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PERILS OFAVIATION Some of the Dangers the Man In the Air Must Boldly Face. ! LANDING IS A SERIOUS TASK. | i Fop the Beginner It Is Not Only Dif- ] ficult, but Fraught With Deadly Possibilities?Collisions Caused by Air Suction?The Fear of Fire. Perhaps those who have watched j aeroplanes at work have wondered j wiiy an aviator aimosc aiways curs a spiral course as he approaches the earth. There are two reasons for this: In the first place,- he is maneuvering so as to land against the wind. In the second place, he is accustoming his eye to the ground?recovering his ( Judgment of distance. After one has been up for an hour or so at anything like a respectable^height he loses his j sense of altitude. He cannot tell by | the eye whether he is fifty feet or 200 feet from the ground. It is necessary always to train his eye for distance again, just as a baby trains it. This takes only a few moments, but it j is absolutely necessary. * Landing is the most difficult and the most important department of aviation. Half or three-quarters of the accidents occur because the aviator has made a bad contact It used to be noticed in the early days of aviation that most of the accidents occurred near the ground. People supposed that this was because the lower air curWots are the most treacherous. That is not true. I am inclined to think that, with the exception of "holes," air currents have little to do with aviation accidents. It was because aviators did not know how to land. You must shut off your engine, <?atch the air and volplane down against the wind. This is most important If you land with the wind, even the lightest breeze, you are likely to turn a somersault and bring up smashed under your own engine. But volplaning down and facing the wind are not enough. Just before alighting you must make an upward turn, so that the machine at the mo merit or contact is traveling puruuei i with the ground. It is beautiful to see how a real master drops as lightly as a feather. If you fail to make that little upward turn at the right moment jou will strike with a force that wili either wrench your machine or smash it according to how fast you are going and the nature of the ground. You must, as I have said, land facing' the wind. That is the first principle knocked into you in the schools. When Hying low an aviator dislikes to skirt any obstacle like a tree or a building 3 t- i 1 J on its winuwaru?anu ms leewaiu? side, for if he is steering by compass or even by sense of direction be is very Mkely to fool himself and edge over with the wind toward the obstacle. The French call this traveling en crabe. A course set by the compass, when you have u wind on the beam, is not a straight course at all. The wind is always sidling you away from your theoretical direction, driving you northeast by north when you think you ^re pointing due north. This accounts for collisions in the air, an accident that happens sometimes even to experienced aviators and that is not uncommon in the schools On m.v first da.v of instruction I saw one man killed and another crippled for life by such a collision, and it nearly took my nerve. They had started at the same time on what they thought were parallel courses. One of them made allowance for the wind and drove straight. The other did not. His machine began sliding over en crabe until they came near each other, and auction did the rest. As every one prob ably knows, that principle of suction accounts for a great many marine disasters. Two ships run close to each other, and suction brings them together. It is the same with aeroplanes, only that in the nature of things the section is a hundred times more powerful One danger to the aviator, that from fire, has never been eliminated, although it is not so great as it was before aeroplane engines reached the present standard "of excellence. The trouble lies in the propeller. It is moving faster than anything made by man ever moved before. The slightest tHU hrpflk it. And if it breaks sharp off the powerful intake of those air cooled motors is sure to suck the flame into the carburetor, when the iwhole machine goes up in We like a tin of gasoline. Of course the aviator stands no sftiow at all. ? We are instructed from the first to leave nothing loose about the machine or about our clothing. Many a man has been killed because his cap blew off, caught in* the propeller and broke it. It is even dangerous to leave a loose tool, such as a monkey wrench, in the chassis. If it happens to shake i out backward tne poweriui wina engendered by your high speed may carry it, heavy as it is, into the propeller, i So fast and powerful is the motion of the propeller that I have seen machines come out of a hailstorm with the blades all split and splintered! through striking the hailstones. There 'have been many experiments with fireproof machines, but none has succeed;ed as yet. Fireproofing always makes j jtbe machine too heavy and cumbersome. The trouble is that, except for aluminum, the lightest materials are 'also the most inflammable.?A Military {Aviator in Saturday Evening Post Don't throw away your old shoes till' you've got new ones.?Dutch Proverb, j BASEBALL STORIES. Connie Mack's Trick on Cap Anson and the Foul Strike Rule. j There may have Urn better catchers 1 than Connie Mack. l?ut none any fox- j ier. Connie was with the I'irates back j in 1893. when he played a little trick 011 Cap Anson that won a game for Pittsburgh. Ad Gnmbert was pitching for the Pirates and got himself into a hole. Chicago tilled the l?;;sos in a hurry, and only one man was out. Cap Anson came to bat. In those days Cap was a terror to pitchers. The situation was serious. Cap had a way of taking two strikes and then lighting on the third one for fare-yew.il. * And so it was Here. uumueri noaieu two across, and Cap didn't blink an eve. Suddenly Connie Mack stepped aside, while Gumbert held the ball, and took off his mask. He wiped his brow, tossed his glove aside and started removing his chest rvotector. Anson was amazed. He looked around and glanced with wide open eyes at Mack. "What's the matter. Connie?" he inquired. "Ain't you goim? to srive me a crack at the ball?" Ag he spoke Connie signaled to Gumbert, and he whipped a fast one straight across. Mack reached out his chest protector and blocked the ball. Then he grabbed it as it rolled away, touched the plate, forcing the man who was on third, and then, throwing to first, doubled Anson. The Cap was so surprised he didn't even try to run. Behind every change In rules lies a " pretty little romance of one kind or an- i tn CionrPf* Moreland. ! Uliici* iv v-v^.ov ? it was McGraw and Thomas who I forced the foul strike rule. ,1 In the early nineties those two men j were so adept in knocking fouls until J they got one they could hit that they j delayed the game indefinitely. It was nothing extraordinary for them to crack out twent.\ or so'fouls in a single 1 time at bat. Like the expert cricket batter, they could tick the ball at will, just meeting it. They worried pitchers so that finally, in desperation, they would iay one across, waist high, and they'd crown it.?Cincinnati Enquirer. VICE PRESIDENT KING. He Took the Oath of Office Abroad, but Did Not Like to Serve. WilJiam Rufus King, born April 6. 1786, died April 18, 1S53, was a vice president of the United States who never served in that capacity and one who took the oath of office on foreign soil, something which can be said of no other executive officer who has ever beeii elected by the people or mis country. King was an invalid, but his friends urged him to take second place on the ticket with Pierce in 1852. Both were elected, but Mr. King's health failed so rapidly that he was forced to go to Cuba some two months before inauguration day. Not having returned to the United States by March 4, congress passed a special act authorizing the United States consul at Matanzas, Cuba, to swear him in as vice president at about the hour/when Pierce was taking the oath of office at Washington. This arrangement was carried out to a dot. and on the day appointed, at a plantation on one of the highest hills in the vicinity of Matanzas, Mr. King was made vice president of the United States amid the solemn "Vaya vol con Dios" (God will be with you) of the Creoles who had assembled to witness the unique spectacle. Vice President King returned to his home at Cahawba, Ala., arriving at that place April 17, 1853. and died the following day. An Essay on Woman. a nrnmon is sometimes fusritive, ir rational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A good deal of forbearance ought to bo shown her and a good deal of prudence exercised with regard to her, for she may bring abont innumerable evils without knowing it Capable of all kinds of devotion and of all kinds of treason, "monster incomprehensible," raised to the second power, she is at once the delight and the terror of man.?Amiel. The Daring Little Humming Bird. Courage has little or no relation to tmmm ? s vi-J bodily size, xne numuumg uiru is tuc smallest of birds, but also one of the most fearless and pugnacious. He attacks kingbirds and hawks, and those tyrannical creatures, though of monstrous size in comparison, seem not at all ashamed to. fly from his onsets. The fights of humming birds among themselves are often fierce and protracted. . Talked Out. "It says here," said Mrs. Diggin, laying down the paper, "that telephone nr?T*lo mnlrA vorv sntisfn^forv wives." "On the theory, 1 dare say," said Mr. Diggin, "that by the time they marry they have got all the violent conversation out of their systems and really yearn for rest and quiet."?Puck. The Gilded Man. At the headwaters of the Orinoco Spanish traditions located the land of El Dorado, "the gilded man," a potentate whose country was so rich in gold dust that he had his body anointed with oil and sprinkled with gold every morning, so that he shone in the sun as though gilded. Surely. Bill?I see that the life of a dollar bill is about fourteen months. JillWell, if some of them could talk they could testify to a misspent life.?Yonkers Statesman. NOTICE OF PRIMARY ELECTION. | Siate of South Carolina, County of Newberry. ! J11 accordance with the rules of the Democratic party, a second primai y ; eletion is hereby called, to be beld in j V " ' " - ? * - f .. /\ >-* Til AC/1 O Q^nt \ewueay ujj i ul-ouq; ( the 12th, 1916, for the following off? -1 cers: Governor Railroad Commissioner. Congressman from Third District. Solicitor of Eighth Circuit. Three members of the House ot i Representatives. Superintendent of Education. Auditor. Probate Judge. Master. The same managers that acted in the first primary will act in th? j second. Township >*o. 1. Ward 1?Hiram L. Speers, E. Pink Bradley, S. S. Cunningham; Clerk, J. H. Baxter. Ward 2?C. B. Martin, B. L. Bishop, | R. H. SWittenberg; Clerk, F. W. Cliap-i man. Ward 3?C. H. Cannon, F. L. Paysinger, E. M. Evans. Jr.; Clerk, T. Roy Summer. Mollohon?R. L. Harmon, Allen E. ! Dyson, D. A. Rivers; Clerk, D. D. : Darby. i Ward 4--G. E. fMcCrary, Jas. R. Davidson, T. B. Kibler; Clerk, C. F. Latlian. I Ward 5?Edgar Hiller, D. D. Connelly, Robert Powell; Clerk. A. C. ^ "VMard. > Oakland?Milton F. King, E. T Rivers, T. E. Smith; Clerk, R. C. Mills. Johnstone?Joe Coppock, S. B. Neal, L. A. Tew; Clerk, W. E. Wallace. Helena?Burr F. Goggans, W. V.' Bledsoe, F. G. Spearman. ?erk, W. F. Wightman. Hartford?J. P. Summer, W. B. Go organs, J. S. Hutchinson; Clerk, J. F. Hawkins. _ ! Township So. 2. Garmany?T. -W. Folk, J. F. Lominlck, Jno. A. Shealy; Clerk, Jno. T. Oxner. Mulberry?J. A. Sease, H. M. Wicker, Jim Caldwell; Clerk, T. W. Keitt. Mt. Bethel?J. A. 3rowii, Jno. S. ( Ruff? Jr., J. C. Baker; Clerk, W. C. Brown. Township No. 3. Mt. Pleasant?J. E. Ringer, D ?. . Berley, G. F. Smith; Clerk, J. S. J. , Suber, Sr. ' * ? t? t-> xlt MayDinion?jnu. jd. :avvjviiuuu, ??. . V. Lyles, David Henderson; Cltrk, C. E. Eison. Township-No. 4. , Long Lane?C. Cromer, H. L. Fielk- i er, S. W. Derrick, Clerk, Chris Folk. 1 Whitmire?S. B. Sims, Henry Miller, J. T. Chandler; Clerk, S. A. Jeter. Totnishlp No. 5. Jalapa?Hix Connor, W. C. Miller, : J. R. Epting; Clerk, W. C. Wallace. Kinards?J. A. Dominick, iA: D. T-1 W t1 tt PlorV s R " JCJlLISUil, TT . 1/, \jrcii j , v?v. . Evans. Township }fo. 6, Reederville?J. A. Davis, J. J. Abrams, A. C. Miller; Clerk, I. M. Smith, Jr. Dominicks?M. Q. Chappell, Thomas ' J. Harmon, James Abrams; Clerk, Jno. IM. Livingston. Longshores?R. L. Sterling, J. W. ; Wilson, A. R. Dorroh; Clerk, G. H. Martin. Trinity?J. S. Crouch, E. J. Schroder, Jno. Brehmer; Clferk, H. P. Loo-g- ' k shore. Township Jfo. 7. Chappells?Leo. Hamilton, W. M. Cromley, R. &. Boazman; Clerk, B. M. Scurry. Saluda. No 7?T. R. Sanders, Rab Ham, H. C. Fellers; Clerk, J. S. Werts. ' Vaughnville?P. N. Boozer, Brooks Workman, J. G. Coats; Clerk, L. H. Senn. Township Jfo. 8. Silverstreet?W. P. Blair, Geo. P. | Boulware, G. T. Blair; Clerk, 0. W. Long. Utopia?W. R. Schumpert, W. W. Herbert, G. C. Blair; Clerk, G. W. Nichols. East Rivennde?W. L. Bushardt, W. P. Paysinger, J. H. Cousin; Clerk, E. Lee Hayes. Township >'o. 9. Prosperity?Robert K. 'Wise. Pat Mitchell, Ernest W. Werts; Clerk, W. P. Gibson. " T XT Tlorrif>Tf A. JL,lllie iVIU nil La. m .j. xv. ?, ? C. Wheeler, V. B. Sease; Clerk, Eugene Wheeler. St. Lukes?J. P.- Hawkins, J. W. Metts, N. E. Taylor; Clerk, C. S. Nichols. O'Ncall?Cole 3. Wescinger, Jno. A. Nichols, Jno. H. Garrett; Clerk, A. L. Sheal7. Monticello?P. W'. Counts, Jacob Warner, T. L. Dawkns; Clerk, Joe Connelly. flraaUr?Mftlr.omb Boozer, J; V? Bennett Dominick, Chester Butler; Clerk, Otto Boozer. Liberty?J. M. Lester, W. 6. Boozer J. T. Hunter; Clerk. R. C. Hunter. riaiuda So. 9?D. M. Bedenbaugh, J. E iXonts, Jacob A. Bowers; Clerk, L. W. Bedenbaug'n. Township No. 10. I Union? M. L. Strauss, D. W. Buzi hardt, W. Brown Franklin; Lltrk, J. M. Wilson. Jolly Street?L. C. Troitman, S It. Metts, 0. S. Riclurdson; Clerk, T. A. Elliscr. "Central?J. A. Counts, r. A. Shealy, T. 0. Bundrick; Clerk, \V. S 'Wicker. St. Pauls?J, J. Kibler, J. J. Epting. EVori wir>ifpr- Clerk. Berlev Beden baugb. Township >'o. 11. Pomaria?Joe Alewine. G. S. Long. W. B. Counts; Clerk, W. D. Hattor. St.* Philips?Hampton Sease, A. E. Lominick, D. E. Hali'acre; Clerk, G. ?1. Sligh. Zion?Thomas Ringer,.Thomas Graham, George Richardson; Clerk. James Eargle. Swirton?T. D. Shealy, R. B. Shealy, L. E. Kempson; Clerk, Geo. A. Counts. Walton?Wm. H. Folk, L. L. Suber, Wm. B. Graham; Clerk, J. D. Crooks. Managers will please call for the Boxes and Tickets on and after the 9th instant. Club rolls will be furnished by the secretaries of each club. "DiO/ae fnT Matlfl P'PrS Will L ? fOUnd IWUi<&C JLV1 AfAMMWQ w. ? - _ pasted in back of each club roll. See Sections 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 40. FRANK R. HUNTER, Chairman. B. B. LIEtZSEY, Secretary. LAURENS OFFICERS KILL A WHITE MAN whpn Ordered to Surrender Man Be gan Firing?Several Burglaries Committed. Laurens, Sept. 7.?An unknown white man, smal of statue, and apparently labout thirty years of age, was killed between nine and ten o'clock tonight, just over the Laurens county line and outside of Fountain Inn by a posse of Laurens officers. Rural Policeman Owens was wounded by the man. The officers, headpri ?hv Sheriff Watts, had reason to WW ~ J (believe that this man had entered and robbed houses in Laurens and Gray Court. Several nights ago, a Kumb of burglaries were commit, ted in Laurens. The offi- .*s started a diligent search. Last night a house was robbed at Gray "Court. Sheriff "Wiattg with the chief of the rural police, the chief of the Laurens city police, and several other officers, got on the trail of the, man whom they suspected. They received infor- . mation that he "was heading for Fountain Inn, and watchd .the railroads leading into that place. About half pnst nine o'clock a stranger ap j /in thp railroad track. pCiirtJU, WaiAllig vra-* - He was ordered to halt, but instead of throwing up liis hands, pulled a pistol and began firing. The officers returned the fire, and the man fell with three bullet wounds^ one in the head. Death, was (almost instantaneous. Rural Policeman Columtous Owens was shot in the forearm. The wound is not serious as the "bone was not hit. In the pociet of the dead man $85.50 was found. A flash light which he carried iraa identified ae one stolan in Lauren?. He wore a ihat which was sold ii Denver, Colorado, The ?vi? * foodv which OHTC-ero ?irc tv?bv?MU0 lies toy the railroad track, near Fountain Inn, and -will leave the body there nntil the inquest is held Friday. Two men were arrested, in Fountain Inn tonight, on suspicion, the officers believing they might be accomplices of the alleged robber who was killed. The dead man is a stranger to all the officers. / GERMANY'S FIRST VICTORY. when Hermann Defeated the Roman j Legion* In the Year 10. The first great military victory of ' the Germans was achieved in the year j 10, when Publius Quintilius Varus, j the Roman governor of Germany, com- i mitted suicide after his army had suf- : fered a decisive defeat at the hands of j the Teucn barbarians of Hermann. The latter had formed a confeaera- ! tion of all the nations between the Rhine and the Weser and renounced I all allegiance to Rome. Varus advanc- | ed on the rebels with an army of three j legions. Tlie Germans gradually with drew until they lured the Romans into j the Teutoburger forest. Tliere tney , gave battle, and the Romans were routed with great slaughter. Varus, having lost 40.000 men. atoned for his disgrace by slaying himself. When the news of the defeat reached Emperor Augustus he went wailing about his palace, crying out, "Varus, Varus, give me back my legions!" Thereafter the Teutons were among the most dangerous of the enemies of Rome. In the reign of Theodosius the Germans crossed the Rhine and ? Ci ? drove the Komacs oui 01 o^jauj, nauw iind Portugal.?St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Subscribe to "Hie Herald and New | The Smoke of Men Who Win A fresh-rolled "Bull" Durham cigarette almost says "Speed up!" right out loud. Keen-eyed, clear-headed fellows smoke "Bull" Durham because it has the sparkle and the "punch"? the youthful vim and vigor. Every time vou "roll your own" with "Bull" Durham you open the door to Hustle. - GENUINE Bull DURHAM SMOKIlfe TOBACCO * ' ??? ^ t 14bull'7 Durham is unique J among the world's tobaccos. It is distinguished from all others its wonderful mild" ness, i to delicious mellow-sweet flavorand its distinctive aroma. You get a lively smoke and a satisfying smoke whenyou"roll yourown" with "Buir Durham. A*k for FREE > 1 ^ 1 JflknI jmHv wW I THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, he > How a Great Surgeon Died. While Bichat, the famous surgeon, <vas dying of typhoid fever he turned to an old colleague who was sitting beside bis bed and said to him: "My friend, I am lost, but it is some consolation to know that my case is very curious. During the last few I days I have noticed some odd symp-1 toms. and I am studying them carefully." "Oh, you may recover yet," said the friend^ "That is impossible." replied Bichat. "and if it were not for one thing 1 would be quite willing to die/* "What is that?" asked the friend. "I am exceedingly sorry," answered Bichat, "that I shall not have an op portunity to perform an autopsy on myself after my death, for I know that I would make some wonderful scientific discovery." An hour later he was dead. O IT" A C 1 O Xi wrtk Ij J ROUND TF FROM NE Summer Exc To Wrightsville Beach To Isle of Palms To Sullivan's Island To Myrtle Beach m- XT -C^l, 110 iNUllum Tickets on sale from Ma; j sive, limited returning ur 1 stf'p-over privileges. Schedules and further p nished upon aplication to Ticket Ag ATLANTIC C The Standard Raili LEGEND OF ST. BRENDAN. It Claims the Irish Monk as the Real Discoverer of America. Tbe first discoverer of America, according to an old Irish tradition, was St Brendan. Brendan lived in the sixth century and. according to legend. fitfprl imt h vpssp! 3i rid s:iil<>d west \VH nl "in the hope of discovering an island supposed to contain the paradise once tenanted by Adam and Eve. He was accompanied by fourteen monks, and the ship ^vas "victualed for seven years." After saliiing forty days and forty nights they came to an island, where they found "a hall with tables spread with good meat and drink." They then sailed on for a long time and came to another island, "wherein were the whitest and greatest sheep they ever saw." After stopping for a time they proceeded with the voyage and came to a third island, called "the nar adise of birds." After wanderingabout for seven years from island to island St. Brendan and his monks returned to Ireland, where they astonished the natives by tales of the wonders they had seen. In spite of the wild and improbable features of this legend it was for centuries accepted as truth, and the Spanish government sent out several expeditions in search of the islands of St. Brendan. The St. Brendan legend formed one of the causes which led to the discoveries made by Columbus. SPAN OF TWO LONG LINES. 1 They Connect the Era of the Zeppelin With That of the Sedan Chair. The late Henry Gassaway Davis, once a vice presidential candidate, saw and heard as a boy in Baltimore in 1828 the ceremonies at the official beginning of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad^ The personage of the occasion, the driver of "the first spike." as we should 6ay nowadays, was the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence, the richest American of the eightteen th century, the great gentleman and illustrious patriot. Charles Carroll r\-P + Ar? j Vi vaiivnivu* Bom in 1737, Charles Carroll had yet four years to live. Thus these two* lives are an arch of nearly 180'years between the American colonies of George II.'s time and the third year of Mr. Wilson's administration, when. Mr. Davis' long life came to an en<L. The year of his birth was 1823. A mere two dozen of such lives Carroll's and Davis', a dozen of their united span of years, would'take lis back to the first Punic war. Charles Carroll and Henry Gassaway Davis, who saw him, together take us from the sedan chair period to that of the Zejpelin.?New York Times. Pigeons and a Doctor. The carrier pigeon has been put to a new use by a doctor in Scotland who has a large and scattered practice. When he goes on long rounds he carries a number of pigeons with him. If he finds that some of his patients require medicine at once he writes out prescriptions and by means of his pigeons forwards them to his surgery. Here an assistant gets the messages, prepares the prescriptions and dispatches the medicine. * If after visiting a patient the doctor thinks he will be required later in the <1av hp simnlv leaves j?Diceon. which Is employed to summon him if necessary. To this enterprising physician the keeping of carrier pigeons means a saving of time and expense and labor. Malaria or Chills & Fever Prescription No. 866 is prepared especially for MALARIA or CHILLS & FEVER. Five or six doses will break any case, tad if taken then as a tonic the Fever will not - - - I? retain. 11 ten on me uvw ucun w? Celomel *nd doe* not gripe or tickea. 2S? HORE UP FARES IWBERRY ursion Fares $10.50 j 7 25 , j 7.35 : ..... 9.45 17.10 y 15 to October 15, inclultil October 31 r Liberal >articulars cheerfully fur T. S: LEFLER, ent C. N. & L. R. R., Newberry, S. C. 7 :OAST LINE, road of the Sooth.