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bath tub of crystal water. sheltered only
ny the azure canopy ~ tae empyrean
the third citZer 81 the nation can con
tinue. now unobserved, the aquatic pleas
ures enjoyed at Cape May.
The two new members of the Presi-
dents council board have gone to oppo-
site extremes in planning their official
vacations, the holder of the war portfolio
MIR Stimson-being already in tropiC
chimes, learning something about the big
Panama ditch, whose fertilization and
digging he must supervise. and Mr.. Bal
fingers successor. Mr.. Fisher, the Sec
rotary of the Interior-and also the ex-
terior-being scheduled to depart for
Alaska to probe for himself the vexed
Controller bay affair. The war secre-
tarys itinerary has included also a look
into the big cofferdam, wherein the skel-
eton Of the Maine is being laid bare, and
an inspection of our well behaved Porto
Rican brothers. whose welfare comes I'M
der the general supervision of the secre-
tary of War. That wealthy eX-ranch-
man, farmer, soldier and society man,
Gov. Cotton, has been the host of his
chief in San Juan.
But Secretary Stimson's rest period will
be spent during August at his country
home and farm at Cold Spring Harbor
on the north shore of Long Island.
great gunner is Ttimson, and later IN
the season he and his congenial wife will
start upon one of their accustomed camp
ing jaunts, during which he will hunt big
game. In recent years he has spent many
weeks stalking moose in Canada and
hunting old Bruin out in Montana. And
when the season is open he will be found
riding Gckety-split over the familiar Long
Island hill slopes in pursuit of willy Br er
Fox.
Only little peninsula separates the
Stmson summer estate from Oyster Bay
the stronghold of me eX-PreSident.
Alaska sounds better, just now, than
any other spot listed upon the itineraries
of officialdom. and after returning from
that paradise of frosty glaciers Secre-
tary Fisher will go back to his comfort
able Chicago mansion and to the Onwent-
STA golf links, where he has a record con-
siderably under ninety. He is an enthu-
siast over base ball and foot ball, as well
as golf.
A private bathing beach adorned with
picturesque bathhouse and boathouse will
be the boast of Mr.. Nage, the Secretary
of Commerce and Labor-who pronounces
his German name "Noggle." From their
home in ST. Louis the wealthy Nagels
secured New England some eight sea-
sons ago. in search fof a summer home
stead site, and seized upon an ideal spot
near Marion. Mass. Here they bought a
roomy colonial house which has the viz
gin forest for setting and whose park
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average people appreciate what the seem
ing emptiness of space is. They cannot
believe that it is really filled with an
invisible medium squirming everywhere
in vortex motion more fine grained than
any waves of light or atomic structure.
completely frictionless Yet powerful
enough to swing the spheres of the uni
verse.
The force by which it holds the moon
in its orbit would tear asunder a steel
rod 400 miles thick and possessing a to-
nacity Of forty tons to the square inch.
If the moon and earth We're connected
by steel instead Of by the forces of this
apparent emptiness. forest of five mil
lion millions of Weightless steel pillars
each a square foot in croSs-seCtion would
be necessary to whirl the system.
To swing the earth around the sun 1t
exerts force that would tear asunder
a million millions of round steel pillars
each thirty feet in diameter. Yet this Is
nothing to the case of double stars. In
one observed by Prof. Pickering, the pull
Of two equal orbs on each other is 20, :
100000 times greater than the pull of the
sun on the earth.
Evidently, it can bear the weight"
not only of radioplane. but Of veritable
freight trains lowed behind them, from
the earth to Mars and back again.
On Mars. men get accustomed to the
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shore until subdued again by the
autumnal wanderlust you already know.
Said realms second citizen HES himself
hence TO Utica, where. upon the slopes
overlooking the shimmering Mohawk. he
Will play at husbandry until. perchance,
the notion takes him. as often before to
enjoy the zephyrs of the nearby Adron-
dacks, or TO angle in the ST. Lawrence.
Peeping over the hedgerows of the Sher-
man homestead you may get a glimpse
of His Fifthwheelshp making great pre-
tense at bucolic usefulness, hlue-handed
in the act of plucking grapes from his
own vine.
Inasmuch as the Vice President was
born within a half dozen blocks Of his
picturesque manor. there is no dearth of
neighbors upon the Sherman lawn these
summer evenings.
But all Of sunny Jims" hot weather
pleasures are not enjoyed within the
home pale. AS a golfer he would like
you TO know he has a record that might
sometimes excite even a Taftian envy
were there such an emotion In the patho-
psychological catalogue. But of his golf
prowesS he drre never boast when son
Tom Is VI 5"@. for that broth Of
a boy has won collection of
cups here GLAND. and has been
already co'5 nUe of the eight best
American plas 5 of the ancient Scottish
game. Being understudy to the head OF
the golf cabinet it is fitting enough that
Sherman the elder should make a
more than passable showing on the links,
but when he wishes to drown the echoes
or parliamentary parties and thrusts he
does not. for sport, confine his activities
to the pursuit of the little warty sphere.
AS an admiring biographer puts il. "he
is base ball fan of the sd degree and
likes TO get into the roofing when the
game grows exciting" Motoring, TOO, is
a diversion which makes him forget the
grind of the fifth wheel
The premier of the cabinet, Mr.. Knox
will do his frollicking, through August
and part of September, at Cape May the
oldest resort on the Jersey coast which
President Harrison preferred for his sum-
mer playground. But while summer is
blending into autumn and while the head
OF the nation is making his swing around
the circle. the Secretary of State will re-
turn to his own Eden at Valley Forge
where he has his private golf links and
billiard room. But great is his delight
in hitting the balls of ivory and gutta
percha. more exquisite still is his plea
sure in helping to break the blooded hunt
ers and trotters which he breeds at VAL
lev Forge
Horses are his chief hobby, and it was
his boast few years back that he
owned the worlds fastest double trotting
team And when his pets ridden by
gentleman jockeys. with red ribbons at the
neghboring hunt club meets he is the
happiest man In the keystone state.
A private swimming pool upon his
estate at Valley Forge is also the boast
of Secretary Knox. and in this great
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eSplanade trembleS Down below they
live and work and tend their formidable
machines. The eight feet of the pylone
descending, traverse a vast subterranean
hall and finally rest on eight cyclopean
pedestals of mixed cement metal and
crystal.
of crystal turn in a dazzling play of
luminous refractions. Levers rise and
fall Cylinders groan with an interior
tumult- Propellers fixed from the cell
ing whistle through the air doing nm
known work And every now and then
ii cracking spark seven feet long bursts
from inexplicabe apparatus apparently
resembling the condensers Of Oepinus.
In the center Of this underground hall
there Is a group of eight twin machines
from which extend the enormous cables
mounting the legs of the pylone: and,
watching them. stand always eight men,
their eyes fixed on voltameters of I'M
imaginable dimensions. Doors, walls,
floors and ceilings are coated with kind
of enamel.
And up above, from the antennae of
the pylone's summit-like an immense
umbrella frame-fash ever the incred-
ible oxus-rays, out, out, perhaps in
finitely, into space.
At distance of. say. s4162O 900 miles
from the terrestrial station OF the Kongo
in interplanetary space and the attraction
OF Mars, four men sleep In moving
radioplane. The three others tend it.
They have quilted earth seven days, four
hours and four minutes. With his eyes
on the twenty-four- hour chronometer, the
calculator allows fifty-three more min
utes to pass, then wakes the others.
Chief ne says, ''in three hours We
shall arrive
Now the radioplane is scarcely 100000
miles from the Isle Argyre-Martian sta
ton of which the dying Italian heard
much, but lived to tell little. At 1850
miles distant. they begin progressively
slowing speed. Given it's record, the dis
lance from Mars, and the laws of rota
tlon and gravity. it is possible for them
to calculate within eight miles of the
point Of landing At am, thirty minutes
and thirty-five and one half seconds by
the time on earth. the crystal machine
gently touches the surface OF level
plain. glides on its runners, and stops.
It Is daybreak on Mars Golden fires
light the orient of an unknown world.
The sky Is pure pale blue. without a
cloud. Below, and melting into 1t. a sill
ver-blue sea bordered by reddish land
surrounds a great circular island. 1t is
Argyre-name which will one day echo
through the world.
new life begins for the adventures,
powerful and dominating, In prodigious
world which they count on conQuerlng
entirely across the depths OF space what
new metals, chemical substances, plants
and living creatures they have round is
still a sealed book.
Is it thinkable?
The dying Italian repeated certain ex-
plantations which he had overheard at
the kongo station.
He spoke Of the impossibiiity of making
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APPH1RE sea and
sunlit shore, forest
+ a s ne SIS a n d
mountain slope
now lure official
dom 10 its play
time long de-
layed.
How the first
citizen of the
realm Will gambol
and frolic up and
down B e V ri V
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LOW and Where Public
i l Men viii Drive Dull
Care Away Till Autumn Sets
In-Sone Will Go to Sea in
Palatial Yachts, Some Will
Enjoy the Salt Breezes
From Comfortable Retreats
on Shore and Others Will
Angle or Shoot, While Some
Prefer to Invent Flying Ma
chimes or Collect Butterflies
Sporting Sides of Our Pub
lie Men-Their Favorite Play
and Fairgrounds.
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ably induce universal brotherhood that
may last a long time! All this. mind
you, according to the rumor
Meanwhile, it is dangerous to inter
fere with them.
A Belgian adventuring from Brazza-
VILE IN an aeroplane tells an extraordi-
nary adventure.
Intoxicated with his speed and the scar
let sunrise streaked with gold, he let the
aeroplane go straight ahead at mile a
minute. Soon beneath him stretched
ocean of greenery, the kongo forest. I'M
explored by men. domain OF the elephant
and hippopotamus, where lion and leopard
stink down to drink water at the river.
1t is the great forest OF the world, full OF
mystery and fear, where 1t is almost i'm
possible to cut paths. In vague clearings
he imagined native villages of Stanley's
ferocious dwarfs, bloody cannibals, whose
customs and numbers are unknown.
The Belgian in his aeroplane began to
get frightened. He turned back. Sudden
ly, In the distance and about 400 yards
above his level, he beheld fantastic
giant bird with two great white wings
of long rectangular form and a very
wide tail, terminating in a triangle, be-
hind a dazzling metal screw that whirled
with uncomfortable velocity.
The fantastic aerOplane approached
rapidly, passed over him, describing great
circles without descending. and dashed off
to the north at terrific speed. But before
it disappeared. the Belgian saw flash;
and an aerial torpedo missed him by
few yards. exploding beyond In an i'm
mense globe of intense white flame.
The unknown engine OF destruction was
evidently intended for himself. Anything
within 100 yards Of it would have been
simply carbonized
Our best information Of these prodigies
comes by way Of q sick and starving
Italian who arrived at Brazzaville and
died shortly after.
1t this italian who drew, on his
deathbe1 a rough plan. To save time.
leaf was torn from the cover of an
American magazine, where the earth was
represented as bathed In the rays OF a
sun, drawn out OF all proportion. In the
upper right-hand corner Of the page. Trac-
ing his design over 1t with ink. he produced
a rude idea OF radiOplane In space. on
its way to Mars, in the track of rays
proceeding from the kongo pylone.
4
He affirmed that he had passed a month
at the Kongo station, where he had been
condemned to death for a neglect of
duty which nearly caused a catastrophe.
and managed to escape through the fever
stricken forest, without food, not daring
to sleep, continually imagining himself
pursued.
Subordinate engineer picked up In the
Turin municipal electric light plant for
his intelligence and push, he understood
part OF the strange machinery that he
had tended-and remained in the pro-
foundest ignorance and admiration OF the
remainder.
Thus, he tells, the radio-motor sta
ton of the Kongo is sort OF empty
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is skirted by one of the salt inlets of
Buzzards bay, the angling paradise of
Grover Cleveland.
From his boathouse the wealthy Secre-
tary goes out almost daily through the
summer to fish in the inlet with his
son Charlie, lad of sixteen. There is
also tennis court upon the well kept
Nagle lawn, and the Secretary enjoys
many horseback rides and rambles in
the woods behind his mansion.
Upon the north shore OF the old Bay
state Secretary of the Navy Meyer will
be neighbor of the President. His sum-
mer home, at Hamilton, stands five miles
back from the sea, and from here he will
motor to the summer capital at Mont
serrat, the diplomatic colony at Man
chester the exclusive Essex Club and
the fashionable beach events at Mag
nolia. At Hamilton the Secretarys daugh-
tiers entertained Miss Helen Taft earlier
in the summer.
In the New Hampshire hills. just over
the Massachusetts frontier, the keeper
of the nations purse strings will spend
his summer at his magnificent estate,
"Knollwood." near Dublin-for Secretary
MacVeagh Is another opulent middle
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y astounding rumor
is current in Paris.
If true. il is a
prodigy more terri
BILE and beautiful
than any of those
enormities which,
from time TO time,
II ave confounded
human reason and
upset the world
the invasion of the
barbarians, the in
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II would seem incredible on its f1ce
but for the exactness Of the details, the
interest they excite in high circles, and
the significant fact that the astronomer
Fiammarion has permitted his name TO be
currently mentioned in connection with
4.
Men have attained the planet Mars.
They 20 back and forth.
The Paris daily that has given the most
1etaiis continues to publish them in the
form Of fiction. Is this 20 save its face.
should they prove inexact? Or Is It not
rather a laudabe device TO prepare the
public mind for events so wonderful that
he entire future of humanity will be af-
feoted7
Should II be positively known that there
s radio-Inotor station in Central Africa.
20 degrees east or west on the equator,
he starting point 10 Mars would be over
whelmed by the adventurous and curious
II all the countries.
Men have been going back and forth
20 Mars for three years past. accordi n
10 the rurnors. At the awful speed oi
$4,000 miles per hour their crystal-in-
cased radioplanes dash through space
ike bolide. Inside four men sleep.
while one keeps the steering needle and
another watches the spark. During seven
days, seven hours and seven minutes
they take turns, resting. Transforming
he breathing atmosphere, watching the
instruments for variations in speed, etc.
nourishing themselves and keeping the
straight course of the crystal bolide
through the depths by means OF "a sun
compass.
&
On dial trembles the hand OF a radio
automatic register. Back on earth.
through 1900, 900 miles of seeming empti-
ness, another register indicates the same
maximum of oxus rays continually fash
.ng from vast machines that whirl ever
Should the waves fail the travellers would
fall" up, down or across to the earth
with awful rapidity. Or il within the
sphere OF attraction of Mars, some 400
S0 miles further on, the pull or push
would be in that direction. Fall, push OF
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sentions of gunpowder and printing, the
ifscovery of America, wireless telegraphy
aeHopIanes and hundred known mavelS
" science.
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Men Go Planet Mars and Return Extraordinary Rumor Paris

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS
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PARIS, July "a, 1911
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ably induce universal brotherhood that
may last a long time! All this. mind
you, according to the rumor.
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Little Rock; A. G. Kress, Little Rock ], F. E. Madding, Little Rock,
 AT THE iARLINGTON-S. w. Will son, Fort Smith; R. w. Carter, St. Louis; Ben S. Lenis, Jackson, Miss; WI G. Shorle lola, Kansas; c. Rex ing, Cincinnati; A. B. Boismenus, St. Louis; G. c. Carloss, St. Louis; R. B. Leights, Chicago; J. E Henderson Chicago; H. l. Seligman, Bonita, La.; w. L. Hill, Memphis; D. R. Packard. Warren; Bi Memmice Memphis; J. w. Canes, Camden; A. c. Hatcher, Mem- phis; c. w. Brow Jr., Campbell, Mo-; E. $. Jones, Little Rock; B. M. Hal lin Houston; F l.. Eggleston. Oma- ha; G. w. Wetherington, Texarkana: Victor Boggs, Kearney; J. B. Worth ington, Waginaw City, Ark; w. P. Anderson, Waginaw City; s. W. Will
 kerso1 Aline, Ark; c. 'E. Wilson Little Rock; w. H. Wychoff, Oklaho- ma City; w. B Whetstone, Hamburg w. P. Brown, Memphis; Miss May Smith, Portland, Ark; Mrs. s. c. Lewis, Portland; F. M. Peters, Little Rock.
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ida, where they have spent the win ter
 Mir. and Mrs Garrett lIowseu re- turned yesterday from MDndcello where they visited relatives for sev- eral days.
 Nrs. Phil Prousnitzer, of Nash vile, Tenn, after visit here with Mrs. NJ. Weller and other relatives S, will return to her home today
 M M. Kelly has resigned his posi- tion as machinist at the Cotton Belt shops, and has gone to Denver, Col. where he will take similar job.
 MT and Mrs. T. II. Pritchard left yesterday for Ict Springs, where they will spend few weeks for the benefit of Mr. Pritchard's health
 Mrs. B. H. Sandeford left yesterday afternoon for Memphis, where she will spend some time. MT San deford, who departed with her, went to St. Louis.
 Ed Jones, of Little Rock, was in the city yesterday. MT. Jones was formerly constable in Little Rock, and is now special agent for the Iron Mountain railroad.
 Miss Minnie Skaggs, the pretty and accomplished young lady who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. T. H. Pritchard for several weeks, will leave Sunday for her home at Horse Cave, Ky.
 Paul p Schram, vice chairman of the Arkansas State Legislative Board for the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, has returned from Little Rock to meet with the general griev- ance committee at Texarkana.
 Virginius Alexander, son of Sam c. Alexander left yesterday for Law renceville, N. J., where, he vii! re- vile Preparatory School. Young Alexander has been spending a short while in the city with his father on account of scarlet fever epidemic in the school.
 R. l.. Unsell and bride, formerly Miss S. M Puff, of Little Rock, are in the city visiting Mir. Unsells par ents, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Unsell for few days They were recently married in Little Rock and the we'd ding was an agreeable surprise to their many friends.
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BRIEF MENTION

J. B. Simon went 10 Little Rock yesterday afternoon
 Mrs P. M. Bridges has returned from a visit to friends at Memphis.
 Mrs. John Roma has gone to Jones' boro, to visit relatives for few deys.
 T. Havis Nixon, district att ,rrey of this district, has returned from a business trip to Little Rock.
 Mrs. J. C. Reno left yeste td,;y af- ternoon for Dallas, Texas, where she will be the guest of relatives.
 Fred E. Madding,,,. the well knewn travelling salesman, left yesterday for Little Rock, on busine~s
 Miss Virginia Walker returned yesterday from a visit with Miss Me- lanie Walker in Little Rock
 Attorney S. J. Hunt is expected to return today from a legal business trip to Magnolia, Columbia county.
 MT. and Mrs. c. E. Lee have gone to Argenta, Ark, where they will visit relatives and friends for "a few days.
 MT. and Mrs. P. P. Byrd and little daughter, Doris, are expected home within the next few days from Flor
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T0MLINS0N ---kNOX
 TO QUIT BUSINESS
Frank TOmIinsOn Will Dispose of Stock and Give His Time so
 Other Interests.

Frank E Tomlinson, who for number of years has been iii tho furniture business, has announced that he is going to dispose oi his present large stock of furniture and will retire from the business. ThS firm of which MT. Tomlinson is now the only member was until recently the Tomlinspn-Knox Furniture Com pany, with MT. Tomlinson and Van KOnX as the owners. MT. Knox re- tired a few weeks ago, dsposing oG his stock to MT. Tomlinson. The present stock of the furniture house is valued at about $20,00O. and MT. Tomlinson states that he wW sell 1t at a great reduction He retires td devote his time to his other interests.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS

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hyacinths were prettily arranged in the home. The ladies who had charge of the affair included Mes dames Julius Schloss, Alex Lazarus and Ben Silbernagle, chairmen, and Mesdames Joe Meyer, I. J. Moore, H. c Dreyfus, Charles A. Bloom Ike Leitner, William Eisenkramer, Ger son Moore, Gus Waterman, Wolf Ni
 chols, E. Eilbott and Leo Kastor. Literary and musical numbers were given during the afternoon by the following young ladies; Misses Fan
 nie Hardin, Maibelle Craig, Ethel
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GhSSarOo cry
 FOR FlEIcHER'S = A ASToRlA A
WOOD

WOOD
 Sawyer and Austin green wood de- l'vered to all parts of city. Two Horse wagon load, $1.50. In five load lots. $500. c. A. Thom3s. new phone 469 4r Quick delivery
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enthal, Leo Kastor, Charles Levi, Adolph Bluthenthal; Mrs. Charles A. Bloom Mrs Mona Kimple, Mrs. liar ny Hanf, ATr. and Mrs. Max Eiseu- kramer, Misses Lillie Levine, Bessie Bluthenthal, Roella Solmson, Stella Reinberger, Hennie, Joseph and Bru- nette silbernagle; Harold Bluthen- thai, Nato Levine, Sol Klarberg. Jack Diamond Dave Veil, Rabbi Ephraim Frisch Abe Bloom. Sam
 Berlin, Charles Malachowsky, Ed Kasselberg and John R. Bloom
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AT THE JEFFERSON-H E. Jones, Boston; s. G. Boyd, Coyflgton Ky; H. McMurchy, Fulton, N. Y; L. c. Jackson, Brinkley; Sam Herson
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Bridge and Dance.

Bridge and Dance.
 An enjoyable bridge party and dance was given last evening in the Bluff City Club. The prizes. two pair of silk hose and leather hose case, were won by Mrs Phil Prousnitzer, Of Nashville, Tenn. and Mrs. Herbert Bluthenthal. After the games danc- ing was furnished in the hall and lat CT luncheon was served in the di. ing rcom Pnof. Seibert's orchestra furnished music Among those pres |ent were Miss Hertha Stern. of Cam den: Miss Fannie Stern, of Louis vile; Mrs. Phil Prousnitzer, of Nash vile, Tenn; Miss Ruth Brown of TeXarkana; Paul Kuhn, of Memphis j; Messrs and Mesdames H. c, Bluth-
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k Temple Society.
 Ladies Temple Society enter ] a large number of ladies yes- g afternoon with a "Kaffee |h' and bazaar at the residence En :Adolph Bluthenthal, No. 713
 Fifth avenue. Jonquils. and