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Show 1 I MONTENEGRIN CAPITALABANDONED TO AUSTRIANS SOCIETY WOMEN ADOPT SKIPPING ROPE FOR HEALTH I I ! f women Rope skipping as a healthful exercise ts nothing new; but rope skipping indulged in by prominent hotels is a new pastime in New Ydrk which threatens to become almost as popular as ice The photograph shows a rope skipping class on the roof of a hotel. The women say the exercise is fine skating for reducing. on top of fashionable mhommWMSkIM General view of Cetlnje, capital of Montenegro, ahkh LoTcen, seven miles away. DREADNAUGHT I - A as evacuated after the Austrians captured Mount BOYS HARVARD ENROLL FOR MILITARY TRAINING OKLAHOMA ON A SPEED TEST pi r'-'.- l-;- f The dreadnaught Oklahoma, newest and one of the biggest of Uncle Sam s battleship, tearing through the seas trying to beat the record of her sister ship the Nevada. The Oklahoma attained a high speed of 21.47 knota, but her average for five high runs was only 20.90, against 21.04 by the Nevada. However, the newer vessel beat the speed required by her contract. MISS WILSON GOING ON CONCERT JAMES TOUR L Harvard having fallen in line with other unJveraitieB and colleges whit.! have adopted a course in military training, the work of getting the students into soldierly condition Is rapidly going on. It is promised that when the students hare graduated they will be in a position, whenever the day should come that they may be called to take up arms for their country, to act as officers in the army. The photograph shows some of the Harvard student, in the "Ball cage lined up ready for drilling. 8ome of them are in the uniform which will be worn by all of tbe men when drilling. k BOY HERO OF SERB ARMY SLAYDEN FROM BELGIAN CHILDREN TO MR. WILSON i I i r.: President Wilson has Just received a token of tbe gratitude of the Belgian children for the relief aeut their country by Americans. It. came In the form of a belated Christmas box delivered at the White House by Philip llemenway Cbadbourn of New York city, member of the Belgian relief committee, who baa Juat returned from Belgium. The box contained a variety of presents made by the children tbemseivea. They range from aofa cushion and represent completely dressed dolls to many week of patient work by the youngsters. This picture of Mr. Cbadbourn and tba gifts was taken in the cabinet room of the White House. slifQ hand-decorate- d ! I PLANS cci 1 E Representative James L. Slayden of Miss Margaret Wilson, the musical genius of President Wilsons Texas who in a speech in the house under whose Playing in the studio of her vocal instructor, Ross W. David, warned the government of threatened an ere ac has Wilson guidance she begins a concert tour In March. Miss riots in bis state because of the unenviable reputation in this field and has appeared at many prominent avenged murder of Americans In Mr. Slayden lives in San Mexico. MODEL OF CHURCH TO COST Antonio. $5,000,000 MUCH REJOICING IN BOYLAND JTj Stock of Castor Oil Bean Is Getting Low, and Importers Supply Is Cut Off. Konstantlne Prolich, a hero of the war in Serbia, enlisted r drive and during the was captured by the Teutons, who gave him to Dr. Harriet Cockburn of the Serbian Red Cross. She brought him to New York and tbe photograph waa made on his arrival. He still insists on wearing hla tattered uniform, but aays the boots be wears belonged to a German soldier whom be killed. tbirteen-yeaf-ol- Those youthful days of trouble, when a feller needa a friend. are abont to be ameliorated in one. vital Instance. The castor bean Is getting scarce. Castor oil Is made from tbe castor bean, which has Its main habitat aomewhers in the puritans of Bombay. Yates & Co who have agreed to supply the municipal departments with pure castor oil during the present a gallon, notified 4 fiscal year at the board of supervisors of their inability to fill requisitions and asked to be released from their contract Tie firm stated that the three principal producers could not furnish it on sccoupt of the war and that each had offered premiums for castor beans in an the markets, but had been una$1-1- - m f ble-to the new St. Bartholomew's Episcopal cJrcMat J? at a .COst .of .lS.POO.OOO ormoreTe Model of ted in Nw-- rvooo. k . , obtain them. And here and there might be beard in childish treble: Skin-nay- ! "Oh, Skin-nay- ! Ka more couldn't castor oil!" get any TOst San-- Francises ChronJria d German-Bulga- DIG Remain 4 MEMORIAL TO THE SOUTH i - UP FOSSIL MAN-BIR- D Found In Montane Show Head Like Human Being, With Body Llko a Fowl. A strange foasll, which some credulous persons say was a creature that was half man and half bird, was placed on exhibition at tbe Billings It (Mont) chamber of commerce. was found near. Fromberg In the foothills and la composed of the sedimentary rock of the Mosozoic period, which has furnished most.of the geologic data on which the Darwinian theory of evolution la baaed. Tbe fossil Is about 2 Vi feet high and the head Is shaped like that of the human, with a prod jection over the base of the brain, a larger forebead than that of the ape and a prominent jaw. The body is shaped somewhat like that of a pelican with large projections at the aides and the breast of ft bird. That the fossil, despite its human suggestions, is that of a creature half bird and half reptile is ssgested . by students. well-define- Gutzon Borglum, shown in the lower part of the illustration, has Uken the task of carving Stone mountain, near Atlanta, Ga., show the upper part, into ft memorial to the South. Across the face tf thli tj of carve will granite, he blew ,CCb feet lezg and SO feet wide. Th Tawratala U 700 feet high sal the figures will be la proportion. i -- I i |