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AEROPLANE SCOUT F This picture showrf one of the ari snapped just as it returned to its bai scouting expedition. The lieutenant; the enemy's positions, is hurrying off t of the division. nnniuin nr ninnill urnum ur unnufln II Development of Indicated Operat of Turks From Constantinople and Grain, While Russia C Her Territory for f New York.?The Herald's naval correspondent writes: The most striking characteristic of this great war Is the rapidity with which its main interest centers first |n one part of the world and then In another. Something like eight thousand miles separated the scene of < the battle off the Falkland islands and that off the Dogger bank, while on - Vsrt ? linn on the Belgian coast qr the campaign in Lorraine, and at another in the Carpathians or on tr* life-and-death struggle in Poland. This week the nt hnth naval and military watchers of the conflict have been directed to the Dardanelles, the gates of Asia. There another phase of the world-wide war Is opening, the effect of which no man can tell. Each of the contending empires In the conflict possesses an advantage which In a measure compensate one the other. While Britain holds the command of the sea, Germany has the Interior position on land, which enables her to strike alternately heavy blows on either front. She also has been able, with the assistance of Austria and Turkey, and aided by the geographical conditions, to drive a wedge between the communications of her enemies which extends from the North sea almost to the Indian ocean. The movement in the Mediterranean indicates the determination on the part of the superior sea power to cut that wedge in two. The strategic Importance of the straits between Europe and Asia has been recognized from very ancient times. It was on the Chersonese, the i peninsula on the western side of the straits, that the Turks got their first looinoia in Europe. n may ?cij ?cu be that if it now falls into the hands of Great Britain its occupation by British troops will mean the uprooting of the last vestige of Ottoman rule in the northern continent. There are at least indications of the development of a far-reaching operation from both ends of the Sea of Marmora, having for its purpose the expulsion of the Turk from Constantinople. There are other objects of first-class importance to be obtained from a successful attack on the Dardanelles. Now that the Archangel route is closed by ice, communication between Russia and her allies has almost entirely ceased. There is no outlet for the immense supplies of corn and oil of which they are in want and which she could furnish, and, on the other hand, the only source of supply of the munitions of war, which she cannot manufacture herself, must be brought over the long and difficult road from Vladivostok and Harbin. The opening of the Dardanelles and the Bosporus must have, therefore, an immediate and important effect both in the western and eastern theaters of war. Nor can it be doubted that a substantial I gain of this character to Germany's foes would directly influence the na Itions which have been for so long hesitating about entering the war. All the Balkan States would be affected considerably, and while Greece could scarcely stand still with Russia at the gates of Constantinople, Italy might well feel that this sharp stroke removed the last doubt as regarding the side with which she should be acting. Of the operation itself, although the Dardanelles have long been regarded as impregnabl . it is more than likely that as other fortresses have failed to maintain their security teturns to report L * . ?v -38 ' v > * jt.' ^jHr oitfki-*- \ f -u ?SV('. v :' t :::^:'xt>:::vK:>^ :': :<^K; ;x ::x:x^v:4:w:-: ^ nored aeroplanes of the British corps Be after having gone on an iraportani who had been making observations o: o report his findings to the commander ELLES BM EREAGHIN6 EFFECTS ibns Seems to Purpose Expulsioi ?Allies in West End Need Oil lesires Southern Ingress to ler War Shipments. against'the modern materials of wai so those in the straits will be over whelmed by the mass of explosive* hurled upon them from the long-rang< artillery of the battleships of today When the forts in the straits wer< planned ships were dependent upoi the wind and they carried guns whicl could not Compare in power wltl those mounted in the land batteries __When Vice-Admiral-Duoltworth -tee] a British squadron through the strata in 1807 his vessels were assailed wit! huge shots, some of them weighing 80( pounds, but even these heavy missilet did little damage. Today the Britist ships will throw shells filled with hlgt explosives, each more than double the weight of the shot thrown at Vice-Ad miral Duckworth's ships, and the de struction wrought by such missilet will be immeasurably greater. Moreover, it is unnecessary for the ships themselves to approach neai enough to be injured by the shore bat teries, even if the guns in these have been somewhat augmented from Ger man sources. It is already announced that the forts at the mouth of the straits, about two miles apart, have been crumbled into atoms, and those in the narrows, further up, can be sim ilarly treated at ranges at which the ships themselves will be comparative ly immune. There remain other ob' structions in the shape of mines in the channel, but that these have been located by the British submarines is WHAT ONE SHELL DID Few people realize what great power there lies in the modern sheila and explosives. This unusual picture vividly tells what an enormous amount of destruction a shot from one of the French 75 mm. guns is able tc accomplish. When this horse was struck by the shell the force of the shot cut the animal in two and lifted the fore half of the carcass into the tree. There are 91,818 organized workers In Missouri, of whom 3,926 are women, certain, and their removal should be ?no difficult task. Once the passage < clear for the ships of war, and these are off Gallipoii, the remainder of the business is simple. With the numbers and composition of the Turkish garrison in the Gallipoii peninsula the British authorities must be acquainted, and, the forts being destroyed, a force of sufficient strength doubtless will be landed, If necessary under the fire of the guns. The configuration of the mainland by a narrow isthmus not four miles wide -* """l /-. Vinmho rrlmont at ouiau, a Liu u^/cu iu ? from the sea at either Bide, makes the occupation and holding of it by the stronger sea power easy. The possession of the peninsula, as the late admiral of the fleet, Sir Geoffrey Horn- I by, said in 1877, when he took an : ironclad fleet through, guarantees a safe passage, not only for the ships of war, but for their auxiliaries as well. The appearance of a Franco-British fleet off Constantinople and the consequent wiping out of the Ottoman navy, even with its German re-enforcfement, will make the task of Russia at the Bosporus end a light one. Already, it is said, Russian forces are assembling at Odessa and the transports are available whenever required, so, in the opinion of many astute onlookers, the ultimate success of this undertaking is scarcely in doubt. It will be one more lesson of the ubiquitous exercise of sea power. IMAGINED RAT WAS BURGLAR ' Girl Bitten by Rodent Thought Her Cheek Punctured by Hypodermic Needle of Night Intruder. Lafayette, Ind.?Miss Bernice Crowden heard a noise in her bedroom at her home and, thinking it was a burglar, did not move. In a few minutes' I she felt warm breath on her face and I was too badly frightened either to J scream or to move. She thought that she was about to be chloroformed and a second later, when she felt a sharp ) sting in her cheek, she was certain that a hypodermic needle had .been used by a burglar. She screamed for her brother, who rushed into the room and found Miss Crowden's cheek bleeding. The cause of the wound was not determined until a pnysicianwas called. He declared that the young woman had been bitten by a rat. A 5 rat, believed to have been,the one that 5 bit the young woman, was caught and killed by her brother, Louis Crowden. > Miss Crowden is in a serious condition 1 from the nervous shock. IN THEi GERMAN T|g|^L i . .*; ~ fc> yy, M Underground Houses in the German Trenches In Poland. WAVE DOES HOUSE MOVING Huge Breaker Accomplishes Work 80 Gently Milk and Coffee Are Not Spilled. Los Angeles, Cal.?C. H. Jennlson of Alamitos Bay, near Long Beach, planned to move his home back 20 feet. Before he started a big storm struck. A huge breaker picked* up the house and moved it back 20 feet, setting it down squarely on the ground so gently that a pall of milk and pot of coffee on the table in the house were not spilled. Mrs. Jennison and her two children were not in the house at the time.. The house was placed on its new foundations the next day. SHOULD HE TAKE ONE DRINK? It Will Cost Him $4,000 Placed as Conditional Forfeit to Obtain His Release. Tacoma, Wash.?One drink will cost Thomas Cannally $4,000?that is, if he takes it. Six weeks ago Cannally was sentenced to six months in jail for stealing $4 while intoxicated. After serving a month of his sentence Cannally appealed to Police Justice Evans to be released, offering to deposit $4,000 In cash, to be forfeited in case he took a drink before his tprm tvnnld havn pxnired. Justice Evans agreed, and placed the money on deposit in a local bank. The money was still in the bank today drawing 3 per cent interest and Cannally was occupying a seat high on the "water wagon/ Thief-Catching a la Mode. New York.?Pursuing a thief who had stolen his watch, Robert Brown ran his automobile on to the 6idewa".li and pinned his man against a build, ing. JUS1" Remarkable photograph of the lands just as the submarine flred 1 one of the photographs that won th WWVSArtA/WVWVWNAyWVNAA^V Scene In a Serbian village sho . LOST SUBMARINE United States submarine F-4. its entire crew, and Lieut. Alfred J GEN. SCOn CAPT The capture of the outlaw Piute Utah, by Brig. Gen. Hugh L. Scott \ staff Af the army. Unarmed and wi Michle, and one private, he met the ringleaders to surrender. In the ph shal Nebeker, Lieutenant Colonel M son, Hatch (Tse-Ne-Gat), Chief fos The Future Man. When one goes way back to th cave man or beyond him to the tim when man walked on all fours an slept In a tree, and then reflects upo what man is now, he is wont to in agine What sort of a creature he wi be hundreds of centuries hence. Som of us who believe in the ascent < man are inclined to accord to him a angelic form and grace, as far ahea of the present man as he is ahead ( his prehistoric progenitors. AS THE TORPEDO WA5 German submarine U-29 made from the Lhe torpedo that destroyed the merchant e $500 prize offered weekly by two Londr RRORS OF THE WAR II r "1 wing peasants slain by the Austrlans as AND ITS COMMANDER |^||| y.j yin ^ ^ which was lost in Honolulu harbor with ^ A 4 k* ia?V. *v>n A# 4k A t? AA A A1 UUC, LUC LUlillliaUUCl Ui LUC VCOOCA. URES OUTLAW PIUTES s who had started an Indian upristng in vas a feat characteristic of the chief of th only his aid, Lieut. Col. R. E. L. i rebellious Indians and persuaded the otograph, left to right, are: U. S. Mar[ichie, General Scott, Chief Old Polk, his ey and Posey's son. But now comes a scientist who sugle gests that the future evolution of the le human race may develop lips like the d bill of a pelican. A circumstance that n suggests this change is the use of a- these bubbling fountains by the chilli dren, which has a tendency to proie duce protruding lips. What else goes }f with these protruding lips the scienn ist does not say, but if they add to d his fishing efficiency he must have )f wings for that, and wings we would all like to have?Ohio State Journal. 5 F,RED deck of the British steamship Headvessel off the Scilly islands. This is ?n papers for the best war pictures. Y SERBIA they retreated from the soil of Serbia. BOB GORDON AND THE MACE .*V$B r TH^rjP^ i ^w^Hi \ nn W^h I WQ | 0 S^^S < ii I 4^^BB^^0IPII9IPi^ l 8?ij I, S5^;S:v Tunr 1Ti^lilliMjKii^ r' iT^^ "Bob" Gordon, sergeant at arms of the house of representatives, is here shown holding the mace of the house, which has been sent to New York to be repaired. The Job must be done quickly, for congress could not assemble if the mace were not in its place. Got Them Mixed. It happens that my stories are read in the family of a well-known probate judge up in Danbury, Conn., writes Irvin S. Cobb. Otherwise the Judge's household is above reproach. Not the least important memuer ox the family Is the queen of the kitchen, the old colored cook, and she has her fling at the magazine ev?>ry week as soon as the new one arrives. The Judge is a keen follower of all the war stories by different writers in the magazine, and he knew that the old mammy had been looking over some of the stuff herself, as she had expressed her opinions about the Germans and "alleys" on several occasions. One day soon after the story of my in'terview with Lord Kitchener was published, the judge casually asked mammy how the war was going along, and f^she thought they'd ever stop fighting. "Jedge," she said, "dat wah gonna last jes* three years." "How'd you find that out?" aske^ the judge. "De king o' Europe done told Ty | Cobb." Making It Right. "I am going to sell kisses at tha church fair." "Are you?" "You should have said you'd buy some." "I could not well say that until 1 knew if they are to be your owr kisses or are to be furnished by your cook I don't care for confectionery." "V . ' IMSfalf