TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. JANUARY 10, 191». REPARTEE THAT HAD STING THEIR TRIBUTE TO FIGHTER ! HARVEST FROM UNDER OCEAN WOOL WILL LONG BE SCARCE SANITATION. Barber Mad* Borne Little Mletaka When He Started to “Kid** the Youngster In Khaki. Spontaneous Expressions of Admira­ tion From Colonials at Bight of Gallant American Destroyer. Kelp Has Been Proved of Such Value In Industry That It la Now Care­ fully Gathered. Life of a Pound of Valuable Produet Hao Been Shortened on Account of the War. It was all the barber's fault Ha had no business kidding the young boy. Goodness knows, the man In uni­ form never said anything to the bar­ ber before. This was the way it was: The young soldier was a frequent visitor at the barber shop on the ave­ nue. He didn’t have so much of a beard, but yet it demanded shaving once in a while. The barber had no­ ticed that the boy only came in on Saturday evenings. So he said: “Say, son, bow's it come you step in here only on Saturday nlyhts? Don't you need a shave often- er; can’t you get leave, or won’t you pay union prices?” The boy blushed. “I get the leave all right, and Uncle Sam pnys me about as often as any boss barber, but you see. I shuve myself once a week, and let you shave me once a week, too.” “So you’re Just on semi-frlendly terms with the safety, eh?” urged the barber. “Oh, I wouldn't say that," replied the soldier. “You see, I have two girls in this town. One I see every Wed­ nesday. Then I shave myself. The other I see every Saturday. Then I pay you the fifteen cents. Mary likes the movie soldier type, clean-cut, clean-snaven, handsome fellow. I see her on Wednesdays. Ruth thinks she cares for the bloody, scratched-up son of battle. I see her on Saturdays. Now you understand?” “Maybe,” laughed the barber, as he sharpened his never-ready razor. “You’ll give Mary my regards to­ night?” "Mary!” said the soldier. “Mary! Bless you, man, did you think I was going to see Mary! Nope, I see Ruth every Saturday night.”—Indianapolis News. The next sunrise found us anchored at the entrance to an English harbor. Ahead and astern, as far as the eye could reach, stretched a line of ships waiting to carry food into England. That is how England is being starved by Germany 1 And that is how the British and American navies are do­ ing their work I After several deeply loaded ships had shot in past us we got our pilot and Joined the procession. Bound out in the opposite direction a powerful destroyer of the latest type swept up, three black plumes trailing from her funnels and a great white bone tn her teeth. She was the very spirit of daBh and daring, with a tinge of swank. “I say, that's a tophole,” “Look at that," "Absolutely It,” “Ripping,” was chorused In the English of the Isles. A big South African nudged me. “Yank, look at that flag." It was the Stars and Stripes. More than all the speeches I had beard on the significance of this war to the Anglo-Saxons meant the quick glimpse of that fine ship under that flag outward bound to defend the shores of England. “Come on, Springboks, a good one for the Yanks,” yelled the big colontai, and the men who had licked the Ger­ mans In East Africa and who were going to lick them in France roared the Zulu war cry.—Gregory Mason in Outlook. A good deal has been written about “Even with peace it is doubtful if nor clothes will return to normal, in price or otherwise, until long after the war,” writes Douglas Jaspersen in Everybody's. “The necessity of re­ habilitating the millions of men In khaki is already a problem. This vast army to be reclothed will be a heavy drain upon the world’s already ex­ hausted wool and shoddy markets. Then, too, the need of depleted Ger­ many for wool and shoddy should fur­ ther tend to increuse the shortage all over the world. “Ever since the beginning of the war shoddy has been disappearing from our midst at an alarming rate, while the production of wool has been en­ tirely inadequate to the world's needs. “In normal times the life of a pound of wool In Its vurious Incarnations ex­ tends over a period of years. "But war, the most wasteful of all businesses, has changed the old order of things. Both the virgin wool and the shoddy that went to make up that khukl coat for some soldier are buried, with its wearer, somewhere ‘over there' and will never return to do duty for us again. And so, in a great many cases, the life of a pound of wool has been suddenly reduced from some­ where around six years to as many months. Wool alone can never clothe the world. It has been shoddy that kept the world's clothing bill down for many a year, and until the shoddy sup­ ply Is normal again we can all expect to have more or less trouble with our clothes.” That the germ la the cause of moat deadly disease is more than mere theory—it is a real fact. The work of tuberculosis sanitariums, the ty­ phoid hospitals in the canal zone, the vaccine laboratories are all evi­ dence of the fact that the safety of man does not depend on good or bad luck, but upon the fight which each Individual makes upon the disease germs, the cause of most losses of life and dollars. In selecting a weap­ on to kill the germs of disease several vital questions must be looked squar­ ely in the face or disinfectantlng will be little better than useless. First— Has the disinfectant the power to kill all kinds of disease germs? 2nd, Can the disinfectant be used safely whenever disease germs are found? 3rd, Is it effective, when used any­ where and every where, and by any body, and can it be used with safety? Therefore a disinfectant that can be used with safety must not be a poison or coatine acid, whereas poisonous disinfectants endanger the life of human beings or animals, this can be verified by turning to the files of our daily papers. When buying a dis­ infectant be sure what you buy as your life may depend on that pur­ chase, look at the label, note the germ killing power and if it is poison or not. Disinfectants are measured upon the germ killing strength of undiluted carbolic acid, which they term a phenol coefficient. Look for the phenol coefficient on the label. B. K. was tested by the United States Hygiene Laboratory and found to have a phenol coefficient 10 plus or ten times stronger than undiluted carbolic acid as a germ killer. Much stronger than coal tar disinfectants —much safer. Safe—B-K. contains .no .poison, acid or oil. Clean__ B.--K. 18 colorless, leaves stain on floors or walls. Drodorant— B.-K. destroys foul odors leaves no odor of itself. DIDN’T WANT TO BE LEFT OUT Doughboy Had Good Job Behind the Lines, But He Hated to Miss the Big Show. He was an American in France in a uniform trudging along townrd the front, a husky chap wearing a worried look on his face. “Say, do you know where the Nthty- ntth .ls?" he asked. “Right on the road going straight toward Germany.” “Not through fighting yet, are they?" he queried anxiously. “Nope; they’re never through.” “You've said it, Bo. You see, I kind of batted out of luck. They sent me off to school, and I’ve missed a lot of the show. I’m on permission now, but I figured I'd come up and fight awhile with the old crowd instead. Got six days more before I report for the new job.” “What kind of school did you go to J” “Horseshoeing school. I graduated first-class horseshoer. Not bad work, but too far back to get any Boches. That’s the reason I'm spending permis­ sion with the old outfit. I heard they’re going right after t-he Heinles, so I came out to get in on the party. I gotta beat it along. So long.” He trudged along the dusty road, speeding up in spite of his pack, to catch up with the "outfit” before the show was all over. Misused Donkey. The British transport to Buku and back again Is said to have been largely accomplished by donkeys, writes Nor­ man Hapgood in Leslie’s. In Mesopo­ tamia the donkey does nearly every­ thing. He delivers the drinking water to the houses of Bagdad. He trans­ ports vegetables, fruit, marhle, brick for ordinary life. In war he carries the soldier, his kit, end the donkey’s own meal of barley. Where did the donkey ever acquire the reputation of being stupid? He is amiable, indus­ trious, sure footed. It was on a donkey that Mahomet went td heaven to learn the will of God. The Savior on Palm ( Sunday entered Jerusalem on a don­ key. The little animal’s history is dis-' tlngulshed, as his character is strong and his Intellect sound. That the writ­ ers of fables and the concoct era of say­ ings have contrived to ruin his fame there Is nothing In history to Justify. | Triumph of American Dyes. The latest official reports for the fis­ cal year which ended with June show that the American exports of aniline dyes for 1818 amounted to >7,296,080. This, when compared with our Imports of aniline dyes in 1814, is significant I of the strides made by American chem­ ists in the dye situation. Germany supplied these coal dyes before the war ( and America paid more than >7.000,000 ' a year for the products. Today Amer- ; lea makes enough of the leading colors for home needs and is supplying other countries in large quantities, as the exports indicate. In the early days of 1915 there were but seven companies In America pro­ ducing colors. Today It Is estimated ' that there are about 150 concerns In I this line. Interested In Firearms. When brother returned from Sunday school, mamma explained to him that he soon would be old enough to sing in the vested choir and probably would be accepted as a member, if he was a good boy. She emphasized the matter of deportment and said some who were good and faithful in attendance got to carry the cross In the proces­ sional, others to carry flowers. “Do any of them carry revolvers?” little brother Inquired. | i 1 ' 1 j the use of the seaweed, kelp, for the production of potash, and a good deal of extravagant dreaming lias been in­ dulged in. However, the kelp Industry has put Itself on a solid and prosper­ ous footing, and gold in the Bhape of the Indispensable potash is being har­ vested from the waters of the Pacific. The cutters or harvesters are ocean­ going boats and stay out at sea all the time, while the barges carry the mac­ erated kelp back to the wharf, where it Is pumped from the holds into fer­ menting tanks. Foreign matter such as bolts, nuts, etc., brought In with the kelp are removed by electromagnets before the pumps are reached. Harvesting consists In cutting the plant about six feet below the surface of the water. It has actually been found that this treatment Improves the growth and stand of the beds to such an extent that they may be cut over about every 80 days. The area cut at present extends from Point Conception south to the Mexican line. The potash is all used for chemical purposes, owing to its unique purity, and there is not enough of it to sup- ply this demand. The total quantity of the pure product is not great enough to be considered seriously for fertilizer purposes. There are, however, a num­ ber of residues produced containing potash which amount to quite a ton nage. INNER MAN WELL FORTIFIED ' NOW SHORTAGE OF CANDLES American Soldier, Ordered to the Front, at Least Old Not Set Out on Mission Hungry. British Food Ministry Seeks Method by Which It May Be Enabled to Regulate Supplies. IN SPANISH HALL OF FAME The Name of Espartero, Duke of Vit­ An American doughboy entered a News is coming from many parts toria, Hao Been Properly Ac­ restaurant in the Rue Richelieu and of the country that the shortage of corded High Poeltlon. after carefully studying the menu, or­ candles is increasing owing to the fact dered dejeuner. i that many people who did not use them Fifty years ago Queen Isabella was The waitress brought him bacon and before are now supplementing theli dethroned, and Spain threw off the eggs, cheese and a pint of beer. When gas and electric light rations by their yoke of the Bourbons and Inaugurated he had finished eating, he paid his bill use. It is becoming more clear every a new order of things, looking at least end called the waitress. ■ day that some means must be adopted to the establishment of a constitutional “Now I want some lunch.” to insure that householders in rural government, if not a government of the This time she brought him a plate of districts, where there Is no gas or elec­ people. roast beef, vegetables and chicken, tricity, have an adequate supply of Espartero, duke of Vittoria, was which he washed down, with half a lllumlnants. Important national Indus- placed at the head of the state. He dozen cups of tea; then he paid his ties which cannot well be carried on bad occupied that position on two for­ bill and called the wondering waitress without an adequate candle supply mer occasions. He aided in securing back again. i must also be protected. A scheme for the succession of Isabella, and success­ “Now, my dear, I want dinner.” controlling candle supplies is engaging fully led her armies in putting down He ate some beef, vegetables, ap­ the attention of the ministry of food. the Curllsts. In the insurrection -Of ples and drank a bottle of wine. During and since last winter there 1840, caused by the law suppressing the At 1:80, after having taken all three has been a candle shortage. The oils freedom of speech in the town coun­ meals at once, the soldier left the res­ •nd fats branch of the ministry of food, cils, Espartero became head of the taurant, and a little while later set within whose view this matter comes, government and was confirmed in that out on a mission to the front—Stars have received numerous complaints position by the cortes, and was ap­ and Stripes. from rural councils and individuals of pointed regent during the minority of the difficulty of getting supplies and of the queen. He was deposed in 1843 Nitrogen From Atmosphere. retail prices going up by leaps and and had to fly to London for safety. There has been erected at the Unit­ bounds. There is evidence of a new In 1847 he was recalled to Spain and ed States department of agriculture’s demand having sprung up within the by the revolution of 1854, which drove experiment farm at Arlington, Va., the Inst six weeks, accentuating last win­ the Queen Mother Chrlstinla and Nar­ largest experimental plant in the Unit­ ter’s shortage and making a candle vaez from the country, he wus again ed States for the production of nitro­ famine imminent.—Manchester Guard­ placed at the head of the government, gen from air. The nitrogen so pro­ ian. a position which he resigned in 1856. duced is combined 'with hydrogen to Espartero was born in 1792. He was form ammonia, which can be used in War Coinage In Germany. the son of a wheelwright, commenced the manufacture of explosives and fer­ Due to metal shortage Germany has life as a common soldier in the Span­ tilizers. Experiments with the view instituted iron coinage. The fraction­ ish army and gained his honors and of increasing the efficiency of the proc­ al mark coins are no longer of copper titles by his own ability as a soldier ess are now being conducted by the and nickel, but are forgings of Sie­ and statesman. bureau of soils. The Haber process of mens-Martin steel. The coinage of manufacturing nitrogen is being em­ copper was discontinued in 1917. Alu­ White Light Best. ployed. This process Involves the pro­ minum had been coined to a small ex­ White light seems to be the most duction of ammonia from hydrogen tent before' the war; the smallest eomfortuble for the eye. In tests of and nitrogen. The two gases are mix­ coins, one and two pfennig pieces, are the effects of various lllumlnants C. E. ed in the proper proportion, put under now made of aluminum, which is more Ferree and J. Rand, as described to high pressure and subjected to intense attacked by ordinary water, soda, the American Illuminating society, heat. They are then passed over a salts, etc., than by distilled water. have used kerosene lamps and various spongy iron, whereupon a portion of Zinc coins have recently been Intro­ ! incandescent lamps and it appears the mixture combines to form am­ duced. Zinc coins had been used in from the results that the color of the French Indo-Chlna; they are again light has a marked effect on eye monia. more apt to corrode, especially when fatigue. With the white light of the impure with lead, cadmium and Iron, tungsten lamp there was the least loss Fish-Skin Shoes. At the recent exposition of the in distilled water than In ordinary wa­ to the worker from need of resting chemical Industries at Nfcw York there ter; they turn yellow-brown, but as­ the eyes. The fatigue was somewhat was an Interesting exhibit of leather sume a pleasant gray tint in soda and 1 greater with the yellow light of the made from the skin of fishes, shark, salt On the whole, the cheapest Iron carbon lamp or kerosene lamp, and porpoise and tuna fish, which showed coins have answered best.—Engineer­ greatest of all with the tungsten lamp having a blue bulb. it to be as full of good qualities as in» leather made from ths skins of ani­ New Burlap Substitute. Some Benefit From Polson Gao. mals. Manufacturers engaged on govern­ Chemists are planning to use inven­ Scientists of the Pratt Institute and the United States bureau of fisheries ment contracts are being offered a sub­ tions devised to protect soldiers from have been experimenting with fish skin stitute for burlap by a large Massa­ the poison gas of the Huns for the pro­ as a substitute for leather, and the chusetts mill which has discovered a tection of Industrial workers in mines raw hide of sharks and porpoises al­ material that can successfully be used and factories. The absorbents used in Instead of 100 per cent gas masks may also serve as sate ready is tn commercial use. Porpoise for baling. skin razor strops have been used for Jute, the substitute Is made of one guards from foul gases which are years, and other kinds of fish leather strand of Swedish pulp paper and two generated in certain industrial process­ would have been on the market long strands of Jute. It is made nine and es. Likewise, some of the poison gases ago, the scientists say, had It not been 12 ounces in weight and 36. 40, and 48 that American chemists have devised that there was an abundance of real inches deep. A government tost of the in reprisal against German deviltry, it nine-ounce product shows a tensile is believed, can be used In the exter­ leather. strength of 119 pounds, as against 80 mination of vermin and also for the dis­ pounds for regular eight-ounce burlap. infection of fruit orchards from insects Industrial Exemption. Oonscrlption boards have their trou­ —New Bedford Standard. and other blights, such as San Jose _________________ I •cate. bles, and occasionally a tragedy, but once la a while they have a little Joke, New Textile Material. too. The local draft board at Scotts­ Textiltt. said to be used in 29 of Repopulation Problem. burg thinks It has a “good one" on the the largest German factories, Is a sub- 1 The relchstag Is concerned with third district appeal board. Stltute material that is predicted to problems which threaten the German Recently the Scottsburg board sent outlast the war as a permanent addi­ birth rate. It is recommended to get up papers of a man who sought ex­ tion to the textile Industry. It con- 1 the workers away from the cities, emption because of marriage since Au­ slats of a paper thread and a fiber where they can have small detached gust 5, 1618. In due time the papers thread twisted together and. though ! cottages In which light and country were returned by the appeal board with the percentage of long fiber is very | ■lr and nutritious food can be ob­ the ruling "deferred classification re­ small, it is claimed to have yielded ' tained. This course would tend to In­ fused. Place can be filled by another." products that the uninitiated cannot 1 crease the number of births. It has been It Is presumed that the appeal clerks distinguish from the former linen and learned that about half nf the muti­ wrote a reason for refusal of an appeal Jute fabrics. The fiber gives a firm­ lated soldiers are marrying women old­ for exemption on industrial grounds on ness that patter fabrics do not pos- | er thun themselves, a custom which is the papers Instead of the one intended seas. The material Is made into weav- > pernicious for repopulation. To check I Ing and sewing yarns and webs of all Infant mortality more children's clin­ for case.—Indianapolis News. 1 kinds. ics will be established. Impedimenta. How much stuff does a Yank take Into the line? It all depends on the Yank. In one squad you will see a man carrying full pack. Including extra shoes and overcoat, and wearing a whole spring of corned Willie cans much as a Fiji Islander wears a loin cloth Another man In the same squad will go up minus his blouse, and car­ rying only a blanket, gas mask and helmet.—Paris Stars and Stripes. Correct. A fanny one occurred In Judge Wood’s court the other day, observes the Los Angeles Times. It was a di- j ‘ vorce case and the witness was in- ! cllned to be vague. Finally he mus- itere