Show 4 L g gt t sc rte I Small Dog Bars Dignitaries From White House Miss Miss Bones the cousin of the president had released h hei l WASHINGTON l small shaggy little dog with hair hanging in his eyes but with a proud prou sad md important swagger befitting his position He was cavorting about the north door of the White House and slipped out into the open when the guards of the executive mansion were otherwise engaged Thus it happened that two officials om dials walking arm arm rm in arm up the OW White House driveway unmindful 01 ol WOW anything except the th heavy importance of the national business on hand werE wen I suddenly surprised by bY something 01 JI other that flew fiew into their path ant an d' d made it impossible e for them to go farther For the small dog barked and nd barked and ran ran at them and flew fiew around aroun them and showed his teeth which are small and sharp and very white The two men stood still and looked at the dog and each inquired of the other ii il he lie minded having his trousers torn or his ankles bitten and th the small dog had all but exhausted himself in his enthusiasm as the nations nation's safeguard when a large policeman took him by the nape of the neck and dropped hill bin inside the White House door That dog ob arved one man to the other as they went on their wa to the executive offices that dog has the largest bark for the smallest dog that I ever saw We couldn't have been more effectually stopped if it the president had let a mastiff out on us I never liked any kind of a dog observed the other of any size whatever what whatever ever How Uncle Sam Sets Drinking Water Wate Standard MOW that Uncle Sam through the United States health service nal flat nai 1 NOW set a standard of purity for all drinking water furnished on common comm n Liar car carriers car carriers tiers entering into interstate traffic many inquiries have begun to pour into Surgeon General Rupert Blues Blue's office about the manner and method used by the governments government's chemists and iG l c physicians in setting this new water WATER standard Just how this standard is reached was described In and understandable English by an officer P of the public health service as t follows About fifteen drops of water are taken from the sample in the laboratory laboratory laboratory labora labora- tory and this small quantity of water is spread upon the surface of a thin film of agar a sort of gelatin poured into a flat fiat glass dish after the dish and all instruments used including thE th agar have been thoroughly sterilized to kill kUl such germs as are ordinarily present This dish of gelatin or culture media as it is termed containing the water Is placed in an incubator and kept at a temperature of 98 6 degrees ef Fahrenheit for 24 hours bours After this period has elapsed the plate is taken out and very small spots are noticed dotted over its surface Each one of these spots represents a e colony of germs which has developed each colony from a separate germ con can contained tamed in the original sample of water The colonies are counted by meant means of a disk ruled ruler into squares which fits under the thin glass dish If It the number of colonies found in the amount of water planted on the agar 11 IE If drops one hundred the water is to be b rejected as unsatisfactory Any count le lets les than 1 O colonies per plate Is considered a safe limit of per pel permissible permissible bacteriological impurity There aro are other tests to which the water is subjected using larger quantities quan quan- titles and different materials as culture media American Mule Still Holds His Own in Our Army American army mule need have no fear foar for his laurels because of th the THE great part gasoline motors have played in transportation problems o of 01 European armies in the present war Until American roads generally ar are brought up to the high standard o. o othe o O. the the roads of ot Germany France Bel Be Belgium glum gium and other European countries the the- the the-aimy army mule will wUl determine through his capacity for hauling the limitation limita limitation tion of operations for American mil mm f tary forces Only one branch of the Unite United States army is giving serious attention S to motor traction In the quartermasters quartermaster's ter's department experiments are being being be be being ing made particularly along the Texas Texa I border with handling supplies in motor mo motor mo motor tor trucks Motor trucks are in general use of course about army posts post an and l wherever good roads are available but when maneuvers take tak the c co col l. l into the field and the sandy or muddy country roads where mere wheel whee tracks across the country are the only highways the six mule team is still master of the transportation situation A few years ago it was determined to experiment with motor transportation tion tiou as a means to increase the radius of field artillery General Crozier chief of the army ordnance bureau designed design d a motor battery wagon which was tried out in maneuvers It proved a fiat flat failure for It was so heavy that tha it broke through bridges sunk to the hubs in soft roads oads and generally hampered ham the battery to which it was attached d. d Th The experiment was abandoned and the ordnance bureau is now content to await the results of the exper meals of the quartermasters quartermaster's department in self propelled self propelled army transports transportation tion ton units Mules and horses are re good enough for American artillerymen ai as yet I Albino Sparrow Returns to the the National Capital Capita albino sparrow that has lias for a number a o of years made its home In somE som THE fHE cranny in a building on the east side of Eleventh street between the Ave Avenue Avenue nue and E street has returned to its accustomed haunts after an absence of 01 o several several- months Many persons who had be become me familiar with this off eft MY color and oddly marked member of WORD the sparrow tribe by reason of ot seeing t thim him bim flitting about in the street or flying up to the nest the bird has successfully sue sue- hidden for years had begun to think the little albino had passed to the happy hunting grounds or had hanga i its abiding place The return of oL the bird to its usual haunts a few days ago ago however indicates that that It was merely away on a vacation Many persons seeing the albino sparrow have believed it was a stra stray canary or at least a cross between a a regular sparrow and a canary Such Sue however is not the case The bird is a real albino although it has dark feathers In its wings and t tall tail ll The body plumage and most of the win winand wing and tail tan feathers are white white that that is as white as the feathers of a bird that tha lives the life lite of an English sparrow can be Those who have noticed the albino sparrow year after year as it busied Itself hustling for a living about the block on Eleventh street declare the bird bin must be at least twelve years old Whether this is true or not it would b be difficult to determine At any rate the bird has haunted that particular particular Jock dock for at t least seven years I o r. r t iii 2 |