to sleep ma a revelation as to sor ject, the mind through uncon bratlon accomplishing wonders the assistance of the will. Pas: memorized should be times before going to he Sometimes the sleepiessness of ¢’ {ldren 1s owing to excitati orga that case it is a & allow only vegetable foods meal. ole,