The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-05-14
PROPOSE TO DEsECr YOU,


outrageous practical joke, in good part
-" Al ungrateful generation may or may
not profit ~ your discovery, but it will in.
:. fallby bang you.
"Not Sc" be tlaldiy replied. u am
surgeon, Who once had very considera
bic practice, but had to stand my trial Tor
an experiment, which proved fatal to one
of my patients. The jury, unable to 10
derstand the sacrifices which an earnest
tenquirer is ready to cfer at the ghrine OF
science, declared me msd, and was PLACED
in confnemen,. You gee t4at | car act
with impunity."
And be opened the box. broke out
in il coll sweat. Was it all reai' Could
the man BE- in earnest? But" said |.
"a surely yuG can get dead bodies to dis
sect without having resources to crime
And, agtin, if generations Of aoatomists
kaye failed in twenty thousand investiga-
.ions to discover the use CT the spleen
i you yourself have always failed hifher-
%, wby shonld you suppose that this one
attempt slouIi be more successful tLan TIE
Others
" Rec,4ee, ny deag sig, 2 ,ad the man,
with the smile OF uur WHO has caught
bright idea, all former Investigations,
including my own, have been ua!r "a
dead subjects, white i propose To ,x"m
Inc your VITAL organs with Po~ eriui mag
mrfyIu. glass. - bile they are
EXERCISING THEIR NORMAL FUNcLI -.
What - sa~pei. You VII! never
have the bartarlty =" and nere ny
voice chuked.
"oh, yes have concured that pre-
juice against ineict,ng suffering which Is
natural to the MUD enteeIHed by eivilIza-
ton. For many ears ] secretly practiced
yivlsectIOn upon animals. | once mad Il
F., cat-an animal very tenacious of life-nn
/ der my scIape for week. But we have 10
! time to waste in conversation. You will
not be put to any needless suffering
These instruments are not my osn, bun
ted for want of use took the precaution
I Of borrowing the case OF the gentlemen u"-
! Ter whose care have been placed before
/ making my escape
! While e.eakius thus, be took cut Il =
! nilious little glit,ering instruments and ex
| amned them one by one. They wee Of
| various appalling shapes, and gazed ur !
oa them with tue horrible fascination OF .
/ hiri under the power Of "a sti,ke OF only |
| one c,cld tell The u-e--a thin, trench
ant blade, winch cut you almost to hook
at it, lie kusls across re, arranged hi>
implements on the seat - his Iigtt; laid Il |
| note book, pencil, ard his watch that to |
his left, and took of his ueck cloth aud |
collar, murmulng, The clothes are
VERY MUCH IL NY WAY;
] wish that you were properly prepared
Tor the operation.
It flashed across ne in TT despair, that
had heard Of madmen being foiled by an
app aren't acquiescence in their murde-ous /.
Inteuti ODs.
After all l forced myself to say,
90 what Is one life to the human race 2
Since mine IL demanded by science, let me
lid you. Remove these bonds, and allow |
me to take off my coat and wast,coat"
lie smiled ana shook his head.
.! Life IS sweet will nc, crush you"
he sand. uniastenlns my waistcoat, and !
tur,,iu,, i.,.L rba |, nals ~ far ~ ha onrI} !
Then, taking pair of scissors, he proceed
to cut my shirt front away, 50 that present |
/ Iy my chest was barred to his experiments. |
Whether closed my eyes CT was seized |
with vertigo, DO not know, but for mo
ment or tSo ! lost sight e everything, and
had visions a sort ot grcsesque night !
mare 1t WAS, the figures in which ! recall |
but very indistnctly, but | remember that
the most prominent of them was pig, or
pork, hanging up outside e butchers |
shop, the appearance of which bore ii nys !
ferrous resemblance to nv myself. These |
delriou, fantasies were dispe!lad By 4 |
BY sharp phng the anatomist had made |
FIRST SLIGHT II ElSlUNs
| sa" his calm face leaning oyer me the |
cguei blAds with which he was about 30 |
make another and deeper cut; his fin
gers. already, crirnsan with blood; and ! |
struggled irautically. My operator imme-
dIately withdrew his armed nand and ssood /
erect. Then. watching his opportunity. |
be placed his right foot on the lover part
of my breast bone, SO that by pressure he
could eutO cate me.
Listen, my friend" be said ~ will
endeayor not 10 injure auy vital organ but
if you wi..le about, shall not be able to
avoid doing 50. Auother thing: if you
lie was interrupted by three sharp ,whis
ties from the engine, SO shriIl ana piercing
az to drown his voice.
a." Impede me by these sharp, ccnrulsive
movements, shall lie compelled to sever
thuse muscles,
lie never completed his sentence. Thee
was mighty shock, Il crash rs if all tie
were Hau ruShed together. 1 was Sn0t IN
der the seat, where ! lay uninjlred and in
safety, amid the most horrible din; break
ing, te iring, shriekrng cries fer help, and
the Taa. Of escaqing steam.
! had strained the boals which secured !
my elbows in my struggle and the jerk of
the c'lsian snapped Them; SO that when
| began to get my wits together, I foual
my hands free. To literate my legs was
then a very easy ma tier, but not to extri
cate myself,--the next thingI set about.
The whole top of the carriage FROM where
the stuffed cushion part ends, was carried |
sheer away; an AMID the debris which |
encountered my movements lay tie
nANGLED AND DECAPIrATED BODY
OF the Inadman, who intended to assail my |
who lie. had. by keeping me down at the
elton of the carriage, saved it,
NoRAL.--Wh hen alone in railway. car |
rage. 1t may be worth while to take a |