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t ???' AN EARLY AIRSHIP (It Wouldn't Fly, Although It Got a Trial by Moonlight. BUT IT CAUSED A SURPRISE. ! Story of a Comedy That Was Enacted In the Dead Watches of the Night on the Banks of the Potomac In the Troublous Wartime Days ot 1863. Id the Smithsonian institution at Washington there nangs an ancient L ' model of an aeroplane. It looks to tlie casual observer like a small facsimile of the Wright biplane. k But it is many years older than the Wright flying machine. It is the i Strinijfellow airship, built in the early sixties of the ia*t century, and it onre caused the arrest as a spy and con- j spirator of Professor Joseph Henry, j tho ominont mnn rif srionpo whrt W3S ! the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. In the summer of 1863 Washington was in a state of the utmost agitation j and uneasiness. The Confederate j armies moving northward were threat-, eDiKg Washington itself, and southern ' scouts had raided within sight of the dome of the capitol. A strong picket line was kept on duty night and day, especially along tbe banks of the Potomac. In that psrt of Washington there is a wide pace of park known as the mall. There pickets constantly patrolled, keeping an eye upon the distant Vlr ginia shor * One moonlit midnight a picket paein g to and fro between the river and i ( and the Smithsonian institution, which stood in a ionely part of the mail, saw a solitary man emerge from the shadow of the eim^ that bordered the; grounds. He bore a strange, birdlike, j nondescript thing that looked like nothing the sentinel had ever seen before. Standing out in the open spaces, the, solitary man fiung his strange appli- j anoe into the air; it fluttered for a few , feet and then sank to the ground. Again the man tossed it into the air and watc hed it flutter a short distance, j while in the shadow of the elms the i picket looked on in bewilderment Jt was no time to give any one the benefit of a doubt. The picket summoned tbe captain of the guard, and a squad of soldiers suddenly descended on the mysterious man. "What is your name? What is this thing, and what are you doing with it?" queried the captain of his prisoner. "1 am Professor Henry, secretary of tbe Smithsonian institution yonder." said the prisoner. Then he stopped. In that day for a man to admit that he was seriously experimenting with a flying machiue was conclusive eMuem*? of bis insanity, and Professor Henry, j who had chosen the dead watches of the night in whu h to experiment wifh Sstrinjrfellow's flying machine, hesitat^ ed to tell his captors what lie was really doing. L "\oure a spy/* declared the captain. "and this thing is some kind of V mac hine with which A.voifre signaling h to the Confederates/' "1 am not a spy." declared Professor Henry. "I am experimenting with a flying machine. Thnt is the truth " TDIs explanation was greeteu ?nu a roar of derisive laughter. The idea that a man of Professor Henry's reputation would f<>oi with a flying: machine was ridiculous. Certain now that they had caught a spy. they hustled the professor off to the guardhouse. Unfortunately for him. his studious babits made him almost unknown in Washington, not a single man at the * guardhouse knew him by sight. And 8o through the long night he was compelled to remain in durance. At daybreak the captain reported his capture to the colonel in command. That officer, hurrying to the guaraboase. was astonished to find that the spy was his intimate friend. Professor Henry. But his astonishment was i nothing compared to the chagrin of the ' captain and bis squad. (Professor Henry, however, not only teadily forgave them, but raised their diligence and zeal and admitted that he had given the picket very reasonable | ground for suspicion.?Youth's Comf pa nion. Compulsory Military Service. Napoleon bad "conscript" armies under the famous conscription law of General Jourdan in 1798, bat the first nation to put the universal military service and army reserve systematically In action was Prussia, at the time of the outbreak of the war of liberation in 1813. The system has been developed since, and in the years since 1870 every European nation except N Great Britain has adopted the compulsory service system.?New York Times. Buttons. It is only in comparatively modern times that buttons have been utilized as fasteners. The Greeks and Romans ? a Knew notmng or mem. aim, muu^u they presented themselves as ornaments in the fourteenth century, buttonholes were still an undreamed of possibility. Grateful Suburbanites. Towne? Do you make your cook pay tor what she breaksV Suburbs (in amazement)?Make tier pay? i should say not Why, every month, besides paying her salary, we reward her liberally for what she didn't break.?Philadelphia Inquirer. Those who will not be ruled by the rofider must be rulet1 by the rock.? Ornish proverb. THE MEXICAN JAGUAR. I Stopping a Ckarge of the New World'! Most Dangerous Animal. There is a storv of a tieroe charge bv an infuriated Mexican jaguar in an ar tide that Mr. Harry H. Ounn writes in the Outum Magazine. A wooded dill. : surrounded on two sides by water au<l on tiie other two by. gr.iss rroppe-l . short by the village goats, was set on ;| fire.to drive out ttie neasi. wnjcu nan j takeu refuse there. j Aniru?-i!s r?> come from rhe t:in j gle. Parrots, disturbed from their raid day rest, flew in irreen mijci nd a**d vei low clouds. Monkeys tied through the tops of the trees Kal>bits and rats and mice scurried underfoot. and we saw one ocelot, a little spotted jungle cat. Then dime the jaguar. Crossing the sloping side of the hill, the tijrer ap peared to Felipe, and the fellow. prou:l of the 73 repeater I had brought with me from Mexico City for him. tired a* the sported apparition crossed an open space in the tangle. Ordinarily Felipe is a good shot, but the rifle was new to j him. and he managed only to put th^ I slnsr in the cat's fore shoulder. The I tiger screamed and leaped straight up into the air. When he came down all thought of flight had left him. and he headed for Felipe and myself. The Indian began to pump bullets at the tiger, and I remember Doticing that the cat was not leaping or running, but trot ting rapidly, as a house cat trots untlightened about Its own home We were confronting the most dangerous and most powerful animal in the new world, with the single exception of the Kndiak bear, and I doubt very much if any bear in the world ? * a % # 1 COUK1 wmp a mauaeneu MCin-aii u^ci. The jaguar's mouth was open, and bis tail streamed straight out behind: he did not lash It from side to side, as I should have expected him to do. At ten yards Felipe bad emptied his magazine, dropped his rifle and whipped out his machete, when 1 fount the tiger's forehead over the sights of the rifle. As the gun cracked the Jaguar baited, staggered forward a short step or two. sank to his fore shoulder* aad turned over. dead. POWER OF SILENCE. Shown In the Art of the Painter and the Orator. In painting the sacrifice of Ipbigenia the artist, it has been said, exnaustea the emotions of grief and horror In the faces of the bystanders. "He has left nothing unsaicL How can be depict her father's sorrow?" was the anxious query of those friends who were watching the development of the picture. The. artist threw a mantie over Agamemnon's face. The blank silence was more effective than any pictured woe. One of ttie most extraordinary ef fects produced by absolute silence is recorded in the reports of a convention in which the foremost men of Virginia took part. John Randolph had a measure to carry in which he looked for the opposition <>f Alexander Campbell, a man thnu noted for his scholarship nnd power in debate. Randolph hud never seen the Scotch logician, but he had heard enough of him to make him and his partisans un easy. When, therefore, the gaunt stranger tirst rose to speak in the con vemion Randolph looked at him with such an air of alarm as to attract the attention of the whole convention, and , as he glanced around seemed to be ask ing for sympathy in his coming defeat He then composed himself to listen with close attention. , Campbell, aware or tms Dypia^v, opsjtnted and lost the thread of his argu- ' ment. Randolph's face by turns as he listened, expressed weariness, indifferI ence and finally contempt He leaned back and yawned Campbell sat down hastily. He had lost the whole fore# i of his speech. Not a word had been spoken, but he was defeated.?Wasii ington Star. i I Butterfly Pastry. ! The favorite delicacy of the native , Australian are bugong cakes, which are made from a species of butterfly. Fires are lighted under the trees upon which the butterflies settle, and, suffoI eated by the smoke, they drop to earth. The bodies are pounded into palp and | made into cakes, which have a very pungent odor, and they have the opdesirable effect of making the eater very ill for several days. But if the diet is persevered with the unpleasant symptoms pass away, and the invalids | i digest them well and become exceed i ingly fat. Reformed. "How is Dick getting along witli the woman that married him to reform him?' "She has reformed him all right" "Sure enough?" "You bet. Before he was married be used to be as good as a meal ticket for me, but when I met him yesterday and tried to borrow a five he made m* I pay back a tenner I owed him."? j i Houston Post. Soft Bullets. BulJets of paper or tallow prodoc? ! far greater damage than metal ones j when used for short distance firing. A , I paper bullet passing through sis pieces I of tin placed one foot apart buckled them up and made them useless, whereas a metal bullet merely left a small round hole. * _ r-?i. Mn cveiH. "You ought to be ashamed of your-! self for not washing your face. Lock at your little brother and see bow nice his is." said the teacher. The small girl sniveled. "Well." she replied, "it's his birfday."?London Standard. I k M I V? 4 /-i JAS Sati IT in ? 1~? r> flirt tivcrjfuuuj For generath ON SATU vester Co Oil En < ci There is a does the wort M^eadows : of small grah 1 Come and grind i Ja $> S> AT THE OPERA HOUSE <$> S> <?>??> <$>^<j><$><$>^ "The Naked Troth." Fresh from its long run at the Candler tueatre, . .ew York, where it set a new standard of photoplay excellence for the picture patrons of Broadway and the white light district, comes George Kleine's "The Naked Truth," which will he shown at tie Opera House, Tuesday, December 15. "The xT_j Jo o fixra-Tiort Hra \clfvCU i. l uiu ib a, in v v subject based on the famous novel of that name by the celebrated French author, Henry Bataille. "The Naked Truth" presents a delightful story of life in the Latin Quarter of Pars, leading the spectator among the time-honored f.aunts of the artists' and studeots' colony, j the salons of the ridnest and most! as! -ionable Parsian families and the | myraid show places of the gayest city i in the world. It gi'ves intimate glimp-) c.oc thp mmatif life so characteristic I of modern Paris, the carefree existence which becomes synonymous with ti:e Latin Quarter.' The story is a fascinating one. Lolette, idol of the quarter and known among the artists as the prettiest girl in Paris, poses for Pierre, a young painter of great promise, and together they produce a painting which wins the grand prize at the exhibition. Success brings wealth and fame to artcist hA marries Lolette and the two become engulfed in the whirlpool or fashionable life. The artist, however, is soon spoiled by the lionizing to which he is subjected, neglects his simple-hearted wife and 'rails in love with the Princess Dupont. At a brilliant. reception which Pierre gives in J honor of the unveiling of this latest i masterpiece, Lolette learns of his un- | faithfulnes?. and a startling climax is ' enacted. 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