Show DO RATS HAVE V SOULS In Itt the course of ot a n lecture before the thel l Society Dr Ward announced that Prof Elmer Gates of Washington D. D C. C who has been experimenting experimenting ex ex- with light rays had found about five octaves above violet a form of ot wave to x-rays x but different different differ differ- ent eat in some respects Under these rays living objects throw a shadow which exists as long longas as there Is life in the animate object A live rat was placed in a hermetically sealed tube and held in the path of the rays in front of ot a sensitized screen So long as the tIle rat was alive It threw a shadow When it was killed it became be came caine suddenly transparent after a certain tam tain length of time Here said the lecturer there was a strange phenomenon At the very instant the rat became transparent transparent trans thins parent a shadow of exactly the same shape was noticed to pass as It were out ant of or and beyond the glass tube and vanish as ns it passed upward on the sensitized screen scree |