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Show I If His Terrible Threat. Aviation has Improved considerably since the, time when Col. Clcary, then county commissioner and for years n well-known Chlcagoan, made a balloon ascension at a county fair over In Michigan, snys tho 'Chicago Journal. As the guest of honor the colonel was sent upward with tho assurance that there was absolutely no danger. But ns the dlstanco from tho enrth grow greater the colonel leaned out nnxlously. "Full me In!" he shouted. Tho men who were balling out the ropo paid no heed to his demand. Higher and higher went the balloon. "Wilder and wilder grew the colonel. Finally, almost standing on his head as he tried to keep a precarious bal-ance, bal-ance, ho gave a final cry of exas-pernted exas-pernted panic: "Pull mo In, I toll you, or I'll cut tho ropo!" |