SANTO 



8EARCD l.li'.HT. 



Christian rvlu-i ->n. There are 450 foreign whiles 

 H> contract laborers from other 

 d*. The revenue collected from for. 

 141.919 German marks in 1WH 

 3 ' marks came from direct taxes, 8,857 

 marks from a tax on buildings, 94,005 marks 

 tan Import duties, and 1*.144 marl 



in, *. >f tin- ; ..ntributcd 



ft per \mericans9 



percent., ami other f. 1 |ercent. 



i :unorU in 1894 were valued at 

 jo marks, of which 912.231 mark 

 itiiimrtcd by (ierman. 388,055 marks |. v British, 

 ; marks l.y Aineri. an. ami 'J4.is? marks 

 by other houses. The exports amounted to 

 1J8&545 marks, of which th.- (iermans exported 

 1,905.093 and the British Tlu- 



e\p..rt consist of copra. coffee, and 



SB Crmtta 

 The system of government ami internal 



ated by the Ilerliu final act has 

 ;vc. The King has never been 

 recocni/'-'l l.y th.- Tiimua party, and the people 

 - own party pay no attention to the .-diets 

 toned in his name. The President of the Mu- 

 in.-ipality of Apia has neglected to pay him his 

 allowance, leaving him often without the neces- 

 saries of life. Xon- of tin- islanders will pa\ th- 

 noil tax of $1. and the revenue collected from 

 foreign traders has diminished and trade is 

 falling off because the natives under the lawless 

 conditions that prevail get out less and less 

 copra. Except on the German plantations, pro- 

 n has almost ceased. Anns and ammu- 

 nition were smuggled in for the rebels from New 

 Zealand. Tamasese and his allies attacked the 

 tribes belonging t<> the King's party, but before 

 November hostilities were at an end. The com- 

 mission appointed to investigate the land claims 

 of foreigners found that Q fiad legally 



secured titles to a large part of the best land", 

 but that many of the claims presented by Brit- 

 ish and Am n- invalid. 



BAHTO IH||\(,O. republic in the West 

 j> ing the eastern part of the i-!and 

 of llayti. The Congress, a single chamber <.f 22 

 members. an<l the President are elected indir.-.-tly 

 for four years. <J- n. t'lises Heureaux was re- 

 elected f,, r hi- thir.1 term in 1892. 



The treasury receipts in 1894 were $,' 

 929. of which $2,874,446 were derived from cus- 

 tom, ThOpubli i'ec. 81. 1894, amounted 



.1*05.085 sterling, $2,058,415 in gold and 

 $4.790,820 in currency. 



The imports in 1894 were valuwl at $2.898,- 

 65*. and the exports at $5,888,471. The princi- 

 pal exports are coffee, sugar, cacao, nun, tobacco, 

 mahogany, logwood, lancewood, hides, 

 and honey. The imports are cotton ,-loih. hard- 

 w>. crorkprr, breadstuffs, ami |,r..vi- 

 li|0omntu relations with France were broken 

 in 1K4 in oonsequen ..f the sei/.ure l,v 

 ggjlctirraux of $6(.CMK in a French bank 

 >rh th* Government had a claim. The 

 "vcrnmmt demanded restitution and 

 4ry. also an indemnity for a Fn-nch -iti- 

 * imph~,nl for tw ,.-nths 



flfid f..r a French merchant ; 

 foTrlli. rrwntly mur-i 



as allrwi. of the Dominican au- 

 .Santo Domingo proposed to submit 



the differences to the urltitrnti :i, hut 



the arraiiL'eiin-n 1 consummated. In 



i \s:ir ship- \\elit 1. 

 nti Prince, and Ihem-e the admiral 

 that unless a Settlement was m:i.|. 



\vuld proceed t- 



OQStomnOQte. President ileure:tu\ i-epli< 

 liaiilly ami : mliardim-nt. 



while the 1'niie.: nent ini< -i 



inlimatini: that ii could n 



military action against Snni 

 iti..ns were resumed, and in the . i 



Mean (lovernilif 



lu-eaking the seaN placed l\ t he l-'reiidi 

 on the Maiu|ii( Dominicaine and t<> : 



ih the 

 hank 'to the arl.jtrai 



Boimare 1.000,000 francs as romp. 

 illegal impri-'Miiu-nt ; and to pa\ an ind< 



Iran.'- t. the family ol 



whose murderer had I . The 



l-'rem-h mini-ter arrived in Santo I>.>nim_ 

 Admiral l-'oiirnier <>n April 1(5. and tin. 

 - '1 with honor- l>y the President ai, 

 coined by the populace. The di-pute I 

 Santo Domingo and Ha\ti re^ardinir the Ix.iiiid- 

 ary. ulndi ha- "Hen L r i\<'ii ri-e t.. frieti. 

 hi"s|i|,. dnrnmstratioiis. ha- lieeii referred tn the 

 arl'itration .,f the P.ip.-. 



An uprising against the Government < 

 in the middle of October, at Han: 

 on the frontier of Ha\h. President II' 

 j.n.inptly di-|.at-hed troops, who killed all the 

 rebels, giving no quarter. In other plaees in the 

 northern and eastern parts of the country where 

 the people were organ i/ed for reU-llion. i 

 ous arrests were made, and many | 

 court-martialed and shot. 



1. 11.111. i ml, li^ht i 



modern invention: the principle involved in its 

 con<i ruction has been famili;. 

 though, like the telescope, it- exact origin i- un- 

 certain. He who first placed a liirht inth< 

 of a concave reflector wa- its inventor. All 

 liirhts to In h li^ht-. 1 1 



fnun the thinnes- of the material employ 

 their construction and their lialiility to. 

 form localise of expansion and contract. 

 heat and cold, and for other reason-, th 



in perfect ones. 

 Of the four curves that may be 



com -- the circle, the rllip-e. tile pafaltoi. 



the hyperbola the la-t only will parallel! 

 rays from a light set at i't- focus. I m 

 ce'ntly all lighthouse illumination wii 

 l.y the oil lamp gn-atly inten-ified l.y tie 

 n'el lens, but the more recent introducti 

 the electric arc light has wrouj 

 in the science of paralioli/.ed li-ht 



increa-ed penet rat i"ii tin 

 The li^(,"t thus produce I. r. 11- --ted fi 



lie mirror, has l.-eii named the 

 liL'ht. and is the mo-t intense artilicja! 



. IM inir limited only ly the power of the 

 dyimii ting the electricity there! 



the introduction of the electric search light the 

 rays were narallelized by parabolic pile. 

 metal, and later by paralx.lic lei: 

 soon displaced the Jong- 

 The Maiigin projector, a- it was called. 



st among search-light project or.-> for many 



