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Show THE BEE I! our nag. or tfie exports in reoruary carried In American bottoms only $1.- 029,066 were to Europe and Asia, and the Imports so carried from those continents were valued at $4,339,184. The European and Asiatic countries with whom the largest trade was carried on Portsmouth. under the American flag are France, As a means of signaling, the kite Is United Kingdom, China and Britthe firmly believed, not only by naval offi ish East Indies and Japan." cers, but those of the army, to he when fraught with great Importance Our waters are full of foreign craft It Is, cf the future is considered. course, xery much easier for a signal that find It to their advantage to bring to he seen that Is elevated to a eon In nil sorts of wares to our shores slderahle height than one which may and take back such articles as their float at the top of the mainmast, or he trade demands. The trade with Cuba Of waved from the summit of a hill. Add has been something enormous. Is cut off. this In 1892. largely to these fact this latest development, course, nnd were Cuban wire valued a as exports Imports carrier, kite the telephone In 1896, the and the Indications of a limitless fu at nearly $100,000,000. trade had dropped off about ture are plain. years business shows a Experiments with kites at Governor's still present further reduction. This Cuban Island In New York harbor have con was done with American trade cluslvely proven that It Is possible to vessels. Oflargely course, everything Amersend up a camera from Inside the lines now barred, recourse must of one army the camera being at- ican being to had be foreign handling for whattached to a kite and take an accurate ever we may receive from Cuba during photograph of the Intrenchments or po- the continuance of the war. sition of the enemy thereby, and to learn In fairly accurate fashion of their The best authorities are of the opinOn several occasions this number. If Spain undertakes to sift year In New York photographs have ion that Intended for the American out goods been taken of parades In this fashion, and with the very best possible re- - trade, from the great bulk of commer-- g products, she will find that she tilts. To suggest that this could be f done fifteen months ago would have has a greater Job than she bargained There Is lust as for. provoked derision. much reason for not regarding the Domestic trade, that Is, the coast telephonic kite flying experiment with she cannot possibly Interfere credulity as there would have been for trade, In with. the event of any attempt to decrying the other. The results of the do so, all articles can be put upon the English experiment, even though they hive just become known, have already railways. In January, 1898, merchancreated no little talk In United States dise actually handled by railroad cars and land vehicles amounted to nearly naval circles. $6,000,000. The transportation by water was something over $5,000,-00PRIVATEERING. The shipments were made by the If Spain, in her puny wrath, permits land to Mexico and by way of ' Pacific railroad. Canadian that unbusinesslike and unjust form of warfare known as privateering, the It woult. be the work of a very consensus of opinion among the powers is that she will get altogether the short time In case privateering became annoying to transfer to foreign shipworst of the bargain. ping whatever goods Americans desired to handle. It i3, therefore, easy A first-claprivateering equipment to see that Spain is reckoning withis rather an expensive affair in the first out her host, and in the event of her beplace, and there are so many risks to be run and such danger of capture and coming particularly insistent or saucy with foreign vessel, demolition that the chances are as and interfering be quite likely to receive a about fifty to one that the offender she would to say the least would be brought up with a round turn, rebuke that would, a impression. stripped of the munitions and ensigns convey lasting of warfare and popped into prison, How She Did It. there to ruminate on the vicissitudes of My wife got me into an awfnl luman affairs and the changes that lave taken place since the days when scrape this moaning.' How? She'd Captain K!id made his record and been using my razor to sharpen a lead New York Journal. pencil. when thousands of bold and adventurous spirits manned ships, cracked skulls, cut off heads, meanwhile lustily SHOULD READ THE PAPERS. shouting the old song, Full many a to Sell Takes Adear, a pirate bold, Ive sailed the Span- Small Boy with Eggs vantage of Ignorance. ish main. From the Kennebec (Me.) Journal: has become a science, wnai useq to be a schoolboy sport ha now become a subject of study by professional n iet and It seems quite likely that before long even greater results will be dthan has ever been the case at e oh-taln- Photographs Can lie Taken of an Enemys Works While the Kite is Suspended. Communication from war snip to warship will soon be as easy as carrying on a conversation between two military posts on land, and by the same electrical means, the telephone. The English naval authorities have Just tested with great success a sug- attached to a telephone, and ns soon aa the task wan completed the two ships were In perfect communication. The kite remained suspended, secured by two lines, for more than four hours, during which the communication he- tween the Daring and the Dauntless w unlnferrunfed. gested novelty In the way of communiThe achievement Is only evidence or cation at sea which promises to render obsolete the present methods it what electricians of the navy, of both England and the United States, have signaling. held to be possible. They have Commander It. G. 0. Tupper of the long declared that there was no reason wny Royal Navy experimented with a kite communication of this sort should not The kite used was of the be established between telephone. ships a few regulation sort, except that It was mi- hundred feet apart, If the weather were nus a tail. It was six feet long and all pleasant. Of course. In a gale three feet wide at the broadest point. at It would he Jm" eleable. one-hal- f; te 0. ss boy in a Kennebao town recently took a mean advantage a man who did not read the pasuccessfully carry out his nefarious en- of He will need not only a pers. Going into a store with a basterprise. small arsenal at his belt, but a certified ket of eggs for sale, he Inquired the bill of lading to give him information price and was told they were 16 cents as to the articles he seeks, and wheth- a dozen. Leaving his eggs, he proer they are American or belonging to ceeded to another store, whose proprietor evidently had not heard of the resome other tribe or nation. duction in price, and he told the boy Of the enormous amount of foreign eggs were 20 cents a dozen. The boy d to the goods brought to this country but a promptly proceeded mere trifle comes in American bottoms. store, took the eggs he had brought dozen In January, out of a and Invested 16 cents in anotherstore-aFor example: total value of imports of $50,825,721, and sold the lot to the second ' 20 cents. American bottoms carried only $8,711,-59and out of export.1 valued at A Definition. only $5,155,544 in value were Tlllie (who has been reading dime taken out under the American flag. The figures for February tell the same nove) Mame, what s de meaning of story, for out of a total importation Mame It's de sassiety word fer of $53,113,736, American ships brought down on folks de same as de looKin' only $9,270,058, and of exportations of $92,317,202. only $4,442,327 was under ostrich eyes de smaller birds Truth. A A Spanish privateer must be extremely well posted in these days to OF KITES BETWEEN SHIPS. TELEPHONING BY MEANS In place of the tail the kite carried two lines, one of which was retained on board the Daring, the instructional torpedo boat destroyer, from which the With experiments were conducted. the wind between the two lines referred to it was found that the kite ,was so easily managed that it was no trick at all to drop letters or even a hawser into another ship, and in this way establish communication. . , ' . t '. l ' t' ! Following this experiment came one 'with a wire. The end of the wire which the kite bore away from the hip was dropped upon the deck of H. M. S. Dauntless, where it was secured by the electrician of the ship and attached to a telephone apparatus in The other end, which had 'waiting. ram a.1 n pH aboard the Darina: vu aJcn Dauntless had another valuable result. It showed that it is possible to arrange for a new system of signals from one ship to another that would be greatly superior to any flag system which could be conceived. If the telephone wire can be arranged in this manner, there is no reason why telecan not be graphic communication In this made in a similar fashion. case an operator aboard the flagship could carry on a conversation with his aboard one of the fleet without difficulty. The admirals orders could be easily transmitted from time to time, and often avoid what is now considered necessaryboat service. It might be thought that the flying of a kite under these circumstances would be a matter of extreme difficulty, but kita flvinar under the latest methods fellow-operat- j ' or flrst-nam- t 3, $106,-753,52- 4, I I 1 ; |