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A Service in Lantern Slides 137 he Society, therefore, has assumed he expense of replacement. Our most xasperating experience is caused by ertain individuals whose curiosity ompels them to take the projecting snse apart to see what is inside of it nd invariably the parts are re-as- embled in the wrong position, which lecessitates some one in the Depart- nent taking time to re-assemble the ystem. Unfortunately the trouble is lot always discovered until the next >orrower is back with the lantern and eports that it "will not focus." We an obviate this difficulty by inserting . small set screw in the flange so that he lenses cannot be taken apart. The operating rules of the Circulat- ng Department are brief and simple. Vt the start we loaned material to any idult who applied, but rapidly increas- ng business made it advisable to re- strict this somewhat so that now we ire confining our loans to members of he Society or any adult who may present a card signed by a member of he Society. No child is permitted to >orrow slides without a card signed by i member of the Society. All material s loaned for a period of three (3) lays, Sundays and holidays not in- :luded, after which a penalty of :wenty-five cents ($.25) per set of slides and one dollar ($1.00) for the antern for each extra day is collected. The borrower agrees to return the manuscript lecture with the slides under a penalty of one dollar ($1.00) a day for the delay. Slides must be borrowed and returned over the coun- ter and the shipping of slides by the Department or the borrower is abso- lutely prohibited. Slides in sets must be returned in numerical order. No charge can be made for admission to the hall where slides are shown but a collection may be taken at a church where such collection is customary when slides are not shown. The bor- rower must make good all breakage before any further loans will be per- mitted. The Department is operating with- out any deposit by the borrower. While this may seem rather generous, it is based on two fundamental prin- ciples. In the first place the Depart- ment has not as yet failed to receive back any material loaned. In the sec- ond place, a deposit system would necessitate the handling and account- ing of a large sum of money which could only be taken care of by a re- sponsible person who would give his entire time to this duty. As a deposit system would bring in no income, the salary- of such administrator would be a loss to the Society and it is, there- fore, more economical to carry our own insurance, so to speak, as far as deposits are concerned. Where the breakages are discovered they are charged and always cheerfully paid for by the borrower, but our breakage including cover glass, does not amount to one-tenth of one per cent. Our borrowers may be roughly classed under four heads. First, priv- ate citizens. Many of our friends are