The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1911-01-06
Tho Year In Retrospect.

H. was a year Of wonders overhead,
lIaley's comet in the spring, WITH us .,'
envelopng us in May; Chavez, ~ an ael9'
plane. over the Alps; Moisant, the Amerl'
can, across the English channel win
passenger; the American tombstone "
nearly ten thousand feet above the eartn ,s
surface; huge passenger'carrying alsh'po
travelling at railroad speed, on scheuG r
time along regularly laid out ana h Sar.
tanned air routes, between important uo oII
man cities, with the travellers enloyihs az
the luxuries OF the Pullman compartment
ear, including a game OF bridge; ana d
daring band of Americans, under the
leadership OF Walter Wellman, essaylnB u
trip in a dirigible from the New Wofid
to the Old. II,
II was year that brought the worlli
mourning, about the bier OF monarch oi
the empire on which the sun never seq,
and the last resting place oil hussio
great novelist and idealist.
II was a year when we OF America pc
held a fellow citizen, emerging ron
primeval Jungle. received with the hgnesi
honors by the heads of great powers ana
showered with honors by the classes anu
the masses Of the people wherever ne trav,
eled in Europe. We were horrorstrlch.en
at the wiping out in the autumn OF ehtlIe
towns and hundreds OF lives lost by iores'
| fires in northern Minnesota; at the az.
tempt of discharged city employee 70
assasSinate Mayor Gaynor OF New, loLh,
on Aug o. as he was sailing Tor ho''uas
in Europe. .--,,,,,.
We viewed for week the spectacular
sight of Paris in the grip of mighty
flood that left in its wake a money loss
OF S2OOO0,000. We sighed regretiullys
when on Aug. 81, Korea, quaintest OF
lands, passed from the company oil thee
nations after a national existence oil ~
centuries and became mere vassal9ge ol
japan. The day following we ,telt as
though we were present at a performance
of a comic opera in real life when Nicholas
of Montenegro converted his little noun
tain principality into kingdom, and look
new title betting his altered rank
A few days less than three months
later we beheld world'farce staged IN
the harbor of Rio Janelro, when ioGr
Brazilian warships, including that, nation
two dreadnoughts, were stolen, Dy lHtli
crews and for week Kept the capltal
in terror until congress, hastily assem-
! hied had granted them full amnesty Tor
| their mutinous acts, including the murder
of several officers, and solemnly assured
| them that their demands for the aooll-
ton of corporal punishment, more pay
and less work, would be granted,atter
which the bold sailormen, who had been
led by a negro, Joao Candida, returned
the warships to the nation. Am.
/ In November, too. we were mghliy
cheered-despite the fact that from, Jann,
arv ON we had been constantly haired
with rising prices for the necessities oil
| ife-when the last crop reports were IN.
revealing to us that from start to close Of
the harvest season we had been eHtrao!t 'Ll
nariIv blessed by Providence as a nation;
The corn CROP topped by two hundred
million bushels the anticipated three
thousand million bushel yield; the crop OF
oats was also of banner dimension IN
short. the crops of the year exceeded by
nine per cent the average crops oil 'he
preceding five years.-Boston Transcript