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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
Laughing at 10000 Feet.

Laughing at 10000 Feet.
There was nothing for it, however.
but to continue the fight upward.
So 1 doggedly fixed my mind upon
the magic figures 10000 and mounted
again, Below me there was nothing
but space. The flny clouds formed a
haze which completely shut the earth
from my view, and 1 seemed like an
impudent little fly buzzing around i'm
portantly in the vastness of infinitude
The thought struck me as being rather
droll, and laughed aloud.
Then l remembered how a friend of
mine had come to me at the hangar
before 1 started and, with a quizzical
| expression on his face, as though he
knew was not serious, asked:
%.Are you really going for altitude to-
day."
eyes, answered.
3'Do you think you have any chance
Of making it," he asked.
There's always chance" I replied
and jumped into the machine.
Since then [ have thought over that
short conversation score of times and
I have failed to find in it anything
amusing. Yet away up there in a lone
illness whose yastness and impressive
ness only Legagneaux and of all liy-
ing men can appreciate, with the mo-
tor buZZing and whirling and humming
and splitting, seemingly to accentuate
the very vastness of the solitude and
make it even more awe inspiring than
it is to the floating balloonist-away
ecir rio - n 0.A0
mark-the two questions and their an
swers struck me as being the most
droH things l had ever heard, and l
started to laugh boisterously like a
drunken sailor in a low taproom.
Crazy" / thought and as the
thought flashed across my mind with
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
Maine Central

Through the White Mountains
To Lancaster Colebrook, North Con-
way, Boston, Portland, Lewiston. Ban
gor, Bar Harbor and st. John.
LOCAL TIME TABLE-ON AND AFTER
JUNE 26, 1911.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
Worlds Full of ,Em.


An economist is usually a man who
can save money by cutting down some
other persons expenses.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
Climbing the Air Stairs.

That fellow who said that it was
getting easier all the time" should
have seen the beautiful Bleriot as she
swept gracefully off the ground with
me that day at Point Breeze and as
she few, without effort and with
scarcely a tremor, in the first wide
preliminary circles as 1 mounted the
first 1000 feet
Easy! That would have looked easy
enough certainly. The machine must
have looked like a great gull or a
buzzard floating on the breeze, and I
suppose I might have been sound
asleep in her for all the spectators on
the ground could have seen of motion
or Of effort on my part.
Then came the clouds, and I worked
my way up through them, hoping that
they would not be thick nor last long,
fer above the clouds in the sunlight
are the wickedest gusts. and it means
fight, fight, fight. all the time.
The hand of the aneroid barometer
In front of me kept creeping round and
round as I mounted. The first 1000
feet were told off quickly, and then
more and more slowly the Indicator
went as I entered the thinner strata of
the upper air and began the struggle
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
81 HAVE NO WORDS TO DESCRIBE THAT DESCENT"

earth, to leave him practically help
less when at last he does reach the
ground-and they call all this easy!
No man will ever be able adequate
ly to describe that long, vast plunge
to earth after every nerve has col
lapsed and every muscle refused to do
more work upward. 1 have expert
enced it more often than any living
aviator, yet even now I cannot recall
any detached or definite impressions
of it-nothing but a shuddering mem
DRY OF horrors rushing by with an aw-
full sense of defenselessness and fu-
tility of effort as I fairly shrieked
through the air to earth with the
chances 100 to l against a safe landing.
Anybody can climb for height"
said Morane. ''The thing is to get
down again"
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09

Our good printing helps others, let
us help you.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
NE
|.22aEHABINET'

HE habit of looking at the
- bright side of things is worth
more than a thousand year.
No men are so fussy about what they
eat as those who think their brains the
biggest part of them.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09

WANTED. Farm, about rs acres with
buildings some wood, miles from town.
Write. F. X. N, Box 5, Ga1lup's Mills, VT.
FOR SALE. Home farm OF lat acres in
good state of cultivation. Never failing
spring water at house and barn. Seven
room house with ell. All buildings painted
and in good repair. Siio. 900 sugar trees
and modern sugar tools; also stock and
crops, 100 acre pasture and timber lot. C.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09

..aH in," yet had still the two hard
est stages of my journey to cover
the bitter fight of jumping and falling,
jumping and falling, during the final
500 feet, and last, but most awful of
all, the horrors of that descent where
the chances were 100 to 1 against me.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09

FARM. farming, sugar and dairy tools for
sale. Fifty tons of hay and all crops. Good
buildings and best of spring water al house
and barn. Will carry 25 cows and team.
Good bargain for some one who wants to
own farm. Address FARM, this Office.
CEDAR Posts. Six and one-ha1f feet Ions
five and six inch tip. Any quantity. CARY
RICKABY & STEVENS.
FOR SALE. Butter paper that is made
especially for wrapping butter and can print
at short notice ma ker's name and residence
on same. The CALEDoNIAN Company.
De LAVAL Separators for sale. Old ma
chimes taken in exchange. Good second
hand separators for sale cheap. De Laval
separator oil. N. E. Phone. 20 Railroad
street.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1911-08-09
CHARLOTTE FAIRBANKS, Nj. D.

Office "a Main st. Residence "a Western
ONCE Hours: 10 to II a. m, 100 to
$50 D. m. Monday and Thursday to
8 D. m. and by appointment.
N E. Telephone
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81. 81. MILTIMORE, NJ. d.

Physician and Surgeon. Office and resi-
dence SO Main Street.
Office hours: @9
N. E. Phone 1882. Cit. Phone MIST
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Business Directory.
PHYSICIANS.
WILLIAM G. RICKER, N. ID.
WILLIS b. FITCH, Nj. d.

ONCE 96h Railroad Street, Residence
SO Railroad Street.
General Practice. Office hours to a.
m, to and to p. m. Sundays
Both Phones.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

The following letters remain uncall.
ed for in the Postoffice at Kingman,
Ariz., for the week ending Dec. 30,
1911. If not called for within two
weeks will be sent to the Dead Letter
office, Washington, D. c.
Joe Harbert, d. Finn, Frank Fen
cher, c. R. Deem, J. S. Cooper, Albert
Byland, Pete Walketon, Mrs. L. Lane,
j. 7. Williams, George G. Trick, E.
o. Martin, Owen Mock, Mr.. Muskat,
E. f. Oldaker, E. D. Cox, NJ. J. O'Neal,
Mr. R. Lane, John Sherlock, Miss
Rose Russell, J. J. Nackard, Shorty
Simpson, Sr. Juan Marias, Sr. Felipe
Rodrigo, Sr. Ensignes LugO, Sr. Felis
Duran.
Parties calling for letters please say
advertised.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

Ii Is reported that Judge Campbell,
at Tucson, a few days ago, granted a
temporary injunction restraining the
Frisco Mines & Power company from
interfering with one Peachy in the
perfecting of title to a number of
mines that have been under operation
by this corporation the past several
years, and To allow Peachy to do his
assessment work. 1t is passing strange
that the court should have granted
even a temporary injunction in this
case when the supreme court of the
territory dismissed the action of
Peacny, holding that he had no right
upon the property. While no act of
Peachy at this time will make valid
an invalid location il will simply
serve to perpetuate vexatious suits at
law. Peachy went upon the proper
ties when it was in the possession
of the present owning corporation and
made an attempted location of the
mines, under the assumption that an
owner could not legally relocate his
own mine. No effort was ever made
by Peachy to perfect title and the
courts have held that he had none.
At the time this man made his at
tvmpted location the company had
done more than 5O,OOOS worth of work
and improvements on the mines and
were then working a large number of
men in building a mill and develop
Ing the mines.
At the Alpha preparation is being
made to sink a Wine from the adit
drift level, now in on the vein 900 feet.
For more than 200 feet the drift has
been in high grade milling ore aud it
is believed that by sinking below the
level a better grade of copper will be
opened. Much of the ore through the
vein is a shippable grade of copper, an
eighteen inch streak carrying values
of twenty per cent copper and gold
and silver values. while the balance of
the vein runs somewhat lower in all
the metals. A big flow of water is
running from the heading heavily i'm
pregnated with copper. Measure
ments show that the DRIFT is now close
to the line of the Wallapai Gu en-, the
first south extension of the Alpha,
where the rich was rec ntly en-
countered on the surface. Four samp-
les taken from this ore streak gave re-
suits of 1900 ounces, 22OO ounces, over
5000 ounces and over 1000 ounces silver
besides sone gold to the ton. While
the streak is small it is in a good sized
vein and may at any time widen out to
important size. 1t is probably from
this streak that the rich float rock
came that has been searched for in the
canyon and hill sides at Layne Springs
the past thirty years.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

81 had been troubled with constipa-
tion for two years and tried all of the
best physicians in Bristol, Tenn, and
they could do nothing for me-" writes
Thos. E. Williams, Middleboro, KY.
1.-Two packages of Chamberlain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets cured me-"
For sale by all dealers.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30
Notice of Annual Meeting of Stock
holders.

Kingman, Arizona, Dec. 3, 1911
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Enterprise Mining, Re-
duction and Imp. Co. of Arizona will
be held Jan. 2nd, 1912, at 2:3O p. ~, at
the company's Office at mine near
Kingman, Arizona.
w. A. MENsCH, Pres.
J. n. TURRENTINE, Secy.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Enterprise Mining, Re-
duction and Improvement Co. has been
postponed until Jan. 18th. 1912, at
same time and place as original notice.
w. A. MENSCH, President,
J. n. TURRENTINE, Secy.
First insertion Dec. 30.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30
Wan ted.

I , stamp Joshua Hendry ; discharge
battery, 1000 10. stamps. Address MIN
Err office, iEingman, Arizona.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

If you want a good team or saddle
horse attend the horse sale Thursday
at Wagner & Carrow's corral.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30
For Sale Cheap.

One good Behring & Sons piano
walnut case. In fine condition. Must
be cash-Sl50. Address, Lock Box 16l
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30

GRAND POVERTY BALL NEW
Years Night at Elk's Opera House.
Come in your rags and have a genuine
good time.
Mohave County miner. [volume] (Mineral Park, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1882-1918, 1911-12-30
w. A. MENSCH, Pres.
Advertised Letters.

First insertion Dec. 80.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
ITALIANS IN TRIPoLI.

The lta liaus seem TO be making good
! progress in Tripoli, They have won an
important battle over the Turks. and
doubtless they Will continue TO win
! more. Ihe occupation Of Trlpoi by the
Italians is undoubtedly compared in
most minds with the occupation of Al,
gerla by the French. France occupied
the city Algeria in the year 1880, and
gradually extended its occupation and
authority over the province. France
| made great mistake in recognizing
the Arabic as tho official language OF
the country. This mistake has now
been corrected. 1t WAS found that from
the fact of the recognition of the Ian.
9uage OF the conquered the conquered
drew \ certain prestige, and held that
the French domination was not com
plefe. But now France has made the
Language of France the official Ian
guage of Algeria for all purposes. and
the conquered races have no nail to
bang their assumption of superiority
upon
The Italian occupation of Trjpoli,
however, will bo a short matter com.
pared with the slow conquest of Al,
geria by France. The modern improve
mcpts IN military science, in gunnery.
aud above all in aviation. will give the
Italians such advantage that. as soon
as their forces are fully landed in Trip
oil, the occupation of the country will
he comparatively rapid, The acroplanc
Will be scouting device beyond com
pare, against which the Turks will have
neither defense nor equivalent The
movements OF tho enemy can be fully
scrutinized from the AIR. and the Ital.
ians viii not incur any risk of being
taken by surprise. Wherever there is a
Turkish army. the Italian air. scouts can
locate il, and the Italian military forces
can rout it. The conditions are such
that Italy. in her occupation of Trip
oil. Will have such advantages as no
nation has ever had before in a similar
enterprise; and then Tripoli is com
paratively near Mt hand. and but a few
hours Will transport a large force from
any point Of cmbarkation TO the Tripol.
ltan coast All the advantages arc witt
Italy; and very few years ought to
see the conquest aud occupation of
IrlpolI complefa
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22

Federal bunch. No matter what Taft
may do or may not do, as long as he
gives the bunch the Offices, that is all
that the bunch requires 1t is for him
in spite of lis opposition to his prin'
ciples and policies otherwise. Nothing
counts with the bunch except the OF
fees. President Taft gives that bunch
the offices. aud therefore he is the
bunch g choice for President, no mat.
ter how childish and irresponsible The
bunch may consider him TO be With re
spcct TO the policies which he desires
TO have the country adopt: for. what
arc policies compared with Offices
Scout the idea that any noble company
like the Federal bunch would allow a
mere matter Of principle or govern.
mental policy to come in between itself
md the pie counter! The appetite
must be grstihed; principle can be rcle-
gated to the rear as often and AS long
as is necessary for the appetite TO feed,
Utah s Tammany is long on greed and
short on principle: and this little max
i'm is the full explanation Of the won.
derful inconsistency which the bunch
mapifests in opposing all Of Taft's pol.
icies, while supporting him for the
Presidency with zeal and humble sub.
serviepce exhibited nowhere else in the
United States
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22

| refused TO prosecute the malevolent
| case.
But, the organ claims that the bad
condition portrayed by The Tribune nm
| der the management OF its friends and
associates, first of all, was not church
government That is the usual quibble,
AS a matter Of fact, it was church gov
erpmeut, because The chuEcb leaders
controlled the elections, and the off
cials never acted upon any important
matter without "coupsel from church
headquarters. 1t was, IN all essential
respects, church government.
AS TO the proposition that the bad
conditions that formerly existed arc no
excuse for present bad conditions, the
point, of course, is agreed to, especially
since the News. in making it, consents
10 the truthfulness Of the presentations
We have made. But where we have the
News is that it has never excepted to
bad conditions when It's own crowd was
in power. We do not In any way
claim that those bad conditions under
church rule afford any excuse for bad
conditions now, nor do We argue that
any bad conditions that existed ought
20 be continued. On the contrary. The
forcement of the laws, and occupies pre-
cisely the same ground pow, It is, In
fact, one of the fundamental principles
of the American party, that the laws
shall be enforced equally, without fear
or favor, upon every offender Dare
the News say as much? If so we eau
Join hands upon this question; aud with
the resulting proper enforcement of the
laws, all ought TO be we'll in Utah.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
A GRAFTER's YELL OF GRAFT,

The grating Smoot organ has been
trying to create a feeling against Mayor
Brausford because the City Engineer
fpding certain grade of coal especially
adapted for the work of the drcdper
ordered some of that coal from a com
pany In which the Mayor owns some
stock. To be sure, If the Mayor had
made this order 1t would have been a
technical violation of the law, but he
not only did not make the order. he WAS
not even aware that such an order had
been made. and he approved the bills as
mere matter Of routine There is no
claim that the city has been in any way
injured, or that any graft Of any kind
has been perpetrated iu connection with
that coal order
On the other band, the organ has been
grating the county and State at a mer,
cjless rate, and it now appears from
details given in The Tribune Yesterday
morning that the official head of the di
rectorate Of that organ has, as Gov.
ernor, been approving the bills of that
paper against the State, Here is 4 real
w.
and succession Of CRAFTS by the organ
that have been both impudcut aud mcr-
cilcss,
Under these circumstances. for that
paper to cry ont graft against the MAY.
or who bas received no personal benefit
whatever from the order made by the
City Engineer, is the shcerest and most
insolent hypocrisy, Its own bills to
the amount of thousands of dollars arc
put through by the Governor officially
for The benefit of the publishing con.
Germ which issues that grating paper,
and of which he is the official head And
here is pertinent instance of the old
deception expressed in the saying that
% a thief is the 6rst to cry Stop
Theft -
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
BUSINESS AND TRADE,

The business affairs Of this city have
shown another good week, The bank
clcarapccs make a gain of ll.9 per cent
over those of the corresponding wcek
| last wear. Merchants report good trade,
although not as great as conference
week Special offerings have stimulated
sales. and reduced prices also have
helped. Seasouable goods arc in lively
demand, and the sales OF all classes OF
merchandise show big demand.
The building operations Of the sea
son are drawing TO close with the
hal million dollar high school building
excavation nearly completed, and indi"
eating The completion Of the structure in
time for occupation at the beginning Of
the next school year. The capitol COP
struction will also be n matter chiefly
for next season, as will also be the
$500 900 administration building for the
state University
The realty market shows many trans
actions, both within and without the
city. Money is plentiful, and is to be
had at lower rates. The increased de-
maud to show realty offerings and i'm
proponents of many kinds and probable
increase in population have gwen good
buoyancy 10 the market.
The produce markets of the city show
abundant supplies of all kinds, The
agricultural ,vear i'll Utah has been phe
nomenally good, and the prices such as
to distribute money in comfort sbje
quantities well throughout the State,
The railroad strike remains quiet. the
strikers insisting that they arc bound
to win, and the roads insisting that
their shop business is in good shape
The plans of the Idaho Northern Rail
road Company to build to some rich
country in Idaho have been blocked by
the conservation policy OF the Federal
government. much to the disgust of the
people OF that State.
Prominent railroad men have given
optimistic interviews during tho week.
all tending to show that transportation
is large, and efficient work is being
done In the railroad world,
No deal consummatcd in Utah mining
circles this year has created The com
ment that the purchase Of the DAILY
Mining company control BY Col, +. A.
Wall has Col. Wall acquiring $4,000
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22

Utab-but has the scandalous nerve TO
say that Republican legislatureTean-
not possibly do wrong So that, deep ~
yillaiuy ms Tammany is in New YORK,
there arc supporters Of the dominant
rule in Utah who are so much more de-
pravcd than Tammany that, whereas
Tammany only indorses that which is
done there, the Tammany exponent
here indorscs whatever it might be pos.
siblc for vicious and corrupt Repnb-
lican legislature to do. Thus we see
Tammany, and go up into the clouds IN
raising it's bluff,
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
THE CHINESE REvoLur,,,

The Chinese revolution i,
getting on in excellent style ~
ming Of a great victory by ths
tionists in the Arst clash with NJ
perial troops will undoubtedJy ~
marked effect in Strengthening NJ
olutiouary movement. and in disr;;!
and weakening the Imperial stror.
An initial victory such Al H..
lutioulsts have evidently Ton =,
low will be Of the utmost inno.,
TO the revolutionary cause. u 3
dent that the war is rapidly tak,s.
form of race conflict as bo,rs.s
Cbiu7men proper and the Mancb,,
this division it is very doubtful Ns
the forces Of Yuan-Shih- Kai can y
pended upou for loyalty 10 the b.
Indeed. Yusn.Shib Kai would nv
justified. if be himself would ds,s.!
Imperial standard aud take cS,,.
the rebellion, for he has been N
fully used, and as leader Of tb. +
lion he would probably have tia &
Of China in bis hands. y
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-22
"UNBLUsHING EFFRoNTEY. >

The Brooklyn (N. " Times has the
following pitby comment upon the in.
dorsement by Tammany of the work
Of the New York State legislature:
Hardihood Is exempted when a Tam
many convention 'congratulatss the
DEMOCRACY OF New York State on The
excellent record made" by the Lceis-
lature that has just adjourned Tn
blushing effrontery could go no further.
But in Utah we can go even stronger
than Tammany did in its Endorsement
of the scaudalous record Of the New
York legislature which has recently ad.
journed. We can show case where a
newspaper Of the dominant party not
only approves the acts Of last winter $
vicious and dangerous legislature-dan
2eTens 10 the peace and good order of