LITTLE WILLIE IN CANNING TIME
When ma gets busy cannin’ things about
this time o' year
And Jeaves me with the baby fer to watch
: the little dear, :
First thing you know it falls some way and
. gets an awful bump
An’ ma comes tearin’ up the stairs, ~bout
SIX at a jump.
.
She sends me down tn watch the stuff
thats boilin’ in the pot.
And oh, the smell that comes from here is
good, I tell vou what!
But pretty soon, somehow, it gets to bub-
blin’ from the top
And ma comes falling’ over
things to make it stop.
chairs and
She gets the cans all set in rows, and when
it’s boiled enough
It splashes on her hands and burns while
she pours in the stuff,
And just because I'm lookin’ on there's
something slips somehow
And down the can goes on the floor, and
gee! but there's a row. :
When ma gets busy cannin’ things I wish
that could go
Far, far awav from home—about a thou-
sand miles or so—
‘And then come back along about the time
the table's set
And ma’s got out a
stuff to be et.
—Chicago Record-Ierald.
can or two of good
ay,
¥
a
4E CAME TO HIS OWN.
Herbert Vinton
caressingly over
passed his hand
his rather grayish,
though still luxurious, locks, and
studied the picture before him. It
was the photograph of a girl, or
rather cf one who had been a girl the
day before.
Around him were many
of wealth. In spite of his bachelor-
hood he had all the cares and com-
forts of a splendid and well ordered
house. He was not a clubman: he
had little taste for society; he had
traveled all he cared to; he had
grown weary of plays, and at fifty,
still as vigorous as he had been at |
thirty, he preferred to spend his leis-
ure moments in his library.
“Yes,” -he said to himself, still
looking at the picture, “if her mother
could Dc as she was twenty-five years
ago they might pass for twins.”
He drew a long sigh. Twenty-five
vears ago her mother had said no to
him and married a man who was
fifty-five,
*I was poor (Len,” Vinton mused,
“and he was rich. Now I'm rich and
he-—well, I forgive him. He's dead.
And they are poor, and she is still
ready to give—not her soul this time,
but her daughter, ‘for money.’ ”
The letter that lay on the desk
was from her. It was the first she
had written to hin: since their part-
ing. She had at least been loyal to
the maa she had chosen. ‘Why, he
asked himself, had she sent him the
picture of her daughter, if not for the
purpose that had first suggested itself
to him? Why had she not sent her
own? Her letter, coming so =oon
after the beginning of her widowhood
and the loss of her fortune, meant
but one thing.
When he entered his library the
next morning his eves at once sought
the picture of the fair-faced girl.
“I'll go,” he said to himself, after
taking up the portrait again and gaz-
ing at it” for a leng time. “Why
shouldn't 1? There will be no unfair-
ness about it—mnot, at least, on my
part. ‘hey—both of .hem—owe it
to me. I've waited twenty-five years.
\Why shouldn't I be ]
evidences
rewarded now?
It will only be a case of turn about.
He took her in the glory and fresh-
ness of her youth, whcn she right-
fully belonged to me. But here’”—
he looked earnestly at the picture
again—*"she has returned just as she
vras whe: they robbed me of her. 1
will have her. She is my cwn. Fate
“has give her back to me.” :
He found them in plain little quar-
ters, and Eleanor—they had given
her her mother's name—placed her
hands in his and looked up with a
look that awoke a thousand memories
in him. It wes the look that he had
s0 often, waking and dreaining, seen
before. Her fingers seemed to give
the old, glad, thrilling touch. Her
voice was the voice that had been
calling him through all the lonely
years. He had found his love again
—fair, undefiled, just as she was
when h= had lost ner.
The other looked upo. chem and
was silent. ‘Youth was no -longer
hers. Gladness was not in her eyes.
Her smile was not the eager smile of
hope. Much of her heaut; she re-
tained, but it was not the beauty that
inspires love. It was such becuty as
might be chiseled out of marble.
In the days tha: came and went
Vinton's joy was boundless. There
had been dark vears, in which he had
been sure that he would never taste
the sweets of love again. He laughed
at himself for having harbored such
doleful thoughts. And always he
kept assuring his conscience that he
was preparing to claim only what was
his.
“She is mine; she has been re-
turned to me by them that did me
wrong,” he declared. “I have won
her by waiting. 1 will have my
own.”
Eleanor did not dread Lis coming.
Often she sat at the window looking
eagerly for him. She had learned
from her mother why he had been liv-
ing in loneliness. She had heard from
her mother of the wrong that he had
suffered. She had learnel that it
was their duty to make reparation.
Once, in 2a moment of depression, she
had asked:
“If he were still poor, would you
think 1 ought to give myself to him
to right the old wrong?”
Her mother had turned from her
and failed to answer.
»
returned to me.
They returned to something akin
to luxury. The doubts concerning
the manner in which they were to ge
along had been cleared away. In the
mother's eyes thore was a look that
was new and strange. Not a look of
Jj0¥% not a look of content. Perhaps
the look of the lioness that has eaten
her wheip to satisfy her. own hunger.
Perhaps.
Bu: Eleanor discovered in good
time that she was not to be sacrificed.
Affection for Vinton had found its
way into her breast. She did not
weep for shame of the thing she was
to do. She forget that through her a
debt was to be paid, and that through
her they were to be insured against
poverty. She forgot all save that
Vinton was estimable and kind, and
that it made her glad to know that
he was happy. ¥
One day when she was away buy-
ing things fo the - wedding, her
mother and Vinton sat alone to-
gether.
“You are going to be very happy
—after all,” she said.
“Yes,” he answered—*“after all.
My glad old dream is to come true—
after all. = You are good to let it
happen so; bu. I shall have only what
is mine-—after all, you know. The
years I have lost can never be given
hack; they are gone forever. Still, I
gladly give them for the joy that is
Only those who have
robbed as I have been robbed
and who have won their treasures
back can know the gladness that
comes with the returning of what is
my own. Only they who have been
loved and lost can know how deep
and how dark is the valley which love
has come to call me out of. Forgive
me for saying these things to you. I
know you cannot understand them.
It is my present joy that makes me
look back witl. pity for the hopeless
thing I was down there in the dark-
ness where it was so lonely and so
cold. I have waited so long, I have
denied s» long, that I am intoxicated
by the sweet aroma even before the
cup touches my lips. You have
been
| not—"’
With a pitiful cry she put h=
rands to her face, and for a moment,
while she sobbed, he stood looking at
her. - Then h. lifted her up, saying:
“God hélp me! I had forgotten
that all IT have been denied you also
have been denied, and that if I return
to claim my love where it was taken
from me you must go-on through the
darkness alone.”
Eleanor drew back from the half+
opened door rr. went away softly,
leaving her’ mother in his arms.—S.
E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
ELECTRIC SLEEP IN SURGERY.
Professor Leduc Says He Has Discove
ered a Perfect Anaesthesia.
Stephane Leduc, the eminent pro-
fessor of the School of Medicine ar
Nantes, France, has discovered a
method of causing electric slzep,
which, it is declared, will replace
chloroform and other anaesthetics in
all surgical operations. The discov=
ery proceeded from study of the ef-
fects of intermittent currents and
from the knowledge that the skull
and brain offer but little resistance
to the current.
For a humar being a current of
thirty-five volts is applied intermit-
tently in its full strength for minute
fractions of a second. Two electrodes
arn applied to the skull in a special
manner, th: pointe of application be-
ing first carefully shaved.
Professor Leduc made scores of
experim :nts on dogs and on himself.
All wer: successful. The application
of the current on the head is not
dangerous, and no ill effects follow,
even when the experiment lasts for
hours.
The adv.itages of the electric sleep
are said to be numerous. Anaesthesia
by chloroform, morphine or ether is
disagreeable, always dangerous, and
has often proved fatal, while the
awakening painful. During the
electric sleep the patient is perfectly
quiet and .the awakening occurs
soon as the electrodes are withdrawn.
The sensations after the operation
are quite agreeable. . The mind ap-
pears to work more clearly and more
rapid, and there is a sense of in-
creased phisical vigor.
This last circumstance led Pro-
fessor Leduc to use his brain elec-
tricsation for cases of nervous exhaus-
tion, and even ordinary fatigue and
moral depression, with wonderful re-
sults.
Incidentally the scientist asserts
that the application in a certain man-
ner of hic special current will electro-
cute a subjecet in an absolutely pain-
less menner, gentle sleep being fol-
lowed by gradual but certain death.
— New York Times.
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3
When the Sea Smokes.
Explorers tell of the peculiarity of
the Arctic regions. When it is very
cold a steam as if from a boiling ket-
tle arises from the water. At forty
degrees below zero snow and human
bodies emit this vapor. It appears
that the colder the temperature the
more numerous are the deceptive
signs of heat. When the tempera-
ture is lower than forty degrees the
trees burst open with a loud report,
and there is a cloud of vapor as if the
thing had been done with powder.
When it is still colder the earth
cracks open with loud noises, rocks
break and streams of smoking wa-
ter pour from the cracks in the earth.
Fire on the end of a cigar will go
out, but the cigar will emit smoke
from the whole surface as if it were
burning under the wrapper.—Phila
delphia Grit.
Forester Pinchot advises pecpie Lc
use the :vcods but save the soods,
PENNSYLVANIA STATE NEWS
TEN PERSONS
Trolley Car Jumps Track on
Hill at Wilkes-Barre.
Ten persons injured
Wyoming Valley Traction © Company
car that’ jumped the track at the top
of a steep hill, entering into Wilkes-
Barre. The accident was caused by
the accumulation of a heavy frost
and leaves on the rails. At
point where the accident occurred
was a curve which the car had round-
ed safely,
ded along for a short distance and
finally turned completely over on a
sidewalk. The injured, who are all
from this city, are:
Attorney William Walsh.
Berkley, Mr. and Mrs. Ben
Griffith Jones, Marie Kearney,
Dennis, Daniel Gallagher and
Major.
The two former are badly cut
bruised about tae head and
The others are slightly injured.
INJURED
teed
were on a
Davey,
Irene
Mrs.
MUST ACT WITHOUT PAY
Ruling as to Lawyers
pointed for Convicts.
Judge Gecrge S. Criswell of Frank-
lin, Pa., rendered an opinion in which
he declared unconstitutional the law
passed hy the Legislature of
providing for the pavment of counsel
for murderers appointed by the state.
The decision was given in the case
of James Strail, who is in jail, await-
ing tridl for the murder of his wife
in Oil City. ‘Judge Criswell points
out that the one important provision
in the law is that the defendant's at-
torneys shall Le paid by the county,
vet there is nothing bearing on this
point in the: title. That, the eourt
says, is a fatal defect, since the con-
stitution of the state provides that
the subject of a hill must be clearly
expressed in the title.
Court's
LOAD UPSETS; MAN KILLED
Relief Comes Too Late
Teamster Pinioned Under Wagon.
Caught under a heavy load of pipe,
which had fallen upon him, William
y, a teamster of Waynesburg, for
minutes directed the men. who
were attempting to rescue him, but
died before he could be extricatod.
King was bauling pipe for the Alep-
po cil fiellis the wagecn over
turned on a-~s¢eep hill. >
to Save a
when
Pian to Lease Crnal.
A meeting of New York and Fhila-
delphia capitalists has just been held
at Reading for the purpose of crgan-
izing a company to leasc th Schuyi-
kill canal between that place and
Hamburz. : It is proposed to erect a
series of cight large dams and to use
the water on the Schuylkill river to
create power for a trolley railroad ts
run from Reading to. Philadelphia.
The Schuylkill canal is still operated
frem Philadelphia tec Hamburg, and
last year nearly 100,000 tons of cecal
were transported upon. it. If widen-
ed and deepened and continued as
formerly into an anthracite coal re-
gion it would become an important
artery of commerce.
Greene Ccunty Teachers Meet.
The torty-first annual Greene Cotn-
ty Teachers’ Institute was heid in
the Overa-=House_ at Waynesburg:
with Superintendent John lL. Stewart
presiding. The corps of instructors
and lecturers includes Prof. G. I?
Lamb, Alliance, O.; Superintendent
James M. Coughlin, Wilkes-Barre;
Dr. E. P. Green, West Chester; Dr.
Russell Conwell and Lee F. Lybarg-
er. Philadelphia; Hon. Champ Clark,
Missouri.
New York, is music director; Miss
Christine Miller, Pittsburg, vocalis’,
and Miss Camille Firestone, violinist.
Dies of Rabies.
Samuel Burnett, 7 vears cold, of
Maltby, and John Zecemertis of Du-
pont, are dead from rabies, and
Isaac Burnett, 12 vears old, a brother
of Samuel and George Reca. 10
vears old, were sent to the Pasteur
Institute fe ba treated for hydropho-
bia. The children were bitten seven
months ago by a dog, but no
toms of rabies developed until a few
days ago. When symptoms of rabies
developed Zeemertis refused to go
to the Pasteur Institute and died in
intense agony.
To Operate New Roads.
Charters were issued by the State
Department to the following COor-
poraticns: Consolidated Window
Glass Co., Bradford, capital. $1,000,-
000: National Automobile Co., lL.an-
caster. capital, $5,000. Charters wera
issued also to the Butler and Chi-
cora street railway to operate a line
between’ the two places, € and the
Butler, Saxonburg and Tarentum, to
build a line from Butler to "Taren-
tum.
The Kittanning Presbytery of the
Presbyterian Church met and
solved the pastaral relations of Rev.
P. DD. Daubenspeck ana First Pres-
byierian® Church of Apollo. Rev. Mr.
Daubenspeck has accepted a call to
Huntingdon.
adis-
a, SESS
Treasurer Calls in $50,000.
State Treasurer , Berry called in
$50,000 from 50 banks and trust com-
panies holding state deposits, this
money tc be used in paying the cur-
rent expenses of the state.
Will Go to Detroit.
Rev. H. Hobart Barber, for
vears rector of . Christ
Greensburg, has resigned to
the rectorship of the Church of
Messiah, Detroit, Mich. He will
Church,
en-
ter upon his new work the first Sun-
day in Advent.
Church Is Dedicated.
Tenth Street Methodist
Church of Erie was dedicated with
services in charge of Rev. Dr. A. B.
Riker, president of Mt. Union Col-
lege. Dr. Jchn C. A. Borland is the
pastor.
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FIND LARGE STORE OF LOOT
Yeuth Is Arrested and Makes State
ment Implicating Others.
After police, led by the confession
of Joseph Smith, 15 years. old. had
discovered a cave which Smith
and four other boys are alleged to
have hidden large quantities of plun-
der stolen from houses and stores in
Parnassus, the five bovs were held
for juvenile court by Justice of the
Peace J... P. Humes.
Many robberies have been commit-
ted in this vicinity. Smith was ar-
rested as a suspicious person, and he
| named Victor Johnston, John Johns-
ton, Walter Skyrzcek and Jacob Ka-
volski as his accomplices.
: The cave, which is outside town,
| was filled with loot and in it were
found several revolvers. The boys
are now in the Greensburg jail.
in
WANT MERGER ANNULLED
Philadelphia & Erie Stockholders Sue
Pennsylvania.
equity
from
Erie
A bill in
Fennsylvania
Philadelphia &
10 restrain the
operating the
railroad as part
of its svstem under the merger ef-
Jected by a vote of the majority of
—steekholders-ef both corporations last
spring, was filed in the common
pleas. court at Philadelphia by An-
{drew j. Reilly and Walter S.. Hum-
phreys, trading as Frank T. Bell &
Co., and Gustav S. Soulas.
The plaintiffs. who are Philadelphia
& Erie stockholders. hold that the
agreement entered into by the de-
fendant companies is unconstitutional
and confiscatory, and deprives them
of their property without due process
of law and without compensation.
They argue that the law of March £2,
1401, under which the merger was ef-
fected, was unconstitutional.
MAIL CARRIER WRECKED
ute Runs Away and
Over Embankment.
ourson, a rural mail car-
the Washington postoffice,
delivers mail in a large touring
and Miss Jessie Anderson = of
Washington, wi was accompanying
him. had a very narrow escape from
death. when the car became unman-
backward over a
Tumbles
rier from
who
car.
ageable and ran
Ligh embankment.
Beth occunants
machine as it
a board fence
Outside of a
was injurd.
leaped from the
was crashing through
a0 feet below the road.
few scratches neither
Prominent Merchant
Thomas C. Jenkins,
financier, churchman and
the = wholesale erocery
Thomas C. Jenkins, largest estab-
lishment of kind in the country,
died at the family residence in Union
avenue. Allegheny. after a long ill-
ness. From a modest little establish-
ment in Wood street, : where the
great interests of Mr. Jenkins. had
their inception just after the close of
the Civil War, developed the largest
wholesale grocery and fiour house in
the United States.
Dies.
merchant,
founder of
house of
its
Worse Than an Elephant.
A cinnamon bear and a grizzly
bear are in custodv at the city prison
at Altoona, and the authorities are
wrestling with the question of taking
care of the pair. The animals were
cantured, from two Frenchmen, who,
it is claimed, were torturing them to
make them play tricks. The French-
men refused to pay a fine and were
sent to jail.
Reports of Poor Potato Crop.
Reports indicate partial failure of
the potato crop in Western Pennsyl-
vania Charles Anderson of Butler
county, usually raises 2.000 bushels.
He savs this year he wil] not have
over 500 bushels. Similar conditions
exist along the whole Allegheny val-
lev, the cause being potato rot, which
proved so disastrous in Lehigh and
Berks counties. Orders for potatoes
at and 65 cents a bushel have
been canceled by farmers.
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Replacing Destroved Street.
The steady washing of the Alle-
gheny river against the banks at
Brackenridge long ago washed away
a street along the shore. It is now
propesed to recover this lost ground
and to raise: the low land along the
above the danger mark. The
Steel Co. has laid a track
from its nlant along the river front
and is dumping cinders over the
bank to replace the street.
Sherango Plant to Resume.
The Shenanzo tin plate plant
resume operations November 1,
cording to unofficial announcement.
It has been idle since July 1, under-
coing renairs. The resumption will
affect 2.600 employes
Thieves entered the of : W.
E. Tvson at Tyrone and stole six dia-
mond rings valued $1,800. They
did not take a geld watch and a
valuable brooch which were with the
rings.
Allegheny
house
at
lids will be invited within the
next two weeks by the engineering
department of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Co. for a new passenger station
at Swissvale. In the erection of a
modern station, the elimination of
the grade crossing and other changes
at that place. the railroad will spend
about $175,000.
Sharon Plant Reduces Force.
Owing to a scarcity of orders the
| Sharon Foundry Co. has reduced its
force. of men at jts Wheatland plant
ahout half. Manufacturers in this vi-
cinity state business has fallen off
40 per cent and the prospects are
! poor. The slump is assigned to the
fact that the railroads are not buy-
| ing new material.
Episcopal |
Reports from growers in the Erie
| section of the grape belt say that this
| season is the banner one of years,
i with prices high. Scarcity of help
| is the one drawback. The shipments
| will exceed those of all former years.
RON
SEED
TWAS GOLDEN IN
ot Nef}
) 50 Tas
FOR HALLOWE'EN.
By JoAnson Morton.
LAST SPRING A TINY, SMOOTII GRAY
I PLANTED IN THE GROUND.
FIRST CAME A SHOOT, AND. THEN,
WITH SPEED,
A VINE AND YELLOW FLOWERS INDELD
WITH GREAT. GREEN LEAVES AROUND.
AND WHEN THOSE BLOSSOMS DROOPED AND DIED
A QUEER FRUIT, GREEN AND SMALL"
IT GREW AND GREW THE VINE BESIDE
TILL WET BY SHOWERS,
’
BY SUNSHINE DRILCD.
THE FALL.
A SPLENDID PUMPKIN, SO THEY SAY.
OF TRULY ‘WONDROUS SIZE,
'AND GRANDMA SAYS, ‘PUT IT AWAY,
AND JUST BEFORE THANKSGIVING DAY
PLL MAKE IT INTO PIES!”
BUT HALLOWE'EN COMES FIRST, YOU SEL
THE PUMPKIN’S REALLY MINE
AND WHEN I PICK IT JOYOUSLY,
AND SHOW IT TO THEM, IT WILL BE
A JACK =-0’-LANTERN FINE!
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‘THE AIRSHIP
AGE IS HERE
“heavier than the air.”
man Army
being tested.
otherwise favorable weather, they
great facility.
steersmen are aware that their
progression.
ward.
remain in the air, is varied.
French
limited to slightly over three hours,
venting further progress.
sartments, each entirely
only one compartment.
The Parseval balloon, which
balloon.
direction.
motor.
machine.
wings;
air after
it has ascended.
the vertical fixed sails.
forty-five miles an hour.
Berlin..—The science of aerial navigation, at least in Germany
reached a point where many of the most prominent investigators are ask-
ing themselves in which direction they shall pursue their experiments.
The problem of steering is satisfactorily solved, but there remains the im-
portant question of the conquest of the contrary currents of the air, and
this raises the issue between the advocates of “lighter than the air”
All have given evidence of the fact that.
may
Not one of them, however, has on any occasion ventured into
the air when a strong wind was blowing, for the good reason that their
weak
The greatest speed attained by any of them, and this applies
also to French balloons, has not exceeded
miles an hour, and at that rate in such a wind they
Even the Zeppelin, which is credited with a
thirty-four miles an hour, would do little more than he
As to form, the cigar shape maintains its favor.
construction, on which, it is argued, depends the capacity of the balloon to
In Zeppelin's balloon the envelope is entirely
of aluminium, covered with silk and rubber;
lower portion of the main body of the envelope is of metal, covered with
silk and rubber, the ends and the upper portion being of ordinary balloon
material; while Parseval's balloon is entirely composed of flexible material,
similar to that used in spherical balloons.
The voyages of the Parseval and military ballecons., as well as of the
airships, all of which are either semi-rigid
Contest at St. Louis Proves That Man
Has Conquered the Upper
Element.
, has
and
Balloons inflated with gas are generally regarded here as having
nearly, if not quite, attained the final stage of their possibilities, which,
although marvelous in comparison with the position of only five vears ago,
still leaves much to be achieved before the air can be said to be mastered.
All three systems, the rigid, the semi-rigid and the flexible, repre-
sented respectively by the steerable balloons of Count
aeronauts and Major von
Zeppelin, the Ger-
been and are still
in light winds and
and maneuvred with
Parseval, have
be steered
motive power would not admit of
in round figures twenty-eight
would be driven back-
ced of thirty-three or
1d its own.
but the material of
in the military airship the
or flexible, have been
owing to -the ferward end of the en-
velope gradually collapsing through the escape of gas, thus presenting a
concave surface to the direction in which the balloon is steered and pre-
On the other hand, the Zeppelin, even after the escape of a consider-
able quantity of gas, retains its shape and is able to proceed. ;
Count Zeppelin asserts that he can attain a velocity of about thirty-
four miles an hour with the motor working at full pressure.
trials are awaited with the greatest interest, for with such a speed, accord-
ing to meteorological averages, which show that on ninety days out of every
100 the wind does not exceed thirty miles an hour, he would be able to as-
cend and navigate against it successfully, although on some occasions he:
would be able to make only very slow progress.
ever, the balloon would be able to pass over an enemy’s camp without run-
ning much danger, as, owing to its construction in twelve or fourteen com-
separate from
compartments be pierced by shot and collapse,
not change its shape and the voyage would be continued.
The other dirigibles do not possess this advantage.
loon is built on the lines of the Patrie, the envelope being composed of
The balloon at present in use, which contains 1800
cubic meters of gas, is intended only as a model for larger airships in case
the authorities decide to adopt the system.
has shown such
navigation in calm weather, has the same disadvantages as the military
It is constructed somewhat differently, in the envelope contain-
Ing the gas being fixed two balloonets, one in front, the other in the rear,
which, when one or the other is pumped full of air by the motor, change
the equilibrium and permit the balloon to ascend or descend in oblique
The envelope contains 2800 cubic meters of gas.
The only serious German experimenter until now with a flving ma-
chine ‘‘heavier than the air’ is Karl Jatho, of Hanover.
a remarkable aeroplane, composed of six sails (a horizontal steering
horizontal mainsail, two vertical fixed sails and two vertical steering
a wind propeller and a basket or platform, carrying a twelve horse
The equilibrium of the aeroplane is maintained by the horizontal
steering sail, which controls the raising or lowering of the forepart of the
The two vertical steering sails serve to i
gpreading or furling one or the other, while the two vertical fixed sails, or
as they are called, keep the aeroplane, so to speak, resting on the
Five wheels affixed beneath
front one movable in any direction, are put in motion against the wind by
means of the motor at the same time as the wind propeller, and the aero-
plane runs along the ground until it obtains sufficient way for the pole of
the horizontal steering wheel to be raised against the wind. ‘
then fills and the aeroplane rises into the air, where it is: kept floating by
Should the motor cease working from accident or
other cause the mainsail is large and strong enough to act as a parachute.
Herr Jatho asserts that his aeroplane is capable of attaining a speed of
His further
At a high altitude, how-
the others, even should several
the metal envelope would
The military bal-
wonderful powers of
He has constructed
sail, a
sails),
power
direct the course by
the platform, the
The mainsail
Ex.
THE “NULLI SECUNDUS,” THE FIRST BRITISH MILITARY DIRIGI-
BLE BALLOON, LATELY SUCCESSFULLY TRIED AT FARN-
BOROUGH-—IT IS 110 FEET LONG AND HAS A 50-
HORSE-POWER S8-CYLINDER MOTOR.
List of Racing Balloons
in the Order of Flight.
St. Louis. — These were balloons
entered in theraces in order of flight:
Balloon and Country. ilot.
Pommern, Germany. .Oscar Erbsloch
United States, America..H. B. Hersey
L’Isle de France, French. . A. Lablanc
Duesseldorf, Germany ..Von Abercron
Lotus I., England. ...Griffith Brewer
America, America. ......J. C. McCoy
Anjou, France........Rene Gasnier
Abercron, Germany. ....Paul Meckel
St. Louis, America. ....A. R. Hawley
Chandler Qualified as
Contestant For Lahm Cup.
Captain Charles De F. Chandler,
who reached St. Louis after a twenty-
one-hour balloon trip in the army bal-
loon with J. C. McCoy, settled all
doubts as to whether he has qualified
as a contestant for the Lahm Cup by
saying that he mailed to the Aero
Club of America official notification
of his entry two hours before he left
St. Louis. He beat the record by sev-
enty-two miles. The best previous
distance covered was 403 miles.