The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-27

chanic. AS a mere boy on his fathers cot
fee plantation in Brazil he showed his
genius. He developed it and applied it
in the handling of the coffee curing ma
chinery. At the age of he ran traction
engine and at II locomotive. He early
believed that men would navigate the
air. He shows how strong was this early
faith, in the following:
remember how my comrades used to tease
dren gather round a table and the leader calls
ont. pigeon flies! Hen flies! Crow flies! Bee
fies. ard SO on. and at each call we are sup
| he calls out Dog flies! Fox fies'' or some
other like impossibility to catch If any
raises finger he is made to pay forfeit. Now,
my playmates meyer failed to wink and smile
mockingly at me when one of them called MAN
| my finger very high, as a sign of my absolute
conviction, and refused with energy to pay the
forfeit.
| Jules Verne was the favorite author of
| the flying man in boyhood and when 1t
was decided that the Santos Dumont fam
/ lily should visit Paris in 1891, when Al
/ berto was only Is, balloon ascension
was one Of the things the boy looked for
ward to. But the price was too high, and
the boy took to automobiling instead. But
that experience was step in advance.
i for it gave him points on light engines.
Later he came back to Paris and this time
he got his longed-f for balloon ascension.
| lie describes II III part I'll us 80
/ Regafnng our equilibrium above "a plateau of
! clouds almost two miles high, enjoyed Won
derful sight The sun cast the shadow of the
balloon this screen of dazzling Wilderness
while our own profles magnifed to giant size
/ appeared in the center of triple rainbow! As
we could longer sec the earth, all sensation of
motion, ceased. We might be going at storm
speed and not know it. y cannot de-
scribe the delight, the wonder and intoxication
of this free diagonal movement onward and up
ward or onward and downward. The birds
/ have this sensation when they spread their
wings and go tobogganng in curves and spirals
/ thru the air
I Succeeding chapters describe the in
/ ventor's building of airship after airship,
violating the canons of the aeronauts at
the outset and all thru his course over
coming obstacles, and at last winning the
100, 000-franc Deutsch prize and doing
4 other wonderful things, none Of which are
more interesting III the telling, however.
than his early aspirations, first efforts and
persistence. He leaves one convinced, tho
that 1t is yet far cry to aerial navigation
. for practical purposes and for any but the
millionaire expert and for him only at
grave danger to his neck.
RECIPE FOR POEMS.
; Find first thy meter If the task be hard
Consult thy Keats and shelleyin them is
Some measure that will suit busy bard,
cTwas 'sAdonais' used in writing this.)
Then If thy rhythmic feeling run amiss,
HeeQ LlOu the TICKING clOCk--lC HAY transfer
Those beats from out It's cranial abyss
, ALL choked with wheels, to where thine owr
Then sit thee calmly down before thy typewriter
Seek next thy subject. Let the matter be
Not as a stranger. but some old. old friend
, As "Death. "a Daisy, Spring or Con
stancy.
r Then for thy rhyming dictionary send,
For oft it's echoing columns had to lend.
q A few poetic thoughts to him who gleans
8 And keep in mind until the very end
: That line is best if know what it means
d Thus do the poets write their verse for maya
: Burgess johnson, in Harper's Magazine for May
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