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The t ; \ u 2 5 a 0 . ernments oi the world evidently take the

ime   > \ u 2 5 a 0• as Sir Hiram; for in all count ries E ng-

land, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, Aus-tralia, and the United States appropriations for

th e purchase   both dirigibles and aeroplanes are

liein^' made and soldiers are being trained t fly.

With vast Government funds available i iexperi-mentation, the perfection of aircraft is speedil)assured; but it ore than likely th.it not in war

fare but in tin-ait •.i peace will the influence <> .i< rialnavigation l> e noticed most. The Air Age just begunwill bring remarkable changes in many things,world laws, world customs, habits , language, archi-tecture, re> re.it ion.

Already there isanaerial literature. Inthe UnitedSt it. t h er e a re now three monthly pa l Itcations <le-voted solely t>> aeronautics; in England there are half-dozen, and in Prance and Germany as manymore. The Eng li sh voc abu la ry lias been enriched > y such words a-,  hangar, the shed in which a1 » . i l l < > \ u 2 5 a 0 >n nr airship is stored;  h elicopter, a machinethat rises vertically by horizontally revolving

•

red and ;ixi i tent

ibeen taken out. G] • .

manul turer of lighl•

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not long > \ u 2 5 a 0 • : > that h < - h ad sold monthree hun<lred motoi . for a< ron -

ii

Jt realh \ u 2 5 a 0 • m begin to look a

shall so< m I < \ u 2 5 a 0 ti\iiiittle ahead of us in th

Ktcln- iiu 2 5 a 0 < • 1 1 dirigible balloons for flying Geneen the L'nited >r .'<•. what

done. Hardly a • \ u 2 5 a 0 \ u 2 5 a 0 thai•

ount Zeppelindoes not fly .1few hundred miles over some pan \ u 2 5 a :

Germany, carrying from I enty pa s \ u 2 5 a 0

inhis huge hip. The Gro IIanother Germandirigible, every once inawhile makes «.r twelve h'mi • w ith eight or t< \ u 2 5 a 0 \ u 2 5 a 0

Ovei in Paris, Clemen has been amusing himselffor two umraei \ u 2 5 a 0 taking .1part] I»rty-••r fifty-mile spin through the clouds in his Kr»'«l

Clement- Bayard air yacht Here in the l'nitedStates, Captain Thomas Scott Baldwin has beenmaking all kinds > • ' . ;ensational Rights Hardly .1

pleasure park anywhere in the country bui Ihn hadsome aeronaut and his dirigiblemaking daily > •::

: \ u 2 5 a in. .1 \ u 2 5 a > ne \ u 2 5 a 0 l the >tai atti ict u>nI-; ight now there are at least half a hundred persons

i tin- United States whoha' c actually flown.

Sir Hiram Maxim's Statement

OERTAIXLY the facts justify Sir HiramMaxim intying, The timehas now arrived, havingi

to the ad am ed itate ol the arl oi building mwhen it will i > t - quite a simple and safe affaii tvere< t

works and turn out iuccessful flying machinile icost than motorcars. In fact, there is nothingthat stands in the way of our su< iess to day. From.iurely military viewpoint the value oj the success-

ful flying machine cannot be overestimated. Theflying machine ha s come

andcome

to stay, andwhether we like it or 1• • t it is a problem that mustbe iken into serious consideration. Itwe are lag-gards, we sh all be left behind, with a strong po s i-bility th.it before many years have passed ovei oui

heads we shal l have to change the coloring <• oui

si h'x>l mapdd to the ' \ u 2 5 a 0  < \ u 2 5 a 0 . ord the wonderful  \ u 2 5 a 0 rial exploit u 2 5 a 0

oi Latham, ofTi andiei oi Paulham, and oi .cores<. r>thej |ii<.nc<-

, withheavier than air ma< hine mdyou can understand why Sn Hiram Maxim, when

> \ u 2 5 a 0 >n will aeroplanes be used in war-

fare? t< - : fly and forcefully replied,  In th e next

[ust wait until the eighty people whohave orderedWright aeroplanes have their machines delivered,

and tones  t tlyim; exploits will be coming ip-mall

4 th e world 

No Limit to the Varieties

ANJi the Wrigh t model is by   \ u 2 5 a 0 > means the only

machine that < -m fly. There are already mono-planes and biplanes and triplanes and helicopters

th.it have risen from th e earth. There i icarcely a

t<»v.n < < i ten thousand inhabitants in the- I'mi.-i

States where some inventive American i nol work-

ing  «ian airship thai he, .it lea it,i>vi<• w illbe bet-

ter than ail t he others. Inmost of th e universities

are intelligent groups of young men studying aerialnavigation from scientific viewpoints. In t he United

Wili.'ir Wright, on Septembei L'l. 1908, at LeMa n1 - ranee, flew ixty-onemili ng inthe air more

inhour and a half ivoweek lit-: h e tookup a ; Iup more than an 

Glenn IIu 2 5 a r1 at Mineola, Ne w York, flev I n

nearly an houi on July 17 . 1909, making a speed aitimes oi more than a mile a minute with his 1 iplane.1- .: Bleriot, on July L'l. 1909, flew from < tlui

to Dover across the British Iannel, a distance oltwenty-one mile . in twenty-three minutes, makinguch rapid time that the fa  • ttypeoi teamvi el uld not keep him in sight.<)rvill<-Wright, a1ori Myer, Virginia,on July L7.

I^<)'». withLieutenani Frank P. Lahmaia pa iengei .flew forty-eight miles in one hour and a quarter.Three days later h e accomplished a flight such intin- language oi a leading scientific publication ashad never been accomplished b ef ore b y any a iator.

Ihe ten mire peed test icro r< >ugh,wooded, and broken country to Alexandria, Virginii,and back. The flight was made with a ;trong weI<-rly '. .iii'lblowing across the com c. Tin- wind car-

ried the machine out \ u 2 5 a 0 > ( the direct line Mr. Wrightnaturally tried t.. follow; but he made the tenmiles

at a rateoi forty

twoand

 n<- quartetmiles

an hour.Roger Sommer, a 1 Maui le Meraud,  ii Augu I

7, 1909, in a \ '<>i \ u 0 0 8 4 > n aeroplane, remained in the airtwenty c en minutes and fiiteen

ike \ u 5 a \ u 5 a • \ u 5 a \ u 5 a >rldv ition.'1 hat da y is a date 1

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v- ill '• \ u 2 5 a 0 I),-embei 17 190.1With th e Age oi Air hardly more than fiv<

old. some wonderful feal have already I u 2 5 a 0

[ > l i hed.

een in Novem-

ber,*' your wife observes signifi-cantly as you light your c i g a r .

Whatofit? you ask . You knewthrough dinner that sh e had some-

on hermind and wait impatient-

tohear what itis. Don't you think it is time hertedto flying school?Humph ** yo: sniff indignantly.

can't he learn by himself, as Iid? Iever\ u 2 5 a 0 . : . . to any flying school.*''But just think, says your wife sweetly,  what

r ible you had in learning to handle your first.:..plane. You broke your arm twiceand you hadkinds ofdifficulties because youdid not know howin lie your engine. Besides, dear, all the boys in) d*s set are already taking lessons and most ofhivesafety biplanes of their own.

Not a Far Look Ahead

j iKJXG pretty far ahead, is it;

Uon't be so.ire- about that. Louis Bleriot,

who flew acrossBritish Channel in his monoplane, -says, '.'Fiftyfrom now aeroplanes will be as common as

unobOes are to-day. These aeroplanes willtravelhundred miles an hour, carrying passengers such

as from I'ari-> toHerlin.Perhaps^ though, you think that Hleriot isan over-

dreamer carried away by the glory offirst cross-Channel flight. Listen then to what

Graham Hell says. Youmay have morefor his opinion, considering his lifelong repu-as a conservative scientist, and considering,

t h a t thirty-five years ago he invented the tele-that you use twenty times a day. Ir. Hell

-*ys. All of the impossible ha s now been passed innavigation. Actually the living machine is1... motorcar \ u 2 5 a ill ' . < \ u 2 5 a 0 : . as general use

the ordinary automobile is at present.Thomas A. Edison, i<><>, asserts that in ten years

traveling at one hundred miles an hour willtcarrying the mails.i.ou do not believe these predictions, everybodyOnce willknow just whoyou are. You are the man

h o twenty y e a r s ago said it was utterly impossiblea person in Chicago to talkwith a person inNew

or,: over the telephone. You are the man whoyears ago said that the horseless carriage wasbut an impractical toy and refused tobelieve

fanners would ever be going tomarket in auto-ujj.es. \<,n are the man who only ten years ago

3 o S e d j a t th e possibility of wireless telegraphy evermessages a< r<>ss the ocean.

r i ' \ u 2 5 a 0 l' ' ' * '

ve'

the telephone and the automobileth e wireless telegraph, you just have tobelieve

* l * '  

TK>l''c s

''v< rv

*n;in  years before your* ' '

a 

X rt st - of the youngsters are going

~y:ii;;s c h o o l . Think what has already been ac-inthe brief time that ha s elapsed since

notable U-.a of the Wright brothers onDecem-

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V Mi  ' lhuS <lcscril el e 1inthe language of them-

VIS 'r r'rA time m th e history of th e world  '

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carrying a man had risen in the air

t \

U'hl- ha< l 'lescribed a circle on the same hori-

a H r,  VV'lh

 lltr,,luction of speed; arid finally

-/ gated without mishap.

- a s t h V ' ' ^:i'; >' la u-lonlytw, V « seconds; but it

'^'ginning of the marvelous Air Age that is

WHEN WE ALL FLYBy WILLIAMJOHNSTON

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POWER OF MIND OVER BODY

From Office to Homethe tra1el of the future • \ u 2 5 a 0 he n w e shall

all fly, when airships are as common as auto aptain Thomas Baldwin Scot) w ho ha s

over three hundred tups m his dirigible balsays

 We airship developers believe that our methods vast ad' antages over any other means ol travelet con ceiv ed . T here will be no necessity foi con-

ol trafficin the air, no mattei In>w

heavy themay be or how numerous thecrafi afloat. Theis navigable for all practical purposes

a height hi tour or even as much as five miles.We can Keep afloat ••>, a straight line almosi at will.

not t« »mention aviator, aviation, monoplane,and other v\or< s now in daily use in the

vspapers.Regulating the Traffic

A LRKADYa league ha s been formed inFrance forthe regulation of aeroplane tr.ithe. giving as the

for its existence,   A< roplanes will troy thein the fields on which they alight. They willthe birds. A> roplanes wi l ldestroy everything

encounter,—

windows , telegraph wires, andA < roplanes will cause a great increase in

With their aid burglars will enter houses atthrough the upper windows, secure the valua-

and leave as they came.While the French papers are treating this new

as a joke, itis none the less certain that before

years rules for aerial traffic willhave to be de-Allkinds of plans are forming for air travel.

• \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0\u25a0. a company of sight-dirigibles. Agroup of capitalists ha s its plans

for an air line between New York and Boston.Zeppelin lias already been figuring <> n airshiptocarry passengers over Germany asserting

as a commercial undertaking itis perfectly prac-

Zeppelin's Remarkable Forecast

SSUME, says Count Zeppelin,  for instance.the foundation of airship communication be-

Berlin an  Copenhagen. The capital neededone airship, a main st ttion at Berlin, .n.i a land-station atCopenhagen, would be about two hun-

ed and fiftythousand dollars. The r e v e n u e allow-for one hundred flights to Copenhagen and back• • Berlin each year Ithe time of the trip one-half that

the present system), with an average of twenty-travelers each paying twelve dollars and fiftywould amount tosixty-two thousand fivehun-dollars a year. For ins irance. depreci itiou,andol running, the outlay would he thi.ty-seveii

five hundred. This would le.ive a profittwenty-five thousand dollars, or ten percent. on

pi t d. Better still.Ian imagine a line from StuttgartLucerne, passing over the monuments of t»er-

nmy' u 5 a former greatness, the ruins of the llohen-taufen and llapshurg imperial setts, and the newly

rlohenzollern burg , with its proud towersin the sky, the symbol of Germany's majestic

and glorious future over the songpoetical Liechtenstein, and thence into

ature's miracle chamber, Switzerland, with itsand mountains. Such a service at a low esti-ought to be doubly profitable, as it would

only amain station at Stuttgart (as at Lucernethe lake itself could be used fordescent), with inter-

stations, perhaps, on the lakes of Constancend Zurich. For the international public, which

wishes to travel mluxury,no fares would be too high. In specially chosen unfavorable conditions my

irship would cover atleast eleven hundred andthirty miles in four days, and still have a consider-

ble reserve of fuel. 1 could, therefore, even in theworst time of year, travel from Berlin to St. Peters-

.Moscow, or Constantinople, in the case of thetwo cities, in approximately four days. With

conditions the journey would take onlyhours, and u n de r f av or ab le conditions only

thirty hours, or much less than the best railroadMy newest airship will be able tocover the

distance infrom fifty five to twenty-two hours,to wind.

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n< \ u 2 5 a walking I » e 1You \ u 5 a . •

buildinj enti\ u 5 a

y.

Front Doors on the Roof

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and lights:sailors may know ti.. y day\ u 5 a

t. \ u 2 5 a 0 . sa\ c for x\\-\ u 5 a a hith

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v air-illh < thing f the j t. An

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Al int« in airships, and r\ u 5 a

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the in-coppei mining, foi in Itm « \ u 2 5 a 0 Ihe Ii > f the

.mes in the country bs inter-in aerial navigation, because he believes thai

by the ai d \ u 2 5 a s many hitherto inaccessibleted.

When the V 

» >n w illdo it. Pri .less. > r

II   \ u 2 5 a \ u 2 5 a :   l thelni . w ill•ca summei in eppelin ai

. • . « . i i at•:u 5 a I'• - . n the

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1910.This will 1< :s . the preliminary

Waltei W.  lman, notw ilhis unl ..in < it> h.i>; p his plans•

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•lallottou

Easy to AvoiJ the Tariff

• X 1 X1 II : soon,*too. W h kl m ill be the tii I oflect

\ u 5 a \ u 2 5 a thousand ill>llai 

ami : \ • u 2 5 a ci theim >rder \\ith fifty thous:»n<l dolldiamonds' ' The common law also provides thatwhoever owns the land owns the ail above it

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The closing of the air is unthinkable and th<hibition of mternationa] aerial travel n-.ip.ssil.U-.So Count Zeppelin suggests the regulation i> f a,rial

.tv. Treaties w illhbe made fixing • .<• points from which airships boundfor foreign countries must start, and those wherethey must land. Airnavigatu tarting willobtain regular ship's papers, giving thenumber ol passengers carried, and the- quantity ofmail matter and merchandise.In Germany a Look on the subject ha s already

been publishel, Gruenwald's  The Airship in » i\iland Commerci d Juristic Relate i

The next war , ifthen- have to be any more wars.will probably se< troops lying on their bacl u 5 a e n g a g e « im target practice on airships Fhere will be swiftaer op lane s s co ut in g the movements ol the enemy.Iere wi l l be huge dirigibles carrying sohliers anddistributing infantry ammunition . Possibly toothese huge airships wi l lbe engaged in dropping e\plosr i-swith deadly effect on torts and i-ities Some

say they can and some say they can't; but a highofficer inthe United States army is credited withsaying,  One dirigible like ours could destroy Ne w\ork inhalf an hour.

Yes, Harold had better start to frying school.

Influence of the Imagination 

Ml-imagination plays an important part inhealthor sickness Napoleon said,

 Imagination rules

the world 

The Cleveland Medical Journal w ritesthat in A J o u r n a l i s t ' s Notebook Frank F. Storerelates an amusing and significant story of the powerof the imagination upon the health A young civ;

servant in India, feeling worn out from excessiveheat, labor, and long hours, consulted a physicianabout his symptoms. The doctor looked him over.

examined heart and hongs, and then said. Iillwrite you to-morrow.The next day he receive*] a letter telling him that

the left lung was gone and his heart seriously affected.and advising him to lose no time inadjusting hisbusiness affairs.  Of course you may live for

weeks. the letter said;  butyou would better not

leave important matters undecided.Naturally, the young official was dismayed by

such a prognosis, nothing less than a death war-rant Within twenty-four hours he was having dif-ficulty with his respiration and was seized with an

acute pain inthe region of the heart. He took tohisbed with the feeling that he would never rise from i

During the night he became so much worse that hisservant sent tor the doctor. What on earth have youbeen doing toyourself?

 

demanded the doctor.  There were noindicationsof this sort when Iaw you yesterday.Itismy heart,Iuppose, weakly answered the

patient.

 Your heart repeated the physician.  Yourheart was all right yesterday.My lungs, then.What is the matter with you.man? Youdo not

seem to have been drinking.

Your letter gasped the patient.  YousaidIhad only a few weeks to live.

Ar e you crazy? said the doctor.  1wrote you

to take a few weeks vacation in the hills and you

would be .ill right.For r ply the patient drew the letter from under

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on hi face contimtallv, because he ts always lookingat the world throughIhit' spectacles.

Th- Face m a Signboard

£ ~ \ \ the contrary, a bright and sparkling eye, witha raise 1 tendency of the cheeks and nppey lip. is

characteristic of a pleased, contented state of mnulI'ersons who give way to their emotions willeventu-ally reveal, by the <li.Tere:.t facia] muscles, their <::̂positions. The lines or furrows on the face, iiue totheir habitual contraction, willbe rendered deep«and more conspicuous. Ihe expression of the coun-tenance, such as a frown, ofttimes reveals thethoughts am intentions more truly than do worisThe tree expression by outward signs of 11 l emotionintensities it. while the repression

—as far as possible

—will tend to soften and subdue it. These results

follow partly from the intimate relation that existsbetween almost all the emotions and their outwardmanifestation, and partly from the direct intluer.eeof exertion on the heart am brain.

Claude Bernard, a great physiologist, claims thatthe least excitement i< i thenerves reacts on the heart;that when the heart is affected, itreacts on the brain;and the state of the brain again reacts, through thepneumogastric nerve, on the heart. This goes toprove that under any excitement or emotion therewill be much mutual action am reaction betweenthese* the two most important organs of the bodyHow careful, then, one should be of his thoughts andimagination, am not allow them to tend toward evilor disease The face evidently sympathizes with thethoughts; for ore who constantly thinks of illicitthings, or lives an immoral life.soon begets a sen-suous eye and an impudent face A criminal usuallyha s the hard, repulsive lines of sin written on hiscountenance High and lofty thoughts endow theface with a halo of joy and peace.

Sick Thought* Lead to DiseaseCUKthoughts, such as worry and melancholy, lead

todisease Some persons render themselves easyvictims to the Great Destroyer hy looking forsymptoms ot some dreaded disease and formingmental pictures oi its every feature, instead >f

guarding against disease bx changing the train ofthought toward other subjects, Many have con-tracted consumption and died oi it.simply becausethe conviction had always been thrust upon themthat they would die of this disease because theirparents did; whereas, had they c ho se n o utd oo rwork, exerted their will power, hardened the con-stitution by proper eating, drinking, bathing, and b\deep breathing, they would inall probability havebeen Strong and robust

A shooting piece may be loaded withpowder, ball,etc.. and not goof for a century. Its only when thepowder isignited that the gun is discharged. Onemay be susceptible toconsumption and liveanaturallifetime without even a symptom ot the disease. It  \ u 2 5 a 0

only when the spark of indiscretion or unhygienicliving is applied that there is danger. Then the dis-ease may lan itself into a dame tillitburns out thelifeof itsvictim Persons whohave a hereditary ten-dency toward certain diseases should .iv allthoughts of these and banish even the suggestion ciothers regarding them, and live above the healthmark It is when one's system gets below par, be-neath the health mark, that diseases, like vultures,

creep intorob one of the health that it is his privi-lege toenjoy.

By William J . Cromieln>trucc<>r in Cvmnasiics.University of Pennsylvania

note who have made a study ofthe subject. Francis Warner,M.D., inhis book on   Physical

ibjeel Francis Warner,m Ins book <»n

\ u 2 5 a 0 l'li\ -.k-.ilExpression, says, • Mind is thehonest faculty of man. What

mind is. w e do not know, and probably we cannotknow; but there is abundant evidence that mind isin someway connected with brain action.

Th e body is toalargeextent fashioned and moldedby the thought.

It one entertains certain thoughts,or experiences certain emotions, they may have, an ef-fect upon hisbody that willprove beyond the powerof his will to control. For illustration: A man suf-fering from grief may command his features; but hecannot always prevent tears from coming into hiseyes Iftempting food is placed before one, he maynot show his hunger by any outward sign; but becannot check the secretion of saliva Gnel and lowspirits cause the corners of the mouth to droop, andbetray the state of the mind to the observer. Apessimistic person willeventually wear this  sii»n

ALMOST every magazine de -voted tophysical education

nd man) other current periodi-have articles that acquaint

s with the knowledge  Iho* tostrong by exercising certain muscle; Usu-

little or nothing is sail] concerning the cultiva-of the mind in connection wi th this physical

in consequence of which the person, whenbends from side to side, or forward anda certain iiuiu'ier of times; in .1areless,mechanical manner, thus deriving little

from his work. Now, it these articles wouldthe performer that bending from side toside

the liver and intensifies itsactivity,and alsoto reduce fatat the waist line, this knowledge

serve as an excellent incentive to greaterand the work would be performed with

energy and intelligence.That the mind dominates the actions and ex-

of the bod) , is conceded by all writers of

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