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."
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PUT “BAD LUCK” JN DISCARD 1
When the Game of Life Is Analyzed,
There la No Such Thing to
Be Found.
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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.
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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.
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great deal of apparent poverty
Dogged around by the necessity to I I
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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.
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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.”
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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!
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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
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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.