\ J i j YOU are a thousand feet in the air. Your engine is working evenly and your sea soned propellers are beating the air •with an even roar that half deafens you. The wind of <tho open spaces sings in your ears. The wide wings are lifting you stead ily higher and higher in great sweep ing circles as you climb the air lad der toward the zenith. The world liea -spread out beneath you like a colored nap. You feel as free as the birds of the air; you long to measure your •speed with the eagles. Suddenly there is a crashing explo sion behind and beneath you, and the wide and steady planes seem to crumple up like a sick crow's wings. The earth seems to leap up to meet you, and the rushing gale of air seems to tear the breath from your lungs. Your senses reel as the tremendous rpull of gravity hurls you and your bro ken machine and coughing engine to the earth. Earth and sky seem to run together in an awful burst of flame, and blackness and blessed oblivion Jblot out the clouds and the good green ■earth for you forever. It must be in some such manner that the aviator dies. There is but little evidence of the feelings that riot through the human brain when •dropped from the clouds to the earth beneath. Few men survive a fall of any height, in spite of the number •who are meeting with accidents in their efforts to master the air. in .spit* of the danger, which is admit tedly great, the craze for the aero plane aqd the sport of aviation is steadily growing. Yet ten years ago the heavier-than air flyers were mere chimeras of a scientific brain. On the seventeenth day of Docem 'ber, 1903, a thin-faced man hurled him self out into the air from a sandy hill side down in North Carolina. Tho Xirst of the wind riders In the world's history made a long, gliding flight in a biplane on the hill slope near Kitty Hawk. Wilbur Wright was the first of thi 1 bird nun to rise superior to the air. Five years later the brother of tho first man to fly was trying out a new and powerful aeroplane under the direction of the officers of the United States army. On a September after noon the strange new marhtne rose in full flight, carrying Lieutenant Self ridge as a passenger. Orville Wright •was at the steering wheel. A guy wire was snapped by a whirling pro peller, the great wings crumpled up, the mass of debris shot to the earth, and Selfrldge, the first of a long line of martyrs to aviation, was dead at Fort Meyer. Since that September afternoon, less than two years ago, 23 men have giv en up their lives to conquer the elas tic and yet stable element —tho air. Within one week this summer eight aviators and dirigible balloonlsts have been killed. Some notable things have toren accomplished by the earnest stu dents and the more foolhardy of the new school of exhibition flyers, but the prlc" of success and mastery has been over a score of lives. Some of the men still in the game of flight have been dangerously injured time after time. Several of the nutlons of the world are beginning to wake up to the danger of Inexperienced and lrr*-spon «lbl« person! making flights. Austria has fanrtnl laws regulating attempts of hei citizens to con iuer the air. Russia has put the ban on tl» owning of machines by Irresponsible persons fnit It Is generally understood that ♦lit* Is hermiae of her fear of the new kistunce ani'lhlliitors In the hands of Bihllls's and the radical reds. In the United States a few folk are he-Inning to wonder how long It will lie until Miinethlng has to be done to *tnp the growing death roll among pioneer* of the air. Aviators mud avl •tiotl were Openly condemned a few <ia ■ ago by an Influential Journal of Oh i•■..Hei. iMtta "To ThiMn Who Kmlt Themselves," the •nlele » .is heudetl, and the fol lowing reactionary Ideas were ex pressed The i r**e for dirigible bal loons and airships should be legally restricted, |i i* un'htxikuble that the Creator intended thiti man should In ha tit the lilr or ft V like the birds He »>ild i»nv> ItirM*!;. I hint •Itb w I tigs The numerous deaths thai hat* .»• mrred from attempts hi fty should want man that hU habitation and kuw la (he earth " Hot in sidle of warnings. ,n,wuh«4 •nil »|.ol ii It i-ra». t r .m>n re nial s unehe. k«<| a llwusand tnv*a t'l .. .11. :t.g In Ifctdr shop* It rill It. He U>ll< 112 thai the> »r« In »l«fc| »*•* ttf-'t »*' re| that »> ..I »r- I th. ■ **l>i ut the t*H ' r «li »p»c< fr> , | Urn bird* llt'i |>l«e e II 111 I'IU hands ul "wing riders." The blue vault o heaven Is fretted by thousands o roaring propellers and shifting planes "The bird men" are dreaming dream; of cross-continent flights. The mon Imaginative of them catch glimpses o visions of transatlantic trips, fastei than the flight of the frigate bird. It may happen the hour of tria comes in the very midst of an appar ent success. Engines may be working perfectly and with even beat. Th< roar of the spinning propellers maj be droning a song of conofldence anc security. Then something snaps; t guy wire parts like a stretched flddk string, the roar of the engine breaks and sputters, or the big planes crumple because of some unguessec weakness. Then comes that terriblt rush of air as the machine, engine rent planes and tangle of bent and broken framework bears the aviatoi to a terrible death. When wireless telegraphy was In vented it was but a year or so until the country was filled with amateurs all busily working on new theories oi transferring messages. As soon as the Wrights, Farman, Bleriot, Paulhan and Curtiss and others had demon strated that a heavier-than-air ina chine could actually remain in the air, in a thousand barns, warehouses and back-yard woodsheds all over the civ ilized world men and boys began to try tn build for themselves machines in which to spurn the solid earth. Hy terically, the science of aviation has been taken up, and with a few more improvements the death roll will grow to even greater proportions. So far most of the men who have met death have been veteran aviators. Delagrange, Le Blon, Ferber, and Rolls were all well-known and in ternationally famous in the air flelds. Hut the moment came that found them helpless despite their skill. With the multiplying of factories where the cheap fliers can be con structed will come a rush of amateurs Into the ranks of the aviators. More deaths are bound to follow when these would-be man birds have bought for themselves machines and start Into perfect themselves in the art of flight. The list of deaths Is bound to grow us soon as the means of flight Is brought within reach of the average purse. A shower of would-be aviators from the clouds to tho "too solid earth" will further demonstrate that the mastery of the air must be bought with human life. An analysis of the accidents of the pa*t two years shows that death conies In a dozen shapes to the daring aviator. The aeroplane Is a pitifully new thing, and even the veterans of the air are not always able to detect In their machines the lurking weak nesses The first of the aeroplane ac cident* that resulted fatally was caused by the guy wire of one of the planes being placed too near the pro peller blades. Self rid iff died 111 tills accident and Orvllle Wright waster | rlbly Injured. It was months before he again took up the problem of aerial (lights. It was a year later before death took his toll again from th» ranks of the air worker* On the seventh of September, l»09, two men, the fore must aviator in their respective couu I tries, met their deaths. Itossl was en , gaged In testing a machine of his own I Invention near Home, and after a few *hor' and surerssful flight < at a low altitude he tilted Ills planes upward at a considerable angle and shot Into tie air for an ambitious trial Me had barely reached a height of Co fe»t till soma of tbe lutrlcatH machinery gave wgv and be was dashed to death M I.nit-byre, a w>-ll known aeronaut of I'raitce, was killed ou tbe same Ma> while snaring above Jttvlesy In a Wright biplane Two week* later the pride of the frenchmen in aeronau lies. Cat* louts rdluaud rt.. r. a idon. er Id ike art uf Hying, was kilU-i lu a i >.ltsr a. el lent. i.n« of ih» t i hi< otdog) of Nlgkl ll*> was so*i log over a Hi Id aear Itottkiguw, a hen ki» ui<*< t.ln turned turtle la ike all CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1910. It was thought that he had pointed the plane tips of his flier toward the earth in an effort to make a landing and in some man ner the planes were capsized. He was crushed to death beneath his heavy motor in the fall. The French have been the heaviest losers in life of any of the nations interest ed in aeronautics. Half a score of daring and temperamental French men have paid with their lives the penalty for venturing into the sky spaces on frail machines of silk, alu minum and piano wire. The Germans are the next heaviest losers in life and property. The wrecking of the numerous rigid and semi-rigid dirigibles of the Zeppelin and Parseval types has hit hard the backers of the German idea in aeronautics. The casualties for thq year 1909 were terminated by the death of the Spanish aviator, Fer nandez, at Nice, on December C. He was a martyr to the idea of lightness in aeroplane construction. His death was undoubtedly caused by trying to fly with a motor that was entirely too light for the strain it had to bear dur ing his determined flights. While sweeping in great circles over the aviation grounds of the French city the tiny motor gave way with a split ting crash. The watchers turned their heads away while the swift fall lasted. In spite of the warning conveyed in his death, many aviators even yet are sacrificing safety for lightness In their engines. Delagrange, who was killed in the first week of January, 1910, made the opposing mistake of having an engine whose weight was too great for his wing area. His planes wero not sufficiently large to bear up under the weight of his heavy motor, when tinder the strain of full flight. Dela grange was the first aviator to carry a passenger with him In his aerial trips. Mrs. Pettier, the first woman passenger in the history of the aero plane. made a flight with him in .luly, 1908. After the death of Delagrange, the first few months of 1910 were devoid of fatal accidents. Aviation meetings were going on late in the winter In America, southern Europe and in Egypt. It was April in the present year before Le Hlon was killed on the Spanish seacoast at San Sebastian. I,e Hlon was the Idol of the more dar ing aviators. He hail attracted Inter national attention by his remarkable flights at Doncaster, England, late In October of the previous year. He had dared the winds to do their worst In a 15-mtle flight on October 19. and on the next day he made a trip that all aviators, even his nervous fellow countrymen. characterized as fool hardy. A great gale blew up out of the Atlantic on the night of October 18, growing steadily worse through the night of the nineteenth. It was the sort that sweeps the "tight little Island" every autumn, a terrific blow that comes roaring up the channel from the Atlantic, sending fishermen and channel shipping scurrying for shelter In some rock-bound harbor. In the midst of this great gale the Frenchman announced that he was going to make a flight. In aeronau tical records the flight that he made that day In set down as being "a fool hardy (light In a great gale." The death roll has grown rapidly In this, the summer of 1910. On May 13, Mlchelln was carried by a strong wind against a derrick, and In the fall that followed sustained Injuries that caused his death. Eugene Spier was killed at Sun FrancUcu while prac tising on a "glider," M Hobl met his death In a meet at Stettin. Wachter was killed at Helms Charles Stewart Holts, hero of England by reason of his remarkable flight from Dover to CalaU and return, was killed at Hour neuiouth through a rudder of his own Insentton falling to answer the l«ver Klnet. a lit Iglan. tint Ids death during a feci-nt aviation exhibition in a French town. Eugcoe Ely. while try Ing (or the third time to make a con tinuous night from Winnipeg to fort ag*- la I'ralrle fell from a height of nHVcral hundred feet and was killed Th* dirigibles have be> n the mew stint of iituii of the twenty three d>a!h< of (he last two years. On Wwpttuibcr 35, i;»oy. thw French war balUxiii. thu l(epulilit|«|e. on It# way to Mi-udon fli to the Held inaneuvrt at l.a l'*ll»a>*, was destroyed, sup |m>* ihl> by a propeller blade breaking off and ripping open the walls of the . RAN NIL MM • »«N WM IN M« I <ll *»f l"i> *• t, that followed (he utter i. lla, m ill the dtrtgtbUr In the d» llriicilm 1,1 the KrhsUieh, at l-ehb Itic. to rii.aii a(' * lays ago, H»s i < i tin lading the Kimiilur, met tltsU Solve the Ciphers Used by Yeggmen WASHINGTON— Here is a unique receipt for "soup:" "First, take about ten or a dozen lmspwri hz xug, crumble it up fine and put it in a pan or wash bowl, then pour over it enough uswhohs (either chhx or aky) to cover it well. Stir it up well with your hands, being careful to break all the lumps; leave it set for a few minutes; then get a few yards of cheesecloth and tear it in pieces and strain the mixture through the cloth into another vessel, wring the sawdust dry and throw it away. The remains will be Lhai ugx uswhohs mixed; next take the same amount of water as you used of uswhohs and pour it in; leave the whole set for a few minutes." It is the "soup" of yeggmen, whose particular business is robbing safes. A crude cipher runs through the riga inarole —merely a subdivision of the alphabet and the substitution of one letter for another. The first six let ters beginning with A are substituted for the last six beginning with U, and so on, with the single exception that N is taken out of its turn and made the equivalent of G, an irregularity in tended to protect the cipher from de tection. But no cipher is proof against expert analysis: certainly not this one, which, though still used by "yeggs," nevertheless is known to the Blind Man Tells of Baseball Game IMAGINE, If you can, one who has never seen the light of day, sitting in his accustomed place in the grand stand rooting with all his eenrgy for the success of the home team, and you can easily figure out Just why Wash ington always supports a ball team, although her ball tossers have not fin ished in the first division during the last decade. Eugene Brewerton, familiarly known to his friends as "Jack," has perhaps as wide acquaintance among the pa trons of tho national game at the cap ital as "Gabby" Street or Walter John son, and Is unquestionably the most unique rooter who ever patronized the sport. "Jack" was born in Columbus, S. C. 112 24 years ago, and after receiv ing a public school education matricu lated at tho University of South Caro lina. He came to Washington a few years ago to study law at the George town University, and it is his ambi tion to become as famous a lawyer as the blind senator from Oklahoma, Thomas Pryor Gore. But "Jack" does not believe in giv Attempt to Stop Infantile Paralysis (m) <&J<j TROUBLED by the inroads the dis ease la making In some of the eastern states at the present time, tho government hag ordered an Inves tigation into tho epidemic of Infan tile paralysis. New York, Pennsyl vania, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and the city of Washington. D. C., have felt the disease the heaviest this year, and the scores of deaths that have occurred among the little ones of that district has caused L'ncle Sam to take some action. Dr. Wyman of the Public Health and Marine hospital service, Is the leader In the Investigation, and he made the announcement this week that he believes the disease to be both Infectious and contagious. Although Government Prisoners Go in Style (travslwith THIS KIND OFf CO MPAMY | (iT IK liftviuvtorth Overland IJpe- | 1 lial" I* a paludal Pullman cai which runs every now .nut then from Washington to a certain r»ai mn out went with a stoiiu wall around It The tours aie personally conducted 1 and ate rapidly becoming tauious klmy once !u awhile your Inch i Ham runs across certain persons who fee billies, wru leading a too actlv< vglatwnM \ rest cure is what itte> nvid I u> lu Hum is km. charge ot tb«m loi lu tl'it'». siii h as a trial and v«i aU iai • «<u»l»ll«d *lili, out to l.iuu •ui into ticu'iiis police, to post office inspectors and the treasury secret service people. Translating, you find that to mako the soup you take ten or a dozen sticks of dynamite and use either wood or pure alcohol in the manner directed. Fewer depredations by yeggmen are reported this year than usual. Last fall a series of such crimes occurred and since that time apparently there has been a period of inactivity among these most dangerous of plunderers. The post office inspectors, whose con tact with yeggmen is frequent, since the attacks are often directed against country post offices, hesitate to say whether there has been an actual re duction in their numbers; for expe rience goes to show that waves of crime seem to sweep the country after Intervals of varying length. The "yeggmen" are especially feared because of their recklessness regard ing the sacrifice of human life. Of it self, handling the "soup" is a danger ous business. The explosion is a men ace to anyone in the building, and oft en the robbers must make a running fight of it to "make a get-away with the swag." The name is of gypsy origin, and among gypsies indicates a clever thief so the "yegg" is a wandering thief, generally a "hobo." As late as twenty years ago one tramp meeting another and desiring to be sure of his identity as a professional tramp, saluted him, "Ho, Beau." It was the password es tablishing at once a confidential part nership on a basis approaching out lawry. The "yeggs" generally are tramps, though not all tramps are "yeggs." ing his entire attention to study, and, accordingly, he has found it to his liking to take in the ball games. Not only is he familiar with every char acteristic of the members of the lo cal team, but he knows as well the records and playing abilities of the visiting aggregations. "I have often been asked how, as a blind man, I can enjoy a game. Why, there is nothing going on I don't get. I know the finer points of the game, and can map out plays which I think Jim McAleer in his palmiest days could not duplicate. Don't you think it Is a peasure to see chaps of the Milan type skip around the diamond? I cannot help from yelling every time I 'see' him completing the circuit. Then there is Speaker of the Bos ton team, and Cobb of the Tigers. How I love to 'watch' them in ac tion! "It is my firm belief that all blind people have a sort of intuition, and everything that is going on around them makes a picture in their mind. That is the way it appears to me, anyhow. I can sit in the grand stand in the ball park and picture what Walter Johnson and the rest of the players look like. "When the game is over, I don't have the least trouble getting to the street car 3. I can feel my way along the grand stand and reach the street." the disease Is often fatal, Its appal ling feature is that many children af fected are permanently crippled or deformed, robbed of speech or hear ing. In a word, Infantile paralysis is not a slaughter but a mutilation of the Innocents. The disease common ly attacks children under Ave years of age, but occasionally an adult Is its victim. Its shining mark at this minuto In the east is William Hinrlch, a pitch or of the Washington American league in Washington, and his entire right baseball team. He is in a hospital arm is paralyzed. At tho present time there are over 500 cases of the dis ease in Washington alone, while I'bil adelpuia and New York city report! even greater numbers. Nothing Is known of the cause of tho disease oth er than that It is believed to come from a germ, but uveu these have not yet been found. Tho disease usu ally appears during June, reaches Its greatest prevalence during July and August and subsides in Hepteuiebr. | distinction. Deeds count, it doesn't umtter whether he was a "man hlgh ier up" or uot. He travel* like one. i He travels to the golden west In a I'ulliiian, ho has porters to wait on { 111 in and extremely attentive detuc lives to sue that he Is comfortable, lla lolls In plush swivel chairs and ha dines In those neat little la carte Pull- I man buffets on chicken, porterhouse steak, and all the side dUhes. H« eats what he pleases and he does not t l|i the waiter, neither does he pay the bill l'ncle Hani attends to that. It 1 is a delightful trip that Is furnished hint In hla concluding da>a of freedom days he is uot likely lo lotget, Vroiu Washington to Leavenworth is a trip oi uiore than l.iuu miles, on • very uillu of lh» Journey the wants ii 1 tit le Hani's piUi io rs and guards ire well catered 10, w evl.|< need by lite hauipi rs of i hick' n, beet, baui, •»*«» sardine# and so on. doau to >h» n.ui . .in. u. delight* ot tbu tourlal "•owSS&Si!; Thompson's Eye Wator ALMOST WORN OUT. Ella Fontine—ls your knee tired, dear? Slenderly—lt must be, pet; it'a gone to sleep. Husbands and Housecleanlng. The reason a man wants to get as far away from home as he can during housecleantng is that everything looks bo desperate and it seems as if the work never would be done. If you would use Easy Task soap the work would be over in less time and would be done more thoroughly. Easy Task isn't like the yellow soapfi that leave a lot of grease and rosin behind them; it makes everything sweet and clean; and it runs the roaches away. Con fidentially, it is sure death to the "crit ters" that like to nest in the bedsteads. Good Record Made by Women. Through the activity of women, in the anti-tuberculosis campaign, sana toria and hospitals for the treatment of tuberculosis have been erected; traveling libraries have been circu lated, posters, circulars and other kinds of literature have been distrib uted to the number of millions of pieces, thousands of lectures have been given, large sums of money have been secured, hundreds of needy cases have been helped; tuberculosis work has been started in many communi ties where no movement had existed; and millions of women have learned the dangers and methods of preven tion of tuberculosis. The work of the women extends from the drawing room of the rich to the homes of the poor, and embraces all classes, including the factory girl and millionaire. During the coming year a special campaign of lectures to women will be carried on in all parts of the United States. A Diplomat. "And how old should you say I am?" giggled the golden-haired spinster, with a coy glance at lijones. "Ah, Mlss Smiley," replied Bjones. with a low bow, "I do not think you are old at all. Ask rather how young do I take you to be." And she was so pleased she forgot to.—Harper's Weekly. Points of View. Venus "..as rising from the sea. "What a vision!" cried the men on the beach. "What a horrid bathing suit!"* echoed the women, enviously.—Chi cago News. LACK OF MONEY Was a Godsend in This Case. It is not always that a lack ol money Is a benefit. A lady of Ureen Forest, Ark., owes her health to the fact that she could not pay in advance the fee demand ed by a specialist to treat her for stomach trouble. In telling of her case she says: "I had been treated by four differ ent physicians during 10 years of stomach trouble. Lately I called on another who told me he could not cure me; that I bad neuralgia of the stom ach. Then I went to a specialist who told me 1 had catarrh of the stomach and said ho could cure tne In four months but would have to have hia money down. I could not raise the necessary sum and in my extremity I mas 1« <1 to quit coffee and try I'ostum. "So 1 stopped coffee and nave I'ost um a thorough trial and the results have been magical 1 now sleep well at night, something 1 had not dona for a long tluie, the pain lu my stom ach Is gone and I ant a different woman. "I dreaded to coffee, because • very time I had tried to stop it I suf fered from headaches, so I con tinued tu drink It although I had rea son to belle*o It was Injurious to me, and was the cause of my stomach "outdo and • streiu» Hut when I had I'ostuiu tu •hifi to It waa different. "To my surprise I did not miss cof fee «t beg | lii'gaii to drink I'ostum. "Coffee had t>et>n steadily and sure ly killing me and I didn't fully reallie what was doing It until I quit and . ir.ng. d to I'ostuiu " I »»» rr»«l tkr abut* l.tirrt % w»«* • I»• lu i!m»» I krr • r«* Ml MMlllf, IfMV, MMtl full li| ktilMl t« Ibitrvil.
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