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IN THE sERKsHIRES.
LRv Telegraph TO The Tribune. J

BY TclegrApN 10 inc ii''u"N''
I,encx. Aug. 12-Mrs. Frank Il. Sturgis
has presented to the town OF Lenok
marble fountain for dogs, which VIII DC
set mo al Maine and Clffwood streets
Miss Clementina Furniss entertained al
luncheon to-day. having Professor anu
Nrs Thomas J. Preston, jr, as her
guests.
Mrs. Charles Sidney Haight has gone
90 Narration. Conn. to visit Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward II. Delaheld.
Mr.. and Mrs Warren s Salisbury nave
returned from Rumford Falls. Me- "nere
thev have been visiting Mrs. SALISBURY
mother. Mrs. Wilder kimball
Mrs Oscar Iasigi has gone to lps"ich
IN visit Mr.. and Mrs Chalmers Wood
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Astor Bristed ana
tho Misses Bristed have returned 10 Lake
eide from Huntington. Long Island.
professor and Mrs. Henry w. Farnam
on,ertoined at dinner at Boulderwood'
Stockbridge this evening.
Count de Gretz. Of Paris, who Is motor
ing with Mrs. George Henry Mclean ana
Nrs sicgfried Gruner. OF New YORK. ar
rived tonight at the Red Lion Inn
Stockbridse AL.
Mrs Joseph s. Whistler and Miss
CIv,,ise Alexandra. will have charge oil
an entertainment to be given FOR the
heneGt of Mountain View Sanatorium.
Mics Ethel f. Brooks has gone to Rye
Y TO visit her sister, Mrs. Sidney
Towle. AZ.
Mics f. Moffett. Of st. Louis, and Miss
Da,,,,, Of Philadelphia, registered to-day
at the Curtis Hotel
professor and Mrs. Thomas j. Preston
4, rad Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Dedrich'
., Albany. as guests at dinner at the
Curtis Hotel tonight.
ur ana Mrs walter G. Humstone will
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
AT SOUTHAMPTON.


Southampton, l.. l.. Aug. R.-Almost
tbe. entire cottage colony was at the
Meadow Club this morning TO watch the
opening play OF the annual invitation
tennis tournament. The weather was
ideal and n large crowd was on me
plazzas OF the club house and on the
lawn around the championship courts.
MANY OF those among the spectators were
friends or relatives OF the players.
Among those who saw the games were
Miss Sallie Manice, Miss Louise q. IRE
vor Miss Clara Lee. Mrs. T. Morris
Carnegie. Mrs. Alonzo Potter Mrs.
Arthur Coppell, Mrs. J. r. Swan. Mrs
Horny @. Trevor, Mrs. william Manice.
Mrs s. Harold Freeman, Mrs. Thomas
Rundy. Mrs Charles f. Miller, Miss Jus
time Ingersoll Miss Lisa Stlllman. Mr.
and Mrs. J. T. Stillman, Mr. and Mrs
George IT. Maxwell. Mr.. and Mrs. X. d..
Humphreys, Mrs. w. Rosseter Belts
Mrs Russell IL. Hoadley. Miss Helen
uoadley. Mrs Newbold Edgar. Mrs.
Henry Sanford and Mr. and Mrs. p.
Steuart Davis.
Among those who gave dinner parties
,o-nieht was Mrs. John II. Bradford.
This AFFAIR was followed by a bridge ut
her cottage. Plas Ar Lyn, on First Neck
Lane.
Mrs Stevens Ulman this afternoon gave
a lawn party for her little daughter at
the Johnson cottage.
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day afternoon in honor OF Miss Lois
Cassatt.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. William b.
/ Caperton will give a dinner on August 81
/ in honor OF Or. and Mrs. Preston =.
/ Sstterwhlte. Of New York
The Invitations have been issued for
dinner and dance which Mrs. II. 7. VII
son will give for Miss Rose II. Dolan and
| Miss Lois Cassatt. on September 8 Mrs.
/ Wilson has Joined Mr.. Wilson at Saratoga
/ Springs.
Mrs j. ]. Wysong will give tea at
/ Grcystone tomorrow.
Mrs. John Astor will give bridge party
/ al Beechwood on Thursday
Mrs. Henry Barton Jacobs gave a
I luncheon this afternoon.
| For the first time since 1888. Baron
/ Allace. OF Bavaria. is back In Newport
lie was attached 10 the German Embassy
when Count Arco was ambassador ana
| they made their summer headquarters
here Baron Allace Is at the Berkeley
during his etay.
| Mrs. George McFadden. OF Philadelphia
Z is the guest Of Mrs. Benjamin +. clyde
Mr. and Mrs. Edward y. Mclean have
returned from Canada. and are at Black
( Point Farm
Philip G. Mills, OF New York, is making
a visit here
Peter u. Martin has 30 improved IN
health since his return from Paris that
hc is now able to take daily drives
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred q. Vanderbilt have
/ returned to Oakland Farm from inc
/ Adirondacks.
. Baron Won Eckardsteln OF Germany j.
here for a short stay.
REGISTERED at the Casino to-day were
Mrs W. s Hoyt and Miss Edna hoy'
: Miss $ II. Russell. Of New YORK VISIT
ing CAPTAIN and Mrs w. w. Low ana
De,ning Miller. Of New York visiting
! Nrs Stanley Mccormack. Mrs. Charles
J. Badger, Of Washington; MISS NJ :.
/ st,mpgon. 81. Paul. and Rear Admiral
II, G Logan. l.. S y. (retlred)
/ Mrs Charles DC l.. Oelrichs Is maKins
satisfactory progress from her recent
opcration al the Newport Hospital
! Henry Clcws. 81. who has been WIN
his grandparents since last fan has soh'
/ % Now York. lie soon VIII go 70 RAM
90 Cot, his mother and return 10 America
/ In October.
J Ambassador and Nine. Bakhmeten iei
here to-day on a motor trip TO Nahanl
Princess Lowenstein Werthe'mer' o'
Vienna. Is guest AT the MuenchihEe'
King others there are Mr. and MIS-
/ g 4. Newcomb. Miss Corneha N'"
cornb and Miss Clara Newcomb' OF Nc"
London. Conn.
p. 4. Valentine. OF Chicago. mas re-
turned TO Newport from New YORK OF
the steam yacht Owera.
Mr.. and Mrs Stuart Duncan VIII gave
q dinner on Friday night In honor u
their weekend guests, Mr.. and MIS-
William NJ. V. Hoffman and family
After the dinner Mrs. Duncan Will tak'
her guests TO Mrs. Arthur Curus'
! James's dance. 1910,
Eugene Higgins and his guests VIII
lam Whltehouse Percy Mitchell ah'
Robert Perkins. arrived here from Ne"
York on his steam yacht to-day. THIS il
Mr.. Higginss first visit to Newport II
two years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
TUBERCULOSIS FUND GROWS
$630,b00 in Individual Gifts
$4,000 by Will.

The advancement Of the antt-tubesvu-
losis campaign in New York State 10
noted in an announcement by the State
Charities Aid Association that 8so6oo
has been given by individuals for the
construction OF hospitals for the care and
cure OF those AFFLICTED with the disease.
Mrs. Elizabeth NJ. Newton, of Fredonia,
Chautauoua County, who died recently,
left $4,000 for a tuberculosis hospital
which was the second largest gift 70
ceived Trustees OF the fund are now
negotiating with the Board or super.
visors to make the institution tho Chau-
tauaua County Hospital. Other notable
gifts were:
Poughkeepsie-Samue W. BOVINE No
mortal Hospital: two gifts by Mrs. saniusl
w. Bovine, Of New York. 100000
Yonkers-Spraine Ridge sanator1um Tor
incipient cases; by Alexander Smith Coon
ran, Of Yonkers, $4,000.
Yonkers-5ite for municipal hospital tor
advanced cases; by Mr.. Cochran. $1,000
Orange County tuberculosis Hospital
BY Ex-Governor B. B. Odell, f.. Of New
burgh. $4,000
Bufralo-site for municipal tubero1oeis
sanatorium; by former Mayor ,. n.
Adam, $4,000.
Albany-Tuberculoh division. Albany
Hospital: donors not announced. 10000.
Elnira City Hospital-site and srounnss
by Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r. Rapelyea, OF
EImira, $4,000
Tompkins County-site and part OF con-
struction cost Of county tuberculosis hos
pitaI: by Robert H. fireman. OF ithaca
$500.
Saratoga County-T5 acres OF land ior
site and 5000 toward cost OF construo-
ton OF county hospital; BY General n
". Carpenter, Of Albany.
Rockland County--By the late .. n
Bradley. OF Nyack. to be applied 70
county tuberculosis hospital, N'ooo.
Although there is not much chance thas
the County OF Suffolk will build tuoer-
culosis hospital Immediately. the county
Supervisors have voted TO buy the site
for one, which they held on option Ths
site ts at louisville and consists OF for'y'
three acres.
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leave here tomorrow for New York, TO
pass the week with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. +. NJ. Davis, OF Bloom
field. y. j.: Mrs. Ernst A. Gil, Miss
Elizabeth Robb. Arthur l.. Gill and Ed
ward Scholt, OF Baltimore. have arrived
at the Maplewood, Pittsfeld.
Mr. and Mrs Henry HOLSTER Pease will
leave here tomorrow for Blackpoint,
Conn.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Griswold, Mr.. and
Mrs. Samuel S. Stilson. Mr.. and Mrs. ;.
X. Anderson. Mr.. and Mrs Alfred 3
Singleton Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Reynolds
and Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Wharton, OF
New York. are at Heaton Hall, Stock
bridge
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
N.-.U. SUMMER SCHOOL CLOSES
Attendance Nearly 800 Greater than
II Was Last Year.

The summer school OF New YORK Uni
verslty, which has been In session LOT 'he
lest six weeks, ended its term yesterday
Professor James h. Lough, the director
announced that the attendance this year
,yas e6. or 2sO more than last year.
Much OF this increase was due 70 the
summer courses offered for the first time
4, the School OF Commerce, Accounts ana
rynorce In the university building on
Washington Square.
number OF these courses were given
l.. .ho .yo,ine TO meet the needs of stu
dsuts su,uIaysS during the os'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
OBITUARY NOTES.

THEODORE HANNWEBER' sixty.
o,obt wears old, a retired jeweler, oieo
Monday at his home, No. 2Zl Cover'
streat Brooklyn. He was born IN Ger
arv After being twenty years IN I'M
employ of Tiffany & 60. ne %ens ~" ~,
business for himself in Williamsoure, N
leaves a wife, three sons and daughter
MRS. IRENE EVELYN NEsTLEf.
,,,fa y, DIR. John p. Nestler' a veteriiia'y
surgeon. and sister OF ex-Mayor Georss
Ir,,,osrIe RAYMOND. is dead from enao'
oarditis in her home IN Ne" 80, "a
Her illness developed from an a''aon -
grip three months ago. She was 'hif"
eight years old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
sTRASSBURGER A FARMER
Toxic Embassy Secretary Buys
Famous Singerly Place.
fRy Telegraph to The Tribune

TNY TeIeGfApH 10 IH' II'""'V'I
Philadelphia, Aug. l2.-Ralph Is. strass-
burger second secretary OF the Unlteu
States Embassy at Toxic. has bought tne
,,o-acre farm OF Or William Powell VIII
son in the Gwynedd Valley DE- Wilson
purchased the property from 'he eS'a'.
OF William NJ. slngerly. II was one Oh
the most famous farms In pennsylvania.
Mr.. strassburger. 1t is understood PAID
about $4,000 for the property.
Several years ago Mr.. Strassburser
married Miss Mary Bourne. daughter OF
Frederick g. Bourne. OF New YORK.
president Of the Singer Manufacturing
Company. Mr.. and Mrs. strassburser
w,u entertain extensively at their new
home,
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NEW YORK SOCIETY
Miss Marjorie RIair'S Wedding
Day Set for September 20.
MADE DEBUT LAST YEAR
Miss Esther Cleveland Visiting
at Mrs. Lewis Cass Led
yards Villa in Newport.

Miss Marjorie Blair. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs c. Ledyard Blair will be mar
ried to William Clark. son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
J William Clark. Of New York and Ber-
nardsville, y. j.. on September 20 At the
Blair country place. at Peapack. y. j.
The engagement Of the couple was an
rounced In March Miss Blair and her
sister. Miss Florence Blair. were intro
duced to society a year ago last winter
at a dance given for them by their
mother Nh Clark IS p Harvard gradu-
ate and n grandson Of the late William
Clark. % Scotland.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Russell Pope are r.
ceiving congra tulations on the birth Of a
daughter on Monday AT the home Of Mrs.
Pope's parents Mr.. and Mrs Pembroke
Jones. No East 6lst street. Mr.. end
Mrs Pope were married on october 81,
1912. ~ WrlghtsviEe. y. G, near the
country home Of Mr.. and Mrs. Jones. Mrs
Pope was Miss Sadie Jones.
Miss Esther Cleveland is the guest OF
Miss Jean Morris at the villa Of the
latters mother. Mrs. Lewis Cass Led
yard. in Newport
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence " Dolan have
been i'm town for the last two days from
Newport and have been staying AT the
81. Regis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ambrose Mcneil. Of Tux
edo. have arrived in the city and are Ell
the Hotel Plaza.
Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Wilcox have
returned to the city from Brdgehampton
Long Island. where they were the guests
over the week end Of Mrs. Colin Carter
Mr. and Mrs. J. NJ. Richardson Lyeth
OF No. % Fifth avenue, are receiving con
CALCULATIONS on the birth OF son Re"
days ago.
Mrs. J. Muhlenberg Bailey has left South
ampton for Long Beach for short stay
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen II. Brown ano
Mr.. and Mrs willard S. Brown have re-
turned TO Southampton after spending
/ few days In the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Won Mayhof' VINO
snent the early part OF the summer a.
Huntington. Long Island. left there yes
terday for Virginia.
Mrs Meredith Rowland is due to arrive
in Now York al the end OF the weeF
( from Europe.
Mr. and Mrs. w. Scott Cameron have
been spending a few days at the Hote
Gotham
Mr.. and Mrs. August Belmont, Jr' nave
gone 20 Vermont. 70 remain until th'
middle Of next month
Mr. and Mrs T. Townsend Burden 1r'
and Miss Evelyn Burden have gone tc
southampton. Long Island.
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OBITUARY..
FRANK p. 5LOThOWsh'

Washington, Aug. l2-The bureau OF IN
.,,ar affairs of the War Department mas
been informed by cable OF the death on
August Il at Monte Cristi, santo DO
mingo Of Frank P. slothower Deputy
Receiver OF Customs at that port uhuer
the Dominican customs receivership.
Mr.. slothower Joined the customs SER
vice OF Santo Domingo In 1907, ana an
official announcement states that ne was
considered an able and enlclent eInpioS .,
ITia widow rs now at Monte Cristi, the
northern frontier port along the Haytian
yrontier. Because OF Monti Crlsus re-
moteness the duties OF the position when
MIR. Slothower performed were exception
allv irving
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
AsTuua DAVIS sERsTLER.

fFrom The Tribune CoEresPonueHNI
Millburn, n. j., Aug. l2.-Arthur Da'"
Berstler, thirty years old, a civil engineer
and an assistant engineer for the New
York City Water Board. is dead al IN
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. GeoLss
IIa leaves 4 wife and two brothefs'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
,eAvEs $4,000 TO UNIVERSITY

Riverhead Long Island Aug -
~. %, the will OF the late John Burkitt
T,,Sfh ., clan Ridge, n. j, who owneo
w. 20, estate AT Point o. Woods, has
m Inn sled here. The bulk Of the estate
goes goes to his widow and children % 1uf to sS
600 is given n 10 s and to purchase scien'
,ifc Instruments
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
DAVID DWYER.

From The Tribune CorrespondentI
Passaic, y. j.. Aug. 2.-David Dwyer'
engaged for many years in the wooller
goods manufacturing business in Garheid'
this city and Paterson. died at his home
No 2a3 Madison street, last night, after
an illness OF several months lie was
afty-eIght years old. Mr.. Dryer was one
Of the first settlers Of Garfield. lie leaves
a wife, three daughters and nve sons
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
a,e,e SCHOOLS COMMENCEMENT

The commencement exercises OF um
Dauv Vacation Bible Schools will be heic
on Friday at $50 a. m. in the Ssth Reg sg5t
on Armory, at Lexington avenue nea; anS
18th street The term OF ene districi
BIO bioie 70 S s,ad six weeks The school session.
nave hsS ,a been held mainly in churcheS' io'
,uo hours each morning
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DIED..
,ors,,er Arthur d. Negus, Jennie n;
PEER be- Cornelia w. Sabine, William l.

porst,er Arthur d. Negus' JJ Jennie ~;
Butler. Cornelia w. SABINE imam
BERsTLER-on august st P = tsls AMY =
Erneral AT the residence OF ms parents
MiiIburn. n. j., Thursday at 2;SO p III
White DdTsd w bap he ea eb
Nome on Tuesday, August IL. 1914 rm
nerai from her late residence, NO, lS
West e3d St. on Thursday. August -, a
o'clock. Interment Woodlawn Ceme
terry. 49,, =,
NEGUs-Entered into eternal rest
her home, No. SO clifford avenue, Jerse,
civ Monday, August II. Jennie rIeyn
Odds beloved wife OF Samuel u. Nesus
funeral services at her late reslaeho
Wednesday evening at O'CLOCK inter
,nent M Greenwood Cemetery al IN
convenience of the family. oprhs"e"
1MassD papers please copy
SARINE-On Monday, August II, bisho!
1ViilIam Tufnell Sabine. u. - runera
fyom his late residence No. $50 Madison
ave' New York Thursday. p: m. In
ter,nent AT the convenience OF the ram
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KING HoNoRs II. S. MORRIS.
tBv Telegraph to The Tribune.

philadelphia, Aug l2.-IIarrison - MOT
r,s former director Of the Pennsylvania
Academy OF Fine Arts. has been decorated
with the grand Gordon OF me Clo"m u
Italy by King Victor Emmanuel MI NO.
rIs was American Commissioner ue"e'"'
TO the Roman Art Exposition In lsii'
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13

Contributions, preferably by check or
money order. should be addressed TO Inc
Tribune Fresh Air Fund. The TRIBUNE
New YORK CITY.
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OFFICES.

MAIN OFFICE-No. i5i Nassau street
IipToWN OFFfCE-No. 1864 Broadway o
any American District telegraph Once.
HARLEM OFFICE--No. 1J1 East 1s-t
street. No o63 West i23th street and ~
90 West kc5fh street.
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IIInaE uRIAH M. ROSE.

little Rock, ArK., AUG. H-Juuse UII"'.
NJ Rose. representative OF the United
States at the second international peace
congress at The Hague in 1901. died at
his home here to-day.
Judge Rose was born in Marion County
Ky. March 8, 1884 He was admitted to
the bar in 1883 and practised law at Bates
Vile, Ark. until 1850. when he removed
TO Little Rock. He was a member Of the
Democratic National Committee several
years and Was president Of the American
Bar Association, l90l-'02. He wrote Rose
Digest of Arkansas Reports" and many
articles on American and foreign Juris-
rridence
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-08-13
CEMETERIES.

I'll THE WOODLAND CEMETERY.
.33d St BY Harlem Train ana py iro"eS
Ofiice. 20 East 23d ST.. n. Y.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-13
SAGE TEA BEAUTIFULLY DARKENS
The HAIR when FADED and CRAY,

will get large bottle for about so
cents. Some druggists make their
own, which is usually too sticky, so
insist upon getting "Wyeth's" which
can be depended upon to restore nat
ural color and beauty to the hair and
is splendid for dandruff, dry. feverish.
itchy scalp and falling hair.
A well-known downtown druggist
says his customers insist on Wyeths
Sage and Sulphur because, they say,
it darkens SO naturally and evenly that
nobody can tell it has been applied
it's so easy to use too. You simply
dampen a sponge or soft brush and
draw it through your hair. taking one
strand at a time. Do this at night
and by morning the gray hair disap-
pears; after another application or
two, it is restored TO it's natural color
and looks glossy, soft and abundant.
Special agents-Bowditch, Webster
& Co, Augusta.
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Viaor at Seventy.

Who talks of fifty years as the clil-
nina ting point in mans career? Were
all the great work performed by men
even beyond seventy erased from his
tory the human race would be bereft
of some very proud achievements.
jefferson founded a university by
his own activity after he had passed
three score years end ten, John Quin-
cy Adams, although he had been Pres
ident Of the United States and five
times foreign minister. wrought as
congressman by far his greatest
deeds after lie was sixty five. His ro
bust father sat in constitutional
convention when he was almost a non
agenarian, Franklin did valiant serv-
lee in helping to frame the Constitu
ton of the United States after he had
turned a serene and contented eighty
Seventy saw Gladstone so vigorous
that he was still good for the greatest
ba title of his political life and a pre-
miership. EngIands foremost living
historian, Sir George Otto TreVeiyan,
who is even now completing his mon
umental story OF the American reVo-
luton, occupied a seat in parliament
half a century ago. This brilliant
nephew of Lord Maeaulay has done
his best writing since reaching seven
ty.
Germanys first emperor, the vener
able William, saw Waterloo as SOL
der. but fifty-five years 1ater he was
directing armies at Sedan and Welding
an empire after the fall of Paris John
Bigelow at fourscore was mentally as
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all, since the bright surface acts as a
mirror and takes the tint of the water
so that the fish merely appear like shad-
owy shapes, which melt more and more
into the waterscape the further they are
from the observer This discovery in
the probability that the investment of
air bubbles entangled in the loose plu-
mage of some birds, like Water-hens,
when submerged, acts in the same way.
The truth of this he proved by two ex-
periments. He lined part o. the tank
with as beet of tin painted red, and, TAX
ing a dead waterhen, sunk it below the
surface close to the tin, with the result
that the bird appeared to be red, from
the air bubbles rejecting the color of the
tin like mirror When the same bird
was submerged alongside mass of green
weeds 1t similarly took the green color of
the vegetation. 1t may be added that DIR.
Ward made use of dead bird so that he
might be able to reproduce the effect de-
scribed by means of color photography,
FOR which a long exposure is necessary.
This would have been quite impossible in
the case of a live bird continually on the
move. The two colored slides showing
the result of these experiments, which
DIR. Ward exhibited to the society, DEM
onstrated the truth of his theory in a
convincing manner.-The Field London
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Device For Animal Concealment.

Those who have watched birds and
mammals swimming under water well
know that the feathers or hairs have in
the case of great many species the
property of entangling bubbles of air in
such quantities as to impart a CLASSY APP
pearance to the moving object. OF the
water shrew, for example, it has been
said that those parts of the fur which
are submerged appear to be studded with
an infinite number of tiny silvery bead
lets, that give to the whole animal a very
singular aspect; and the water spider
tArgyroneta) takes its scientific name,
meaning .silver swimmer from its
likeness to a globule of quicksilver, due
to the layer of air that invests the whole
body under water. When regarded from
the surface above-that is to say, from
the normal human point of view-the eff
feet of the silyery sheen is to make the
swimmer conspicuous, and it does not
seem to have occurred to any one that
the entangled air could have an oblitera-
tive effect from any other point of view
At the scientific meeting of the Zoolo-
gical Society. however, held on May l.
DR.. Francis Ward showed by means of a
series of Photographic slides that the at
mospheric layer has in reality a quite un-
suspected procraptic or celative signifi-
canoe. since it acts like a mirror, which
reflects the color of surfaces and objects
past which the swimmer is moving, and
consequently serves to hide it from other
living animals in the water.
DIR. Wards method of observing ami
mails under water was as follows: Into
the side of an artificial concrete pond
was fixed plate glass, and on the other
side of the glass was dug a hole big
enough for man standing upright This
was covered with a movable lid, so that
the hole when the lid was closed was alb
soiutely dark except for such faint light
as penetrated through the glass from the
water Thus, while the observer could
watch the animals swimming about in
the pond and could see them as they APP
pear to other Inhabitants of the water.
he was himself invisible to them. AT
certain hours of the day, when the sun
light passing through the water struck
gle, beam was reflected back into the
pond, and it was by taking advantage OF
TINS beam that it was found possible to
make photographs of the animals under
observation. Under these conditions OF
natural illumination DR.. Ward found that
sllVef-sided fish when swimming or RESTING
in natural position show no sheen al