THE NEW YORK JOURNAL OF PHARMACY 



and battery installed in the box. On the 

 front end of the box were two magnify- 

 ing glasses so focused as to throw an 

 intense light on a selenium wire, which 

 was connected in circuit with a small but 

 powerful electro-magnet on one side of 

 the tiller which controlled the direction 

 of the rear wheel. In the same manner 

 a selenium wire was placed in circuit 

 with a magnet on the other side of the 

 tiller. Between the two "eyes" I placed 

 a "nose" made out of tin and of such a 

 shape that light striking one "eye" could 

 not easily strike the other unless directly 

 in front of the Dog. This accomplished 

 I made a powerful hand light on a long 

 wire and then sat down and waited until 

 darkness came. I forgot to say that 1 

 had a tiny red light placed on top of the 

 dog's back so I could tell where it was 

 Finally evening came and I decided to 

 take my dog for a walk, so out we went 

 on to the lawn. I turned on the motor 

 switch and the dog started ofif very 

 slowly wandering around with his little 

 red light much to every one's amusement 

 Then I got my hand light working and 

 turned it on and behold the dog recog- 

 nized its master changing its course and 

 coming over to where I stood and as 

 long as I kept my light on it it followed 

 me, much to the wonder of all. Little the\ 

 thought that the wonderful faithfulness 

 was caused by two small selenium wires 

 one in each eye. Right here is an idea 

 which could be applied to torpedoes 

 making them deadly at night in follow- 

 ing up warships guided by a searchlighi 

 from shore. Mines might be exploded 

 by having an attachment of this sort on 

 a floating buoy with a clock-work 

 arrangement to turn it off in the day- 

 time making a contact mine of it unti! 

 dark. 



A WORD ABOUT PACKAGES 

 AND LABELS. 



People are very exacting as to what 

 comes from a drug store ; not only must 

 the goods be of the best quality, but the 

 packages in which they are put up must 

 appeal to the sense of neatness. The 

 dry-goods clerk, the shoe clerk, the gro- 

 cer — in fact, salesmen in all other trades 

 — do not care much about the appear- 

 ance of the packages they send out. A 

 sheet of paper twisted or rolled around 

 the article, a piece of string, and the 

 thing is done ; and nothing better is ex- 

 pected. But with the druggist it is dif- 

 ferent. We wonder how many drug- 

 gists appreciate the effect of a neatly- 

 tied package or a simple, neatly-printed 

 label, upon their customers. And yet 

 we know of people who prefer a certain 

 store to another for no other reason 

 than that the goods sent out of it are 

 neater than those coming from the other. 

 What is true of parcel wrappings, also 

 holds for labels. A great deal of im- 

 provement is noticeable in this respect 

 within the last twenty years. We re- 

 member the fantastic labels sported in 

 many drug stores at the time the Japan- 

 ese art craze swept this nation. Label 

 makers swam with the stream, and some 

 of their efforts were gorgeous beyond 

 belief — so gorgeous that the lettering on 

 the labels was completely lost in the 

 maze of decorative detail. Labels of this 

 kind are seldom seen nowadays, but they 

 turn up once in a while in some obscure 

 village. The intelligent public would not 

 tolerate such things nowadays. 



Have your packages neat and your 

 labels plain. — National Druggist. 



