TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT OCTOBER 10, JUST LIKE TIMES OF PEACE FOUND BIRDS ARE VALUED Í- Carrier Pigeons Do Service for Army. i « Many Now Being Trained at the Unl- vereity of Wisconsin Under the Direction of the Government- Made Splendid Record. I Carrier pigeons for the army are now being trained at the University of Wisconsin, and special experiments with the birds are being carried on under the direction of the government, This new war work has been taken up under the direction of Prof. L. J. Cole, head of the department of ex­ perimental breeding. Twenty-five young pigeons have Seen received from the signal corps for use In flying investigations, and 14 old birds for breeding purposes have been donated by a Cleveland pigeon fancier. Lieut. W. L- Sutler of the central department of the signal corps at Chi­ cago and Maj. Frank Griffin of the Washington office were at the univer­ sity recently making arrangements for the work. A warning not to ahoot pigeons has been issued by the bureau of informa­ tion at Washington on account of the large number of homing pigeons which are being trained in various parts of the country. Now that the training is also being carried on in Wisconsin, the people of that state are being warned not to shoot pigeons, and if any bird la found bearing the label “U. 8. A. O. 18,” the mark borne by all govern­ ment pigeons, it should be reported to the chief signal officer at Washington. In the present war homing pigeons prtiy a large part in the carrying of Important messages, because they cun fly home when telephones, telegraph and wireless have been destroyed, and are rarely hit by gunfire. The process of training a pigeon for military purposes consists In first tak­ ing It about 1,01)0 yurds from home and loosing it so that It can fly back; then the dlstunce Is Increased and the di­ rection changed as the training pro­ gresses. The average speed of a homing pigeon is from 1,400 to 1,700 yards a minute, although many make much higher speed than this. Important messages in the army are usually sent by two birds in order to Insure safe delivery and but few messages are n«t A small aluminum container is fastened to the birds’ legs to carry messages, or else the bits of paper are tied directly on the legs. Stories are recorded dally in the war of life-saving feats accomplished by homing pigeons. A crew of a ves­ sel struck by u submarine recently had I just time to free a homing pigeon be­ fore the ship sunk. Although the bird was wounded by shots from the Ger­ I man submarine, it flew to another I craft 12 miles away and saved tho < lives of the men floundering about in I the water. 1 Men are In great demand In the homing pigeon operator branch of the t signal service, No man of draft age can be Inducted into this service, hut there Is a call for men below twenty- b one and over thirty years of age for J this work. !■I pi Í ; ■ J< Not Charila Chaplin but Lloyd George. After a meeting which Lloyd George had attended a cheering band of ad­ mirers escorted the prime minister to his car. There, in the freedom of her r*rags and tatters, stood a typical cock- hiney girl. She gaaed at the enthusiasts clwith astonishment and then her eyes t (■listened as they fell on the features I M>f Lloyd George. "It’s Charlie,” she BIcried. "Charlie Chaplin. Give anoth- g^r three cheers." “No, my girl,” ex­ f plained one of the crowd; "it is not t . ,'harlle Chaplin. It is the prime tnin- ster." "Lloyd George? Goed old ”*Joyd George. Give hltn stx cheers." 1 ^Admiration could go no further. « « _______ _________ Launching Seaplane«. “ph Jel< * th« When a big aesjtlane la to be scapili J ke«unched from the ffecl ■k of a ship it J'| 0 first "tuned up" on the launching jUtage. Then the ship la swung Into }u»e teeth of the wind and put at full I S. At a signal the pilot starts his e full speed, while two me- A ca braced against cleats on the , lllVck, hold back the tugging seaplane. '■ *>o*hen th«« “tone" of the engine Is e rorght' the wing commander brings ’■ luQwn his flag with a sharp-Jerk, falls ' net hla face to nvvld a collision, and 61 Oe machine freed from the grip of Ju-oie men holding IL Jumps away Into gg ace from th«» launching stage. 3 nJ oul til haibbon* Substituted for Iron Crosses. ’ (lM.In Genuany Iron is so scarce that .J , i.ough cannot be spared to make all ° “*> Iron Crosses needed to carry out t tty government’s policy of wholesale »retribution of war honors. At least, " '«s»h a condition is strongly Indicated “ Hi a souvenir from a battlefield that . -ask been rereived in this country. It ’ ( b’"’n ln I ot crn*H*'** The ribbon was found L ,ntlthe body of a dead enemy.—I’opu- f 1 • Mechanics Magaslne. •ter» * t __ _______________ Cannon Balls Ara Roun«. partial—There’s one good feature ALERT Cereeependent Finds That In Warfare It la the “Little Things” That Really CeunL Captain Batlcfied No Bnemy Would Get by tho Colored Soldier WKb Challenged Hie Commander. A few hundred yards to tha rear wa “I was recently breaking In a squad came upon a soldier sitting on a stump. of raw country negroes," remarked From the waist up he was as naked as Captain C • , stationed at a Virginia a skinned rabbit. In his hand he held camp not far from Washington, "and, his shirt turned Inside out. and he was despite their and my good intentions, studying the garment as Intently as a it was not proving the easiest task ln young son of one of the best families the world, since most of them knew stealing a chapter of a forbidden dime much better how to follow a band than novel. But the expression was more military rules. This particular group . gave me a lot of hard work and I that of a man digesting bad news. “What are you doing, son?" the cap­ kept pretty close watch on them. One night I decided to give my sentries a tain called out. The soldier on the stump slowly surprise visit, but had not got far on raised his eyes and looked us over. His my rounds when I was stopped with expression was that of a detached and a peremptory: “’Halt! Who goes darF world-weary man breaking under the “I gave the word, but was again burden of a secret sorrow. We didn't seem to ease his mind much, for he brought up with a sharp: ’Halt agin! sighed deeply and returned to his In­ I wants to know who you is!’ “ ‘Your commanding officer,’ wus my tent Inspection. "I’m readln’ over the personal col­ answer, which did not suffice, as my umn o’ my shirt to see If there were sentry came back quickly with: any new arrivals las’ night,” he an­ “ ‘Dat’s all right, suh, but Is you swered the captain's question finally. got de right to go traipsin’ roun* camp “I think I must be In a convention, the at dis ungodly time o* night? way they're flockin’ in on me. If I'd “ ‘Don’t you know whether or not I been a small town a week ago, I’d be have such a right?’ I answered him a big city by now.” sternly. ‘It’s your business to know.’ “Are you finding any?” “ ’Excuse me, Cap’n, but I was’n “Flndfn’ any? I ain’t lost any yet!" quite sho’,’ he said—and in a perfect­ He raised his tired eyes and studied ly respectful tone—‘an’ I axed you fer me carefully. InfohmatiOn when I wanted to know “You're a newspaper reporter, ain’t ef you did have de right to go prowl­ you F’ in’ roun* dis here camp like er hant “Yes.” (ghost) F “You lookin’ for news to print?” 1 “He got his answer, and I am sure “Sure.” of one of my sentries at least” “Well, listen. Did old General Mis­ fortune ever billet a whole army corps Modern Military Balloons. o' starvin’ cooties on your personality Great Improvements have been an’ leave ’em there to fatten up an' made ln the construction of kite bal­ multiply an’ replenish your shirt?” loons ln the past two years, according “I’ve had ’em.” to Henry Woodhouse, the leading The soldier Immediately lost all In­ In terest In me and took up his duties American aircraft authority. Everybody's he says: “The old de­ anew. “Goo'-by," he mumbled. “If you’ve sign based on the original German had ’em, you know all the news there druchen balloon was sausage-shaped and could stand little wind above 30 is to know around here.” In war as in peace It's the little miles per hour. The present design things that count I—William Slavens used by the alller and to some extent by the Germans, is based on the de­ McNutt, ln Collier’s Weekly. sign of Captain C’acqou of the French army. It is pear-shaped on one side Jonah Vark. and has three huge fins, one on each Well Al one of the burgs along the line Is where Jonah Vark was side and one underneath the aft end born when she was alive. It seems of the gas-bag. On the ground these like France was mixed up ln another fins give It the appearance of a huge war along about one hundred years elephant "This type of military balloon Is ago and they waa getting licked and Jonah was Just a young gal but she much steadier and safer than the old dressed up ln men's coat and pants type and can stand a wind of up to 00 miles an hour. They are from 70 and went up to the front and led the charges with a horse and she carried to 80 feet In diameter, and have a a white flag and the Dutchmens or hydrogen cupaclty of from 20,000 to whoever they was fighting agulnst 25,000 cubic feet.” must of thought It was a flag of tru- More Women Dentlstsf unts and anyway they didn’t fire at DentlBtry as a profession may have them and the French captured New Orleans and win the war. The Ger­ few attractions generally, especially mans Is trying to pull the same stuff for women. Nevertheless, It does af­ on our hoys now nnd lots of times ford steady and, in many cases; highly they run up nnd holler Conrad like remunerative work, candidates for they was going to give up nnd when which cannot but be reduced ln num­ your hack Is turned they whnng away ber by the exigencies of the war. A at you, but they won’t pull none of certain branch of dental work known that stuff on me nnd when one of as dental mechanics offers a field them trys to Conrnd me I will percu- which seems peculiarly suited to wom­ late them with a bayonet.—Illng W. en, or, at any rate, to those who have Lnrdner In th«» Saturday Evening th«» natural dexterity uml fineness of touch usually possessed by them. Post. Dentul mechanics do not, of course, extend their training to the surgical Dogs of War. side of their undertaking, though The canln«» department in tho French those .qualifying ns dental surgeons army Is a command In Itself; Its four- have to be adequately expert me­ footed recrufts ar«» enrolled almost chanics—the greater Includes the less, more carefully thun real soldiers. They here ns elsewhere—hut the work Is hnve an official record, a number, an fairly lucrative and distinctly regular, Identity plate, and nr«» never lost sight so that It seems certain that more and of. The dogs already hnve their roll more of it will fall into the hands of of honor. Several have been cited In competent women ln the future. orders for having saved whole com­ panies by their sagacity; others have Th« British Officer. ennbl«»d surprises to be brought off as A young American soldier, writing well as avold«»d. As liaison agents they are Invaluable, while as ammuni­ home to his mother, and referring to tion carrters they are practically In­ the British officer, remarked that he dispensable. While a few of them can always thought of him as a monocled never get use«! to shot and shell, the dandy, t«x» effeminate for hard usage; majority quickly get as case-hardened but never again. He found him cool, as old soldiers. A dog carrying a mes­ resourceful, and unaffected ln danger, sage through a terrific barrage fire has taking his dally hazardous duties as been seen blown Into the air, to come a matter of course, and setting an ex­ down with a thud that made it sense­ ample to bls men, and a aolldtude for less, to remuin stunned a while, then their welfare, that Inspired the utmost pick Itself up, give Itself a good shake, confidence In them. It Is no new pic­ ture, but fittingly portrays his charac­ and resume its Journey. ter, for generations past.—Toronto Mail and Empire. Got Cinplsysris Day's Income. A woman who was for many years Long Undersea Tunnel Planned. a housek«»eper In the family of the Plans for a railway tunnel, costing late Alfred H. Nobel, the Swedish founder of the Nobel priiea, was leav­ approximately »7.000,000. and extend­ , ing to be married. Mr. Nobel wished ing more than seventeen thousand feet ' to reward her services and asked what under the sea for about one-fourth of she would like for a wedding gift, its length, have been made In Japan. ' saying that he would be glad to give The bore will pass beneath the Mojl her whatever she ask«»d. After con­ straits, connecting Shlmonoseki and sulting with her fiance, the woman ap- Dalrl, mnklng p«wslble a Junction with proach«»d Mr. Nobel and said she had the railway trunk line of Klushu. It Is decided what she wanted, but doubt­ estlmat«»d that five years will be re­ quired to complete the proJecL ed whether she woul<1 get It. "Go ahead," said the rich dynamite China May Restore Canals. maker; "I told you to ask for what- , China, In Its pressing need for trans­ ever you wlshe«!." "Will you give me your income for portation facilities. Is considering the restoration of Its old-time system of ' one day. then, Mr. Nobel T’ It took 11 men to figure It out, but canals, of which there were at one time I the housek«»eper received for a wel­ 00,000 miles within the empire. Cen­ ' ding present the sum of J28.(XX).—, turies before the Christian era the great rivers of the celestial empire Young I«adl«*«’ Journal. were diverted from their natural courses to form theee ancient water­ “Silver Bullets.” When Mr. l.loyd Ge»rge use«! the ex­ ways. pression “silver bullets" he probably No Proof. took the Idea from some Welsh Bacon—I see a statement In the pa­ legend about witches. It was once believed both In Wales and Scot­ per that the Chinese coltivato odor­ land that only silver bullets could less onions. Egbert—But how can they tell they hurt a witch when disguised as a are onions, then? hare. ¡••4 s*it this war: there won't be any Not This Year. An Imitator. i“ iyj«iou balls to stack up In ugly piles “What if baseball cloaca for the sea­ Jack—Our curate haa hero appoint­ |, ur parka. Thee« old cannon balls son?” , .absolutely Inappropriate for our ed an array chaplain. .Jc square«. Btlll. you know, you can't jTequare cannon balls, can you»— Vlggaa Magazine. TREES SPARED BY LIGHTNING Belts Seem te Pick Out SpaclM for Destruction, and Leave Their Companion? Untouched. Excellent ' i ONE SENTRY 1918. Bthyl—Well, be may have It In him. bat I don’t believe be ever caa bo as fanuj as the ort^oa! Cbariaj. “Nobody can deny that we might have won the pennant"—UmUvtlle QMrter-JaaraaL ____ _ The lightning seems to have its favorite victims among the trees. I have never known it to strike a beech­ tree. Hemlocks and pines are Its favorites ln my woods. In other regions the oak and the ash receive its attention. An ouk on my father's farm was struck twice in the course of many years, the last bolt proving fatal. The hard, or sugar muple, Is frequently struck, but only ln one Instance have I known the tree to be Injured. In this case a huge tree was simply demolished. Usually the bolt comes down on the outside of the tree, making a mark as If a knife had clipped off the outer surfaces of the bark, revealing the reddish- yellow Interior. In several cases have I seen this effect. But a few sum­ mers ago an unusually large and solid sugar-maple in my neighbor's woods received a charge that simply reduced it to stove-wood. Such a scene of utter destruction I have never before witnessed in the woods. The tree was blown to pieces as If it had been filled with dynamite. Over a radius of 50 or more feet the frag­ ments of the huge trunk luy scat­ tered. It was as If the bolt, battled so long by the rough coat of mail of the maple had . at last penetrated it and had taken full satisfaction. The explosive force probably came from the instantaneous vaporization of the sap of the tree by the bolt.—Century. In This Space Each Week Hereafter E SINCERELY believe that no matter what may be your station in life, the establish­ ment of a banking connection—then the full use of its advantages is the most important step that can be taken.