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wheeled into the forest again. fol-
lowed cautiously. I had gone only q
short distance when I saw . very
young calf about twenty yards ahead
OF me.
As halted. the mother came trot-
ting back down the trail looking for
the baby. I froze to the side Of q tree
with my gun ready. She came to the
baby and turning. boosted 1t along
with her trunk after the rest OF the
herd. I followed along after them
into an opening where / found them
rounded up in a patch OF burned-over
ground. They were milling around In
. rather compact mass seemingly pre-
pairing for defense. / could not see
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Underground Mountains.

A CURIOUS result OF operations by
a the Trigonometrical Society in
India IL the conclusion, stated BY
Maj. Burrard, that there is Tn the
middle of india an underground or
buried mountain range, q thousand
miles in length and lying ahout par.
sllei with the chain Of the HiuaAayss.
This conclusion 10 based on the SIN
guiarities OF the local attraction OF
gravitauon In central India. the
plumh-Iine being detected southwark
on the north side OF the supposed sub
tcrranean chain and northward on
the south side. leading to the infer
encs that great Elongated mass OF
rock OF sexoessisa dsasgsy undsrlies
the surface nf the earth between the
two sets OF observing statioua-
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Fog, Enemy Of Transportation
Nav Yield to Weather Control

the correc.ness of the. theory just
stated. *
THE formation OF fog over land
j seems to be an even more COM
plicated process than over sea.
Certainly in seme cases mistiness
amounting to fo2 arises from the
replacement OF cold surface air
which has chilled the earth and the
objects thereon by q warn current.
We can hardly say. however. that
this process gives rise TO detached
masses or banks OF fog. The parti-
cles OF q fog cloud, no matter how
small they. may be, must be contino-
ally sinking through the air which
holds them, and unless some upward
motion OF the air keeps at least q
balance against this downward tall.
the particles OF the cloud must reach
the earth. or water. and to that ex-
tent the cloud must disappear.
Ono remarkable characteristic Of q
persistent fog is the coldness OF the
foggy air ut the surface In spite OF
the heat Of the suns rays falling
upon the upper surface OF the Sog.
Coast fog. which is probably OF she
same nature ~ land fog. ts most ere-
quent In the winter months, whereas
sea fog or ocean fog is most exten-
siye and frequent in the spring and
summer.
II might be supposed that the for
nation OF fog would arrest cooling
by radiation and that fog would thus
act az Q protection OF plants against
frost. The condensation OF water
evaporated from wet ground. which
affords the material for making fog,
does. apparently. act as o protection.
and heavy watering Is sometimes
used to protect plants from frost, but
the same cannot be said OF fog itself:
cooling appears 30 go ON Ia spite
Of the formation OF fog. r
in regard to, the experiments shat
have been made as to photographlfS
from the air through haze and piss..
we nnd that when altera are sin-
pioysd on cameras they take better
pictures than whsn used without the
Aitera and: we also fad that when
IA plate - Immersed In an ammonia
bath Il 10 sharper and the objects
appear to stand out. OF course, at
IT, not yet possible to photograph
through "foxs,, but that ID matter
that may come some day. Therh nsuas
be some plan evolved that will CAUSE
Tight to psnetrats the giohuiss that
are held In suspension. when this
has been accomplished 1t will be d
great step forward. for with the paae-
tration OF these dense bodies we viii
be. able to run ysssels. airpiauss,
trains ana other means OF traEspor-'
tion through: the mist, the haze or sthe
fog with but p minimum OF danger,
sone OF the best known experts III
this line Of endeavor 10 w r Meg
gers OF the bureau of standards. Whip
has made possible the photographers
Of objects through haze and rnists;
In discussing the matter OF pene-
trating fogs, he said: "The only
thing that appears 10 be feasible, at
this time, 10 the evaporation OF fcg.--
weather control, II you will. The
sth1ags that seem chiidjxh today nay
- ths facts Of the future"
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enures Into arEIerd Of Seven Hundred Wild Elephants

do, resting. even saw q young bull
rest his tusks In the crotch OF q tree
during this resting period. - :
We gat up. to within twenty-five
yards OF them behind some bushes
down the wind, We finally decided
upon one OF the bulls as the target.
Mrs. Akeiey studied carefully and
shot. The bull went down. apparently
dead. Ordinarily we should rush In
for . dnishIRg shot, but IN this csse
the rest OF the herd did not make of
promptly. 30 We stood still. when
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they did "a OF we started toward ths
apparently dead animal. As we did
so he got upon his feet and. Ia spite
Of volley from us. kept on after the
herd.
We followed and after half an
hours travel we caught sight OF him
again. We kept along behind him,
looking for 3 place where we could
, swing ont to one side and get abreast
to get . finishing shot at him, He was
moving slowly and groErily. II was
hard to move anywhere except In hts
tran without making . noise ana I
suddenly discovered that the trail
was turning % that the wind was
from us to him. @ r.
Immediately We swung or 10 one
side. but 1t was too late. I afdn't see
him when he got our wind, but ]
knew perfectly he had II. for there
was sudden crash Of his wheel in
the bushes and q scream. An ele-
plants scream Is ioud and shrill and
piercing. And It In terrifying, too--at
least to any one who knows elephants
for II means an angry animal and
usually charge. \.
A. second or two later he came In
sight. his ears spread out twelve feet
from tip to tip. his trunk up and jerk
| Ing nercely from side to side. There
is no way OF describing how big an
elephant looks under these conditions
or the speed at which he comes. AZ
| about thirty yards shot, but he took
It.. He stepped. seemingly puzzled.
but unhurt
shot the second barrel and looked
!, for my other gun. which was thirty
| feet behind me. The boy ran up with
II and l emptied both barrels into the
elephants head. and still he took IL
like . sand HILL. In the meanwhile
Mrs. Akeley had been airing, toe. And
then he turned and made OF again.
went back to Mrs Akeley. Every
thing that knew about elephant
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semi.transparent

translucent or neutrality-suspicious.
bodies
The blanket appeared to rest upon
the surface of the water and to follow
the general course OF the channel.
When It reached the shore 1t seemed TO
change into o heavy mist. then turn
into haze. and then to be gradually
dissipated by the action Of the SUMS
rays and the warmness Of the ground q
short distance from the waters edge.
In view OF the fact that the season
of fogs is probably close at hand, 1t
may be Of interest to know just what
fog and its associates are.
Fog is the name given to any distri-
button OF solid or liquid particles in the
surface layers Of the atmosphere which
renders surrounding objects notably In
distinct or altogether invisible, accord
ing to their distance. In It's more In
tensive forms 1t hinders and delays
travellers. Two other words. mist and
hase, are also In common use with ref
erence to the deterioration OF trans
parency OF the surface layers OF the
atmosphere caused by solid or LIQUID
particles. and in ordinary literature the
three words are used almost according
to the fancy Of any writer. 1t Is, how
ever. possible to draw = distinction be-
tween mist and haze that is fairly sup
ported by usage.
Mist may be defined az cloud OF
water particles at the surface Of land
or sea. and would only occur when the
air is nearly or actually saturated:
that is, when there is little or no differ
ence between the reading OF the dry
and wet bulbs.
The word haze, on the other hand,
may be reserved for the obscuration
Of the surface layers Of the atmos-
piasre when the afr 10 dry. As re-
CARDS the distinction between mist
and fog. careful consideration OF .
number OF examples leads to the
conclusion that the word "fog" 10
used TO Indicate not 90 much the
origin or meteorological !, nature OF
the obscnrity ~ IT. eject upon traiic
and travellers, whether on land or sea-
7 The physical processes which pro-
duce fcgs;of water psfticIes are COM
pltcatsd and dimcutt to- unfayel. We
have 10 account for the Formation
ana maintenance OF 4 cloud NJ the
earth's surface: ana the procsss Of
cloud formation which is probably
most usuai In nature. namely, the
cooIing of air by rsfractioa due 70
the reduction Of pressure on ascent.
cannot be invoked except-ins the case
of fogs forming the cloud caps of
hills. which are perhaps not fairly
Included. Therefore. we have - tall
back upon the process recognized as
causing cloudy condemnation In the
atmosphere. namely. the mixing of
masses Of mist air OF different tenn
peratures. The mixing h brought
about by the slow motion Of air
masses. and this slow motion ID prob
ably essential 70 the phenornenop. ,
AT sea fog ID most frequently due
to the cooling Of surface layer Of
warm air by the underlying cold
water. II one viii stop to consider
that for many PEARS we have known
OF the greet fog hanks OK ths coast
OF Newfoundland he wiIl appreciate
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S&S toreSte, IN the bdWDoo, up On the
mountains. I have watched them in
herds and singiy. studied their paths.
their feeding grounds, everything
about them I could, and have come
to tho conclusion that OF all the wild
animals on this earth now. the
African elephant is the most fas-
ctnating, and that man, for all the
thousands OF years he has known of
the elephant, still knows mighty lit
tie about him.
am speaking only OF the African
elephant. He has never been domes-
ticatsd a. his Indian cousin has. The
two are different in size and different
n shape and different In habits. Ex-
cept for q few in geological parks,
which cannot tell you much about
their natural habits. you can't get to
knew the African elephant except by
studying him In his wild state In his
native haunts. Very few people have
done this.
The comparatively few men who
spent q day with seven hundred ele-
phant have not gained as much
knowledge as you would imagine they
would. because until you've tried II
you can't realize how extremely din
cult IL is to study the live African
elephant.
For, example. as I said before,
spent q day with sevenh undred ele-
plants In the Budongo forest, but
although I heard them all the time
and was very acutely conscious that
they were near me. do not believe
In
elephant more than half an hour, all
told, during the entire day. It hap
pened this way.
One night about dark, after a week
Or two Of hunting, we heard the
equeal OF an elephant while we were
sitting at dinner. A little later there
were more squeals and occasional
erumpsting-more and more. clearer
and clsareF-and by the time we had
finished dinner the noise was only a
mile or SO away. It WIS q contfn-
uous row, which suggested a tremen-
6ous herd. We went to bed early
with elephants getting closer to camp
AL Of the time.
There IL little danger Of elephants
attacking q camp. and, as there is no
way TO study them at night. about
the only thing LETT to do was to go to
bed aad set In good shape for the
nsxt day..
Along about midnight Mrs. Akeley
came over to my tent and said that
she haA loaded my guns and that they
we're all Fsady. She could not sleep;
10 she went out to sit BY the are.
The elephants were then within =
hundred yards of our tents and there
was a continuous roar made up OF
trsmpetiAgs. aqueaiing and the
crashing OF bushes and trees.
~ \
r GOT UP in the morning and had
] breakfast betore daybreak. The
elephants had moved on down the
edge Of the forest. What had been 4
Jungle of high grass ana bush the day
before was trampIed nat. There were
at least seven hundred elephants in
the herd--goyernment ofnciais had
counted them on the previous day 40
they came down. followed the trails
to the edge Of the forest, but saw
none. I ytarted back to cross . little
auiiaA u dry water course1. but felt
snapicieus and decided to look the site
uation ovsx 8 little more ciosely. ]
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Killed With Quality
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has been fog. mist or haze.
4 and these factors have been
responsible for many disasters in
every part OF the world. Take, for
instance, the late happenings or the
California coast, where a number Of
destroyers ran ashore. Take other
events Of like character that have
occurred from time to time on the
Pacific and similar ones on the At
lantic seaboard. Take some OF the
great railroad wrecks. the damage to
steamboats, ON the rivers and lakes.
You will fnd by reviewing the dis
asters that not only have many lives
been lost, but millions OF dollars
worth OF property has been destroyed.
lost because man was not able to get
through fog. = mist or haze.
Then, also. -, and that in the last
war the fiye"s OF all the armies were
handicappea by these same slements;
that ofte- military movement that
was plas.aed with great care had to
be postponed because OF weather
conditions. All Of these delays were
Of vast import. They might have
been the turning point OF q battle
or series Of conflicts.
Coming down to other matters that
pertain to our daily lives. we md
that mail trains. steamboats, and a4r-
planes are made to slow UP. II not
stop, because OF mans inability to see
through the things that we have to
contend with now and then.
For several years past the miracle
workers. rs the men at the bureau
Of standards are called. have been
working on plans that reduce the
handicap, II not overcome it entirely.
During the world war It was neces-
sary for the airpiages to carry camera
men, 90 that = section OF the ter.
rain might be photographed to sn-
able the infantry. the artillery ana
ether branches Of the service TO OPP
crate successfully. II wGs found thai
these fogs mists and hasesH inter.
fered very materially With ethe men
Of thu camera. Some Of the expert
ments' that had been made In this
country were used for the drst time.
some of them gave excellent results,
others were fair In the degree Of suc-
cess credited to them, while stili
others were almost, II mot entirely
complete failures. (. I,
T>HE men At the bursau had worked
i out : plan by which the phor
tographsrs could take picturas
through . base that wss dihcult to
zee throuxh with the most powerful
glasses that the Army had. N fact,
one could but pick up an outline here
and there, The cameras that were
sent aloft were able 70 set only q
blurred picture, one that was practi-
caliy useless when II. came to results
that army needs demanded, but with
the apparatus that the men OF sciencs
Iwsre sbls to asselnbis pictures we're
taken thse were Tar better even thau
|it was expected could be taken.
Il VS. not alea4 the IastaJlatiea of
different eclored glassSs, but In a4di-
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NY CARL T.. AKELEY.. !

r HAVE sat in the top OF q tree in
the middle Of herd q quarter OF
q mile from a native village tn
i Uganda in a last desperate effort
to sinspect the ESQ elephants
which, had been chewing me about
SO fast, that ] had not had y chance
TO see whether there were any, de-
sirable specimens among them or
not. ! have spent u day and night
in the Budongo forest in the. middle
OF herd of 700 elephants.
have stood on an ant-hill await
ing che rush OF eleven elephants
which had gotten my wind and were
determined upon getting me. I have
spent a day following and fighting
an old bull which took twenty-five
shots Of our elephant rifles before he
succumhed. And once also had such
close contact with an old bull up on
the slopes of Mt. Kenia that had to
save myself from being gored by
grabbing his tusks with my hands
and swinging In between them.
have spent many months studying
elephants In Africa---on the plains, in
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tion the manner In which the photo.
graphic plates were treated. After
the regular method Of development
had been employed, the plates or dlms
were subjected to q solution that
brought out the very faintest lines.
and thus 1t was that we were able
to secure photographs from thou
sands Of feet in the air and through
blankets of haze. a feat that . few
years previously would have been de-
clared impossible.
These men out on Connecticut
avenue if thing has never been
done or some one has said that it can
not be accomplished, merely shrug
their shoulders and 60 to work on the
problem. They proceed without any
great fuss, but IL some day q few
months or a year or 50 later YOU
happen to read that certain dis
covery has been made. You can wager
with safety that the quiet men at the
bureau have scored another victory.
1t is true that they have not yet
been able to overcome the dificulties
that confront them when 1t comes to
shooting beanas4 Of light through
dense banks OF fog. but they are sti!l
working on the matter. and they have
made hsadway with haze and mists.
Who knows but that some OF ths in
vestigRtions may. lead to point
where thesas great banks can be
pierced by rays from mammoth lamps
or projectors?
It., IL known that other govern
ment engineers are working on the
question and that they have. to q
very limited extent. been able to
send rays Of light through these
bodies that have caused so much an.
noyance. The recent tests of the
cross-country dying by the air mail
service suffered only from the foss
that came up almost without warn,
ang. and even the big searchiights
bearing soo.oos.ooo candlepowsr could
mot getsthetr rays Through.
i Fog, of. course. Is the greatest
source OF annoyance. In washingtcn
we do not suffer from it. except upon
rare occasions, and even thea It Is
of minor character. The real fogs,
such % thsy have In San Francisco.
London ana other placer. are un-
known here,
.is5 tA ~
/ i risoG that was one Of the most
Yemarkahle ever witnessed oc.
CURED id the Fharbor outside Of san
Diego. caiii. In lSlc. A great bank.
sin1iiara in outline 90 = mammoth baie
OF cotton. roiied into the harbor. II
was so dense that one could not see
q avessea that had been enveioped only
m instant before. hut those on the
hurricane deck OF the passenger boat
that ran between san Francisco and
san Diego could see, the top line Of
the fog blanket and could see the
suns rays hit 1t IT the top. There
wers only few feet Of the top part
OF the fog bank on which the sun
appeared to have any influence, and
that portion Was viyidiy colored. II
was rather In ths nature Of . copy
los. ths sDeess1n, sDeh - the msa ef
silence use tn their studies Of opaque.
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Seldom Is tha spirit OF hair
breadth adventure $50 admirably
linked with an accurate, scientffic
balance as 1t is In the case OF
Carl Ethan Akeley. One OF the
most distinguished of American
explorers and big game hunters,
Or. Akeley. has been with the
American Museum, OF Natural
History Of New York since 1908,
leading three important expedi-
tions Into Africa for the. study
and collection Of big game. His
work Of recent years has peen
erpe cfaiiy devoted to the pIans
and pssembltns 80 exhibits for
the museums new African hall.
He was formerly connected with
the Tieid Museum OF Chicago:
During the war Or. Akeley
ssEyAd isl the ,epsineering. DEPART.
msnt OF the United Statcss Army,
also as q special aSsigtAf,t In
yaS concrete Department of: .,thA
EnteYeenry Fleet Cofporxfi0Ns3 He
is the Inventor of the cement
gun. and among his other inven-
tionh Is the Akeiey camera. BY
profession a taxidernaist. az, we'll !.
as inventor, DIR, Aketey. is also a :
sculptor OF nnte--his groups OF
WILD animal life have com nnaanded
widespread attention. in addition.
a painter. Many, scientific clubs
and societies ciaim him a. q
The following is the first of
Eve remarkable artictesst relating
his experiences with the. most
dangerous OF African animals.
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ED c. KNoLE.

.HE greatest enemy to man. In
the matter OF transportation
has been fog. mist or haze,
and fhesA factora hayA been
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tresses is a certain Enid Bromley
daughter of Chard Bromley. new
manager of the Baniak- Baniak rubber
estate. Sheltering himself behind the
plausible excuse that the late man
ager was assassinated by the Yellow
Seven and that the district wasn't
any too healthy for a white girl, our
scheming superior has arranged for
Miss Enid to occupy spare room in
his bungalow and keep Mrs. Whey
company"
Shut up, Dawson. The point that
ought to interest you, Peter, is that
ing reward of $1,000 for the arrest
OF Chat lung"
Are they, by Jove? A new man
aged at Baniak- Baniak, too. That ac-
counts for the activity l noticed when
l passed through"
What sort of activity?">
They're tackling that new area;
got crowd of natives hewing the
forest all around them"
A group OF government men
ushered in the fall OF darkness, fol-
lowed at intervals by club members of
varied callings, who waited in by twos
and threes to swell the numbers of
those who were already in occupation.
A young INSTRUMENTATION a
newcomer-paused on the threshold
as il in search of somebody-then
walked straight up to Pennington.
How do, I'enn,?" '.'
The man with the extraordinary
eyes came to his feet.
"Gwynne! What the devil are you
doing here"
The newcomer lowered his voice.
There's not lot going on in Sin
gapore, so they thought I'd like the
trip. I caught sight of ChaiHung
for a couple OF seconds outside Raj
fes tracked him to Tabuan-and then
lost the trail altogether. I'm to re-
port to you for duty"
Good man. Hewitt. this is Joce-
Ign Gwynne. DaYson--Gwynne! Mr..
Gwynne-Mr. Dawson"
He sat down again.
so you actually saw Chat Hung"
said the Commissioner presently.
Gwynne nodded. He was a short,
sturdy youth, square and fair
headed.
Just before the trouble began out
here, / met Chai-Hung at Johore--
and his face Is not one that easily
slips the memory. Since then, Of
course, the old blighters lost a hand,
which makes identification easier.
CONTINUED in Our Next Issue)
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" TIE SILVER HAhD-#
gyeps4oNp SKILL.
nlosvR~ysp BY ..
EHA ss1Mef. inc ,a,. RnN>AwsaT,elp

| "Hows the Yellow Seven affair
proceeding"
you know we settled NY-H au--
the Teller responsible for looting a
train
The Commissioner moved restessy.
Dawson told me. I gather Moor
house had a narrow squeak. Chat
Hung escaped by a window--and you
followed What happened them"
Peter Pennington crossed his legs
and stared pensively through the
doorway.
II set my junge-telegrap buzzing,
rounded up my little crowd of brown
skinned agents and succeeded in rop-
ing in the young men of local VII
lage. We got going and fell upon
the bandits bodyguard hip and thigh.
Chat Hung wormed his way out of the
charmed circle, headed for the river
and left the island in tong-kong,
disguised as cargo of some sort or
other
Hewitt sprang to his feet
You don't mean to tell me he's
left Borneo?"
The other nodded
IT'S even whispered that he spent
couple Of nights in Singapore:
but" he added reassuringly, hes
sneaked back again and succeeded in