Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 54, Number 32, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 May 1912 — Page 2
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Copyright, 19G7, 1908, by the Macmillan Company. PROLOGUE OF THE STORY. Germany, hating the Monroe doctrine and ambitious for world's supremacy, secretly builds a vast fleet of airships and plans to surprise the United Statea by means of a sudden attack. Her airship fleet consists of great dirigibles of the Von Zeppelin type and small aeroplanes called Drachenflieger. Prince Karl Albert commands the German airships. Germany and England have both been endeavoring to buy an extraordinary flying machine invented by Alfred Butteridge, who arrives afa British seaside resort in a runaway balloon, accompanied by a lady in whom he is interested. Bert Smaliways, a motorcycle dealer in hard luck, who is in love with Miss Edna Bunthorne, and his partner, Grubb, are impersonating a pair of desert dervishes" at the seashore. Bert catches hold of the basket of the balloon ar.d falls into it just as Butteridge and the lady fall out The balloon carries Bert across the North sea. He finds drawings of Butteridge's airship in some of Butteridge's clothing and hides the plans in his chest protector. His balloon drifts over Germany's immense aeronautic park. German soldiers shoot holes in it and capture Bert They think he is Butteridge. Soldiers carry him to the cabin of the Vaterland.' flagship of the air fleet. Lieutenant Kurt guards him. The vast fleet starts across the ocean to attack New York. Graf von Wiiiterfeid denounces Bert as an impostor. but offers him 500 for Butteridge's secret. The prince agrees to take Bert along "as ballast." An American fleet of warships is destroved by (Jerman warships and Germany's air fleet, which reach New York and find the city unprepared. The air fleet smashes the Brooklyn bridge, the poxfotue and the
iriij nan. anu rue city surrenders. The neon.'e start an iiwniT,,.Hnn .m.i .,n-,.ir
the airships, destroying the Wetterhorn. The Germans retaliate bv smash-
me uiu wuoie ciry. Killing tnousands. America's war aeroplanes appear and disable the Vaterland. She drifts helpless over Labrador. Prince Karl Albert 1 Afi IUI. 1 a .... i 1 A- . 1 - .1
sau u.v jreiess mac tue wnoie worm is at war. The Graf Zeppelin rescues him. and he finds awaiting him at Niagara Falls the Asiatic air fleet. Bert
is ieit on uoat island and sees the Asiatics destroy the German airships and
capture ana üurn Aiaraga city. Bert hnds himself a nrisnner nn Din ttnnd
Bert meets Prince Karl, tries to repair an Asiatic aeronlniiA nnrl
the prince, who tries to shoot him. They hunt each other, and Bert kills the pnm.e with an oxygon bullet. Bert then rises from Goat island in the Asiatic
aeroplane.
"1 Dropped Soft!"
T occurred to Bert presently to twtet
his kmrc and legs inward and grip with them or surely he would
have been bumped into two clumsy
halves. And he was going up 100 yards
high. 20(1. :joü over the streaming, froth
ing wilderness of water below, up. up. up. That was ail right. But tow pro.5pntl.r would one go horizontally? He trk-d to think it these things did go horizontally.- No. They flapped up and then soared down. For a time he would keep on flapping1 up. Tears streamed froin his eyes. He wiped them with one temerariously disengaged hand. "Was it better to risk a fall over land or over water such water? He was flapping up above the upper rapids toward Buffalo. It was at any rate a comfort that the falls and the wild swirl of waters below them were behind him. Me was flying up straight. That he could see. How did one turn? He was presently almost cool, and his e3Tos got more used to the rush of air, but he was getting very high very high. He tilted his head forward and surveyed the country, blinking. He could see all over Buffalo, a place with three great blackened scars of ruin, and hills and stretches beyond. He wondered if he was half a mile high or more. There were some people among some houses near a railway station between Niagara and Buffalo and then more people. They went like ants busily in and out of the
houses. He saw two motorcars gliding along the road toward Niagara city. Then tar away in the south he saw a great Asiatic airship going eastward. "Oh, Gawd!" he said and became earnest in his ineffectual attempts to alter his direction. But that airship took no notice of him, and he continued to ascend convulsively. The .world got more and more extensive and maplike. Click, clock, eiitter, clock. Above him and very near to him now was a hazy stratum of cloud. He determined to disengage the wing clutch. Tie did so. The lever resisted his strength for a time, then over it came, and instantly the tail of the machine cocked up and the wings became rigidly spread. Instantly everything was swift and smooth and silent.
He was gliding rapidly down the air against a wild gale of wind, his eyes three-quarters shut. A little lever that had hitherto been obdurate now confessed itself mobile. He turned If over gently to the tight and wMr-w'-the left wing had in some mysterious way given at its edge and he was sweeping round and downward in an immense right handed
spiral. For some niompnls hp experi-
ex'. ;U the he'?:es sensations of eatairoph Tie r-simtl the lever to its middle position with some difficulty a fid the wings were equalized again. He turned it to the left ami had a FPiisathin of being spun around backward. "Too much!" he gasped. He discovered that he wfs rushing cloun i t a headlong pace toward a r.ihva hue and some factory buildings. They appeared to be tearing up to him to devour him. Tie must have dropped all that height. For a moment he had the ineffectual sensations of one whose bicycle bolts downhill. The ground had almost taken him bv BUrprise, "'Ere!" he cried, and then wuh a violent effort of all his being h got tile beating engine at work jpmiÄ and set the wings flapping. He
Iiis quivering and-pulsating ascent of
the air.
lie went high again until he had a
wjde view of the pleasant upland
country of western New York state
and then made a long coast down, and,
up again, and then a coast. Then
as he came swooning a ouarter of n
mile above a village he saw people
running about, rmminsr awn v. ovidonr
ly in relation to his hawk-like passage.
He got an idea that he had been shot
at.
"i?p!" he said and attacked that le
ver again, it came over with remark
able docility, and suddenly the wings
seemed to give way in the middle.
But the engine was still! It had ston
pod. lie flung the lever back rather by
instinct than design. What to do?
Much happened in a few seconds.
but also his mind was quick he thought very quickly. He couldn't
set up again. He was gliding down the .air; ho Avould have to hit some
thing.
He was traveling at the rate of ner
haps thirty miles an hour down down
lhat plantation of larches looked the
softest thing mossy almost.
Could he got it? He gave himself
to the steering. Hound to the riirht
left!
Swirroo! Crackle! He was glidimr
over the tops of the trees, plowing
inrough them, tumbling into a cloud
of green sharp leaves and black twirs
There was a sudden snapping, and he
fell off the saddle forward, a thud and a crashing of branches! Some twigs hit him smartly in the face. He was between a tree stem and the saddle, with his leg over the steering lever and so far as he con id realize not hurt. He tried to alter his position and free his leg and found himself slipping and dropping through branches, with everything giving war
; oeneatn mm. He clutched and found ; himself in the lower branches of a j tree beneath the flying machine. The
air was full of a pleasant resinous
I smell. He stared, for a mbinent mo-
j tionless. and then very carefully elain-
Dered down branch by branch to the
soft needle covered ground below.
; "Good business," he said, looking up
at the bent and tilted kite wings above. ' "1 dropped soft!" He rubbed his chin with his hand and meditated. "Bio wed if I don't think I'm a rather lucky fellow!" he said, surveying the pleasant, sun bespattered ground under the trees. Then he became aware of a violent tumult at his side. "Lord," he said, "you must be 'nrf smothered!" and extracted the kitten from his pocket handkerchief and pocket. She was twisted and crumpled and extremely glad to see the light again. Her little tongue peeped between her teeth. He put her down, and she ran a dozen paces and shook herself and stretched and" sat up and began to wash. "Nex'r he said, looking about him, and then, with a gesture of vexation, "Dash It, I ought to 'ave brought that gun!" Ho had rested it against a tree when he had seated himself in the flying machine saddle. He was puzzled for a time by the immense peacefnlness in the quality of the world, and then he perceived that the roar of the cataract was no longer in his ears. He had no Very clear idea of what sort of people he might come upon in this country. it was, he knw, Amcrl-
Amrlrnnalift hnl Iwava unU.
stood were the citizens of a great and powerful nation, dry and humorous in
their manner, addicted to the use of the bowle knife and revolver and in the habit of talking through the nose. He decided to abandon the shattered flying machine. He wandered through the trees for some time and then struck a road that seemed to his urban English eyes to be remarkably wide, but not properly "made." Presently Bert came to a big wooden house standing casually among the trees. It looked a bleak, bare box of a house to him; no creeper grew on it; no hedge nor wall nor fence parted it off from the woods about it. He stopped before the steps that led up to the door, perhaps thirty yards away. The place seemed deserted. He would have gone up to the door and rapped, but suddenly a big black dog appeared at the side and regarded him. It was a huge hellvy jawed dog of some unfamiliar breed, and it wore a spike studded collar. It did not bark nor approach him; it just bristled quietly and emitted a single sound like a short, deep cough. Bert hesitated and went on.
He stopped thirty paces away and stood peering about him among the trees. lf I 'aven't been and lef that kitten," he said. Acute sorrow wrenched him for a time. The black dog came through the trees to get a better look at uim mid coughed that well bred cough again. Bert resumed the road. "She'll do all right," he said. "She'll catch things. "She'll do all right," he said pres
ently without conviction. But if it
had not been for the black dog he
would have gone back.
Bert came to houses of the same detailed, u n walled, wooden type, but
adorned now with enameled adver
tisements partly in English and partly
in Esperanto. Then he came to what
he concluded was a grocer's shop. It was the first house that professed the
hospitality of an open xioor, and from
within came a strangely familiar sound. "Gaw!" he said, searchiii'r in
his pockets. "Why, 1 'aven't wanted
money for free weeks! 1 wonder if I
Grubb 'ad most of it. Ah!" He
produced a handful of coins and re
garded it three pennies, sixpence and
a shilling. "That's all right." he said.
forgetting a very obvious considera
tion.
He approached the door, and as he-
did so a compactly built, gray faced man in his shirt sleeves appeared in
it and scrutinized him and his cudgel.
"Morniir." said Bert. "Can I get any
thing to eat 'r drink in this shop?"
The man in the door replied, thank
heave,,, in clear, good American. "This. sir. is not a shop, it is a store."
"Oh!" said 3ert. and .then, "Well.
can I ret anvthmc to eat?"
"iou can," said the American in a
tone of confident encouragement and
led the way inside.
The shop seemed to him by his Bun
Hiil standards extremely roomy, well
lit and unencumbered. Some men were
assembled round one of the tables, and
a woman of perhaps five and thirty
leaned with her elbows on the counter.
All the men were armed with rifles.
and the barrel of a gun peeped above
the counter. They were all listening
idly, inattentively, to a cheap, metal
he toned gramophone that occupied a
table near at hand. From its brazen
throat c me words that gave Bert a
qualm of homesickness that brought
back in his memory a sunlit beach, a
group of children, red painted bicycles.
Grubb and an approaching balloon:
Ting-a-ling-a-ting-a-linsr-a-ting-a-ling-a
tang
What price hairpins now?
A heavy necked man in a straw hat
who was chewing something stopped
the mn chine with a touch, and they all
turned their eyes on Bert. And all
their eyes were tired eves.
"Can we give this gentleman any
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said the proprietor.
"He kin have what he likes." said
the woman at the counter without
moving, "right up from a cracker to a square meal." Site struggled with a yawn after the manner of one who
has been up all night.
"I want a meal," said Bert, "but I
'aven't very much money. I don' want
to give mor'n a shillin'."
"Tore'n a what?" said the proprietor
sharply.
"More'n a shillin'." said Bert, with a
sudden disagreeable realization coming
into his mind.
"Yes," said the proprietor, startled for a moment from his courtlv bearing.
"Rut what is n shilling?"
"He means a quarter." said a wise looking, lank young man in riding
A Glance at Current To
TTVIE political schedule includes
j the South Caroliua "lily white" i (Republican) state convention
at Columbia and the Delaware
Republican state convention at Dover May 4. the Nevada Republican and
the Washington Democratic state conventions May 6. the former nt Fnllon
I and the latter at Walla Walla; tlie i Pennsylvania Democratic state con- ! vention at Harrisburg May 7, the Kansas Republican state convention at Independence May S and the Iowa Democratic state convention at Burliugton May 9. In view of the tense political situation in Ohio over the rivalry for the Democratic presidential nomination the party's convention at Toledo June 4 and 5 promises to be very lively. The Minnesota Democratic state convention will take place at Duluth June G. The state central committee of Minnesota turned down a motion when it set the convention date which called for a presidential preference primary. The Lure of the Far North. Necessary funds being assured, nothing now stands in the way of the expedition to Crocker Band which is to be made this year under the auspices of the Museum of Natural History, New York, and the American Geo-
sity refused to accept the representa
tions or his friends and reported that
the allegations made by them to the
ettect that the tablets had been tam
pered with were not substantiated. Professor Hilprecht resigned from the
university in November, 1910.
A tablet which Professor Hilprecht
said was an ancient account of Noah's
deluge was denounced at a meeting of
the American Oriental society in Balti
more by Professor George A. Barton of Bryn Mawr as absolutely wrong in translation and interpretation and of
no value to Biblical scholars.
, Tuberculosis Experiment.
An experiment to demonstrate a nlan
to wipe out centers of tuberculosis in
fection in tenement districts of New
York and other cities has been taken
up by the New York Association For
Improving the Condition of the Poor.
An entire section of the East river
homes, more familiarly known as th
Vanderbilt tenements, was leased for
three years and converted into a home
hospital.
In this new institution the associa
tion began an experiment in the home
treatment of consiimtDtivcs and the re
lief of persons suffering from the disease. The plan was that into each of
the twenty-four apartments would be
moved a family which is dependent be
cause of tuberculosis and which has
been under the care of the association.
or the next three years an effort will
be made to determine whether the
spread of tuberculosis can be checked
and cures effected under medical direction, aided by competent nursing, ade
quate relief, freedom from worry, fresh air and sunshine and room for
reasonable segregation.
According to the statistics of the
health department, New York citv suf
fered a loss of 10,074 lives in 1910 as
the result of this one disease. There
were in the same year 32.065 new cases reported, and it is conservatively estimated that there were 50,000 living
cases in the city a year ago.
Photo by American Press Association. Roald Amundsen, Who Now Contemplates Dash For North Pole. graphical society. George Bortip and Donald B. MacMillan. who were wiUi Peary in 100U when the north pole explorer thought he saw such a place as Crocker Land, will lead the expedition, which will leave Sydney, Nova Scotia. July 20. and it is probable that the Diana, one of Peary's .vessels, will be used on the two year trip In the Arctic ocean.
ortl came from St. Petersburg-,
Russia, recently that Captain Sedoff is
organizing a north pole expedition, "in
tending to start for Franz Josef Land
this summer and from there to make a
dash for the pole. .
Captain Roald Amundsen. -the Nor
wegian, is said to have inn de up his mind to reach the north pole in the
course of the next three years.
More Than 1,000 Delegates. The reapportionment act and admis
sion of New Mexico and Arizona as
states will give the Republican nation-
;i I crm von firm mnvn fli.in i rnn i i
this year. Tlii3 is the first time that the
number will have been so large iu a
Republican national convention.
"On to Chicago!" Suffrane Cry.
Fifty thousand women will march
t11 ltqjuuucau national convention in Chicago in June and ask it to indorse the equal suffrage cause if plans
lormulated in Chicago are carried out.
T 1 T T-k n "O 1 -v 4- .... . -i 11. i -i '!
.-'j.. Aiiua Aiutiiiu uue ui tue leaaers :n
the cause, has said that every state in
the Union will he represented by women's clubs at convention time.
Confederate Veterans' Reunion. The city of Macon, Ga.. is in gala
dress for the annual reunion of the
United Confederate Veterans. The as
sociation, whose commander is Lieu
tenant General C. Irvine Walker, was organized June 10. ISSi), in New Orleans, in which city are its permanent
headquarters, and the number of mem
bers, according to the last report, is
about 55,000. The last reunion was held at Little Rock, Ark. The United
Sons of Veterans held their annual
convention at Macon at the same time
as the present veterans' encampment.
nother convention which is of im
portance in the southern states will
be held in Nashville, Tenn.. Mav 10.
the day following the veterans' ad
journment. This convention will be a
congress which was called bv Gov
ernor Hooper for the study and discussion of social problems affecting the south.
gaiters.
his he
Bert, trying to conceal his conster i i .
nauou, produced a com. "Thats a
shilling," he said.
"He calls a store a shop." said the proprietor, "and he wants a meal for a shilling. May I ask you. sir. what
part of America you hail from?" Bert replaced the shilling in pocket as he spoke. "Niagara," said.
"And when did you leave Niagara?"
" 'Bout an hour ago.".
"Well!" said the proprietor and turn
ed with a puzzled smile to the others.
"Well!"
They asked various questions simul
taneouslv.
Bert selected oue or. two for reply. "You see." he said, 'T been with the German air fleet. I got caught up. by them, sort of by accident, and brought over here." "From England?" "Yes from England. Way of Germany. I was in a great battle with them Asiatics, and I got leT on a little island between the fails." "Gout island?' . "I '3ou' know what "it was called. But any'ow I found a flyinsr machine
aud müde & sort of fly with it and got 'rt." x
LTo b continued.!
The New Sta Professor Enebo Found.
Professor Philip Fox. astronomer of
Dearborn observatory. Northwestern
university. Chicago, has located the star discovered March 12 bv Professor
Ehebo in Norway. The star is in the
constellation of Gemini, or Twins,
above Castor and Pollux, and is visible to the naked eye. it can be seen lust
after dusk ac the meridian. Professor
Fox says that in his observations of the star's spectroscope he discovered
hydrogen and helium in bright lines,
which would indicate a gaseous body.
One theory is that the star is a gas
eous body, which has been in collision with nebulae and. become fired, and an
other is that it represents two large gaseous envelopes, both flaming.
Filipino Independence.
Chairman William A. Jones of the
house insular affairs committee and
Representative F. J. Garrett, its sec
ond ranking member, are the fathers
of the recently constructed partv bill
for Philippine independence. Quali
fied or probationary independence for
eight years from July 4. ism, until
July 4, 1021,-and after that full inde
pendence was the plan of the leaders
of the Democratic house of represent
atives. During the period of qualified independence it was provided that the
Filipinos elect their own congress, com
posed of house and senate, and have a president, the latter to be appointed by 1 he. president of the United States subject to confirmation by the United
States senate. A supreme court and
inferior courts were also urged, but no
change was recommended in the iudi-
ciary system beyond the appointment
of judges by the Philippine president.
While the eight year probationary
period lasts the foreign relations of
the islands, according to the narrv
bill, would be under the control of the
American government. After July 4,
lUJi, the iMhpinos would receive full and complete independence by the bill.
iso reservation is attached to this pro
vision. There was no mention in the
bill of what would happen in the event
of the failure of the Filipinos to dem
onstrate their capacity for self gov
ernment during the eight years of their
qualified independence.
Ex-Governor Hill's Successor.
The entrance into political life of
victor Rosewater, the acting chairman of the Republican national committee, dates from IDUs, when he was selected
The Hilprecht Dispute.
One of the most important scientific
missions undertaken for a long time
was that intrusted to Professor Ste-
j phen Uangdon. who holds the chair of
Assynology at Jesus college, Oxford, and who is the only American eer called to an Oxford chair. His mission is to translate the Nippur religious texts in Constantinople, and he has gone to do this work at the request of leading scholars of Eurüoe and at the invitation of the Turkish government. ' The controversy over the tablets discovered at Nippur by Dr. Hermann V. Hilprecht. formerly professor of Assy riology and Semitic languages at the University of Pennsylvania, was thought to hnve cloned in December, 1911, whtt Um trustees ot Um uaItst-
A NEW NATURAL WONDER.
Rcntly Discovered Arch In Navajes
Mountain Ward to Reach. If you will turn to .vour atlas yow
will find along the southern boundary
of Utah the prominent Navajos moun
tain. Four miles to the northwest of
this peak there has been discovered within the last two years what Is prob
ably the greatest natural arch to be
found anywhere on the fact? of the
rlobe. Compared with it the Natural
bridge of Virginia is but a toy.
No popular excursions are run daily
to this enchanted region, hidden away
in a labyrinth of red sandstone forma
tions securely guarded by deep and tor-
tuous canyons. It takes two weeks to
make the round trip from the nearest
railway station, and so great are the obstacles to be overcome that it is safe
to say that up to the present time not
more than twenty white men have vis
ited this wonder of wonders, known to
the Piute Indians as Barohoini ("the
Rainbow.") George F. Paul In Nation
al Monthly.
The Parting of the Wayt.
IV.
1,172 Tons of Silkworms,
Within the last thirty years sericul
ture as a farm industry has made re
markable progress in Hungary. Where
as 5,525 pounds only of silkworms were produced in 1S70, the product in 1910 amounted to 3,G25,51S pounds (over 1,172 tons), and the number of
families engaged in the industry ros
from 1,059 to upward of 90,000. -Lon
don Post.
Victor Rosewater, Acting Head of Re
publican National Committee.
as delegate at large to the Republican
national convention from Nebraska, and since I9üS he has been the repre
sentative from his state on the Repub
lican national committee Mr. Rose-
water is a native of Omaha, a news
paper man and forty-one years old. He
was vice chairman of the committee, succeeding John Fremont Hill upon th
at oc tat l&ttsK 1S B
Most Desolate Place.
Probably the most desolate. drear
spot in the world inhabited by white
men is the lighthouse maintained br
the Argentine government at Cane
Horn. This is claimed to be the south
ernmost lighthouse in the world.
American Traveler's Gaxstte.
Whoever fails to tum a aid tke ilia
of life by prudent fcHttbottkt
submit to fulfill tilt
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