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Two Clever
Builders of
Aeroplanes
8UCCC88 of the Wright broth
THE of Dayton O In getting
the Germun government to
contract with them for the
building of a iieot of airships is a sig
nificant achievement According to the
opinion of no less an authority on the
subject than Professor Alexander Gra
ham Bell it means that the era of
practical aerial navigation has now
been reached The matter Is no longer
one of mere theory and experiment
The Impossible has been passed In
aerial navigation said Trofessor Bell
not long ago on learning of the success
ful llights of the Wright aeroplane
and I am proud of the fact that
America leads the world In that mat
ter At the time of this remark the
Wrights had demonstrated the practi
cability of their machine but had
made no contracts for the construction
of a fleet They wore negotiating with
the French government and it was
supposed that France would have the
honor of launching the first vessels of
the Wright design It was reported
that France had an option on the in
vention of the Ohio men but for some
reason the negotiations were broken
off It Is said that the brothers sub
mitted general plans to the government
guaranteeing a flight of fifteen miles
and asking for 200000 The height of
flight guaranteed was only seventy
five feet according to report and as
the French government considered a
height of 900 feet essential for war
purposes It declined to give more than
40000 The Wrights left Taris for
Berlin a short time ago to arrange for
the construction of a number of air
ships and It Is understood they will
be paid 10000 by the German govern
ment for each ship built by them They
purchased in Paris several light motors
of twenty four and forty horsepower
The Wright machine is a gliding ma
chine There is no dependence on bal
loons in any form The craft Is built
to operate on the heavier than air prin
ciple and to overcome the law of gravi
tation by the resistance to the air
caused by rapid flight aud the broad
surfaces presented by the wings of the
THE WEIGHT AEROFIiAXE IN FLIGHT
aeroplane It is self lifting and self
propelling the power being supplied
by a gasoline motor There are two
propellers one lifting up the other
driving forward and the vessel is guid
ed by a rudder It may be manipulat
ed so accurately as to sail in any de
sired direction either with or against
the wind The person who steers lies
prone upon his face Gasoline enough
to last two hours may be carried and
a weight of 2000 pounds Including
that of the airship motor and operator
may be sustained
Orville and Wilbur Wright are in the
neighborhood of forty and are sons
of a bishop in the United Brethern
church They were in the bicycle busi
ness at the time the bicycle was a
craze and have been experimenting
with flying machines since about 1000
They early determined upon the aero
plane as giving the best chance of suc
cessful flight and in 1903 succeeded in
making a machine which would fly
Since then their efforts have been
given to improving their machine and
overcoming practical difficulties The
first flight lasted only fifty nine sec
onds but during it the aeroplane ad
vanced a distance of S32 feet against a
twenty mile an hour wind The next
year the brothers accomplished for the
first time the feat of describing a cir
cle By the latter part of 1904 they
had succeeded in flying as long dis
tances as four miles at a time Most
of the experiments were made over
meadows near their home at Dayton
They kept their aerial operations as
much in the dark so to speak as possi
ble in order to protect their discoveries
and inventions from appropriation by
others and often made their flights at
night In the latter part of 1905 a
flight of twenty five miles was made at
a rate of nearly forty miles an hour
The accompanying picture from a
photograph reproduced in the Scientific
American gives- a general idea of the
Wright aeroplane Heretofore the
brothers have been very secretive
about their invention and have avoid
ed publicity as much as possible Now
that their work has been crowned with
success and the stamp of approval has
been placed upon It by a powerful Eu
ropean government and with their
financial future assured by the action
this government has taken there is rea
son to expect from the courageous and
persistent inventors greater freedom
of utterance in respect to their Ideas
and anticipations
At Wisconsin
Men said the coy maid to a fond
fusser are a delusion and a snare
It is queer murmured the man
women will hug a delusion
And while the coy maiden faintly
protested the fond fusser set out to be
snared Wisconsin Sphinx
IN A SUBMARINE
What Happens as tha Vcs3el Takes the
Plunge Beneath tho Sea
Under ordinary conditions as soon as
the hood la closed for the plunge tho
captain opens the faucets and a quanti
ty of water which makes the ship
heavy enough to sink rushes into tho
reservoirs located at the sides of the
vessel Even the most hardened of the
jailors say that the noise of the water
rushing into tho boat gives a lugubrious
impression and it requires men gifted
with cool heads and possessing tested
courage for the hazards involved In
operating these little boats But in
spite of their fragile appearance they
are terrible instruments of wur and
notwithstanding their diminutive size
they are controlled by twelve men
each of whom Is Indispensable to their
navigation
The hood once closed the submarine
is absolutely cut off from the world Its
shell calculated to support a pressure
of seven or eight atmospheres gives It
the ability in theory to go down to a
distance of thirty to forty meters but
in practice it is considered sufficient to
drop to a depth of fifteen meters and
at such a level it is in no danger of be
ing flooded The most strongly armor
ed vessels of the ordinary type extend
downward only ten meters
The vessel Is directed by two vortical
governors one above and one belor
the stern as they are always placed on
submarines To govern the coming up
and going down of a boat there are
two horizontal governors one at the
stern and one at the bow Metropoli
tan Magazine
PROPER BREATHING
More Essential Than a Beautiful Voioo
For Perfect Singing
I cannot too forcibly insist that the
mere possession of a lovely voice is
only the basis of vocal art Nature oc
casionally startles one by the prodi
gality of her gifts but no student haa
any right to expect to sing by inspira
tion any more than an athlete may
expect to win a race because he Is nat
urally fleet of foot
Methods of breathing attack and
the use of registers must all be perfect
ly understood by the successful singer
who should likewise be complete mas
ter of all details relating to the struc
ture and use of those parts above the
voice box and be convinced of tho ne
cessity of a perfectly controlled chest
expansion in the production of tone
For perfect singing correct breath
ing strange as it may sound is even
more essential than a beautiful voice
No matter how exquisite the vocal
organ may be its beauty cannot be
adequately demonstrated without prop
er breath control Ilere is one of the
old Italian secrets which many singers
of today wholly lack because they are
unwilling to give the necessary time
for the full development of breathing
power and control Phrasing tone
resonance expression all depend upon
respiration and in my opinion musical
students even when too young
allowed the free use of the voice
should be thoroughly taught the prin
ciples of breathing Nellie Melba in
Century
The Trouble With Decorators
The great trouble with the decorator
who fails to succeed lies in his predi
lection for one particular school of de
sign He becomes a monomaniac de
clares Interior Decoration on the sub
ject of some special school of decora
tion He goes in for arts and crafts
and knows nothing else He become
colonial mad or he affiliates with the
French school and nothing is right
that isnt French or perhaps being a
German and German by education be
espouses German or Flemish art or
being English and English by educa
tion nothing is quite correct that
not Elizabethan or Georgian
The Early Bird
Bishop Brewster of CouaecHcut
noted for his funny stories and his
latest is said to be about HI repro
bate who decided to repent and an
nounced to every one that whatever
wrong he had done should be made
right so a man whom he had cheated
out of a large sum of money went
around at midnight to demand it
But what did you come at this hour
for and wake me up Why not wait
till tomorrow said the old sinner
crossly
I came now replied the man to
avoid the rush Harpers Weekly
A Dogs Academy
There is an academy for canines in
a certain South London borough which
is known to all the prominent circus
people of Europe and which is the
old school of many of the perform
ing dogs in Great Britain at the pres
ent time The interior is fitted up
with trapezes etc and day by day
all sorts of performing canines are
taught their clever tricks It is per
haps unnecessary to add that the pro
prietor enjojs the benefit of a first
class income London Captain
Luck
Customer to landlady Will you tell
me why there should be two flies In
my soup There is none in that mans
over there Landlady Oh its just a
question of luck sir Fliegende Blat i
ter
Forestalled
Mrs Crawford Why was your bus-
band more angry than usual when he
came home so late Mrs Crabshaw
You see dear I woke up before he had
time to set the clock back Harpers 1
His Motto
Dubley says his motto is Live and
learn
Well if he isnt more successful at I
the former than the latter well be go- i
Ing to his funeral soon Exchange
Stories About
The Authors
Of Indiana
By EDWARD HALE BRUSH
BOOTH TARKINQ
TON
HE state of In
diana has be
come so rertlie
as a literary field as
to cause much com
ment upon the fact
Other common
wealths are almost
envious of the
Hoosier State on ac
count of its growing
literary fame Not
content with pro
ducing a Lew Wallace It also sent
forth Into the ranks of literature two
very popular humorists James Whit
comb Riley and the younger genlna la
making folks laugh George Ade It is
the native state of Joaquin Miller am
has produced Booth Tarkington
Charles Major George Barr McCutch
eon Meredith Nicholson Wilbur D
Nesblt and others whose literary stars
are In the ascendant
Indiana writers are noted for taking
home scenes or types of character as
subjects This is especially true of
Booth Tarkington author of Tho
Gentleman From Indiana and of
The Conquest of Canaan the scenes
of which are laid In the noosler State
Others of his best known works are
Monsieur Beauclalre The Two
Van Revels Cherry In the Arena
and The Beautiful Lady Mr Tark
ington who was born thirty eight
years ago in Indianapolis and who
studied at Frinceton once said that ho
had no literary success until after try
ing other lines he struck Indiana sub
jects While The Gentleman From
Indiana was running in serial form
the author received a great number of
letters from people throughout the
state who thought they saw in the first
few numbers of tJsa ay ariasse of
disloyalty to Indiana They advised
Mr Tarkington to go east where he
belonged and called him everything
from a snob to a traitor Four county
papers took up the same cry and
abused him with as much ardor as if
he had been running for office
I really hardly knew what to think
of it said Mr Tarkington It never
occurred to me to be clisisal I
was glad when the story was finished
and they saw that they rFsre h
taken
Though Wilbur D Nesblt author of
The Trail to Boyland and The Gen
tleman Ragman was born in Xenia
O lie sprang into fame while a news-
1V f
A PIEASED PKOPKIETOR WILBUR T KESBIS
paper worker in Indiana and much at
his writing has been done whl re
siding in the Hoosier State He mar
ried an Indianapolis girl Miss Mary
Leo Jenkins Mr Nesblt is thirty six
and very boyish locig Crs aston
ished to learn that In his brief cares
he has written over 5000 poems Nat
urally enough some of these effusions
do not evince a high order of genius
but some of them have won popularity
There was a time when tho only way
he could turn his poetic talents to profit
was by writing rhyming advertise
ments One such effort was turned to
the glorification of an array of straw
hats in an Indianapolis dry goods store
As a writer of ads in prosu M Ns
bit had not been much of a success
He was already facing the danger of
being fired when this poem ap
peared
Who wrote that stuff demanded
the proprietor of the store of the man
ager at the sight of the mornings
proofs
Er Nesbit I told him I didnt think
ft was
Tell him to go ahead and write
some more of the kind broke in the
proprietor and thus out of a noosier
dry goods store a poet was made
George Barr McCutcheon has the
god fortune to be a Hoosier born and
bred for he first saw the light on a
farm in Tippecnnoe
county Ind in 1SGG
and was educated
at the public schools
of Lafayette and at
Purdue university of
the same place He
also worked on La
fayette paners dur
ing his early career
as a writer He is a
brother of the car
toonist and illustra
tor John T Mc
Cutcheon and is ac
counted a clever art
ist himself The
GEORGE 15
MCUTCHEON
scene of The Sherrods which won a
15000 premium from his publishers Is
laid in Indiana and Illinois Among his
other works are Castle Craneycrow
Graustark Brewsters Millions
The Day of the Dog Nedra and
Purple Parasol
Joaquin Miller the Poet of the Sier
ras Is one of the brilliant galaxy of
literary stars which has made the state
of Indiana proud of itself because It
gave them to the universe He was
born In Grant county near Jalapaa In
1841 and though that was close to
----
threescore and tciTyeafs ago anoTTHe
poet left Indiana with hla parents for
the Pacldc coast when he was nine he
still has vivid memories of the days
of his early youth in the Hoosier State
iMr Miller proposes to visit his boy
hood home on the occasion of his next
birthday which falls In August and
the people of tho vicinity are going to
give him a welcome at the time of his
home coming Writing to George B
Lockwood editor of the Marion Chron
icle the poet recently said
What I most of all things want to
see is the old log home which my re-
JOAQUIN MIIiliEIS AS OLD MAN AND AS BOY
vered parents built away back In the
forties and I want to see the beautiful
river I want to go fishing in it again
I want to go out to tho old Miami vil
lage and see Jim Sasequas Shingleme
sla and his two bright boys They
made me a bow and arrows The ar
rows had keen bright points which
they made out of an old barrel hoop
with paps file And they were per
fect As proof of this there Is scarce
a single buffalo left
I want to walk down the old dusty
corduroy state road I want to go to
Lafontaine bareheaded I want to
walk In the dust witlx iny pants rolled
to my knees just as of old We can
take some doughnuts in our pocketR
Maybe we can steal a few apples from
Bluebeard pirates harbored along the
creek Anyhow I want to make a day
of It I want to bo a boy back on
the old place once more before I die
Come along and bring a lot of bojs
and girls and let them all be kids
once more not caring a bean whether
school keeps or not
Mr Miller has recently avowed an
intention to take up his residence in
Oregon and run for the United States
senate
James Whitcoinb Riley is Indianas
tesowfl poet and humorist and the
public ezocta t least a touch of play-
fSferSJ
In Srh sstle effvifdonB but he
can write serious
verse as was shown
in the poem he read
at the unveiling of
the statue of Gen
eral Henry W Law
ton in Indianapolis
It was entitled The
Home Voyage and
was composed In
jaues wiiiTcoMB UOnor of General
Law tons memory
when the body of the hero was being
brought liome from the Philippines
Dr Henry van Dyke In a recent ar
ticle in the Book News Monthly thus
discussed the personality of the Hoo
sier poet
-- r SS ssaaJity as an
Island Others use it as a boat It ena
bles them to move around and see the
orlfl srtthout ttslnff lest In it These
last are the men of geniality which is one
cE gs uzpiitf oZ status and James
yvmiccrrab Juicy is a person of that kind
Speaking of tests we srs Inevitably re
scinded sf that fornoun comparison of old
Thomas Fullers in which he Imagines a
wit combat bsitresn Ben Jonson as a
SfeSsSSjr ysr5Cigg3 Evanish galleon and
WIR Sstesssa 83 a Bsht quick mov
ing English man-of-war If we modern
ized the figure and set let us say Mr
Riley and Mr Kipling afloat what shapes
would our fancy give them Perhaps the
one would be a trading schooner ready
for adventurous voyaging in strange seas
laden with all sorts of foreign and mys
terious merchandise and redolent of east
ern spices and the other would be a na
tive built canoe framed for the explora
tion of familiar and friendly little rivers
journeying with ever new delight of dis
covery through the woodland and the
rarmiand of Indiana stopping without
fail at The Old Swlmmin Hole and ty
ing up at night at somo landing place
along the Brandywlne within sight of a
farmhouse where William Leachman or
Doc SIfers would be waiting for a good
talk
Right here at home boys Jes right where
we air
Birds dont sing any sweeter anywhere
Grass dont grow any greenern she grows
Acrost the pastur where the old path
goes
All things In earshots purty er in sight
Right here at home boys ef we size em
right
Charles Major author of two of the
most popular novels of the day When
Knighthood Was In Flower and
Dorothy Vernon of Iladdon Hall is
also a native of Indiana He was born
In Indianapolis in lrG and educated
at the common bcuoos of that city and
of Shelby vllie where he now resides
He also studied at Michigan univer
sity He married a Shelbvville belle
Miss Alice Shaw In
1SS5 Mr Major
combines the prac
tice of law with the
writing of fiction
Among his stories
besides those men
tioned are Bears
of Blue River A
Forest Hearth and
Yolanda Maid of
Burgundy At
S h e 1 b y v i 1 1 e he
shares honors as a
prominent charles iiajob
zen with a big chicken grower and that
his genius Is not unappreciated In his
home town Is shown by the remarks of
a friend who is quoted as saying
I have known Charley for thirty years
and I have never yet heard a bad word
poken against him I never heard a man j
in this town say that Charley was not as
straight as a string and one of the best
fellows In the place He am t stuck up
about his money either He Is as liberal
as you get em and there aint nobody in
town that can say that they ever did any
thing for Charley Major that they didnt
gut fii for
J yrgg8SrjWS55fpj
YOUR NERVES
Tho Most Untiring of All Are Thoso of
tho Heart
The most easily tired nerves In the
body are the nerves of smell They
can detect the faintest whiff of per
fume As you pnss a rose in the gar
den the quantity of perfume that gets
Into your nostril must be many mil
lions of billions of times smaller than
the tiniest grain of sand But rub tho
strongest perfume on your upper Up
and in a few seconds you fail to no
tice it the nerve of smell Is so quickly
fatigued
The heat nerves and cold nerves
which are quite distinct from the
nerves of ordinary sensation also give
over working very quickly A bath
that seems quite hot when you step
into It soon ceases to cause imy
particular feeling of heat
Nerves of hearing and sight can go
through an enormous amount of work
For sixteen hours a day they work
hard and are still willing to do more
The nerves of the heart are the
moBt untiring of all From the first
dawn of life until the lust gasp they
work without stopping for one instant
And even after death if some salted
water Is pumped into the heart it com
mences to beat again showing that the
nerves are still willing Pearsons
Weekly
HE REVISED IT
Young Author Was Anxious to Comply
With the Editors Request
Your story possesses merit wrolo
the kindly magazine editor in return
ing a manui cript to a struggling young
author of Washington but you have
embellished it with too much descrip
tion atmosphere and other irrelevant
matter What we want is a story set
ting out the simple facts facts just
plain facts If you will revise j our
story according to our ideas we will
be glad to pay you 2 for It
A few days later the editor got the
following from the struggling j oung
author of Washington
Herewith revised story Please send
check by return mail as I need the
money
And this was the story as rewritten
Jonas loved Eliza but he was poor
and wealthy papa kicked Jonas went
Into Wall street and made a million
incidentally bankrupting papa Then
Eliza went fishing fell oil a log into
the mill pond and Jonas fished her out
Papa relented and borrowed a hun
dred thousand from Jonas Marriage
Washington Post
Explosion of Gasoline
A gasoline tank rarely explodes It
cannot unless It contains gasoline va
por and air In explosive proportions
which latter condition is almost never
present
It does not explode because it con
tains too little air or too much gaso
line Even if a tank of gasoline were
to burst from heat applied to its ex
terior the confined heavy gas would
not explode if in contact with flame or
fire but would burn instead
True a tank of gasoline with no vent
could do considerable damage were it
to burst and throw burning oil and
flaming gas about but 1000 gallons of
gasoline in a vessels bilges would uot
be so dangerous from explosion as a
hundredth of that amount The larger
quantity would burn rapidly while the
smaller would be suilicient if mixed
with the proper amount of air to ut
terly demolish almost any boat Sci
entific American
Aldrichs Birthplace
The quaint old town by the sea call
ed Portsmouth is the only seacoast
town in New Hampshire and is one of
our very oldest settlements for it was
founded in the year 1023 and it has
a history worth knowing It was an
old town when Thomas Bailey Aldrich
was born in one of its quaint and
ancient houses on the 11th of Novem
ber in the year 1SH0 and he lias writ
ten a very delightful book about Ports
mouth called An Old Town by the
Sea while his famous Story of a
Bad Boy Is a very true account of
his boyhood in the Now Hampshire
seaport J L Harbour in St Nicholas
Cut Rate Contributors
In a certain parisii of Greater New
York the rector while admonishing his
flock on Sunday last that the collection
basket receipts were steadily growing
less took occasion to declare that cer
tain parishioners contribute according
to their means but others give in keep
ing with their meanness He added
that in measure such exhibitions of
false pretense reminded him of the
story told of the pilgrim facers upon
their arrival At Plymouth Rock First
they fell upon their knees then they
fell upon the aborigines
The Folly of Delay
It Is one of the strangest thlnes In
life how few people have settled In
their own minds what it Is they really
want or who will take the trouble to
be happy I have often thought how
much I should like to do so and so
we hear people say and nine times
out of ten it is something they could
very easily have done only they al
ways put it off London Spectator
Quick Fingers
The dexterity of a modern virtuosos
fingers made a deep impression on an
old farmer who was among the audi
ence at a piano recital Clapping both
hands suddenly down upon his knees
he was heard to exclaim Id give
100 to have that man pick peas for
me
Mischief comes by the pound and
goes away by the ounce French
Proverb
Cotton cloth made in India Is men
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