Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-02-14

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How could j meet this friend Of yours?'
''He is suro 10 be at tho laboratory
he either avoids tho place for weeks. o
else he works there from morning &
night II you like, we shall drive rouni
together after luncheon.
Certainly, answered, and the con
versation drifted away into other chan
nels.
As we made our way to the hospita
after leaving the Holborn, Stamford
gavo me few more particulars abou
the gentleman whom / proposed to tax,
as fellow lodger
"You mustn't blamo me if you dom
get on with him." he said. 81 know
nothing more of him than have learned
from meeting him occasionally in thi
laboratory. You proposed this arrange
ment, SO you must not hold me respon
sible."
"If we don't get on, it will be easy
to part company" l answered. "It
seems to me, Stamford, 1 added, look.
ing hard at my companion, that you
have some reason for washing your hands
of the matter. Is this fellows temper
so formidable, or what lis it? Don't be
mealy mouthed about it.
at is not easy to express the mex
pressible, he answered, with laugh.
"Holmes is littlo too scientific for my
tastes. 1t approaches to cold blooded-
ness. Icould imagine his giving friend
a little pinch of the latest vegetable al
kaloid, not out Of malevolence, you un-
derstand, but simply out of spirit of
inquiry i'll order to have an accurate idea
of the effects. To do him justice, think
that be would take it himself with the
same readiness. He appears to have q
passion for definite and exact knowl-
edge"
VERY right too"
"Yes, brt it may be pushed to excess.
When it comes TO beating the subjects
in the dissecting rooms with a stick, it
is certainly taking rather a bizarre
shape"
Beating tho subiectsi"
"Yes, to verify how far bruises may
be produced after death. saw him at
it with my own eyes.
"And yet you say he is not a med;ca!
student?"
No. Heaven knows what tie objects
OF his studies are! But here we are and
you must form your own impressions
about him" AS ho spoke wo turned
down a narrow lane and passed through
small side door, which opened into
wing of the great hospital. 1t was IA
miliar ground to me, and I needed no
guiding as we assembled tho bleak stone
and made cur way down the
long corridor with its vista of white
washed wall and dun colored doors.
Near the farther end low arched pas
sage branched away from it and led to
the chemical laboratory.
This was lofty chamber, lined and
Uttered with countless bottles. Broad,
low tables were scattered about, which
bristled with retorts, test tubes and lit
lie Bunsen lamps, with their blue flick
ering flames. There was only one STU
1ent in the room, who was bending
over a distant table absorbed in his
work. At the sound of our steps he
glanced round and sprang to his feet
with cry of pleasure. "I've found it
I've found it!'' ho shouted to my COM
oanion. running toward us with o test
ube in his hand. II have found re-
agent which is precipitated by bemoglo.
'in, and by nothing else." Had he dis
severed a gold mine greater delight
'ould not have shone upon his features.
"Dr. Watson-Mr. Sherlock Holiness"
aid Stamford, introducing us.
'How are you?" he said cordially,
my hand with strength for
which I should hardly have given him
redit. "You have been in Afghanistan,
perceive. :"
"How on earth did you know that?"
asked in astonishment.
Never mind," said he, chuckling to
himself. 'The question now is about
lemoglobin. No doubt you see the sig
ificance of this discovery of lnine?"
"lt is interesting, chemically, no
oubt, answered, "b1t practically"-
"Why, man, it is the most practical
nedico-legal discovery for years Don't
ou sec that it gives us an infallible test
or blood stains? Come over here nowp'
1e seized me by the coat sleeve in his
agerness and drew me over to the table
t which he had been working. "Let us
ave some fresh Blood" he said, dig
ing long hodkin into his finger and
rawing or the resulting drop of blood
n chemical pipette. ''Now, add this
mall quantity of blood to liter of wa
er You perceive that the resulting
mixture has the appearance of true wa
er. The proportion of blood cannot be
nore than one in million. I have no
oubt, however, that wo shall be able to
btain the characteristic reaction. F." As
% spoke he threw into the vessel few
White crystals, and then added some
rops of transparent fluid. In an in
tant the contents assumed a dull ma
ogany colo-, and brownish dust was
to the bottom of the glass
ar.
"Ha, hal" he cried, c,apping his
ands and looking as delighted as child
With new toy. "What Go you think Of
hat?"
SIT seems to be very delicate test"
remarked,
Beautiful, beautiful The old guaia-
um test was very clumsy and uncer-
ain. So is the microscopic examination
or blood corpuscles. The latter is value
ess if the stains are few hours old.
VOW, this appears to act as we'll whether
he blood is old or new. Had this test
cen invented, there are hundreds of
len now walking the earth who would
ong ago have paid the penalty of their
rimes -
"Indeed" I murmured.
Criminal cases are continually hing
1g upon that one point. A man is sus-