The morning news., 1889-04-09
A Serious Termination.
From the Chtcaqo Mafl.


In a downtown restaurant is a waiter whose
head Is perfectly white, though his face doesn't
indicate advanced age In fact aside from the
snowy complexion of his luxuriant hair, he
-unnaturally so-and doesn't grow chummy
with anybody or communicative under anV
circumstances, but just keeps to himself and
leads a sort of hermit life. His case is peculiar
it last night. t'f w
Ed came to Chicago from a country town."
ne said fabbnt seven or eight years ago. He
told by people who knew him. before lie
graVitated into this business. and was getting
along first rate in a big mercantile house when
young medical student, whom he had mt
somewhere. induced him to go with him to the
college disco 5ing room. Ed was new to the
town and rather green all round. and he agreed
The medical student knew he was a mark and
in the interim between the invitation and the
visit fixed up schsme with his fellow-students
to have some fun with Ed They had il. The
prime Joker didn't bring his visitor in until the
evening s demonstration was finished, and poor
Ed was just in time to see these young ghouis
throwing bits of human flesh, such as ears
noses, fingers and toes. at each other. 1t was
all so horrible to him, with the butchered bodies
lying on the dissecting tables, and Ed wanted to
get out without any delay 1t made him sick.
But his friend braced him up and shamed him
into an exhib tion Of nerve.
ION the tables were two bodies-one the body
OF m an reduced nearly to a skeleton and the
other young woman who had been beautiful
in life. She had blonde hair and handsome
features and her form was a model for sculpt-
ors Her death had been a pecu lar one and
the film had not come over her clear, blue ewes
which were wide open and very ife-like This
body had only been partially dissected-it had
served as an object study, OF some particular
organs-and was what is known as fresh sub.
ject. 1t had only been brought in that day
Ed was fascinated and stood spelbround
gazing at it. 1t was the first time he had eyar
seen anything of the kind.
The whisper was passed around, and while Ed
stood hofrified the students quietly sneaked out
The next minute the gas was shut off at the
meter and the country boy came to his senses
odly to find himself alone in the dissecting room
beings all around. He put out his hand Il
touched the dead girls breast. He jumped
back and stumbled on the other table Both
hands pumped down on the hewed-up remains
Then he yelled with fright. IL was utterly dark
and silent ami he didn't know which way to
move, so he just sat down on tn floor, or rather
tumbled down in heap and stad there The
jokers left him there an hour. Ed thought il
was at Least six, and when they came they found
him huddled up between the two tables shiyer-
ing.
They saw at once that they had gone too
far, and they got the poor boy out and took him
home. Within two days his hair became per
fectly white and he grew stupid and reserved
After awhile he lost his position because of the
mental abstraction which seemed TO plssess him
all the time, and then he drifted into this busi-
ness. He's one Of the quetest, best-natured
fellows you ever saw, but he couldn't hold lob
minded. We know all about him here and give
him night watch and tolerate him. Say what
do you think ought to be done with those funny
medical studentsi"