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Big Mm''MmmMMmk 4 -Lvery emand of the IpMost Fastidious Trav-1 elcr; Met on Trains Into theVery Heart of -Africa. The g-H eraldcd Cape to. Cairo Route Rapidly Becoming a Reality-Zambesi Falls Boasts a fine Hotel savag A'rlea in novel stylo and Vith- nilt In I v' tUR own great country and have developed in double harness with such dramatic swiftness of late years that we are apt to overlook. the amaz- lng changes wrought in Savage Africa during the same period. Long ago the great Cape to.

Cairo line crossed the tremendous gorge of the SSambesl Falls, and is now nearly COO miles north of that" gTeat-nmaing-'line 6f The "conn-" nent. The Uganda Railroad unique among them all because one may shoot Hons from the car windows! has opened up to trade a great empire tne in Portuguese West Africa the Katanga line, fast approaching completion -by British capitalists, runs 1,200 miles into the very heart of the continent, until it Joins the nfaln Cape to Cairo system. In the Congo, too, railroad enterprise is going ahead in every direction, opening UP rich mineral and rubber districts. Already the line from etanjeyville to PonthiervlUe is open. But it is on the Rhodesian railways that one sees the most startling advance, and th'at not only because South Africa is the civilized section of that vast continent, but rather because of the gold mines of the Rand, the diamond holes of Kimberley, and attractions for tourist and big game hunter alike.

It will be news to many that thou- sands of sportsmen now visit Africa every year in search of great game, in i spite of the stringent protection laws made by the various powers interested in order to protect elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, and all the greater antelopes. In fact, honeymoon trips have been organized from the port of Mombasa, and a few lions at least promised each adventurous couple. Sir Edmund and Lady Lechmere have been here bagglns lions year after year for several seasons. And as to mere sights," where on this earth can you match the Falls of the Zambesi, compared with which even our own mighty Niagara dwindles Into a mere cascade? Think of a river more than two miles wide dropping a sheer 400 feet! By the CoNsmcror railroads of Natal, the Tn.nsvaal. and tiie River Colony cost a mile, and those Cape Colony fiiO.OOO.

while the Rhodesian lines cost Vut frd.liOO. The thousands of employes working In the wilderness had their shopping done for them by a special train that ran once a month from civilisation, and brought, besides provisions, the necessary rifles and ammunition to keap wild beasts and hostile savages at bay. The one were dragging down the teU- wires, and the other pulling up the tracks and forging them into spears! And to-day circular tourist tickets," available for one month, are Issued for all stations on the Rhodesian Railways. More ambitious still, there are superb palace cars for hire through, out the system, and these may be turned Into luxurious traveling camps by big game hunters and tourists generally who want to do Rhodesian railways, too, one reaches the mysterious ruins of Great Zimbabwe, over which the archaeologists of Europe are fiercely debating at this moment. Some claim that these stupendous burled cities, with their temples and towers, lost In and overgrown by the African Jungle, are really the Ophir" of the Bible, wTTence King $olmon procured his incalculable treasures of gold for the great tempie of Shooting Hippos via Parlor Car.

'And so this enormous slice of Africa, covering 750,000 square miles, has gone ahead faster than any other part of the continent. At present Rhodesia has 2,200 mjles of railroad in operation, with invested capital of $70,000,000. And yet this region presents many queer incongruities. Think of boarding a palace car, sumptuous as any of our own transcontinental with elec- trie light and fans, shower baths, libra ries, gramophones, iced drinks, and the rest, and miming straight to the new t.otel at the Zambesi Falls, from whoso window's the guest may shoot giant, hippos Ihe behemoth of the Btblo as they rise, snorting and blowing wijth anger at of a native c)'i? Strange, tod, to thlpk that less than ten years agd Buluwayo, now the rail-rood headquarters, wras the chief kraal a Central African village of wattlo and daub huts belonging to bloodthirsty Lo King of the Mata- bele. o-day that cluster ff African I huts has disappeared, and in Its place has -risen one of the greatest railroad centres of the with huge ho- palavers, while while ptoy being massacred and out to pieces all over the country during the Matabele rebellion.

A few miles out of the town, In the Matoppo Hills, where Rhodes himself lies burled In the granite, you will find more hotels and parks, with a unique zoo, and every circumstance of a week-end resort of the peoplo of Buluwayo. Legs than a decarfj ago L'ecil Rhodes laid out the main line from Buluwayo to the Zambesi and on to Lake Tanganyika. Much of work was done while the Boer War was raging, yet all difficulties were o'trome by sheer perseverance. And ihat without great SXZZS. WyhYC jrAA FX NlTHn WJZ2 FASTIS ATOJt MVXrtji a viivtv, Uliy liia penetrato Into the lnd ef savages and the largtst of wfld beasts, carry, ing with them their own luxurious hotel, with electric light and a French chef.

The hire includes all caterinr, and the car is hauled to any part of t5s there kept on a siding to await th hunters' pleasure. Once a week the train do luxe from Cape Town to Buluwayo goes north, carrying the ovtr-sef maiL It consists of dining and sleeping cars, observation and strong rooms, with a sumptuous 1 uriM containing writing tables an an excellent library. There are also a cardroom. kitchen, pantry, lavatories, and bathrooms. Scene of tht Mstabelo Slaughter'.

Most of these arc upholstered ta dark red morocco, with carvod oak paneling and sllvtr-plated fittings. Go? lug north 1r6m Buluwayo the train crosses Ehaagaht River, where Major Alan Wilson and hie companions were all slaughtered by the Matabele while trying to eut off and capture the fierce old King, Lo Btngula. Soon tho mopanl forests are rf ached, anjl here the lion, giraffe, hippo, rhino, and elephant atlll abound. Their spoof nay often be seen as this strangest of trains speeds north to the reat Zambesi. And at last the Falls.

1,640 miles north of Cape Town, where one of the world's mightiest streams fells, front a dizzy height into a forty-mile gcrge, barely a hundred feet wide some places, but of fathomless depth. Here, for the benefit of wealthy hunti era and travelers, two or three big ho, tels have been built, with electric light and elevators, and a Park of Peace Is laid out, wjtfc a espt of W'atts's superb bronze statue. "Physi cal Energy." overlooking the chaos of waters from a commanding emi-nence. Just where Livingstone stood In awe watching the mountains of milt rising, from the Boiling Pot," a big town lias been out, shaded with palms and boabab trees. And In the country, round about cotton and tobacco are being cultivated, while the active work has been begun of for the benefit Of all South Central Africa, the fifty million horse power which the world's greatest engineers declare Ilea latent in these mighty falls.

The queer thing Is that In spite of all these bold projects colossal hippopotami still disport themselves in noisy herds a hundred strong beneath the very win dows of the Grand Hotel, and as the Falls Bridge, 450 feet above the river, the traveler realises that he has arrived la the 'only civilized town on earth where big game, shooting Is possible. For down below the Falls the lion still, lies In wait the' stately giraffe In te dusk. Just as he did before ever white face appeared in this part ef savage Africa. 7 supporting one or more bones. These divisions are so constructed that they can be disjointed, reassembled and bolted together In such manner as to form what appears lo be continuous stone slab wijb the skeleton hewn out In bold relief The novel engineering framework was built by Harry Beers of the Museum ataff.

who will reunite and ad-Just the sections after transportation to Frankfort. The greaf creature how ever, for the benefit of New Tork lsh-ors. wll possibly be shown for some time in the near future In one of the unopened west wings es the fourtk floor of the Museum. raeasBWije line Ownerse tmpioyea is remeay mis ireuoie. tegular tnttrvslg the aperturea ef the' springs' are relieved of the Urn deposit by Ingenious mschjats.

and by other hydraullo work every precaution haa been- taken against a slmlnutlo of the flaw of water. While it times thtre may be a difference In this flow at tbe tsrtous Carlsbad pring in in nsiure oi wungs tat average amount of water which eoratf to the surface always remains the same, and the mtnea in the. neighborhood of tbe city hive not thus tar changed conditions. Nevertheless, the unfortunate experiences of ether bathing places, for example Tep-llts, where mining In the neighborhood was allowed toe freely, baa Influenced Cerlabad. te take the Miery precautionary steps.

(Therefore, after years ef study, Bprltnj Commission, to which belonged the foremost experts and sclentlflo authorities, met In CarUbf in the Summer of 1WXV and later published a report This report. Instead of quleftnf the publle, led to all kinds ef alarming rumors. As a matter of fact, the Calsbad have pot bea changed either la their chemical conditio or In the quantity of the flow, and every Sclentlflo precaution baa been tsken to remove the slightest possibility of any In-Jury to the springs at present or in the future. All rumors as te the conditio of the Carlsbad springs hve Hen Inspired by unfriendly interests. The steppage of the flew of the Csrlsbed spring is no more than the destruction of the erlq by an approaching tomet.

The City of Csrlsbed h-sppeld te tbe authorities In Prague te restrict the raises from working In neighborhood, snq" ansur-snee from Vienna hive bn rcelvd thst the Ministry will upheld our conten- The thlt ste uffT In end. Evt th fiiow who ststls a kjp tnr have to bsarfy the sjttL Great American Dinosaur for and Germany TAJCf. ment House, which stands on the very site where old Lo Bengula held his ural posit Ion lying on its side. It required Fovr-ral months -of laborious work to cbiFHl and dig out the petrified bone frojji rock and clay matrix. These wero then carefully protected by layers of plaster, Incnsed In burlap wrappings, and -further strengthened by splints of wood fastened with rawhide to Insure safety In transportation.

In life Dlplodlcus was a bulky and comparatively slow-moving creature, which Is indicated by the very small brain. He was without armor or any means of defense. When pursued by the fierce, flesh-eating dinosaurs living at the same time It Is thought he took to the water as the only medium of escape from these enemies. The head was only two feet long, being astonishingly small in proportion to the hut body. In life It is conjectured he would have stood In height far above the largest elephant.

The monster standing at full length would have occupied the space of three street cars, and when he rose on his hind limbs, kangaroollke, lie was high enough to look Into the window of an average three-story MOLSrwO tels, public parks, office buildings, racecourses, and an immense Govern 'ous reptiles and largest land animals that ever trod the earth, ranging from CO to 70 feet In length and of enormus bulk. Home eight million years ago, according to geological reckoning, during the Jurassic Period and Age of Reptiles, the unfamiliar beast roamed the marshes and lived in the Inland seas and lakes which at that remote period covered various parts of the Rocky Mountain region. His remains were discovered near the Medicine Bull River, In South Central Wyoming, a few years ago by some of the fossil explorers Prof. Henry F. Osborn's PaJeontologJal at a point christened Bone Cabin Quarry," which has been found to be a wonderful layer bed of entombed dinosaurs.

This small area, about 100 by 175 feet, has yielded In successive years the greatest number and variety In size and type of extinct animals of any single spot In the world. One of tho remarkable skeletons excavated from this Bone Cabin Quarry was that of the long- limbed Dlplodlcus. mighty creature's ribs, and backbone- About half of the form- Iitnd limbs, ra found in a nat- the Kaiser tion was astonishingly short. The animal was principally aquatic, tnough he frequented the land at times. The head was supplied with short, rakelike teeth, which were of no use for cutting or grinding, being adapted only for pulling up and tearing off the soft water plants, vegetation, of the lake bottoms, upon which he l.

Half a ton or more of this tender foodstuff could have been retained in its ponderous stomach st a meal. The food was swallowed The long, flexible tapering, fifteen-foot neck enabled the animal to wade to a considerable depth to forage for food among the aoft plants on the bottom. Nature provided the dinosaur with a series of ucceaslonal teeth. By this means a tooth was replabed almost as soon as on was lost. Ope of the most remarkable structural features of the animal was the whlpllkeand powerful tall, 30 feet long ever halt the length of the body.

This served the creature as 'a propeller, enabling him to swim very rapidly through the water, also ss a weapon of A PROBABLY one of the largest and most wonderful gifts the Kaiser has yet received will be that of a great American dinosaur plplodlcus by name. This giant, extinct creature was one of Wyoming's strange and' mighty Inhabitants some eight million years ago. Now his herculean fossil' frame has Just been, in bas relief fashion, 'appearing to the onlooker as if hewn out of solid stone. Genuine all-bone North American dinosaurs nearly CO feet long are scarce qn the other side. Now, however, through the generosity of President Morris K.

Jesup and Jacob Schlff Germany Is to have a realistic view and to permanently possess this one of the most valuable fossil prizes In the world, representing a type of one of the gigantic animals of former ages, of which only two or three Incomplete specimens are now in existence. The big dinosaur is to be presented by Jacob It Schlff to "a new natural hls-. tory museum to be dedicated shortly In the City of Frankfort, Germany, his birthplace. Mr. Bchiff was requested by the citizens' and' the new institution to obtain a rare; specimen from America, to be installed in the foyer of the museum.

The gift was made possible through' tho generosity of President Morris K. Jesup of the American Museum of Natural History, who. learning of the appea, donated a Splendid skeleton. Just finished, and bore the expense of mounting and presented it to Mr. Schiff in order that he might make the gift In his own name to his native city.

The German fcrnperornd Empress will be present when the huge American dinosaur Is officially presented. The possession and housing of this huge fossil monster gives to Germany the load over other European countries, Insomuch as it is thp first almost complete all-bone skeleton of a Dlplo Ileus on the A Times man obtained the main 'details of the discovery, life habits, and appearance of this huge American fossil wonder! soon to be bdxed up and shipped over to astonish and instruct the Gorman people as wells the first photograph with a bevy' of school children grouped underneath the massive and towering beast. Dl- ji'ivnf 'the giant amphib- uUdlny or ITarlem flit. Tho body por(efepie on land and a rcudy means of rapid escape by water when attacked and pursued by the fierce, carnivorous dinosaurs of the period. Another peculiar function of this ponderous tali was that.

It acted like a lever and balanced and supported the animal when he assumed an upright position, which he Is thought to have done both In water on land. One of the unique features of the specimen Is the scheme of slab-mount? lug. This Is a wooden framework wftb plaster for a foundation. It Is 56 feet long, following the curvature of the spine of tho animal, and is 134 feet high. It Is In twenty-five sections, each Carlsbad Tights Berlin.

April 10. American newspapers recently published the news from Carlsbad that the famous springs were seriously threatened by the mines In the neighborhood. This Information Is correct In so far that for some time a bitter fight has been going on between the mining Interests on the one ilde and the municipality on the other. Valuable kaolin deposits located In Carlsbad ylrld a product which Is extensively used by the manufacturers of porcelain ware. Tbe operations of the ksolln mine owners have caused the City of Carlsbad, in the Interest of the community, to take steps toward pre venting measures which might prove Injurious to the famous springs.

Dr. Edgar Oans, one of the leading physicians of Carlsbad, at present Berlin, expressed himself as follows) Carlsbad springs have flown for 500 years, and there Is no reason to believe that they will not do so for a thou, sand years to come. The' first sclenting examination of the waters was made a hundred years ago and bas since been repeated from time to time. In tbe last twenty years dally observations were made by leading chemists and geologists, The result Of all these exmanlnatlons, extending over a period of 100 years, showed that the quantity and quality of the water has remained the same. There fore all that has beta printed oii the alleged cessation ef rthe flow of the waters, as for example after the earth, euake at LlMnbon, was either a fable or fprsng from the Imagination of care, leas obsrvrS.

"The Carlsbad water tentslns lime salts, which from time to time la deposited at the apertures of the sprint. A a result these opening become small. thst the water, not bmg able to flow bark, soke aft -outlet at some -other point In ths Wring rtgion. Vrlou b)thodtabye Jo '-uW'Pk yydyy Nh ry'V'rX -J A rV'At A I I l. JAUr i.