The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1904, Page 32

_i% the best paying investment that Can- ,ade - turists, " offices are admirably located to attract . breathing space and elbow room. Those "imissioner of Emigration here, “$300,000 in working up emigration from “him, instead of contenting himself with .stifled town, with its vast deserts of Canada. Special Correspondence. 'HEADQUARTERS OF THE CALL, 5. HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, May 10.—For the | first time on record the emigration from the United Kingdom to Canada | bide fair this yvear to exceed that to the | United States. Last year, according to . T. R. Preston, the Canadian Com- 57,000 emigrated from this country to Canada, while to the United States there went 67,000. Thus far this year the number of emigrants who have left these shores for Canada is in excess of those for a like period last year and during the | summer months it is expected that the | ratio of increase will be much greater. Canadian officials in London are san- guine that when the year closes Canada | will be shown leading the United States | in the number of British emigrants re- ceived While Uncie Sam does nothing to at- tract emigrants from this country, Can- ada is hustling to get them and meet- ing with such success that th-r colo- nies of the empire have been moved to envy and are bestirring themselves to follow her example and copy her meth- ods England,” said Mr. Preston to the| writer, “is the only European country possessing colonies that devotes neith- er efforts nor money to encouraging emigration to them. What Engiland won't do for us Canada is doing for| herself, and when it is remembered | that four years ago we received only | about 11,000 emigrants from the United Kingdom, we feel that she is not doing it. badly, either. “Jt costs something, of cour: , but it ada ever made. Last year we expended thes vountry to Canada. We distributed 1,500,000 pamphlets, kept a lot of agents on the jump and spent a pile of money in advertising. But not a dollar went in the shape of passage money. We are not eending any deadheads to Can-| A steamship agency, being interest- | ed only in pocketing the emigrants”]| fages, goes in for numbers, regardless | of quality, but as a department of the | Canadian Government we have to con- | sider the fitness of the prospective emi- grants first. If sent out a lot of | #hirke nd idlers we should soon lose our No man ever receives any encouragement from this office to €0 to Canada who does not seem to have the right stuff in him. As regards quality the emigrants now going to| Canada average far higher then those | who seek their fortunes in the United States. Over 52 per cent of the arri- vals in Canada last year were agricul- | whereas of those who went to America only 14 per cent belonged to that class. That tells the story. We get Tery few emigrants from the undesir- able rationalities who are now swarm- ing to America in such large numbers.” Mr. Preston disregards all precedents which are supposed to reguiate the con- | duct of an Englishman who attains to the dignity of an important official po- sition. He allows himself\gnly half an hour instezd of two hours for lunch. | With nearly a score of clerks under | jobs, bossing things from the seclusion of | his private office, he talks freely with | prospective emigrants and helps win- now the grain fgom the chaff. Clear- skinned, sharp-eyed, breezy, energetic and direct of speech, he is a good type of the Canadian hustler, the man who gets ',?lefe. Situated at Charing Cross, in one of the broadest thoroughfares of London, the Canadian Government emigration attention and the most is made of the opportunities. No one can pass the place without being made aware that Canada is looking for emigrants and is giving away 160-acre farms free. In the windows are shown grains, fruits and cereals and other typical Canadian products, alluring photographs and lithographs, while a gigantic moose head tempts those of sporting procliv- Aties. Within are displayed more moose heads, mounted game trophies, agricultural products and plctures, the idea conveyed being that Canada is a country where men can not only make & good living. but have a good time as” well. As one notes the throng of people gazing at this show, what ex- cites wonder is not the size of the pres- ent stream of emigration to Canada, but that many more thousands do not Jump at the chance to leave this man- | brick and mortar. where many of them eke out a bare, barren existence, for a land where they can at least find who manifest a desire to do this are shanded = pamphlet which on efie first page contains this statement of the kind of cmigrants Canada wants: “Firstly—Farmers or persons with ex- perience on farms. “Secondly—Men who have been ac- customed to hard work and who have pluck and ambition to succeed. ““Thirdly—Persons without experience in agricultural pursuits, but who are determined to devote themselves to that occupation, and are willing to accept employment for the purpose of acquir- ing the recessary regarding methods of work in Canada.” Besides the big London offices Cana- dian agencies are established in Liv- erpool, Birmingham, Glasgow, Dublin, Belfast and Cardiff. Advertising is done on a large scale and very effect- ively, the alluring promise of “Free Parms for Willing Workers” often ex- { Canada makes America lend a hand in | suir | behind you among trees and rocks, each | have a trick of lodging in a vessel's tending across the whole front page of a newspaper. In the pamphlets issued to attract British emigrants shrewd use is made of the statistics relating to the large migration of American farmers to Canada. Americans are given credit for knowing a good thing when they see it and being a little bit quicker to possess it than any other people. And the British agriculturists | are urged to profit by their example | and share In their prosperity. Promin- ence is given to American opinions on &? fertility and future destiny ot‘ rthwest Canada. Among others James J. Hill is quoted as predicting | that “in ten years it will raise all tha wheat that Great Britain needs.” Thus drumming up emigrants. The Diver’s Life. In his recent work, “Careers of Dan- ger and Daring,” which the Century Company publishes, Cleveland Moffett tells of the fear that is ever gt the el- bows of the professional diver. He) says: “It is amusing to note the scorn of practical divers for the nice electric- lighting and telephone contrivances of divers who never dive, but sell their inventions to the Government for its Newport diving school, which game in-| ventions remain, for the most part, in their spick-span boxes. It seems sim- ple enough to have submarine lights; vet divers who dive prefer to grope in the almost darkness of our ordinary waters. It seems a distinct advantage that diver and tender be.able to talk ! over a wire; yet divers who dive keep | jealously to the clumsy system of jerks on the lines, and will not even be both- ered with the Morse alphabat. The fact is, a diver has quite as much as he can attend to with the burden of his (about 175 pounds), and -his two to watch and keep from kinks and entanglements. Touch one of these lines and you touch his life. Fasten a! new line to him, or two new lines, and | you enormously increase his peril. | Imagine yourself stumbling about in a | dark forest, with a man strapped on ! your back, and several ropes dragging | lines parate rope being to you as breath, blood! That is precisely the diver's | case. So he goes; so he works. And when they offer him a pretty apparatus to increasc his load, he will have none of it. Nor will he tug any extra ropes. have ways enough of dying as ity ' says he. “Working thus in gloom or ..rkness, | is | the diver develops his senses of feeling and locality. He gains certain qualities | of blind men, and finds guidance in un- lookc 1-for ways. The ascending bub- bles from his helmet, for instance,| shire silver white and may be seen for| a couple of fathoms. These bubbles seams, and so give the diver a rough | pattern of her. Again, in searching for | leaks, the sense of hearing helps him,! for he can distinguish (after long habit) the sucking sound of water rushing| through the holes. “One is sorry to learn that divers go | to pieces early; few of them last be-| yond fifty. As they grow old their keenness wanes; they lose their bear-! ings easily down below, and show bad! judgment. And fear of the business| grows upon them. Often they seek false | courage in strong drink, which hurries | on the end. Too many of them, after| searching all their lives for wrecks, | wind up as wrecks themselves. But it | is good to know that there are excep-! tions—divers like Bill Atkinson, sturdy and true at 50, and good in the suit for | years to come, unless their wives per- | suade them to retire. The diver's wife, | 1 am told—poor woman!—starts with | terror every time she hears a door-| bell ring.” i Vaccination Abroad. i In Germany in 157 a statute was| passed requiring that every child must | be vaccinated before »completing the | first year of its age and again when 12| vears old. This statute has been rigid- | 1y enforced and as a result Germany | has been kept well-nigh free from the | smallpox. In a population of over 50,- | 000,000 the average during the last twelve years has been only fifty cases. | The system of immediately quarantin- | ing a smallpox patient, as is done in| Baltimore, prevails in Germany, and | complete isolation is attained. Rigid | rules in regard to the disinfection of | clothing are observed, and while every effort is made to save the patient’s life, the safety of others is aiso considered. Germany not only believes in thorough vaccination, but can now present facts to prove it inestimable value. Great Britain, on the other hand, has heark- ened to the protests of the anti-vaccin- ationists and has paid dearly for its folly. On account of the opposition to the compulsory law Parliament about six years ago made the statute less rigid, and as a result smallpox has be- come far more prevalent than formerly. Instead of an average of fifty cases in a population of 50,000,000, as in Ger- many, Great Britain shows an annual mortality of 900 in a population of 32,- 500,000. These figures are matters of record and there can be no contradic- tion of them. Somewhat Severe. The Liverpool Post makes a succinct statement of the punishment of crimes in Korea which would seem to demon- strate the fact that it pays to be good in that godless land. Here is the gris- ley array: Treason, man—Decapitated, together with e relatives to the fifth degree. Mother, ‘wife and daughter poisoned or reduced to slavery. z Treason, woman—Poisoned. Murder, man—Decapitated; wife poi- soned. Murder, woman—Strangled or poi- soned. Arson, man—Strangled or poisoned; wife poisoned. -Arson, woman—Poisoned. Theft, man—Strangled, decapitated or banished; wife reduced to slavery; confiscation of all property. Desecration of graves—Decapitated, together with male relatives to the fifth degree; mother, wife and daughter poisoned. Counterf, capitation; wife poisoned. 1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. MAY ITHE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Jomn.ms.w..........ufimmmmkafimshIOHN'_I:N_A_UGIT.I;M(:: Publication Office ........ SUNDAY ..... BACK TO CHRISTIANITY. R. HEARST has written another editorial. Its M subject is Mr. Rockefeller, but it is made the means of renewing Mr. Hearst’s allegiance to Christianity and of accounting for certain features in his career. This is gratifying to the orthodox world, as Mr. Hearst’s defection to the doctrine of transmigra- tion of the soul was becoming serious. Perhaps we owe his recantation to the influence of Bishop Potter, who is said in his campaign biography to have watched and tended him from his innocent and interesting child- hood. Tf this be so, the Bishop is to be congratulated upon snatching another brand from the burning. In the editorial Mr. Hearst assesses Mr. Rockefeller’s wealth at a billion dollars, but insists that: “About the much discussed John D. Rockefeller there is a pleasant side, a cheerful side.” Evidently it is not Mr. Rocke- feller’s inside, for he is a chronic dyspeptic, given over to the remorse of a guilty stomach, and suffering in- ternal pangs which forbid indulgence in the pleasure of the table, and confine him to oatmeal mush and those other melancholy emulsions devised by the break- fast food people of Battle Creek, Michigan. Mr. Hearst explains that this billionaire is “a quiet, peaceful man, astonishingly free from vicious habits, or any inclination to interfere with the ordinary routine of life.” We are glad to know this. He might take a notion to make us go to bed in the morning and eat breakfast in the evening. Mr. Hearst’s guarantee that he will not do so is reassuring. But our real interest in this is Mr. Hearst's statement that “John D. Rockefelier is religious, sincerely religious. The people at large owe much to the Christian religion because of the effect it has on Rockefeller.” Thanks for pointing it out to Resolutions of thanks to Christianity should be passed at once and forwarded to Mr. Hearst. After the editorial on transmigration there was a fear that Mr. Rockefeller would become reckless and wicked, not wicked enough to reappear as a woman; but in view of his indigestion and lack of hair he might have concluded to be bad enough to return to us as an us. ! animal, perhaps a lion, for a lion gnaws his bone and swallows the pieces and sleeps like a top, and then he is not a bald animal, but is hairy. If Mr. Rockefeller had followed Mr. Hearst into transmigration of the soul he might have stayed there, but he abided with the plan of salvation and the Baptist church, and Mr. Hearst says that: “Thanks to his religious belief he sets an ex- cellent example to every man of great wealth. He refrains in his personal life from setting an evil example to his fel- low-citizens.” Now we are getting at it. Mr. Hearst is also a very rich man and he accounts for himself and Mr. Rocke- | feller being found birds of a feather, brooded under the wing of the church. It is their fellowship in selting a good example in their personal lives. Mr. Hearst goes on to say that he knows of a man worth twenty millions, i who died the other _day, who spent his money in the most vicious possible way, “encouraging vice in his so- cial circle, gambling in all its forms, drinking and excesses in every direction.” It is intimated that that reprehen- sible person is now asking Dives the way t@ the old oaken bucket, while Mr. Rockefeller, with his-fifty times twenty millions and his Sunday-school tendencies. “is i making little sermons at Sunday school and Y. M. C. A. meetings.” But there is a rift in every lute; a blemish on every lily; imperfection in the rose itself and perfection is not anywhere. Mr. Iearst says he is compelled to admit that, “while Mr. Rockefeller does not irritate the poor, he ignores the biblical commmand to give all to the poor and follow Christ.” There Hearst and Rockefeller part company, Rockefeller, like the rich young man, goes away sorrowing, and Mr. Hearst is accounted for. Even as a candidate for the Presidency he has been obeying that command which fails upon the Rockefel- ler car unheeded. For months past he has been giving to the people all over the United States. When they met at Santa Cruz the other day his hand was there, and so was theirs. In Indiana he was like the help that cometh from the hills. and put the poor in shape to get through the summer by offering them a half million. Mr. Rockefeller may choose to fool with fire and let his immortal soul slip up and fall on the broiler by refus- ing to give up to the indigent; but as for Mr. Hearst, he proposes to seck cold storage, if liberal use of lucre with the poor will do it. After parting company with Rocke- feller in this respect, Mr. Hearst proceeds to see in him a danger to the republic. He is all right in social mo- rality but a danger to our political morality.” From this we infer that a man may be a destroyer of social morality, but as a supporter of political morality deserves reward. Whose case is Mr. Hearst pleading? The United States Circuit Court in this jurisdiction decided the other day a case that had been on the files of the tribunal for forty-nine years. This surely is an encouraging sign that litigataion in the Federal courts may reach a conclusion before time has woven the web of two generations of life and before the issues in con- troversy have attained the dignity of ancient history. WIDENING BUSINESS STREETS. PETITION of owners of property is before the A Board of Supervisors for the widening of the roadway of Fourth street. To secure greater road space it is proposed to take four feet from the sidewalk on each side of the street, making eight feet in all. The petition has been recommended. by the Board of Works and will come before the Street Committee of the Board of Supervisors to-morrow for consideration, The argument advanced in behalf of the widening of Fourth street is that it is a main thoroughfare that leads from Market street to the Potrero and South San Francisco, and that it is rapidly becoming so congested during busi- ness hours that street travel and the passage of teams encounter serious interference. The widening is urged strongly by large holders of real estate. If theré is any opposition it has not publicly developed. The effect on the Fourth street sidewalks will be to reduce them from nineteen to fifteen feet in width. A similar move was made in Third street, with one block nearest to Market street being excepted. The improved condition of Third street is used to illustrate the prospective appearance of Fourth street with wider roadway and narrower sidewalks than it had formerly. If the great increase in business and traffic in the block bounded by Third and Fourth and Market and Mis. sion streets could have been foreseen when the city was laid out there would probably have been a street between Third and Fourth streets running south from Market street, The solid improvements that have been erected in on or de-| this business section make it certain that no such street i can be cut through between Third and Fourth streets for many years, if ever. The only way in sight, therefore, to augment traffic between Market street and the growing section south of the city’s principal thoroughfare is by making wider roads. : The widening of Mission street has been recom- mended and will be a part of the municipal budget. Third street has been widened by the city, the expense being provided for in the budget of 1903-4. The expense of giving Fourth street better facilities for travel will fall npon the city if the Supervisors act favorably in the premises. There has been a vast increase in business in the three mentioned streets in the past few years; with the growth of the city the volume of traffic will be eon- tinually increased. The present size is such that there is an urgent call for more room immediately. The cost of widening Fourth street is estimated at $35,000. Market street, it is urged, will be relieved by | providing wider outlets for the stream of trafiic to run in. The argument would seem to be good. Whatever makes for the promotion of business is good for the entire city, a fact that is of general acceptation. In time other streets leading from Market street south- ward may also be broadened. Many citizens believe that developments in the immediate future will make that necessary. Another official of the Ufiited States Mint in this city has listened to the tempter and now stands before his fellows a confessed thief. Men pay too heavy a price for the privilege of dishonesty even without suf- fering the pains of convict life. As a mere matter of utility, honesty in the American Federal service recom- mends itself to the observing for many distinct advan- tages. A HINT FOR CALIFORNIA. | teacher. | mural suburbs. The wall ig pierced by | two stories above it. California are considered to be so superior that four- teen students from the Univer$ity of Minnesota have come to this State to study in the mines of Nevada Coun- ty. The young men are accompanied by Professor Van Barneveld and Instructor E. P. McCarthy, both of whom will also pick up some practical information about mining while they are in California. The Minnesota School of Mines sends a class annually | to study at some central point where mining is actually in progress. Classes have in turn visited Butte and Ana- conda in Montana and mining centers in Utah, Colorado, | Michigan and Minnesota. The present class begins its ! practical studies in California by an investigation of quartz mining. Stamp milling, drift mining, cyaniding, smelting, dredging for gold and other forms of mineral recovery are all in their reach in California. Incidentally, and this ought not to be lost sight of, these incipient mining engineers will get some knowl- edge of the mineral resources of this State, which are varied and vast, to take away and impart. The great mother lode alone has wealth in it beyond | ]T is gratifying to observe that mining methods in calculation. Modern miethods make its low grade ores | profitable, while its high-class ores will reward the for- tunate with more immediate wealth. Ancient river channels contain treasures like to those of ancient Ophir. Industrious’ application of skill will add their stores to the world’s: opulence. California needs money to de- velop its resources, and in no direction is this more true than when applied to mines. The coming of these mining students from far-away Minnesota supplies a hint to this State that may be valuably used. They will in time be advisers to capital- | ists who are seeking to put their money in mining prop- | erties. The mining engineers of the present time come | mainly from mining schools and universities where there | are maintained special mining departments. To courage the Minnesota students is desirable; so equally it would be to inducc students from mining schools in | all parts of the United States to visit California and in- spect its mines. The advance party from Minnesota may well be fol- lowed by others from the Columbia School of Mines, from the mining departments of Yale,#Harvard, the Uni- versity of Michigan and other great institutions. It would pay California to bring such parties to California ! mines. . The miners of Nevada County see clearly the ad-: vantage of having mines in their county studied. The Nevada County Mner describes the students from the University of Minnesota as a fine looking lot of earnest, intelligent young men, who seem to realize thoroughly the great zespousibility resting upon the shoulders of a mining engineer and to understand the dignity of their profession. There is no doubt that this is an accurate | description. California is turning out mining engineers from its institutions of learning and many of them have already become noted by their achievements in this and in other | countries. Their fame has brought students from abroad to take mining courses in California. It is not possible for all aspiring young mining engineers to come here to reside, but if the way was made easy for them to make a summer trip, unquestionably many would journey hither for a period of practical study in the mines. Con- sidering the great extent of mineralized lands in this State there will not be too many mining engineers of the right sort in the State in many years to come. While California furnishes a great opportunity for students to learn by practical observation in existing mines, it also affords a field for mining activity that is practically in- exhaustible. : en- | The Russians are still distressing ‘heir thought cen- ters to determine by what artifices of naval warfare the Japanese have accomplished their signal victories in the campaign against Port Arthur. While the inquiry is a natural one, its answer now seems ren‘lme.. Let the | Russians wait until peace is declared and then some Japanese admiral might be invited to make a Russian lecturing tour of exposition and kindly enlightenment. —_— A night clerk in one of our fashionable uptown hotels was recently recreant to his trust, turned burglar in the house he was employed to protect and now languishes in durance vile. Serves him right for taking an unpro- fessional advantage of his fellows who have to break through bars and bolts for their quarry. When a thief takes pay for the opportunity given him to rob a man he has passed the limit of hospitality. PRUENSENG e il The dairies of San Francisco are again under the lash of official censure, and all sorts of reform are bristling in the air of officialdom. We have had many of these scares and out of each has come some good to the city, but until the crusade against dishonest dealers is made per- manent and systematic the evil of impure milk will re-| main a menace to the community. these to the railway 'station is the i west gate, “The Gate of Bright Amiability,” and it is by this portal i there certainly is about its location, | crowds, broad streets and labyrinthine [ whirls past us well patronized with ! headquarters of the American Electric j of the natives.—Harper's Weekly. | may be added that of the anthropolo- | gist, according to the London Ex- press. A walk through the Tower of Lon- don will convince any person that the | to-day, would be found loose fitting Clothes Make the Lady. A certain well known school teacher who resides in this city, but who is teaching in San Jose, is telling a good story on herself. It appears that she comes up from the Garden City every Friday night and remains over until Monday morning. Because of the shortness of the interval between the hour when her school closes and the time the train leaves for this city, she is compelled to don her best raiment Friday morning and prepare for her trip before going to school. One of her bright pupils, a little boy, noticed that on Friday the teacher was always dressed a la mode, and it apparently bothered him g great deal, particularly as on all other days she appeared be- fore her class clad in neat but plain attire. One Friday at noon this observing| little fellow walked up to the desk|] of his teacher while she was eating her lunch and attracted her attention by calling “teacher.” “What is it, Willie?” sald the “Why dop’t you always dress like a lady 2" Korea’s Capital. Seoul is a wn]l—e—d-—city of nearly a quarter of a million inhabitants, about a third of whom live in extensive extra eight gateways of massive stone, each with a pagoda-shaped tower of one or The nearest of that almost every visitor enters the capital of the hermit kingdom. The name of the city, by the way, is pro- nounced precisely as we would pro- nounce the female pig with an 1 added-—that is, Sowl. I have never heard a Korean pronuonce the name | in any other way. The. word means “capital,” nothing more; but if there is small beauty or originality about the name of the city, for anything more strikingly pictur- esque than the site of the Karean metropolis would indeed be difficult to find. The city stands in a little valley almost surrounded by rugged, corrugated peaks. High along the top of this mountain ridge runs the city wall. Deep into the gullies it dips, rising now and again to scale the steepest slopes and crown the sum- | mits of the loftiest pinnacles. In- olosed within this snakelike barrier is such a. strange contrast between | wretched hovels and splendid palaces, | purposeless loafers and hurrying alleys, spotdess cleanliness and un- speakable filth, as [ doubt could be equaled elsewhere on earth. Along several of the main streets are trolley lines, and every few min- utes a modern American electric car Koreans, both men and women. Seoul of the past is fast becoming extinet. A modern red brick building, Company, rises in the center of the town, and from its tower stately churches and legation buildings can be seen towering above the squat houses Race I's Growing. To the evidence of the tailor that Englishmen are taller than they were armor-clad knights of medieval days were puny men compared with the athlete of to-day. The experiment of getting into suits of old armor in country houses has often proved that the ‘“legs” are far too short for the average man of the present geperation. A well known anthropologist at the British Museum says that undoubtedly the British race is taller than it was several hundred years ago. “I think, however, that the medieval man was deeper chested and broader in the shoulder,” he said. “The old armor, if a man of good average height could squeeze into it in the shoulders and at the chest. “The tallest men in the world come from Galloway and Perthshire, and Yorkshire's average is a fine one. Even that of Southwest England and South Wales—five feet six inches—is far higher than that of many of the Con- tinental nations. “The tallest men after the men of Galloway, who have an average of nearly six feet, are the Fulahs of the French Soudan, and the Patagonians are believed to hold a very good aver- age.” “ In London the average is as low as in South Wales and the little man fre- quently asks why he should have to pay the same price for a suit of clothes as the country bred giant. This question was answered by a West End tailor. “What we make by the little man we lose on the big man,” he said; “for we pay our men extra when they are working on a giant's sut “We have been compelled on one or two occasions, however, to charge more when a man is exceptionally tall or stout. One of our customers, who is over six feet high and is forty-six inches around the chest and forty-sev- en inches around the waist, takes five and a half yards -double width for a lounge suit. We ask another guinea and he pays it readily.” Wilhelmina’s Beggar. The visit of Wilhelmina, Queen of Holland, to Italy, recalls her life in Florence with her mother in her girl- hood. They lived in a modest way, go- ing out daily on foot. It is related that one day they were going along the Lung 'Arno, when they were accosted by a beggar. The Queen Regent want- ed to push on, fearing that her daugh- ter might catch some fearful disease, but the little Queen, having a will of her own, insisted on stopping. She Questioned the man in broken Italian, — believing herself quite unknown, and on proceeding gave him half a franc. He looked from the silver in his hand to her, and then back again, and at last said, with an air of impertinence: “So your subjects keep you as short as that! Poor Queen!™ Radium and Blindness. Radium rays will not at present fur- nish a cure for blindness, reports Pro- fesor Greeff of Berlin in a published account of an offictal investigation of the optical properties of radium. This research was largely undertaken as the result of a paper by Professor London of St. Petersburg, in which he claimed that there was hope for the blind in radium. Aeccording to Professor Greeff the rays given off by a fluorescent sur- face excited by radium rays are simply those of ordinary light, and as such cannot affect a blind eye. The actual radium rays, however, are sent out in all directions, penetrating all struc- tures, and the effect, a sort of sea- green radiance, is the same whether the radium is held in front of the eye or at the side of the head. It has been asserted that fluorescence actually oc- curs in the eye and that rays of or- dinary light are accordingly emitted, but this view is opposed by Professor Greeff, and the fact is cited that the radium rays do not bleach the visual purple of the retina. He also states that when the function of the rods and cones which transmit visual concepts from'the retina to the nerve centers is destroyed the eye is unable to provide for the sensation of sight.—Harper's Weekly. Petroleum 7Bri;[urttcx. A French naval officer has made it possible, with certain changes in the fire boxes, to burn a fuel in the form of petroleum briquettes, which gives off no smoke. The officer claims his in- ventien will give fuel of which one pound is equivalent to four pounds of coal. The briquettes are made by add- ing to petroleum oil, for each litre, 150 grammes of ground soap, 150 grammes of resin and 300 grammes of caustic soda lye. Thi® mixture is first heated and stirred until near solidification, when it is poured into molds, which in turn are then placed in an oven for ten or fifteen minutes, and the bri- quettes are ready for use after cooling a few hours. Greater solidity may be obtained by the addition of a small quantity of sawdust and a little clay or sand. Ocean Depths. The deepest sounding ever made by any vessel was by the United States ship Nero while on the Honolulu-Ma- nila cable survey, with apparatus bor- rowed from the Albatross. When near Guam the Nero got 5269 fathoms, or 31,614 feet, only 66 feet less than six miles. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth, were set down in this hole, it would have above its sum- mit a depth of 2612 feet, or nearly hal? a mile of water.—National Geographic Magazine. Answers to Queries. JEWELRY—J. K., City. The tar- iff on a gold chain or other jewelry imported into the United States from a foreign country is 60 per cent ad valorem. s. SNEEZING—A. S, City. There is a superstition to the effect that the sneezing of a cat indicates good luck to a bride. There is another that if a cat sneezes thrice a cold will run through the family owning the cat. ROSE LEAVES—Mrs. C. L. F. Alameda, Cal. The following is given as a recipe for the preparation of rose leaves for either a rose jar or pillow Sun dry the leaves of any of the fra- grant roses, place them in a jar, add a few cloves, a little cinnamon bark and a little alcohol. just enough to moisten the leaves. The leaves should then be placed in the covered jar in the sun, where it may get warm, “uat not hot. After exposure a delightful fragrance is emitted from the jar. The leaves so prepared may be placed in a pillow or sachet bag, but the fra- grance when exposed to the air will not be enduring. TREASURY WHITEWASH—J. W. D.. City. The following is the recipe for what known as United States Treasury Derartment whitewash. It has been found by experience to an- swer equally well on brick, wood or stone, and that it is almost as good as paint and much cheaper: Slack a half bushel of unslacked lime with boiling water, keeping it covered during the process; strain it a-. add a peck of salt, dissolved in-warm water; three pounds of ground rice bput in beiling water and boiled to a thin paste; half a pound of powdered Sj “nish whiting and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water; mix these well together and allow the mixture to stand for several days. Keep the v thus prepared in a kettle or portable fur- nace and when used put it on as hot as possible with painters’ or whitewash brushes. —_——— Townsend's California Glace fruits artistic fire-etched boxes. 715 Market st.* —_—— Special information supplied daily to houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cai- ifornia street. Telephone Main 1042, *