NEW SHELL SINKS BOATS UNDER SEA Terrific Explosion Wrecks Witiiin 100 Feet. SUBMARINES' GREATEST FOE Secret Device as Conan Fuse Has Fought German U Boats In British Waters —Can Be Fired From Cannon or Dropped From an Aero plane. A diving projectile, as effectively de structive under the water as the shell •fa six inch lie'.d gun Is on land, has swept the seas clear of German sub- Marines for Great Britain uud her ul ®e, says u special corres|K>udent of ths Kew York World, writing from Paris. For at least two months, and probably longer, the British admiralty, by meant f war craft and sea planes specially •quipped to hurl this new engine of 4eath. has hunted the U boats to tlieii lairs or to the bottom of the North sea In revealing the existence of this in vention the World provides the first au thoritative explanation of the lull in Admiral von Tirpitz's blockade of the British isles. The Conan fuse, as it is termed officially. Is the British ad ■liraliy's most precious asset toda; ' ud its most closely guarded secret- Certain information about the device la hi the possession of the Italian tniu latry of marine, but probably not th details of the recent Improvement.-, which have made it an absolutely suit? weapon. The United States navy department •Iso knows a good deal about its gen eral workings, flow the facts now published for the first time reached tin "World correspondent obviously can no' be fully disclosed. Suffice that all the data have been confirmed by an Amer ican uaval authority who has com pleie knowledge outside the British ad wlrulty. Invented by an Irishman. Tbe salient features of the Conaa fuse are as follows: It was invented three years ago by mi Irishman named Walter Conan. Whose home is in Dublin. It may be affixed to a shell tirefc Sfcom a rifled gun or howiztor or to a bomb dropped from an aeroplane. In striking the water the projectile •f which the Conan apparatus forms t part, dives and explodes at any prede tenuiued depth tip to thirty feet be low the surface. It explodes within fifty feet of the point at which it is aimed. Discharged from a six inch gun. the dbock of its explosion under water is Sufficient to sink a submarine (usually by making it turn turtle), shatter a •hip's propeller, puncture an armor belt or blow up a mine field within a audi us of KM) feet. The principle on which Conan evolv ed bis fuse Is that by the projection ef a wire into the tube water may he Induced to flow freely through u very narrow tube through which it would not pass otherwise. Capillary action apparently aids the water to follow the wire through the tube. It is understood that Conan has tak en out a patent in the United States for pipes feeding gasoline to motor oi aeroplane engines on this principle, the Talue of such a patent being the avoid ance of air locks. The Conan fuse is used In conjunc tion with the British apparatus for Ue- N tcciing the presence of submarines by means of sound waves. Once the pres ence of a submarine is knewn an aero plane can he sent up to locate the un dersea boat and drop a bomb or signal to a surface vessel. Submarines under the surface are plainly visible from aeroplanes. The problem which was hardest to solve was that of making the all impor tant tubes of the fuse adjustable to any depth. Originally it had beeu nec essary to cut the tubes in varying lengths so they would become oj>era tive at various depths. Siuce the he pinning of the war. however. Conan •ml his assistants have been able to construct tubes which may be adjusted almost as easily as the uose of a shell and which net as exactly as any laud fuse. Explosion Felt on Shore. At one of the experiments a Conan projectile, charged with thirty-five pounds of black powder, exploded with a force that was felt 800 meters away an shore. It Is because of the lucom pressibillty of water, which communi cates a concussion to neighboring ob jects with undiminished force, that the apparatus is so dangerous to subma rines. Exploding within 100 feet of a submarine, for instance, it creates, even without actually striking the craft, a Wave so mighty as to overturn aod thus ■ink it. MOTHER OF 9 IN 18 MONTHS. Four Boys Born Year and Six Months After Quintet. With the birth of four boys a record that will probably surpass any othei In the world was established by Airs ♦ Jaithir Drewry of Spencer conntv K v. Mrs. Drewry, who is about :hl 7- years old. is the m rive rh'ldreu we .ir!i 1 ?! -s. P ew r;.\ three hoys •::! t girls . q-r's Pied hut th* I-.si ;< >•< it! el V. DECLARES HE IS AGAINST WILSON DEFENSE PLAN "•• • j iV ':•£' '•>/ rc Jo\l'% F V 1/ ■ V 1 i / s?' ■'■■■ "-it i \ , ' I . .■ :* ; I : P ' •/ ' V, i | : ' ' ' J Photo by American Pres* ISAAC R. SHERWOOD, Congressman From O io. ! j KAISER TEETOTALER? RAUS! J Not Even Bryan Can Call Empero* Bad Name to This German. Washington. Nov. 15.—Senator Pom erene of Obio tells a story of William J. Bryan's recent campaign for the drys in Ohio, and how Mr. Bryan was suspected of violating neutrality by, one of his whilom German admirers. In the course of an argument at Can ton for prohibition Mr. Bryan ob served he was glad so many Germans were present and remarked that the German emperor was a "teetotaler." Immediately there was a disturb ance in the audience and several men were seen struggling with an excited German who appeared to be trying to reach Mr. Bryan. The speech was suspended and '.he excited individual led out. Later some one asked why he tried to break up the meeting. "He called the kaiser a bad name," was the reply. "I didn't think Mr. Bryan would do it." BLIND EYE MADE GOOD. Operation Has Peculiar Effect ef Re* ' storing Sight. An operation for appendicitis per formed on Ralph von Hacbt. aged twenty-three, of Mllford, Conn., has resulted in the restoring to the young man of the sight of one eye. which had been blind since his birth. The operation was performed by Dr Francis Campbell and members of the staff of Trinity hospital, New York. When the physicians removed Von Hacht's appendix several weeks ago they bad no idea that they were going j to restore his sight It seems, how ; ever, that the appendix had been rest ing against one of the large nerves that form part of the system which connects with the optic nerves. After the operation. Von Haeht for the first time in his life distinguished darkness from light with his blind eye Soon be began to see objects with the eye. He was warned by the doctors j not to exert his "blind" eye too much, but to allow it to grow stronger gradu- | ally. He said that The "blind" eye was I nearly as good as tbe other eye. ANCONA KNOWN AS RESCUE SHIP First Passenger Liner Tor pedoed Since the Arabic. WEiIT TO AID OF SANf ANNA For Several Months Before Italy's En itrance Into War Ancona Was En gaged in Carrying Italian Reservists From This Country and Supplies For Italian Government. Following tbe sinking by a large sub marine of the Italian liner Ancoua, It was recalled that recently Count TOB Bernstorff. tbe German ambassador, announced that he had received an of ficial communication from Berlin to the effect that German submarines bad re cently sunk twenty-three vessels. In cluding four transi>orts. belougiug to the allies in Mediterranean waters. The Ancoua is the first passenger liner torpedoed since the Arabic. The Ancoua was a comparatively new steamship, and since the entrance of Italy into tbe war she had carried large quantities of munitions, horses and reservists from this port. She last left New York on Oct. 17 and arrived on Oct. 2i* at Naples, whore most of her cargo was unloaded. The Ancona was a twin screw ves sel of tons displacement. She was -iS'J feet In length. ."N feer in beam and had a <> '!> of 31 ft vt. She was built at Belfast, Ireland, in lOCS, The Ancoua hud beeu hi .be Italian line service /or ais /ears and without her cargo was valued at more rban $1,000,000. Rescued Sar.t' Anna's Passengers. The Ancoua played a prominent part in the rescue of passengers from the burning Fabre liner Saut' Anna in mid- Atlantic on Sept. 12. She went to tbe Saut* Anna's aid and took off more than COO passengers. The Saut' Anna carried more than 2,000 passengers, but succeeded in checking tbe fire unci proceeded to tbe Azores without fur ther assistance. For several months before Italy's en trance into the war the Aucona was engaged in carrying home Italian re servists from this country and supplies for the Italian government. On one of her trips from New York to Naples late in August last year the Ancoua was stopped by the British at Gibral tar, and twenty-four Germans and one Austrian were taken off. Late last summer tbe Anemia left here for Italy with 75.000 bushels of whent. 2,000 tons of hay and 500 horses for the Italian government. On the same voyage she carried 300 Ital ians in the steerage, who went back because it was said et the time that they cenld not get. work c* New York subway. All Her Crew Italic*. When the Ancona left New *ork on ber Inst voyage from there. Oct tT, she was In command of Captain Pief*. Mnssnrdo. All of her officers, engine room force and members of the crew were Itatlans. who shipped from Italy. Next to Gibraltar. Bizerta. Africa, where tbe survivors were landed, b* probably the l>est lair in the Mediter ranean for r boat® to prey on the mer chant ships and troop of the al lien. Lying opposite tne southeastern point of Sicily, where tfie African const swings ont until n channel of sca-cely 'Jrifi miles is left between the main land and the island, it offers an ideal 'ene for submarine operations, because of its strategic s-.t THE CURIOUS KANGAROO. A Theory Its Gueur Style o* Anima/ Architecture Suggests. The kangaroo ramuy ta unique and k round only tn AQsu-aiiou It is the mo l reaiur&aoie branch the order of tin marsupials, or poortaeO animals, il l poucti being a kind <*t pocket in whit 4 the young are nourished end protectef for a long time after terra The OJK>* w w en esMqgnr marsupial u nteDiang tan if bears uo ou4 ward resembltar he % kangaroo The marsupials arose in very uncien geological times somewhere In the mo sozoic age. and later on nearly disap peared except in Australia and neigh boring islands, where today they con stitute the characteristic native fauna. There is one curious fact about the kangaroo which appears all the more singular when we reflect upon the great antiquity of the order of the mar supials. It almost looks as if this ex traordinary Australian animal repre sents a survival of a style of animal architecture which was once a favorite with nature, but has siuce been a ban doued. The frames of these creatures are characterized by an enormous develop ment of the posterior parts, In luding gigantic tails and massive thighs .and hind legs. If any of the dinosaurs b:id a leaping power comparable with iba: of the kangaroo the terror inspired by their forms must have been raatcheJ by that arising from their movement*. —New York Jonrnal. HIS DAY OF REST. A Town In Franco Wfiere a Legal Holi day Is Strictly Observed. The jeweler's face expressed bewil derment and astonishment and amuse ment. He looked irom the artist to nic and back again at the artist. He started at the f ml of every sentence to say something, hut the artist didn't give him a hauce. Ibe artist kept on talking, v. hi e I kept on trying to con trol my sen o of humor. I wanted to shri. k. i i n;. d for the ability to w. io short nan '. so that 1 ou d put it il ov. uft r p-attcrity. The artist had left a watch to be mended, and we were standing in front of the jeweler's shop on one of the uar row streets of Douarueuez. a town in the extreme west of France. The shut ters were up in front of the shop, anil tbe jeweler was in his shirt sleeves, looking as if he had beeu waked up by our knock from an enjoyable after dejeuner sleep. The artist and I were leaving by the 3:15 train for Pont Croix, and we didn't Intend to come back this way. It was Thursday, hut the jeweler had politely explained that be could not give us the watch until to morrow, although it was all ready and was hanging from its little hook in the abop at whose oien do jr we stood. The reason was that Thursday had been chosen by the jeweler for his repos hebdomadaire —the one day in seven rest imposed by law.—Herbert Adams Gibeou in Harper's Magazine. Light of a Deep Sea Shrimp. One of tbe most extraordinary Crus tacea ever discovered was dredged up by the Prince of Monaco from a depth of IG.OOO feet. It has been named Oplophorus grimaldL It ha sort of shrimp, and its peculiarity Is that if squirts from two holes near its mouth a liquid which, on coming into contact with salt water, produces a fine pale blue light. Absolute darkness reigns in tht depths where it lives, but the little shrimp does not find it necessary tc keep Its light always burning. This would use up too much energy, so if squirts out the illuminating fluid only when It wants to look at something, or perhaps to attract the minute animal eulae that form its food.—New York World. A Risky Study. •Why have you dropped your popu lar astronomy?" asked the visitor. "'Cause I got too many lickings," confided Tommy. "The other night I told pa that Mars' face was ever chang ing. and ma heard me and thought I meant her face. Next thing I didn't pet any supper and got a licking aides."—Chicago News. JS CHAIRMAN OF SENATE I COMMITTEE GN CENSUS J United States Senator From West Virginia. Th* Human Face. Koea Bonheur, the great painter f anlmais, had a system of mnemonics which was exceedingly quaint She could trace In the faces of those peo ple who visited her a resemblance to Borne sort of animal. For instance, if some one reminded ber of a certain lady she would probably hesitate for a moment and then say. "Oh. yes. the lady with the camel face!" or. "Oh. I remember—she had a cow facer This memory system was not Battering to her friends, but it showed how satu rated she was with a knowledge of an imals and their characteristi.-s. On ev ery human tsv e she found a likeness to some animal she had studied and de lineated I® OPP. Y. M. C. A. ! 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