The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-06-21

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may grow up with enough variation III
their looks and disposition TO be distin-
/ guishable from each other, but when
one more individual is added TO the
number he must be reproduction of
/ one OF the vast multitude have named.
My mother showed surprising apt
ness in following the amazing theory
of Professor Gorgensen.
! "Then there are a good many people
living today who are exactly the same
in every respect?"
Precisely"
"But what about the different races?
If the two reproductions of each other
belong TO different races
"They would not be exact reproduc-
tions. You missed the finest point Of
my beautiful and exact theory. My cal
culation includes color race and all pre-
vious conditions of servitude Now, APP
plying the truth l have discovered, it
follows that at all times every man and
woman in the world has 10 or IL per-
feet doubles somewhere else in the
world. There are at this moment some
where among the Caucasian race fully
ten women exactly like you in looks,
age and disposition. Your own hus-
band or that stupid looking urchin at
your side could not distinguish them
from one another.
"Oh, my!' gasped my mother, look
ing apprChCnsiyoly around. 4 hone
none of them Will move into my neigh
borhood. "
cit isn't likely that you viii ever
meet in this world Rave DO alarm
Following ny reasoning, all these Gou-
bles are but repcGtions of doubles that
existed generation ago, and so On
through the past centuries. -
''Ihon thousands Of years since there
were persons living who were exactly
like me and some who were exactly Ike
you
The professor nodded his bald head
He was pleased that one woman could
appreciate the wonderful symmetry of
his logic
'If we could only know about those
persons, she added musingly.
ITO some extent we can. OF course
the majority died and passed away
without leaving any record behind
them, bat we have the history Of some
Of them. "
A strange smile lit up the wan face
of my mother.
"As for me-
"Thcre is no record. All such women
were too insignificant to say or do any
thing that entitled them TO remem-
brance. -
And with you?"
cit is different. 1t did not take me
long TO find out the historical parsonage
who is reincanated in me. F"
"Dare 1 ask, professor"
"You read your Bible, presumed
"Daily. "
"When you go home, turn to the
twelfth chapter Of II Samuel and i'll the
twenty-fourJh verse you will find the
account of the birth Of the man who is
reproduced in this nineteenth century
in myself. OF course cur environments
are different, and our lives necessarily
vary, but my features, my frame, my
brain, my disposition-indeed every
thing in our nature and looks is the
same to the shadow of hair. &"
Wonderful, wonderful exclaimed
my awed parent. 81 will be sure to
look it up as soon as | reach home. But,
professor, l brought my son with me. !"
"What for?"
Il wish you to tell me what person
of the past he resembles. "
Those spectacles, like twin locomo-
tive headlights, were now focused
upon me with a strange, hypnotic pow
er. l could see the small gray eyes
twinkling liSe points of fire, while he
seemed to look me through.
Come here, sir, +" he growled with
out stirring limb or feature.
l slid off the high chair and, summon
ing my courage, sidled up to him.
whats your name?"
Harmon o. Westcott, sir.
Chow old are you?'
/ hesitated a moment, during which
my mother announced that was in my
eleventh year.
81 want the exact date of his birth "
She gave it. He reached out his right