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The Seaforth News, 1919-02-13, Page 7UM a apt OF AIR ., PILOTS BARGING A MOUNTAIN AND OTHER EXPERIENCES Such .as a Flight With an Eagle and Ilavinl One's Machine Inter - lacked• With a Hun Plane. To urge into a mountain is' not altogether a comr•non experience' of the air, but this is what happened to 1'liglit-Commander A. W, Waistell whsn he w s returning from a bomb- ing raid. The gallant airman had set out to bomb Cho nalc, and he reached his ob- jective in safety. Having dropped his "eggs," and evaded the attention of the anti-aircraft gunners below, he turned for home The night had grown intensely dark, however, so that it was impossible to see very far ahead. As cautiously as existing circumstances would permit, Flight- Cos/minder Waistell continued the flight! Then of.a sudden a huge mass darker even than the night itself loomed up before him. To avoid the imnsct was impossible, and as the machine crashed it caught fire, throw- ing a lurid glow over the sidc-of the mountain into which the unfortunate pilot had barged. Although badly in- • jnred abort the face and knees, the fliirht-commander managed to get clew of the burning wreckage, and with wonderful endurance and ten- aeitv macre his way back to the aero- dreme from which le bad set out, to report the result of the raid. Objected to Trespassers. For his -bravery he was awataled the Distinguished Service Cross, and it is doebtful if a war honor has ever before been awarded as the outcome of such a strange incident. It was not very long before the war that a French aviator, M. Gilbert, during the. air race from Paris to Madrid was challenged by an eagle to a rinsnerate struggle for suprem- acy near San Sebastian. Gilbert did not lose his nerve. He managed to get at bis revolver, and was thus enabled to frighten the eagle away. A unique incident. which ended in the capture of a German air prisoner, befell tra French aviator in the course of an :aerial, combat vtth the enemy. The two atagonists manoeuvred this way and that for battle advantage. Suddenly the Frenchman, believing himself to be in an excellent position, dived on the tail of the black-c`"etsed machine. The Germain atterneted to avoid the onslaught, with tan result that the.' French machine .spun vio- lently, and the tail got stuck between the wins of the Hun 'plane. In quite a neat se _al the 'inter- lockod machines came crashing into some trees. Neither nilot happened to be hurt. and so ludicrous was the situation that each burst into fits of hearty laughter before the Boche was marched 'offas a prisoner. .c Trouble With the Clouds. Clouds have been the cause of many a thrilling experience to a pilot. On one occasion the late Major "Jimmy" McCudden, V.C., on returning from a reconpaissance, ran into a huge, bank of cloud that had come up sud- denly and. taken .him, unawares. He commenced to make an effort to climb above it, but it seemed without limitations. There was nothing for it but to plunge right into the cloud. The rain beat in his face,' and the wind tossed and buffeted the machine like some frail bo''t on a howling, angry sea. To add to the confusion, the compass -needle swgng round and round, so that all idea of direction was lost. When he believed he had continued his flight sufficiently long, he put the nose of the machine down, and des- cended to an altitude of about 1,500 feet. Whistling; shrieking bullets went racing, past him, and he heard. the racket of hammerF from the ma- chine guns below. So into the howl- ing tumult of cloud he turned again. When next he emerged it was be- hind the British linea; but he con- . fessod Oath& would have much pre- ferred meeting any number of the enemy to undergoing that battle with the elements. Mysteries of the Air. The air also holds its mysteries. Not, yet has it given up the secret of Cecil Grace or Gustav Hamel. To the list of such secrets of the air must, be added the case of Capt. Piston Warlow, It; was towards the` close of 1014 that the Bleriot two-seater monoplane wag discarded by the military author- ities as being too Blow in climbing with the full military load. ;;Sucks'. 'buses of this type ae could bo spared from service at the Front, and 'were serviceable for school purposes, were allowed to be flown back by officers coming on leave. With a sufficient supply of petrol to last him for twice the distance of his intended flight; Captain Warlow, after testing the aeroplane with as '' short "flip," set out for England. The weather was fine at the time, with a certain amount of low-lying cloud. Never since has' he been heard of. We must wait until the sea gives up its dead. In hanging eTothes see that they are pulled Istraiglht en the line, .ra The tardiest Designs` A brand-new idea for a school frock for the sprightly little miss, featuring the vestee effect with belt slipping through slashes at each side of front and fastening under the vest. Mc- Call Pattern No. 8736, Girl's Dress. In 5 sizes, 0 to 14 years. Price, 20 cents. p uoura. f} This new tide-C.o.s./1g dress may be converted into quite a dressy affair by adding the overdress, which consists of back and front panels with broad belt cut in one. McOall, Pattern No. 8745, Ladies' Convertible Dress. In 6 sizes, 34 to 44 'bust. Price, 25 cents. Transfer Design No. 944. Price, 20 cents. These patterns may be obtained from your' local' McOall dealer, or from the McCall Co., 70 Bond St., Toronto, Dept. W. London's Net Defences. One eof the great secrets of Lon- don's defences against air raids is now revealed.. That was the great screen of nets -which were.suepended in certain directions to keep off the raiders. These were not nets in the ordinary sense. At first they were really strings suspended at a certain height from balloons, so that if a raider happened to come against them his machine became entangled and disabled and brought to earth. A mac who stands on slippery ground cannot play his stroke.—Lloyd George. Children LOVe Po - 1 he.:natural con -sf i t 9.;E a nt=s ,of barIeS'. g`DI:1,�Iz i iiheat, sweet erred by.- sA3`'. ar dkve,i : eel" :(from the tirarnstihern- 5eave;s in the hil kzin of this famous food, _'. rovide.a true b.u.ildint nour- ishment not found so com- pletely in other cereals a s+ e • P There aReaStan" Conde rood Board License No2.026 MAKING THAT IILE' SATELLITE JUSTIFY ITS 'EXISTENCE Plan to Utilize ;tliq Power of the Tidos For the Production of Mech- adical ] iiergy. It: seems a fair guess that -the next great epoch-making invention --in- comparably mere important to the future of ra anlcind . than the flying machine—will furnish means for harnessing the moon, whereby that long idle satelite may be compelled to justify its existence by working for the benefit of the earth's inhabitants. As the earth revolves, the moon, by the attraction: of its enormous mass (73,000,000,000,00.0 tons), raises that part of the ocean nearest it to a height of about three feet, thus form- ing a wave that travels around the globe once in twenty-four hours. We call .this wave the tide. To utilize the power of the tides for the production of mechanical en- ergy is a problem that has been much discussed, and which, in a small way, may be said to have been measurably solved. Such being the case, it seems very odd that the method employed, undeniably successful on a minor 1 scale, should not have betel developed on a large and comprehenive plan. Already Used on Atlahtic Coast. One might say, indeed, that the invention in question was long ago an accomplished fact. For during many years past there have been in operation along the New England const, at points where tidal inlets offered opportunity, flour mills and sawmills rue literally by moon power. Where such local condition exist it is an easy matter to darn the in- let, thus providing the reservoir into which the sea flows as the tide rises. On the ebb 'Of the tide the water is allowed to flow out through a gated opening, causing a ,wheel to revolve and driving the machinery that grinds the grain or saws' the lumber. In some cases the tides are made to do work both going and coming. To make this method efficient on a large scale, it is necessary merely to construct reservoirs of great size, with the requisite machinery, in places where huge bodies of water can be handled. Why has not this been un- dertaken? Nobody knows. But at the present time (so news despatches say) capital is being enlisted for the purpose in England—one scheme con- templated being that of damming the waters of the River Dee and equip- ping an 'immense power plant with turbine and electric generators to furnish energy and distribute it for long distances oyer wires. Not merely inlets but large estu- aries can, it is claimed, be used in this way for tide storage and the production of transmissible energy on an enormous scale. `The little flour mill or saw mill of the New England coast that derives its power from the moon is properly to be regarded as a mere suggestion of the vast things practicable in the same line. Consider the Gulf of California—a great arm of the sea with a twelve - foot rise and fall of tide. If a dam were built across it, say competent engineers, it could be made to drive every mill, locomotive and street car on the Pacific slope. Possibilities of Bay of Fundy. Separating Nova Scotia from the mainland is an arm arof the sea called the Bay of Fundy. There the moon gets in some very picturesque work. Its attraction piles up, the water in the bay to such an extent that the later rises and falls twenty feet twice in twenty-four hours. Why not provide extensive reser- voirs for the -reception of some of this water, and allow it (in flowing out), to operate turbines? A small fraction of the power that thus goes to waste would suffice to run the ma- chinery of all the factories on the Atlantic coast, operate all the rail- roads and trolleys, light all the cities and heat all the houses and business buildings. Many years ago a United States warship lying in a Chinese river lost one of its big guns overboard. How the accident happened'is not a mat- ter of record, but this has nothing to do with the story. The gun lay.half buried'in the mud of the river bottom and all attempts to 'fish it tip proved fruitless. Then a, Chinaman came along and offered to undertake the job. The terms were no pay unless he delivered the goods. "Go ahead," said the officer in 'command -incredulous, of 'course, for how could a Chinaman accomplish what Americans had found to :be impracticable? The Chinaman brought half a dozen helpers and game tall "sheerlegs," which he planted deep in the mud. The sheerlegs were provided with a sub- • stantial wooden float, which was at- tached by ropes to the gun—the water being of no great depth. The next tide raised the float six feet and with it the gun. Made fast at that height, timbers were 'placed be- neath the, float again and yet again, 'ere that each subsequent tide lifted it, and the gun along with it, an addi- tional six feet. The process was con- tinued until the gun was raised clear. iout of the water sand placed on the 'det c of/the ware hip. The U. 3. natal officers'wore aston- ished. But it was a very old idea from the' Cliina neu's'yic'rvpoint. For many'centurfes `they. bad been accus- tomed toe use'thigg• method for lifting huge stones f•equired in the construc- tion of docks and for other purposes. Given aheerlegs long enougli and plenty of timbers, exiy.submerged ob- ject, no matter how big or how heavy, could• be raised by such means, not only,out ea water but hundreds of feet What, after all, was the secret? Whence the'power? Why, nothing could be more simple.. The ,Chinamen - who . recovered' the warship's-`gue and placed it again on her deck were availing themselves of no earthly energy. They were em- ploying the pull of the moon, THE GERMAN NAVAL MIND Conduct of Crews of Scapa Flow Fleet is a Mystey to British. "It is ail very well to talk about psychology. and 'understanding the German mind," said a ntival officer, "but I'm hanged if I know where to start," Certainly if one studies the officers and crews of the seventy odd ships in the_German Scapa Flow fleet one does not know where to start. They are so un -British, in fact, they areso un- like the rest of the world in their behavior, that there seems no logcal bridge by which one can cross to ap- preciate their mental workings. Their lack of discipline, says a writer in the London Daily Mail, has already been much commented on and may be broadly attributed to theier degeneration as a fighting force; but to what mental process can one at- tribute the feet tint the German sea- man slavishly obeys a direction given him by a British officer and yet pre- serves an attitude of neutrality to- ward his own? For that is the general experience of our officers who have on duty visited the German ships. The German seaman will rum about at once at a hint from a British officer. Perhaps that is the spirit that made the Ger- man waiter the success he was in pre- war days, but the British naval man finds it difficult to understand, for he cannot by any stretch of the imagina- 1 Lion picture himself acting likewise in similar circumstances. Yet an- other puzzle is that the German sea- men have been seen to salute their representative on the Sailors' and Workmen's Council when they have disregarded their own officers. The mental processes of the Ger- man officer, too, are no less difficult. I The German officer occasionally sal-: Utes a British officer. It seems to de- pend on the nature of the German I himself whether he does or not. But contrast with this is the fact that when some American mine -sweepers passed through the German lines all the officers on the deck of one of the German ships stood to the salute as the leading American vessel passed. Why? One hazards the guess that the Germans may think the Ameri- cans more friendly than the British,' but one cannot understand the reason- ing. Yet another point which astonishes , the naval officer. At the very time I that the German high Seas Fleet was abandoning its proud title by refus- ing to fight, a gallant submarine offi- cer—for there is no other adjective to most men's minds—made an at- tempt to get into Scapa Flow and work havoc among the units of the British Fleet then assembled there. He failed, and his submarine was blown up owing to our adequate de- fences, but it was a bold attempt and in accord with the best traditions of naval warfare. Truly, one is "hanged if one knows where to start" to understand the German naval mind. O e 0 p—o--o o e 0. • LISTEN TO THIS • SAYS CORNS LIFT e • RICHT OUT NOW o o P e 0 o--O--p You reckless men and women who are pestered with corns and who have at least once a week invited an awful death from'lookjaw or blood poison are now told by a Cincinnati authority to use a drug called fi'eesone, which the moment a few drops are applied to any corn, the soreness is relieved and soon the entire corn, root and all, lifts out with the fingers. It is a sticky ether Compound which dries the moment it is applied and simply shrivels the corn without in- flaming or even irritating the surround- ing tissue or skin. Itis claimed that a quarter of an ounce of freezone will cost very little at any of the drug stores, but is sufficient torid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. You are further warned that cutting at a corn is a suicidal habit. The British authorities in charge of the ocupation in the German zone assigned to the British army have ordered all the German men to raise their hats to British officers. They must do similarly when the British National Anthem is sung. IOSinard'e Liniment Cures 0514,.. Re. God is eerved as trully by a just judge as by a minister of the Gospel'. —Tho' Bishop of London. "Thy friend has a fa fend, and thy ;friend's fa+iend has a friend; be dis creat,"—Talcnudl. NEWS FRU CNC. ..• ` t LAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN JIIJLL AND.. HIS PEOPLE.. Occurrences -la the Land THII Reigns Supreme In the Com. mercial World. Britain has already sent a vessel of six thusaond tons, containinggrain, to be sown in Serbia. Premier Lloyd George has ordered a pair of boots made by disabled sol- diers under the Y.M.C.A. A shrine has been consecrated at Dover in memory of 300 officers and men of the trawler and; mine sweep- ers' section of the Dover patrol. Admiral Sturdee unveiled a monu- ment to the memory of 180 naval ratings who were killed' in an enemy air raid on Chatham Naval Barracks in September. Lad Lineal hh i y loco i ns re as gven one thousand guineas towards the War Hospital, whichh efe being built at High Wyecombe. From 1915 to 1918, the Isle of Thanet underwent one hundred and nineteen 010 cal d d b b d t by the Germans. A. giant aeroplane, named the gP , Go- liath, of 1000 horse power, to carry twenty people, will be used as an aerobus between London and Paris. The Leeds Chamber of.Commerce have taken in hand the establishment of an international air station at Leeds. The Royal South Bucks Agricul- tural Association will resume their annual ploughing matches after a lapse of five years. Princess Patricia of Connaugb opened the annual sale of the Police Court Mission held at Kensington Town Hall. H. Playford, steward of the North- wood Golf Club, has one brother, a sailor, and eight brothers soldiers, seven of whom have been wounded. It is no longer necessary to have a license to purchase. farm horses for town work in Britain. The Cunard Steamship Company haveplaced,n orders with Vickers' Limited, at'Barrow, for the construc- tion of new' liners. One thousand -five hundred tons of potatoes is the normal supply requir- ed for one day in London. Two airmen fired at and killed a hare while. flying over Ramsay Hol- low, Huntingdon. The London Society of Compositors have granted £600 to the Labor War Memorial of Freedom and Peace. The weather' has been very epld in North Yorkshire, all the pools and ponds being frozen over. The King has received . an atony - mous contribution of 810,000 for the King's Fund for Disabled Soldiers and -Sailors. Fax cutting the uppers of women's boots. more than seven inches high. a Bethnal Green shoemaker was fined £20. A consignment of bananas which arrived recently in London is, being retailed to the public at fourpence, a banana. "THREE ACRES AND LIBERTY" Co-operative Farms for Disabled Sol- diers Started in England. Afijong .the myriad schemes for. rendering 5disabled soldiers self -sup porti.Tig end at the same time happy, is the Vanguard Farm at Sutton Val- ence, Kent; Splendid acreage bas been secured and the farm is worked co-operatively. Severely injured sailors and soldiers with their families can settle on the land, each family being given a cottage, stoek, seeds, etc. The community does the farm- ing, each member contributing ac- cording to his physical ability. Any surplus products and stock are sold through the co-operative centre. There is an arangement whereby members of the colony may'purehase their cottages, land and stock by easy instalments. The work on the farm is already under way and there is a long list of applicants. Since there will, in all probability, be similar. attempts in Canada to provide Garden Cities or co-operative fanny, the question of up-to-date housing that' is also economical and low in its first cost is one that will receive investigation.- Probably one of the best of these is what is called the "pour house." In the Self..Mas- ters" Colony of Union, New Jersey, fourteen of these houses have been erected. A set of wooden moulds is built at' the cost of a few thousand dollars and concrete is poured into them. ,These moulds are rented to the house builders and within a week the arouse its finished, a six-toom, thousand dollar house, proof against fire, • vermin and earthquakes, forever fiee•from repairs, insurance and a non-conductor of heat or cold. When the concrete is set the moulds are re- moved and rented to the next home- steader. The Queen's Flag. While the King is away the Queen's flag is flying on the staff over the front of 'Buckingham Palace, where her Majesty le in residence. The Queen's flag, a standard, contains eight ,quarterings, four of them being the same as the King's Standard and the other; lour the arms of her mo- ther, who was Princess Mary of Cam- bridge, quartered with those of her father, the la'te Duke el 'Tech. NOV 'QUEEN -OF WALES" Patti at Seventy=Six: ;Rales New in Her Weigh Glastle. According to 'a magazine "writer "Patti lives,'; not,only in our hearts, but really in the flesh, at the age of 76, in her magnificent ` castle of Craig -y -Nos, 10 miles north of Swan- sea, in .South Wales, on. which. she has spent quite half a million,. She lives there with her third husband, Baron Cederstrom, : and sometimes, when they feel inclined, they throw open their theatre, a replica of the Baireuth Theatre, to the countryside and give one of the operas in which Patti once thrilled the world. Until recently Patti was even sometimes prevailed upon to appear at Albert Hall in London`: for the benefit of some charity, but her' beauty is quite' gone -it vanished far earlier than her voice: and so, for the' most port, she is happiest in .her. Welsh fast- nesses, among the neighbors, who will always call her the "Queen of Wales.' ," !keep Your Health TO -NIGHT TRY as an om ar mens ■ ® idsLiniment ED 7. ISSUE 7—'19. Nt ab p k wal'LA TtakdQBrge Po$ S,t x.E an4 io Pg01,t na. 1 I 8t 0ntarlo, . rnkura co oaN'ie'tl' 316,4'6:"�l?V.11l.... go for 81,200 on quick vale -Boa 82. . Wilaen I'n1b�lfshlnK Co I..td Torpn�.a., iJST 00ICLY NEWSPAPER r08 OALB 99''x0'' In New, sell t Qwtor. R ngcto... th00a.t amount sAp$2,000. Worth' lwuson. Prtblishing Co„Itimlted,, Toronto ' aasgpa.LairEgvs” . !'I ANCER: :TUMORS, TrYI'MPS, ETC„ `% internal and external. oared with. cut Rain by our home treatment, Write. us'before too late. Dr. Beflman Medical co„ Limited, Collingwood. Ont. .• EzL thin rtf'P8iD - N•io.:457 TOIL ' b - 1 rant 'n- aotern The King Charles Statue. King Charles I. may now breathe freely once .more. Workmen are en- gaged in taking away the sandbags and scaffolding of the statue of King Charles I in Trafalgar ySquare, Lon- don. This is the first tine the head of the Stuarts has been :permitted to breathe freely for many menthe. ,All sorts of speculations have beenrife as to the reason for the extensive cion that has been. accorded i protection I•ded this statue,,. one of them being that there was a Jacobite at the Office of Works. The probable reason, however, is the undeniable beauty of the statue. e. for that Cold and Tired Feeling. MONEYn n ExR re Send a D rhinion Express Money �r a •a le everywhere. Get Well, Keep Well, Order, They e p s b Kill Spanish Flu by using the OLD RELIABLE. MINARET LINIMENT CO. Ltd. Yarmouth. N.S. Haig's Narrow Escapes. Sir Douglas Haig has shared so far as possible the discomforts and dan- gers of his officers and men; indeed, more than once jn France and Flan- ders he has had narrow escapes from death. He had only been "out there" some two months when he made a tour of the lines on the Menin road while they were being heavily shelled,Dug gie" displayed the coolness which characterizes all his movements, and the effect was notable, for the troops, falling back under an overwhelming attack, •rallied at once and drove the enemy back. Not long afterwards Sir Douglas was actually stunned by a shell which killed some of his staff, but he "car- ried on" despite his shaking. These instances are not the only cases in which the Corps or Army Commander was in danger from the enemy's shells. ISOnard's Liniment Cores Diphtheria When the Floor Cracks. Tho„ thin hardwood floor laid on common flooring over a cellar fre- quently cups or opens at the joints. That is due to the moisture in the air in the cellar. To prevent this, cover the entire sub -floor with a heavy building paper .before the finished flooring is applied, Th6s mill reduce the possibility of the wood's swelling g to a minimum. . There is often an unsightly open- ing in a beautiful hardwood floor. You do not know the cause of the crack. Sometimes it will close tight in the suminer and open wide in the winter. That is caused by the wood's swelling in the warm season and dry- ing lin the winter when the room will Have uniform heat. In most cases, if, the common flooring had been cov- ered with heavy -building paper, the crack would not have occurred. rdinerd'a Liniment Cures GarEet in Cows We are like people who have been struggling up some steep and difficult Mountain range—ranges unexplored and without guides—who suddenly, befere they tihemselree expected, find themselves on the crest of the ridge, and who look upon all the difficulties they have overcome, and see before them, spread out under the Bright sunshine of hope, a great and fertile plain of human progress.—Mr. Bal four. The Cause of Heart Trouble Faulty digestigp causes the generation of 'gases in the stomach which inflate and press down on the heart and interfere with its regular action, causing faintness. arid ,nein. ..3,5,to 30, drops of Mother Seigel's, Curative' e lets digestion Syrup after rareataa d right,wlrich'allowe the heart to beat full;and regular. g When popcorn refuses to pop as it should, if it is covered evilh water for about five minutes or till thee. mighty wet, then drained' and dried, it will be found very much improved. It is best to let it dry about 24 hours after soaking. Einar:', Liniment Cures nlotemper. Friendship that flews from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.—J. Cooper. A STRAITLY AriL1Oii'EO1WITii tli1.ta^l��tfrs 08 NMI RLFObDin. 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