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

about long before we have any right
to see them?' !. I.5} 5} .5
81 quite admit that is a strong point,
and own that am tired of those
Roentgen pictures. No scientist has a
right to make us feel like the man
whose he'd was cut off SO suddenly
that he exclaimed "Oh, that. should
live to see myself a dead body Well, ),
how long is it since you discovered the
x rays? ?" #s
ME, sir? I never discovered then? ~
"Oh, I'm off the track again. Who
did, theny' 81 .sa
"Did you ever hear Of DR.. Finch,
sir-Doctor James Finch? u
II never did" q. .g.r .gss. -
"No, I could have bet that you did
not. But you might have heard Of him
if we had any real editors nthis coun-
try-editors who cared to look about
them and find out what their country
men were doing. DR.. Finch was one
Of the greatest men this country ever
produced"
Eyes; there are number Of us.
What did the doctor do?' ,,,5,z &. r.
MANY. things. He discovered the x
rays ten years ago. 1t is fifteen years
since made the acquaintance Of DR..
Finch, and for that length of time I
have been trying to get the papers to
i understand that this remarkab BILE man
lived among us. He had, fortuna tely,
| a small income and so did not need to
practice, nor make money out of his
inventions. He lived in an old -four
teen-roomed house set we'll back. in a
walled garden, an ideal residence for.
scientific research. He occupied only
a few of the rooms, but had apparatus
stored in many Of them. A man as
silent and mysterious as himself was
his only servant, and this man as,
sisted him in many of his experim ents,
occupying his odd time in cooking the
scanty meals that kept them both
alive. suppose I was the only other
person allowed in that ancient house.
The doctor WaIconed me first be-
cause, as you can see, was not a
talkative person and also because I
was an expert photographer and SO
was enabled to assist him sometimes
where photography was needed. In
credible as it may appear, the doctor,
although undoubtedly the foremost dis
coverer Of this or any other age, could
never master the simple art Of pho
tography." ..u. ~. H. d.. .
II can sympathize with him in that.
[ have been photogra phing eff and on
for ten years and my friends say my
pictures are worse than Roentgen's!''
"There was an arched cellar under
this ancient house that was as black
as midnight. In this cellar we did our
nj inc wi
something like eleven years ago. I
shall never forget: the thrill of horror
that went through us when we deyel-
oped the first negative. He merely
wanted a picture of one Of the stone
walls to see how the rays acted. When
I developed the plate was amazed to,
see the stones come out like blocks of
crystal and behind them skeleton of
some one who had evidently been
walled in there, but whether he was
dead or alive when this was done Of
course we could not say" .|1G
pardon me, but I am perhaps not
so ignorant as I look. Allow me to tell
you that you apparently completely
misunderstood how the K rays are ap-
piled. You don't take real photo graphs
with them, but merely shadow pic
lures. You place your hand over a
sensitized plate in the dark, turn on
the = rays and the shadows Of the
X-opaque bones, if I may so state the
case, show on the film when it is after
ward developed. You don't use cam
era at all. Don't think am doubling
your story in the least I am merely
stating facts" sss q Il sSe.=sE.G
The stranger looked at me with with
ering contempt in his glance. At last
he spoke again. Ss S z
You are referring, of course, to, the
Roentgen rays Of the present sill-con
structed age. was speaking Of the
Finch rays, which rendered the ex-
pertinent I tell you Of possible. DIR.
Flinch had discovered the rays as they
are at present known something like
six years before the time I mentioned.
They were anSold thing with us then
These rays which made the solid stone
like crystal and showed the skeleton
behind them were the K rays improved
by Dr.. Finch. He was not the man
to be satisfied by rays that would
merely show the bones Of the living
hand in the way you mention. We
were past that stage long before. 2 s5s
| II see. Go on 5s Nj III .
with the help of the silent servant
we, after much labor, got out the stones
from the wall, and, sure eonough,s
there was the skeleton The bones
came apart as we pulled them out, but
the doctor set them together again on
the foor, and we stood looking down at
them while the skull grinned up at us.
The doctor, who seldom spoke, but al.
ways said something worth remember
ing when he did, remarked, I'd give a,
penny and a half to know what went
wrong with this chap. The same
Thought had occurred to me, but Il
could not have given expression to IT.
in TINT terse wa y. The skeleton set
the doctor It u linking, and he would sit
/ for hours ln0ls if,r AZ m and nor lynnw