The freeman's journal., 1889-08-17
THE KING or tRANkS.
lie Has Scheme Which Beats Anytl5in
Ever Before Thought OF.

lie Has Scheme Which Beats Anything
Ever Before Thought OF.
A gentleman with long hair and finger
nails called on us last evening. He took
good deal of our time and in return
left with us not only an odor which still
hovers over and about us, but some ideas
which. If we do not crowd them out of
US. will. we fear. make us take to letting
our hair and finger nails and impover-
fshment grow. too. He said he was in
Washington looking up authority for the
story that method has beer devised for
photog:aphiny the human soul after it
has left the body. He told us that he
was very much interested in this new
device. for if it proves to be practical he
intends to apply an Improvement by
means of which the souls may be en-
shared. ... -.
''lou see" said he, eff the soul can be
photographed, it must be a concrete
substance. Of course IT is possible to de-
wise means of capturing and restrain
ing it. | think the world will one day
awake to find that have contrived such
a device. and, while do not profess to
be able to prevent death, believe it will
be possible to work out some plan for
renewing life. Now suppose, for exam
pie, an old man dies. Or Course it is
only his body that is dead The body is
worn out and refuses To perform it's
functions. but the soul is as fresh and
young rs ever the soul is eternal. Now.
don't you see if can cohtrive means
Of catching the soul and getting ft intoa
bottle. for instance it would be very
simple then to- put it into some dead
child's body and renew the child's life"
But would the child be the same
child with an old mans soul in it?' was
asked.
NO" lie replied, "the soul. which is
the life. would be the old mans. The
new person would really be the old man,
but he would be n child again"
You know" continued the visitor,
that one of the great arguments in
favor of IL belief in future existence is
that the entire human family wishes for
such an eternal existence. Well, the
same argument holds good here. Every
old man wishes that he might be a boy
again. This wish has been sung and
sighed since the beginning of the world,
and it was this fact that first led me to
believe that nature had provided some
means by which youth might be renew
ed if man would only find it. am not
sure. of course. but think have found
that means; provided this device for
photographing the soul is n success"
THAT would make life eternal in this
World. wouH it rot we asked.
Eyes: it might. Then there is another
view to take of It. Nature sometimes
makes mistakes. Men are born deform-
ed. for instance. Would it not be great
boon to such n man to- kill himself and
capture his soul and put it In some
healthy body? Then, too, you know,
nien often have souls that do not match
their bodies. A beautiful and ambitious
-soul will sometimes get into a weak and
puny body. and of course it is always
hampered by the body s inability to carry
out the plans of the SOUL"
There seems to be great possibilities
in it If YOU can make your invention
practical"
Possibilities" he exclaimed. warming
UP. 1T will bring about the millennium.
Why. look at it. Suppose we take 100 of
the very best souls obtainable-male and
female-and put them into 100 of the best
bodies to be found! Don't you see at