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The Plaindealer will be sent to any address on trial three months for twentv- fiye iHtuia, and will be discontinued at the expiration of that time unless other wise ordered. Try it Or th« many scientific problems of the day there are few possessing a wider or mose enduring interest than that of aerial navigation. To fly has always been an object of ambition to man; nor does this surprise when we consider the marvelous freedom enjoyed by animals of the air as compared with those of ia*wl The traditions of Daedalus and Icarus illustrate the attempts of the ancients to fly. At the present day societies exist in United States, England, France and all the other great countries, for the purpose of solving, if possible, this knotty problem. These societies contain men Of the highest soientiiic attainments and as they are very active, it is not too much to expect that the problem will be much simplified if not actually solved ere long. For the first time in the history of the world the subject of aerial navigation has been taken up by practical men with the necessary amount of knowledge and training. Investigators no longer dream about flight; they experiment and work toward it It is, they maintain, a problem to be solved by mechanical skill and ingenuity. As yet no one has succeeded in constructing a fully equip­ ped flying machine; but the number of flying models is so considerable as to in spire the cultivators of .this art with a very confident hope of suooeee. Flying animals differ widely from sailing ships or balloons, with which they are often erroneously compared, and a flying machine constructed upon proper principles can have nothing in common with either of these creations. The ship floats upon the water, the balloon olpon the air, but the ship and balloon differ from the flying creatnre or machine. A sailing ship is supported by the water and has merely to be pro­ pelled, while the flying creature or machine has to be both propelled and supported. This of course arises from the fact that water is much denser than air. It has been asserted that a fish lighter than water might swim and a bird lighter than air might fly; it ought, however, to be borne in mind that such a fish could not hold its own if the water was in the least disturbed, and such a bird would be swept away on the light­ est breeze. It may be stated, once and for all, that flying creatures are, for the most part, fts heavy bnlk for bulk ae are land animals and that flight in eVery instance is the product not of superior levity, but of weight and power directed upon properly constructed flying organs. This fact is important as bearing upon the construction of flying machines. It proves that a flying machine need not be & light. frame, but, on the con­ trary, a moderately* heavy, durable structure, which trusts to elevatiop and propulsion for its flying-apparatus whether wings, screws or aeroplanes. A flying maojaine whic^ qould nofvforce air currents \yonld (Necessarily failure, and so it seems, ttat jr- must be used. S v> j No one has contributed more modern revival of interest in machines, of the heavier than air type, than Prof. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution. The constant failures and disasters of the past have brought into disrepute the whole subject of aerial flight by man; and the would-be in­ ventor and experimentalist not only had to contend with the natural difficulties of the subject but also the ridicule of the skeptical world. To Prof. Langley is due tile chief credit for placing this subject upon a scientific basis and of practically originating what is termed the art of "aerodromics." la his epoch- making work on this subject, published in 1891, he prepared the world for the recent advances in this art by announc­ ing that the mechanical sustentation of heavy bodies in the air, combined with very great speed, is not only possible but within reach of mechanical means which we actually possess. He also attempted to reduce his prin­ ciples to practice by the construction of an aerodrome driven thru the air by a steam engine under the action of its own propellers. His experiments took place on the sixth day of May, 1896, with this large sized model, which had a apead of wings of about 14 feet. No one who witnessed this steam engine flying thru the air with wings, like a great soaring bird, could doubt for a moment the practicability of mechani­ cal flight. The experiments realized the utmost hopes of Prof. Langley, who exclaimed that the "great universal highway overhead would soon be conquered." But the world was not satisfied with this position. It looked to Langley to carry on the experiments to the point of actually transporting a human being thru the air on an aerodrome like the model; and so Langley, with the aid of an appropriation from the U. S. war department, actually constructed a full sized aerodrome and found a man brave | enough to risk his life in the apparatus, j a Mr. Manley, of Washington, D. G { Two experiments were made but both ! tmiaa the apparatus caught in the | launching and waB precipitated into the water, the trials being made from | large houseboat. In the second trial Luuglfy'a crew, while endeavoring to get thil machine out of the water, broke it so that it would need much capital to get it in to working order again. The aerodrome bad no chance to show what it could do in the air. The Wright Broe. of Dayton, Ohio, who claim to have discovered the secret of mechanical flight, offered to sell this secret for the extremely small sum of one million dollars. This, then, is the price of their successful aeroplane about which so much is written and so little known. The secrecy of the Wrights has been necessary on account of the extreme simplicity of the machine, and if we are to believe Mr. Turner, the knowledge for sale io not §o much that of the Construction of the machine as its control. Air. Dienstbach quotes Wilbur Wright a* saying: "It is the man, not the machine. The time will come .when people will fly with old shingles. If from another planet a perfect machine should drop Jo the earth, it would not help men to fly. They could not uee it and would then begin trying to improve upon it and would end by ruining the whole thing." The Wrights claim that their machine is easier to learn and operate than the bicycle. In all their experiments with gliding and flying machines, they have not even sprained an ankle and have hardly been scratch ed. The only danger in the aeroplane is tire turning over. They have made the machine many times heavier than necessary so that it will not break. There is absolutely no danger, as might appear at first thought, from the stop­ ping of the engine. The aeroplane is supported by its motion, it is true; but however high it is flying, gravity furn ishes all the potential energy it needs to get to the ground. When the power is shut off it merely scales thru the air to its landing. It reaches the ground at so slight an angle and so lightly that it is impossible for the driver to tell by his own sensations within several feet of where it first touched the ground. An interesting contrast to the flights of the Wright Bros, are those of Heury Farman, who recently won in Paris the Deutch Archdeacon prize for a flight of i k. m„ or 1093 yards in a closed path. The conditions of the prize which Farman won with his aeroplane, were that the competitor starting from a given point, should fly 500 meters, turn around and come back to the starting point without having touched the ground. The idea was that if the machine was capable of doing this, there was no reason why it should not cover longer distaqcee, since the problem of flight lies in preserving the balance while making sharp turns. Farman went over the course so gracefully that the spectators almost went wild with joy, while Henri Deutch embraced Farma^ and declared that it was the most notable day in the history of aerial flight. Since then Farman was severely injured by 'being dragged along the ground by the machine, going at the rate of 66 miles per hour. That was what you would call "hitting the high spots." Recently articles of incorporation and application for charter were filed at Springfield for the federation of Ameri­ can Aero clubs. The Aero club of America, which has its headquarters in New York, has up till lately been the only club of its kind in the United States, but now there are several, the largest of which are those of St. Louis and Chicago. Wise men see the day when the whole aspect of war will be changed. The dirigible aijr-ahip and flying machine are going to bring this about. All the great countries are experimenting with dirigible flying ships. Germany has a war balloon that will carry eight men and vast weight besides. It has been tested and claimed that the test proved wholly satisfactory. Can United States allow other countries to get ahead of her in this great work? No, friends, a thousand times not Why, supposing we should get into war with Great Britain and in the meantime England had made a great advance in perfecting her war­ ships of the air? From Canada she could send those ships over into the United States. 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Irvine K. Waite, Harry E. VVaite, Mrs. Maude L. Han- num, Mrs. Blanche Kornder, The Pjiblic Library, Miuueapolis, Minnesota, The Trus­ tees of Woodlawu cemetery, McHenry, Illi­ nois, I). Holcomb, Edward L. Holcomb, Mrs. Eva Harris, Lee M. Waite, Evelyn Waite, Lota E. Waite, Ora V. Waite, Ueorgie J. Waite, Henry W. Hannum, Ruby H. Hannum, Martha B. Hannum. George H. Waite, Ray Waite, Colon W. Koruder, Wilbur F. Kornder and Onita L. Kornder, heirs at law and legatees, so far as known, of Louisa C. Gates deceased, late of McHeury County, Illinois. You are hereby notified that application h a s b e e n m a d e t o t h e C o u n t y C o u r t o f M c - Henry County, Illinois, for the probate of the will of Louisa C. 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We'd notify England that her cities would be wiped out of existence at once nnlefts she came to our terms. Do yon sup­ pose she would permit the destruction of those cities? I ahonld say not. ^he'd have to suet for a truce and make terms of peace. Let all greAt countries of the world possess equal facilities for war by, meine of air-ships aud not one of them will dare.,go to'war. Thus, friends, the ship of the air wift," likely enough, bring about universal peace Of course the U. S. government has seen thru all this and is privately ex­ perimenting with balloons and flying machines. Yet so vital is this point that there are hundreds of spies of foreigu powers thruout this county, all eager to leari} and report any progress in this direction.. Thus, friends, we see the necessity Of United States keeping up with the times. I would n >t be much surprised if the United States already possesses an aerial warship hav­ ing most of the necessary virtues. 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