f
r Winged Airship. Jo
While M. Santos-Dumont, the Bra
lllian. is repairing hiH dlrigibale ba!
i" j ana, uusiavo wnitenead, a
Connecticut Inventor, Is bidding for
aeronautical honors with an airship
with wings that soars like a bird. Mr.
Whitehead baa made several experi
mental trips, It Is claimed, with a cer
tain amount of success and without an
accident. His longest flight up to date
was half a mile at an elevation of 50
feet from the ground. The airship Is
certainly a queer looking bird. It acts
as strangely as it looks. It can run
along the ground at 30 miles an hour,
and when the operator wants to travel
through the air all he has to do is to
GL'STAVE WHITEHEAD.
make sure he Is carrying enough ac
cident Insurance, pull a throttle, and
hold fast while the machine opens its
wings, flaps them, and darts upward,
bays the Boston Journal.
Mr. Whitehead lives at Bridgeport,
Conn. He has been an assistant to
Prof. Langlcy of the .Smithsonian In
stitution and of Prof. Andree. He was
assisted In his invention by W. D. Cub
tead of Waro, Tex. Andrew Cellle and
James Dickie are his financial backers.
While Mr. Whit-head has demon
strated that hn airship can fly, he
does not claim that It can be made a
commercial success. On the other
hand, Inventor Custead claims he has
an airship which can be made valuable
for business purposes. Custead claims
to have the most feasible form of air
ship, but he lacks a generator that is
sufficiently light. By a combination of
Cuatead's airship and Whitehead's
generator the Inventors believe that
the best airship yet uevised will re
sult This new generator promises great
things if the claims of the inventor are
fulfcjed. He says it is capable of pro
ducing enormo'is power. Whitehead
claims that his motor will decrease by
75 per cent the weight of any motor
at present in use. The complete mo
tive power, including generator and
engine, win weigu aoont nve pounds
to the horse-power. This includes fuel
for 24 hours.
Whitehead's flying machine Is about
16 feet long and ite general appearance
1 that of a huge hat. From each Hide
of the body there are wings made of
bamboo poles and covered with mus
lin. These wings are 36 feet from tip
to tip. There Is also a steering ap
paratus. There are two engines, one
of 10 horse-power, to run the machine
along the ground, and the otner of 20
horse-power, used to work the pro
pellers In flying. Mr. Whitehead says:
How lie Kile Through Air.
"When I want to fly I start the deck
engine and gain a sufficient momen-
FRONT VIEW OF
turn on the ground and then turn the
pojfcr ito the upper engine, which
runs the propeller or wings, As soon
as the big wings, which measure 36
feet from tip to tip, begin to move, the
machine rises in the air at an angle
of about elx degrees. The machine 1
IS feet In length and tapers to both
ends. At the stern there is a contriv
ance similar to a bird's tall. This Is
Intended for regulating the ascent or
descent of the machine.
The present machlno weigh about
800 pounds. It la rough, and when I
build my new one It will weigh many
pounda lighter than this one. Instead
of using bamboo poles for the ribs, as
i have done In this one, I shall In my
new machine use seamless stei-l tub
ing for tbe rlba, and for the wings use
Ilk instead of muslin.
"Laat Tuesday night I selected as
the time to fly my machine. I had
tried her three times before with bal
last In her and she worked all right,
o I felt confident that I could fly
In her.
Tells of HI Aerial Trip.
"With one of my assistants In the
machine with me, and tho other one
and the newspaper representative fol
lowing on bicycles, I started the ma
chine from the house out the Fairfield
Road for tbe flying place. Along the
good pieces of road I speeded the ma-
cnine up to zu nines an nour, uui ss
the wheels under her are only board
wheels and but a foot In diameter, the
obstructions In the road made her rock
whew going at such a rate of speed. I
jsj ftldent that with pneumatic-
tlred wheels tinder her I can run 50
miles an hour oil the ordinary macad
amized road.
"We arrived at the flying ground
about 2 o'clock in the morning. .There
was a fair moon and we could sea well
enough to unfold tho wings and get the
machine in shape for the trial. I se
lected a long stretch of fields sloping
slightly to the north. First I tried the
machine with two bag3 of sand In for
ballast. Each bag weighed 110 pounds.
"About 4 o'clock, as the sun was be
ginning to show itself in the east, I
got ready to take my first fly in the
machine. I was a little nervous, I ad
mit, but I felt eager to fly. I felt sure
that my machine would not fall me. I
took out the bags of ballast. Then we
tide two ropes to the under part of the
machine for my two assistants to hold
fast to and not let the machine get
away from them. When everything
was ready I took my position in the
machine and turned the power into the
dock engine.
"The machine started ahead nicely,
and when she had gained sufficient
momentum I shut off the power In the
deck engine and started the propeller
engine. As soon as the wings began
to flop, her nose raised in the air. I
was considerably lighter than the two
bags of ballast, and the machine rose
faster. There was a terrific humming
of the wind through the wings and
other parts of canvas, and the engine
made considerable noise, too.
Clump "of Tree Avoided.
"I was now about forty feet above
the ground and sailing along evenly.
But I saw with considerable apprehen
sion that I was headed straight for a
clump of trees. I was not huh enough
to sail over them, and I couldn't get
the steering apparatus to work just
then. In fact, I had not had occasion
REAR VIEW
to try it before. To hit those trees
meant wrecking the machine and per
hapa death or broken bones for me.
A man thinks fast when ho gets into a
place like that. When I was within
fifty yards of the trees, and my assist
ants below on the ground were yelling
at the tops of their voices to 'look out
for the trees,' It suddenly came into
my mind that I had seen the birds In
their flight tip one wing lower than
the other when turning out of a
straight line.
"Immediately I shifted my weight to
the left of the center of equilibrium.
The machine turned Its nose to the
left and sailed around the clump of
trees like a swallow. I had no need
for steering apparatus now, and I felt
more secure. I tried hteerlng by shift
ing my weight from side to side, and
the machine proved most sensitive to
my slightest movement.
"I had gone fully half a mile now,
and ahead of me about 200 yards the
open field ended with a big woods. I
prepared to descend. Here Is where I
MACHINE,
bc&me apprehensive again, for many
machines at the point where the wings
are stopped do not ei-.tUo horizontally,
but dive ahead or fall tail downward
to the ground. I ahut off power by de
grees, and the machine settled slowly
on a perfectly horizontal plane to the
ground, scarcely Jarring me when the
wheels struck the earth.
"The best that has been done In the
past In getting motive power has been
seven and eight pounds to the horse
power. This means so much weight
that It Is Impossible for the machine
to fly. My entire motor power, which
Includes two engines, the generator
and 20 pounds of calcium carbide for
fuel, which amount Is sufllcient for 20
hours of flight, weighs only between
four and five pounds per horse-power."
BIO FOR THE SKY KINGDOM.
lluiuont Wishes lo ba t Magellan of tho
Air.
T wish to be the Magellan of the
air the first circumnavigator of the
globe Independent of earth and water.
I would rather do that than anything
else I can conceive. Kingdoms and
victories and gold would be nothing
beside the glory of that deed. 1 am
told that It Is a mad dream, that It Is
folly. I do not think so. Olven a
tart, a science Is developed at racing
speed In this age of ours, so full of ex
citements, of romance, of Innumerable
Interests. 1 cannot endure the man or
woman w,ho says that this Is a prosaic
time. Did past time ever know a thrill
comparable to that I feel soaring an a
bird soara In the air so pure, so clear,
so lonely.
It is the one stainless element of the
world. I know now why birds sing.
It Is because they fly, and to fly is a
divine intoxication, an exaltation of
every sense. Racing they call the
sport of kings. Well, if that be so I
can only say of flying that it is the
sport of the gods. Have not the an
gels wings? Now you can understand
how I feel when half a mile above fair,
glittering Paris. I am enjoying one of
the pleasures of paradise. What a
supreme Joy it will be to go around
the world in the air to pass over all
the nations, to loqk upon cities to
laugh at the waters impotent to harm
one, to share with the homing pigeon,
the eagle and the swallow the sover
eign delight of the universe! And I
will do it too. I will go round the
earth. It was my boyhood's dream in
Rio de Janeiro. I first imagined the
Journey in the tropics. Here In the
north, if God is good, I will make Its
realization possible.
Ten years ago where were the
motors that are going by us? De Dion
and Mors and Panhard had all their
fame to earn. Where a generation ago
were a thousand and one accomplish
ed and necessary facts of today? As
these things were then, so are
aeronautics now. Believe me, before
I am gray you will see fleets of aerial
yachts beating out toward golden sun
sets, squadrons of pleasure craft In the
sky, and, it may be, huge battleships
will throw their somber shadows upon
the earth. M. Santos Dumont In Chi
cago Chronicle.
F.arljr Advertisement.
The discovery of the primeval ad
vertisement has not, of course, re-
OF THE SHIP.
warded our research. For we have
not access to the strata wherein we
might at least dig for Its remains. The
earliest of any kind which we have
been able to unearth occurs In a Rid
er's Dairy for 1736, which possibly be
longed to the newspaper collector. It
Is that of a dentist. We give It with
its own spelling and punctuation:
"Artiflcal Teeth, set in so firm, as to
eat with them, and so Exact, as not to
be distinguished from natural; they
are not to be taken out at night as is
by some falsely suggested, but may
be worn years together; yet they are
so fitted, that they may be taken out
and put In by the Person that uses
them at Pleasure, and are an orna
ment to the Mouth, and greatly helpful
to the Speech; Also Teeth clean'd and
drawn by John Watts. Rac
quet Court, Fleet Street." Many also
are the advertisements ' of losses of
money and property through footpads,
whether it be "a lusty young fellow
who wore his own hair" or "a pock
fretten man In a pt-ir of everlasting
Breeches," or on Wimbledon Common
"a tall man In a blue Frock and a light
Boh wig on a bay Horse with a Swish
tail and look'd like a genteel galop
plng hunter." The Bookman.
l'll Inuni In Ilocomlng- Srnrce.
The scarcity of platinum is begin
ning to cause some concern among the
electrical manufacturers of the coun
try. For about five years the price of
this valuable metal bag steadily risen
until today it Is listed at a higher
price than ever since Its discovery
and every indication points to still
higher prices. Platinum Is now
quoted at about $36 an ounce, about
twice the quotation of gold, while Ave
years ago it sold as low as $5 an
ounce. Since the flooding of the plat
inum mines In the Transvaal, which
occurred after the breaking out of the
Boer war, manufacturers have had to
rely on Siberia for their supply of the
valuable metal.
Renovating Old Cars.
A car-refitting company In New
York city buys old Pullman coaches,
tears tho Inside furnishings out and
leflts them according to the wishes of
Its customers. Whatever kind of pri
vate car a man may wish he may or
derparlors, handsomely carpeted,
sitting-rooms, dining-rooms, sleeping
compartments, smoking-rooms all
with equipment more or less perfect,
according to the price. And cars are
refitted In this way and sold for prices
varying from $1,500 to 915,000. Very
handsome and serviceable cars have
been hullt from the old "castaways,"
and the man of moderate means can
travel privately and comfortably In a
home of his own.
Water Two Mile Deep.
It the surface of the globe were
perfectly level, water would cover It
to the depth of two miles.
The flea tnat Interrupt the dog tint
is chasing the rabbit, Is like the cor
poration that pays starvation wages to
Its men robbing the creature from
which It sucks Its blood.
A heart In lost In the g-ame of golf!
Cupid hits taken charge of the green,
And hazards are frequent, nigh and off,
With a. Biymie constantly between.'
Tlie victim Htudles his charmer's play,
Follows her course with an anxious
eye.
Hoping she'll laml in the self-same way,
Making tho game a llke-as-we-lle.
The parson's niblick would help them
then.
For to the altar the course would be.
And when the game would begin again
A wedding-ring would serve as the tee.
As Blngle players no more arrayed
AgalnHt each other, but man and wife,
Tbelr future would be a series played
tit foursomes upon the links of life.
IT. W. W.
Between Heart and Bayonet,
BY JAMES NOEL JOHNSON.
(Copyright, 1001, by Daily Btory Pub. Co.)
"Boys," cried the Colonel, dashing
up, "do you see that redoubt?"
The Colonel paused but a second. He
had spoken with the air of one who is
granting a favor rather than delivering
a command.
Capt. Blake and Lieut. Summers an
swered with an exultant shout that
echoed from every lip in their com
pany. A single Impulse throbbed in each
heart simultaneously, and the leap of
one foot was the movement of all.
Until now the company had stood,
all their arteries conduits of burning
flame. Their faces gave evidence of the
repressive struggle within them.
They had cast sullen, envious eyes
on other ranks of men that, loosed
from restraint, were hurrying, like glad
streams, into the sea of action.
Oh, the sickening agony, the soul
neuralgia of the brave soldier who is
compelled for a time to become the
passive objector of roaring conflict!
The wild shouts of his brother troop
ers in action ring in his ears, firing his
enthusiasm, but his feet are chained
to the ground.
All around him and through him
runs the thrill of battle. His nerves
are leaping and vibrating like strlng3
swept by heroic melodies, but he Is
chained to passivity.
Ever and anon a shot strikes into
the human wall. A man detached drops
and lies on tho ground. There is re
proach in the fading eyes, for the man
had been shot as he stood as helpless
as if tied to a tree.
But now the Colonel's word had cut
the thongi from Capt. Blake's impa
tient men, and gave them the liberty
of action. And each man .pressed for
ward as if victory sat on the hill to he
claimed by him alone.
An accommodating wind shouldered
aside the masses of smoke and exposed
the redoubt.
About the mouths of the great guns
was blown the foaming clouds of death.
The redoubt seemed a great monster
Idol, belching flame and destruction to
the feet of which hundreds of human
sacrifices were already being cast.
Capt. Blake and Lieut. Summers
charged In front of their exultant
troopers, their sword3 lifted in glitter
ing menace. They had no need to
cheer on their men. To keep free and
hcad of the exultant rush was all the
officers needed to do.
Each of the two officers knew that,
In that sublimed moment, his mind was
'.n many things the reflex of the oth
er's. Images In their respective minds
Each saw her In the scene.
wero flying as swiftly as the missiles
of death that both worshiped with tho
frenzy of Idolatry.
Above that Instinctive purpose of
shattering the monster on the hill,
each man saw laurels, blood red, ho
expected to clasp and carry away to
be proudly placed at tbe beautiful feet
of Christine Egglestone.
She was at home each saw her In
Ihe same anxious attitude, at the door
way, a soft hand "oofing her ryes, gaz
ing toward the south. The men rushed,
shoulder to shoulder, but at Which was
she gazing most anxiously? Neither
could tell each had his hope and his
fear. But tho uncertainty of It all flew
through the soul of each like a sword.
Each officer had a clear premonition
tnat but one of the two would escape
that cauldron of death.
Blacker grew the clouds, and the
penis of thunder fused Into a continu
ous roar. Vague lightning played
through the wall. Men dropped llki
& 1
ripe fruit- from a shaken tree. Shouts
of exultation often dropped iato dying
groans. Still unharmed, side by ilde.
fie rival officers fought, the sam.it lm
putses moving their bodies, the lame
vision flaming in their minds.
But if each officer knew the olij's
IMLQ
Drove his shoulder like a glut
mind was engaged with the same
thoughts and Images, he couldn't re
sist the belief that the other held a
dark purpose in addition unworthy, of
himself, but to be expected in the
other.
They were enemies, of course. In
self-defense they couldn't wish each
other well.
"He'd rather die than lose Christine.
He'd see me die with secret Joy. I
believe ho would kill me If he knew
he would never be suspected. I am too
magnamlnous. I am too chivalrous to
nourish such a thought respecting him,
but I am sure he would kill me If he
could. I'll be between twin perils
throughout this action." This horri
ble suspicion flew through the jealous
mind of Capt. Blake, and, with refer
ence to the Captain, it sped on through
the jealous heart of Lieut. Summers.
Each, in his present morbid state,
furious with two passions, wrongly felt
the other would connive at his death!
Now the men are in the very teeth
of the awful monster. Great mouths
open and spurt out tearing missiles of
death. All sounds, small and tremen
dous, run together in a continuous roar
that becomes half silence. All passions
are reduced to one primal, elemental
desire the lust of slaughter. This is
tho pressing, omnivorous instinct.
From the rim of that vortex, hope,
love, despair, fear, all fly like feeble
wisps of vapor. Through plunging arm;
through pressing foil; through pointed
eyes; through lifted lip; through sing
ing nostril, but one feeling surges
the l-tist of slaughter.
Lieut. Summers Is at the side of his
rival, and both fight with that cool
resolution 'and tremendous execution of
fearless men exalted by a dual purpose.
Suddenly, without experiencing any
distinct pain, Lieut. Summers felt the
strength flow from his great arms. Out
stretched, their weight overbalanced
bim, and he dropped forward. Bells
sang ic his ears a moment, but by om
nipotent will force he struggled to his
all-fours, and tln gained his feet by
the assistance of Capt. Blake. A feeble
thread of smoke was then seen crawl
ing from his coat a little below the
heart.
"My laurels for my grave!" be grim
ly thought, and smiled.
The next instant a dim, straight ob
ject came plunging down through the
smoke, spearing toward the heart of
Capt. Blake. In the snarl of the crowd
and jam, he had no power to avoid it,
had he known it was coming. Would
neither brave man go back with lau
rels? Instantly Lieut. Summers, with tho
last spurting energy of a dying flame,
drove his shoulder, like a glut, between
the bayonet and its Intended sheath.
Now the deatji-dealing monster had
blown Its last breath. The great guns
died In sudden silence, and above the
ecaoes arose the lusty shout of vic
tory. Lieut. Summer-, saw laurels through
fading eyes. A great, strong hero, his
grimy face streaked with tears, bent
over him.
"Forgive me!" he began.
"Oh, don't mention that," spoke the
dying man. "Forgive me for my un
worthy suspicion. Now, go home with
laurels yours and mine. Take them
all to to her."
Keep Them Interested.
Keep your children busy if you
would have them happy. When the
occupation Is some dally labor which
has been wisely allotted, see that It Is
accomplished as well as It is possible
for the child to accomplish it under
existing circumstances. But whether
It be in work or play, let him under
stand that no matter how well he
may have done today and do not be
chary of your praise he has within
himself that which will make it pos
sible for him to do still better to
morrow. This treatment, Instead of
discouraging, cays Woman's Home
Companion, will encourage by incit
ing the child toward even better work,
and will early Implant that spirit of
divine discontent which allows of no
absolute satisfaction In that which
has been accomplished until the
achievement reaches perfection. This
Is the discontent which Emerson
preaches, and which Is holy If doubt
Is not allowed to creep In to mar the
aspiration.
The Olileat Krenrh Immortal.
Legouve, the oldest of tho French
Immortals, Is 94 and Is still Industrious
probably In deference to his famous
saying: "It Is often said that Ood
condemned man to work. This I ab
surd. God condemned man to live and
gave him work as a mitigating circumstance."
THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.
Qneer Freaks of tho Current Which I
Easily Deflected.
"I have been much impressed with
the importance of small things In late
years," said an old steamboat man to
a New Orleans Times-Democrat re
porter, "and the Mississippi river has
furnished me with rather good exam
ples. I can understand now why Cae
sar looked out upon the Nile in such
. i m .1 -u
uui iuub ainazeuieui auu uuereu an mai
he stood for to the Egyptian priest if
he would show him the source of that
wonderful river. But the antics of
the Nile look like insignificant noth
ings to me when compared with the
strange conduct of the stream that
oozes out of the earth at Itasca and
hurries on its murky and devious way
toward the Gulf of Mexico. Towns
along the Mississippi that once stood
right on the brink of the river have
been isolated even In my day, and
there are, too, all along the course of
the stream little empires in view where
the river has encroached upon small
centers of population, finally eating
the earth away and forcing the in
habitants to seek other quarters.'
There are hundreds of these places
that are almost forgotten now, even
by the men who are constantly on the
river. What brings about these vio
lent changes along the banks of the
river? Not floods. It is just the ordi
nary doings of the stream. In the first
place the current of the Mississippi is
wonderfully swift, and the sediment'
deposited at any point where resist
ance to the flow is offered is veryi
great. Tie a string to the neck of a'
bottle and sink it with the mouth of
the bottle up and open. If held in one
place where the flow is normal, in an
extremely short Derlod of time the
bottle will fill with sediment. Stretch
a net across the river, a net so finely
woven that nothing but the pure wa
ter of the river can pass through, and
on account of the rapidity of the flow
and the greatness of the deposit of
sediment, almost in a twinkling the
river would be dammed at that point -Experts
have admitted this. This
brings me to the point of my narra
tive. The flow of current is frequently
interfered with by sunken boats, per
haps by a jackstaff sticking up above"
the surface. The current is" diverted1 !
by degrees, generally touching the far'
side of the stream, a mile - from the)
point where it again meets resistance
and immedlatplv hpins tho Hiiildins'
of a sandbar. I have seen a thousand
examples of this sort during my ca
reer on the river, and I have known
of instances where the root of a tree
or the mere twig of a willow have
brought about similar conditions'.
These things have tended to make a
riddle out of the river, yet the stream,
after awhile, will be handled so as to
undo all that it has accomplished."
BRAINS BEAT MUSCLE.
What a Scientific Farmer Did with
Worn Out Land.
A little over a year ago we made
some extended comment upon an il
lustration of what might be done on
an abandoned farm hv n man wi
knew his business, says the Boston
Transcript. Such a farm has been
purchased and redeemed in the little
town of Paxton, about seven miles
from Worcester, and away from the
railroad by a Long Island man, who
brought with him a thorough know
ledge of truck farming. His success
the first year does not seem to have
been exceptional. We have heard a
great deal about the smallness of the
potato crop this year, and undoubt
edly the conditions have been less fa
vorable than usual, but our Paxton
farmer put thirty-seven acres into the
tubers, from which ho expects to pro
duce a crop of some 4,500 bushels, or
from 125 to 150 bushels to the acre.
In fact, he has now for some time
been sending potatoes to Worcester,
the nearest large town, and receiving
from $4.50 to $5 a barrel. Even at the
lowest yield mentioned this will stand
him in a return of over $200 an acre
from land that probably did not cost
him a twentieth part of that sum.
Of course, there Is a considerable debt
account, but allowing for all that the
profits are fat. Farmers in his neigh
borhood are beginning to think that
their troubles are not entirely due to
worn-out land and generally changed
conditions. The fact that they do not
know how . to make the most of what
they have had something to do with
It. .' ', "
FISH FLEE FROM THUNDER.
Seek Refuge From Storm In Drrn.Wntf r
Away From Coast. ,,,,,,
Fishermen along the 'Atlantic, ceast
know tbe peculiar effect, of thunder
storms on fish, and save themselves
unnecessary work because they do
know It Of the army of 40,000 fisher
men that occasionally or regularly
wet lines in the waters contlngous to
New York, 35,000 never think of going
aflshlng after two or three days of
thunder and lightning. They know bet
ter. The other 5,000, hopeful and
Imaginative, with nothing better to
d. take a chance at it any way, and
t-ome home with fisherman's luck.
The highest authorities among bay
Len say that thunder drives the flsh
into deep water off shore and that
vivid lightning so disturbs their sleep
that they take a day or two oft for
rest and recuperation. Thus It hap
pens that on the third day after a hard
storm with fulmlnatlon and pyrotech
nics, the catch Is phenomenal, where
as on the first or second day after
there is no sport except sailing o'er
the bounding billows or greening on
a ground swell.
For the picture of
frame.
health- food