He is the second son of an emperor and the brother of the present Emperor of the German Empire. He is a descendant of the line of Prussian kings which included one of the world’s greatest generals, Frederick the Great. On one side his grandfather, William I, of Prussia, was the first emperor of the modern German Empire. On the other, his grandmother was Queen Victoria of England. His wife is the granddaughter of the latter sovereign. A Change In the Cabinet On March 10, the Hon. John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy, tendered his resignation from office. Mr. Long has been in the Presidential Cabinet since 1897. William H. Moody, who, like the former, hails from the State of Massachusetts, has been appointed as his successor. Mr. Moody is forty-nine years old, a lawyer by profession, and has been a member of Congress for the past seven years. He will take up the duties of his office on May 1. The New States Bills are now before the House of Representatives for the admission to Statehood of our remaining Territories--New Mexico, Arizona, Oklahoma, and Indian Territory. This movement was favored as far back as 1896. The chief objection raised at present is, that most of the inhabitants are of Mexican and Indian descent and are unfit for the responsibility of citizenship. The Irrigation Bill In the bill on irrigation recently passed in the Senate, provisions were made for what is known as a Reclamation Fund. This is to be formed from the proceeds of the sales of public lands and will be devoted to the irrigation of the arid districts in the United States. By means of such a movement it is proposed to reclaim and utilize a great area of land which has heretofore been worthless to agriculture. Methuen’s Defeat. By a night attack made on March 7, 1902, General Delarey, with a force of fifteen hundred Boers, captured, near Vryburg, several hundred British soldiers, all their supplies and four guns. Among the prisoners was General Methuen, the commander of the British. Such a demonstration of reserve strength upon the part of the Boers should make the British Government cautious in declaring the war in South Africa to be at an end. Photography In Colors Mr. A. H. Verrill, of New Haven, Conn., has discovered a method in photography for reproducing all natural tints and colors. He terms it the autochromatic process. Its success is due to the paper used, which is five times as sensitive to red and yellow light as ordinary paper, and to the sharpness of the lenses. These latter were made under his own direction. [Illustration: IN-DOORS] PARLOR MAGIC By Ellis Stanyon The first of this series of papers on Magic, commencing with the March number, included directions to the beginner for Palming and the Pass.