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—_ or Some fault may be found because the Wl | airships do not always go up as they are as advertised, but after a prolonged ingpee- <a tion of two or three Airships on of them ina state of yn captivity, as they are $- the Farm. shown in the aero- oA drome, and a careful ve | Study of their habits and demeanor I ~. | should not like te accompany an airship 1- | in its filght at all. I would much prefer an old-fashioned balloon that drags you through the trees for three miles or ,. | Knocks down six acres of standing corn ,. | for the honest farmer when it deposits in | You on tand. This is a great. deal better i- | than being left hanging to the gataovle e- | of an office building Sant stories from the 4 | ground, as the airship navigator some- times is, or having the gas envelope-catch fire from the gasoline motor and come to ,. | earth like one of these fiy by night beetles n | that butts into an are light. t takes a m | daring man to make an ascension sitting s-|/on a self-binding reaper tied under a i- | lemon-shaped and lemon-colored balloon. ‘© | ‘Che only apparent difference between the +4 mppereces of an ge 4 and a beautiful o | red harvester is that the airship has no e | Sickle bar and is not painted red. With yt | the sickle bar added I see no reason why ir me airship should not skim along the 4 | ground about 30 inches from the surface, "| which seems their usual elevation, and | behead a whole field of wheat in twenty da | minutes, It is not as an airship, perhaps, a that these cuntraptions will fing their or mn ' $4 Ny OOK. om , : vA n SS : ] = S 22 A SB ‘Ss y . NWKAL “2 eae RES WZ ‘ We eg} 2 : Sh SK i= SS 3 . \ aa ir . W) = = e€ Vp, ¢ Bp bes , | A lH ‘ eo , a \ 3s h YZ h — h Vig ¥ WZ VANWA Z, es ddl: 1 mM " \\ re ° ae Xi DI. A) | t > lh \ Vea Li ys A : a. Na = ay C Sa i= ~“ $ QS 4 Lf = r X\ # fe : rt <— WN . cs aa y e 4 : && ‘Ny Vigo) r 5 Lo . NS —=S= = Za : Havoc in the cornfields. : greatest usefulness, but as automatic hot- air harvesters. Since many of them can not scale a fence, they may at least revo- lutionize labor on the farm. : The real reason why a New Yorker ete “Die Weborin” in the Austrian pavilion was to get the ig. Sal to put his fingers on it and find: out if it isn’t em- broidery instead of painting, as many ’ | visitors think it is; but it isn’t. A vell of mosquito netting conceals an - | awful affliction of ‘‘Miss Louisiana,’’ the _ | Sugar young woman from the state of , | that name. The fact is, Miss Louisiana's _ | right arm has parted from her, and there - | are other pea pain, signs that she is in > | the throes of dissolution: : yt Porto Rico fias also begun to serve * | coffee free since the road to popularity , | Seems to iie in that direction. ; NRL NE ’ All around the roses bloomed in the , | Sunny French garden, unscorched by the late frosts and shed their faint perfume ; on the air; there In the French were pink and crim- : son, white and blush Rose Garden. tose, the velvety ~ . dark petals of the Jacqueminot and waxen _ shell-like | chalices of La Frances, ivory, half-opened | buds of bride roses, and curled snow- white disks of the roses that carry their | Message of hope beside the bier of the | dead, h-headed Marechal Neil roses, | like fine ladies in creamy satin, roses like meant of neonate Stars, a handful on a - |} single stem, and many, many more, new ) | families of roses by their beauty and their opulence pushing themselves into , | the older artistocracy of the flowers. The . | daily garden party of the roses was as . | thronged as ever; but soft, what ia ; pextume is that that floats upon the reeze? bide more than floats, it per- | meates it; it devours it, it takes it for its own and overwhelms the softer and | | more delicate scents exhaled by the close- , | Marshaled ranks of the roses. It spreads | afar, and. wi the Dice riety § sweep of sulphury slrocco from Mont Pelee in } | her fury, 's down all else. Why, that . | is the gardener, good man, preparing an - | onion stew, with large red onions on his - | cook stove in the eae house. For one 1} can not live and have the joy of living } | on the breath of roses alone. And that is why eee who went in to sniff the | roses, snuffed up the more substantial -fand yet still more et ae aroma of -| the entirely unornamental and more use- }| ful onion. if Whole exhibits devoted to sportsmen’s _| goods. What will spgqrtsmen do when there is no more game to shoot? The an- | swer may be in the list of homicides ev- ery .year when the deer shooting season _j opens. . Se the German, bells are to go to Read- ing. Pa. Isn’t Liberty bell about enough in the way of belis' for Pennsylvania? - Good time is kept’ by the floral clock iftits face: has been rather disfigured. The vopemete Pe Was turning th9 vase in hand, still soft and fastic. It was the triumph of all the claps 8 in Fujiwuri. Its ta- Story of, the pering neck was like the swan’s, its swell- Japanese Vase. ne bowl more grace- : ful than the round- est orange that ever grew in Japan, and the fairy ears Me its side made the young pa think of the Sea Sg aan of a little maiden who daily pas his shop window and smiled a small slant ; pint Pas n him. At this moment the lit- t en peeped suddenly in at the win- }_ <oene Re feed J pottér was startled, |. He blush olive. red—for in Japan there fs’ olive red just as well as olive | | green—and peroppes the vase. Oh, most Gtepreestonet _Its graceful swelling side | | ba crushed, its swan-like neck was | ‘ twistea; maeebon un would it be the pride | ‘ of the wo: pin Fujiwuri. He sionned 4 te pick it‘up, and as he rose he looked | | are cause -of his undoing; the little | - mai@en with the rose-petal ears and th® slant smile was gone. The potter lifted | | his hand-to hurl the vase from him, but the master potter. standing near, seized his arm. ‘‘No,” he said; “spere it. We shall send. it tothe World’s Fair in St. Louis. It is ruined, it is true, but at the ; World’s Fair many strange, roings will be | * shown, many freaks and oddities, and this will be one.””. So they dried the de- F formed, crooked, ugly vase and painted 4t | | ; gay designs. and fired it in the kiln, In ‘ ue time it of 4 yer at the Fair among - the ieee, de other of its symmetrical, more com companions. And people § came and Jooked at it and said: “Why ; is this crooked, bent and ugly ng? placed here? We see nothing to entitle it to be | § displayed.’* One day heaven vouchsatfed | - the owner of the vase a happy thought. | ‘ He hung a card upon it: “Real Kimu- | § chaki from Fujiwuri” (perhaps it was}? somethin else, at that’s the substance). } “Price $987.30." en camb the amenithect? in scores, in hundreds, in thousands, with | § exciamations of wonder and pleasure; and | * one day in ae corer chair came also a | § man named: lirich. a millionaire from | * New York, and he paid $987.30 for the | * vase from Fujiwuri, and bore it away as | ' something precious. ; : ‘ ; eers ehouldn’t go th the gattice at such ‘a pace: then. they wouldnt | Taise such a dust as to make it notice- : abie in breathing. — $s 7 _ They are still playing “Good Old Sum- | ‘ mer ‘time in the Manninctores. buildings, : either to keep up their spirits or to keep I up the temperature. gone en Bee es ’ | Funny that frost killed all the indige- fer camera’ Gtaeie re Sree et soho aeeetane En en || xs of th Soe SE toys in the» ry oo EB a atdeeud? baw dir oF ay bct- ; Gx dps chtns : $ ee a aoe = SAS ss Saget he beeches, hag ate in sare t Ce) Rn ee ea Ie 2 ere ee euch tusks 1 to arri ve % es ee = fornia s happened | : |timuing _ were bewitched in an open-| — Peis sa fihkok atlas < anit Ak ea a Se Ay te. $ Panel oe eae nz