Photography In War

Considerable attention has been given in recent years to the methods of carrying on communieation between points in time of siege. In a recent issue of La Nature, a French investigator strocgly recommends the use of carrier pigeons for transmitting messages, and gives a map of Europe with the projected stations for pigeon service marked. During the siege of Paris the method of communieation was carried on and a distinct pigeon post was organized, the letters, at the cost of ten cents a word, being sent into the city with a great degTee of rapidity. The letters which were limited to twenty words, were set in type, and, after a reduced photograph was made, the film was removed from the glass and inclosed in small quills, which were then attached to one of the tail feathers of the bird. So complete was the organization that many thousand letters were sent in this way. There is no special skill required for this work, and any amateur photographer conTcrsant with the wet collodion process coïUa, with an ordinary camera and Lens, reduce a whole page of a newspaper to such dimensions as would enable It to be dispatched in the matter deBcribed.