DOUBLE ENDED LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE CAUCASUS

It burns the waste product resulting from refining the oil which is so abundant in the region, and is in service among the mountains.

A JAPANESE IN AMERICAN OPERA

She is Tamaki Miura, a lyric soprano, and is appearing this scason in leading cities, in conjunction with the Pavlowa Ballet, singing Cio-Cio-San in Madame Butterfly. She was trained in Japan, and has won a considerable degree of success in Europe.

The new life preserver is an ordinary suitcase until needed in an emergency. It then opens out into a waterproof suit that supports the head and has room for food and water as well, as though it were a floating hotel.

PREPAREDNESS AS UNDERSTOOD IN THE WEST A National Guard battery uses these wooden horses in lieu of the real article, because there are no funds available for the purchase and care of the animals. In case of war this particular battery will then be expected to go forth "between sunrise and sunset" and do efficient work-by those patriotic Americans who think we can do everything without training or preparation.

The "Ferris Wheel" arrangement shown was adopted in order to give the harvester wheel sufficient bearing surface to hold it up on wet and soggy ground. Such devices were all that enabled gathering much of the year's crop, because of the flooded conditions throughout the country.

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The judge gave an involuntary start; a fleeting look of pain was driven from his face quickly by a gentle smile.

"I, too, am blind," he told the prisoner. The whimpering man at the bar of justice straightened up in astonishment. He couldn't see, but a blind man's sense told him the jurist was not playing a cruel joke on him. He was standing

LACK OF HANDS DOES NOT MAKE JAILER SMITH A LESS EFFICIENT GUARDIAN He possesses artificial extremities made by himself, with which he is as handy as his charges are with their natural equipment.

before a man no less afflicted than he, but still a success in his life's work. The prisoner was given a "suspended sentence"; advised to seek work at the Home for the Blind, and left with a new squareness to his shoulders.

"If you can be a judge although blind, I, at least, can be an honest blind man," were his parting words to His Honor.

This was just one instance where Municipal Court Judge Samuel W. Bell of Cincinnati proved a greater judge-perhaps not of law but of human servicebecause he is a sightless judge, a personification of Blind Justice.

Judge Bell is one of two men who form a strange dual paradox. The other is Hughey Smith, a handless jailer of Covington, Kentucky. Smith has never yet reported a prisoner escaped from the county. jail over which he presides in Kenton County, Kentucky, and Judge Bell has handled with distinction some three thousand cases during his brief term. Both men, by their examples of overcoming handicaps, have given inspiration that has resulted in real reformations.

Way back in 1883, Bell lost his sight. He was performing a patriotic duty during the heated Harrison-Morton presidential campaign. A cannon was to be fired as the climax of a celebration. The cannon burst and Captain Bell was swallowed up in what was feared would be everlasting night. A year later, surgeons succeeded in restoring the lost sight. In the course of time, he opened a book store and at night studied law. In 1894 blindness began again to creep upon him. He gave up his business-he must learn his law quickly; he must make his bow as a barrister before the curtain fell again!

With the sight of one eye gone and