The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-28
THE KEEPER OF THE LIONS.
A Problem in Physiological PsychOI-
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II. De We're Stacpoole in London Outlook.
its fullest extent on account of the heat,
and one could hear the murmur of Paris
"a sound like the drone of great top
spinning upon some unequal and rough
ened metallic surface. The dusk was gath
ering fast, for it was after T. and the por4
ter stood only waiting for Lesueur to fin
ish his discourse before switching on the
electric light; while Lesueur. absorbed in
his subject, spoke, glancing round from
face to face and toying with terrible
looking knife that shone, as he shifted il
in his fingers, like a paliid flame.
This is the man, gentlemen" said he,
who was admitted under my care three
days ago. He was suffering from pune
tured wound in the region of the heart
and he died yesterday at midnight
He paused and glanced at the dead and
ferocious-looking savage on the table be-
fore him, and went on.
THE case is common enough, even in
civil surgery; but yesterday morning / re-
ceived an account Of the past history of
our man from M de Guot of the Hotel
Dieu. It was such am interesting account
that / will epitomize it for you in a few
words.
Some five years ago, gentlemen this
man before us left, one morning. his hut
in the country that borders the Congo. He
was a chief, or so we may believe from
the insignia that were found upon him
and we may imagine him saying farewell
to his wives and starting through some
forest with his hunters, armed to the
teeth, and In search of animals as savage
as himself We know nothing of the Incl
dent of that hunt; we only know that our
man was found lying upon his face, I'M
conscious and suffering from severe
scalp wound.
M. who was travelling in that region
as leader of an exploration party, and
the expedition included a physician in
the person of Herr Emilius Won Bufow, a
German medical missionary, our friend
here had the advantage of skilled atten-
ton. Now, according to Won Bulow, the
wound in the head healed rapidly; but
though the skull seemed uninjured, serious
pressure upon the brain must have existed.
for when our chief regained conscious
ness he was no longer a chief, he was no
longer man, his intellect held nothing in
its net.
''He had lost his memory. Gentlemen,
when man loses his memory, he loses
more than the word implies; there is much
more In the thing called memory than we
suspect. Descartes placed the soul in the
pineal gland; he might have placed it with
more advantage In the compartment of
memory. on the memory of our past acts
and sensations we exist, as thinking ma
chimes. The memory holds our character;
we refer 10 II at every instant of life for
precedent. What we do Is the child of
what we have done, and what we have
done is the body and bones of memory
The memory, that is the man
"And our friend here had lost this es-
sential part of his baggage. The day be-
/. H. a..4s.
ests-a devil without a tail. The day aft
er, he was smiling baby with a clean
and sinless past. to all intents and pur-
poses, and a mind like a blackboard across
which the sponge has been drawn. He
had forgotten his name he had forgotten
his language; he had forgotten the use Of
a knife, the use Of a spear; and Won Blu
low, as he considered the case, said: L
will make a Christian Of him
HE did. BY the time the coast was
reached eros Jean, for that was the name
they gave him, could say his prayers In
French with a German accent. More
than that. he followed the new faith with
a fervor equal 10 the fervor with which
a short time before, he had followed the
profession of bloodshed and determination
Ia profession Of which these old scars on
his body are sufficient evidence. He became
in fact that almost impossible being-a
perfect Christian. excelling Uncle Tom Of
worldwide fame Had you struck him
on one cheek. he would have turned the
other. Morality. sobriety, and good faith
were as necessary to his being as food,
drink and air.
Count NJ and Won Buow died. Il
seems, of fever, and we find eros Jean
next in Marseilles where he obtained en-
ployment in Van looks travelling show as
keeper OF the lions. Van Took soon dis
covered the worth of his new assistant,
and marked his discovery by a rise in sal
airy and promotion; 50 that after the lapse
OF a year eros Jean found himself not
only keeper Of the lions, but generalissimo
of the elephant and tigers az well-sub-
manager of the show, In fact, under Van
Took.
Evan Took declared TO my friend De
GuiOt that he had never before seen men
and beasts managed as under the rule Of
eros Jean. The Africans method was
kindness and goodwill. backed by his ter
rife appearance. and. more than that, the
example of his life. which was blameless.
introduced new order amid those brutal