TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT OCTOBER 3, 1918. DREADED ENEMY OF AVIATOR CALLED AID TO IDLENESS Most Export Airman, Caught In Fog, Is Practically at Mercy of Circumstances. Nothing connected with the history of aviation is more remarkable than the wny In which the weather difficul ties and dangers of a few years ago have been reduced to the level of minor Inconveniences by the increased skill of aviators and especially by im provements in airplanes. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that at the present time the only serious outstand ing meteorological problem of the avi ator is fog. There Is no means of keeping one’s bearings when flying In or over a fog, and the same Is, of course, true of low-lying clouda. The compass tells which way the machine is point ing at any moment, hut not the dl- rection ln which It is flying, except when traveling exactly with or against the wind. There are no land- marks In the air. Even more serious Is the problem of landing In a fog. The chances are always considerable of striking dangerous obstacles, such aa trees, buildings, or telegraph wires, or of alighting in bodies of water, swamps, etc. Moreover, as one vet eran flyer has stated, "what la dis tressing to the airmen in fog is the Impossibility of knowing whether he be slightly climbing or slightly de scending full tilt into hills, trees or houses without time to save the situ ation." I PUT “BAD LUCK” JN DISCARD 1 When the Game of Life Is Analyzed, There la No Such Thing to Be Found. P There Is no such thing aa "bad luck." The belief In It la a gross su- perstltion. It Is claimed that there is a lot of luck in poker. My observa tion has been that the man who wins at poker consistently is merely the best player of poker. There are some who hnve a "run of luck.” Rut if the “run” lasts three minutes the op posite “run” generally lasts equally long. If the good luck holds up for n year, the bad luck appears during the next year. Any hnbitual card-player, unless he is a very poor player or an unusually good one, will tell you that his winnings and losses Just about counterbalance. In poker, ns In life, the final deter mining factor 1« skill, knowledge of the name, patience, taking advantage of opportunities. If you hav a pre monition thnt you are going to fall lu an undertaking you are promising yourself disaster In advance, you are merely saying to yourself: “I know I am not equal to that. 1’1! fall down on It, sure." Dismiss the premonition. Throw away the “charms" and talls- mans. Get on the Job.—James Hay. Jr., In McClure’s Magazine. r> Sign of Coincidence. Some folk are plastered with gobs of hard luck, others have It suddenly thrust upon them, but to have it star ing one In the face Is enough to get anyone's “nnnny.' That Is what hap pened to a Joyrider on the outskirts of the city last evening. He was bowl ing along, with a heavy foot on the gas, when suddenly there was a loud report like that of a French .75 nnd the flivver came to a standstill. The chnuf- feur muttered something, then Jumped out to learn which tire had blown out. Before he had done so there was a merry chuckle from the young woman seated in the automobile. She pointed a finger at a sign on the front of the building where they had come to a standstill. "Look, Rllly," she called to him. The sign read, “William Hard- luckt, carpenter." What Hilly thought he said aloud and the maid held her enrs so as to avoid registering his tem perament.—New York Sun. Elephant's Legs. The legs of the elephant differ front those of the more familiar large ani mals in the fact that the ankle and the wrist the so-called knee of the horse's foreleg—are not far above the sole of the hind foot and the forefoot —resembling man's Jointx In that re spect—while the true knee-joint, called the "stifle" In horse's. Instead of be ing, as In horses, high up, close against the body, strongly flexed even when at rest, and obscured by the skin. Is far below the body, free nnd obvious enough. In fact, tho elephant keeps the thigh nnd the upper arm perpen dicular, and In line with the lower seg ment of tho limb when he Is standing, so that the legs are plllarllke. Rut he bends the Jointx amply when in quick movement. The hind legs wn in ac tion, resemble, In the proportions of thigh, foreleg and foot, and the bend ing at the knee nnd ankle, very closely those of a man walking "on all fours.” United State. Admirals. The first rear admirals In th. United States navy were commissioned In lfittl whrn that rank was created hy act of congress. David Farragut, for hli valor In the Civil war, was made vlc< admir al In 1804, and two years later the rank of admiral In the United States navy was established for the purpose of honoring hint. The grade of admiral was revived In 1890 and conferred up on George Dewey, the hero of Manila. The highest rank of American naval officers In active service was, up to a abort time ago, that <M rear admiral. The title of admiral was firat used In France. and the first French admiral was appointed In 1284. A few year« Inter the title was adopted by the Eng llah. and the rank of admiral of the English seas was first given to William de Leybourne by Edward I in 1297. FOSTERED BY FRENCH KING Famous Sevres Ware Had Its Begin, nlng When It Favorably Attracted Attention of Louis. Rananas. according to a legend cur rent In tropical countries, are the orig inal “apples" of the Garden of Eden —along with the serpent and Mrs. Adam, the cause of man's fall. At least, they tend to serve a similar pur pose In these times, because they are almost equal to the coconut palm as an aid to Idleness. An acre of bananas will yl«»Id 50 times as much food as an acre of po tatoes and 150 times ns much as wheat. The bannna Is Immune to almost every plant disease nnd has fewer Insect enemies than any other fruit It will grow on poor land, kf need be, and will distance any weed or shrub that tries to contest its claim to soil and sunlight. The banana is the “neither fish, flesh, nor fowl” of the pln'nt kfng- dom. It Is usually classified as a tree, but It Is not a tree. Although it attains a height of 30 feet there Is no wood fiber In the stalk. The bunches of fruit on the dwarf varie- ties are often heavier thnn the re mainder of the plnnt. It Is not a palm, nor an herb, nor a bnxh, nor a shrub, and it is not a vegetable. In some distant way it may he related to the grasses, but the relationship Is so distant that it stands In a class by Itself. EASY TO DECEIVE INEXPERT Imitation of Pictures by "Old Mae- tors" Has Became What Might Be Termed a Business. Eurly In the eighteenth century the manufacture of a rather artificial-look ing porcelain was begun at Rouen, France. At Chantilly, about the year 1725, a porcelain was made which imi tated the Imarl ware of Japan. Some 15 years later another factory was es tablished at Vincennes, and now comes the beginning of the famous Sevres. It was In the year 1753, so historian? interested in this subject tell us, that the king, Louis XV. who for the past five years had been making donations for the carrying on of the work, al lowed the adjective “roynl" to be add ed to the name of the work, and grant ed the use of two Interlaced L’s as a trademark. In order to keep a record of the porcelain made In dlf- ferent years, a scheme of lettering was arranged which, to the Initiated, would tell the tale. For example, an A in the space between the two L’s signified that the piece of porcelain thus marked was made in that year in which the king began to take an active Interest in the work, 1753. Three years later the factory was removed from Vincennes to Sevres, and It 's there that one may visit It today, over In ode corner ot the beautiful park of St. Cloud, not far from the Seine. And, in 1750, the king took It over as a state Industry, to be managed henceforth as such. Now, it happened that the making of porcelain appealed to Madame de Pompadour, and she did everything fn her power to bring the Sevres prod uct up to the highest possible artistic standard, to popularize the ware at court and throughout the country, and even throughout the whole of Europe. Among the beautiful colors which were employed In this ware, one of the love liest was named for her, the “rose Pompadour." The most common method of coun terfeiting an old picture Is to cover a new one—painted, of course, for the purpose—with a certain transparent paste which, when exposed to slight heat, cracks and becomes brown. If a sufficiently vulnerable tint has not OF DOG DAYS been produced the canvas is washed DEFINITION with a mixture of lamp black and May Not Be Strictly Orthodox, But It liquorice Juice. 8urely Covers the Ground The- picture is next exposed for some Most Thoroughly. hours to the smoke of a wood fire and, the loose soot having been brushed We don’t knew whether there are away. It Is rubbed here and there with a rag which has been dipped in very , dog days, according to the aimanne, dilute sulphuric acid. This opera j that is, or not. Several years have passed since we tion gives a moldy appearance to those had tn the house one of those little parts which hnve been touched, The work is finally sprinkled, by books with a disemboweled gentleman means of n toothbrush and a hairpin, on the front cover, so there is no with minute spots of a solution of means of finding out. sepia in gum water, to imitate fly A hot and muggy day Is not a dog specks, nnd it Is then ready for the I day, technically, unless the dog star, Sirius, the original Skye terrier pre market. Signatures are Imitated hy experts, sumably, is in evidence, or opposition, who are known as “monogrnmistes," or something. Life Is serious enough and who devote their exclusive atten without delving into astronomy for LET US tion to such matters; and one of these useless Information. men, who died recently, confessefl to Dog star or no dog star, dog days the forgery of no fewer than 11,000 are days when one does nothing more signatures of the Itallun masters alone, worth while all afternoon than write and said he had for years made a large doggerel and goes home wearier than Income by the exercise of his art. he has been in a dog’s age, to sleep like a dog and get up in the morning dog tired. Foollah Fear of Poverty. I j tired. i great deal of apparent poverty Dogged around by the necessity to I I i come- from dread of poverty. A man labor one would, did happy opportun- saves every cent and goes mind and Ity beckon, start off on n dog trot for soul hungry, and. ten to one, he is the nearest beach or sylvan lake, there starving somebody else nt the same to camp out In a dog tent until au- I time along with himself. He ts really tumn's crisp dayB, occasionally swim poor, for the time being, although he ming around dog fashion in the clear and cooling waters, offering fervent baa a large bank account Poverty will come every time as the praise in dog Latin. In the city dog days are Just one result of the Improper attitude townrd money. Money Is not a reality; It rep doggone thing after another.—New resents things that we consider for ark News. our good. Rut there Is no poverty like that of the starved soul that shrinks Secret of Book of Revelation. and dries up Into narrowness and com The number (Mfl used In the Rlble pression. In getting the feeling of as symbolizing the beast Is a constant wealth look about you. See all the source of speculation as to what per wonders of nature; believe that won sonage the mystic numeral inuicates. ders will happen and then get ready According to Prof. S. E. Slocum of the for them. University of Cincinnati, the key to After the day's work is done build the riddle lies In the fact that in the air castles, nnd then go in and lay a case of the Greek form of the name strong foundation under one of them. of Nero, written in Hebrew characters, Expect to develop Into efficiency nec the letters of the name have each a . essary for the bigger Job. The key to numerical significance according to I this Iles in your hands in doing i the the number notation of the Hebrews, little things well.—Patrick Fenton tn and the sum ol the numbers Is 606. Nautilus. The apostle In excorlntfng the em peror would have >ound It unsafe to Praise of Open Fire«. mention him outright, or in some ob To many of us plain bread-and-but vious symbolism, such as in Latin or ter persons, praise of open fires some- Greek numbers, while using Hebrew times seems a little too warm and characters would be fair concealment comfortable—too smugly contempla. to Roman eyes. The other imagery tlve. We like open fires, IVe would of the Rook of Revelation works out hnve them in every foom in the house strikingly in accordance with the as except the kitchen and the bathroom— I sumption that John was writing dis and perhaps In the bathroom, where creetly about the persecuting Roman we could hang our towels from the emperor. mantelpiece (as gallnut practical gen- j tiemen, now some centuries dend, Women and the Movies, named It by hanging up their wet j I believe the next generation of mantles) and let them warm while we were taking our baths. We go as fnr women will be more Interesting in as any In regarding the open fire as a every way, because of the stimulus welcoming host In the hall, an un- given to their lives hy the motion dlsttirblng companion In the library, pictures. I notice so much difference an encouragcr of digestion In the din In the women I meet since the pic ing room, an enllvener In the living tures have become popular. The en room and a goodnight thought of hos tire world has been visualised for pitality In the guest chamber. Rut we them; It has been like a universal edu cannot follow the essayist who speaks cation. Not merely for the women who contemptuously of hot-water pipes. have lacked advantages, mind you. but “From the aecurlty of ambush.” says more especially for the type of women he, "they merely heat, aud heat «-hose «•hose outlook has been limited by source Is Invisible is not to be coveted their Intellectual concepts—who could not be made to believe that there was at all." Oh, merely best!—From the Atlan anything worth while outside of their special circle of culture.-— Margarita tic. Fischer, in Film Fun. I A Watch and No Owner. The owner of a Shelby county wa termelon patch has found a watch therein. Tho watch is said to be in giaal condition aud ready to be re stored to Its owner upon proving prop- er*r. paying for the newspaper notice, and iMMudbly fully explaining Just how and why the watch got Into the melon patch. Unless it's a mighty valuable watch we hnve serious doubts as to Its being claimed.—St Louis Republic. He Was Out. Sam had been very sick, and the white “doctah" for whom he worked at odd Jobs had been attending him. One evening the doctor called and found Sam talking almost Incessantly. The doctor turned to Mrs. Sam and asked soberly. “Has he any lucid intervals?” “No. aah. doctah: you 'only left three, yon know, and I done give him the last one at fouW> o'clock.” 4 Carry On ! I take this means of ANNOUNCE- MENT, that we will enter the Officers Training School, at Eu gene, Ore., in the class commenc ing October 5th. The U.S. Govern ment will need 90,000 officers within the next six to eight months to fill the requirements of the 2,000,000 men called to the colors during the coming drafts. Carry On! % To my many friends and customers in Tillamook County, I will advise that your insurance and business needs will be taken care of by Miss Helene Epplett and Mr. L. V. Eber hardt who will show you every courtesy. Carry On ! ROLLIE W. WATSON. Ex. Spanish-American-War, Vet. ’98 “THE INSURANCE MAN” “CLEAN THE HUN” IN 1919. U.S. Navy from June 1894 to December 1901 BUY LIBERTY BONDS. AID THE RED CROSS « 9 GASOLINE FOR SALE. 6 A.M. to 6 P.M. Only, Beginning October 1st. The Pacific Coast Director of the Oil Divi sion of the Fuel Administration has requested that the sale of Gasoline and engine distillate be limited to the hours between 6 A.M. and 6 P.M. The Standard Oil Company is glad to com ply with this request, and beginning October 1st all our stations and delivery facilities will serve the public between these hours only. This request is made for the purpose of CONSERVING MAN POWER, and we Imow thatourpatronswill PATRIOTICALLY CO OPERATE with the Food Administration in carrying out this Important war measure. STANDARD OIL COMPANY, California.