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mo FUTURE of AVIATION
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feMMBg EN years ago among the
IB Band duties ol North Car-
"M S ollnn, a slim, gaunt, In-
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" ) himself downward on a
taSfc J narrow ledgo Htirinount
W&T nd bv vnrdii of out-
stretched musllm a com
pact, powerful llttlo on
Klnn purred at his licolfi,
and a Rlnnt, Inanimate
thing of spruco and cloth
Rwout llko a falcon out
oror that silent, sea coast desert A lit
tle telegraph ofllco at Kitty Hawk, N. C,
an hour later startles a world with the
laconlsm: "The Wright brothers have
flown." It was the word civilization had
awaited hundreds of years. For the
dream of flying is as old as civilization.
A decade haa passed since man
"sprouted his wings." Tho world has
watched him from his first weak, fitful
bounds from mother earth for brief sec
onds aloft to his hours and even u day
In Htcady sustained flight. It lino ceased
to marvel, and It expectantly has come
to look to tho futuro to wonder "what
next." Ten years ago Wilbur Wright
flow at Kitty Hawk for 59 secondn. To
day tho record for suntatned flight io 14
hours and 1,300 miles.
In ten yearn the ncroplano has made
mora rapid strides than did tho automo
bile. More than a thousand men, with
u fair percentage of women, today aro
driving aeroplanes In nil parts of the
world. Tho first successful flight of the
Wrights has almost been forgotten so
grent has been the progress of tho aero
plnne and the Incroaso In tho number of
aviators.
Tho English channel has been crossed
and retrofitted by one, two and three per
sons In an aeroplane, aviators hno
wept up and over tho fearsome peaks
and abysses of the Alps; whole conti
nents have been crossod In aviation
races; the United States has boon
panned by an American, who lost his
llfo In a comparatively trivial exhibition
feat. But the prosont asks: "Well, what
of the futuro? What will theso blrdmeu
be. doing ton years from now?"
Prom the stago of pure amusement, tho
period whon aviation was alonn fnr thn
daring, thoso who wero countod foolhardy and the show poople of tho air,
flying Is working toward a commercial stabilization. The men who cling to
aviation today are those with Ideas of making It a recognlzod asset of com
jxierce. The era of aerial transportation is upon us.
Thojr will have crossod tho Atlantic ocean, penetrated the dismal Jungles
of Africa, scanned the tropical fever-ridden areas of the Amazon, brought
back tho word from the remote regions of ice and snow? Perhaps. But.
creator still, aeroplanes will be a proven adjunct of commerce. Our malls
will be shot to almost Inaccessible points through the air. The trackwalker
of the great railroad system will give way to the critical eyes of a man-bird
weeping swiftly along the ribbons of steel. Through tangled wood and over
wollen river the telegraph and telephono lineman will skim with his vision
focused on narrow strands of copper wire. Far into Alaska, reached today
only by tolling dog train and Intense suffering, will go the aviator with mall
supplies ana even luxuries. Those are but a few of the suggestions of aero
i nautical optimists.
The enormous death rate of aviation In proportion to the number of per
sons who have taken It up would Indicate to the layman that the conquest of
the air Is far from complete. Uufsuch strides havo been mado in the last few
years that, despite tho death toll, the results havo been moro than encourag
ing. There aro avIatorB flying today who, seemingly, are almost as safo In
the air as If on land or on tho water. After all, most of tho deaths of avia
tors have been due to accidents which resulted from carelessness on the part
of Home ono, elthor tho flyer himself or his mechanician.
So confident aro aviation experts that tho aeroplano has been dovoloped
to a stago where It can bo used In overy day business that ninny of them aro
attempting to adapt it aa a carrier of tho malls. Many of tho Alaskan wastes
and sparsely settled regions of tho west could bo traversed In hours where
now It requires days.
The French government wnnitho first to apply tho aeroplane to the prac
tical delivery of tho mails. Tho aeroplano has given a fast mall servlco in
parts of desert Africa. Henry Woodhouso, an expert on things aeronautical
and editor of Flying, a magazine dovotcd entirely to tho airmen, recently
predicted wonderful progress In tho noropoat.
"Eact month." ho wroto, "something happens to emphaslzo moro force
fully the value of tho aeroplano for mall currying, and whereas It Is usually
demonstrated In placos whero thero Is an efficient mall-carrying servlco by
the ordinary mothods It Is made more and moro evident that aeroplane
mall service will be a boon to bucU places as Arizona, Colorado, Texas, New
Mexico, Nevada, Alaska, tho Philippines, Canada and South and Central
America.
"The conquest of the deBcrt by aeroplane Is complete. Traveling a mile
a minute. It crosses from oasis to distant habitation In a few hours. The
French government In tho last six montliB has employed twoscoro of aero
planes to carry mall, provisions and passengers from Casa Blanca, tho port,
to different points along and ncrosB tho desort. With this aerial sorvlco It
has been found that Intercommunication and transportation between points
on the desert Is faster than In certain places In Europe and Amorlca. Tho
aeroplano has shown that it is to become a potential factor In solving the
problems of advancing civilization In Morocco, Algeria. Trlpolttanla, Congo,
tho Soudan and In Zambesi.
"It already haB saved thousands of lives In tho French campaign In Moroc
co and Italian campaign In Trlpolltanla for which It has nover received
credit from tho world at largo by always watching the movoments of the
enemy, thus avoiding those unpleasant surprises which have crimsoned the
pages of tho history of tho conquest of Africa.
"Other demonstrations havo boon given practically each day of the last
year. Every 6no of tho flights of Garros, Brlndejonc do Moullnala, Guillaux.
Blder and tho thrcescoro of other airmen, who make flights of from 500 to
1,300 miles a day, are forceful demonstrations of the Increased swiftness In
mall carrying which tho aeroplano affords."
Advocates of tho acropost for Alaska point out that last Septombor United
States array engineers traveled half way across Alaska to a point two degrees
from the arctic circle traversing altogether about 82G miles In 19 days. The
acropost proponents say any of the well-known crosB-country aeroplano drivers
of today could havo accomplished tho trip, wltn or witnout man, in one day
and many others could do It In threo days at m6st
United States government oftlclals havo Indicated their willingness to
help In developing tho aeroplano for tho mall servlco. Postmaster General A.
B. Burleson, In a recent letter to Woodhouso, showed his deslro to encourage
tho aeropost advocates us much as ho can.
"I fully realize," ho wrote, "tho necessity of kocplng abreast of tho needs
of tho poBtal service for tho rnpld transmission of mall and of using overy
' possible facility to this end. In lino with UiIb conviction tho department 1b
ready at all tlmeB to glvo careful Btudy nnd consideration to such now means
of transportation as may bo dlscovored and dovoloped. Wo havo ropeatodly
given offlclnl aid to aviation racetB throughout tho country by establishing
Bpcclal postal stations and authorizing tho transportation of mall temporarily
by aeroplane.
' "Theso activities, of course, aro recognlzod as experimental, but I tun
persuadod that tho tlmo is rapidly approaching when tho department will bo
oallcd upon to glvo serious consideration to tho feasibility of aorial mull
transportation. Tho adoption of such means, howovor, can only bo brought
about after It Is demonstrated they can bo furnished and maintained wlthlu
tho proper limits of economy."
That no futuro Tvar will bo fought without tho aid of tho aero scout
In a forcgono conclusion. This Is evidenced by tho invnluablo aid tho aero
plane gavo tho French and Uullnns In tholr recent tioubles In Morocco and
Tripoli, and to tho various nrmlos engaged In tho recont wnrfuro In tho Bui
Uans. United States army nvlatorB every day now ore scouting along tho
Mexican bordor watching over tho hugo army camp In which men aro living
every day on tho chunco trojblo with Mexico may start at auy tlmo.
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OLD TIMES AND NEW
Fiji' Islands of Present Is Unlike"
Those of the Past.
Onot the Abode of Bloodthirsty and
Gluttonous Cannibals, .la Today Un
der White Man's Influence, a
Place Where Strangers Are Safe.
New York. In tho popular mind tb
FIJI islands stuck somewhere off In
the vast South seas are still tho lurk
ing place of giant cannibals. And w
are apt to think of the FIJI hlmseli
as a black, bushy-headed, ring-nosed
savage, flourishing a frightful war
club, and dancing naked about a heat
of well-picked human bones. It's al.
tho Fiji's fault, too, It wo think thui
of him, lor he Is a man with a lurid
past.
For years all news from FIJI bris
tled with talcB of butchery, human
sacrifice, and widows strangled tc
death. The first FIJI chief over tc
visit America was sullen old Ven
dovl who was brought around the
Horn to Hampton Roads on the Yan
keo corvet Vinccnnes, years ago, to
stand trial for killing and eating a
WREN LOVE
SW OF FIGS
It is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh physic into a
sick child.
Look back at your childhood daya
Remember the "dose" mother Instated
on castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children U'b different
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt Is well-founded.
Their tender llttlo "Insldes" are
injured by them.
It your child's stomach, liver yand
bowels need cleansing, give only dell
clous "California Syrup of Figs." Its
action Is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless "fruit
lajntlvo" handy; they know children
love to take It; that It never falls to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful
given today Havca a sick child tomor
row. '
Ask at the store for a G0-cent bottle
I of "Pnllfnrnln Hvnin nf Pica." which
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Increase Is being made In aeroplane equipment of the world's armies every
week. Franco leads In the number of aeroplanes. These total more than 265,
and tho French havo one aeroplane for tho navy.
Russia has 116 army aeroplanes and Germany has 46. Japan has 10, Great
Britain has about 30, Italy has 25 and the United StateB about 25. England
has six for the navy, and tho United States, Japan and, Italy have four each.
Russia haB ono and Germany two. t ,
Crosscountry flights In 1912 and 1913 show conclusively aeroplanes can
be relied upon to cover great distances at high speed. The greatest flight In
1912 was that of Andrcadl, who, In a Nleuport machine, flew from Sebastopol
to St. Petersburg, 1,670 miles. He took 25 days for the trip.
Great things are ahead of the aeroplane. A prize of $50,000 hah been of
fered for tho first flight across the Atlantic ocean. Next year or the year after
some venturesome aviator, using a hydroaeroplane, probably will have at
tempted to fly from England to America or from America to England, and
the success of the venture would not be surprising.
Two things aro certain: The aeroplane has come to stay as a war agent,
and it will develop Into the best agent for the cross-continent and cross
mountain transportation and delivery of the malls.
Thero also are 'possibilities In the transportation of passengers, tho es
tablishment of aerial ferries and tho Inspection of long sections of railroads.
Already It la being utilized by telegraph line Inspectors In remote sections of
the far west.
It Is Editor Woodhouso who points out that railroad inspectors could
cover more ground' and make better and quicker reports by the use of the
aeroplane.
"Usinc an aeroplane." ho declares. "Inspectors can Inspect the road at a
speed of betweon 40 and 70 miles an hour. By using moving picture machines
an Inspector can photograph tho line at the rate of 50 miles an hour, and
allowing six hours of traveling to each day he can in threo days present to
tho executive ofucers of a railroad a film showing the detailed conditions of
1,000 miles of road, which tho oftlclals can go over at their meeting and know
the exact state of the road and tho land adjoining tho road.
"As was shown by the experiences of C. P. Uodgers and Robert Fowler In
their trips acrosB tho continent, rails offer certain advantages over broken
country for landing on and starting from. An aeroplane having wide roller
wheels finds tho rail an evory-ready platform to land on and start from.
"A railroad considered the matter of using aeroplanes a year or so ago,
but they were deterred from employing them by the excessive cost of securing
competent aviators to operate them. At that tlmo competent aviators were
still drawing largo Incomes from exhibition flying, and as that particular rail
road which was willing to consider the, employment of aeroplanes found thai
it required 12 aeroplanes for the purpose, the salary Item became too exces
sive to be practical. -
"But now that competent aviators can be bad at from 50 to 1100 a week,
and almost any Intelligent mechanic can bo trained to operate the kind of
machlue needed for railway surveying, the proposition assumes a practical
aspect and thero Is no doubt that rallroadB will readily seo the advantages of
using aeroplanes for this particular purpose."
Editor Woodhouse, llko many other aviation experts, believeB It will be
only a question of tlmo when tho aeroplane will be developed for use In con
nection with the revenue cuttor service, Irrigation service, life saving and light
house service and in tho bureaus of fisheries, forestry and gologlcal survoy
of tho national government. South and Central America are as yet practically
virgin territories for tho development of aerial navigation.
Aviation experts aro engaged In dovlslng tho best way to make an aero
nautical map of the world. Tremendous increase in air navigation, combined
with tho widening radius of dirigibles, crossing countries, continents and
oven soas, as they havo, has tr.ude the necessity for the aeronautical map
imperative.
Tho need of well trained, capablo young men to take up aviation is pointed
out by Woodhouso, who believes, with President Richard C. Maclaurln of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, that It Is a duty on tho part' of educa
tional Institutions to provide Instruction In aeronautics.
"Aerial flight of today," Dr. Maclaurln Bays. "Ib either an engine of war
or an exciting amusement. Its greatest use at present Is for pleasure, but
before It can bo very greatly developed It must be freed from Its moro serious
dangers.
"Tho men who must see to making reasonably safe the sport of flying
must bo trained engineers and men of science, and such men are produced in
tho higher technical schools and colleges. It Is for such reasons that tho
Massachusetts Institute of Technology now makes official a line of work that
heretofore has been possible only as an adjunct to other courses."
And bo aviation as a science stands. Men in every walk of scientific en
deavor aro trying to Improvo It. The nations of the world aro spondlng ?89,
000,000 this year to forward tho pi ogress of aviation. With expenditures in
creasing overy year wonderful things can bo expected In tho next decade. In
tho meantlmo constructive geniuses lilto Orvllle Wright and Glenn H. Curtlss
aro working In secret to Improve the aeroplano, and flying geniuses aro work
ing In public to show It to tho world.
Tho Wrights, Wilbur and Orvllle, were tho first to demonstrate that a
hcavlor-than-nlr machine could bo umda to fly. Beforo them, for many genera
tlouB, roon had tried to aolvo tho problem of aerial navigation, but tho Bpher
leal balloon up to li03 practically had been tho only nlr craft that could bo
relied upon to carry passengers
Somo of thoso pioneers In tho search tor flying honors provlous to the
success of tho Wright brothors aro: Prof. Samuel P. Langloy, ono time sec
retary of tho Smlthsonlun institution In Washington; Sir Hiram Maxim; M.
Cloment Ader, who was killed during his experiments; Otto Lllllcnthal, a
German; Octavo Chanuto, civil engineer; Percy Pilcher of England, killed
whon experimenting; Prof. John J. Montgomery ot California, und many
othora.
landed on bin Island. And away back
In 1840, when American ships ruled
the sea and Undo Sam mado the ilrst
survey of the FIJI Islands ever under
taken, our sailors found out for them
selves Just how fully tho Fijtans do
Berved the terrible reputation they en
joyed.
At that time, and for long after
ward, these Islands were undoubted
ly the abode of the most bloodthirsty
and gluttonous'' cannibals which It
ever became civilized man's duty to
subdue. The cheapest thing, in FIJI
was human life. While villages were
killed off, merely to furnlBh meat for
.some tribal feast. Living men were
iaed as rollers' for launching new
and heavy war canoes, their lives be
ing crushed out to appease the gods
who looked aftor navigation, and it
was a common practice to bury men
alive under the foundations of ' new
houses and temples. When a great
man died his wives, friends, and some
times even his mother, willingly camo
forward and were strangled to death
beside the dead man's bier. Captain
Cook visited the Islands in 1773, but
for nearly a hundred years afterward
these wild orgies continued, and the
of all ages and for grown-ups plalnlj
an each bottle. Adv.
Different Colors of Clouds.
In answer to n subscriber's question
concerning the color of clouds, tho Na
ture and Science department of St.
Nicholas says:
"White clouds are those which aro
bo thin that sunlight comes through
them, or else they aro In such a po
sition thnt the Bide seen by- tho ob
server Is lighted by tho aunllght.
Hluck clouds aro thoso thot are bo
thick, or dense, that little sunlight
pusses through them, and nt tho same
time nre not Illuminated by sunlight
on the Bide seen by the observer. It
Is these heavy, largo clouds that are
most likely to produce rain. St. Nicholas.
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Islands.
In the FIJI
conquest of Fiji cost the civilized
world much money, and many a white
man's life.
Today over 100,000 Fijlans still in
habit those distant isles. Many ot
their weird superstitions still prevail,
and on feast days the warriors paint
their faces, don their strange grass
kilts and enormous head-gear, and
go through their noisy, war-club
danceB. But their wild cannibal feasts
are crimes of the past, and a FIJI who
now strangled his friend's widow
would no doubt be promptly hang
ed. Probably no other savage race
responded so quickly to the white
man's influence once they came
thoroughly under It and, today In tho
Fiji Islands a stranger may pass about
In perfect peace and security. The
reform of these canntbalB Is a monu
ment to missionary heroism, and to
the wIbo methods of the British In
handling savage races. Of tho 200 or
moro Islands In tho group, 80 are in
habited, and on every ono of the 80
there stands an English Methodist
church!
SUFFERED FOR 25 YEARS.
Mr. R. M. Fleenor, R. F. D. 39, Otter
bein, Ind., writes: "I had been a suffer
er from Kidney Trouble for about 25
years. I finally got so bad that I had
to quit worK, ana
doctors failed to do
me any good. I kept
getting worse all the
time, and it at last
turned to inflamma-
atlon of the Bladder,
and I had given up
all hope, wnen one
day I received your
little booklet adver
tising your pills, and
resolved tc try them. I did, and took
only two boxes, and I am now sound
and well. I regard my cure as remark
able. I can recommend Dodd's Kidney
Pilla to any one who is suffering from
Kidney Trouble as I was." Write to Mr.
Fleenor about this wonderful remedy.
Dodd's Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at
your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household
Hints, also music of National Anthem
(English 'and German words) and recl-v
pes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free.
Adv.
The Man Without Folly.
William Dean Howells, apropos ol
tho tercentenary of tho birth of La
Iloch'efoucauld, quoted at a dinner in
Boston some of the famous French
man's maxims.
"La Rochefoucauld," said Mr. How
ells, "wasn't tho sorrowful mlsan-
thropo some people think, but a gay
and gallant tlgure. H1b character waB
best protrayed, indeed, by one of his
best maxims:
" 'Ho who Ib without folly Is not so
wise as he thinks.' "
HUNTERS KILL 7,000 RABBITS
Work of 30 Men In Seven Hours' War
Against the Pest In 8tate of
Colorado.
Gault, Colo. All Colorado records
for rabbit hunting were broken when
two partieB ot huuters went out to
cleun up the country and came back
at the end of seven hours with 7,000
rabbits, or at the rate ot 1,000 an
hour.
Thero were 15 men In each party,
and the campaign was docldod upon
becauso the animals woro eating largo
quantities of good hay, a valuable
commodity since tho heavy, snowfall,
which has sent tho price soaring.
Ono farmer lost a totnl of five tons
of fmo hay, which ho might havo sold
for nearly $100.
Accept Egg for Carfare.
Tarrytownr N. Y. West Wood
boarded a trolley with a hon in a bas
ket. Ho couldn't find bis fare. Tho
hen cackled, laid an egg, and tho
conductor ncceptod it tor fare,
FALLING HAIR MEANS
DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE
Save Your Halrl Get a 25 Cent Dottle
of Danderine Right Now Also
Stops Itching Scalp. v
Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair Is mute evldenco ot a neglected
bculp; of dandruff that awful Bcurt-
Thore Ib nothing bo destructive to
tho hair aa dandruff. It robs the hair
ot Its luster, its strength and its very
life; eventually producing a feverish
ness and Itching of the scalp, which
It not remedied causes the hair roots
to fchrlnk, loosen and dlo then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight now any time will surely
save your hair.
Get a 25 cent bottle of Knowlton's
Danderlno .from any store, and after
the first application your hair will
take on that llfo, luster and luxuriance
which is so beautiful. It will become
wavy and fluffy and have tho appear
nnco of abundance; an Incomparable'
gloss and softness, but what will
please you most will bo after Just a
few weeks' use, when you will actual
ly boo a lot ot fine, downy hair new
hair growing all ovor tho scalp. Adv.
Followed the Colors.
"And I 8uppoHe, llko a bravo soldlor,
you followed your colors." "Yea;
whenever there was u battle, I noticed
that tho colors wero flying, so I (led
too." (
It doesn't alwnys tako a Bweeplni;
assertion to throw dust lu tho other
fellow's eyes.
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