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The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08

your head wouldn't you be more inter
ested in your business than you are?
We'll, that was The way 1t was in
those old, forgotten days of yore.
Let's try says the adventurous man,
and he went to work and built the
queerest craft you ever heard Of
there are some of them in the antique
section of the Aeronautical museum at
Paris now-of cloth and wood, imitat-
ing the wings of the bird-and up he
goes. And down he comes. I told
him he couldn't do It, said the skep-
tics after they're coming home from
the funeral It's impossible
But after awhile another man got
to thinking about it, Maybe it can
be done after ALL says he; and then
he goes to work and built another ma
chine. And up he went, and down he
came, and everybody sent flowers and
said: Darn fool 1t was a great day
for the florists. They passed nesolu-
lions encouraging the progress of avi-
alton. They loved the game.
We'll, after awhile more people be-
gan to try to satisfy their curiosity
about the air. and there was more
business for the florists; but after a
time somebody made a machine that
gave a man about half chance to
come down right side up after an
ascent All, then was when the world
began to get interested. You see, be
fore then there had been nothing to
arouse the curiosity in the fact that a
man was attempting to fly. Everybody
knew what his finish would be. There
was no novelty in watching what could
only end one way; and that was in the
days when the world was young and
crazy for novelty. But with the com
ing OF the first air machine that gave
a man chance to come back to earth
otherwise than on his head, then there
was something to feed the curiosity,
and then was when the excitement
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one Of them falling now. Here. \
don't get in my way; I want to u
too
Was your meet a successT says a
man to promoter OF the day.
"'Seven smash-ups,' was the answer.
We turned them away.
Sport? Why, lads, after a success
full flying meet the field hospitals put
out the Standing Room Only sign,
Those were the happy days-for for
lists and doctors.
you may ask why the promoters
ever were able to find men willing to-
indulge in the sport of flying in those
days before Durang overthrow the law
OF gravitation and made air sailing
safer than the crude, dangerous travel
on land or water Well, lads. | can
best explain that by little incident
in my own experience | had young
friend who became an aviator He
was bright young lad, and everybody
said he had brilliant career before
him. By brilliant career il those days
people meant to have reporters sit4
ting on your doorstep waiting for you
to get up in the morning, and hiding
in the bathroom when you went to
bed at night. II this happened to you
everybody said you were famous, and
wives asked their husbands why they
couldn't go and do likewise. This
young friend OF mine--Jim, by name
saw that the quickest and surest way
to become famous was to go up in the,
air. He did. He went higher and
faster than anybody had gone before,
and the papers printed his pictures ALI
over the front page; and he came
down farther and harder than any
man was meant to do and live to tell
the tale.
Have you any last words to say!
jim" | said, bending over his hospital
cot.
Then Jim showed himself true
hero of that age, and his words ex1
planned why men risked their neck in
the sport of aviation: Don't mind
me, says Jim; but see that the Sum
day papers get a picture of the
wrecked machine
did all the inventors take chances
by flying their own machines?" asked
one of the audience
No." replied Captain MacManus,
The Wright brothers didn't; they
knew too much about the game"
Didn't you ever make any fights
yourself, captain?" asked someone.
Captain MacManus shook his head
and winked.
"Oh, no." said he That's why Uni
still here"
Copyright. by w. G. Chapman)
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08
THE INFANCY OF THE AIR FAN

It was the year 1862
Five thousand feet above the heart
Of New York city, staunch and serene
at It's aerial anchorage, rode the great
pneumatic receiving float OF the Five
Continents & Australia Aerial line In
the master aITigator's room on the
float a group OF officers were gathered
around old Capt. Martin MacManus
master alligator, retired, the oracle of
the line
My word" said a young NJ. A.
thumbing the leaves OF an old history
1T must have been a queer world in
those days"
What days." asked Captain Mac
Manus
THE days OF the land and water
era replied the young man. The
years Just preceding the aerial era
I've just been reading a reprint OF an
ancient magazine article The Sport
OF Aerial Navigation, dated 1912"
The group of airigators laughed as
one man
Fancy that" said one Aerial
navigation as SPORT"
Il was there at the time" said Cap
tain MacManus. Il remember. Be-
lieve me or not. as you please, but
can recall the day when all sailing
was looked upon as a sport" The
captain paused and looked out through
the glass wall of the room at a dirty
Alaska coalcarrier. drilling her way
along on the 5000 foot level. her crew
staring In bored fashion at the city be-
meath them. You're right; it was a
queer world IN those days, and the
| qneerest part Of It was that people
could find enjoyment in a cut-and-dried
business like this.
But 1t was different In those days,
you understand. lads" continued the
captain. his eyes on the great belt-map
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08
Mystery Flaus. 4"

In the midst of that wonderful col
lection of the souvenirs of battle that
has lately been put on permanent ex-
hibition in Trophy hall at the Naval
Academy. in Annapolis, are the ma
tons unknown trophies. Flags that
we're captured in now forgotten en-
gagment are hung in the cases side by
side with those whose glorious history
is known
Two OF these souvenirs of forgotten
battles are British flags. One is a
jack marked Avon" and nothing
more. the other Is the ensign OF a
worship. and is marked "Beresford
From the condition. Of both OF these
days it is supposed that they date
back to the war of 1872, but history
gives no record Of ships bearing those
names being sent to American waters
by Great Britain, Another of the uvs-
terry fags is the STA" flag in great
white figures this number appears. on
a field of blue aud the entire flag ia
oordered with red From some en-
saEsment in the war with the Moorish
pirates the flag that the officers at
Annapolis came TO call the house
flag seems to have come. Yet no
one knows where that battle was
fought or under What circumstances
Of heroic sacrifice the flag was added
TO the long list OF the trophies OF our
naval victories.-The Christian Her
aid
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STOP BEGGING IN FRANCE
Authorities Have a Scheme Which
They Think Will Tend to Allie
viate the Evil.

Every now and again, when we go
round to the Paris Police Prefecture
to see and hear the record of the citys
happenings of the day, an Official re-
marks: You won't want this. gen.
tlemen, l take it? The usual story.
Dead beggar in the garnet, money in
the mattress" A journalist inquiries:
How much?" The amounts vary
from one hundred pounds to a couple
OF thousand, and newspaper interest
in the occurrence dies with that
But the authorities here have been
working on a scheme for the suppress
sion Of fraudulent begging There are
far too many beggars in Paris, who
leave considerable sums of money be-
hind them when they die These peo-
pie have invariably been helped if not
entirely supported, by the Assistance
Puhlique for years, or at all events for
many months Gin other words, the tax
payers, theatergoers and racegoers
have been keeping them), the chart
table have placed money in their grimy
hands, and when the police find the
inevitable sum Of money hidden in the
mattress or elsewhere in the inevita-
bly, grimy garnet, it is inevitable that
legitimate heirs appear, who prove
their near relationship to the dead
man or woman, and carry off the mon
ey, to the public loss and their own
private gain.
scheme is now being prepared for
bill which shall allow the Assistance
PubliQue to recover. for help given,
from the estate of one of these as
sisted persons. or course, If the bill
pass, and the socialists will doubtless
raise sentimental objection to its pass
ing, because it will be quite a simple
'and practical bill--of course, ii the bill
be made law the beggars will find
some way round it. There never was.
nor will be, cleverer beggar In the
world than the successful street beg
gar of Paris He can give you change
for gold coin il you need it. without
the least self-consciousness or lack of
selt-respect, and there are few street
beggars who have quite the impudence
for that.-Paris Letter, London Press.
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grew warm and air.sailing was looked
upon as a sport.
You may think from this that peo-
pie were blood-thirsty in those DAYS.
but on the contrary they had travelled
far from the days of the old Roman
arena. The Romans turned thumbs
down IL the show was dull: but the
people of the age OF 1912 only fought
one another for souvenir pieces Of the
aeroplane in which their favorite avi.
ator. as they called them then. had
been killed. Civilization had made
vast strides.
The sport OF II worked this WAY:
Some fuanciers under the name OF
some club would advertise what they
called an aviation meet. They would
offer money prizes. for this was in the
days when people would do ANYTHING
for money There would be prizes for
the longest flights. the fastest flights.
the highest flights. and so on and so
forth, until there was nothing man
in flying machine could do that
wouldn't bring him a prize. except one
thing-he mustn't come down on his
head. II he did the prize went to some
body else.
After they'd advertised all these
prizes and had got the aviators to
getbor. the promoters would hire 8
beld a mile long by half a mile wide
and build a grand stand around il that
would hold q million people. more or
less, Did they pay people 70 come and
sit for hours watching a few ma.
chimes in The air. They did not. The
people paid for the privilege.
The first day never brought out
the biggest crowds. People didn't
know whether anything worth seeing
would happen But suppose one OF
The BOYS took a tumble. or. better. n
half a dozen Of them fell Next dsv
the police would have to deht for
their lives 70 keep the falling hsld
clear, That's what they called the
space whore the Aiers lauded-some-
times.
All the gentle and refined people Of,
he day Who had the price would be
out there waiting for things 10 han
pen The ladie- would De there nv
thousands. II was before thew corId
vote, and they had 10 find excitement
some way. I hope there aren't any
Of those frtghtful accidents today, one
lsey would say 70 her friend. So do
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08

of the world. on which tiny electric
bulbs OF many colors moved in accord.
anee with the movements Of the line $
crafts. You see, in those days people
were still curious, You don't under,
stand what that means. Since Du-
rang oVerCame graWtatiou. and we've
been able to go everywhere IN less
than no time. we've lost the instinct
of curiosity We've seen it all In
1919 the human race was badly az
ficted People wanted to see every.
thing they never had seen before For
one thing they wanted 10 see how far
man could fall without breaking his
neck, That's what made them look
upon aeroplane flying as a sport.
There was long time. you see.
when men actually didn't know
whether they could sail the air. They
were afraid Of the air. The earth they
had mastered. and the water. too.
They had no fear OF rolling over the
ground at SO miles an hour in trains.
and they weren't afraid to 10 out on
The water IN small boats But take
FAt fA kNNAhA ANNh w III tAt ait. " lAU
nothing solid under their feet. and i'm,
nledtately they began to sigh for home
and mother. II was: Let me down
this Is too far away from the world
I was born on They were terribly
afraid e the gentle air.
Hut there was. as rye said. that
instinct Of curiosity to drive thom
on Can We Nv saws one man to an
other Ne Saws the other. Why
not" SAYS tho FIRST BECAUSE were
net birds. vas 'hc answer. I don't
know, SAYS The first. lets Try It an
see
Then they b,z0n 20 try. Al those
We're The DAYS with he romance in
them. believe me. lads. you sec moth,
inE Ike it in these blsSe DAYS. People
actually could set excited over living
trip In the year 1919. or thereaoouts. 4"
The group gruuted skepucally.
What was there 70 get excited
shout" asked a young captain
The daugey Of II" said the captain.
The d0ngerr"
Aye, lis hard to believe nova
days, but then there really was dan
ser in the proSsfc art Of sailing
through the air Imagine the circum-
stances II you can. II every time you
stepped aboard your boats and started
Ian Earth roa SiIns 49,
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Al Defended

Another 'sHa f..u the loan exhibit,
The man was trrm cut ot town and
rather Inclined 'a De- critical The
Eirl vas a y.esslauIrr. and allied VITA
civic pride
They paused In tront Of a striking
plctur.
Al. that's an old MASTER cX.
elaimed the man
Maybe Il Is. defended the girl.
but you can see for yourself that the
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08
Oriqin Of "Hoosier

II is generally believed that the
word ~Hoosier" is OF southern origin.
at first applied to any uncouth person
from the west, but it was finally To-
Called for Indiana. where il va
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08

No cnanes fer Him.
y De kceps ap iu this manner. hall
s ~, MAJ nAme for himself
VI hats hig fntu,gVa
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Tedious.
Has anything happened while !
have been away
Not a thing that | shall have to
The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1914-01-08
Balkan Wars.

Adrianople falls. March &c.
Soutari surrendered to Montenegro.
April 20
Peace treaty OF Balkans signed In
London
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D TO STRENGTHEN ITS APPEAI,?

two things. namely. n lack OF faith In
tho original principles Of Christianity,
or voluntary surrender to the state
OF the great function OF tho church,
that function being, to my mind, tho
gathering together OF a body OF mon
ested not only In the hereafter, but are
Interested In each others mental, 80
cial and spiritual welfare
Each Individual church should be
socialistic. not In the sense of n d.
vision OF property. but In tho sense
that each is for all and oil Is for each"
Must Free Itself from Maramop,.
Power.
Said Eugene v. Dcbs. heac of the
Socialist party: Tho church must first
OF all free itself from the domination
or the moneyed class and got suuarely
over on the side of the exploited masses
ana night the power that is crushing
and degrading them. phere IS no mid
way ground. ana tho church is finding
1t less and less possible TO servo botI,
GOD and mannon. The church TO-DAY.
lis spiritually dying because IL Ia I'm
control OF the blighting power that
makes long prayers while deyourinr
WIDOWS houses and laying burdens on
the Dacks or the poor grlevous to bo
borne.
"Jesus took His side with the suf
fering poor and against their opprca
sors without cquivocation or reservn-
ton, and tho holy hypocritcs OF HI,
day had Him nailed between two
thieves to tho gates of Jerusalem.
The church can only stand for re-
usion Undecided when it stands feer
icssiy for social righteousness, and
this VIII so strengthen Its appeal as
10 giVe 1t the ear and heart of the
masses Of mankind"
BOOKER washinston's Ansuer.
-, The trouble with the church is much
like tho trouble with the school.
namely. II is too FAR away from actual
life said Booker T. Waghington che
church has gotten TO be "a place rhere
men and women go 20 hear the min
lister talk: IL is not an organization
FOR doing things. Ono reason the min
ister no longer exercises tho inrlu-
encc Upon the public mind that n.
once did is that no 40 longer has any
thing TO do. Ito has become a mare
talker. Tho result Is that willie min
listers probably have a good deal moro
education. as far hooks 70. than
they used to have a hundred years ago.
they probably haven't near az much
common sense. y man gains com
mon sense only as far ms he lives In
the actual world and he touches and
handles real things
Il have noticed that the religious or
ganizatons winning the support OF the
people and bringing men and women
into touch with religious life are or
CARNATIONS like the Young Men,
Christian Association and the great
modern missionary movement. When
the churches unite aud take hold In
some large wa Of some great social
problem OF the day believe the church
Will strengthen Its appeal"
The weakness OF the churches is not
In the pulpit il Is In the pews." re-
piled Louis F. Post. the noted single
Continued On Las; Page)
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Continued On Las, PageJ
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hands OF Americans. Tho government
manufactures and sells all the TOBACCO
and the income therefrom Is something
like 100000 per year. AS to the
| value of the railroad, no one doubts
but that II would be Of enormous good
TO Peru, but at present there is no In,
dication that the President Will let
1T go through.
find American goods for sale here
in all the stores. The merchants arc
mostly English and Germans. with
some Pcruvians and quite number
of Chinese and Italians. The hard
ware stores carry American axes.
hatchets and other tools of all kinds
Much of the cotton prints come from
our country and there are many
American canned goods. There are
also American meats sold in cans and
a great deal Of American machinery.
You can buy our shoes at high prices
and American hats are sold in COM
petition with the English and French.
AS TO wooden goods, the Peruvians
have mills not far from Cuzco where
ticrwear, hut the most of the other
woolcns still come from abroad
And just here 1 wish to give credit
to an American enterprise In Peru that
Is doing more for our trade than any
! West Coast Leader, a weekly paper
published in English here In Lima, and
to Peru OF To-Day, a magazine, which
has the same editor. These English
journals are devoted to opening up
Peru to English and American capital
and to the pushing OF American trade
Their editor, John Navasoor Noel, was
FOR II long timo n newspaper man in
the United States. and he has held I'M
portant political and official positions
lie speaks and writes Spanish and
Italian as nucntly MS English, and his
papers deserve the support OF our
American firms who wish to get trade
in this country.
There is n big opening here for a
chain Of American banks and this may
he the outcome of the wedge that J. G.
| White s. Co. OF New York, have put
into Ecuador They have taken the
contract to clean up Guayaquii at n
cost of of $10.o00,0O0. which may lead
to their investing In railroads and
other public works In that country.
with extensions on into Peru.
| At the present time the chief Amer
lean firm on the west coast Is Messrs
w. r. Grace & Co. 1t has been opcr-
| nting here for more than a generation
and IT now has great houses In Lon
| don and New York. with branches In
| Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The business
was established by Michael p. and w.
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This Vital Question Answered
by Such Advanced Thinkers

This Vital Question Answered
by Such Advanced Thinkers
and Fearless Takers as Vice
President Marshall. Eugene v.
Dcbs, Charles Ram Kennedy,
Commander Booth, of the Sal
walton Army; Anthony Com
stock, Booker T. Washington,
Mayor Blank burg, Mrs.
Champ Clark, D. Clarence Glib
Soney and Others-Each in
Personal Interview Suggests
Means of Combating Apathy
in the Church-They View
This Condition From Every
Possible Angle-Their Ideas
Are of Special Tirneliness Now
at the Beginning of the Nation
Wide "Go-to-Church- Sunday"
Movement.
ny JOHN ELFRETfI WATKINS.
t. NFRYWHERE / am confronted
l. with placa-ds admonishins: Go
- 20 Church Sunday
within the week have been visited
In my h1rie by retired commodore OK
The navy and a trust company official,
both strangers 70 me ana my ".',.'S.
Each desired me 10 attend Ms place
,,C,u-'f,
IN every city and village Of Tho coun?
try such campaign, nurDoscd 70 slim
ulate churchso!uc. IS being or has been
organized.
IN other words, the church IS nearly
everywhere lighting apathy Blu; Is 1t
the church, or the church which c'ust
now he brought 20 the public?
what does the church most need 70
strengthen i:s anHeal"''
In recen; weeks I have asked iris
question O. list of persons nation
nlly famous for their independence of
thought. courage ot expression or their
wealth OF experience with those classes
who most need the helping hand.
II the te-se Interviews that follow
they have attacked the problem from
what would appear e be ever POS
sirle single. outside The chu-Ch-f-o;u
The srglc Of the statesman. jae So
-ialist, TIE mission worker. the civic
-e:crmer. The woman suG-arist. me
slum worker Inc educator and the
lutivice crusader
church should he S"cinlis;ic."-V1cc-
President Marshall.
Il hzve 9ee= 20 church ali over
America -PrestGeu: Marshall
old me. = have found, speaking II
Ne !dior CT she day. successful and
unsuccessful, Churches have OBJ
.-ve6 ths s:t:;G5e oi ministers and
7eo7le, E-d : reach The conclusion
r.; vhe-sve- the-e IS church fail
,-e :, may be attributable . one of
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~ >.9~p a4 ~. @ccone schcms re-
r-lfr@ pniy me sjg,lo'VTe - me rrosi-
ctA' - tflcy !, !nLD cxit'sncs J9iis
5D4c le -. exteuc Dcp tie c.fro de
|@o'> fp. ~ rsle cc0ys8 IQyef, cis
t@n.e - & DttI. mar, ChDn 700 niiies
c 'pIG Inst q ma. ccst something
!>' ;.1,Fgy,eEV ~ DDjlG aao th8t ~.
ft-;.%+i6.s't UNre vsen man. Tor amer
3 ~ sscitsi ~ vndeifAke the WORK az
s|.H 80 To c1n-e4Li9ns Ls>ye L.en
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TO carry them out. According to these
terms. Mr.. McCune Is to have $500
acres of forest for each kilometer Of
track and also n grant of 5000 acres
Tor each vessel OF 500 tons that ho
places on the Amazon and its tribu-
taries.
Another provision IL that the subsidy
bonds to be issued are to be guaran-
teed by the receipts from tho tobacco
monopoly. and that this is to be- in the
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Be Increased BY the Canal.
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later wines +te- .t- .yyer.- -.-=
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our inte,e-,s IN H.. re-.t',r ~ y.-.
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american eat'-n liz hes rer..d ror
this p1rpo- oae - ne a,e-, houFes
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