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Pac^' TH"I5 MetffSraY Pl»AINT)EAIiRR% McHENBY, TL1>. ". i*>v' 7% 1 isfcviiii ly. jgpu nw a ^ ^ fe£pp.,-M-r v% ^ .' '1 IjK" -"'Lr* ' •ET & 6e&h îeaSckLee IT r~i ^Wi '4 "*^'V" hi^ 'W **- 9| .... v "Jt cr/A/rrmcsm̂ ŵ̂ w J72xrcgri}o/mz?r& to f^'3« *.v-.i fp;v; "YARB DOCTOR" BELIEVED WIZARD Strange Old Man in Missouri X- .#fho Embittered the' .%y, «. i 'i CountrysicfeB - rJ llfeSHOT TO ttEATH \2̂ tt<sem#si*3&p&3ea& Brigradier General Charles Frederick Lee. ™'*{. of the Britlah Aviation Mission now in tne United States, who has written the follow­ ing article, is true to the tenets of the Royal Air Force, he says everything about the service but not one word about himself. He Is a young man to have attained such eminence in his pro­ fession, for he was born In "Yorkshire on July Za, 1887. His career is exclusively that of the army. He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military college at Sandhurst, served in a fam­ ous old regiment, the 60th Rifles,'passed the in­ evitable four years in India, and helped to strafe the Boche in France in 1914 and 1915. He earned his army sobriquet, "Falling Leaf" Lee, by reason of an extraordinary maneuver he evolved in air fighting. One of his tricks was to fall like a fluttering leaf, in a machine apparently out of control, but realty tempting ai^ opponent to close Quarters and consequent undoing. He is immensely popular, not only with the general public, but with his brother officers In both the British and American armies. I t'if1 -- ' .V ' i, ' 1 ** QNfofsm 290KBS zvtzmasp arrmmz^6% if HE allies have been fighting tHe ^ Hun for over four years, and thfc-" British empire has sustained 2,- 500,000 casualties, yet, contrary to general opinion, the greatest 'life- saver In the present war is the air­ plane. Without the airplane cas­ ualties increase by leaps and bounds. With the airplane and supremacy in the air the casualties on our side of the line decrease and the morale increases, whereas Hie casualties On the Hun side of the line in­ crease and the morale decreases with marked (tiapidity. ^ '" There Is no doubt whatever that on the western ^ front we have a definite, almost an overwhelming, Superiority in the air. It is this superiority in air which enables us to bomb Germany and Jbring the war home to her, and makes it pos­ sible for an offensive to succeed. No offensive <an hope for success without co-operation be-, tween all arms and the most Implicit trust In thfe ;;/.'3gviatlon service by leaders and men alike. . j: Machines have been developed along definite 4 Jknes for definite purposes. In the olden days any ifiachlne was used for any duty. In those days It ; ' .Was only necessary for a pilot to fly a machine *nd have an elementary knowledge of other mat­ ters. Nowadays anyone can be taught to fly--* * that is the easiest part of the training. Tl|® ' Hiflieult part conies with specialization. A pilot has to be taught to fly and fight in small single seater scouts. He has to be taught, on highly specialized lines, the art of bombing, and last, he. lias to be taught co-operation with other ar •/> IP118 last duty is one of the most difficult to teat ijnd perhaps the most important of all. s5 Co-operation by the artillery and the airplan$ Hi 3914 was not efficient. Wireless was considered v. * sort of black art. It was not until 1915 that the Blatter was really developed and evolved. lis Ides became rapid. Machines and instruments improved, and Wireless co-operation was loroughly organized. Wireless Is such a science fti itseif that it is useless to go into its technics) detnils. But today there are hundreds of ma­ chines equipped1 with wireless and co-operating tialiy with the artillery, infantry and cavalry. <f>ur work with infantry, cavalry and tanks Is fjlso of the greatest importance. A system of llignats Is devised as between the Infantry and irm%, teach Hinuc •tride frere thoroi t e airplane, and the airplane flies extremely low, tioget these messages, flies back and gives the com- v|bander accurate information not oniy as to where the Infantry Is, but also as to what they may be lb need of. As I began by saying, flying is designed to •V life. Take, for instance, a machine which | flies at a height ranging between 50 feet and 400 feet, and searches for information which is ln- * Valuable to the commander of the sector in which ^n attack la going to take place. It is up to the fajllot of an airplane to discover if the batteries' pre active or if they are only camouflaged make- believe. If he can -transmit the facts to the iirtlllery commander, in the one case he can have tiie battery destroyed and prevented from shell­ ing our troops, and In the case of a camouflaged f*>g he can save the battery commander the trou­ ble of firing at it. On the same lines it is the ituty of the pilot to see where the trench mor- .tars are-in order that they may be knocked out before the attack begins, as well as the machine |Fun emplacements which cause such havoc to «n attack if they have not been previously dealt with. Last, but not least, it is essential to know |f the wire in front of the German trenches has ,|)een cut efficiently. If it has been% all is wd&' \ €t It has not, it is necessary for the artillery t6 Again strafe It, In order that an infantry regi­ ment may not start an attack only to find itself Jicld up on German barbed wire. The saving of life by an efficient air force is absolutely colossal. , The airplane must descend from the realm of-' mystery it has occupied in the public mind and assume its practical form. It should be looked on as a machine designed to carry a man through the air for a definite purpose, and that purport Is to help those on the ground to go forward. We have to rid ourselves of mistaken notiorii. The life of a pilot Is really far more comfortable than is possible for his comrades in the Infantry, cavalry or artillery. The infantry when In the trenches are shelled continually and often heav­ ily. They have to sleep In dugouts, some wet and some dry. They are at war the whole tiifie except, of course, when they are back at rest. But the pilot, though his period of fighting may continue for weeks and months at a time, has a definite1 Job to do each day. He knows when th#t Job Is over he will return to a clean bouse, • clean meal and a clean bed. His morale is excel­ lent. He is flying the best machine the govern- ment can supply. He does not see the dirty side , of the war. He does not flnd in the air the g«f and the filth of the ground. It Is not to be won­ dered at that he is proud to be in the air div!sl««i. A certain type of person writes on the danger* of flying and the way he prevented himself from , being killed, yet one-tenth of the untold stories in the trenches would make the air pilot's story > sound very small. Yet the airman is all-import^ ant. It would not help much If America sent lest * millions of men to France if there was not an . efficient air service back of them. Fortunately, things are going well. The United i States has pilots of the right kii^l. and the ma­ terial Is now going overseas in tne right way* I have been fortunate enough to see a good deft! . of American flying men, of the training which i# • going on in this country and of a certain number of American cadets in England. Personally, I have nothing but praise for American flyers, and • those at home have nothing but praise for the cadets there. And how iinportant a thorough training Is! However well a pilot may fly, how­ ever good his machine may be! unless he cftn kill his opponent In the air. he Is, to all intents and purposes, useless. To do that he must have a gun, use a preponderance of flre, outmaneuver his enemy and bring him down. There are sev­ eral means and ways of achieving this excellent result. Some Germans have been forced to land without having been fired on; others have been brought down by machine-gun flre In the air. and * few by antiaircraft flre from the ground Again, ft very small number have been shot down by In­ fantry gunfire from trenches. The more Germans " brought down, tlie less sacrifices of life we have ©n our side of the lines. Say a German airplane has tome over our side of the lines; say he has taken photographs of our artillery position; say he has photographed trenches where we are as­ sembling to attack--4t Is perfectly easy for him, If not Interfered with, to take these back, have them developed and Issued to the artillery. He can also call up batteries by wireless and have them train their guns on the infantry so assem­ bled. Hence, it is absolutely necessary that every hostile machine on our side of the lines, every enemy machine in the air at all, shall be brought down whenever and wherever possible. Only by this means can we save onr own men on the ! jground. ^ With the airman came the air-gunner. In 1914 5 2Pa&& Alf TVXCZ' %5QZ/AZItfa?y: z&s&j&am&s . and the early pant of 1915 |>Uots and observers colrrf ed rifles, and tfye pilots!, at that time, sat .behind. There were no machine guns on air­ planes. Men undoubtedly fought in the air, but these scraps generally resulted In two machines maneuvering around each other and occasionally getting in a shot. Sometimes one machine or the other was forced to land for lack of gasoline. It was extremely lucky if you could puMn a shot that would either disable the pilot or knock out the machine. Not until the advent of the Lewis gun did aerial gunnery really begin to make itself felt. These handy little weapons were mounted on swlvelpins on each side of the machine and cut , down to decrease weight. This, however, though the beginning, was never satisfactory, and the stoppages in the machine gun were frequent. In the middle of 1915, the German avlatik had a sin­ gle movable gun In the rear cockpit which caused quite a lot of trouble to the allies. This WHS followed by the French Nieuport machine, wVch had a Lewis gun mounted oVer the top ̂ lane. nd at the same time we developed a ring moun 'ng in the observer's cockpit. It thus became a i «ce not only in machines but also In gunnery as to who could bring the most effective fire to b< ;>1- on the adversary. - In the autumn of 1915 exptrl- ments were made with the Vickers gun tiring through the propeller. The blades were protected by steel plates called reflectors, which were so placed that when a bullet struck the blade It glanced off. No form of synchronizer gear had been evolved, but It was the beginning of a sys­ tem which is now universal. Late In 1015 the Fokker made its appearance. This machine had not a great speed, hut it did have a synchronizing gear, i, e.. a gear which enabled the machine gun to fire through the blades of the propeller with­ out hitting the blades and without any loss of efficiency. It had quite a success for a time until the French got out the Spad gear and the British the Vickers gear. The latter was used by us • iquite extensively over the lines, but owing to the difficulty of training mechanics in Its use nnd the small amount that was known of It in those days, it left quite a lot to be desired. This was fol­ lowed by the Constantlnesco gear, which proved very satisfactory. Here, then, was a definite progress In aerial gunnery, and today we have on every machine two or three or four machine.guns, two firing through the propeller and two being used by the observer behind. In the case of a two-seater, if you consider the amount of rounds which can be fired on the enemy from a machine, -• you will understand what a menace It is. Yon can fire 000 rounds per minute from each gun; hence the pilot can flre 1,200 rounds per minute, and the observer can reach the same figure with his two guns. '*• , Machines, of course, ore specialised. There are 'single-seater machines, which depend entirely on . their power of maneuver and gunfire. There are two-seater fighters, where the pilot and the ob­ server have to work together the whole time. There are machines designed for co-operation with artillery which carry an observer and wire­ less. There are large machines for day bombing nnd still larger machines designed for night bomb­ ing. Owing to the pace at- which machines maneuver the sighting of machine guns becomes a very Important factor. To hit an object in a . vital spot, going 120 miles an hour, when your , own machine Is traveling at the same nace, re­ quires a vast amount of training for pilots and observers, who practice gunnery continuously from the time they go on the ground school until they go overseas. An extremely Interesting form of flying has been perfected recently--cloud formation flying. In the olden days, and until most recently, pilots have been chary about going into clouds except as a means of defense. Actual cloud fly­ ing has been regarded with a certain amount of skepticism. But cloud flying today Is a necessity. Every day is not a fine duy, and cloud flying has become the fashion. It is now possible for ma­ chines to go In formation through the clouds and meet above them and continue that formation on a compass bearing to their objective, come down through the clouds, bomb their objective, go up again nnd come home. That sounds simple, but it Is simple, only if pilots are properly trained for It, and have the right instruments. Long-distance air raids into Germany are now quite common. An Independent force of the R. A. F. has been formed for this purpose alone. It is Independent of the army and carries out bomb raids only from Its headquarters in France. I would like to write something about aerial photography, that most useful adjunct of the work of the general sta®. but considerations of space forbid. I have endeavored to show the vital importapce of the air force, both offensive and defensive. My message (tain be summarized in very few words. Send over your Liberty en­ gines in thousands. Send over your bright ydung American flyers in tens of thousands, and the end of both the war and the , Hun will be in sight. :r. i f ASSORTED BRIEFS re. Holland is laying plans to build np Ss foreign trade promptly after the ar. Doors of Japanese homes are not liung on hinges but all are of the slid- ||>g kind. ^ Whale meat is now in great demand td sv. ordflsh steaks are sold in Fan-U Halt mafkef stalls, Poston.,7 7 ; An Inventor ha* bromtfht out^-fffta* fltiine for accurately fitting new doors to frames with a minimum of labor. One householder out of every five In England Is cultivating allotment gar­ dens as compared with one in 12 two years ago. A California ranch owner is the In­ ventor of a portable Iron gate which can be placed across main Irrigation ditches to divert the flow of the water into laterals. Grease turned Into its sewers by wool-washing plants is recovered by the English city of Birmingham at its sewage plant and | profitable by-product. ^ ^ w.j-' The finest variety of asbestos Is known as amianthus, and the most beautiful specimens of this come from Tarantalse, in Savoy. In London there are wonjen who earn a livelihood by pawning jewelry and clothes for other women who are ashamed to be seen entering a pawn- shop. i. It is estimated that more than 5,000 young women are now employed as elevator conductors in stores, office buildings, hotels Utwut Hausua in New York city. COLLECTED FACTS - * l*1' •• An International engineering con­ gress in the" interests of the Nether­ lands East Indies will be held at B|a- tavia next year. , ' Eton (Englaud) Rural District coun­ cil has protested against British labor being employed to empty cesspools for German prisoners. The British ministry of munitions has paid over $50,000 toward day nur­ series and institutions alae* be­ ginning of Uie^waiv Suspected of Setting Fires and De­ stroying Grain, He Is Waylaid at • *>y Angry Neighbors ^ and Killed. Kansas City.--High up In a lonely cabin, on an elevation in an overflow district of the Missouri river, for more than SO years the mysterious "yarb doctor" of Chariton county brewed his medicines from herbs of the forest and made prophecies to the country folk. Wfio he was or where he came from no one ever knew. He gave his name as Sturman, but he never revealed his true Identity. His prophecies of death and calamity came true so surely that the people of the vicinity accredited him with the powers of a wizard anc feared him. It is said that he predicted the pres­ ent world war, declaring way back in the early seventies that "in the last part of the first quarter of the new century the harvest fields will be •tripped of their gleaners, as they will be fighting a foe on a foreign soil, with weapons not seen before." All of his remedies the old doctor prepared in a room which he allowed no one to else to enter. The gray, weather-beaten house straddled the mound like a drunken horseman, look­ ing as if at any time It might reel into the lap of the swamp lands below. A Tall, Bent Figure. The appearance of the old man was in keeping with his habitation. A tall, bent figure humped over a cane i black eyes that glittered under •V if* Was Ambushed and Killed. thatchlike' eyebrows; long, unkempt beard and hair, surmounted by a coon- skin cap. The sight of him coming down the road in his ramshackle buggy, drawn by a rickety old gray mare, made the children scamper from the roadside. The old man was a cripple when he mysteriously put in his appearance In the Missouri township. He was able to get around only by means of his horse and buggy. Although he gave freely and without charge of his remedies, he refused to "neighbor" with anyone. As he sipped his toddy In the little cross-roads store he quarreled with the bystanders. He was constantly engaged in some lawsuit and made many bitter enemies. And then there came a July night when the men of the community decid­ ed the old doctor had been a neighbor­ hood nuisance lon^ enough. There had been several fires In the township. Buggy-wheel tracks were seen in the vicinity of each. Following the fires a number of sacks or wheat that were loaded at the old Keytesvllle landing ready to be shipped to Kansas City were cut one night and thousands of bushels, of grain lost. The same wheel tracks were seen near the land­ ing. The community was enraged. The old "yarb doctor" was held re­ sponsible. The next aftfernodn, as tie was jog­ ging homeward, a number of men am­ bushed in the lonely road riddled his body with bullets and hastily buried him in a shallow grave. Superstitious Fear. The community approved, but later on a dozen men were arrested for the murder. When the court ordered the body of the murdered man to be. ex­ humed the whole neighborhood was alarmed. They feared life might come again to the old doctor. Prayer 6ieet- ifigs in the churches and at the old camp-meeting ground were set for the day. Bach man arrested, however, proved an alibi. The prosecution was sudden­ ly ended. The body was supposedly nailed up in a walnut box and buried in a deep grave. The neighborhood rested easier. The grave in the woods, however, la •aid to be a haunted spot. ;u Careful as to Arrests. Cincinnati, O.-rWhile the Cincinnati police have been on a strike the Home Guards have been doing police duty. A business man belonging to the guards relates his first experience:, "I was on Vine street with another: guard sent with me when we paired off. We saw a fight across the street and ran over. When we inquired we found that some fellow had made a- remark which a passer-by thought' sounded too much of pro-Germanism. Did we pinch the fellow who hit Mt# la the eye! Well say we didntt* „ SSli! Wet Contents 15Fluid Draclm ' " & ' oDft ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT. . AVe^abtePreparationfcrAs •' smtilatin^lhcFood | tin^thcStomadisai*lIk*rels<M TheretyftomolinS Digestif i aiccfffllnessandR^Coate!® neither Optam.Morphlne nor i Mineral- SeMfc-8* AhdpfulRef^J* anstipationandDian^J and Fcvcrishness'md I Loss OF SLEEP _ | resulting thcref Xhb cektmwGomsw® Exact Copy of Wrapper. • • Mothers Know Genuine Castuia AlwayB Bears the Signatme of For Thirtj Years PINK EYE DISTEMPER CATARRHAL FEVER AND ALL NOSE AND THROAT MSEASTT Cures the sick and acts as a preventative for others Uquid Riven on the tongue. 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Intestinal ulcer, cancer of t|ie stomach, and frequently TalTUlar heart trouble and heart failure, CM be traee<l directly to an acidntoinach. This Is not at all surprising when yon consider that even the acid formed to the month from fermentation of bits of food lodged in the teeth--an acid that is ac­ tually ta-iteh hs--Is yet powerful enoti«h to eat through the hard enamel of tue teeth and dt-cny them- Is It any woniler. then, tbit an excess amount of acid in the stomach causes so much miaery, undermines the strength and wrecks the health and happlnesu of so many people? Is it not a fact, within the range of your own observation, that nine people oat Of ten are victim* of acid-atomach V If yon ever bos* to be .well and strong # I it- 'A'J >>_"• <v' yon must get rid of ttikt artiit MM. Nothing is gained by taking which merely stimulate and |it» Me • false sense of strength and that toave the excess acid still in the stomach. 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The bull will bellow and sMCt e*t * throw dirt--and yet not ceastder its* self a politician, YourHSStfcn .'1; 4 .• ft J:. . r ^Jtvuc' s,,L ~ i N»f . • CM, • - "Ss% ijsSte tiSPS.ii TDTMT Aftar win wai root ca for lferfaM«rU