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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-27

their path, to be brought up bruised and
torn in the friendly foliage of some
strange country.
Will the shell of the machine be OF
steel? Certainly OF that or some other
material equally strong, and, like steel,
many times heavier than the air it dis
places.
The shape of the machine? Probably
that of birds body--a huge, torpedo
like structure, with one nose pointed and
the other blunted somewhat. The artists,
taking their cue from the scientists,
have been picturing it thus for several
years now.
What will drive it? Motors of we'll
nigh miraculous power, and many times
lighter in weight than machinery cap
able of such power could now be built,
Just as the automobile motor of to-day
is infinitely lighter than the motor of
only few years ago even, and the
mighty engines of the modern ocean
greyhound" are lighter than the weak
lngs of fifty odd years ago.
And the motors will revolve the pro-
pe1ers so astonishingly fast that fight
will be born of this very rapidty of
motion, offering resistance to the air;
and fight will be sustained by it, as in
the case of the bird, and as was the case
for short time with Prof Langley's
aerodromc.
How fast will we travel? The wild
goose, with brain much smaller in pro-
portion than mans, has a speed, in full
flight, of from two hundred to three
hundred miles an hour Surely we will
not journey through the air at less than
this speed, we who are the brains of
the universe! A mile every sixteen OF
twelve seconds, the Atlantic crossed in
single night, an after-lunch and be-
fore-dinner trip between New York and
Chicago, a run of minutes merely from
the metropolis to the Hub!
What will give life to the driving ma
chinery? There is a wide diversity OF
opinion, but. all are agreed that its bulk
will be very small its weight light, and
a little will go very long way Per
haps, say the most daring. man. as he
flies, will snatch the necessary electric
power from space, and in his air con-
veyances there will be nothing to re-
semble the giant fuel bunkers of the
ocean greyhounds
When man flies our wars will be
fought in the air. the victor will lay
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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-27

of us have come to say, with regret
full shake of the head, I'VE Will
never fly"
Right here, up steps the greatest
wizard of his day, Thomas A. Edison,
to say that man ought TO be ashamed
of himself for not having solved the
problem, in all its phases, long ago.
Il was down in Florida, and one day
| watched big bird-I think it was a
vulture-that hoated about in the air a
whole hour without moving its wings
perceptibly. When God made that bird
He gave it a machine to fly with, but
He didn't give it much else. He gave the
bird a very small brain with which to
direct the movements of the machine,
but He gave to man much larger
brain in proportion to that of the bird
All this is paraphrased in the one word
"Shamep
"Here," says Edison of the vulture
SIS a natural flying machine which is q
thousand times as heavy as the air il
displaces. There is nothing but a ma.
chine and small brain, and it is no.
very remarkable machine, either" Ant
then in self-evident disgust: why is il
that man cannot make flying machine
as efficient as a bird?
ga lot of people say that it was never
meant that man should fly, that if ma
ture had intended such a thing man
would have been provided with the
necessary machinery in his body, such as
is now possessed by the bird But you
might as we'll say that it was never
intended that man should ever have any
light aside from the sun and the moon
and stars which were originally pro-
vided for him, or that he should not
move about faster with the aid of
wheels because no wheels were supplied
to him by nature"
Through further study of the bird and
its method of fight man will discover
how to fly, says Mr.. Edison, and all
others who have given the subject any
serious thought agree with him fully.
But, Mr.. Edison adds, somewhat para
doxically, he who solves the problem of
flight will find out nothing new. Pow
erful motors of wonderful compactness
will be applied to framework of ex-
treme lightness, and that will be all there
is to it.
Doubtless this framework will be
something similar to tine physical struc-
ture of bird do not believe it will
be difficult, because we have many me-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-09-27

chanical devices now which are superior
to the devices used by nature in human
beings and animals, and | do not See
why we may not put together con-
trivance which will at least be equal to
the machine and brain of the bird.
So, if man-hight is such an easy mat
ter as Mr. Edison makes it out to be,
why have we not been navigating the
air these many years? For one thing,
we have only recently, in our attempts
to fly, left off trying to be original and
endeavored to copy the bird, the handi-
work of nature. 1t is significant fact
that only since we have looked to the
bird for the secret of flight has there
been built machine with an indisput-
able record of flying ever SO small a
distance. Only since we have begun to
initiate the bird have the wise men be-
come convinced that we will yet fly
And some day-some day-ah, who
would not like his name to go rolling
| down the ages as the inventor of the
| first machine to demonstrate beyond the
shadow of doubt the complete con
quest of the air by man?
Though man, when he flies, will fly
like the birds, it does not necessarily
follow that the flying machine, on ac-
count of its structure, might be taken
for some long surviving antideluvian in
habitant of the air Indeed, not few
scientists who have been busy with aero
nautics declare that, once man has dis
covered the principle of fight, his Won
derful ingenuity will enable him to con-
struct machine that will incorporate
the principle and at the same time have
nothing about it resembling wings in the
slightest degree. Propellors there will
be, and a rudder, doing the work of
wings and tail But it will be flight
without wings-and we have been
taught from childhood that even the
angels need wings to fly. Other scien-
lists, however believe that there will be
great planes, two or more, mechanically
worked like wings, in conjunction with
propcllors and rudder.
Again, in their perfected state, pro-
pellors and rudder will do more than
to give flight Once more man will inn
prove on nature, and the mechanisms OF
his ingenuity will drive the good air ma
chine through gales that the strongest
bird could not face, will keep it Sc
renely on its course, while birds,
caught in the swirling clashng, battling
currents, will be hurtled miles out OF
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glided on an inclined plane forward
through the air, recovered itself and
glided again. Though the public has not
yet seen it in action, there are many
trustworthy men who have testified to
having beheld the flying machine of the
Wright brothers, of Ohio, gliding
through the air like bird. Any scien-
tst who has paid any attention what
ever to aeronautics will tell you that
Pitchers gliding machine acts in the all
just like bird in fight And there
are others.
Like bird in gliding flight have they
Travelled overhead for varying distances.
No bag of gas lifted them in the air
and kept them suspended therein, while
a motor or an engine of some sort fur
nished driving power to 4 propeller, as
III the case of the Santos Dumont and
other airships. Like bird they have
sailed; remained in the air by reason of
their own initiative, the power furnished
by motors or engines causing the me-
chanisms to offer the necessary bird-like
resistance to the air, with the result of
actual flight.
But, alas, because we do not yet pos
sess the full knowledge of the principle
of fight, as does the meanest of birds
and flying insects, those flying machines
which have justified their name, in part
at least, have been wont to play queer
tricks at the most inopportune moments
on their inventors and an anxiously
watching and waiting world. And So,
though the greatest ambition of the
world to-day seems to be to fly, many
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places; the machine in which man will
prove to the world the complete prac-
ticabiity and utility of air travel will
be-who knows how many hundred times
heavier than the substance filling the un-
seen and boundless sea through which ii
will shoot with speed outrivaling the
homing pigeons, with the steadiness and
docility of an old family horse2
And our flight through space will be
in conscious imitation of the flights OF
the birds
Every bird, every flying thing, flies be
cause its fight is based upon the resist
ancc offered to the air by its wings
In other words, we shall never attain
flight by merely displacing air, as we dc
when floating III the straight out bal.
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loon or the so-called airship of to-day.
Further, we will fly as does the pigeon.
1t, lin full flight, raises itself by each
of its rapid wing beats, an almost i'm
perceptible distance, and shoots forward
between each flap along a plane of very
Slight inclination, downwards by Just the
amount the wing beat raises it, and for
wards a considerable dstance-the re-
suit being rapid flight
Our flight, then, will be gradual
gliding down an inclined plane and a
constant recovery by upshoots. In some
forms of flight these two actions occur
almost simultaneously. So will they in
the perfected flying machine, insuring a
delightful sense of safety to the passen-
ger, nonchalantly defiant of the law of
gravitation, he knowing full well the ma
chinels ability constantly and arbitrarily
to correct the position of the center Of
gravity, bird fashion, thus insurig
permanent stability i'll the air.
The wisest of men declare all this !;
still, you say, dream-a phantasma-
goria of the brain? ~
Surely not when man has already
flown in or flown machines as the pigeon
flies,
Time after time the aerodrome-aT
runner-invented by the late Prof F. P.
Langley, of the Smithsonian Institution,
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p to-morrow-neXt week-neXt |
..,, 20 the certain knowledge that man
is flying at last.
''lmpossible!" you exclaim in tones
that SAVIOR OF disgust at such vision.
That is the very word the great body
of people employed when, at one time or
another, a single man, or, at least, small
body OF men. were firm in the belief
that we would yet sail by steam, send
messages by dots over wires, actually
talk over wires, ride in horseless car
riages, send and receive messages over
thousands of miles Of space without the
aid even, of intervening wires And
this is The word that a great many of
MS let rise to our lips when we hear a
learned man, orthodox in all things
else, solemnly declare that we will
yet fly.
Fly, not float, mind you.
We can float in the air now. The
trick is nothing. We have been float
ing in the air, lo these many decades
past The balloon is a floating bag,
merely.
This is true of both the dirigble and
non-dirgible types. In each case the
thing that gets the balloon up in the
air and keeps it suspended there is gas
Gas, as every one knows, is a substance
lighter than air, and so it is capable
when used in sufficient quantity, to float
the silken CLOTH the ropes, the woven
basket, and whatever else goes into the
makeup Of the contraption we call a
balloon.
But the invention that is to give us
the mastery of the now uncharted high
ways of the air will travel along these
very highways on its own initiative It
will be an active. not a passive, So
journer in the realm of overhead
In this feature it will be like unto the
bird and again, like the bird, it will
be heavier, many times heavier, than the
air itself A vuture's body is a thou-
sand times heavier than the air it dis
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01
ABERDEEN WINS
High School Football Team Defeats
Bows From Sumner.

The football game on Saturday after
noon between tue local High school and
the Snmner, wash High school was
very inter esting one although the score
OF 81 too in favor OF Aberdeen nigh,
seem to point to the contrary. The vlsi'
tors were lighter than the locals but
played real football in a very fair an1
llemanly manner, had their team
work been up to the standard Of some OF
their indi viduai players the result would
have been altogether different. The
best OF feelings prevailed all through the
game aud the Aberdeen lads are sorry
that summer cannot arrange Tor a return
gtne. The day was ideal for game
althou n the ground was rather colt
This last condit Oh seemed 10 be partly
res 70 -lble ior the large number Of fun
blee curing the first halt. The Sumner
team proved themselves capable OF Civ
ing our team the real hard practice
which they needed to put them in con-
dition for the great game which is tc
occur next Saturday when our boys 20 to
olympia.
Coach Randall put in several new
men al the beginning OF the second half
IN order to give several chance at the
game and save some Of our best men for
the Olympia game
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01
COUNTY TICKET.

State Senator-Ben Sneeks, Aberdeen.
Representatives., 20th district-A. l..
Callow, EIma; Samuel b. Davis, Aber-
deem.
Representative, 30th district-A. S.
Hodgdon, Hoqriam.
Auditor-Peter f. Clark, Aberdeen.
County Attorney. G. Cross, Aber-
deem.
Treasurer John Richardson, Ho-
GUAM.
Assessor-W. +. Wagner. Satsop.
Sheriff.. VI. Bowes, Aberdeen.
CDerk-W. NJ. Melrose, Aberdeen.
Supt. of Schools-E. l.. Mcdonnell.
HoQuiam.
Surveyor. j. j. Dunn, Aberdeen.
Wreck master - Chas. Mcintyre, &C.
pals.
Commissioner, Second district-A. J.
Stewart, Aberdeen.
Commissioner, Third district-George
Chandler, Hoquiam.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01

An official Of the posto..ice depart
ment ut Washington tells Of new
poStOftice that was established in a
certain small town. n native of the
place. the proprietor of n grocery. was
Installed as postmaster. 1t was not
very long before complaints We're filed
with the department that no mail was
being forwarded from the new Office,
so an inspector was detailed to inves-
tigate the matter. When he called up.
on the postmaster and asked why no
mail had been sent out, the former
pointed to Il large mail bag hanging up
in corner and said:
1.-THE mails in that bag. | amt sent
It out yet because the bag amt no.
where's nigh full"
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

The only way some people know is
their way. ... u.s..
Hospitality Is often nothing more
than loneliness.
A secret is never safe after some one
knows you have it. -
If you are naturally rude it's pretty
hard to disguise the fact.
Are you SO conceited that you be-
lieve people never talk behind your
back?
The trouble is some pushers are as
liable to push OH the wrong side as on
the right.
Watch your side issues. Don't give
them SO much attention as to ruin
your main issue. which makes you q
living.
Don't be mad If you are interrupted
when you are talking. 1t may have
prevented you from saying something
fOolish.-Atchison Globe
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01

The following cure for indigestion is
recommended by the eminent DR.. Bond
in the London Lancet. medical jour
nal of world wide repute.
1.-THE indigestion must be a very
hopeless one says DIR. Bond. (which
will not yield to a diet of Il small cup
Of warm milk to which a teaspoonful
Of rum has been added, followed by q
plain biscuit or two and some very
mild cheese, paradoxical as this COM
bination may seem"
According to DR.. Bond. there is a
subtle harmony between these ingre-
dents that does the business.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01
LIFE ON EASY STREET..
II Is an Ideal Place and Worth Striv-
Ing For.

II Is an Ideal Place and Worth Striv.
Ing For.
There are more strong limbcd, clear
headed, brave hearted people living on
Easy street than anywhere else in this
broad land, and their prime condition
Is the natural consequence Of living
there, for, although you may not have
thought Of it, there is close relation
ship existing between good health and
the consciousness of getting on we'll in
life You can see this for yourself It
you will note how strong man droops,
like frost nipped flower. who by some
mistake loses his position, his possess
sions or the esteem Of his fellows, one
or all. Shylock made hard bargain
with Il borrower, and in his effort to
foreclose the bond lost his cash and
won the contempt and scorn Of all men.
Mental disturbance followed. including
physical i'll being. and, staggering away
from the judges bench and clutching
at the air, he cried, II am not we'll"
But you need not 60 back so far to get
IN illustration.
. And on the other hand you can see
|, by observing for yourself how the gain,
or even the anticipa ted gain. of n home
on Easy street Will make sick man
well. quicken dying hopes into life and
change the water Of sorrow. into the
wine Of Joy. Recent literature has re-
minded us how n happy turn in the
tide Of the affairs Of Josiah Wedgwpod.
afterward to become the worlds great
pioneer pottery artist and inventor.
raised him from an invalid's couch and
started him upon the road to af1iuence
dustrial princes. Similarly Mary Woll-
stonecraft. afterward the mother Of tl&
poet Shclley's wife. Ill from neglect and
discouraged by h0rdships. was. by the
success of her modest ventures in lit
eraturc heartcned to undertake her
great life work. which soon yielded hef
handsome royalty.
Read the story of Angelina. who
lives on East street and has no desire
to move and lose her clear headedness
and her health. She was engaged to
be married to Allan. He was n clerk
receiving $40 per week. and she earned
$50 a month teaching school. After a
few years Angelina explained her con-
tinued spinsterhood by saying that she
had given Allan time to develop into
a larger money gctter, and he had not
done il. 50 she decided against the adj
visibility Of exchanging an $50 a
month position for a $50 a month hus-
band. 1t is quite true that when pow
erty comes in at the door love flies out
of the window. but it is not because
the AnGclinas are without sentiment.
1t is because love cannot feed on in
competency and thrives best on Easy
street
So tie Importance of everything that
viii aid any one to get on in the world
Is established on Il sure foundation
the te timony of facts. We do not eX-
alt mere money getting above those
qualities of head and heart which
make life worth living, but rather EN-
plastic the honorable getting of it as
a conserver Of them. And hence the
wisdom of living on Easy street.-Cent
Per Cent
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01
VANISHED TREASURES.
Masterpieces Of Art That Are Lost
to the World.


The "venus de Milo" which has been
In the Louvre for many years is, as all
the world Knows, an Imperfect piece Of
sculpture, though 1t Is the greatest
treasure Of It's kind the world has ever
seen. A great reward would be given
the man who could find the missing
parts. About 1873 the most important
Of them-the right arm-carne to light
In London and was proved by experts
to be genuine. The owner, however
refused to part with it and concealed
1t for fear it would be stolen. Unfor-
tunately he died without revealing its
hiding place, SO it Is as much lost as
ever.
A bronze drinking cup which was
1899 and brought to Europe has mirac-
ulously disappeared On it is engraved
the whole history Of the pharaohs, and
It could easily be sold for 100000. In
fact, the French government offered Il
reward of $4,000 for it's discovery but
the famous cup has vanished. probably
forever
in as strange way is the Marcella
vase of the Dresden collection. This
is the only piece missing from the ia
nous Dresden Marcella collection, the
value of which Is said to be $4,000.
It bears the cross arrows and the lions
head. Not long ago the vase was said
to be in England, but. be that as 1t
may. the person who rediscovers this
treasure may command any price in
reason for IT,
How it is possible that treasure so
large as Il painting could be lost sight
Of entirely is not easily explained. but
this has often happened. One Of Reyn-
olds' paintings, Countess of Derby"
which is considered his best portrait,
has disappeared. Not long after it
was painted it disappeared from the
collection Of the Earl Of Derby and
has never been heard of since. though
it would bring $150.O0O to the finder.
There are also two Nandykes and Il
Rembrandt missing, for which collect
ors are willing to pay 100000. The
Earl Of Crewe would give a large sum
for the rettrn Of Cupid which some
vandal cut from the portrait Of the for
mer Countess of Crewe and her son,
who was painted us the sprite. - st.
Louis Republic
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01

The tourist stopped at the little cabin
where an old colored nanny was
bending over big tub
Good morning. nanny" greeted the
tourist.
"Mawnin', sah." responded nanny.
"Where's your son SAM"
"Gone, sab; dunno Which,"
swell. he always was q bad boy.
NANNY"
"'Deed he was. sab. He was dess
lax Diet ole blue umbrella All los In
de thunderstorm. He was hahd to
raise. powahful hahd to raise. an afteh
All did raise him he jes'' Jumped away
FUN me. an All amt seen him since"
Chicago News.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1906-11-01

One Of the many persons whom AL
fred Belt. the diamond multimillion-
aire, had befriended repaid him with
1ngratitude and abuse. Later the in
CRATE fell on evil times. Though down
in the gutter he still had a little shame
left and would not ask Mr.. Belt for
help. The South African diamond
magnate sent for one of the unlucky
ones friends and said: GO and see
So-and-so. Ask if he wants any help
and give it to him, but don't let him
think 1t Is from me. l have had diff
ference with him, and perhaps it would
annoy him."