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evitably 1t is matter of perhaps no
more than a few months-certainly of
no more than a few years-after this is
written when in every country of the
world the flying machine will enter
upon an epoch of wide development
and application, the far reaching re-
actions of which are certain to carry
significance of the profoundest import
to every phase of civilization and every
activity of the race"
Mr.. Loughead, the author of this
work, is a member OF the Aeronautical
society, a founder member of the So
ciety of Automobile Engineers, former
editor of Motor and author of Some
Trends of Modern Automobile Design"
Though many have been interested in
the growth and development of the
science he alone seems to have had the
quality of mind necessary to gather
all the data on this subject and at the
same time the courage to express his
own opinions and the results of his
study and experiences The scientific
study of aeronautics is in reality new.
though SO much blind experimentation
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while elsewhere she has been described
as THE American Du Maurier."
Even poets do not always die poor
in these busy days. Swinburne left
close upon $122,000 willis the will Of
Meredith disposes of an estate OF over
$3.50, 600 OF the latter 1t may be said
that he would doubtless have died poor
had it not been for the legacies left
him by relatives and for property which
came to him from his second wife.
Browning it may be recalled. left $780,
900. inherited principally from his
father William Morris left s275,000.
but then he had his art factories.
The latest thing in aeronautics is a
periodical devoted to the subject, the
Popular Aeronaut, published in Chi
cago. The first number contains ar
ticles pictures and news, much of 1t
being of an intimately technical char
acter There are several pages of
"Aerograms," which record facts like
these: Kingdom Gould, son of George
Could has a Bleriot monoplane." La
cey Butler, negro hotel porter at
Kenosha. Wis, built an aeroplane with
which he managed to get 80 feet into
the air. The machine fell when he at
tempted to turn and was demolished.
Butler was not injured" The object
of the little magazine is ito help bring
the flying machine to the people. and
the people to the flying machine; to
familiarize the public with the various
types of machines. their performances,
their hazards, their manufacturers and
prices" The Popular Aeronaut bears
witness to widespread interest in avi-
alton and this it is well calculated to
increase.
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new subject to orag about. Some 50
pages are devoted TO Professor Mont
gomery's work, included in which is
an article which the professor contrib
uted TO "AerOnautics" and which was
published in January. 1909. The article
is thoroughly scientific, but extremely
interesting, and gives the authors
views at length on the principle in
vOlved in aerial flight.
The author thinks that special credit
should be given 10 Ader BleriOt. Cha
mute, Langley, the Lilienthals, Mont
gomery, Penaud. Pitcher. Santos-Du-
mont. Werrham, the Wright brothers
and the Voisins. though he says there
are many other hard workers. these
men have accomplished most and under
particularly difficult conditions.
The book is particularly interesting
in view OF our recent aviation meet at
Los Angeles. the first in America 1t
is possible that before this goes to
press the pleasure and excitement OF
that history making event may be re-
peated nearer home.
The last words Of the authors intro
duction are fitting close for our ar
ticle on his very valuable and interest
ing book, which besides containing over
$50 pages, has also 140 halftone Illus
trations. $50 drawings and the working
plans Of all successful modern aero
planes:
e" And over all viii soar with
the ease OF the gull or drive with the
speed Of the whirlwind, the myriad
ships Of the air, transforming the face
Of the heavens. OF many sizes and at
many attitudes, midgets and levia-
thans, close to the earth and up in the
clouds-in the days the shadows OF
their wings will speed over every cor
ner Of all the lands and seas. and in
Na MIC Of hof fr,frr k1
like CLEANS Of their searchlight viii
mfngle to the uttermOst ends of the
earth, beacons Of science and romance
AMI progress and brotherhood.
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principle has been explained how sim
PIE il all seems.
Scientists have studied over the
problem Of aviation for centuries and
have been considered little bit crazy
by their contemporaries. The first
flight of which we have an. record in
history occurred in the eleventh cen
tury and since that time the inventors
have been steadily at work.
The world is full of scoffers. even
today, when it has been proved over
and over again that the scientific prin-
ciple has been discovered. and a book
Of this kind viii appeal to that class
also. Here is a complete history of
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type as really belonging to the flying
machine class-they float in the air,
rather than navigate IL, but the diri-
gible exists, and hundreds Of able en-
gineers are studying it constantly. so
proper time and space is allowed for it,
though the aeroplane is the serious
thing under discussion.
Every inventor of whom we have any
record or knowledge whatever is men
toned. but perhaps the highest praise
in the book is bestowed upon a Cali
fornian, Prof. John J. Montgomery Of
Santa Clara college.
"On April 29, 1905, in California there
was publicly performed a feat which
no competent and unprejudiced person
who investigates its details can fail to
characterize as thefgreatest single ad-
vance in the history of aerial naviga-
ton" The author describes the event
with much detail The heated air ball
loon carried a 40 pound glider into the
air mana ged by Daniel Maloney. para
chute jumper. When 1000 feet in the
air the aeroplane was cut loose and
after going through many maneuvers
lighted as easily as a bird. The Scien-
tific American in it's issue of May 20.
1905, said: ''An aerop1ane has been con-
structed that in all circumstances will
retain its equilibrium and is subject in
its gliding fight to the control and
guidance of an operator. Octave Cha
mute characterized the flight as the
most daring feat ever attempted" and
Alexander Graham Bell had no hesita-
tion in asserting that "all subsequent
attempts in aviation must begin with
the Montgomery machine"
While engineers and students may
have appreciated to the full the value
of Montgomery work, it is scarcely
too strong a statement to say that the
public at large, CalifOrnians too. had
no idea of the Importance of Professor
Montgomery in the field of aeronautics-
This book establishes his claim TO fame
beyond all doubt and gives the state a
The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30

By Alfred Moves. Published BY Frederick
Alfred Noyes is not yet 80 years OF
age. but he has seven volumes Of poetry
70 his credit already. He deliberately
chose the writing OF poetry as a'career,
and though he was warned time and
again OF the iu1practicability Of such a
career, he has had little or no difficulty.
The present poem, Drake" appeared
last year IL Blsczwood's as q serial IN
20 3nEtzllnents. Has America any par
ellel to ofer2
The author has written a new pro
iogue and brought his poem out for
American readers n this prologue the
poet speaks OF England as his mother"
and OF America as his sweetheart" He
has q tender feeling for America, hav-
sng married an American girl, Miss
Garnett Daniels. about two years ago.
AIr. NoyeS verse IS always OF the first
quality, but II reading Drake one must
not remember too insistently that Il has
been called an epic. Il IS fine narra-
tive poem IN blank verse, bat 1t lacks
the strength. the brutality, Ahe ele-
mental masouiinity OF the epic propen
In selecting Sir Francis Drake as the
theme OF q great English epic, Mr..
Noyes has chosen wisely. he has sue
oeeded IN giving the Elizabethan favor
20 the long narrative, but It lacks ro-
business. The theme IS noble, but its
treatment IS sentimental and romantic
and even g bit effeminate at times. We
quote EIzabeth's offer as q sample OF
the authors style:
We md you epti VIII you not be
our kaight2
For we are helpless-- she
smiled
we are not ripe for war; our policy
Must still be to uphold the velvet cloak
Of peace; but would have Il mark the
hand
That holds the daggerl
7 have searched thy soul tonight. and
know full well
How I can trust theei Canst thou
think that J.
The daughter Of my royal father, lack
The fire which every boor in England
feels
Burning within him as the bloody score
Which SPANS writes on the flesh Of
Englishmen
Mounts higher day by day? Am I not
Tudor
Mr.. Noyes' technique IS as fine today
as in any OF his work which has ap-
rpeared II This country. The figures
which are sprinkled throughout the
book are beautiful and one can not but
say that the author is a master Of this
form Of verse. The destruction of the
armada On the North sea brings Noyes'
poem TO its great climax and its hitting
end II is one OF the strongest bits Of
writing ia the book and part OF il is
quoted below.
"sInk or destroy" The deadly signal
few
From mast TO mast Of England once
twice, thrice
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aviation in all its forms-lighter than
air. heavier than air machines-and the
most minute descriptions are given of
each and every type.
In his Introduction the author says;
Aerial navigation today is no more a
joke than was the railway so years
ago. or the steamship 70 years ago, or
the automobile 10 years ago. On the
contrary, it is already the basis of a
vast and progressing industry, found
ing itself surely on the most advanced
discoveries of exact science and the
finest deductions of trained minds, and
possessed of a future that in its socio-
logical as well as its engineering as
poets sooner or later must stir the I'M
aginations of the dullest skeptics. In
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''VehicIes OF the Air"

Er Victor Loughead Published By Reilly &
Brittou. Chicago Price $3.50
Vehicles Of the Air" is by far the
treatise on science which we must
stu consider ia It's infancy that has yet
been published. II has been written
Tor all classes Of readers; for the en-
Ightenment Of the general public. for
rhe instruction OF the student and also
with the hope Of interesting those of
an experimental turn Of mind. The
amateur mechanic can scarcely read
this book and not be fred with a desire
10 try his skill, for when the great
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Drake: An English Epic''

A Stokes Co., New York. Price sI.5O.
A huge sea castle heaved her haggled
hulk
Heavenward, and with cry that rent
the heavens
From all her crowded decks, and one
deep roar
AS Of a cloven world on the dark surge
OF chaos yawning sank; the swirling g
slope
OF the sweeping, billowy hills for a
moment swarmed
With struggling insect men, sprinkling
the foam
With tossing arms; then the Indifferent
sea
Rolled its gray smoking waves across
the place where they had beon.
Here great galleasse poured
Red rivers through the scuppers and
torn tanks,
And there a galleon, wrapped In creep
ing fire.
Suddenly like a vast volcano split
Asunder, and Ger the vomiting sulphur
Gus clouds
And spouting spread of crimson, flying
spars
And heads torn from their trunks and
scattered limbs
Leaped, hideous gouts Of death, against
the glare
Hardly the thrust of pike away the
ships
OF England flashed and swerved. till in
one mass
OF thunder blasted splendor and shud-
dering gloom
Those gorgeous floating citadels hud-
died and shrank
Their towers, and all the glory of the
dawn that rolled
And burned along the tempest OF their
banners
Withered as on a murderers face the
light
Withers before the accuser.
ThisRolume is beautifully illustrated
containing reproductions Of paintings
and drawings of the statesmen of the
day. All lovers of poetry viii wish to
possess II.
a History OF the States United and
Otherwise" is a book wen worth read
Ing. II is written by Judge Charles F.
Moore, and is filled with wit and humor
and keenest satire from cover to cover.
In his preface Judge Moore says his
book is, designed for entertainment
without imposing a burden of infor-
nation" and he has accomplished his
design. Judge Moore begins by saying:
The United States consists of certain
and uncertain portions of land water
and mud scattered over this and the
other side of the globe" That is the
beginning and his end is the discovery
Of the north pole. Information slips in,
but one does not feel obliged to see it.,
The book is well done and may be al
most called modern "Gulliver's
Travels" (The Neale publishing COM
pany, New York. $3.50.
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BOOKS REVIEWED

"The City That Is" by Rufus Steele.
Drake: An English Epic" by Alfred Noyes
Lord Loveland Discovers America" by c. N and A. NJ
Williamson.
Theodore Roosevelt: Dynamic Geographer." by Frank
Burlington Vroonan F. R. G. s.
Vehicles Of the Air." by Victor Loughead-
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
THE NEW TENANT.

into the house across the
way. moved old sober-sides
William Gray; looks as IL he
had come to stay; by cracky!
See no foolishin' round with
him, set to work with a will
and vim, built a spite fence
soon's he was in, and 1t does
look durn neat and trim; by
cracky! He had heard OF the
come and go round that
place for a year or 80, what
he sad was: Il want to
know" but his grin was
plumbful Of go-by cracky!
Course he must have thought
a heap bout the PLACE that
was all-flr'd cheap 'cept for
one or two things that keep
neighbors humping or from
their sleep-by cracky!
So he reckoned 1t out his
way and l stand right here to
say he just laid 1t all over
May, the man that moves
next week some day; by
cracky: MY new fence is a
wee bit high" Ben said with
a wink offs eve, Three feet
off would be purity nigh
what / want and fog which
I'll try; by cracky" We
watch Ben az he hustles
round. Like him? deed yes,
down to the ground; for the
peace and JOY we've now
found have come like him
to stay, I'm bound. I'm
cTacky!
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05

conductor yelled out the name OF this
place.
II didn't remember to telephone the
mllkman to stop leaving the morning bot
tie until 1 got bnck. but it's all right, be-
cause the people who have been swiping It
every other morning would feel aggrieved
II we deprived them of their supply. Then
did intend to tell the mailman to have
our mail sent out here, but l never could
get to the door at the same time he was
there. That reminds me; here's couple
Of letters that intended to forward to
you last week. but / changed suits and
didn't remember.
81 believe you wrote me that some folks
we hadn't heard from for months had writ
ten that they were coming to call on us
tonight, but / couldn't find the letter, and.
therefore. didn't call them up to tip them
off. And, as you have no doubt guessed,
the two weeks accumulation Of unwashed
dishes is still waiting in the dishpan. in
tended to clean them up last night, but was
delayed. And that's all can think of right
now"
You foolish! was just going to ask If
you had a pleasant trip here" explained
Friend Wife.
We'll aside from wondering about these
things 1 have mentioned, had a perfectly
fine trip" replied the Tired Business Man,
Copyright, 1870 by the N. Y. Herald Coz
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Good Substitute for Sea Bath
Can Be Made at Home

friction and some of the salt will adhere.
Circulation is increased and salt is worked
into the system deslrably
When very hot weather has affected the
blood and the skin is irritated a soda or
vlchy bath will bring relief 4 pound of
bicarbonate Of soda is dissolved in a tub
full Of warm, not hot water, and the pa
tient stays in for twenty or twenty-five
minutes. The body is patted with soft
towels. not rubbed, to dry, and some OF
the soda Rdheres.
Another bath that Is said to have great
virtue by way OF tonicizing the system is
made by dissolvlng forty grams OF gela-
tine in quart Of boiling water and put
ting this into a tub OF water with fifty
grams OF sulphate or potassium aud 100
grams OF sub-carbonate OF soda. THIS ia
recommended in cases OF extreme nervous
ness.
Any person taking a bath for medicinal
purposes must be allowed TO regulate the
temperature so that II shall be best suited
What would be Strengthening TO one might
be weakening to another and. generally
speaking, one cannot remain Ia hot water
without loss OF vitality as long as In that
which is tepld. Other persons find that
which Is cool but not chilled is invigorating,
hut there is never any difficulty in deciding
what Is best. When a bath has benefited.
the Individual feels fresher and stronger,
and Il the immersion has been harmful
there will be lassitude and weakness.
MARGARET MIXTER.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
N M ife a
HIP E1TR0 NmC1MoCC MAN of the Things

BY WAITER 4. sINcIAIR.

We'll" said Friend Wife, after greetings.
did you"
Certainly replied the Tired Business
Man. Certainly | forgot to take the bird
out to a board birding house-I mean a
bird boarding house. OF course left It in
the fiat to enjoy my vacation. OF course,
/ forgot TO turn out the cat and when l
came away she was creeping speculatlvely
toward tile Diol6ie. OF course forgot to
water the window box and when 1 left the
flowers had all been overrun and choked
by summer ,widowers weeds
Yes. I'm positive that left the gas
turned out In this kitchen range broier.
OF course can't be sure that attended
to that, but something seems to tell me
that when ] get back the meter will be
Creeping dismally and the stove will be
MINED to a crisp. There Is a chance, of
course, that the janitor or the neighbors
win break In. because couldn't make up
my mind all7the way here whether or not
1 had left the water running In the bath
tub. or course, II was lucky enough TO
do that the ceiling in the fiat below will
fail about now and the police will break
in the door and maybe they'n have sense
enough TO shut off the gas.
'1f you cad the papers you will notice
that tiI6 police invariably break in the
doors, even though the landlord offers the
keys and begs them to use them. At that,
l think may have left couple of win
dstws opea--th4t one on the five escape,
where a good. wideawake second story
worker could slip in. It's lucky We live on
tlie third floor or we might have something
fk fear from those second story workers.
II forget which, other window couldn't
remember II closed, but 1 think 1t is the
one on the street where all the dust blows
in from. At any rate the flies and mos
quitoes viii find the ones which l may
have left open. so it's all right. Otherwise
1 would feel so lonesome when / went back
there. but they will make me feel right at
home. n a. SCI,
''Of HMrse, dropped all the trunk keys
into the bottom Of the trunk but 1 dis
\Eovered them after t had the trunk packed
land the lid nicely crowded down. on the
way out here / tried TO remember what
did with the trunk. check and what It was
you wrote ma TO be sure and bring out
1 was just reaching a solution when the
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
Summer Resort Etiquette

7. Piazza parties engaged in the pleasant
occupation of pulling other persons repu-
atoms apart should do this unostenta-
tlously, and in we'll modulated tones
amounting almost to a whisper, lest their
confidential communications shall become
public property Is
8. Ostentation In dress should be avoided
as far as is possible. A safe rule for ladies'
to follow is TO wear not more than seven
costumes day, while the ordinary man
can get along nicely on four or five.
0. The rolling of heavy bowling balls
down the main staircase of the hotel at 5
clock in the morning or the throwing of
giant torpedoes in through the transoms
over the doors of sleeping guests at mid
night, is frowned upon by our best people
in all parts of the country.
TO- gentleman will always rise any
where to give lady a seat. but II at a
mountain picnic the gentleman has mad
verify seated himself on an ant hill this
rule need not be rigidly enforced.
H. While it is perfectly proper from the
concealnent OF your room window to follow
the movements Of an engaged couple in
their wanderlngs up the mountainside with
a pair OF opera plasses, 1t is the consensus
OF expert opinion that It Is bad form to
state publicly and in detail, especially in
the presence Of the young people most con-
cerned, all that the glass has revealed to
your interested eyes.
IL. No matter how unpopular a fellow
guest may be, it is not proper at the dances
in the Virginia reel, or grand chain of the
lancers, to treat him as though YOU were
playing snap-the-whip and hur him
through the open window into a water butt.
or into the lap Of the stout old gentleman
who is watching the dance from the piazza
outside.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05


There is an excellent substitute sea bath
for one who cannot get to the ocean. 1t Is
made by mixing, two pounds OF muriate Of
soda, one, pound OF sulphate OF soda and
one-haif pound each. OF chloride of lime
and chloride Of magnesia. This Is enough
for large tub full of warm water, and is
to be thoroughly dissolved: The tempera-
ture should he just comfortably warm, and
a person In ordinary health may stay in 1t
for twenty minutes This should not be
taken In the evening. but on arising or be-
fore dressing for the afternoon. 1t Is de-
o!eedly tonic In effect
Coarse sea salt Is very inexpensive and
a most excellent thing to be used in warm
weather. tor one may got from It benefit
similar 20 that from. an ocean bath. Az
ter taking the usual tub, one stands, the
body stlll wet. on mat or towel, and all
the skin Is gone over with salt. taking II
ND by the handful This causes slight
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-08-05
yttIarperss .weekly.)


1. Dancing slippers should not be worn
by ladies starting out to scare the neighbor-
ing peaks unless they have arranged with
4 necessary force of office boys to carry
them to the summit and back in a ham
mock slung on a couple or stiff poles.
2. Trolling for trout, In the mountain
lakes with a clothes basket or large-sized
mosquito nets Is considered bad form, and
ia never resofted TO by true sportsmen. 1t
is also a rude act to practice on trombone
or cornet on the lakes during the fishing
hour.
g. The management of small boys in
summer hotels IL always difficult prob
lem, but parents are specially warned
aRainBt letting them sit on the hotel
reRisteS before the ink is dry; and should
not pernit them to play the drum during
the afternoon concert In the hotel office.
A. Among refined people the old-fashioned
pastime OF filling the guests boots and
shoes, placed cut in the halls to be blacked,
with wet sand has gone out and the
one-time prank of gathering these all to-
gsther and hiding them In the back Of the
upright plano IN the ball room is no longer
5. No sentemanly young person will
!. Is No. gentlsmaply young person will
1eyen think OF capturing cub bear I'm the
Apountain Businesses and surreptitiously
placing the same in the clothes pantry of
any one OF the several old maids who hap
pen to be spending the summer at the
same hotel sA. es-s g..
s. While the rules that govern polite
sooidSsy IN other sections OF the world should
alwsye prevail In the mountains It is per-
fectIy preper for a young man 20 jump
into the lalxS. for the purpose OF rescuins
a, young ladyato whom he has not been In
!. troduoed who had fallen overheard.