Show I I THE LAST FRONTIER I 1 f e 5 j. j f here Is a skeleton of ot one of or tho the monster dinosaurs that ruled the tho earth shrew with lIh ten million years year ago inset shows a a grasshopper per fler drawn to the theme same me scale E E. MAMMALS LUt 3 INCHES IX LO G. G. G Dy DAVID BATh D. VII DILTZ NKA XEA service en Ice Writer An Au animal no bigger than a a. large insect Hes He's to be bo found on most farms and in many large largo gardens Because of at his size he be usually es escapes es CIS- CISca capes ca' ca es attention Farmers finding him In a a. trap usually call him a baby mouse But no's nos a full tull grown creature His Ills scientific name nam Is I. I Sore x Person Person- atus Ills His ordinary name Is the tho shrew As a rule rUl hU his hi Is about three Inches long his tall one Inch Tho The shrew is cf of particular inter inter- ut et to the pioneers on tho the frontier of science who no are re engaged In in investigating In In- Investigating evolution e They The believe that the shrew more nearly than any other animal alive 1111 today resembles the tho first tint mammal to lo appear on earth Somo ton ten million years ago the great reptiles the dinosaurs ruled the tho earth Somo omo of ot the tho dinosaurs reached a 11 length of ot feet About this thin Urn tIm scientists believe tho the first mammal mammals made their ap ap- ap- ap appearance They were only two 01 three Inch Inch- cs es In length length much like the tho little shrew of ot today But Dut conditions 01 oo earth changed rho Tho mighty dinosaurs died out And the tho little thrived un un- until until til Lis they In turn turn ruled l ule the tuo earth Attempts to produce gold by synthetic methods are going on In three nations Professor lIethe of the photo photo- photochemical photochemical photochemical chemical department of ot the Berlin technical high school Professor Nag Nag-aola of the tho Tokyo Imperial uni uni- university and 11 r o II IT II SI eon con of New York university n are aro all 1111 engaged upon the problem Their method Is to send heavy currents through mercury vapor The Tho current they believe knocks electrons out of the nuclei of some of ot tho the atoms of mercury turning them into gold So far tar the method has no com corn commercial commercial mercial value It Is ie believed that microscopic amounts of at gold Kold have havo been produced at a cost coet of more than times tInes tho the value alue of ot tho the cold gold It Is Interesting however how to e see o I science at last beginning to o realize the old age dream of ot the alchemist lIt let of o turning base ase metals Into I gold 01 1 SLUt UH TO nU BC So you are going to Brazil next week neck It must be beery very ery hard for tor you OU to leave the dear homeland and andall andall all the tender lender associations It has for you jou ou Oh that doesn't trouble me me- me but Im I'm awfully sorry I have havo to break off oft tho the serial s now running running- in our dally ly paper paper ter Munich |