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Show Northrop Flying Wing a Success The revolutionary "Northron Flying Wing" Is shown cruising over Its plant Ht the United airport, BurTiank, Calif. The plane, an all wing monoplane designed by John , Northrop, carries passengers, motor and structural members entirely Insldi the wing, thus eliminating "parasitic resist-ance" and saving nearly one-hnl- f Its power for speed and lift Blade 2tS Sheep's mm (Sold ymm The nurse's white free cam speed "g along nij veranda. "There's a lady to ae yon." the aald, bringing up beside the lounge. "Matron sayt the may come. She's called to Inquire before, but ahe wouldn't come In. She asked to come In today." I did not ask the lady' name; I thought I knew It When Jinny Treacher, tall and thin, but graceful, like Trilby, In her very bones, ap-peared at the veranda'i end. I knew my guess was right More than that I knew Sir IUchard Fanshaw was gone. Jinny's presence, Jinny's visit, meant that she was, according to her own lights, free; that she could call on me with a clear conscience. She was. In her pale muslin dress, with her won-derful fluffy red hair peering under a black hat, the prettiest, most disturb-ing thing that could have entered the chaste ward of that hospital for many a day. t could have sworn that every one In sight envied me, when Jinny checked her walk he-- be content not to have her, not to drag her down to my own hazardous level, If only I might be sure that no one else would take my place. 1 pic-tured her remaining an eternal maiden, never of course, developing Into an Jd maid, for my sake, and was quite well pleased. . . . Well, I galled back to Thursday Island, very late, and all In the dark. And I suppose I was tired, after the long day and Its macy emotions. I had a theory that I never was tired ; It seemed to me a disgraceful condi-tion, fit only for dotards of forty, so I never allowed that It had touched, or could touch, myself, nut the laws of nature took no heed of my feelings, and that ulght, they lad their revenge, I fell half asleep at the tiller, rammed the Jetty, and was tumbled down Into the hold, before my boy could catch me. lie picked me up instantly, but the careless moment bad done Its work. I had a badly cut head and 7 THE STORY On a pleasure trip In eastern water. Philip Amory, English World war veteran, now a, trader on the Island of Papua, New Guinea, plunge overboard to i eave the life of a musical comedy actress, known as "Gln-SHns- Amory becomes Interested In Pla Laurler, member of a wealthy New South Wales family. He telle her of his knowledge of a wonderful gold field on the Is-land. "Oln-Sling- " tells him Pla le engaged to Sir Richard Fan-shaw. His holiday ended, Am-ory arrives back at Dam. He meets au Englishman, Splcer. there on development business for a syndicate of which Pan-ha- w is head. Fanshaw's name recalls to Amory a Incident In which he wit-nessed the escape of Fanshaw from u leper colony. He tells nls friend Basset t about It end decides to Inform Laurler. He goes to Thursday Island to send the message. Amory bears Fan-shaw dl-t- a message which Indicates that the secret of the gold Held Is known. Blue my lounge, uroppea inio a enmr, and crossing her yellow knees with an sir of entire com-fort, asked me how I was. I told her, briefly and, I think, un-truthfully. 1 was anxious to get to the reason f r her rail. That she had not come for the sole purpose of look-ing nt Black Sheep, I knew as well as If she had told me. But It seemed hard for her to begin. She chattered like a pretty, painted parrakeet, asked fifty questions about the nurses and the doctors and the conduct of the place generally, didn't wait for an answer to any one. At last, losing pa-tience was not patient In those days I asked ner point-blan- k what she had come to tell me. "Can anyone hear us J" she asked, half below breath. "No," I answered her. "Look about you. Nobody nearer than that old chap at the end, and he'a deaf." concussion of the brain; and It was my unlucky fate. In consequence, to spend the next three weeks In Thurs-day island hospital. I cannot tell how tiresome, madden-ing, I found the resultant confinement and delay, it was worst towards the end of the third wretched week, for CHAPTER IV Continued 10 The more I thought of II all, the surer I was that Mrs. Brownrlgg, be-fore her death, had told somebody about Tutatiita; and In order to do Unit, she must have got It out of Grace. Lord knows, It was sensa-tional enough. . . . Well then I what then I I knew what then. Thi chain of logic was too clear o miss. It looked as If for-tune had delivered Itlcbard Fnnshaw Into my hands; as If opportunity were there, ready and waiting, for very sat-isfying revenge. He was certainly fond of Genevieve Treacher, or ne would not have taken the risk of k spoiling his chances with Pla, by run ning off with Gin-Slin- She, I made no doubt could do anything with him that she chose. She would do any-thingfind out anything If I lifted my finger . . . for me. . . . Minds are illogical; they make small trouble ubeut swallowing camels, then balk at something less than a sparrow. I don't know why I, Phli Amory, block sheep, whe bad Just been V listening to a private telegram, and planning to act on knowledge thus dis-creditably acquired, should have de-cided, suddenly and Irrevocably, that I would not do the thine I bad been "Well, then I He's off." "1 guessed that What elsef "How soon'll you be ready to got" she anked me. "I'm practically ready now." "He's off to Port Moresby. By Cairns. He'll get his stores there, and he'll attend to some business" She cleared her throat "Business," she went on. "And get away Imm-ediatelyto Tatatata." I knew It; I had been expecting It but the word hit me like a stone. "Go on," I said, with some difficulty; my tongue seemed stiff. "He wired for a prospector to Join him, three weeks ago, and he's come. Tatatata Is-- -" "I know all about It I know," I said getting angry, "a d n sight more than Fanshaw 'mows." "He got It straight," she said, "from some woman who died; she bad It from her bloke, who was killed and eat by the cannibals." "No, that was bis mate. Bow could he have got back to tell anyone?" "I thought" said Jinny, and now she looked away from me. "I thought somehow, the woman was with the bloke who found It on the expedi-tion." "On the expedition. Never, Jinny. That's one thing that a woman can't do yet, anj hasn't done go exploring In Papua." "Can't she? Why?" asked Jinny. She was still looking away from me, the candle that burned ever behind her gold-brow- eyes, was lighted to si That She Had Not Coma for the Sole Purpose of Looking at Black Sheep, I Knew as Well as If She Had Told Me. tempted to do, in the mutter of Jinny and her lover. "It's o dirty trick," I said to my-self, and shook the thought away. Jinny was not to be seen when 1 got hack to the hotel. I knew she would be looking for me, later on. 1 knew 1 should find her nt my corner of the vernuda, when the great moon of Torres began to sail like a golden galleon among the palm tree tops, and the straits and Islands were veiled In fnlry blue. I knew what the magic r.f Thursday for Thursday Is mnglc, still, despite all . geing and decay -- would do for me and foi her. And 1 thought of that little bead, with its close casque of shining hair, so very " - oBtaway. And I took my gear from my room, and marched down to the beach below, where the cutter, out In green water, was swaying with the tides. Night found me at Cape York, with my telegram ready to send. CHAPTER V I have never had a harder task In my l.'fe, thon the framing of that tele-gram. To say enough, ami not too much to .nfluence PIh's unknown fa-ther, by a dozen words wired across a continent, so that he should exert himself to break, or postpone, his then, I had calculated a reply by let-ter might reach me, from Laurler Downs. None did, nor was there any telegram. The silence remained un-broken. . Afterward I heari what had hap-pened, and as one always does wondered why I couldn't have guessed It at the time. Nobody had died, as I frantically assumed. Nobody had treated me with silent contempt Noth-ing had fallen Into the bands of Fan-shaw, or Spicer though I hud guessed nt all these solutions of the mystery. It was simply that Joseph Lnurler was In England, not at borne, and that my letter, marked "Private," and core fully sealed, had of course been sent on after him, Insten-- I of being opened by bis secretary. The telegram hnd also been posted on; over that the secretary had used what be was pleased to call hli Judgment and de elded apparently, that he was less likely to risk losing hit billet by sen Ing my extraordinary und unconvinc-ing wire under eover, than by hnng Ing the Lnur'ers' dirty linen out over the cable lines of the world. new brilliance by reflections from the dancing sea. "The answer's plain. It's because the only things left to find and New Guinea's got most of them are so tough that It takes the best men doing their best more than their best to get through. Exploring means the last ounce that the strongest men can squeeze out of tbelr bodies, driven to the Inst ditch, it means the male brute, all out. There's no use for women, In a pinch '.ike that." It seemed that she was not Inter-ested. She yawned a little, delicately changed the subject or rather, went back to the beginning. "Sir Richard's ff, enyhow," she re-marked. "He won't be more than a week or two getting things together and starting. That's the name of the place, what I told you. And whisper I'll tell you what he's after". She leaned over tr- mej breathed Into my ear a secret I had thought was known to no one but myself. "Now," she said, drawing back, and nodding wisely, "what do you think of little Jinny for telling you that?" TO BE CONTINUED) daughter's mnrrloge to show au-thority for what counseled, and at the same time conceal the vivid per-sonal interest thnt hnd prompted the sending of the message tills 1 found. In Its entirety, more than I onld nmnage. There was no doing the thing well; to do It somehow, any-- ' how,' was all that 1 could expect This was what I produced, In the end : "Joseph Laurler, "Laurler Downs Station, "New South Wales: "Serious reasons existing against Fanshaw marriage most strongly ad-vise awaiting mail for necessary In-quiries cannot sufficiently emphasize necessity delay." And C signed my came, my Inslg-nliica-unknown name, In full "Philip Cosgrove Amory." Laurler would not know I'blilp Cosgrove Amory from Adum, but that wns per-haps something to the good all things considered. He would be bound In common prudence to wait the arrival of my letter before giving Judgment on the matter. I bad done the best I could with the'letter; It contained a plain statement of the occurrences on Iota Island, mentioned the fuct of my acquaintance with Miss Laurler, and so concluded. No apologies either the thing was unforgivable, or it was a service beyond all thanks. No at-tempt to make capital, on my own ac-count, of the circumstances that had brought me Into communication with Pin's family. Just the facts, no more. 1 sealed, registered and posted the letter, and put to sea again, with a lightened heart I hap- - done the best I could, and given time, I could make sure that this unspeakable brute C would never place a ring on Pia's fin-- ger. 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JkN Fragrant and antiseptic, it i!5fi?B absorb excessive perspiration 1 vr II f VJl n rerelc and cool the Lf ?Jj 11 )fj akin, making your toilet li'Sffii$3i ii J I N I complete- - Vou will like it ''ILb& '9 ,v everybody doe. jWii'i IV Sos St rMntaMM t. l't H J . 60. Proprtatom: Pctt Dmf sfr c" - NEW DEVICE TO AID IN "BUND" FLYING Sperry Horizon Is Tested it Chicago Airport Chicago. Another stop toward sav-ing the air mall pilots' problem of try-ing "blind" bus been taken at the Chi-cago municipal airport where teis are being made of an "artificial l. rlzon," a device mounted on the la strument board of an airplane. T.ie new Instrument tells the pilot at a glance If his ship Is not In a proper Hying position and enanles him to cor-rect It even If be is flying In weather so thick that he can seen nothing out-side the cockpit i ne instrument wmcn is being test-ed on a N. A. T. Douglas mall and express transport, Is one of four In existence and was perfected by Elmer T. Sperry, noted Inventor. It Is known as the Sperry "Horizon" and Is the snuie as was used by Lieut. James Dooliltle in his recent series of blind flying tests In which be took off and landed an nlrpluue while completely Inclosed In a hooded cockpit May Revolutionise Flying. The Sperry device may revolution-ize the art of Instrument flying and will be a big factor In overcoming bad weather and eliminating delays In air transportation. When the weath-er becomes so thick that the pilot loses sight of the ground and the horizon fades from view the pilot Is forced to resort to his Instruments to keep his ship level. Although airplane In-struments have been greatly Improved during the last year and pilots have become adept In using them, the arti-ficial horizon Is hailed as an Invalu-able contribution to air transport be-cause of Its accuracy and simplicity. When Pilot Paul Kanlut was forced to use his parachute-whil- e flying the mail from Kansas City to Chicago last spring he told afterward of bow he was caught In a dense fog which closed behind and forced hlin to fly "blind." Suddenly his air speed In-dicator showed 170 miles an hour and be knew his plane was fulling out of control, but he could not correct It lie could see nothing In the dense fog and his Instruments were so disturbed by the exceptionally rough air of the storm area that they were useless. The artificial horizon would not have been affected under such conditions, experts say, and would make It possible for a pilot to keep his ship under control. Simple In Appearance. The "Horizon" is simple in appear ence, consisting of a dial tinted to represent a line which nt all times is parallel to the true horizon, In refer-ence to the position af the airplane. On the face of the dial Is pulnted the likeness of a small airplane. When the pilot Is forced to resort to Instrument dying he cun keep his ship In the proper attitude by correct-ing It with his controls so that the line across the dial of the Instrument Is 'In correct relation to the tiny air plane on the fare of the dial. The mechanism of the device Is actuated by a gyroscope. CROSSING RAYS TO GUIDE THE PILOT French Inventor Ue the Herzian Wave Signals. Purls, France. To mark out an un-mistakable truck for air pilots by menus of Uerzlan wave signals is the object of a striking Invention of Wil-liam Loth, which was recently brought to the attention of the French air min-istry. It is not a device for sending occasional messages of guidance. The Inventor contends thut It enables an aviator making for an airport to ob-serve Instantly, and at any time he likes, whether he Is on the right course. The pilot has no need to call up the aerodrome or to wait until be Is called up. The signals are constantly In the nlr about him and all he has to do Is to put on tbo beodplcc of his listening aparstus and hear them. At his experimental station at Vaux, on the Seine, M. Loth gives practical demonstrations of the simple principle on which the Invention Is based. In clear weather and over moderate dis-tances ordinary searchlight Blgnels may be employed Instead of Merzlun waves, and M. Loth shows both. Two "lighthouses," with powerful projectors, are pluced one on each side of the route which the arriving airplane should follow. The project-ors revolve and their beams sweep round In circles. As they are synchro-nized the pencils of light wheel round nt exnetly Identical speeds. It follows that whenever the beams cross each other they do so at a point equidis-tant from the two lighthouses. An ob-server placed at such a point of In-tersection sees the flashes of the two lights precisely at the same moment, and not one after the other. The task of the navigator Is simple. As soon as he comes within range he watches out for the lighthouses. . If the flush from the right-han- d light readies bim first he knows that he Is on the right of bis proper track and must veer to the left Observing the repenting flashes, he maneuvers until he sees both at the same time. He Is then equidistant from both lighthouses and in the middle of the right road. An Even Exchange "I have a system for beating the races," said the confidential stranger. "All right, I'll trade you my method of positively forecasting elections for It" No Apology Needed "I'm sorry 1 spoke sharply to that boy. I must have cut him to the quick." "Oh, It's all right; he has no Quick." "Has no quick?" "No. lie's a messenger boy I" t A forty-to- n stone bull which guard-ed the palace of an Assyrian king, 800 B. C, Is now to stand in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, A woman seldom cares anything about the answers to the question she asks. Prussian Schools Add Aviation to Courses Berlin, Germany. School children In Prussia ore to be Initiated into the mysteries of aviation. The Prussian minister of education has ordered that classes dealing with aeronautic prob-lems he added to the curriculum of all public schools. In schools with workshops the pu-pils, In addition, are to be advise' and assisted In the construction of models of all kinds of aircraft Informal Moating Managing Director Have yon met our London manager? Visitor Very informally ha called me a liar once. Yes, Whose? Conceited Poet My work Is hailed as that of a genius. The Other Really 1 What's his name? Every good deed points the way to another. A lot of valuable time Is wasted trying to get even. We like to hear baby talk, but only by tmtiles. Does a boy wait a Shetland pony or a motorcycle? ' No Congettioa Yet There will not be air traffic conges-tion until moro than 60,008 airplanes try to crowd their way Into the sky over one square mile of ground. In the opinion of Earl J. Smith of Detroit .i Round Europe Flight I I Open to U. S. Aviators j Berlin. American particlpa- - S X lion In the 1030 International 4 , "rininrl tfitrnna .f.li.g..h..t' la roniioat. A f. ed by the Aero Club of Germany J to give the contest a true inter- - 4 national chnracter. S J The organizers of the compe-- 5 i titlon are eager to have the flight t assume the same International 4 A Importance for sport planes as i Y the Schneider Cup races have f A for seaplanes. Aero club off!- - X clals said that American partlci- - I pntion was possible even If the i ,i National Aeronautical assncla- - V Hon Is not officially represented. 4 A Airplane companies, clubs or Jf Individual flyers are eligible, but ? A must be entered through some i European club. In this connec- - ? Hon the organization Invited 4 American flyers to enter through 4 their clubs. X Entries will be received nntll X March 3. The countries partlc- - J Ipatlng are Germany, France, X England, Switzerland, Spain, Po-- ? !fX Inud and Czechoslovakia. The A distance to be covered Is 7,553 ? kilometers (4,72094 miles). The con(et will take place from July 5 20 to July 31. The prizes are t 350,000 French francs, of which ? the first award will be 100,000 francs. Y Minneapolis Turning From Auto to Plane Minneapolis, Minn. Dreams of pro-moters who spent nearly $1,000,000 to make Minneapolis "the center of auto-mobile racing" nre being subjected to final and very literal blasts as avia-tion rebuilds Its nest here. Dynamite has now crumbled the curved concrete race track, more than two miles long, to permit expansion of the flying field which has bece limited to the area within the curvature for several years. The auto races were financial failures and the property was sold by the sheriff for $V),000. Then came the rise of aviation, and from a few planes the field soon be cnine the home f many. Now It Is the terminus for the airmail route, of several nlr. lines nnd a training center for the Thirty-fourt- Division Air Service. Improvement Is being undertaken by the city, which acquired the field un-der a bond Issue of $243,000. The con-crete truck, forming a saucer, must be entirely removed because It Is a bus-ar-and destroys valuable space. More than 5O0,(XK) yards of earth nre being moved to bring the field to grade. Concrete taxlways will supple-ment grass runways and complete equipment for night flying Installed. Two hundred and forty acres adjoin-ing are to be added. Ideal Dwelling Place for the "Simple Lifer" a cinema or theater, some have never ridden In a train or beard a wireless brondenst. The villagers work from sunrise till sunset, and take their relaxation in the taproom of old Fns Inn, where the youngsters get excited over a "needle game" of darts. The loneliest village In England boasts six numes Wlston, Wlsslng-ton- , Wlsson, Wlsseen, Wlseton and Whlston nnd one motorcycle, one wireless set, one Inn and one dart-boar- This village, surrounded by corn-fields and towering trees, has hardly changed since the old cottages were built hundreds of years apo. The village was In existence In 1003. II has no electric light, gai or water supply, shop, telephone or meeting hall. There Is not even i village jrreen. It shares a policeman wltb three neighboring villages. Many of the Inhabitants have never heen more than ten miles from borne, nnd the majority of the old farmers and laborers have never been Inside Where Notables Gambled In the Horse and Groom tavern, Streatham, London, Is the direct suc-cessor to the famous old Inn of the same name wherein the Prince Re-- 1 gent, afterwarj King George IV, used to foregather i' nights with his boon companions. In the spacious grounds at the rear, was a cockpit where on one occasion, according to local tradi-tion, was fought a main between birds own;d by the prince and others be-- longing to Colonel McMnhsn and Doc-tor Ma ruble, the stakes being one thousand guineas for each of the seven battles and five thousand guineas the main. Doctor Johnson, too, was a frequent visitor to thy old bouse. No Record of Wren' Work There Is comparatively no evidence to prove thnt there are any si Ires on American churches designed by Sir Christopher Wren. Certainly be did not visit this ct jtitry. Sir Christopher Wren was born in 1030 and died In 1723. Between the years 1070 and 1711 be designed 53 London churches. There are comparative!.- - few churches In this country that were built prior to 1723. Among the early churches or meeting bouses, erected In the man-ner of Sir Christopher Wren, are Christ church, Philadelphia (A. D. 1727) ; St. Philip. Charleston (A. D. 1733); St Paul, New York (A. D. 1707), and St Michael, Charleston (A. D. 1752), of which the probable" architect was Gibbs, the designer of the Badcliffe library, Oxford. Now Type Altimeter A new type altimeter for use on airplanes differs from the older In-struments in that the pilot may set the dial to register the height nt which he wants to fly. A manipulator on the Instrument permits the mechanical de-vice to be regulated for altitude by In-dicating barometric pressure to be met at the desired altitude. Good Idea for Airports Prof. J. S. Crandell of the Univer-sity of Illinois believes municipalities contemplating the construction of air-ports should so situate them that parts of the field not In Immediate demand may be used as recreation spots by Jhe city or town. As avia-tion develops these golf links and ten-nis grounds may be utilized for hungnr spaces and shops. Variation in Saa Level It Is not correct to 6ay that sea level Is the same all the world over. The land masses rising above the ocean basins tend to attract the wa-ters nnd alter the sea level. For ex-ample, the Andes mountains pull up the water adjacent to them, as do also the Himalayas In India. It has been found that the sea water at the mouth of the Indus Is 300 feet higher than around the Island of Ceylon. In addi-tion to tliis attraction by land masses there are also temporary and slight Inequalities. The famous system of Itoman roadi in Britain was begun soon after th conquest of the Island by Claudius ll A. D. 43. If thou nil m num. admire thoe who attempt great tilings, even though they fall. Seneca |