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CHEAT EVENTS OF THE YEAR
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s&L p Achievements that Are Epochs in the
MAN'S CONQUEST OF THE A IB
I llllr of Irrlraa Trlraranhr l'rortd
it Ship of the Air (rr
(li lllwovrrr of the
.Norlh I'olr, i:tc.
' Uuiing thr yrar Just closed a number of
rmtonnlal fffbrstlons were sharp re
minders of the unique distinction of lsf3 a.i
Xhl year of great I. allien-the blrth-yrar of
men and womf-n who achieved surpassing
eminence, In the history of the world. Lin
coln, Victoria, Uladstone, Longfellow,
Tennyson, Oliver Wendell Holme, parwin,
,'hopln, Edgar Allen I'oe and Mcndetusohn
' were leaders of the (treat fnmlly of young-
sters brought Into the wcrrld In that year.
Jn a tiiRtr rl.il way lis gxatrsl achievement
v.nn the liintJK'imt Ion of Kleam propelled
boats on the llud-on liver by Robert
Kultoti, the' centennial 'of which New York
celebrated last summer.
Jn tho yeara to come, when the achieve
ments of a century later are measured In
all their bearings, tha record of 3009 as a
wonder year will deserve even greater
distinction. It was a year of great de
velopments and discoveries. It has demon
strated that aerial navigation Is possible
and practical; the utility of wireless
telegraphy was convincingly proven, and
the North pole reached after 400 years of
Btlllggle.
Yrar of the Flyers.
Who would have gueoped, years ago, as
he declaimed the Mad tale of Darius Oreen,
that he would live to see an emperor greet
ing a gentleman who had Just stepped
down from his airship, after a trip of 400
miles, and Introducing him to "a plain
American," who had grown rich from the
'i.sale of aeroplaneaT But thousands besides
4NjVllhelm II and Count Zeppelin and Orville
Wright can attest to the happening. The
mere existence of such daring fellow aa
the Wright and Blerlot, Paulham and
Owing to the very unseasonable
weather our stock of Shoes la al
together too large, and we must,
turn It into cash. We must have
the money. We need It. Sal?
commences Monday, Jan. 3rd. Our
brand new stock of Men's, Wom
en's, Boys', .Misses' and Children's
.Shoes must be reduced to a proper
level, and here are the prices to
do it: '
Men's very high
est grade Shoes,
all leathers,
black and tans,
lace and but
toned, values
$3 and $5.50
price . . 83.95
Big line of Men's
i 1 and some $5
values
Trice
$3.45
Men's $3.50
and some
$4 Shoes
Price
$2.95
Hundreds
of pairs of
Men's $3 &
1 T.A CHr.w In V. I .. 1, I
Hatents, all sojld leathers, solid
oak soles, Goodyear welts, sale
Prlce 83.45
Our Women's '
patent & dull
leather Shoes,
worth $3.50,
$4 and $4.50,
sale price,
iy -S2.95
Women's $3
and some
$3.50 qualities
so at 2.45
en's Tan
"hd Patent 2
bmkle H 1 g a
Moots, at -
i,alr 83.35
Putman Hoots,
10-lnch high,
"The World's
Standard," reg
ular price $10 ilurlnjr this sale.
rk' 87.45
Putnam. Boots, 14-inch high, value
$7.50 sale price $4.95
The famous "American Boy" 2
buckle. High Boots, values $3.50
and $3 in black and tans sale
PrU'e $2.95 nd S2.G5
Big line of Misses' and Chil
dren's Shoos at a big reduction.
Come, take a neeii at or win.
dowa.
A new pair free for any pair that
wears out too mmiii.
20;l North KUteenlh Htrert
Hotel Ixya! Mot k
t'arseval. !athsni and Lambert and I.e.
Wane, t'unls and Cody. HKntos-Pumont
and Summer, I'aiman and llougivr and
J'Hsgrange-the mcic fact that twenty-one
cash pi ires for conquering the air, ranging
from J00 to $60,000, and totalling at mure
than mT.Oop.OQO, are awaiting . claimants
the mere news of flying roaohlnss Invented
in Mexico and Hussla, China and Norway
urh straws show how blows this twen
tieth century wind of mechanical achieve
ment. Lalhnm. the Ki,gll?hman. failed to cross
the Hiitish chanml In his monoplane
nil: fed It by a stent two mile-but tho
frenchman, iilcriot, needed but thirty-seven
minutes to soar above the twenty-one
choppy miles which separate Calais from
Uuver. This was In July, and Just before
it the bi others Wright had returned to
their native Ohio, after victories unnum
bered In the Old World, to receive medals
and plaudits, and not long after the waters
of "1-e ru de Calais" had been vanquished
Wilbur Wright maneuvered above New
Vork s North liver with all the ea.y
precision which was to have been expected
of an aviator who, in the year, had coven d
a lltilu matter ot between 2,Mt and 3,uw
uir tn ilea.
Willi scarce a week of the fifty-two fall
ing to produce Its Item of overhead news
of value, it Is difficult to give any three
of four happenings as of especial impor
tance, but possibly the accomplishments
most nearly of record-breaking sort are
these:
Orville Wright, near Totsdam, Germany,
In October, rose to a height of 1.600 feet,
thus surpassing by a good margin Lam
bert's spectacular flight, the selfsame
month, In which he rose 1,200 feet, looking
down on the Xl-foot Eiffel tower.
Delagrauge, at Doncaster, England, In
October, drove his machine at the rate of
something over fifty-four miles an hour,
slightly surpassing the achievement of Or
ville Wright at Ft. Myer In July. ,
Henry Karman, at Mourmclon, France,
In November, covered 114 mile in 4 hours
( minutes and 25 seconds.
To which must be added the two victor
ies of Glenn Curtlss at Rhelma In August
and at Brescia a month later. In one case
he won the International cup by covering,
on a circular course, twelve miles In six
teen minutes, and In the other carried off
the grand prize, flying thirty-one miles in a
trifle lea than fifty minutes.
nirtajlblea and Spherical.
Tho dirigible has likewise sailed Into the
forefront of Importance Blnce January last
came In. Ooodale has hovered along and
above the North river (June), Germany's
Grosse II. (August) very handily made a
2MMnlIe Journey In fifteen houra and forty
minutes, Italian army officers (October)
have practically duplicated this, and the
French bag Libert has accomplished 161
miles In five and a half hours. The Sep
tember which witnessed this last feat,
however, saw also the horrible death dive
of France's Republlque, an air monster of
the "rigid" type, involving four fatalities.
Zeppelin would aeem to have distanced
all competitors of this aort An airship,
which can leave lta home port, cover 270
miles In varying weather, against head
winds and carrying nine men, break a
propeller, descend safely, repair damages,
rise and go eighty miles further, land easily
and at will, and then cut home again, will,
In the language of the man in the street,
"take a lot of beating." In 1900 the count
managed to do seven miles above Lake
Constance; In June of last year he covered
860 miles In clerhtv
March he demonstrated that height as well
as distance is In his grasp, ascending ti.OOO
feet ne'ar Frledrichshafen.
As for the sphericals, -they, too, have been
busy and prospering. The "University
City" won the national balloon contest In
June, starting from - Indlanannlia n,i
achieving 380 miles. A few days later the
Helvetia, in a little' matter of eleven hours,
sailed over Mt. Blanc. The New York, to
capture tho Lahni cup. was aloft five min
utes less than twenty hours, averaging
tnirty-nine mile an hour, and, possibly the
most noteworthy accomplishment of all, the
Albatross, with two Italian adventurers in
its basket, rose (August) near Turin to a
height of S8.7SM feet, generously bettering
me previous height record of 37,100.
North I'ole Discovery.
Probably the most dramatlo event of the
year, bringing to a triumphant conclusion
more than three centuries of Arctic ex
ploration, has been the announcement of
the discovery of the North pole. Wlthlu a
single week In September, 1909, Buch an
nouncemcnts and claims were made bv
Dr. Frederick A. Cook and by Commander
llobert L. Peary of the United States navv
The first claimed to have reached the
"boreal center" April 21, 1908, the other on
April 6, 1909. Dr. Cooks claim to having
reacuea tne pole on the date named or any
date was attacked by Commander Peary
and started a controversy that raged
fiercely among partisans of each, and did
not cease i ntil tho University of Copen
hagen pronounced worthless the proofs
submitted by the Brooklyn doctor. Mean
while the records of Commander Peary
were submitted to the American Geo
graphical society, examined by that body
ana pronounced . convincing proof of his
claim as the discoverer of the North pole.
The climax of the controversy was the
aisappearance of Dr. Cook from New
York on November 24.
Via Wireless.
The upper air hus borne man's messages
as wen as his flying craft. Wireless title
raphy, with Count' von Aroo'a "sounding
sparks" and the new devices of the Italians
Jielllnl and Tosl to re-enforce earlier mth.
ods has set Paris and New York In com
munication and Hawaii .and tha Oreirnn
coast. New York and Chicago have for the
nrsi time been talking this way ikkvi
and tho Korea, steaming westward from
the Golden Gate, has keot continuously in
touch with San Francisco over the hitherto
unequaled distance of 4,7oO miles (Novem
ber). Tho saving of fully 3,000 lives at the times
of the wrecks ot the Kepuhllo (January)
and Slavonla (June), by means pf this
same Intangible, mysterious, winged agent
of man's brain, wrote new wonder stories
for all the world. Jack Binns, sticking to
his post on a sinking ahlp and flashing his
"C. J. D." out through the fog veil, which
surrounded what portended only direct trag
edy, linked a stout heart to the marvelous
ingenuity of the Inventor, and death was
once more cheated.
Wireless clocks are telling tlniu in present-day
Vienna, regulated hour by hour
by wireless waves thrown forth from .
central mechanism. The Omaha exposition,
in May, was lighted by electricity brought
by wireless from a powerhouse six mllee
distant. Captain llovland of Norway's
navy has practically perfected a system
for tho automatic recording in print of
wireless messages. Wireless communica
tion Is monthly growing more and more
practicable between airships and the cities
beneath; the Grouse II, n August talk
ing quite itlsia. torily with Frankfurt and
Carlsruhe. Wlre.e-s telegraphy from
moving trains has been partially achieved
on the limlteds running between Buffalo
and Chicago. Underground wlreleea la the
rroblem at which experts for the Frenoh
government are hard at work.
And If telegraphy without wires, tele
pi,r.y without wire iiiut soon "arrive."
It Iiuk not yet been demonstrated that
tills is a commercially profitable Invest
ment, but five Ion steps In that direction
have been taken this year. In April such
communication was opened between Port
laud, Mo., aud the Ulauiis lu Caaco bay,
while, almoFt cincldentrlly. some success
ful experiments were worked out between
Paris and Melun, thirty tullesdistant. In
June the French cruiser Conde. 1'jO miles at
sea, talked freely with the shore. And
July brousht in tests across the Charles
Hver nesr Boston, and between Chicago
and Milwaukee, both of which '.'delivered
the goods."
Wires are not jet a diug in the market,
however, for all this marvelous story; man
Is working them harder than evr. By the
newly tried Tollak Virag" method, W.imo
words an hour cannot merely he sent, but
record" d at the receiving station; the "tele
graphone" haa come to utilize telegraph
wires for phone purposes; and a Mexican.
Alberto Sanches, declares h can now
transmit vision as well as voice over the
taut metal "string at the top of a row of
fish poles," he calls this the "Telcradlop
tlcon." Two recent accomplishments, of Interest
and north, though differing from these as
from each other, came' when telegraph mes
sages wru for the first time sent from
London to Calcutta without retransmission
I August., a distance of 6.:00 miles; nud
when the nuii-iiMKnetlc survey jaeht Car
negie sailed out from its lliooklyn slip
headed for Hudson b. This is but a six
nionthV trip for the all-wood vessel, which
expeeUd to discover all sorts of new and
valuable thlns about the earth's magnetic
currents. Its next Journoy is to last fif
teen years and cover all this old earth s
seven seas.
" Transportatloa on Land.
As to transportation by land, June
brought onto the rails between St. Paul
and White Bear, Minn., a "torpedo mo
tor" of 2-"0-horse-power, gasoline propelled,
and capable of reeling off seventy-five miles
an hour; October saw highly successful
tests of the first turbine locomotive made
for English use, and November witnessed
the marvelous performance, in England
again, of tiie gyroscope car patented by
Louis Brennan. Think of It: A carriage
forty feet long and thirteen high, weigh
ing twenty-two tons, mounted on a single
rail, and running freely about all sorts of
curves and angles, 'it carries forty passen
gers with safety as complete and vibration
far less than can the ordinary coach, and
Its present speed of fifty milos an hour,
It Is said, may be increased threefold.
The completion of Austria's Tauern rail
way crowns a genuine work of brains-plus-skill.
Here was a line less than forty
miles long hitching up Gasteln and Splttal
across and throucii the Alps, yet It has
taken some $$2,jO0,00O to build It and eleven
years' labor; the tunneling alone demanded
ninety months. Now it Is proposed to
pierce the barrier, conquered by Hannibal
2,100 years ago, and by Mr. Bonaparte of
Corsica only a century back, not only at
the Jungfraujoch, but through Mount
Blanc himself. The much-talked-of line
through the Andes will be in running order
before anther spring has come and gone.
It is the American engineer, however,
who, in his tunneling business, has made
his mark highest and clearest. All world's
records in his sort have been better by
the workers in the bores of the Chicago,
Milwaukee Puget Sound road, under the
Bitter Root hills In Idaho and Montana,
the drills began in November, 11)08, and the
8,751 feet, just completed, showed a variant
of only one three-hunrdedth of an Inch off
the true floor alignment. The Simplon tun
nel Is only S1 feet in length and the St.
Gothurd but 406.
And what of the McAdoo "tubes" bur
rowing under the river between New York
and Jersey City? The first Pennsylvania
railroad tialn ran through tn November
and the trolleys had been buzzing there
five months before that. The steel pipes
that bind the two states In amity give the
train-sick traveler a cool plunge down a
long, dark, submarine cave that might be
fitted up with stalactites and stalagmites.
Then, almost breathless, be Is discharged
Into an underground city of green, full of
miniature stores, twinkling with elfctric
bulbs.
In the Laboratories,
The world's physicists, too, have been at
work and profitably. Sir William Ramsay
announced in March that he had succeeded
in transmuting four different substances
into carbon-zirconium, thorium, hydro-
fluosilicic acid aud bismuth. Dr. E. S.
Bailey of New Orleans, a month earlier
than tills, perfected a- substitute for
radium, "lladio-thor," as he calls It. is
made of pitchblende and Is not merely
cheaper and better than the rare element
It replaces, but Is wholly lacking all of
radium's baneful effects. On February 10
Cleveland scientists watched the operation
of. an oxygen-acetylene torch, which rad
iated a beat of some 6.300 degrees, suffi
cient to cut through a two-Inch solid steel
plate in fifty seconds or to weld aluminium,
heretofore regarded as Impossible.
In Contrast to these forward steps In
chemistry and physics, begotten of p
tlence and long research, stands the lni;
portant discovery of a Denver Jeweler-
David Lamon of the long-lost secret of
hardening copper. Ha found the open
sesame through mistaking another com'
pound for borax, which. Instead of soften
tug the metal, as borax .does, instantly
gave to it such a degree of hardness as
to make manipulation out of the question,
At once he made analysis of his chance
compound, determined its ingredients and
has now guarded his discovery through
patent.
is almost Instantly conveyed to evcty cell
In the body, which Is affected accoidlng to
the nature of the llinught. We ate
nothing but a mass of cells, brain, reive
and othr tissue cells and the whole mass
Is veiy sensitive to every mental process.
Tn a sense, the body is an rttcn-led
brain, ami every thought, every rinod.
every emotion is transmitted In'lantly to
the remotest cell. If the thought Is dis
cordant. If the emotion Is vicious. It will
carry Its poison to the farthest cells. Suc
cess MiiKSslne.
IS A PITCHER A SLAVE?
Ilaac Hell Manaarr. wllh Otcrrine
-Note, Darks 1 nder the t on
N Xltullnn.
.Slavety In all Its forms is abhorrent to
Amerhfn lil'als. S avery tirdtr tho con
stitution is a crime aKiinst the preat char
ter of human liberty. Hut lit spite of all,
the emancipation of the men proeeds
slow ly.
In the heait of I'enusvlvanla a new
lioeeator hns arisen. Even the name of
the l:iann!e- of (lie Wllkeshurre liae Hall
lulj Is unknown outside a limited elree.
Hut he shows himself to he a man ilf
principle and conscience. East July he
bought of tiie Allentown team Joseph
PelcjUln. a pitcher. Three hundred dol-
nrs was paid down and a note given for
ILW. In ante-bellum days ordinary slaves
so'.d for more, hut perhaps Pelequln Is
not a very good pitcher. At- any rate
pitchers rever shall be slaves anln If
the manager of tho Wllkesbarre club can
help it.
The thirteenth amendment to the consti
tution cf the flitted States solemnly de-
lares: Neither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been
du'y convicted, shall exist within the
United States, or any place subject to their
Jurisdiction." On the Issue of slavery this
country fought tho civil war, expended
billions in treasure and sacrificed hundreds
of thousands of lives. On this Issue the
Wilkesbc.rrc base ball manager refuses to
meet tho IJOt) noto due In part payment
for Joseph Pelequln, tho pitcher. He has
taken his stand on the constitution of the
United States and the rights of man und
had appealed from the justice's court to
the county court, and will go on appeal
ing If necessary.
Shall the Institution of base ball exist
In plain disregard of the constitution? Shall
base ball pitchers. In tho freest country
under heaven, be sold on the block like
chattels? We shall see. If tho constitu
tion means what it seems to mean to the
Wllkesbarre manager, the most profound
speeches of Joseph Weldon Bailey of Texas
and Elihu Koot of New York on that ven
erable Instrument will attract less wide
spread attention than the judgment of the
nine mighty magistrates sitting In -the
capltol at Washington when they come to
decide whether Joseph Pelequin Is a free
man or a slave. The United States con
stitution promises again to become an ob
ject of popular interest when the fans take
to discussing it. New York World.
MENTAL INFLUENCE ON BODY
.trit I'byalclana 'Who Point Oat
Hub 'I'boaffbt Is Manifested
On the Body.
The different organs of our bodies are
especially susceptible to certain kinds of
mental Influence. Intense hatred, outbursts
of hot temper, violent fits ot anger, and
some other forms of worry have a very
irritating influence upon the kidneys and
materially aggravate certain forms ot kid
ney disease.
Excessive seinshness and envy se
riously affect the liver, while liver and
spleen are strongly Influenced by Jealousy,
especially chronic jealousy.
It Is well kDbwn that a violent, long
continued Jealousy affects the, heart's ac
tlon most injuriously, us do all sorts pf
mental discord, such as worry, anxiety,
fear, anger, especially n hire they become
chronic. Multitudes of people have died
from heart trouble induced by the ex
plosive passions.
Jaundice often follows great mental
shocks and violent outbursts of temper.
People are frequently made bilious by
long-continued despondency, fear aud
worry.
A physician says: "I have been sur
prised to find how often the cause of can
cer of the liver has been traced to pro
tracted grief or anxiety." Dr. Snow, an
eminent English authority, says that the
vast majority of the cases cf cancer, espe
cially cancer of the breast and uterine can
cer, are due to anxiety and worry.
blr. B. W. Richardson says that Irrita
tions on the skin will follow excessive
mental strain. "It Is remarkable," this
great physician says, "how little the ques
tion of the origin of physieal diseases from
mental Influence has been studied."
These structural changes in the different
organs are due to chemical changes In the
development of poisonous substances in
the tissues thrcugh mental Influence.
As the entire body for all practical pur
pokes Is one mass of ecus closely bound
together, every thought that enters the
mind, every chance in the mental attitude,
CLEAMif C SALE
The Battery.
There had again been trouble In the
O'Hagan household, and O'llosan had the
word or sympathy when ho next met his
neighbor.
Tla not much or a team you make, ye
and yer woife," said O'Hocian.
An that s where ye re vvromr. s:i hi
O'Hapan. " 'TIs the foiiio team we m;i"
entirely. Me woife pitches an' Oi catches."
Puck. '
Memorial to Jobn Howard Pal no.
Dr. Charles A. Rflvmnnd the new nreul.
dent of Union university. ' hus started a
movement that will probably interest Eng
lish speaking people tho world over. He
In past years'wc have always held our clear
ing sales during the month of February.
This year we have decided to run our sale
during the month of January.
In order to demonstrate to our customers and friends
the magnitude of this CLEARING SALE we are going
to place on sale all our broken sets and all odd pieces of
furniture, all dropped patterns in Carpets and Rugs, and
all Odd Lace Curtains and Portieres, which have, and
are hound to accumulate during the season, at prices
which will be on a great many articles at HALF OUR
REGULAR SELLING PRICES,
This sale will include our entire stock of Furniture, Car"
pets. Rugs and Draperies, with the exception of office
furniture and office supplies.
Sale Begins Monday, Jan. 3, 1910
Very truly yours.
Miller, Stewart $k Beaton Co.
413-15-17 South Sixteenth Street
proposes a national fund to erect at Union
a suitable memorial to John Howard
Paine, the author of "Home, Sweet Home."
His Idea is to erect an imposing gateway
to tiie campus at Union. The Albany
Argus, editorially commending the idea,
says: "In order that It may be a general
and genuine, popular memorial to the au
thor of "Home, Sweet Home," one of tho
most beautiful songs In tle English lan
guage, probably the subscriptions will bo
limited to a small amount (II or V apiece)
and the whole country bo invited to con
tribute." New ork Tribune.
Chamberlain's Liniment has an enviable
reputation as a cure for rheumatism.
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