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GERMAN YACHT CAUGHT BY COAST PATROL
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1 4'nmp of tin' .NiiiIiiiiiiI Service school, tin military p -i purcdneKS camp for womcii, conducted liy tlit Navy league
ear-Washington. '- Miss Kdwardliiu Lnvole, buglerof til First field artillery bund of the New York National Guard.
Loading ammunition on the light railway that follows c'.osely the advance of the allies In France. 4 Itnymon
Me, president of runuina, whose country In standing by the United State.
FRENCH GUNNERS WATCHING FOR A SUBMARINE
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Cjniiers on a French destroyer photographed us they wvre watching for a Ciernmn sulmmrluu whose locution had
fl slginilcil hy an aviator.
THEY ARE THE FIRST TO GET THERE
e r.cniliinR cry of the marine corps is, "We are the first to get there."
n,.. r"'1'1' !,h"W8 " l'liKlunent of these soldiers of the sea on board a
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SUBMARINE CHASER AT TOP SPEED
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"f "U! I,1UJ' lx the fleet of pubmarine chasers, small vessels of
: lying a gun and WropS3 outflti
CAPT. G. H. BURRAGE
The German yacht Sparrowhawk, which was raptured b; the American coast patrol.
OFFICERS OF PRIZE WINNING TORPEDO BOAT
HEAD OF CANTEEN SERVICE
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The I'nlted Stales toinedo boat Patterson Is the wlnmv of (he prize for battle elllclency from marksmanship to
cleanliness. Left to right : Meat. S. S. Lewis of Texas, Meat. (). O. Hiigen of Minnesota, Knsign C. W. Johnson of Mis
sissippi and Capt. J. II. Newton of Pennsylvania.
Capt. 0. II. Burrage of Winchester,
Masi., has been assigned to the battle
ship Nebraska.
CUTTING THE BANDAGES
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Miss Helen Heed, u Ked Cross work
er, using an electrlcul machine for cut
ting cloth Into bumiuges.
LEFT BY THE RETREATING GERMANS
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Mrs. Donn Barber, acting chief of
the commissariat organized by 250
women to - provide a canteen service
for the troops. They are to net In
co-operntlon with the regular nrmy
and the National Guard. The eerv
Ico Is officially organized for three
kinds of service emergency, tempo
rary and permanent. The women will
go to where the men are encamped,
set up their canteen with Its full
equipment nnd be ready to serve food
and hot drinks.
Germans' Qiant Periscope.
One of the most Interesting of the
devices which have been produced dur
ing the war to amplify tho range of
human vision Is a giant periscope
which the French captured from the
Germans, says Popular Mechanics
Magazine. With this equipment an ob
server need not seek out some tall
tree or high tower from which to spy
on the enemy, for this collapsible steel
mast enn be reared nt any desired
point In a few minutes. At Its upper
end are a conical tube nnd lenses by
which horizontal light rays nre deflect
ed downwnrd to the observer stationed
below. Tho apparatus Is strongly
built nnd the carriage Is so made as
to form n wide spreading bnse. Sup
ported by the carrlago alone, the mast
can bo raised to a height of 50 feet.
When It Is extended to .Its full
length, which Is SO feet, guy ropes nre
required to steady Jt.
Salvage corps of British soldiers collecting rltles, helmets, cartridges, chair
ing and other impedimenta from a buttlelleld near Bapaume, France, the scene
of heavy lighting. Scenes such as this greet the eye nt every turn on the great
wide area over which the British have advanced, crushing back the Germans.
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.lean Mitchelle, private In the One Hundred nnd Twelfth regiment of the
French army, reflecting the smile of a United Stntes mvvnl ofllcor, both happy
In the relationship of their respective nations In the uphohllngof justice and
human rights. The French soldier Is In tills country on n four months' furlough
and Is (pending part of that precious time In helping the United Stntes navy
In Its recruiting campaign.
NOT NOBLE ANIMAL
Man Not Such Finished Product
as Imagined, Says Savant
Human Body Ha Points of Decided
Inferiority to Despised Mammals,
It la Asserted.
Investigation Is proving, declares
Dr. F. Wood Jones, professor of anat
omy at tho university of London, In his
new book, "Arboreul Man," thnt the hu
man body Is no such finished product
of evolution as we havo fondly linaf
Ined. It has points of decided inferior
ity to the physical frames of mammal
upon which we look with disdain aa
less finely formed than ourselves.
Some of the lower animals are tnor
capable of exquisite adaptations than
aro we ourselves. Their bodies are
more splendid Instruments than ours
nre, more complex, Indicative of a
higher stage of evolution on the physi
cal plane. Tho upright uttltude of man
hus been employed as an argument In
favor of his superiority to the four
footed beast physlologlrnlly, although
the evidence makes such an urgument
ridiculous. It would tend the other
way, says a review In the Lon
don Lancet.
If we compare man's body with th
body of so-called "lower organisms"
we nre astonished to find that his
points of resemblance nre with the
lowest in the scale of conscious being.
Man Is oddly unlike the noble beasts of
the Jungle; but he Is amazingly like
the creatures of a primitive type that
Infest tho bog, the pond nnd the
Kwnmp. Ills relatives are not tho lorda
of the forest, not tho kings of tho
Jungle, nor the mighty eagle, but the
creatures of tho slime.
How Is It that the various elements
of the remote ancestral llnil) have been
preserved In human limbs? Professor
Jones' answer Is thnt the primates
broke away from the early land living;
mammnllnn stock while the primitive
bones and muscles were still preserved.
In thnt stock. These primitive ele
ments proved useful and were pre
served In that particular form which
ndoptcd nn arboreal life nnd used tho
hand nnd foot to grasp with. The prim
itive plan on which the hands of mnn
nre built can be accounted for only by
supposing that man's ancestry spent n
long pilgrimage In the trees. It was
during man's arboreal phase of exist
ence that the vast majority of those
anatomical characters which we re
gard as adaptations to man's upright
posture were evolved. These anatomi
cal traits Indicate how low we ure. -Current
Opinion.
Dirty Windows and Poor Eyes.
The factors largely responsible for
poor Illumination nre small, narrow
windows, low power nrtlllclal lights
placed too far from the point of opera
tion, nnd neglect of facilities at hand
for obtaining light, according to tho
Pennsylvania Department of Labor
and Industry. By this neglect Is meant
lack of cleanliness. This applies llrst
of nil to the windows. There 1.4
scarcely n single Industrial locality
which does hot contain at least one
building, and all too frequently sev
eral buildings of the same type. They
are built with a supply of window
space sutllclent to lllumlnato amply
the Interior. Tho dust und dirt accu
mulated upon them, however, destroy
In large proportion their usefulness.
The snme condition Is found In arti
ficial lighting. The electric light bulb,
dusty or streaked with dirt, tho result
of hurried nnd Incomplete nttempts nt
wnshlng, often shaded with a fixture
meant to be a reflector, but which In
reality Is anything but thnt, faintly
illuminates the work und Impairs tho
health nnd tho elllclency of tho work
er. Sclent Iflc American.
His Fables Were Classics.
Jean de In Foutidne. tbe seventeenth
century French genius, who ranks
among the grentest fabulists of nil
time, died 2'J2 years ago, at the nge of
seventy-four, and to the last he was as
nnlve, Improvident, reckless nnd good
hearted as a child.
He wns the son of a magistrate, and
In his youth , proposed to become a
priest, but abandoned thnt project aft
er eighteen months In n semlnury, and
thereafter, for several years, led an
Idle and dissipated life. His early ef
forts ns poet nnd dramatist were of
little worth, and It was not until ho
was forty-four that he gained fame
with his "Contes pour Klre" tales for
laughter.
La Fontaine's masterpiece, his
"Fables," were published between 1(!(3
nnd 101M, the last book having been
completed shortly before bis death. In
these he satirized the whole range of
human nature In lis animal counter
parts, nnd produced a work that will
nlwnys rank ns a great classic.
The Eccentric Chinese.
Petroleum mny be n thing for which
one's taste has to be cultivated. At any
rate, the Chinese dislike the smell nnd
touch of it so badly that they are much
In tho situation of the peoplo who
seventy-five years ngo had salt works
n western Pennsylvania they abomi
nate the petroleum and abandon a well
when the proportion of oil to brine
gets high. Their repugnance for crude
petroleum may be measured by tho
fact that In China It takes from one
to three generations to bore a well!
For the reflncd products of petroleum
they have no such aversion, or even
for the tin cans In which they get It
from tho United Stntes, making out of
the latter a source of almost ns many
of the necessaries of life as a South
Sen Islanders finds In his favorite co
conut palm. The Nation's Business.
A Helping Hand.
Decker (watching the game over her
shoulder) Gee, Miss Oldglrl, I'd like
to hold thnt hand of yours I
Miss Oldglrl Oh, Mr. Decker, this
Is so Budden I
Low Postage Rates.
The cheapest postal service In tho
world Is uald to bo that of Japan. Let
ters travel for two sen about seven
tenths of a penny.
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