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Tlio inoiiar arnianicnt cars sliould be 

 located at stations alonj^ the coast, wlicrc, 

 upon an lioiir's notice, several of tbeni 

 could be moved into position for action. 



It is estimated tbat to cover tbis sbore 

 line would require in tbe neigbl)orbood 

 of fifty mortars and len rifle armament 

 cars. Tbis would mean tbat tbere would 

 be one bundred and ten j^uns on moljile 

 car e(|uipment wilb total outlay (esti- 

 mating- tbe car and guns to cost one bun- 

 dred and fifty tbousand dollars) about 

 nine million dollars. 



Al)])ro.\imately twenty to twenty-five 

 men would be required per car. Tbus, for 

 tbe cost of one modern Itattlesbip, we 



This hen stops at a hotel. Lady Eglantine, 

 the prize egg-layer of history, is worth 

 anything you please because she transmits 

 her admirable proclivities to her progeny 



could e(|nip lliese sbores witb new mo- 

 bile armament containing one bundred 

 and ten guns, wbicb c(nild be more accu- 

 rately fired and wbicb would be strateg- 

 ically more effective, witb little risk of 

 losing a single battery. 



Tbis is not tbe first time tliat railway 

 forts bave been proposed. Tbe idea is 

 at least twenty-five years old. Tbe fa- 

 mous Crcusot works of I'rance al)ont 

 tbree years ago actually built ;i railway 

 battery. I low successful it was we do 



not know. I\Ir. Luellen has made a dis- 

 tinct contribution in suggesting concrete 

 emplacements. 



Lady Eglantine: The One-Hundred- 

 Thousand-Dollar Hen 



A HEN whose value ranges all the 

 way from $1,000, to a prince's ran- 

 som (whatever that may be), because 

 money cannot buy her, recently attracted 

 tbe crowds that frequented the poultry 

 show held at the (jrand Central Palace. 



There was nothing about this clucking 

 heroine to distinguish her from other 

 white leghorns, and she is as modest in 

 her fame as world's title holder as if 

 she had not laid one of the three hun- 

 dred and fourteen eggs that she deposit- 

 ed to her credit in tbree hundred and 

 sixty-five days. Furthermore, she was 

 l)rigbt and lively and exhibited none of 

 tbe temperament that one reasonably 

 l(joks for in any great artiste. 



In the first place, and . so that your 

 understanding of this item of the day's 

 news may be well based, the bird was 

 batched at (ireensboro, Md., April 15, 

 1914, on tbe Eglantine Farms, run by A. 

 A. Christian. She was one of five single- 

 comb white leghorns placed in a pen at 

 the egg-laying competition on the 

 grounds of the Delaware Agricultural 

 Experiment Station at Newark, Dela- 

 ware, from November 1, 1914, to Octo- 

 l)er 31, 1915. In tbis time she made her 

 record. She is black-eyed, fourteen 

 inches high and weighs four pounds. She 

 has a perfect figure. 



Mr. Christian was offered a great deal 

 of money for Lady Eglantine but he will 

 not sell her. No price, he says, will 

 tempt him. When Mr. Christian's atti- 

 tude on this became known somebody 

 said the bird was worth $100,000, where- 

 upon she was called the "$100,000 hen." 

 lUit she might just as well be called a 

 ."ftl. 000,000 hen, for nobody can estimate 

 her value. 



THERE was a large decline in the in- 

 dustry of mining precious and 

 semi-precious stones in the United vStates 

 durinsr 1914. 



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