RECREATION. XXVII 
Have you gonc Hungry 
when camping? Such an occurrence would 
be impossible if you include the 

Standard Emergency Ration 
in your outfit. 
Made of purest beef, cereals, and vegeta- 
bles, hermetically sealed in tin, weighing 
complete, with 2 quarts of best sweetened 
tea, twenty ounces, and small enough to 
putin your pocket. This food is prepared 
in a most careful and cleanly manner, and 
is absolutely free from preservatives and 
adulterants. After a series of exacting 
tests made by the most prominent officers 

: in the United States Army during the past 
ALWAYS ‘= year, and on the strength of their wonder- 
READY : fully favorable reports, this food has been 
supplied to the troops in the Philippines. 
You may fallin a river, be rained on, lost, 
or experience any other hardship, but your 
Standard Emergency Ration guarantees a 
lentiful supply of palatable wholesome 
food at alltimes. A CAN IS THE BEST AND ONLY 1NSURANCE AGAINST AN 
EMPTY STOMACH. We also prepare tablets of Pea and Bean soup, made in three 
minutes by the application of water and heat. Two quarts of delicious soup carried in 
_ your vest pocket. We invite correspondence from sportsmen and dealers in their equip- 
ment. 
| | The American Compressed Food Co., 
New York Representatives: PASSAIC, N. J. 
VON LENGERKE & DETTIOLD, 318 Broadway. 


Smithsonian Institution scientists regret that no pas- 
senger on board the Dominion line steamer New Eng- 
land, obtained a photograph of the strange sea monster 
which was sighted from that ship on her recent voyage 
to Boston. 
Dr. Theodore Gill has given careful consideration to 
the subject of sea serpents, and has carefully sifted all 
the evidence he has been able to obtain. The conclu- 
sion he has reached is that there is no animal now 
living that corresponds with the popular idea of a sea 
serpent, and that no such animal has lived in any 
recent geological epoch. a 
‘‘If such an animal were in existence,’’ said Dr. 
Gill, ‘‘it would belong to an entirely different order 
from any animal that is now known, and although 
Professor Agassiz said fifty years ago, it was possible 
there might be asea serpent in existence, I am per- 
fectly safe, with the additional information we have 
now,in saying it would be impossible for such an 
order of animals not to be known. Some evidence of Concentrated 
their existence would have been discovered somewhere. 
‘I do not say that there are not species that are not 
known. There undoubtedly are, but Ido not believe Ite a e Ou S 
eee is an nore order. If there is an animal in 
the sea that resembles in any way the popular idea of of © . 
the te serpent, I can say Tayecaly fat it is not a]. 7 Varieties, ready for dilution 
reptile, a cetacean or a mammal. It must bea fish. 
Reptiles, cetaceans and mammals all breathe with and use. 10¢ can makes 6 plates. 
lungs and have to come to the surface of the water, and 
Iam safe in saying that if there were a sea serpent 
which belonged to either of these orders we would haye 
An exquisite ee 
|| Ol Mayors with strenat 
Cee ee rere | eur oowel explams, Iice- 
produced an imprestion cnt direntiomiees|| and Kansas City on package. 
appearance. 
“It is impossible from the d: scriptions given to 
identify the animal seen from the New England as any 
ptt we know. * the Specie re are correct in say- ° 
ing it sent up a jet of water like a whale, it is probable 
that it belonged to the order of cetaceans. rt is de- DEPARTMENT “be 
KANSAS CITY, U.S.A 
scribed as having a serrated back, and no whale has 
such a back,”’ on ® 
IMMER Coe. 

