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THE AUCKLAND STAS. SATUKDIAIY. NOVEMBER 6. 1909,13■? -4-NEWS, VIEWS,ANDOPINIONS,A ‘'bee vaccinator” for rheumatism was on view at a recent exhibition in London. Many French and German medical men are strong believers in the healing properties of stings indicted byLet* gaeurs des corolles vermeillea, Filies de la luofiere, abeiliesTht dose relationship of King GeorgeAt a recent meeting cf the Vienna Medical Association a Stvrian doctor claimedto have permanently cured over 500 cases pf Greece to our own Eoval Family Df acute rheumatism with +he aid of bees. Stakes the pre-r-ni unsettled situation, And these insects occasionally prove ef-vriuto has an important interruLtiooal factual in the case of other diseases. A tspeeL. doubly mtere-.t ing from a British correspondent of the French Academy ofEat of view. It may he worth while to Medicine Itcts furnished that body with :k back for a moment lt;uer the history particulars of e man afflicted with double cf Gr^ce from the time, in the early ophthalmia, whose left eye was freed part of !$st century v.hen she managed from this ailment by an accidental bee-with the moral and material a-smonce sting in the eehd. He thereupon took df th* Powers, and more particularly td measures to have the right eye stun** England, to shake off the yoke of Turt-ish with equnlh beneficent effects. When his tult. Th? fir^t form of goi'ernment prophvlactie qualities become genera.ly *dcpted after the War of Independence kno^ n. the busy bee will find his time was tfbat might be called “limited Rc more fully occupied than ever, puhlk-amsm.*' under a President enJovea -with esttmsue powers Government The pVQ^^ 0f rhe emancipation ofTHE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.(Copyright,—All Rights Reserved.)mxxfeirProse/Is*Aftzartf25 HP Mb ror .under this system turned out to be both | hamamtv fron, t;ie dominion of sensel^corrupt aad metfeelue, and the nation feflr 15 prr,C£.pding space. In the lowest asked for a king. Prince Otto, of the Atas{. 0f savagery men are afraid of vco-EoyaJ house of Ba\r.nat acceptedibtfThe motor is double the po-wer ofBleriot XI., and has eight cylinders to that One’s three. These eight cylinders are set Y-iviscs four on each side, and the two-bladed propeller is made of steel And aluminium instead of wood, as m the smaller rival machine, though both are coupled up direct to the engine. But while the Aozam motor is air-cooled, the Antoinette is steam-cooltd This- is done by the water cir-The Bookfellow(Written for the lt;c Auckland Star ” by A. G. Stephens.)A. Well—er, it is one kind of aleep, j The symptoms of hypnosis include stig-Chesterton on Shaw, and Shaw on Chesterton, leave the impredion of a combat of circus olowns with coloured bladders:; it is a pother to no purpose,culating between the steel cylinders i and it is not amusing. Shaw has ex-and the copper water-jackets being , hausted lug brilliant message, which wasBLE RIOT'S XL MONOPLANE.men. Much more advanced tribes hate.Mechanical flight machines are so rapidly becoming practical methods of transport for persons that it may not be outthrcne. and reigned nearly thirty years, , [he drirk [n 01ir 50Ciety most pnople but his rule, his tempera merit and hia jave reached the stage when rhey are at habits were all objectionable to Greek afraid to confess weaknesses of thispeople, and in the end he v\as compelled Yet women of strong mtnda iieejof place to reproduce here a slightto abdicate. It was some time before a : frfffll mjC? and men proved coumgq ' utch bv a practical ^respondeat ofSuccessor to kxag Otto could be found, j bave known to shrink from a plump h Jj0ad‘0Q ~Dail_ TeWnnh” of those lie Greeks hawked their toy throne all1 TJldlt;,r. However, it i£ claimed tliat the cne Jj°nQoa leiegraph of thoseround E-Jicpe. but not a Prince would j advance of civilisation is abohshmg even t7Pes at Presei,t beiore the public eye. take it. Finally the choice of monarch , these de^p-rooted fears. Wom^n, we all M. Louis BlerioVs recent success on was practically placed in the hands of know, are devoting themeelves to garden- his mono—or single—plane machine hasthe English Go-rerament The Greeks [ ing w 1th zeaJ and energy. As a conse-wanted rhe Duke of Edinburgh. QuCen i 0Uo^^ there are now, we are assured,Victoria s second son, who later succeed- ! niany whom the obese slug and the a£ilead to the Dukedom of Saxe-Cohurg, but 1 earwig hue ceased to alarm. To somehe was declared to be ineligible undeT 1 0f ^ DtiL*h stieiurth of mind seems merethe Agreement or 1S-30, which barred j lt;Lblc, pijrhaps eveu undecirable.accession to the Greek throne to mem | _b?rs of the families of reurninpr monarch^ i r» a tv, ,r, _ , j -__, , -r ^ - y j We are so often assured a re*who had signed the Treaty or London.singlethe otherr Bleriot XI. bas its forward plane, that can be moved by the pilot, so as to present a greater or kassuch a small quantity that the heat generated by the explosions in the cylinders quickly turns this water into steam. Oil each side of the bo/vt-hke body of the Antoinette monoplane are small aluminium pipes. The steam passes into those from the water-jackets, and is condensed back into water, which returns to the motor, the process continuing ad infinitum as long ag the engine is running.WRIGHT AND VQISIN BIPLANES,Of the biplane or double-surface aeroplanes, t-hnt designed by the brothersresisting surface to the air, according to 'Vnght shares fame with those mader'J tne y ^nuon-1 of hv^g languages Eng- aCt- ^meh r?^nJ5ed the Und is a long waj behind the Conti-neoc, irhat ir is pleasing co receive a.deuce of Greece There is no reason to think, however, that in any case the Ehike of Edinburgh would have accepted tne offer. A number oi German prince wsre then approached without success, end at last the Crown was offered to an English nobleman, to Lord Stanley, the Earl of Derby:s eldest son. But, asDisraeli wrote. h‘tlie Stanley's are notforeign compliment on chu» score. IXlo Chat^Uer, the disiraguisked Frencht and. inventor, has told an interviewer b'naz, at the International Che itjieajl Congress recently held in London,he was gxea tly ltupre^ed with the iingu■iszjc abilities of his British confreres.the angle at which it is set, a singlerudder at the extreme end of the machineof a shape very similar to that of a hontfand a single balancing plane just in j front of the rudder, .the outer ends ofwhich are pivoted, and. can be moved upby Voisin. Both are double-deckers, both have forunl elevating planes, and both have trailing tail rudders. But h^ie their similarity finishes.Count de Lambert, who, like M. Hubert Latham, is a candidate for cross-a . - ... i “The President of the Congress,” he says,fin imagiiiata e race, and I fancv- they I Ramsay, welcomed the de-S \ «*■****»^n;. , „ 'f the Attic plains.’' j lculian, aivi Sir MugihDt-jraeii wa- aU afire with appreciation ! , ^ dcd i.w. ofromance of the n^e: ‘u hen J r. . t , apprec-mnoa: wt^lt; pre^ldcd over the labours ofthrows ^ j : \ r-he Metallurgical Sectaon, can discoursethrone, tumbled down and crowns were ^ { m English, Gcrmap,r^t • a r-aitV i’ l ,'Va* I and Frencn. On the other hand, fewte STaU'Vs- of The French delegates coold speak an} Crowm, and sceptres did not appeal to l u bllC wlt;s = 0*-n.”Ziiem. ^ven those oi Gr^oe. At Jonlt;r la^t i ° °tae Greeks succeeded Lu getting Prince , . , . ^Christian of Denmark to become their I Gi'eaL interest has been aroused by the Ring He was then only eighteen rears ! ^kieveinent oi an American railway in old. and was crowned in the same'rear 'the handlmg or a record goods tram- Tha that his sister, the Princess Alexandra ! *onpnny in question has ror years pastmarried to our Pnnce of W ales.l. ^eGD fiugaged m ovem-a mg t eu*Thatiing all that time the influence which ■ K^qg George ha* been able to exercise in I the Courts of Europe, as «eil as ln his adopted country. lias served Greecewas fortv-six rears ago, and dur' I eailI1S banks- aad scxaaghtemng curves 11 that rh« irflv0„« i To determine the advantages arisin£from this, and Lraou weight actua-Lcould be handled upon this modernisedrailvVLv by a smgLe engine uader oidiuar%for the moment attracted attention away from the biplane, or double-decked, type of the Voisin or Wright form of flying machine. M- Hubert Latham’s Antoinette monoplane further added to the interest in machines basing only one lifting or supporting surface, yet Latham’s machine differs considerably in detail from that of BJeriotfs XI., in which he crossed the ChannelBleriot’s No. XI. is, with one exception, the smallest practical flying machine yet produced. The exception is that of M. Santos Dumont. But No. XL was theoutcome of previous experimental machines of a like form.The principle of the single surface fly* ing machine, or monoplane, as it is technically termed, is a gliding bird with ono supporting and lifting surface placed immediately behind the propeller or mechanical screw which gives the machine motion, with a fin tail to regulate its direction arranged as a rudder in the rear. The pilot of the machine sits behind the engine er motor driving the propeller, and with the single supporting surface extending on his right or left. To help maintain tlie balance of his monoplane, each diffeicnt type or make has also, aspart of the machine, an addi*frvpciterBalancingPfrtaJhatdaaCyl SOVf.fiLnglneAnroigttt\often stimulating- when he bad. clear fact to grapple with, and never was o-jsenti-ally original. Chesterton is a clever literary contortionist, and the m.brvel of a man with his head between his heels soon satiates. A^ a journalistic fillip his work is all very well, but it 15 not to be taken seriously, and,n hut ever 1subject, it has no relationwith anything in the world but Cbea-terton. All his books remind one of “Jack and the Beanstalk” and Chesterton is out of sight in the skyward jungle of words before a man can mb hia eye3. But ho never kills a giant. There is only the prodigious stalk, and Chesterton cliirnbing nimbly and to no particular purpose. We do not demand a purpose, but it is better not toEverybody know* wis-t sleep 15,Q. Pardon my ignorance—and what issleep?A. Sleep is—confound you I—sleep !■ a label, anyway,Q. Like “life” or “death*t A. Precisely.Q. Then, what you have been telling roe is how to arrange labels?A. Just that,Q. And you really know nothing about hypnotic sleep, or any other kind of sleep?A Honest, I don't; and no moredocs anybody else.Q. You don’t know how it occurs, or why?A* No; I can only describe how if. seems to occur, and invent a theory of reasons for the next theorist to pot at. Q. Then— ?A. Well, it isn’t my fault, is It?Can you do any better yourself?That little catechism fairly represents the cuse. We can describe and classify and label phenomena—no more. (Phe* nomena are things that go on. like policemen and trains—really appearancesof things that go on, or that don't goon—the sense - i mpressions that reach identity-eonscjousmes, and are merged in our notions of what we call existence.) Then we can string kindredmata and apparitions. Wart bin thinks that some Wagner enthusiasts auto-hypnotise themselves at the isound of the. master's musie. The advertisement of a drapers bargain sale is certainly hypnoticSo is the puff of a theatrical company. In fact, there are no bounds to be set to hypnosis and auto-hypnosis. Moll discusses the medical aspecte in an admirable chapter, and the legal and other aspects. Many pages are devoted to occultism, dismissed as unproven. A full index shows the immense territory cover*ed by a deeply-interesting book.The “Family Herald'' is avenged? All these years we superior people, with noses high in air, have been jeering its ridiculous plots, its genteel style, and its simple devotion to the duke who loves the home-made muslin damsel—all innocence except her unparsed eloquence so guilty! But the ‘T?amiJy Herald” is avenged. I’or what could be more superior than Boston, U.S.A.? And here isBostou, by the mouth of P. Dey, author, and. L. C. Page, publisher, uttering “A Gentleman of Quality”—of the good old bosh-romantic quality with which the “Family Herald” has made a million hearts palpitate. Yes! and selling edition after edition in the home of Cultureminting, the Iadwotk baa disappeared, and not a particle of. glass remains._ naturally very proud ofIns discovery. Nothing like, it has been, made in London for many years, The windows will not be hidden again. AU that remains of them will be carefully' preserved, and probably they will be ioredl on the old lines.BBWAEE OP THE BIOSCOPE.The cinematograph and bioscope hav* added a new terror to life. Quite recently at one of the London variety “trlieatreSj » man watching a bioscope re-* presentation of a big race saw plainly amongst the cheering crowd in Tatter-sail's, one of his employes^ who hadabsented himself from, -the office for acouple of days on the score of illness* The deceiver got the “sack” and is novr living at the expense of the nation, iox ife was discovered that he had been raa* ing at hia employer's expense.Another bioscope display et Edinburgh. blighted the hopes of a charming young widow who had hopksd/ hut not quite landed a fine fish in the «hape _o£ a wealthy, if rather ancient, miL-owner.Ho was making a business visit tomodem Athens, and was spending a night at the music halL One of the bioscope—yes! and winning the eulogy of haughtycritics sitting astride the hub of Intel- -lect to roll the old chariot of Literature j pictures depicted the departure of a*along.mistake the fairy growth for reaJitv, Phenomena, as a child strings beads, [ lt;:Poor Robert! He was torn byor the antic climber's agilitv for theexpression of a gospelOur Miss Baughnn actually writes of lt;fThe Finest Walk in the World,” now bookie ted, that “it can be negotiated at any time between early summer and late autumn ** To “negotiate” a- walk —O, shudders' We had as lief “inaugurate” a new schoolhouse with some impressive words by Tom Mackenzie, or “consummate” a marriage in St. Somebody’s Church.ANTOINETTE VIL MONOPLANE.Ta’O younger Australian publishers Ii3\e taken to printing in Britain, and ■saving 40 per cent of the Austnniancost. This is real preferential trade;for in the end patriotism drops throughthe hole in the pocket- G H. Reid, taikmg to the Commerce delegates adjured thejn not te wait for Govarn-mcnt action, but to begin as individuals and pay a fraction of a penny more to keep the trade in the Empire. Delegates smiled. Commercial blood won't run uphill any more than water. It’e “million* for defence, but not a cent” in business.well.An interesting description of the ruby mine oi the Mogok Valley, Burma hf v iience sil the great rubies of the wo rid have been drawn. := guen in an JinieriCJ.iL Consular report rrom Rangoon The te-A n of Monot- is lot-ared on groundconditions, a goods tram consisting oi 85 trucks, laden with four thousand four hundred and fifty-one tons of coalwas hauled over a distance of one him dred and twenty-iour nsiles by one or tne most powerful goods engines :n service. The rrain’s Local m eight was six thousand one hundred and fifty-one tn*manipulation of the front or supportingsurface in combination with the secondAll the world's a school; and J. L.Garvin, discussing Spain’s little war in Morocco, declares that our word “ruffian” is derived from “Riftian.” ‘TheRiff is the formidable rampart of Northern Morocco, rising in rugged terraces fiom the Mediterranean; the Riffians are pir^ticil scoundrels; and the association of ideas is still tolerably apt.*and call the string a law. Then wecan hunt up other phenomena, that look as if they might be more or lesa kindred, and try to get them on the string. Science is really the art of putting things where they « belong, the game of fitting the pieces of the human puzzle. ‘‘Keep your minds tidy,” says Science. “Why?” say Ignorance, “Because order is Heavan’s first law,” aays Science. “ Why?” says Ignorance. “Be cause the Cosmos must conformwith its own conditions, or there couldn't bB any Cosmos,” says Science. “Why not?” says Ignorance. “Becausea thing rhat looks like a tree must be either a tree or iLot a tree,” says Science, “seeing it caai't be both.'” “Whynot?” says Ignorance. “Because, stupid! that is inconceivable,” says Sci-'Why V7 says Ignorance. *Tthousand conflictitg emotiens13 (on page 62).encfc.don't know,’ says Science,' justly exa-peratefij “'but if you don’t conform with the Cosmo* you'll find out. Just get in the road of a tram, or hit a policeman, a ad see what the Cosmos will do to you!”^.ch hods a° plentiful supr.lv of rubies J aEd ro endw uiree-firths of a male. To cover .me dis-fl-d consequently mining operationsthe residentialaregradually encroaching onmi business neighbourhood?, houses andfirsts t-eing destroyed to prepare the waj for the miner. Mogok is thus “a doomed pla*et* as there are rubies everywhere within its limits. Within a short tnue the town will have been demolished and rebuilt m another place.or down, while the rudder is directed Channel honours, pilot* a Wright ma-nght or left™ chine. Mr. Moore Rrabazon. Mr HenryA three-cylinder 25 h.p, Anzani engine Farina a, and M Paulhun arc u^ers ofier pidiie or i.i ^r^es tjje two-bladed propeller, or the Vo is in aer^phine. though each ha3j tractor, placed in front of the whole ma- slightly altered the original design.chine, and is coupled direct to the motor. Both forms of . hese aeroplane^ have This engine is air cooled, and its three accomplished long, successful flights, and^t^rface^h^^^Burboth^h^lro^ cjlinde.-s ^re set one vertical and the both have their clia_mpions a, regard* Tho'dictionTri^ do uot cc.roborate this* i j ' j t-fii- M i other two at an angle to the upright one their stability in the air. . • ._____fi,f*nrr\* Mi ait remain plane, as the supporting and lifting f ^ i ‘ ingenious etymologj, though their nowings may be called, and the smaller or ;on euci1 siae great difference between the twe tou of the genesis of a ruffian Cer-secondary surface, are level as regards j As mentioned above, this little mono- forms is that the Wright may be re- tainly is \aguc. ‘TSifT1 looks quite their position m rclalioa to one another.' plane is very small in its dimensions ns garded as the “open” double-deek good* old English and the analogy with *is for the biplane, or double-deck ma- compared with the Antoinette aeroplane, plane, while the Voisin retains more of j alluvial miner's l ifflt-s. or with an chine, it is a development of the box-kite 1 being half size. _ |box-kite ftn it* Wx-ends of the Elizabethan ruff, or with the aCTuff^ offamiliar to the children of this genera*! Antoinette No. VTt- is also ation. It consists of (1) its main or supporting surface of two parallel planes,monoplane, with its single supporting surface immediately behind the motor, and itsThere *re even novel trays of gettingdrunk. A woman charged’with the of fence as Wiliesdeo (London) told the ma gisnrate that she was spo-lbound.” Under rhe tike condition* more conrruonh people are apt to be speech bound. Onetance occupied seven and a-quarter hours, repreeena speed of about seventeen miles per hour.one above the otherJ connected by wooden • front tractor or prnpcJler. Hie pilotA recently published book of essays, by Profc^Tsor Andrew McPnafi, of McGujUniversity, contains the ifoSiowmg humor-ous passage on the En-glish.ma.il:—**An En^Lshmaji loves to believe c-hazZ DfxJt Uftinf PlZtmhecan do nothing for himself—when he ism England. No man in the world cando more when he i* abroad. He pretend* that he is the moot helpless, person m the wurld—that he cannot cu.rry hi* bag.■open the door of his eai, ilnd an ad-woudexs how^be woiiJd have emerged had f dress m the directory, Ot Ufie a telephone, the famtJar old pronunciation test b^en ■ loves to believe that he is livingvaried so a* to adapt it?elf to her pe-CThartty. PresmEoabiy she xvould havetpelt comcBsiing hkc this: Bimsh Con-thishooshn. Antfther womun chargedin the ISth century. He carries a bund.e of rugs lest the coach may be mired and hunself compelled lo spend tlie night in the open. He imagines that he may bewith drunkenness at Highgate sxsd ^he ‘attacked by footpa-ds, so he carrier a blud’ iad undergone six operations, and had i S^°n f°r protection. In every city which “kmd ox waves coming across .her brain.“ j he visits he buys a new one, and cmues Thinking perhaps that these-waves were,]!101115 laden down with a bundle oi fag-86 waves are apt to be, of a liquid kind,AH unsympathetic bench fined her lfi/6.Barcelona, is an appropriate meetiug-pbc* for tne Congress of EsperanLists,K, aithcKigh Dr. Zamenhof claim* to havedrawn impartially on English, Dutch, ’ ma7 he stolon, he carries two. If EngGerman, French. Spanish, and Italian for iand got rid oi hei half employed, Eng-rooto of his umversal !angaac,e, itgots. He expects tha^t his luggage may be stolea, so he places :t by iiLS side or above hie head in the railway carnage. He thiink* that ram ts universal, so he carried an umbrella, even to 'the Sahara.or Los Angeies; and knowing that ita stronger resemblanceto ad-iskshmen would be obliged to alter some*what their domestic and social arrangePorted form cf Spam*h thiin to any nients; to do for themselves what is nowfTT)inp m . i il u. _ a r» - ** ' . _ Z A.T ' 1.. f R n Fn. » n. j-i f D/i PoUi«r tongue. Esperanto, whicbplaced ou the market, m IS87, has longer vo^ue than Nat-Brno, Pasi Volapuk. or any other of tnedone for-them by lug footmen and otherindolent aetvants/’Is it really philanthropic to set a ‘‘No F nacouth jargons coined m tae la*L quar- !| presents, by request” example in an-to oi ibe Tuuet'eench century. Dr, [ nouncing a neddjsg* Jn the particular A MiSwfs most *enous rival In the field lease which has caught the Argus eyes ofof universal language* oiTd appear to “Daily ^lail” the bridegroom is aV‘ 5L Leon Bolla^k, whose “langue Soudan judge, and there is ample evi-4Sv0fatBoxe^faocrngfi/ancmain planes, and box-tailWright’s biplane consists of (1) u small forward double-deck elevating plane, for directing the ni.iehine up or down (2) the main double deck planes, between which the pilot, passenger, and four-cylinder engine and radiator are earned* (3) t«o two-’bladed propeller*, situated behind the main planes, ond chain-driven from the petrol motor; xusi (4) the double vertical fLn rudders.the neck, or seem* clearVOISINbiplane:-.stay; (2) a smailer single or double plane, according to the inventor's fancy, in front of the main planes, for steering the maclTTne up towards the sky or down to the earth ; and (3) a trailing rudder, behind the main planes, for steering right or left. The pilot and the motor are carried between the main planes or supporting surfaces, while the propeller, or propellers, are fixed behind these planes— that is, between them and the rudder.is seated in a skiff-kke body some wayback from the eight-cylinder 50 b.p.In orde*r to ke^p the machine balanc ed when in flight, the pilot of thu Wright machine can warp his planesup or down; that i-s, niter their angleof inclination to the air, at either or both ends of the main supporting surwith anything rifted, Thus the old swashbuckler, beruffed and ruffling it, the ruffian may rtfaliy be, not Garvin's Riffian, but hi5 cousin at a few remove?. Drake in a ruff, or a Riff pirate, is all one to the Iving of Spain's beard.B O’Dowd’a “Silent Land.” least inspired of his prophetical booklets, is reprinted. There is just one good open-angfaces at will, and in doing this, in conjunction with betting the forward efe-vatmg or depressing planes and the doiLble-fin rudders, lies the whole art of its successful balancingVoisin aeroplanes differ from tlie Wright in having (1) a single front elevating plane; (2) the main planes have box ends, with movable %'ertical planes Inside them; (3) one single propeller,Antoinette engine, and behind the namiff by a Uivannus or similar type Plane, while Tn the Bleriot form the1 of. f°lir-CV mder petrol motor, thoughpilot is seated much nearer the bow.The rear portion of the Antoinette No.V3I. rather resembles those paper arrows made by school 'boys, with theoriginally Antoinette engines were used; and (4) the box-tail, with a single vertical fm-rudder inside it.Like the Wright, it has its pilot, pasteKens” has been acxive’y pushed mo i d^nce to show that couples who are going aveuto^ m 1900. And t»\o \ear3lt0 llv® abroad are often more worried Professor Eeermann, or Eriurt, en- i than gratified by being cumbered with a toed the field with Noviiatiu, wJiich mass of showy lumber. But it is more a gauung ground amongst, such German doubtful whether wedding present* as a•astenc* a* are anriour, to- encourage j whole should be discouraged.' They have“{fcOUJ manufacture. Wnmn nn Hnnhl. in flprt.nirt crrafipi a?become, jio doubt, in certain grade* ofsociety an almost intolerable tax upon^ widence of how the Loudon puuffc acquaintances, and the farce of en-dlslik^ the tipping *j5teai it has so lonlt;* dowlng a. couple with twenty-five teaendured is Been in the extent to which 5015 and forty-three chcese-scoops is its rigid exclusion from the new first- • notoriou*. But if those classes in which ***** hotel and restaurant in the Strand * the wedding presents are not really es* won favour. People are positively sentia] to the start of a married life Arming this entirely novel resort, where, Fve them up, imitative fashion, which to the first time in their experience, they rapidly percolates down through all de-m not subjected to any sort of blackmail 1 Srw?5 might very well rob many strug-Tcher^ at the same’ time—this is also ! gling middle-class brides and bride-n?w tiie majority of them—they are grooms of those genuine assistances to *en something like fair value for their | housekeeping which they really need and fiy. All price* for meals and aceom- now set. Possibly the true solution i?to^iaiion are umionc and moderate; t-sre are no ‘‘extras”; the place is a near approach to a modern American hotel into substitute the cheque or the c^sb for the article. But that too has its difficulties. A postal order tor half a sovereigncoaifon. and convenience, and its proprie-^ ; would not look so well as a ten*shilling wrs actually pay their employees full | gimcrack article.la ell other Londoa hotels and i isstaurants without exception the ISCREW PROPELLERS AND TRACTORS.The effect of the fau-screw tit these twotypes—monoplane and biplane—5$ entirely different. In the monoplane, be^ng placed in front of the single main carrying surface, the fan-screw acts as a tractor, drawing the machine after it; whilein the biplane, being carried behind thetwo principal supporting surface planes,it. performs as a propeller, pushing the \ machine along ‘In both types the screw is called the ] propeller, but, strictly speaking, it only | acts in this sense in the biplane form of aeroplane.For the balancing of the biplane, the pilot seated between its two parallel surfaces either alters their angle or curve by a wire-cord attachment—technicallynailed warping the planes—or else there are supernumerary surfaces fitted at the ends or sides of these main planes, that can he worked up or down to assist in balancing the machine, instead of warping the planes themselves. These extra surfaces are technically termed aillerons, or little wings.M. Latham also fitted these “little wings” to his monoplane Antoinette No. IV.. in which he attempted his first Channel flight that ended in the sea.At the moment the two single^surface aeroplanes that are of greatest interest to the general public are the Bleriot XL, which hag successfully crossed the Cham nel. and the Antoinette No. VII., onaddition of two rudders, one above the sengexr and engine carried between the other, and each working independently' aiain planes, but the motor is coupled of the other. This fin-back plane helps direct on to the single propeller, and. to produce the banking, and assists the through a chain drive, in therudders when turning, as well as being k ^right.part of the balancing of the machine As m the Bleriot and Antoinette when in flight. I monoplanes, both have boat-likc shellWc are not nil the self we sccu..We arc tw.ned arnunrt Stb men Who once performed this mortal diCnm, And dream in us agjiinWe are bundles of The frreat and good, The wncdcrer, the fjlnve*We arc chawed with ancient hardihood, We are garlands of the bia'.e . . -Dr. Albert Moll ho* been classifying phenomena in a fourth edition of “Hypnotism,1l just published by Walter Soott in the Contemporary Scteuce Senes that Dr. Havelock Ellis edits for our enlightenment. The Contemporary series may bo held the most useful of its ^kted in English; it includes some memorable books and persists with unusual vitality. It is 20 years since the first Germanedition of Moll’s work was published; and during 20 years it has been a prominent text-book. The new edition, revised and enlarged, is at once the handiest and most comprehensive account of the subject that we know. In some points it is open to criticism; Moll's personal references to opponent* lack dignity, and in his indisposition to receive physiological theories of hypnotic influence there are sign* of nge. A reference to jiu-jitsu (pf 55) shows insufficient knowledge of the subject. Slight blemishe* such as these ore Unimportant in view of the ample learning, the valuable judgment* and the i!j luminating criticism with which the book abounds. It is a masterly treatise upon the subject, and well maintains the highplace already given it in medical literature.How well we know those emotions! Always 1000; never 374 or 085 or 10,128. Always conflicting; never striving or fighting or contending or quarrelling or wrestling Cornish style or swinging the sinister swing of La Blanche. And “the matutinal plunge” (on page 113). And* . . no r we have not. met before thisquotation from the London “Times” regarding the earl’s accident- this te new, this is fresh, this is Boston7* notion of the welkin-shaking thunder of English journali6m. The extract is lengthy; yet since it is from the “Times,” let us con und treasure every word.^The earl was on his way to the Sachem Club at the time of the accident, for it is the favourite resort of his most intimate friends. He knew that it had long been the habit of Lord Quinlan to breakfast there, and believed that hewould encounter him.■‘■'ihe year that bis lordship baa spentin travel with his bride has beeu a* Te-plete with happiness as the most earnest well-wtehers of the earl and his countess could desire, and it was his intention to complete the long holiday by having at the Hall a selected few of bis intimates, and in that way to atone for the* long period of silence that has endured since Lady Mercy Covington became liia bride.“Now he is stricken down. Death crouches close beside his couch awaiting an opportunity to leap upon him unawares, and to tear him away from those who love him; and there are those Onthe watch who will be unceasing in theirvigilance.“The countesa rarely leases his bedside,and then only when fatigue overcomesher, and she is forced away by her friends. By some extraordinary paradox she has Infinite faith in his recovery, even when the eminent physicians in attendance upon his lordship shake their wise heads in despair/9Then the lovable mystic stops singing and proses, ah! and preaches, alas! You cannot teach some people that the moral of Art is implicit.* tft/tftftvsThe proposed increase in the scale of | which M. Latham nearly performed this £u«t5/' as* they are termed vith ironical pay of French Army officers will put them j teat.P°lirenB£?% are expected to fi: pport the on a better footing as regards money Serrano either wholly or in part. In than German officers, except in the case Eiany of -±e best restaurants it is notori- of such exalted grades as general of bri***5 thst the waiter*; pay c\rentT for the . g^de and general of division. The Kaiser tzbG- «» ^ * mw • 1 * - 1. t------*--------at which they sene and collect ; has done much to promote economy in the^ , P5• Even SrsT-dOjis club* send round j tinny3 e^en going so fnr as to draft simplew hai annually for their employees. ! menus for use at regimental messes andIna greedy desire to make you share other i to advise officers to deal at the establish^People's and pay twice over for ment founded in Berlin on the lines of«5isiplest services, is nlniost universal,Tte Lo1 - goners are growing impatient atunder thig preposterous impositionindication of their revolt b the faii-pf a pretentious West End hotel, rein! tthe British Army and Navy Storey, Nevertheless, the lower grades of officers cannot possibly live on their pay; and the authorities recognised this fact by refusing commission* to candidateseachTHE SUCCESSFUL BLERIOT.Both these aro monoplanes, but yet differs considerably in detail fromThe uncommonly good criticism of London and New York police in September “Century” may be signalled to an inquiring Dominion. The RussianMinister De Witte told the commentator that “the most remarkable sight he ever taw was in London, vfocre lie found n man addressing a large multitude of excited people. The speakerwas surrounded by police, and on inquiring of his English escort what the police “were doing, he was told thnt the speaker was making a. violent attack on the Royal family, and that the police wore there to protect him from, hi* hearers.”’/Of a is h p £nglntDE LAMBERT’S WRIGHT BIPLANE.J. C. Andersen, of ChThstchurch, expounds the theory that the length of the normal verse-line agrees with theduration of the normal breath. In the English Review Oswald Crawfurd urges as “a In w of literary expression that thlt;* length of the phrase must be measured by the breath-pause. to other words, in order to attain to lucid, utterance, the phrase must contain nomore words than Can be spoken in. theinterval between the taking of two breaths. ... If the writer breaks the norm and prolongs the phrase unduly, he dees it under penalty of confusing bis reader’s mind. . . . About three seconds, accordingly, if the law of breath-pause is valid, ia the time that the phrase, or shorter sentence clause, must last.” This transfers Andersen's ideato oratory, and to literary prose, Oraw-furd’a article contains suggestive mat' ter, a-wbwardly expressed; and, as gards prose, his argument brings no conviction. In speech, as in music, norma! breathing is naturally important; but a prcsc page enters the mind through the eye. and it cannot beNormal sleep is equivalent to an arrest of the primary consciousness of life, while the secondary consciousness remain* active or serm-aorivlt;?, maintaining its control of the body, and being sometimes capable of conveying messages which may be obeyed by the sleeping consciousness. There is no phenomenon of hypnotism—or of mesmerism or animal magneb ismf tthich merely give a different name to the same or similar phenomena—that cannot be explained psychologically by reference to sleep; though we do not know physiologically how sleep is Caused, or what are the precise cerebral change* which it involves. Both sleep and hypna* sis ore undoubtedly physical processes; and there is no more reason to give an occult explanation of hypnosis than thereis to give an occult explanation of sleep.The crucial cause of the hypnotic sleep may he called a fixed attention, selfinduced or' otherwise, resulting in what amounts to a temporary suspension of sorm* faculties of the brain and often to a temporary intensification of others. Like ordinary sleep, the hynotic sleep has many stages, and in most of these the sleeper is to a greater or lessor extentdominated by suggestions receivedthrough the senses. A parallel in norma]kind, however, can be found for apparently every hypnotic manifestation. In the light sleep of dreams, for example, there is intensification of faculty; in somnambulistic dreams there U controlled motor activity: the force of suggestion is shown by the child who turns over in bed, obedient to a command, or by the mother whoIntshea nn infant without waking. The difference between ordinary and hypnotic sleep seems to be chiefly a difference in the area* of the brain subjected to the sleepy influence, which does not exclude co-ordinate differences in the power of individual brain-cells to respond to stimuli.And. America really swallows that, arid all the false and tawdry rest of “A Gen-fleman of Quality”—swallows the gncd old kidnapped and strawberry-marked earl (veritably!) in elegant” covers at a dollar and a-half—to show tis that the more this human nature is educated” the more it is the same thing; that the Comic Spirit has a permanent address inBoston, Mass.; and that the chime ofB»w Bells is eternal. So “A Gentleman of Quality7- will absorb the ladies at the libraries.Continental boat cxprss* from London, and there, among the crowd, acoom-* ponied by a fin e-loo king young man,was the little widow* They entered acomparument together, baggage -was put in after them, and the train steamed out of eight.On hi* return to London a few day* later the mill-owner was met by hi* fianceea who was much surprised to find « herself very coldly received, her tale of a delightful week-end np the river, bluntly described aa a gros untruth*and herself referred to as a lady of no reputation.Now from Paris comes jfcho ctory of %domestic tragedy occasioned by the bio-ecope display at a public halL Pictures, uf the Bheims aviation' meeting were ,being shown on the screen, ■ when awto in the audience gave a piercing -scream and fell on the floor in -a. state ofwild hysteria. Her husband was alsoeeen to be suffering from, great emotion,ajxl the two were taken outIt was then found that In one of tM picture* the woman herself had appeared^ sitting at-a table in a cafe accompanied' by a man. The husband is a commercial traveller, and during the aviation week ho had been away from home on business. His wife was supposed to have been in the country with her mother at this time, but the picture, showed that she had renewed the acquaintonce of a former lover w'hom. she had given up on her marriage. - ^ -When the eoupte reached home -the husband gave vent to ins righteous indignation and jealousy, by firing at hi* wife with a revolver. He, however, did pot succeed in hitting her. 1r-IA MODEBBT BABVLOK.What oan they know oi EnglandidTOPICS of the DAY.vrho only England know T7 In Xhesowords Budyax'd Kipling deplored. thlt;* ignorance of the average Englishman, of tile vast ‘dominions heyoni sea*,owning allegiance to the King-The average Londoner ia just S-S ignorant of London* He moves in. a-groove irom iniancy ^..-sUL-age, and,; nrobablv knows less of the city of MaproDa-Diy ktusy£, birth thaJi the Antipodean vildtor wh»nds ^ few weeks in the hub of th*(From Cnr Special Correspondent.)VERY 4f ANCIENT EIGHTS:**But while in the Antoinette No. TV. bodies, becoming skeleton frc-uie* as aeroplane its elevation waa controlled they approach the tailj so the Wright shown that the breath has anything to by two additional small square stir- and Voisin biplanes connect the tail do with it. Every expert reader knows faces attached to the back of the tip* of with the forward plane by light frame- that a bright page looks lucid; the the main planes, that could be tilted work. But the 25 h.p. Wright engine meaning is disengaged “by inspection”to lt;ajiy angle up or down and both to- is very like the ordinary four-cylinder i ht a glance; and a dull page looks dull dependently controlled, the Antoinette water-cooled motor-car engine, while the j anfi confused before we read a word of VII, warps its mam planes—'that is, I Voisin motor is a rather lighter similar ! to Aa a rule, the mind makes the the. angle of resistance that they present model of 4J h.p., but each pilot using f style; a clear thinker expresses himself to the air can be altered by the pilot these machines usually specifies the en-in charge of the machine.Cfifltf /hctinpfane.fi/vaf efettaT/nQ Pfanv .yWit at enormous co*t found- j whose parent* cannot undertake to makeupcn confidence to* -Uiorher nnd more conspicuous sign ,» flioir pronounced favour for the newttrqjid hotel, where they are being treat-*!^with tQTTiQ regard for their prejudices pockets* Its success will teach a To its rivals which some of them1* mry not to turn Loarned earlier.their habitual j them an allowance on a scale nxed by _•----- - army regulations. The constant wearing of uniform does not tend to economy, and it is only recently that German officer* have been allowed to make use of tramways and motor-omnibuses. Thay are still debarred from entering a horee-dravij HI events, to Bet Uo,gino he most fancies.Lower pianeAvimlir* SfafiSvpx+rPnq kjeehTHE CURTISS BIPLANE.-v- % .Wbiflh is Mftzrod atfuoi ylinw fixed betwMa tit* .In the Curtiss we have an American machine which differs from the general French and American types. He uses wheei supperts and * _ double elevating i the best whip rudder. Tlie balancing devices arerotoor planes mounted between theunato planes- Bxtrcme lightness is a characteristic of this aeroplane.In comparing both types as flying machines, the monoplane ia the apostleof speed with small lifting surface, while the biplane seeks for stability at a low rate of progression with a larger carrying load. Which will ultimately -be pronounced the better form time and experience alone will telk Perhaps a totally different type of design, will •TiM'thrt ^ fT$YO 1*iclearly. Lucidity comes from the strict pursuit of one path of thought, from the kind of words we drive along the path, and from the order in which they aro driven. Familiar words, yielding a dear image, are cosily handled,is the indicativemood, present tense. All inexpert wrb tens should be led to direct stutCmeot;this 13 the backbone of style, which often flowers tho more the more yon prune it. “Twice two arc four,” represents a more useful English than Jeremy Taylor’s,Q. What is hypnotism!A. It is the sciejsa* .‘f hypnosis.Q. And what, pray, la hypnosis!A. It la the state of hypnotic sleep, Q- OS course, you kwnj wh^t fiyp-Mol! begins with x summary of the history of hypnotism, in whicli he emphasise* the influence of the Nancy school.He proceeds to general considerations, and asks. Who is hypnotisable ? Almost anybody. Sex or constitution makes no apparent difference. Young children ore not easily hypnotised, nor idiots; it is difficult to fix their attention. But every hypnotist finds some subjects more responsive than others; and most subjects are more readily hypnotised by one person, or in one way, than by another person in another way- Auto-hypnosis is a historical commonplace; and what is colled day-dreaming really amounts to a light hypnosis. The essential is the fixed attention, for even when hypnosis is induced by so-called “magnetic” passes, Moll holds that the mental factor is paramount. Suggestibility is a measure of the extent of the hypnosis; and even in waking states the liability to .suggestion seems characteristically hypnotic. Tell a man he must hurry up or he will miss the train, and his pulse is immediately accelerated. “The secretion of milk is also under the influence of suggestion. A case,which only shows, however, the indirect influence of suggestion, has been reported by Hassenstein. In a wet nurse in whomthe secretion had ceased it again flowedcopiously by suggestion. It had ceased, however, owing to excitement over the child’s condition, and was renewed by suggesting away the excitement. J. Gorssomnn reporta a case in which the secretion of milk was produced by direct suggestion, and Branrwell etatee that Esdaile and Braid knew of the influence of suggestion on the secretion ot milk/'LONDON, September 24.It seems a very near approach to vandalism to invoke the aid of *uch an up-to-date weapon as the steam brash todean up the interior of an ancient edificelike the Guildhall. But '-to thesteam brush we really owe the disclosureof treasures of undoubted antiquarianand historical value, and the Guildhall5* richer to-day than it was a week ago by the discovery of two of the windows which formed part of the building when it was originally erected in the early yearn of rhe Fifteenth Century*While the recent cleansing of the Guildhall was in progress, by which kjUcIiof the ancient grime mcL the modempaint has been removed from pillars andvalLs, the City Surveyor, Mr. Perks,kept an. eye on everything the steambrush brought to view, and thus foundthe ancient windows.When the brush had done its work on the walls, .the appearance of portions near the gallery, immediately under the figures of Gog and llagog caused him to think that something valuable might behidden underneath. It looked as thoughit 'had been patched up. He hacked away a little of the cement, and found thesiGuework underneath to be splayed andworked smooth, which would not have been the case if it were simply part of.pure*It is no uncommon thing to com*across Londoners bom and bred whohave never been inside of St* Paul’aCathedral, Westminster Abbey, .or the * National Gallery, and wbosfe knowledga of London consi.rt3 of an intimate'knowledge of one or two localities and a • sublime ignorance of thfi rest of thU *• great city- .They know that London Is a very big place, but they have Tel conception of, its immensity. Probably not -one * man to ten knows that the vast area of bricks and mortar ‘ that ia called London contains nearly412,000 acres’of-parks and open spaces, and fewer* still ^ are aware of the fact thaifc the County 1 of London is W by 141‘local govern- ; ing bodies, has a municipal electoral ^ roll of over 814,0cm), a ParliaOTentary electorate of over 664,000, o»d an annual death, roll of over 72,000.' An4 •still fewer are cognisant of tie painful # truth that of the total death* per an- ^ nuxn to the jurisdiction of the , Lon-* -don Council Council, nearly 40 ' per cent occur to workhouses apd attach*;ed infirmu-ries, hosrpstls almost ^ entire^ ly supported by voluntary charity and lunatic asylums. . ; m 'Probably not one Londoner in a. htm* dred is aware of the faot^ that apart from paupers pure and simpie, over 43,000 inhabitants of the1 greatest and richest city on earth are in receipt of Old Age Pensions, Costing over half a. million a. year, and it would probably-surprise mast “Cockneys” to J earn thatthe average numbers of indoor'paupers(excluding vagrajite) depending on tharates Is over 80,000.These figures are flfcrtlicg enough, but they fall into mdgnifirfljim, when J contrasted with other' -figures ^supplied ’ to the annual valume of “Loudon Sto- -tis tics” issued by the London CountyCouncil- - *The estimated population of' thoCounty of London in ‘the middle of 1909 was 4^43,612. Th estimated ■ population of Greater London „ (which includes Middlesex and parts o£ Sur- ** ray, Rent, Essex, and .Hertford) is pubthe interior of dhe wall. He bored j ^ nearly seven and o-half milliona.deeper, and at la*t got a glimpse ofgloss. Then, after a large quantity of cement, brickwork, and lath and plaster had been removed a beautiful window vas disclosed.The stonework belongs to, the early Fifteenth Century, when the present Guildhall was erected. Later, ou the opposite wall a second window was dis*covered •The window liret discovered is in mudi better preservation than the second. The stonework is practically the same as when it left the masons7 hands five centuries ago. The mullion is intact, and the tracery round the heads has suf-1fered little during those long years. Each half has a section to the middle, evidently intended to open, for the old iron hfages and fastenings remain. The lead work and the diamond-shaped panesof glass eeem to be modem, or comparatively so. probably dating back to thetime at the end of the Eighteenth Century when the front wall of the Guildhall -was rebuilt.According to old documents the executors of Dick Whittington, carrying out liis wishes, contributed £20 to the paving of the great ball, and also glazed some of the windows. Probably the window discovered by Mr. Perks was one of them. At the foot of the window are two large blocks of stone, one on either aide, which may have been, uced for seats. The window to the opposite wall hasThe conveyance of the vast papula* tion to and from their work and plea* -sure devolves on tram, train, and^htis* * -In 1907 the local /railways carried356,233,666 passengerto Greater-Lon-dun. Tho trams carried 599,745,792, amithe omnibuses 275*479,000* Tho total,1,221 millions, is equal to 169 journey* per bead of the population of Greater*-f London.Londoners, on the whole, nnirt bei a. law-abiding people, otherwise the 74 millions would require more than quo policeman to ever 310 inhabitants. ’Ye# the entire police force numbers 1 £** than 20,000, to spite of the fact that . London is the Mecca of criminals and wn6ters from alL the ends of the eart3u~SUCCESS*the hand trained to do it*Success is work*The eye that sees that the itoea rui*true, MThe ear that hears when the truth yoa, shirk,The brain that conceives old iruthtfanew. , jSuccess is the strife with tie 'heart aglow,The effort *we mase lor ouroi suggestion on tne secretion ot nunc/' J-ue wicauw ±n me oppoipii^ wan hum piant ' ; ' MThis knowledge should b* utiltoed inLady offered mnoh. The stono head ifL there, jka prido that ienghg at the outer |FUttkH'i A • ■-' ; ^v. tea*-r. -j ~~
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