The Huttig news., 1913-08-16
CHAPTER XVIII.
The Secret of the Aerodromone.

The Secret of the Aerodromone.
 The newly made Princess of Schom. burg Lithow and her fiance, Santos, reached Berlin safely They flew in the Hawk to Irkutsk in Asiatic Russia and from there continued their jour ney on the quick aeroline to the Ger man capital They sent the aerodro- none back to Ciryne.
 The Rosipy mansion was ready for them Rositta's first action was to send word to the Count von Werden. stein that she wanted to see him.
 When the chancellor came, Rositta received him alone. It was necessary for her to explain the situation. Tlf Count Rosiny was dead. He had be@4 on board ths Tar that Napoleon haf qunk This freed Rositta, but as princess she could not marry a plaii citizen, so she asked the count tc make MT Duprel titled noblemalt Rositta told all she thought necessary and they talked for long time.
 Santos was told the plans without the slightest idea that it was tre mendous, far-reaching plot designed te destroy all the achievements of the peace committee. He could see noth Ing but Rositta, he could think of noth ing but their approaching marriage.
 The purpose the chancellor and Ro sitta had in mind. was to manufacture and eruip number of aerodromones If they pursued this desire, they would have, inside of a year, the power to master the situation and take the lead In political affairs.
 Suemeg now belonged to Rositta and the cirynith deposit there was very rich. The Count von Werdenstein placed an unlimited account in the bank to her credit, so that she and Santos conld begin work at once.
 The people of Kass-Cell were sur prised at the unusual activities dis playesI by the strange men imported
 Santos Duprel was very busy. He had been informed that after the sue. cessful completion of the first aero drouene he would have the title oi count" conferred upon him, and that this would remove all the barriers be tween Rositta and him. Their mar riage would take r1ace the day of the trial flight. This fired his ambition, and he worked hard. and long. He was | allowed to plan as he wished, and one day laid his blue prints before the l Count von WerderS en. He showed him that a larger and more powerful aorodromone than Napoleon's would be necessary otssrvise the design and make would be unchanged This fv,,y, s,,, motive power, and thus make it supe- rior to the Eagle.
 And what is your motive power? I don't see any details in your plan that would explain the wonderful power that your devils of tle air pos sess.'
 Santos cast a questioning glance at Rositta. She nodded acquiescence. and he began:
 The poweE of course. is electricity. l will try to explain things as simply as they are. The flight of the aero dromone is based on the flight of blrd--not any bird, but the king of the air, the eagle. Size of body, wings, and balance are all considered After long search and study, Napoleon Ed ison found that DO muscle power could have the endurance of the eagle and 1 few other birds that are able to cover remarkably long distances in very short time. He closely examined liv- 1 ing birds, and took the homing pigeon, for example, after long flight, and proved that they had collected in their feathers surprisingly large quantity of atmospherical electricity. Ths feathers on the wings especially. serve as collectors, and every little hairlike feather adds to the supply
 When the bird begins 10 fly regu- lar magneto is created. that has it's two poles at the two ends of the wings. One side is the negative and the other the positive. Frori the moment this electrie-magnetic state is reached, all the work the muscles are expected to do is to direct the flight, as the wings are moved by the force of the elec- l tricity; that is. they come together un. til the force of the opposite magnetic 1 power forces tisem apart and the repe- tition of this operation is called fight"
 That certainly sounds simple, mur- mured the chancellor.
 Now take the aerodromone," con- | tinued Santos Through mechanical l inventions, and cirynith, we have i'm proved the birds method Of flight. The l improvement is in the storing away of unused magnetism. The more quickly we fly. the more magnetism is gath cred by the machine" Santos pointed to the front part of the machine on the blueprint, calling the chancellor's at tentien to the eontrivanee that gave the machine the appearance of an eagle. It was a large brass ball. GOV. cred with a cirynith cap. Then he pointed to broad brass bar that ex- tended over the entire top of the ma chine; that bar was like 8 round brush. and it's duty was to gather in