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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16
THE PHYSICAL STRAIN OF FLIGHT.
BY J. ARMSTRONG pRExEL.

machine toward the high side brings it
again to the horizontal. Then he uses
ene warp1ng devices Only in emergen-
cies.
| On this day at Belmont park. the
wlnd was nasty and gusty and would
nave neen hard enough to fight with
a bleriot with whose wings one was
thoroughly familiary. went into the
ar IN my racer without much thought
OF the difference the narrower wings
would make. but l was in trouble at
the very start. The extremely small
breadth of the planes. l found. gave
me practically no horizontal support
and. though kept steering first to
one side n then to the other as the
machine careened over dangerously, 1
round that this simple method of
! ght1ng my balance would not suffice.
had to keep warping my wings to
their utmost limit. and not for one
moment did this necessity cease.
In the seven laps of the course that
! made. / cannot tell how many times
felt that I was turning over in the
air. Almost momentariiy / felt as
though ] must go crashing to the
ground below. for. try as I did, 1 could
not get an even balance on the little
planes for any length of time.
1t was a totally new experience for
me and l regretted more than once
that I had not got these new planes In
time to test them and become accus-
toned to their vagaries.
Demoralized by tho Strain.
The mental and nervous strain of
this fight was totally d~emoralizing.
There was not a ome of certainty
in 1t. except the certainty of demoli-
ton If i relaxed my vigilance for an
instant, and, with this thought upper
most, 1t was only natural tina there
should be a relaxation that had its
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

win told me a way to avoid it,"
s What is that?" / asked.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. constantly" said
Harmon.
So, on this plunge from the clouds
above Philadelphia. when my nerves
were wrecked to pieces and my physt-
cal faculties were utterly worn out, ]
suddenly thought OF this scheme when
the pressure became painful on my
ears, and the relief was immense,
though. Of course. even this expedient
could not make me altogether free
from the torture in my head.
Tho Effect Of an Hour in tho Air.
An altitude flight OF this kind does
the watch. 1t seems ages. but my
Paragraph record for my highest climb
-9.S97 feet-showed that it took ma
just about SO minutes to reach tho
maximum altitude. 1t could not have
taken more than 4 or 5 minutes to de-
scend. but my plunge was so rapid
that thei ink could not flow fast enough
from he style OF the instrument to
record, so / cannot tell exactly.
Assuming hat the total flight from
the time of starting to the time Of
landing occupied 1 hour, the physical
strain of such work can be imagined
when l say that l started in fine condi>
~ 1850 oiAA StiA oANA SAN"s
to anything; yet when l anded in that
empty field at Oreland, Is miles away
from my starting point, l was SO utter.
ly worn out and helpless that 1 could
not climb out of M machine for sew
eral minutes and. when I did manage
to summon up sufficient courage and
energy to try. l simply Topped over
the fusillage and had to hang on to the
framework to keep from falling to the
ground.
That Is the easy life that SO many
hundreds of imaginative young men are
dreaming of today. That is the new
and Intoxicating form Of pleasures
seemingly without effort and without
worry or strain of any kind.
The next time any of my readers
see IN aeroplane soaring gracefully
aloft like an easy-sailing gull. and feel
inclined to envy the blissful eac n
freedom OF the man in the seat, let him
remember these things and be satisfied
to stay comfortably on the ground unit:
flying is made a good deal easier and
a vast deal safer than it is today.
Copyright. 1911, by Henry M. Nee'y.
Copyright in Great Britain and
Canada. All rights reserved.)
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

ANYTHING goes wrong, and he frequent
~ flies across country that is unfamil-
lar to him and that keeps him in a
mental uncertainty that adds a great
deal to the physical fatigue he has to
suffer.
Tho Greatest Strain Of All.
Those of us who are foolish enough
to climb for height have all of these
torments infinitely multiplied. and.
added to them. we Fac conditions that
are not met with in the ordinary work
closer to the ground.
To most people the strain OF altitude
climbing appears to be only a matter
of enduring the rarefied air met with
a couple of miles above the earth.
They seem to think that this is the only
thing we have to endure. when. a a
matter of fact, it enters very little into
the calculation. B%alloonists think
lightly of going two miles high and
staying there for some length of time,
but we who climb in aeroplanes do not
remain at that altitude for more than
III or ID minutes at a stretch. We meet
The rarefied air at the top of the
climb: the struggle there is short and
sharp and is soon over and we descend.
That the difference in atmospheric
pressure does impose a strain 1 do not
deny, but 1t is not great. The big tor
ture comes with the sudden descent
with the rapid change Of pressures as
we drop 1000 feet a minute or more
and this Is, indeed. q torture long to
be remembered.
In the early days of my altitude
climbing, before l set the worlds rec
ord at Lanark, Scotland, l had several
times been above this height at my
grounds at Beaulieu. But. in my pri-
vate practice. I had climbed easily and
had come down gradually before l had
worn myself out with the struggle.
Consequently 1 lie not suffer much
from this quick change Of air pres
sure.
The Lanark climb was a different
proposition. There kept fighting for
each extra inch as long as there vas
any strength or endurance left In me;
I struggled at the top until 1t was use
less to struggle any longer, and then.
with all my strength one there was
nothing for it blu to fall back to earth
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

physical effect and I found myself
grasping my steering post with such
q tension hat it became painful to the
finger tips.
But l had no thought to such a de-
tail as this. In fact, I did not realize
It until long afterward. All / had in my
mind was the stubborn unmanagable-
ness of the a%eroplane, its mulish de-
termination to do everything I did not
want 1t to, and it's seeming refusal to
obey N of h controls as q well-be-
having BleriOt would do.
1t was like learning to fly all over
again, but instead of the quiet and pri-
vacy of a practice grounds. there l
was in an International meet, with one
Of the greatest crowds in the world
looking on, and I as the sole represen-
tative of my native country In the
greatest competition in the history of
aviation! My position might have
struck me as pathetic had 1t not been
80 dangerous.
For thre circuits of the course. I
fought that stubborn aerOplane, deter
mined to 1t and to make as
good a showing in h result as possible.
Then 1 felt the strain begin to tell on
my nerves; l found myself warping
when there was no need for 1t, my arms
jumped the steering post about in q
| way that threatened destruction. and /
fancied- the Bleriot was bucking when
h was on an even keel, or thought
she was on an eve keel when she was
careening at q dangerous angle.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

has always seemed to me to be such
an u~ninteresting grind in going about
and about a given course until either
the motor or the man gives out COM
pletely; but I have seen men do this
and l can state 1t as a positive fact
that the hardest physical labor in the
world Is not more wearing than this.
1 have seen men crawl down from their
aeroplanes after a long flight and have
seen their friends rush up to them to
shake hands in congratulation for a
noteworthy feat. And ! have seen the
hand dropped at once. for II could not
respond to the grasp that was given it;
there was 10 life in it. It hung limp,
inert. powerless and feelingless from
the fatigue Of gripping 9 lever with
little or no change of position for SO
long a time.
Yet endurance flights. such as those
made for the Michelin trophy and prize,
are flown Over good courses, clearly
marked by pylOns or posts. and almost
invariably over good grounds that pro-
vide safe landing places ct any time.
In this way there is as little as posi-
Die of rvo and mental strain; 9TH
erwise such flights as that OF Henri
Farman. who stayed up over eight
hours. would be impossibIe.
When thes elong flights Afe made
across country the nerve ana mind en-
ter into the equation against the man.
He faces nev and probo&ly broken
land united for a quick descent IL
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

with my aeroplane pointed as sharply
toward the earth as safety would allow.
When tho Heads Feel Like Bursting
I came down like a thunderbolt. As
the descent began, the pressure began
to change rapidly with my entering in
to heavier n heavier strata of air and
I began to feel pains in my head and
ears. These pains got worse with
every second OF the descent. and when
I was within hailing distance Of he
earth l felt as though something inside
my head would surely burst with the
awful tightening about my ears and
temples. l can appreciate now the
fortunes suffered by medieval martyrs
who had bands of iron gradually tight
ened about their heads. The recollec-
lions OF that descent at Lanark makes
me sympathize with them profoundly.
At Philadelphia last November, 1 rose
more than 1900 feet higher than at
Lanark and I fell faster on my descent
to earth, but. while my sufferings were
intense, they were not SO great as in
Scotland, for I had been told of a
method of counteracting the increasing
pressure and used 1t with great sue
cess. I had. shortly before this. been
talking to Clifford B.. Harmon about
some Of his b%allooning experiences and
had asked him IL he had ever suffered
during rapid descents as I did at Lam
ark.
II did quite frequently in my early
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

Again l went around the course, hurt
ling through the air at q speed that
would have left nothing but splinters
if 1 had struck the ground. and again
h strain of those unfamiliar and can
tankerous little wings increased it's evil
effects upon mind, body nerves. 1
gritted my teeth as hard as 1 could
and swore to myself that I would COM
plete the course. but 1 knew it was a
vain boast. I knew that my strength
was being slapped too rapidly to allow
this to be possoble.
But I did stick it out for q few
rounds more until l found my brain
absolutely refusing to work. my nerves
Jumping like mad and my arms. Shout
ders. legs and back aching as though
l had been beaten with a club.
Finally, 1 came down, thoroughly
tired out in every faculty and almost
unable to walk, though I did manage
to brace myself up to pass the scrutiny
of the onlookers about the hangers.
But l was mighty glad to be on the
earth again safe n sound. and the
thought of bed and a nights rest was
like a vision of Paradise.
Tho Strain Of Endurance FLIGHTS.
In this case, the entire breakdown
was The result Of nervous strain. 1t
was the nerve tension that brought on
physical fatigue which Is purely mus
cular but which has the mental and
strain without reference to nerves or
mind. Those who go in for endurance
records are subject to this. and those
o! us who have made climbing for
height "a speciality know the terrors of
the physical and mental e~xaggerations
that produced utter fatigue.
Yet flying can impose great physical
element added to 1T.
I have been attracted toward
flying for endurance records. There
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16
A Bit Psrplex;nu.

From the Ladies' Home Journal.
Mamma had talked earnestly to he.
young SON.. how at death his soul alone
would go to heaven. Evidently inn.
pressed. the younRster asked:
But. mother II just my soul goes 70
heaven. what am I going to button my
pants tor"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16
"Johnnie," the s%iacksmith's Son.
Clifford S. Kempton, in Springfield, Mass.
Republican.

11epuDllCdN.
a half century or so ago. when as
a boy l resided in one of the lanes
running out of Germantown, Pa. there
was a dilapidated old turnpike on the
left bank Of the Schuylkill between the
manufacturing village of Manayunk
and Philadelphia. On this forlorn old
turnpike there was a yet more forlorn
hamlet. 1.-The Falls of S%chuylkill," sc
named on account Of a fall in the river
which 1t is said formerly existed in the
vicinity. The makeup Of The Falls
as it was then Familiarity called, waA
chiefly-as l remember it-slaughteI
shops, toll gates and beer saloons, the
latter, as can be imagined, p%reponder,
ing in number. o. a dirtler, more un.
slightly or u%nhealthier spot than this
one it were difficult to conceive. The
filth of the place was proverbial. Dur.
ing dry seasons h dust would pene.
trate every orifice Of YOU being, and
in wet weather one sloughed about IL
the mud to a depth varying ACCORDING
to his a~voirdupois. Shiny frogpondS
and cesspools were everywhere in evi.
dence, and to dam out the nauseatinA
sight to see parties scurrying alont
with kerchiefs to their nostrils. I'm,
like the conditions Coleridge found il
Cologne, The Falls was neye;
washed by the river. 1t was neve,
laved but in it's own putridescence.
Among the group dwelling in thi.
unsavory locality was one Johnson. I
smithy. whose fragmentary jobs were
derived from the unfortunate team.
sters on the highway. His little sor
johnnie" | remember. but do moi
recall anything in particular about
him to distinguish him from tho
dozen or more other little urchins thai
played in the cutters fronting hiS
fathers shop-but yesterday h a bov
was listened to by a greater aggreea.
ton of legal luminaries than have an.
sembled in the city Of Washinsto.
since the famous impeachment trial IL
the Senate 40 odd years ago. Little
son. now leading counsel for the
Standard Oil organization. is recon.
nized as the most brilliant corpOra.
ton lawyer in the country, countins
his fees in the hundred thousands. So
much for early environment.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16
WHY CITY PEOPLE CATCH COLD
Possibly You Didn't Know That Colds
Are Due to contaeion. Not 70
Weather Chanoea.
From the New York World.


Have you ever noticed in church. inn
mediately after a prayer or a sermon
is finished, some one starts a cough
and then a whole battery of coughs
explode? The modern physician will.
tell you. by way of explanation, that
microbe emanations from the breath.
Of the coughers find their way into the
respiratory tract Of others. who there
but in theaters and other indoor places
where people gather In large numbers
is this coughing habit noticeable.
In an article dealing with this very
subject, published in the current num-
Der of the Independent. it is explained
that colds are slight infectious fevers
which spread particularly mons the
population of cities, and that are due
to contagion and not at all to changes
in the weather. These may predisposs
by lowering resistive vitality and by
disturbing the circulation in mucous
membranes, but 1t is the presence of
an infectious germ that gives rise tc
the symptoms of the cold. When one
Of these bothersOme affections gets into
a household, usually more than one
person suffers from it, and it spreads
In offices and schools and the like.
1t is much more frequently caught IN
a crowd han anywhere else.
The people who have g. succession Of
those who have to work where many
people come and go during the day are
particularly susceptible to them. II
is not to some sudden change in the
weather that the physician looks for
the origin OF a cold. but to some
rather intimate contact with other
sufferers from similar affection.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-16

anything goes wrong, and he frequent
lar to him and that keeps him in a
mental uncertainty that adds a great
deal to the physical fatigue he has to
S,1ffor
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-18
RECIPROCITY HARD ROAD
All the Forces of Corruption Being
Rallied to the Help of the
Special Interests

New York August 18.-The New
York American. owned by William
Randolph Hearst, prints a remarkable
article in the nature OF "a dispatch,
from its correspondent a Washington
under a Washington date. as follows:
"Defnite information that a final
resort to the use Of corruption fund
has been determined upon TO deefat
reciprocity in Canada has been receiv-
ed in administration circles here.
specifically, the lumber trust the
paper trust and the beef trust are in
the field with any sum that may be
deemed necessary TO buy the Canadian
electorate.
again. specifically, the lumber
trust will spend 81 100000 to save the
SI.5O tax on lumber. which will be
wiped out IL Canada, in the pending
election. votes in favor of the reci-
procity pact
THE headquarters of the Doodle
funds will be in New York, not far
from the Offices of the paper trust \
high official of the paper concern will
be in charge Of the campaign.
land so certain is it that these facts
are beyond dispute that an investiga
ton is already under way intended to
of distribution in Canada to its source
in New York.
"A plan of campaign has been map
ped out. not in genius only, but das
tardly in the double respect that it
looks to the corruption of a considera
BILE body of the Canadian electorate by
the stirring up of racial and national
prejudices. to the disruption, in fact,
of the friendly relations that exist be-
tween Canada and the United States.
THE plan is to beat reciprocity on
the ground it is the fOrerunner of an
nexation. propaganda is under way
to show, or attempt to show to the
Canadians. by innuendO, by the distor
ton of statements of statesmen and
the press. by absolute forgery of pub
lie utterances that there is concealed
behind President Taft's reciprocity
plan a purpose later on to force Cana
da to become a part of the United
States
Newspapers are to be supplied with
unlimited correspondence from the
states to help along the propaganda.
These facts are known to admins
tratioA officials here. and there is
good reason to believe that they have
been communicated to the officials of
the Laurier administration at Ottawa.
For instance, it can be said that
both the president ana Speaker Clark
have been informed that a Doodle fund
is being raised. 1t is talked of freely
in Congress and in the hotels here. And
most significant fact is that of the
great horde of lobbyists, who herded
here during the reciprocity fight, not
one now remains They have winged
their flight, bag and baggage, north
ward. In Canada these interests will
join hands with the protected inter
ests of the Dominion in one final fight
against the tendency toward the bat
tering down ow false barriers against
the public veal"
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owned, acquired, leased or occupied by
the company or other lands: to engage
in any other manufacturing. mining.
construction or transportation bust
ness of any kind whatsoever, and TO
that end TO acquire. hold, own and dis
pose Of any and all property, assets.
bonds, stocks. and right OF any and
every kind; provided. that this cor
poration shall not build or operate
any railroad. canal. telegraph line. or
telephone line or system in the state
of Florida
ARTICLE III.
The amount of capital stock Of this
shall be Ten Thousand
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business of the corporation shall be
conducted by the following named Of
f1cers: David 5. Woodrow. president:
Edwin X. Davis, vice president: E. H
seymour. secretary: D. Neil Ferguson.
treasurer; and David ). Woodrow. B.
H Seymour and .. Neil Ferguson.
directors.
ARTICLE vi
The highest amount Of Indebtedness
or liza oility TO which this corporation
can al any time subject itself shall be
Ten Thousand Dollars es1o,o00}.
ARTICLE VII
The names and residences of the
The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-08-18
CHARTER OF THE FLORIDA CEN
TRIAL LAND COMPANY
ARTICLE

"A l..
The name of this corporation shall
be FLORIDA CENTRAL LAND COM
PANY. and its principal place of bust
ness shall be in the city of Ocala. Mar
ion county. Florida, but it may estab-
lish offices and agencies elsewhere
either within the state of Florida or
outside of it.
ARTICLE II.
The general nature of the business
TO be transacted by this corporation
shall be to purchase. lease. hire or 9th
erwise acquire real and personal prop
erty. of every kind and description.
otherwise dispose of or deal with said
property or any part thereof; TO map
and plat said lands and improve the
same by laying out streets. Sidewalks
boulevards and parks. and otherwise:
TO acquire, hold, lease. manage, operate
develop. control, build. erect. maintain
or through ownership of stock in 9TH
er corporations any lands, buildings
offices. stores, warehouses. mills, shops,
factories. plants. gas houses, machin-
cry. rights. easements. permits. priv
ileges, franchises and licenses. and all
other things which may at any time be
ment of the board of directors for the
purpose of the company. to subscribe
for, purchase, issue. receive and hold
for investment or other purpose, and
TO sell or dispose of, make advance up
on stock. bonds, issues. notes or other
securities of other corporations. firms
or individuals; and while the owner OF
such stocks. bonds, notes or other Sc
curities to exercise any and all voting
powers and other rights belonging
thereto as owner OF the same; to act as
agent. broker, commission merchant.
factor or in the capacity OF ware
houseman in dealing with all kinds of
property, real or personal: 10 conduct
a general real estate business, TO loan
money: to mine, otherwise TO Elk
tract or remove ores, stone and other
minerals and timber from any lands.
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LADIES' WAISTS

A large assortment of soc. 75c. and
$I.OO Waists. this sale 43c
The newest fad. MEMS Hand
kerchiefs' Waists, ST val. 69c
Ladies Lawn and Lingerie Waists
trimmed in Colored Embroidery
and lot of latest styles, in
this sale at Csc
Other Waists made up to now and
worth double, at 81. PA to. 1888
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Edwin ". Davis. B. Fl. Seymour and
D. Mel Ferguson TO me seyerally
known. and. known by me to be the
persons who executed the foregoing
articles of Incorporation, who several
iy acknowledged to me each for him.
self that he executed the said instru-
menr for the uses and purposes there
in set forth and expressed and that he
subscribed for the amount OF capital
stock set opposite his name, In the
foregoing proposed charter.
In witness whereof / have hereunto
set my hand and official seal this the
2sth day OF July, A. d. 1911.
tSeaD Geo. W. Martin. 8
Notary pnbltes
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Dollars ts10.ooo) which shall be divid-
ed into one hundred shares OF the par
value of One Hundred Dollars t$I0oN
each payable in whole or in part either
in cash or property. labor or services
Al a just valuation TO be fixed by the
directors at a meeting called for thai
purpose All stock when issued shall
be fully paid and non-asses sab BILE.
ARTICLE ".
This corporation shall exist for The
term Of nine-nine years
ARTICLE Y.
The business Of this corporation
shall be conducted by president, I
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subscribers to the capital stock OF
this corporation and the number OF
shares subscribed for by each are rs
follows:
David s. Woodrow, Oca1a- Florida
four shares.
Benz. Fl. Seymour, Ocala. Florida.
four shares.
Edwin W Davis Oca1a, Florida.
one share.
D. Mel Ferguson, Ocala. Florida.
one share
State of Florida.
Marion COUNTY.
Before the undersigned authority
personally came David Woodrow.