Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1895, Page 23

THE EVENING STAR SATURDAY APRIL 6 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. DIPLOMATS IN CHINA Curious Facts About American Of- ficials in the Far East. UE OF THE MINISTER IN PEKING Some Amusing Stories About Dip- lomatic Ignoramuses. CHINESE ARMY THE (Copyrighted, 1895, by Frank G. Carpenter.) HE WAR IN CHINA I and Japan has rad- ically changed the position of our diplo- mats in the far east. The legations in China, Japan and Co- rea are now among the most important in the service of the United States, and every American con- sul on the Asiatic shores of the Pacific ocean fs to a certain extent responsible for the lives of a num- ber of the citizens of the United States. Bad judgment and mistakes are Mable to bring the United States into trouble as never before, and it is interesting to look at the men who now represent us in these countries at this critical time. One of the mest important positions is that held by Col. Charles Denby the United States min- ister to Peking. He has held his office for the past ten years, and he has proven him- self to be an able man and a successful diplomat. He comes from Evansville, Ind., and he was appointed largely through the influence of the late Senator Joe McDonald. n Consulate at Hon-Kon, He fs an old friend of Secretary Gresham's, and he was for years known in Indiana as a great !awyer before he was made minis- ter to Cina. As a lawyer he often came into contact with 5 min Harrison, and at the time of Harrison's election to the presidency Denby thought he would have to leave China. He and Harrison had had some little trouble during a lawsuit some time previously, and Denby knew that Harrison Strongly belleved that republicans should be the leading officials in a republ ad- ministration. He .was aware, however, of the inflexible honesty of President Harri- son's character, and he knew that if he could persuade him that he was the best man for the place, and that he could fill the ¢fiice better than any republican, he would probably hold it. He attempted to do so eded. As soon as Harrison's elec- nnounced, letters began to come to Indianapolis from China. The business men of the different ports wrote asking the President-elect to retain Minister Denby. merican missionaries sent in long pe- rotestants and Catholics ted that Col. Denby be retained. Li Hung Chang wrote a letter through his private secretary, and high Chinamen in Peking got down on their knees, metaphor- ically Speaking, and wrote to the Pr At the me the éampais red on.all over the world. E in China who had a friend likely to help "y at once wrote to him and had to the President. Some of the est church authorities of England—I am not s ut that one was not the arch- bishop o nt in letters in be- half of Denby, and such a spontaneous up- f this foreign minister ap- dent Harrison very wisely there must be some founda- desire for his retention, and he should stay. At any Tate, he on uniil the time of the of Blair of New had made speeches against ast, and who was not Af- eon tion for the said that b irjudicious Hampshire,w the Chir ac overnment. ter this m ent Harrison con- cluded to let ¢ nby stay the remainder of his term, and President Cleveland very wisely continued him to the present time. Our Legation at Pekin. The position of minister to Peking ts by no means a bad one. The pay is $17,500 a year, and at the present value of silver this {s equal to nearly M0) a year, as far as spendirg power is concerned. I was 1 in China that the position could be pt up very comfortally on about $10,000 1 if this i there is a clear aving of $ ver, or more than $12,000 in gold. Peking is off of the regular lines of travel, Only a few Ameri cans get to it in the course of a y servi nd catables are cheap. Wines are much cheaper in Shanghai than in ¥ ington, and you can give a dinner in P ing for half the sum that the same feast would cost here. I am not sure, but I think th vernment pays the rent of our diplomats in Peking. The legation family consists of the min- ister, his secretary ef legation and of the Hielal in The first y is Col. De ji who has de pre trouble, and who has been acting minister to China during the greater p of last year. He is a young man—I judge not more than thirty years of age, but he has heen with his father during the whole of his ser - in Pekirg, and he is, is said, a good Chir holar. The salary of the secretary oD, Ww h at the present value of silver is more than $5,000, There is a house in the legation compound f the of. the secretary, and the pes is no m sa bed on ‘The interpreter of the legation is Mr. Fleming D. Che- shire, who is somewhere between forty Col. Chas, D. Sill, Minister to China. urs, «of =sage. He ts an has lived in China for @ightee: . and who speaks Chinese 1 been connected with the ley for and uch of d king. i ‘ to learn the 2 reople, Bnd while f 3 1 his head and wi ese pigtail, dressing n Chinese clo He kept this up until ed the mandarin and common he is now an indispensable ation. He 13 a dark-faced, very intelligent young man, 4 has a house near that of the minister, in which he keeps bachelor’s hall. His Oficial Hat Rack. Quite a number of Americans are con- Bected with the imperial customs of China. ‘The duties on exports and imports are col- lected by foreigners under an inspector general, the famous Sir Robert Hart. There are about 3,000 men in the customs, and these are scattered all over China. They receive good salaries, but they are entirely sebject to Sir Robert Hart, and they are more afraid of losing their offices than our government clerks were before our civil service rules were inaugurated. They tell a story in Peking in illustration of the ar- bitrary way in which Sir Robert Hart makes his changes. They say he has a great board fastened against the walls of his hall, in which there are pegs, each of which bears the name of an official. The Consul Chas. Seymour. holes are marked with the names of the dif- ferent positions, and if John Smith’s peg is in the Shanghai hole it shows that John Smith fs in charge of the customs at Shang- hai. Now and then the inspector general comes home yery late. He may have been out to dinner. He may have taken a little champagne, and upon getting into his own hall he may bunglingly use this board asa hat rack. In doing so he may knock down a number of pegs, which his Chinese boy sticks back at random before his tmperial highness gets up. When he comes out in the morning—so the story goes—he looks with a little surprise at the appointment board. “Ab!” says he, “John Smith has been changed from Shanghai to Hankow. I had forgotten ail about that. I must send off the order at orce.” And off it goes. Tom Jones, who was getting $5,006 a year at Tien-Tsin, is like as not put off to Amoy, where the salary is half that, and all sorts of queer changes oceur. I don’t know whether this story is true. I imagine it is not. But 1 know Sir Robert Hart could make the changes if he would, and he does make any changes he feels like doing, and that with no compunctions whatever. Our Consals in China. ice in Chi Mr. Thomas R. Jernigan, the consul neral at Shanghai. He is straight, lender, North Cerolinian, of about forty- tive, who got his first diplomatic experi- ence as consul to Kobe, Japan. He is a gentleman, and he has proved himself to be a much better diplomat than those who have given him orders. He held on to the The head of our consula is two Japanese students who were ward tortured to death until he re¢ positive orders from 5 Gresham to give them acquiesced almost under protest. The consul at Tien-Tsin is Sheridan P. Read, who was for some time con- nected with Russell & Co., and who is related to ex-Secretary Foster and Josiah Quincy, some time since Secretary of State. He makes a very good consul. Con- cted also with the consulate at Tien-Tsin is Mr. C. D. Tenney, who was for a long time connected with Li Hung Chang, and who was the head of a Chinese school at Tien-Tsin. He is a very bright man, and knows as much about China and the Chi- nese as any other man in the country. The consulate at Tien-Tsin ts a big two- story building, situated on the edge of the foreign concession, and Mr. Read has emple quarters for the entertainment of his friends. Nearly all of our consuls in the east have fine establishments, and at Hankow, seven hundred miles in the in- terior, I found an establishment which would do credit to Washington. It was that of Jacob T. Childs, better known throughout the west as “genial Jake Childs.” He was, you know, minister to Siam, snd _he is now taking care of the interests of the United States and of Jacob Childs in the heart of China. Our Consuinr Dean, The dean of the Chinese consular corps is Mr. Charles Seymour of Canton. He has been in office for about twelve years, and he is one of the most efficient men in our diplomatic service. He comes from Wis- consin, and he has time and again saved the foreigners of Canton from riots. He is so well liked by the Chinese that he can go anywhere among them, and he has the universal respect of the Chinese officials and of the foreign residents. He has a beautiful home. on an island in the Pearl Luguage Carriers. river. His daughter married not long ago one of the rich business men of Canton, and his family m to like their life in China. Mr. Seymour must be now about sixty years of age. But he is in perfect mental and physical health, and he has a friend in every man who has ever Canton, Dinlomatic Ignoramuses. Speaking of Tien-Tsin reminds me of some stories I have heard concerning the diplomatic boors we have sent to the far east. Not long ago there was a consul to Tien-Tsin who came from Kentucky, who was an inveterate user of tobacco, and who I am told could, at his own home in Ken- tucky, stand on one side of the road and, by slightly stooping and bending his head backward, send a yellow stream of tobacco juice across the way and make it go right through the hole in the hitching post on the opposite pavement. This gentleman was an inveterate spitter, and he carried the habit with him to China. One evening he happened to be at a function given by one of the foreign consuls, and as usual he had a small quid in his mouth. He was talking to one of the ladies when an irre- sistible desire ceme upon him to get rid of his saliva. The lady was standing in front of the grate. He touched her on the apol- ogy of a sleeve which she wore with her low-necked dress and gently pulled her to one side. cuse me, madam, will move a little while T spit?” Of course the lady moved, and that quick- ly, and the loud sizzling of the boiling juice announced the fact to the assembled throng that the American consul had spat. I do not mention this consul's name. Suffice it to say that he held the position only a very short time ago, and that Uncle Sam paid him $3,500 a year for doing so. “How is Your Grandma?” Another consul story fs concerning one of our able officials who had a position at Ningpo or Amoy, I am not sure which. It was during the time that the two young sons of the Prince of Wales went around the world. The English consul gave them a dinner, to which this American consul was Invited. When he was introduced to the young princes he effusively exclaimed: “Well, boys, I am real glad to see you. I ‘s been interested in and in your grandma, Victory. Say, . how is your grandma, anyhow?” The young men said their grandma was well and thanked him for his interest. Up- on leaving the consul again expressed his delight at meeting them, and told them when they next wrote to England they must be sure to send his regards to their grandma. Li Hung Chang and His Troops. An American general—I am not sure, but I think {it was Chinkiang Jones, so called from the name of the city in which he now lives as consul in China— relates an incident of an inspection of Li Hung Chang's troops. Li was very proud of his troops before this war began. They were armed with modern rifles. They had been isited you please drilled by foreigners, and the Chinese nobles of Tien-Tsin thought they were equal to any troops in the world. While they were going through their evolutions Gen. Jones and Li Hung Chang were off watching them, and as they hopped about with great agility, turning this way ard that, Li's long face broadenad into a smile, and he asked Gen. Jones what he thought of his army. The general is not the most backward of men, but he concluded to feel his way before replying. He sai: “Why, your excellency, I don’t know how to answer. Do you want me to say what I really think, or shall I answer you as a diplomat?” “I want the truth,” said Li. truth.” “Then, your excellency,’ replied Chink! ang Jones, “they are all right for running, but for Simon pure fighting I don’t think they are worth a darn.” Li's eyes snapped. He got pale, then sallow and finally burst out laughing and sai ‘I want the ‘Well, to be candid with you, general, I have always thought just iha: way my- self.” And this war proved that both of them were right. FRANK G. CARPENTER. ———— CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG. The Story About Her Poverty is De- nied by n Friend. Jeannette L. Gilder in the Critic. A friend in Washington sent me a few days ago a clipping from The Star of that city, which had been copied from the Phil- adelphia Times. The head lines over the extract read: “Wealth to Poverty. A Once Gifted Songstress with Barely Enough to Sustain Life,” and this was the opening paragraph: “In that stony region given over to boarding houses near 15th street and 3d avenue, in the city of New York, there uves in a small hall room a gray, withered woman whose gifts once made her famous. Her face {s pallid and drawn, and around Fer sunken, black eyes are dark circles. She speaks to no one and only gces out inthe evening to get a meal at some cheap res- taurant on the East Side. And this wo- man is Mrs. Strakosch, nee Clara Louise Kellogg. There is hardly a music-loving Philadelphian who will fail to-recall her.” Now this was startling news to me. Mrs. Strakosch and I have been intimate friends for some twenty-five years? so you can imagine that such a statement as this gave me something of a shock as well as a surprise. I was particularly surprised as only on Sunday last I had lunched with her at her apartment in the Westmoreland at 17th street and Union square—a very gccd luncheon, too, for her cook is an ad- Jnirable one, and f had not suspected the approaching’ change in her condition. It must have been a terribly sudden change, indeed, for while her dark-brown hair was Was not unmixed with gray, there were no signs of withering about her. In fact, I should have called her decide plump. Her face may have been “pallid, r she never at any time had much color, but her eyes were not “sunken,” neither w there dark circles under them. She eaks to ‘no one,” says this paragraph, ich is not very flattering to my vanity, for she talked a good deal to me, especial- ly about opening her country house earlier than usual this spring, and promised me lcng drives behind her team of bays if I would pay her a longer visit than J usually do, after the laurels had begun to blossom. I remember now that she did say some- thing about going out at right; she had bought seats to see Rejane (at $2.50 each), and it was for an evening performance, not a matinee. Of course, after reading this statement, I went at once to the Westmoreland to see what had caused so sudden a change, not only in Mrs. Strakosch’s personal appear- ance, but in her financial condition as well, and to offer what small assistance I might to my old friend. The apartment looked just the same. There were the Turkish rugs on the floors, the costly paintings on the walls, the cabinets filled with silver simeracks, the silk embroideries, the Vene- tian glass, the fine old furniture—nothing had happened to them, at least. The prima- donna’s voice called me into the library, where, spread on lounge and chairs, were a lot of newly imported gowns she had just bought and wished me to admire. She had not withered a bit—I never saw her looking better. I looked at her bright eyes, but could see no dark circles. She was in the best of- spirits and seemed very pleas- ed with her purchases. I could not unde stand it. There were no signs of pover here, and yet the newspaper had been very explicit, and newspapers are so careful to be correct when making statements about people. I made some excuse to get into the musie room, and there, undetect- ed, I drew the newspaper clipping from my pocket and read the closing paragraph: ‘She now had an estate amounting to half a million and took good care of it un- ul 1881, when she met an Englishman 1 Durfee, a plausible fellow, who to establish in England a big pub- lishing house like Norman Munro & Co.'s, out the same class of lterature, and Strakosch put in $100,000. Her re- were i) per cent, paid out of her money as it was afterward discovered. About $100,000 was obtained from her and then the smash came. There was still a moderate competency left, but this went into bucket shops and mining shares, and with this came the end.” Now, here was something like truth at last. This statement had some foundation, and here it is: At the time that Mr. 0. M Dunham bought out the American interes| of Cassell & Co. of London he organized a stock company, and Mrs. Strakosch bought $2,500 worth of stock. For one or two years she got 10 per cent interest. Then came the h. Mr. Dunham fled, and she was just _the $2,500 she had put into the business. She did think of buying more stock when the company was reorganized, but decided that she had better not sell any of her railroad stocks and bonds at that time, for they were all paying a fair rate of interest. The “Englishman ‘ fee” is probably the American named Dun- ham, and the $400,000 should be $2,500. reporter would spoil a good story for such slight differences. I only wonder that, while he was at it, he did not make it just a little more picturesque by saying that the old crone sitting on the curbstone at 14th street and 4th avenue, grinding her hurdy- gurdy with one hand and holding out a tin cup for pennies with the other, was none other than the once famous prima-donna, Clara Louise Kellogg. . Sr $132 Per Square Foot. New York Letter Baltimore San. Dowrtown merchants, bankers and brokers have long been familiar with the corner of Liberty and Nassau streets, oc- cupied by the well-known stationery and blank-beck firm of Corlics, Macy & Co. The property was owned by a member of the firm, and was sold on December 26, 18M, to Flake & Dowling, real estate agents, who represented in the purchase the New York Realty Company. The amount of the purchase price has been ve- riously stated as between $035,000 and $1,- 050,000, It is understood, however, and on the best of authority, that the last-named sum was the price paid in the December sale. Yesterday the report was given out that Flake & Dowling had sold this same property to a syndicate for $1,250,000, which is an advance of $200,000 over the highest price mentioned in the former sale. The plot of ground is at the southwest corner of Liberty and Nassau streets. The frontage in Nassau street is 79 fect 6 inches, in Liberty street 112 feet 7 inches, with the line on the west extending 90 feet 5 inches and on the south 109 feet 5 inches. The area of the plot comprises 9,353 square feet. ape this basis the price per square foot is ———-s0e. A Dead Game Sport. From Life. UNCLE SAM’S FOSSILS Novelties Added to the Collection of the Natiorial Museum. THE FAMOUS FABLE ROC The Biggest Pair of Teeth in the World. THE HERMIT OYSTER Written for The Evening Star. The National Museum has just purchased the biggest pair of teeth in the world—in fact, the largest ever known to exist. They are casts—the originals being in the British Museum—of the tusks of a mam- moth. Each of them is ten and a half feet lerg. An elephant’s tusk six feet in length would be considered astonisiing. It is dif- ficult to see how the beast, which was prebably not much greater in size’ than Jumbo, could have carried about with com- fort such weapons, both of which together must have weighed quite 300 pounds. The skull of the animal entire, in plaster of raris, painted to imitate bone, with the tusks attached, was hung up last week in the hall of fossils. ‘The hall of fossils {s at present undergo- ing reconstruction, with the addition of certain novelties, the intention being to have it ready by April 15, when the Na- tional Academy of Sciences meets here. Man has been contemporary on the earth with a fauna very different in numerous respects from that which now occupies the surface of the globe. It is likely that he had a chance to hunt such giant beavers as now are found—their remains, that Is to say—in the lake deposits of New York and Michigan. One of the most interest- ing curiosities in possession of the National Museum is the skull of a marsupial lion frcm A ia. It was doubtles a tre- mendously fierce carnivorous creature, rying its young in a pouch like a kan- garco. The name “lion” has been given to it in a purely figurative sense, on account of its formidable teeth and presumed habits as a beast of prey. They Were All ¢ From New Zealand comes a skeleton of an extinct and very peculiar kind of goo It was about the size of an ordinary geos but could not fly at all, having no wins That is a famous country for flightless birds, such 2s the apteryx, which has sur- ved, but Is nearly erminated. ‘The scientific history of this win goose rather funny. When one of its thigh 1 was dug up a few years ago Sir Rt ured that it belonged to a sm we. ne moa. Subseq' a breast qoup, and an amous nat- rker, @ ed confider that it to a kind bf rail. But the di cevery of a complete’ skeleton proved t the animal was a gqose—not to apply any such derogatory epithet to either of the experts named. The old-time notion of “restoring” a fossil-creature from a bone or two has given niseito many ridiculous mistake 1 The National Museum p. ses no bones of the roc of Sinbad the Sailor, though it ovght to have them. They are rare, but ore or less incomplete skeletons have been secured, and are now preserved proad. In early days Arab traders mado their way to Madagascar, and brought back with them stories of a gigantic fowl which they called the roc or rukh. These tales were eventually-embalmed in roman- tic legends. It was not until the early part of the present centu however, that ratives of Madagascar, coming to Mau- ritius to buy rum, brought with them some astcnishing eggs to as. C wo such eggs were fetched to Isl by pt. Abadie. of measured thirteen in length thirty-four inches in mference, ing a capacity of about 150 hen: a shell nearly one inch thic ach of them would hold about two gallons. ‘The lirds that laid these eggs had been long extinct, They were certainiy not so big as the wingless moas of New Zealand, the last of which perished at least a century ego. The largest moas attained a height of twelve feet and a weight of 1,000 pounds. me Interesting Fossils. Mastodons must have roamed over this country in herds at one time, judging from the quantities of their teeth and other re- mains that have been found. Camels used to be very numerous in North America, as is shown by fossil deposits. In the re- constructed fossil hall will be exhibited a series of fossil horses, showing the develop- ment of the b t from the primitive hyracotherium, which had five toes. Next comes the anchitherium, with four toes, succeeded by the hippotherium, with three tces. The horse of today walks upon its middle toe, two other rudimentary toes ap- pearing above in the shape of little splin- ters of bone bencath the flesh. ‘The most stupendous skeleton In the hall of fossil will be that of a megatherium. This giant sloth, which was as big as two elephants, was rather a common beast in North America during the tertiary epoch. It attained a length of twenty feet, was extremely sluggish in its movements, and had an enormous development of tail.’ The fcliage of trees furnished its chief food. ¥F m South America comes a specimen of the huge glyptodon, which looks somewhat like an enormous tortoise, but was relaied to the armadillos. It is nine feet long. The ren ns of these queer c atu are found plentifully in the Pam; region of the Ar- gentine Republic. They date only to the quarternary—the latest of the geologic them and hav- eggs and The National Museum of the most celebrated f It represents the ie and pre ‘y vhat resembling in profile that of an alligator much magnified—but, thou millions of years must have elapsed the creature w alive, it is wonderf ven the sclerotic piates of the e€, served. The eye is about eight inches in diameter. It was so constructed as to alter its form and serve as a telescope or microscope, at the will of the owner. One finds in the fossil hall slabs of rock, on which are preserved ripple-marks that were made by the waves of ocean millions of years ago. These sla e from ancient beaches, upon which flowed and ebbed the tides of seas that dried up and vanished in fcrgotten ages. On the same slabs are tracks that were made by trilobites—crus- taceans long extinct, which were the an- cestors of modern lobsters and crabs. The Hermit Oyst Only a few species of oysters survive to- day, whereas during thé great chalk-form- ing ep’ there were thousands. Some of them were very queer, indeed. One was shaped like a ram's horn, while another bore a resemblance to a boat. Yet another had a queer-looking beak above the hinge. Handsomest of all’ was a species whose shell had the form of a rooster’s comb. It was a kermit oyster, nat dwelling in a bed with otkers of its sdrt. "Consequently, it is only rarely that a ‘specimen is found. It lived in very deep water. Certain shells of ancient oysters that océur in Texas bear a strange resemblance to the upper part of the human cranium. Péovle in that region call them “skulls.” At the time when these oysters lived the state of Texas was under water, and ga great part of its area’ was covered with oyster veds. The shélls which the mollusks left behind form a continuous sheet,twenty feet thick, and extending half way across the state. The deposit, which has been transformed irto limy rock composed of shells loosely cemented together, has been reckoned to be equal in bulk to the coal seams of Pennsylvania. ———. At Election Time. From the Chicago Record. “Why have you been evading me?” in- quired the city official, angrily, of a man whom he met in the street. “Evading you!" replied the other man, warmly. “Why, confound it, I’ve been call- irg at your office every day this week.” “That's just it. What were you looking for me in my office for has secured a cast FOR SICK HEADACHE, Use Horsford’ ETO. Acid Mhosphate. Dr. WM. , Blacksburg, Va., says: “T have ai my practice for sick hehdac dyspepsia, @digestion, innutrition of the brain and nervous systenl, and find it gives decided benefit.” PHYSICIANS NOW ORDER IT. 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Flynn, M.D,, a well-known Michigan pi 1, is but one of hundreds who prescribe Paine’s compound because it cures. Writing from in that state he says: “I use the Puine's | celery compotnd freeiy in my practice as a nerve nic, Mood purifier and genersl tonic in all 4 ed conditions of the system. I find it a fine inc for patients recovering from the grip, es- pecially old people.’ Dr. J. H. Hanaford of Reading, Mass., whose | writings in the Household, Health and Home, and { r journals of national cli have en- | to thousands, sa T have used ! ach, Paine’s celery compound personally with much Lenefit. I prescribe it with excellent resuits.”” J. H. Thomas, M.D., 32) Liberty street, Pitts burg., Pa., says: “For several months I had beem suffering from rheumatism. I had taken all the usual remedies with ne real benefit, I took Loitle of Paine’s celery compound and self much Lmproved.- The second bottle is nearly zone and I consider myself cured.” W.W. Hittard, MD., of Poultnes, Vt., writes: “I was run down from repeated attacks of the grip, and my stomach, bowels, and kidneys were ~ out of order. I had no strength, energy or ambl- tion to think or act, and was excessively nervous snd irritable. After taking the first bottle of Paine’s celery compound I felt better. The third bottle restored me to my usual health and strength, and I feel ten years younger than before.” Dr. Wiliam Brown of Predovia, Kan, worderfily improved my general health.” W. Allen Hubbard, M.D., Boston, Mass.. writes: “I have prescribed the remedy in a number of cases where the blood impoverished and the nerves weakened. The results have been so satis- factory that I do not hesitate to endorse Paine's celery compound.” “It bas Similar testimonials literally by hundreds might be quoted. The hich scientific attainments of a. ems, A. M., M. D., of Yardley, Pa., have made his statements authority on metters pertaining to health, He gives his personal expertence, how he was cured of slecpiessness. J. W. Ferguson, f Thayer, Kan., tells how ft bas cured him ‘The sum total of the tes- ss these, as well as of the physicians whose letters have beea published in these columns, is that ery comy more celebrat previously Paine’) 'TS OF ORANGES. SHIPME) The Total California Output for the Present Season Exceeds 2,750 Carlonds The managers of the Riverside,Californta, Fruit Exchange haye just issued a report, which is very encouraging to orange grow- ers. It says that up to date the exchange has paid over during the present season to the twelve associations in Riverside which | compose it the sum of $119,000, and the ex change now has fruit valued at $150,000 en | route to eastern points, making a total ot $269,000 worth of fruit thus far sent for- rd. The report adds: ‘The shipments of oranges from south- ern California this season up to date have been very much heavier than any previo r, the tote S| y exceeding ”) cars. This woul e that or- anges have been moving very rapidly from other points, as the above number of car loads would probably cover about 50 per cent of the entire crop in southern Calitor- nia.” +o+—___—_ New Photographic Light. From the Century. In the field of lighting by phosphorescenco we reach hitherto untrodden ground, Phos- phorescent light has been associated with the idea of “cold light,” or the property of becoming luminous with the omission of the intermediate step of combustion, as commonly understood. As a physical ac- tion, we know it in the light of the firetly, which Prof. S. P. Langley rates at an ef- ficiency of 100 per cent, all its radiations lying within the limits of the visible spec- trum. By means of the Teslaic currents phosphorescent light strong enough even to photograph by has been obtained; and the picture, representing the inventor him- self, ig the first portrait or photograph of any kind ev2r taken by phosphorescent light. A bulb whose light-giving member is coated with sulphide of zinc treated in a special way was rendered phosphorescent by means of current obtained from a high- frequency transformer coil. The current used was alternated or oscillated “about 10,000 times per second. The exposure was about eight minutes. The picture, that of Mr. Clemens (Mark Twain), was taken a few weeks later— early in 1894—with the aid of the same bulb, and with an exposure of about ten minutes. In order to test more closely the actinic value of phosphorescent light, some bulbs subject to high-frequency currents were photographed, or, if we may coin a new word, “phosphographed,” with a some- what longer exposure. One bright pair il- lustrated utilize sulphide of zinc in some form for luminosity. The third bulb, seen faintly to the left of them, has a coating of sulphide of calcium. Although, judged by the eye, it glowed with a brightness fully equal to that of the other two, the actinic value was evidently much less. It is, perhaps, needless to say that these demonstrations invite to an endless variety of experiments, in which investors will contrcled by the American Bell Telephone | Company, is that of Thomas A. Watson of January 1833, No. 270,522, which seems TELEPHONE PROSPECTS. How the Competition of New Com- panies is Met. From the New York Evening Post. The Western Electric Company, which is controlied by the American Bell Telephone Company, has for years had at work an able corps of experts, who, quietiy and un- osieniatiously, have taken out patent after patent upon almost every conceivable way to hang up a telephone, to connect a switchboard, to make a “plug” or a “jack,” and to lay out an exchange. This company now holds probably from 1,000 to 1,500 dif- rent patents of this nature. Probably he most sweeping patent owned by the Western Electric Company, and therefore to cover the combination of an induction coil in a telepkcne transmitter with any kind of a switch for cutting the coil in and out, whether this switch is automatic or not. Again, there are between 250 patents upon telephone switchboard circuits, jacks, phone lightning arresters, suspension de- vices for transmitters, operators’ head telephones, special ringing-off drops, keys or push buttons for listening. subscribers’ drops, ete. A switchboard for a small ex- change, which will be clear of all these patents, except, perhaps, one or two, can sily be mad. The patent of Horace H. dred of August 19, 1884, however, would seem to be quite a stumbling biock in the path of the would-be mannfacturer of infringing swiichboards. ‘The second c of this patent covers broadly the introduc- tion into the connecting cord circuit of a switchboard of any clearing-out or ringing- oft drops, whereby the operator is notified that a conversation has been finished. The and 300 switehboards, Plugs, tele- breadly any device, provision, or switch whereby an cope “s telephone may be intreduced into the circuit of a connecting cord for the purpose of listening. As: ing this patent to be tenable, the ma of switchboards will have to’ devis new way of ringing off and of ning. This patent, while issued in 1884, was ap. plied for in 1889, previous to which time it is quite likely that the device had not heen in public use for rnore than two years. Again, there are quite a nur ents upon agneto-bells, which are not at all formidable, for reason that more than one manufacturer of such apparatus has been saccessfu keeping of them. Other m have not given tke 7 careful attent and who are pus! with the manufacture of infr neto-bells, are one by one re of infringement, and are being sucd and enjoined. . Another matter which very closely con- ‘cerns the public, who are peering eagerly into this legal haze in the nope of discover- ing some promise of cheaper telephone find a host of novel phenomena awaiting them as to phospnorescence and fluores- cence produced with electrical currents, vice, is the prospective attitude of the American Bell Telephone Company. This M™may to some extent be inferred from the course taken by the company in two or three cities in which competing exchanges bave already been operate. In Decatur, Il, for instar. where the rentels of the local Bell Telephone Company were about #40 per annum, the yearly rental was sud- denly dropped to $12 for residences, and $18 for stores, offices, etc., a price hardly equal to operating cost alone. In other places the rentals have been dropped to even a lower figure. In the case of Deca- tur, Ill, the iocal exchange has been sued by the Western Electric Company upon a number of switchboard patents owned by that company; while the (elephone manu- facturing company that supplied the in- struments has also been sued by the West- ern Electric Ccmpany, upon other patents, which are said to be infringed by the in- struments furnished. In a number of cases the new competing telephone companes seem to be ahead. As a vile, they owe their advantage to their foresight in haying secured a number of subscribers fora term of not less than three io five years. In such cases It makes ro difference lew low the local Bell com- pany may reduce its rentals; the new com- pany is safe, as far as competition ts con- cerned, for the rest of the term of its con- t in the large cities, such as New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Balti- more, ete., ihe American Bell Telephone Company, with the administrative astute- ness and forcsight whicn characterize every move of its splendid organization, in- spired its lic e companics, nearly all of which it controjs, to has’ the placing of their wires underground, and to lay enough underground conductors not only to take care of all the business likely to accrue within the next ten years, but to occupy all the available space in the underground ducts, so that any competi’ who followed in thei way would have no place in which to lay his conductcrs. In New York city for instance, this plan nas been adopted so successfully that if a firm now wishes to run a wire, say for two or three blocks, for private telephone purposes, it has the choice of paying the local Bell ecompany— the Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company—a rental of some $700 a year for the same, of “sneaking” its wires across one or two streets, and probably being fined for trying it, or of doing without the service. “Agnes, does your father drink, too?”— Life.