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a large propeller. After a machine has been got in motion the same as a i New ‘Tork. (PiRMtshed-by the Press Publishing Company, No..62 to @ Park Row, ; Entered at the Post-Om New York az Second-Class Mail Matter, VOLUME 47.. FLYING MACHINES. ‘K destrefor mastery over the air is almost as early as the navigation of the water. Long before balloons were invented in France flying ma- Is of them. Thousands of years nwings and his son Icarus was them. is one of the.¢ > nattiral that many efforts shoo C propulsion of men throwgiy th : A kite stays in the air, although it's heavler than the surrounding atmosphere, because the wind keeps it from falling, The resistance made by the forceof the breeze.striking at an angle keeps the kite aloft: The - tail prevents it from flopping over and the string holds itatan angle to} the wind. Should the. tail be dmitied the kite would not balance, and} — should the string break it would topple and ‘fall to the ground through its | own weight. e : be The balloon. bears no point of: re- semblance to the kite, except its power of ‘suspension In the alr. ‘Should the wind cease a kite would balloon’s-buoyancy would keep it in the air. A balloon owes {ts qualities to its ‘inflation with some gas lighter than | air, and which makes the balloon. float in the air as a boat floats in| h _|..the water. Since the density of air ee J diminishts with the dstance from| the surface of the earth, and the density of the gas in the balloon does not correspondingly. diminish, the height #9 which any balloon may rise 4s limited. -Birds-fly on the-principle of a kite, not on the principle of a balloon. ‘Their-wings are like the planes of a kite, and their muscular control over 2 their-wings produces results like the wind blowing on a well-balanced kite secured by a string to the ground. Instead of the wind furnishing: the \ power tomove.a bird the, bird furnishes its own power like a steamer + propeller. = The earliest-attempts of men to fly were on the tird principle. Arti- | ficial wings were made patterned after those of birds. These-all failed becitse no man has ever been able to develop muscular power in pro- portion to his weight at all comparable with a bird’s. ln ‘The early ancients had no motors which could make-up this deft- | Gency in power, and after many failures the idea of wing propulsion was given up, Centuries later Inventive genius tumed its attention to ‘developing and-utilizing the balloon, ‘| Daily Magazine, Thurs day; at once fall to the ground, ‘while the No balloon has ever been invented which is dirigible> that fs, which can be steered against the prevailing wind at the will of the operator. By attaching Nght motors and propellers to smafl balloons they have been steered in a light wind, and can be guided at an angle differing from the wind, but on account of the large balloon surface none of these de- vices, has beeri successfully employed against a strong breeze, i According to the reports from Paris of Santos Dumont!s Iatest I HE geroplane experiments and the performances of the flying machine in- “ vented by the Wrights, of ‘Ohlo, the tmprovement of gasoline motors has'made the flying machine a fact. o: {+ *fhe- principle of ott the Santos Dumont and the Wright flying | machine is an arrangement of kites combined with a gasoline motor and | kité fs started—by running with ft—the propeller make St soar in the alr, and by the addition of a rudder or a shifting Propeller the direction on a! * «_ level'plane {s controlled. “The ascent or descent 1s regulated tn part by/ changing the angle of the kites and In part by the propeller and the bal- encing of the operator. ‘Mr. Jarr, esate busin e has, callly, JARR FAMILY 2 2 By Roy Wwecardei BAW? en automobile at the door as I came {n,"’ sald “Nice-looking one, “Tt belongs to tha wholesal infatuated with Mrs. Kliriagly. but he November 22, 1906; The Unseen Passenger. By J. Campbell Cory. '| ths promptness that makes for friendly feelings, -It may be a house-cleanime ‘ NEW YORK THROUGH OO FUNNY GLASSES Arvin. §-Cobb- © — The Jolly Old Game of the Lid. BOUT once in so long we are seriously informed that something radical {s about to be done tn the matter of that most sicred and venerated of locat {nstitutions—the Lid. Hither the Lid ts golng-to_be Pressed down with unexampled vigor and unparalleled determination, or eise {t 1s going to be elevated with such glad abandon that our town will make you, thinig of w ecalped manhole. We are Jed to bolleve from the published “Accouuts that the Lid has got to be a sort, of dead-open-and-shut arrangement Ike a coffin top. The agencles capable of influencing its hinge are; many and varied. It may. be that somebody in the, higher altitudes has been failing ¢o recetve his'h with! Moy aac HOE BT eee fd pee spasm striking a police captain who has‘been kept in hot water so long tha¥ Ké has all the symptoms of a hard-bolled egg, including the chunk of yellowr) {n the mifddie. It may that the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst dreama a bad dream— as he does every change of the moon—and awakeas in the dead of thei night clutching bis low, ralkish chin-whtskers and shrieking for reform! * tn bulle. Sate The'néws is passed out that the Tenderloin has been suppressed to an extent that wonld make Wednesday ‘night prayer-meeting look Iike a wiki | orgy in comparison. The observer strolls along the G, W. ‘W. expecting ta see the Salvation Army girla arrested on account of thelr ‘War Cries, i] xf He 1s astonished to find that the dear old Tenderioin seems to be going along as régularas the cuckoo on the clock. If he didn’t know there had ‘been a change, he wouldn't be able to notice It rf 5 True, at this season of the year we will not find many of the jolly Bo- Ny good-looking yet,” oh ‘themians abroad eating two hundred yards of spaghetti at a eingle sitting | ‘and spending as much as forty cents a pint for Vin Elderberry, but we must ") remember that the business college keeps open late, and then, besides, a | | considerable number of the biggest daredevils in the true Bohemian set have to work in the evenings now dressing the shaw windows for the holidays. But all the other regulars are there when the lights and the souses begin to glow along Broadway, The smell of money burning at the Forty-second \ street crossing ts slightly tipctured with the enchanting scent of musk per jfumery, The college cut-uf who spends his money in an audible manner {s quite visible, ever and s/non breaking a silver or Now Haven dollar with * ‘a noise like a milk wagon! being struck by a switch engine. The low melo- Jous flute-like note of the blue chip may be distinctly beard in the side streets, The gent at the clandestine faro deck is as busy as the barkeeper {at the First Chance saloon on Depot street in Fulton, Ky,, the night after jthe pay car arrives. The surreptitious tacing chart perches upon the win- | dow-stll and carols wloud, and in every dance-hall a wake {s held over the | he lamented excise Jaw. a arTaratone two weeks this period of Puritantcal, blue-nosed, etern and inflexible reform wears out and we are told that the town Is once more as | wide open as a menagerie lion at feeding time. ds, but when you see pictures printed in the ty look altoge?: = re Stow once or twiee, but I wouldn't go again 1¢T was 414 you say?" asked Mr. Sarr. 5 I ald wholesale!” "To be whole-nouled ts very nico, would give you everything they have never For practical purposes, D ie better. Ho doesnt give you everyt part -xith you, What sort of «holeaale business {a he tn? Dilest' aeked Mr, Jarr— ‘T don't inqutre into people’ said Mrs. Jarr sharply. ut there people who have anything are snub Soclety consists of a 0 ‘would like to know them and k people who anub those ose they'd like to know." ni! declared Mr. Jarr. ow to ride m horse. ark, bobbing up Moff every min “What do they care for Cornea? down like w lot of apes? Th and it's a wonder they dai o.”" ante Mra. Jarr. 2 st night thero were #0 many automo- t when sho went there that tt ene eetrem: Mra Kitting!y se5t he was The wholesale the Horse Show." “All thia talk and all the stuff they print about the Horse Show every y “A lot of cheap duden and a lot of extravag: ‘Clothes Brow! T-should-cail it! makes me sick!" said, Mr. Jarr. women trying-to-outdreds-eroh-othert | "Ita very nice to have fine clothes, said Mrs, Jarr retrospectively; “one | tisfled and at peace with all the world.”’ | “And #0 sore at other women who have more costly gowns!” sneered Mr. | "No matter how fine you dress, somebody el Giamonds or real pearls, onT* es," sald Mra. Jarr, “tne Horse Show ta att right for the Vanderbiits and 3 ea Who can afford such things—the clothes and the horses, I| hava {t press n people Mks Mrs. cit feels 10 Jar, Digi the other millfona! business; and he's {nfatuated with her and ts going to take her to + “Thank goodness, {f we haven't any money, we don't act s0 silly, Gremsing ourselves up like popinjays and pretending we do it for the sake of high-brod * growied Mr. Ja dust then the tolepo: "Yes, _this-is- J. how-nkel—Are you really sure you 1) -Sartanilytoa toe Jarr beaming. t 1s dressed finer or has Fes have a box at the Horse} you and I to jom et out my dress sult andr} hats any more, do they? Tbatanice is so uncertain. sanuch-shifting-of Lhe kites wilttumble thent to the ground, ‘This danger is one of the qualities which may hasten thelr develop- ees —#noblling,. Flying machines~are more dangerous than the automobile owaces. g Inthe absence of wars, with the Indians tamed, the Jerusalem cru- Mr. and Mrs. Ga ntfooler. sade$ gone out of fashion, piracy. transferred fr e fashlon,_.piracy f ‘om: the seas “to “Wall Street and few opportunities open which combine danger and fame, the r . Proven possibilities of flying machines ‘o fi iti CE ali pen a field to ambitious idle ‘They should, however, beware of the fate of Darlus Green, Letters from the People. _ Bad “EL Service, eee ree of The Bvening Worlds | co, Why to dprthat the Third nvenue “1") With the late lan “ 1 st {s permitted to run oars eg it pleases?| oft, courler ar try Saige a Mortiing’atter morning I have to wait\The cop Saat from ye to twenty mtnutew before I can et oi! tho train, ‘They either pack the| “Cap cara lke sardines, or elno they do not eondnecend t6 stip at all. Is not my five ‘cent piece as good aa any other? What cane Poor girl do, who, morning | yy. after morning, {3 lato getting to work? |" My employer won't etand’ it much jJonger, Why don't they run-more cars? Why don't they stop et all stations? : : McA J. C. Gneiat, 12 Brondway. To the Editur ot 3 ing World: s. r | Who ts the G sul to New] 4 5 Se fork, and where is he located? sow-Prioed Denttetry, B, P, H, | Te the Eattor of me x, : Ode to the New ~plice Capa. Ay TOAger. mento: While cops with whivkern have a @ien appect on a par yowsky, of the cret P'lice!" 1 our doughty ‘8 take & rap, © talking through thelr nrough thelr captious | caps. | Hats off to yr, am, who wiped Biba it place the kid- vening World; ned that the hospttaln 2 or other Institut To the Eiltor of The &, \ng World! fone ought to maintain fin place’ of Gome-like helmets built to |® department for the practice of den. Btand the eandbag’s taps tistry for the poor, or rather for thoss f Catnianaatit ing [WO are not in a fi 1 N¥e-gee Manhattan's ‘finest sporting | pay for the Dieeervanneae d poattion to {In practice these flying machines are most dangerous hecaree thete| mea. But how silt sre Not becatise they are interested in horses, A gustof-wind may upset them. A little too | people!" Tons iileacat Y people lke {ti afd Mr. Jarr. “They wouldn't keep the | Sh t that they felt that the vulgar mop were crowding in the! place to gape at them and point them out!" an xaot home my new white Ince princesse but just to stare at tho soctety | 2 she sald Tmight wantltfor the Horse “And how fort, ‘T Wonder what the Ranglox will think to rea-us sitting there In m box?’ satd j Mr. Jarr complacently, ‘old me he had tickets for to-night.”* ‘iment. Ballooning carefully conducted is less risky than ordinary auto- | —————. ‘L Go You, oLd PAL, Now THAT. THE OAYS WORK SEE WHAT I GoT FOR BEING A HERO STOPPED A RUNAWAY! t @ihity visored caps, |the anatomy. which fat part of fWhich make ‘emooth-thayen coppers, |for the proper. mastication’ of el i when in untform, enjoy tery cartale teapot iderstana lene aspect of an overgrown AD. T,| ta! colleges auch service may | boy, i tained tree or at nominal rates. \G, 2. HELLO, FELIX, HOW ABOUT A Spin UP-THE ROAD IN my OBVIL WAGON? WELL, WHERE ON EARTH--? GQ G2 PLD LI GQ BEF Him NINE HOURS AFTER PT_HAPPENED AT /s0,my BRAVE HERO!- You THINK I'M ALICE} SIT-BY-THE-FiRE! SELFISH BRUTE! SO!tnero!| RONAWAY, EHP THE FUNNY PART: Ey But you can't notice any difference. E |A Tip Young Men Should Take: — “Marry a Working Woman.’ By Nixola Greeley-Smith, a. LINE in yesterday's World read “Another Fs ‘Weds a Stenographer.”” Similar weddingw - onicled napris avery day and fall the mam — 1 ringes of these uncertain times they are the most hopeful of happiness. Men and women acho ye worked togettier know ‘each. 5 i as the soctety man and woman,.: whore pre-metrimonial meetings occur-in- the artifintat at mosphere of social function not know each other, Sympathy born of elation ta the most last: ing tle that can unite two human beings, and only for a woman wo knows and understands Ns work “and has seared It with tim can a man feel thia sympathy, ‘There are many women—and they are h&ppy wives, too— who boast that they know nothing of their husbands’ afratrs, What seems to ther an exh{bition of happy teconsequence really places them In tie poasltion of Oriental favorites. They should be ashamed of the ignorance they boant of. “Men Iike to/taik of thelr affairs, ‘hey prefer to talk to women. 7.Jf a man can't fell his wife what a great man ho !s, what finesse 1t took to win hia last case or how cleverly he made old Mr, Jones belleve he was getting goods half a cent oneaper than any ona else, he will tell some other woman, who will at least pretend to be interested. SS ~ a If-J had to g{ve a young man what I conaider the best tip on-matrimony I would -say;"Marry a working woman. She has had to-use her brain=somewhat, Sho knows the valte-of money from having worked for it. She understands men from having worked with them; and she understands you, which will mye you a-grovt deal-of manoyante and Ser qyseh Miatlustonment add” teare,” < The working woman knows what the {dle woman learns from bitter experi? ence that husbands are not won once and forever by their wives, but over and over vvery Gy. : Man's lore {x a series of short stories, not a ecrial story. A clever wife may make herself the heroine of all-of them, But to do so whe has to take an intelli- gent interest in every phase of his life, ' tH if “Sentence Sermons for Busy Readers, apes always is a dirty world td peaple who scck nothing but dust. «8 8 If you want to find a happy Christian look for a whole-hearted one. ee e ‘The church finds her beauty when she 4s a chisel instead of @ jatatue, It's not the engine with loudest exhaust that ts hauling the fongest train, oe 8 2 The finest prospects In life are found at tho summit of @leagrecable duties, sitepine p If you would hear the Joy of heaven you must go into the saddest, places of earth, Many 2 man thinks he ts roligious beomune he has a peculiar pleasure in regulating other folle. eo 8 i It's not the profanity we utter so much as that wo cause for which wo, should be punished. eo 8 ‘he man who fa conscious of unusual holiness ls apt to be careless a to everyday honesty, It does not follow that you are helping men to heaven because you are’ insisting that they keep step with you—Ghleago-Tribune——* y be Se eg ge eee In German New Guinea. _ T was atated recently in the Relchatag with reference to German Now Guines » that out of @ total Buropean population of 48 there qpore 1M ki . two farmers there wai offjosr, This be z 32 j