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81 Dew FRANCIS rs. CLARK, DID,.
-,' Founder Of the Christian Endeayor Society.
THFlR LOVE LETTERS IN SHORT HAND.

torn from a stenographer's notebook that
you lust saw George has put more Team
he could in twenty she Svan Tl now viii ba
more obvious to- you. my dear. \ W 'Ii's'1 Y
You are engaged. !" z. y. |, I,
George Is court stenograp !, IN a1.a a
cot a decently long letter from MIN ,W ~.
IN In vacation time. Said he was too busy.
and he hated to write letter !, ~ tlo ".
quite fervid enough. but there was SCI
little little Of it I used to cry whenever L1
opened the envelope; Last year ne seas1
mo April fool letter IN nn y. s,n,ah
Il showed 1t to a girl know IN papa "a
office and she said 1t was some notes ls H. ~
a will case. Z, I, Z, Y. I, !, "a ~ lfr'
I George didn't get anything but postaha
cards from me. Meanwhile the girl fromi
napa's office came up to the house thrssei
eyanings week ro ana dea sia more f than
had been in the habit or doing. Mama
and carrie wondered what was dtoing,
but they did't find out, II; II u 1usT i fSe
5co CORE style Of short hand. Heii
sent one back by next post that was eSs,il
more in outline than was nsfsssary ior Il
soma solitaire diamondl came with u;
E r. 10 six months now since began, and
+ can read and write the corresponding
stys pretty fairly co3a a shs esans
begins letler ~ 49, s - III N ers
sjots down q few lines here, anu ny st gat.
t ter get W my nmonsys worth There q
not mich continuity about 1t, to be sure.
hut hut Who VIII, cares about continuity IN love "
Another thing" said Mildred = have
effectuully put a spoke In sister Carries |
Wheel. i knew she had been poKinlEl
ssar tyhere I hid them In fact. she in-i
s yer Dusty remarked once that George
didn't seem to have time to write much c,
Now leave his letters around on lns
and nobody is the wiser. courtship pyf
stenography may be = novelty. j, pg w. !,
certainly has Its advantages 3--NeW \
| York press,
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I'll -. m

spout higher and boil more furiously than
ever. and then the habitues know that
great Waimangu, fifty miles away, mas
given great Shot" perhaps th on
Sand or twelve hundred feet In the AR.
It takes the volcanic force thlrty-sH
hours to travel underground from :, wal az,
mangu to Wairakei. showing that al TN, TINS
vast Eeyser belt is connected, and that
each one is a vent-hole for theN suoter-
But by this time we are surfeited With IN
mako our w,ay back to the little nower;..
empowered hotel to dream of red. black
and white geysers, boiling springs ana
high spouters, and OF what Is all IN all
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You are not thinking Of taking situa-

You are not thinking OF taking situa-
ton, are you?"
.,well. hardly, said the daughter OF a
lawyer who makes $4,000 a year That's
just letter from George: l, was reading
street That is why am late"
The hostess and the other girls knew,
George or knew Of him. Mildred haa
talked very little about anythlng o. any
body else since her engagement,
NGraclous." exclaimed a girl who mas
vet 10 meet her affinity, "a love letter
In shorthandY Why l never heard OF
mi Nildred Transferred the correspondence
10 the pocket Of her Jacket Very likely
not, She said. II never did before
began to write them. advise yous Char.
Iotte TO take up the study paiore S yl
q good investment. In those four pages
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strike against it with force that almost
knocks It out of your hand.
The "champagne pool Is an another 81 most m !,
Interesting hot water exhibit. II IS a.
across. and 1t is seething and sizziing
and effervescing as though 1t had just
been uncorked. while every now and then,
great mass of boiling water that falls
back harmlessly into Its pool again. 1T u
Isn't often dangerous. said the 2, ,g guide Ii
us he was called "but IL you hear It
thump, thump, thump three. times, like
this suiting the action to the word, py
striking three resoundingi- blows on tine
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short, and one Immediately follows the
others hence their brotherly name.
In full view OF the Twins is the PRINCE
of Wales Feathers" which possesses the
singular property OF being turned on or
off at will Of the guide.
He dams UP a small hot stream, and
thus turns 1t into the geyser's hole. After
twenty-five minutes by the watch 1t
suddenly throws up three feathery plumes
to a height of almost twenty-five feet,
with spread of twenty-five or thirty
feet on either side. and then you must
wait twenty-five minutes for another shot.
The Dragons Mouth Is one Of the most
fearsome of all these geysers' The
mouth Is just large enough for man
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order to secure time for the best flying
conditions. 1t came and then saw this
machine, which was made chiefly of steel,
Weighing as much as a 4-year-old boy, but
so large that itwould about fill the aver
age parlor. dart. forth from the launching
tive power was an exceedingly light
steam one-horse power engine invented
by Mr.. Langley. 1T carried five pounds
distance Of about three-quarters OF d
mile, continuing to fly until all the water
had been converted Into steam. when 1t
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Here Is photograph. of the machine
on tho launching stage, continued Mr.a
Langley, as he showed me a. snap shot
taken by the photographer Of the lnstl-
tuition shortly before the trial. Our ideaiS
was that the engine on the flying machine
would carry 1t on into the air and that
1t would leave the launching stage unlnl-&
paired and lininjured. On the con trarys ~
part Of the machine was caught e. as y
This, pulled tho machine down before IN
got into the air, at the same time twtst
Inf one Of the wings entirely out OF
shape. az you may sees from hnpt her pm t;1
graph which was made by Mr.. Smtllie3
at the time. The twisting Of this win 6
threw the machine out Of balance and
5hclped to dash 1t down into the water
tain Itself in the air with a broken wing
nj, n flying machine which relies upon tts
wings to steady it, to fly when one Of
those wings lis twisted or hrok IN g
result was that the machine went into
the water carrying the intrepid englneef
g(Mr. Manly with it," ~ s \
a How about your second attempt. MI
Langley? Il \. al I'D, /, b /. n. y. .a..i
first. At that time one of the stern wings
was caught in almost tho same way a an
thrown out of place, resulting In the p
soyerturning Of the aerodrome and II
ni,inging again into the water before 8a.t
HIGHT could be begun. Had 1t not been
for these accidents I have every reason y ,!l
to believe the machine would have In mao
a successful flight. think there u t no
doubt but that It VII w Y na1 g
4 (Copyrighted. 1901. by b. g. carpen rlt'
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Will coma TO life, even to the end.
And thought we choose to right or to
left OF us on tho heights or in the hollowg !;
though In our struggle to break through
tho enchanted circle that Is drawn around
ali the acts OF our life we 10 violence TO
the instinct that moves us and try our
hardest. to choose against the choice OF
! destiny vat shall the woman we elect
always have come to US straight from
the unvarying star.
And IL, like Don Juan, we take thou.
sand and ttrea into our embraces. still
shall NE and on that evening when arms
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are twisted
newithhe

e . . ~ y. -
most profitable Uncle Sam has ever MADE q
although perhaps q Quarter OF we .
amount already spent VIII nave, 70 sP %
construct new launching arrangements
which will enable it to start out upon us 9
voyage through the air Il Fl
A Talk With Mr.. Langley.
asked Mr.. Langley to give me the
reasons for tho failures OF last fall Eie
replied: ,t.; q, ,s . d, !, :, !, 7
There have been no failures 50 lar 8 8
the actual test of the flying capacity q
the machine is concerned. 1t has never
been in the air and has not had g. nance
to show what it will do. The ditilcullS $50 80
We least expected 1T, and where we Z, h ls. =
reasons to believe that our conditions
were perfect. The launching Is i g 5y \ y
serious was not understood until \
began my experiments with the s NJ y.
aerodrome which you saw -A = y
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1HE girl who was late for lunch-
IT. con came into the restaurant
H. hurriedly, muttered a5feW words 70 q
R5TSSTNI of apology, and laid her purse ,l,
I4gsssE) and some papers on tne tapie,
',yvly, Mildred said the Hostess; sf,,tss
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Inventor Of the Man-C Carrying
Aerodromc Says His Machine
Was Not a Failure and
Tells Wty--He Ex-
poets Success
88S Yet.
BY Frank q. Carpenter.

A 4sIEsS ffs p Talk ali WIZ WIZ searai sys
Langley about hls nyinE mae. MACHINE I. ,hs
expsTsn.s u lann a. whfh a resultG i
ths ss,l,ty Fl zig rR. ashi q,
never bssn esore wa. a frea
never r.Wa been be-, in the air. You might as well
s erect %ea 0s o stsanfr erS %srs
s,ccessfiiiiy placed upon The water. In
deed. there ls every reason H., to ! believe
the LANGLEY, ma aehed VIII ny r hna
y W the as'y engineer. Sitting within 4 viii
his hand On the levers and Gon ab, ,,s y
tho sea 1,9 Tfis is the BELIEF OF Mr.. Langley.
il il is also the belief OF other scien,ists
zion ton and the experiments which Mr..
Langley has successfully made IN this
"A Scientific Inventor.
Before giving my talk with Mr.. Lang
t aSne III II tis A and etSer eds q discovery
k known IN TIC scientific word, and ~
s nss Ftate EufGga h 81 a
Bell have been in the fields y PRACTICAL
Invention he has been In scientific IN
syentlOtl, TIC nus GIcdteu INV ~
studying tho heavenly, bodies, has to the
Z largest extent measured the heat q Z. the
sun, and by his invention OF the bolome -,
The Temperature OF a sunbeam can be
b tested to tho milliontll part Of g degree.
Every railroad In the United States runs
on a time system invented by Mr.. Lang
ley. It was, through him that We got
the systematic time service BY which , t it
Il from the observatorics, and by WHICH the
railroads run their trains without danger
from accidents through varying time
e This Invention illustrates one phase Of
Mr.. Langley,s work. Hs brings nus en Pr
nrocfical uses 81 mankind, ana he has for
years been devoted to the study Of the
sun and Its heat. with view Of their b bet &
has been his professional study.
but ne has also FOR n. ,s years been en-
cessf,ll navigation. 70 test these prop
critics he has made machine after ma
chine, from some 80 small that they
d. '74H q j.
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could be held In the hand to others so
large that they would I'LL the room Of q
good sized house. He had failure after
failure, but from each failure ho learned
something. His work In aerial investiga-
ton went on for sixteen years before It
eliminated In the flrst successful aero
drome which flew UP and down the Poto-
mac In 1896.
The First Aerodrorne.
7 had the honor to describe the. first
flight OF that machine for the public OF
the United States. spent a. week with
Mr.. Langley on an island in the river IN
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I believe the most wonderful valley
all the world.
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AR above our heads in the very
center OF the sky shines the
star OF our destined love, and
1t Is in the atmosphere OF that
star and illun1ined by Its rays
THAT avery mission that Sttrs us
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oNDERFUL marvellous. mlrac-
ulous, are some OF the adJectives
that come leaping to one.s lips.
unbidden, as he Journeys
through the ReySer region OF
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The Three-Horse Power Model
Which Flew BY Gas--1'l1e f,l-Fi
tire Of the Great Machine,
Which Is a Military Sea-
Motives Of a "
Scientist.

many changes I invented the launching
apparatus which worked with that ma &
chine. / had more than twenty flights
from 1t and 1t never failed me. ! thought
i had Just what was needed for the
larger machine and built launching ways
on proportionately larger scale. I was
still surer OF this when launched an
exact model OF this large machine upon
successful hight shortly before the
other. trials were made, and was sur
ments would not work rs we'll with tho
great aerodrome. The front platform Of
IT, ways drops down in the Launching
this was the immediate cause Of the
trouble" 3r IN
Why the Big Aerodrorne Did
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i asked Mr.. Langley to give mo T
reasons for the failures Of last fall.
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Royalty
Visiting

LONDON, April 1ss-The good feel
Ing that exists between King Edward
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Austrian empire at peace within itself
has been shown lately IN many ways.
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NJ IS AND LAND
STEALS TO CONTINUE
Enormous Crime Perpetrated on People OF The
West to Benefit M onopolstic Cattle Companies

ed that he must protest against the
repeal or the timber and stone act.
ii III true that the bill to repeal the
timber act was allowed to pass the
senate without opposition from tho
timber senators. even after they had
announced that they were opposed to
any repeal OF tic law and the infer.
ence Ii therefore, that they assured
themselves that the bill would DO
welt taken care OF in the house and
probably never even get out Of Tho
public lands committee. One member
Of that committee sven made such b
boast.
Congress Ii hurrying through with
It's necessary work; Il - proposed to
force an early adjournmentwithi
the month. With the ponderous ma,
chlnery of tho legislative branch Of the
government thia wifi effect d saving
Of several thousand dollars for every
day that the session is shortened; but
for every day that congress delays
the repeal Of the timber and stone
act, the Communication clause OF tho
homestead act and the desert land
act. It means q loss to the people Of
tho United States OF hundreds OF thou.
sands OF dollars. and the absolute loss
Of a great heritage Of future seekers
or homes upon the public lands.
Could the people Of the country real
iza the enormity of the crime which
lis being silently perpetratcd upon
them, and upon their children, they
would arise In might and grind q
atoms the hords Of schemers and
plunderers who arc dcspoiIing the ma
tion Of its greatest wealth. II Ii q
Silent, insidlous force which Is with
considerable rapidity absorbing that
which In a few years will be recognized
as the very yitals Of tho nation. De.
cause OF the sinister Influence Of great
land interests. the greatest forests
In the world. and the sources OF mag,
nIficent water supplies, as also tho
choicest agricultural lands capable
under irrigation or producing fabulous
crops and supporting numbericss men
and families. will continue to DO band
led back and forth by timber thieves,
BY spectators. by 1--we stock corpor.
%ations, and BY land monopoliats-all
while congress- rushes thorugh III
work TO make an carly adjournment
and refuses 10 face the question.
Guy n. MITCHELL.