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ALLIES HOLD THE TAKU FORTS Continued from First Page. .sent off from Taku is not given, but it Lis probably June 19. k SBVMOIH IS AT PEKI\. [Report of Safety of the l egation* I* ■t) Confirmed. Hfc’eilin, .Tun? Cl.—A semi-cffieial dispatch Oom i'ekio dated June 21. says the Japan ese eonißUl at Shanghai confirms the re- XK>rts that Vice Admiral Seymour has ar 3\el at Pekin, and t>V*t the members of the diplomatic corps are safe. According to an official Japanese report Trom Chee Fco the foreign settlement at Ti n Tsln was reduced to ashes June 18. GERMAN TROOPS 1\ CHINA. Present Effective Fighting Force Will Be Increased. Berlin, June 21.—Preparations Continue for increasing the German forces in Chi na. For the present the fighting force of the Gefman troops •will be 5,000, when all shall have arrived, but It is understood that if more alarming news is received, the gov ernment will send out a volunteer corps Aiken from all the regiments of the army, up to 10,000. Tue armored cruiser Fuerst Bismarck veil] carry 300 soldiers In addition to crew ol 540. The big cruiser Wineta, which has arrived at Laguayra, has been ordered to jmoceed to China, and the cruiser Cor nyoran, which is now in the South Seas, has also been ordered thither. Similar instructions have been given to the gun boat Luchs. .ZAFIRO AM) IRIS WERE SEAT. * * - rinn Proposed >sa> Lead to a Setfle- i ment of ChineMe Trouble. 'Washington, June 21.—A cablegram re ceived at the navy department to-day from Admiral Romey at Manila, states that the Zafiro sailed yesterday from Cavite for Hong Kong. She is a supply ship and may proceed to Taku. The Don Juan de Austria, gunboat, ha.~ arrived at Canton from Swatotv. 'lt is said at the navigation bureau that the Zafiro has aboard 150 aailors in adili tlon to her crew. These men may go on the Oregon at Hong Kong, to round out her complement, or be dispatched on the Zafho directly north to Taku, in the dis cretion of Admiral Kenipff. who will have communicated with Admiral Kemey before jhe Zafiro can get ro Hong Kong. ♦ Remey, from Manila, supple mented his previous brief dispatch rela tive to the sailing fcf the Zafiro by one. later in the day announc ng the departure of the iris from Manila for Taku. The Iris is a water boat, but on this trip she carried a quantity of supplies for Admi ral Kempff’6 lit le squadron, as well as a ca’go of good coah a comm di y which will be ne j d dby the im • she arr es The and vJ pments of the day, apart from these at T en Tsin greatly e the otticia s here in their hope that the worst is pnst in China and that th* d.ffieuity can be se tied wl hout any \e y seri us change of the political status of the coun try, at least in its relations with the out-’ er world. The state department is much gratified wih ihe attitude of the Powers So far as it is informed, there is no dif feifnee of op:ni n or inten in among the dlfferen; Powers r specting the Chinese si nat on 'fheir object is simply to re sio'e p are, prote t life and prope ty; and leave all fu: *her que.-.tions for iu.ure set t.eir.ent. S.. far as can be gathered there is not a di'S : d'nt voir among he Powers In •ai over o the ion made by the T’ni eel States to limi the operations of TTJe for ipu armies and navies in China to th t simple programme, and if the e is a contrary purp se entertained an- w ere, the parti ular Power has not signified that fad. WILL PRKSF.ItVE THE PEACE. Viceroy of the Southern Provinces Wired Minister AVn. £ June 21.—Mr. Wu, the Chi- minister, called upon Secretary Hay 7‘t 4 the state and pirtm nt to d:y, and in to /,-fymed him hat he l ad received a dls obteh frrm the v eer y of the three great ■provinces of the Vang Tse Kiang, saying •tliot he felt himself prf ctly able to keep '“he peace in h a provinces, and insure the -ioiety of the foreign mi>si naries, and wnr-in in conjunction with his colleague itfltvroy Hunan, ne is able o answer for -’*ie pr-servaiion of peace and order in Tu the great southern provinces of China DEPREDATIONS' OF DOVERS. vt , t Movement licit an to Oft Germans ■ Out of $ tin n Tung. New York. June 21—The American Bi ble Society has received a letter from Rev. John Hykes, D. D., dated Shanghai, May 17, who had just returned from a trip to Pekin. Dr. Hykes says: "I had u long conversation with Dr. W. S. Ament of the American Board, a na tive of OWosso, Mich., and a graduate of Oberlin College, Oberlin. 0., who recently made a Journey of some eighty miles in to the territory occupied by the Boxers. At one of their strongholds they tiureaten ed to bind Dr. Ament and Vis companion '/■ murder a Chinese they had with ttem but they happily escaped without suffer ing any violence. • “The movement was first started with the object of driving the Germans out of Shar.g Tung, and it was encouraged by the central government and the government of Shan Tung in the hope thot it would suc ceed in accomplishing this patriotic pur pose. After committing many acts at law lessness. Including the murder of the Rev. >lr. Brooks, they gradually spread north and are now to he found in a large part of the province of Chi LI. “At the present time the Boxers are undoubtedly composed of rowdies, farmers atjd boys. They are armed only with swords, spears, bows and arrows. They have robbed heathen and Christian alike, but thev are very hitter against the Chris tians, to whom it is generally believed ti nt much persecution Is sure to come. In one place visited by Dr Ament, there were two Christian families, each con sisting of the parents and two or three grown sons. One of these families armed themselves and defied the Boxers. Thay presented such a hold front that they were' not molested. The oilier family showed that they were terrified by til* threats of the Boxers, and they went opmpeiled to ray a large sum of. money, and to prostrate themselves before the iwols In the village temple. When re fyoved for this oct of idolatry, til© fath'T said ‘I would have been willing to dl**. and so would any of my sons, but they threatened to exterminate the family, root and branch. / I, in tho general opinion in th* Nortn that ihe government Is afrail to do any thing to suppress the movement for fear U mav become anti-dynastic. There Is gpvd reason to far this. The anti-reform r ovement or rather ctusade has aroused ry blit r feeling all over the country, .pd it oolv wails a leader to slart a re 'lion that wiuld Quickly overthrow the Yvernment." m -i f Z * U*v. F. K. Clnrk 1 Sff. ‘‘fjoston, June 21.—Pome anxiety has been expressed by friends for the safe's' of itev. F. E. Clark, pr sklent of the Unit ed Society of chrlstlun Kndeavor. who. with Mrs. Clark uni their son Harold, was in Tien Tain and Pekin during the massacre by the Boxers. A message Just received here from Dr. Clark stated that the family had arrived safely at Fu San, Korea, where they were to take the steamer for \ ladivostock. Entered rekin Simultaneously. Bruesel? June 22 -The Petldßleu states tha a telegram was received yesterday by an im orUnt B u?sels firm from China saying that Admiral Seymour's relieving force and the Russian column entered aneoUfl> ' The l<Wlons were reported intact, and ail the Belgan resi dents are said to be safe. Id to Remain „ t fnnton. re^v?, t K h' ne ' / une 21 -Reports have been recelted here from Canton, that owing to IJ of the ,orel * n consuls, in Canton C ' a 11S ’ as co,lsented t 0 remain CATASTROPHE IN GUIANA. Foss of Pasaengera in Boats Swept Over River Falls. (Correspondence of the Associated Press.l Kingston. Jamaica. June 13.—Particulars of the catastrophe which befell the river steamer Mabel and three boats she had in tow recently when they were swept over the Tumatumarl Falls in the Demarnra river, British Guiana, have been received here. There were 120 passengers. When the boats were within 2CO yards of the Tuma tuntari landing it was found that the cur rent waj> likely to carry' them beyond it. A lire thrown to the shore fell short and Capt. Decamp, a passenger on the steam er, volunteered to swim ashore with It. Capt. Decamp only escaped being drown ed by catching hold of a tree. Amid the heartrending screams of the passengers the boats were swiftly swept to the cataract, two being smashed against the ro-ks and sunk. The rope holding the third boat to the steamer broke and the craft s,hot through the rapids, her occupants being none the worse for their terrible voyage. The steamer, as soon as 6he got in Ihe rapids, blew up and went under. The cries of the passengers at this lime were awful. The water carried many of them down, their bodies being dashed with great violence against the sharp coral rocks. Fully one-haif of those on the boats were lost, among the victims being J. B. Tavs, an American gold miner. TWO KILLED IN A FIRE. Lo„ by Burning nr a Roundhouse AVilt Be 4r.0,Cf)0. Bakersfield, Cal., June 21—The Southern Faclfic roundhouse at Kern City was burr ed to-day and the remains of Patrick Quinn ard Byrd Gilmore, employes, were found n the and brls. They were k lied by ihe explosion of an oil lamp, which start ed the tire. The loss to the railroad com pany will amount to 5400,000. Twelve en gines were destroyed. Restriction on Hate Sheet,. Chicago. June 21—At the meeting of the presidents of the Western railroads in this city to-day, it was agreed that no line party shall have power to issue anew rate sheet until It has been submitted to the local committee, where the business originates, and has the approval of the highest executive officer in charge of the traffic of the interested road. Committees will be located at Kansas City, Omaha. Sioux City, Council Bluffs, St. Paul and Minneapolis. They Must Be Deported. New York. June 21.—Joseph Mullet and James Fitzharrls were taken from Ellis Island to the emigration station in the barge office, end officially notified to pre pare for deportation. The men angrily declared that they had been treated worse by tips United States government than during any time of their incarceration in English prisons. Will Bid on Armor Plate. Philadelphia, June 31— At the annual meeting to-day of the shareholders of the Bethlehem Steel Company the announce ment was made that the company pro pose to bid for the entire contract for 3(1.000 tons of armor plate for which bids had been requested by the government from all steel companies. Gang of American Thieves. Don don. June 22 Several of the morn ing papers assert that a gang of Amer can thieves and confidence men is operating in London. The Dally' Chronicle sugg sti that these people *ot Princes Radziwiii’s pearls, not the real ones, but exact imita tions. Germany Does Not Llloe It, Berlin. June 21.—Imperial circles ore great y displeased by the course of Bavaria in increasing instead of diminishing her special treaty rights with the empire. The latest illustration of this disposition is the appointment of a Portuguese minister at Munich. Killed His Wife and Himself. San Francisco, June 21.—Af tr shooting and killing his wife. Henry E Hkv, a bookkeeper, shot and killed hims*lf to night. Domestic trouble is assigned as the cause of the double tragedy. RELATING TO HATS AND HEADS. Quality Rather Than Bigness Counts Heads of Some Famous Men. From the New York *Christian Advocate. When Mr. Gladstone died the London News stated that his head was of excep tional size, and gave an incident which Gladstone told at Lord Ripon’s residence, about a man who could not get a hat large enough till at last the hatter called, in desperation, for an Aberdeen hat. The point of this was that Scotchmen have larger heads than Irishmen or Engilsh men The News recalls the special ftudy in hats made by Dr. Collin*. In the course ol which it was mentioned that Mr. Glad stone's number in hats was 7%. A No. 7 hai is the average English size. Sir Walter Scott's and Lord Beaconsfleld's hats were of this size. The hats of John Bi igh> Robert Burns and Charles Dickens were 714. Lord John Russell’s 784—a1l smaller than Mr. Gladstone's. But the Gladstone hat was exceeded in size by that of Dr. Chalmers, 78. Daniel O'Con nell. whom Gladstone styled the greatest Irishmen who ever lived, wore a hat of the size of S. The late Dr. Thomas. Arch bishop of York, wore a large *. and Jo seph Hume's was emphatically abnormal. 81, 1. At a meeting of the convention of London University, Dr. Collins had JM hats mens it red. and found that between 40 and 41 per event, were Just the average size and 24 per cent, were under the When Bismarck <licd. Herr Friedrich H. Kranz, the present head of the ojd Frank fort firm of hatmakers, Martini & Cos., communicated some trade statistics to the Hamburger Naehrlchten, which the Lon don Times published for the benefit of fu ture biographers and physiologists. I- ifty years ago, according to the first record of the Martini "Kopfmaos machine,“ Bis marck's head had a width of 89 Vj cent!- meters. U Is obvious that this statement means not a wlddth. but a circumference, tor the 62 centimeter* are equal to twen ay-four and foriy-oue hundredth* Inches, which would give him a size of about No. 8, Concerning his haad’i swelling, this would mean a thickening of the scalp of iwo-flfths of an Inch all round. On reading these statistics It occurred to us to call at what Is generally supposed to be the leading hat s ore In this coun try and probably the most numerously patrenisfd of the "b g h-adf-d" class (oer a in both good • nses of the wiri) In ,h g city, and to Inquire of the manager concerning the r lutlve rropdrtlons of size of head* In a largo order. He kindly re sponded to our request, showing us that in four lots of twenty-lour dozen, each, a total of 1,152 hats, there were the fol lowing slses: 684, : 6%. *>; Vl' 7 . 27*. 784. *49; 784. I*s; 7H. 75; 784. *4; TB4. *• The manager Informed us that there are THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, JUNE 22. 1900. calls for hats 7 7 ,, five or six during the season, and there are many with 7% size who have hats made to order. We asked 1 im if he had any objection to giving us ihe names of some of the prominent men having the largest heads not comprehend ed in the regular aveiages. The result is extremely inter stlrg From nearly 100 w. select as follows. Each of the following wears a hat of sice 7%: J. Plerpohl Mor grft. the 1 anker; H. B. Hyde of the Equitable Life Insurance Society; Capt. J. Brogan, of the police force; C. C. Bea man, a member of the bar; G. S. Hub bard, another lawyer; Prof. Moeller. J. S. Barnes, the banker; Col. W. I. Brown, publisher; J. E. Mllholland. of the New Yo;k Tribune; Dr. Griffith, Alexander Williams, ex-inapeotor of police. Bach of the following wears slxe T-’,; Prof. Andrew Victor Herbert, the music ian; F. H. Partridge, author; Justice Clarence Meade, and Mr. McCutchton. the dealer In linens. Dr. Jacobi, the emi nent physician; Bishop Gcod?ell and Bcurke Cockrari. the orator, requite hats of 7f. But all these. English and Ameri can. are Inferior In size to that of one of the regular customers of the fiflrm we con sulted. For him they regularly made a hat 8%. In order to make a comparison with English hats, we found that the English measure upun the principle cf the oval. When a head is T' v * inches long and 6‘i Inches wide, they add the two measure ments and divide by’ two. giving 7 as the size of the head The American me hod is different. Here the circumference of the head is carefully measured, and i* always estimated one-e‘ghth more, so that Glad stone's head, 7% by the English meas urement, Would be I\ 2 American, and all thtse American heads reduced ro the Eng lish s andard would be one-eighth !e-s. Persons having large heads should not fancy that this demonstrates greater obt - ity than is possessed by those whose skulls are smaller,' nor should the latter be .iU couraged. for It Is easy to prove that quality of brain is as important a fac or as size. Disraeli was certainly one of the ablest men who ever sat in the Britl h Parliament, and, in the opinion of Jus,in McCarthy, a greater parliamenta y orator than Gladstone, yet his head was but 7'* according to the. American plan. Lord Chelmsford's size was titj, the Duke o' York's. 6%; Dean Stanley's, 6 a i. and that of the Emperor of Germany, 6~k- If man is distinguished from the lowrr animals, physiologically, by the super'or development of the anterior portion of the spinal cord, that Is to say. by the greater size of his forehead, all other things be* ing equal, the relative location of the brain in man must have much more to do with the sum total of brain power measured by mentel results. Such !>he nomenal beings as Blind Tom are no. as rare as might be supposed He seems very extraordinary because of his mu 1- cal power, but similar unquestionable re sults of brain configuration, quantity' and relation to the movements of the mystl al force that agitates them, can a one ac count for such peculiarities. The largest heads of peasants we have ever seen we e among the Cretins of Switzerland, m.st. of whom ere but little above idiot*. The old school phrenologists with lheir charts can produce many plausible oo n cldences. and they will always have a fol lowing. since those who have large heads will he predisposed to believe in the.r sys tem; but it will always be strong y op posed. since thoee who have email nead* have a constitutional objection to llnlr The new views, which attach no impor tance to minute divisions, maintaining that the quantity and quality of the brain de termine a man’s intellectual powers, and probablv his predominant tendencies, ore being more and more supported by po - mortem examinations, and when apptiel to the complex being known as man, more and more will modify the views of psy chologists. HINDOO IDEA OF THE EVIL ONE. Hideous Conception of the Devil and His Wife by East Indians. From the Wes minster Review. Siva is typical both of destruction and of reproduction. But the latier attribute was doubtless a later addition to the sum of his qualities. The original conception of this deity was that of a power de lighting in destruction, in the achieve ment of physical evil and wrong, and in hurling death and devastation upon the p:ople and their land. He is represented in the sacred books of the Hindoos as “the -errible destroyer”-“the one who delights in the destruction cf men." But in all thhr there is no whisper as yet of any moral qualities of evil. The conception is en tirely one of physical power used wth the utmost malevolence anu Injustice against men. Along with his principal wife, who is variously called Devi, Durga Uma and Kali ho is portrayed as the incarnation of physical evil, wrong, injustice or mis fortune. in the "Puranas" Siva is de scribed as wandering about surrounded by ghosts and goblins, inebriated, naked and with disheveled hair, covered with the ashes of a funeral pile, ornamented with human skulls and bones, sometimes laughing and som times ery ng. Devt, his consort, is represented with a hideous and a terrible countenance, streaming with blood, encircled with snakes, hung round wi h skulls and human heads, and in all respects resembling a “fury" rather than a goddess. The only pleasure which Siva and Devi feel is when the-r al.ars are drenched with blood, which, of course, could not be shed without the destruction of some form of life. man's most Sensitive* point. When the Tip of the Tongue Is Touched the Whole Body Thrills. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. The tip of the tongue possesses the most perfect sense of touch. The finest hair is felt upon its surface, and even * hen fingers fail to ascertain the quali ties of certain bodies, contact with the tongue immediately recognizes them. The rela ive sensibility of various parts of the body is best measured by means of a pair of compasses, the points of which are tip; ed with cork. The tip of ine on?ue can diitlifguish two distinct impressions when the corn:ass points are only half a line, or the twelfth of an inch, apart, the tip of ihe finger when th'y are a fine apart. Other spots vary still more wide ,y- ihts distance at the lips is two 1 nes; the tip of the nose, three lines; the cheek, five lints; palm of the hand, five ln; forehead, ten lines: back of the hand, fourteen lines; chest, twenty lines; back and thigh, thirty lines. If however, this experiment Is repeated with a pair of compasses capable by slight pr* ssure of pricking, il will be found that there is no corresponding difference between the parts in their sensibility to pain. On the contrary. In place® where the sense of touch is most kten, the se’-se of pain In the first instance at least dead ened. and the ports moat callous In and a criminating the double touching points are bv no means the least alive to the sensation excited by their pressure. The tip of the longue has fifty time* the tac tile discrimination of the arm. hut the arm i* more sensitive to a sharp point, ape'led with mod rate pressure to the skin then either the tongue or the finger, and ’is at least alive to the presence of a very light b dy, a hair, or feather.drawn along the surface. Curiously enough, the right hand, which 1* more sensitive to t Vh than the left, is lee* sensitive to tem prrature. I< the two hands ae dip >ed in two baMns of water ai the same temper ature the left hand will feel the greatest sensa'ion of heat. —How It Happened—" Here, waiter!" cried the camel, who had been volnly en deavoring to absorb his mint-julep, “this straw has a flaw the mohkey. who was acting as bartender, “hut you'll have to get along with it. It'e the last one in the house.” Then th# camel, In his frenzied effdrts to draw through It, broke hi* back.— rtUladslohle Pres*. ELECTRICITY AT PARIS. RBC'BXT PROGRESS REVEALED Bt THE EXPOSITION American Exhibits and Service to the World—tsiikee* Have no Occa sion for Shame. From the New York Tribune. Paris, May 30.—Within six weeks from the official opeeing of the exposition of 1900 from 95 to 98 per cent, of the ex hibits are in place. The situation i3 rather more backward in the building de voted to electricity than in any other perhaps, but another fortnight will doubt less show everything in place in this im portant department. The American who has been taught— and correctly, too—that the United States lead* the world in electrical science to day experiences a little disappointment when he first carefully inspects his coun try's representation here. On the main floor, which is devoted almost exclusive ly to the generation of current, alternat ing and direct, and where from So.CtO to 40.000 horse power Is. or will be. devel oped. the visitor discovers a score of dy namos, each of which has a capacity' of from 1,000 to 2.500 horse power. But thp monster generators, like the engines that drive them, all bear foreign names. One Is English, three are German, one Is Italian, one is Austrian, one is Hungar ian, three are Belgian and eight are French. Whatever he the true explanation of this fact, it is certainly not due to the in ability of the United States to make an even better show than one sees here. For instance. America ofiglnated the trolley system eleven years ago. Since then she has taught the world anew method of progression. She has practically displae. cd the horse from street car service at home, and is now busily engaged in sup plying foreign cities, notably London. With equipment for electric roads like her own. In what happens for the moment to be the biggest and latest station for the generation of electricity for traction purposes—that of the Metropolian Sreet Railway Company in New York—there are half a dozen engines and dynamos, each having a capacity of 6.500 horse power, and only half the plant is yet installed. And it may be noted that before the fur naces of that power house one sees no piles of coal, as he does in front of the boilers of the exposition. Automatic stoking has made that Impossible. But right here at the exposition th* United States makes a far better showing than one might imagine. In the first olace there is an electric road, two miles long, which encircles the huge quadran gle that lies between the chief centers of roterest, the Esplanade des Invalldes and the Champ de Mars. This road is oper ated by Americans and with American machinery. A sub-station takes from some source of power out in the city, a mile away, nearly or quite 2.000 horse power, in the form of an alternating cur rent, and converts it into a direct cur rent. Westinghouse apparatus is used for this purpose, and Westinghouse mo tors are used on the cars. Incidentally, it may be remarked that the third rail system is employed. There are three cars to a train, one being equipped with a motor, and the other two being "trail ers.'' The cars are provided with air brakes of the latest American design. Some of the grades on the line remind one of a Coney Island roller toboggan, but no accidents have happened. And the way that the trains travel up hill and down is a marvel to those who patronize the road for the first time. The Moving Sidewalk. Parallel with the electric road, hut run ning in the opposite direction, is the mov ing sidewalk. This Is twofold, one part moving two and a half miles an hour and the other half five miles an hour. This Institution is also American. It was seen at Chicago seven years ago on a small scale. Each sidewalk js composed of an endless chain of fight cartrucks planked over on top and running on o regular rail way underneath. These walks are kept in operation by electric motors, over 250 in number, and mounted, no* on the mov ing trucks, but on the framework that supports the whole affair. The motors are American, and the current comes from the same sub-station which operates the electric road. Both sidewalks and railroad are under one management. Then there is the Chateau d'Eau. or Wa ter Palace, which, while not representing any advance in electrical science, is likely to prove the roost striking feature of the exposition in a purely spectacular sense, when, as will probably be the case by the midddie of June, it is in operation. As or.e stands near the Eiffel Tower, with his back to the Seine and faces down the Champ de Mars, he sees on his right the fine of magnificent buildings consecrated to liberal arts, transportation and chemi cal industry. On his left are those de voted to mines and metallurgy, textile fabrics and machinery. Across the gap between the two, at the further end of the park, stretches the electricity building. With its back to the latter, and fronting the observer, is a pulpitlike proscenium of a theater. From a lafty source in this edifice will issue a flood of water, faiuling in widening cascades. A series of low dams, concentric with the footlights, af fords nearly a dozen changes of level be fore the principal basin is reached. These basins represent a fall of about a hundred feet. The larger and lower-most basins are provided with scores of water Jets, the majority of them vertical, but not a few horizontal. When the preliminary ar rangements are complete these fountains will be illuminated from below and from the sides with powerful electric lights, va rious and ever changing In color. Here again is an American idea. It was tried at the World's Fair in 1893. And since that time Brooklyn and one or two other American cities have had similar foun tains. After all, the United Btates is help ing her sister republic this year in no shabby fashion. It is in other directions, however, that one must look for indications of electrical progress during the last few years. Take telegraphy, to begin with, and observe, if you please, that the land of Henry and Morse is still contributing to the service of mankind. Prof Rowland's "octuplex," which will probably be seen hero In the near future, and which was described in the Tribune a year or so ago, Is a rather costly device, but its practicability seems to have been established. It Is capable of sending eight messages of 350 words each a minute over a single wire, and printing them in a form that is suited to immedi ate use in the editorial room. It calls for no chemical process, like the development of Poliak and Virog's photographic strip, and it is more rapid than Edison's "quad,” which must be manipulated by hand. Cre hore and Squler, two other Americans, have also been identified with a system of rapid telegraphy within the last five years, but thus far only In an experimental way. One naturally looks here for Mar coni's apparatus. As yet it la not visible, but there Is a Jhance of its appearing in some of the vacant space reserved for England in the electricity building. The Pdflak-Vlrag system will be shown In the Austrian section . Telephone Devices. A number of countries show telephonic apparatus. The Wes'ern Electric Com pany, of the United Statea. la pr. piring to equip a small exchange, and huv# the usual pretty girl to answer oslls. Im provement# In telephony of late y<a have been mostly confined to tho switchboard. The transmitter and receiver are practl caiiy perfect. The form of transmitter seen here in Pari* is of Swedish design. BAKING POWDER, Par* < re*in Tartar 400 14. B Bar-Ben is the greatest known nerve tonic and blood purifier. It creates solid flesh, mus- H Hr cl* and strength, clears the brain, makes the blood pur* aud rich and causes a general li e,lug of m KjßP r 'rm t health, power, aud manly vigor Within three days alter taking the first dose you notice the return Jr 19 dtOSam/ ■ o* th® old rim. snap and energy you have counted us lost iorever, while a coatiutied. judicious use 3 8H B causes an improvement both satisfactory and lasting. One box will work vronds'* six should per M jg|3r K feet a cure. 50 CENTS A BOX. 6 boxes, 12 Ml For sale by druggists everywhere, or mailed, sealedllf4 f iy li It Is hidden away In a box. under u tkln slice of white wood, so that when one uses the instrument for the first t me he is puzzled to direct hia voice properly. In principle, howover. it is like the transmit ters seen and used in Amtr.ca. It has carbon contacts. Telephone booths for practical use are scattered all over the. Exposition grounds. One of the most remarkable indus rial development of the last ten years is the wholesale conversion of the energy of waterfalls Into electricity, and the Ira .s --mission of the latter over lin.s range g from two to a hundred miles in length, for lighting, the operation cf railways aid other forms of service. The Niagarr plant was a pioneer In this department of human enterprise. There are dozens of others, however, in the United Stabs, the majority of them on the Pacific coast. In Italy, Sweden and along the Rhone, v lu France, this practice has been followed successfully. But iii no country on lls side of the Atlantic, apparently, ha* so much been accomplished as in Switzer land. One of the most striking txlilbl s nt the Exposition Is a chart of the Alps, showing the position and extent of tr.e different electric transmission lints in that region. Fifleen of these leveal a conspicuous ramification ar.d mileage, ar.d there ore at least 60 more on the m p. Switzerland abounds in majestic seen ry. picturesque costumes and splendid-dat le , she has taught the world something about liberty and watchmaking; but she is now becoming famous for the utilization of electricity and ihe production of electrical machinery and appliances Mention of power transm sslon naturally recalls Mr. Tesla. Francis- E. Drake, the commissioner who is looking after Am il can electrical interests, says that -'lr. Tesla Ims talked about exhibiti ig his . !>- paratus here, and up to the ciose of ihe year Mr. Drake "expected thnt he would Subsequently, however, the invent -r e’e elded that it would betray his lb.e of ex periment and interfere with hi* work oo far, it he carried out his original purpose. He Is not directly represented, the e ore, at the Exposition. The relation between copper ar.d i lec trfclty Is peculiarly close. The lormer Is the best available conductor for tie l_t ter, and the tremendous developmnt of trolly, lighting and other electrical in dustries of late years has created a cor responding demand for metal for tra. >e mlss'.on purposes and for constructing certain parts of dynamos and motors. On the other hand, electricity has been able to facilitate in a wonderful manner th? production of copper. At the pre ent time America produces much moie than half of the world’s supply of copper; and probably two-thirds of ihe output of the United Slates, the contributions of A.i zona and Montana, are separated from ihe associated Impurities by electi olysis. This process has greatly cheap ned the metal and elarged ihe product. A line lot of electrolytic copper iroin Arizo na is shown in the Mines and Metallurgy building here. Aluminum Exhibit. The same general means are employed the world over in the production of alum inum. The Pittsburg Reduction Com pany, which has a monopoly of the busi ness in the United Slates, has specimens on exhibition here. The accidental discov ery in America of u cheap way to make calcium carbide, and hence acetylene, -cre ated a profound sensation about five years ago. The chemical combination of the constituents, lime and coke, is effected by means of an electrical furnace, in which a particularly high temperature can be obtained. At the present time the indus try is carried on at only a few places, but the output is rapidly increasing. A number of huge cylinders of carbide—all, apparently, of European production—may be seen at the exposition. Still another distinctively American In vention, belonging to the last decade, is Mr. Edison's cinematograph. It has been Imitated by his fellow countrymen and by foreigners, and figures before the world under a number of aliases. Its chief use at present is for popular enter tainment, although it has also been em ployed in schools of surgery to Illustrate difficult operations. A large part of Mr, Edison's space here is devoted to the lat est form of his cinematograph and to his phonograph. The West Orange genius has hoped that It might be practicable with these two devices to reproduce In country towns the performance* of grand opera in New York. Whether or not that dream is ever realized, the phonograph has certainly Improved steadily in its ability to reproduce the characteristic qualities of orchestral sounds. "Muto sropes” and phonographs abound In Paris on the outskirts of the exposition. In electric lightning little progress can he reported. Tho Idea of putting an arc Inside of a double globe, to check com bustion and prolong the life of the car bons, is almost the only important gain made in that form of light, although bet ter carbons are made to-day than ttn years ago. The filaments of the incan descent lamp are also far superior to those of a few years ago. The applica tion of the Incandescent principle to a rod of magnesia was attempted by a Ger man chemist, Nernst, not long ago, and it*was announced that a number of his lamps would he shown at the exposition. As yet they have not put In an appear ance, but there is little room for doubt about their doing so In the near future. It is reported that they will occupy an espeolully honorable position in the Ger man section. Deutschland makes a mag nlflcent showing in Ihe department of electricity here. She is America's chief competitor Just now. For several yeara Mr. Tesla, McFarlsne Moore and other inventors have sought to produce a light that ahould waste no energy In the form of heat. As yet this system hes not been put on a eommer. cial basis. But tn the Palace of Optics here there Is a remarkable collection of Gelsaler and vacuum tubes, to illustrate cold electric light. They are not kept in a state of excitation for any considerable period of time, but it is doubtful if so many of these tubes were ever seen to gether before. Weak Point of Accumulators. Several types of storage battery are ex hibited- Practically all are of European manufacture. The "chloride cell," well known In America, la among them, how ever. In light and power stations, where SUSMiER COMFORTS. tAu r nings in summer will h\m add more than tongue can tell to your comfort. Ask Dixie Mosquito Frames —P\ • >... iij,. ||ffß Any grade of nets can used. This is the best thing - Straw Matting on your floor will make you feel cool. A nice Hammock for your sweetheart and yourself is nice. Carpets taken up and cleaned. ffSk LINDSAr&rimAN i there are gr at fluctuations in the ieroarid for current dur.ug the tw nty-four h.urs accumulators have • f late been exten sively employed to equa ize the "load" on the dynamos and to maintain a uniform su. ply. So 1 ng as they remain s at on ary, as they do when p rfo m;ng such work, accumulators afford high y sa fac tory results. But for opera.mg v,hides they are not so well ada. t and A Hgh>er a: and more durable cell is mad - to-day, for the same charge, tnan could be had a t w yea-s ago hut ’ho de. i t is all 1 lia ble to injury when il is Jolt'd about. It is no longer u ed for street car trac'd m, ther, foie. T e development of the auto mobile craze, however, opens a npw field of usefulness to ihe accumula or, ad thus far la as met the le.ureunns of the ser Ice fairly well. Lamps, switches, telephones. Insula tors. induction cells and an endless va riety of.other smull objects are shown in the gall ry of the Electricity hul and irg. Hire, for Instarce. one ae s the X ray apparatus, which is no less useful to tile surgeon because Rontgen's die covery was an accident than if it had been the fruit of and liberate lnves igatlon. A case c mailing a number of Lord K 1- vln’s measuring Instruments is an ob ject of much interest to those who are familiar with his contributions to electri cal scltncee. The General Electric jind Ihe Thomson- Houston companies aro among the few American exhibitors who have s cured space on the main flo r The o her nota ble features of the i-h w downs airs are colossal eh ctrlc crams, one shaped like the lower half of a capital H. ad the other Ike a T. These are capabe of picking up trifles of twenty-five tons and moving tli’m about at the rate of fifty f lac inuto The Hist o he two c me* from Get maty, and bears th” nkme of Call Flohr; the other Is French, and is exhibited by Jules le Blanc. About half of the current which it is possible for the big generators to develop when they are all a-aolng will be expend ed in furnishing light. But most of the rest will run a large number of printing pressrs, inclin'd plane elevators, looms, mac'hine tools and other mechanical de vices which the exhibitors want to show in motion. At present only a small amount of machinery is being driven, but event ually thie will be greatly ineroas and. Th dynamos then wl 1 be able to supply the requisite rower. They are not ready to do so now. Each machine that is to be operated by obc rkl y has Its own little motor, and wires reme in conduits under the floor to the rjght spot from the dis tant generators. The machinery which will enjoy this service is scattered through a number rf bu Id n;s and represents a variety of Industries. Durl g the last year or two a good deal has b<en heard a I out a device, Invented by Szezo anlk, rn Austrian cr B'hemiau, which was to serv • the eye as the, ieie phone doe* 'he ear. It was calle t the t'lec tres o, e. or he f. rnseher, ad was sain to present to tho vision a perfect picture 'fad stant scene, e en though the latter included moving objects and a variety of c lor. It r as announc'd that this nr I cle would prove one of the sensations of the exp atb n. D Mgnt war h as fat rd to discover the te'e-irosco e on the Champs de Mars up to th • prevent t me. CHINA'S EMPRESS. An Estimate by Foreign Writers of the Real Ruler of the Crlestall Empire. From the New York Tribune. . The German biographer Herr von Brandt, an acknowledged authority on Chinese affairs, and tho French and Ital ians who have writ en ' bout the Etnprfj Dowager pf the Celestrlal Empire, soon after her recent equp d'etat, which brought her back to power for tbs third time in the lapse of thirty-seven yeara, do not agree with the symbolical mean ing of her name She is called Tse Hsl, or Teen Chi. or Hst Tel. as Jn the a! eg ed imperial m'seeg" received yest r.lay by cable from the Shanghai correspondent of the London Daly E pre/s. But whvt do s that irean In the Chinese language, which usually 1 nds a sped tic signifi cance to proper names? Dr. vort Brandt says that the Empress Tse Hal's name means "Happiness In Maternal Love," while other blrgraphais well versed In Chinese literstur, pretend that it m ans "Sweet Joy." But no matter Which la correct of the etymo ogical and eyiiony moua explanation given by the Deutsche Rundechau or by the French and Itblian paters a* to the symbolical and poetical meaning of the Epiprtss’s nimt, the fact Is that, up io the prfsent day, she has shown that she is a very able and prac tical stateewoman. Emferor Chltn Foung. who died In 1861, left one son. born In 1857. and-two em presses, both bis legUltiiste spouses, though ol different title*. His first wife having preceded him to the grave, he had' married another one, who received the name of Tsi An (Sweet Tranquility). This one having torne no chddten, tte Emper or resolved to give tlie rank of second empress to n ccncublt e who had already presented him with a s n She was nam ed Tsi n Chi. and assumed t tie title of E' pcs of the Wai. wid e Tsi An was called Empress of he East. In China the East is lie and as I e ug the place of honor and the West as the se o'.ui place. There fore h re are within the palace inelcsura two separate buildings, orte eastward, the other weuward The tiisi one had natur ally been fit signaled for the ree dence of tb fir I It ate wife of Chlen Foung; the Eimpr as Tat An who dlei In 1881. while ti second one. conrldered as be -1 inferior I,a I b>en reserved to hla concubine, Tson Chi, who Is now. for the ti lrd t me, Emprise of Chi a. On his death. Aug. 21, 1861, al Jehoi. where he had tied before the Invasion of European troops, who had even occupied and racked hla summer palace ni Pekin, Emperor Chien Foung left on Infant son. who was later Emperor Tung Shi, and 'wo empresaea—the one who was the mother of the young Emperor and the Oriental Tel An, who had no children. Three of his brothers, sons of Emperor Tao Kuang, survived him. What occurred at Jehoi Just before the death of Chien Foung Is not known exactly. Still. It 1 probable that the Emperor, worn out by fatiguo and cares, as Is thought by Dr. von Brandt, finally agreed to sign an edict instituting n Regency Council com posed of men radically hostile to foreign ers, and especially to Prince Kung, and who was under suspicion, since ne had concluded peace with the English and French without having previously secured the permission of his Imperial brother, or at least of his councillors of the Tsung-ll- Yamen. The Regency Council was dissolved in November. 1.861, I>.\ a coup d'etat, concert ed between tho Western Empress and Prince Kung, who became practically the governing power in Chino. The influence of the Empress Tsen Chi was prevailing. She was the master spirit of the new Re gency. composed of herself, Empreas Tss .An and Prince Kung. Those years of the Regency were very fortunate ones for China and the German biographer says that all those who approached the mother Empress were pleased to acknowledge her great aptitude for business, her working capacities nnd the brood ideas she enter tain!.!. This appreciation seems not to tie in accord wlih the ultra-conservative Chinese ideas actually displayed by tha Empress Dowager. Anyhow, she was not guilty of the crimes attributed to her by unscrupulous enemies, after the death of her son. Tung Shi. On Feb. 23, 1874, he was proclaimed of age. the Regency was at an end, and ha governed, nominally, in the place of hie mother nnd Prince Kung. But he died one year later without leaving any nat ural or adopted heirs Then, apropo* of that death, and of that of the young widow. Empress Alute, us well as apropos of the demise of Marquis Tseng and Princo Selim, the most Injurious rumors were cir culated in regard to the Empress mothor, Tsen Chi.* It was Intimated that all these person? had been helped considerably In th* work of dying. But that was infam ous calumny, says Dr. von Brandt, who explains that Alute. like many Chinese widows, did not want to survive her hus and; that the Marquis Tseng died of typhoid fever, and Prince Seiun died as the result of intemperate living. The heir to the throne waa a eon of thai Prince Seiun. whom the mother Em press caused to be procla'med under the name of Kuang Su. und the regency re mained composed as It was formerly. But in 1884 Tsen Chi caused the deposition of her co-regent. Prince Kung, under Ih# pretext that he was lazy and Incapable, Inasmuch as he was largely r/spons'b'e for the conflict heiween France end Chin* about Tonquln. a depute In which Chin* was worsted. In 1881 the ag and O denial Empress died, and the Empress mother war the only regent until 1889, when Em peror Kuang Su was proclaimed. She re fused to participate in any way lr* the government, and went to her country res idence. The reformers, and r.o ably Ken Yu We!, took advantage of the mental weak I-.'* | of the young Emperor, to whom Kan Yu W'l had been n. p lived as pri vate counsellor, and they caus'd the pub lication of all those famous edicts cf re form, which have awakened the, blind rage of the reactionary party in Chltn. The moment was not well chosen to sue cei<S, tor II coincided with the war with Japan. At any rote, the ro> played then by the Empreas 1 not exactly known, al though she was generally suspccifri by the reformers of using her Influence against them. They planned to seize her and Tung Tat, whom she had caused to he ernMnted vice, roy of the province of Chth-Lt and om jnander of the Northern army, but Tsen Cht was quicker than 'he rcfo m*rL While they thought she wne stl t In her country residence she arrived at I’ektrg and seized the. reins of power, being itup ported, as she had been in lta, by the sympathies of eminent ultra-conservative statesmen and by the Indifference of the people In regard to the reforms. Xhlg oc curred on Sept. 22, 7