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rillLADKLPHIA, MONDAY. JANUARY 111, 1915.
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There will never ba a time short o the mitten
ium when hunger in rage will not watt
at the outer door of plenty, and
Dives and Lazarus will not he
I fellow citizens.
Wo Have a Great Port Already
WHILE Philadelphia la fighting for a
bottor port It mtjat not forget that it has
a good port already.
Go much hag been dono here that tho city
is convinced that moro can bo done. Tho
port passed tho experimental stage along ago.
It has been demonstrated that the Dolawaro
River affords one of tho best harbors on the
continent. Ships can lio at anchor hero with
out danger from tho storms. Thero nro 83
miles of smooth water between us and tho
salt seas. Every shipping man understands
what this means. It gives him breathing
tlmo between his battles with tho ocean
tempests and the bustle and hurry and stress
of discharging his cargo.
Seventeen lines of transoceanic steamships
already touch hero, and if wo were prepared
to accommodate moro they would come. Wo
have ono of the finest grain elovators on the
continent and the oro docks are unsurpassed
anywhere.
Merchandise worth a billion and a half is
handled every year by tho ships at our piers.
Wo have a belt line of railroad for the trans
shipment of freight from the interior to
ocean-going vossels, and we havo 37 miles of
water front, 20 miles on the Delaware and 17
miles on tho Schuylkill.
Therefore, when you read that the Dela
ware channel is not deep enough to accom
modate big ships, forget It. "What Hamburg
has done Philadelphia can surpass. Do not
let anybody convince you that wo havo not
a great port atready.
"Three Deckers" or Homes?
WHETHER Philadelphia shall remain a
city of homes or a community of "three
decker" flats, depends upon the quick and sat
isfactory solution of tho transit problem. The
city la noted throughout the country for its
modest homes for worklngmen. At the meet
ing of tho National Housing Council In Bos
ton it was hold up as a model for other cities
But tho small house requires space to hold
It. Population can be packed Into a small
area If It lives In layers, and tho transit
problem Is then comparatively simple. Tho
Whole of Philadelphia could bo crowded into
the district south of Market street between
the two rivers. But Philadelphlans do not
Wish to llvo In that way. The city Is spread
ing Itself rapidly, and every new row of houses
put up in the outlying regions carries the
workingman farther from his Job, But fast
cars can annihilate distance; and when com
bined with free transfers, can make overy
section of the city equally desirable, so far
as proximity to work and economy of travel
are concerned.
The character of the city, as well as tho
comfort of its peoplo, Is involved in tho
transit problem.
The Procession Moves On
THE procession of Mexican Presidents con
tinues to move at double-quick across the
pages of the history of our sister Republic.
The latest President was proclaimed on Sun
day. His name matters not, for he will be
succeeded by some ono else before we have
time to get familiar with it.
It is enough to know that he was chosen
by the same convention that twice elected
Guiterrez, who has fled from the capital.
Villa and Zapata elevated Guiterrez and they
have, lifted General Garza, the new man, into
prominence. He need not expect to bo rec
ognized by the Government in Washington,
for before the Administration makes up its
mind what to do some one else will be chosen
by the revolutionary leaders to act as a rub
ber stamp for them in the President's chair.
New Bryanization
AS BETWEEN tho ship purchase scheme
. of the Administration and an extra ses
sion of Congress, most citizens would refuse
to vote. They want neither. Yet the nation
has Burvived many extra sessions and would
doubtless prefer the hardships of another
one to the novel plan of putting the Govern
ment into, the freight business wherever it
Is now unprofitable.
Buying tubs at fancy prices may be good
Statesmanship, but transactions of this sort
have more often been good graft. For men
continue to be selfish and grasping in spite
ef the noble sentiments and theories which
hava been so much in' vogup the last year
of two. Mr. Bryan could bo depended onto
see that the ship-purchasing board was
composed in tho main of his Nebraska de
pendents, whoso Ignorance of ships would
recommend them as fit persons to protect the
Government against imposition.
If there ara no Jobs open in San Domingo,
there Is nothing to do but make more Jobs
to the United States. It la a simple thing.
Yet It may bo seriously doubted if the Con
BtituHon contemplates or authorizes a Gov
ernment for traffic. Who would have
4-faroed m decade ago that Washington
would so aoon bo Bryanizeo; and what
Bplundld thlnff free silver seems Jn coroparl
jQTt with some of the new "Isms" the capital
seriously considers 1
Grandpa Wilson
-STfTOODROW WffiSQN U not President of
f th United States today. Ha la grandpa,
JkaS ia spi te at the tact thai thr have been
tun? at PrwittaBtF ami bOWojh f sraud
.SKtHrm Mr Wllmu i nrutir of Uk en-a-pto
Stat ; tMWi teUtrfMot
EV13.N.UNG L&L 1.
ins ton. If lie were not. he would riot be fit
to be President. Tho ruling and overmaster
ing passion of ltfo 'is that it should fulfil
Itself. A grandson is tho promise of fulfil
ment to the third generation, nnd a man can
not hopo to see much farther into the fu
ture than that.
So let us tako our hats off to Mr. Wilson
this afternoon and congratulate him as wo
would express our good wishes to our clear
est friends under the snmo circumstances.
Meanwhile, let us not forget the incomparable
Joy of tho young mother With her first born.
Playing With a Crisis
WITH wheat pouring out of our ports and
tho shipping trado demoralized by an
unprecedented demand for ships to carry it,
tho Administration seriously announces that
it will begin an investigation to discover if
tho high prices aro not duo to a "corner" and
violation of the nntl-trust laws. In this way
it will bo quite possible to delay putting tho
lock on tho stable until tho horso is gone, at
which time, no doubt, with much noise and
ringing of bolls, a few scapegoats will bo
haled into court and subjected to much em
barrassment before acqulttnl. Our Govern
ment seldom acts to provent an outrage! It
prefers to Inflict punishment afterward.
Wilt anybody ho fooled? Hardly, for It is
too well known that Washington has chills
in tho spine at tho more thought of doing
anything tho wheat growers may not like,
and it is Jumping at this farcical Investiga
tion In tho manner of a gold-brick artist
after his victim. Tho poor want their bread
at a reasonable price in a year when thero
has boon a bumper crop. They cannot eat
platitudes. A llttlo nonsense now and then
is relished by. tho best of men, but not as
pabulum for the upkeep of tho physical being.
Why wosto money for an Investigation?
Everybody knows what tho troublo Is. Tho
export record Is convincing. Apparently
Washington has a theory that Chicago spec
ulators planned tho war to boost tho wheat
market. The war has boosted It, and Is
boosting it, but our defense is very slmplo.
Wo havo meroly to conserve our own sup
ply by prohibiting tho export of any except
our surplus supply. So slmplo and suro a
remedy has been resorted to by other nations
not In half so serious a dilemma ns the
United States. But politics Is subordinate to
tho public Interest Just now in other coun
tries. Their people, therefore, will bo pro
tected In their food supplies, even If the peo
ple of tho United States havo to put up with
starvation prices In the meantime.
Not the Road to Peace, But to Folly
ON THE eve of tho anniversary of the
birth of Benjamin Franklin, who was
thankful that man was a reasoning creature
because he could find a reason for anything
that ho wanted to think, Mr. Bryan told the
Poor Richard Club that tho European war
had exploded for all time "tho theory that
battleships and huge fortifications conservo
peace." Other less prominent men have mado
the same statement. But only two or three
years ago some of them were looking In dis
may at tho helplessness of Turkey when con
fronted by tho allied Balkan States. They
knew that If the Turkish navy had existed
in fact, Instead of merely In name, tho Turk
could have defied the Balkan Powers and
could once moro havo demonstrated that In
controvertible proposition that the destinies
of nations aro decided by their might upon
the sea.
Turkey was not prepared for war, yet war
came. Germany and France and Russia were
propared for war last summer, yet war came;
and England's preparation for a land cam
paign was woefully Inadequate, but her un
preparedness did not haston nor delay tho
great conflict. There Is no one so rash as to
maintain that the great civil conflict In the
United States half a century ago was caused
either by military preparedness or unpre
paredncss. The causes of war havo little relation to
Mr. Bryan's '(battleships and huge fortifica
tions." They Ho In tho ambitions of nations,
when they are international; and In tho de
termination of large groups of men to live
under conditions agreeable to them, when
the wars are revolutionary. It would fbe tho
extreme of folly for any nation, in the
present state of civilization, to adopt Mr.
Bryan's idealistic dream, disband Its army,
break up its navy and trust to luck.
Councils' Futile Grab at the Contracts
THERE was nothing else for City Solicitor
Ryan to do than to declare the attempt of
Councils to override the charter as "futilo
and Inoperative." The charter deprived
Councils of its ancient right to supervise tho
awarding of contracts. It empowered the
executive branch of the municipality to have
charge of all public work because It Is the
better way, both In theory and In practice.
Its purpose was to enable the city to elect a
reform Mayor who should have power to pre
vent a repetition of the ancient abuses,
Mr. Ryan is too good a lawyer to attempt
to wrest tho charter from its plain aud
obvious Intent. It is fortunate, Indeed, at
this time, that the city has a Mayor who can
bo trusted and a group of department heads
in sympathy with his purposes to give to the
city an honest and efficient administration.
The unscrupulous attempt of Councils to dis
regard the plain provisions of the law in
order that tho members might get their
hands on the contracts in the interest of the
machine is proof that the alertness of the
gang must ba met by the alertness of the
good citizens If we are not to lose what bat
already been gained. .
A Turkish corps is never defeated r
always gobbled up. --
it Is
More than JO centuries ago the CJreeka
hunted boars, but not in South Philadelphia,
There la no intent to violate neutrality Just
because our hens are laying for the bellig
erents. Not all of the advocate of fraud In Illi
nols were elected. One pr two pf them did
not have enough money.
The literacy test cannot ba viewed in any
other light than as a device to make the
Philadelphia subways cost mora money.
The Prankford Argenal has prove4 itself
too efficient to expect any encouragement
tram the Government It 4V4 the"aaMftn
suoro than a million and one-balf dollars last
'r. 3 what it mHM for now Is lam than &
tfirter i a mHUon
inxlAliKLPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1016
HOW THE SLANDERED
GERMANS WAGE WAR
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An Open Letter to Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle, Answering With First-hand
Facts His Charges Against the In
vadcrs of Belgium,
By JAMES O'DONNELL DENNETT
Staff Coimpondenl ef the Chttai Tribune In the
War Zant.
(Copvrlpht, tilt, lv Jamei'O'Donnelt Bennett.)
This is the second and concluding instal
ment of James O'Donncll Dennett's re
markable letter replying to Sir Arthur
Oonan Doyle's widely circulated aittcle en
titled "A Policy of Murder." The first
instalment wa pilttied in these columns
last Saturday.
II.
AT THE opening of the fourth pnragraph of
XX your article you ask the question: "Can any
postHblo term save a policy of murder bo ap
plied to tho uso of aircraft by tho Germans?"
Tou are speaking moro especially now of the
dropping of bombs on unfortified cities by Ger
man airmen, and you say that "occasionally
theBO men havo been obliging enough to drop
their cards ns well as their bombs."
And jou add:
"I see no reason why theso (cards) should
not bo UBed In ovldenco ngalnst them, or why
they should not bo lmnged as murderers when
they fall Into the hands of tho Allies."
Aircraft Plin-e of "New War"
I am glnd, sir, that ou nro not a lirltlih
general, for It Is my conviction that If you
gavo orders as jou write nrtlclcs you would
add fresh horrors to war. And also It seems
strange to mo that a publicist who so passion
ately extenuates the Belgian franctireurs' mnd
doflnnco of tho laws of var should be so keen
for reprisals against Germain airmen who have
done only what English airmen havo done. For,
sir, English airmen did drop bombs on tho un
fortified city of Dusscldorf In an attempt to
destroy balloon sheds.
That attompt was only partially successful,
but the next morning the Cologne Gazette de
scribed tho long flight nnd the dropping of the
bombs ns "a brilliant feat," and said that Ger
man nlrmcn would hopo soon or late to return
tho compliment of tho visit to Dusscldorf As
a sporting proposition tho Incident made an
Impression which was not lost on the German
mind, and hearty recognition of tho fact was
made.
Tho truth Is that aircraft are, like nuto
moblles, a phaso of "tho new war," nnd the
world must accept them If tho world Is to
continue warring Tho principle of war Is, ns
wo all know, to strlko terror, physical and
spiritual, Into your enemy. This the airmen
do with superlative success. There Is, too, an
ancient saying thnt war Is most merciful when
It Is quickest, nnd the operations of airmen
certainly cxpedlto disaster nnd destruction.
Treatment of Belgians
In your fifth paragraph you say:
"As to tho treatment of Belgium, what has
It been but murder, murder all the way7" nnd
jou add that "It Is said that more civilians than
soldiers have fallen In Belgium "
I should not be surprised If that second
statement were true. There Is a reason why
It should bo It would not havo been so, I
am confident, had the population of Liege, of
Louvaln and of towns and villages lying be
tween Liege and Louvaln kept their obligations
as civilians, or, donning uniforms, gone Into
the army as soldiers My observations In Sep
tember nnd ngnln In October In northern
Franco convinced me that the chll population
of Belgium and not tho Belgian army was the
principal cause of Belgium's woes.
For In France the German army encountered
very few franctireurs, with tho result that there
were few Instances of reprisal against citizens.
Village after village I passed through In the
track of the German army, and nothing at all
was destroyed. In scores of Inn parlors I have
sat while German officers and privates ate. The
landlady nnd her daughters would go busily and
politely about the serving of food, and at the
end of the meal not only was tho food scrupu
lously paid for, but the girls would receive
really handsome tips. This I saw bo often that
I came to take It as a matter of course, as, in
truth. It was.
Courtesy to the Courteous
And always when the officers left there were
courteous adieus and wishes for a pleasant
Journey on the one hand, and on the other
laughing assurances from the soldiers that they
hoped they might come back to so good an
Inn "In happier times."
In Belgium, too, I witnessed numerous un
forced and genuinely obliging exchanges of
civilities between the invaders and the in
vaded.
I may add, as Indicating the kind of dis
cipline the German authorities have laid on
Belgium, that In Huy It Is Impossible for any
bodyBelgian, German, or neutral to buy
any heavy Bplrlts, Only beer and mineral
waters are to be had. The number of alterca
tions that so wise a regulation prevents in a
difficult situation you will comprehend.
German Justice Liked
In Chlmay, also in Belgium, and the seat of
the prince of that name who, by the "way, had
fled to Paris we talked with an Innkeeper v. hen
no German officers wero 'by. We asked him
how affairs went In tho town under the ad
ministration of Its Oerman commandant, von
Schulemann. "They go well," he said, "for In
all our difficulties we know we will get Justice
from the commandant."
In Maubeuge we heard a French woman, who
was going to the market to get from a German
sergeant her slip of requisition for German
flour, say she was glad her husband was a
prisoner of the Germans,, for now she knew he
was safe and getting enough to eat. In the
same town another woman eald she was glad
the Germans had come, because it meant that
"the thieving, filthy Turcos," as she called the
black Colonial troops of France, were out. Mr.
Cobb and, Mr. McCutcheon told me they heard
the identical remark in other French towns.
I tell these things to you not because x per
sonally am glad that France Is Invaded, but
to give you the point of view of humble folk
who seemed to feel that they had suffered from
allies, of France more than they would suffer
from the avowed enemies pf France.
No man, however, who has crossed the east
ern and southern provinces of Belgium would
be so absurd as to contend for one instant that
the German operations )n that kingdom have
not been a better business, for Belgium, Were
the traveler to make such a contention a score
of desolated and deBerted villages end towns
would give him the He. Nevertheless, there
has been exaggeration almost as appalling as
the desolation In the statements concerning the
extent of the damage done. The wife of a
Socialist member of the Beifitan Ministry, for
.example, lectured in Cblgagp a few days ago
on behalf of the Belgian relf fcf fund, and after
speaking of the "isurerows Germans" and
what they had doae sfc.e isade, omon many
tbr sweeping remark,, the stssUmcnt that
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"Louvaln can be spoken of only In the past."
That Is not truo.
One Seventh of Louvaln In Ruins
A liberal estimate as to the part of Louvaln
that lies In ruins Is one-seventh. More conser
vative observers are of tho opinion that ono
tcnth of the entlro city Is destroyed. I am
Inclined to ncccpt the larger estimate. Far
fiom being "a city of tho past" Louvaln Is com
ing out of tho heavy bewilderment which Its
sorrow b laid upon It, and, under German au
spices and with German assistance, Is making
good progress in clearing away the wreckage.
In the daytime the people move freely through
the streets and do not seem terrorized. The
street venders, for example, drive a brisk and
good nnlurcd trade In picture postcards with
German soldiers
German officers nnd officials with whom I
havo talked have never spoken lightly of tho
Bufferings of Belgium nnd they aro sorry for
Belgium. 'Tou have beon In DInant," said the
secretary of tho German Foreign Office, Von
Jagow, to me. "So have I," he added, "and
It Is terrible, but war is war, and It Is tei.fold
more dreadful when the civil population takes
a hand In It."
And when It comes to the kind of rcslstanco
of reprisal one cannot call It war which the
frnnctlreur makes, you, Sir Arthur, know what
the Walloons of Eastern Belgium arc. Turbu
lent, truculent, and unschooled, they fight no,
one cannot say fight but flro from cellars,
from attics, and from behind hedges, using
the while the protection civilian garb confers
on veritable noncombatnnts, but not accepting
the honorable risks that go with the uniform
of a veritable soldier. Tho adjtctlves which
mnnklnd has applied to tho lower orders of
this Walloon population, and the facts of their
annals, are to bo found In any guidebook or
school history. Brave, In a lawless way, they
certainly are, but often devious, and sometimes
treacherous.
You know tho old proverb concerning the In
habitants of tho nnclont province of Hesbaln,
now a part of the province of Liege "Qui passe
dans le Hesbaln est combattu l'endemaln." And
the fact was, and Is, that tho enemy who passed
that way got his fighting In the back "on the
morrow."
Belgium Warned Walloons
The Belgian Government felt a lively appre
hension of the suffering of which the Walloons
and their compatriots farther west would bring
upon the kingdom and throughout the week or
10 days of the advance from Liege to Brussels
many burgomasters and the Minister of War
Issued dally, and sometimes hourly, proclama
tions In which they pleaded with the people to
observe the laws of war as bearing on the ob
ligations of civilians and gave them the moat
explicit warning that the participation of civil
ians In the hostilities would bring the most
terrible penalties on whole comunltles and on
Innocent women, children and the aged. Copies
of these proclamations, addressed "Aux Clvlls,"
I have by me. Their language is often passion
ate In Its solicitude.
I asked an American gentleman who has lived
for -Ave years in Belgium and who loves the
country, though he does not love the people
(I refer to Lawrence Sterne Stevens, an artist),
why these warnings had had so little effect
upon the Walloon peasants, miners and metal
workers. "Because," he replied, "the number of
Illiterates Is so large In Belgium that thousands
upon thousands of the people could not read
the proclamations."
And so, Impotent and fruitless, these placards
stared the people In the face from boardings
and dead walls, and the firing f(om behind wails
and hedgerows began. It was tragic, but It
was not war. And it was so utterly barren of
permanent results, and it drew such severe re
prisals, that I could quite understand the point
of view of Major Beyer, German commandant
of Brussels, when he said, "These Belgians do
not know what war means."
Only Guilty Punished
The event proved how justified were the ap
prehensions of the Belgian Government re
garding the sense of their obligations as ci
vilians which was Entertained by the humble
folk of the countryside and of the mining vil
lages. Hundreds of misguided persons were
Shot and thousands of dwellings were burned.
And yet, widespread as Is the ruin I have wit
nessed, J was amazed at the discrimination
the enemy displayed in rnetlng out punishment.
In pinant, for example, the second and the
fifth house in a long terrace of, say, 19 houses,
would be destroyed All the rest would be In
tact Manifestly the bouses from which franc
tireurs bad been taken had been burned. The
rest had been spared, When you consider that
this discrimination was exercised during the
terrible hours of street fighting, you will realize
that, though the Germans, God knows, had
been severe, they had not beep ruthless. My
compatriots, Messrs. Thompson, McCutcheon
and Cobb, observed time and again during our
Belgian wandering the proofs of this reason
ably accurate Justice dispensed under trying
conditions.
In Bruste!, 40 days after the entry. 1 moved
I
ONCE MORE, THE LIMELIGHT
THE NEW ART OF
Luminous, Bewitching "Paintings"
tion "With the Sun or
Story of
By VANCE
TTTEIAT is a lumino?
YV I
suppose yoii might describe It as
painting with light.
It is a fact that naintlng of every sort
might bo defined in tho samo words. What
tho artist does Is to shut out certain rays of
light from his canvas by cunningly mixed
pigments of ono sort or another admitting
exactly the rays he wants. Where he uses
paint the lumlno-artlst uses pappr. It Is tho
only difference. Paper of varying thickness
of colors and form are laid upon glass,
as pigments aio laid upon canvas; and the
light streaming througlt makes tho picture.
Simple, is It not?
It Is simple, cxqulslto and impressive; and
It is, I think, the beginning of a new art
that will revolutionize fenestra! decoration
It will be to tho modern homo what stained
glass was to tho mediaeval cathedral. And
when, in days to come, tho art historian asks
you for an account of tho origin of the lum
ino, Just tell him It was Invented for Mmo.
Mariska Aldrlch's beefsteak dinner. I need
not tell you who Mme. Mariska Aldrlch, of
tho Metropolitan Opera House. Is the mag
nificent Hungarian prima donna with tho
voice of bronzo and gold.
Like Looking Through a Window
That beefsteak dinner was given 10 years
ago In the cellar of a house in Buffalo. To
William C. Cornwall, tho New York banker,
was entrusted tho business of decorating tho
cellar. Before ho was drawn away to money
making Mr. Cornwall was in his youth a
student at Julllen's In Paris; wlthai a good
artist. Ho stretched transparent paper
screens across the cellar windows and painted
on them merry subjects; the light did the
rest. And so, in a haphazard way, tho lum
ino was born. Ten years of experimentation
went to perfecting the new art. Just how
perfect It Is now may be seen at tho expo
sition of Mr. Cornwall's latest luminos.
The room you enter is dark. Then an
electric button is touched, and abruptly a
lumino appears. It Is as though a window
had opened in the wall and you were looking
through It, out upon a woodland scene a
cold dawn with a faint sun rising among tho
trees. It's amazingly well done. Never has
painter put on canvas so true a thing. His
medium was Bodden and thick compared to
this living medium of light in which the
lumlno-artlst works. Never was the cold
radiance of dawn so perfectly recorded.
IIow It's Done
Here is another one. The light has leaped
out and, as it were, through a great window
you seo the dark Mediterranean, heaving to
a coming Btorm tho moon not yet gone; and
a fisherman's boat labors heavily. The boat
casts a shadow which Is not paint. When
you go close and examine the lumino in an
open light you see that -it is made of translu
cent colored papers, modeled in thin or thick
masses. That curiously real shadow waa got
by leaving tho strip of paper, which makes
It, loose and floating. The light, of course,
comes from behind; it la regulated to give
Just the right Btrength; and tho picture, as
the French artists say, "comes through" at
you. Thero Is art, of course, In modeling tho v
picture in this fragile material. Technically,
Mr, Cornwall's work has tremendous merit.
It la the work of a savant artist. But he
must havo had, I fancy, charming apells of
artistic agony in mastering the transmission
of his light.
In one picture a bather sits by a stretch
of water that pulses and shines. A nude
woman.
"How did you get that flesh tint? It Js
uncanny," I Bald,
The lumlnartlst, who la a tall, large man,
with the head of Napoleon III, laughed.
"And how did you get that modeling? I
could walk around her and look at her from
the other aide If I were not a modest man,"
"There are half a dozen sheets of paper
In that figure," he explained, "tone upon
tone that gives the flesh tint; and then the
figure is modeled exactly as though It were
modeled in clay, except that it Is modeled
In two materials In paper nd In light."
In the experiments he made for that nota
ble beefsteak dinner Mr. Cornwall found that
It was easy enough to Imitate etained glass.
A simple application of colored paper pro
duced the exact effect. It was almost by
aeoldent he discovered that layers, of paper
of different olorf4 superimposed with due
regard to ttqlor values, made a window look
-when ttj3 Bfbt ma through It like m
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PAINTING WITH LIGHl
Made of Colored Paper in CollabtH
Electric Light The Curioua
Their Origin.
THOMPSON
paintoa canvas. Only it was not mn
painted canvas, for It had n. strnn vlhi??
tory radiance, which the painter had n(vg
captured and imprisoned In artificial lltlf
but Mr. Cornwall intends to give an exilbw
,1 UI 1 . . , I., ,. . . .
i.iuji kiu3 aj'wng ui. juiiimos mununea wsou
by tho natural light of day.
"What Is the future of this new artr'J
asked him.
ilie 1'ractical Ueo )
"I might answer that question by ttlliy
you about something 1 am at work on not?
Thcio is a country house with a room It
it which Is nearly ready for the new fora
of fenestral decoration. Round the Miffi?
room thero has been built a deep glass fnoi
aa I might call It. I am filling It -jltl
luminos. Tho only light that enters the ma
will come through theso scrcen-plcturei,5j
shall not try to describe tho offect. You CM
lmacrino it fnr ns thn lleht nhnnp hfmf
by hour the luminos change, until as nTjff;!
anrnens ouisiue ;noy raae away. men. i
can Imagine the light in the room btltl
nrnrvl nn tntn Vmtnftlv liitlllnnfO Ren m
" . "' - . . . "";tv
wtttun tno room mo rneze is merely
shadowy strip. But for those who walls la
the darkness of tho garden outside the hoiui
the luminos shine the pictures live, im
perhaps, lato at night when the electric llrtU
In tho house are put out, and the moonlltt!.
snincs iiirougn ino iriezo, you win irnnw
pictures once more, illumined with a L
witchery of light."
That would be a room worth living ia
And a further development of tho artiVfss
which its Inventor Is at work, is a luiria)
roof for a room In this same country aowi
ta. , .- ... - --.... . innn rm.. nWimt
aro to live as long as the daylight lasts &j
to bo resurrected eacn day at aawn uj
rising sun. tM
An art of Infinite possibilities. $j
Cnllabnratlon with tho SUn Mr. Conttjl
has found infinitely moro difficult than wji
the electric light. The sunlight dejtrojrsj
anllino dyes with which most tissue pFgj
are colored. At flrat he was forced to
nnrt vecretable.dved onuers from Japan
of late a Now York concern has beaun
m .- .-nAtoi niiroea'-
manuiaccuro paper iur mw wt ?
Before long you will hear and see a Siw
deal mora of this new and beautiful art a
has como to stay. M
Wherefore Mme. Mariska Aldiich-th-g,
r. v. lioofatcnV dinner Is sure of A 'iL
amount of immortality. Still to mak M.
I .,!... ...nln T VinriB RhR Will gO Wffif
to the land of her birth and head that jj
In Hon fnr a. free Hungary.
Tha world la waiting for a new Um
d'Arc.
TIIE SHELTERING CARE
xny spim. w. -"- 7n hut
Jieyona us ujmosi mm: "'""' Jl'Z r.-irUfl
It may not pass; though billows foam w4m
a., k.nwinoi inui from the tummwa
SmlteBlthemtormented bark, still doth W '
In its wide compass hold me m" zr-$
.- .. ...... -.i hiiia. nn, mav the noo?.
ShaVgnash th.fr "bodeful fain' ""
girt Isles
Move from Its fostering nea ono "'""-m(
That yet shall wake to lift to proProw
Its swaying ironas.
O Dye that Blumbers notl .
O Heart, whose tender vigil never ends!
X. . '. ti.. in h Hrcult of Thy 10T
Tempest, shall bring undoing unto ; fl
Even the least of those, whose hW,n,"
Nestles within Thy "om.chn,f'hat
When thunder peals and Thy stunned M1
From Pslde to side, and fiery bolti eJJ
Full charged with sudden doom, whet m
Waste midnight shudders into dewer
Somewhere the light lies suit
a-m i liL .mi tvi vr.l,,ta in rren d'J5
And birds with pulsing tbroau law
FalU cool on peaceful "adow 'SU
-r. !- ..HIV, rnnt.nK He Calmly COUCOfU
By pasture bars! and a along the vaie
it' - ,iv.... i,-..in tn twinkle, and a soun
Mellow and hushed steals through the K'
dusk ..fc.
A lullaby crooned o'er a drowsy baps.
Lord, whatso'er Thou shalt appoint ''
Or calm. or storm wn, . .- . t,
The wona is inino. aw. "-". naarjiBl
Who trusta Thy patient we Afar or wm
IP. .: "a LU. "? "rato
iWi by my path. Thy warder, wait, rt
To me in starry mowenU there fhaiicw.
Low murmuring? pr ."" '".V ,
On periuroea winas. wuw -.
It uf of bJoweiu round m? Vatbtr
t. w. KByoE. IB vsm .
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