The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-07-11
PULPIT EDITORIALS.
Deitvsv~d by DIR. Frank Crane ut Trinity
Church, Chicago, Preceding the Usual
Sermon Sunday, July. 10, 1898
THE ELIXIR OF LIFE.
copyrighted. 1881

| i nad Deen reaulnS over, IN my scrap
book. some clippings / had made abou
the Brown-Sequard elixir OF life at TIT
time that topic was a live one. mus
have gone To sleep-yes, / certainly
had gone TO sleep-for / YVES startled
TO my senses by seeing a gentleman
sitting before me. his hat in his hand
bis eye fixed upon me with a quizzica
expression.
That theory created a sensation
didn't it?" ne remarked.
"Yes-that is-why, who are you
How did you know what was thinking
| about?"
You are off the subject" he re-
piled. Never degrade an argument by
an ad hominem.' didn't ask any
questions about you; why should you
ask about me? But l did not come
here 10 quarrel with you. l came 10
show something very extraordinary, il
you would like To see ii. Would your
"Of course"
"Then let US CO." he said rising.
It's cold out" / replied. Shall
take my overcoat?"
"Oh, no. And you may as well leave
your body here also. We shall need
neither of them"
He touched me, and suddenly we
stood together in the vast experimental
hall Of the University of Psyche They
were bringing in patient. He was an
old man with silver hair, and my un-
professional heart was moved as the
stalwart attendants carried his helpless
"A case of metallic tumor," observed
my companion with sort of a medical
smack, as he drew off his cuffs, rolled
up his sleeves, and took from his pock-
ct hypodermic syringe neatly encased
in morocco. The fluid with which he
filed it seemed to be blood, warm with
the not yet wholly dissipated vitality
of the animal from whose veins it had
been drawn. He pinched up little
skin on the patients arm, thrust in the
needle Of the syringe, and injected some
thirty minims of the liquid. He then
opened the Old gentleman's shirt and
showed ne large angry-looking
swelling, right on the breast.
This is a chronic case" said my
mentor. "Inherte the tendency, but
has f-arfully aggravated il 10y mis- con-
duct Pairiul2 We'll, yes. Many
night has he walked the floor on ac-
count Of IL. ami mai.y q meal has 1t
caused him % r'iss. In fact, it hats de-
stroyed his enjoyment OF aln-J-. III Of
the real Pleasures OF life. IL might nave
been helped by constant lancing, BIT
that seems 10 be singuiarly painful, to
this kind Of tum0rs. And strange 10
say, the victim always takes a morbid
delight in seeing his eXcrescenca en-
large"
1t strikes me the mans a lunatic,"
returned. Would anyone deliberate
~ encourage what he knows to be de-
stroying his life?"
"Oh, 1 assure you, he is not consid-
cred at all unsound in mind. on the
contrary, the larger such tumors are.
above mems hearts, the more their pos
SCISSORS are held up before the youth of
the community as practical level-head-
ed persons"
las this is only dream, sir" 1 made
answer, with some little heat, I'VE will
let that pass. / suppose, when one is
asleep. one has 30 take the most alb
surd things as a matter of course. But
G,
l should walk off at once"
My friend never lost his good nature.
With a smile he pointed to the patient.
1 beheld the swollen breast sink to its
normal state as if by magic. 1t lost its
purple hue and became smooth and
white before my eyes. The patient
arose, looked his thanks and vanished.
The next invalid as he walked in,
had an attendant on each side of him
to steady his head, which was so enor-
nous that is neck could not support it.
Chronic hydrocephalus," explained
the master of the clinic, as he proceed
ed to apply his remedy. "As common,
find, in my line of work, among grown
men as among children. Trouble is, he
thinks ne knows more than all the doc
tors. He had just little knowledge,
which, as you know, is a dangerous
thing. He has disproved the Bible,
shown religion to b. but lunar poll
tics and dispensed with either a Gre
ator or a conservation of the universe"
AS the medicine began to work in
him 1 saw his head grow rapidly less,
the face assume modest, almost
shamefaced, expression, and. as he dis
appeared, / beheld that he drew, as it
were stealthily, from his pocket New
Testament and began to read diligently
therein.
/ will not weary the readers with a
detailed description of the symptoms
and cures Of the many cases that. in
turn occupied the chair. A few OF the
more striking will note as being, per-
haps, of interest TO the curious.
One man was afflicted with a remark
able stiffness Of the knees. While they
could be bent in all manner of other
ways they could not be forced into a
kneeling posture. My guide himself
said he did not understand this recall
citration of the neither limbs toward
right angle; there were mysteries, he
informed me. in science that the wisest
could not comprehend.
Another man had a maladv OF the
voice, which affected him in such a way
that, while at political rally he could
below like a bull of Basham, he could
not muster wind enough in a religious
meeting to roar as gently as any
sucking dove" At these things j mar
Veled greatly but remembered that IL