Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1901-07-26

evidently notes of the succeeding steps
in very lengthy series of expert
ments. However interesting they may
prove hereafter to scientist, they
need not be inserted here. The latter
notes, however, tell Of successful out
come
II verify believe tina. I have at last
succeeded in isolating the germs of
love and hate!" Then is set forth at
length the scientific descriptions of
these germs, the number of which
present in any case, according to the
Professor, governs the degree Of the
sentiment. The notes continue:
"Given a culture of the germ Of love
in the blood of one animal and another
animal inoculated with that culture,
the animal so inoculated will love the
one whose blood furnished the culture
medium. The same is true of the
germ of hate. I believe that I have
eliminated every possibility of error,
but I shall, of course, put my conclu-
sions to further tests
"a cat in cage at my elbow is
nursing carefully litter of tiny mice,
orphaned by tabby herself. She ate
their mother. / have hawk rearing
a brood of chickens. Her motherly at
lection for them is touching and pro-
nounced. Two dogs, brothers and
hitherto the best of friends and mer-
riest of playmates, have, in the past
few days, become the bitterest of
snarling, swapping enemies. Certain
ly there seems no doubt Of the effect
iveness of either serum as applied to
animals. How would it affect the hu-
man beings?
'"The last lingering doubt is re-
moved! Circumstances made it pos
sible for me to secure small quantity
of the blood of Miss M. Gin this, as
in all other instances, the names are
suppressed for reasons even more OBJ
vious than in the case of the Profess
sor himsel) in which I made Gull
ture of the microbe of love. With
this I inoculated myself, and now, i'm
possible as it would seem to my
friends, find myself madly in love
with her. I might counteract this by
an incubation of the opposite germ,
but I cannot bring myself to do it.
Evidently am very, very much in
love!"
II have made horrible discovery.
Miss M. does not-and says she can
never-love me! Further, though she
also says that she will never marry.
I am convinced that j. loves her al
most as madly as I do! And he has
youth, wit, fortune, comeliness-every
attribute that could attract a woman
while p $780,.
''Why should I hesitate? I might, It
is true, cease to love her, but could
never forget that I had loved. Fate
it can have been nothing else-has
placed in my hands sufficient guam
tity of J.'s blood for my purpose and
with it I have made culture of the
microbe Of dislike, while with my own
hearts blood I am preparing the Sc
rum of affection. Heaven send an early
opportunity to inoculate my darling
with them both! I have been under
terrible mental strain and am phys
ically scarcely able to handle my
tubes"
'The opportunity has come! l have
applied both the preparations to my
darling liberally-lavishly! Unless all
my science is at fault I shall shortly
be a happy man. Poor j.! I feel
genuinely sorry for him, yet cannot
reproach myself"
Something has gone wrong. 1
called upon Miss M. tonight and was
received most frigidly. Indeed, she
intimated rather broadly that she ex-
pected another guest OF course, I
took the hint and left From across
the street I saw J. enter!"
Gracious Heaven, what a blunder!
I have convinced myself of the cause
OF it all. In preparing the two Gull
lures with which to inoculate Miss M.
in some inexplicable manner got nv
microbes Mixed"
"As soon as have counteracted nv
own unfortunate incubation I leave
to study the mosquitoes of the Klon-
dixie region. Cards are out for the
marriage 0f Mice NJ or5