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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-12

Captain ~Buker of the Hyde Light
Guards received. word from Col. White,
U. S. A., commander of Portland artil-
lery district, that a tug would report
in Bath Saturday noon to take the
Guards to Popham and return Sunday
night. The boys camped at Fort
Baldwin and drilled with the six-inch
guns, similar to the ones to be used
during the encampment at FIT. Will
liams in Portland in August. The
boys greatly appreciate the interest
taken by Col. White in furnishing a tug
for their transportation from Bath to
Popham. IN
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-12

The many friends of former Con-
gresham Charles E Littlefield will be
interested to learn that he has begun
his work as Special Master in the big
Virginia and West Virginia debt case.
Practically ali of the disagreeing ac-
counts have been reconciled. The diff
ferences have been on amounts rang
ing from $32,0O0,0O0 down to $4,000.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-12

Hon. L. +. Higgins with party Of
engineers from Boston is investigating
the sources which will supply the pro-
posed water system for the city Of
Brewer. 1t is their purpose to gather
such information as may now be pro-
durable before the meeting in August
when the count Of the peoples vote will
take place, the vote anent the PROPOSE
ton made by the company controlling
the district.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-12

Down at Manset, the fish firm of
John L. Stanley G. Sons, have complet-
ed arrangements for whale fishing. The
guns and implements used in catching
the whales have been secured and the
captain who is to command the craft
has been sent for at Cranberry Isles
The boat will start out on the first trip
this week. and as whales are reported
In the section, it is probable that some
will be secured. 1t is an industry in
which many are interested especially
among sea-faring men, and the out
come is awaited with interest in East
ern Maine.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04
Fairbanks Likened to an Eel


OF writing perhaps he assa by ridicue
Vice-Presioen Fairbanks
sails religious
biography
which well edited
In this autobiography
he worked himself
college education
livlhood at early day tic.
Lewis proved that his a
he that
cation paid for by checks issued refused
honor
the payroll of big corporation graduated corporation
gardy million
o i
individual would
all fellows
n
although srkngy like ideals
snted Lewis Anyhow it the little
the barefoot boy and the towpah having lain his stomach
IL is too bad stealing editorial forgetting
iftH the name of the which stolen
would rather
spoiled by such fellows
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Valentine postals at Van Horn
Drug Co., 55l Main.
Mrs. James SilcoX entertains in
formally, a few friends at a sewing
party. this afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. V. C. Talbert move
into their beautiful new home on
North Seventh, Saturday.
Milne & Milne today sold to j. Il.
Matthews, lots 81 and 2S in block
107. Consideration was not stated.
The regular meeting of the w. c..
T. q. will be held at the home of
Mr Hunter. S44 Ouray avenue, Sat
urday afternoon, Feb. g. at 2:30.
Mrs T. NJ. Todd entertains Friday
afternoon at cards in honor of her
two sisters who are guests from Sa-
Ida and Denver
DR.. Palmer has assumed director
ship of the Fairlawn Sanitarium, the
superintendency of which was made
vacant by the death, a few weeks ago,
of DR.. Washburn. The present nurses
will be retained and the institution
will be promoted along the same
lines as before. DR.. Palmer has a
fine reputation as a surgeon and ply
sician and will undoubtedly make a
success of the undertaking.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Miller enter
tain tonight at their home on North
Fifth, at cards.
Mrs. AIDA Keiser and Miss Richard
Fields are spending the day at their
farm over on the Redlands.
w. NJ. Cox, of Clifton, was operat-
ed upon quite successfully yesterday
by DR.. Palmer for nasal difficulties
He is getting along nicely today.
l.. Antics and n. A. Glasco, of the
real estate firm of Lee G Glasco, are
spending the afternoon at Palisade,
on business.
The J. Monroe Stewart Real Estate
company is putting in a panel and
glass partition in the rear of their
establishment today, making a roomy
private office
Mrs. John II. Fry received word
from her father. Mr. Carol, the well
known mining man of Ouray. that
he was very ill and she left this morn
ing for that place.
E. p King. who has been confined
to his bed at his home at 1860 Rood
avenue. is reported to be very low
and the doctors state that there are
very small hopes for his living over
few days.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04
Holding All Things in Denver

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Colorado
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those nothing o
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particular knowledge of what the outside
a fromthe
to
jibes
subscribe those change in that particular
policy
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their exchange tables
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Individual Judging from the selections made
example of genuine metropolitan journalism might
contained in that great publication
is ent OF
greatly augmented by this department of The paper
/ $
limits dpendent
10 a
capital fight fur
the They
much Senator Patterson
md Bonfi of
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Mains front ne
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objected e
all probability he viii be made 70 see the
and the other streets which it is pro-
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

LaVerne Cook. for five years fore
man of the MermodJaccard Jewelry
Company of st. Louis, Mo, has
charge of our repair department. We
can remodel your old jewelry into
new designs.-C. w. Primrose.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04
Hartman and interests Buy United States

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practically
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could Roosevelt will
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Full band music tonight. with roll
Ter skating at Auditorium.
Try Juanita coal and you'll use no
other.-Phone Junction 323.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

See Fred Mantey about harness oil
and soc whips.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Heavy hauling specially with
Barton x Terrill, Reasonable rates.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

Your nome LACKS health, comfort
and selling value without modern
bath room. See j. f. Mckenzie Tor
estimate. Phone Red 15l.
The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

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The daily sentinel., 1909-02-04

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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
COOKS lESKIMOS FAITHFUL.

be terrible thing to have reputation for being
ascbe Commander Pary for that be the answer to
the confusion which prevails what the Cook Eskmo
who accompanied the Brooklyn physician, have to the
subject of that trip to the pole.
will recalled that Peary short time us
very of what the Eskimos told him. He
natives of the frozen north bore testimony that
Dr. reality been anywhere the north pole
Which very important, if true
And Knud Rasmussen the haf-EskmO governor of
Greenland Denmark that the two Ekmos
supposed accompanied Dr. Cook the ultimate
north faithful him and bear willing testimony that Dr.
Cook really at the apex of the world.
Rasmussen himself being, have said, half an
Eskimo speaks lingo perfectly and he had difficulty
accompanied Cook, but he numbers who had
explanation of why they did tell Commander Peary
the truth they said that they commanders temper
civilized world has than half guessed already that
Peary temper which would rather not encounter
possible and the Emos have borne out the suspicion The
which Peay charging home with blood and bm
his eye vowng expose the gold brick which Cook
handing the world preudced his much in the eyes
the general public that he making friends for Cook right
along
Wonder how Peary must feel when he learns that the
Eskmos really dupng him. and pretending to dscredt
simply they afraid he would blow out
cylinder head if they told him the truth?
Such, at rate appears to be the fact The Esklmo
according highest authority Greenland really went
Cook the north pole and they willing to bear es
mony this fact time the complete satisfaction OF the
world.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
COMPARATIVE RAILROAD EARNINGS.

The shippers and representatives from various
organizations from all the country assembled In
Cincinnati nauguate campaign of education to foeSta the
proposed increase freight which the railroads said to
contemplation has adopted set of resolutions which will
forgotten when the attempt made it is made to
boost rates.
circular by the Trunk Line association has the
evident purpose preparing the public mind for just such
something the opinion of this body
of shippers may expect find ourselves met in period of
high prosperity with the most unjust and increase
in freight in the history of the country.
The resolutions adopted by the Cincinnati convention of
shippers the railroads and the public
income of the railroads of the country
that for 1897 by thousand five hundred and
dollars per mile increase Of three hundred and
forty-fve per cent
The income of all the railroads of the country for 1907
four hundred and forynne million four hundred and sixty
dollars eghyOne millions and quarter
1897 of four hundred and fftyree
per cent during the ten-year period.
In surplus from all the railroads in the United
actually exceeded the income of all the railroads
1897 by than sixty million dollars. ..-..- ..
The per train mile 1897 thousand three
hundred eigyhree dollars and in 1907 two thousand
hundred and seventy dollars
In face of facts and figures like these the shippers
Cincinnati very properly take the position that there
just for raising freight in this country
is hoped that if they have any such idea they will
Immediately abandon it.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
FEMININE SUPPORT OF GOOD ROADS.

Tuesday afternoon party of four ladies drove to The
Office after having made of three hundred and
thrve miles from cambridge to this city, the country
roads of Georgia in a four-cyinder automobile.
the beginning the end of the the ladies
bhOlden for the slightest assistanceOr
partnership Such repairs the trip
entirely by the hostess of the party and the tour
long ride which the ladies entirely enthusiastic
The trip is a notable in ITSELF but it is still more
memorable because of its significance in broader
this good roads gets the of the
behind there will be further doubt its triumphant
has already secured impetus such
for welfare has had but there
undertaking of this character which did not derive
additional advantage from having the support of the
why such that just completed by
cambridge ladies should not be frequently made At least
chief difficulty about them is the nature of the roads
which they will have to pass
should become frequent
become enthusiastic about the matter and then they would
themselves the task of bringing about of good roads,
1t would be difficult to the men to degree of
enthusiasm than at present. but would be highly gratifying
could enlist the cordial support of the
Nothing which has occurred could contribute that
end than this successful through the country from cambridge
to Atlanta by four unasssted ladies'
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
REAL STORY OF HOW MEN LEARNED TOFLY

glider would be able to hover in the
air like q soaring bird for almost
minute. supported merely by keeping
the surfaces tilted up against the
wind.
The kite stays up Chat is. over
comes the downward pull of gravity,
because it is tilted upward against a
moving stream OF air. The gliding
machine-which is simply a kite with
out a string-is supported in the same
way.
All this was soon clear to the
Wrights. They found that a couple
of surfaces 40 by feet. built OF
strong. light wood and covered with
stout cloth, were enough to support
the weight of a man, If those sur
faces were kept slightly tilted against
a continuous volume of wind blowing
35 or 40 miles an hour. Less wind
would not be enough to maintain the
weight.
The next important problem was TO
keep the apparatus balanced, and to
steer il. Without some steering ap-
paratus it was hard to keep the planes
tilted upward at the proper angle. and
it was hard to keep the machine on a
straight course.
So the Wrights spent several sum-
mers working on these problems. They
could be moved up and down. That
gave the tilt. Move the small plane up
and the machine would climb; move IL
down and it would head toward the
ground.
With these attachments gliding be-
came a science. 1t was no trick at all
to start from the top OF XIII Devil hill
and go sailing on toward the ocean,
remaining in the air for several min
utes.
IF she only had something to keep
her going" then said Wilbur, sin
stead Of going a quarter of a mile she
would go as many miles as we might
want"
That would be the real flying ma
chine. wouldn't it?' assented Orville.
"A couple of propellers.' continued VIII
bur, driven by a light gasoline engine
fought to be able to drive her through the
air fast enough to keep her afioat."
Lets try" said Orville.
So they set TO work Gin 1900 figuring
out the weight OF motor and propellers,
and the size of a glider which would lift
the weight of the motor in addition to the
man.
In the fall of 1903 the brothers were at
Kitty Hawk hard at work putting to-
gether the parts of a glider with gas
oline engine driving two large propellers.
similar to those which drive a ship in the
water The cold weather was coming on.
but the young men worked on through
September, October. November and even
into December, with no shelter but their
barn and only an oil stove to warm them.
At last December II, 1909, everything
was ready for a try. The motor spanked
the propellers whizzed. the engine roared
Orville crawled into his place in the ma
chine. Wilbur balanced it along the mono
rail. She was of. In the face Of a wind
blowing % miles an hour the machine
crept forward. She rose gently from the
ground; she skinned along, free o. ali
support, about ten feet from the earth,
and after covering between 500 and 800
feet, came to earth.
Man had learned to ny.
That performance at Kitty Hawk was
the first flight of man in a heavier-than-
air machine.
The work OF the Wrights since then
has been devoted to finding ways to get
better control over the planes.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
CIUDAD MEXICO'S CAPITAL
SECOND TIME IN HISTORY

old cathedral of Guadalupe that stood
there when Benito Juarez rose each morn
ing and went to mass; the same cathe-
dral that was erected in 1919 by the friars
in their march northward on their mis-
sion for the cross, as substantial and i'm
posing today as when erected by those
master builders over three and one-half
centuries ago. This building was also
the object Of the visit today Of General
Diaz and President Taft.
As fitting elimination of the exchange
of visits between the two presidents to-
day and I'm distinct contrast to the So
cial functions which attended the stay of
President Juarez in Mexico, when corn
cake was the principle article OF food for
the presidential table. is the banquet to-
night in the custom house in Juarez.
For the preparation Of the deIicacies for
the occasion President Diaz sent his
chief steward and chef from Chepultepec
castle, a man who formerly served In the
same capacity in the palace of King AL
fonso Of Spain. The silver for the occa-
sion is also from Chepultepec, and was
brought to Juarez under special guard
The flowers for the decorations came in
a special express car from the city of
Guadalajara and the decorators came
from Mexico City. The carriages in
which the Mexican president and party
PAID q call on the PRESIDENT OF the united
States and in which Mr.. Taft. and party
returned the visit to General Diaz, were
shipped from the presidential stables at
Mexico City.
One of the leading features of the visit
Of General Diaz to the border, besides the
significance of the exchange of visits
with President Taft, was the laying of
the corner stone by the president for the
monument which a grateful nation IL
erecting in the border city to Juarez, the
patriot. The monument, costing $4,000,
is well under way, its erection having
been brought about by popular subscrip-
lions. headed by $4,000 by President Diaz.
Appropriately, it is being erected in the
city where the president rallied his shat
tered army and started back on his
triumphal march to the capital after being
driven once to the border and almost
forced to flee to the United States as an
asylum Of life. The monument takes thu
form of a marble shaft surmounted by a
statute of the great soldier looking as he
did when he was in practical exile in the
border city.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
Georgia 5 Finances
The Macon News.

The Macon News.
Figures cannot lie-perhaps-but they
do tell conflicting stories in opposing
hands.
The expert accountants employed by
Governor Brown figured out an 'esti-
mated deficit. in the state treasury by
January !. 1910. of s72S. 566.5O. being the
difference between the appropriations OF
1875 charged up as demand liabilities"
against the state to January j. 1910. and
the cash condition OF the treasury on this
date whereas former Governor Hoke
Smith. analyzing the report, points out
that a considerable portion of the APP
preparations made by the midsummer leg
islative session of 1903 will not be due
and payable until during and after the
first six months Of 1910 and that a large
part Of the taxes which are chargeable
with the payment Of these appropriations
will be collected during the first six
months of 1910
ITO make a treasury estimate of date
January l. 1910. charging the treasury
with all of the appropriations for 1909 as
demand liabilities. when a considerable
portion Of them will not mature until
several months later. without crediting
the treasury in the estimate with all the
amounts due for taxes on January /
1910. which viii be collected before the
appropriations are due. cannot be sus-
talned." he says.
1t would be just as fair TO make a
statement Of the financial condition of a
merchant and charge him with all Of the
notes and accounts which he owes with
out giving him credit for notes and &C
counts that are due TO him"
Mr.. Smith points out other patent dis
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22

they could find a steady, strong wind
The weather bureau is full of informa-
ton of this sort. and came back with a
reply saying that the Cape Hatteras sec
ton of the North Carolina coast had 20
mile winds practically all the time. The
government maintained an observation
station at Manteo. an island near the life
saving station at Kitty Hawk, near XIII
Devil HILL The place was. quite remote,
but provisions could always be had at
Manteo.
The letter of the weather bureau man
added that there were great sand hills
the life saving station stands-hills four
and five hundred feet high.
Great" said Orville. We could fly
the kite from the top Of one of the sand
hills"
So the Wright brothers worked in their
shop in Dayton, making the parts of a
big kite. which was carefully designed
on paper. Then they bought and shipped
some rough lumber and tools to Manteo.
together with the parts of their kite, and
with gay hearts set out for a novel sum-
mer outing. For the Wrights at this time
QS9S) did not admit to themselves that
they were doing anything but amusing
MISUNDERSTANDING. In their own way.
1t was good sport; the Wrights have
told me so. They built their shed, put
together the parts of their kite, and flew
it. There was plenty of wind, plenty Of
room, and nobody to look on or laugh ex-
cept a lonesome coast guard.
The kite flew, and it was strong enough
to carry up Orville. when he lay belly
whopper'' between the upper and lower
planes of the kite. That part of the the
DRY was all right. But the kite would
not stay up with its human freight. The
wind was not strong enough, and one
man was not strong enough to keep run
ming with the rope.
But they found a new game. They
found the kite to be fine for sliding
down hill on the air." Instead of using
a rope to fly 1t they took the kite to the
top of a sand hill and sent it off into the
teeth of the wind. All that was needed
was a slight upward tilt of the planes
and the wind would almost support the
weight of man and planes. 1t would In
fact support the thing long enough to
make a long glide from the top of the
hill to a point eight or ten hundred feet
from the starting point
This was gliding" The kite be-
came a gliding" machine. The man
aboard kept the thing balanced by
wriggling his body. and sometimes the
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22
BY Harry q. Farmer.

BY Harry q. Farmer.
The kite is really the father of the
flying machine. kite with a gas
engine aboard is, in fact, what has
solved the problem.
1t was the hope of taking a ride in
a big cloth kite--a nope which many
a boy has cherished in his heart-that
set the Wright brothers to experiment
ing with what became, seven years
later, the first successful flying ma
chine.
Lets build a kite strong and light
enough and with enough surface to
lift a man." said Orville to Wilbur.
About 500 square feet of surface
ought to be enough to lift a man.
Anyway, we can soon find by trying
now big the kite should be.
I'VE will make the kite something
like the Hargreave box kite, with top
and bottom surfaces. Then 1 will get
in between, and you take the rope and
run with the kite"
This was the plan as proposed by
the younger brother. Wilbur said:
Bully. Well try it,
But where" both asked, simulta-
neously, can we play with big 40
foot kite without attracting a crowd
and making ourselves look silly?"
This looked like a staggerer. A
couple Of bicycle makers in Dayton
running up and down the streets fly
ing a 40-foot kite would have dis
turbed trade, to say the least. And
crowd of nooting boys would be
in the way.
But Wilbur had an idea.
Suppose" said he, I'VE go to some
lonesome, godforsaken piece of the sea
shore. The wind will be steady, and
u,
more lonesome it is the cheaper will
be the living. We can knock up an
inexpensive shed and this will serve
for shelter for US and as workshop
and shelter for the kite. Why not?'
So the brothers wrote to tho
weather bureau at Washington, and
asked about wind currents, and where
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-10-22

crepancies in the report
The state has been running behind
ever since the war and especially since
1907, when the taxes of an entire year
were sidetracked, as we understand it,
when Governor johnson who was de-
posed by the military authorities, ad-
vised the tax collectors not to collect
the taxes that year in order to keep the
money of the people from falling into
the hands Of the military dictators. 1t
results from this that the money that
should be in the hands of the state
treasurer the first of the year is not
collected until near the end of it, I'm
der such circumstances, coupled with
the constitutional limit of five miles
taxation for state purposes, IT is re-
markable that the government has been
run as successfully as it has and with
out catastrophe. The Hoke Smith ad-
ministration did not recklessly or other
wise add to the states financial straits
by squandering the public moneys I'M
less the increased appropriations for the
common schools of $250,0O0 and the ap-
Precipitation of $1,000 to purchase the
Chattanooga terminals for the state
road can be classed under this head
without these two items the last legis-
lature would have appropriated even
less money for expenses than it's pre-
decessor.
The wiping out OF the revenues from
the liquor licenses and the convict
leases are admittedly the immediate
causes for precipitAting the crisis upon
the state at this time, but the people,
through their representatives and in
their sovereign capacity are responsible
for prohibition and the destruction or
the convict lease system and the blame
must be placed at their door, If blame
there be, for these two measures which
were unexpectedly Drecipitated on the