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No Race Suicide Among 

 the Bacteria 



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with almost incredible 

 rapidity," says George W. 

 Hunter in "A Civic Biolo- 

 gy" (American Book Com- 

 pany). It is estimated that 

 a single bacterium, by a 

 process of division called 

 fission (dividing itself into 

 two parts) will give rise to 

 over 16,700,000 others in 

 twenty-four hours. Under 

 unfavorable conditions they 

 stop dividing and form round- 

 ed bodies called spores. 

 These are exceedingly diffi- 

 cult to injure or destroy. 



© Underwood and Underwood 



They will not vivisect him. Ke tried to argue 

 with the horseshoer, so they had to persuade him 



War Provides an Expensive 

 Clothes-Rack 



THE queer thing in the middle of the 

 picture, which resembles a monster 

 porcupine used as a clothes-rack, is the 

 stump of a tree which grew "somewhere 

 in France" until a German shell struck 

 it and cut the trunk of the m.agnificent 

 tree in two. The exploding shell splintered 

 the wood in such a manner that the stump, 

 with its radi- 

 ating big splinters 

 was used by the 

 French soldiers en- 

 camped there as a 

 rack upon which 

 they hung their 

 clothes and military 

 equipment. The 

 rack may be con- 

 venient for the 

 soldiers, but this is 

 really too expensive 

 a method of making 

 clothes-racks. Be- 

 sides, stumps are 

 not always handy, 

 and then the shell 

 may miss them or 

 they may splinter 

 in some inconveni- 

 ent manner. After 

 all, the regular pat- 

 tern cannot be beat- 

 en for "steady " use. 



(Q) Underwood and l^nderwood 



How a German shell provided a very 

 convenient clothes-rack for French soldiers 



Army Horses Must Be Good- 

 Tempered 



IT'S a weary, wicked world if you are 

 an army horse. You may or may not 

 approve of shoes, but you've got to have 

 them just the same. The French author- 

 ities have an ingenious contrivance which 

 so pinions a horse that he has absolutely 

 nothing to say in the matter. It holds 

 his head, and holds his feet and 

 holds his body, and 

 forcibly prevents 

 him from expressing 

 an opinion, or choos- 

 ing his shoes, or 

 making a protest 

 in any way. If 

 they would only 

 let a fellow get in 

 just one real horse- 

 size kick one could 

 — but what's the 

 use. In the mean- 

 time the farrier gets 

 in his fine work, 

 and then it is too 

 late. Yes, it's a 

 hard, cold, cruel 

 world, so it is! 

 Still, shoes are not 

 so bad and they 

 give a dandy heft 

 to one's hind hoofs 

 in arguments later 

 on in the camps. 



