The Daily Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 84, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 20, 1908 Page: 6 of 8
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MONTHS IN HOSPITAL.
charged Because Doctors Could
Not Cura.
Levi P. Brockway, 8. Second Ave.,
Anoka, Minn., says: “After lying
for five months In a
hospital I was dls-
---ana auuur. tf.
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LC"- 7 ed. I had smother-
ing spells and some-
times fell uncon-
scious. I got so I
couldn’t use my
arms, my eyesight
was Impaired and
the kidney secretions were badly dis-
ordered. I was completely worn out
and discouraged when I began using
Doan’s^ Kidney Pills, but they went
right to the cause of the trouble and
did their work well. I have been
feeling well ever since.”
Sold by all dealers. 60 cents a box.
Foster-Mtlburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
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This woman says Lydia E.
Ptnkliam’H Vegetable Compound
saved ber life* Bead her letter.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen,of Manning,
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
“ I e"n truly say that Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound saved my
! com-
plaint*, continually doctoring and
spending lots of money for medicine
without help. I wrote you for advice,
followed it as directed, snd took Lydia
E. Plnkham'a Vegetable Compound and
It has restored me to perfect health.
Had It not been for you I should have
been in my grave to-day. I wish every
suffering woman would try it. ”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, lias been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and Las positively cured thousands or
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear-
fog-down feeling, flatulency,indiges-
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it?
Mrs. I’lnkliatu invites all sick
women to write her for advice,
the has guided thousands to
th. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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IDE CURE
HAVE LONG SOUGHT
MASTERY OF AIR
Ambitious Minds Would -
trol Only Element That
* Has Defied Man ,
Useless Society.
Mrs. Jones often declared that she
enjoyed a little chat with their fish-
dealer because he was a man of such
original Ideas, but one duy, says Lon-
don Opinion, she returned from mar-
ket somewhat puzzled by his remarks.
“1 said to him. Just in the way of
conversation." declared Mrs. Jones,
“that I had heard that a man becomes
like that with which he most associ-
ates.
“That's ridiculous. Mrs. Jones!' he
answered. ‘I've been a fishmonger
all my life and can’t swim s yard.' ”
Now It Is Thought Thtit the Aero-
plane Devised
May at Least
Success-—Couh
of War.
work at his desk, heTnight Rave
Jen sitting around outside talking to
e crowd who were watching the
inching of a boat and found that $10
itself. We always were unlucky,
High. .
“Fewer laws and better laws,” right-
conceived and properly execi.ted. Is
slogan In which every good citizen
A Matter of Time.
It was the day of the ball game, and
Willie, the ofilce-boy. approached the
head of yje firm, and stammered: "If
y-yo» p-p-pi Tllease, sir—”
“Come, hurry up!” said his employ-
er. “If you have anything to aay. say
It. Don't take half a day.”
“But that's Just what 1 was going
to aak you if I could take,” said V\ 11-
lie.—Harper's Weekly.
On assured railroad 36 miles from
San Antonio. Texas, the man of small
means can buy a farm of from 10 to
610 acres and 2 town lots for $210.
Fine climate, good water, rich soil. $10
per month. Write Dr. Chaa. F. Sim-
mons, San Antonio, Texas.
The life of a woman can be divided
Into three epochs: in the first she
dreams of love, in the second she ex-
periences It, In the third she regrets
it—Balnt-Prosper.
Hicks’ Capudltie Cures Women.
Periodic name backache, nervousness
sni) ticRdache retfqxed Immediately and
assists nature prescribed by phvslctans
with best results. Trial bottle 10c. Regular
size tte and 60c at ail druggists.
Young man. don’t express a willing-
ness to die for a girl during court-
ship and then refuse to work for her
after marriage. _
— —- EW YORK.—Those retb
J cent and Intensely ab*-
I I sorbed westerners, the
Wright brothers of Day-
A ^ ton, O., appear to have
at last conquered the ele-
ments which have so long baffled the
Ingenuity of man, and aerial naviga-
tion. so long regarded as a fascinating
absurdity, now seems to be very much
yf a practical reality, says a writer In
the. New York Times.
Aside from the triumph of the long
xnd apparently easily controlled flight,
the most Important Item contained In
the news dispatches from Mantou. N.
C., where the brothers have been con-
flicting their experiments, is the state-
ment rhat the aeroplane not only car-
ried both men, but carried them in a
sitting position The earlier aeroplane
of these Inventors carried but one
aviator, and It was necessary for hjm
to be prone upon hls stomach.
The significance of the statement lies
In the apparent fact that the Inventors
have at last succeeded In overcoming
the real prob-letft of mechanical Sight
—the problem of equilibrium. Aero-
planes that would support their opera-
tors have previously been tested. En-
gines of sufficient lightness to propel
them through the air at a sufficient
siieed and to carry their own weight
and that of the operators have alto
been successfully tried. There have
been plenty ot aeroplanes that would
fly in still air. The one needful, essen-
tial. and undiscovered thing was an
airship that would not capsize when
the wind was blowing.
Writing in a recent Issue of Mc-
Clure’s Magazine, George Kibbe Turn-
er quotes the Wright brothers as as-
serting that no one who had not nav
igated the air can appreciate the real
difficulty of mechanical flight—that
the great problem—the problem of
equilibrium—never occurs to any one
who has not actually tried flying.
ho Biota eon wall afford to loin.
solve the problem of equilibrium by
some automatic system of balancing.
We believe that the control should be
left to the operator. The sense of equi-
librium Is very delicate and certain.
If you lie upqn a bed three-quarters of
an Inch out of true, you know it at
once. And this sense of equilibrium Is
just as reliable a mile above the earth
as It is on it.
"The management of our aeroplane
like that of the bicycle, is based upon
the sense of equilibrium of the opera-
tor. The mechanism for preserving
the balance of the machine consists of
levers operated by simple uniform
movements which readjust the flying
surfaces of the machine to the air.
The movement of these levers very
soon becomes automatic with the avi-
ator, as does the balancing of a bicy-
cle rider, and simpler to operate than
a bicycle. In fact, the aeroplane is
easier to learn. In all our experiments
with gliding and flying machines, we
have not even sprained a limb; we
have scarcely scratched qur flesh.”
Fatalities Among Inventors.
Rut If these two experimenters have
had Immunity from mishap their pre-
decessors have not. Among the first
"to undertake the task of demonst rat-
ing that a mechanical flying machine
Is possible was Otto Lllllenthal, a Ger-
man tnechanlcal engineer He made a
study of the flight of birds and event-
ually concluded that very little waa
known of the laws which govern the
flight off the feathered tribe. He be-
gan experimenting In 1891, using wings
constructed like those of soaring birds.
Equipped with these, he sailed down
hill sides into valleys. After a series
of more than 2.000 flights one of hls
wings gave way one day and In hls
tumble to earth he dls’ocated hls spine
and died the following day.
That was In 1K96. Three years later
an Englishman, Percy S. Pilcher, Jbe-
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*We had worked ont a new method
of practice with gliding machines,’!
they explained. “Lilllentbal and Gha-
nute had obtained their experience In
flying with the operator’s launching
himself from a hill and gliding down
on to lower land. This Involved car-
rying back their apparatus, after 'a
short flight, to the top of the hill
again. Because of the difficulties of
this awkward method, although Lll-
lienthal had made over 2,000 flights,
we calculated that In all his five years
of experiment he could not have been
actually practicing flying more than
five hours—far too short for the ordi-
nary man to learn to ride a bicycle.
It was our plan to follow the example
of soaring birds, and find a place
where we could be supported by
strong rising winds.
“A bird Is really an aeroplane. The
portions of its wings near the body
are used as planeB of support, while
the more flexible parts outside, when
_ • « s1** fi ° of the
Strictly Depenaban
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If not already
tO VOUt the
air are among the commonest sights
through a great section of the country.
Every one who has been outdoors has
seen a buzzard or hawk soaring:
every one who has been at sea
seen the gulls sailing after a steanl^
ship for hundreds of miles with scarce-
ly a movement of the wings. All of
these birds are doing the same thing
—they are balancing on rising cur-
rents of air. The buzzards and hawks
find the currents blowing upward off
the land; the gulls that follow the
steamers from New York to Florida
are merely sliding down hill a thou-
sand miles on rising currents In the
wake of the steamer In the atmos-
phere, and on the hot air rising from
her smokestacks.”
Think Great 8peed Possibls.
The brothers believe that the event-
ual speed of the aeroplane will be
easily 60 miles an hour, and may be
wing, but the, faster the speed the less
will be the supporting surface nec-
essary, and wings for high speeds will
naturally be very small. Not only will
less support be needed, but the slse
must be reduced to reduce the Mo-
tion of the air.”
' Fearful Only of Capsize.
Although one of the brothers had an
ugly fall only a few days ago, they
both maintain that the only danger
to be apprehended from an aeroplane
is the danger of a capsize. A break-
down, or a sudden stopping of the en-
gine, they say—and they certainly
should know—does not entail disas-
ter, as on the first thought it might
appear. Their explanation Is that
while the aeroplane Is supported in
the air through Its o\ n motion
through it, yet gravity furnishes all
the energy that Is needed to get
safely to the ground. When the
power is shut off it merely scales
through the air to Its landing. Theo-
retically, It Is' safer at a mile above
the earth than at 200 feet, because It
has a wider choice of places In which
to land; you can choose your land-
ing from 256 square miles from a
mile above the surface If descending
one In Bixteen. "As a matter of fact,"
they said, “we always shut off the
power when we start to alight, and
come down by the force of gravity.
We reach the ground at so slight an
angle and so lightly that It Is Impos-
sible for the operator to tell by hls
own sensation within several yards
of where the ground was first actu-
ally touched;
’ We feel that It Is absolutely essen-
tial for u» to keep our‘method ol con-
trol a secret. We could patent many
points in the machine, and It Is possl
ble that we could make a success of
the Invention commercially. We have
been approached by many promoters
on the matter. But we believe that
our beat market Is to sell the ma-
chine to some government for use In
war. To do this'll Is necessary for
us. to keep ita construction an abso-
lute secret”
To the same writer the brothers
made the Interesting statement that
they did not erpect the aeroplane ever
to displace the railroad or the steam-
The Wright Brothers have conducted their experiments with great se-
crecy. The above illustrations give, however, an excellent Idea of their ser-
oplane. They are from photographs taken from a distance for McClure’s
Magazine. The upper picture shows the gilder In motion. The lower picture
shows the method of starting.
Thus, the real question of the flying
machine is how to keep It from turn-
ing over
Air In Constant Turmoil.
“The chief trouble," the brothers ex-
plained. "Is the turmoil of the air.
The common Impression Is that the
atmosphere runs In comparatively reg
ular currents which we call winds.
No one who has not been thrown about
on a gilding aeroplane—rising or fall-
ing ten, 20 or even 30 feet In a few
seconds—can understand how utterly
wrong this Idea Is. The air along
the surface of the earth, as a
matter of fact. Is continually churn-
ing It is thrown upward from every
Irregularity, like sea breakers on a
coast line; every hill and tree and
building sends up a wave or alanting
current. And It moves not directly
hack and forth upon Its coast line,
like the sea. but In whirling rotary
masses. Some of these rise up hun-
dreds of yards. In a fairly strong
wind the air nekr the earth Is more
disturbed than the whirlpools of Ni-
agara.
“The problem of mechanical flight
Is how to balance In this moving fluid
which supports the flying machine; or,
technically speaking, how to make the
center of gravity coincide with the
center of air-pressure. Tho wind often
veers several times a second, quicker
than thought, and the center of pres-
sure changes with It. It Is as dlffi-
cult to follow this center of pressure
as to heep your finger on the flicker-
ing blot of light from s prism swing-
ing In the sna.
-ft ha# been the tommon aha «f
the aeroplane to
gan experimenting along the same
line. He had essayed only a few flights
when one of his wing* broke and he
sustained injuries which caused his
death a few days later.
On this side of the Atlantic. Prof
8. P Langley conducted some notable
experiments, fashioning In 1996 a
small, steam-driven aeroplane which
made a flight of three-quarters of a
mile, in the same year Chanute of
Chicago constructed a gliding ma
chine which attracted some attention.
Four years later the Wright brothers,
two young blt^cie makers of Dayton,
began experimenting.
It was not long before their efforts
began to attract attention. But they
sedulously avoided notoriety, kept
their own counsel, and devoted them-
selves to the task of solving the prob-
lem of mechanical flight. Mr. Turner,
however, gained their confidence, and
thus describes them: “Two lean,
quiet men in a dingy, commonplace
little brick bicycle shop; pleasant, un-
assuming, most approachable, hut
shy and silent under the oppression
of the greatest secret of the time. Or-
ville, of the more social and conversa-
tional temperament, did the greater
shsraof the talking—an amiable, kind-
ly-faced man of 36. Wilbur—prema-
turely bald, about 40, with the watch-
ful eyes, marked facial lines, and dry,
brief speech of a naturally reticent
‘men.”
Thslr New Method.
To quote hls account of what the
brothers told him Just prior to their
going abroad last year for the desaoa-
Stratton of their machine “ ” - *
sign war departments;
forced up to 100 miles. "Our experi-
ments hive shown.” they said; "that
a flier designed to carry an aggregate
of 746 pounds at 20 miles, an hour
would require only eight horsepower,
and at 30 miles an hour 1} horse-
power. At 60 miles 24 horsepower
would be needed, and at 120 miles 6#
pr 75 horsepower. It Is clear that
there Is a certain point of speed be-
yond which the sir resistance makes
It impossible to go. Just what that Is
'experiment will, determine. Every
year gas engines are being made
lighter—a fact which will Increase the
surplus carrying power of the machine
available for fuel and oiterator and
heavier construction, but at present
60 miles an hour can be counted on
for the flying machine. This, of
course, means speed through the
sir.
"The aeroplane running 60 miles an
hour will have surplus lifting power
enough to carry fuel for long Jour
neys. Our 1907 machine will carry
gasoline enough to fly 500 miles at a
rate of some 50 miles an hour. We
can, and possibly soon will, make a
one-man machine carrying gasoline
enough to go 1,000 miles st 40 miles
an hour. Moreover, any machine made
to more at speeds up to 60 miles an
hour can be operated economically st
a cost of not much over one cent s
anile for gasoline.
"There Is no question that s man
can make a lighter and more efficient
wing than a bird’s. A cloth surface,
for instance, can be produced offer-
ing less surface friction than feathers.
The reason for this fact Is that s
bird's wing Is really • compromise.
It is not made tor flyttog only—it must
be folded up end got out of the way
when the bird is on Its feat, sad effi-
ciency In flying mast be sacrificed to
permit title. The wings of aeroplanes
will vary in rise according to apsed.
A alow machine will roqmro a large
boat. Thov predict that Its chief
value will n# In war time, when It
may be employed for dropping explo-
sives upon an enemy or for roeoo-
nolterlng purposes. In this connec-
tion may be added the fact that the
navy department baa. planned an ex-
tensive serlew of experleients with
dirigibles, the purpose being to dis-
cover their availability for war usage.
Those who advocate the employment
of these machines point ont the fact
that flying machines sailing over a
fleet are Immune from any ' attack
save that of small arm Are, and that
they could attain a height so great as
to be out of range from these smaller
weapon*. There (a no type of larger
gun now carried on shipboard that Is
capable ot such extreme elevation. Of
course It would be easily possible to
construct a gun mount that would per-
mit of high angle, or evqn vertical
Are, but the question Is asked bow
would you be able to hit one of these
small targets sailing so high In air?
When firing st a floating target any
error of sighting can be detected by
the splash of the shell. But bow la a
gun-pointer to tell where hls sheila
are going when be It firing upward
Into thp air?
No Danger.
"Whatever you do. dear,” wrote the
ardent lover, "don't show my letters to
yoii to anyone ”
"Have no fear, dearest,” cams the
reply. Tm Just ss much ashamed of
them as you are.”
And. with that, the engagement be-
came a matter of history.—Judge.
These New Coiffareo.
’"What a queer ornament Miss Snuf-
fles wears la her hair I” sold Mrs.
Trulywsd. "Can you see what It tof*
"Yee—that's not sa ornament It's
the price tag,” answered Miss Belle
Tlakly —Clevelsnd Leader.
DAD AND HI# MEMOrV.
Old Gentleman Really Had Vary Lit-
tle to Brag About
It was s severe trial to Mr. Harding
(hat hls only son’s memory was not
all that could be desired. “Where In
the world he got such a forgetful
streak from Is beyond me,” said tbe
exasperated father to hia wife on one
occasion.
“What has he forgotten now?"
aaked Mrs. Harding, with eyes down-
cast and a demure expression.
“The figures of the last return from
the election on the bulletin-board,”
and Mr. Harding Inserted a finger in
hls collar as If to loosen It, and shook
hls head vehemently, "l-ooked at ’em
aa he came past not half an hour ago,
and now can’t tell me.
"As 1 said to him: ‘If you're so
stupid you can't keep a few simple fig-
ures In your head, why don’t you writ*
'em down on a piece of paper, as I do,
and have done all my life, long before
I was your age?' "Youth's Com-
panion.
TORTURED 8IX MONTHS
By Tsrrible Itching Eczema—Baby’s
Suffering Was Terrible — Boon
Entirely Cured by Cutlcura.
"Eczema appeared on my son’s face.
Wo went to a doctor who treated him
for three months. Then he was so bad
that hls face and head were nothing
but one sore and hls ears looked as If
they kero going to fall off, so we tried
another doctor for four months, the
baby never getting any better. Hls
Land and legs had big sores on them
and the poor little fellow suffered ao
terribly tbst be could not sleep. After
he had suffered six .months we tried
a set of the Cutlcura Remedies and
the first treatment let him sleep and
rest well; In one week the soree were
gone and In two months he had s clear
face. Now he Is two years' and has
never had eczema again. Mrs. Louis
Leek, R. F D. 3, San Antonio, Tex.,
Apr. 15, 1907.”
How Things Want.
Elliott H. Peabody Is one of the
best known*men at the Worcester
county courthouse. At one time be
and a few others were Interested In a
business deal which they expected to
put through on a certain day. He
vu unable to be there, so the next
day telephoned to a Mr. H-for par-
ticulars A lady answered the 'phone,
and *ald that Mr. H-was not at
home Mr. Peabody,supposing It to be
Mr*. H--, said: “Well, perhaps you
can tell me what 1 want to know. 1
only wanted to Inquire bow things
went \»\ night.” \
The lady, In a. cheerful, reassuring
tone. aald. “Oh, nicely! Mrs. H-
la doing fine, and the baby weigh* six
and a half pound*. I'm the nurse."—
Lipptacott's.
Kangaroo ss a Food.
Twenty or *0 years ago tbe back
country squatters, In order to destroy
kangaroos, used to dig huge pits at
tbe corners of their paddocks, running
yards of calico along their wire fencee
and then drive the kangaroo# Into the
plu. clubbing and shooting them, la
those days ksngaroo skins were of no
value; now that they are almost ex-
tinct. there le a great demand for
them The flesh of a young kangaroo
la by no mean* to be despleed, and
kangaroo tail aoup la a delitacy now ,
hardly to be obtained.
INTUITION.
Fortune Teller—Ton will shortly
toeet with an accident
Victim—How did you know I owned
aa automobile?
They Should.
"My honest conviction, baaed upon
my own experience and that of my
friend*. Is that ‘Hunt’s Cure’ will cure
a larger per cent of skin troubles, espe-
cially of an Itching variety, than any
other remedy. Certainly thoee afflict-
ed with aay form of Itch shonld try It”
J. O MOORE,
Atchison, Kan.
Might Mies Something.
Edyth—I told him there was no use
wasting hls time, aa I didn’t intend
to marry him and that If he wrote to
me. I would return hls letters un-
opened.
Msyme—Oh you shouldn't have don#
that He might have Inclosed matinee
ticket* In aome of them.
The water la pure, the soil rich, the
climate healthful and delightful, and
the people prosperous In South Texan
You can buy from 10 to 640 acre* of
land and 1 town Iota there for, $210 at
$10 per month. Write Dr. Chaa. F.
Simmon*, San Antonio, Texan
Unique.
“1 have aomethtng novel la the tray
of a melodrama."
“State your case.”
“Tbe blacksmith Is a rascal, white
tbs banker Is about ao honoot ao tho
day la long!”—Exchange.
LEVEL HEADED PEOPLE writ* at
oace to Dr. Chaa. P. Simmons, Baa
Antonio, Texas, for Information about
the sal* of hls lands, os fin* a* South
Toxas affords. 10 to 040 aero* and I
town lots for $210 at $10 par month.
Woman’s power to Dor rote, sot Cor
battle;
section or
and bar intellect is oot for in-
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