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4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1913. THE semi-weekly journal ATLANTA, GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *'• Twelve months 75c Six months 40c Three months 25c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a stafr of distinguished contributors, with strong departments of special value to the Home and tho farm. Agents war ted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. * The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton, C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kim- ,, brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to the above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper shows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this lab^, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, Atlanta, Ga. 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. Pointed Paragraphs 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.