Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1876-04-13

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part. An uneratefui esner<
or may not profit By youf dfI
but il viii infallibly hang yool VI
Not so,' he bluntly replisd- r
surgeon, who once had . vee3
erable practice, but bad 70 G.
trial for sn experiment. vhi6
fatal, on one Of my patisuts.
unable To tounderstabd theauio
an earnest inquirer u e.
TO offer at the shrine of sei1
clared me mad, and I wss
confinemeEt. Yoa ses that I
with impunity.'
Aud be cpesed tie koxs br( 49,
h s.co1d sweat. Ne Is "a 9ealf US1I|
The inan be IN earnest2 But, said I,
surely you can get dead bodies to dis.
sect without h4Siug recourse toacrime;
And, again, II generations Of anato-
mists have failed, in twenty thousand
Investigations, TO discover the use of the
spl.en--if you Yourself have always
failed hitherto. why should you snpposs
that this one attempt shuuld Be more
successful than tue others -
Because, my dear sir, said the man,
with the emile Of one who had caught a
bright idea, all former Investigations,
including my own, have been made on
dead subjects, while l propose to
exa,niue your vital organs with a pow.
erful maguifying glass while they are
exercising their normal functions
What I gasped. You will never
have the barbarity- And here my
voice checked.
o yes, have conquered that preju.
dice against ipfiicting suffering which
is natural to the mind enfeebled by
civilization. For many years I secretly
practiced vivisection upon animals. ]
unce had cat, IN animal very tena-
cious OF life, under my scalpel for a
week. But we have no time to waste
in conversation. You will not DO pu,
to any needless suffering; these instru.
ments are not my own, blunted fo,
wanted of use. / took the precautiou
Of borrowing the case Il the gentleman
under whose care l have been placed,
before making NY escape.
While speaking thus, he took out the
tideYus, little eEttering instruments,
and examined tIe:,, one by one. They
were of various. appalling shapes, and
| gazei upon them with fhorrible fas-
cination of bird under the power Of a
snake. OF one only could l tell the
use, a thin, trenchant blade, which cut
YOU almost to lock at it. He. knell
across ne, arranged his implements on
the seat at his right; laid note book,
pencil, and bis watch on that to
his left, aud took off my neck cloth and
collar, murmuring: The clothes are
very much in the way; l wish that you
were properly prepared for the operation.
1t flashed across lie. in my despair
that l mad heard of madmen being foiled
by an apparent acquiescence in theiI
murdcrous intentions.
after all / forced myself to say
'wLnt is ,Ic lie to tie benefit of the
human race : Since mine is demand.
ed by science, let TIE aid you. Remove
these bonds, ard allow NE to take of
my coat and waistcoat.'
He smiled, and shook his head.
Life is sweet; 1 will not trust you,
he said unfastening my waistcoa., and
turning back the iapels as far as b.
could. Then, taxing pair Of scissors,
he proceeded to cut my shirt front
away, SO that presently my chest was
barred to his experiments. Whether
closed NV ewes, or was seized with yer.
tigo, l do rot know, hut for a mo,nen,
or two lost sight OF everything, and
had visions; Il sort of grotes9us night
mare it was, the figures in which re.
cali but very indistincilv, but remem-
Der that the most prominent of them
was pig, OF ra'her, a yorker, hanging
up outside Of butchers shop, the ap.
pearance of which bore a my ysierious re.
semblance to myself. These dcliriou.
fantasies were dispei.ed by a sharI
pang; the anatomist had made frs,
slight incision. / saw his calm face
leaning over NE; the cruel blade with
which he WIS about to make another
and deeper cut; lis fingers, already
crimson with my blood, aad 1 struggled
fran,ically. My operator immediatel,
withdrew his armed hand, and stoot
erect Then, watching his opportuni
ty, he placed his right foot on the lowe.
part of my breast bone, so that by pres
sure he could suffocate me.
Listen, my FRIEND he said. 4 vii
endeavor not to injure any vital organ
but if YOU wri.gle about, shall not b,
able TO avoid doing so. Another thing
If YOU
he was interrupted by three sharl
Whistles from the engine. SO shrili an,
piercing as to drown his voice.
Impede me by these absurd couvul
sive movements, shall be compelled I,
sever those muscles which,
He never completed bis sentence
There was a mighty shock, crash, a
If all the worlds had rushed together
I. was shot under the seat, where Ia
unipjured. aud in safety, amid the mos
horrible breaking. tearing, shrek
ing, cries for help, aud the roar Of es
caping steam.
! I had strained the bo0ds which se
cured nv elbows in my struggles. an,
the jerk of the collision snapped them
SO that, when began to get my wit
together, I found my hands free. r
hberate nv legs vas then = very eas
matter, but not 50 to extricafe myself
the next thing ] set about. The whol
top Of the car, from where the stuffe
cushion part ends. was carried shee
away; and admid the debris which en-
numbered my movements, lay the man
gled and decapitated body uf the mad
man Who. intending 70 assail my hfi