. Book of the Royal blue . longand46 feet wide. Its gas capacity was 24,852cubic yards, and it carried three motorshaving a total of 330 horsepower. It \yasdesigned to maintain a speed of thirty-fivemiles an hour. Its lifting capacity was44,000 pounds, of which 11,000 poundscovered the crew, passengers and was expected to be able to accomplish acontinuous trip of 700 miles. Count Zeppelin experienced five seriousaccidents in a period of two years. Hisfirst airship, the Zeppelin I, was struck bylightning and destroyed at Stuttgart afterdescending because of a broken Zeppeli
. Book of the Royal blue . longand46 feet wide. Its gas capacity was 24,852cubic yards, and it carried three motorshaving a total of 330 horsepower. It \yasdesigned to maintain a speed of thirty-fivemiles an hour. Its lifting capacity was44,000 pounds, of which 11,000 poundscovered the crew, passengers and was expected to be able to accomplish acontinuous trip of 700 miles. Count Zeppelin experienced five seriousaccidents in a period of two years. Hisfirst airship, the Zeppelin I, was struck bylightning and destroyed at Stuttgart afterdescending because of a broken Zeppelin IF was partially wrecked incollision with a tree at Goeppingen afteran 850-mile trip. It was repaired and againwrecked by a gale while on earth at Weil-berg. Then came the wreck of theDeutschland and on July 19th the gasworks of the Zeppelin Airship Companywere demolished by two explosions. Theintrepid inventor, who has the full confi-dence of the German government, is notdismayed, but will continue to battle The Truthful Chicken A Story of Mount V^ernon By DR. THOMAS CALVER Down at Mount Vernon, one autumn day,I walKed about in the usual wayAnd saw many sacred objects there,And filled myself with patriot saw^ the spinet Nellie Custis played;The trees that gave their owner shade;The beds w^here men of fame had slept;The rooms w^herein sweet NeUie w^ept,And stately Martha held her throne,The First in Peace, she called her own;The mirrors that had known each faceOf her proud court of beauty and grace. The chairs they sat in, bric-a-brac and such; The robes of satin—never sat in much— But carried by fashions lovely pet Through gay quadrille and minuet. I saw the carpets Washington had trod. I saw^ the garden where he turned the sod. The shrubs he planted and the tow^ering trees. Now whispering his honors to the breeze. Then, after I had mused upon these things. More fraught with glory than the thrones of Kings, Down to the carriage house I chanced to walk.
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