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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1913.
THE semi-weekly journal
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Two Vital Problems
Of American Farming.
The national conference on marketing and farm
credits, which was held last week at Chicago, re
vealed a remarkably keen and widespread interest in
these two vital problems of the country’s economic
life. The meeting wa~ attended by such educators as
President Judson, of the University of Chicago, and
W. Thompson, director of the bureau of economic
research in the University of Minnesota; by indus
trial leaders like B. F. Yoakum, chairman of the
hoard of directors of the ’Frisco lines and Louis W.
. Hill, chairman of the board of directors of the Great
Northern* railroad; by representatives from Congress
and the federal department of agriculture and by
progressive farmers and busings men from divers
parts of the country. The fact that a body of men,
representing so wide a variety of interests, assem
bled for the one purpose of discussing agricultural
credits and means for distributing farm products
.more economically is within itself significant and
it
cheering.
There was a unanimity of opinion as to the need
of establishing a more elastic system of rural credits
and of better means for ’cringing the producer and
the consumer into easy and economic contact. It is
commonly said that American farmers should apply
business methods to their important field of interests,
that they should look more carefuly to the market
ing of their crops and to farm management in gen
eral. But before this can be done, there' must he
changes in existing economic and agricultural condi
tions.
A farmer may realize keenly enough the need of
thoroughgoing methods in financing his affairs; but
if there is no chance to secure loans on convenient
terms he cannot carry his progressive ideas into ef
fect. Likewise he may realize the importance of sys
tem and foresight in marketing his products; but
unless there is son established plan whereby he can
keep informed on market conditions, he is almost
helpless to aid himself.
The machinery for such enterprises must be pro
vided largely through the United States government,
with the co-operation, of course, of the various State
governments. Steps to this important end have al
ready been taken. A Rural Credits Commission, rep
resenting the federal government and the Southern
Commercial Congress wjll sail this month for Europe
to investigate the farm credit systems of the Old
World. Senator Hoke Smith’s bill, creating a “di
vision of markets” in the Department of Agriculture
is another stride in the right direction. The Commis
sion will acquire information on which an American
plan to solve many of the farmer’s financial prob
lems can be modeled; and the market bill will go
far toward establishing shorter and cheaper connec
tions between the farmer who has food products to
sell and the city consumer who wants to buy.
Restoring the Deer.
An incidental but none the less interesting en
terprise of conservation is the effort now being made
in several States to restock mountain or forest re
gions with wild deer. The Fish and Game depart
ment of Kentucky has ventured upon this task ’ by
placing a herd of deer on a big farm in the eastern
quarter of that State. The success of the experiment
depends largely on how well the animals are pro
tected in the outset. Indications are that the public
will co-operate' with the authorities; for, as the
Courier-Journal says, “Popular interest in the under
taking is widespread and cordial.”
An ideal place for the breeeding of deer is a
woodland reservation, owned and directly controlled
by the government, either State or national. In this
respect, Georgia is peculiarly fortunate. The United
States has recently acquired a great tract of virginal
forest in north e-eorgia, which is to be held per
petually as a part of the Appalachian reserve pro
vided in the Week’s bill. This land is patrolled by
government foresters and is thoroughly protected
under th@ law.
State Game Commissioner Mercer has conceived
the happy idea of placing on this sequestered area a-
large herd of eik, which he will secure from Yellow
stone Park through the assistance of Georgia con
gressmen. The elk will be safeguarded by both
State and federal law and, in an environment so con
genial as they will find here, they should rapidly
multiply and in the course of a few decades become
almost as numerous in the country about as they
were in the days of the Red Man.
Commissioner Mercer is also planning to bring a
number of deer from islands off the Georgia coast
and distribute them in the dense swamp lands of the
central and southern Georgia. Ten years ago such a
project would have ben futile, indeed, hut since Geor
gia has secured a game law and thoroughgoing means
of enforcing it, there is no reason why deer should
not again become plentiful in several parts of the
State.
A Tariff Bill For the People.
T O FRAME A TARIFF BILL that would be
equally acceptable to all men and all inter
ests would be as impossible a task as to
pattern a shoe that would fit every foot. Every
such measure inevitably brings a protest from
scores and hundreds of people; and this is true
not of the tariff alone hut of all legislation, from
the simplest town ordinance to the most far-reach
ing national statute. Whether the proposition is one
to elect United States senators directly by the peo
ple or to keep cows off the street, there is bound
to be a clash of opinion. Indeed, there could be no
government or progress, IT in the making and bet
tering of laws we tarried until all men were pf one
mind; wherefore the only just or practical course
in this, as in every other instance, Is to enact a
tariff bill that will be fair and beneficial to the
greatest number of the American people.
Because it adheres so closely to this one impor
tant principle, the tarff bill now before Congress is
perhaps the most equitable measure of its kind
that could be devised to meet the country’s present
needs. In matters of detail, it is doubtless open to
change and improvement but, regarded in its en
tirety and in the light of its overruling purpose, it
is an admirable bill, for the reason that it places
the common rights of a hundred million people
above the special privileges of a few.
It was only to be expected that a thoroughgoing
application of this principle would wring a cry of
protest and pain from those to whom the present
tariff schedules give a particular and unequal advan
tage. / Interests that have long enjoyed tlfe gov
ernment’s patronage are naturally averse to be
ing shoved from the tariff shelter and placed upon
their- own mettle in the open field of competition.
Monopolies which by virtue of a high tariff have
been enabled to fix prices as they chose, regardless
of the normal laws of trade, naturally resent any
challenge tq. their tyranny. If the Democratic Con
gress and administration should yield to such
voices, the party’s pledge to a downward revision
of^the tariff could never be redeemed and the public’s
. hope never realized.
The Government has been entrusted to Demo-
, cnatic control chiefly in order that the welfare of the
people as a mass may no longer be sacrificed to the
undue advantage of detached and special groups.
The time for the average man’s inning has come, the
consumer’s inning; the time hen tariff laws shall
be made in the interest of the nation and its cit
izens as a whole instead of, as heretofore, in behalf
of a comparatively few and favored individuals. No
one has doubted for a moment that such legislation
would be violently opposed by the particular groups
affected. Of course, the wool interests oppose free
wool and the sugar interests an immediate reduc
tion and the ultimate removal of the duties on su
gar. To be sure, their profits will be less under the
new regime than under the old and, if they are
unwilling or unable to become as efficient as their
competitors they will necessarily suffer.
The truth is, however, that the old tariff sys
tem which Democracy is pledged to reform is no
longer a means of reasonable protection for strug
gling industries, but a scheme of patronage for
all powerful trusts. The original purpose of the
protective system was long ago outgrown. The
conditions that lent it the color of justice have
ceased to prevail. The primal demand for a pro
tection of formative enterprise has no excuse in the
present circumstances of our economic life. What
need of tariff aid has a Beef Trust that successfully
competes in the markets of Europe and sells its
products far more cheaply abroad than at home?
What need of protection has the American manufac
turer of agricultural implements who by virtue of
a monopoly lays a tax of millions of dollars a year
on the American farm? Yet, whenever it is pro
posed to lessen the tariff and to open the gates to
wholesome competition, we find the giant trusts
“mewling like an infant in its nurse’s arms.”
The pleas for u high protection of the great in
dustries long since ceased to be logical and now they
have become ridiculous. Tariff revision that will
clear the wffy to normal competition will not only
benefit the consumer by bringing prices to a natural
level, but it will also benefit the producer and man
ufacturer by placing them upon their own merits,
by teaching them to rely upon efficient, progressive
methods and worthy products rather than upon the
Government’s artificial aid.
The tariff bill now before Congress embodies
three essential truths: that legislation of this char
acter should consider the interests of the people as
a whole, net the profits of special groups; that im
port duties, which are necessary to meet the ex
penses of the national Government, should be placed
most heavily on luxuries and most lightly on the ne
cessaries of life; and that American industry
should be freed from the sluggardizing influence of
monopoly and re-invigorated with wholesome compe-
tion. Mr. Underwood and his colleagues in the
House have shown rare skill and foresight in shap
ing this measure. President Wilson has shown ad
mirable poise and hardihood in insisting that the
party’s pledges be squarely fulfilled. It is to ba
hoped that the Democrats of the Senate will stand
equally true to the duties of this hour, equally
^united in allegiance to the party’s principles and
the people’s rights.
The Scarcity of Apples.
A horticultural specialist has calculated that at
the present rate of production there is a yearly aver
age of only about one peck of apples for each person
in the United States. Little wonder, then, that the
price of this fruit, which is in well-nigh universal
demand, has come to he exceedingly high; or that
far-sighted investors are turning their attention to
so profitable a field ot (endeavor. The detailed figures
Cited in this connection are interesting.
"In the year 1896 the United States produced
69,000,000 barrels of apples. Since then there’has
been a, constant .gradual decrease, until the last
five years stand as follows: 1907 gave 29,540,000
barrels; 1910 gave 24,225,000 barrels, and 1911
gave 30,065,000 barrels. (Think of it. Less than
one bushel per capita. Then when we consider
that less than two-thirds of these are marketable
taking the export trade off, several million bar
rels ground to cider, and other millions decaying,
it leaves but little more than one peck for eaen
person in the country. Does it not look more like
a famine than an overproduction?”)
Authorities in matters of horticulture have de
clared that north Georgia soil and climate afford one
of the most favorable regions for apple growing to he
found aSywhere on the earth. The relative nearness
of this State to the great centers of eastern
demand is a further advantage to the Georgia apple
grower. It Is gratifying to note that these, excep
tional opportunities are being recognized and turned
to account.
A Notable Conference on
The South’s Rural Life.
There is to be held at Richmond, Va., next week,
under the auspices of the Conference for Education
in the Sputh, a convention, or rather a group of con
ventions, in which every alert citizen, whatever may
be his particular vocation, has vital cause to be in
terested. The range of subjects to be considered in
cludes many different questions (that bear upon the
South’s rural development and they will be discussed
by men who are in intimate touch with this impor
tant field of thought and endeavor—banners, mer
chants, manufacturers and teachers as well as
farmers.
It is coming to he more and more clearly realized
that the prosperity ot towns and cities depenas upon .
the contiguous farm territory. Business men are fast
awakening to the truth that from their particular
standpoint it pays to encourage in every way possi
ble the development of agricultural resources. Hence
we find hoards of trade and chambers of commerce
engaging in active campaigns to upbuild the country
about them as well as the immediate interests of
their own communities.
Thus, the Commercial club of Louisville is fi
nancing a movement for better rural schools through
out Kentucky. The Duluth commercial club has em
ployed an agricultural expert to train 1 the farmers
of the adjacent counties in scientific methods of cul
tivation. The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce is do
ing work of this charcter that is especially note
worthy. It has a standing committee on agriculture.
It has inaugurated a vigorous campaign for an in
creased production of corn and foodstuffs in Georgia
and under its direction there is held each year one
of the greatest corn expositions in the South. Fur
thermore, it stands ready at all times to assist farm
ers in overcoming perils to their crops and in other
efforts to upbuild their interests.
It is largely for the purpose of quickening and
organizing such enterprise that the Richmond con
vention has been called. The program, an excep
tionally interesting and varied one, includes “a
farmers’ conference to get at the best means of
marketing farm products; a business men’s confer
ence to take un the question of aid in agricultural
development; an editors’ conference to plan for con
certed prefes action; a conference of rural school
workers to make the rural school meet farm needs;
a college conference to plan educational extension
work for country communities; and general confer
ences on rural credits, the country church, taxation,
and better conditions for country women.” In addi
tion to this there will be an extensive exhibit to
portray the rural upbuilding of the South.
It is doubtful there was ever held in any part of
America a convention so generous and inclusive in
its treatment of rural interests as this promises to
be. It comes opportunely, for the best thought of the
entire nation is now centered upon the problems of
the farm and the enrichment of all phases of country
life.
The national Congress is approaching a construc
tive program of legislation through which the fed
eral government will render more active and more
practical aid to this great field of public interests.
There is now before the Senate a bill by Senator
Smith, of Georgia, providing for a division of mar
kets in the department of agriculture, through which
the farmers may he kejfil continually informed as to
the current prices and movements of food products.
A Rural Credits Commission lg soon to sail for 'Eu
rope to study the financial side of agriculture in the
Old World. Scores of commercial and industrial
bodies throughout the Union are turning their atten
tion to this and kindred subjects.
It is well that the South, which is the great agri
cultural section of the country, should give particular
ly earnest thought and effort to such affairs. The Rich
mond conference will doubtless mark a lofig step in
the right direction;, and its participants should have
the hearty co-operation in carrying out such plans
as they may devise.
To Rid the South of Malaria.
»
It was stated by medical authorities in a public
health conference recently held at St. Louis, that, by
draining its swamp lands and observing a few. sim
ple precautions, the South could virtually banish mal
aria from its borders. Dr. W. A. Evans, of Chicago,
who has had abundant experience through campaigns
against this malady in Illinois, declared that extinc
tion of the mosquito, through which malaria is com
municated, would add ten dollars to the value of every
acre of Southern land and would more than double
the section’s output of corn.
Remarkable as these statements may appear, they
'are amply verified by records from other parts of the
country where a thoroughgoing system of drainage
has destroyed the breeding places of the mosquito.
In his interesting report on land reclamation in,
Georgia, State Geologist McCallie adduces some con
vincing figures. The census of 1870, he shows, gave
the number of deaths from malaria in Indiana, Illi
nois and Iowa for the preceding year as fifty-eight
and five-tenths per thousand, while the census of
1890, after large areas of land had been drained, gave
the death rate due to malaria as only eight and six-
tenths per thousand. Thus /ithin two decades, these
States almost freed themselves from a prevalent and
really terrible disease simply by applying well known
and comparatively cheap methods of engineering
science.
“For the east coast lands of Georgia, South
Carolina,” says the State ■geologist, "the death
rate from, malaria in 1870 ivas sixty-six and two-
tenths per thousand and in the same States in
1890, the rate was sixty-oiie and seven-tenths per
thousand. These figures show that malarial con
ditions did not materially change on the three
last named States during the two decades, a fact
which is accounted for in a large measure, by the
lack of drainage improvement. The facts brought
out in the comparison of these into groups of
States, in one of which drainage had been car
ried on to a large extent and in the other but
little or no drainage attempted, demonstrate con
clusively that malaria depends largely on swamp
conditions which can be removed by drainage.”
No State has more urgent reason than Georgia to
heed the moral which these figures point. Its swamp
and overflow lands aggregate twe million, seven
hundred thousand acres, or approximately one-four
teenth of the area of the entire commonwealth.
These lands, which could be turned to productive
account, if they were properly drained, are now not
only worthless but also a peri! to the health of the
adjacent country. They are the hotbeds for billions
of mosquitoes, the insect through which the malarial
parasite is transmitted.
It is therefore not men ,y an economic but a vital
and a moral duty ,.t -ue State lend all possible en
couragement to drainage enterprises; for, upon the
reclamation of these swamp lands depends in a very
large measure the health, the efficiency and the very
life of thousands of people.
WATER
By Dr. Frank Crane
The gospel of the twentieth century is —water.
You have read many a learned treatise, doubtless,
Inclining Edmund Demolin’s “Anglo-Saxon Suprem-
_ . w acy, to What Is It Due?’’ in
which is sought the cause of the
English race overrunning the
earth. The real cause is that
the Englishman has not been
afraid of water. He sails on it,
tubs in it, drinks it, even mixes
it liberally with his Scotch
whisky.
From the hygienic point ol
view there is no medicine like
water. About nine-tenths of the
ills of the flesh can be washed
out.
People go to Hot Springs in
Arkansas, to Manitou Springs in
Colorado, to Carlsbad, and to
Vichy and are cured. They
praise the salts in the waters.
The truth is the greatest cura
tive property is in the plain water that holds the
salts. They might be healed at home if they would
drink there as copiously as they do at the spa.
The human body is mostly water. When we die
the liquids are dried up. f
Drink a large glass of water as soon as you arise
in the morning; headache, constipation and physical
meanness in general will disappear.
Get the drink habit. Keep a bottle of water by
your office desk and go to it often. See how much
you can hold. This is nature’s remedy for doldrums,
nerves, premonitions and general depression.
Most of the morbilities, anarchies and crimes come
from the unwashed, in body or soul.
The root difference between Russia and the United
States consists not in the contrast between their re
spective forms of government, but in the contrast in
habits of b thing.
You do not need water that costs money, charged
and bottled waters. The liquor that runs from the
tap ir. your kitchen, that flows in the mountain brook,
that lies in infinite plenty in the lake, that comes
from your well or that falls down from the clouds,
is good enough, provided there be no pollution.
Use it. Immerse your body in it. Flush your
mouth and nose with it. Swallow it to your capacity.
So will all your solid flesh rejoice, your vital organs
operate smoothly, your mind clear up, your soul be
content,
A Batch of Smiles
A husband who had dined and wined to the limit
finds his way home in the wee sma’ hours. He
reaches the library just as he hears his wife’s foot
steps at the head of the stairs leading to her bed
room. He hastily reaches for a book from the libra
ry shelves, drops into a big easy chair and. has the
book spread across his lap as his wife enters.
“John! What are you doing here at this hour?”
she asks.
“Just ifading, dear. This book has been in the
library five years. I’ve made up my mhid dozens of
times to read it. Tonight I’m going to finish it.
Don’t worry, my dear. You go to bed. I’ll continue
reading.”
The wife, in tones of mingled disgust and author
ity, replies:
“John, close that checker board and come to bed!*’
* * *
From Berlin comes to hand a story of a German
driving an English friend a little way outside the cap
ital. A motor car came tearing past them at a ter
rific pace, followed by a tremendous cloud of dust.
* “Ah!” remarked the German, “there goes our em
peror.”
“How do you know?” inquired the English friend,
who could not distinguish the occupants of the car as
it flashed by.
“Do you suppose any one else in the ’world could
raise such a dust?” was the Teuton’s reply.
• * •
A little girl was sent by her mother to the grocery
store with a jug for a quart of vinegar.
“But, . lamma,” said the little* one, “I can’t say
that word.’
“But you must try,” said the mother, “for I must
have vinegar, and there’s no ,'one else to send.”
So the little girl went with her jug, and as she
reached the counter of the store she pulled the cork
out of t\i. jug with a pop, swung the jug on the
counter with a thud, and said to the astonished clerk:
“There! Smell of that and give me a quart! —La
dies’ Home Journal.
Mind-the-Baby-Mayor Wins
GLENWoOD SPRINGS, Col.—-“I’ll hold the baby
while you go and vote,” said Mayor James Zimmer
man, of Carbondale, to a woman voter of that city last
Tuesday evening.
Five minutes before the polls closed Mayor Zim
merman, who was seeking re-election, learned that two
of the fair voters of the town had not voted. Rushing
to the home of one of the women, he explained his
mission, and she hurried to the polls and cast her vote
for him.
Mr. Zimmerman then hurried to the residence of
the other delinquent and found her rocking her baby.
“Here,” he said, “I’ll hold the baby and you go and
vote. I need every vote I can get.”
The mother put the baby in his arms, tied on her
bonnet, and went at a douLle-quick to the polling place.
The mayor walked the floor, sang lullabys, whistled
and made faces to amuse the baby, ~nd when the votes
were counted he found he had been elected by a ma
jority of ode vote.—New York Times.
“Lest We Forget"
* (Clarkesville Advertiser.)
Twenty years ago the Democratic ‘party was in a
very similar position to that occupied by it today.
Then, as now, a Democratic president had just been
elected, and the issue on which the battle had been
fought and won was tariff reform. At the Chicago
convention of ’92 the plank of the platform dealing
with tariff, as prepared and submitted by the com
mittee on platform, was denounced in unmeasured
terms, and voted down by the assembled delegates as
an unworthy “straddle,” #nd in its place was inserted
the declaration that “tariff for revenue only” was the
avowed policy of the party, and repudiating in toto
the Republican policy of protection. The country had
spoken—am', spoken emphatically—and the mandate
given to our lawmakers to redress the existing abuses.
The silver question served to a certain extent to push
this call for tariff reform to one side, but in ’93, as
now, “free sugar” and “free wool” were burning ques
tions, and the bare-faced hold-up on the former by a
few so-called Democratic senators became history, and
a disgrace tc* the people responsible for it. Cleveland
urged a policy of resistance to the base surrender, 'out,
powerful though he was, “practical politics” was more
powerful, and the trimmers and traders prepared the
way for the defeat of the party that ha<l so soon be
trayed its trust. With the light of this history to
guide it, will the Democratic party stand squarely to
its pledges, or will it, by allowing the thin end of' the
wedge of compromise to enter, repeat its past perform
ances? There is a somber warning in the present po
sition of ti.e one-time all-powerful Republican party.
There was another pledge broken in its treatment of
this same question, and how the voters in November
last viewed the matter cannot so soon have been for
gotten. Any failure now to appreciate how earnestly
the people are looking to President Wilson and the
Democratic party to make good on pledges given -can
have only o*e result—overwhelming defeat at the first
opportunity. Let every Democrat do his full duty in
strengthening the hands of the president.
INVISIBLE LIGHT
By Frederic J. Haskin
In no other way is the progress of science brought
home more strikingly than in the development of our
knowledge of invisible light. Not only has the sci
entist discovered rays of light
which the human eye has never
seen and can never see, but lie
has found how ,to use that
knowledge for the benefit oZ
our everyday life. He has
•found rays of light so weak
that ordinary glass, however
transparent to the vision, shut3
it out effectively; and yet they
are so strong that billions of
germs may be killed merely by
coming within the scope of
their influence. From the
dawn of creation to the recent
past they have shed their in
fluence upon men, yet men
have been wholly unconscious
of their existence. In the few
short years that have gone by
since their discovery we have
demonstrated that even in the
inkiest of darkness there may be brilliant lights.
* * •
Such a paradox could not be believed by the ordi
nary layman did not the eye of the camera reveal
its truth. That instrument shows us that the eye is
sensitive to only a very small proportion of the total
radiation that reaches it, a discovery that leads tne
scientist to believe that if the eye could recognize
all this radiation it would reveal a thousand wonders
undreamed of. Gradually the scientist is developing
refined instruments which are capable of detecting
what the human eye cannot perceive, and it is be
lieved that many new things will ultimately be
learned through them.
* • * •
Dr. R. W. Wood, professor of experimental physics
at Johns Hopkins university, is one of the world’3
authorities upon invisible light, and he illustrates
some of the remarkable things about invisible light*
For instance, he says that if the finger be dipped
into ^ine oxide and rubbed over a white sheet of paper
thj eye will be unable to detect the presence of the
streaks of the white powder, unless it has been very
thickly applied. If, however, that piece of paper be
photographed with ultra violet light, it appears to be
marked with streaks of charcoal. This experiment
led to the deduction that if the moon and planets be
photographed with invisible light, substances which
do not appear visually might be brought out.
• • •
In a demonstration of this theory, Dr. Wood had
constructed a Sixteen-inch mirror, of twenty-six*inch
focus, coated with nickel, which is used in combina
tion with a plate «of the new ultra violet glass, heavily
silvered. The region around Aristarchtls, one of tho
craters of the moon, was photographed with yellow
and then #ith ultra violet light. Then two specimens
of ‘volcanic tuff were photographed in a similar way.
It was found that the one sample, when photographed
with ultra violet light, corresponded identically with
the deposit surrounding the crater Aristarchus. It
was analyzed and found to contain iron and traces of
sulphur. Then several rocks were coated with iron
oxide, and they were photographed with the ultra
violet rays, but the iron showed none of the peculiar
ities of Aristarchus when so photographed. After
this an invisible coating of sulphur was formed on a
piece of light gray rock by the application of a fine
jet. When it was photographed with the invlsil^e
rays it was black, exactly like the crater Aristarchus.
From this Dr. Wood was able to infer that this spot
on the moon is an extensive deposit of sulphur, re
sulting from vapor ejected from the crater.
* • *
In explaining the mysteries of invisible light he-j
fore the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Dr. Wood
took two pieces of scarlet silk, which could not be
distinguished under an incaftdescent light, and placed
them under a Cooper-Hewett mercury arc lamp, with
the result that one continued to appear scarlet, while
the other appeared almost black. The mercury lamp
gives off almost no red rays, consequently red ob
jects appear almost black. But the other piece of
silk was colored with a dye that became flouescent
under the green light of the mercury lamp.
• • •
Dr. Wood and Prof. Rubens devised a sort of ray
filter with which they could separate the visible rfrom
the invisible rays of light and with it they were able
to isolate the longest heat wave ever discovered. It
consists of a box in which is imprisoned an electric
spark. The ultra violet rays of light from it are
brought to a focus upon a small circular aperture
upon a cardboard screen, and the focal length of the.
lens is made so great that the visible rays cannot
come to a focus at all. Held before the light whit®
paper was black, but when urahium nitrate crystals
were substituted the presence of the ultra violet rays
was made manifest by the crystals shining with a
brilliant green light.
* • •
Metallic mercury vapor shines with a brilliant
light when exposed to the invisible ultra violet rays.
Dr. Wood knew something of this, and in order to de
termine the amount cf absorption he sealed up a drop
of mercury in an exhausted flask of quartz, and fo
cussed the light of the mercury arc, burning in a
silica tube, upon the center of the bulb. When the
bulb was photograjDhed with a quartz lens, the pic
ture showed a cone of focussed rays, precisely as if
the bulb were filled with smoke. This Is another
very good example of how new discoveries may be
made by ultra violet photography.
* ♦ *
Many remarkable conditions are revealed when in
visible light photographs are made. The usual meth
od of shutting out the visible rays and admitting the
infra red rays of light is to combine a sheet of the
densest blue cobalt glass with a solution of bichro
mate of potash or some suitable orange dye. Here
is a picture taken by this method in which the sky is
black, and yet the vegetation and the grass appear to
be snow white—although the pictures comes frjin
sunny Italy.* The shadows in this picture are in
tensely black, since the camera with this filter on H,
perceives only the direct light of the sun and does
not catch the indirect| light of the sky. This is said
to be the way things woula look to the hunjan eye on
the moon, where there is no atmosphere to form a
luminous sky.
• • *
Quite a different impression would we have of our
surroundings if the eye were sensitive only to ultra
violet rays. To see how things would look with them
we have to avoid glass, for glass is as? opaque to them
as a black- slate is to the eye. Quartz, however, is
transparent to them, and when we find some substance
that they can get through and which will yet refuse
to recognize the visible fays, we will have solved the
problem. Metallic silv * is the substance we^ need,
and it is the only substance known that fully recog
nizes every ultra violet ray and throws out every vis
ible ray. A very thin film of it must be deposited
over the surface of the quartz. With this pictures
that seem like views of fairyland may be taken. Chi
nese white a ;• • • s ol- <•':•. . : ■ > . •••.c-s in this
light. White flowers in the* garden become almost
black, and a number of striding contras.s result.
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If love is blind, it’s up to the girl in tile case to
lead the infatuated young man up to the question
point.
One can imagine how incomprehensible the
present administration must be to old Joe Cannon.
If a politician has any virtues he need not apol
ogize for them.