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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1896-04-29

| !.pS lear! 10 speak. lue EISs iaCe
/ possio! ). that You or | ever saw was
tie f;,cr Of mother We very often
hear tie expression Il believe will
SO home" hence we are warranted in
asking this question.
WHIT Is HOME?
How sad, that thousands know not
tie meaning of that word "hcme.
One has beautifully said that "home
is the magic circle within which the
weary spirit finds refuge. 1t is the
sacred asylum to which the care
worn heart retreats to find rest from
the trials of life"
If we ask the aged who has wan-
dered far from home and friends,
and kindred, whose form is trem-
bling, who leans upon his staff, while
bis hair iswhite with the frost Of years
that flows over his stopped shoulders.
Ask him what is home? and that word
will awaken all tie tender memories
that fill his soul And he will tell
You that shcme is green spot in my
memory"
If we ask the child what is home,
he or she will tell you, could he speak
the language, that his own heart
feels), that ''it is place where I
pour out all my joys and sorrows,
and where when tired of play, and
sick and faint l can pillow my head
upon the bosom of mother and feel
safe. There I have fathers love,
mothers smile, sisters kiss, and
brothers welcome; having this, makes
home for me.
So to US all home is
l. PLACE OF REFUGE
We are tossed to and fro over the
ocean of life, dashed here and there
by tue waves Of a thousand problems,
often too hard for US to solve. How
glad are we when the day is past and
We can free our minds of the cares Of
life, and find sweet refuge around
our own freside. There we are safe.
Is this not blessing that we too Of
ten fail to thank God for? How
many of US ever stop and thank God
for a home. Oh! what blessing it
is, when weary with care and bur-
dened with sorrow, to have a home
to which we can go, and there, in the
midst of friends we love and cherish,
forget our troubles, cares, and disap-
pointments, and around ones own
freside dwell in peace. Hence, it be-
comes place OF refuge to US all.
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It's gorgeOusness is lost in this way.
But once within its walls there is no
lack Of material for admiration from
the most squeamish of critics. Two Of
the big apartments within are of espe-
cial interest and beauty. These are
the library and board-room. The bank
presidents will meet in room OF gen.
uine splendor. There is a golden cell
ing, laid in panels, with large cornices
supported by marble pilasters. The
doorways and windows are framed
with Sienna marble, which is the most
expensive of that material to be found
The mottled markings are softly blend
ed and the surfaces polished like mir
rors.
A throne of oriental magnificence has
been built for the President. High
above his head will arise a massive
panel of marble. The bankers will &C.
cupy great leather chairs Of size suffi-
cient for two men. Nearby the board
room is the library. It's walls are of
mahogany, its ceiling superbly fres-
coed, and at one side is huge mahog-
any mantel, exquisitely carved and
beautifully decorated in gold. These
rooms are on the second floor surround
Ing a central room In which the clerks
and cashiers will work. The building,
except the ground floor, will be oc-
cupied exclusively by the clearing
house
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came accustomed to his civilized home,
and enjoyed the rich carpets he walk
ed upon and the warm blankets he
slept in every night. Mr.. Pisek, in
bringing up the wolf in his fold, has
been very careful to keep his young
charge out of bad company.
In the summer time NJ" Wolf changes
his residence to his masters summer
home at Lake Hopatcong. This move
is always very welcome to Mr.. Wolf.
He is allowed to run at large about the
woods. AS a result, however, he is
constantly meeting very curious adven-
lures. The pet wolf has often caused
great CONSERVATION by appearing sud-
denly before picnic parties or parties
alone in the woods. The appearance Of
his sharp little nose has often broken
up a party and caused them to run
wildly from him, although his inten-
tons were undoubtedly friendly. On
one occasion two girls who were row.
ing on the lake spied Mr.. Wolf on shore
and were afraid to land for several
hours for fear Of encountering the sup
posedly ferocious animal, which fol-
lowed them along the. bank to play
with them.
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PREAcHER's QUEER PET.
shaggy Wolf IL a Regular Attendant
at New York City Church.

shaggy Wolf IL a Regular Attends ant
at New York City Church.
A wolf has crept into the fold of the
John Hass Presbyterian Church, on
East Seventy-fourth street, New York.
1t has not come in sleeps clothing, but
in a dark, shaggy coat. 1t presence In
the flock does not seem to occasion the
least anxiety; in fact, 1t has become a
universal pet and favorite with all.
The wolf is the pet Of Rev. Vincent
Pisek, pastor of the church. This pc
culiar pet was born on Western prai-
RE, but when he was very small
whelp, and before he had grown fierce
enough to be dangerous, he was cap
tured and transported to the quiet
church parsonage. Since then the rclig-
iOus influences of his surroundings
have completely converted him. He
has put away nearly all wolfish things,
and at the present day is leading 4
quiet, exemplary life, and often at
tends both the church and Sunday
school. 1t is said he sleeps through
the sermons.
The wolf was born heather. Both
of his parents lived and died on the
open prairie. Mr.. Pisek, while on
hunting trip in the West, shot the par
ents of Mr.. Wolf and captured their
cub. He brought the little orphan
home with him, and new life at once
began for him. He was given a milk
diet, which agreed with him very well,
and it time it began to influence his
character. Instead of growing up to be
snarling and ferocious, his manners
became mild and gentle. He soon be-
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ed. The perfection of the appliances kept
pace with the interest of the subject, and
Prof. Whitman, of the high school at
Buda Pesth, has reduced the time neces-
sary to obtain a well-defned Roentgen
photograph to three minutes under ordi-
nary circumstances, and thirty seconds
under perfect conditions.
No substance is impervious to this new
form of radiant energy. Matter against
which ordinary light rays beat helplessly,
and from which they are thrown with n
power apparently greater than their strik-
ing force, are as open gates for the Y
rays. On this point Roentgen, the pioneer,
says:
The most striking feature of this phenom-
enon Is that an influence capable OF exciting
brilliant huoresoenee is able to pass through
the black cardboard cover. which transmits
none of the ultraviolet rays of the sun or
OF the electric arc, and one Immediately In
quires whether other bodies possess this
are transparent to this influence, but In
very different degrees. few examples Will
suffice. Paper Is very. transparent. The
nuorescent screen held behind a bound vol
ume OF 1000 pages still lighted up brightly
the printers Ink offered no perceptible OBJ
stacle. Fluorescence was also noted behind
tween apparatus and screen made no per-
ceptibe difference. single sheet of tin
foil is scarcely noticeable; only after several
layers have been laid on top of each other
is shadow clearly visible on the screen.
Thick blocks Of wood are also transparent;
fir planks two or three centimeters thick
are but slightly opaque. A film of aluminium
about fifteen milimeters thick weakens the
effect very considerably. though 1t does not
entirely destroy the nuorescence. Several
centimeters of vulcanized India rubber let
the rays through. Glass plates Of the same
thickness behave In different way, accord
ing as they contain lead (1int glass; or not;
the former are much less transparent than
the latter. Ii the hand Is held between the
discharge tube and the screen the dark
shadow Of the bones Is visible within the
slightly dark shadow of the hand. Water,
liquids behave In this respect as IL they were
very transparent. | was not able to deter
mine whether water was more transparent
than air. Behind plates of copper, silver
lead, gold, platinum, 1uorescence is still
clearly visible, but only when the plates are
| not too thick. Platinum OF millimeters
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them as thin as possible. Thomas A. Edi.
son makes very thin ones, and he claims
that is a point of superiority. He applies
the term "fuorescent tubes" to those Of
mis- own manufacture.
In his experiments he uses two alum
mum disks, one representing the anode or
positive pole, and the other the cathode
or negative pole. The positive or anode
disk or electrode is suspended by small
wire close to the mouth or top of the bulb.
The cathode or negative disk is fixed in
the center of the bulb. 1t is half an inch
in diameter and is placed on an angle as
if intended to act as reflector.
'The generation of the light" says Mr..
Ddison, "takes place when the proper flu
presence is obtained within the tube, and
It is caused by the action of the electric
iud in disturbing the molecules of rare
fed air. The cathode disk does not make
the light, but propels it with great force
against and through the glass of its prison
aud anything else that may intervene be-
tween It and the sensitive plate which is
tn register its rays"
With the Crookes' tube at hand and
with a battery containing enough cleo
tricity to last during the experiments, the
scientist now devotes his attention to the
securing of sensitive plate which will
register an image of the object to be pho
tographed. So far, the ordinary dry
plates used by an amateur or professional
have been used with success. The unex-
posed plate is put in dry plate holder
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This furnishes protection from the day
light Any article which it is desired to
secure an image of is procured. All the
hight is shut out from the laboratory, or
wherever the experiment Is to be made.
The proper wire connections are made
with the battery and tubes. Directly un-
der the glass is placed the dry plate, still
in the holder. 1t is unnecessary to draw
the slide, for the Y rays will penetrate
wood or steel as readily as they will pass
through a piece of glass. Between the
elass and the dry plate is placed the OBJ
feet 10 be photographed. 1t is laid on the
slide, oil. the holder. Lenses or refectors
are unnecessary, as will be explained
later. When everything has been placed
carefully, and all is ready, the electric
current is. flashed. on. For a moment it
creeps along the tube and flares up. Soon
Il becomes steady, and its rays spread
out upon the image. Down through the
envelope the rays fall. They cut their
way through every fiber straight down
sntil they fall upon the sensitive plate
aud register their passage. If an object,
such as bone or piece Of metal stands
In the way, then, and only then, do they
psussrudr their interruption Is shown by
the delicate plate being unaffected. II q
BALLET is imbedded in the flesh, and here Is
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rays--the words are as familiar to the ear
as the alphabet. Stated briefly, Prof.
Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen has found a
means whereby articles behind Opaque
substances, or contained therein, may be
photographed and their position accurate
" defined. The pictures thus obtained
are iight-often shadows only on the plate.
Their character is determined by the rela
tive density of the inclosing matter. IL
the envelope present slight obstruction to
the \ rays, the impression of the object
whose photograph is sought is proportion
ateiy distinct. 1t is easy to see that this
discovery may be put to great practical
use. and it has for that reason excited an
interest almost universal. .s
Ii is difficult to describe the Roentgen
discovery and mode of procedure in such
terms as may be popularity understood.
To photograph any object, of course there
must be light. In the Roentgen method
this is furnished by what are called
Crooke's tubes. In brief they may be
described as glass cylinders from which
the air has been partially exhausted. In
each end of each tube is placed a disk,
one of which conveys an electric current
to the interior of the tube and the other
carries it away, making the return wire a
battery. Ii is believed that the glass alb
serbs 95 per cent of the light, so that it is
great point in their manufacture to have
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#ROENTGEN'S WONDERFUL * RAYS
! @ REVIEW OF PHOTOGRAPHIC DISCOVERY


where the first practical benefit to sur
gerry has been found by the new art, the
impression Is left. The time of exposure
varies. When II has been sufficiently ex-
posed the current Is shut off and the plate
taken to the developing room. There the
process used by any amateur is carried
out The plate is first developed In the
ruby light, and it is then fixed" with
hyposulphite of soda. 1t can then be ex-
posed to daylight without any fear of be-
ing changed. The negative, II the expert
m9nt has been success, will show thin
outline of the enveloping medium and a
lighter shade for the article whose photo
graph or shadow is desired. 1t will be
understood that in the developed work the
conditions of the negative are reversed
the inclosing substance is represented in
the lighter shade. the interposed denser
object in the ,darker.t,t
Prof. Roentgen, when he ascertained
the effects producible by the X--the un-
known rays-was pursuing line of in
quiry in continuation of a series of expert
ments by Geissler Gassioit, Hittorf and
Crookes. He progressed from the points
at which they had stopped, and in later
laboratory work in Europe and America
~ 10 tudt the ftouitS ODtdlucu ny
Roentgen have been improved upon. The
earlier explorers in this field regarded
the rays as proceeding directly from the
cathode. Roentgen holds otherwise. He
confesses himself at somewhat of loss
to describe these rays and their full prop
critics, but is confident that they do not
proceed directly from the cathode, but
issue only from that part of the Crookes'
tube where the cathode rays strike the
glass wall. 1t is as if the true cathode
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ings of all the leading English and
American managers and actors in the
metropolis and was made the recipient
Of suitable presents.
Mr.. Stoddart was born in England in
1896 and was descended from theat-
rical family. He was raised in Glas-
gov, Scotland, where his father was
connected with the Theater Royal, and
at an early age he began to act. first
appearing as page. At the age Of II
he began theatrical life on his own ac-
count, and in 1852 he came to this coun-
try and played in Wallack's Theater,
New York. He remained with Wal
lack four seasons and then Joined
Laura Keene's company, supporting
Joseph Jefferson in the Heir ut Law"
and 1.-The Spectre Bridegroom"
From Laura Keenes Stoddart next
went to the Winter Garden in 1859,
under the management of Dion Bouci-
cault, playing the character parts in
Boucicault's plays. In two years he
went to the Olympic Theater, managed
by Mrs. John Wood. Here Stoddart re-
manned five seasons, and here he scored
his first great and striking success in
the character OF Moneypenny in 'The
Long Strike" In 1867 he returned TO
waliack's and in 1874 became Il men,
Der Of the Union Square Theater Com
pany. Some of his successes were
won as Pierre Michel in Rose Michel"
Fletcher in saints and Sinners" and
Col. Preston in alabama" Mr.. Stod-
dart is a courteous and genial man and
is one Of the favorite actors of the old
school
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granddaughters Of the Queen have
been brought up and trained 1t will not
be surprising news that the Czarina
has determined to nurse her little baby
herself. Her own mother, Princess
Alice, like all her sisters, washed and
dressed and nursed her babies; the
Duchess of Fife has done the same, and
the Czarina Is only obeying her En-
glish as web as her natural mother in
stincts In declining to have wet nurse
for her infant. Nothing. perhaps, that
she could have done will so endear her
to the Russian people as this act. which
seems perfectly natural to us. No pre-
vious eElpress has ever nursed her
children, and the Russians will regard
what they take to be an exceptional
evidence of devotion to the tiny Grand
Duchess as a proof of the Czarlna's
wish to cherish for them their possible
future ess.-Gentlewoman
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WHY HE TOOK THE SEAT.

A Touching Scene Witnessed on a
New York Car.
A pathetic incident occurred in n
Broadway cable-car one evening re-
Gently. Two men boarded the car at
Chambers street. They were broad
shouldered, athletic looking men, and
one familiar with professional ath-
letes would have recognized In one a
ball player, well known in the Ma
tional League, and the other we'll
known prize fighter. The men were
chatting and did not pay much atten-
ton to the way they were jostled as
the car filed up rapidly. 1t was early
in the evening and the theater crowd
was moving.
At 14th street the car stopped and
two young women got on. They were
handsomely dressed and had general
look that would cause one to take
them for actresses. They were at once
recognized by the men mentioned. The
two men sprang to their feet and greet
ed the young women warmly. The
car was filed, and many were stand
ing. Just as the pugilist got on his
feet a man who was standing pushed
a friend gently into the seat just va
Gated. The pugilfst turned angrily and
laid q strong hand upon the man who
had just seated himself and said In n
firm voice.: M
Excuse me, sir, meant that seat
for this lady,"
1t looked ominous to those who saw
the CLEAN in the eye Of the pugilist.
The man addressed said hastily:
II beg your pardon. Excuse me-"
Even as he spoke he was trying to
rise, but as he did he felt in front OF
him in uncertain manner. The pugilist
looked searchingly into his face, and
then caught him by the shoulder, firm.
ly, but gently, and pushed him back
into the seat, saying:
That's all right, old man; you keep
the seat"
Then he turned to the young woman
and said quietly: y
you'll have to stand, Blanche, the
poor chaps blind. York Trlb.
une
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PALACE OF FINANCE.
Monetary Mart Which Was Recently
Dedicated in New York City.

Monetary Mart Which Was Recently
Dedicated in New York City.
The new clearing house recently dedi-
Gated in New York city is a veritable
palace of marble and gold. The tradl-
tional notion of the grim, stern house
of business is utterly exploded in this
superb pile, which more resembles
some Byzantine marvel Of decoration
and architecture than a place for the
exchange of mere money. The build
fng is situated unfortunately for the
display Of its great external beauty.
1t was put up on a site on the north
side Of Cedar street, between Wall and
Nassau streets. Cedar street, while
convenient in location for the purpose
to which the building is to be devoted,
is dark, narrow thoroughfare, and
hence the approaches to the splendid
structure are i'll lighted and much Of
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photograph the brain will never prove sue
cessful. They think he may get the in
terror line of the skull, but the brain, be-
ing less dense, will not furnish suffi-
cient resistance to the rays. .
What Of Roentgen, and how did he
make his great discovery? He has chair
in the department of physics in the Wurz-
burg University. A short time ago he
was unknown except to his fellow inquir-
ers into the phenomena and laws of nat
ural philosophy. This discovery was
brought about by pure accident. Prof.
Roentgen, while experimenting in a dark
room with a Crookes' tube, through which
an inductive electric current was passed,
was greatly astonished to find that pho
tographic plate inclosed in wooden slides
which had been lying in the same room,
revealed some strange impressions which
could not possibly be attributed to the in
fuence of ordinary light from without.
Struck with the curiousness Of this phe-
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nomenon, for which no possible reasons
seemed to exist, Prof. Rocntgen expert
mented again under exactly the same
conditions and found that the photo
graphic plate could have been reached
only by a light which was capable Of
penetrating wood, a substance which hith-
erto has always been considered opaque.
Further trials showed not only that such
light existed and was generated in
Crookes' tube, but that it possessed the
faculty of penetrating many other sub
stances, such as organic tissues, paper,
etc., while certain metals and bone sub
stances calcium phosphate) did not lose
their opacity. Prof. Roentgen further
succeeded In obtaining Photographic i'm
pressions of metallic objects which had
been inclosed in a wooden box, and also
of the skeleton of living hand. Then
he gave his findings to the world.
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Knew How to Print.

A writer in the New York Art ANA.
teur has been describing his visit to the
old Plantin Printing House at Ant
werp, which was bought from the fam.
lily by that city for 100000 francs,
when 1t came to be no longer flourish
ing concern. Many important works
were issued from this house during its
existence of 800 years, notably the edi.
tons of the Bible. The old presses and
everything connected with the estab-
lishment lie In perfect order. The
writer compares this old Bible-produc-
ing house with its modern equivalent.
the Oxford University Press, where
there are architectural surroundings
even more beautiful, and an atmos-
phere even more academic; but he car
ried away the impression that, though
machinery has cheapened the article.
no books have been better printed than
the very first that were made on the
rediscovery of the art in the fifteenth
century.
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the engines. The gauge Is less than
two feet, the cylinders are 5x10 inches,
the drivers "a inches diameter, and the
water tank holds 90 gallons. If this
was the standardized engine in this
country hardware stores would keep
them, same as they do sausage-cut-
tiers. Railroad managers would order
them by the gross, and locomotive en-
gineers would be thicker than fleas in
q dog kennel.-LocOmotiv Engineer.
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island and to maintain a home there
even to the present time. How soon
after getting the island the GARDENERS
began to realize the convenience of get
ting to Kew York (where the Dutch
were settled by means of crossing to
Long Island and going overland is not
known, but 1t was long ago. Return
ing, they would build fire on the
beach. as signal, and the boat would
be brought back across the channel for
them. The place where the boats land
ed and the fires built, which soon began
to be called the Fire Place. was where
the channel is narrowest.
When a century after the first Gardi-
ner came, a house was built ut the
Long Island landing, it was described
as being at Fire Place. A second house
was put up, and it, too. was known
as being at Fire Place. The name has
chung to the5two houses, both of which
are still there, ever since, and it is thus
shown on the maps. Nor are the ORR
gin Of the name and the infinitesimal
size Of the village the only curious
points in regard to the place. 1t was q
man named Miller, who built the first
house at Fire Place, and man named
Parsons who built the second. 1t is
Samuel ID. Miller, lineal descendant
Of the first Miller, who now lives in
the Miller home and it is William H.
Parsons, n lineal descendant of the
first Parsons, who lives in the Parsons
home.
More than this. the ancient custom
of fire building assigned to Gardeners
Island is still kept up. Ashes and
charred wood from a recent fire may
nearly always be found on the beach.
The island contains over 5000 acres,
much of it billy and wooded. A stock
farm is maintained there, and wild
deer are preserved.