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FORD OF THE AIR." TINY PLANE THAT CAN BE FLOWN BY MOTORISTS.
At the top is C. K. Wollani, famous balloonist of the Good- year Tire & Rubber Ch,, stand- ing by the flyver plane" in- ventes diy V. C. Babeork of Akron, Ohin. Left, below it, are left to right) Capt. A. E, T., Bruce of the Royal Flying Cups, who helped test the plane: Babeock, and Wollon At the right is a portrait of Babrork; below, right, is a view
of the plan showing how the pilt's sent is located.
Akron, Ohio, Dec, 29.---The Ford. Four years ago Babrock got the
of the air in the near future may idea that a plane could be built as that the entire weight of the la steek, little monoplane with that would be both small and fapering wings and narrowing stable. body.
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"I have designed this airplane
machine in centred in the cock- pit where it should be. This gives "That has been the difflenhy gold manoeuverability to the ship Streh a plane, constructed by heretofore,” he explained. "De- and assures' stability, despite the V. C. Babcock of Akron, a veteran signers have found it hard to smallness of the plane. airplane designer and engineer, build a small plane and at the "The body is uniform in struc- has just been put on triaf fights same time he assured of the tural strength throughout, and here and shows promise of fast balance and stability they attain- even though Bhave, taken off sonie- becoming popular as a privately, ed in the Burger type."
of the wing area the ship has more. For an entire year he worked lift to it per square foot of area owned bird of the air.
AVeighing not more than som With figures in the search for the than has the conventional, type of
kind of pline that would reart as plaie." - pounds, aboul a fourth of weight of the average motor car, be thought it should. Then he this little ship can take off in till his model for testing in a fest or so, travel at a speed my to wind tunnel and for three years 100 miles an hour and operate as worked with it. safely and as easily as any well luff: automobile.
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MASSACRE OF 200 SLAVES
Z IN BOLIVIA,
Superstitious folk, I suppose. (writes Dr. Mellows, leader of the Sacambayo expeditión, in the Star) would argue that the "curse": popularly supposo to have been taid on all those who attempt to, find the £20,000,000 treastire buried by the Jesults at Sacam- haya before they were driven out of the count is holding good so far as the expedition is concerned
We have had an unusual crop of grave accidents to our party, but-and this I would stress for the beneft of those anid super-
itions folk-our own luck bast been in the ascendant.
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Оли of our men fell from platcan 20 feel on to the stones) of the river bed below, enough to have broken a few bones at the very least. Yet he escaped with af
ww bruisest
Nearly Bolted Alive!
"Joe" Offord; one of our most reliable all-round workers, wan hit on the arm by the flying eind of af broken chain, and then narrowly escaped being partially boiled byj stain from the radiator of one of) the compressors.
He has gone for a few days' rest to Oruro, where he will collect the magnety of our hydraulic pump. which was put out of aetion when: the raft conveying it across the river capsized on the way to the Abbot's Priory.
In the meantime, as hand-baltig
is out of the question to try audi
keep down the influx of water
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PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.
MEMORIAL TO BRAVE INDIANS. NEAR HO MUN TIN, KOWLOON.
One of the least known of Hongkong's war memorinla is that: which has been vreeted »
near Ho Man Tia, Kowloon, to the memory of Indian soldiers who were killed in the Great War.
The memorial, which is inserthed: "In memory of the brave Mindes and Sikhs whe sucrificed their lives in the Great War for their King and their, Country," is a simple and dignified granite obelisk, with bronze inscription panel.
from the subterranean stream, we feet high and 7 feet wide at the I counted the remains of over several days I was pűzzled until I must wait until the magneto isjentrance, expanding quickly in-two hundred skeletons, a few of learnt Inter that the plant has live repaired, and then we use our sile, and reaching a maximum which appeared to be those of properly of holding water for some
height of about 50 feet and width women and children,
Ponsiderable time. I should explain that some idea of 25 feet, the walls tapering both According to the story of overy Insects, and sometimes small of the strength of the stream caufte roof and floor.
Indian you question in this birds, attracted by the water, par- locality, they are the remains of ticularly in times of drought, enter
mobile" pun
be gauged by the fact that We
Slanting Floor.
are
have had the stationary pump. The floor slants downwards at five hundred of the slaves who the cup. The leaves close round supplemented by a gang of natives til gradient for about 36 feet were working under the Jesuits at them immediately, and remain so (well paid!) -- working with bue- and at the bottom of the far end Sacambays and buried the tren-until the thirsty Intruders kets. but they have made no appr of the cave there is a small round; sure for the latter in Carballo completely absorbed by this car- ciable impression on the water.
The most interesting trip I have yet made was under the guidance of an Indian, Bautista Acha, who worked for, Dr. Sanders on The two previous expeditions
3,600 Feet Climb,
van
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nivorous flora.. negotiated by wriggling through, were massacred to prevent the opening which
JURL be Crea mountain,
After this, it is said that they |---- ake fashion, to find oneself in secret being divulged, an alcove with insufficient head)
My guide auxerted that they) room to stand up.
killed by having boiling were Farther progress is stopped by water poured over then. The presence of a crevice which We had a ascend Dead Nigiter extends, deep down into the heart]
I found a skull with part of the Moulain, a steady climb of 3.000 of the mountain, and far away spinal column still attached to it, along a fairly good trail, which wall ahead and to the right. feel, which we made an horseback, the left, terminating in a hand, it looks as if the heat might have been decapitated. I think it| took three hours.
would be impossible' ta The rock walls of this giant Nearing the summit, we obtain issure are parallel, three feet whether this occurred before e: wonderful views as far as the apart, and as smooth as if they after death. eye could see of nothing but had been planed and polished with:
An Interesting Inca estoni mountaina rugged
manifested by And wild emery-paper: Resides the unusual innovations valleys, which is the stock type of 1-lowered a light into the abyss, which has passed into my posses- in this manoplane, there is
scenery in this part of Bolivia. but could not see any sign of the abserved by certain remote tribes brake to control the ship in land-
Having gained the ridge, we button, and a stone which I Ing and a wheel for steering it.. traversed an undulating, grassy dropped down failed to elicit living in the comparatively un- Finally he was satisfied. His
The take-off may be down plateau, where I paused awhile to either o, thud, or a splash.
explored regions round some of friend, . K. Woltan, noted bal- wind" or "cross wild"-it inakes gape at a solitary hudian, who was Toon pilot connected, with the no difference,
Having "back-pedalled" into the the tributaries of the Amazon. furrowing a field in this desolate main cave, I climbed with
Band Round Head. The plane uses but three and stondyne Tyre & Rubber Company: "No matter how it takes off, It pet, with an antediluvian plough, ziderable dieulty on
The infant worker-to-be had his! to a ledge half gallons of gás an hour, whjch here, encouraged him and gives a touring possibility of finally succeeded in completing adds Babcock,
he is always under absolutte control," both handle and cutter of which, which is situated bigh up on the head clamped with a band in such
was made of wood, and which was right-hand wall.
a way that that part of the skull! about 25 to 30 miles on a gallon | the actual plane only recently. Those who have seen the air-drawn by two oxen.
On this "broad platform was a containing those parts of the brain Cof. The result is that here
To the finclure of bis own de- plano see a big market for it first is an teanonical airplane su co-siga, he attached a 65-horsepower is a training ship, since both the
Suddenly rounding a blut wege heap of human skulla and supposed to be devoted to the care came to the entrance of the cave, bones, and the remains of further of propagation, and the ability to structed a to assure safety and midget radial motor of Le Blond, pilot and pupil sit aide by side which is for the most part conceal beletons could be seen by the indulge in hard physical labour, case of control for the average; construction, and he was prepared and can hear each other with care,
ed by foliage. It is, in reality, a light of an electrie torch in a deep were alone allowed to develop, the motorist.
To make actual flights.
and secondly as a popular ran big naturad cleft in the rocky cul-de-sac off the other side of the ra I look a light in this little ship. The tapering wings, from mar-, about plane for private use, mountain side, approximately 20 eavern.. afongside Captain A. E. T. Bruce, now tips to broad base at the body. It is for the latter purpose that
veteran of die Royal Aying the sleek body, the small rudder a
company has been formed in Corps, and although 1 loud never and stabilizers, the two-seated Akron for the construction of laid my bands où airplane con- cockpit are the innovations Bab- this ship. According to Babcock, trols before, I maneuvered this work has put into this plane, The plane mught to sell for Bot ship as easily-in fact, more. "It wasn't done by hit and misa more Dan G$2500,' which is quite. easily--thun. I cannfy own, au- judgment," he insists. "All of it a low sum ús airplanes go how-
was thought out mathematically, adays. tomobile.
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REALLY GOOD TIMES of these young people as they EVERYTHING DE LUXE.
grow older.
The really jolly things were] simple impromptu parties that]
By Dorothy Black.]
By Lady Lawford.]
Millicent has lost four very were got up among friends, orj "De luxe" is a word that rules good posts through inability to quiet dags beside the fire in our modern world. concentrate on the matter in lund, race. born partly of never going to bed
And the memories we have of Once schoolboys relished brown until about three-the fashionable our good times-lu, after life.}bread and buttie for breakfast; hour to dance to nowadays.
What are they? The funniest now they turn up their noses at "I don't see why I shouldn't, hings. Waking early on a springfish and age. Village maidens have a good time," says Millicent. morning to her birds singing injured to think the annual "fair" a "I'm young, and young people he garden, in the rain. A sunset matter of thrille and excitement; aught to be happy and enjoy over the sea one never-to-he-now they sigh because their racuns Phemselves."
orgelten evening. Talks over the will not admit of a holiday on the "Bat do you enjoy yourself when ire. The morning ile Miranda Continent. This thing has grown you are out of work and jólly hard walked her first step alone.... with increasing foren until it has The dances, the race meetings, berme the fetish of all grades of
"No. That's the ratten part of the dinners-where have they all society. Sons must take their It. It seems an awful shame that gone to in memory? No doubt places in life where their fathers can't have an allowance from they are somewhere among other left off. Daughters must be dress. my people like other girls. Marie mental lumber, but they have in garments which their has two hundred a year, and Sybil to be searched for.
mothers saw only in shop wind- has five...."
"And - June," ) said, “has Six pounds u week and has to contri-| bute two to help keep hur father and mother."
Millicent Ipoked impatient. She did not want to think about Jane.
Millicent is not in the least! vicious. Millicent is only a bit of a mug, whose world is bounded.on the north, south, east, únd weat by herself. Her god løn good time,
The height of her ambition is to be "In the swim."
And what is n good time? Ask any girl whose duty it is to go through a London season, whether she remembers it na # good time. It is, rallier, a round; of tiring functions in tedious éir- *cumstances.
The petty rivalries, the little epitefulnesses, the little snobberies of the smart young people, and their unceasing efforts to find something new, leave only a bad taste in the mouths of the wisor
GOT THE HUMP?
Then go to the
BOXING
at the City Holl
TO-NIGHT
GWB.
After three months in Monte Carlo, and six weeks at Deauville, where money is spent like chair before a high wind, one wonders If "de luxe" is so important after all.
After a long walk, a ham sanid- wich eaten under a shady tree to the sound of bees humming tastes more delicious than the most re- cherche luncheon in the Casing to the trains of jazz,
A stroll beside a moonlight sen, with the twinkling lights along the
fcoast in the distance, like diamond bracelets on the wrist of a beauti- ful woman, is more restful and calming than overhealed gaming
rooms.
Perhaps it is only time and the passing years that bring these re- flections; youth must ever scram- ble up the leader of pleasure where at the top stands the fairy "de luxe."
GLIMPSES OF NATIVE LIFE.
Qualit old landing stage of the vegetable market at Shau- kiwan,
enn-
looking after one's in- tellectual side remaining cramped || and dormant.
Later I saw my guide crawling. along the rocky face of a cuff, hat! in hund, tilting plants over to such an angle that wafer stream- ed from them into the crown of his hat.
On examining the plant I found it to consist of a tuft of hig leaves rather like the top of a giant pineapple, the centre leaven forming a cup containing nearly half a pint. of water.
As we had not had any rain for!
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The rose that Jiver,
ita little tour
sculptured flower," -Wm. C. Bryant.
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