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the civil was H aSudm In a free country, but we are" seeing in this country' today cases involving a repudiation of that principle." Judge Edgar M. Cul len upon retiring- a-chief justice of the state of New York. n o BEACHEY DISPROVES SOME SCIENTIFIC ASSERTIONS Lincoln Beachy, Famous Upside Down Aviatoh San Francisco, Caf. The , asSep Hons of scientific men. and dQctdfs that no man cojild'fall bDfcM'Ct out dying of Suffocation and; shock has been. Completely controverted' by Lincoln l36achy, dare-devil of the "air, in his sensational loop drops. He plummets 1,200 feet at a speed of at least 210 miles an-hour without the' slightest effect on' his senses. "I would have been bluffed out by my doctors' gloomy forebodings," he said after one of his most spectacular drops here recently, "if I had not re called how many times I had fohnerly upset the predictions and theories of scientists. "I began by making dives at easy stages and various angles. The effect Of the near-vertical dives caused me to pi-actfce on gvmnusium-rihgs.Jiead down. I would swing back dnd forth for half .an hour at a time. Then I made my first unside down flight. My machine weighs about 1, 2jb0 pounds, and when dropping straight offers almost no resistance to the air. - "In flrdpping for the flip-over, I swddpd -directly downward for about plie minute dnd" a half. It seemed like 'a yeaxy But i never for a. moment lost jfull cbntrdi, nor my sense of direc tion. The blood does not rush to my head, ahdlhave no nausea; y "hi flying .upside down the distance from the" earth 'is so .great that one 'does; liot get the topsy-turvy view you wdlild imagine. Evervthine: sephiR : perfectly hatUral, and I have never yet lost my nead for a second." v o o PARENTAL PROPRIETY "You stay home and mind the chil dren, tonight, Joshua. I'm going to the whist club." "Can I have a few of the boys in for a game of poker-?" "Goodness, o! The idea of you setting an example to the children playing cafds!"