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Tube Holding Tesla New Artificial Le,t

for illumination this brings a
advantage of the tube. 1t hot You
touch the glass after the light turned
and find it cool when first lighted An electric bulb
in like is hot enough to scorch to mention giving
headaches to the ucless morals who happen sit d
rectly underneath beside it.
The tubes be attached to the electric light fixtures
current Or rather they made glow with it, but
the process is costly That thing
the wise doubtful in the beginning few of them
thought Tesla might probably perfect his light
but firm in the belief that would costly
for commercial
Teslas dynamo has changed all that.
signed insure that several important in
New York city will be equipped with the light.
There can be doubt that it will rapidly supplant
other methods Of Illumination moneyed
build and operate high frequency current stations The
first cost of wires tubes etc. about the for
incandescen lighting, but the tubes the
globes carbon pencils the operation will
be much less.
When It there is simply comparison
possible. 1t is just having day entyfour
hours long Everywhere artificial day
light equals the real thing.
Witness this picture of the inventors hand The pho
tograph for made midnight in his laboratory
with tWo-secoEd exposure 1t not only taken, but
printed by the artificial daylight yet viii be that
shows clearly the lines of the palm and the texture of
cuff and sleeve.
proper wires. dynsmos, and with money
good thing when they it, without artificial
daylight it is very likely that in of twelve
months there will be practically night in
siderable city of the world.
CHAUNCEY MONTGOMERY McGOVERN.
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The Fortune of Wor.'

A very plain. apt and excellent illustra-
ton Of the popular expression. The for
tune of war" is the singular fact that Ma =
military Governor of Santiago province.
manding officer.
This strange state of affairs is explained
thuswise:
Just a little more than two years ago
General Wood was surgeon of the Fifth
Regular Infantry, with the rank of cap
tain, and after he had left the service to
practice medicine in civil life at Washing
ton he was remembered fOndly by the en-
tire regiment as an officer who was fond
of athletics, especially football and wrest-
ling.
At the opening of the late war he was
appointed colonel of the Rough Riders,
and for gallant and efficient services rem
dered he earned his present rank and ap-
pointment.
During the entire war the Fifth was the
only regular infantry regiment that did
not have a chance to see service, but after
the protocol had been signed and the
fighting troops were being sent home the
Fifth was detailed to do guard duty at
Santiago under General Wood.
So it now happens that General Wood S
old colonel is under his command as are
also other officers who used to rank him
when ne was only a captain.
That is the way the world moves up and
down.
Verify. there is much truth in the saying
that He who takes your orders to-day
may be your commander tomorrow"
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corn that he often finds impossible to
sell?" The conclusion of this expert is
that sooner or later the United States
must fall in line with the new European
legislation.
France country utterly without petro-
leum and importing coal enormously sees
nothing less than her agricultural saliva
tion in the new use of alcohol. For wears
they have been seeking in vain for the
national light and the national fuel E"
For years, on the other hand the farm
ers have been struggling sullenly against
the internal revenue avs From beet
root. from potatoes and from divers other
products they have sought to gain profit
which they think ought to be theirs All
France may be compared to a great
moonshine whisky district, watched at
immense expense, where frauds and un-
derstandings take the place of violent re-
sstance of authority. The French farmer
knows all about alcohol. He wants to be
his own distiller. He wants to make a
double profit on his products, to have
winter work for his sons his daughters
and his hired help. For long years the
result has been a gradual letting down
OF barriers against alcoholic drinks in
France, until to-day in Paris you can
have a satisfying slug of absinthe for Q
cents.
Naturally the secretary general of
the Association Pour PEmploi In
dustriel de rAlcool is proud Of
his mission. To at once satisfy
the farmers and the distillers and give to
France her long-sought national light and
fuel-all in removing a great stumbling
block Of morality and hygiene-is a task
to be proud of. Let Frenchmen make
alcohol as they never made it BEFORE" M
Arachequesne has cried to the breathless-
ly interested Chamber Of Deputies; 'Iet
France distill a hundred liters where she
distills one to-day-but not to drink The
time has come. France will have alcohol
to burn"
One of the chief factors in the new use
of alcohol-and there are many-will I'M
doubtedly turn out to be the carburant of
NJ Dusart. In saying this am not quot
ing NJ. Arachequesne, who in his delicate
official capacity is not likely to favor one
invention over another. AS everybody
knows. alcohol when burning disengages
heat rather than light.
1t burns dull blue The carburant is
nothing less than a substance which.
when mixed with it, induces alcohol to
give out light of great intensity and
beauty At the same time 1t has the
precious quality of obviating every dan
ger of explosion. 1t is this latter virtue
that is to make carburated alcohol safe,
odorless, clean, economical and energetic
fuel and motive power substance. What
the Dusart carburant is nobody knows
NJ Dusart is at present keeping the Sc
cret All that can be said at present is
that when the carburant is added to the
ordinary industrial or methylated alcohol
II changes its color, which in France is
green. to a. dark yellow. light sediment
is rapidly precipitated, leaving a limpid
yellow mixture that is easily decanted.
This sediment is imagined at present to
be nothing more than a disengaging of
the artificial coloring matter which the
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Standing Hrmies Of the World


The Cars proposal TO check the In
crease Of armaments will probably die as
a mere pious intention. 1t was not with
out subfiavor Of irony, proceeding as it
did from monarch who not only has
by far the largest army in the world. but
who was also busy increasing his navy
when he made his famous proposal
But, though IT IS hard to believe that
the millennium is to be brough about by
n Car or that the reign of universal peace
will be founded by the master Of the larg-
est number of legions on earth, we are all
bound to recognize the fact that the Eu-
ropean nations spend a terrible proportion
of their energies and their resources in
preparations for war. Though it may be
an eXaggeration TO say that Europe is one
vast camp. there are something like four
millions Of its male inhabitants constantly
under arms as soldiers or sailors even in
time of peace, and when It is borne in
mind that all these have to be maintained
in non-productive work and supplied with
the mcst costly appliances, some idea may
be formed Of the gigantic waste. The fol-
lowing tables, compiled by st. Pauls. will
enable one to compare the armaments of
the leading nations:
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THE SAN NAJEo HUNT.
CONTINUED from page 10

when they do 1t will be inaugurated
with hunt-ball, with all the glory of
the scarlet coats to make 1t memora BILE.
But just now their definite plans go no
further than the erection of kennels for
the pack and comfortable quarters. for
Jerry and his assistants.
AT present the pack is kenneled at
Mr. HObart's farm" as he calls it,
They are quartered in a low shed some
two hundred feet long, divided into
three compartments, each with it's
separate yard. There jerry tends
them and keeps them in a condition
that justifies his pride in them. Each
one knows and answers to its name.
AS he enters the yard they come bound
Ing about him, but at his Bench up,
there, bench up" they line UP under
the shed and stay there watching him
attentively. One by one they come out
and go back as he calls them by name.
Napier, Chieftain, Graceful, Romulus.
Rival and SO through the slxty-odd
dogs down to little Rags, the terrier.
This Rags IS an English wire haired
foXterrier, such as belongs in every
pack Of hounds. His Office and pleas
ure 1t is to be in at the finish and. if
Master Reynard seeks his hole. to go
down after him and worry him out Of
course at San Mateo they do not chase
a real fox, but only an aniseed bag
or rather the trail of scent left by
dragging a sponge saturated with a
mixture Of valerian and castor oil. But
little Rags does not know that. and
every Saturday he starts bravely out,
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16
Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo


London Truth exposed him. When he
was examined in the Bow street Court his
total stealings were estimated at $3.50 900.
This included 100000 from Miss Mary
Phillmore of London, and $45 900 from
the Hon. William French of Ireland.
His method was simple. He represent
ed that he had taken out valuable patents
and invited investors to assist him in de-
veloping them. On his trial it was shown
that for years he had been taking out
provisional projections on all kinds of
absurd inventions. Floating anchors
sunshades. fog horns and hot air motors
for obtaining power from the heat con-
tanned in waste steam were some of his
alleged patents.
He was so plausible in his methods and
promises that his victims were MANY.
When his swindling was discovered ha
fed on his yacht, intending to land ar
Portugal. On his way he stopped al
Havre to sell 300 tons of surplus coal. He
was arrested there, returned to England
convicted and sentenced to the term OF
imprisonment which he has lust con-
cluded.
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There are fewer marriages in propor-
ton to population than formerly: fani-
lies are smaller; they are less coherent.
they are less lasting In England The
marriage rate fell from 17.2 per cent in
1851 to l5.2 per cent in 1881, and from 1872
to 1888 the ages of men and women who
married rose respectively from 25.6 ana
242 to 1858 and PAT. The rise in the n,Irn-
per Der OF OF divorces lS6O-S5, was universal. In
1871 England and Wales show one di1,orca
to lO2O.4 marriages; in 1873, one in 4SO 81
FROM 1867 to 1856 divorces in the United
States increased 157 per cent. while the
population increased 60 per cent
one OF the causes of change is tho
Whole modern movement of liberation
OF subjects from sovereigns, slaves from
masters, wives from husbands and chill
dren from parents. Another is the disan
pearance of the ecclesiastical view Of
marriage. "
A more special cause has been the
growth OF large cities, which compIeteIS
alter the environment of the Organism
Men become less dependent on women
for their home needs, and women have
resources and interests which the simnle
of Ethics. io-A
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Houses are to be heated by alcohol and
engines are to be driven by alcohol AS
for alcohol lighting it is already an ac-
complished fact. The Emperor of Ger
many has had the palace at Potsdam and
the Thiergarten at Berlin supplied with
incandesceat alcohol lamps while the new
French President, Loubet is lighting up
the courtyard Of the Elysee with these
same extraordinary novelties of the hour.
Both the agricultural and industrial
worlds are in excitement Chambers of
Commerce and Farmers clubs are hear
ing lectures on the new discoveries.
Never, perhaps, has such important fs-
cal legislation been accomplished in both
France and Germany in so short a time
taking off the last tax and obstruction
as that - almost accomplished - which
is taking off the last tax and obstruction
from the free manufacture and sale of
industrial or denaturiZed alcohols. The
distiller is at last to work for the good of
humanity. His friend, the farmer, is at
last to get share of the good things of
progress.
The significance of this new movement
to the world at large is concealed, so to
speak, in the peculiar legislation which
Is everywhere applied to alcohol. All the
discoveries and inventions imaginable
must lie helpless until the iron heel of
the internal revenue tax is removed from
this peculiar product. Alcohol is not dear
in itself. NJ. G.. Arachequesne. secretary
general of the new Association pour
TEmploi Industriel de lAlcool-the great
league of distillers which in France is
engineering the affair-has just been tell
ing me that a few years ago in Cuba he
made alcohol out of refuse molasses at
an expense of less than francs the 10C
liters. AS a liter is considerably more
than a quart, this would amount to 61;
cents a gallon. 1t was only done as an
experiment, partly to find out what to do
with the waste molasses. The alcohol
could not be exported in sufficient guam
titles to other countries because of the
taxes. "It is the same in louisiana" said
NJ. Arachequesne, where the refuse mo-
lasses is dumped into the sea. And you
can imagine something of the condition
of France and Germany-two countries
which have no petroleum Of their own
by casting glance at the dilemma OF
the beet sugar agriculturists of Cali
fornia, Nebraska and Utah, forced to
burn their waste molasses, at an actual
expense There is no other way to get
rid of a superhuity, which cannot be sim
ply thrown away for fear of creating a
nuisance. In all those States" continued
NJ Arachequesne, where they have
tried beet sugar raising, successfully OF
unsuccessfully, California, Kansas. Min
nesota Nebraska, Utah, Colorado and
Virginia, it is a hardship to the farmer
that he is not allowed to distill industrial
alcohol from this waste material. But II
this is hardship, how much greater, ir
view of these new inventions and discov.
cries, must be the lot of the American
farmer with millions of bushels of Indian
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16
Special to The Sunday Call.

7NH promise made by Nikola Tesla to the world
years ago that he would give it
of lighting its homes its offices and its streets
night time by artificial daylight" has been fulfilled
The invention has been entirely completed for
several weeks. day ago the authoritative an
made that have already been
signed with several New York business houses to equip
their business places with the light at The
promoters of the which is pushing the new IN
venOn certain of its practical utility that
they predict that it supplant the lamp.
Vacuum tube lighting by high frequency currents is
what Tesla himself calls it. The though clumsy,
is sufficiently descriptive The parts
duced by special dynamo, of Teslas invention. The
but of full ether The passage OF this
special the ether in motion, corning light
The light differs from illumination that it
has particular The whole tube sheds
radiance like daylight all around
The tubes Of sealed tight both ends. A
wire is made end there inside.
The tubes in about foot long. For
special purposes studio illumination. light
ing and they be made any up yard
The glory and the beauty of them is that their light
all the place to be illumned-s strong in
the of directly under the tube Hence
the truth of its artificial daylight lighted tube
in has exactly the effect of daylight flooding the
windows Notwithstanding the tube itself trying
to the eyes You may look steadily it, with evil
effects whatever.
incandescent lighting 81 per cur
rent to making the fament hot leaving but per
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16

ONDON, April 7.-Charles Hills
Wells 1.-The man who broke the
bank at Monte Carlo" one of the
most accomplished swinders in the
A--< world, was released from Portland
Convict Prison in England last
week. He was sentenced in 1893 to seven
years penal servitude for obtaining $780,
600 on false pretenses.
Eight years ago the whole world was
talking and singing songs about the luck
of 1.-The Man Who Broke the Bank of
Monte Carlo
Wells phenomenal winning began IN
1891. In July of that year he is said to
have won 100000, and in the following
November $40 600 more. On one night in
November he broke the bank five times
and won $4,000. Casino frequenters gave
him the name of "Bonne- Chance" Wells.
Good Luck Wells that means
Wells claimed to have an infallible sys-
tenn. To operate with it capital of $30,-
600 was required. Its chief point was to
catch runs or ''series" and then bet the
minimum stakes of 5000 francs, or the
maximum stakes of $4,000 francs. With
luck against him he bet the minimum
stakes. In following this system on one
occasion he took all the 100 and all the 1000
franc bank notes supplied to the trente ct
quarante table, and the croupiers had to
pay one deal in small notes and gold
pieces until the cashier had brought an
other $40 coo to the table.
He insured himself against the bank S
odd chance or "refait" by setting aside
special fund of 1 per cent on his stakes.
This cost him $4,000 a day.
Wells lived in London, and every day
he sent his winnings to his Dondon bank
ers Whenever he encountered period
of i'll luck he went home to England for
season.
At play he was quick and cool. Win
ming or losing, he never lost his head.
At the height of his success he bought
a yacht of 1000 tons-the Palais Royal
and fitted it out most luxuriously. Its ap-
pointments were superb. Four head
stewards attended to the comforts of the
gamblers guests.
All the time that Wells was winning at
play he was engaged in gigantic swind-
ling operations. Finally Labouchere Of
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No. OF In No. OF
habitants 10 diers TO
Each Soldier. Inha bita

These figures are appalling for the Con-
tinental nations, especially for France
and Germany, both Of which suffer ter
ribly in consequence of the memories OF
lS7O-T The late Lord Randolph Church
III once put the cost of this blood tax
forcibly:
"Out Of the life OF every German, every
Frenchman, every Italian, every Austrian
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sure that this time at last he viii find
Mr.. Fox and hale him forth to his
Mell-merited fate.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16

and every Russian the respective govern
ments of those countries take three years
for compulsory military service"
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~ ARIS, April 1O.-Alcohol is about
20 supersede petroleum. not only in
- France. but in all Europe. 1t is
not only to supersede petroleum,
but it promises to take the place
of coal itself
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-16

A still more convincing method OF esti-
mating the burden of military service In
the various countries will be found in the
following table:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
MORRISTOWN VIEWS.

Mrs Gannett OF Cambridge. is the guest OF
Frank Turnbull OF Columbia Road
Mrs Julius Catlin. OF Fairholme spent last week
=, vbtte Plains with her daughter, Mrs. Trenor
L. Park =, ,,,.-uoos and choir fam
uv have gone TO Shelter Island. -
NJ NJ Alfred Rutgers Whitney and Miss Whitney
held The second Of their large tea parties ast Mon
day. H.. .eu.A ,,as.ardav for T,on-
don 10 spend the summer abroad L..
Mrs Arthur Curtis James named ner husoano .
rew Yacht the Aloha in Brooklyn last Wednesoay.
Norristown is 10 have a hotel which Will accom-
MEDIATE three hundred guests; II. H..
Frederic Wood OF Macculloch-ave.. sailed last
week for Europe TO spend the summer.
Mrs Clark s Brown and the Misses Brown are
spending the summer in Italy -
Miss Poor and Miss waller attehoeu coniAne"S"
ment at Harvard last week -, ,-,..u
q W Atkinson gave musical at Mrs Grinn n,
Williss last Thursday. he was asslsteu ny "''"
Hoffman OF New-York. ,, -. ,r.,,--
Mrs Herman Behr gave a musical last iH.,s
day Mr. Kapp, Mrs. Berthe-Thomasson ana ME-
NJ and Mrs Thomas w Caldwell will start on
their Yacht FOR a cruise next Saturday. Mrs An
derson widow OF General ANDERSON VIII 0SS"W
their house for the summer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
DADY CALLS on SENATOR PLATT.
THE COLONEL DOES NOT LIKE THE ACTIONS
OF POSTMASTER WILSON AND
COLLECTOR MOORE


The Republican machine in Brooklyn acts
promptly Colonel Michael J. Dady. chairman OF
the Republican Executive Committee called at the
Office Of Senator Plat yesterday and. 1t Is said,
told him just what he thought OF Postmaster VIII
and Collector Moore on what he believes to
be their unnecessary opposition TO the local he-
publican organization The colonel was reticent
when he returned to Brokolyn. He will lay low
until Lieutenant Governor Woodruff. who VIII start
to-day the steamship 81. Louis from South
ampton. returns home. etgs in touch with the
Boss" looks r the ground, and sounds the
strength OF the opposition 10 the machine.
Andrew Jacobs, executive member OF the sixth
Ward Republican Association. In succession TO the
late Representative Dennis NJ Hurley, was 'run
down" at recent meeting of that body: NJ G.
Hunton has succeeded him. The delegates from the
ward TO the General Committee believe that he
has ignored them. and therefore decided to de-
pose him. He Is friend Of r. Ross Appleton
and In the deposition of Jacobs the friends OF
Appleton say that the local machine has taken
whack at him. Jacobs is a member Of the Union
League Club. and treasurer OF the Campaign
Committee in the Mayoralty fight OF 1888 He has
served two terms a member Of the state Com
mittee from the Id Congress District. His term
executive meber from the Sixth Ward does not
expire until the September official primaries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
TWO KILLED BY TRAINS.

Mrs. Mary PARROT. a Frenchwoman, whose home
was at No. Sc Ferry-st.. Woodhaven, was struck
and instantly killed yesterday afternoon by the
westbound train from Jamaica TO Brooklyn near
Union Course The woman was crossing Atlantic
ave. at Thlrd-st when the accident happened. and
her body was thrown twenty feet. When picked up
life extinct The train was In charge OF Conduc-
tor George Armstrong. Of WoOdhaven. with John
Waterman OF Jamaica. as engineer. Both were ar
rested. Coroner Ruoh removed the womans body
10 his morgue and Inquest will be held to-
morrow
Hampstead. Long Island. June civilian ioff-
man fifteen years old. who was employed on the
farm OF Thomas White. in Garden City, was struck
bv a train this afternoon. He was driving his en-
ployer's when they got on the railroad tracks
near the Hampstead crossing. The train from
Mineo!a approaching and the boy ran on the
track in an effort 10 save the cows He succeeded
IN getting the animals of the track but was struck
himself Both legs cut off. his skull was
fractured and he otherwise injured. He was
placed on the train and taken to the Nassau Hos
pital where he died.
Nothing is known about him beyond the fact
that he was an orphan whom Mr. White obtained
from an asylum. He is said 10 have brother
who Is ar engineer a hotel. but where Is not
known.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-24
TRAGEDY IN JERSEY CITY.
A JEALOUS ITALIAN KILLS HIS WIFE ON
THE STREET AND COMMITS SUICIDE.

Tomaso Diloneca, laborer, thrty-nve years osos
living in Frrst-st. Jersey City shot and killed nv
wife Margaret eighteen years old and then knisa
himself in Nnth-st. shortly after p m yss'sa6
dav jealousy and the fact that she mao reIuseo
10 return 10 him caused Diloneca TO commit '0s
decd .s.--t,, vra,t~
Mrs Diloneca who an exceedingly pretty
woman married the man who murdered hsr seven
months ago Three months ago she LETT MIN ana
went TO live with her father, in fourth-st. pc
cause OF his Jealousy She also spent consoeraoie
lime with her sister, Mrs Vittoria Coioroso, AT
Ninth and Henderson SITS. Severa! times curing tne
last week Diloneca seen in the vicinity OF tne
house and on Sunday he threatened 10 XIII MS WHO
II she did not return TO him. AZ, r,u.o..
Shortly after p. m. yesterday Mrs , Dn1ne,@
meeting her husband about half way up the block
He asked her TO return 10 him ano wheh she re-
1rsed drew revolver and fired shot al her,
hitting her in the left arm. She fed but fell AFTER
gong a short distance. and her husband, QUICKLY
6everfaking her fired three shots into her head as
abe law upon the sidewalk; ,.
9' Than he turned the revolver himself, and put
bullet behind his right ear. and fell dead beside