The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1896-06-13

actual experiment, whati.iAehe photo.
graphic Intensity Of the reversed rays
were second plate saIeyeloped
proved to have been correctly tinted.
At first the outlines of the skeleton ap-
peared in the red light and then /
thought the picture was Jogging over,
for the bones disappeared, but, OH
holding the plate against the red light,
I was amazed to see the picture Of a
man in the costume of the second
Charles time. There was on his face
such look of horror-well / can't de-
scribe it. At first thought he had on
a white figured waistcoat, but when we
printed the picture it proved to be a
placard, and on it were the words:
"'Who proves traitor to the king, his
love ~ &'. ..
Shall die the death Othello gave" -
"And what did you make of it all?"
I asked, much interested.
- '"rle picture, or the galllnt's fate?
Well, the picture was easily explained
for. OF course. where the direct x rays
took the flesh off, as one might say,
the reversed rays put it on again,
don't you see? AS for the fate Of the
stalwart young fellow that, of course,
is q mere matter of conjecture. The
secluded nature of the house and
grounds showed that their first pro-
prjetor evidently desired privacy, at
least. The house was supposed to
have been built in the time OF Charles
H., and for years it was said to have
been haunted, and that is why DR.
Finch. got it SO cheaply. [ surrnse
that the young fellow took some risks,
and was caught where he shouldn't
have been, so they put that placard on
him, walled him up and thus smoth-
cred him. We never found anything
about the house to show who built it,
so, perhaps the owner Of it did not
care to leave a record :: ): #
'And the remarkable DIR. Finch,
where is he now?''. @ %S
s"sAh, who can tell? He died three
weeks since, and there was not one.
word about him in the papers."-De
troit Free Press %-
Bedstead Burglar Alarm hutton
The tolls are closing around the
burglar. The electric light gave him a
fatal blow when it took away his cloak
of darkness, and electricity has been
following him relentlessly with even
more efficient safety and alarm de,
vices, until mis- chances of doing "a
clean job are hardly worth taking.
For the large class Of females who,
especially in suburbs and country.
places, are subject to the time -honored
womanly conviction that there is "a
4 man under the bed, 3" a godsend has
been provided in the shape Of a button
in the bedstead head board. This but
ton has a wire come ection to the near.
est police station. 1T can be pressed by.
slipping the hand up under the pillow
This can be done so quietly and sunoi,-
seryedly that*it seems almost like tak-
ing mean adYahtage of the burglar
who may be moving stealthiIy about
the room in the discharge Of his pro-
fessional duties. Tue bedstead button
alarm reyerses the usual order of
things Formerly every moment Of
waiting seemed an age to the awaken
ed and affrighted Srcupant Of the
burglar invaded apartment; now the
moments OF suspense are not altogeth,
er devoid OF pleasure. for he knows
that every second brings nearer to him
the y help that is hast TENN arom the ps,II
lice station. q. 81 y.
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