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NO ONE WAS HURT.

Saved Through Freak THIS

HIS is the photograph of a remark

able railroad accident. A freight engine running wild dashed into the rear coach of a passenger train. Instead of

millions of dollars have been expended in contracts for reclaiming the arid regions of the West. Plans are now on foot which will involve a further cost of $15,000,000. Ten thousand men are engaged under contractors in this work. The Reclamation Service itself employs directly 2,000 men-mechanics and unskilled laborers. Recently the organization was separated from the parent body, and it now has quarters of its own. The present membership is 400, consisting of engineers and assistants.

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Heaps of Diamonds HEAPS of diamonds, flashing and

burning beneath the artificial lights overhead and aggregating in value $215,000, is what the accompanying photograph represents. For this is a diamondcutter's table. The tools may be seen lying about. The little cup-shaped instrument just back of the diamonds is the glass through which the workman examines the gems. The stones in the center are cut; the little piles lying about in a semi-circle are still awaiting the adamant instruments of the workman.

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smashing the car to pieces or telescoping A LARGE Baptist Church that stands

it into the next forward car, the locomotive lifted the coach, filled with passengers at the time, upon itself. Strangely enough not a single one of the passengers sustained any injury. This is one of the most singular and at the same time most fortunate railroad disasters known.

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in the city of Santa Rosa, Cal., enjoys the distinction of having been constructed entirely from a single tree. Of course, that includes the woodwork of the structure. The tree from which the timbers, lumber, and shingles were cut was a giant California redwood. A con

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siderable quantity of the lumber was left over after the church building was completed.

This building has a spire seventy feet high; an audience-room capable of seating 300; a parlor capable of seating eighty; a pastor's study fourteen by twenty feet. a vestibule and toilet room. The building is thirty-five by eighty feet. There are not many buildings in the country all the timber of which came from a single tree.

Mosquitoes Like Black

THE most rational way to wage war

against larvae and eggs of mosquitoes, which they deposit in swamps and stagnant waters, is done by means of a thin coating of kerosene. But the number of bites from this sanguinary insect may be greatly decreased by the use of lightcolored clothing, as it is stated by an eminent German scientist that the mosquitoes are strongly influenced in choosing their victims by the color of their clothes. As far back as 1841 it was discovered that a loose fabric of white threads kept mosquitoes away much more effectively than one of black threads. Joly observed in Madagascar that the insects prefer to alight on black soil rather than on white

CHURCH BUILT FROM ONE TREE.

sandy soil, and rather on black shoes and clothes than on white ones. The natives of Madagascar even suspend pieces of black fabric from the ceilings of their huts in order to attract the mosquitoes to it. He also found that light-colored dogs were tormented less than dark colored ones, and negroes more than Europeans. Similar observations were made in India.

Strange Spotted Fever "MEDICAL science has not yet pene

trated the secret of spotted fever," says Doctor W. W. King, of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, who has recently returned from several months' study of the disease in the Bitter Root Valley of Montana, where he was sent by the Government.

"There are many baffling characteristics about spotted fever," said he. "In the first place, the disease is only known in a few valleys of the West. It is exceedingly dangerous, but not even prevalent where it occurs. For instance, in the Bitter Root Valley there were ten cases this year with eight deaths.

"A peculiarity of the disease is that it appears only on the east side of the Bitter Root Valley. People on the west slope

have never been affected. In other valleys in the mountains it may appear on the west side. but it is always confined to one side.

Dr. King has brought back with him several guinea pigs and monkeys infected with the disease. These subjects are being experimented upon at the Hygiene Laboratory at Washington, and the hope is expressed that the germ of spotted fever may ultimately be discovered, and that it may be eradicated. Practically all the progress made thus far has been to determine that spotted fever is a blood disease.

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MLLE. D'ARCI LOOPING THE LOOP IN HER AUTOMOBILE.

The Dip of Death MLLE. YVONNE D'ARCI was the

first woman, or indeed the first person, to loop the loop in an automobile. The feat of looping the loop by a bicycle rider has become, relatively speaking, quite common. The somersault in mid air with the auto is a "thriller" that is

still something new for summer resorts and carnival shows. The inauguration of the automobile introduced a new problem: how to neutralize the tremendous force of the fall that a heavy machine necessarily must experience on striking the earth.

A Frenchman solved the riddle. Consulting his mathematics, he placed a collapsible platform where the machine would drop.. It was thirty feet from the end of the incline. His mathematics also told him that before the car reached the earth, its momentum would force it to turn a complete revolution. With a dummy of the same weight as a human figure, he pursued the problem and found that in nine cases out of ten, the car would finish its somersault before it struck the platform.

To break the tremendous force of the fall, the collapsible framework suggested itself and the apparatus for the act was complete.

Each day, at the appointed hour, Mlle. D'Arci steps into the automobile and is slowly hoisted skyward. Not until it reaches the extreme edge of the skeletonlike incline does it pause. Of a sudden, the ropes are severed, and the car is

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hurled earthward. whizzes into the lower curve of the incline, is flung outward and upward. Then it plunges downward again to complete its revolution and crashes into the platform below. The timbers snap and the car strikes the ground amid the wreckage, the force of the impact broken.

It is hard to believe that a woman would care to take such tremendous risks, and, yet on one occasion, when Mlle. D'Arci wanted a substitute she found scores of women eager to take and the glory-all are incentives. her place. The money, the excitement,

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The "Bride's Special”

NOTABLE genius has been displayed

by a resident of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the building of a complete locomotive of the same style as the ones in use on the Intercolonial Railroad, using for building material nothing but cook

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MLLE. YVONNE D'ARCI STARTING ON HER PERILOUS TRIP.

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ing utensils and small hardware. The builder's name is Stuart Wetmore. The total number of cooking utensils and other pieces used was 231.

This interesting duplicate locomotive is 10 feet long, 5 feet 4 inches high and 3 feet wide. The boiler is formed of four number 9 round washboilers, with one galvanized wash tub for the flaring portion. The cab was formed out of four cake boxes, with a curved stove board for the roof. The eccentrics and working gear were represented by transom lifts and brass tubing of paris green sprayers.

The complete list of utensils and small hardware which went into this locomotive is as follows: Two stove boards, three waiters, two oil stove ovens, three coils hose, nine patty pans, one egg beater, one pint cup, two conductor elbows, one milk pan, one fruit press, seven milk skimmers, two creamers, two door stops, two dampers, two clamps, one A. B. C. plate, one carriage lamp, one covered pail, two transom lifts, two ox knobs, three bread boxes, two kettle covers, twelve fuse tubes, twenty-five butter spades, three knobs, one lamp heater, three cake pans, four funnel tubes, two stair rods, one stove toaster, twelve stove lifters, seven dripping pans, eight creamer taps, four cake pans, nine pokers, one dish pan cover, eleven pipe collars, two brackets, two levels, two meat saws, one cake closet, fourteen lamp collars, one trivet, six pie plates, one lamp top, two jelly molds, three powder cans, four vegetable presses, two cake turners, ten chain links, four pot covers, two cage borders, two filters, two stove pipes, four table mats, four graters, four iron hoops, three axe

handles, three planes, two steel squares. Completed, the locomotive was appropriately named the "Bride's Special.”

Mr Wetmore for planning and constructing the "Bride's Special" received the gold medal for the best display at the Dominion fair at Halifax. The locomotive was wired together.

Wireless Aided Frisco.

THE United States Naval Wireless Telegraph Station, on Yerba Buena Island,. California, rendered excellent service during the days of earthquake and fire at San Francisco. This government station has a Postal Telegraph wire in connection and while every other Postal office as well as Western Union

and every telephone wire was placed out of commission this one retained communication with Seattle and Portland for three days over an accidental cross in the wires. The Pacific fleet steaming northward from San Diego to Long Beach, were notified of the great catastrophe by wireless from this station. Plans for the landing of a force of bluejackets and marines and supplies of food and medicine were completed while the

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ships were still three hundred miles away. When the Chicago, flagship of the fleet, arrived and took up anchorage off Fort Mason, where General Funston had established his headquarters, the burning city obtained direct telegraphic communication with the outside world. by means of wireless to Yerba Buena and then to the East over the abovementioned Postal wire. In addition to this great

aid to the military commander and other government officials by placing them in touch with their heads at Washington, great service was rendered by the Commandant of the Yerba Buena station in directing from there the movements of the fleet of naval tugs and tenders in giving succor to the stricken city.

Chinese "Chesty"

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HE Chinese are rapidly developing a well-drilled and well-equipped modern army; and here is photographic evidence of this development. The Chinese soldier looks strikingly like his Jap cousin, and, in fact, is being trained by Jap officers, to a large extent. Because she is developing a new army, and knows that it is a good one, China has lately been threatening to drive Russia out of all Chinese territory.

There seems to be no reason why the Chinese, when properly drilled and officered, should not be classed as among the world's best soldiers. They are quick to learn, are obedient and possess patience and endurance.

Seat that Disappears A DISAPPEARING chair for use in

halls and theatres is designed by its inventor to safeguard large audiences. In case of panic, the chair may be folded and lowered instantly into the floor, thus affording ample floor space for the spec

GROUP OF CHINESE SOLDIERS.

tators' exit. For use in aisles where it is desired temporarily to have a seat, it will be especially welcome to theatre

managers.

As shown in the drawing, an opening is made in the floor, corresponding in size and shape to the folded chair. The back, when released, falls forward upon the seat. A rod supports the chair, which, as occasion may require, is lowered to the floor by releasing a spring.

DISAPPEARING THEATRE SEAT.

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