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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
AERoPLANEs FOR EVERYBODY.

Up to this time the people who have flown
have been the inventors and each man has
flown in his own machine. But now we have
come to a different period in flying machine
history. a large display advertisemenSin THE
London Times informs the world that there
Is an agency prepared to furnish without delay
any one Of four successful types of aeroplanes
The prospective aviator is confronted with the
respective merits of the Bleriot monoplane of
the type Calais-DoVer. of the Latham type of
the Antoinette monoplane and of the Wright
and Noisin biplanes. There any number of
others for sale also; some. such as the Curtiss
machine. have flown successfully. and others
have never been I'm the air. Immediately after
the Channel flight a wealthy Englishman bought
a Bleriot machine for his own use. Two Wright
machines and one Curtiss machine have been
sold to private persons in this country.
The cost Of the aeroplanes is comparatively
low A Bleriot monoplane, the No. II, designed
to carry three people, costs in Europe $4,000.
The price of the No. II, for one person. is $4,000,
and the planes of the No. IL. without the engine,
$1,000. The price of the Curtiss bpane is IS, 900
and of the Wrights, in this country. $500.
There plenty of machines good enough
for the public to buy and fly in. The difficulty
lies in knowing how TO fly The sailor can see
the squalls approaching him across the water.
The automobiles his road. But the
aviator cannot the squalls that may strike
him, nor tell when he will strike inequalities in
the medium through which he is going. Even
the best aeronauts are just beginning to learn
something of the science of aeronautics Yet
these difficulties need not prevent the rapid
spread of the of flying machines. Enough
knowledge can be learned even in short ap-
premiership to make flight possible. NJ. Roger
Sommer first sat In the seat of aeroplane on
July g. on August he made the worlds record
flight of two hours twenty-seven minutes ard
fifteen seconds.-Owen Wilson, in The Worlds
Work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

which guards the port of Tuns. Here is where
St Vincent de Paul minstered to the unfortunate
Christians whom the native pirates had enslaved.
Beyond charming Villas dot the hillsdes. with a
background in the distance of high purple noun
tains Bou Kornein with its two horns being most
conspicuous.
Proceeding very slowly for fear the wash from
the steamer may undermine the none too secure
banks we see the tNinkng lights of the city grow
ing more dim as they ascend the hill to the Kashah
and finally dock at the Tunes of the Phcenicians
the Tlnesium of the Romans. and the Tunis of to-
day The natives call this lovely city 1.-The Bur
moose of the Prophet just as they call the desert
1.-The Garden of Allah"
The Arabs at the landing. dressed in their pict-
uresuue Inuti-colored costumes, are very respect
full a great contrast to the horde OF pirates that
await one at Alexandria on ones arrival In Egypt
These savages seize a passenger and his luggage,
yelling like madmen. which Is very disconcerting
TO a nervous person who is not prepared for the
reception given by these ruffans. At Tunis every
thing is different; the attendants at the dock are
courteous and the custom house of1cers most
obliging and one gets his effects passed without
any difficulty.
The bus of the Tunisia Palace Hotel is waiting
and driving rapidly, soon reaches his destina-
ton. This is of the best hotels IN the world
for comfort and cuisine. From the tower one gets
a wonderful view Of this charming city. Adjoining
the hotel is a miniature Paris. wide boulevard
shaded by giant palms. is lined with cafes and cafe
chantants outside of which are little tables, al
which one sees the French drinking their coffee
and cognac
At the head of the avenue is the Port de France
which leads TO the native quarter. Here one sees
picturesque cream coOred houses, with bright blue
or green doors and Iattlced windows. arched gate
ways and streets thTonged with stalwart Arabs In
their bright burnOOses. High above are the domes
Of mosques and minarets inlaid with variegated
tiles snow white In the sunlight, but rosy at the
setting OF the Patriarchs. with long, white
hear aristOeFatic hearing that might he
Abraham Isaac or Jacob are to be met at every
step in the streets
The Port de France leads to the bazaars. which
are called souks. These practically tunnels
arched with brick. with openings at the top for
light and air. They are dark at o'clock. Here
one sees fascinating shops. with costly Oriental
rugs and works of art for SALE and also many
small ones filled with gew-gaws and trash with
which the native hopes TO tempt the traveller The
men dyeing stuffs In eaTthen vessels very pct-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
IN AUTUMN WOODS.

There's a sting of frost in the morning air
Ana the sunbeams slant like rain;
The far horizon is broken and dim
And the mist wreaths cover the plain.
The wooded upland has chosen its garb
OF yellow and red and brown;
The sumach has lighted its flaming torch
To show US the way from town.
Our backs are turned on the worries of life
Its tuppenny toll and Woe
And with gun on shoulder we seek the spot
Where the winds Of fancy blow.
Where the shy. brown wOOdcock springs from
our feet
And Bob White calls from the corn;
Yesterdays troubles are yesterdays care
Tomorrow thing for scorn.
Herbert Carrickson, in Outing
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
HEROISM OF DICKINSON
SECRETARY OF VAR GOT
LIFESAVING Medal.
Risked Death to SAFE DrO1ening
Man-Other Notable Rescues
Recognized By Government.

Washington, Oct. 16.-When a gold medal was
awarded 70 Jacob NJ. Dickinson, the Secretary of
War. few weeks ago TO commemorate his bravery
in saving drowning at Detroit in 1895. he
was admitted to membership in gallant company
of nearly seven hundred persons who have been
thus hOnored by the United States government.
The records of the United States Iifesaving Ser
vice show that since 1876 this government has
ferred 67S medals upon men and women who have
endangered their lives in saving, endeavOring to
save lives imperiIled by the sea. This does not
include the medals awarded in the last fiscal year.
The list of awards for 19eS-'09 will not be made
public until the report of the Lifesavlng Service
is transmitted to the Secretary of the Treasury
The first law authorizing the award by the gov
eminent of lifesavng medals was enacted by
Congress in 1874, and two years later the first
awards were made In 1876 three medals of the first
class were bestowed on Lucen NJ Clemens. Her
bert NJ. Clemens and A. J. Clemens, of Marblehead.
Ohio three brothers. who displayed signal gal
lantry in saving two from the wreck of the
schooner Consuelo near KeIley's Island. in Lake
Erie, on May I. 1875 The schooner, which was
heavily laden with blocks of stone, was Iaboring
in great distress in a northwest gale. Her cargo,
which had been left upon rollers. suddenly shifted
and the vessel at Capsized and went down.
Five of her crew Immediately persisted. The
naming two succeeded In getting a hold in the
crOsstrees Of the mainmast. which were above
water. where they chung fer nearly hour. 1t
was then that the three Clemens brothers took
small fat-bottomed skiff. u feet long feet wide
and Is inches deep, the only boat available the
coast, and. leaving their weeping wives and chill
dren, who formed part of the watching group
the shore went in the frail shell to the rescue.
In the judgment of the lockers several of them
old sailors. the venture was hazardous in the ex-
IRENE. After nearly an hours hard struggle with
the the Clemens brothers gained the wreck
and delivered the two exhausted men from their
position in the rigging With the added burden in
the skif they were unable to make shore. For
long time they remained tossing about on the
waves. in mOmentary danger of destruction.
Finally they sighted by a steam tug. which
came to their assistance For their self-forgetful
heroism" gold medals were awarded to the brothers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
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ALI MODERN COMFORTS.
NEWLY REfkTTED.

river from a pier near the bridge. Two members
of che metropolitan police force-James Collins
and Hubert c. Farren-received gold medals for
their herOism in rescuing twenty-five persons rom
the burning steamer General SlOcum on June 10.
1904 Patrick j. Lynch. New York fireman. re-
ceived silver medal for rescuing from fire and
flood score of the SlOeum's passengers A not
able rescue was made at Niagara Falls IN 1895.
At great peril OF life Joseph Fl. Bats and Thomas
Conroy fremen saved from going over the falls
an insane man who had waded out to within df-
teen feet OF the precipice- His Tescuers reached
him by creeping along ladder extended over the
water.
Eight women have received Hfesavlng medals
from the government the awards in two Instances
being gold medals The first medal eOHrerred
upon a woman was in 1850. silver medal being
presented to Miss Edith Morgan. OF Hamlin, Mich.
for rescuing and assisting TO rescue two fishermen
whose boat had capszed. The Board Of Awards
took into account also the heroic services OF Miss
Morgan in assisting in the rescue OF the wrecked
steamer City OF Toledo Grande POinte au
Sable Mich on December p. 1879
The first woman to receive gold medal was
Miss Ida Lewis Wilson, keeper of the Lime Rock
lighthouse, at Newport, r. 1. She rescued from
drowning at various times at least thirteen pei
sons The gold medal award was based on her
rescue in 1881 Of two soldiers who had broken
through the ice The second award Of a gold
medal 10 a woman made in 1892. Mrs. Martha
White of Copalis. Wash, rescued from drowning
in the breakers. the imminent peril Of her life,
three sailors from the British bark Ferndale.
which was wrecked on the coast Of Washington on
January 90 1892.
The rescue of a sehooImate from drowning in
Lake Chabot on August 81 1885, by Miss Edith
Clarke while pupil at the convent OF Our Lady
of the Sacred Heart at Oakland, Cal. won for
Miss Clarke a silver medal Two wOmen-Mary
WhiteIey and Maud King, of Charleston. 8. c.
received silver medals in 1888 for rescuins three
men whose boat capszed In the haroor OF
Charleston by a heavy wind. In 1891 a silver
medal was awarded to Mabel Mason, of the Mann
juda light station. for rescuing a man WHO had
ueen thrown from his boat into the Detroit River
by the swash of a passing steamer.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
A MYSTERY OF ARCHITECTURE.

There could apparently be no more obvious
and simple plan of construction than that q a
Doric temple A horizontal weight resting on
vertical supports is the most primitive Of arr
tectural ideas, and the temple is really moth
else. The traveller in Greece or Sicily. C
ing upon these gaUnt cOlOnnades. is inclined
wonder at the pleasing effects obtained by
simplicity. but does not question tina
pIicity itself Yet this simplicity is buf
mask. Beneath it turks a subtlety to WI
there is nothing comparable in the art of
other people. Penrose's measurements reye.
the fact that the temple in all it's parts
proportions was under the influence OF
tain infections. which infuse kind OF
terry into the most matter-of-faet appearar =
and which meet all attempts at summary
scription with a gentle contradiction. Nothing
seems more evident. for instance. than that tho
peristyIe as the parallelogram OF columns
forming the temples outer wall is called is OF
mathematically regular construction IL Is com
posed of so many vertical shafts of equal size
and height. standing eQuidistant from each
other on flat platform, and supporting /.
vertical-faced entablatuTe of horizontal ex-
tension Sclentihc analysis, however. gently
negatives every one of these statements. These
columns. IL answers us, do not stand vertically
but iEperceptibly lean inward They are not
quite OF equal height, of exactly the same
dimensions. for the angle shafts and their next
door neighbors are slightly thicker than the rest.
made the gaps little reduced as the
ner is approached. They do not rise out of nat
platform; the platform is in very slight degree
curved or cushion shaped. Neither Is the en-
tabature either upright of horizontal ex-
tentiOn. II leans inward a trife Ike the
columns. and is therefore not vertical: and IL IS
slightly curved, like the platform, and Is there
fore not horizontal
Bafied in this way. and headed or at every
turn. the spectator feels like some travellers -,
mid-desert. who, riding down tC blue sheet
of water under IN Overhanging rock. fnds 70 his
establishment the water FecOil from him and his
lake diAolve in air. Nothing In this strange art
Is what II seems 10 be. The most obvious fact a
turn out not TO be facts at all. And the closer
we carry our examination the more the mystery
spreads and deepens. II infects the whole tenn
pie 1t touches and alters cOrnice and frieze.
archltrave and abacus, capital and column. Il
reaches to the foundations and even 10 the
Nights of steps which form the approach TO thu
building. There is not single feature. nay.
there Is not single stone. In the structurs
which Is unconscious OF this mystery or which
Is IN itself the mechanically regular and rec
ultnear object IL seems TO be.-L. March RhAAr
upps. in The Contemporary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
DARKEST MEXICO.
What is Mexico ?

w nat is MEXICO.
Americans commonly characterize Mexico as
Our sister republic" Most of picture her
vaguely as a republic in reality much like our
own, inhabited by people a little different in
temperament. a little poorer and u little less ad-
publican laws-a free people in the sense that
we arc free
Others of us. who have seen the country
through a car window or speculated little in
Mexican mines or Mexican plantations. paint
that country beyond the Rio Grande as a benev
client paternalism in which a great and good
man orders ali things well for his foolish but
adOring people.
l found Mexico to be neither of these two
things. The real Mexico / found to be a coun-
try with written constitution and written laws
as fair and democratic as own, but with
neither constitution nor laws in operation. Mex
leo is country without political freedom with
out freedom of speech. without d free press
without a free ballot, without a jury system
without political parties, without any of our
cherished guarantees of life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, 1t is land where there
has been no contest for the Office of President
for more than generation where the execu-
tive rules ali things by means of a standing
army, where political offices sold for fixed
price. where the public school system in vast
country districts is abolished because a Gov
ernor needs the money. l found Mexico TO be
a land where the people are poor because they
have no rights, where peOnage is the rule for
the great mass and where actual chattel slavery
obtains for hundreds or thousands. FINALLY,
found that the people do not idOZe their pres
ent that the tide of opposition. damned and
held back as It has been ~ army and secret
police is rising TO a height where It must
shortly overflow the dam MeXicans Of all
classes and affiliations agree that their country
is hurrying toward general revolution In favor
of democracy, il not a revolution in the time or
Diaz for Diaz is old and Is expected soon 10
pass, then revolution after Diaz-JOhn Ken
meth Turner, in The American .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17

Tunis is so accessible that II is strange more
Americans do not there They flock to Cairo
which Is much further Off The climate is saIubri-
Gus and the local color far superior to that of the
towns in Egypt. Leaving MarseilIes one dav the
next evening one is in Tunis. From New York 10
Tunis the trip is of eight days There Won are
in the Orient, with far of the Oriental life
than can be got in Cairo. which is a sixteen-day
journey from New York
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
BURNO0SE OF PROPHET
BEAUTIES AND ODDITIES
OF CITY OF TUNIS.
Writer Thinks Tourists Who Pass
1t By in Favor of Cairo Make
WOfM Mistake.
BY W. NJ. GrlnneII.

The. steamer creeps slowly along the canal. on
the right the ruins of ancient Carthage and on
the heights above, where In the times of the Car
thaginians was the fortress of Byrsa bringing back
memories of Scipio and Hamilcar stands the Ca
thedral of St Louis, and near by the monastery
Of the White Fathers. 1t this spot that
St Louis King of France, died on his way to the
Crusades.
ca the left is the little town of La Goulette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
BLOCKING HIM.

say. old man." began BorrOughs, lend me your
ear for a while. will yOu?"
INV friend /" replied Wise shrewdy suspecting
touch .'Id gladly lend You both OF them; then
wouldn't be able 20 hear you ask me 10 lend you
anything else''-The Catholic Standard and Times.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
FISHERMEN FOR A THOUSAND YEARS.

The Lowestoft fishermen say that the method
Of catching behring's has scarcely changed dur
ing the last thousand years or more, and that
their nets must be the same in principle as those
which were employed before Richard the Lion
hearted and his Crusaders sailed for the Holy
Land. The statement has much OF truth IN IL,
and when drift at our nets on the lonely
sea with our great lamplike riding light burn
ing steadily amidships, we present much the
same spectacle that could have been witnessed
many centuries ago. II was at night when the
herrings were caught and night on the vast and
melancholy waste of water hides that modernity
which only day reveals. There other riding
lights and here and there the mast head and
side lights Of a steamer going north or south;
but the steel and iron hus are only guessed by
some chance glimmer from a port or deck
house.
And the men have changed but little surely
Their dress for work is primitive, hiding all that
is suggestive of the modern landsman. There
is the Jumper which the skipper and crew wear
"A garment made of stout canvas and barked
with the sail cloth. II covers the arms and
trunk nearly to the knees. almost as the coarse
smOck CARRIED the serf Of old and the men OF his
rank who would alone in those days. go 70 sea
a nightdress. It's short form is generally ia
vored but shippers often use the long garment.
as the covering keeps the cold out, and shippers.
being leaders have spare time in which 10 feel
the drafts that invade all unprotected cTevices.
There are rough, thick. Woollen stockings and
boots which may be thigh boots. or half boots.
or clumpers. according 10 the weather, and as
for head dress that is anything In the way OF
covering which comes handy; but mostly cap,
evcept in bad weather, when IL is the SOU
yyester-Walter Wood. in Scrlbner's.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-10-17
LIONS MoTHERED BY A SPANIEL.

When Kitty. the Young African lioness in
Tastlake Park, Los Angeles, gave birth to her
first pair Of cubs. last March. il was found nee
esseTy TO take the helpless little creatures iron,
fheir mother TO keep them from being killed A
ster-rother WAS urgently desired, one who
gould supply proper noufishment so Iucv a
geld spaniel, was given this position of honor
Like many another distinction il was dearl,-
purchased for her own family of eight puppies
Hs wei as a foTlorn kitten which Lucy had
adopted, had 20 be sacrificed. Within four hours
AFTER the cubs were born the Suaniel was con-
tenicdN ieedlnS her new charges. and event
ually she was recOnciled 10 the loss of her own
progeny.
When the cubs were about seven weeks old
little meat was added 10 their bin of fare
chopped hNer and raw beef. but until they arr.
three months old Lucy viii Still continue 10 care
fer thoIn ana she seems satisfied with her IA =,
Meanwhile Kitty, their own mother Watches
The CUPS playing about the lawn in front of her
csge ana is evidently not at an Jealous or wor-
charming babies ~ ''1
INC reason TOT depriving the lioness OF her
yoUns was mat owing TO the proximity OF her
cage to The sidewalk and the Sunday crowd she
would become nervous and excited. and in pacing
about her cage was likely TO trample her Off
spTin6 10 oeath-Nan Norden's Magazine.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-24
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-24
Heart toHeart
Talks.
NOTHING Is LOST
By EDWIN A. NYE.

1t is consoling to believe that moth
ing in all the universe is ever lost.
Matter. so far as science knows, is
immortal.
If nothing of matter can be lost.
shapes. controls. rules matter? Is it
fair to reason that the lesser shall live
and the greater dief
Men are born. They live. sleep.
struggle. sorrow. enjoy, die. They live
on the fruits of the field. and when
they die the latter live on their bodies
and so the endless chain of being
and dying.
How will you give significance to
their lives except that nothing of those
lives is ever lost?
The ant does not understand the
meaning of its life, but it is always
busy filling the purpose for which it is
made The bee does not know the
Significance of its being. but 1t goes on
working out its little cell with infinite
integrity. and the beehive is the re-
suit No individual effort of ant or bee
is lost in the outcome Of the scheme.
Man is more than ant or bee.
If man is merely animal he is no
more. Take, for instance, the defni-
ton that some economists make of civ
ilization. They say civilization con-
sists in the organization Of industry,
the accumulation Of wealth, the thrift
of the people.
The ants and bees organize industry.
accumulate wealth and are thrifty.
An ant hill is better organized and
governed than any city on earth.
Man Is a soul.
And If nothing is ever lost, and II
there is great purpose running
through his creation. then every noble
act Of mans soul is gathered up and
woven somehow into the final issue
of all things. Is it not so?
Let US believe this to be true, even
if we cannot prove it-save by anal
ogy.
Because
Then whatever we do or say or
think or feel has significance and
meaning. We are the answer to the
why of our existence. We are con-
tibuting to some "faroff. divine
event" We are factors IN the eternal
outcome. We are part and parcel OF
all We may be kin TO the clod. but
we are also workers with God.
These are big thoughts. but we must
think them sometimes.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-08-24
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