and a war has been begun which grows yearly more costly and absurd. one-quarter as many; and even into Turkey, which was a forbidden land island of Japan. The Japanese were enthusiastic telephonists from the alike. In Belgium there has been a government system since 1893, hence It was let alone by the Post Office; and better still, it had a Man, a under the regime of the old Sultan, the Young Turks are importing boxes his death the Government has entered the field with a duplicate system, small. Spain has private companies, which give fairly good service to twenty thousand people. Roumania has half as many. Portugal has two so that Holland is dotted with thumb-nail systems, no two of which are thousand telephones, it stood fourth among the European nations. Since Stockholm the best telephoned city outside of the United States. He pushed his country forward until, having one hundred and sixty-five been a different story to tell. By his insistent enterprise he made Asia, as yet, with her eight hundred and fifty million people, has fewer telephone spirit--Sweden. Here telephony had a free swinging start. business-builder of remarkable force and ability, named Henry Cedergren. a scanty two thousand apiece. The frozen little isle of Iceland has There is one European country, and only one, which has caught the Had this man been made the Telephone-Master of Europe, there would have small companies in Lisbon and Oporto. Greece, Servia, and Bulgaria have order. Also, each company is fenced in by law within a six-mile circle, city engineer has designed his own type of apparatus and had it made to there is unity, but no enterprise. The plant is old-fashioned and too of telephones and coils of copper wire. telephones than Philadelphia, and three-fourths of them are in the tiny rather a patchwork, that resembles Joseph's coat of many colors. Each