The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-06-04

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not. But You might hay" hcHrd oF linn
! if "" had any real editors nthiS "oun-
! try editors who cared tu look about
| them and find ont what their country
men were doing. DR. Finch was ON"
! Of til" greatest men this country ever
! produced.
"\"S; >h"r" are u number Of vs..
| What did he doctor du%'
"Nluy things. lie discovered the y
rays ten years ago. II is ljrlrrn years
! sine" mad" thr Hcu>nIntamr" q! IT.
I Eijuch. and for that length Of tNc |
have been trying 10 ret the papers TO
U"drrStaUd th1t this rrmHIE"hl" man
lived among W.. tie had. lurt"NatNE,
4 SrnHlI income and =, did not need 10
( practice. UGr uHE" urNrN out OF his
| iuv' uri"ue lIr lived in an old four
trcn-roomcd hoU'" SET we'll back in Il
walled GARDEN nm ideal Residence for
/ scientific research. lie occIp;"d only
4 few Of III" rooms, hut had apparatus
stored in many Of ,hrlu. \ nHn rs
. &jInIt and my@"riouS n himself WAS
, IuE only servant and This man as
sisted him il many of his experiments,
! urcruynr hjE odd tim" in cooking tn"
%ortl meals ,HH1 kept them both
alive. SUPPOSE | was til" only other
person Allowed IN that ancient huUS".
Ihn doctor Nc'romCl mr II first be-
c"UE". az YOU can gee. Was not i
, IalhHtiv" person and also because
WAS an expert photographer and 50
WAS ou1h,cd t. assist BIN sometimes
Whcr" photography WAS needed. In
rrriIh'c as i; nay appear, TIE doctor.
although unduuh'rdly the foremost dis
. Cu'vr"r Ut lh" ~ any other axe. could
rover master the Stmpl" art oi pho
to&raphy."
u can %ympathiHr with him in That.
| have h"ru phut0graphng of and on
for ten years and my friends say my
pictures ar" worse thau RocutErn'S.'
"Il"r" was m Archri collar Un;l'r
this ancient house that was IS black
rs midnight. In thi.; cellar we did our
first rhot"graphinT with III" \ rays
something like eleven wears ago.
shall never forget the thrill Of horror
that went through us when we ucvcl-
rp"d III" first negative. He merely
wanted 4 p!"tur" Of one Of the stone
walls t. SO" how III" rays actcd. Whcl
/ developed ihc plate J WH& amazed 10
see tn" stones couc ont Ike hIuclls Of
crystal and behind them Il skeleton Of
some one who had evidently been
walled in there. but whether he was
dead or alive Vhcn This WAS done Of
course we could not say"
''T"rNon me, but am perhaps not
so ignorant as look. h,Ilow mo to tell
You ihAt You apparently completely
misunderstood how the y rays are APP
plea. You don't take real photographs
with thcm. but merely shadow pie
lures. You place your baud over q
Scn"'izcd plat" in the dark. turn on
the y rays and Che shadows OF the
N-opaGuc bones. if may so state the
c",:r, show on tn" fin when If is after
ward developed You don't use u cam
era at all. Don't think | am doubling
your story in the least. am merely
stating facts"
Thc stranger looked Gt mo with with
crinG contempt in his glance. At last
he spoke again
,, y" "'' '''''rl'S' OF course, 10 the
',''",S''' FAY" o. '''e present iil-con-
49, 49,. NV" 'S'' ! W'S speaking OF the
Finch rays which rendered the OK
pertinent | tell you Of possible. DR..
INV :, w." ''H'"N '''" 'h' rays AZ they
p',' ~ N'''"n something iE"
n'N ''',' '''o'' ,''' !''h' l mentioned.
,t,' NY "''' q" ',' ''''nS WIN llR thcl.
-, ,'''' lays "Hi,H mace ,h' solid stone
,'N' ','H''' III" showed The skeleton
''", m ' I,, were inc y rays improved
- ~ 'i.Hn"' re was not the man
I" w SI''S'''u ny rays that would
"''I ''A SII'" '"' bones OF the living
"'n' l" '"' way you mention. We
WIRE past mat stage long before"
S''' 'o on
"Nith thn help Of the silent servant
we, after much labor got out the s,ones
from the wall, aud, sure conouyh.
there was the skeleton The homes
came apart as we pulled them out, but
IT," doctor set them together again ON
the lioor ana we stood looking down M
them While I'll" skull grinn"d up ut us.
The doctor. Nho seldom spoke, but nj
ways said something worth ycmcmhcr-
Ing when he did, remarked, I'd give n
penny ana a half to know what won't
wrong with this chap The somo
Thought had occurred to me. but
cOsII not have riyru pynrnuui,n a., I.