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mm mm mam which perimenting with a gliding machine. They have been successful in these experiments, but for the last three years they have been laboring to accomplish a mechanical flight by means of a motor-driven machine. During these three years they have made 160 flights averaging a mile each. For a long time, how-ever, these flights were unsatisfactory, except that they kept tip the faith of the experimenters in ultimate RUCCCS8. The first flight made by the motor-driven machine lasted only 59 seconds.

True, it was successful in a sense, for it carried the machine 852 feet against a 20-mile-an-hour wind. But some idea of the exhaustive search after success that these men hsve made may be had from a comparison of this flight and finally the successful one in October, 1905, when the machine attained a d'stance of more than twenty-four miles. Previous to this time, and since the first 59-second flight, which had been made in December, 1903, there had been 105 flights and the last-mentioned one. of 21 miles was further than all the others put together. In December, 1904, it is now stated by the Wright brothers, they first succeeded in flying their machine at will in a circle.

This was accomplished after much painstaking investigation as to the nature of little defects that would become apparent after each flight. These were worked out patiently, no possible cause or effect being too small to be overlooked. It should be remembered, in order to grasp the full human interest element, as well as the scientific importance of this great new accomplishment, take and where and when it would alight. These flights hae len made over a swampy meadow eight miles east of Dayton, the home of the Wright brothers. In making their longest flight, aa shown in the accompanying table, the machine made 29.7 circuits of this meadow at an average speed of 38 miles an hour.

It is estimated that during the straight away flights the machine attained a speed of as much as 40 miles an hour, but this was lowered by reason of the speed lost in the circular flight. "The weight of the machine and operator as usel last year, says the Scientific American, "was 923 pounds. The motor is said to have been a C4-horse-power, four-cylinder, air-cooled gasoline engine, weighing complete about 250 pounds, or over ten pounds to the horsepower." As the lightest weight aeronautical motor so far constructed weighs but 2.2 pounds jwr horsepower, it can be seen that with such light-we'ght motor more than the weight of an extra passenger could be saved. No effort seems to have been made at lightness of construction by tlve Wright brothers, eithej- in th machine itself or in the motor. Because of experiments previously conducted by Maxim they were convinced that a motor-driven machine was "entirely possible, if it could be made stable and strong.

First rumor of what the Wright brothers had accomplished arose in France. This was a result, evidently a leakage somewhere of information that had been passed to the French authorities while negotiations were in progress between them and the inventors for the purchase of the machine. However, statements vouched for by these rumors were laugheJ at in France and throughout Europe. One of the chief points urged by foreign critics was that such remarkable experiments as those of the Wright brothers could not possibly have been conducted within sight, almost, of a large city and secrecy maintained. This was strengthened by the fact that the Wright brothers refused to give facts and figures.

This, it is now said, was due to the fact that the invention had not yet lieen covered by patent. The Wrights were willing to agree to the French Government that thev would accomplish cer- boudhf Is an Aeroplane, Heavier Than Air, Driven by a Gasoline Motor Claimed That It Has Made Many Successful Flights Problem of Aerial Navigation Apparently Solved at Last Wright Bros. How and When Wright Brothers Flew Distance. Time. Mlle- Min.

Sec. Cause of Stopping. Sept. 26 11 1-8 13 9 Exhaustion of fuel. SeP- 29 I2 19 55 Exhaustion of fuel SeP- 30 17 15 Hot bearing.

0ct- 3 15 1-4 25 5 Hot bearing. 0ct- 20 3-4 33 17 Hot bearing. pt- 5 25 1-5 38 3 Exhaustion of fuel. of Dayton, 0., Successful Inventors. Snapshot of one of the Wriqhtf as He Flew II I I i 1 immiiiIuhw" mm I I A.

II I i I I II Iflf-' IX II flf Jill I hm liB I Fhrno FYrrrnr rfm.rn i-Tr'l I I mom gc'ftogfYc American I rtt feifitifi'c American I Observations of 17 Witnesses to Flights 1. The flights took place in the autumn of 1905, mostly in October. 2. The flights were from 15 to 28 miles (agreeing fairly well with Wrights' figures). 3.

The path was a closed curve, circular, elliptical or rectangular. 4. The aeroplane was absolutely free and unattached. 5. The aeroplane carried a man.

6. It left the ground after being pushed by hand along a slightly raised rail for twenty-five or thirty feet. 7. The flights were sometimes in calm weather, sometimes during a light wind or even a stiff breeze of 30 miles an hour. 8.

Flight was both with and against the wind. 9. The machine slackened speed as it stopped and alighted on a nearly even keel. with their maehine under perfect control. A fraction over 25 miles is the greatest distance they have covered at any one time.

They have, however, been able to fly in a straight line or a circle as they chose, and to regulate their machine with a marvelous degree of certainty. Their flights have been made at a height slightly above the treetops and they have been able not only to rise and continue in the air at their pleasure, but to alight when they willed and at a given point. Particular interest attaches in St. Louis to this remarkable success because of the attention the Wright brothers attracted here during the World's Fair. Always mysterious and secretive concerning their plans and experiments, their attitude was most strikingly brought eut when they failed to attend the Congress of Aeronauts at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

In fact, until the present time they have never been induced to talk of their affairs in any way. They have refused information to all inquirers, and neither apparent success nor probable failure ike flUft a linn of Eastern architects. The new Los Angeles I'athedral bears a striking resemblance to the old Spanish cathedrals to be seen at Chihuahua and other tow ns in Mexico. A building of this kind, it is claimed, is more appropriate in its California setting than a Gothic or Romanesque church. The mission style of architecture is also singularly appropriate for small churches, like the one recently etected at I-os Angeles, which is declared to be an trtistic gem.

A church of this kind is devoid ot ornament and is exceedingly cheap to build. The original California missions, built by the friars, were necessarily simple, while the Spanish Colonial cathedrals, like that at Chihuahua and the City of Mexico, are of the elaborate and ornate character. In the mission church the small amount of deeo ration used was usually confined to the sky line rf the gable end, to the principal entrance and architectural features of the tower, which usually had two rather low upper stories provided for belK roofed by a dome, surmounted by a small temple. .4 otarrfrnri one af trie Brothers on a Glide non sttentrfic American tain results, but to explain definitely how these results were achieved was not a part of their plan until such time as they could do so with impunity. There have always been two classes of believer in aerial navigation.

One was made up of those who contend that to traverse the air in a conveyance heavier than the air itself is impossible. These, like Santos-Dumont, have confined their experiments to ballooning. On the other hand, a considerable number have insisted that a mechanically propelled machine for navigating the air was entirely possible. These have cited the fact that birds, which are heavier than air, attain great heights and immenne speed. While the great majority of women have neither the facilities nor the time to take a full Iwth every day, nearly all can take a sponjie bath, which is all that is necessary for cleanliness.

A basin, a sponge, and a cork mat comprise the essentials, and five minutes' application a day will keep the pores of the skin open and the body in a healthy condition. tecture. They have jjreat powers for resisting earthquakes, as is shown by those in California that have gone through these tremors for centuries. Of all modern writers, Sir Walter cotl the larpest place in that pig.intic work, the Museum Catalogue. Scntt has a larger nil inter of entries under his name than any other author sve Slutkpenre, who has two volume the nitalg-ie devoted exclusively to him.

The entrie tinier th name of Scott amount to just over HKiO and cover 8-.) pages. Under the name of Dickens theie are 752 entries, covering 41 pages. Thackeray fails far behind his rival in this respe with 223 entries, spread over 21 pages. Of lady novelists, rge has 123 entries on six pages and Charlotte Bronte, 70 on four. Of Victorian poets Tennyson take the lead, with 481 entries, spread over 35 pases, wlii'e drowning has to be content with less than half' that niun-lier 226 entries on 1 1 pages.

John Hn5.in hag 31 1 tries on 20 pages. A WATCH ment," said the watchmaker. "lt is carried cIoe to the human heart, which ought to have a regular rhythmic movement, too. Now, while the watch iv beating away the heart is beUing also. If its filiations occur regularly, punctunting tie rhythm the watch at specific intervals, the rhythm of the watch movement is undisturbed; but let the heart pulsations occur irregularly, now pulsating with the Uk of the watch, again stopping discordantly in 1 etwee a the ticks, the watch ia bound to be affected.

Leave this watch here and let your husband carry your watch, which, we know, ke 'galar time. Lettiia wear it a month aad see "ot right." has affected their attitude in this respect until now, since they have, as they positively announce, perfected a machine that actually will fly with its own power. Coincident with their announced success comes the statement that the new flying machine has been sold to the War Department of the French Government. This, then, seems to explain their refusal to dis The architectural were usually of Doric Renaissance. The sky lines of the gable recall somewhat the Elizabethan.

There is often a cloister of hMffl (9, IP' 1111 7 HE first successful flying machine has now, it is claimed, been perfected and operated. It is a Western invention, but is still shrouded in considerable mystery. It has no gas bag and is an aeroplane heavier than the air, driven by a gasoline motor. San-tos-Dumont, Kuabcnshue and all other previous navigators of the air have really used dirigible balloons. The IVright brothers of Dayton, have now apparently devised a machine which lifts itself by a screw propeller and in which they have made numerous successful flights, the machine being sold to the French Government for war purposes.

OKVILLE and Wilbur Wright of Dayton. to their statement, no published for the first time as a communication to the Aero Club of America, have made successful flights Their Characteristics Will Make Them Popular in Rebuilding San Francisco Are Appropriate to the Setting What Los Angeles Mas Done. NOW that wholesale plans are leiii muile tor rebuilding an Francisco and a ilo.en or more surrounding tow ns, it is 1 el'u-ve I among architects that a large number of the new structures ought to and will embody the architectural features of the old California missions. These buildings are singularly appropriate to their surroundings on the Pacific Coast, and greatly add to the historical interest of any locality in which they are situated. Two remarkable instances of this departure are the new Cathedral in Los Angeles and a new church in I -os Angeles, both erected after designs made by TEXAS IS SECRETARY tiKOKtiK TCCKF.R of the Mate Sportsmen's Association is in receipt of a letter from a Brenham gentleman, dated Wal-lis, March 13, in which his attention is called to what the gentleman believes is an evasion of the game law of the State, and which at leaat demand the attention of the association at once, and the attention of the committee appointed by the association at it last Waco meeting it called to this statement, which will be a revelation to the aporta-men of Texas.

The letter states: "While in Wallis this morning I noticed a conaign- mut of live quail from Texas shipper to a these experiments were conducted and gradual success attained almost within sight of a large city and in a thickly settled country. Yet only the vaguest details of what these inventors were doing has leaked out until now. Even so authoritative a journal aa the Scientific American, and one that naturally has extraordinary resources for securing such information, has not hitherto been ahle to secure pictures or evidence wholly satisfactory. And the Wright broth-era, when they submitted their success finally to the Aero Club, were able to name only 17 people who had seen their flights during the entire three years they had been experimenting. When the Scientific American addressed inquiries these 17 people it was found that their information was of the most desultory character.

On certain important facts they were all agreed, however, and these wers that various flights through the air had actually been made, that the machine was entirely free from any guidance from the earth, and that it apparently responded to the will of the operator as the height it should attain, the direction it should 4j 57 and the mission style when adapted to modern work, the traditions of the missions preserved in our modern designs, are in large part principles rather than the reproduction of architectural features. One often sees that striking gable end cut in a stereotyped, meaningless sky line, the use of which is rather the abuse than the adaptation of the mission style. There are other architectural features that more sensible that seem to mark the style such as simplicity with good proportions, broad projections to the tile roof, corridors, verandas or arcades a courtyard often planted as a garden. Sometimes one sees the mission-like tower and buttresses and a Doric doorway. Then again one sees design that suggests to the mind the mission style without there being apparently any special reason.

A large number of these mission churches are expected to arise in San Francisco and other California cities, not only because they are cheap to buihi, but because they are more harmonious with their historical surroundings than any other class of archi HEAT AFFECTS mysteriously and then strsngely lose a minute two a day. It had been to the watch repairer three times in 12 months, and was still acting irregularly a week ago when the man's wife took it vue watchmaker. "I think I know what It the matter with this Vatch," said the craftsman. "I dont believe that your husband's heart beats regularly. No, don't get alarmed.

It is not necessarily a disease. lie may just one of those men who can't have a watch that keeps good time, simply because of their Irregular heartbeats. "You see, a watch has a regular rhythmic move- cuss their plans or theories. They have had a distinct object in view, and the contribution to the world's knowledge that would have followed an explanation of their successes and failures has not weighed against their design to ultimately profit by disposing of their completed maclTine to a foreign power. For six years the Wright brothers have been ex- 7fY considerable dimension, sometimes, as at Santa Barbara, planted as a garden.

The characteristic features of the mission buildingi HOW THE OBODY would ever think that something the matter with him would cause something to be the matter with his watch, but a maker is the cause of much uneasiness in a West End family, and all because he insists that he does his best with a certain watch and that the reason it does not keep good time is because the man who carries it must have an irregular heartbeat. It came about in this wise: The head of the family has a gold watch that cost him $200 10 years ago. He has carried it ever since, but a year ago it began to act queerly. For some days It lost time, and then it began to gain time; again it would gain to to are a time or to be rJ- "fffn LOSING HER WILD QUAIL town. There were in this shipment 750 quail, and it there was it is hardly probable that he would re-was stated that between 7000 and 8000 live quail had quire thousands of them.

A Northern man waa heard been shipped through this season en route to the to remark that each quail brought 75 cents to fl ame destination. The birds were all our regular after it was scientifically prepared for the table, and brown Yariety, except a sprinkle of the blue quail. many strongly suspect that there is where the 4sci- printed card attached to each ease read as fol- entitle purposes' end. It is reported that on a few lows: This live game is shipped from Texas for occasions the offieeis of the Territory have opened scientifie and breeding purposes, and the shipper the coops and set the birds free, which should be done has filed hit affidavit with the express agent accord- here in Texas. Whether the Government or the ho-ing to law It is reported that the Government is tels or anyone else is biick of this enterprise, It back of the enterprise, but the knowing ones deny should be stopped immediately.

There a law this; anyway, there is no tigu of Uncle Sam's ap- against trapping these birds, and te to proval or connection with the matter, and even if Lave our live quail shipped out of UIS P0ST-DlSfATCH4fAY. VOL 4m Mm SUNDAY. MAGJ.