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p g THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 6, 1904, s 5. more than Adam did, unless empty tomato cans hitched on to their ears’ are to be considered as part of thoirg | | wardrobe. The journey should certain- | | | 1¥ be a popular one with American | | | tourists. The railway company charges’ | | only for the journey and throws in the | | | accompanying show for nothing. But | | the conditions which make it unique' | | must soon give way to the march of | | civilization. The Great Assouan Dan. Assouan, that seventeen years oOr so | | ago, to the best of my recollection, was i | a village with one inn, where the great | ] attraction was to see Arabs shoot the | boiling waters of the cataract with a - ol Travel in Uganda. Special Correspondence HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL,| HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT| GARDEN, LONDON, May 24. — The| picture of Uganda as a new fleld for| the blase tourist, drawn by the secre- tary of the West Africa Protectorate on his arrival here the other day, was | enticing enough. It seems that this, picturesque region now can be reached | easily from the coast by means of the | new raflway which has been building | for so long, a beggarly $125 paying for the journey of 500 miles that ten years | sg0 would have cost more than twenty | times that much. But in his descrip- tion of the manifold attractions of this the official wisely omitted to mention certain exciting accompani- ments of railway traveling in Uganda of which it may, however, be well to sey a word The railway passes through a region teeming with wild beasts — a colossal | patural zoo without bars or cages. Among the animals elephants are still numerous and they don’t take kindly to the invasion of their primeval jun- steam monsters and steel Occasionally a troop of them route gles by tracks makes a descent on a wayside station. When the sh ald their ap | trumpetings which her- | ach are heard the sta- tion agent betakes himself to the near- and the stop-over tourists who may chance to | est tree attendants and any be around follow his example. On more | than one occasion, it is said, a tele- graph operator. when hard pressed, has been know o take refuge in the wa- ter tank. With the field to themselves an out the station ctually than a gang of s would do it, eating all smashing furniture, od of the ticket office and scatte the bite of pasteboard to the four nds of heaven. Jumbo | is decidedly a versona mon grata with the raiiroad officials, as the anly way to collect damages against hjm is to| take it out of his hide and levy on his | ivory The well the elephants ¢ much more eff Wegtern ban refreshments. making match natives, though mnot especially disposed, have not yet tried to hold up a train. They Jeave that game to the Jeather armor-plated rhinocer-| ©os and the thick hided hippopotamus, |w which sometimes wander on the track | and refuse to budge when the locomo- | tive comes in sight. That sort of en- | counter generaily ends in the intruder getting shot and a long hait follows | while the perspiring train hands shift | the carcass off the track and the pas- sengers enjoy the feeling that they are getting a deal more than their money's | worth. It ie a joyful time for the ama- | teur photographer, who thus obtains indisputable evidence of his courage and prowess to be displayed to an ad- miring circle of friends when he re- turnes home. Uganda is a favorite stamping ground of lions, many of which’ have grown quite accustomed to the whistle of the locomotive and the roar of the trains and no longer flee from them. More than <ne snap shot has been obtained from a carrisage window of & lion devouring a zebra or antelope. A hungry lion~on the prow! with a partiality for human meat is a dan- gerous customer to encounter and the track walkers on the Uganda Railway always go armed and usually in cou- ples to be prepared for such an emer- gency. Some harrowing stories are told of the grewsome deeds of the king of beasts along the route of the rail- way. Once two men were walking on the track, one close at the heels of the other, when a lion sprang upon them from the brush. The foremost man ducked and escaped with a fe scratches, but his companion wi knocked over, carried off into the high grass and devoured. A railway official was sleeping one night in a side track- ed car. A lion entered the compart- ment and with as much ease as a cat would carry a mouse bore him off to the jungle and there made an end of him. A few nights later the same beaet revieited the station in which | er. several of the railway hands were sleeping and jumping on the roof of the little structure, tried to get at them by tearing off the corrugated iron sheeting. Baffled in this he crouched for the rest of the night by the station door venting his fury on the signal' flags, which he tore to shreds. Stil| more audacious was the lion which boarded a construction train in which several workmen were sleeping. Their cries of terror brought assistance, and Leo, disdaining to flee, fell riddled with bullets on the platform of one of the cars. So numerous are the animals that none make a trip over the railway; without seeing many of them. Huge herds of zebras are frequently en- countered browsing on either side of the track; the shrill scream of the steam whistle often sends a score or more of giraffes lumbering over the plains, while ostriches sometimes dis- play their speed on the approach of the train and innumerable gazelles take to flight. When the road was being built the natives gave a Jot of trouble and fights were frequent before they learned to leave the white man and his work @alone. Now their presence can be re- garded as a picturesque addition to the varied attractions of the trip. They don’t dress for company folks any goat skin for a boat, i now an inter- | national health resort, without any cataract to speak of. At least there is none at this season ! of the year, for the dam has| altered all this. By way of]| compensation there are several great | hotels, one of them, “The Cataract,” a | finely planned building commanding a beautiful view of the rocky Nile. | Hither come not tourists only, but many sick from England and America, | as the dry air and splendid, sunny | winter climate are excellent for various diseases. Most people, though they be neither | travelers nor invalids, have heard of the Assouan dam and reservoir, and also of the Island of Philae, near by, and its beautiful temples, the ancient | “City of Isis” and “Holy House” as it was called by the old Egyptians. To this dam I had the advantage of paying two visits, and in view of its importance to the future of Egypt, the | information that I collected concerning it may prove of interest. To begin with, it is frequently and erroneously called a “barrage,” which it is not. The word “barrage” means a guiding wall, a barrier that does not store| water, but turns it in a desired direc- tion. Of these there are several in Egypt, but I think that the only dam and reservoir is at Assouan. The best view of this wonderful work, which has now been in operation for about two years, is to be obtained from | the massive granite wall that forms the | dam. This wall is over 2000 yards in length and crosses the Nile from side to side. On the crest of it, that is | twenty-six feet wide, runs a tramway, | | along which the visitor, seated on a | rough trolley, is propelled at speed by | Arabs. Hence to the north he sees | a great extent of shining rocks, be- tween which the water runs in’chan- | neis, and tc the south a vast lake, that in some places attains a depth of nearly 200 feet. This is the reservoir, and all the sweight of it and of the Nile for the 150 miles or so that it is held yp, is pressing against the wall on which he stands. In this wall are 180 sluices, worked by machinery, which are suf- | ficient to deal with every conceivable contingency of flood. Sometimes more of them are open and sometimes few- On the day of my second visit (March 13) only six of these and a part of a seventh were open. Through these seven openings, each of them six feet six inches wide by twenty-| three feet deen, the whole Nile was, rushing at the rate of 702 tons of ater per second, the amount that, ac- cording to the calculation of the en-| gineers, it was necessary to pass that day. It is a wondrous thing to see the| pent-up water gush in torrents of | foam through these narrow gates with | a force so fearful that it appears im- possible that masonry built by man | should withstand their tarust and | wear. But such fears are groundless. | If it continues to be properly watched | and attended to, there is no reason | why this dam should not last as long | as the Pyramids.—H. Rider Haggard | in The London Mail. | Chicago’s .S'zlézray.r. Seven million dollars. has already been spent in the construction of the | tunnel and the establishment of the | freight railway system in Chicago. It | has been an easy matter to obtain all the cash required for the construction | work and for the successful flotation | by the Illinois Tunnel Company of a $60,000,000 corporation, half in stock and half in bonds. At present three electric locomotives and twenty-four | freight cars are running. The Illinois | Tunnel Company, the owner of the project, has let the contract for 3000 steel cars and 100 electric lo- | comotives. The cars will be em-| ployed in hauling every kind of| freight, including coal and gen- eral merchandise. The electric lo- comotives have a capacity of fifty tons | each on the level and 100 tons om the | inclines, which are to be used in con- | necting the railroad yards and build- | ings with the tunnels. The cars will each hold twenty-five barrels of sugar, flour or general merchandise, or seven tons of coal. One of the most valued services of the underground freight railway will be in relieving the cramped condition of the Chicago railway terminals. Forty per cent of the total rallway mileage of the United States has ter- minals in downtown Chicago. Thirty- eight railroads and railroad systems have terminals here and these thirty- eight are compelled to receive and de- liver freight.from a mere¢ half-dozen | freight depots. More than $50,000,000 annually is now spent in trucking | freight across Chicago from freight | terminals to warehouses and stores.— The World To-Day. A Crummy Sheet. The proprietors of a Siamese news. paper have distributed handbills con- taining the following notice: “The news of English, oh crumbs, we tell the latest. Writ in perfectly style and most earliest. Do a murder get com- mit, we hear of and tell itt Do a mighty chief die, oh crumbs, we pub- lish it, and in borders of somber. Staff has each one been colleged and write, oh crumbs, like the Kipling and the Dickens. We circle every town and ex- tortionate not for Buy it, oh crumbs. Buy it. Tell each of you its greatness for good. Oh, crumbs, Ready on Friday. Number first.” t world, and it is high time to call a halt THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietot « - . - - . - + . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager R R T T T T L e L COMMERCIAL CONDITIONS. HE commercial returns for the past week and for T the month of May as far as received indicate no deviation from the downward trend in prices and the increasing dullness in general trade. There is the same increase in stocks of manufactured products, the same plethora of money and the same diminution in the demand for goods, especially for those descriptions de- manding the greatest expenditure of money. But there are no signs of any trouble or of any violent disturbance in business conditions. Everybody now sees that the feverish activity of the five or six years follow- ing the first election of President McKinley has passed and that the country has entered upon an era of trade quietude, in which conservatism will be the dominating force. Nobody expects anything in the nature of a panic, for there is nothing in current or prospective conditions to cause one. Besides, there is too much money in the country. Itis simply a transition from a boom to regular normal trade conditions. In fact, business is not really very dull. It is only the contrast with recent conditions that makes it appear so. Our foreign trade is keeping right up to its recent volume as a rule and our domestic distributive trade is making a very satisfactory showing. In reviewing the country’s trade for the fiscal year up to May 1, Bradstreet says: “It is worth noting that yhile imports for ten months are 4 per cent smaller than last year, exports are 4 per cent larger; and exports, in fact, are the fargest ever re- corded for that period, exceeding the hitherto record fiscal year, 1901, by 1.3 per cent. It is hardly likely that this latter gain can be maintained during May and June, however. The excess of exports over imports during the ten months of the present fiscal year is $448,856,321, which i- larger by $80,551,402 than the excess a year ago, but is smaller thad in the years from 1899 to 1901, inclusive.” This exhibit speaks for itself. As long as the country can keep up such a showing it is all right. Times may become quieter without getting really hard. It is very probable that from now on for an indefinite period very few new enterprises, at least those of a gigantic char- acter, to which the country had become accustomed dur- ing the past several years, will be undertaken, and the nation will content itself with proceeding in the good, old-fashioned way of buying and selling a fair amount of goods at a modest profit, without scrambling like pigs at a trough to see who can make the most money and get rich the quickest. Our net incomes then will doubtless turn out as large as they have been, when the decreased expenses are fig- ured into the calculation, for the American people have been burning money in a most reckless, not to say almost criminal, way ever since the great boom started, just be- fore the Spanish war. Our extravagances, both com- mercial and private, have been the wonder of the civilized That new en- terprises have received a decided check is demonstrated by the fact that new incorporations during the first four months of this year were scarcely one-third of those created in the same period of 1903 and 1go2. The leading factor at the moment is the condition of the crops, for on them much of the prosperity of the country depends. Fortunately the outlook in this direc- tion is good. Cotton, corn and spring wheat are all looking very well, though the season is generally a fort- night late. The most astute and conservative observers among the great financial interests express the opinion that with good crops we may reasonably expect a trade revival along in the fall, but it is doubtful, as The Call has already pointed out, whether there will be any im- provement over present conditions before 1905, for the close of the year is always quiet, and especially in a Presidential year. Still, with abundant crops and large supplies of money, business stands a good chance for at Jeast moderate activity after the turn of the year. The usual returns, upon which commniercial circles base their calculations, are still unfavorable, as already stated. The volume of May business was lighter than that of April, and showed a falling off from the same month last year. Railway earnings were also smaller, with the com- panies reducing operating expenses in many directions. Bank ciearings were smaller and failures more numerous, though the latter included none large enough to attract especial attention. The clearings last week were 224 per cent less than for the corresponding week in 1903, and the aggregate clearings touched the low point of $1,574.780,000. The average of these weekly clearings for the past year has been about $2,000,000,000, and for several years prior to this generally ran along about $2,400,000,000. These reduced figures show the shrinkage in trade during the past few months better, perhaps, than anything clse in the way of statistics. The only cities showing a gain last week were St. Louis, Kansas City and New Orleans, and the falling off comprehended al- most the whole country, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Still, not all the returns are unfavorable. A number of commercial lines are sending in very fair reports. Some Eastern, Western and Southern points are reporting a better demand for fall goods. New England points to a very fair movement in footwear. The three Pacific Coast States have to hustle to get sufficient farm produce to satisfy the domestic and foreign inquiry for forage, and crop conditions all over thie coast are excellent. The outlook is for another fine year on the Pacific Coast, no | matter what happens in the other parts of the country. ‘We may quiet down with the rest of the nation, but from present indications we are to enjoy another prosperous year. Eastern industrial companies, it is estimated, will pay out about $13,600,000 during June in dividends, as com- pared with $i8,800,000 a year ago and $20,000,000 two years ago. The passing of the common dividends, amounting to $5,084,052, on United States Steel caused the reduction in part, but this was partially offset by an increase of 1 per cent, involving $975,000, in the Standard Oil quarterly dividend. The quarterly statement of the Fall River, Mass., ill dividends, just issued, shows that, despite the high price of cotton, low quotations for cloth and general uncer- tainty in the market, Fall River factories have continued to operate at a profit to stockholders. The last quarter gave an average of 1.10 per cent on a capital of $21,745,- 000. The dividend for the corresponding quarter last year was 1.38 per cent on a capital of $21,363,000. ‘With bank vaults gorged with ready cash, Wall street continues as dull as any spot in the United States. The public cannot be coaxed into stock speculation. They simply will not step a foot into:the speculative field. They are content to peer over the top rail of the fence and contemplate the sleepy bulls and bears. The banks would be only too glad to Rave them use some of the surplus money in stock speculation, for the vaults are getting too full. Idlé money is not desired by the banker. Cash continues to flow into New York from the interior, and this unwelcome flood is augmented by the decline in cotton, which is releasing large amounts of funds here- tofore tied up in cotton margins. What is to be done with all this money is a question. There is one good thing about it—as long as our national wallet is stuffed to the bursting point with coin we will have no trouble in paying our bills. We had better have too much than too little of this precious medium. The country is all right, even if trade is a little qujeter. The young man who pleaded the other day for a divorce on the ground that he was drunk when he com- mitted matrimony has divided our interest in making his domestic affairs public property. Whatever sentiment may be expressed in the matter is naturally divided be- tween contempt for the man and sympathy for the woman in her unfortunate mistake. CANADA’S TARIFF TROUBLES. | HE recent action of the directors of the Canada T Woolen Mills, one of the largest in the Dominion, in deciding to sell their property and discontinue business furnishes an object lesson on the comparative condition of the woolen manufacturing industry in Canada and the United States. The causes which brought about their determination will have to be faced by every other woolen mill in the Dominion, and therefore are worthy of some attention by those interested in the same industry in this country. From a consideration’ of the facts it appears that the main reason for the action stated is the impossibility of competing longer with cheap British goods under the present peculiar trade conditions. In the matter of va- riety of patterns, quality and style of goods, the Canadian mills have nothing to fear in their competition with the old country, but the existing tariff preference permits the latter’s manufacturers to place goods in the Canadian market at prices that cannot be met. One of the curious factors that makes that possible is the demand recently created for shoddy goods, in the manufacture of which the English mills are past masters. The comparatively nominal cost of manufacturing shoddy, combined with the really artistic perfection to which it has been brought, has made the demand for it by a certain class in Canada so great that trade conditions have been materially al- tered. : The Canadian preferential tariff provides for a 23'% per cent protection only, which rate has been found entirely inadequate to stop the flood of the cheap' English goods, so, after due consideration of the element of cheap raw material and the difference in the price of labor, the Canadians are giving up the fight. 1f we consider that the United States under the Wil- son tariff had a 40 per cent duty and yet nine out of ten of our woolen mills closed their doors, and that condi- tions here are otherwise much the same as in Canada, we can readily see the hopelessness of the struggie she is compelled to make. It is true the Canadian tariff on woolens from countries other than England is 50 per cent higher, but that fact is scarcely material, since go per cent of Canada’s woolen importations comes from Eng- land. The comparative conditions may be better understood when it is realized that under the Wilson 4o-cent tariff in 1806 our manufactures were stagnated by an importation of the value of only 64 cents per capita, while Canada with per capita. Under the stimulus of the Canadian preferen- tial tariffi her woolen imports have increased over 40 per cent in the past five years, which means a like reduction in the amount manufactured at home. Under the present prosperous condition of things in the United States with a go-cent tariff we import woolens to the value of 25 cents per capita only. As the effect of the tariff conditions existing in Canada to-day the majority of the people of that country are clothed in Engl_ish shoddy goods, with their home woolen mills closing their doors, while 94 per cent of the goods we wear in the United States are domestic, purchased at a reasonable price, with our manufactures in a flourish- ing condition. A young collegian stepped from the narrow path the other day and his fall has been made the theme of sharp and biting criticism for the gossips. The incident of this young rascal’s disgrace is worthy of discussion simply promote his moral nature and not to !:gr:de it. lished its anniversary edition. It is in three sec- compares favorably with the special editions of many of daily, more of a shipping and custom-house bulletin than to refer attention to the fact that in a college education PHILIPPINE PROGRESS. I tions and comprises altogether fifty-six pages, the big metropolitan journals of the home country. anything else, and its present proportions and importance he had better opportunities than most boys to protect and HE Daily Bulletin of Manila, P. I, on May 1 pub- which in subject matter, makeup, paper and printing, The paper was started in 1899 as a small four-page as a general news journal speak volumes for the energy | and progressive spirit with which the Americans have undertaken the development of the Philippines. The old days and methods of the Spanish regime have passed away, and all things have become new. That is true not only of the cities and the larger towns of the islands, but in a measure of the whole archipelago. In the edition under review there are many articles treating at length of the chief subjects of interest in the islands to the people of the United States. “The Im- provement on the Port,” “Tariff Revision,” “Insular Cus- toms,” “The Currency,” “Progress Effected by Ameri- cans,” are :among the more interesting and instructive. Others hardly less so are “Agricultural and Industrial Subjects,” “Manila Hemp,” Philippine Lager,” “Increase of the Water Supply of Manila,” “Mineral Industry,” “Tobacco Cuiture,” “Railway Building in the Philip- pines,” etc., etc. All these are well written by men well acquainted with their subjects and with well executed half-tone pictures. The third section of the issue is devoted to “The Honorable Philippine Commission.” The origin and his- tory of that governing body is given with full description of the varous bureaus and organizations through which its work has been done, with pictures of all the more important officers in each. Taken altogether the edition makes an impressive showing of the results of American rule in the Philippines and reflects credit upon the editors who prepared it. In a Chicago court the other day an anarchist was officially declared to be of unsound mind. It is very evident that in the law,as practiced in the Windy City, nothing is axiomatic. Everywhere else in this country an anarchist is assumed to be crazy and is treated in full accordance with that opinion. Saved. Before the gateway to the Oakland ferry at the ferry building a well- dressed man, evidently a Filipino, was excitedly trying to convey to the gate- keeper the history of his life in six English words, “El Senor Rosario, I am it,” but these were hardly suffi- cient. The gatekeeper, who knew something of pigeon Spanish, was try- ing to explain that the “boata froma , Oakland hada départedo,” and Senor | Tomaso G. del Rosario, whilom Gov- | ernor of Bataan and member of the | Superior Advisory Board of Public In- ‘struction of the Philippines, was al- most in tears. her slight protection of 23% per cent,imports annually $2.40 | At this juncture a prominetn citizen, | who had accompanied the Filipino | visitors to their train on the other side, ! came rushing off the boat and ran up to the gatekeeper. He said excitedly, “Have you seen an escaped or loose Fili e At this juncture Senor Rosario, who knew the gentleman, gave a shout of joy and was prevented from hugging his rescuer by the united efforts of | two gatekeepers and one ferry police- ! man. His joy soon turned to woe | when he learned that his companions had gone. Then .occurred a conversation of | great pictorial beauty—the prominent citizen knowing nothing of Spanish and the distinguished Filipino visitor “seeing him and going him six bet- ter.” However, by the aid of the deaf and dumb language and a paper and pencil the kind-hearted American was able to show that by taking the limited, which he called “‘de limitado,” they would be able to head off the delegation at Stockton. Together they boarded the ferry-boat and succeeded in overtaking the rest of the party, when the wandering Filomerican was clasped to the hearts of his beloved | amigos, the thanks of the entire com- | mittee fell upon rescuer like an aval- anche and he was invited to accom- pany them all over los Estados Unidos and back home again. At Sam Adams’ Grave. | They knew the patriot rebel's soul. Who set his grave upon the verge | Of Boston's busy street, where roll | _ The vans of traffic and the surge | Of hasting footsteps; not for him | _ A cadar'd churchyard's blank repose, | Nor tomb in some cathedral dim | Where no bird flies nor free wind | blows. | Sam Adams never ask'd to rest; | _ I cannot think he slumbers here, But watches with unjaded zest |~ The stream rush on and disappear; | He longs to rise and join the strife, | _As in the seasons when his breath ! Kindled a nation into life; He scorns the palsying sloth of death. | | Fain would he hear which faction rules, | What men precede in town and state, And if we guard our public schools. | " And keep our courts inviolate. He whispers, “We for freedom fought, Have you the love of freedom still? Has wealth not pauperiz'd your thought, Nor power bred a wolfish will? “You hurry by—what errands call? Service to heart, or head, or purse? | Shed you a freeman’s boon on all. Or shape a subtler tyrant's curse? | We number'd but a little clan | | —William Roscoe Thayer, Atlantic. Butterfly's Instinct. The extraordinary gifts of the butter- fly race have always excited the won- | der not only of naturalists, but of the most ignorant observers. Their silent and unseen changes; the instinct by | which they distinguish their favorite plant food, as, for instance, even among the scarcely differing species of the complex race of asters, where | they show themselves, as Professor | Asa Gray said, “better botanists than | many of ws™; their skill in depositing | their eggs unerringly on or near the precise plant on which the forthcoming caterpillars are fitted to feed, although they as butterflies have never tasted it. To these should be added their lux- urious spread of wings, giving oppor- tunities for those likenesses and varia- tions of color which protect them dur- ing the few days of their winged state; the brief time when, if ever, their eggs must be laid and the continuance of the race made sure. The whole realm of animal “mimicry,” as it is now termed, reaches its highest point in them, and leads to some extreme cases; as in the fact that, while butterflies are ordina- rily monogamous, there is yet one spe- cles in Africa which has departed so widely from this rule that the male has not one mate only, but actually three different wives, each so utterly unlike him in apnearance as to have long been taken for wholly different species.—T. ‘W. Higginson, in the June Atlantic. Jokai, Last Patriot. Jokai was the last of the band of Hungarian patriots, among whom were Kossuth, Petofi and others. Early in March, 1848, Jokai headed that band of earnest young men who contended for the freedom of the press. They were completely successful, and the first production of a free press in Hun- gary was Petofi's poem, “Hungarians, Arise!” which was the first trumpet blast of the revolution. Jokai read it from the steps of the printing office to the assembled muiltitude, and then made one of his great speeches. This was one of the first impulses of the revolution, out of which arose Louls Kossuth and Hungarian liberty. It ‘was an awful struggle, which Hungary waged for two long years with Austria and Russia, and the vital force of the nation was almost drained. Kossuth, Petofi, Jokai and the other heroes fled for their lives, most of them escaping over the sea. Maurus Jokai remained in his own country, in cancealment, be- ing kept alive by food sent secretly by his devoted wife. Madame Jokai, who wag Rosa Laborfalvy, was the best tragic actress of the time and her name was famous all over Europe. When the revolution broke out, the books of the leaders were issued by the free press and Lroduced on the stage. In these and other patriotic plays the first role was always taken by Rosa Labor- falvy. “Her voiee, like the sound of a rich voluminous organ, drew the spec- tators and held them spellbound by her passionate enthusiasm.” On that cele- brated 15th of March, 1848, she scored such a remarkable success that the Young Magyar party, of which Jokal was the leader, sent a deputation to express to her the congratulations of the people. There on the stage she received the deputation, and pinned the national cockade on the coat of its leader. At the close of the revolution, during the period of despotism, Jokai lived in concealment, occupying his time with his work of sculpture, the beautiful ivory bust of his wife dating from this time. He wrote, also, under the pseudonym of “Iago.” TUpon the proclamation of amnesty by the King, he resumed his own name, and in 1365, when the federation between Austria and Hungary was perfected and liberty was won, Jokal was elected a member of *the first Parliament. He held his seat in the lower house of this body for twenty-eight years. In the year 1897, the Emperor, Francis Joseph, ap- pointed him a member of the House of Lords. Madame Jokal died in 1886, and from that time the novelist lMved in retirement in his beautiful villa at Budapest. He appeared but seldom in public, one of the dramatic moments in his later years being his speech at the funeral of Kossuth. Standing by the coffin of his friend, with whom he had fought for the freedom of Hungary, he said: “I am the last of that band to knock at the portals of death, which by me will soon be closed and never reopened.”—From “Maurus Jokai, Hun- garian Patriot and Writer,” by Alexan- der Hegedus Jr., in the American Monthly Review of Reviews for June. Transmitting Photos. (Reprinted by Permission from Collier's Weekly.) Many attempts have been made to invent some apparatus adapted to the transmission of photographs; hand- | writing, etc., over long distances by | means of the electric current. A really successful device appears to have been perfected by Professor Korn of Munich. The sending device is on the principle, which has been known for some time, of the osciligtions in elec- tric, currents due to the variation in the’ intensity of light falling on a selenium —cell. If a photographic negative has a ray of light falling upon it from above, and a selenium cell resting below it, then when the negative is moved we have changes in the electric current due to the differ- ences in the amount of light passing through the negative. The difficulty has been to find a receiver which would reconvert the electric oscilla- tions into changes in light intensity. This is the problem that Professor Korn has solved. He observed that the luminous radiations from the elec- trodes in a tube exhausted to a pres- sure of .2 to 2 mm. of mercury were very sensitive to variations in the cir- cuit. By an ingenious mechanical con- trivance he was able to make these rays act upon a photographically sen- sitive flim, producing a picture of the variations in the electric circuit. When this tube is connected with the selen- jum cell of the transmitter, in such a way that slight variations in its cur- rent affect the amount of electricity in the circuit of the receiver, an ac- curate reproduction of the light re- ceived is given by the light emitted. This apparatus has already given satisfactory reproductions of hand- writing and photographs. Answers to Queries, " PUDD'NHEAD WILSON—J. M., Bu- gene City, Or. It was the late Frank Mayo who appeared in “Pudd’'nhead ‘Wilson” in the East. CRIBBAGE—S,, City. In cutting for deal in cribbage he who cuts last must lift less than four cards, nor must he leave less than four in the remainder of the pack. DUST IN THE HAIR-I B. V., City. If the hair of your head has become filled with a dust that you cannot re- move by ordinary washing, you better consult a professional hair dresser. TWO THEATERS—A Subscriber, City. About once every three months for three years this correspondent has sent to this department the following question: “Which has the largest seat- ing capacity, the Grand Opera-house or the Orpheum?” As this has been an- swered more than once, the depart- ment of Answers to Correspondents in- forms this querist that if he sends a self-addressed and stamped envelope Ithe question will be answered again, but by mail. DIVORCE—A. C. R., Santa Rosa, Cal. As this department is not running a “divorce bureau” it cannot advise you “which State in the Union is the easiest one in which to obtain a di- vorce.” The shortest time that any one may reside in any State of the Union for the purpose of commencing an ac- tion for divorce is six months. That is the minimum limit in Idaho, Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and in the Ter- ritory of Alaska. In North Dakota a party intending to commence an action for divorce must have resided there one year. —_—— Townsend's California Glace fruits in artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_———— “b‘u‘lll information supplied daily to siness houses and public men th Prees Clipping Bureau (Allen's), I;:?l-. ifornia street, Telephone Main 1048,