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IN THE PUBLIC EYE. ' RJ few ALBERT SPALDBING, A FAMOUS AMERICAN VIOLINIST. There must be something in sport ing blood that produces the musical temperament when the two most tal ented of young American musicians, Geraldine Farrar and Albert Spald ing, are both the children of famous baseball players. The distinguished soprano is the daughter of Sid. C. Farrar, long a member of the Phila delphia Nationals, and the greatest of American violin virtuosos is the son of Al. G. Spalding, -whose ca reer and fame are too well known for repetition here. Mr. Spalding is a violinist of the most extraordinary technical powers. He has a beautiful sensuous tone, great warmth of conception, joined with a comprehensive mentality which enables him to put these quali ties to the best use. Spalding has in his artistic make up that which appeals to both lay man and professional; his warm, singing, soulful tone will always please a miscellaneous audience, while his mastery of the violin, his sterling musicianship and his exqui site taste in all things pertaining to interpretation must win the admira tion of connoisseurs. Spalding's technique is highly developed; it is fluent, it is reliable and clean cut. What makes Spalding's art partic ularly attractive are the above men tioned qualities of his round, noble, ringing tone, which recalls Wil helmj's, and a temperament filled vith youthful freshness. Albert Spalding was born in Chi cago in 1888, and began his studies at an early age with Professor Chiti in Florence, where he lived in the winter, studying in the summer in his own country with the Spanish master, Professor J. Buitrago. When he was RACE SUICIDE tetMY sMi';3 pf'WSh sr--;''-l;'i'.-a, ... - v ij -.- w-v-, ju- .. w . .! Applicant For Position "No, mum, I don't know nothing about chil dren; up to now I've always worked in the best families, where they don't have none." Illustrated Bits. A GOOD HOME-MADE MILK CHURN. It used to be, and not so long ago, that if the farmer's wife wanted to make butter or churn anything she put the stuff in a bucket-shaped ves sel and stirred it rapidly with a paddle. Among the newer kinds of churns, one of the best is that de siii'jred by a Canadian. First there is a liiht but strong framework mounted on rollers. Midway up this frame a barrel is swung on a shaft which is ope:ted by a driving gear. The 1V -J, ft teen he took the first prize of the Bologna Conservatoire, and finished his studies in Paris with Lefort. Slaking a Paper Aeroplace. A very interesting and instructive top aeroplane can be made as shown in the accompanying illustrations. A sheet of paper is first folded, Fig. 1, then the corners on one end are doubled over, Fig. 2, and the whole piece finished up and held together with a paper clip as in Fig. 3. The paper clip to be used should be lika Fw3 A Folding the Paper the one shown in Fig. 4, writes J. II. Crawford, in Popular Mechanics. If one of these clips is not at hand, form a piece of wire in the same shape, as it will be needed for balancing pur poses as well as for holding the paper together. Grasp the aeroplane be tween the thumb and forefinger at the place marked A in Fig.' 3, keep ing the paper as level as possible and throwing it as you would a dart. The aeroplane will make an easy and graceful flight in a room where no air will strike It. In 300 balloon ascensions there is, on an average, one fatal accident. GOOD FORM. driving gear is worked by turning a handle. A hook at the bottom of the barrel holds it stationary while the top is being opened and it is being filled. Then the top is fasten ed on tight, the hoop released and the handle turned. By means of the gearing the barrel is spun around rapidly and in a few minutes the churning is done better than it could have been done in the old days af ter long and weary work. k 1 Asa i4 is x a 8 SUSPICIONS. Every time yon stp to tell Of M man's successes J.bez Jones, he says, ' "OTl, well, We kin make our guesses. Don't know how he managed It, Hut in our positlrns, We kin speculate ti bit. - i ve s?ot my suspicions!" Whtn the woYM is och;;n' Oneois (in' .son;,' an' .uu.ii.tc-, Jn:jL2 comes n-buttiu' in. Kiniin' at son-.e R-aftcr Yvho has played a sar.ie to cliar. ivatuial oumi'.uons; Talks mysterious an' strange. ilavin' his suspicions. Talk about tl-e perms tiiat ir.a!:o Life so grim an' painl'ul! Jabez fainy seems 16 ael;e With his pangs disdainuil. When I see him jr'.v'.n' these Envious exhibitions, Uruther nave a rei.l disease 'ihan his blame suspicions!- Washinstcn St.r. Patron (to busy waitress) "You haven't any sineuira, Lave you?" Waitrcis "Sorry, sir; but we just served the last order." E;s:on Tran script. Him "I I don't know how to tell you how I love you." Her "Den't worry about that I'll take it as it com'ea. What you want to get ner vous about is how to tell papa aDout it." Cleveland Leader. Usher ''Lidies, the audience wish es you to keep still during this per formance." Ladies "Heavens! Is it possible ' that the audience hasn't heard this old opera before?" C.eve land Leader. Stranger (myistculous'.y) "I'd lite to get into a gambling game of sDme sort. Where can I go?" lired Look ing. Man (whispering) "Over to tne office of that justice of th.2 pcac. He'll marry ycu." St. Louis Siar. 'Cholly's club and Ferdy's rlub got up teams and played a game of ball for-the" benefit of a hospital." "Make any money for the hospital?" "No, but they made considerable business for it." Loui3viIle Courier-Journal. Stranger "I say, my lad, what 5s considered a good score on thesa links?" Caddie "Well, sir, most of the gents here tries to do it in as few strokes as they can, but it gen erally takes a few 'more." Boston Transcript. Sympathetic lady (to girl waif cf street, hc'.ding screaming chill) "What is the baby crying fcr, my child?" "I du..ino; 'e's alw'ys crying. I never came acrawst anyone wot locks upon the dark side of things as ' dees." Punch. "Can't we have our marriage cele brated quietly, dear duke?" "You mean wizout 1 ze gr-r-reat crowd?" "Yes." "I'm afr-r-raid net. My cred itors are quite sure to find us out and every one weel be zare!" Cleve land Plain Dealer. "What do ypu regard a3 'Ae chief difference between a theorist and a practical mnn?" "A theorist," replied Senator Sorghum, "studies out how a thing ought to be done, and the other fellow makes up bis mind hew it can be done." Washington Star. "I tell you I am worrying a lot over this bakers' strike." "I don't see what call you have to worry. I heard your wife telling mine that she was going to make all the tread herself." "Yes; that's what's worry ing me." Baltimore American. "Father, what do you wish me to be when I grow up?" "The same a3 I am, my son a lawyer." "Then, In stead of wasting any mere time on arithpietlc. errrr"phy and such truck I'd better be getting at th? hypothe tical ques-.-, - nadn't 1?" Judge's Library. "The great pcets have aore . eo much to make life easier!" said the earnest, you-ig wcmaiv "That's right," replied Mr. Cumrox; "if it weren't for the great poets we'd be tumi:ud many a time for something to write in an autograph album." Washing ton Star. "I want the office, cf cours?," said the aspiring statesma'n, "but not un less I am the people's choice." "We caa fix that, tco," said his carr.pa'gn manager; "only you know it's a good deal more expensive to be the people's choice than it is to go in as the com promise candidate." Chicago Tri bune. Rat Skins are Marketable. An impetus to the war of externvn fjticn of the trown rat, now being waged by the governments or many countries, including the LTnitei States government, as well as some cf the Pa cific states, may result from the fact that the skins of the rodents are mar ketable. Already the trafll: la tills commodity amounts to more than a quarter of a million dollars annual!' in England. Such a trade i3 now b? ing developed cn a largs basis in Cal cutta, and in all probability it will al so develop , in the United States. It hr.3 been found that the skin of this rodent is well adapted t s -. arl ety of purposes, such as the binding of books and the making of purs s. gloves and ether articles of use and adornment. To sern're the most per fect skins the rat3 should be tripped or dispatched by other means than by virus, as the peculiar eruptive eff'et of this means of killing depreciates the valr.e c! .the skin. Popular Me chanics, i The opening cf the Trail ranfiine tunnel has reduced tae journey be tween Valparaiso and Buenos Al?,.z to SI hour- "I WANT TO CLOSE UP 's -r- i I 'ill illi l '. I t-i " 'l' i l ii 'I V ". i'1 . ' " Mill; flit L-J." If! I !f ".((."" TJ i 1 1 i! ! ( rLMf J 1 1 $11 i ' 'i'i 1 1 I I 1 1 i i i Cartoon by AEROPLANES IN ARMY SOON, DECLARES BELL General Thinks They Will Be in Uso With About Five or Ten Years You Id Displace Dirigible At Same Time Ordnance For Destroying ' Aircraft Will Undergo Rapid Development New York City. Major-General J. Franklin Bell, former chief of staff of the United States Army, who, is on a six-months' leave of absence, will take command of the Philippines division of the army, sailing on December 5 from San Francisco. Asked his opin ion concerning the probable utility of flying machines from the point of view of the soldier-, General Bell naid: "For transporting considerable weight It would seem probable that dirigible balloons might be more val uable in war than heavier-than-air-machlnes, yet they are subject to a serious drawback in making headway against a wind blowing at a consider able rate. The whole science is still in such a state of development that only experiment can work it out. However, those who will bear in mind the numerous difficulties which have been overcome by modern motor ve hicles in their rapid development will be inclined to believe that heavier-than-air-machines will in the next few years be sufficiently developed to make them reliable in navigating the air except in wind currents which can be properly classified as storms. War Aeroplanes in a Decade. "To just what extent heavier-than-Rir machines can be utilized in carry ing weight it is, of course, impossible to foresee. But I have personally no doubt that aeroplanes will be perfect ed in the course of ten years at the most, if not in five, that may be relied upon to carry from three to five per sons, and possibly a small amount of explosives in addition. "By the time this comes about ord nance for the purpose of destroying air craft will unquestionably have been developed, and ballistic tables designed .to control th trajectory of such ordnance will also have been de veloped. It should be understood that the science of heavy gun fire which PROTESTANTS, CATHOLICS AND JEWS FORM ORGAN- . IZATION NATION WIDE TO STOP THE SPREAD OF SOCIALISM The ReY. Dr. John W. Hill Is the Founder of the League and Its President Trie New Society to Ee Named the Individual and Social Justice League of America. New York' City. In an effort to eombat what the promoters consider the evils of socialism there was or ganized in the parish house of All Souls' Unitarian Church, Fourth ave nue and Twentieth street, "The Indi vidual and Social Justice League of America." The leaders of the move ment objected to having it called an anti-socialistic organization, but termed it rather a middle ground be tween individualism and socialism. The league has a general council of sixty-six individuals, about half clergymen v and half laymen. A few women are in the council. The per sonnel includes Protestants, Catholics and Jews, and among the representa tives nrs bishona ani other clergymen, college presidents, labor leaders. Rep resentatives In congress, lawyers, oi fipors nf natriotlc societies, editors and heads of philanthropic and relig ious bodies. The organization will form branches in. every large city of the country and spread its propaganda by field agents, circulating libraries and lecture bu reaus. Its prospectus snys: "The purpose of this association Is to set clearly before the American people the principles at issue between American thought and life as com pared with the economic and political revolution proposed by socialism; to promote a loyal adherence to the in stitutions by which America has come to be a land of freedom, progress and reverence for law; to exemplify and reinforce the faith of the people in personal initiative as the mainspring of all social, industrial and political progress; to safeguard the rights of life, liberty and property; to inculcate just conditions of industrial and com mercial competition while resisting the aggressions of private privilege at the expense of public welfare; to de fend the workman in his demand for an equitable return for his labor; to State Railroad, on Wliich 22 Were Killed, in Abominable Conditio. Paris, The engine driver who is held responsible for the collision at Villepreus, which resulted in the kill ing of twenty-two persons and the in jury of eighty others, hz3 been arreEt ed. It is considered that he is being made a scapegoat for others high in. official life. The condition oZ the system and the material stite of the railroad are de plorable and had been a matter of vehement discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. LIKE A NATIVE OYSTER." C. R. JIacauley, in the New York World. has been brought to Buch a higH state of perfection by our seacoast artil lery, is all based upon the study of trajectories made by firing guns at a nearly horizontal angle of fire, and firing mortars in a nearly vertical an gle of fire, but in the latter case with a view of hitting, a mark which is at the level of the earth's surface. Air Craft Firing Inaccurate, Too. "No figuring has yet been perfected upon the problem of hitting objects in the air by this or any other nation, and it will probably be found that factors enter into the latter proposi tion which do not apply at all,vor, if so, with much less or greater degree in ordinary firing that has so far been perfected. There is nothing impossi ble, however, about perfecting verti cal trajectories. Eut the problem would have to be studied and theoret- ; ical deductions would have to be pro ven by much experimental firing be fore reliable range tables could be compiled and used in firing at air craft. "Owing to the speed at whi?.h air craft can travel, the problem of ac curate firing at them would be consid erably more difficult, but this self same speed would likewise make it difficult for persons in the air craft to hurl projectiles and strike the objects aimed at on the ground, or to fire any kind of ordnance with any degree of accuracy at objects on the earth's sur face. "Aeroplanes will unquestionably be of very great assistance in making hasty reconnaissances of the enemy, but observations therefrom, I imag ine, would not be very valuable in to pographical surveys. Without any doubt, however, there will be special telephoto lenses designed for photo graphic work at high speed, so that accurate pictures may be made of the enemy's mobilization and distribu tlon." typhoid the American ideal of home, th integrity of the family, the love of country and to maintain 'the ever lasting reality of religion' as the foun dation of our civilization." Officers were elected. The presi dent is the founder, the Rev. Dr. John Wesley Hill, pastor of the Metropoli tan Methodist Episcopal Temple, Sev enth avenue and Fourteenth street. Dr. Hill is a close friend of President Taft, and was with him during his re cent trip to the Middle West. The first Tice-president is Archbishop Ire land, of St. Paul. One of the mem bers of the General Council i9 Arch bishop O'Connell, of Boston. The second vice-president is Peter W. Col lins, of Springfield, 111., secretary of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. This movement took shape in the mind .of Dr. Hill sit months ago, and for five months private meetings have taken place at the Manhattan Hotel, the City Club, the Metropolitan Tem ple and All Souls' Parish House. Dr. Hill has recently preached in bis' own pulpit for twelve Sunday nights on socialistic questions. Itecently there was a luncheon at the Manhattan. Archbishop Ireland has been at two gatherings. ' In announcing the General Council Dr. Hill said that every member had accepted election enthusiastically and that most of the members had attend ed meetings. Dr. Reed, head of Dickinson Col lege, said: "I think there is an unsettled trend toward socialism in this country. I find 'it in colleges and universities. I should judo in this league, we are leading toward the middle pathway between individualism and socialism." Mr. Slicer, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Mc Closkey, Mr. Moffett and Dr. Gross man spoke along the same line. The movement's growing rapidly. Milwaukee Tublic Works Put Under One Head. Milwaukee, Wis. A change in the city administration, second only in importance to that in the Mayor's office, went into effect when Harry E. Briggs became Commissioner of Pub lic Works, succeeding the outgoing board of four commissioners. This puts all public works under one cfiicial. The new Commissioner named J. J. Handley, business agent of the Machinists Union, as Superin tendent of the Street Cleaning De partmen- Though heat will make a solid or a liquid incandrseant, it can only in crease the pressure of a gas. Recent statistics cf tho German army chow tl.at neurasthenia is three and a hair times as prevalent among the soldiers as it waj a titauu ago, wnile hysteria cases are nvioa us numerous. An electric lighting plant in Nebras ka is manufacturing ice as a by-product. The exhaust steam oil tho plant, which would otherwise go to waste, is utilized in the ammonia absorption process of ice mauulacture, and also tor distilling water trom which the ice is made. This venture has proved a very profitable one for tho lighting company, and might be copied to ad vantage by other similar plants. One Le Roullist, cf Limoges, in France, seems to have been able to make clocks from any material, how ever unsuitable. One clock he fash ioned entirely from old newspapers converted i:rto pulp; another from large and ' small sticks held together by wires; a third from discarded to bacco cans; and so on. Some of his clocks are, however, triumphs of workmanship. Harper's Weenly. A new system cf jointing lead ca bles has been developed in England, says the Scientific American. It con sists in placing a thin ribbon of puro tin between the surfaces that are to be joined, and then heating them with a blow lamp. The surfaces in the pres ence of the tin melt at a lower tem perature than normal, and thus they are soldered together. The tin ribbon is treated with a composition to pre vent oxidation during heating. Anoth er system of jointing consists in the application of a mold over the cable. A piece of tin ribbon is applied to the surfaces which are to be joined, and then molten lead is poured into the mold. The flow is so directed as not to burn through the lead sheathing of the cable. For the last year systematic excav ations have been made at Ostia, the ancient harbor of Rome at the mouth of the Tiber. The ruins of a large city, built 'probably by Hadrian over the old republican town, have been un covered. Archaeologists considsr the discoveries as important as those of Pompeii. Heretofore, says the Scienti fic American, it has been believed that Ostia was founded by Ancus Martins, the fourth king of Rome, that it was destroyed by Marius during the civil wars, rebuilt during the republic, sank into insignificance, and was bur ied in the sand and deposited in the Tiber when Trajan built the new port and city of Uortus. Instead of this it is now certain that Ostia not only continued to flourish under Hadrian, but that the old level was raised six feet and that the republican town served as the foundation for a model city with rectangular wide street temples, fora and squares. WOOD USED IN AIRSHIPS. Why It Is Preferred by B Ilder of New German Dirigible. The new dirigible designed by Prof. Schutte, of Dantzig, is now in course of construction at Rheinau, near Man heim, says the Kolnlsche Zeitung. The wooden framework is already nearly complete. Wood has been used In preference to metal for two reasons, to save weight and to minimize troublesome atmospheric electrical phenomena. The airship is to be somewhat larg er than the last Zeppelin. The balloon troper is 1SS meters long and its greatest diameter is seventeen meters. It is cigar-shaped, having its maximum proper is 13S meters long and its length, and then gently tapering be hind. This form is said to offer a minimum resistance to the wind. The wood is prepared in small sec tions, free from knots, a f.ew millime ters in thickness. These sections are glued over one another crosswise to form thin, narrow but extremely strong planks. The whole framework will be concealed from view by tho outer covering of the balloon. There will be eleven inner ballonets, just as in the Zeppelin. The steering gear will be placed im mediately below the balloon, and con sists of a rudder, governing lateral movements, and two elevating rud ders. The two propellers will be di rectly connected with the motors in the car. Each propeller shaft will be driven by two motors. The motors will be able to develop in all 600 horse power. The car is to be so suspended that in the oir it will be rigidly con nected to the framework of the bal loon, but as soon as it touches the ground the connections will become slack, thus taking off part of the weight and guarumg the body of tha balloon from injury by shocks. Dangers of Rice. Rice is kept for use in the Orient m its husk just like horse oats or unthreshed wheat. It is called "pad dy," and Is beaten or threshed fcr daily use. But pure husked rice i-3 too rough and unattractive looking for world markets, so it is polished in revolving cylinders with French chalk to make it pretty, pearly, smooth. But this robs it of its cuter layer and mo'?t valuable fool qualities. Polished rice IS regarded as poiscn in Japan, and is known t: produce the dreadful epidemic disease, Ivri-beri, in Jap3 who live too exclusively on a rice diet and eating little or no meat. Tip ia the New York Tress.
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