The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-09

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Sweet tender things still young in deaths
despites
So, when the icy blasts across life's sea
Do beat about my door and shake the
Until the house must. sink upon the
Then on some magic wind of memory. +
Borne swiftly TO. my heart whisper
| And on my arm the pressure of your
Thomas S. Jones, Jr.. in the Boston
Transcript
Wrights Not Sentimental.
Giving advice to the brothers Wright
never take It. and to exhortation they
seem to be impervious They simply
VIII not look upon their invention
from the sporting or sentimental point
of view. Instead they insist on re-.
| garding themselves as manufactir-
ers with machines to SELL That their
machines are flying machines, and,
therefore, objects of intense interest
to innumera ole people who never ex-
pect to go further aloft than an eIe--
vator will take them interferes not a
| termination of the brothers to pro
tect' all of their legal rights, to re-
! duce competition in their trade as
| much as they can, and to get the last
| cent of reasonable profit from their
! device.
That this course is not nearly as
advantageous for the art of aviation
as it is for the Wrigkts as the most
eminent practitioners of that art trout
bles them not at all So far from
needing the laments from many quar-
tiers that they are limiting and min
iniZing the investigation and expert
ments by which the best and quickest
results would be secured in mechan-
ical flight, they suavely.. urge their
lawyers to renewed and implacahle
activities against anybody who in
fringes their patents. Indeed, Wilbur
Wright complains that the American
patent law is not stringent and rigid
enough, since it puts the burden of
proof on him instead of on his would
be rivals and makes him waste his
time in courts when he wants to use
it in increasing the output of his shop.
What he says about the patent law
is undoubtedly true; in not a few cases
it does subject the inventor to peril
and injustice. especially if he lacks the
money required for endless litigation
one cannot help wishing that the
Wrights were little more ready to
take in glory part of the reward
for their unquestionably great services
to the world. Nobody doubts that
they are well within their rights in de-
Tending their "basic'' patent on de-
fective wing tips. and perhaps it 4
would be rather absurd for them not
to do so. Still, when absurdity takes
the form of generosity. disinterested-
ness and magnanin1ity, it has its
charms-charms that are, sometimes
lacking from an implacable assertion
of the fact that business is business
New York Times.
Sport and Business.
So interviewer and dependent upon |
one another are the industries of the |
world that the development of any |
new form of activity. whether it is in |
upon many other industries. Thus, |
the bicycle, and now the automobile, |
sent explorers all over the tropical
world looking for new sources Of sup
velopnlent- OF. electrical machinery al
most caused a. revolution in the cop
per market. Even the spread of the |
golf habit made itself felt wherever
gutta- percha is produced.
The latest result of the interest in |
the navigation of the air is to create |
a demand for hydrogen gas produced |
on a commercial scale. This is par
taste is for dirigible balloons rather
than the aeroplanes. The gas most
used is the common illuminating gas
from the street mains; this is conven-
lent and cheap, and is half as heavy
as air. Pure hydrogen gas has seven
times as much lifting power, since
it is ii ~ times as light as air. But
hydrogen gas is expensive. 1t now
costs from $4.o5 to 81 per 1000 feet.
It has never been made on a large
scale, as there has been no demand for
II In quantity
Germany IS soon to have this state
of affairs rectified. for a company has
been formed to manufacture hydro
gen on a, large scale by new processes
that will reduce the price to 81 a thou
sand. The company will establish
plants throughout Central Europe, $50
that the gas will not need costly trans
portation in steel cylinders. At these
replenish his lifting power as the mo-
torist now gets gasoline at each stop
on his tour.-Boston Globe. II
Vaudeville and Baseball.
Listen. you fans who go to see Ma
Lional league games! Remember. last :
year, the punk attendance at most of ,
The parent league parks after it was
1ant cinched? The coming season that ],
league is to play 16S games, instead of i,
l54, as in the past. If it happens to
De runaway in 1910-and it looks
o make UP the crowds to see, say, =
he last % games at most of the league !
parks? I can't ever guess. Can =
you? Possibly, since most of thei
nagnates have gone into night shows =
It their grounds to help swell the ex-
little vaudeville thrown ~
night help little. For instance, a
ice game between. well, let's say '
St. Louis, and Boston for second .di- =
Tision honors (head or tail is imnna-E I
eriaD might not draw very we'll; :,
out put in De Wolf Hopper to do
casey at the Bat between innings Y
me and two, Mike Donlin and Mabel
lite in their sketch between innings D
i've and six, and Bozeman Bulger's
kit just before the fatal ninth. to
loId the bunch for the last raids of
he peanut men, and the attendance
night be pretty fair. This suggestion
5 not copyrighted.-E. A. Convey, in o
1eslie's. q
WOrkingman Hewlett. u
Workingman Hewlett Heretofore n
.nown less vociferously as Maurice r