The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-04-16

But she heard nothing from him either
directly or from the newspapers.
Three months later the poor woman
received letter from a farmer living
in a lonely spot In the Rocky noun
tains stating that q man attempting
to cross the range in an aeroplane had
dropped on his place and been killed.
Before dying he had asked the farmer
to bury him and write his wife that
he did not wish his resting place to be
disturbed.
Mrs. Hibbs lemented, reproaching
herself for having driven her husband
away. She could not spare the money
to take a trip to the place where he
had died and. since he didn't wish his
remains removed, there was no use In
going there. Being a practical and en-
ergetic woman, she concluded to turn
the place where she lived into a dairy
Her first thought was to raise chick
ems, but she had such horror of any
thing with wings that even a rooster
who couldn't fly over high fence dis
tressed her. Finding persons in the
neighborhood who would buy milk
from her direct. she was not forced to
sell it at ruinous prices to a creamery
and consequently she did very well
She regretted that she had not sup
piled what was lacking in her husband
while she had him with her and per
mitted him to sail about up in the air
without troubling him. AS she accu-
INFLATED means she bought more cows
and added to her pasturage.
1t Is said that one loves persons for
their faults rather than their virtues
Perhaps this is the reason why the
widow couldn't forget her husband, for
he certainly had faults enough to make
any one love him. At any rate, after
her days work was over she would
gather her children around her and tell
them about their father and what lofty
views he had, but her eldest boy no
ticed that she didn't encourage his fol
lowing in the footsteps of his father
in his winged career.
One spring evening when the wind
Of the south was coming up and the
days were getting long Mrs. Hibbs was
sitting on the porch telling her chicks
what a wonderful man their father
had been when one Of them called her
attention to a speck far up in the air
1t grew larger and larger as it advanc-
ed till it was seen to be an aeroplane
"Oh, mamma" said one of the girls,
it's an airship! Don't you see the
sail it carries?"
Its an aeroplane with a single wing
standing straight up on its back" said
another Of the children.
Some one has beaten the bird by
inventing an aeroplane with one wing
exclaimed the oldest boy.
II wish your papa had lived to do
that said the widow lugubriously
TT would have made him so happyr'
The coming single winged bird by
this time was lowering above them.
and voice cried:
my Gears, it is l, your papa have
beaten the birds. See how beautifully
my machine moves with its single
plane" With that he plunged and rose
and circled and caracoled like a spirit
ed aerial horse.
"Come DOWN. cried the widow in a
fright.
Come down" echoed the children
But he vas so proud of his mono
plane that be must needs continue his
caracoling Then suddenly he came
down sure enough. but altogether too
suddenly. There was a crash, and
from the fragments of the monoplane
they pulled out the inventor. Strange
to say, he was not much hurt. Stand
ing on his feet. supported by his wife,
he looked at his machine, and his pent
up feelings exploded
"Confound your he exclaimed, kick
ing the fragments That's the last of
you for mel I've got two legs to walk
on, and, by jings, hereafter I'll walk
on them"
Then. embracing his wife and chill
dren, he explained, that realizing he
must be u1trammeled in his expert
ments. he had flown far away and paid
a man to write the notice of his death
While Mr.. Hibbs was experimenting
increasing age was taking the surplus
pluck out of him. He took hold of
the dairy farm with his wife and now
is as well pleased with riding in
milk wagon as he formerly was in an
Reroplane.