The rules governing the submission of photographs to the Universal Exposition at St. Louis, in 1904, have just been issued by Col. J. A. Ockerson, Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts. They are as follows:

First. Each society of photographers is requested to select in such manner as may be deemed best, from photographs offered by its members for exhibit, such pictures as they consider most worthy of a place in a great Universal Exposition. The pictures so selected, together with such as may be offered by individuals not members of a photographic society, will be submitted to a committee of review and selection.

Second.-The following named camera clubs and photographic societies are requested to name one person each as a member of a committee of review and selection, the members so named to be certified by the officers of the respective clubs to the Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts not later than November 1, 1903. The societies to be represented are: The Photographic Association of America; the Photo-Secession of New York; the Photographic Society of Philadelphia; the Society of Amateur Photographers of Chicago; the Boston Camera

Club; the Camera Club of New York City, and the California Camera Club.

Third. The Committee of Review shall, under the direction of the Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts, carefully examine each photograph offered, dividing them into three grades or classes and one rejected class the grade to be marked on each picture according to merit.

Fourth.-Grade one, or the pictures deemed to be of the highest merit, shall be certified to the Chief of the Department of Liberal Arts, who shall in turn certify them to the Chief of the Department of Art, and under his direction said pictures shall be examined by the National Jury of Selection of the said Department of Art.

Fifth. The pictures so examined by the National Jury of Selection which shall be by them considered worthy of such distinction, shall be hung in the Art Building under the rules of the Art Department.

Sixth.-Pictures of the first grade, not admitted to the Art Palace under the above conditions, may be hung in the Photographic Section of the Liberal Arts Palace. In addition to these, there may also be hung pictures of the second grade and as many

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of the third grade as the space available will permit.

Seventh.-Suitable screen walls will be constructed in the Liberal Arts Palace on which pictures may be hung. The special adornment of space allotted to an exhibit must be done by and at the expense of the respective exhibitors in each case.

Eighth. The expense of special requirements for lighting, if such be found necessary, will be prorated among the exhibitors at the established rates.

Ninth.-Each picture offered as an exhibit must be the individual work of the exhibitor and should be accompanied by the title of picture, the name and address of the exhibitor, all but the title being in a sealed envelope so that authorship will remain unknown until after the pictures have been graded by the committee. The outside of envelope to bear a design or name which shall also be entered on the back of each picture to identify ownership.

Tenth.-All pictures offered must be mounted, framed and matted and all expense of transportation must be fully prepaid by

the exhibitor, and must be shipped at owner's risk, so as to reach St. Louis not earlier than January 1, and not later than January 30, 1904. Shipping labels will be sent upon application.

The Photographers' Association of California will hold its first annual convention in the Mechanics' Pavilion, San Francisco, October 27th-29th inclusive.

Otto Boye has been appointed chairman of the Convention Committee, and the preliminary work is well under way.

The time in which pictures can be submitted to the third San Francisco Photographic Salon is rapidly growing less. Every photographer who contemplates sending in prints should begin work at once. The management of the exhibition expect to fill the big exhibition room at the Mark Hopkins' Institute with the finest examples of modern photography, and the western photographers who are not represented will be very scarce indeed.

My Trunk is Checked to Sunset Land

In Sunset Land, the travelers say,
December wears the mien of May,
And time his rosary of hours

Threads, bead to bead, with fadeless flowers.
There smiling valleys lie between
The cradling hills, forever green;
There vineyards slope to purple seas,
And golden-fruited orange trees
Sift on the ground their scented snow.
Ah, that is where I fain would go-
Where Summer runs with dancing feet
Through vineyard, grove and garden sweet.
When frost has chained our rippling rills
And Winter's pall lies on the hills,
The tourist-pilgrim finds those skies
As blue as Aphrodite's eyes;
The breezes soft as wind that blows
O'er India's bowers of spice and rose.
To flee the white death of the year
And dwell where days are never drear,
Where Nature thrills the pulse anew
And grants fresh life to me, to you,
I've joined the happy pilgrim band-
My trunk is checked to Sunset Land.
J. Torrey Connor.