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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Times, 1911-11-23, Page 3BUFFETED BY DESTINY COUNT ZEPPELIN .HAS HAG A HARD UPHILL. FiGHT, The Great Garman Aeronaut Who Hai Come Nearer to Sustainad Flying Than. Any Other Man Has Been Pursued by Adverse Circum• stances, But He. is Still Undaunt: ed -Improving His Machine. There is nothing in aeronautics more spectacular, more romantic, tragic and, if you must, ludicrous, than the story of Count Zeppelin, one day monarch of the air, the next beaten, defeated and put back where he began. One week he flies a thous, and miles, carries a carload of pas- sengers, travels, faster than limited - trains and electrifies the world, and the next his monster flying apparatus lies in the forest, overwhelmed by wind and accident. At the close of his long life of triumph and .despair he may yet demonstrate the dirigible principle, And, quite as likely, he may pass on and leave little save his remarkable record of things al. most fulfilled. No aeroplane has ever attained the distance traveled by Zeppelin; no other flyer of any kind has ever been so long aloft as he. In the first blush of his achievements it seemed to the uninitiated that the air had been indeed conquered;. that man had at last attained the dream of every century. And then, on top of each success came disaster and men changed their minds and their lean- ings. Now Count Zeppelin is again in the air with his Schwaben I., which i$ a little the largest of, h.'s fivers. His 150 -mile trip and seven -hour flights recently accomplished do not Compare with the feats of his former machines, but these were prelimin- ary flights. It is claimed for the new airship that it has been meter. (ally, strengthened and improved and perhaps it may yet solve the problem of the air. The greatest of dirigible experts is now 73 years old. His title of graft, or count, is inherited, and he is, in addition, a general of the German engineering corps, relieved from ac- tive duty for the purpose of carrying on his experiments with the flying machines. This retirement, to b: sure, was made a gobd many years ago, before age .naturally released him from his military duties. Zeppelin began first to dream of flying when he was a lacl of 18, study- ing for the army. The Franco -Prue Sian war, in which he served, was memorable in no small way for the introduction of the first of modern firearms, the mitraileuse, the chasse- pot and the needle gun. • It was a day when the present fever for in- venting 'even more deadly instru- ments of warfare was burning worst and young Zeppelin, like others, be- came interested in the subject. His natural interest turned to navigation of the air, but it was many years be- fore fortune or opportunity enabled him to begin real experiments. In 1899, when he was 00 years old, Zeppelin made his first flights in the earliest model of the now universal- ly known Zeppelin ship. There was trouble from . the beginning and it was not until two years later that any real attempt at flight was made. Then, on July 2, 1900, after numer- ous delays and weeks of ant'.eipatio•t on the part of the aeronautic world, Zeppelin emerged from his floating shed on Lake C•mi.tance, betty Germany and Switzerland,, and fl_w over the surface of the lake for about 20 minutes, making various evolu- tions for the purpose of testing parts of the mechanises. A minor accident brought the ship to the surface of the lake under con- trol at the end of that period. In all about three and three quart ee miles had been traversed, the longest flight by dir'nible up to that time. It must be borne in mind that this was nearly eight years before any rear results were achiwed by the Wrights, and sone: time earlier than the exploits of Dumont and the other early with t rBtwitsflightend thesensa- tional n la- tional develoemeata of the last two or three years th.rs was little to cause either Zeppelin or his friends to rejoice. One attempt after an- other proved vain. In that time he built five flyers, each of which de- veloped one defect or another, was destroyed by storm or fire and loft the inventor little but crushing de- feat. All this time these mammoth nearly 40 feet ;:n ships, 400 feet long, Y diameter, and made of the most co-tly materials, had be.en eating into the great fortune of the experimenter. 7 he coming of 1908 saw him tnipover- shed and beaten, but he was still not ready to give up. with every Then, in April, 1909, man's judgment against him, the last of his fortune invested and his "n life at the flush of its ebbing, he came out one morning from his float- ing ftabie on Lake Constance, started briskly for Munich itnd eleetrified. the world by flying 175 miles at a speed often better than 40 miles an hour. That he was an the end pre, vented from effecting a landing by the high winds and was swept 61 miles out y his course, to some• pursued by thing from the luster of the exploit', but, nevertheless, Zeppelin a great distance across country, un" der perfect control. The problem oi facing winds was only a problem, just as stability is a problem in aeroplanieg., • May 30 of the same year Zeppelln again left the sheds, announcing that he to Pt to remelt alt at would make m an hours. The first hoer' 24 t aloft for found hint flying over the tetras am: vil1ngn of south Germany. After 41 hours of sustained flight his majestic aves ane ship settled back on the � v was guided home. He had flown neerly 1,000 miles, bisected the Ger t man empire, and done something ni 10 a bank a man had believed possible of acconi Lunenburg, N. S•, 'was found dead in pltshnttft. hit box with a pistol near hit hand.:.: THE W1NGUAM TTIMES NOVEMBER 23, 1911 HERSKIN SEEMED ON FIRE Every Other Treatment Failed But " Fruit-a»tires" Cures GRANDE L;GNE, Qu>d., Jan. and, Igro. "My wife was greatly distressed for three years with, chronic Eczema on the hands, and the disease was so severe that it almost preventedher from using her hands. The doctor gave her several ointments to use, but none of them did any good, Ile also advised her to wear rt-.,ber gloves and she wore out three pairs without getting any benefit. As a last resort, I persuaded her to try "bruit-a-tives", and the effect was marvellous. Not only did "Fruitat• Lives" entirely cure the Eczema, but the Asthma, which she suffered from, was also completely cured. We both attribute our present good health too' reit-a-Lives". N. JOUBERT. ''Fruit -a -fives" will always cure Eczema or Salt Rheum because "Fruit- a -Lives" Purifies the blood, corrects the Indigestion. and Constipation, and tones up the Nervous System. "Fruit -a -fives" is the only medicine In the world made of fruit juices and valuable tonics, and is the greatest of all blood -purifying remedies. Soc, a box -6 for $2.50 -or trial size, 25c, At all dealers or from Pruit-a- tives Limited; Ottawa. FRIENDSHIP. DISEASES QF TOMATOES. Wilt Will Net Ylld • Spraying as Leat *Pet pees.. A. disease of the tomato that II song times confused with leaf spots 1. prop- erly known as fusarium wilt. That this is not in the least affected by the appii* cations of epraying materials to plants is 'fully proved in the expert* menta carrled on at the experiment: station of the University of Illinois,. This wilt has caused the loss of many a promising crop, and the first Indication that the plants are affected Is the sudden wilting of entire branch- es ranches or even tlei' entire plant. Within a few days the wilted portions become brown and dead, and an examination. of the wilted stems reveals a discolor* ed, brownish appearance of the wooded. portion. The plants may die before any fruit has matured orr after any part of the crop has been gathered. The first season that the wilt ap- pears in a field usually only a few plants are affected, but ft the field Is used for tomatoes the next year the attack is likely to be very severe, for the disease is carried over in the soil, and the length of time the disease will remain in badly infected„ soil is not known. It Is therefore important to practice rotation of crops so that the soil will not become badly infected. Care should also be taken in.secur- ing soils for the beds in which the plants aro grown. Fresh soil should be put in the beds each year, and it should be secured from a part of the, farm which has never grown tomatoes nor received the wash from tomato fields. It is also important to avoid inoculating a new field by means of soil carried from an infected field on tools or the feet of men or farm ani- mals. Just a word or two of praise We have honed long, long to hear, .And the dreariest of days Glows with gladness and good cheer. Just a friendly word or two And a sympathetic smile, And glad courage comes anew, Shortening the weary mile. Just the clasp of someone's hand Or a look of kind goodwill, And the triumphs we have planned Urge us bravely onward still. Just a word that is sincere. When the way is rough and long, And the lost hopes that were dear Make us glad again and strong. Just to know that others care If we fail or -if we fall, And the ills that brought despair Seem but trifles, after all. -S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record -Herald. Burdock Blood Bitters • CURES SKIN DISEASES, Any one troubled with any itching. burning, irritating akin disease ca p itters toleffectna cure, noce on mtterock lwhat Bother remedies have failed. It always builds up the health and strength on the foundation of pure, rich blood, and in consequence the cures it makes are of a permanent and lasting nature, Mrs. Richard Coutine, White Read, Que., writes;---" I have been bothered with salt rheum on my hands for two years, and it itched so I did not know what to do. I tried three doctors and even went to Montreal to the hospital without getting any relief. I was advised to try Burdock Bleed • Bitters, so I got three bottles, and before I had the second ussedd I found a big change; now to -day am cured," Burdock Blood Bitters is manufactured only by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. The Typewriter. The typewriter is a labor-saving .de- vice designed to emancipate women from the cradle and the cook stove. It has succeeded so well that all of our leading cooks and baby pacifiers are men. No business house is considered complete without a typewriter which makes more noise than a corn husker in a pair of celluloid cuffs and a type- writer girl whose beauty would paral- yze a susceptible gent at a distance of forty yards. Some typewriters are about as proficient in spelling as a graduate of the English course. Next, to a tendency to get out of alignment worst than a raw recruit on dress parade, this is the principal weakness of a typewriter. The man who will invent a system of simplisled spelling which substitutes dots and dashes for the consonants and vowels will earn the lasting gratitude of every employer who has to run his business correspon- dence through an unabridged diction- ary. Twenty years ago, if a man wanted to see what his typewriter was saying he had to put up the top and crawl inside, but the machine of to -day exposes his inmost thoughts and gram- matical construction to the eager gaze of the inquisitive bystander. Nowa- days women earn so much money run- ing manicured finger -nails over an ifni- versal keyboard that the state of wed- lock looks about as inviting to them as a hat of the vintage of 1907. The typewriter has shattered many a dream of love in a cottage on $8 a week. Despite the fact that it is developing a price of two -fingered - operators with social aspirations, it is a great boon to humanity. RESIGNATION. HOME IS HOME. It may be mortgaged to grinding Poverty; the, door may be unlatched to Anxiety, Want and Pain; sullen Sor= row may aft brooding at the hearth - but home is homer In the middle Atlantic, about half- way on a straight line between Cape Town and Montevideo, there was heaved up in remote times by volcanic action a huge rock, the little island of Tristan de Cunha, bleak and barren, the vortex of fierce storms, the centre of almost incessant rains, always enveloped by cloud, and shunned by ships, and yet for the last hundred years inhabited by a strange race made up of English, Dutch, Irish, Italians, Americans, east ashore from time to time in shipwreck, or driven there by weariness of the busy world, and living on fish and the spoils of the unfortun- ate wrecks that strew its coasts, These people, now about eighty in number, men, women and children, suffer hardships almost inconceivable to residents of more favored lands. Having no useful timber, their huts are unmortared piles of rough stones, thatched with grass. The isle is so infested with rats from wrecked ships that any grain planted is eaten in the ground; and the only source of flour is passingvessels, which may be intercepted only by rowing many miles to sea. There is no government of any sort, no school, no church. The island has no future; the people have no prospect but of entombment there. One, would suppose that these un- fortunates, intelligent and industrious, thrifty and temperate, as they are described to be, would gladly leave their rude huts, their terrible hard- ships, their barren fields, their pitiable poverty and hopelessness, to rejoin the comfortable world. But no! The British Government has renewed its offers to remove them and their few possessions from thebleak island to any British soil they may choose and to give them means to start life anew. Not one will consent to go. There on the bleak island are their homes, and there they will stay. Maybe, after all, one lot in life is not much better or worse than another, so far as real happiness goes; but there are some things that seem very neces- sary to us, and that little corner in God's creation we call - home is one of them. Home, whatever its hardships, is the best place this side of heaven. Plentyk. comfort, luxuries, culture, are good to have. But there is not enough of all these in all the world to recompense the loss of the simplest joys of the humblest home that is lit and warmed by love. Prosperity is a precious blessing to those worthy of it and able to stand it. But all the wealth of mines and farms and factories cannot give such genuine and enduring satisfaction to the soul as does the wealth of love and faith and sacrifice that makes the home the heart's true haven. The stately mansion, with its rich carpets, its rare pictures, and all the luxuries and baubles that money buys, cannot make a true home, unless love is its hearth -glow, fidelity the stout door that shuts out the world's coldness and wrongs, and faith the staunch roof that defies its storms. Love, fidelity and faith are the only treasures indispensable to the real home of any heart. These, in the humblest cottage -these, houseless be- neath the bleak sky -these, shelterless, naked, starving -these make a happy home, anywhere. The real life is but within. The real possessions are not what the hands may grasp, but what the heart holds. - Charles G. Miller, in Woman's World. • There is noflock, however watchedanndd tended, �•- But one dead lamb is there! ''-°. There is no fireside hwsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair. - The air is full of farewells to the dying, And mournings for the dead; The heart of Rachel, for her children crying, Will not be comforted. Let us be patient. These severe afflic- tions Not from the ground arise, But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. We see but dimly through the mists and vapors, Amid these earthly damps; What seems to us but sad, funeral tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no death! What seems so is transition; This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead -the child of our tion - But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. Day after day we think what she is doing In those bright realms of air; Year after year her tender steps pur- suing, Behold her grown more fair. -Longfellow. AGRICULTURE IS KING. Whether prince or plebeian, rich or poor, saint or sinner, the queen upon her e or the maiden in the dairy, all must de- pend upon a common source for food and raiment -agriculture. It was thus from the •beginning, from the forbidden fruit in the garden of Eden to the soil prod- uct of 1911, from the time of the airy costume of Eve to the mors pretentious apparel of her sis- ters of the present age. Obvi- ously, then, as population in- creases and the food supply be- comes a more vital question agriculture will command in- creasing attention and respect and the husbandman attain an Importance among his fellows amounting almost to solitude. - Jacob O. Mohler in Kansas Farmer. CROSSCUT SAW FOR ONE. Easily Made and a Great Convenience to Have on Any Farm. It is often convenient to have a crosscut saw that one man can use for cutting medium sized logs, says the Orange Judd Farmer. The one shown herewith fills the bill very well. It consists of a blade, a handle, set as shown, and a bow re -enforced with ,wire wound around it at various points. Preferably this bow should be of well seasoned hickory, ash or some other tough but not too heavy wood. RHEUMATISM DONE, SAYS DETECTIVE KILLENII affec- our poor S NDT offs KArr oEossour BAN. It is not necessary to have very much spring in the bow, although some spring adds rigidity and tension to the saw, which can thus be run more easily. The moat important points for the winding iarepttowbard sthe ends, where the g to admit the blade. The pole should be only a !eV, inches longer than the caw when `laid out straight Twisted Rope. If you will coil • rope to the left twice and then take the end and pass it down through the cell and then coil it once to the right you will probably take the twist out. This is the method used by an agent who has handled and sold rope for a great many years. Morrisey's No. 7 and Lini- ment Cured his Knee. "Feels good /as new." St. John, N.B., April 12, 1911. "1 am glad to report that my knee is completely cured of Rheumatism ---thanks to Father Morriscy'r No. 7 Rheumatism & Kidney Tablets, as they alone are re- sponsible for my cure. 1 was troubled for a number of years, and tried everything 1 heard of, and needless to day, spent quite *sum of money without any results. I have no further trouble now, and my knee feels as good as new. 1 was personally acquainted with the late Father Morriscy Anyone one `remedies aregood.y his and know and Kidne suffering from Rheumatism Y trouble should by all means try No. 7 Tablets, as 1 can cheerfully recommend I LENT CICKI, TRr , PA them." Provincial Detective, St. John, N.B. The above prescription is not a "Cure. or so-called patent 'medicine. Dr. LATEST PICTURE OF BORDEN. 1IV REPAIR WEAK EAK MEN • ONE SECRET OF OUR SUCCESS. 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