FLEET IN MOVING PICTURES.
Special Show Given, for Officer« of
the Army and Navy.
*
Moving-picture views of the Atlantic
battle-ship fleet at target practice on
the southern drill grounds in August
and September were exhibited to-day
by Lieutenant Commander Leigh C.
Palmer, inspector of target practice,
to the high officials of the navy and
“Whom Do I Call This Time?” .
“I haven’t finished my reading les
army, a Washington special dispatch
If
this game is played by a large son yet,” thexbig boy said. “I wanl
Baltimore
Sun
says.
to the
to read, about ‘Naughty Mary.’
The “show,” which was held in a company it adds to the fun.
A stake is set up in the middle of “Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
darkened and unfrequented corridor,
on the fifth floor of the Navy Depart the room or on a lawn. A “grace
How does your temper grow?”
ment, was impromptu. Shortly after hoop” stake will do. There must be ^With little squeals and angry yells
To(get my way, you know.’”
noon Admiral Potter, chief of naviga- a ling for each player and a name of
tiôn, notified Acting Secretary »Win a plhyei attached to each ring.
Mary hung her head and looked
There are two sides and a captain sorry, Then the man said he thought
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throp that it would be held at 2:30
!5^
o’clock. Notice was also issued to all for each side. The hoops lie in a pile school had kept long enough. The
«
the naval bureau chiefs, ordnance offi and the captain of one side takes a three girls gaithered round him, and
cers and others interested. It was hoop and tosses it toward the stake, Helen asked:
then decided to invite the army ob exclaiming, “Whom do I call this
“Father, does it really say those
£k£fe
time?” If the captain fails to place things?
servers.
”
Accordingly Gen. Oliver, acting sec the ring over the stake, the captain
He showed her the book, and there
of
the
other
side
takes
his
turn.
On
retary p Gen. Bull, chief of staff; Gen.
were some loose pages lying in ii
Murray, chief of artillery, and all the the other hand, if the ring goes over with typewriting on them. .
the
stake,
number
one,
next
to
the
cap
ILL the development of aeroplaning bring ears. In the individuals given as examples there are other bureau chiefs at the office to-day
“Oh, yes, it does!” she exclaimed
about a new species of man—a bird man? variations in the height of the head, but it is easily to were Invited. The invitations went to tain cf the other side, has a guess as. “Here is one you didn’t read. It if
This is a question which students of hu- be seen that though, in some instances, the head rises the members of the general board of to whose name is written on the slip ‘A Sad Song About a Picnic.’ ”
the navy and to the army and navy attached to 'the ring. If he guesses
man science are asking, as they note the higher, it still has width in this particular locality.
“Read it! Read it!” Mary and
correctly, he can choose one from the Eleanor both demanded. And Heler
To this quality of marvelousness the phrenologists at joint board.
physical and mental peculiarities of those
other
side;
if
his
guess
is
wrong,
that
^Nearly 100 officers gathered for the
who have been most in the public eye in tribute the imaginative and even inspirational mo
side loses a player, and so oi/till one read this:
connection with the advancement of avia ments which have led these inventors to think of the £how. The corridor had been screened
a song of sixpence, a pocket ful
new things that have been made necessary in their ef off from intrusion and precautions side far outnumbers the other. Prizes, “Sing, of
tion in the field of heavier-than-air machines.
pie,
of course, add to the charm.
were
taken
to
prevent
the
presence
of
forts
to
conquer
the
upper
air.
Phrenologists were the first to see the curious resem
Four and twenty little girls screamini
guests.
Corre
any
one
except
the
A third quality which is discoverable upon investi
out, ‘O my!*
blance between the heads of the chief aeroplane invent
The New Pupil.
spondents, department clerks and for-
For the pie was sat upon by the care
ors, and from this beginning there h^s grown a more gation of the heads of these conquerors of the air, is eign attaches were left on the out-
Helen and Mary and Eleanor were
less lad.
extended Inquiry into the reasons therefor. Then, there that of constructtve ability, which is responsible fori side.
playing school one afternoon, when Wasn’t that a thoughtless thing with
their
ability
to
carry
out
a
conception
once
it
has
ap-
'
has been the incidental feature of the possible devlop-
father
found
them.
out a blotting-pad!”
Several hundred yards of film was Helen’s
ment, in greater degree, of the same characteristics in pealed to them. This quality is, of course, peculiar to j exhibited, most of it showing the fir “What are you doing, girls?” he
inventors,
and
its
evidence
is
closely
allied
in
the
shap-
1
And
as Eleanor started for home
others as aviation brings more and more students into
ing of the head to the evidence of the faculty of mar ing of the Georgia and Nebraska. The asked.
she said to Helen, “Haven’t you a nice
its field.
photographer, a yeoman on the Ver “We are not girls. We are school father?”
It is possible, therefore, that there is an aeroplane velousness.
That the world gradually will develop aeroplane heads mont was stationed on the tug towing children, and Mary is the teacher,”
“Indeed I -have!” said Helen.-*
head. While it may be easy to look upon it as a co as the work of the aviators bring navigation of the airt the target in most of the pictures, the Helen replied.
Youth’s Companion.
incidence, nevertheless there are several reasons for closer to us, is the belief of students of human science, object being to photograph the splash
“Oh, pardon me!” said he. Then, in
thinking • differently. The photographs of Curtiss, as indicated by1 the outward characteristics of the skull. as the projectile, struck the target or a different manner, he went on:
The Garden of Children,
Beachey, Knabenshue, the Wrights, Farman, Blériot, Our brains, they declare, have already been considerably went over or under it.
“Breakfast was late this morning,
Santos-Dumont, De la Grange and others phrenologists modified by the development of the inventions which
Most of the pictures were on battle teacher and I couldn’t get to school on
declare to show certain qualities upon all their skulls have been applied to or used in everyday life, and the practice, and they are likely to prove time. Mother will write an excuse,
without which they never would have attempted the intense'‘’interest in the aeroplane is regarded as likely of benefit in aiding the target inspect and I will bring it this afternoon.”
problems which they have so nearly solved.
to have an even stronger bearing on the human facul ors to confirm observations of the spe He sat down and pretended to study.
The essential feature found in all the aviators whose ties than any discovery or invention of the recent cen cial umpires on close shots that may Eleanor giggled; but Mary and Helen
photographs have been examined phrenologlcally is a turies. In human science it is accepted that the brain be in dispute. The distance of the had seen him do the same thing be
certain width above the eyebrows, which is designated will develop much as the muscle does when demands camera from the target being known, fore, so they went on with the school!.
“Eleanor, how much are three times
as demonstrating by the study which has been made of are made upon it. Muscular exercise brings about an as also the distance of the firing ship
the shape of the human head that this peculiar width increase in power and in size which we all accept with from the target, it will be an easy mat four?” tihe teacher asked. ■,
“I don’t know the times yet, teacher.
has always been accompanied in its possessor by a out question. The exercise of the brain along certain ter on the picture to correctly measure
balancing capacity, a steadiness of hand and muscular lines is regarded as positively having the same effect, the distance any given shot missed I know only the ands and the lesses,
control and application of the laws of gravity, of mo though much more slow in making its effects apparent the target. Several snapshot pictures Eleanor replied.
“Then you, don’t belong in
of target work were made by the same
tion and of momentum, and is exampled in power to in the outward evidences.
»
keep the equilibrium while walking on high elevations,
That we shall become a race of man-birds Is among the yeoman in Manila bay last fall, at the grade,” said the teacher, sternly,
in riding a horse, skating, climbing, sailing, etc.
In possibilities, and that it will have its effect on the suggestion of Lieutenant Commander have to put you back in the
addition, it has its bearing on the judgment of weight, physiognomy is even more certain than the accomplish Palmer, who was then ordnance offi grade. The children here know
of resistance, of density, etc., while giddiness, stagger ment of air navigation, for in this we have the prece cer of the Vermont, which won the ands, the lesses, the times and
ing, liability to fall, seasickness, etc., have been attrib dents of the past to go upon, while in the matter of battle pennant. They proved of such intos. Now we’ll have the class in
uted to a lack of this power—at legist "in considerable aviation we can only guess at the future, despite the ad value that this year he had moving reading. The big boy may read first.
Helen’s father stood up with hi
pictures made, which, of cqurse, were
degree, or to its temporary disturbance.
vancement which has been made.
All the aviators show the inventor’s capacity. The
There has been the bicycle face and the automobile much more accurate, each shot being book open before him. This is what
faculty of marvelousness, as the phrenologist calls It, is face, but we must wait to determine just what the aero numbered on the back of the film on he read in a clear, serious voice that
which it was photographed at the time made them all laugh:
The world is a garden,
distinguished in the width above and in front of the plane face will be.
the picture was taken.
Children the flowers,
“When the Moon Became Dark.
Smiles are the sunshine,
Gen. Bell, Secretary Winthrop and “Hey, diddle, diddle, when the
ped the idea of an escapade into his
“Who was to blame?”
LIFE AND SONG.
Tears are the showers,
the officers were greatly pleased with
played the fiddle
head which he at once seized upon.
After a long pause, he answered is the results. At the close a number of
Frowns are the weeds
The cow jumped into the moon,
At 2:30, dressed in afternoon togs, a hoarse voice: “Myself.”
That should never find room
If life were caught by a clarinet
films, showing the movements of the And the little dog howled alone in the
In a well-tended garden
Her cold face altered till it was al) American and foreign warships in the
And a wild heart, throbbing in the he stood on the steps of the Collum
dark,
Covered with bloom.
house and rang with outward calm.
loveliness. “You have learned much, recent Hudson-Fulton celebration were
reed,
For the light went out so soon.”
The butler who opened the door, Claude; go back and tell him that.” shown. It is expected that the entire
Should thrill Its joy and trill its fret,
Weighing Smoke.
And utter its heart in every deed,
stared stolidly over his head while
They looked at one another till performance will be given for Presi “That isn’t right!” said the teacher.
Did you ever hear the story of how
“
It
doesn’
t
go
that
way!
”
Eleanor
Claude reached for his cardcase and something in his eyes made her turn dent Taft and members of the Senate
Sir Walter Raleigh made a wager with
exclaimed.
Then would this breathing clarinet
broke into a cold perspiration on not for flight.
Queen Elizabeth that he could weigh
and House naval and military commit-
Type what- the poet fain would be; finding it. Just when despair swoop
And
the
teacher
was
too
excited
to
“Do you think he will take me bach tees when Congress meets in Decern*
For none of the singers, ever yet
notice that both Helen and Eleanor the smoke that came from a pipe full
ed
down
upon
him,
Perry
came
up
the
stod
into
his
heart,
Grace?
”
Claude
Has wholly lived his minstrelsy,
her.
had left their seats and were pressing of tobacco? How do you suppose he
steps.
before her.
against the “big boy’s” book to see did it? If you can guess you are more
They greeted, and as the butler still
“Yes,” she breathed, her delicate
Or clearly sung his true, true thought,
A HINT TO THE WISE.
clever than Queen Elizabeth, and yet
what was in it.
stood and stared indifferently, Perry flesh on fire.
Or utterly bodied forth his life,
the solution is simple.
“
I
never
heard
it
like
that,
”
said
Nineteen
of
Every
Twenty
Persons
Or out of life and song has wrought
said:
“And you, Grace—will you?’
He weighed the tobacco carefully on
Helen. “It goes, ‘Hey diddle, the cat
at Age of GO Are Dependent.
That perfect one of man and wife;
“I was sent to write this up;, com
“Let me pass—please, Claude.”
some scales before he put it in his
and
the
fiddle,
’
not
‘
the
cat
played
the
According
to
Dr.
J.
C.
Clemmer,
of
ing in?”
“Oh, girlie! if you knew the dread
Or lived and sung, that Life and Song
pll»€, and after he had smoked it he
With a gulp Claude assented. In ful, sick months----- ” The agony in Cqlumbus, O., 95 per cent of all men fiddle.* ”
Might each express the other’s all
are dependent upon their daily earn ‘’Maybe this isn’t right, either,” said knocked out the ashes and weighed
a
short
time
they
were
shaking
hands
his
voice
overwhelmed
her
womanly
Careless if life or art were long,
those The difference; of course, was
ings or those of their relatives for the big boy. And he read:
Since both were one, to stand or fall with their hostess. Claude, following timidity:
the weight of the smoke.
Allan, pressed Mrs. Collum’s hand,
“And I, too, Claude—I have suffer their support when they reach the age
“A Cure for Sleeplessness.
of
60.
So that the wonder struck the crowd, then the vibrant fingers of Grace.
ed,” she whispered against his neck
“Little Bo-Peep lost her sheep,
Dangerous.
. “Yes, sir,” said Dr. Clemmer recent And doesn’t know where to And it.
Her conventional greeting sank to a —Des Moines News.
Who shouted about the land:
my mamma say
I
think
I
heard
His song was only living aloud,
whisper, and he clung to her hand
ly, “19 out of every 20 persons living Put her to bed and cover, her head,
been bad all day,
’
At
somebody
’
s
His work, a singing with his hand! till her low, distressed voice reached
at the age of 60 are dependent. In
And then she’ll never mind it.”
Small Families in France.
An’ if “once more” time cummeo
—Sidney Lanier.
him: . “Claude—please let my hand
looking
through
the
probate
records
around,
The recent census of France disclos-,
Mary suddenly remembered that she
go! ” 4
of one of the principal counties of was the teacher.
She’d get that switch out on the
es
some
curious
information
concern
He did^so, but stood where he could ing the decrease of population in that Ohio I found that in a period from
ground.
“Children, take your seats!” she
fr
watch her till suddenly she was gone, country,
January
1,
1901,
to
January
1,
1905,
and gives, the number of chil
commanded.
I’m sure I dunno who she meant,
Then he began a search for her, find- dren in the household as follows:
four years, there were close to 8,000
Helen and Eleanor sat down, but the But anyhow I’d give a cent
AT HOME FROM
ing her at last pouring tea, ánd look- Total number of families
deaths
of
adults,
and
of
this
number
big
boy
still
stood
up.
May
reproved
...11,315,000
If I was safe upstairs in bed,
ing white and distrait.
TWO TILL FIVE
Without children ....... . ... 1,804,720 more than 6,000 left no estate at all. him for disturbing the school.
And she’d forgot ’bout ’what she said.
He made his way to her side and With one child ............... . ... 2,966,171 A few more than 800, or 10 per cent,
leaned over:
With two children ........ . ... 2,661,978 left property valued at less than $1,000.
“Grace,” he exclaimed Imploringly. With three children ........ ... 1,613,425 Six hundred willed estates of less MAN IS HIS BROTHER’S KEEPER. er’s keeper, and we would be in a sad
3 '
With four children.......... ... 987,392 than $5,000, while 200 had worldly
state were everybody to believe that
“Pray go!”
Claude Morrissey tramped the flpor
“Never!” he cried with emphasis. With five children ........... ..' 566,768 goods amounting to from $10,000 to And Hs 1« a Curse to Himself Who he were not his brother’s keeper.”
from the door "to thee window and
With six children .......... ... 327,241 $20,000. There were only 76 who left
Denies It, Says Cardinal Gibbons.
back again. He was just as sadly
Earliest Railway Tickets.
With seven children .... ... 182,998
property
valued
at
more
than
$25,000.
“I believe in public spirit and I ad
off as a scapegrace can be, disinher
94,729
With eight children ........ ...
The
earliest railway tickets differed
ited and in love.
44,728 In New York 85 per cent of the men mire Americans for endeavoring to entirely from those now in use, the
With nine children .. ^...
who
die
leave
no
estate,
and
this
aver
but
suffering
cannot
relieve suffering,
The latter was the modt discour
20,63.9
With ten children ...........
8,305 age, I believe, will apply in most of be eliminated,” ; said Cardinal Gib- Railway Magazine says. The booking
With eleven children ...
aging of all, considering pretty Grace
3,508 the large cities.
“God intended ine- clerk was furnished with a volume,
With twelve children ...
bons, recently,
Collum knew all the bad things about
With thirteen children ..
1,437
“It is strange, perhaps, but when a quality, we will always have it. the pages of which were divided down
him; Claude had been a reckless
553 man reaches 40, he must, according to Christ’s disciples were not men of po the center by a perforated line, the
With fourteen ohildren .. ...
gambler in college, and Grace, just
249 all statistics, be an exception if he tent political influence or high social outside half of each page was again
With fifteen children ... ...
In long dresses, sided with his father
79 does not lose, all his accumulations.
With sixteen children ... ...
position; they w;ere without any pres divided into slips about four inches
and promptly turned her back on the
34
With seventeen children
At
45
years
97
per
cent
of
the
persons
tige at all in the sight of men. But long by an inch and three-quarters in
luckless young man.
45
With eighteen, children . ...
Claude, poor wretch, at the wrong
There are 19,533,899 women and have lost everything, while at 50 but they were commanded by Christ to width, on each of which was printed
the na/ne of the issuing station, spaces
moment showed spunk, and his father
girls and 18,816,389 men and boys In ! one person in 5,000 can recover his preach the gospel, to heal the broken were provided in which the clerk had
financial
footing.
These
are
unpleas
and
clothe
hearts, to feed the hungry
sent him packing.
France, making an excess of 717,510
to; write the destination, passenger’s
New York swallowed him, his mis
women and girls, There were about ant truths, perhaps, but they may the naked.
name, date of issue and the time the
cause
r
some
young
men
to
think
while
is
a
prac-
“
The
religion
of
Christ
demeanors and loose change. He
45,000 less births than deaths in
they yet have time about saving up tical religion, and bears a relation to train was to depart.
hunted for work; Allan Perry, a col-
France during the last year.
One of these slips, duly filled in, was
for the rainy days that. are sure to social beings. Men were created for
lege chum, got him a small job on a
As Represented.
detached
from the book and handed
•come.
”
society,
and
no
man
is
sufficient
by
big paper.
over to each would-be passenger in ex
Irate Stranger—-Look here! I thought
himself.
There
should
be
the
same
Presently Claude threw himself on
Revising; an Old One.
you told me that dog I bought from
harmonious relations between members change for his fare.
his bed and picked up the morning’s
Miss Prim—When I marry I am de- of the social body, whether rich or
The traveler, having thus obtained
you had a good many fine points. He
paper. The first item his glance
looks like he has been shot full of ar termined that my husband shall dress poor, as between member^ of the phy- his ticket, was passed on to the guard
found was this announcement: “Mrs.
in good taste.
of the train by which he desired to
rows.
sical body.
Collum, Miss Grace Collum at home
travel. This official was provided with
Mountaineer Pete—These be the fine Miss Cayenne—But you must re
.care
not
how
rich
a
man
is.
I
“
I.
to-day from 2 till 5.”
points, stranger. He tackled a porcu member, my dear Miss Prim, the rec care not whether he be a Croesus, a a kind of waybill in which he entered
Morrissey stared at the words with
I MUST SPEAK TO YOU.
pine the day before you bought him.— ipe on “How to Dress a Husband.’ It John Jacob Astor, a John D. Rocke- particulars of all his passengers in
breathless interest.
begins like this: “First, catch him!” feller of a Vanderbilt, what will his much the same way that a parcel is
Los Angeles Times.
somewhere;
I
“It is Grace; her aunt lives in New “Please come away
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
wealth avail him if he has no friend served nowadays.
York, and Grace is staying here for must speak to you.”
The Contest.
Incidentally the similarity of treat
to help him, no servant to minister
She hesitated, then beckoned one of
the season.”
Too True.
“Who was the first to reach thb
ment
did not always end there; the
to
his
wants,
no
one
to
stand
by
him,
Suddenly he sprang up and began her cousins to take her place and north pole?”
“What’s one man’s get-rich-quick
third-class
passengers had to travel
pacing the floor again.
conducted him to the deserted morn
“I don’t care anything about first fcheme,” said Uncle Eben, “is often no one to give him solace in his sor in an open carriage, frequently noth
row?
If
they
have
no
friend,
I
say,
“
Oh,
“I must see her,” he moaned,
ing room.
arrivals,” answered the excited citi-. a git-poor-sudden scheme for a whole
their wealth will avail them nothing. ing more than a goods truck attached
girlie! If you only knew how sorry
She faced him there, and spoke zen. “What I am interested in now is lot o’ folks.”
“The rich as well as the poor de to a train which carried both passen
I have been—if father could know—” abruptly:
the last word.”—Washington Star.
gers and goods, more or less indiscrim
clare
T am not my brother’s keeper.’
you are
Sometimes a preacher’s popularity
Then he struck his hand fiercely
“You are a -cruel son
inately.
Trouble
for
Him,
“
This
is
the
language
of
selfishness
across wet eyes.
can be measured by the shortness of
breaking your father’s heart, You
“Charlie told me that he never saw his sermons.
Germany Liberal to Aeronauts.
and misery. That man must be mis
But a smile came immediately after i don’t know how old he has grown
a prettier girl than me.”
erable that says: T am not my broth
The government of Germany has
wards, and the lad looked so hand this last year.”
“He told me that there are no pret*
If a woman has nothing to worry er’s keeper.’ He is an iceberg and is spent more money to further aviation
some with the mirth in his gray eyes,
Her voice was indignant
tier
girls than me?’—Houston Post*
about her happiness is incomplete.
a curse to himself. Man is his broth- than any other nation
that his good angel, taking pity* pop-
“He drove me away.”
w