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Show His Terrible Threat. I Aviation has improved considerably! since the time when Col. Cleary, ther county commissioner and for years a well-known Chicagoan, made a balloon ascension at a county fair over in Michigan, says the Chicago Journal. As the guest of honor the colonel was sent upward with the assurance that there was absolutely no danger. But as the distance from the earth grew greater the colonel leaned outj anxiously. ' I "Pull me in!" he shouted. I The men who were bailing out thel rope paid no heed to his demand! Higher and higher went the balloon I Wilder and wilder grew the colonel! Finally, almost standing on his head as he tried to keep a precarious bal ance, he gave a final cry of exas perated panic: "Pull me in, I tell you, or I'll cuf the rope!" |