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LEARN HOW TO FLY.
What Will Be Necessary to Solve the
 Problem?

Although great advances have been made in the art of aerial navigation, the problem has not been attacked systematically enough. The first thing needed is trained body of men who shall become familiar with everything already accomplished, and then de- vote their lives to the sole aim of ship which is to be perfectly safe and under control. For obtaining such a corps of experts there must be schools of instruction in the whole subject of aerostatics, supplemented by labora- tories containing ample facilities for practice and experiment.
 A beginning has been made in that direction. The United States depart ment of commerce and labor has ob- tained reports on the situation in Flu rope, which show that in France there is no real school of aerostatics, all though the greatest progress in navi- gating the air has been made in that country. What has been accomplished there has been done chiefly in an ex- perimental way by the army, whose object is war, and by nine ballooning clubs whose object is sport
 From Chemnitz, Saxony. comes news of the first attempt to establish a real school of aerial science, with regular courses of instruction extend ing over year, ending with an exam ination and certificate of proficiency It opened May 1, 1907, under the di rection of an aeronaut of 26 years ex- perience and 600 ascents. The outline given of the curriculum shows, how
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MOLD FOR CEMENT BLOCKS.

and sides are fastened to the base with hinges, which permit them to be turned down to take out the completed block. On each end, explains Popular Mechanics, is placed a flat iron bar with bend or notch in it to hold the sides together. These bars are the same as hooks with the ends ex- tended to form handle for con- venience. The end pieces have a thin piece of board fastened in an upright position on their inner surface to form key between the completed blocks.
 The bottom board, Fig 2, is to be fitted in the bottom of the mold loose ly and can be blocked up from the bot tom to make the right size block
 The plugs, Fig. 8, are made with a
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REFLECTED SUNLIGHT,

An interesting photographic expert ment will shortly be made at the sug- gestion of several captains of the North German Lloyd on the fireship Weser. Daily experience shows that sunlight reflected from glass plates will make houses and the like visible to great distances, which without this luminous reflex would be difficult and sometimes impossible Starting from this principle, the promoters of the experiment in question will place at the top of the fireship polished glass body comprising a number of plane polyhedral surfaces. The apparatus itself. explains the Scientific Ameri- can, is very simple in construction, comprising a frame about two feet in diameter, in which plane glass plates coated with mercury are fitted, it be- ing left to chance when some glass surface will be struck by sun ray. This apparatus will work as helio- graph in low mist or in hay weath- CT for many miles, facilitating to high extent the locating of the fire ship.
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which reaches clear across the front It is not a large veranda and not ex- pensive, but it makes finish for the front of the little house and it pro- vides a very comfortable open-air sit ting-room in summer and it is a pro- lection from snow and other storms in winter. The money that this veranda costs is money we'll spent. No matter how cheap the house, you don't want the front door to look bare and unpro- tected, and you can't protect it in any other way quite so well as by build ing solid looking, comfortable yer anda.
 In size, the plan is 20 by 40 feet, and in this space the architect has planned and laid out five rooms, all large enough to hold the necessary furniture. To save expense in first cost the house is set on cedar posts instead of having a cellar. This is done because there are men who could afford to build cottage house cost ing $1,200 or 1,400 when it would be
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MT. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide expe- rience as Editor, Author and Manufac- turer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford No. l94 Fifth Ave, Chicago, H.. and only anclose two-cent stamp for reply.
 All the essentials of a home are em. bodied in this little cottage Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home applies with especial force to a neat little cottage that is built for comfort and surrounded by well-kept grounds. A cottage house well kept looks great deal better and it gen. erally contains great deal more com. fort than larger house that is in a measure neglected.
 In building small house it is GUS tomary with some builders to slight the work in certain directions, because it is only cheap affair, anyhow, but this is d mistake It does not pay, for instance. to use outside doors that are
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
HAIRPINs AND THEIR USES.
Many Popular Services Performed by
 Little Instrument.

It is recorded that Zola, on being asked what impressed him most when in England, replied: "The sight of so many hairpins strewn along the paths. !" He probably, with most people, did not realize to what varied and service able uses this little article is put. It is an excellent substitute for a paper cutter; it will pierce cigar or clean a pipe; as a buttonhook, either for boots or gloves, it is invaluable; in extfemities it has served as tooth pick, horrible as this may seem; while, if a sufficient number are used, it supplies the place of hatpin.
 There is another popular service also that it performs. Recently at smart hotel young lady took up novel, saying to the man who was carrying it around: "How far have you got with this story?" As she spoke she opened the book with that quick movement which inevitably be- trays the bookmarker, then putting it
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Why His Speech Was Strange.

When George Ade wintered in Egypt" said Baltimorean. "it amused him good deal to see the serious way in which his fellow tour ists took their smattering of the Arabic tongue. They had picked up all this fiimsy knowledge in a week or two's reading, but they acted as though it was the precious fruit of a lifetime's study At Assouan young woman from St. Joseph complained that she could not understand the Arabic of her guide. To the crowd that encircled her she pointed out the guide-a bent old fellow with a white beard-and she said bitterly that, after her thorough study of Arabic, it seemed strange that she and this guide could not converse. From the rear of the crowd MT. Ade called gravely: It's your own fault, Miss Hodson. You should have hired a younger guide. These toothless old ones all speak gum Arabic.'"
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but the amount paid out for rent each month would soon pay for a $1,200 cottage and leave the owner in posi-. tion to go ahead on something larger if he needs it. Sometimes people get so attached to a little home that is comfortable and convenient that they are in no hurry to leave it. My advice has always been to make start and make it modest enough so you are not embarrassed to make your payments, and 1 believe it Is a great deal better to go a good deal too slow than to go a little bit too fast
 l like to see good houses, and when person can afford it I like to see them living in an expensive house, but 1 don't like to see young fellows start in with a property good deal larger and more expensive than they need when they haven't the means to pay for it, because 1 know it means many months and years of hard work and good many nights of worry, all of which may be avoided by making the proper start. A little house may be buried in vines partially hidden by shade trees and beautified by a yard full of flowers until the house is for gotten and the cozy home only is re. membered
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good, sharp sand. Mix well and put enough water on to simply dampen the whole mixture. Close up the mold and put in the plugs, and then fill the mold one-quarter full of the mixture and tamp down hard. Repeat this until the mold is filled and then scrape off the surplus material, re- move the plugs, turn down the sides and lift out the finished block. The block should remain on the bottom board until it is hard enough to re- move. It will be necessary to have a number of bottom boards. The fin ished blocks must be sprinkled with water from day to day for duration of 15 to 30 days to properly cure them before using. A barrel of cement will make about 50 blocks.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Maine's Three-Footed Bear.

Vanceboro's big three-footed bear. which has survived so many battles, is dead, killed by Jed" Johnson and Bob" Crooker, according to the Ken nebec Journal. They set a dead fall and the bear was caught mapping. Bruin was one of the largest ever seen in that vicinity and was very old. One foot was missing, having evidently been taken off in a trap. but so well healed that old hunters say that the accident must have hap pened years ago. The bear had been seen in many places within firty- mile radius, Musquash Lake, in Tops field; Lambert Lake and the Orient Horseback being his famous stamping grounds. He had been fired at scores of times, but always escaped. Half a dozen scars of bullets were found in his hide, and one ear had clean hole through it.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
AROUSED FEARS OF FARMER.
Thought He Was Member of the
 Standard Oil Company.

They told me of a farmer two miles away from the Connecticut farmhouse where l was stopping who had a cider mill and was making a few barrels of the sweet, and one day I took a walk over to the place. The farmer had made only two barrels of cider and was through grinding. 1 asked him about the apple crop, the price of cider and so on, but found him disinclined to talk. In fact, it was plain that he distrusted me. I told him how l used to walk five miles to a cider mill in my boyhood days. and did my best to thaw him out. but the most that 1 could get out of him was that he intended to sell one barrel and keep the other for himself. He was evidently much relieved when 1 took my departure, and 1 could not make him out at all. Two days later 1 ran across him in the village, just as he was unloading one of the bar rels at grocery. He tried to dodge me, but l hailed him, and he came forward and said:
 NOUAoi oCl Oul lAI C0 uOllGIS for it''
 But that's a fsir price, isn't il?
 Its tolerably fair, and I hope you are not going to freeze me out"
 T don't exactly understand you" I said
 Why, hain't you from the Standard Oil company"
 "Of course not"
 And you hain't run cider up to five dollars a barrel and threatened to freeze out any one that sold it for less?"
 My friend, you are away off
 Honest 1njun?"
 q have nothing whatever to do with the corporation you name'
 "Gee-whiZz! but l took you for the boss of it himself, and I've been shak- ing in my boots ever since you showed your nose in the mill!'-N. Y. Times
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less than one and three-quarter inches in thickness. You can put on cheaper ones and dress them up so they look all right for awhile, but after a time the panels split and the doors warp until it is an aggravation to open or shut one. Then repairs are neces- sary and you put more expense on the job than would be necessary to do it right in the first place.
 i If you are building a house to sell, sometimes you can skin it in places and get out from under, but it is poor way to do business. If you want to drink from sieve you must drink quick. Sometimes a house built for sale don't sell right away. If it is well built it may be rented to advan- tage until purchaser comes along, but you must not rent poorly built house unless you are looking for trouble
 The cheapest way to build a house is to put up box like this and put straight roof over it. It makes all straight work, stock sizes of every thing work in without waste, and cheap labor may be used to advantage in putting it together. Everything for the house may be purchased, ready to go together, at the building supply dealers.
 Years ago it was considered neces- sary to put up some fancy design in order to have it look right when fin ished, but this was mistake. Noth ing looks better than a plain house if the proportions are right. Of course you must have a relief of some kind In this case you get it in the veranda,
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taper on both sido1 so that in remov- ing them they will clear all the way out. The pins in the bottom of the plugs are to fit in holes in the bottom board, which will hold them in place.
 When the plugs are to be removed take the board with the two square holes, Fig. 4, and place over the top of the mold and with the handle of the tamper bar, which is run through the rings in the top of the plugs, lift them upward, using the board as a guard to prevent the block from being broken. This board should not be used until the block is finished and ready to take out of the mold.
 The tamper, Fig. 5, is made of a piece of iron rod about IS inches long with a large nut threaded on one end.
 To make the blocks use one part of Portland cement and three parts of
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
IlIiteracv,

According to the report of the United States commissioner of educa tion for 1900 the percentage of illit- eracy in that year, the latest figures. was as follows: Germany, OH per cent, Switzerland, 0.30; Scotland 3.57; Holland, 4 France, 4.90; Eng land, 5.SO; Belgium, 12S0; Ireland, IT; Austria, 23.So; Hungary, 2S.1O; Greece, 30; Italy, 3S.30; Russia, 61.7O; Spain, 6S.10; Portugal 79.SO; Servia. SC; Roumania, 89. In the United States there is no fixed standard for measuring illiteracy, but the commis- sioner places the standard at 1O.O7.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Roof VentiIators,

One can hardly look out of a win dow in contemplation of the roofs without seeing a number of metal. hooded ventilators. which have come into general use for the purpose of creating an air current in lofts or air chambers. The only disadvantage con. nected with their use is that in case of fire they act as a chimney and aid materially in the spread of the flames. In recent improvement made in these ventilators, the hood is held in an open position by lever movement controlled by fusible link. In case Of fire this link is melted, and the hood is allowed to fall of it's own weight. and in doing so 1t closes the air passage and cuts off the draft.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Just as Good.

Waiter-One of the gentlemen is asking for some Spanish wine.
 Proprietor-Well, give him a bottle of our sweet wine and charge him two marks extra. That will be quite Spanish enough for him, expect Fliegende Blatter.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Worlds Sunday Schools.

According to the most reliable re. ports, there are 262,o0O Sunday schools in the world, with a total en. rollment of 26.O00,0OO pupils,
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
INDUSTM&{M5Z1 &{5Z1e
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CEMENT BLOCK MOLD.
How You Can Make It and Use lt
 Yourself.

The lumber necessary to make this mold should be of selected white pine or hardwood free from knots and sap. The base board, A, Fig. 1, should be 14 inches wide by 24 inches long, well
 battened together The sides are made as shown with eIeat on each end, which overlaps the end pieces and holds them in place. Both the ends
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year with the expectation of building just as you want to in three or four years time, because the three or four years slip away quickly, and you are in TO better position to build then than you are now.
 A little determination goes a long way in making start for a home. Of course, a. little money is necessary,
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
Not Lost in Arctic

in arctic exploration. Recently we referred to the probable loss of w. s. Bruce, who was prospecting for coal fields in eastern Spitzbergen. There was strong presumptiye evidence that he and his companions had been lost, but word now comes of their safety.
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allowed to fall slowly over a series of poles. where, by the natural process, it freezes in the form of gigantic icicles. These icicles are broken of as fast as they are frozen and carted away to storage quarters.
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down with laugh, added: "Oh. I was looking for the hairpin which marked the place you had reached. but of course you don't use hairpins"
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05

The North German Lloyd Steam ship company contradict the report that they intend build ing boat several knots faster than the 'Lusitania" Such a speed is impracticable in steamships; and moreover, the company has sufficient boats for present re luir ements.
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ever, that it deals with ballooning only, which is merely preliminary to the main problem. Perhaps we can. establish the real thing over here.
The Carlisle independent., 1907-12-05
MANUFACTURING IcIcLEs.
"Stick" Ice a Commodity Much in De,
 mand In Austria.

Stick" ice is commodity much in demand in upper Austria. Water is
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reinsurance. Back among the ferns Etheldreda
and the Artist could hear the child softly talking
to the little thing, like question and like an an
Sometimes I've idea" said Etheldreda abb
ruptly, that he things in the wood that the
rest of us don't see."
The Artist looked at her quickly
Il haven't a doubt of it," he said. why not?
You things in the woods that he doesn't see.
you know"
Yes Etheldreda assented.
"Jove," said the Artist, that's what I'll make
the picture"
At which Etheldreda silent. forgetting the
mere novelty Of the moment In its sudden signif-
do you see" he went on, but much as II he had
forgotten all about her, 81 shall call 1t The Mo-
ther.' I decided that when / the chtld-but
meant It all lie in the mothers face-vision,
secret wisdom, peacea1l that the child hasn't got.
But the child-now I will make the child see what
the mother suspects. lamp under the
fern-or say that they were both standing in
Fairy Ring
"Oh," said Etheldreda. "yes, yes"
She rose, and the brightness OF her hair and the
sun on her blue dress must have dazzed the Ar
list as they wont to dazzle Linnie. At all
events the Artist looked at her IL he were look
ing at her for the first time
You it?" he said
YES" she answered
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time" the Artist said
He had come softly along the soft path, quite
If the path were in the conspiracy. She looked up
at him-a long way it to look, too, but
did not mind that because rewarded.
Which means that the Artist very good to look
at-blond beard, blue eyes and big brown capable
hands, delicate enough hands, too, but looking If
they painted when there happened to be swords
or oars about for the handling.
Etheldreda said: I'm not tired, thank you,"
and it bit dangerous now, that her heart
beat If 1t knew how to beat little harder.
For he would know in a minute that she not
the model for whom he had inexplicably taken her.
You mustn't let tire you, you know he
told her; I'm no end glad to get you to pose for
memo end obliged to you. and to Mr.. Winchell
for telling about you. And If you get tired you
must let me know, please. I'm sure to forget"
His eyes were quite impersonal, and there was.
Etheldreda saw, doubt at all that he took her
for some unknown model whom some unknown Mr..
Winchel had him.
1t was then that the path, having done its mad
dest, relented and proved itself friend in con-
spracy. For from it's infinite resources 1t sud-
denly did the most natural thing in the world It
yielded up a rabbit.
Instantly the Artist knee holding
out finger. And Etheldreda turned to Linnie
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Bv
IONA GALE.

Moberly Mr. winchell sent me. Mother thinn
he meant yesterday. but think he meant to-day
For moment Moberly looked at her. Then:
Here" he said. lis something for your trouble
Come back next week please. You will do admir-
ably then To-day I've already engagement
But even before she had disappeared. Moberly
knew that he had engagement. All at once the
horrible truth was upon him. He stared helplessly
at the sketch he had begun yesterday. breaking
into slow smile that never finished and that
left him frowning into the Gothic butternut tree.
whom" said Moberly tensely. whom was
sketchng yesterday"
Nobody answered that And in a moment Mob
erly laughed little. man will laugh at a very
delicious memory that nothing can change. But
even as he laughed. Winchelrs white rabbit ran
ont from a tree-hoIe and he remembered how he
had last seen it. And when. an hour or more later
winchell arrived from his train and came whist
ling through the fern. Mobery still sat there Grim
inally idle in that light of spring. But he fell upon
wincher eagerly.
THAT model you promised TO send me- he said:
:. what her name7"
''vron," said winchell brightly. Sophie vron
Nice little thing. thought. for of your Dutch
notes"
NO. no. Moberly said. II mean the other Who
the other?"
winchell stared And Moberly nodded to his
sketch Barely suggested. but instinct with life
the very shadow of Etheldreda. the witnessing
work that he had done yesterday,
do you know who that is?" Moberly demanded
1T she who And l thought
Winchell looked, and then, like a brute. he
laughed.
Dear man." he said. that. certain will be
Miss Cecil. Yes Miss Ethedreda Cecil. This
is her lodge. these are her acres is her house
to which she has just come home i met her once.
In the Pincian Gardens One doesn't forget her,
you know. Did you actually"
But Moberly never heard the rest. And what
he said was. would have thought. about the
last thing that man. at such time. would say.
''Winchell,'' he begged. ''oh. Winchell. please
will you give me your little white rabbit"
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roofing about among the fern, and he saw and
came running tip-toe.
Hes winchell's rabbit the Artist explained,
land he's so tame I think he's sugar
Tame sugar." Linnie repeated, and went down
in the pocket of his round about and brought up
his eight or nine crumbs. Whatever they may have
been the rabbit understood them and nibbled CRATE
fully away.
Whereupon: ''Tum, Wabbit," said Linnie, and
scattering more crumbs, scrambled softly backward
on the ground, the rabbit jerkly following wrig-
Cling its little nose. They saw pink
jewel eyes sending startled glances toward them
and then away the gloom of the wood as if for
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like few minutes with you, IL you please
Etheldreda moved little away, hesitated, and
down log. 1t would have been easy-so
easy to slip into the wood and away. Easy,
and yet too difficult to do. Also it is difficult to
belle ones spirit for adventure.
Now he amt lookin'," squeaked Linnie help
fully. Tiles home"
'Linnie Little-Boy wants homer" Ethel
dreda therefore constrained to ask severely.
ooh, WELL" said Linnie loftily. 81 do mean now.
I mean after now"
"Ah. quite So" Etheldreda assented, and watched
him lovingly he pottered about at ferns.
I'm afraid I've kept you standing a frightful