FOOTNOTES:
[1] Since the writing of this article Korea has been forced to accept Japanese sovereignty in international matters, the local government being in most matters undisturbed.
[2] Written for and published by Success Magazine, April, 1906.
[3] Since our visit the Americans have attacked this hill and taken it with great slaughter.
[4] General Smith has since been made the president of the Philippine commission.
[5] I have heard that the song was of earlier origin.
[6] Since my visit to the Horns of Hattin, I am cherishing the hope that some Christian organization may some day make it easier to visit this inspiring spot, by building a road to, and a rest house upon, the summit.
[7] The traveler is sure to notice some little birds which resemble swallows flying up and down the stream. They do not light but skim along the water all day long. Their restless and seemingly aimless flight has caused them to be called "the lost souls of the Bosphorus."
[8] Since the writing of this article an embassy has been established at Constantinople.
[9] Since the writing of the above congress has appropriated a sum for the purchase of embassy buildings, and a beginning has been made by the purchase of a building in Constantinople.
[10] The Czar has just issued a decree which according to the press dispatches, permits the communal holdings to be converted into individual holdings.
[11] Soon after this letter was written the duma was dissolved, with a promise of another election, and as this book goes to press a second campaign is in progress.
[12] The House of Lords has, since the writing: of the above, so amended the educational bill that the prime minister has withdrawn the bill as a protest against the House of Lords. It raises an issue as to the co-ordinate power of the House of Lords, and may result in curtailing the power of that body.
[13] The following European letters were written for the Hearst newspapers, and are reproduced by their permission.
[14] Note—It was an ordinary cab and no policemen or secret service men were in sight.—Editor.