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Show cg id Poi, get Ct age (\\\ LINDSAY fh / a. LJWuiit HENCHMAN affairs turns for relief from his bustness imto the bustling paths of tourist travel he little dreams o e opportunity for recuperation offered by our ovely garden spot in' the Caribbean sea { he be willing to throw off » barnacles of artificiality for awhile may here secure complete rest from #® cures unde the most healthful and enjoyable conditions. Should he be ar ‘ Ww Porto Rico Sn Yo RE Mh 6 ICY [SAMNUNUEOHUOU AN spy \ LIVLAT TOES ae TAK ITIG HATS is pe « _ - A ‘ Even the padre will stop In his walk, to watch an important main the wayside, and he may become suff iclent-| a aoe r a half L men |ing In enterprise here fs in this class splendid material with which to build he formation of e n new race or nati y o sp » but it ts tno d| scanty to indulge the hope that it may if} in me leaven the whole. 1ck- | probable, yvever, is that intermar- XL, LAE LOZ LS WIL ger long enough to deliver nomily upon 6 saumbl he wins a benediction will not be ing. n « elther case, th o the productior flock" is followed by words s the | best characteristics in both races, and affection and chacrtul smiles : that this class will In the course e o 3sspirit t of the place-the con-j| the S\present century make Porta Rico what ur dant, adyiser and preceptor or-j it should he one of the most prosperpeople. All this beeause he 8,| ous, as it. is oughly human and one of th countries in the world noo any boy among em When the flagged and. fretful man Catt: 3 EEE hay The VIEW QF 24 CZAARLO Wizard of the Air. was renhurt by boats, . but his "shIp' dered useless, F« u past three the rears Santos Dumont has steadily been and 3 fforts to construct a navigable navigating the air and diligently purteerable balloon are comparatively) suing his all-absorbing study and maksuny when compared with youns|ing new inventions with whi 1a Brazilian's brilliant achlevements. hopes to perfect a navigable balloon. he LZALLE Santos Dumont may wizard of the alr, 1as only one rival as be well for all far as called{ other] conquer-/ Indeed, he claims that it ie rejudicc peopl l a : navigation hope to as escape Santos Dumont cannot! disaster sometimes, and some miraculous When competing for the for the first time, the spectators, veryone's horror, suddenly collapsed in midair some houses near the Eiffel the| : q expected. that but,/ young Brazilian was killed, he received nothing! and a few bruises,| evere I iakine | Whilst the airship was totally wrecked. inventor| The accident was due, the aid. to the ventilator refusing to act terns, SCM e, Lie e few "u day rest It is ES all very primitive, but there-| ai the crucial moment. -In 1902, | || gulls, Life German | | bire 40,000 all of of the following species: terns, forsters, terns, royal laughing Country ||| raised and hatched | « omposed 1 ¢ ommon prize 1 possible prize won conditions ee My were to} During the last year the Audubon i) from St. Cloud round the | society of Loulsiana has rented some tower and home again in thirty-five| loislands, bird-breeding Dumont] Seventeen minutes,' he said. ‘Santos is} cated in the waters of the gulf. Last has nobly aequitted himself, must) year the islands were watched by two torty seconds behind time He vardens whose wages were paid by the tiry again." mational committee of Audubon. soThe President of Brazil . presented him $55,000 In recognition of cieties, and although they were not wholly able to prevent trespassing and prosecute j lepe-stealing, nevertheless the results vote the pending of 1 turther experiments. The same yt ar! attained were well-night marvelous. On their own and the neighboring islands he made a ensational flight ef Breton reservation, owned by | the Ilamnpstead to Harrow and back again | federal government, by these simple in his airship, the Santos Dumont V | preventive measures there were Such un intrepid master of ut Be t Is ing the air is coneerned, and that man | to reach the north pole and that he ; Signor Marconi, with the difference} has solved the riddle of giving a new hat the latter sends messages through he impulse to aerial navigation. / s he space, whilst the former sends|rjichtly says, what seemed impossible seen five ;years: ag I was born at Rio de five two great drawbacks to the balSantos Du mont it 1 1873,> and is theljoon, he says, are condensation and Janeiro, Brazisi youngest of a family of ten sons ry -xpansion, and because of these dearly in life fying machines and |fects it is not possible for a balloon at-| ito loons absorbed the whole of stay in the air for a much longer ention, and he determined to | period than twenty-four hours, though it record ts for a litle under thirty‘is life to solving the riddle six hours The higher a balloon goes bated so many and has cost the colder the kas becomes with which lives, Ww ulS 78, he visited linbed. Mont Blane by way et-/it is inflated, and thus condenses, Bal) iis nerves *|last, therefore, has to be thrown out it ever had any, and in the same Year}io compensate for the descending. of ic visited Paris and useended from t) ithe balloon, yen the heat from the sun expands the gas und raises the Jardin d'Acclimatation in the alloon ever made | balloon, and if the valve is not opened ember of that year he made |to let some of the gas escape, an' exiecerable balloon ever driven | plosion would follow The balloon motor, but unfortunate trol leum jagain, is greatly Influenced by atmos" wrecked at the first experiment, Nothing daunted, he et to and regulated accordingly remedy its. defects, and by | Now, if the steam, which collects in rroeess and experiments at len ithe interior of the envelope of a ucceeded in "launching" a spherical balloon, can be recovered as wd navigable airship, in which he * | water in a reservoir fitted to.an openom St. Cloud, near Paris, round jing used at the bottom, instead of 1 }evaporating through the silk, then M. Santos Dumont declares, a long-studied problem will be solve He will the young inventor the heral use petroleum for evaporating the iew era in tlying machines water into steam again, which will, ouraged the young inventor when desired wa tempted to try for the jit will ris prize, offered by a generous j}operator Deutsc ‘+h Instead of lightening the Frenchman, named Deutsch, to who-| balloon by throwing out ballast, by ever succeeded in 1ilinge in ; Qt) burning petroleum he will transmute ow-} from the Aero club to the Eiffel jthe water into steam, which will ex| ey and home again in half an jpand the gas until it produces the reDumont accepted the challenge, anc *) quired lifting force ereat crowd gathered to see one Santos Dumont has Invented a most bravest and most extraordinary 'S|ingenious contrivance, a sort of conver. attempted by a man Tt { }denser in a series of aluminum tubes, tim Dumont was unsuccessfu "larvranged vertically inside the balloon, balloon not answering properly which will throw oat the hot steam mtroller But on Oct. 20, produced from the water heated by again attempted to gain the the petroleum, and so will cause the prize, and after a brilliantly successful balloon to rise and fall when the steam in} missed the reward by being only is turned off, orty \ secondids ovel time - | Deutsch, a thoroughly just but e: | Bird-Breeding Islands. ing sportsman, would not consider > of Kage 14 OF ays A by. "EL: RfUb he 7 LEy = =f aborigines g E ss v orig ae re the gentle gente flustrada, or arlistico. Their numbers r a ntled in the literacy exhibits by one-half of hppe rer cent of the population, which is something less thay one million. This | class supplies the merchants, planters j and. proves bal men of the tsland, | They have accepted the change of sovereignty wit ready acquiescence. i} mainly beeause of their strong love of the soil and pronounced domestic tendencles. Furthermore, although handi- = BY eS Nor need the mind stagnate. Nature and muinkind in unaccustomed aspects afford ample and interesting study. Porto Rico nas veen little affected by the emigration from the old Castillian families that formed the aristocracy of ‘his, to a great extent, accounts yeacerul history as compared with that of the sister islands he iaand was in the early centuries of Spanish oceupation a military post, and the troops by which it was garrisoned were permanently stationed there. The officers In most cases married Creoles of the island. and settled there for life. The descendants of these persons, and of French and Spanish refugees from the neighboring islands, in the revolu- C_JItHHt CONC SOME CMMI TTA ACA ae in black Soldiers' Germany's. troops skimmers. America, Hardships. fighting. the na- tives in Southwest Africa are having an arduous time Owlng to the lack of railways the men haye been on halt rations most of the thme since the | campaign began Occasionally they have had to eat the artillery mules land they have often fought or marched w hen} for forty hours Without a drop its ehief charm : lliy TES \ f s Sie sailing aeross the Mediterra-;ter or any other drink. sitmopl honest folk lose the sinAC. Wa fell| dressed in all sorts of ementcin thie nnbcentenvirone neater na cainenip collapsed clothes, ineluding sandals The cock fight is merely the ex| lPto the Bay of Monaco. ot ment the hides of oxen. pluy of grown-up children The aeronaut was picked well-!uberant of wa- They are make-shift made from |