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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
AVIATORS LIKE ESPERANTO.
No Other Language Spoken at French
Flying School.

No Other Language Spoken at French
Flying School.
The connection between aviation and
Esperanto is not apparent, yet it must
exist. for at Mourmelon lie Grand, the
great French aviation school. nothing
is spoken by the initiated among them
selves but Esperanto.
Ernest Archdeacon, who has done
much for aviation by offering prizes, is
an advocate of the universal language.
Henri Farman. who runs his school for
flying at Mourmelon. is a master Of
Esperanto, and among his pupils in
flying M. Efimoff, the Russian; NJ. Van
den Born and Nine. Frank are prof
cient.
When the days work is over NJ. Far
man will hoist the Esperanto flag over
his hanger and give his pupils lessons
in the language. They are of all ma
tionalties. SO perhaps that is one rea-
son why ~aviators have taken up the
language.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
OLD TIME MISSISSIPPI
METHODS OUT OF DATE.
Captain Formerly Waded to Locate
Elusive Channel.

Steamboatmen who have been con
tending with low water in the upper
Mississippi river should consult with
the more ancient mariners in the Mis-
sissippi for pointers on the movement
Of boats on low water and then start
out to restore navigation on the
stream.
Captain William Kelly. secretary of
the Mississippi and Ohio River Pilots
society, says this is the first season
since 1856 to his personal knowledge
that steamboats, have ceased to run
during the open season.
In the summer Of 1856, Captain Kel-
ly says, he was plotting the steamer
Stella Whipple when the water was
four inches lower than this years rec
ord. The boat was towing two barges
as lighters coming down the stream,
but got stuck on the crossing at Rob
inson's rocks. fourteen miles below st.
Paul.
Captain Kelly says he waded into
the river ahead of the boat to locate
the best place to drop the anchor and
pull the boat over the bar. The water
was sixteen inches deep, and the best
channel was located by wading, and
Captain Kelly returned to the boat
without wetting a stitch of his cloth
ing.
The method of pulling the boats
over shoal crossings was to carry the
anchor out in 81 yawl ahead of the
steamer. drop it to the bottom Of the
river and pull the boat over by Il line
attached to the anchor and to the cap
stan on the boat.
When all was ready the passengers
were transferred to the barges to light
en- the boat. The run was then made
without difficulty till the next crossing
was reached. when the anchor and
capstan process Of pulling the boat
over might be repeated.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

Ito see women take up these things.
and l am always willing to encourage
anything that is done by a woman.
II have watched Miss Todd's prog
ress with much concern and hope she
will succeed in making a successful
flying machine. If she needs any more
help l am willing to give it to her.
II am receiving so many letters from
people who want help! Yesterday l
received four letters from ambitious
aviators or aeronauts-which should /
call them? would be willing to help
any oma to accomplish something
that is worthy. much more than the
men,
If Mrs. Sage should decide to help
the woman aviators she would already
discover a flock of them who have en-
tered the field. some Of them wives
or sisters of the man birds" who are
flying and others who are determined
to be woman birds without waiting for
any mere man to lead the way.
Miss E.. Laura Todd of New York
is probably the first woman in the
world to design and build an %aeroplane.
This was a collapsible device. which
she first made known to the public in
the summer of 1908. IT that time,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
The Gar Bell.


One of the best known bells in the
world has. strange to say, never been
rung-that known as the Car Kolokol,
or the car bell. This bell is said to
be the largest anywhere. There is an
interesting history attached to it.
When it had been cast. attempt was
made to hang it so that it might be
rung. but by an unhappy chance it
broke from its supports and fell to the
ground. wherein it made a great hole.
into which it sank and lay for many
years. Finally. after more than a hun
dred years Of oblivion. it was raised
and placed in a public square in Mos
COW. where it now stands. This bell
weighs more than 100000 pounds and
is more than nineteen feet in height
and sixty feet in circumference.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
Mrs. Sage
ToHelpTh

The baroness had flown once around
the big field at a height Of eighty
meters and was being vociferously ap-
plauded by the spectators when two
other aerOplanes passed over her. The
rush of air from the other aeroplanes
caused her d moments confusion. She
cut off the ignition and then lost con-
troll of the machine. The biplane Gid
ed smoothly along for a or
two. then turned over and dropped to
the ground with its occupant.
Strangely enough. the man birds do
not take kindly to the idea of their
mates flying. and some of them are
quite fierce and even rude in discour-
aging the idea.
Women aviators" exclaimed Cap
tain Thomas S. Baldwin. lit means
nothing but danger and accident, if
nothing worse. Why? Because women
are temperamentally unfit to guide an
%.eroplane. They are not stolid enough.
They are too imaginative.
"Ihey see the many sides of a ques-
ton at once and therefore find it hard
to choose. The operator of an aero
plane must see just one thing, and
that must be the right thing, and be
must do it at once.
1.-The woman aviator when an emer-
gency arises sees a half dozen courses
to pursue. She thinks she can go up or
down. right or left. keep straight
ahead, just drop or do nothing. and see
what will happen.
"Now. take the case of Nine. de La
roche. That was a perfect example
of the folly of woman attempting to
drive an aeroplane at it's present stage
of development. Had a man been in
the machine. instead Of it's occupant
being Nine. de Laroche, I don't believe
there would have been any accident.
But she lost her head and then lost
control of the machine"
Mr.. Charles X. Hamilton is equally
opposed to women as aviators.
ut won't do at ALL" he said. They're
not fitted for it. and it means only
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

while giving no detailed description of
spread of forty-ive feet. with a width
of seven feet. The plane vas to stand
six feet in height and to weigh several
hundred pounds less than any other
aeroplane Of the time. The engine was
to be Of special design and of exceed
ing lightness and strength.
Miss Todd not only designs her aero.
planes. but. being skilled in the use
of tools. is her OWL model builder.
1t is believed that Miss Katherine
Wright, sister of the Wright brothers,
was the first American woman to make
a. fight in an aeroplane. This she did
On Feb. IS. 1909. at Pau. France, when
she made an ascent with a brother,
Mr.. Wilbur Wright.
Women were one Of the big features
Of the aviation meet at Los Angeles
last January. After M. Paulhan had
performed some of his startling feats
he took Nine. Paulhan in his machine
and flew away with her to Redondo
Beach and back again. a distance of
thirty miles. The flight lasted thirty
six minutes.
To Nine. Raymonde de Laroche, who
Is a French baroness. belongs the dis
tinction Of being the pioneer woman
aviator of France. although even 9th
err women have been licensed as air
pilots by the French Aero club. She
was one of the first women to take q
practical interest in aviation and soon
after the first international cup event
at Rheims purchased a Voisin biplane
and later was an entrant for the prize
Of 5000 francs offered the woman max
ing the best time FOR ten kilometers.
Her efforts at Ehe meet resulted in
of the most distressing accidents
in aviation. She was driving her b.
plane at a height of fifty meters when
she suddenly lost control of the ma
chine and fell with 1t to the ground.
Her legs and arms were broken and
her whole body terribly bruised.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

trouble. Suppose they can run the
machinery and understand the princi-
pies. That doesn't mean they can make
a successful flight. The case of Nine.
de Laroche is a perfect illustration of
the danger of a woman in the field of
practical aviation"
Mr.. Clifford B. Harmon, on the other
hand. is rather doubtful of the dictum
that women can't succeed as aviators.
"'They operate automobiles" said Mr..
Harmon. land they operate them bril-
liantly. Mrs. Harmon runs an auto
mobile better than | do. and she
mastered it in less time than | did.
II have taken up at different times
fifteen ONE on balloon trips and two
in ~aeroplanes. and on no occasion did
l see any lack OF nerve One or two
of them were a little bit nervous just
as they entered the basket to ascend.
but as soon as we were off the ground
they were as cool as l was. and every
one of them was anxious for the trip
in balloon or aeroplane t o continue or
to be repeated.
1T may be that they are not so con-
stituted as to master the intricate me-
chanicaI features Of an aeroplane. !
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
QUEEN MOTHER DROPS COLOR
Alexandra Gives Away Her Elaborate
Court W~ardrobes.

The English queen mother. Queen
Alexandra. does not intend ever again
to yea colors and has given away
many Of the costly and elaborate gar
ments in the royal wardrobe which
she will never use. She will wear the
becoming small Mary Stuart bonnet
with the peak in front and hanging
veil behind for some time to come
when out of doors. but indoors she
usually wears a white Grape headdress
with a white Grape collar and broad
cuffs Of the same material.
Queen Alexandra has left the pre-
cincts of Buckingham palace only twice
since her widowhood. but has taken a
good deal of exercise in the beautiful
grounds.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

PRESENT DAY PIRATES. (

!, We were crowded in the cabin.
, Not a passenger could sleep.
} 1t was midnight or the waters,
; And a storm was IN the deep,
, But no word about the tempest
, Oozed from out our pallid lips
!, We were all too busy banning
} The iniquity of tips.
!, IT'S a fearful thing in winter
, To be shattered by the blast
) And to hear the rafting trumpet
, Thunder, Cut away the mast"
} But this poem of u childhood
, Paints a scene that's somewhat
: tame.
) Far more fearful are the stewards
) n their wholesale holdup game.
} Everywhere a fellow wanders
, Smiling stewards haunt his path.
: Table stewards. stateroom stew
ards,
Stewards Of the deck and bath.
} Stewards meet you, stewards greet
, O
, From the time you step aboard,
: Planning how to separate you
) From your much depleted hoard.
, Men may talk about old Black
beard,
, Men may talk Of Captain Kidd,
: But to neither of those worthless
) Need the steward lift his lid"
} They were more or less successful
, Terrorizing old time ships,
? But the modern ocean terror
: Is the steward seeking tips!
: Dennis A. Mccarthy in New York
) Sun.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
ARTS OF PEACE.

A time will come when the
science of destruction shall bend be-
fore the arts Of peace; when genius,
which mul.iplies our powers, which
creates new products, which DIFF
fuses comfort and happiness among
the great mass Of the people, shall
occupy in the general estimation Of
mankind that rank which reason
and common sense now assign it.
-Arago.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
w.lsh s+..I Iik.d In Rritain.

The total yearly output of iron and
steel in south wales. Great Britain, is
100000 tons. of which only 100000 tons
are exported. showing a heavy home
demand.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

Especially was she interested in the
big biplane being built by Miss E. l..
Todd, the woman aviator. The plane
is a large one, but Mrs. Sage went
over it's every detail and showed by
ventor who vas showing her round.
that she understood a great deal about
air craft.
1T is very gratifying" said Mrs.
Sage. speaking of Miss Todd's effort.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

Your complexion as we'll as your
temper is rendered miserable by a dis
ordered liver. By taking Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets you can
improve both. Sold by Close g. Co.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
Rounania Enforces Reforestina.

Foreign lumber firms which possess
and use up the forests of Roumania are
to be compelled to pay a tax of Sc an
acre as security that the denuded wood
surfaces shall be again reforested.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
BARONESS DE LA ROCHE.

BARONESS DE LA ROCHE.
don't know about that. but I am con-
WINGED they have all the nerve neces-
sary for operating one"
The opinion of these aviators is not
entirely encouraging. but then it is
not conclusive. 1t is a masculine trait
to declare that women are deficient in
machinery and out Of door sports. yet
the judgment has sometimes beenfound
incorrect. Anyway. II Mrs, Sage de-
cides TO help the women aviators we
can soon have the matter tried out.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
SOCIETY DIRECTORY.

LODGEOF Observation-Disclosures No. g.
holds regular communications on the first and
third Thursdays of each month at the Masonic
J.E. TRUAx, V. M.
ROBERT. WORK, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
A Famous Compliment.

OF famous compliments paid TO the
fair sex the supply is so large and
dazzling that it is a matter of no
small difficulty to pick out the bright
est gems. but if the following was IN
looked for it certainly deserves a
place among the best: Fontenelle
when ninety years old passed before
Nine. Helvetius without noticing her.
"Ah," said the lady. that is your
g%allantry. then! To pass before me
without ever looking at mel!
eff I had looked at you. madam
replied the old beau. II never could
have passed YOU at ALL"
The Postscript.
Little Johnnv-Dad. there's a girl at
tending our school whom we call
Postscript.
Dad-Postscript.. What do you call
her Postscript for?
Little Johnny-Cos her name is AIDE
line Moore.
4 lazy liver leads to chronic dyspepsia
and Observation-Disclosures the whole
system. Doan's Regulets Us cent per
box correct the liver, tone the stomach,
cure constipation.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08
The Women
AviatOrS
IA RS. RUSSELL
Yl SAC E has

ASo PS
aviation. So inter
ested is she in the
doings of the fly
men that she took a
motor spin to Mine
ola, where the Aero
O a u society
houses a dozen men
and biplanes in a
big red shed. and
looked over all the
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

A. F. g. A. M.-Lebanon Lodge holds regular
communications at the Masonic Temple on the
second I'D fourth Fridays OF each month:
VIM. STEVENSON, W. NJ.
j. b. Balm, Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

M. W. Abingdon Camp, No. 1880 meets in
the Woodman hall the second and fourth
Mondays of each month.
WIN. A. LAWN V. G..
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

10. F.-Langdon Court, Independent Order
of Foresters. meet in the Workmen hall, the
6rst and third Tuesdays of each month.
W. A. FERGUSON, C. R.
j. Balm, Rec. Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

l.. o. o. F.-Meets every Tuesday night IN
hall over First National Bank.
FRANK CAMERON N. g.
b. A. JOHNSON, Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

M. B. A.-Modern Brotherhood of America
meets in the Opera House Hall on the first and
third Wednesday of each month.
". A. FERGUSON, President.
GEO. E. DUNNIGAN. Secretary.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

o. E. S.-Langdon Temple holds regular com.
munications on the first and third Tuesday of
each month at the Masonic hall.
ETHEL WALKER, Mrs. SADIE MILNE w. NJ
Sec'y. HUGH MCDONALD, w. P.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

&C f. No. s0S-St. Alphonsus Court, meets
on the first and third Wednesdays of each
month in their hall over the Mooney State
Bank. JOHN SHEEHAN, G. r.
JOS G. SCHILL. Sec'y.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-09-08

SCHOOL BOARD.
Members of Board of Education-John
Mahon Chas. Hunter, w. B. Dickson, Z ).
Fox, J. J. Mahoney.
Ir0aSuTer....
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15
Joseph VIM. Taylor
UTAHs LEADING UNDERTAKEN AND LICENSED
EMBALMER.

telephone 35l Office open day and night, 81 g. Is South
West Temple street. Salt Lake City. Utah.
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15

words which ever distinguished him by the gen
import they convey, 'of Carrollton."
Although active and efficient member of
Congress, Charles Carroll occasionally returned to
Maryland and aided in the formation of its Con-
stitution and laws. In November 1916. he was
made a member of the Board of War, and in De-
cember was chosen member of the first Senate of
Maryland, and the following year was again semi
to Congress- serving on the committee that visited
Washington and the patriots during their memora-
BILE winter at Valley Forge In IT'S he was elected
the first Senator from Maryland in the Senate till
1901. when he retired from the great theatre Of
public action, where he had acted conspicuous
and glorious part, that stamped his with uu-
fading glory, his memory with lasting gratitude
and enduring fame. For thirty years he, enjoyed
the cheering comforts of private life and survived
to hear the funeral knel of all the other signers.
In October, 1929, the several bishops had been
attending the First Council of Baltimore. beiore
leaving for their diocese. proceeded to Carrollton
Manor to pay their respects to the aged patriot.
1.-The aged patriot, says one of the bishops.
though in his ninety year. appeared to en-
joy perfect health and to be full of life We
versed with him and had full opportunity OF wit
Messing the surprising retentiveness of his mem
DRY and how perfectly he retained his mental pow
ers." The patriot died on November II. 1852.
Daniel Webster. in a speech delivered in com
1nemOraton of the lives and services of John Adj
ans and Thomas Jefferson, in Faneui hall, Bos-
ton. on August 2. 1875 PAID the following tribute
to Charles Carroll:
"Of the ilustrous signers of the Declaration
of Independence there now remains only Charles
Carroll. He seems an aged oak standing alone
the plain. which time has spared little longer
after all its contemporaries have been leveed with
the dust Venerable object delight to gather
round its trunk while yet it stands. and to dwell
beneath its shadow. Sole survivor of assembly
of as great men as the world has witnessed, in
transaction one of the most important that history
records, what thoughts, what interesting refiec
tons must fill his elevated and devout soul If
he dwell on the past how touching its recoec-
tons; if he survey the present, how happy. how
Joyous how full of the fruition of that hope which
his ardent patriotism INDUCED If he glance at the
future, how does the prospect of his country's adj
vancement almost bewilder his conception For
tunate distinguished patriot! Interesting relic of
the past Let him know that, while we honor the
dead, we do not forget the living; and that there
is not heart here which does not ferventy pray
that heaven may keep him yet back from the
cety of his companions"
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15
After the Storm.
BY Frank II. Sweet.
Magazine

All night long the wind had whisted and
shrieked from the northeast, fattening the waves
and swirling their half formed combs into the air.
and then hurting them in broadside of icy seet
across the deck of the doomed vessel. Somewhere
off in the distance could be heard the dull rever-
beratons of a fog horn. and the ghostly clang of
a bell guoy: but above these and the shrieking of
the storm rose the terrible crunching and grinding
and gnawing of the Jagged reefs as they tore their
way through the metal sheathing and the strong
oak planks and timbeTs.
As the night wore away the vessel yielded little
by little TO the inevitable. Her masts fell and
her more vulnerable portions were wrenched apart
and scattered upon the wild turmoil of the sea.
One by one her swallowed up in the
mad vortex; and when the storm swept by and
gray dawn appeared there were only isolated bits
of wreckage tossing among the floating windows
of seaweed which the storm had torn from the bed
of the ocean. As the above the horizon
two men were making their way across the sand
dunes from different directions. When they met
upon the beach they paused and acknowledged
each others presence.
"A hard night said one whose RED face and
rough dress seemed to indicate that he was
farmer.
yes. terrible night. agreed the other. as
he shaded his eyes and gazed anxiously out to sea-
He was a tall man, whose shoulders we're bent with
age and whose long white hair was swept about
his face by the wind.
you are a stranger here?" Intercepted the
red-faced man.
Yes. my sons vessel is expected and l came
down to meet him. Did you hear signal of dis
tress during the storm!'
Il wasn't sure. but thought So"
All about them the beach was covered with great
masses of seaweed which had been brought up by
the waves The red-faced mans eyes glistened az
he looked around.
1T has been grand nights work. he said
exultantly. This is my land and the seaweed
viii be worth hundred dollars to me, clear
The old man did not answer. He was extricat-
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15
AN AMERICAN PATRIOT.
CONTINUED from Page l.

mediately repaired to the convention and. by his
eloquence and cogent reasoning. convinced the
members of their error who Immediately rescnded
the former and unanimously directed its repre-
sentatives in Congress to unite i'll declaring the
COLONIES free and independent States
On August 2. 1776, when the roll was called for
the signing of the Declaration. slowly and solemn
~ the delegates walked up the aisle and affixed
their signatures to that nrperishable document
Charles Carroll was asked by John Hancock would
he sign Most willingly said he, and went with
the rest to stake by that act larger personal inter
ests than any man present, for he was, not even
excepting Boston's merchant prince. Hancock, the
richest of all the delegates As he took up his pen
to sign bystander remarked, in words to which
all at least mentally assented There goes few
cool millions" But some having suggested
that there were so many Charles CAROLS the Brit
ish Legislators would have difficulty i'll secur-
ing the right one Mr. Carroll Immediately dashed
off the expressive words which have ever since been
appended to his name, whether written spoken,
The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-10-15

ing plank from the seaweed at his feet And as
it came to view there was a part of name in big.
starting letters. The old man threw, up his arms
with sudden cry.
1T is from my sons vessel. he said. and he
fell upon the sand grovelling and moaning. The
red-faced man waited moment, and then stopped
to raise him UP. But the old man was dead.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-01
AGED COUPLE
DIVORCED

WlALLA WALLA, April l.
After twenty-five years of mar
ried life David H. Turnbull TO,
day obtained a divorce from Sd
rah J. Turnbull. He is 60, she
81.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-04-01
Young Rhodes Elopes With Girl =.
Who CIerked in Fathers Store

Edward Rhodes, 81, son of
Henry Rhodes of the Rhodes
Brothers store, and Hazel Jonas,
aged 20, daughter of F. C. Jonas,
of Jonas G. Bleich, Sixth avenue
hardware dealers, eloped in an
automobile to Olympia and were
married yesterday, thus termina-
ting a department store romance
of couple of years standing.
The young couple then reutrn-
ed home last night and received
the conventional parental for
giveness.
Young Rhodes is in the dry