Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-06-15

dergo. Your cooperation would there fore be inestimable In a trial of con- munieatioD, here.
 It IS true, that no matter how great your willingness towards furnishing the desired proof may be, everythIng leads to the suppositIon that no result will be attained; but still, you, medical man, being the subject, (always acting under the hypothesis that this experiment. be not absurd in principle), there IS offered one chance in ten thousand to enlighten in an almost miraculous manner, the modern physiology. The opportunity should therefore be seized and, in the case of slgn of intelligence victoriously exchanged after the execution, you would leave to posterity a name whose , scientific glory would forever effsce the remembrance of your social shortcom- ings."
 "Ahp' muttered La Pommerais who had gradually become paler and paler, with a smile which he tried to make appear uthearted.-"Ahl I begin to | understand yOul Indeed, the executions have already revealed the phenomena of the digestion, Michelot tells us. And of what nature would your experiment be? Gslvanic shocks? Cilisry stimulus? Infusion of arterlal blood? All these would hardly be conclusivep
 ''I promise you that immediately after the sad ceremony your remains shall go to rest in peace in the ground and that none of our scalpels shall touch you," answered Velpean. "But at the fall of the knife, shall be standing there be- fore you, against the machine. As quickly as possible your head will be handed to me by the executioner. And | then-the experiment being made weighty and conclusive on account of It's very simplicity-I shall cry into your ear very distinctly: Monsieur le Comte | de La Pommerais, remembering our agreement during your life, can you, at this moment, lower three times in suc- cession, the eyelid of your right eye
 while keeping the other eye wide open? If, at that moment, whatever be the other contractions of your facial muscles you will be able by this triple wink of your eye to inform me, that you have
 heard and understood me and prove it
 to me by an act requiring memory and
 will power, for which you must make
 use of your palpebral muscle, your zygomatic nerve and your conjunctive
 overcoming all the horror, the whole
 mass of all other impressions of your
 beIng-this fact will be sufficient to en- tighten science and to revolutionize our
 convictions. And l shall take care you
 may rest assured, to make it known in such a manner that you will leave be-
 hind you rather the fame of hero than
 the remembrance of criminal" These unusual words appeared to
 make upon La Pommersis so deep an
 impression that his dilated pupils steadily fixed upon the famous surgeon
 be remained for minute silent and as one petrifed. At last, without uttering A word. he rose from his seat, made a few steps, apparently in deep thought and then, sadly shaking his head, said: "The horrible violence of the stroke
 will throw me out of my senses. To comply with your request seems to me to be above all will power, above all human effortl How ever, call sgaln, monsieur, on the morning of the execution. I shall then tell you if Il will offer myself, or not, for this dreadful, revolting and I think | illusive experiment.. Should my answer be in tue negative, 1 hope 1 may rely upon your discreton. (may not?) to
 let my head quietly bleed it's last drops of vitality into the tin bucket which will receive it."
 ''I shall then see you again soon, monsieur de La Pommerais, said Vel pean rising from his chair. ''In the meantime, think the matter over." They both bowed.
 An instant after doctor Velpean left the cell the keeper re-entered and the condemned man stretched himself, re- signed, upon his camp bed to sleep or to think.