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A BATTLE FOR LIFE. The Frightful Experience of a Ger man Aeronaut. A Tl)rilling Struggle with Death In lb* Air—The Balloon Caught by a Whirl wind and Touad Hither an.l Thlth •r—A Paaiant'i Sorry End. The German aeronaut Wolff recently had a most terrible exporienco during a trip in a balloon from the grounds of tho Cologne Exhibition of the Art of War, says the New York Sun. In com pany with Peter Schmitz and a manu facturer named Depenheuer he started in the balloon Stollwerk at one o'clock on a cloudy afternoon. The balloon flew one mile almost straight upward into the thick of a storm. Wolff, fear ful of the strong winds and hail around him, decided to make a landing as soon as possible. "There was nothing but woods and woods under us," he said, subsequently. "The balloon descended with violent rapidity. I finally discovered a little clearing on a steep mountain side and prepared to anchor. The balloon de scended more slowly, and the people who had observed us hurried together underneath to help us land. I drew the ventilator a little further open and mo tioned to Schmitz to get out. Depen heuer alighted, and all was well, when suddenly a whirlwind struck us. A ter rible jerk sends me on my back in the car. I jump up to find all things swim ming down, down below me, and two men clinging helplessly to the edge of the car. I eaten the nearest one. a peas ant who tried to assist in the landing. Too lata! His strength is prone he lets go, and I hear with horrible distinct ness the muffled thud of his body on the ground. "My heart sickens, but I rally to save my friend Schmitz, who still sticks to tho car's side. Already tho clouds are sinking beneath us. We are at least two miles above the earth. I try to raise Schmitz into the car but he has sunk so far down from the edge that I can hard ly grasp his wrists, and he is too weak to make an effort for himself. Both of us groan our despair, for all seems over. Slowly and painfully I raise him a lit tle, set my teeth in the back of his coat and endeavor to bind him fast with the storm-li^ie. A few moments drag by in hope and despair, and I finally succeed in fastening the rope under his arms a:id in tvins him so to tho car. There is SAFELY in tho device, however, for wr rc tv. to lose consciousness for his body v.'piikl relax and he u'ouhl slip uv vy. call t: him: 'Spread our, ya\'r arms! Spread out your arms!'. I 1 •.« '.!• iii. body move in response to my :ulri u: i.)ii. but his voice is lost to me. "Ail this has occupied twenty-five minutes, and we have in the meantime been slipping upward. Every thing now depends on our making a quick hindiiig. I draw open tho valve and we begin falling. We plunge into a great storm. The balloon spins around in cir cles, and sways about like a drunken man. Rain, hail, thunder and lightning sweep over us. The balloon reels so that I must lie on my^face to remain in the car. 'Peter! Peter!' I call to my friend. 'Hold fast! Only hold fast!' "No response, for he can not hear me. The. agitation of the balloon has loosened the rope and he has sagged back again, down the side of the car, so. I can see only his finger tips on the edge. 1 creep to tho side of the car, seize his right wrist with my left hand, and with my right hand and teeth One minute, only a minute more, I cry back, 'and we will bo there.' "The nearer we come to the ground, however, the more violent becomes the oscillation of the balloon. Finally we slip over a house, a barn and drop like a shot to the ground. 'Let go,' I shouted to Schmitz, 'and jump away from the anchor.' "He obeys and the balloon, 195 pounds lighter, soars upward. I pull at the valve with all my strength till the anchor catches a small tree. But the tret' gives way, and with the rebound the car spri.igs up to the balloon, and for a mo ment I hang on almost by my teeth. The anchor catches again in a tree. Again a jerk, a crack, a rebound, and I am tossed about lilce a ball. Once more t!iO anchor catches. I find myself just above tho top of a denso old cedar. Head first I dive into the' branches and fail from bough to bough till I reach the ground. The anchor rattles near me. Another tree breaks, and the bal loon sails off to the northwest. "I had landed near Clive. In ani hour I had the whole neighborhood oiit look ing for Schmitz. He was not to be found. 'Dead,' I thought, as I limped painfully along between two peasants in the direction of the Overath railway station. Presently a group of men and won: en hurried toward us from a side street. Three of them were half carry ing a man. I hastened hem as rapid ly as I could, and had Schmitz in my arms. "To-day my head is dense and weighty. Every bone in my body aches and pulsates. I can not sleep, and 1 have no peace, since I can got no news of the poor peasant who fell a sacrifice to his willingness to help me." Sagacious Sparrows. The little English sparrows in New York have learned a new dodge since electric lights replaced gas in the city parks. When the current is turned off at dawn the bottoms of the globes arc filled with thousands of insects which have been attracted by the lhrht and killed. Tho sparrows come around after the globe has cooled off, slide down the Qarbons and devour the insecth A Ni|jro'« Monster Henri. Abner Dorse tt, a negro living at Hickory Mountain townshi-, North Carolina, has the largest head of any person in the United States so far as heard from. I,t is thirty-two inches in diameter, and gives Abner a decided "top heavy" appearance. MONKY TO LOAN time. Write or call on 46 SUPPLEMENT. for 1 or 10 years at lowest, rates. No Commission. You can !,PAY PART or ALL of the loan any GEO. 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