A Modem Fairy Tale John A. Heron, an electrician, tells an air .ship story which some believe and othcrb credit to a fertile imagination. Heron is the patentee of an electric platinum speaking apparatus, and says he went to San Francisco last Thursday by appointment "to see the inventor of the nir-nhip apparatus, whose name he says he is pledged to conceal. lie adds: "We wont on horseback to a point on the Bandy beach where the nii-ship was. We got abroad and roto very high. The helghth was registered a meter oil the ship. TheTinventordoes not count distance by miles, but by degrees. Wo traveled westward, and beforo daybreak we saw lights Vhich tho inventor said were Honolulu light?. Wo then turned east, and nt dusk on Saturday evening we finished our two days' cruise and landed near tho starting point. The air-ship arose by means of two propellers. propel-lers. Tho movement was noiseless and swift. It can be stopped and held stationary in tho air, and decends as lightly as a feather. Tho motive pawer is neither steam nor eleccricity." .I. t