Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, February 7, 1913, Page 7

WAS “HERO”-OF THE SHORE LITTLE INTEREST (IN FLYING United States Stands Lowest .in Mili- tary Avlation, Because of .Lack | of Public Concern. i \ : In the days when the late Sir Ed- According to Lieut. ‘Benjamin D. | ward Moss lived at Edinburgh's sea- Youlois, who was rated by Orville | side suburb of Joppa, it was his cus- ‘Wright and others as one-of the most { tom to invite friends to test the sail- capable aviators in any army, the | ing qualities of his yacht on the lack of public interest in aviation in | Firth ot Forth. One day 'a sudden this country is deplorable. To this | squall arose, and from the shore the lack of public interest, Lieut. Foulois | yacht could be seen laboring heavily. eharges the responsibidity for the fact | All on board had a narrow escape, that the United States is at the foot | and a local reporter scented good of the list of great powers in the | “copy” in the oecurrence. In glowing development of military aviation. celors the scene was described, and “The public spirit that prevails | next day Sir Edward came in for abroad is the mighty factor in this | much congratulation on his providen- cape During a Squall on Firth of Forth. - I l'rhrilllng Narrative of a Narrow Es- | rapid development,” he said, “and it is the lack of this spirit in the United States that is responsible for our be- ing so far behind. “We can never expect to see any great amount of public interest dis- played in the development of aircraft in this country until it is proved to the people of the United States that it is a good financial investment. “The fact that this new science is particularly useful for military pur- poses does not appeal to the great majority of our complacent money- making people.” Lieut. Foulois expressed the opin- ion that at present skilled aviators operating properly designed and con- structed machines, equipped with pow- erful motors, can fly in almost any wind. He then went on to quote Orville Wright as having stated that it is now possible to construct aero- planes’ that would earry 25 persons, and which could be driven at a speed of 100 miles an hour, if necessary. Such a machine ,he added, could cross the United States with but two or three stops. PLUMBER HAD HIS REVENGE Nettied by the Espionage of an Offi- clous Butler, He Plays a Clever Trick. The frost had frozen some of the taps in a gentleman’s house and burst a few pipes, 80 thet a plumber had to be called in. The plumber was shown round by the coachman, but as soon a8 he commenced work an officious butler kept close watch over him. He didn't like the treatment, and de- termined to play a trick on the but- ler. In the bathroom he found a burst pipe, and, after cutting out the Ice, he quickly popped his thumb over the hole. ‘“Here, mate,” he said, turning to the butler, “hold yer thumb over this hole while I fetch my solderin™iron. Don’t shift, or there’ll be a flood.” An hour went by, but the plumber had not returned. Then the butler called a servant who was passing, and told him to fetch him up. She found him enjoying lunch in the kitchen. “The butler wants to know when you're going to release him,” she said. “Go an’ tell the fool to shift his thumb. I turned the water of2 before 1 started on the job,” replied the plumber, grinning. Happiness Made Up of Little Things. It 18 no new discovery that a woman's happiness is often the sum total of little things. A word, a look, a gesture, goes to the making or mar- ring of the entire day. A single buz- zing mosquito may create a sleepless night. A solitaray flower may bring ’ message of delight. The largeness or the littleness of spiritual things cannot be measured with a foot rule, and something of the smallest consequence to us because it is not our own concern may be tre- mendous to another. To a bird that builds its nest a string is as much a»s & hawser to a saflor. . Her doll is aw big to the comforting arms of Saman- tha Jane upon the doorstep as Samantha Jane herself is to the lap of her own mother. An ant toils bravely with an egg thrice its size; it is as though you or I were dealing with a plano or sideboard single- handed. What is little and what is large? It is sometimes very hard to say. Much depends upon the sizes of our own bodies, and still more upon the dimensions of our souls! It is the little things that tell, because very often they are not so little as we think. The man or woman who is careful of the little things is pretty likely to be right on the bigger things. Death Vailey. Death valley is the place where boy heroes in the story books of ten or twenty years ago used to do most of their heroic deeds. It is a desert val ley on the unwatered plains of the southwest, and its name was earned by its greed for human lives. Men died of thirst, and the bare mountains on each hand looked down on whit ening . bones. But now the romance is gone from Death valley. Laborers are there, dig: ging borax out of the valley floor, and water is hauled to them by tankfuls. And now there is a proposal to build an automobile road down the length of this desolation as part of a road te extend entirely across the continent The romance of Death valley is in deed gone, angd there is nothing left for western boy heroes save an air ship and the planet Mars. Modern Ethics. We are beginning nowadays te¢ study ethics with some kind of intel lectual honesty, and are discovering that there is nothing essentially mor al or religious about any kind of rula prohibition, authority, or domination The goodness you produce by such negative force is of poor fibre. Real Moral guidance econsists in developing courage, love, fresdem S mst0 ahieeoES Lihond Stns st SO E o S es Setsites S S OB e Bt NSt e S H o cie et e G RSN A tial escape. To a select company he recounted how he saw the waters sweeping the decks, pouring into the ecabin, and subjecting the craft to imminent peril of being smashed against the pier. “Dreadful!” exclaimed one of the agitated listeners. “Were you not afraid?” “Afraid? No! been?” “Did you stay on deck all the time?” “On deck? No.” . “Then not down below, surely?” “Oh, no!” “Where were you, then?” Sir Edward Moss allowed a quiet smile to creep over his face. “I was sitting on the shore,” he said. Why should I have Four Great Sauces. A Frenchman has declared that “man has created the culinary art; he does not eat like an animal—he breakfasts, dines and sups.” The French are particularly elo- Juent on the subject of sauces. \mong their famous chefs are recog- nized four great sauces: Spanish, Veloute, Bechamel and German. The Spanish and Veloute were known as far back as the seventeenth century. In the eighteenth they were modified by the masters of cookery, particular- ly by Careme, who was called “the Raphael of the kitchen.” The Spanish sauce is composed of juices extracted from a mixture of ham, veal, chicken and pheasant. Veloute is similar, but is not colored. Bechamel is Veloute to which cream has been added, and the German sauce is Veloute plus the yolks of eggs.—Harper's Weekly. Birds Voracious Feeders. As instances of the amount of food some birds consume, the Rev. C. T. Phillips, vicar of Ivegill, a well known Cumberland naturalist, the oth- er day found in the crop of a wood- pigeon he shot 140 beech nuts, whilst another wood-pigeon had devoured more finely-chopped trunip leaves than he could hold in the palm of his hxn\d. Looking to the Future. ‘The beautiful lady consulted her attorney, and was received with bows | and smiles. “l am glad to tell you,” said the legal gentleman, “that your breach of promise suit has already produced results. The defendant has offered to compromise by marrying you.” “That suits me,” declared the beau- tiful lady. “I'd rather do that than stand a chance of losing a suit. Well, you have done beautifully. What do I owe you for your services?’ ““Shall we say $500?" “We shall not. That is altogether too much.” “Well, I'll tell you what I?21 do. I'll cut that bill in two if you will promise to retain me when you sue for divorce.”—Cleveland Plain Degler. “She threatened to throw hot we- ter in my face,” said a school attend- ance officer, reférring to 'a woman who had been summoned in' respect of the.truancy of her.child. “You must not throw hot water,” the stipendiary told the defendant. “You can- heap coals of fire on his head, if you lHke.” Turkeys Taken to Europe in 1529. ‘The goose is hard to get this year, while the turkey is plentiful enough. This gives us another example of the ousting of the native by the alien.:-For while the goose is native to these islands, the turkey is comparatively a newcomer. The turkey did not reach Europe from the New World before about 1520, and four years later is re- | | i 50 Below? 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