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her troubles and some little thlng went wrong oi
she imagined wrong = .,,-.,,;.,or
Two things would make her smile, If anything
would on these dark days. and one OF them was
casual or favorable mention OF blacksmlth. one one
bIacl[s1niths. and was wont to glance aTchy at a
large colored insurance calender which though OUT
of date still hung her wall "nereon bra"1y ana
;ai b1acsr,7ith srnote on the anvil. Her husband,
i seemed, was blacksmith. and. though tor some
reason She had left him. she still retained proprietary
air and conscious smile about the trade Ill,
After awhile she stopped smiling about biacK-
-1;+be. for he died died all alone, and would not
have died they said if he had had nursing She got
goonier than ever went about mutteTng baI 5ag ing
td The Children f1ssing about trifles, she would
saw. Don't do that, Do YOU want to spoil your
Whole life the way did mine?" he children would
usually subsde into snivels and diminuenoo Sol
of auestrucB good nature IL - T. ,,ae
But there was one thing left to smile at, 1t was
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,t;r fortunes in the society column. Next to social
events, Murphy liked murders and disasters can
almost hear her chatting cheeruly about them now'
while Hilda bakes a cake and the ironing Is gong on
Wen lots o. murders lately | see by the paper
oh mvl Can't do nothin' but you get killed now
Wen / ain t got no objection to dyin but don
believe in dyin till you IRE called Suicides every
cause she didn't fry the sapjacks right-ust up an
killed herl / wonder if he'd want to Kill me Ter
rine?" (Smilng, because she knows better. ief
slaDiacks are very good) ,
dWen in my day you wouldn't see anythin Ike
that They wouldn't allow them in my day! on.
e1re | like to read the papers of an evenin. like
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By Clara Cahill
Drawings by Roliin Kirby

hearts, i'll Judged generosity, and
sudden flaring RACES. they seem
always to be laying out a course of
trouble for themselves, from which
they graduate old before their time.
Mrs. Murphy was fifty-odd,
broken hearted, cross, and talked an
inordinate amount to herself. We
liked her because she needed attec-
ton, because she had a bright smile,
liked children, and was good cook.
After she got used to US she would
go fitting about the kitchen, very
neat and careful, very proud OF her
cooking successes, and glad to teach
little Hilda what she knew. She
never went out. or only once a
month. and often she was not even
cross for weeks together. Then she
would go off like a whole bunch OF
firecrackers, if the slightest spark
was applied. or even with a sort OF
spontaneous combustion. That was
when she had been thinking about
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D. ,ne heard it rumored that 1t was te DO, &
the bHyr he had left the blacksmith lie dld hoI
DO much s s. eo5ST aSS Rsf oeSy sa DF5 Fd oo"S @
wees eHIe untber had quarreled for him, ana All
chap so ms were now Of time when he could could eapI and
ss5 ;&s sss5sf a%f sG9 eeif s 1%s s$ $ @
keep house ;i;,rs Of bringing up boy and about
the responiiiiir ,iore out their stockings Only YOU
aS% %oad 11 kind ind sa 9 dsf5a e if asd sd'sRS %
s4qsd With 6, .aaset aas Of r1s sn"S ms nSL 6o$ &
10 bg5 b @ every night she seemed TO 90 6eaTd Gqe Rer
the Valley Of the SHADOW ana tbeTr in the dark like
whispering and mutteH"R II
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Murphy Becomes Interested

THE home paper was discursive sheet. 1t told all
about everything. 1t had "bOilerplate' and
canned news put up under attractive labels, quite
as good fresh. Murphy preferred her news canned
like her salmon. She was more used to 1t that way
Fresh salmon and news she viewed suspiciously Be
sides, the paper she used to live in that kind OF
town and the doings there seemed typical; at least
they revived her interest life She got in the habit
of taking the paper up to her room at night From
that moment the rusting whispers ceased. A gentle
light cleaned from under Murphys door The only
noise was the rustlng of papers, in the heap that
gradually grew in Murphy's room. If you opened
the door gentle amable old lady looked up at you
and smiled in place of the bear-eyed witch mother
that used to in there muttering her charms and
evil fanCies. -,
Is the paper interesting tonight Mrs. Murphy p
| would ask.
oh. yes" she would reply, smiling her radiant
wntrv smile. Lots O things gOin on. l see the
Brownses been givin' Halloween party. Are YOU
acquainted with them!
If she found anything about my own people that
had missed the subdued pride of Murphy was beau
tu TO see She would carefully bring all such mat
ters to my notice if any escaped But most of these
people Murphy never heard Of except as she followed
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HE WER OF THE pRES S

leaves r11stng in the wind outside, used to fear
that poor old Murphy would really go off her head
some day, and that we Coudnt hold her back.
the dark and simply talk and mutter herself to sleep.
Then she would rouse herself from her chair, get
dressed and into bed and next morning would tell US
that she hadn't slept wink all night. Perhaps she
did sleep little; but think that poor old Murphy S
sleeping largely kind Of halfwaking continual
ton of her monOlogue and did not rest her much.
You couldn't get Murphy to read at night, or sew,
or do as other people do She had pair of rusty old
glasses and after she had confided to that her
mother had bought them of peddler about twenty
wears ago | thought of new for Christmas.
Sometimes | behave almost if | had reasoning
powers. This must have been one of the times.
Murphy cheered up perceptibly. Still she would
not read, nights: but she indulged in a light and
nended all her clothes.
The newspaper was not my idea. 1t happened it
self. Some one began sending the paper from home
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L0lA9 R7ZZLzD

Up to a few months ago the European
cables daily conveyed word of some dar-
Ing feat accomplished on the other side
of the water by one of the many
aviators there contrasting. Nearly all of
these had to do with the more spectacular
side of the sport such as soaring aloft
or circling the aviation fields SO many
times at this and that altitude. There
was little or nothing of the practical
side of the sport shown. but each event
chronicled and paved the way for the
slower, surer and more practical Yankee
on this side of the water. While their
foreign cousins were encircling fields amid
the plaudits of the crowned heads and
their worshipers, handful of aviators
and their mechanicians were hard at work
over here perfecting their machines for
the more rigid tests that were soon to
follow.
When word came, however that Louis
Bleriot had flown across the English
Channel, then the Yankees awoke with
start They realized that unless they
made their start they would soon be out
stripped. Many of the more successful
demonstrators got together at Hampstead
Plains, on Long Island and after dupli-
eating all the feats their foreign rivals
had accomplished, they set out for
straight-away flights. But before they
had accomplished any flight worthy of
mention the cables again announced an
other achievement that gave them
shock. Charles Stewart Rolls not only
flew across the English Channel, but,
after encircling Sangatte Cliffs on the
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sport and now the fever has reached
such broad proportions that the school
children throughout this broad land of
ours are all trying their hand at perfect
ing models that fly.
The public school children of New York
city have turned out some really merito-
rous models and many of these have
been patented. They will shortly be con-
verted into practical flying machines and
it Is no wild dream when 1t Is predicted
that airships will be almost as numer-
Gus In the next decade as automobiles
are today.
In tracing the various flights of the
ayiators of the world in the past year
or SO it might be well to begin with
Bleriot and his English Channel fight.
This up to that time-July %, 1909
was by all odds the most spectacular.
This feat was duplicated by Jacques de
Lesseps. a grandson of Count Ferdinand
de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal.
De Lesseps, however, came to grief and
several times he fell into the channel
and but for the timely assistance OF
to boast of his performance.
Bleriot crossed the channel. distance
of twenty-one miles. in little less than
half an hour His average speed was
forty-fve miles an hour, but at times he
flew at the rate of sixty miles an hour.
He remained at an average altitude of
$50 feet and for ten minutes he was out
of sight of either the English or French
coast. The chief difficulty the aviator
had to overcome, he said afterwards,
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outskirts of Calais, he made the return
trip without a stop and alighted at Do
YER his starting point.
This startling bit of intelligence came
so close upon the heels of the wonderful
flight that Louis Paulhan made from
London to Manchester, a distance of 1875
miles, and earning thereby the $4,000
prize offered by the London Mail, that it
threw the Americans into state border
ing on panic. But only a few days
elapsed before Glenn Curtiss arose and
stretching his wings floated down from
Albany Hamilton. emboldened by Cur
tiss' success, made the Philadelphia
fight and every day since then aviation
history has been made.
The years 1909 and 1910 will 20 down
in history as those in which the man.
birds made their first real and practical
start in accomplishing that which baffled
their forefathers for generations. His
tory tells us that dreamers as far back
us the sixteenth century had spent their
fortunes and wits in trying to overcome
the forces of the air. But only In the
last year or two has any real progress
been made in this invigorating sport. The
heads of the armies of the world were
quick to realize what an important part
airships could play in modern warfare
aud the many tests held were IN reality
prompted by the sons of Mars. The
tests held at Fort Meyer, Va, and later
at College Park, Md, which is now head
quarters for the United States Armys
aeronautic department, went far toward
stimulating and inspiring interest in the
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is another to take up the sport and he
has made several successful trips aloft.
He, too, will join in some of the many
races In the air in the near future.
Kermit Roosevelt, the former Presidents
son, recently took a trip aloft, and he,
too. is an enthusiast.
Chief interest now centers In the en-
durance race between airships planned by
Gage e. Tarbell, near Garden City, L. |.
The race Is 10 start ut sunrise and ter
inmate at sunset, and only heavier than
air machines will be permitted to enter
The contestants are to eneirele the new
two-and- a-half mile course just laid out
and 1t Is planned to have n dozen ma
chimes aloft at the same time.
Those who have signifed their inten-
ton of entering the endurance flights arc
Captain Rolls and Count Jacques de
Lesseps. Both are now In Montreal, hay-
Ing crossed the ocean to compete in
flights on this side of the Atlantic; Ham
ilton, NJ. J. Seymour and Capt. Thomas
s. Baldwin, Clifford B. Harmon, Harry
S. Hardness and Glenn Curtis will also
be among the flyers at this meet.
The committee In charge of the affair
has announced that there are II entrants
to date. Cash prizes will be awarded
the professionals and cups for the anna
teurs, with one Grand Challenge Cup
The plans of the committee are all but
complete.
The parallel fences, about 10 feet apart,
will be constructed. They are to run
north and south, with a grandstand at
the middle of the west side of the field.
Parking spaces will be built for motor
cars. The contest will be conducted
along the lines of the 24-hour automobile
races Judges will be stationed all
around the course to see that none of
the contestants 'cut corners" and the
winner will be the man who makes the
greatest number of laps, regardless of
the number of times he may alight with
in the Enclosure to replenish his gasoline
supply or for repairs or rest.
The man bird Is here and already he
has proved that he can come and go as
he pleases. The intrieacies of the planes
have been overcome and the only problem
that confronts them is that of perfecting
their engines. 1t will be recalled that
only within the past three or four years
have automobile and motor-boat engines
reached that degree of perfection where
by their pilots are reasonably certain OF
reaching their destination after starting.
The same experts who perfected the au-
tomobile engines declare that the motive
power for aeroplanes will be just as per.
feet, and that soon.
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mate, the gunner of the torpedo boat.
King George was no air-weather sailor.
He understood his bit of a heaving, sea-
shipping craft with her dangerous tor
pedo tubes as well as any of them.
Moreover, In his quiet, bull-dogged way,
England's future ruler has showed cour-
age at times when the best of sailors
felt that dangers thronged thick and fast
about them.
1t was In 1889 that young Prince
George after breaking one hawser In
trying to tow a disabled companion tor
pedo boat into harbor during II terrific
gale, managed to get ashore for a new
tow rope and finally pulled the other
ship into q place of safety and saved
dozen lives.
The thing happened off Tough swiftly,
where three torpedo craft were defend
ing the marine mines during maneuvers,
and was considered by the British Ad-
miralty as splendid piece of seaman
ship. But Prince George was not the
sort of sailor who liked notoriety and
none of the newspapers got line of the
story.
1t was not until three months later
that Queen Victoria heard Of her grand
sons heroism. The Queen was called on
in the regular course of her royal func-
lions to decorate British seamen Officers
and men alike) for heroism at sea. No
one was more surprised than she when
she found herself confronted by her sec
ond grandson, who, by orders of the ad
miralty, was to be publicly thanked by
the sovereign. The Queen was SO de-
lighted that she not only thanked her
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Has Difficult Position.
An Accidental Product?

ty Of science on the subject of brain dis
ease has assuredly made wonderful strides
within hundred years.
Science now claims that before another
century has passed by trained specialists,
employed by every government. will scru-
tinize all persons accused of crime, all
inmates of public institutions, Of orphan
asylums and reformatories. They will be
able to detect the individual belonging to
the dreaded criminal class, who will be
either kept under state supervision in
institutions, or, II not bad cases, they will
be labeled as suspects, kept under expert
supervision and deprived Of nearly all
their evil influences against the great
mass of their honestly inclined fellow
citizens.
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was in landing. The start he said was
magnificent, but once he got going he
couldn't stop. He was followed by
torpedo-boat destroyer, one of the swift
est In the French Navy, but he was COM
PEELED to describe a circle in mid chan
mel to permit of the boat keeping up
with him.
Captain Rolls flight was no less spec
tacular. He far eclipsed the record set
by Bleriot inasmuch as he made the
round trip and at terrific speed ut times.
The total distance covered was fifty
miles. The flight to the French shores
was made In forty-flve minutes. while the
total time for the round trip was one
hour and thirty-iye minutes. He, too,
had difficulty in making his landing at
the end of the fight. Rolls used
Wright biplane, while Bleriot used a ma
chine designed by himself.
Beyond question Hamilton stands bold
ly forth as the most daring aviator who
ever operated a flying machine In this
or any other country. The capers he cut
high above the earth completely thrilled
the crowds that daily witnessed his ma
neuvers at Hampstead Plains, and even
later at Nashville, Tenn. Nothing seems
to daunt him and he doesn't know the
meaning of the word fear. He differs
In this respect from Curtss, who plans
every move with the utmost care. His
execution Is all mapped out before he
leaves the earth, while Hamilton does
whatever fancy dictates while aloft
Several weeks ago. while giving an ex-
hibition on Long Island, Hamilton scared
to an altitude of several hundred feet
and circled the aviation park. Then,
without a seconds warning, he shut off
his engine and made a straight dive to
earth. When within Il few feet of the
ground he twisted his planes and his
machine skinned along the field like a
swallow. Then 1t rose again until he
had reached his original altitude. Then
he came gently down and alighted with
perfect case and precision. 1t is such
tricks as these that have earned for him
the title of Dare Devil, for that most
certainly he is.
The aeroplane has taken such firm
hold on the people of this country that
many wealthy men and women are going
in for the sport in earnest. Miss Eliza
beth L. Todd has entered the lists as
competitor in several long distance fights
and she has her mechanicians at work
In her aerodrome at Hampstead Plains on
three machines she designed. She has
made several flights and has learned to
manipulate her planes and ner engines
in mastery style. Anthony c. Drexel,
Jr., son of the multimillionaire banker,
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- p0CH-MAKING air flights are be-
ing made with such Kaleidoscope
rapidity these days that 1t is al
<most impossible TO keep track and
chronicle them in the order in
which they occur. The man-blrd has be-
come such a popular idol in the affections
of the public that 1t is safe 10 say that
America Is aeroplane mad. True we were
a long time awakening TO the possibili-
ties of the air craft and their pilots, ana
other countries. especially France, got
long start on us. But now that we are
awake, the daily newspapers throughout
the country have arisen to the occasion,
and by promoting these intercity tights
they have not only doomed their own cir
culation, but they have inculcated taste
among its readers for this, the most ex-
hiarating of all sports.
Until recently horseracing was re-
ferred to as the sport of kings Any
one we'll versed In the events of tho
past year will agree that the airship and
its pilot have supplanted the thorough
bred and his diminutiye, weasened-up
and half-starved little Jockey in the af-
beyond question. is now the sport of
sports Thousands upon thousands of
people, and from all walks of life, daily
gather at every vantage point where 1t
might be possible TO get glimpse of
these daring aviators skimming through
the ether while millions follow their
every move through the columns of those
newspapers which chronicle these flights
to the minutest detail. The newspapers
that ~'overplay" aviation stories, in the
estimation of the more conservative edi-
tor, are the ones that are In reality
reaping the reward. for they find their
daily sales increasing by leaps and
bounds. This is but another instance of
the advance of progress in the fields of
sport and science and demonstrates how
some of us, like the early bird, skinned
along to grasp the worm which in this
instance means money, and wads of 1t.
While new records were established
In foreign countries only to be shattered
the next day or week, two Americans
Glenn H. Curtiss and Charles X. Hamil-
ton-have been setting a high mark for
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tcntion schools aid reformatories far ex-
ceeds the more spectacular burdens I'M
posed by supporting armies and navles
against foreign enemies.
Thus the hope Of reducing the numbers
or at least the capacity for harm on the
part Of criminals is one that touches the
pocketbook OF every honest citizen. Sci
ence holds out a strong hope that the
criminal may in future generations be
stapped out of society.
. This hope is based on the assertion OF
scientists that the criminal is distinct
species II the human race, that he is
type thatran be identified In many ways
already knswn to expert investigators
Thus with NE ability to identify the
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have confessed that his unexpected as
cension Of the throne was unfortunate.
Yet this may we'll be doubted. He is no
diplomat like his predecessor, but diplom-
acy has its limits, and one of them is
the time of battle. After the war Is
opened the diplomats take front seats
and watch the spectacle
War Is on among the political cohorts
of the British Parliament-bitter war,
DISCRIMINATING war-and 1t may well be
doubted but that King George, undiplo-
matte but straightforward as a rifle shot,
will do quite as well under the circum-
stances as his more polite father. There
are plenty Of politicians in England, and
no man Is better fitted to wear the
crown and do justice between raging
party factions than this sailor king.
OF course, the ordinary facts of the
new Kings life are on printed records
everywhere, and 1t is those more inti-
mate little things, not widely known, that
after all can give some worthy ideal Of
the new and powerful personality that
has entered on SO great a part In inter-
national affairs
King George " was born June 8, 1865.
and takes command at the very prime Of
life. he married Princess Victoria
Mary, who has taken the title OF Queen
Mary and whom all England has named
Queen May, in 1903. She was daugh-
ter to the Duchess of Teck and grand
daughter of the old Duke of Cambridge,
who was Queen Victoria's uncle.
The new King takes from King Albert
of Belgium the title of the most. travelled
of crowned heads. In fact, 1t Is doubt
full If any king ever covered as much
territory as George v. South Africa,
India and Canada are some of the widely
diverged places to which he has taken
lengthy trips But for the sudden death
OF King Edward King George would have
opened the new Parliament of the con-
federated British dominions In South
Africa.
King George will probably reside most
of the time at Windsor Castle following
the habit of his grandmother, Queen Vic
toria. Sandringham Palace was King
Edwards fnvorite home but undoubtedly
this will remain the residence of Queen
Alexandra, now the Queen Mother.
Buckingham Palace, one of the show
sights Of the greatest city of the world,
is the other residence wherein most OF
the important events of King Georges
reign may be expected to occur
Like Theodore Roosevelt King George
.admires large families. and has one him.
self There have been six children born
to the royal couple, five sons and one
daughter, and all are splendidly healthy
specimens of English childhood.
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criminals future civilization should be able
to isolate the habitual, natural criminals,
prevent the propagation of the species
and curtail or entirely destroy the evil
tendencies of the criminal.
Three scientists In Europe have reported
to their respective governments the results
from the study of vast numbers of habit
ual criminals. They are Lombroso, of
Italy; Border, of England. and Billiard, of
France. Each has reached surprisingly
similar conclusions.
1t is claimed that the criminal class is
made up from three types, namely, the
hereditary, the insane and the profession
al criminal. The students Of crime point
out that frequently one criminal passes