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Popular Science Monthly 



I 



Invading the Lofty Precincts of the 

 Bald Eagle with a Camera 



N pictures all 

 babies look 



alike, whether 



they are princes 



of the blood or 



mere editors' in- 

 fants. The ac- 



companying 



illustration, for 



instance, might 



easily pass for a 



newly hatched 



chick in the nest 



of an old pet hen. 



It tells nothing of 



the giant ragged 



cliffs overhanging 



the Rio Grande 



River, on the 



summit of one of 



which the nest was made by a great kingly 



bald eagle which could easily gouge out the 



eyes or tear open the scalp of the daring 



photographers. The picture was made by 

 men in the employ of the 

 Reclamation Service. Need- 

 less to say, the mother bird 

 was not present to pose her 

 baby before the 

 camera 



Such intimate glimpses of an eagle's nest 

 are as scarce as the proverbial hens' teeth 



Is a Hero Judged by the Number of His 

 Scars? Just Look at the Car Below 



THE dispatch- 

 carriers of an 

 army are its 

 nerves, transmit- 

 ting messages 

 from all branches 

 to the head . 

 When telephone 

 and telegraph 

 systems are de- 

 moralized auto- 

 mobiles are 

 pressed into 

 service. 



The accom- 

 panying illustra- 

 tion shows a 

 bullet -riddled 

 French army 

 automobile that 

 carried three dispatch-carriers across a 

 dangerous zone on the Somme fighting 

 front. German bullets pierced it through 

 and through, ripping the tires off the rims, 

 tearing the engine-hood from its moorings, 

 cutting through both sides of the car, and 

 mushrooming against its internal parts but 

 the car reached its destination with its 

 mechanism intact and 

 practically uninjured. 



Underwood and Under- 

 wood. N. Y. 



Although the car was rid- 

 dled by bullets it carried 

 its three occupants to their 

 destination. The chauffeur 

 was severely wounded but 

 he stuck to the wheel 



