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AEniAL TORPEDO 117 PERFECTED Deadly Weapon of Uncle Sam Adds More Horrors to Grim War. CARRIED v ON MONOPLANE

LIGHTWEIGHT MOTOR HAS BEEN PLANNED INVENTOR OF DEVICE 18 EMIL BERLINER OF WASHINGTON, D. C Washington, Aug. 2a Aerial torpedoes are the latest horro that are about to be added to modern warfare. There have been submarine mines and submarine torpedoes, smokeless powder and noiseless guns and airships, but the Idea of carrying ISO pounds of gun cotton ten miles and dropping it on the head of an ordinarily inoffensive citlsen looks like crowding the limit on modern destructiveness. This, however, is being worked out right here in Wahlngton, and Emil Berliner, known to fame in other and more peaceful directions as an inventor, is the man who is developing the Idea. Possibly Mr. Berliner does not even deserve the saving clause just noted for he is the inventor of many graphaphones, and Judge Kimball, John Phillip Sousa and ' other prominent citizens have classed them with lethal weapons; However the aerial torpedo Is already invented, and it will take another Hague conference to prevent ltd use should occasion demand. It is nothing more or less than a small aeroplane, carrying a torpedo in place o automatic balance and steering device to th same end as a submarine torpedo. : Light-weight Motor Devised. The thing about the. device that has given more trouble than anything else Is getting a simple and Mght weight motor. This problem Is now solved and there Is a motor In the Berliner shops that will develop twelve horse power on the brake and weighs only fifty pounds. The motor Is very snmple In construction. This first working model was not built for light weight especially, and it Is said that it can be cut down twelve pounds without interfering with Its efficiency when the next motor is built. The saving In weight will be due chiefly to the use of venadlura steel In the cylinders. This was not available when the first motor was constructed, but cylinders of this material have been ordered and will be ready for Installation in the next motor. The motor Is something of the Ad-ams-Farwell type, with revolving cylinders. These act as a gyroscope to keep the aeroplane steady in the air and make the motor run without the vibration that would shake a small aeroplane to pieces with a motor of the same size and weight of a reciprocating type. It Is saldhat the motor on a light wooden base has been run without any trouble - from Vibration and It was run standing still in the sun for half an hour without overheating. It is true that standing still on a long run the cylinders get a little too hot for efficiency, but moving through the air will keep them Just right. One of the cylinders has been fitted with a copper jacket, with cooling flnages, and this aids the cooling without appreciably Increasing the head resistance, but it is not thought that in practice it will be necessary to use the jacket at all. . : Machine to Be a Monoplane. Mr. Berliner has tried out a lot of propellers and has found a pair of light weight and suitable efficiency. This and the motor constitute the chief problems, and being satisfactorily settled, he Is not bothering much about the aeroplane to carry them. The whole installation will be of such light weight that not much wing surface will be required. The machine will be a monoplane, and as it will make Ofty miles an hour there will probably be only about 100 feet of supporting surface. The automatic balance is worked out so that it is simply a question of putting the machine together. The aeroplane will carry a gasoline supply for a flight of half an hour, but it is not thought likely that it will ever be used at anything like that disVital Strength comes from proper food. If you want to be ready for opportunities, food that is quickly absorbed by the blood and stored . up in the brain, nerves and muscles as vital energy must be made a part of your regular routine. Suppose you try GRAPE-NUTS with cream fcr breakfast Est clawSy end ; note : ths comfcrtable feelIna of vitality that "stayVwith ycu" till "There's a Reason." Head "The Road to IV3.W In ckcs.

tance. It would hardly be possible to bit anything but a bis city at that range. v But ; the aerial - torpedo ' will outrange the biggest gun now in use, and it is possible that it will be of use against attacking fleets and coast fortifications, and will be even more effective than the aeroplane itself in holding up rich cities for ransom. It is pointed out that the aerial torpedo is much cheaper to construct than a submarine torpedo, and that it is more accurate at the same range.

THE THEATER Maxwell-Hall Stock Company. Miss Gertrude Maitland, leading lady with the Maxwell-Hall Stock Company which opens a week's engagement at the Gennett theater next Monday, Aug. 30, is a graduate of Radcliffe annex to Harvard college. During a recent trip the company made between Terre Haute and Crawfordsville it was their good fortune to be aboard the same train with the Hon. W. J. Bryan and as Manager Maxwell has been a personal acquaintance of Mr. Bryan's for several years, he with a great deal of pleasure Introduced the members of his company to Mr. Bryan who spent most of the trip in exchanging notes with Miss Maitland regarding Harvard and Radcliffe College. Miss Maitland became very much Interested in hearing Mr. Bryan explain how he prepared his lectures which have become so popular with educational circles. At the close of the trip the great educator and statesman was heard to remark that Miss Maitland was one of the most charming and refined ladies he had ever met. The Maxwell Stock company will present a repertoire of plays especially selected to fit Miss Maitland's histrionic abilities. The opening play Monday night will be "A Daughter of the People," which will be followed by a change of play at each performance during the week. Ladies will be admitted free on Monday night under the usual conditions. "The Red Mill." Fresh from its triumphs of a year's run at the Knickerbocker theater. New York City, followed by engagements of three months each in Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston, Martin and Emery Co.'s complete production of the Henry Blossom and Victor Herbert comic opera masterpiece, "The Red Mill." will be seen at the Gennett on Saturday, Sept. 11. In collaborating, Messrs. Blossom and Herbert have had the extraordinary good fortune of not only duplicating their former success "Mile. Modiste," but have in "The Red Mill," one that will far exceed it. in many ways. The story is to the point, describing the predicament in which two American tourists find themselves after spending their money too recklessly, after which they unconsciously prove heroes in rescuing a persecuted maiden from an obdurate parent by entering the mill on the blades of a revolving fan, in which manner they escape with the girl on to the ground and restore her to her lover. Victor Herbert .has , composed a score of the whistleable kind of music which has already gone through the country with telling effect. Messrs. Martin and Emery have provided an admirable company of some sixty people and have faithfully reproduced scenes and costumes of quaint and picturesque Holland. The cast includes Bert O. Swor as Con Kidder, Franker Woods as Kid Connor, Otto Koerner, Alvin Laughlin, Carl Hartberg, S. W. Stott, Harry R. McClain, Cecil Suf mers and the Misses Agnes Major, Vernice Martyn, Adeline Stern, Georgia Harvey and a chorus of fifty, including the six little Dutch Kiddles, also an augmented orchestra. STAUB STUNG HARD Former Richmond Man Gets a Jail Sentence for Joy Riding. A LONG JAIL SENTENCE Believers in signology have received a new recruit in a former Richmond young man, Dolph Staub of Indianapolis, who is now convinced that there are such things as "blue" Mondays and "black" Fridays. Yesterday he was araigned in the Indianapolis police court, about which last evening'3 Indianapolis News says as follows: Dolph Staub, a chauffeur employed by Edwin I Patrick, was fined $180 and cost and sentenced to thirty days in the workhouse on a charge of malicious trespass. Another fine of $10 and costs was assessed against Staub for violating the motor speed law. Staub is the chauffeur who took his wife, his mother-in-law and a friend for a "joy ride" in Mr. Patrick's machine last Monday and during the ride ran the machine ito a telephone pole at Sixteenth and Bellefontaine streets the machine cutting the pole, whieb was cedar and sixteen inches in diameter, in two. Staub and the other occupants of the car declared that the machine was running within the speed limit, but Judge Whallon couldn't overlook that sixteen inch pole as circumstantial evidence. The charge of malicious trespass was made on Mr. Patrick's complaint that he had told Staub to take the machine to the factory for repairs. Instead ; the "joy ride was the thins and the collision with the telephone pole was the result. , . . .... . . Germany has only : 84275 millionaires in marks; that Is, owners of $240,000 or . over. Of these "millionaires," Prussia has 5.807, Bavaria 631, Wurtemberg 243, Baden 151.

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Kansas Executive and Former Wayne County Man, Formulates Pleas. TO MAKE LIFE PLEASANT THEY WILL GET BI8CUIT8 FOR BREAKFAST AND WONT HAVE TO WEAR STRIPED SUITSOTHER "GOOD THINGS." Governor Stubbs of Kansas, a former resident of Wayne county, has become the champion of prisoners. The following Topeka dispatch tells of the governor's prison reform plans: Under Governor Stubbs'a plan of running the Kansas penitentiary it is almost a pleasure to be sent there. Eight hot biscuits for each convict at breakfast. All the corn bread each convict can eat at noon. Fresh fruit for supper. These, together with all the staple food necessary, are among the Inducements offered in the culinary line. No stripes for good convicts, easy work, china dishes to eat from, and good literature to read are some additional drawing cards. The Governor has an idea that a prison should be a reformatory instead of an institution for punishment. He proposes to run it along that idea for a while. If he finds that he Is mistaken he will adopt the old method. "The way to reach the heart of a man is through his stomach," said the Governor. "Feed a man well and he will not be so troublesome." Men Were Badly Fed. This is responsible for the new bill of fare at the state prison, which includes hot biscuits, corn bread and fruit. When Governor Stubbs took charge of things he found the kitchen at the penitentiary run by an official who knew nothing whatever about the art of cooking. The steward doled out certain quantities of meat and vegetables and the like each day and the head cook ordered convicts to cook it up. The convicts were also green at the work. As a result a conglomeration , was prepared which would repel the stomachs of men. At least this is the report made to the Governor by his confidential inspectors after a three weeks' stay at the prison. Then the food would be set before the convicts in tin pans and tin cups, which had all been worn to the iron. This sort of food served in old rusty tin and Iron dishes didn't have a tendency to Improve the disposition of the convicts. When the facts were reported to the Governor by his confidential man. orders were Issued immediately to secure an experienced cook for the kitchen, to supply the dining room with chinaware, and to Improve the bill of fare. "It will-cost about 2 cents a day more to feed each convict than the state has been paying in the past," said the Governor, "but we will get almost twice as much work out of them. The state owes them a decent living, even should there be no compensating features." Weak Convicts Protected. The day's task is also to be changed. About half the prisoners are worked In the prison coal mine. Each one in the mine is compelled to dig so much coal a day. The task, to the experienced miner, is easy. Even to the strong, healthy man who picks up the trade quickly, the task isn't any burden. But to the weakling, or the one who can not catch on to the knack of swinging a pick while lying on his side or back, it Is a hardship. The new plan is to let the men dig whatever amount of coal they can. The young convicts will be kept out of the mine; also those who have weak constitutions. The prison mine is a bugbear to most of the convicts. However, the natural born miners prefer it to work on the surface, for they have more liberties. Experienced school teachers are to be employed at the prison school. This school is run at night, and while it is not compulsory all of the young convicts are eager to attend it. They would rather be in school than in a cell. KILLS FIVE MIIIERS (American News Service) Cardiff, Wales, Auk. 28. Five min ers were killed and twelve in in red. some of them fatally when the cage in the naval coal mine at Ppnnvrrai fell 400 feet today. Twenty-seven men were tn the cage when it crashed ta the bottom of the pit. It was at first feared that the entire twenty-seven men were killed. Relief Darties were at once lowered by temporary means 10 give am to tne injured. State of Ohio. City of Toledo, Lucas County. Is Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Is senior partner of the firm of F J. Cheney ft Co., doing business in the City or Toledo, county end State aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my presence, this Cth day of December, A. D. 188. (SeaL) A. W. GLEASON. Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials free. F. 3. CHENEY CO- Toledo. O. . Sold by all Drug-gists. 75c , Take Hall's Family Fills for constipation.

CHINESE MONEY.

Mi, tat It AH Bmlte Bard, a Frenchman, bast an iassrestlng chapter on the money of China in hi book, -Chinese Life In Town and Country. ; He explain that tiie twit of Cnhaoae money Is the tael, which is not a coin, bat a weight of silver the ounce, of which there are sixteen to the catty and 1.600 to the ptcuL The commercial tael to that of Canton, which should weigh 87.783 grains, but usually weighs 37.58. Then there is the tael of Shanghai, which weighs 3S.6, and the revenue tael. need tn valuing Imports and exports, and each large city has Its own, that of Tientsin worth from 4 to 6 per cent more than that of Shanghai. Business estimated in taels Is carried on by the use of Spanish dollars or silver ingots. The former are weighed and stamped by every south China merchant and have to be remitted continually. The Ingots of silver are cat from bars into pieces that the operator estimates will weigh 80 taels. Naturally' each one who handles them weighs them. "Banks store their money In cellars, In boxes carried back and forth by coolie," says M. Bard. ' "This explains the Item of transportation which Is deducted from the face ,of Chinese check when it Is cashed at a bank. One can Judge the complications consequent upon this system of conversion of taels of different values Into Ingots of different -weight and purity, especially as assay era of different localities refuse to honor the stamps of other dUes." In places where the dollar Is not used small payments are made by cutting up an ingot. "The scale used In weighing these fragments has two sets of markings; one for receipts and one for payments." China's national coin Is the cash, a round copper coin with a square hole through it The cash or sapak dates from at least 2300 B. C. Eight pounds' weight of cash makes a dollar. Tears go an emperor decided to double his funds by giving copper cash double its value. In certain parts of the country this performance is still hi effect. . In other parts 77 or 86 cash are counted as 100. In Honsn the Chinese go -to market with two kinds of money, one real, the oUter counterfeit Some articles are bought with one, some with the other. Certain articles have two prices, one in good money, one in bad. AMERICAN LANDSCAPE. How It Differs Ftwsa That ef K lamd and tne Continent. The American landscape, even In the older parts of the country, is generally unkempt and does not lend Itself as readily to formal treatment as does the typical English or continental landscape. The owners of big estates rarely appreciate the scale on which the landscape architecture should be laid out and the patience which Is necessary to obtain a complete and consummate effect They want ready made estates. Finally, the leading American house architects have, with a few ex ceptions, a good deal to learn about the technique of landscape design. So far as the large house itself Is con earned, a convention has been established which Is In the main a goo.: convention, but the designing of gar dens Is still in an early experimental stage. The stage properties are collected in abundance. There is no lack of pergolas, fountains, well beads, ga zebos, statuary and pottery, but as like as not they are indiscriminately placed The architectural features are, how ever, generally somewhat better man aged than the planting, which fre qnently looks as if an Irish gardener had been given some vague general di motions, or as if the lady of the bouse had considered that It was a woman' business to make the garden green. As a matter of fact however, the lady of the house. In esse 6he has ber own way, generally paints the garden yellow and red rather than green. Her idea usually Is merely to get as much bloom as possible, and this she does at a sacrifice of thdfce masses of foliage which are absolutely necessary to give mass, body and depth to a large gar den.-Architectural Record Magazine. ; The River Koage. Tropical rivers vary greatly In volume In the rainy season sweeping to the sea in vast tonential floods and near the end of the dry season flowing slowly and only in the central and deeper portions of their beds. The Kongo, however, the largest river in Africa, rises and falls very slightly, and Commander Cameron accounts for this peculiarity, which was at one time considered Inexplicable, by the observation that the basin of this great river extends on both sides of the equator, and therefore one moiety of Its tributaries are In flood while the other are at their minimum volume. aallest Bird. The golden crested wren Is the smallest not only of British, but of all European, birds. Its average weight Is only about eighty grains troy, so that it would take seventy-two of the birds to weigh a pound. The length of the feathers is about three and a half inches and the stretch of the wings about five inches, but when the feathers are taken off the length of the body does not exceed one .inch. . V LETTER LIST. Ladles List Mrs. Mary Anderson, (2); Mrs. Cora Beetle, Rosa M. Davis, Mrs. Maggie Davis, Mrs. Myrtle Garrett Miss Ruby Gard, Mrs. J. M. Huffman, Hazel L. Klinck, Miss Catherine Lowry, Miss Mary Moore, Edna Williams. Clara Woodhurst, Mrs. Frohlich. Gentlemen's List Paul Doerband, H. W. Davis, H. E. Elliott Earl Foster, Adolph Floyd. Joseph Gleeson, Alva Huffer, Fred Johnson. Charles Lore. S. G. Llewelyn. S. E. Markley, Chas. A. Oxford. Frank A. Price, Bret Stewart The Richmond Canvas Gate Co.; . John Shmola Wolflngton, Clarence Tergins. Drops Walter L. Davis. J. E. Jinkana, Miss Bettina StoU. Clarence Tergins. Foreign Foster Bros. Mfg. Co. J. A. Spekenhier. 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FIRST SESSION OF CONFERENCE TODAY Eaton Is Filled With Delegates To the Annual Miami Conclave.

FIFTY-SEVEN CHURCHES VARIOUS REPORTS WILL BE RECEIVED TODAY AND MUCH IMPORTANT BUSINESS EXPECTED TO BE DONE. Eaton, O., Aug. 28. The Initial session of the ninety-first annual Miami, Ohio. Christian Conference began In the First Christian church here at 10 o'clock this morning amid a manifest spirit of enthusiasm and great interest upon the parts of all In attendance. This spirit and Interest is especially noticeable among the members of the local church, who made earnest efforts for the past several days to hospitably receive and enter tain all those attracted to Eaton by a meeting of so great importance to adherents to this denomination. The conference includes fifty-seven churches throughout Ohio. These churches are represented by fiftyseven ministers, most of whom will be In attendance at later sessions of the meeting. Besides these, about two hundred and fifty or three hundred laymen are expected. The total laymanship is approximately eight thousand. The Rev. Hugh A. Smith, pastor of the local church, Is president of the conference, and is serving in his official capacity. The assemblage was called to order promptly at 10 o'clock, and the Rev. W. S. Bennett of New Madison, O., was introduced. Rev. Bennett was privileged with the honor of openirg the meeting, and the sermon delivered by him showed no misjudgment on the part of those forming the program for having bestowed on him this favor. Roll Call Read. Following the address of Rev. Bennett the preliminary business of the meeting was taken up by the roll call of ministers and delegates. Committees to serve during the meeting were then announced. The Rev. O. P. Furnas of West Milton, O., followed this short business session with the annual conference sermon,. which was generally accepted as a masterful, eloquent address, and one that dealt to the attendance an Inspiration for interest and activity in church work. An adjournment was taken at 11:30 o'clock for the noon meal. Eatables are to be had in the basement of the church, where the women are providing for many in a satisfying manner. Numerous other attendants are being entertained in private homes. The afternoon session was begun at 1:30 o'clock by the Rev. Del McReynolds, of Bellefontaine, who trade a ten-minute talk, which was well received. Following the roll call and introductions, Rev. Hugh A. Smith responded to "The President's Address." This was a commendable and eloquent discourse, which, by the manner in which delivered and the weighty points touched upon, showed the fluency of the speaker and his brilliant ministerial attainments and qualifications. Reports Are Read. - At the conclusion of Rev. Smith's sermon the remainder of the afternoon session was devoted to reports of the conference secretary of the official board; report of financial secretary by Treasurer O. S. Albaugh, Daytotn; re port of Sunday schools by the Rev. O. P. Furnas, West Milton; report on publications by the Rev. Alva Ml Kerr, Pleasant Hill; report of secretary of

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