THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1-.J13.
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Recent Feats
of Airmen
The Gold Wltch The Adventures of a Golden-Haired Heiress fiy Stella Flores
No. 2 She Discovers That One's Sympathy Is Sometimes Bestowed on the Unworthy
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Br GARRETT P. 8UHVISS.
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feats of aviation recently achieved
In Europe are .worthy of special attention.
On'SeptemW IS Garros, on of the most
successful of France's "airmen" started
from Frejus af6.50 o'clock In the morn
trie and at 1:46
'oejocK In the af
ternoon of the same
'day ' landefl at
jBserta, on t h o
(coast of Africa,
"having traversed
the Mediterranean
sea at Its widest
place, Trtthout'stbp
Ting, In five min
ute less than eight
hours. Vho distance
travelled wiui about
414.. miles ! hnd the
average speed was-
about sixty-two miles per hour.
Thlsjwll) he a great sourco of encour
agement for those Who bellev that an
nerpplano can fly across the Atlantic
Oceania feat Oiat will undoubtedly bo
accomplished before many years hav
passe. It la ontyabout a dozen year
ago -that. Lord Kelvin, the foremost
nutho'rtty in seiencd'fn his day, declared
emphatically that human flight by me
chanical means was Impossible and now
a mart .files, with double tho speed of the
mv If test steamship, across the Mediterra
nean It Is dangerous for any man s
leputailon. no matter what abilities or
hlii acquirements may be, to attempt to
fix bounds to what hie fellow men may
do.
The Imagination Is manVi greatest fac
ulty, for It alone leads him Into new
fields and stimulates his Inventiveness.
The other recent feat to which I have
referred was accomplished by the aviator
regoud at the aerodrome of Hue on Sep
tember 21. With a Blerlot monoplane and
a Gnome motor of fifty horse-power, he
rpse to a height of about 2.S00 feet, and
then caused his machine to matte a com
plete somersault In tho air, after which It
quietly resumed Its -course. The daring
adventurer was fastened by straps In his
heat.
Next he repeated a feat which he had
already performed on September 2, by
describing a vertical letter S In. the air.
flying a part of the time head downward.
Finally he turned the machine Into a
vertical position, tall uppermost, and
made It describe a ring In tho air, bring
ing It back again Into a normal pose
These things may, at 'first sight, appear
to be mere daredevil cats, without any
useful purpose, but they are not such.
A' definite aim. guUie all 'these., thrlliln
experiments, which are Intended not only
to develop the powers and possibilities of
th aeroplane biltta. .enable Oha. aviator
O.acufjecompje.teconfpl. dVjJils-mcw
stances. Man must bo as free as the birds
In .ne air before he can 'become the
mailer of the new method of locomotion
which he has so recently learned. A bird
Is' not seriously discomposed by a sud
den' wind or brought to he ground by a,
''hole In the air," and the aeroplane ot
th'tt.future must not be.
oAjj great difference betwen the. navi
gation of the water and that of the air
must' .never be lost sight of In' the first
casVthe navigator travels on" the .surface
of the clement that bears him; in the
secphd, he travels throtiglrnnd, in 'the
m)dst of that element, Tho aeroplanist Is
rather. a fish than a sailor Jnut4Us- ma
chine has no buoyant bladder, like a bal
loofi'vpr a fish, arid must depend upon. Its
motion to support lf. Possibly Jf Str Wil
liam Ramsay's' rfcpprtJd 'dljcgVery of a
gas; sixteen times lighter than, hydrogen
proves to be a reality, aer'ohl&nos may
hereafter be furnished With, .suportlng
Madders which will not be too cumbrous
forjfiise, like the gas-bags of today, but,
lnl the meantime, the machlno must be
developed along Its original llnes,whlch
exclude any support except that furnished
by )The reaction of Its planes on the air.
Threfore, to turn a somersault with an j
aoriSp'iane and to make'it describe vortical j
cit$ii and circles in the air Is not an
. idle; amusomcnt for those who like to
rlsktheir lives in harebrained adventure, ;
but' a very practical method of developing
the,' art of aerial navigation. The "alr-j
man,," unlike the mariner, Is not a
navigator In two dimensions only, but In j
three. He has to deal with cubical space
and' his evolutions are performed up and
down as well as to righUand left.
lit finds po surface, In the air to gttdo
upo'h except as he makes It for himself,
and Jls voyages are made at continually
changing leyels. The air Is all around
him and Us currents may assail him from
ap direction; accordingly, he must
render himself familiar with all their
vagaries and Te prepared to take ad
vantage of every peculiarity that they
may present. The man. who loses hW
lire. In advancing our knowledge of tho
Way's of the air l a martyr to us worthy
a cause as was ever offered to the spirit
of heroism.
After giving up his berth in the sleeper, Tom helps the Gold Witch pass her time
waiting for another train. Ho confides to her that he is on his way home, but will
stop at the club until the end of tho week, because his father's ward, whom he re
members as a fat, squawking brat, has come to stay.
At the end of tho weok Tom shows up ut home. Ho finds to his consternation
that tho peach on tho train is his father's ward. But, alns, she was also once tho
"squawking brat." His father is disappointed to find that tho young1 folks don't
Beem to tako to each other.
Christmas is Coming;
v Begin to Shop Early
2ft
The Berlin Decree
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
DarkenGray Hair
Look Young, Pretty
Grandma's recipe pf Sage Tea
and Sulphur darkens so na
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Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea
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to t,he hair when faded, streaked or gray;
also ends dandruff. Itching scalp and
stops falling hair- Tears ago the only
way to get this mixture was to make it
at' heme, which la mussy sod trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at apy drug
store for "Wyeth's Sage arid -.SUlphur
Hair Remedy," yoV will get a large bot
tle of this famous old recipe for about
to ttnU.
Don't stay gray! Try It! No one
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hair, as It does it so naturally and
evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft
brush with it and draw this through your
hair, taking one. small strand at a time;
by morning the gray hslr. disappears, and
after anqther application or two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and
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By Catherine't&trs. Clarence Mackey.)
Dost realize, beloved sisters, that the
Christmas tide Is almost upon us, and
the joyous season hath arrived wherein
we must grapple once more again yet
with the Christmas gift problem?
In former times Christmas didn't come
but once a year, but now, with all the
rest of modern Improvements, It comes
three or -four times a year. Or at any
rate It seems to, but that is beside the
question. The main point Is that It
has rolled around again, and before you
can say scat It will be Christmas again.
Hence I am writing these few lines
to urge you to go and do your Christ'
mas shopping right away. Don't put
It off. Begin on It tddayf while the shops
are comparatively empty, before the sales
girls are worn and harried until they
are reduced to bundles of nerves and
temper, and while you are still In com
mand of your own sane senses.
Don't put off buying your Christmas
gifts until the week before Christmas
when you, and a million other women,
will be afflicted with Dementia Christ
masana, and go running around in cir
cles In the department stores, beating
your head up against the counters, and
crying out, '-'What shall I get for my
husband, and my son, and my daughter,
and my mother, and my father, and my
in-lawsdrat 'em, they won't like what
I give them, anyway and tor Uncle John,
and Aunt Sally, and Cousin Bue, and, the
people across the street who will send me
something, and whom I've got to send
something to?"
And you won't be able to remember a
single fad or fancy, or taste, or Inclina
tion, or habit, or occupation of a single
human being you know. And you'll go
home and have nervous prostration, and
give It to the clerks, and wfsh you had
Joined the Spugs and saved your money
and your clothes and your .time and the
wear and tear on your disposition
Now, I am one of those Who believe in
Christmas giving It. is Joy tp the. gen
erous to give, and It Is salutary for the
stingy to be made to give up at least
once a year. But the thing that makes
Christmas a season of torment and woe
and that leaves us feeling as If we 'had
been run through a atone crusher is be
cause We don't begin our preparations In
time, and because we don't bring any
common sense to bear on the proposition
Wherefore I urge entreat, and other
wise request you to bear in mind your
own comfort, and the good of that brave
little army of working women, the sales
girls, and do your shopping early. It's a
time to show that you are a. real big sis
ter who feels for the little ,siater belilnd
the counter.
Then abbUt'the Christmas gift Itself,
Unless -you-- are--making- a -.present to
some one who Is very rich, the one best
bet for an acceptable Christmas present
Is money, Don't be afraid of anybody
being offended by a check, or even a few
dimes. They won't, and every one of us
could use a llttlo money so handily, and
get something we secretly pine fpr, and
can't afford, If only you would sen,d us
a little money Instead of the fool thing
you do send.
Bay, beloved, didn't you ever, on a
Christmas morning, sit down among the
Junk that your kind friends and family
have bestowed upon you, and figure out
what It all cost, and wish that you had
all of that money to put Into something
that you are craxy for. something that
would do you some good, and that you
would rejoice In as long aa you lived?
There were silly gift books, with padded
backs and fine pictures that cost 110 or
1S, and that nobody ever looks at a
Is Man Limitless?
An Old Question
By EDGAR LUCIEtf IiAItKIJf
This Is a long-time, regular stock ques
tion, a general problem, and I have been
asked this probably as many times as:
"What causes a forked twig to turn
when carried In the hands over hidden
water?" "Which moves the faster, the
top or the bottom of a cart wheel?"
'.'Will a fish wtigh more or less in water
on balanceT'. Will the turtle outrun tho
hare?" "Is Genesis true? "What is
electricity r "Has there ever been a
general -flood?" ''How big was Noah's
ark?" and as many as a hundred more,
probably that come perpetually,
'But "Is man limitless?" Is a question
of so much general human Interest that I
will make a'very weak and Ineffectual at
tempt to answer It. I have already an
swered It hundyeds of times In forty
three years affirmatively, but have not
jjlven rigid proof.
Here Is a question: "Dear Sir: I was
In the observatory several weeks ago and
heard you state In' a lecture that there
are tenO.OOO.OOO nUmans now living, but
only fifty are able to think a. thought
that had -not' been thought before. Did
you really mean Ihls?" T. C. A., Colo
rado Hprings.
I was speaking or the world's mighty
rrathemutlclans, and beyond all doubt
' there are not more than fifty that are
able, to add to this colossal mass of con
crete human wisdom mathematics.
I do not really know, but It must be
tue that there are not more than fifty
humans now living that have the amax
Irg power to add to the now known In
trgrals. For man Is now able to sink
bounding vectors Into very infinitude.
These plummets let fall In space, or,
rather, ends of very lightnings penetrat-
' Ing from their source of origin, the brain
of man, the most Interminable depths,
' are as endless as space, itself.
That Is, equations where formidable ex
ponential variables are themselves In
finite are already known. These equip
j tlons are actually Infinite,
' The reader must reply: "Are the mas
- ter-mlnds able to solve infinite equations
themselves Infinite? For let two humans
j be walking along the street. Both look
alike l that both have beads, bodies,
arms, hands, legs, etc., and totb would
be counted as 'human by the census man,
But one Is many millions of times more
exalted than the other. Between them
there Is a great gulf fixed'"
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I If ope would like to secure a glimpse,
i even a short-time view, "through a glass
darkly," of the mind power of. one of his
higher brethren he can, by studying easy
scientific books at first, and then little
mora difficult during; say, two or three
' hours In twenty-four, finally advance to
a plaoe where he can sense the Incredibly
j wonderful force concentrated Into one of
these equations.
Mind power Is In a higher state of con
centration in .a modern differential equa-
i tion than Is mechanical force In the high
est dynamite and cordite. This Is the
question; Is a being that hourly handles
Infinite things Infinite? V
second time; there were lamps that cost
flS or :0, when your home Is flooded
with electrlo lights; there were table
centers that cost V, and scarfs that cost
(I and It, and Imitation Japanese cases
that Cost II and 12, and so on enough
money thrown away in things that were
absolutely useless to you to have bought
something worth while, If only you could
have pooled it ail, and If people had
thought it proper to have sent you 75
cents or ti,60, or whatever their gift cost,
Aa for children, always give monoy It
you wantto make the little folks doubly
happy. For one thing, no grown-up In
these days knows what a child wants,
and In the second place the fun that
children have out of going shopping with
the money gives them ten times the ex
citement and pleasure that any gift could
afford of Itself.
I used to wear myself to a fraxzle buy
ing presents for children, but I don't do
It any more. I send them the money, and
they Invariably buy something that I
wouldn't have thought of in a thousand
years, and their mothers tell me that
they look forward tq my present more
than to anything else they get.
But if you won't give money, for
Heaven's sake give something practical
and useful. In these days of the high cost
of living practically everybody has to
economise and do without things that
they need and want.
Bo if you are thinking of giving a
woman a present, don't waste your good
money on Idiotic Jlmcracks that will do
nothing but clutter up the house and
catch dust. Give her clothes. Give her
furs, or blouses, or stockings, or shoes,
or veils, or belts, or something- that has
got some sense and use to it. Nothing
but the grace of God enables a woman
who needs a pair of slippers to look
grateful for a hand-painted handerker.
chref case that some silly friend bestows
on her at Christmas.
And If you are one of the women who
make your own Christmas presents
and nothing else is sweeter or a more
gracious thing to do don't throw away
your time and your money constructing
a what-do-you-call-lt out of plush and
ribbon, and tlnstl, and sachet powder
combined with a tomato can. Use that
same time and money making your
friend a bit of hand-made lingerie and
she will arise and bless your name every
time she puts it on.
Finally, beloved, remember this'
If you want a happy Christmas and to
make others have a happy Christ
mas begin your preparations In time.
Buy sensible thing, And don't spend any
more than you can afford.
Remember the first of January, whan
the bills come ImI
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Bjr REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
One hundred and seven years ago, No
vember 21, laW, Napoleon issued, from
the Prussian capital, his famous "Berlin
decree" document that was to work
him more harm
than could have
been done to him
by an army of a
hundred thousand
men.
From the height
of his power and
glory, tight after
the twin victories
of Jena and Auer
stadt, Napoleon
said to hlmsolf:
"Now I will crush
England, and my
rule win be com
plete." It was to carry ou this resolve
that the Berlin decree was promulgated.
All commerce or communication with the
British Isles was prohibited; all English
goods or manufactures found in the terri
tory of France or its allies were de
clared confiscated; and their ports were
closed, not only against vessels coming
from F.ngland. but all that had touched
its harbors.
It Is generally conceded that the
promulgation of this decree was the most
foolish thing that Napoleon ever did. The
hurling of twenty kings from their
thrones would have excited less hatred
than this contempt for tho necessities of
the nations. When you touch a man's
purse, when you Jeopardlxe a man's
bread, when, In a word, you begin the
thing which, unless It Is checked, will re
sult In a roan's death, you are attempt.
Ing that which is sure to be resisted to
the last ditch. Hence it was that the
emperor's attempt to build up his for
tunes on the ruin, not only of Great
Britain, but of most of the countries of
Europe, proved to be his ruin. The con
tinent wss not ready to be sacrificed to
one man's ambition; and so, out of the
Berlin decree arose the. combination which
produced its results in the campaign! of
M13-H, and tho first abdication.
The greatest of all tho "bosses" of
modern times, if not all "time, did not
have sensQ enough, with all his "genius,"
to know that there is a limit hvmj
which the people will not endure the rule
or n seinsh ambition, whether the rule
be centered in one man or a ring. Na
poleon Wanted to starve England; and in
order for hlni to do that it wa required
that he abauld starve all Europe. Includ
ing France; and very naturally they
turned against him and put him down.
The "bosses" are never as bright as they
think they are. Give them rope enough,
and sooner or later they are sure to hang
thomielves.
Advice to the Lovelorn
3jr BEATRICE FAIRFAX,
Don't Do It.
Dear lllss Fairfax: I am a young man
of 17 years and I am keeping company
with a girl twenty months my Junior.
She has a girl friend and her birthday is
a few days before mine. I would like
to know if It Is proper for nie to give her
a birthday present. O. T. II,
A friendly gift carries no Impropriety
with it, but it means a' useless expense
and Is unnecessary.
You are only 17 years old. If you are
earning your own money, save It. If
you are spending your father's, don't be
foolishly generous at his expense. '
Unit Maying: Pool.
Dear Miss Fairfax: I am a young
chap and know a girl about my age. and
I have gono with her to different places
of amusement. Now we aro mad on
account of her seeing me play pool in a
pool room. What would you advise me
to do? Get glad or wait till she gets
glad? JM.P.
The girl is right. Tou were wasting
your opportunities and your time. Quit
the pool playing, and be grateful to a
girl who is so sensibly interested in you.
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