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CHAPTER I.
"the Little bons of the Rich" were
gathered about the long table in Pettingul's
stuaio. there were nine of
them present besides Brewster. They
were ail young, more or less enterprising,
nopetul and reasonably sure of
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better tnings 10 come, muai vi
bore names that meant something in
the story of New York. Indeed one of
them had remarked. "A man is known
by me oircct tuat s nameu after mm/'
and as he was a new member they
calied him Subway.
The most popular man in the company
was young Monty Brewster. He
was tall and straight and smooth
shaven. Peopie called him "clean looking."
Older women were interested in
him because his father and mother had
made a romantic runaway match,
which was the talk of the town in the
seventies, and had never been forgiven.
Worldly women were interested in him
because he was the only grandson of
Edwin Peter Brewster, who was many
times a millionaire, and Monty was
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rabsentminded gift to charity. Younger
women were interested for a much
more obvious and simple reason?they
liked him. Men also took to Monty because
he was a good sportsman, a man i
among men, because he had a decent
respect for himself and no great aver- :
sion to work.
His father and mother had both died
# while he was still a child, and as if to
\ make up for his long relentlessness, the
grandfather had taken the boy to his
own house and had cared for him with
what he called affection. After college
, and some months on the continent,
however, Monty had preferred to be <
independent. Old Mr. Brewster had
found him a place in the bank, but beyond
this and occasional dinners Monty
asked for and received no favors.
It was a question of work, and hard
work and small pay. He lived on his
salary because he had to, but he did
*"* hie frrnndfather's attitude.
He was better satisfied to spend his
"weakly salary," as he called it, in his
own way than to earn more by dining
seven nights a week with an old man
who had forgotten he was ever young.
It was less wearing, he said.
A Among the Little Sons of the Rich
birthdays were always occasions for
HB feasting. The table was covered with
^ dishes sent up from the French restaurant
in the basement. The chairs :
were pushed back, cigarettes were 1
lighted, men had their knees crossed.
Then Pettingill got up. (
"Gentlemen," he began, "we are here
to celebrate the twenty-fifth birthday
^ of Mr. Montgomery Brewster. I ask
W vou all to join me in drinking to his
long life and happiness."
"No heel taps!" same one shouted.
"Brewster! Brewster!" all called at 1
once. '
"For he's a jolly good fellow,
For he's a jolly good fellow!" ]
The sudden ringing of an eiectrlc bell
cut off this (low of sentiment, and so
unusual was the interruption that the
ten members straightened up as if
jerked into position by a string.
"The police!" some one suggested.
All faces were turned toward the door.
A waiter stood there, uncertain wheth...
e; to turn the knob or push the Doit, i
"Nuisance!" said Richard Van Winkle.
"I want to hear Brewster's'
^ speech." I
"Speech! Speech!" Echoed everywhere.
Men settled into their places.
"Mr. Montgomery Brewster," Pettingill
introduced. i
JP Again the bell rang?loud and long.
\ "Re-enforcements. I'll bet there's a
patrol in the street." remarked Oliver
Harrison.
"If it's only the police, let them in."
said Pettlngill. "I thought it was a ;
. creditor."
The waiter opened the door.
"Some one to see Mr. Brewster, sir,"
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"Is she pretty; waiter?" called McCloud.
"He says he is Ellis, from your
grandfather's, sir!"
"My compliments to Ellis and ask
him to inform my grandfather that It's
after banking hours. I'll see him in
the morning." said Mr. Brewster, who
had reddened under the jests of his
companions.
"Grandpa doesn't want his Mont}
to stay out after dark." chuckled Subway
Smith.
"It was most thoughtful of the old
gentleman to have the man call for
you with the perambulator," shouted
Pettingill above the laughter. "Tell
him you've already had your bottle,"
added McCloud.
"Walter, tell Ellis I'm too busy to
be seen," commanded Brewster, and as
Ellis went down in the elevator a roar
l followed him.
"Now for Brewster's speech! Brewster!"
Monty rose.
"CJentlemen, you seem to have forgotten
for the moment that I am twenty-five
years old this day and that your
remarks have been childish and wholly
unbecoming the dignity of my age.
That I have arrived at a period of discretion
is evident from mv choice of
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spect is evident from mv grandfather'?
notorious wealth. You have done me
the honor to drink mv health and a reassure
me as to the inoffensiveness of
approaching- senllitv. Now I ask you
all to rise and drink to the Little Sons
of the Rich. May the Lord love us!"
An hour later Rip Van Winkle and
Subwav Smith were singing "Tell me.
Prettv Maiden." to the uncertain accompaniment
of Pettlngill's violin,
when the electric bell again disturbed
the comnanv.
"For heaven's sake!" shouted Harrison.
who had been singing "With All
Thv Faults. I I^ove Thee Still." to Petting'll's
lav Fgure.
"(Tome home with me. grannson:
come hom-> with me now." suggested
| Suhwav S'mlth.
"Tell Ellis to co to Halifax!" commanded
Montgomery. And again Ellis
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took the elevator downward. His
usually Impassive face now wore a look
of anxiety, and twice he started to re
turn to the top floor, shaking his head
dubiously. At last he climbed into a
hansom and reluctantly left the revelers
behind. J-o knew it was a birthday
celebration, and it was only half
past 12 in the morning.
At 3 o'clock the elevator made another
trip to the top floor, and Ellis
rushed over to the unfriendly doorbell.
This time there was stubborn
determination in his face. The singing
ceased, and a roar of laughter followed
the hush of a moment or two.
"Come in!" called a hearty voice.
And Ellis strode firmly into the studio.
"You are just in time for a 'nightcap,'
Ellis," cried Harrison, rushing to
the footman's side. Ellis, stolidly facing
the young man, lifted his hand.
"No, thank you. sir," he said respect
fully. "Mr. Montgomery, if you'll excuse
me for breaking In, I'd like to
give you the messages I've brought
here tonight."
"You're a faithful old chap," said
Subway Smith thickly. "Hanged if I'd
do A. D. T. work till 3 a. m, for anybody."
"I came at 10, Mr. Montgomery, with
a message from Mr. Brewster wishing
you many happy returns of the day
and with a check from him for $1,000.
Here's the check, sir. I'll give my messages
in the order I received them, sir,
if you please. At 12.30 o'clock I came
with a message from Dr. Gower, sir
who had been called in"?
"Called in?" gasped Montgomery',
turning white.
"Yes, sir. Mr. Brewster had a sudden
heart attack at half past 11, sir.
The doctor sent word by me, sir, that
he was at the point of death. My last
message"?
'Good Lord.'"
"This time I bring a message from
Rawles, the butler, asking you to come
to Mr. Brewster's house at once, if
you can, sir?I mean if you will, sir,"
Ellis interjected apologetically. Then
with his gaze directed steadily over the
heads of the subdued "sons," he added
impressively:
"Mr. Brewster is dead, sir."
chaptp:r II.
Montgomery Brewster no longer had
'prospects." People could not now
point him out with the remark that
some day he would come into a million
oi two. He had "realized," a-s Oliver
Harrison would have put it. Two
[lays after his grandfather's funeral a
final will and testament was read, and,
as was expected, the old banker atoned
for the hardships Robert Brewster and
his wife had endured by bequeathing
SI.000,000 to their son Montgomery. It
was his without a restriction, without
an admonition, without an incumbrance.
There was not a suggestion as
to how it should be handled by their
heir. The business training the old
man had given him was synonymous ,
with conditions not expressed in the
will. The dead man believed that he
had drilled into the youth an unmistakable
conception of what was expected
of him in life. If he failed in
these expectations the misfortune
would be his alone to bear. A road
had been carved out for him, and behind
him stretched a long 'ine of guideposts
whose laconic Instructions might ,
be ignored, but never forgotten. Edwin ,
Peter Brewster evidently made his
will with the sensible conviction that
it was necessary for him to die before
anybody else could possess his money
and that once dead it would be folly
for him to worry over the way in which
beneficiaries might choose to manage
their own affairs.
The house in Fifth avenue went to a
sister, together with a million or two.
and the residue of "the estate found
kindly disposed relatives who were
willing to keep it from going to the
Home For Friendless Fortunes. Old
Mr. Brewster left his affairs In order.
The will nominated Jerome Ruskirk as
executor, and he was instructed, in
conclusion, to turn over to Montgomery
Brewster the day after the will was
probated securities to the amount of
Jl.000,000, provided for in clause 4 of
the instrument. And so it was that on
the 26th of September young Mr.
Brewster had an unconditional fortune
thrust upon him, weighted only with
the suggestion of crape that clung to
it.
Since his grandfather's death he had
been staying at the gloomy old Brewster
house in Fifth avenue, paying but
two or three hurried visits to the rooms
at Mrs. Gray's where he had made his
home. The gloom of death still darkened
the Fifth avenue place, and
there was a stillness, a gentle stealthiness,
about the house that made him
long for more cheerful companionship.
He wondered dimly if a fortune always
carried the suggestions of tuberoses.
The richness and strangeness of it all
hung about him unpleasantly. He had
had no extravagant affection for the
girm old dictator who was dead, yet
his grandfather was a man and had
commanded his respect. It seemed
brutal to leave him out of the reckoning?to
dance on the grave of the mentor
who had treated him so well. The
attitude of the friends who clapped him
on the back, of the newspapers which
congratulated him, of the crowd that
expected him to rejoice, repelled him.
It seemed a tragic comedy, haunted,
too, by memories and by sharp regret
for his own foolish thoughtlessness.
Even the fortune itself weighed upon
him at moments with a half defined
melancholy.
Yet the situation was not without its
compensations, f or several ciays wnen
Ellis called him at 7 he would answer
him and thank fortune that lie was
not required at the bank that morning.
The luxury of another hour of sleep
seemed the greatest perquisite of
wealth. His morning mall amused him
at first, for since the newspapers had
published his prosperity to the world
lie was deluged with letters. Requests
for public or private charity
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were aounuam, uui mom ui mo vmrespondents
were generous and thought
only of his own good.
For three days he was in a hopeless
state of bewilderment. He was visited
by reporters, photographers and ingenious
strangers, who benevolently
offered to invest his money in enterprises
with certified futures. When he
was not engaged in declining a gold
mine in Colorado, worth $5,000,000,
marked down to $450, he was avoiding
a guileless inventor who offered to sacrifice
the secrets of a marvelous device
for $300 or denying the report that
lie had been tendered the presidency
of the First National bank.
Oliver Harrison stirred him out eany
one morning and, while the sleepy millionaire
was rubbing his eyes and still
dodging the bombshell that a divam
anarchist had hurled from the pinnacle
of a bedpost, urged him in excited,
confidential tones to take time by the
forelock and prepare for possible
breach of promise suits. Brewster sat
on the edge of the bed and listened to
diabolical stories of how conscienceless
females had fleeced innocent and even
godly men of wealth. From the bathroom
between splashes he retained
Harrison by the year, month, day and
hour to stand between him and blackmail.
The directors of the bank met and
adopted resolutions lamenting the
death of their late president, passed
the leadership on to the first vice president
and speedily adjourned. The
question of admitting Monty to the directory
was brought up and discussed,
but it was left for time to settle.
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Prentiss Drew, "the railroad magnate"
of the newspapers. He had
shown a fondness for young Mr. Brewster,
and Monty had been a frequent
visitor at his house. Colonel Drew
called him "my dear boy," and Monty
called him "a bully old chap," though
not in his presence. But the existence
of Miss Barbara Drew may have had
something to do with the feeling between
the two men.
As he left the directors' room on the
afternoon of the meeting Colonel Drew
came up to Monty, who had notified
the officers of the bank that he was
leaving.
"Ah, my dear boy," said the colonel,
shaking the young man's hand warmly,
"now you have a chance to show what
you can do. You have a fortune, and,
with Judgment, you ought to be able
to triple it. If I can help you in
any way, come and see me."
Monty thanked him.
"You'll be bored to death by the raft
of people who have ways to spend your
money," continued the colonel. "Don't
listen to any of them. Take your time.
You'll have a new chance to make
money every day of your life, so go
slowly, id nave oeen ricn yea its unu
years ago if I'd had sense enough to
run away from promoters. They'll all
try to pet a whack at your money.
Keep your eye open, Monty. The rich
young' man Is always a tempting morsel."
After a moment's reflection he
added. "Won't you come out and dine
with us tomorrow night?"
CHAPTER III.
Mrs. Gray lived in Fortieth street.
For years Montgomery Brewster had
regarded her quiet, old fashioned home
as his own. The house had once been
her grandfather's, and it was one of the
pioneers in that part of the town. It
was there she was born, in its quaint
old parlor she was married, and all her
girlhood, her brief wedded life and her
widowhood were connected with it.
Mrs. Gray and Montgomery's mother
had been schoolmates and playmates,
and their friendship endured. When
old Edwin Peter Brewster looked about
for a place to house his orphaned
grandson, Mrs. Gray begged him to let
her care for the little fellow. He was
three years older than her Margaret,
and the children grew up as brother
and sister. Mr. Brewster was generous
in providing for the boy, while he was
away at college, spending money in a
manner that caused the old gentleman
to marvel at his own liberality. Mrs.
Gray was well paid for the unused, but
well kept apartments, and there never
was a murmur of complaint from Edvin
Peter Brewster. He was hard, but
he was not niggardly.
It had been something' of a struggle
for Mrs. Gray to make both ends meet.
The property in Fortieth street was her
nly possession. But little money had
come to her at her husband's death,
ond an unfortunate speculation of his
had swept away all that had fallen to
h r from her father, the late Judge
Merriweather. For years she kept the
old home unincumbered. teaching
French and English until Margaret was
well into her teens. The girl was sent
to one of the good old boarding schools
on the Hudson and came out well prepared
to help her mother in the battle
to keep the wolf down ana appearances
up. Margaret was rich in friendships,
and pride alone stood between her and
the advantages they offered. Good
looking, bright and cheerful, she knew
no natural privations. With a heart as
light and joyous as a May morning she
faced adversity as thought it were a
pleasure, and no one would have suspected
that even for a moment her
courage wavered.
Now that Hrewster had come into
his splendid fortune he could conceive
no greater delight than to share it
with them. To walk into the little
drawing room and serenely lay large
sums before them as their own, seemed
such a natural proceeding that he refused
to see an obstacle. Rut he knew
it was there. The proffer of such a
gift to Mrs. Gray would mean a wound
to the pride inherited from haughty
generations of men sufficient unto
Tlmre was a small hilt
troublesome mortgage on the house, a
matter of two or three thousand dollars.
and Brewster tried to evolve a
ph. 11 by which he could assume the
burden without giving1 deep and lasting
offense. A hundred wild designs had
come to him, but they were quickly relegated
to the growing heap of subterfuges
and pretexts condemned by his
tenderness for the pride of these two
women who meant so much to him.
Leaving the bank, he hastened by
electric car to Fortieth street and
Broadway and then walked eagerly off
into the street of the numeral. H? had
not yet come to the ooint where la- frit
likt- scorning the cars even thou a I
roll of bank notes was tucked s- . ?!\
away in a pocket that seemed to s.-ep.j
with sudden affluence. Old Hend ifaithful
servitor through two get J
tions. was sweeping the autumn 1? > '
from the sidewalk when Montgomery
came up to the house.
"Hello, Hendrick!" was the young
man's cheery greeting. "Nice lot of
haves you have there."
"So?" ebbed from Hendrick. who did
not even so much as look up from his
work. Hendrick was a human clam.
"Mrs. Gray in?"
A grunt that signified yes.
"You're as loquacious as ever, HenJrick."
A mere nod.
Brewster let himself in with his own
latchkey, threw his hat on a chair and
unceremoniously bolted into the library.
Margaret was seated near a window,
a book in her lap. The first evidence
of unbiased friendship he had
seen in days shone in her smile. She
took his hand and said simply, "We
are giad to welcome the prodigal to
his home again."
"I remind myself more of the fatted
calf."
Her first self consciousness had gone.
"I thought of that, but i didn't dare
say it," she laughed. "One must be
respectful to rich relatives."
"Hang your rich relatives, Peggy!
If I thought that tnis money wouia
make any difference I would give it up
this minute.
"Nonsense, Monty!" she said. "How
could It make a difference? But you
must admit It Is rather startling. The
friend of our youth leaves his humble
uwemng fcaturaay night with his salary
drawn for two weeks ahead. He
returns the following Thursday a dazzling
millionaire."
"I'm glad I've begun to dazzle anyway.
I thougnt it might be hard to
look the part."
"Well, I can't see that you are much
changed." 'there was a suggestion ot
a quaver in her voice, and the shadows
uid not prevent him from seeing
the quick mist that flitted across her
jtep eyes.
"After all, it's easy work being a
millionaire," he explained, "when
you've always had million dollar inclinations."
"And fifty cents possibilities," she
added.
"Really, though, I'll never get as
much joy out of my abundant riches
as I did out of financial embarrassments."
"But think how fine it is, Monty, not
ever to wonder where your winter's
overcoat is to come from and how
long the coal will last and all that."
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overcoats. The tailor did the wondering.
But I wish I could go on living
here just as before. I'd a heap rather
live here than at that gloomy place on
the avenue."
"That sounded like the things you
used to say when we played in the
garret. You'd a heap sooner do this
than that, don't you remember?"
"That's just why I'd rather live here,
Peggy. Last night I fell to thinking
of that old garret, and hanged if something
didn't come up and stick in my
throat so tight that I wanted to cry.
How long has it been since we played
up there? Yes, and how long has it
been since I read Oliver Optic to you,
lying there in the garret window while
you sat with your back against the
wall, your blue eyes as big as dollars?"
"Oh. dear me, Monty, it was ages
ago?twelve or thirteen years, at
least," she cried, a soft light in her
eyes.
"I'm going up there this afternoon
to see what the place is like," he said
eagerly. "And, Peggy, you must come
too. Maybe I can And one of those
Optic books, and we'll be young
again."
"Just for old time's sake," she said
impulsively. "You'll stay ior luncneon
too."
"I'll have to be at the?no, 1 won't
either. Do you know, I was thinking
I had to be at the bank at 12.30 to let
mr. Perkins go out for something to
eat? The millionaire habit isn't so
i.rmly fixed as I supposed." After a
moment's pause, in which his growing
seriousness changed the atmosphere,
he went on haltingly, uncertain of his
position, "The nicest thing about having
all this money is that?that?we
won't have to deny ourselves anything
after this." It did not sound very tactful,
now that it was out, and he was
compelled to scrutinize rather Intently
a familiar portrait in order to maintain
an air of careless assurance. She did
not respond to this venture, but he felt
that she was looking directly into his
sorely tried brain. "We'll do any
..mount of decorating about the house,
and?and you know that furnace has
been giving us a lot of trouble for two
or three years"? He was pouring out
ruthlessly when her hand fed gently
on his own, and she stood straight and
tall before him, an odd look In hei
eyes.
"Don't?please don't go on, Monty,"
she said very gently, but without
wavering. "I know what you mean.
You are good and very thoughtful,
Monty, but you really must not."
"Why, what's mine is yours"?he
began.
"I know you are generous, Monty,
and I know you have a heart. You
want us to?to take some of your
money." It was not easy to say It,
and as for Monty, he could only look
at the floor. "We cannot, Monty,
dear. You must never speak of It
again. Mamma and I had a feeling
that you would do it; but, don't you
see, even from you it Is an offer to
help, and It hurts.'
"Don't talk like that, Peggy," he
implored.
"It would break her heart if you
offered to give her money In that
way. She'd hate it, Monty. It is foolish,
perhaps, but you know we can't
take your money."
"I thought you?that you?oh, this
on the table over there," she replied
ignoring him.
He found the letters and resumed
his seat in the window, glancing half
heartedly over the contents of the envelopes.
The last was from Grant &
Ripley, attorneys, and even from his
abstraction it brought a surprised "By
Jove!" He read It aloud to Margaret.
Sept. 30.
Montgomery Brewster, Esq., New York:
Dear Sir?We are in receipt of a communication
from Mr. Swearengen Jones
of Montana conveying the sad intelligence
that your uncle, James T. Sedgwick,
died on the 24th Inst, at M? hospital
in Portland after a brief illness.
Mr. Jones by this time has qualified in
Montana as the executor of your uncle's
will and has retained us as his
eastern representatives. He incloses a
copy of the will, In which you are
named as sole heir, with conditions attending.
Will you call at our office this ;
afternoon if it is convenient? It Is
important that you know the contents
of the instrument at once. Respectful- '
ly yours.; Grant & Ripley. <
For a3 moment there was only
amazement in the air. Then a faint,
bewildered smile appeared in Monty's
face and reflected itself in the girl's. (
"Who Is your Uncle James?" she ,
asked.
"I've never heard of him."
"You must go to Grant & Ripley's ,
at once, of course."
"Have you forgotten, Peggy," he replied,
with a hint of vexation In his (
voice, "that we are to read Oliver Optics
this afternoon?"
To be Continued
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WHAT OF THE CMNAL?
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Engineering ProDloms Not Settled?
vast Prospective Cost of Enterprise.
Evidences multiply daily that the ,
most serious problem confronting the
new administration Is that involved in
the construction of the Panama canal.
It is all well enough to talk about the
excellent sanitary conditions, the contentment
of workmen who are recelv- ,
Ing double wages, the unexpected |
progress being made, the flying dirt
the "In-Roosevelt-we-Trust" medals
to be presented to every one who
works two years, etc. But what about
the canal? No sane man will be surprised
to hear that any Idea of approximating
the ultimate cost has already
been abandoned. The original (
estimates were not only crude, but,
we were Informed at the time, deliberately
minimized In the aggregate by (
taking the lowest suggested in each
individual case, so that the grand to- ,
cal would not paralyze both congress ,
and the country. (
Secretary Taft indicated his appre- ,
elation of the situation when, after 1
visiting the isthmus, he dismissed the
question of cost with the remark that !
it was idle to discuss that phase, since
in any event, we were committed to
the Job. The original estimate of j
$145,000,000 faded into insignificance
ioiig ago. L'ndon W. Bates, an engineer
of the first rank, now puts it ,
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tion to the effect that probably a much
larger sum will be required. The best J
judgment i"Sayman can form from
attainable information would fix the
total expenditure at little less than a
billion dollars before a ship will pass
from sea to sea.
But, accepting Mr. Taft's view that
we are bound to finish the gigantic
undertaking irrespective of cost, again
we asK, what about the canal? Is it '
doomed to be a failure in the end?
The army engineers continue to profess
confidence. That is but natural
and to be expected. But expert opinions
from other sources grow more '
and more disquieting.
There Is no doubt that many
changes have been made in the plans
accepted, although by whose authority
or how material can not be ascertain- '
ed. The chief point of contention relates
to the foundations of the great
Gatun dam. This structure will be ^
more than a mile long and required to
hold a body of water eighty feet deep
and covering several square miles of '
oasin. The pressure on some portions
will be 14,000 pounds or more to the
square foot. The French engineer.
Bunau-Varllla, has maintained consistently
from the beginning that no
.urn could be built upon a foundation
of blue clay that would withstand this
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tremendous weigni. ?-1 ^of
Columbia university and Mr. Bates,
both eminent men. confirm this judgment.
The original opinion to the
contrary was based upon a statement
that the deposit which would consti- '
tute the actual foundation was not
olue clay, but a mixture of rock and
sand. The latest official report, however,
says:
Both the test pit and the borings
over the other portions of the dam
site indicate that the top layer is a
fine sand with a large maximum depth
at one point of approximately eighty
feet. Underlying this, for a distance
of one hundred feet or more, is a thick
marine deposit of blue clay containing
a little sand, and In some parts a 1
considerable quantity of shells; this
material Is impervious. Under this
and directly overlying the rock is a '
deposit, varying in thickness up to
twenty feet, of small bowlders and
gravel consolidated, and cemented to- 1
gether with finely divided clays and 1
silts. '
Messrs. Bunau-Varilla and Bates !
regard this as confirmatory of their '
judgment, and so. to the lay mind, It i
would seem to be. The official re- ;
port, however, pronounces "the ma- I
terial encountered of such character <
as to be amply strong for supporting <
the proposed structure." The state- i
ment is sufficiently explicit, but does i
not sound convincing or like the ut- i
terance of a mind fully convinced it- <
self. Surely the condition is, as we s
have said, at least disquieting.?Har- i
per's Weekly. I
Telling the Tiutii.?a preacher i
came at a newspaper man this way: I
"You editors do not tell the truth. If 1
you did you could not live; your news- 1
paper would be a failure." The editor 1
replied: "You are right and the mln- I
Ister who will at all times and under i
all circumstances tell the whole truth '
about his members, alive or dead, will <
not occupy his pulpit more than one i
Sunday, and then he will find it neces- i
sary to leave town in a hurry. The
press and the pulpit go hand In Jiand 1
-? ?t is. o?/1 nloouonf j
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words. The pulpit, the pen. and the 1
gravestone are the great saint making 1
triumvirate." And the great minister 1
went away looking very thoughtful, f
while the editor turned to his work. <
and told of the unsurpasslng beauty of i
the bride, while in fact she was as t
homely as a mud fence. 1
knocks all the Joy out of it!" he burst
out desperately.
"Dear Monty."
"Let's talk it over, Peggy. You don't
understand," he began, dashing at
what he thought would be a break in
her resolve. :
"Don't!" she commanded. And in ;
her blue eyes was the hot flash he had
felt once or twice before.
He rose and walked across the floor,
back and forth again and then stood
before her. a smile on his lips?a rather
pitiful : . ' smile.
Th-rc- 'is she
looked bin
"It's n eon. in*. ?r\r!cal prejudice.
Peggy. ' h< >a'.i! iii futile pro
te.st. "p.nd yii: "knov. U i
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AEROPLANE FACTORY.
A Factory For the Manufacture of Flying
Machines.
The active and enthusiastic movement
now in progress throughout
* ranee in favor of aviation has created
an entirely new industry?namely,
that of the construction of aeroplanes,
and as the subject of this article
is the first aeroplane factory in the
world a description of it will doubtless I
prove interesting to English readers.
In France factories are being erected
in many places, which will probably at
no distant date be greatly extended,
and very numerous mechanical workshops
and engineering establishments
are engaged upon models for flying machines.
Moreover, the announcement
is made of the formation of a special
company to equip a factory in which
fifty aeroplanes on the Wright system
are to be put in hand forthwith. There
already exists, however, an establishment
which has made a special study
of the construction of flying machines
and is provided with the requisite plant
?that of the brothers Voisin. It was
this firm that produced the famous machines
of Farman and Delagrange.
Messrs. Voisin Freres rank among
the earliest of the pioneers of aviation
In France. Captivated by the exploits
of Llllenthal, which were then being
made widely known by Capt. Ferber,
find the reports of the experiments of
the brothers Wright in America, they
began in 1903 a series of patient trials
of apparatus, without motors of any
kind, resembling that used by the
Wrights. The difficulties and the dangers
they encountered In the course of
their experiments ultimately led them
to abandon the models they had made
a.nd to produce an entirely new type of
machine of their own design.
Out of these labors arose the bi-plane
flying apparatus, which is now so well
known, and one or wnicn, unaer me
guidance of Farman, has just completed
the journey from Chalons to
Rheims, the first direct aerial voyage
in a machine of this kind accomplished
by hunhan agency. Messrs. Voisin
have just occupied entirely new works,
which are situated at Blllancourt, on
the outskirts of Paris, close to the exercising
ground of Issy-les-Moulineaux,
where so many experiments in aviation
are carried out. They comprise a very
extensive erecting shop, where at the
present moment four aeroplanes are in
course of construction and are approaching
completion; a machine shop,
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the mechanical portion of the apparatus
Is undertaken, and an experimental
workshop, where trials are made with
the bearing or sustaining surfaces of
the machines and where the motors are
tested.
At the time of a recent Inspection the
aeroplanes In hand were all found to
be composed of a lengthy, spindle-shaped
body, to which Wings or supporting
planes are applied. The steering apparatus
is placed at the front end and
at the rear are the arrangements for
imparting stability to the machine.
The fusiform body, which is neither
more nor less than a trellis girder of
special design, Is made to carry the
screw propeller, the motor and the
aeronaut. In the bi-plane apparatus of
the Farman type this body attains a
length of ten meters and is constructed
as follows: The top and bottom members
are of very dry ash wrought In
the direction of the grain of the timber.
The wood is chosen with the utmost
care and is very straight grained,
sound and homogeneous throughout.
The principal pieces are four in number
and are Inserted at each end into
special steel plates or caps. These
longitudinal timbers are braced together
at intervals by wooden struts and
are laterally cross-tied by steel wires
which constitute a series of triangles.
The wings are composed of surfaces
of rubber-coated canvas stretched on
frames of poplar. The two upper and
lower planes are united by uprights of
the same wood with steel tension wires
The exact form of the surface of the
planes is maintained by means of fillets
of curved wood fixed in the canvas
seams and carefully ascertained by
previous experiments to be explained
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attached to it the metal framework on
springs which serves for the attachment
of the cycle wheels. This spring
frame also tends to deaden any shocks
caused in landing on the ground after
light, and it enables the machine to
be propelled on its wheels at the necessary
speed in order to make a start.
The assembling of all these accessories
merely needs a large gallery or
hall, where the apparatus can readily
be adjusted and taken apart, and the
tools required are only those usually
found In a joiner's shop of the ordinary
clnd. In the erecting shop there was
an aeroplane of the Farman type, with
double planes; one of the Goupy type,
ivith triple planes, which was actually
being tested by Mr. Goupy. This is an
apparatus very similar to that of Farman
in point of construction, but havonnpmnspfl
nlane surfaces in
stead of two. There was likewise a
Iji-plane machine with a motor of 100
ti. p., of the Farman type: and. lastly,
i monoplane machine now being built
for Farman, which has already been
described in the Times under the name
if the "Flying: Fish," the title given to
it by its future aeronaut. All these various
machines, in spite of divergences
in point of detail, present a very markid
generic character. In all cases the
same materials are employed, and they
ire put together on a uniform system:
he forms of their sustaining surface
ind the position of the single propeller
n the front of the body are also alike
n every one of them. The mechanical
workshops have in them nothing but
vhat is usually found in such places.
Mere the various portions of the chassis
are put together, the blades of the
jropellers being fixed to their shafts,
file shafts are made of steel capable
if resisting a high degree of stress
ind the blades are constructed of alumnum,
In the experimental shop there is an
nteresting piece of apparatus intended
for the trial of the bearing or supportng
planes. It is actually a kind of
lalance. It consists of an elongated
)ox, square in section, with sides of
ibout 1.50 metre, and it opens at both
mds. At the bottom an electric fan
enders it possible to produce a current
of air at any required velocity In
'rent of the opening. The surface or
the combination of surfaces It is desired
to tect Is then placed in front of
It In order to ascertain its sustaining
power. The surfaces in question are
supported by arms projecting from two
frames arranged on either side of the
box, and these frames rest on floats
which are plunged into cylindrical vessels
filled with water, constituting a
scale beam. In carrying out the experiment
the surface to be tested being
brought into position, the frame is
caused, by weighting it. to assume its
place horizontally, and then the blower
is set to work. This forces the frame
to twist round to a certain angle, and
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position It becomes readily possible by
a simple calculation to estimate the
sustaining power of the whole surface.
The brothers Volsln Investigate In this
manner with great minuteness and accuracy
the suitable forms for all the
surfaces used in their aeroplanes.
The apparatus they have constructed
hitherto has successfully withstood
the tests of actual experience, and their
machines have proved their stability
under conditions analogous to those In
which Mr. Wilbur Wright has performed
his marvellous flights. They possess,
moreover, the advantage of not needing
a pilot of skill and experience, as Is the
case with the Wright aeroplane. Their
lateral stability Is excellent, and in describing
curves they automatically assume
the requisite degree of Inclination.
The Volsln works can turn out
four aeroplanes a month, and the cost
of a machine of the Farman type Is
?1,000.
The Volsln machines, however, have
not yet been used for flights exceeding
forty to forty-Ave minutes In duration,
whorpHs Wrlarht has on several occa
sions remained off the ground for nearly
one and a half hours. The writer asked
Messrs. Volsin If they could explain
the cause of this Inferiority In the respective
performances. It Is no doubt
the fault of the motor, and this Is the
question which just now Is receiving
serious attention on the part of the
firm. The extremely light motors which
have until now been In use have not
afforded them complete satisfaction;
their construction Is of too fragile'a
type to assure sufficiently prolonged and
steady running. These manufacturers
are now engaged on experiments with
motors of various forms, notably on a
Panhard motor of 100 horse-power, Intended
for their highly powerful aeroplane,
which seems likely to give great
satisfaction.
For the present, tnererore, enorcs
must be directed toward the improvement
of the motors employed, and
Messrs. Voisin are confident that this
oroblem will shortly be solved. When
this has been accomplished aviation will
cease to be a mere sport and will, they
believe, become worthy to rank as a
means of locomotion.?London Times.
POWER OF WATER.
Under Certain Conditions It Is Practically
Irresistible.
When a man goes in swimming at
the seashore and slaps the water forcioiy
with his hand or takes a back dive'
from the pier ana lanas squareiy uh ma
oack lie realizes that the unstable liquid
offers not a little resistance. Yet,
says a wiiter in the New York Trioune,
it would surprise almost anybody
to see what water will do under certain
conditions.
A stream from a fireman's hose will
Knock a man down. The jet from a
nozzle u3ed in placer mining in the west)
eats away a large piece of land in a
day, toys with great bowlders as if
they were pebbles and would shoot a
man over the country as though he
were a projectile from a cannon.
There is a story of an eastern blacksmith
who went west and made a bet
that he could knock a hole through
the jet of one of these nozzles with a
sledge hammer. He lifted his arms,
swung the sledge and came down on
the ten inch stream with a force that
would have dented an anvil. But the
jet, never penetrated, whisked the
massive hammer out of the blacksmith's
hands and tossed it several
hundred feet away into the debris of
gold bearing gravel beneath a crumbling
cliff. After this the blacksmith
left out iron when he spoke of hard
oubstances.
There is also a power plant near
Durango, Colo., where a United States
cavalryman one day thought he had
an easy job in cutting a two inch
stream with his sword. He made a
valiant attack. The result was that
his sword was shivered in two and
his wrist broken.
A little thinner jet of water descending
-,-00 feet to a manufactory at
Grenoble, Spain, and traveling at the
moderate speed of 100 yards a second
fractures the best blades of Toledo.
Of course some people will not believe
such stories without having seen
the thing, and one may think it a proof
of the scientific imagination to say
that an inch thick sheet of water, provided
it had sufficient velocity, would
ward off bombshells as well as steel
plate.
Nevertheless many persons while
traveling have seen a brakeman put a
small hydraulic jack under one end
of a Pullman car and lift twenty tons
or so bv a few leisurely strokes of the
pump handle, and the experience of
riding every day in a hydraulic elevator
tends to remove doubts of the
magic power possessed by water hitched
to a machine.
ttf India has about 150 different languages,
most of them unwritten, and
it not unfrequently happens that Indians
drift into Calcutta who find no
one able to understand their vernacular.
Not a little trouble is caused by
such visitors. The courts, too, frequently
have trouble with litigants and
witnesses who talk a language that
neither the court nor the court Interpreters
understand.
'Xf:' There has recntly been completed
at Great Falls, Mont., a huge brick
chimney for carrying away the fumes
of the smelting works, which will take
rank as one of the tallest structures In
the world. It is 78J feet in outside
diameter at the base, and 58 feet 9 Inches
at the top. It extends 506 feet above
the ground and 528J feet above Its lowest
foundation course. Its total weight
1.' 24,964 tons. The brickwork is 18
inches in thickness at the top and 66
Inches at the base. It is lined throughout
with n four-inch wall of acid-proof
brick.
FAMILY WORSHIP.
It It Essential to the Highest Spiritual
Uplift.
(by Kev. Jos. T. Dendy.)
Family worship as taught in the
Bible should be practiced and enforced
in an religious noines. 1 do not see
how any tather who claims to be a
Christian can neglect so important a
dUiy as reading daily from the holy
scriptures ana praying for and with
his tamiiy. But the neglect of this
important duty is so great and alarming
that every pastor and minister of
the gospel snouid put forth every eflort
to oring godiy parents to Josnua's
resolution i.e., " As tor me and
my house we will serve the Bora."
interest in cue uuiy.
In order that his duty may be properly
performed parents must exercise
authority in the home. The father la
head and priest of the home and God
has delegated to him this authority.
A boy did not want to go to church,
but his Christian father kindly but
firmly insisted that he should. The
father said, "So long as my boy sits
at my table he must sit in my pew."
It is said that the father Is now in the
grave, but the son today sits in the
lather's pew and is a main supporter
of that church. In almost every community
there are throngs of children
who suffer from the lack of parental
care and training. If they feel like
going to church or Sabbath school
they go; if not they stay at home,
stray in the streets, or roam the fields.
.No parental authority is used to se
cure their religious training, either in
the home or outside of it. This neglect
is a sin for which parents must
answer at the bar of God. It is one
irom which they are likely to reap
tne bitterest results both here and
nereafter. Because of this neglect of
home training we need not be surprised
at so many murders, suicides and
crimes of all kinds which are so dreadful
and common today.
Again, let us notice a few objections
to family religion.
One says, "I haven't time to perform
this duty."
Joshua was a ruler and a judge in
Israel, yet he did not make his necessary
application to public affairs an
excuse for the neglect of family worship.
Do any of you have more to do
than he did to excuse you from the
performance of that duty? You nearly
always find time for your daily
meals. Is food more necessary for
your bodies tnan religion for your
souls?
Another says, "I am too ignorant to
orav witn my family."
If you had a proper sense of your
wants you would not make this excuse.
Did you ever hear a geggar,
however, Ignorant, make this objection.
A sense of his necessities is an
unfailing fountain of his eloquence.
Often men stand on the street corners
and other places of public resort and
discourse eloquently before their fellowmen
for hours at a time over business,
politics and almost every other
subject under the sun, yet when it
comes to asking God, their Creator,
for needed blessings, or thanking Him
fur the blessings which he is daily and
hourly bestowing upon them and their
famines, they are mum and plead lack
of eloquence. I am afraid that it is the
desire in the heart that is wanting.
Still another says, "I am ashamed
to pray." But is there any ground for
this shame? Is it really a shame to
worship the God of Heaven and share
In the employment of angels? Are
sinners ashamed to serve their Redeemer?
A little practice will enable
you to overcome the difficulty. Besides
Jesus says, "Whosoever shall be
ashamed of me and my words of him
also shall the Son of man be ashamed."
One other will say, "But my family
will not Join with me." How do
you Know7 Have you ever irieo.- Are
you not master of your own household?
You exercise supreme authority
in other things why not in this
the ?^ost important of ail? Begin by
firs. yeating the Lord's prayer and
you wih r- j lually offer a prayer of
y< ur own. Family worship embodies
a I-.rllowing influence that pleads for
its observance. It gives a practical
and personal turn to piety. It brings
religion home to parents and children.
It has a remarkable sin-deterring influence.
Human nature is there
checked and moulded by the amiable
spirit and lovely character of Jesus
Christ. The mind is expanded, the
heart is softened, sentiments refined,
passions subdued, pursuits ennobled,
the world cast into the shade and
heaven realized as the first prize. Let
yours therefore, be the home in which
family worship is observed and then
bo sure God will be delighted to dwell
there and his dally blessings shall descend,
upon It.
iIn the last 500 years Mexico has
produced more silver than any other
country In the world, the output for
that period amounting to $3,060,000,000.
Mimny worsnip is ceriainiy a amy
wntn we consider the tact that God
pronounces a blessing upon those
svno perioral tne duty and a curse
upon those who neglect It. If you will
read In Deuteronomy the 11th chapter
and 9th verse, and In II bamuel the
6th chapter and the 11th verse, you
will tinu tne o>essing. Tnen In one of
the Psalms we find that "It is a good
thing to give thanks unto the L>ord;
to show forth thy loving kindness in
ine morning and tuy faitniuiness every
night." Read in Jeremiah the 10th
chapter and 25th verse and you will
find the curse pronounced upon the
"lamiiles that call not on His name."
Also we nnd in I Timothy, 5th
chapter and 8th verse where the Apostle
Paul in speaking on the subject of
family religion says, "If any provide
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those of hts own house, he hath aemed
the taith and is worse than an lnndel."
Therefore, it is the duty of all Christian
parents, or heads of families to
have tamlly worship.
Again, it is important that we have
proper methods of conducting family
worship. It should be made so pleasant
and Interesting that even the
smallest children will look forward to
it with delight. Too often the exercise
is made burdensome and tedious.
Men fall into a set form which they
never vary. Long passages are read
and the prayers oitered are not only
long, but are the same every day from
year to year, with little adaptation to
the home life or the capacities of children.
But an effort should be made to
cause all of the household to feel an