The Rhos Herald

REVOLUTION IN PORTUGAL. KING MANGEL A PRISONER. The situation in Portugal is causing very .grave anxiety. Telegraphic communication with Lisbon was interrupted on Tuesday, and o definite news came tluongh" but. the, • •■"Times announced on that it jjias reason to believe a revolution has broken It adds that a rumour to. the effect that King Manoel is a prisoner is much less well -ted. The "Daily Mail," however, declares that iffche young monarch is a prisoner in the hands the Republican Party, and that there has Refill fighting1 in the streets of Lisbon. A wireless message received by the Paris ••■"Matin also says that a- revolution has 'broken out, and adds that warships are bom- barding the palac-e, and that the Army: and "Jti&vy are on the sid. of the revolutionaries. The interruption of the telegraphic communi- cation with the capital is said to be due to the section of revolittionariL),,s, ,wlio cut the wires' nd ordered the suppressiqn, of all messages. REPUBLICAN P LOT S. Should the rumour of the revolution prove tdBorrect it will occasion little surprise, for the position of the King- has long been pre- -ttioi 9. Since the assassination of King Carlos And the Crown Prince there have been frequent jplots, and in September ivis a large • seizure of bombs m Lisbon, Une of the Repub- lican. leaders, who was elected for Lisbon at the feeent general election, declared that the ,,1!-Ut1.y had given King Manoel "notice to ^quit." The atmosphere pf Portugal has been for leat-2 one of intense political unrest. On February 1, l'J08, King Carlos, while driving with tlm Queen, the Crown Prince, and Prince. [Slanoct in an open carriage from the landing- .;«tag-e to the Royal palace, was attacked by a jba.ad of conspirators. It was afterwards learnt that they had plotted the murder of the entire jftoya.1 F amilv. Ring Carlos was killed on the spot, and the iCiown Prince was mortally woud(led. Prince Manoel, the present King, was slightly grounded. Two of the regicides were killed on the spot. ftm leader, who shot the Crown Prince and was jlnnuMtlf killed, was afterwards identified as Manctl Buica, an ex-sergeant of cavalry and private teacher in Lisbon. It was reported that persons were concerned, among them sergeants and some naval officers, with sixteen well-known politicians. A large number arrests were made after the murders in Lisbon, and bombs were discovered in sevc; ..1 .•quarters of the city. On the accession of the present King the .iEietatorship of Senhor Fraiica., which many re- garded as the immediate cause of the murders, replaced by constitutional Government. 1Bnt the activity of the Republican party has .neontmited, and has recently been manifested in tofiOmewhat alarming fashion. ¡;.t: A KINDLY AFFAIR." On tie evr, of the last elections, which took J lace 011 August 28 of this year, the Republican 'artv showed extraordinary activity. Among ■■their candidates were men of great influence ..Atid position, such as Vice-Admiral Candido jReis, Orders for firearms were given whole- :-Mailt* by the Republicans and the most stringent military precautions were taken by the Govern- jaaent to foi! any attempt at a revolution. All through the sÜmnwr there were numerous .^Wrests of soldiers, and it was reported that a ^eonspiracy had been detected in which many ,,officers of superior rank were implicated. The elections, however, passed off without ..Any serious incident. The Government secured A ■ majority with ninety-two deputies, against ■ forty-n ine of the Opposition and fourteen Republicans. But Lisbon returned ten Republi- can*. & damaging b>ow to the Crown. Dr. .Alfonso Costa, the R/publican leader in Lisbon, ..declared that, the r.'sult of the election was a -,■••■* notice to King Manoel to quit," and openly threatened revolution. He is said to have stated that the day was near at hand, and to "have Added that the revolution would be a kindly affair: we shall kill the smallest .y-§KMMiible number of people."

WAR IN THE AIR PROPHECY. Colonel J. E. Capper, Commandant of the Atfmy Balloon School, gave a lecture at Farn- Jiam on Tuesday evening on Airships and Acroplanes." He spoke of the extraordinary apathy of English people towards the subject of the eonquest of the air, and pointed out that -Continental nations and America were pushing alwad. From a military point of view it was absolutely necessary for our couiitry-for. its ,,Owo .*aft..t:y-to be well to the fore in this con- .<jue»sf. It was simply want of imagination which pre- was ly sented Englishmen from seeing what was in front of them, added Colonel Capper. The en- thusiasm on the subject in Germany and France .18 prompted by the belief that it was abso- ;.fotely. necessary for their safety to possess a Jarg"<? air fleet; the sacrifice of life and limb that could very little be spared had got to be faeed, and at the same time it was absolutely ,.xertain that within the next few vears this ,41.r,UII of locomotion would be quite common. It is serious enough to my mind to mean r that. before this century is out, nations will be iewki»g to the preponderance in air fleets and two-Powtr standard in air fleets as thev are ,,4ojag with the navy to-day," .said Colonel Capper. All wars will begin with war in the Air amd the conquest of the air, just as, in many they begin with the conquest of the sea. For us, as an island nation, no longer will ships $11 the Channel prevent machines from coming Mer.. from the centre of Europe. England can "Sb# traversed in half a day, given favourable ,,Amdit.ions, and you will realise how close it it to bring nations to one another."

PENSIONS FOR PAUPERS. Hit following notice was issued on Tuesday n the Post Office by the Postmaster- After December 31, 1910, the present dis- qualification for old age pension of persons .rece^ve<i poor relief 6ince J anuary if 1988, will cease to operate. On and after January 1, 1911, no person 44bemise eligible for an old age pension will be disqualified on the ground of having pre- viously received poor relief, though he may receive poor relief and old age pension iti the exme time. Any person otherwise entitled to an old age rMon who expects that his disqualification respect of poor relief will cease on or Miter January next, is invited to put for- un a claim at any time within four months iwloro that date, and can obtain a form for .g out Itis claim gratis at any post 4Mb* in the United Kingdom. i '>.

LIVES LOST IN A GALE. STEAMER TURNS TURTLE. The Violent gale which sprung up suddenly on Sunday night was responsible for a good deal of havoc and damage. So violent was the gale in the Nortit Sea that the Grimsby steamer Wei holm e, which was on a voyage from Burghead, Scotland, to Great Yarmouth, was blown over by the force of the wind and sunk. She disappeared 111 less than five minutes after the water came in- board, and took with her the second engineer, a Mr. William Page, of Newcastle. The other members of the. erew were saved. Mr. Page was below at the time, and as the water rushed aboard it closed the companion door and shut him up below. The other members of the crew scrambled into a boat and managed to get away from the fastrsinking ship.. They rowed about in, the rough sea for some •time, and finally they were picked up by the smack Constance and landed at Lowestoft. OFFICERS' NARROW ESCAPE. An exciting adventure was experienced by two Royal1 Garrison Artillery officers, who were veryfortiiiiate to escape drowning after a night at,-sea in a sailing boat. Captain W. D. Alexander and Lieutenant H. A. Cox, stationed at Golden Hill, Freshwater, were suddenly caught in a gale whilst cruising about the Solent. They endeavoured to run for Yarmouth Harbour, but the storm pre- vented them, and tossed the boat to such an extent that an attempt was made to send assistance from the shore. This was un- successful, however. Both are expert yachtsmen, but despite their efforts they were carried up Channel by a dangerous sea. Darkness came on, and grave fears were entertained for their safety. On Monday morning, however, a telegram was received to the effect that they had arrived safely at Stubbington, near Gosport. INCIDENTS OF THE STORM. Three distress flares were shown •simul- taneously by smacks off Baker's Gap, Folke- stone, 011 Sunday night. Punts were put off, and the distressed smacks were hauled in by an electric capstan. I Six fires were caused by the storm in London on account of curtains being blown on to lights, the In; at of the day having caused many householders to leave their windows open. The pleasure steamer Duke of Abercorn, which was lying off Southend pier, broke adrift, and collided with the yacht Nellie, of I Groys, which was anchored on;, the pier. The yacht afterwards collided with the pier, and has a hole in her starboard side. The Duke of AberCorn was taken into Southend. The es. St. Dimetan collided with the schooner yacht Medora, lying off Gosport, doing considerable damage. The French schooner Olympe, from Finis- terre to Swansea, with a cargo of pit-props, went ashore near Mullion. The small yacht Idonea, of Fowev. was towed into Gravesend with bowsprit and top- mast carried away, having been picked up below the Nore .with no one on board. The gale completely wrecked the hangar built on the Tottenham and Edmonton Gas Company's land, in which was stored the J.A.P. monoplane, which was also consider- ably damaged. A large barn on Odell's Farm at Harding- stone was fired by lightning. Mr. J. G. Odell, aged 75, the owner (who was Northampton's oldest auctioneer), had only returned home from the fire an hour when he died suddenly.

BORSTAL GIRLS' LITERATURE. There are many interesting human touches in another prison Blue-book issued on Monday night—the second volume of the reports of the Commissioners of Prisons. The volume contains reports from the gover- nors and officers of prisons, and among them a description of the Borstal Institute at Ayles- bury by the chaplain there. He writes that, he is impressed with the con- trast in the character of the prisoner of to-day and that of thirty-three years ago. The former is much more intelligent, rcspeetfui, and amen- able to good influence. The kinder and more humane treatment which is at work in this and other prisons does infinitely more in producing good conduct, self-respect, and gentle disposi- tion that severe and sharp administration of prison rules. Speaking of the school instruc- tion given, he writes "Many of the girls who had been in the 4th Standard at school, some even in the 6th, could hardly write intelligible letters when they first came, the spelling was atrocious, and their vocabulary of the smallest dimensions. In ad- dition to this, their ignorance of ordinary facts is appalling. In a class of eight girls, to the question, What is an island? no answer could I get. The idea that Britain was surrounded by water was a new one. Palestine or the Holy Land wa., a, name conveying nothing. "Tlw library books are in good order, but these are not valued as one would have ex- pected. Works of fiction, generally regarded as masterpieces, make no appeal to them at all, and they simply do not read them. They in- quire for two kinds of works, namely, about love or about a murder,' with a marked pre- ference for the murder."

PRINCE MAURICE FINED. I Prince Maurice of Battenberg was fined £ 5 at Caniberley for exceeding the motor speed limit. In a letter addressed to the Bench the Prince, who is a gentleman cadet, sergeant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, admitted the offence. A police sergeant timed the car over a measured quarter of a mile on the main Leu- don road in 21sec., equal to 42 miles 1,508 yards an hour, The Chairman said that this was a very ex- cessive rate of speed, and the Bench must impose a heavier inc than usual. I

The Crown Prince of Sweden visited the Japan-British Exhibition at Sheplierd's-bush. William Dix, of Nunhead, a corporal in the 4th Essex Territorial Regiment, was sum- moned at East Ham for failing to appear for the annual training. He was fined £ 1 3s. and costs. A Selkirk journalist named Muir struck the parapet of Coldstream-bridge whilst cycling to the opening ceremony in connection with the Flodden Field memorial. He was flung over into the Tweed, his neck being broken. At Westminster a I yerdict' of "Accidental death" was returned at an inquest on the body of Albert Charles Ravnlone, a labourer, of Talbot-road, Battersea, wno died in St. George's Hospital while undergoing an opera- tion under anaesthetics.

BOOKS AND MAGAZINES. AN i 1 STORY. It is over twenty vears ago since "An Irish Cousin was I j i* t pt a I'd it has been out of print; f <: 1- s.- <-i; 1 \e::r«. a reappcji'at.ee in. ihc m m- i e't«>n of the books of the Misses Son'eni e nu-> M;i 1 tin Ross (Long- of u Soniv1 l'.x| tv ietK^ y of tm ic; !i K.M." This is a lull length ttovol, Hr-.l a <•»[ >e ot-v. Many people who read it \*h> n it fir» t [« «resi will be to renew acqtfait-tfti.ee with it. aim tit Ii:(t i, ox,,od, iii it, that it is certain to make many Ill: IV fr lends. •

SPORT AND fcPnilT.. Bill B'air was a great atlii.possibly {he greatest, the world his ever -ecu. Heh.t.itho iiiilk" cotli--e) R8 h. < it eek god, was in the halm of gi\ing little lecture;, in conversation on the |>»; eliolt of sport, v.iis the idol of young Ib itafn. m.d is the liet o of Mx'. Guy Thome's story The Race Before Us (H. hitc and Col. 6K.). Heal sport, and the kind of thing that ma-Mpiera.I s in that gsiise strive for the nunnery in the stoiy. Bill P.lsir finds Britain degenerating into a nation of lookers-on at a. few men playing games and r'iniiin.; races, and, believing with all ids heart- that tin-, in a,i evil tiling, he write* a book showing young Britain the error of itfi way, and {jointing out th^ road, tn which it ought, to walk. He has an enemy. J hmilo Ohnstos, with electric baths, and ho on. C'lsr ist,->s lias him- self been a, famous athlete, but lias decided that there is no money in the b isine-ss. Me «ccordingly invents a system of physical culture by which men may develop their muscle* without the tro hie of running races and playing git men. It appea-Is tn voting Britain, and is a great sncce-s until Hi'1 Blair's book spoils Danilo's little game. The climax comes »h n I >anilo challenges l^air to run with him from file Pineus to the top of the Acropolis at I Athens. Blair wins.

GLORY OF COMMON THINGS. Dr J. R. Miller's devotional books have won a wide.and deserved popularity, and u iarge circle of readers have profited by the lessons they teach. rj htJ tltl,! of his hte8t bool, The c;lory of the Common Life" (Hodder and Ktoughron, 3M. (id.) Btifiiciently indicates its character, "but we may quote a sentence or two there. Italy is glorious. Switzerland ;« glorious. But tliere is glory also in.every common blade of grass, in every tiny flower, in every bud, in everjr leaf, in every butterfly. You read biographies of great men and are charmed by what thev did by the noble qualities you find in their That is well. But just where you arc ti. ..10 gioricstoo." Tne book is charmihglv got up.

THE STORY OF JEREMIAH. "Everything in the Bible is interesting when we set oiirselves to'utiderstand it," says Letiice B. 11, in her letter to an imaginary boy friend whieu is the preface to a book which will bo welcomed by parents and others who have found a difficulty in teaching Bible lessons to children. The book is called "The Burning Caldron" (Hodder and Stoughton, 8s. 6d.). and it te M the story of Jere- miah in a way which is sure to interest children iiiiiiieiisely. The author saye to.Richard. "I had o tell you Jeremiah stories after you told me the auly thing you knew about him w-.ts tlittt he blew the fire,' "hLh is just the opposite of what he really did do." In a brief introduction, Dr. Campbell Morgan gives the book hearty commendation. There are four coloured illustrations. >

1 SONGS AND SINGERS There was a time when baritone singers were all jolly tars, warriors bold, pirates, or storm- fiends. In those days they left the love-songs to the tenors. The fashion haa changed, how- ever, and for a good while now composers have given baritones their fair chare of the lore- songs. To the number may be added a charm- ing composition by Edward Nicholls, entitled, "1 Worship Thee," which should be a favourite on concert platforms. It is published by Ascherberg, Hopwood, and Crew, whose latest issues also include a capital song for tenor, "Speed on, Sweet Song," by Francis Bohr, and! a delightful piccaninny eong by Percy French and Houston Collision. Teachers of the piano- forte who are looking for interesting pieces useful both for study and performance by voung pupils, will be glad to have their atten- tion directed to a book of Silhouettes "—half a dozen compositions of a varied nature—by J. L. Roeckel.

A GIRL FROM NOWHERE. I The arrival of "The Girl from Nowhere" (Hodder and Stoughton, 6s.) is somewhat dramatic. Throwing herself from a top-floor window, alic falls on the rails outside the room I wherein Felix V anston, the outcast, has just written his last will and testament, "To be read by the aoroner at the inquest on my body." The rails saved the girl, and as these two would-be suicides were thus thrown together, it was natural that they should gradually want to live and have something to live for. It is a j romantic situation, and in the hUlld" of Mrs. Baillie Reynolds an interesting story is rapidly developed. In the early stages "the' long arm is given jilentv of work, but, having been is given plenty of work, but, having been stretched to its furthest limit, it is of little I further use to a «tory which •afterwards goes with a natural swing. The intricacies of the plot need to be read to be followed. Denzil y anston, too, fall* in love with the heroine, and then there are some exciting scenes away in Siberia; but the girl really did come from somewhere, and in the end was married to somebody. Altogether, a capital story.

A NEW MAGAZINE. In a very interesting foreword to the first number of "T.P.'s Magazine," Mr. T. P. O'Connor says: Hi trust that this magazine may be ae a watch-tower from which these great springs of the world's movements and pro. grebe will be surveyed, brought. to light, and finally appraised. In other words, the Magazine ought, if it fulfil the purpose of iis creator, to reveal to its readers all that counts." The first number is itself a notable achievement upon which the creator is to be heartily con- gratulated. Under the guidance of an editor who knows his public a Mr. O'Connor does, the following numbers wiil no doubt be as good, or better, in which eawe the readers, who will certainly come to look for it with eagerness each month, are to be eongmujitted no less heartily. The serious side of the Magazine is the one upon which most stress is laid, but one of its features will be reallv good fiction, told by the best. writers. "T.P'y as a matter of fact intends to act up to the motto on the attractive cover of the Magazine, and only to' "give house-room to the best." Amougit the most noteworthy articles in, the first number are an article by llaldane Mac-fall on the young German satirical artirts, and" A Garland of- Friendship," by Mr. Edward ClûdJ,

OTHER k-I E N'S MINDS. -cl- To see everything-, to study everything to •understand •everything—to' know about everything—that is the obicct which King G-eorge has constantly in view, when travel- ling or at home.—MR. JOSEPH WATSOIJ. A SIGN OF HEALTH. I am noi- of those who think that emi- of decay. Emigration on right lines i* a wholesome form of expansion. -SIR, ALBERT TICER. THE SOAKING HABIT. It is not. people's getting helplessly drunk which is si- orach a danger to health; it is the ccntinii;;] nipping, the daily soakiiig.- ME. G. P. WTTATX.' ZA FOR.? AND ALL'S WELL. There is t i'tt-.r when one looks towards forty as the fringe of the Arctic. zone of life. No one realis,that there is a broad tem- perate belt of Twiddle age, wherein men can labour hard, long, and fruitfully. —MB. LLOYD GECI:GE, M.P. THE AfJSTOCRATIC SPIRIT. I believe there is more of the spirit of aristocracy the working classes than in. the upper chases.. I'he men who keep 24s. and give wi-vcs 12s. are led into extravagance habits of drunkenness and evil living.—Sm JAMES; RKCKITT. THE RURAL EXODUS. Everybody who has thought about the matter must have deplored what they see going on throughout Europe—namely, the train for of the from the country districts to the big towns.—THE SPEAKER. DRAWING THE LINE, Many of our national heroes were unruly boys; but there is-, a far cry from exuberant spirits to the conduct which leads to magis- terial Coll v "CAPT. ALAN FIELD. IN TFEIR OWN HANDS. If ever fro working nscBi of this country are to be delivered from social and economic thralldom :r¡(,j!, salvation must be worked out by tliem.se]YeG. — MR. IKTHUB HENDERSON, M.P. STRONG BUT SLENDER. So long a* we leave our Colonies to follow their own idiah: and aspirations, and to work out their ov n destiny, the almost invisible link that fei+i--is the Mother Country to the self-governing children will remaini un- brokeLi.-Mi- URJo: M.P. HEARTS WANTED. I feel that at the present tine- there is a great need of the qualities which are thought to ],k. We want hearts, not hands in business, and hearts, not voices, in pclitioi?,—BEV. JOHN WAKEFOKD, EOME, SWEET nOME. i The home is the centre of a man's and a .woman's individual and personal activities, and it can and should be made the highest point in human culture.—DR. LIONEL TAYLBS. f OH, FOR A LAYMAN! There are times when human nature wants a safety valve, as when a person sits on the bushitf-ss erid of a tack or drops an 8lb. dumbbell on his toe.—REV. FEAS. RATCLIFFE. THE LAND OF BEAUTY. The bad lasie of the average Englishman is impressed upon the visitor to a country like Italy. Tli ere one never finds anything which is not really beautifuL-REv, J. G. ADDER LEY. A DAY OF RECKONING. The neglect of taking proper care of the children in their early clays- has to be repaid with usurious interest whent they grow up to manhood.—SIR JOUM GORST. I THE CTIUKCH AND THE CAR. The motor-ear is one of the most active agents for Church defence, for swarms of p<-ople, now made acquainted for the first time with the beauties of the village j churches, become keenly anxious to preserve them.—BISKGP OF BRISTOL. I THE SOURCE. j I All real, wn-nd imperialism starts, all it were, from the village pinny, and until men are made keen on the of their local history, they may wave Union Jacks and shout themselves hoarse, with but indifferent results. —CANON MASTERMAN. DEMI, SEMI-EDUCATION. That melodrama should Nourish while great, Shakespearian tragedies, the summit of all dramatic art, and poetry, .ie neglected, is due to demi-Bcini education. Thut.the music- hall should be preferred to, the concert hall and the organ recital; that people should prefer the gramophone to violin; that unsatisfactory newspapers should flourish: that people eh or id hang up on the .fall grocery almanac*pictures horrible in every re,-fiect—while ext-llent photogravures can bp obtained fer <. ighteen;pence in every pic- ture-fi-anier'e tiiiop; that ^wealthy people should" be bhr-u to art and deaf to music; thar 30 much, s.-aeiuiess exists, cxcept at elec- tiOll tirnH with regard to municipal and political problems, is the rcewlt of demi- aenii-education. The remedy for this is not ler-o: but more co.uation.—SIR J. H. YOXALL, M.r. THE AIM OF EDUCATION. j Parents have told me that boys and girls are s->nt to echoes in order that they may be fitted to earn their living. I" always meet that witli a, B, i v s and girls come to f-ci tu 1 in order to i oconie men and women. ->KCI-:r..KACON WI>< COTT.

) POPULAR SCIENCE. — A 600-ton steel stamping press for manu- facturing motor-car hubs has been con- structed in Birmingham. Bv forcino- the rough hubs into hardened steel dies thit machine completely finishes them. The weight of the press is 35 tons 3 cwt. FOR THE GARDNER. Scattered fruit 011, a tree is difficult to 'pick by climbing a ladder. If the fruit is shaken, off, the f,,11 will came bruises that make it unfit- for storage or shipping. The picker shown in the accompanying illustration was devised to remove the fruit growing on the- ends of branches and in places not easily THE FRrIT PICKER. accessible. The device consists of a long handle to which is attached a board having peg* aist. long fastened in a circle, and set so that their ends tiie centre. The stem will slip through between the pegs, 1 and Itli, flitit, can be easily pulled off and re- tained by the pegs. AKTTFICIA.1, MOISTURE. Humidifiers for factories are used in Lan- cashire for giving off moisture and distribut- ing n in the atmosp^cr^ of the weaving1 rooms. vhich is.similar in appearance to an ordinary electric arc lamp, is fitted on the ceiling a ad supplied by means of pumps giving a pressure of about, 120 per square inch. Each machine con- sume* from GO to gits, of water per hour, of which amount bei ween 2 and 3 gals, are dispersed in the ai> j remainder beiiir returned to the supply i-jnks. HA VDLTNO ACIDS, The device shown in the accompanying illustration is simple and inexpensive, and its advantages are many. Nothing but glass- comes inito contact wil II the acid, and no fumes escape into the air. The carboy is not subjected to pressure, ii,,i- is it necessary to A CONVENIENT METHOD 03? HANDLING ACIDS. move it, thus obviating all danger of splash- ing, In the illlistLltillJl is the carboy, B a glass tube Jin. in diameter, bent at the lower so that the bottom of the cid may be reached, c a. loose cover of sheet packing, to keep the dust out of the carboy, and D is a 2-liter bottle, closed with a 2-holc stopper* The tube b passes through one hole, and a short bent tube through the other, to which is connected, by means of a rubber tube, a suction or filter pump. On starting the pump a partial vacuum is created in the" bottle and the ¡oV.:id flows into it. To stop the flow it is only necessary -to • disconnect from the pump. By using an aspirator »jo*i!o with a gL8f!J stopcock at the bottom, the qiparatu's may be made permanent and need not be dis- turbed until the carboy is ELBcraic LIGHT ON MOTORS. OJJ of the greatest additions to the plea- sure • > night motoring is an improved elec- tric lighting system recently perfected. By means of it a greatiy increased efficiency for all the light* of the car is secured, as weli as a niiieh. safer and more coto ••iiien; svstcm than has heretofore been The system in question consists of a s-nail multi- polar generator having n posith •• drive from the engine, and is contained und -)' the same hood. Besides this, a dovicc kiio- n as a toad regulator and a small storage battery are reijuivod. The generator, which runs upon ball bearings, and weighs but twenty-four pounds, is capable OJ pnxnicmg the required current-, even on a slow speed of the engine, all the regular equipment of lamps." It also furnishes 1 he ignition spark for the engine. If miming at a high speed or when the engine is being ope rati d free of tho machiri the load J eguhitor conies into play, diverting the excels earn ut generated into ihe storage battery, and thus keeping it a6 all the necessary current for the lamps wheat the machine is standing ldlo. If is unneces- sary for the rhait-lVn.i- leave his seat in the* machine, either to light the lamps, or to ascenani rhe amount of •■un-eni being generated by the dynamo <»:• ihe bat- :tery. An instrument iocaied directly inr' front of him gives infor- mation.