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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY., DECEMBER 11, 1903. R R— forbidden” and far m: i often n almost other I ha set up the 3 mi; any of self-defense Foul” when no foul nd I have seen them was perpet g ow is sort go un- that g0 to prize nowledge a £ three- esoteric with the av- aning of the “INFIGETING.” | apparently clinch hit the othe the chance e 1w who t to strike. A clinch, v; ds in weight the combined weight efinition I uready given, | o¢ 411 the ore, coke and limestone . S rEvm onent from using | which is “charged” into the “throat” his hands. 1If it does not prevent him | or the blast furnace. JE w0 sunl Wiueh i A blast furnace eighty feet high is e iy A another about twenty-three feet at its largest bis arms about him, that does | gigmeter, which is about twenty-five | ar the latter from striking h nch is complete the f the | crowd at prize fights | 1 4 ' most struck the blow had | ~g still hoiding vour right in such a way as to block reprisals from his right. Similarly, when he leads with his right, knock the blow outward with yvour-left and lead a left hook or jolt to his About Iron. LM McDOWELL. Talk on the Wonders of the Crafts.) Joseph B. Bowles. rove’s experimental scien- sts clai to have discovered that} metals can be killed by poison, put to} by chloroform, made drunk by whisky and crazy by cocaine. He de- | clares with much confidence that | metals possess many human attributes | and broadly intimates that he is the| first man to prove it. But every foun- | dryman and blast furnace man for| | vears has known that one metal at least has much akin to human in it. metal, called the most useful of seeking its affinity. | rt; a veritable coquette. »m the crude ore to the | duct it runs the gamut of and hate, and its intrigues and bades keep the biast furnace and upola in a turmoil. This metal is iron. e faios slee love es Chemically pure iron hasno commer- cial value. Its impurities, called metal- are what give iron its character | strength. The iron ores as they om the mine are a combination | oxygen, phosphorus, sul- rbon and other elements, and blast furnace is employed to sep- arate the metal from the ore impurities. | Pure iron ore is a chemical combina- tion of metallic iron and oxygen, thel common consisting of about 70| | cent iron and 30 per cent oxygen. But the earthy impurities and combina- | tions other elements enter so inti- mately into the structure of the iron | that the blast furnace man must | reckon with all of them in his efforts | to separate the metal from the dross. | [ In the proc of the reduction of the | ore the oxide of iron—the ore —becomes loids | and com | ph | the re ore carbide of iron—pig iron. The blast furnace is' a’' huge brick sta not unlike a gigantic . bottle standing on its cork end. The ore, | coke and limestone are fed into the | stack on top, and the melted, refined | iron escapes from the tap hole in the bottom: ahd runs into open sand molds, where it cools into the pig iron of | | commerce. This pig iron contains from | { 94 per cent of pure iron and 8 to § | per cent of impurities. Before it can be 1 the arts this pig iron must be | | used ed in a puddling furnace — or | some other kind of furnace — or the cupola of a foundry. Immense air compressors are used in the reduction of the ore in the blast furnaces, for each ton of iron made requires from three to six tons of air, which is forced into the blast furnace under a pressure of five to ten pounds to the square inch. This blast of air is heated to a tem- perature up as high as 1500 degrees Fahrenheit before it enters the furnace. ir pumped into the furnace ex- feet from the bottom. From this point | the stack tapers both ways. AbSut, cannot strike. If it is =0 | ejgnt or ten feet from the bottom the | © ; can still use his|fyrnoce becomes a cylinder. The lup‘ gty vl - v 18 ol of the furnace is called the “throat,” | i cober Py *Ing, and|ine jower part the “boshes” and the | utterly unlike the practice of “hangiug | cylindrical shaped bottom is the | on” with one hand or arm and striking | Sy S SONEC PRI S e ] with the other. The man whose 0DDO- | }ot¢om are the ‘‘tuyers,” through | ment s trying to clinch must not, of | yyjep the blast enters the furnace, and | course, hold his ani I e - e e ting him, but as long as he can Keep | oot ™ his arms free there is no reason why he should not lead. Never, umder any circumstances, shouid a clinch be allowed to degener- ate into a wrestling match or a rou; and-tumble. A full clinch means sim- ply a temporary truce and a readjust- ment. If you find on running into a clinch that you canmot prevent nist from striking. get out as quickly as possible. if & man tries to clinch “hand clinch” (th ned), tr rat of the ude hi and try to h to cli close quarters, »yw his arms around keep both your ar not it you up above his and to send in joits or relf-hooks 1o his face Fitzsimmons is a past master at this, trick of working the arms up through the other man's grip until beth 2rms are to'send in a ghower of short-arm blows to the face. and taught me the Another good plan is to lure your opponent inte clinching, and as he at- tempts to de so to uppercut him. I «hall explain the uppercul in the next lesgon. If you are a heavier man than ur antagonist you can wear him down by repeatediy clinching in the following manner PutL your hands or forearms on his shoulders &s you come to a clinch, and, throwing your whole weight on him. let your hands or arms slip slow- iy down his uppe rn to the elbow, forcing him meanwhile to bear up yeur whole weight. In tUme ihis will heve on his a2rm and back jnuscles somewhat ike same effect as would the lifting of a jong succession of flour barrels. ¢ Next we come to another close-quar- maneuver, known as “infight- * This is what jts name implies— iy fighting or boxing inside your opponent’s guard. Let me illustrate: ake your sparring partner lead for wour face with his left. Raise your right arm, knock his blow outward, and then, wilhout drawing your grm back, send a right heok or joit to his jaw. The guarding of his blow and the turning of your arm inward to- ward his jaw should follow each other with lightning rapidity. If you do this auickly he cannot guard your blow, as his right arm will have been thrown vutward and your hand will be nearer his unguarded face than will his own glove. Speed and accuracy are -abso- lute requisites for all forms of in- fighting. It must be an almost simul- ters ur antago- | of his reacnq In order to separate the foreign mat- ters present in the ore from the iron an intense heat must be used and the fuel is coke, anthracite or charcoal. Fluxes are required to facilitate this separation, and limestone is the ma- terial most employed. The fluxes trans- form ihe earths and extraneous mat- for raiiw cement and bricks. The blast furnace is ones; above the hearth comes . zome of gassification, next above is the zome of fusion and above t the zone of reduction. These zones have no well defined boundaries, As the iron passes through divisions or zones it makes des- | perate Jove 1o the oxygen, carbon, sili- these ter irto slag, which is used attt‘rward] ballast and for making | divided into | erge into eaci other almost | | Japanese commercial class, while less numerous among | con, shur and phosphorus, leaving one to take up the other, flirting and coquetting until at last, wedded for the time being to carbonm, it emerges | quietly from the “tapping hole,” a steady, substantial citizen of the in- dustrial world. — The iron ore, coke and limestone are not thrown into the blast furnace hap- hazard. On the contrary, the mixture is made on & well considered plan, de-; termined by chemical analysis. The proper proportion of ore to coke and limestone is established by the chem- ical make-up of the fuel, flux and ore. When the mass is once in the furnace and the oxygen-bearing blast is roar- ing through the tuyers and driving hot gases and air up through the spongy coke and ore the iron, warming up, begins to shake off the oxygen which has been its companion underground ro; years. As the metallurgists put it, the ore parts with its oxygen to the carbonic oxide, forming carbonic acid. The ore, shedding its oxygen, descends into the zone of reduction, and here the iron begins making violent love to the carbon, abeorbing it greedily—that is, if there is not much silicon’ present. Silicon and sulphur Wave the effect of lowering the amount of carbon which iron will take up. Sulphur is not want- ed in iron, so the ironmaker is careful that his fuel shall not contain sulphur, at least not enough to injure the iron. The mass of ore, coke and flux de- scends, getting hotter and hotter, the chemica! actions become more rapid and soon the particles of iron, separat- ed at last from the dross, drly down IITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL] IOBN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. - Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager Publication Office . . ... @ iieiiiiise......Third and Market Streets, S. F. FRIDAY .. oden DECEMBER 11, 1903 be different, for the Chicago building is severely void of every striking and impressive feature in architecture. It is mistaken by strangers for a grain elevator built of stone. It belongs to no order of architecture, but defies them all. The idea in its construction seems to have been simply to get walls and a roof, and the effect falls far below that of a bank barn in Berks County, Penn- syivania. We do not know whether the plan was made by a private architect. If it were there must have been an oxteam pull to get it approved by the Government. Per-| haps, however, it suits Chicago and reflects Chicago taste. This makes it more imperative that our building reflect the higher and better and more refined taste of San Francisco. We have looked long upon the pitted face of the old Custom-house and have endured it as a brick and mortar nightmare. Now we want something that will keep c{)mpany with our splendid Postoffice building, and will not be shamed by the beautiful archi- tecture of so many of our privaie buildings. The first exposition devoted exclusively to children and to the exploitation of child life ever held in the world is now in successful progress in St. Petersburg. It is strange that the benighted denizens of darkest Rus- sia should carry to a splendid lrgmph a project of en- lightenment and civilization that We dare not attempt. —_— RUSSIA IN KOREA. ONGOLIAN ASIA, after wars and foreign en- M terprises, migration that extended to the Medi- terranean, and experiments in finance and gov- ernment that are yet in issue in other nations, went home, re-entered its own gates and locked them. There the modern world found China, Korea and Japan. The Western nations, attracted by the mystery on the inner side of the great wall in the Hermit Kingdom and in the Japanese islands, concerted in the policy of opening all those countries to the world. By policy, part of the time, and by open aggression, in which were incidents discreditable to the West, like the opium war and the loot of Peking, China was opened to the world. To the United States fell the task of opening Japan and, to our credit, it was executed with- out the demoralizing events which had taken piace in China. The Chinese, with a keen and trained commer- instinct. took what advantage they could of the change. Acting upon the keen saying of Marquis Tseng, that when China was opened to the world the world was opened to China, her merchants located in the Straits Settlements, in Australia, the Philippin‘cs and the United States. Here we have found the Chinese merchants to be promoters of our trade with their country. More than a third of the tariff revenue paid in the San Francisco Custom-house is by the Chinese. Their enterprise and their high sense of commercial honor make the force that has expanded our trade with their country. The cial THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. HE first report of Secretary Cortelyou of the new T Department of Commerce reveals the possibilities of that new Government agency. It takes jurisdic- tion of the corporations engaged in interstate commerce, and is to make effective the President's enlightened ideas of a publicity that will protect investors in the stocks of trusts and corporations and will also protect the consuming public against the predatory designs of any corporation, The Supreme Court, in affirming the constitutionality of the interstate commerce law, decided that the restraint and control of such corporations as do bysness between the States is a constitutional func- tion. The Department of Commerce is a necessary out- growth of that decision, since the Government must have, deposited in one place, the power and jurisdiction whicl: it has of right in the premises. Secretary Cortelyou, in his first report, says: “The creztion of the Bureau of Corporations in this depart- ment was an expréssion of the popular belief that fur-| ther safeguards should be provided for the regulation of | business entciprises, to which special privileges have been granted by the people. Publicity will disclose unfair deazlings, dishonesty and corruption, but if properly en- forced will not disclose to trade competitors the fruits of individual thrift and initiative, nor permit in any manner the invasion of private rights.” Tt will be observed that the functions of this depart- ment are bestowed to effect a demonstration that will decide a great issue. On one side are those who ener- getically contend that all utilities and activities incident to c#nlmunity life must belong to the Government, and be in public ownership and administration. On the other side are those who stand by our existing system of gov- ernment and our time-tried institutions, and insist that the regulating power of the. Government, its proper function, can restrain all oppression and prevent any improper use of the opportunity of organization by cap- ital. The President clearly defined this in his remarks on labor and capital. The Federal Government, in pur- suance of its constitutional power, enacts laws to define and protect all rights within its jurisdiction, and it has the power to enforce the law it has made. The Socialist school declares that the Government, having failed to regulate the usc of property in private hands, has, by that failure, proved its capacity to admin- ister all property in Government ownership. The posi- tion is illogical. It has been heretofore demonstrated that the Government can provide and enforce a remedy for every wrong, and it will do so to the end. Secretary Cortelyou is proving to be the right man in the right place, and the people rest confidently in his capacity to prevent unjust aggression and protect their rights, to the extent of the power confided to him by Congress. us, serves the same purpose. The policy of the Western nations in opening Eastern Asia has proved good and for them, and for the peoples to whom it gave access. It has been in the interest of civilization and has promoted peaceful commerce, mutually beneficial. This policy has continued unbroken until the advent of Russia into Eastern Asia. The government of the Czar appears there with an army and key in hand to compel a reversal of the open-world policy, insisting upon closing the door to every country but herseli. Russia has, therefore, against the wish of both China and Korea, renewed the policy of isolation and restriction, which the West broke down, and insists upon exclusiveness and isolation. In the quotation from Secretary Cass by the Presi- degt, in his recent message, to which we have already referred, Cass used this policy as an illustration. Speak- ing of the claims of Centrai American governments to exclusive control of faciiities which belong to the world, Cass said: “None of these local governments would be permitted, in a spirit of Eastern isolation, to close the gates of intercourse on the great highways of the world.” That uttered the policy of the Western nations in opening Eastern Asia. It is a policy upon which too much in trial and sacrifice has been spent to abandon it now, even though great Russia lifts against it her powerful arm. She is now in Korea, armed to resist the opening of the Koreau {port. of Yongampho to the world’s She has no right there which the other nations can respect. She has no treaty with Korea giving her fleets the entry of Chemulpo on such an errand. While Korea is the immediate victim, too weak to resist, the world is the ultimate sufferer. with benefit to themselves, contrast the attitude of our country on the isthmus with that of Russia Korea. We appear as the champion of the world’s right of use of a great highway of commerce, the trustee of civilization, the promoter of all commerce; not to close, but to open, opportunities which give greater value to every man’s labor, and greater profit to every man’s enterprise. We are the trustee of Russia and of all nations and propose, with viger and zeal, to administer that trust. But Russia appears in the East; in a spirit of selfishness and isolation, to close the gates, to lock the door, to exclude the world from its just opportunities. It is an amazing spectacle. The effect upon the mind of Eastern Asia must be left to the imagination. After several’ generations of their statesmen have dealt with the West. entirely upon the question of opening their countries to the world, they find RusSia, with vast armies, a navy, forts and all the resources of power, among them to undo all that has been done. Morally the world owes to China, Korea and Japan every possible support in this crisis. The United States holds a high position of moral power at this moment, because of our stand for freedom of the isthmus. Eng- land is more intimately involved, by her treaty of alli- ance with Japan and her understanding with Russia, that Korean independence is to be respected. Germany, in view of her commercial ambitions, cannot be indifferent, and Trance, notwithstanding her Russian alliance, cannot fail to understand that she is affected by abbre- viating her expectations of Eastern trade, for which she has sacrificed so much in Cochin China. But, above and heyond all these considerations, individual to the dif- ferent nations, is the claim of Russia, backed by a mi tary force that is on the ground by virtue of base viola- tion of her promise to evacuate Manchuria, to the right to reverse the policy of the world in the East. Three years ago the Czar indicated his purpose,” at a certain date, to close Russian ports to all but Russian ships. He shuts other people out of Russia, as far as possible, by dishonoring passports and by police espion- age, and it begins to look as though the rest of the world is approaching the duty of opening Russia, as Eastern Asia was opened. If that come, many scores will have to be settled. l new Custom-house, ample to accomn}odate the rapid- ly increasing necessities of our growing commerce, and of a nobility of architecture that will satisfy the pride of our people. The plan of the building, exterior and interior. should not be permitted to decline from the high note struck by the new Postoffice, which is in all respects one of the finest Federal buildings in the country. It closely approaches the charms of form and finish which make the Congressional Library at Wash- ington one of the noblest structures in the world, The present Custom-house has hnaered beyond its time. Its forbidding aspect but poorly represents the dignity of the Federal Government. Its ancient outer walls, repeatedly plastered, as repcatedly break out with an eczema in stucco that presents the appearance of a victim of psoriasis and smallpox. It is badly oriented, crowded and offensive to a degree that affronts good mne.mdrevoluallthemlinmn‘orm oi that conscience of the mind. . Thevimforthem-mlliu&nmmn open to competition by selected architects. We believe this was done in the case of the new Federal | m-lmimmthndn&’:‘“u" $ wise commerce. Americans may, in It is a matter of congratulation that the national authorities have seen the wisdom of beautifying the Presidio, and that work upon this laudable enterprise will soon begin. Within this Federal reservation there is now a burial ground second only to Arlington in senti- mental interest, and no more dignified, patriotic purpose than its care and embellishment can inspire officers of the Government. A tising the resources of Califorpia at the great| Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held in St. Louis in 1904, some discordant notes may be heard. The Amador Ledger. for instance. complains that the people of Amador County are making very little exer- tion to have the wealth of that part of the mother lode country cxploited. Every one knows that there is much gold, ‘good climate and rich soil in Amador Coumy.} Taking a series of years together, its mineral output has represented a value of many millions of dollars. Yet the Amador Ledger says that “outside of the efforts put forth by the State Mineralogist, .. E. Aubury, there seems to be very little doing in the way of collecting exhibits_of Amador County's resmm:e- for display at the St. Louis exhibition next year.” Supplying particulars relating to this inaction of the people, the Ledger asserts that “outside of an effort to collect a fcw ancient mining contrivances, representing the primitive “methods of mining in the early days, there is scarcely any mtcrest manifested in this dlrccpon. We indulge the hope that, whatever be the caiise of the list- lessness hitherto shown, some active measures will be taken at once to secure a well-filled niche for Amador County in the coming exposition of the world’s indus- tries and resources. There exists no organization to this end. Our Board of Supervisors has not moved in the matter at all. It would amount almost to a reflec- tion upon our loyalty and devotion to our section to suffer Amndor County to defuflt at the St Louis expo- sition.” The general public will kope that Amador Comhy at St. Louis of which it is hb:%fll!fltmorrnfm 'mmmcammmm«mm.‘ resources of wealth than the bymsl a(rm of land ¢ URGING THE MINERS, MID 'he general bustle of preparation for adver-| OUR NEW CUSTOM-HOUSE. T is very gratifying to this city that we are to have a .scrap, and one that gave him unmixed Derelict. They all know him dewn around the Police Court—poor old “Judge” Blank, | Tapping his | the broken down lawyer. way along the lower end of Montgom- ery street, with his shrunken tan over- coat bunched at the shoulders and his | almost sightless eyes staring straight | to the front, the man who once won | the sobriquet of “Judge” in the past days of his giory, is now one of that | number of derelicts whose homes are in the garrets above the fish markets and whose only boon in life is to take the sun along the crowded thorough- fares of the wholesale district—and eat when fortune smiles. “Yes, there is a lawyer over there who can advise you on your case.’’ One | of the florid faced young men from | the Hall of Justice indicated the stoop- ed figure of “Judge” Blank to the rus- tic who presented his anxious face be- fore him. Then as the country man hurried over to the old lawyer the young man from the hall dropped in| to get a drink on the strength of his | good joke. | “Excuse me, sir, but they tell me | that you are a lawyer, and I have a document here which I would like— the huddled figure of “Judge” Blank straightened up into a shaking sem- blance of dignity; a trembling hand stole up to button the top button of the wrinkled overcoat, so that the ab- sence of the collar would be concealed. Then he turned in the direction of the man who had accosted him. “Ahem,” said “Judge” Blank, with the dry throatiness which used to awe juries. “Now there is that Lawson case | which I have on to-day and the Mur- | phy battery case and the consultation with Peter Dunne—but I believe that I can give yvour case some attention notwithstanding. Let me see the pa- per.” Gravely the battered old lawyer held the document before his sightless eyes, turning the pages slowly and mum- bling to himself as if conning the lines | carefully. At last he closed the puper. with a flourish. “Oh, yes,” said he, “this will be a very simple process. I—ah—that is— mayhe we can open negotiations with a little drink; place right around the corner.” A Popular Judge. The popularity of the late Po!icel Judge Campbell among the masses was largely due to the fact that he | allowed common sense to sway ‘him in his judgments. Many a time an attorney would asseverate: “But, your Honor, the Supreme Court has decid- ed—" That would be as far as he would get, as the Judge would inter- rupt him with: “I overrule the Su- preme Court.” “The Judge was fond of seeing a joy happened in his own courtroom. The reporter of a morning paper and the clerk in the Judge’s court would occasionally pass uncomplimentary remarks about one another and the Judge, who disliked the clerk, told the reporter not to stand any of the | clerk’s nonsense, One day the re-| porter asked the clerk to let him ex- amine a complaint that had been sworn to. The clerk refused in an offensive manner and the reporter slapped him on the face. The clerk jumped to his feet and in an instant he and the reporter were mixing things up. Amidst the din in the courtroom the Judge's voice was heard: “The court will take sa recess for ten minutes.” He left the bench, warning the bai- Jiff not to interfere, and watched the scrap with the keenest delight. Fin- ally the reporter landed a straight right on the clerk's jaw and knocked him out. The clerk was led out of the courtroom, the Judge resumed his seat on the bench and the business was continued as if nothing had hap- pened. Cold W eather. I Dar's somepin in de elements dat keeps you on de go W'en de Weu!herl crisp en frosty en you lookin’ fer de snow; “"en you hear the kittle sing On de fire; like ever'thing, En you clean fergits de summer en de | roses er de spring. 1L You hears de drhers whistle on de big road, ter de team: En at night de 1i'l" v‘mlun sees de Chris- mus in dey dreams; En de folks a-settin’ roun’ Hears de fiddle's lively soun’, En de dancin’ makes de room reel—'twel | de roof seems comin' down! IIL It's de halleluia season in de country— fur en nigh, En it makes you think de angels jines d chorus in de sky! De good time at its bes’, Fum de ringin’ eas’ ter wes’, Life en joy amazin'—twel you never wants ter res’! . \ n keep de joy a-gwine, en keep good feelin's ail! No better world dan dis is, fum de sprin- time ter de fall! Weather crisp en fine All erlong de line— de halleluia season, en dat's de way we gwine.—Atlanta Constitution. It's Tender Conscience. “The tender comscience of a voung girl nipped a very pretty little romance in the bud here this morning,” said Cupid Danforth a few days ago while resting from his labonof giving to pros- | Dective brides and grcoms the neces- sary legal permit to become husband and wife, “It was just after I had opened the office. A young girl, with raven black o — — then sald, ‘Over 18" 1 gave her the completed license and she started for the door. She partly opened it and stood there just for a moment. With a sigh, she shut it and came back to the desk. ‘Please ta.ke it back,’ she said. T am only House for Each Season. James W. Davidson, United States Consul to Formosa, has written an account of a unique tribe living on & small island adjacent to Formosa, who have a house for each season of the year—cold, wet and dry. Hach family possesses a splendid walled and stone paved compound, wherein are three distinct houses, attesting the cleverness of the natives and their de- | sire to obtain the maximum of com- fort. One house, built half under ground, is their winter residence. For the warmer weather they have a com- fortable building, elevated some feet above ground, and for protection against the heat of summer they have a tower-like edifice, sufficiently ele- vated to catch the cool breezes. These huts serve not only as habitations, but | also as workshops and storehouses. In construction a considerable amount of wood is used as supports and cross- beams and for the inner floor, ceiling and walls of the two large huts. The elevated structure is of wood, bamboo and straw. A shelf projects level with the entrance and the inhabitants are obliged to mount this and then crawl in on all fours, the doorway not being much larger than the entrance to a good sized dog kennel. The room is like a large flat box. some seven by eight feet, and is so low that one lying down can almost touch the ceiling with uplifted hands; but the savages always squat, so the place is high enough for them.—National Geographic Magazine. California Blue Book. The California Bluebook or State Roster, compiled by C. F. Curry, See- retary of State, and printed at the State printing office, Sacramento, un- der the direction of W. W. Shannon, superintendent, is a handy and cred- itable volume. It contains 621 pages, including the index, and is illustrated with good pictures of the Governor and other State officers, Senators and Representatives in Congress, Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, State Senators and Assemblymen, Railroad Commission- ers and members of the State Board of Equalization. Several of the fam- ous missions and quite a number of the public bulidings of the State are illustrated. The book contains a vast deal of useful information concerning the various commissions and public institutions of the State. The area, population, county seat and the name of office holders in every county are given. The publication of the volume was authorized by an act of the Leg~ islature aproved February 13, 1903, Improved K :'neta:cope. An invention that marks a wonder- ful development in the art of taking and reproducing cinematograph pic- tures has just been made by an Eng- lishman. It applies the principles of the stere- oscope to the cinematograph so that moving figures thrown upon a screen do not appear flat and bodyless, but stand out with a depth and fullness that makes them look exceedingly life- like. This is the first time that the stereo- scopic effect has ever been brought gut in cinematograph pictures. The discov- erer tried it in a barnyard sceme and the figures came out so lifelike that one could hardly help feeling that it was real. The inventor expects soon to have tereoscopic pictures in colors, and then he will be able to furnish paintings “while you wait”" that become realism !itself. This invention, which promises to rev- olutionize art, is, according to the in- ventor, the discovery of a new law of nature not previously known and hav ing relation to the relative sympathy that exists between the physical and mental. New Saccharine Plant. The Technical Review of Berlin states that a vlant has recently been found in South America which contains a considerable quantity of saecharine matter, is pot fermeniable, and pos- | sesses an unusually strong saccharine taste. The plant is herbaceous, and is from eight to twelve inches high. Th: chemist Bertoni considers this piant as of highly important value from an in- dustrial standpoint on account of its natural sugar properties. which are of a high percentage. Its scientific name is Eupatorium rebandium. According to experiments made by the discoverer, the director of the Agricuitural Instl-- tute at Asuncion, this interesting plant hqflwylddonunrwl!clhln- lC‘Il!mhlhc.fnlh-fl E‘m:. St R