Show V LET IT BE THE LAST 0 J I n nA A good many years ago one of the most 1 5 was the Canadian Boat Sprig 0 Old 1 F e remember from an imper imperfect c memory len ory how i iRow S it t begins i Row tc Row brothers rs row rowl Tho rho stream runs fast J Tho rapids arc uc near r tho daylight arli ht is past And as al tho woods on the shore grow dim We joyously sing our evening ovenin hymn I r r l Ha ley and Post landed lande in their jl in the Cana Canadian ian wood far north an and east cast Quebec oi Quebec and then wa walked ked two days ys to io the shore t p I V l la l a lake When they were werd utterly spent as one V V A. A V f f them said We r e were all in in answer to t j f it cry cry came came a responding cry and they soon hc rd the dip of the paddle of a canoe cano coming to toI I 1 j K r rescue resme If these two ever eyer knew the Canadian Can Can- y adian boat boat song 0 and could sing we fancy it was vas f never before with fervor sung suc as they sang t there One day da longer and they probably r have perished and like Andre never have If Lf J. n heard of more r And b by the way this is a reminder er What vi Jt have hae any men men to to go up lp in a balloon and sail y over ver lakes an and woods to the imminent peril then L' L lives J Before these two venturesome men meni i rJ found they had bec become ille the of t o countries and a s strenuous search had been bee Instituted to find them if alive or to find v b bodies t if dea dead It may v va be said that men HJ ve a right to do what they please It is true f at th they y have the abstract right but they have no right t to try experiments which if they fail w ll fill thousands s of people with anxiety on their theirY f. f co nt Y As oJ yet vet balloons are toys to tl an and while such a athey as they are arc they J have to be tried that suggestions 00 J f pr improvements may be maJe they ought to b be held within the limits of civilization It was Avas a athing 1 I t thing that Wellman tried because he f TF i ff te A M 1 I i I A m I r alJy had no justification for foJ believing that he Gould sail an airbag feet long across the Atlantic At At- lantic luntie tempting currents of air ir that make their vagrant march above that ocean Any gambler would I have told him that to bet against odds of a n. t thousand f to one was as something that no t i i i 4 port in the Ithe world would undertake and the des des- sperate venture they made can call best be u understood t 1 YI week there comes into some port in JV q a ship battered by waves and r. r report that for twelve hou hours hours' s' s or for two seventy hours they battled with the storm Jt Vater atel is much heavier than thau air ail and water is a ad i d se J-se clement compared t to air and ships are arc ge as strong as the experience of six SIX thousand 1 i h JG rs and the Perfect knowledge of mechanics can v- v vP P ke them while the air is the most elastic of all fluids fluid's ls and anything trusted to the all all' air presenting a a great surface to be e posed exposed to the winds must f f necessity immediately having h ving no ballast to steady f it become the prey of these winds and must drift wherever the winds list In coming races of b balloon contests contests' there should be a stipulation confining their territory to fo t t the e boundaries of civilization and with positive instructions not to exceed them because there is w 1 d' d j no jno occasion to create creat in thousands thousands' of people an indefinite fear that the brave fellows who take to I the air may be starving and freezing to death in k Some some northern wil wilderness erness |