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LEFT SERVICE TBEE 350 SERVIUS TULLIUS gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty. The Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to persons who have distin- guished themselves by extraordinary hero- ism in connection with military operations against an armed enemy. The Distin- guished Service Medal is awarded to those who distinguished themselves by excep- tionally meritorious service with the Government in a duty of great responsi- bility. Not more than one Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, or Distin- guished Service Medal may be issued to any one person, but for each succeeding act sufficient to justify the award of any of these, a bar or other device is worn, and for each citation of an officer or en- listed man for gallantry in action, he is entitled to wear a silver star with the medal, service cross, or service medal. The total number of Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the World War was 78. Awards were made of 1,292 Distinguished Service Medals, and of Distinguished Service Crosses, 5,709. Of the latter, 5,200 were awarded by the Commanding General of the Ex- peditionary Forces, 487 by the War De- partment, and 22 by the Commanding General of the American Forces in Si- beria. These totals include the awards up to December 20, 1920. The medals awarded for distinguished service in the navy include three, the Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Ser- vice Medal, and the Navy Cross. The medal known as the Victory Medal, to- gether with an appropriate clasp, is issued to any person who performed honorable duty in the navy or naval reserves, be- tween April 6, 1917, and Nov. 11, 1918. This is equivalent to the Victory Medal noted above. The Medal of Honor is awarded to those who distinguished them- selves by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of life, above and beyond the call of duty. The Distinguished Service Medal is bestowed for exceptionally meritorious service to the Government, in a duty of great responsibility. The Navy Cross is awarded for extraordinary heroism or distinguished service in the line of pro- fessional duty, when such service is not sufficient to justify the award of the Medal of Honor or the Distinguished Ser- vice Medal. SERVICE TREE, the Pyras sorbus or domestica, a native of Continental Eu- rope and western Asia. It has serrate leaves, unequally pinnate, and cream- colored flowers. It is from 20 to 60 feet high. Two varieties, the pear-shaped, P. S. pyriformis, and the apple-shaped, P. S. maliformis, are cultivated in parts of France and near Genoa for their fruit. Also Pyrus (sorbus) torminalis, the wild service tree. It is a small tree growing in woods and hedges, but rare and local. Flowers numerous, white, appearing in April and May. The fruit pyriform or sub-globose, greenish-brown, dotted. It is eatable, and is sold in parts of Europe. SERVISS, GARRETT PUTMAN, an American writer, born at Sharon Springs, N. Y., in 1851. He graduated from Cor- nell University in 1872 and from the Columbia School of Law in 1874. Until 1892 he was an editorial writer on the New York "Sun," and from that time lectured on travel, history and astronomy. His books include "Astronomy with an Opera Glass" (1888) ; "Pleasures of the Telescope" (1901); "Other Worlds" (1902) ; "Astronomy with the Naked Eye" (1908) ; "Round the Year with the Stars" (1910) ; "The Moon Maiden," a story, (1915). SERVITES, the name commonly given to a monastic order, the Religious Ser- vants of the Holy Virgin, founded in 1233 by seven Florentine merchants at Mount Senario, near Florence. St. Philip Benoit, the fifth general, saved the order from suppression in 1276, and in 1487 Pope Innocent VIII. bestowed on the Servites the privileges of the four great mendicant orders. The life is one of austerity and continual prayer; the habit is black, with a leather girdle, a scapular, and a cloak, and the rule is a modification of that of St. Augustine. The strength of the order lay chiefly in Italy and Germany. Since the French Revolution many houses havfc been founded in different countries. There are several houses of the order in the United States. SERVITUDE, a state or condition of a serf, slave, or bondman; state of volun- tary or involuntary subjection to a mas- ter or employer; service; slavery; bond- age; position in life of a servant; — hence, a state or condition of slavish or help- less dependence. In civil law, the right to the use of a thing, without property in the same, for all or for some particular purposes. It consists either in the right to do some act, as to gather fruit from the estate, or to prevent the owner of the property from doing certain acts, as building walls beyond a certain height, blocking up a window, etc. SERVITJS TULLIUS, the 6th king of Rome. According to the tradition he was the son of a slave given by the elder Tar- quin to Tanaquil, his wife. He married Tarquin's daughter, and on the death of his father-in-law (578 B. c. according to the usual chronology) he was raised to the throne. He defeated the Veientines