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    AEROPLANE BUILT ESPECIALLY TO CARRY WOMEN
R. • • it m« . 4 •!. iv i.'tun. « harie., i. ivlng fins invented and buUt an
it-* *• i .. ’i.tn-re ■ f •' fin x iij> tn tlie clouds. LagbAii-ss, roominess and
*► i* <"■ *ttd it liTei' .'tuple accommodation for one or two feminine pan
M'ngucs
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PIG ENJOYS ITS RIDE
Drested at Baby It Taken From
Hew ark to Near York.
' >* Car»«oa LHft* In Har
Arm* •»< barconafatir Or-rlya*
U*fp*«»—tt'tUfJ
•at.»r* lartt
K»» T‘>r* If It hadn't bran for a
a»»«ad atfwnal »nd • *arj |»f*11bo wrl*
d>» tba •»*!-ab del. or t*ot*r
bar. k*t*ran that aaa of Ma fto*
• art * t ataaa ia fa<1. tba <tw«fa«r
rabb-d bta ar«a aereral iln<* before
t» P»aHp da a nad an hla 'bat Mra
Marta Vila* a I ravelin* coatpaalaa
• a* a p‘« lastaad of a babf
T - -banffetir a aaa t to blama for
bat*f« tartnd. for several ">l«l«* tor*
b d n>ada tba aa ma mistake Tbof
♦•I bn*m eras sow that tba bundle
Mra Katana 'arrtod an tondorly lb
b*o trm aaa not a babf at all. In
at .<« t«a babp rap aad ft.iffr Itttla
naai *ad tba milk bottlo wfclrfa Mra
V. at mm pnrdsrod oeopy »n* and than j
•a bat ttda I man K**trt
Maa H ••mm aa alaa'Wt ovary vattdo
ttlb- prrfortarr kuna*, ta lb* a I fa of j
Ham Katana a bn baa a barnyard «Ir j
• aa '>••• <d tb* star porf.rrmom aa* •
a to pt*. bat H *ot ao fat »ba» Mra
Katana *r*M that another pi*
• •*!< bar* to }f* tbr rb*m. oar tba*
•ba •■•**44 brdd in bar tnat a Si lo>a«
«»r* ton* bar np ir*
**•*• | -ar <wn tpatlmr* *h.
♦"a* * "bat aim nantr-d la »hr pt* lint
'll a fa .t >aa* .ir*'d- of Nraark
T»*r t r • «»art a«|.*d to call fra.
«a b- »d aa Nraark. bat aoi Manhat
taa
Mr* n*ao and her t-aaband *mt
•ft afnr»<r to d«-eidr bow to (rt
*fca ••** bee*
(mr-r p to mm.- raid Mra Watson. 1
,fl W brtn* tb* pt* o**r on the
train “
Mar bnv'mrd *n**aatrd tba* pt*»
aor. o«t •'breed oa paaa*n*ar Iralna j
Hat Mra K r >mm kn. a abat aho «a*
talk -* •bos'
•ro«» M to ma - *bo repeated, and
Mr Vtiaa did ao
Katana mad* tba trip to Now
*rb <tr robot dot and mot til- farm
rr aad bt* pi* Mra Waits a bta
pomd a l»* «tinb <f pt* lanctaace in
tbo Mtt V foltoa a oar and pomo-oded
ta droaa bim <tp la babf attira Tbo
ap ao* a ratio affair of small* and
babf b’ii -o. attb a ntarbla* ribbon
at tbo tip Tba babf <«al aaa alao I
bin* aa aaa a blank*' nbteb Mr*
Kataoa bad proTtdrd When tbo
drama'*,* aaa finished tbo farmer do
pat'od rbn. kila* o* o* I be transform*
ttoa
Kith I bo p|* la boo arm* Mrt
Ka*a«a po<*4td to tbo Moaark *ta
'ta* a* tbo I'onnaf If anta i allot.. ' and
boarded a tt»»o for Jetaor Clif IV
pt* aaoa t maVa* a reond !*• than#
M aaa hr-a no* of tboao foa abl*per*d
aerda of pi* tt|m*r of wbteb Mra.
Wa'ana aafa aba baa a vmatlertn*
IVrt opa M ana a bottla of at<!fc a bleb
•bo ptr *lppi*d aoa and tbon tnyboa
an oao «<a tbo train l«aa*tn*4 'bat It
a a* aar>btn* alao than a top* <|nlrt
»t d n»llb*t*»ed bai t tl»t Mra Wat
aoa a a* •-arf-rio* la Nor tin t
bt leraar Off Mra U ataon and hor
'large proceeded to the Hudson Tun
nel station While waiting for a tun
nrl train an elderly man suggested to
Mm Wataon that ahe had belter atand
w«ll ba* k from the edge of the plat
form.
■"Ton know these drafts are very
bad for babies." said the elderly gen
’l»tntn Mm Watson smiled and
• hanked the solicitous old man Never
note during the trip to Manhattan did
the pig betray himself
At Thirty third street Mrs Wataon
hailed a taxicab. and In thla the last
lap of the Journey was made At the
theater Mm Watson alighted and
pnld her fare The movement of get.
ting Into her purse must have dis
turbed the pig. for there was a sudden
st|iieal and a very vigorous wriggle
Tl e baby cep slipped back, displaying
a very plgllke face It was then that
the chauffeur begnn rubbing hla eyes
and pinching hlms*lf.
In a few days the little pig will
lake «h« place of »he elderly porker In
the barnyard scene He is now tin
dertaklng the necessary preliminary
training.
CARING FOR “ONLY” CHILD
Vienna Profetter Flrtdt Only Thirteen
Out of One Hundred Are
Fully Normal.
Vienna \fter a study of the prob
lem ,,f the only child extending over
seve.al years. I*r. f J Frledjung of the
■toclely of Interi . I Medicine and I’edl
attl. i has made public the result of
bis observations He had under ex
ateMention ion "only" children, of
• horn 445 were boys and lio girls
i lw range In ag< from two to ten
v»ars
Ka< h had ttecn raised In a family
whet-- there were no other children.
SEE SAHARA
Doctor Slegert Hopes to Provs That
King Solomon's Wines'' Are Not
Entirely Legendary.
TWIn lx* tor Slegert Is actively
ngaged in preliminary preparations
to crops the groat d< sert of Sahara In
a .1- tt>ie balloon Prominent geog
raphes and meteorologists are help
ing I mi In his scientific calculations
m.I Ms • twice of an airship. Count
'e it Vanlx. the famous French
i.'.ir.aul. had the Fstno purpose a
" 'cats ago. hut gave It up because
'tshljia had not sufficient protection
rgalnst the sun's rays Doctor Slegert
■ .'r.tMently expects to make the trip
! e has laid out i-Ignit 950 miles -in
t heirs His at rial vessel's engines
nltl glie the craft a speed of 1SU
ml'es an h. ir; besides. Doctor
S gert Is counting on 12 miles an
hour more by the wind
To tl n unimaginative the Sahara Is
on ' an inimitable, and waste, but
r "in It have come legends of buried
tile* of incalculable antiquity and
tale" of immense. hidden hordes
l»,u ,.t s- g.tt wishes to clear up the
t.istorv surrounding the expedition of
Front, the t'ng’ish explorer of a
and therefore had been subjected to
the kind of domestic Isolation that ac
companies those conditions.
Of the 100 children 18 were severely
neuropathic and 09 manifested less
marked symptoms of nervous Instabil
ity Only 13 of the youngsters, accord
ing to Dr Frledjung, were fully nor
mal. He set off these observations
against another set of studies msde
among families consisting of several
offspring Of these only 31 showed
neuropathic symptoms
Fear waa the strongest symptom In
75 of the 87 neuropathic "only chil
dren." They were hysterical In their
nature. Forty nine bad restless sleep
and 8 were subject to more marked
symptoms.
I'nusua! mental ability and way
wardness. the professor reports, seem
to go hand In hand In the case of chil
dren. Of the neurasthenics. 32 showed
malnutrition to a remarkable degree.
The "only" child, says Frledjung,
g^ts Its morbid manifestations from
the excess of lender care lavished up
on it. Its parents spoil It, they take
away Its sentiments of self-reliance,
and In this way they unconsciously
encourage the child never to develop
unduly. A certain amount of knock- |
ing about and hardships Bud necessity
for self-reliance Is Imperatively de- !
mand°d, this Investigator says, other
wise a child will grow Into a namby- !
pamby. a nervous molly-coddle.
On this account, as well as because j
of the menace to the race through the
limitation of population to 1 "only” ,
children. Frledjung urges that every
family should possess several children.
Taboo Girl Shoe Shiner.
Kansas City, Mo.—Contending that
shoe shining Is a work morally unfit
for women, tke city officials have re
fused to grant a license to a shoe shin
ing parlor which advertises on a sign
that "pretty girls will shine your
shoes." A city ordinance Is being pre
pared to prohibit women from shining
shoes.
IN DIRIGIBLE
I
hundred years ago, and to Investigate
I he romantic story of Rholfs, who
found traces of a great road running
out In the desert until the sand ob
tilerated them. What lies beyond
that lost track? Whither did that
great highway lead, and of what char
acter were the people who construct
od It?
These questions, which have been
; tmt so often, are supposed to have In
spired the plot of Rider Haggard’s
romance, "King Solomon’s Mines;" at
any rate, they appear to Doctor
1 Siegert to be well worth answering.
The headquarters of this expedition
' will he in the Nile valley. From it the
airship will sail about 310 miles tc
the oasis district In the desert. In
an oasis a depot wilt have been pro
i rar°d with cylinders of gas. spare
screws and other fittings—everything
needed to repair any damage that
may have been or may he done to the
j From the depot the dirigible
j "HI start on her real flight of more
; than r»nn miles over the "undiscovered ;
country.” Having traversed it. Doctor j
Siegert will attempt either to reach 1
:he coast or to return to the I-yhlan i
1 \asis The expedition's cost is estl- ■
mated at 1,50,000.
TWINKLING STAR MEANS LIFEi
P-t* «f* *f N-'»l Ob"-rvatory at
Vl'f I*) / Taik* to Aroortcan
I**. *oc‘otv
t* i'aP> Iphia —That plains ary «?»•
imp* t)*ti i to mt o»a r»rnl>* about I
.11 ik* fta< •< iim mm) Hut tVi* plan
«m ar* ImMUM* ’n4 Inhabit *4 Itfc*
mm mmn pUtMS. *hl*h r.tilt*i a boat
iIm an* «** «h* 4**taratiAn of Prof
X J i Pm *****■»»*•« natrc«w*w*r In
<**nx* * th* aa**t rWraatrry at
War* l*lar4 <3ht, b*a4* tit* otfcvr day
*»*.■-'* ffc* kWtVM Phi’ow.-ofcb'al MV
rt*ai nt It* aamtnl n>**rt‘»* M* «aid
•Ha m« a p*ff**«t» pomor%\ phmom
mr— |a <•* «•<?***# and that lit In*
ttotec* **(-: *h*r***r a nt*r <« Irk 1*4
la th* 4*r»h« « M>»>
Ml* 4l«***rlM In <MMW etolu
ttoa l*«4 »» th* 4*t-'.orw»*«t <* *B «•
11—>« **• mimmo. th* •*!*•<* «* ™*
r Proloootr Poo aa**rt*d
a nr -H th* r* .-*tt* ant onarod »a. a
1,0 «a th* thaia ot roottmi** **,*''#
I* v*’ f ffe# MWm «f tk# <>f
u, a '.'aa. •ho’tlh* that th*
I
, !»: t* originally were entail bodies
■•'•run* at a gtcr.t distance front the :
in. md that their ma**r* hare been j
In. : ■ • . d fcj gathering up all manner
f ' «*< i lodlea from meteorites to
«at 'little*
Pr >*ee«or Sec outlined the process |
’■ » wntrh the planets had Veen built
'.p cut of matter or.ee circulating in !
■ ,ir nebula a« comet*, and said the dc- i
■ ro tion of the comets was still caus
hr bower* of coswical dust to fall
upon the planet*, as witnessed in the
celebrated alar showers of 1799. 1833
and
••Our system wa* once literally filled
with comet*, and Kepler was right."
he said, when he declared there was
a* many comets In the heavens as
-here wa* fish In the sea. And just
as the planets have keen captured and
added to our sun from without, so also
the satellites have been captured and
added on to their several planets.
Keen onr moon ts a planet which
came to u* from the heavenly space,
and wa* never thrown out of the Pa
i!V ocean, as was formerly taught hv
1-ord Kelvin. Sir George Darwin, Roin
care and their followers.”
Rare Disease Kitis.
Philadelphia —After three years- 111
ress from a disease so rare that it is
said to have been the nineteenth case
in the history of medicine, James M.
I bodes, Jr., widely known socially and
■' former guard on the Princeton foot
ball team, died the other day at Villa
Nova, near here.
The disease is known to physicians
\s blastomyeetes, and is manifested
by a malignant vegetable growth, which
attaches to the Intestines.
Farm for Social Work.
FUhkill, N. Y.—A gift of $100,000 to
the University settlement of New York
city from the widow of General How
iar.d, U. S. A., is announced here. The
gift includes the entire Howland es
tate at Flshkill-on-the-Hudson. The
property consists of about 250 acres,
and it is understood that the settle
ment will establish a model farm and
summer camp there as a part of ita
work.
WHERE FESSENDEN WAS BORN
Patriotic Citizen* Set Up Huge Bowl
der In %emory of Great
Statesman.
Foscawen. Jf H - Foscawen. aa In
teresting little poet village in Merrf
mac county, N. H.. and on the Merrl
mac, is the birthplace at WiUJam Pttt
Fessenden who. early in life, engaged
in the political affairs of Maine. The
house where he was born was taken
down many years ago and a more
modern one erected on the site, which
was in the main street of the vil
lage.
Notwithstanding that Mr. Fessen
den's entire public life was spent in
Maine the patriotic citizens of Bos
A ^ Of IA
/rBfW u»-u j«m W"^
IOX&\ * M(- -w* '0* •**’*!*r***' *'■ \
ur ’ |
I 9~* *->• * 1
The Fessenden Tablet.
cawen set up a huge granite bowlder
near the place of the old house In
memory of tbe great statesman. On
one of the sides of this big bowlder
Is a bronze tablet which makes known
that William Pitt Fessenden was born
October 6. 1806; that be was United
States senator from Maine for 13
years and secretary of the United
Stales treasury from 1864 to 1866.
William Pitt Fessenden was gradu
ated from Ilowdoin college In 1823.
He was admitted to the bar In 1827,
ind was a member of the Maine legis
lature two terms. He was elected to
congress In 1841. and from 1854 un
11 the time of his death. September
S. 1869, he was United States senator,
sxoept when secretary of the treaa
jry, 1864 1865. He was one of the
founders of the Republican party In
1856 and throughout the Civil war
ie did eminent service as chairman of
the finance committee of the senate.
HOUSES BUILT OF BOULDERS
?arts of Oklahoma Have a Model
Building Material—Found In
Large Quantities.
Cache. Okla.—In the Wichita moun
tain region, notably In the Wichita Na
tional forest reserve, the ground Is
covered with untold numbers of
smooth boulders, both spherical and
elliptical In form, ranging In size from
a few Inches to more than a foot In
diameter. In many places these boul
ders are so close together as to form
a substantial pavement, giving a
strange and unusual appearance to
tbe landscape. Their form and their
eroded surfaces suggest that they may
have dropped from melting glaciers in
prehistoric times—If the glacial drift
reached tills far south. The deposit
seems to reach only a short distance
below the surface of the ground.
These stones lend themselves fn
many ways to ornamental uses In
building and have been employed by
residents of Lawton in the construc
tion of summer homes in the Wichttas
An Oklahoma Cottage Built of
Boulders.
They are reddish in color and contrast
prettily with the green vines that
clamber over them.
Occasionally, similar formations of
qtuch greater sise are found. One of
the most unique lies in the Wichita
reserve north of this place. The
diameter of this boulder is far greater
than the height of a man. Its peculiar
ity is its smooth, spherical form and
the fact that through-the formation of
sandstone projects a core of the hard
est granite, from which wind and
weather have worn away the softer
sandstone. It could have served as
the warclub of some monstrous giant
in the stone age.
FIND RUINS OF OLD CITIES
Excavations in Guatemala Bare Hiero
glyphics That None of Searchers
Has Been Able to Read.
New York.—Edgar L. Hewitt, direc
tor of the School of American Arch
relotrv, has just returned to Ne -
York from Quirigua, Guatemala, with
a glowing report of the American re
searches there. The diggings at bc.l'.
Quirigua and Copan. he says, have laid
bare ancient cities of surpassing splon
dor. which flourished long before the
Christian era.
The American archaeologists are in
complete possession of the ruins at
Quirigua. There they have found
sculpture as beautiful as any that
Egypt or Assyria ewer boasted, and
hieroglyphics even more interesting,
but these can scarcely be read. Only
! the system of reckoning time has been
deciphered, and the real history is
carved on blocks which no man has
yet been able to translate.
Close study of the masterpieces of
antique genius thus far unearthed
seems to show a close cultural re
semblance between this civilisation
and that of the races farther north,
but there is not enough resemblance
to prove that there ever was any sc
teal connection between North and
South America before the fall of Rome.
Won at Last
By CARL JENKINS
(Coprricht. no. by Asa
Mr. James Skeen was a widower of
fifty. He had the reputation of be
ing a persistent man. As he had had
a lawsuit that lasted twenty-two years,
his persistency had been proved. It
was also known that he had courted
his wife for six years and then car
ried her off by main force.
Mrs. Faber was a widow. She was
pretty well fixed financially, and she
didn't care to marry again. She had
been put to the test and had refused.
She was buxom and good-natured, and
Widower Skeen had no moral or legal
right to come bothering. But he did. ,
He made up bis mind one day to
ask her to be his wife. He expected
to be refused, but that didn’t worry
him. .
The widower was hoeing corn In a
lot next to the widow's house. He
was barefooted and had on a torn
shirt, a pair of overalls and an old
straw hat. Five minutes after making
up his mind be dropped bis hoe,
climbed the fence and appeared at
the widow's back door. She was Rcour
tng a milk pan. She had polished
her nose as well as the pan.
“Look-a-here. widow," said Mr.
Skeen, “what's the matter of me and
you getting married?"
“Lord save us!” gasped the widow
as she polished her hand instead of
the pan.
“Jars you. eh? Well it shouldn’t!
A widow ought to be ready for a pro
posal any minute."
“And a widower ought to have his
ears cuffed for making one! Marry
you, Jim Skeen? Why. I wouldn't
think of It for a minute!"
"Oh, yes, you will. You'll think of
It a great many minutes. Widow
Faber, you are going to be my second
wife as sure as corn grows and strlng
beans climb!”
"I never will, and you get out of
here and back to your corn!”
Mr. Skeen went back to his work
whistling. The widow was as good
as his. He let a week elapse and
The Widower Wu Hoeing Corn.
then he met her on the street as she
was gqjng to the postoffice and
stopped her to say:
•‘Been thinking that thing over, of
course? When will you be ready!"
"Never in all my born days!" she
replied.
"Oh. yes. you will. Widow, I'm a
determined man. We are going to be
married. I as just wondering why
I didn't marry you two years ago."
"You pester me and I'll have the
law on you!" she almost shouted.
"You can't make It pestering to ask
a woman to marry you. Jog along,
widow—I’ll come for you when work
slacks ofT a little.
Two weeks later the widow saw Mr.
Skeen approaching the house and she
shut and locked all the doors. He
was in nowise put out. He stopped at
an open window, and with his head
inside and his body out he cheerfully
inquired:
“Shall we go before the squar'.
widow, or to a preacher. I'm willing
you should have your way about it."
“Neither squar' nor preacher, and
you get out of that window!" was
called to him.
“Oh. it's got to be one or the other,
you know. Think it over."
“1 won't do it!”
"But you'll have to. Widow. I'm
sot, and when I'm sot that's the end
of it. You are going-to-be Mrs. Skeen
No. 2. You can tell all your friends."
"i'll have you arrested before sun
down! I’ll go right off now and see
the constable!”
She was as good as her word. She
DcUicd Lierur Pn*.)
entered the presence of that oScial
with 'ears in her eyes to say:
"Zeke Parsons, you are a con
stable.”
‘ Yes, widow, I have reached that
high pinnacle."
"Ain’t there a law against pestering
a body?”
• There sure is.”
“Then I want Jim Skeen arrested
and jailed.”
“Whew: Why, Jim Skeen wouldn't
pester a fly."
"But I tell you he Is pestering me!”
“So: How?”
“Asking me to marry him when I
don't want to. He's asked me three
times!”
"But that ain’t pestering." said the
constable, as a smile crossed his face.
"That is. it ain't within the meaning
cf the law. That's courting. No low
to stop a man courting as I knows
of.”
"But ain't it threats when he says
he's bound to have me?"
"No. That’s Just saying that he
loves you better than any other worn
an, and is willing to swim the mill
pond to get you. Why don't you
marry him?”
"Because I don't want to marry any
one. I don't and I won't, and I call
upon the law to protect me!"
"Lots o' laws on the statute books,
Widow Faber, but I don't know—1
don't know about this. If Jem Skeen
was throwing stones at your bens oi
breaking your windows the law would
grab him In a minute, but as long as
he's only asking you to marry him,
what are we going to do? If my old
woman was dead I reckon I'd ask
you myself.”
me widow aidnt go come wicn
tears in her eyes. She was too mad
for that. She hunted around for a
stout club and*stood it in a convenient
spot, and that club was meant for
the Widower Skeen In case he pes
tered again.
It so happened, however, that he
was called away for the next two
weeks on business, and the club was
not brought into use. One day, Just
as the two weeks were up, the Widow
Faber started out to pay a visit to a
woman across the creek that ran
through the town. On the path she
took this creek was crossed by a foot
bridge. It was a shaky affair at best,
and few people used it. She had just
reached the middle of the structure
when she saw Mr. Skeen advancing
from the other end. She halted and
he came along up and said:
“Well, widow, you see I am back.
Going somewhere?"
“Yes.”
“I was in hopes I would find you
at home, as I wish to talk about our
getting married. Better go back with
me.”
“Mr. Skeen, I'll never marry you—
never!” she replied with vigor.
“Oh, yes, you will. You forgot that
I am a determined man. I'll call this
evening for you to set the date!”
“If you pester me again I’ll—
She had no time to complete the
•ontence. Under their united weight
the old bridge went down with a
crash. It was a fall of ten feet, and
the creek had a depth of six feet and
a swift current. The widow screamed
and gasped and gurgled, but the
widower was cool. He supported her
and made a landing a hundred feet
below. As she leaned up against a
tree, limp and bedraggled, he said:
“Widow Faber, may I call this
evening and talk the wedding over?”
“No. no, no!” she gasped.
“All right. We '•"ill make it Sun
day evening. Widow, let me call your
attention to the fact that we have
landed on the shores of Deacon
Shine's pasture. The deacon owns a
bull, and that bull is coming for us
and we must climb this tree. Up you
go. That's it. Just in time. He
can't reach us. and will go away in
time. Now. as to our getting mar
ried. We are up a tree, of course,
but don't you think—r
“I do, I do!” she exclaimed In an
swer. “I said I'd never marry you,
but I will. You ve pestered, and I've
been drowned, and here's a bull roar
ing at us. and I can’t hold out no
longer! Yes. James, I'm yours! We'll
be married tomorrow!"
The automobile in the middle, mov
ing on in business: shadows like you
and me skipping out of its way in
front; oil and used-up stuff dropping
out behind. There you have society—
body, break and bones.
Enmeshed were men born, en
meshed they die, fighting according to
their strength to the end: to fight in
the hope of freedom, their joy: to die
not knowing they are beaten, theit
reward.
FAR BEYOND THE MIND’S EYE
: From the Sea the Palace cf the Doges
Is a Sight Which Exceeds
Imagination.
A few strokes from the sweeps soon
brov-ght me to one of the most mar
velous prospects which the human
eye can behold—the Placetta, seen
from the sea. Standing in the bow
of the motionless gondola. I gazed
for some time in mute ecstacy upon
that unrivaled picture, the only one
perhaps that imagination cannot sur
pass.
Oo the left, looking from seaward, the
trees in the royal garden form a green
line above the white terraces; nest
comes Zecca and the oW library, the
work of San Sovina, with ife elegant
arches and ita crown of mythological
statues. On the right, separated by
a space which forms the Plaxetta—
the vestibule of the Piazza San Mar
co—the Palace of the Doges shows its
golden facade with its rose and white
marble, its massive pillars supporting
a gallery of slender columns, the rib
bmg of which contains quarterfoils,
with six ogival windows, a monu
mental balcony, enriched with brack
«?ts and niefces flnials statues and sur
mounted by a statue of the Virgin;
its aeroter, the acanthus leaves of
which alternate against the sky with
the spiral fillet, which runs up the
: angles and ends in traeeried pinna
| cles. At the back of the Piazetta,
! towards the library rises to a prodig
ious height the Campanile, a great
; brick tower with high pitched roof,
surmounted by a golden angel. Near
the Palace of the Doges is seen a
corner of the peristyle of San Marco,
which faces on the piazza. The pros
pect is closed by the Procuratie Vec
chie and the clock tower with its
bronze Jacks, its lion of St. Mark on
a starry blue ground, and Its great
azure dial, on which are marked the
twenty-four hours.—Tbeophile Gautier,
“Travels in Italy."
Judge not thy friend until thou
standest in his place.—HilleL
EXPLORING THE HID
Six Nations Interested in Series
of Investigations.
Wats of Information Corcem-rg Gc'i
Citior* in High Attitudes I* Be
ing Obtained—Weatrter Bal
loons Used for Testa.
Omaha.—Six cations are Inter'-?.:.si
I m a series of Investigations now be
l ing carried on in Omaha by the Ur-it* .
States government and collaborate-: la
by the governments of Er.gpar.d. Ger
many. France, Italy and Beiz -m.
; These investigations have for their c u
ject the thorough exploration of
'■ itmoaphere at a height of more than
:en miles above Use earth's surface,
and so successfully are they being car
tied out that a mass of informa". n
concerning conditions existing as high
as eighteen miles up in the air has
been secured. Similar exploratiors
are being conducted in the cosntrids
named above and when these are
completed all information gathered
| by each country Is to be exchanged
; with all other countries engaged in
;he investigations.
The research is being prosecuted
with the assistance of ‘‘weather bal
toon3," which are sent aloft bearing in
attached baskets a number of deliqate
; contrivance* for measuring whatever
rondiUons are met on the trip from
j earth through the clouds and back
; again to earth. The experiments con
: Jnue for two weeks, a weather bal
oon being sent up each afternoon
; luring that period by each of the six
; governments. When the information
Uius gained is properly arranged the
j meteorological bureaus In each of the
! countries taking part will receive tab
| ilated copies.
The little balloons, which are six
eet in diameter, are so arranged that
iat they will explode somewhere far
ibove the ten-mile level, the explosive
'orce being the hydrogen with which
:he bag is filled.
One of these balloons recently
•eached a height of 18 miles before
PursUng and at that altitude the tem
perature was only 35 degrees below
tero, although at a point between nine
ind ten miles high the records showed
'1
A Weather Balloon at Omaha.
I
' ;hat a temperature of 94 degrees ba
low zero had been gone through. Or
‘his particular date the temperatur*
at Omaha, the starting point of th«
balloon, was 47 degrees above zero.
Another balloon registered an aii
current traveling at a rate of more
than 100 miles an hour.
The instruments used are so deli
cate that one of them—that for meas
uring the humidity—depends for itt
record upon the distance that a humai
hair will lengthen on passing througt
a stratum of air which contains slight
ly more moisture than did the stratuu
Immediately below it.
The records are made upon a soot
covered cylinder by a stylus point, op
erated by a level, which in turn li
controlled by the instruments. Thii
cylinder is slowly turned by a clock
work arrangement, and when the boj
j is returned to the weather station i
\ glance at the sooty covering will give
j the atmospheric pressure, the humid
j ity. and the wind velocity at anj
height traversed by the balloon.
The strand of hair used in the in
| strument for determining the humid
ity is chemically dried before it is
placed in position. Thereafter, upon
| passing through a moist stratum, the
hair absorbs a portion of ihe moisture,
i the hair lengthens and the stylus
I point records the change oh the cyl
j inder. If the next stratum is dry
some of the moisture in the hair is
: »vaporated. the hair becomes shorter,
and the cylinder makes the record
accordingly.
The air prlssure is determined, oi
recorded by the aid of a small cjjl
Inder. from which most of the air has
been drawn. A small plunger, to
which is attached a stylus point,
makes the necessary scratches on the
soot-covered cylinder.
Drapery on Poster Women.
New York.—There was joy In Ja
j cnaiea. especially among the members
of the citizens' committee, over the re
ceipt of a letter from a bill posting
I company which has to do with the
■ • immoral posters” which have deco
! rated the fences for some time.
The letter was sent by F. L. Hanr,
jf Brooklyn and was to the effect that a
i great reform will' he worked in the
j matter of the displaying of burlesque
house posters. Mr. Hann informs the
| committee that hereafter when a bur
lesque poster shows a woman ii
tights, “something will be placed ovet
these tights hiding from view any ol
; the woman's bare limbs."
His Game Is Freeze out.
Xew York.—Fourth Depuyr Police
Commissioner Reynolds of Brooklyn
; and 15 men went raiding and were
j starting off with four prisoners from
; an alleged gambling place in a bowl
ing alley under the saloon at 382 Fifth
avenue, when they heard a groan
They hunted for its source and in ar
ice box, between two big cakes ol
Ice, they found Albert Speilman oi
398 Eighth avenue.
"What are you doing here?” de
m&nded Reynolds.
“Freezing to death.” was the reply
Speilman was so cold he had to b*
thawed out before he could be takes
to police headquarters.