ANUBIS 



APACHE 



Nations, which changed all former ideas as 

 to the value of fortifications. The develop- 

 ment of modern artillery enabled the Germans 

 to capture Antwerp after a short ton-days' 

 contest. The large forty-two centimeter Ger- 

 man siege guns simply pounded the forts to 

 bite. The Germans began their attack on the 

 forte on September 28, 1914. It was not neces- 

 sary for them to . surround and besiege the 

 city. The destruction of the forts by artillery 

 compelled the Belgian army, which was rein- 

 forced by a number of hastily-gathered and 

 ill-equipped British marines and naval reserv- 

 to abandon the place on the night of 

 October 8. The following day the Germans 

 entered the town. O.B. 



ANUBIS, an early Egyptian diety, who was 

 assistant to Osiris (which see) at the final judg- 

 ment, at which time his duty was to weigh in 

 the scale of justice the heart of the deceased, 

 balancing it against the feather, the symbol of 

 truth and right. The fate of the dead was 

 i mined as the scale tipped in either direc- 

 tion. 



AN ' VIL , a block upon which pieces of metal 

 are laid to be hammered into different shapes. 

 The smallest anvils are those of the gold and 

 silver smiths; they are simple blocks of steel 

 or marble. Anvils for 'machine-driven ham- 



ANVIL, 



mere are set on anvil-blocks often weighing 

 several tons. The anvil that we all know, 

 however, is that on whu-h the blacksmith 

 shapes the glowing iron into horseshoes, bolts 

 or rings. It is ordinarily of cast or wrought 

 iron with a coat of hard steel, and weighs 

 from 100 to 600 pounds. The rounded pro- 

 jection at one end is called the beak, 

 two holes shown at the other end in tin- illus- 

 tration are to hold the blacksmiths tools. 



Longfellow's poem, age Blacksmith, 



has at its close MIS lines: 



Thus at tho flam I tiff forge of life 

 Our fort n t be wrought ; 



Thus on itfl Bounding anvil shaped 

 Each burning deed and thought! 

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AORTA, a or' ta, the great artery which car- 

 ries the purified blood from the heart, and 

 through its 

 branches dis- 

 tributes it to the 

 body. It rises from 

 the left ventricle 

 of the heart to- 

 ward the top of 

 the breast -bone 

 and there makes a 

 curve, called the 

 arch of the aorta, 

 whence it gives off 

 branches to the 

 head and arms. 

 Then going down- 

 ward through the 

 chest, it gives off 

 branches to the <) AORTA 



trunk, and passing through the diaphragm 

 finally divides into two branches which supply 

 the pelvis and the lower limbs. See HEART, in 

 connection with which the aorta is illustrated; 

 also ARTERIES; CIRCULATION. 



APACHE, a pah ' chay, but commonly pro- 

 nounced a patch ' ee, the Zuni Indian word for 

 enemy, is applied by the Zuni especially to the 

 Navaho (who are closely related to the 

 Apache), with whom they were almost con- 



AN APACHE WAR-BONNET 



i by the "braves" on their exploits as late 

 a* 1866. 

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timiously at war. The Spaniards adopted the 

 name to designate a number of warlike In- 

 dians of Northern Mexico and the territory 

 now included in New Mexico and Arizona. 

 true Apaches belong to the great Athapas- 

 can family. They were among the most power- 

 ful tribes of the Southwest, and were con- 



