The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 2, 1904, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CAIL, g b e S—————— —p | I xcellency of Counani. i Special Correspondence. i PARIS, J ident of Cou-| “The mem- Pre Bre | 1 | 1 - | | 11 — pressiveness scially ‘to_citigens of a republic, have been much in evidence during the last fortuight or so. in the columns of the newspapers. Burro er, there has been .a Counani? Where Couna Somewhere in Brasil,” aes the vague reply. And | “M. Adolph’ Brezet, the Chef du Gov-| ernement de Counani?” Thisillustrious | person; the commander of his -army, | Baron Jette de Ryckeli his financial | secretary, Joseph Maric¢ Brezet. Duc de | Beaufort; his. Secretary of State for| Foreign ‘Affairs, M. Isidore Lopez La- | puye, and goodness know how many more, are now in Paris. -But for what? | Curiosity Jed me- to. investigate M. | Brezet, his Government and Counani | affairs. generally and the result is so | striking as to need no comment. Be it said in parenthesis that the address | furnpished by the “Chief of the Govern- ment of Counani” had come as rather a shock, for it was in no savory quars ter of the capital. The President’s of- ficial letter was more reassuring, for it ‘'wes writteri upon a formidable locking- sheet, headed, “Etat Libre de Counani,” and stamped with the great scal of the new nation. An gutlying Paris- suburb, shabby genteel—with. the genteel left out; a| declagsed ‘and sordid district, skirting . the -unlovely railway line; a mean 1 sireet, untidy, cramped, unclean; a| squalid ténement, bare, cheap, jerry; a slovenly concierge in a dark and stag- nant. loge;- dirty, unswept stairs, five flights to climb;-then a common, un- pretentious blue tin label, laughable to " tears, and you have arrived at the of- ficial residence 0f the President of the republic of Counani. > A.-small, ordinary living room, char- acterietic of the usual cheap flat; a floor uncarpeted; newspaper cuftings hanging from the walls for ornament; chairs, no two alike, on each side of | vyou, on them. seated a -most extraordi- narily nondescript set of men, in every attitude of wasting time; against the further wall by the. solitary window, studiously closed, two common writing | tableg, back to back, plenteously be- strewn with exhdusted cigarette fags; an atmsophere of tobacco fog, an odor of smoke many days stale, auxiliary force of ill-digested gar- etemr {officisl _title—takes. another sheet of | uly 18.—"“The Free State of | | Paris - organizing, | triends: ! spite of all this, the re with an | . you. I thifs little Batignolles flat; the close, - stuffy air is nauseating; the world "of. the pavement outsjde seems so. far, g 3 0 But the President seems to reassure you, and- his -followers lean back, while the Seé¢retary—if thaf is his paper, . with "the state ‘hedding, - and Starts off again. writing at’breakneck speed. . | ks = : “Everything,” declares thé Presi- dent; *is going on ‘well. We have | come to Paris to organize, and to, yes, | prepare a- loan, an ‘Emprunt d'Etat.’ | You don't know Counani? - Will you please hand the gentleman a_ Livre ‘Rouge? There, my friend, you wiil find-our official communjcations to the powers. I have nothing more to add to them—at present. “My -future plans? ‘I am in Paris organizing, preparing a_loan,” an Em- prunt d'Etat. © We shall go in two ves- sels '6f wsr, and continue our govern- ment. “When, I do not know. Iam in preparing a loan. any financiers among your | If you hav There js-clearly ‘nothing to be learn- ed here;. you go-away, shall.1 add with -relief?” With- your -ponderous red book under your arm, and’ you earry it to a ‘qu cafe’ to’ digest. | This red book €No. 2,°if you please) PUrports ‘to be -a ‘memorandum ad- | dressed to-the powers on the subject | of the official recognition of the Free State of Counani, "1t is'dated Jahuary, 1904, and is issued from the Govern- | ment-- printing - works -at. Coubani. There is 4 preface by the president, as | in duty bound,:and a‘short historical sketch, written:in the persuasive style | and - native ‘éloquence.of a traveling | hawker. It stirts off with the inevit- | able appéal to the Czar and the Hague | tribunal; the mecessary protest against-| Brazil; and dn ingratiating argument to. France. 3 A Next we are treated to a geograph- ical description of the coyntry, which, | among other. good purposes; pads' up ¢leven imposing.pgges: and two pages | following form,” in tabloid form, the | gem of the . eatire.collection. Here weé. learn, with a good deal of! head . scratching, that. the Counani constitutien prévides- for a .Chief of Government, with .very ex-| tended powers; “who is assisted by a | | State’ Council 6f. ten ‘members and a Chancellor, who'is the Second Head of.| the administration.. The Houses of Répresentatives consist of . an Upper | Chamber and a Grand.Couticil. .~ Public security is assured by 4 per- manent force .of police and gendarmes, | | and the repubiic.is represented abroad by a_ “body- of- diplomatic and com- | mercial agents.in évery land.” . We ure -then ‘Ziven the constitution in a series of annexes, with the-decree of -Uayana Assu (M. Adolph when he is at "home) proclaiming it in force. Everything is thought of, even to the flag, which is red with a white star in the middle.. The 6ld motto of “Jus- tice and Liberty” is.retained, while a supplementary trademark is now add- ed, “Je ‘maintiendrai par la Raison ou par la Force,” which sounds dreadful. | A good many people are said to be of : Counani nationality whether they like it or not; and every one has to be | a soldier in varying degrees of inten- | sity, from 15 to $0 years .of age. It i now time to recollect that, in lic of Brazil was still keeping its end up and its le- gation in Paris was still in fairly good working order. at the old sign. You go there, just to make sure, before allow- ing yourself to laugh all you want. i You have the luck to fall in with a most courteous secretary, who tells you briefly this: | Between Brazil propei and French! Guiana there lies a territory known.as; Counani, after the principal town there. The frontiers here had never been defi- nitely deliminated, but as the country was: comparatively bare and savage and of little commercial value the question was left in abeyance and the district became known as the “contest- ed territory,” and for a long while, in- | deed, was the happy hiding ground of | the convicts escaping from the, penal, settlement of French Guiana. In 1895, however, goid was discovered and a rush took place, bringing the country into prominence. It was under these circumstances that the French and Brazillan governments signed a protocol to refer the question of fron- tier to the arbitration of Switzerland. | A decision rendered at Berne in De-| cember, 1900, gave the country to Bra- | zil, and immediately the Government of | Rio de Janeiro annexed it to the dis-| trict of Para and put its administration into due force. Since that time law and order have been definitely estab- lished there, and the country enjoys participation in the constitution of the republic of Brazil “As for the person who styles him- self President of the free state of Cou- | nani (it is still the Brazillan legation ' secretary who is speaking), he is sim- ply an adventurer. He certainly has been to the place, coming from no one knows where, and but for his timely withdrawal would have been arrested, not for anything so grandiloquent as| high treason or the like, but on a police | court charge of theft. “He escaped to Paris, where he has got together a band of men like him- | self, ‘gens sans aveu,’ of no avowable | profession, and he is now simply try- |ing to get money from the foolish or 1 i Iie, and through al] this, now looking up &t -you, in inquiry, and, yes, sus- picion, the -President. An ineignificant, -unnoticeable sort of man, of middle height, you will judge of him sitting; a sallow, meager face, with shifty eves; a scanty mus- tacee, tortured half upward, and a chin, .uninspiring. @nconvincing, that glives evidence only of a desire to grow @ goatee, or else of several days' for- geifulness of the barber. The only impression of him that remains is of a rosette in a buttonhole, a rosette that you take to be of the Legion of Honor—auntil you look again, and even you and staring; and suspicion is the dominant note of their unspoken word. You are, to say the least of it, un- worse. “Oh, no; he does hot trouble us. We take no notice of him. All we have done is to beg the Paris police, ir the inter- est of common honesty, to keep an eye upon him and his gang.” - Another illusion gone! Another castle in Spain crumbled to dust and ashes in Counani. Nothing remains, not even Port . Tarascon, of the immortal Tar- tarin. - HENRI PREVOST. “I used a sermon this morning,” said the Rev. Dr. Fourthly, “that I preach- ed many years ago, but, fortunately, tlhere was only one member of the con- gregation present that heard it the first time.” “Who was that?” asked his wife. deacon slept through the whole of it.” —Chicago Tribune THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1904. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, -Proprietor + « + + « + + + . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication OfiCe .........osecasesniens: cesseee .,...4....-...'l"hll‘d and Market Streets, S. F. . BUBBRAN. e TR Nk BN i L o8 ks e e s stk B chiu e SHALIR ST SRS IRRIGATION FANCIES. ™ HE situation concerning irrigation is a bit hectic T and unwholesome. There is no doubt that the Government works will be well constructed, and that no expense will be spared to make them monu- ments of engineering skill and construction, but that is a ‘small part of it, as far as concerns the practical irrigation of soil, that it may produce and support. homes. The engineers in charge have long been known as pro- moters of the theory, “A miner's inch of water to 500 acres of land.” That quantity may serve that area in sonmie localities.. In others it may be too much, but over the vast majority of the area to be irrigated it is entirely insufficient to serve any such acreage. It may be a sign of confidence, but surely is no proof of skill, to lay down a hard and fast rule of water service. The amount of water that will serve an acre of land depends upon the character of the soil and subsoil, and if that were uniform all over the arid region the effective service of water would be found to depend.upon and to vary with the kind of crop that is We have begun by admitting that there may be places where a miner’s inch’ irrigates effectively 500 acres of land, but we have never seen such a place and know of no . one who has. It will not prove to be conducive to the success of Government irrigation that the scientific bureaus con- grown. ‘cerned in it are divided and scattered in more than one department at Washington and that the irrigation plants are being constructed and the money spent by men who have never practically irrigated a square yard of land, have never plowed and cropped and reaped on such land. . They are officials of the Interior Depart- -ment, the least practical of all the Cabinet departments; while the 'soil men are in the Agricultural Department. The result of the hard and fast rule will be dis- appointing. The men who enter the lands are already the prospective victims of the limitations of the irri- gation law. It is planned upon-the theory that the ame area’ of land will produce the same everywhere, yield the same to support a family and to build up the country.. The fantastic gentlemen who have invented much ‘of the literature of the subject in their visions saw and s2id that the land irrigable by the Government would .support a population of 80,000,000; and in the fine frenzy of prophecy they also extended over the high plateaus, to the short season and cold winters of the intermountain region, the ‘physical facts of Califor- nia. They harvested innumerable crops of alfalfa in their minds in regions where the rancher is in luck if he ‘get one, and they said and did % lot of things as ridiculous as if they had said that irrigation would pro- duce flying pigs and rooting birds. Congress 'in its wisdom heeded them in their folly and the area of a homestead entry in an irrigated section was reduced. so low that over much of the arid region he must be a brave man who will undertake to support a family on it. A low minimum is needed to make good the dream of the number of settlers who will be drawn to the lands. With that low minimum and the belief that a miner’s inch will serve 500 acres we have the train laid for the explosion of a disappointment that will sadly concern a great many people. If it be found that a miner’s inch will serve only 80 acres the owners of a majority of the irrigated districts must give up. But who will determine who shall surrender for lack of water and who shall take what there is and do the best they can with it? It is said that the first cost of the water is to be $20 per acre, which the settler has to pay to the Gov- ernment in installments annually, whether he get a crop or not, or give up his land. ‘After paying installments enough years to prove that the service units relied on by the Government are idle dreams, and that a miner’s inch will not serve 500 acres, will the Government re- fund his money to the disaprointed settler? No. Will it permit him to sell to a man that is going to stay with the proposition? No, for that is land monopoly, and is offensive to a iarge number of atmosphere farmers who believe that one acre of land, anywhere, is sufficient for one family. Let these things be remembered as pzactical guides: The amount of water service varies with the character of the soil and the kind of crop; the physical conditions of California exist nowhere else, and the units of ser- vice here cannot be a guide anywhere else; there is no hard and fast rule of water service applicable every- where,. and there is no common unit of area for a land helding. Port Arthur has fallen once more to the pen assaults of the press correspondents. When the Eastern conflict ‘was in the interesting condition of being a newsless war we had at least the satisfaction of doing our own spgcu- lating on what might happen. Now since the situation is equally warless we are incessantly muddled by conjecture and exaggeration, affirmation and denial that summarize each day into nonsense. When Port Arthur falls the correspondents will probably be home. THE INJURY TO COMMERCE. R merce in the East. Its magnitude may be esti- mated when it is seen that the Pacific Mail Steam- ship Company and its allied lines are officially an- nounced to have largely ceased business on the Pacific, Ocean by refusing cargoes to Japan, Korea, Manchuria and Newchwang. It will be recalled that at the beginning of the war Secretary Hay proceeded to secure an agreement of the nations protective of the integrity of China and of tle nentrality of her ports and territory. Russia gave a halting and hypocritical assent to this and immediately proceeded, by nagging at Peking and outrages upon Chinese territory, to try to force that Government into a resistance that could be called an overt act in breach of neutrality. Russia having broken the Dardanelles treaty by a ruse, in violation of international law having sunk a British merchantman on the high seas, and havy- ing met with nothing stronger than newspaper criticism, has evidently concluded that she can safely defy the peacefully inclined nations and while armed Japan is whifl;ing her legions inland she can safely sink unarmed merchant ships at sea. 2 Russia may be announcing her own downfall in giving to the world proclamation of her piratical intentions against commerce, and of her assumption of the right to say what nations she will treat as neutrals and what as belligerents. Napoleon exulted in his power and gloated over his enemy when he wrote the Berlin decree forbid- ding any nation to trade with Great Britain under pen- alty of his vengeance. But Waterloo and St. Helena fol- lowed. In that decree, after all, he did only what Rys- sia is doing now. The only difference is that he was open and bold about it and Russia has approached it with her usual sinister sinuosity. The Berlin decree supplied the British Ministry with what it needed, an in- USSIA has struck a serious blow at American com- | ments is necessary to success. flexible, bulldog public opinion that backed it to the end and exulted with it over the disaster at Waterloo. Russia’s designs abroad may be judged by the charac- ter of her ggvernment at home, which is so bad that her Ministers ride out in state and are brought back in gib- lets, blown into spatter by -their own people in resent- ment of oppression. The world will not long endure the aggressions of" such a power, with which there can be neither truce nor treaty. The question of free cargoes to neutral ports was set- tled by the United States and Great Britain during the Boer war. Cargoes of American flour consigned to a neutral port in South Africa were seized by Great Bri- tain and were released on our protest. After that Great Britain refrained from repetition of such interference with our commerce. In every struggle in which she has engaged Russia has always dehumanized war. She has removed from it the knightly quality which it first assumed in Southern Europe and she carries that spirit of the brute beast gone mad into every -act. The resentment of the commercial nations may in the end be taken advantage of by Japan in issuing letters of marque and reprisal, which skilled mariners and sea- fighters .will be found willing to take advantage of to avenge their losses. pursue her enemy by every means not forbidden.by in- ternational law and this is one of them. Though not re- sorted to for a time it is not outlawed and is far more legitimate than the methods of Russia. . Another young San Franciscan has stumbled and fallen in the path of honesty, and while the penitentiary is waiting to receive another victim the gamblers of -the (acetrack are counting their profits and recording an- other triumph. It secems almost incredible that the dupes of the bookmakers cannot understand the absa- lute futility of attempting to play a game in which they have not the remotest hope of winning and in which bitter experience points the inevitable road to dishonor. ‘ sphinx of Esopus is about to break the silence of a lifetime. The news of -the Judge's. contem- plated action may be a bit startling, but it must be true, for the wires hdve borne to the four points of the com- pass the intelligence that Mr. Parker is engaged in the preparation of his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency and that he will deliver that speech on the 10th inst. g Along with this important announcement comes an- other to the effect that-his many visitors are interfering with the Judge's work of preparation. This would seem to indicate that if Mr. Parker is not wearying of posing as the chief attraction of the Democratic circus he, at least, would like a little more seclusion at this particular time. He probably is humming to himself: “There are moments when we wish to be alone; this is one of them.” WHEN PARKER SPEAKS. ANDIDATE PARKER is preparing to speak. The But there is apparently no help for the Judge, who is the | whole show at the now famous burg of Esopus, and people will continue to “come miles to see” him, as they did to behold the wonderful shoulder-blade of Gilbert and Sullivan’s vain and boastful Katisha. Judge Parker might vary the monotony by inviting his stream of visitors to join him when he takes his dip in the waters of the Hudson, thus killing two birds with one stone, if he does not succeed in losing votes neces- sary to the Democratic party through the drowning. of members of his swimming parties. Or he might emu- late the example of the Republican standard-bearer, who 1ook Secretaries Morton and Metcalf out for a three hours’ jaunt the other day and fatigued them so that it is safe to say they ‘will dodge another similar invitation. The Judge could treat his ruralist neighbors to the daily spectacle of wearing out his guests by hot-paced journeys over the Esopus region. These strenuous methods in all probability would have a discouraging ef- fect upon others contemplating a visit to the Democra- tic leader; and who would prefer to remain at home," saying: “Not for us; we rather fancy the rest cure.” Candidate Parker then would have “time to burn” for.| writing, revising and memorizing the speech that Dem- ocracy’s hosts anxiously and palpitatingly- await. The last time the Judge was heard from was in that little gold-lined message to the St. Louis convention. words were few, but the surprised party has not recov- ered even yet from the violent shock sustained by its nerves. There is no way of prognosticating what new shocks he will let loose from his surprise box in his com- ing effort. We can assert assuredly that the followers of the party will listen with bated breath and such a tre- mendous silence will prevail in Democracy’s circles that the rest of the political world will be able to “hear a pin drop” on August 10, when Parker speaks. Truant officers, seeking children under 14 years of age, have made the startling discovery that many such little ones who ‘should be in school are employed in the canneries and factories of this city. This fact may well shock the community, and measures to punish the of- fenders as well as to remove the children to a proper environment would be greeted with applause. Compe- tition in the struggle for existence has not yet reached the stagé in San Francisco where child labor may be accepted as a matter of fact. e S S Since the advent of the Russianf Vladivostok squadron in the Pacific Ocean on preying purpose bent the big liners that sail from this port to the Orient are carryin' neither bullion nor money. This is a wisg precaution if the shipping companies intend to carry contraband and apparently useless if they intend to obey the neutrality declaration of this Government. Commercial greed must Fecognize, however, that the Czar has a very clear idea of what constitutes contraband. —— National Guardsmen of California and Federal troops stationed in the State will soon meet on common ground at the approaching annual encampment. Our citizen soldiers must be on their mettle to sustain the splendid reputation they have already won, but the people of California have yet to know of a test to which their guardsmen have been put and in which they have been found wanting. The regulars will have reason to look to their laurels. A woman who until recently earned a hazardons liveli- hood as a professional acrobat has enlivened her resi- dence among us by turning burglar, much to the con- sternation of the police and the admiration of light fingered gentry that make a specialty of porch climbing, as an incident to the acquisition of dishonest wealth. The lady is evidently trying to demonstrate that in these days of desperate competition a variety of accomplish- ’ The island empire will-be sure to | His | The Captain’s Vacation. Captain Biank is -a retired. deep- sea skipper, living with Mrs. Blank and a brgce of chips-from-the- old-block in the upper flat of a big building en the edge.of Hayes Valley. He calls his home “The Main Top” apd Mrs. B, the captain of it, though he retains that honoraty title. Of late he has not been feeling: well, and the family physician- tells him that he needs a cruise in the country, that he should have -exercige ‘and the fresh, pure air of a run among the hills and trees on the higher levels of Marin or Sonoma County. Mrs. Blank diag- noses his case as “just laziness and too many hours around the cormer gro- cery.” { The other afternoon he had another | talk with the doctor, who ordered him out of town for a week or so. On his way home he stopped at the grocery to lay in a case of refreshments for consumption “in the country,” and MRS. BLANK CAME UP, BUT THE « ] . STILL AFTER S et A - | | E | when he had finished telling about his proposed Vacation the new day was be--| ginning to show over Nob Hill. The captain got home—some started to climb the leading to his flat. Up and went, passed his stopping point and walked out on the flat roof. wide, roomv, vardlike place, with shrubs and flowerpots along the brick walls which extended ten or .twelve feet higher—in fact, a veritable roof garden. The captain, full of the walks he was to have in the countiy—and pos- sibly full of other things—was, in his mind's eye, alreadv there. He began his walk and round the roof he | trudged, gathering in health with the | early morning air at every mile—as he { measured it. | The sun came up, but hé kept on. | Mrs. Blank came up, too, but the captain was still reaching for health. “You —! When did- you get here?” | she asked when she had recovered breath. ¢ “Jess g't cher; doctor s'd g'up Mount Tamaly-ps. Git fresh air. Most ov'r dam mountin’. Fine ex’cise. Feel bully already. Got enything t'drink?"™ Mrs. Blank is a large lady. She | came from Missouri -and her father was with Quantrell once. What her liege lord got up- there on the roof could not be termed a vacation—too | great an element of sameness about it. As to Wheat's Gluten. SAN FRANCISCO, July 30. ' Editor of The Call—Dear Sir: I saw | an editorial in to-day’s Call on “Gluten in Our Wheat,” and it brought to mind | a storv of an old friend who had ex- | perimented with wheat in the East | many years ago. He said he had tried | a number of acres to prove his theory. It was to cut the grain in “the dough™ and ‘stack the sheaves grain down. It was productive of a wonderful improve- | ment in the wheat, but why it was not adopted I do not know.. If you can, use this. I have tried to do my littie bit as | far as I know. Any information I can ( impart is at your service for the good of the State. Yours truly, A. W. ROBERTSON. Infants” Clearing-House. - There is a Frenchman named Michel Breal whose scheme, first broached in 1886, is again being talked up. It con- sists of a wholesale exchange, a swap- ping of children from omne family to another. Here is a Parisian father, in modest estate, with a son. This man has an am- bition that his child shall have a thor- ough knowledge of German. The prop- er thing would be to place the child in some German family for a while. But the difficulty for the father is to dis- cover just the right sort of family—one who would receive the child, one that he could trust with the child and, above all, one who had a child to swap. The Parisian father would be spending no extra money in housing the German child and teaching it French while his own was eating at a German table. Meanwhile two nations were under- standing each other better. It was a splendid scheme, if only it could be car- ried out. J ‘What was needed was a baby broker, 4as it were—an exchange, a clearing- | inevitable, | vice presidents, ! way—and | winding stairs | up he| It was a | &—_‘_—-————_’ house for children, an agency to keep tab of families willing to swap children and to engineer the swap. A man ramed Toni Mathleu saw the chance and improved it during the vacation period last year. He had prejudices to l overcome. After a deal of letter writing fhe won the indispensable, not to say sanction . of college pro- fessors, of great authors, prominent lawyers and members of Parliament. ‘He even succeeded in placing an order for five children on trial. He devoted | a whole year to booming the enterprise. | And it was heartbreaking work. He | would win the approval of a lot of Eng- | ish or German or Scandinavian fami- { |lles, only to find in his own land no | readiness to trade. And yet, in spite of | evérything, he has succeeded in a meas- ure. The scheme is working, and Mr. Mathieu has decided to found a socfety and push the !dea for all it is worth. This society is to be known by the solemn title of “International Exchange for Children in the Study of Foreign Languages and Customs.” For honor- ary president it is to have M. d"Estour- nelles de Coristant; for acting president, | Pierre Baudin, former Minister; for MM. Firmery and | Edouard Petit, inspectors general of | public instruction. Mathieu himseif will serve as general manager, with the backing of Deputies of the Chamber if | necessary. Jules Siegfried and a lot of others will look after the financing. An elaborate system of correspond- ence has been drawn up already. There is a precautionary exchange of pho- | tographs first, and a severe cross-ex- amination of all concerned. The closing details of the railroad journey, under suitable escorts in the case of girls, |- are easily looked after by the exchange. | —Boston Transcript. - Kites for Wircless. The Hamburg correspondent of the Daily Mail of London writes t6 his pa- per-that the German Kaiser witnessed July 2, in the Baltic, some experi- ments with a newly discovered method of. wireless telegraphy by means of kites. The inventor is a German-Ameri- | can professor at present residing at {‘Havre, who has for a long time past been in communication with the Ger- man naval authorities, and has now displayed the new invention te the { Emperor personally. Naturally the strictest secrecy is ob- served regarding the. whole matter, | and every sailor to whom the new ap- | paratus was shown was compelled to take an oath not to speak of the de- vice. 1 At Seturday's operations, which were carried out abeut a -mile from { shore, seven kites were flown on cop- per wires to a height of from 10,000 to 12,000 feet. The experiments wera | partly made from the Kaiser's dis- | patch boat Sleipner, traveling at the rate of thirty sea miles an hour, and several languages were employed. It | is possible to employ the system over the greatest distances without .affect~ ing any other wireless telegraphy sta- | tion. The form of the kites used is that of two cubes side by side. The patent will be acquired for a large sum by the German navy. Answers to Queries. LAUNCH-J. R., Capitola, Cal.. The Revised Statutes of the United States [ do mot require - that there -shall Be a licensed’ engineer or licensed pilot. for vessels under fifteen tons burthen that ecarry passengers or freight for hire and are propelted by gas, fluid naphtha or electric “motors. - Such vessels ‘must, however, conform to the law that gov~ erns vessels of greateér tonnage as to passing to starboard or port of ap- proaching vessels; such must also car- ry appliances to save life, BAKER—W., Valambrossa, Cal. Ed- waid Dickenson Baker . (1S11-1861) - at- tained distinction in Illinois as an elo- quent orator, a lawyer and Whig Con- gressman. in 1843-'43.. He commanded & brigade in the Mexican War and afteér- ward settled -in Califérnia.” He re= moved fo Oregon, where he was g Ré- publican United States Senator in 1851 In that year he answered to his coun- try’s call and was commissioned ‘a. col- onel of volunteers. -He was killed in front of his men, while leading a charza at Ball's Bluff, October 21, 1861, - CASINO—C€ounting in casino on the last deal depends upon. the' manner in which' the players at the outset agree to count. - If they agree to count.as points are made, then the one on the last deal making the necessary num- ber wins, but if it is agreed that tha count shall be after the deal is closed; the count is in the following order: Cards, spades, big casing, little casino and aces. If sweeps are counted they follow the aces. Whichever side has cards, If there be cards, if not, then aces, counts first. 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