The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-23

helth have been good, but the remafkable
swellin have gone on until yesterday we
was obliged tc bring him npon deck. as he
had growed SO that was afearl we should
not be able to get him through the COM
| panionway. l was sitting beside him
when he died. and had just asked him
how do you feel now. He said. all over
! pins and needles like. | said, no pain be-
sides He said no. bit | feel like as ii
everything was stretching aIitl growing
inside of me. Guess I'm poisoned. |
said guess so. too. Just then | hear
| crack inside OF him, then another and
another, three in all. He clapped his
hands to his heart and chest and his stunik.
| give one grone and died. For curiosity
measured him and find he is six feet five
| inches long and big in proportion.
October 4, 1S79.--Latitude "a degrees
% minutes north, longitude IA degrees
| o0 minutes west. Have just buried poor
Jorgensen. When | went down to pick
up his kit found in his bunk as many as
| dozen. should think. OF them dam stones
Oh whatever they be. which lie had brought
on board with him from the island. Three
was cracked open. and have no doubt
that he had eatensszsusee mere of the geiiy
| pOisip, which he Inu>t have got taste tor.
and which had brought on tile swelling
that killed him. | pitched handful OF
the cussetf things overheard. and was
about to send them all to the fishes when
the idce sutldiniy struck me that | wo;tlu
keep part of a broken one and send 1t 10
MIR. Ferris. Altogether it's the rummiest
case eyer came 4aertiss.s
Tlis Nj. Ferris, the Captain explain
ed, was the son of tie property owner
in England on which he tCaptain Will
iams) had been born and was a gentle
man who had given himself up to
science and philosophy. Captain Will
liams had already sent him some queer
odds aud ends gathered Id his various
travels, aud considered that fragment
ofthis strange article which had played
such an important part in poor Hans
Jorgeneen's career would be acceptable
Mr.. Ferris will doubtless be recognized
by the Chronicle readers as the cele-
brated Professor Michael Ferris, +. r.
S., author of ''The First Principles OF
he Cell Theory and one of Tyndall's
| most promising disciples.
WHAT MR FERRIS HAD T5 SAY.
The article was carefully packed and
sent to Professor Ferris, who in acknowl-
edglng its receipt, wrote the following
letter, which we are permitted to
publish
142 PARK Row CHELTENHAAI.
January p. 1880.
Ny 3ear UUlilanS The box with its
contents came to hand safely enough, but
what an unsatisfactory fellow you are.
9ru should have written me every detail
concerning your late friend .Jorgeuseu.s
adventure described his appearance nin-
utely ut he time of his death aud told me
al the facts concerning the affair.", ever. if
it had kept you back n whole season
Above all, you should have sent me all
those precious deposits instead of pitching
them like lleathen into the sea. don't !
know If yon are aware of it, Captain
| Williams, but when you threw those
''cussed stones into the Alaska Sea YOU
threw away my chance of becoming i'm
mortal. In revenge. | have greatInintl
to tell you in the hardest language | can
think of what those ''cussed stones con-
tain. Are you aware. sir. that they had
been lying Oh that deSerA Aleutian Isle tor
more thousand of years than you could
ever dream of? DO you kEow. sir. that
| they contained the elements of life from
| which, cycles OF years before Adam was
born, the first living things sprung into
existence Do you know, sir, that il it
had not been for some volcanic action
whereby those masses of Jelly We're prison.
ed up in their silicious she'll, from them
| would have sprung the beginnings OF n life
which. Is going oil from stage to stage,
from embryo to perfection, might ii, time
have peopled the werld? Do You know,
Captain Williams, that there lay in those
''cuSsed stones a collection ot energies
| of the vital order in which forces would
have become forms, going on necessarily
producing and multiplying new forces
and new forms. and that and my masters
h1N, hGaaf Ia
able to make the discovery which brought
'Iorgensen to his death? Do you know
what Jorgensen discovered Captain
Williams lie discovered the begi ming
of cosmic energies, he discovered a price,
less microcosnl. it was Protoplasm that he |
tasted. aud he tasted enough tn stock |
province. with anything from tadpole to |
n megacros. 1t is no wonder, think. |
that Jorgensen died. and it is no wonder |
either that sign myself
Your grievously disappointed friend /
MICHAEL FERRIS.