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casuelenly on deck, below deck, and between deck. hour by hour, and minuto by minute to ronder his journey reasonably safe;

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Hydrographic Office Charts the Seas for Mariners Floating Wrecks Located and Sunk Widespread Work On the Oceans.

(By Norman C. MCLOUD.) The first Hydrographis atation rectested in history was a floating one, asanaged

mintical tablos.

warnings, pilot

and harts, dolly

weekly bulletins and also radio stations. AŬ this information has to go forth in any languages, for the ses els an inter- athenal interpreter. When an American hip starts forth from Chesapeake Bay or

Thy the Roes esleal with other net, watery highways and byway.

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the derelict. Navigators reed a

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Va., is the largest news gathering station hi the world, and its significance jumpires volcre thin tower awe. From those warn of danger and enrried by invisiblo errents reach listening ears of mariners all over the world.

by M, Noida. Since he was without | the tiolden Gate or, Torch the graph shows the dereliet, Governor Parr, U.S.S. Hannibal looks fearful and

patrol to warn them of the masses of joy destruction bearing down upon them in order that the threatened ship may switch off upon an exirn southerly track. The deruliste, the lost and lonely wreeks, are another surnace demanding the police work of the web. One photo. drift in the North Atlantic. Thore is souriling pathetic about these abandoned ships, the deserted decks once astir with human life, foolute and voices, w Thel whereas silent and drifting. are advertised day by day, but for these warnings, a good ship loaded with hen ergo might be life and valuable rammed by the flosting, useless bulk of i derelict.

Full Information Afforded.

The modern scientific devices for gathere ing mediul informations enverning the

Data For Marines. wafers, this pioneer fail to use a litle

Inform When it razrziedi baar.

ale starts her captain Jus deve me a scout.

sprig of luxes in its brak. Je em visited, the Hydrographic icis, or ing

that" parliahlar freality, fa luded that the Brod must be resetting, station of

it rated not at all. Theek ups ma, not ly the daily, but the 14] Ben inferred flost it heel scound a place for the hourly date of all changes that may have sole of its fat.

his place in an exchanging, medium, So, he had more gyrus work

arte dealing with an elusive, slip noind that the present chief hydro pery sliding element. This element not solid earth, but the grapher, Captain Frederick Bassett, with washes gere, His scientific lit. Aif, besides, Nah hidden fires that rage benenth. It makes was six inundred years old at this time fone e scerey-like to think of all that the flexid and had a good deal of, sorry gore in down below.

old man-lence this on his spind de

ribed his marmory, Judging from Captain Bassel's piano, they don't koop such old people in the Hydrographie geblia ilunds are liable to hunchkeation of warning radio stations. The Borvien saw,

He looks youngish with bie piening ege, and nodish suit.

What

it. mut serrah Jocs Kempa lor guiding r sexdern ***** The Hydrogrupile of today has initigation chorls" unther

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Islands come

popping up suddenly to change the sup, with afters disppearing just as mullenly, And the inffer do not always stay sunk

up anywhere lo scrape holes in the bottom of a ship, if the detectives of the

wel "dn't watch out." This is part of what the hydrogriqibie service has on ita

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And here are the tecbergs, and also

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The photograph showing the radio and Sonie Dopth Anderequijorat of the wonderful to the lay mind. No wonder the poor fellow harnessed up there dis ponses with all superinous garmenta, But the other boys out on drek souling

the harbour ar the depth,

of water more fortunate in their environment of ses and breers and why.

the heavy, Cuts, s strange contrast to

Cuba medieval towers of forts Rhorus created for defence before advent of the machine gun,

Mathods Bometimes" Primitive,

This ship is now al

HO: At work south coast of Cuba. Its equipment is complete,

Aerial Photographs wing the "Nestle,"

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With all this apparatus and system, primitive methods are occasionally used, B4 when Captain Breching

the ship, fixed. hin position by Inek <if mere boltle. Writ

position of the ship on slip of papuresk he earlie the bottle and thin

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the sily is accompanied ing and the Thas the captain of the good ship must by iwa barges for use of detached parties,

threw it overboard; and twenty, month watch his chart and plos his position two motor vessels and a number of star. every day at noon. His chart shows the launches. It is also mainted by neroplane Inter, 8,000 miles away, it was picked up average proportion of galex and calm, carriers for making aerial photographs of a Lagens, Island of Piza, Akaren... The Snder of such a bottle mees within it a a the treks of hurricanes, the fog areas the area surveyed, a speedy nas cenno

cal method for delineating bad features. request printed in sever languages. all the Bunting dangers and the

it be mailed to the Hydraphie alee, This survey of costs and harbours is, of iame not only a course a necessary part of hydrographic and thus the wanderings of a bottle adds Hydrographic Office

work. Works

For over a hundred years the tur knowledge of events currents "ily Memorandum," but Bulleti," and also a "Weekly Notice to offee has been making surveys of the throng a primitive and erratic new Martwork for checking up on this shifty-higir-and-foreign-out--servin

another "picture we เล ม shori pariy Aeroplane photography is also pressed erecting one of the thin towers, down in into this delektīva" service. From high

element.

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The Naval Radio Station at Arlington,

BIGGEST BUGS IN

THE WORLD

of

HANNIBAL

FOR

the

All

Haman Letter.

The correspondence flgn of the Hydro- graphic office show up the human side of an international service, for à amikor is first a sailor the world over. Perlimpa with what we term the "solid earth beneath agr fret, wo feel more self- Aufficient than on the rolling waves.

The correspondance comes from mariyer of

nationalities, from consuls, from

• organizations, and naval officers. An interesting festurs of this corres- pondence concerns the earthquake “ Japan, when the Hydrographio Dien, there

The wow totally destroyed, Washington Office at once rent-copies of all charia and books published, to supply the urgent need.

Helensifie

Children write for holps their lessons, to "Daar Hydro.

Fire and Dear fapt:~

early Ba

Barrett, chal

altitude photography shows my

wanting to know all abouk mulher shifty menice; as when

oocan currents, and mape, and soundings appear where never were shoala before, and "has to use oil to on the wave,

Tiesa as the chauging ocean lifts, with corres and various childialt queries.

These letters are answered, and unused pilot ponding. loss of water depth.

are charts are kept for distribution to schools. and also deep water chamels,

The photo

"American Practical 'Navigator, detected most rendily in aerial great fluctuations of

the epitome of navigation and "nautical water astronomy, is the sailor's guide wherrin depth in a harbour form another element ho studies sen muul stars, Tis a much

revised back, was fred published ane lum of witertainty. A captain boil for a certain "port frequently has to certain dred years ago, and is kept up to date. beforehead whether the harbour can afford Another inndred-year' inheritance is the work of Lient. Matthew Fontaine hospitality in his ship.

The master of a vessel steeru anfely

Maury,

century a naval officėr, who 'u through the changeful media by go began a study of the selence of the system reduced almost to exact aclenes.nn. It was he who invented the system Then maritimne journeys follow track sa of charts which set forth those ocean

as the fand journey by mail.tracks' or pathways, surely

Thus the Master Mind of the Ship in Even the buffalo trails of the old went. led not more definitely by the surest way set on guard against the treachery of the toward a goal.

Isen, the shifting of the land with its fires The mers traveller, recilning in his below, the Hisions of the fog, and the deck chair, realizes little of the vigil kept wind that bloweth, where It steth."

HERCULES BEETLE TROPICS OF

ASTER/CA- HORNED PALE ANO ZNALE

AN ELEERHAIY BEETLE-

THE WOPLOS

The Hercules Beetle of the American Tropics – The Monster Elephant Bug Weighs Nearly Half a Pound --- Centipedes a Foot Long-Spiders the Size of a Plate.

(By RENE BACIZE.)

able of, Insects.

CUAB.

WPICAL GARD

SPIDER

leaver No well that only now and then does it attract the observation of tho youthful climber. When a specimen is so unfortunate as to be captured, it is considered a prize, jagung de

The largest moih is the well-known

we have no very large ones. They live in " tres, and are much more numarate than is conuuonly supposed, their imitation of 'twigs being so perfect that one may look directly at a specimen, close at hand, without wognizing ! on insect.

I is in the tropics that insect life atinitian really overwheltaing develop. ment, mal thus it is not surprising to find that mod of the giant hugs ara native, to hot latitudes. We have in thi country plenty of spiders, but we never see a "tarantula" save once in a while, when one of those monsters happens by an accident to be shipped worth in.a bunch of benanas,

Horrible Bit Harmless.

The tarantulsa name applied to several species of huge trapdoor spiders -is sometimes large enough to cover big dinnerplate with the spread of itu hairy legs. One specios, native to. Brazil, is said to make small birda ite. pres Another, it is alleged, outchon- Bah. But there great spiders, for all their burrific

are harmless to

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The tarantulas de not pin webs. They are big enough and strong enongh to capturo pray without using traps. Their nemis unalty are holes in banks of carth, lined with clay, the entrance being closed with a door so operated by a silken spring as to shul automatically with a "ap, showing no signs of an opening.

Tarantalas are not insects; nor does that name proparly apply to any spiders, which are arachnids. But in the popular mind they k clussed with the insect trihen, as are alan centipedes and Rear-

While the grub in occupying the pupa seemingly lifetes and without power of movement, all of its inmide works (e rather complex arrangement of organs for digestion, breathing, locomo tion, ate.) literally dissolve into a Atlas silk moth, a truly magnificent plans, with equal incorrectness. Luckily formless jelly-like substanse; and out of insect, with

a wing-spread of nearly

*** for ourselves, scorpions and, ogalipodian are not pleatiful in temperate latitudes;

this jelly is presently developed an foot. Its caterpillar spins, for a cocom, It is in warm countries that they attain ontiraly new and different set of arms, than that of the domesticated silk-wormer

silk that is batter in quality and stronger it is Rize And ore numerous and suitable for another mode of existence,

with lega for walking and wings for flying but, alasi it cannot be reeled. The dangerous.

both legs and winge requiring eleborste Department of Agriculture devoted come

soka of muscles for their contral.."

years of

There is an Equatorial African centi

A bola book might be written, about but po. Presentation to the problem, pede that attains a length of twelve.

the

transformation of a beatle-grub into

method was found.nches, and Boorplans aight inches long.

in Central and northern South America,

The biggest known butterfly is native with powerful crab-like daws, are found * full-dodged beetle; but no matter how to the Malay Archipelago, and has fully descriptive it might be. it could wing-apread of tet innses. In that part The centipede's venom is contained he make no attempt at explanation of the of the world and in India' are also found gland at the base of its paw; that of the marval. Ona might asy, however, that giant walking sticka," which look like scorpion in a gland near the end of the the metamorphosis of a osterpillar into Ewigs of trees. Name of them are foot tall, which terminating in horny poinb moth or butterfly in squally wonderful." and 's half long. Walking sticks, which of exceeding sharpness, is snapped for In mature, the Inseat world seems to are related to grasshoppers and katydids, ward over the bead to infiot a wound.

though offer more insoluble-mysteries than pro-are plentiful in our own country. sent themselves anywhore-alue to the Inquisitive and speculative mind of man.

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Home of them' have a i sørved, so that we know just what the copal would look for:glant, aaterpillars.

the common-tobacco warm., Noi

many of those big green tobacco worms are required to weigh a pound. Their mother is grat moth that ties at twilight, sipping nectar from flowers, and looking so like a humming bird a lo beasily mistaken for that feathered cresture. She is particularly fond of the sweet juice of the jimsonweed blossom, raballams 'indergone by od so the tobacco farmers plant that even the jinson-weed among their tobacco, and tand them, and put little. arsenile in esol flower. By this ingenious means to explain

Tho-biggest of all-bugs is found in in appearance that nobody not an en- Venezuela. It is known as the elephant tomologist would suspect her to be of the bootin, and weighta nearly half a pound. same breed. When, osaksionally happens. this In the hot lattitudes of America is truly alarming saphoshaxamined Insects looked like when they were alive. monstroan insect in full flight happens to found yet another beetle which, though under magnifying glass for example, They seem to have been in no way hit man in the hoad, he in cooked its body in much smaller, has an arm-

the rhinoceros begale, "HINK, T though no different from modern beetles, ut corres down before he can realize what has reach of a foot. It lives in the forests, great size, must sem frightfallennater ponding species. Indeed, Insect life has DoGurred,

and is beautifully coloured, red and

to other small creatures, alad in armour, not changed much, apparently, with the Important people

ased commonly to be yellow. So strong is this creature that and with five great horns; the largest, on passing of the ages.ngs are enormous

It wa

it must be handled very the mid of its nose, resembling Tory ly ancient on the earth, spoken of as "big, bugs,"

caught, tribute to the omapiduous part which cautiously for its olewa will penetrate strikingly, though in miniature, the hors

The Insecta play in nature, After all, one through the man's coat and under cloth of a rhinoceros.

Booties In Fonara) are armoured might imagine that the world was cresteding and tear his skin,

for the barels of insects, Insolenof the Ald World

Gollath Of The Bago,

Insects and the armour they wear, while ariels

me the dentinets-the-earth; all

the Gollath, which is reliv To destrdoti his rother.

only Dumerical is

Equatorial: Alrios, and was first made audites and, unless cared for); soon, gues Flow

Another giant bag native to Unba and known Sturmgh missionaries to coded disappear) Thin walking the tropics of America is the Heicules basin of the Congo To (a dark Valvaly Las sindh of which beetle armoor launde beetle, which attains length of eight brown, with whitish striped, and lives la canoes be destroy adapt by o Jones. 16 is monetar pinch.bog, the palm trees. The negroes of that region Pinard lid on a r male being provided with-huge-horns.regard its grobe as a great deliomgy, and Oddly enough, the female of this pooles digging them out of the tree-back, devour. has no horns, and, while mund smaller them greadily?raw.

than the malo, is so different from him 1 In a way, bustles are the most remark

art of inhomestry avail' against

Thus the shells of - beetlem, that many Vinillions' of years. ago · are found today in rocks, intset and perfectly

WHAT IS MAJ OLICA WARE ?

The dictionary tells us that it is mark, Hungary and the

pomparative "kind of pottery with opaque glazing and new little Crocho-Slovakis, but the art of showy decoration," and it said dictionary it is a legacy, from the middle gem. It It is Instered. Is so pleased it will go into further is soft fired and some ef detail, explaining that the whitish glace The body colour ranges from cream to ing: the earthenware kantin dass deep yellow or gray to brown, and the part, and after the painted colours used in its decoration are toóst id applied to is, the macella lementary the bright red, brilliant

Chliessan Ustrong wo) ows" thakuara, pou (azrazily) Kimes startling. In khair Intensity.)

simple. "decorative motifs see-esriod;

crude designs, flat refémble

amme gross numbers of doc

By all odd Line liggest of our Amer tem-known to small boy

spring of huge