LIVE OAK SPLITS ROCK. Growing tree breaks huge boulder in two near Yosemite.

LIVE OAK SPLITS A ROCK

SOME idea of the force exerted by the roots of a growing tree may be gained from an inspection of the accompanying illustration. The tree is a live

oak, growing at El Portal, close to the entrance to Yosemite National Park. How the tree happened to start growth in so unfavorable a location is, of course, unknown; but having started, its tiny rootlets forced their way into crevices of the great sandstone boulder upon which it grew, and, as they enlarged, they split the boulder asunder. Residents of the neighborhood can remember when the boulder was only slightly cracked by the roots of a slender sapling. The sapling has grown into a fair-sized tree, and its expanding roots have parted the big rock.

UNIQUE BURIAL HOUSE THE Makah Indians, living on the

northwest coast, have a curious custom of depositing all the effects of a deceased person in the grave with the body, believing these articles may prove of use in the happy hunting grounds beyond. Huge canoes are often dragged long distances and left to moulder by the grave

of the departed owner. Recently, when a chief died, his dwelling was torn down, and a new house built over his grave from the pieces. This house, which is shown in the reproduction, might be said to be hermetically sealed, for no provision whatever is made for ingress or egress. The windows are simply nailed to the outside. One pole has a blanket fluttering from the top; the other a whirligig, to frighten away evil spirits.

STRANGE PLACE OF BURIAL. Doorless house, with windows nailed on the outside chosen by Indian chief for his final

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CDDITY IN BUSINESS SIGN.

This ought to be a business getter, and is. It is the

MOTOR-CAR MADE FROM JUNK.

Automobile built by Mariposa man, from parts of old

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FUJI-YAMA IN SILK

NE of Japan's principal industries is that of silk culture, and this is certainly well represented at the White City. By means of models, photographs, and charts every process of sericulture from sweeping the egg-cards to the removing of the woven fabric from the loom is minutely shown. What is claiming no little admiration in this section is the wonderfully realistic representation of Fuji-yama, the sacred mountain of Japan, built up of hundreds of thousands of silk cocoons. As the model is 180 feet in length and towers some 18 feet in height it will be seen that it is a no mean attempt to reproduce this famous mountain.

RIDDLE OF THE SOUTHWEST

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NE of the most curious of American archaeological riddles awaits solution in Northern New Mexico, a few miles from the Indian Pueblo of Taos. Large, rounded cobblestones are unusually abundant for a locality so far from the river, and the cobblestones are distributed with a system and regularity that makes it certain that they were placed by human hands. They are arranged, for the most part, in rectangles, with here and there a circle, covering an area not less than twenty-five square miles in extent.

It is plain that these were the foundation stones of an adobe city, but nowhere else in America have ruins been found of any prehistoric city at all approximating this in size. How long ago. it flourished, or by what sort of people it was inhabited, is a point upon which the myths and traditions of the Southwestern tribes are silent. The Pueblo of Taos is known to have occupied its present site for at least four hundred years.

LIFE-SAVING CARS LIFE-SAVING cars that are expected

to prevent the loss of hundreds of lives annually in the coal mines of the United States, were put in operation November 1 by the new federal Bureau of Mines. The cars, six in number, will occupy stations in the centers of the prin