The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-06
TERMINATION OF A LOVE
 AFFAIR.

I have just come to a knowledge of certain facts which 1 deem it my im- perative duty to make public for two reasons-first. because they clear up the mystery of the disappearance of that great and original investigator, my friend, Professor X. '(whose many friends will. after perusing what is here set down, easily recognize him without the mention of his name, which, made in so public a manner, would, know. be highly offensive to him), and, second, because 1 hope they win cause some other scientist of prominence to follow up the uniueq and, conceive, eminentiy important line of investigation initiated by Pro- lessor X.
 I say that I have just come to a knowledge of these facts. This is the exact truth, although the said facts have been in my possession for the past three months. To be plain. just before the Professor disappeared so completely l received through the mail a note from him with a sealed en- closure which his note requested me to open and read three months after it reached me. This 1 have just done. The enclosure I found to be the Pro- fessor's notes upon the progress of a most remarkable and unusual series of experiments founded upon the germ theory. In this connection I wish to say that while, in common with his other friends, of course knew of the Professors keen interest in this theory, I had not the slightest hint that he had struck out so boldly in the field of original research.
 So radical has been the Professor s departure in these experiments from the beaten track that I have thought it best to give an almost exact repro- duction of the notes in my possession, merely editing them and eliminating. as far as possible, the phraeeology of the scientist that would be in large measure unintelligible to the layman. I give the notes in the order in which they appear in the book containing them. They were evidently jotted down at different times. but none are dated. though the last was manifestly written immediately before the Pro- lessor dropped out of sight.
 'T am fascinated. Fora some time have been studying those two strong est of human passions-love and hate and their origin. They are interest ing to the investigator if for no other reason than that they set all accepted rules at defiance. Instances are plenty Of the manifestation of love where the opposite should. according to the so- called laws of nature, appear. The papers recently noted that a large and venomous snake had killed a setting hen and then carefully matched and reared her chicks. The killing of their own offspring by animals of many kinds is common. The sentiments of parents toward their children and vice versa are all to often at variance with the rule. How are these facts to be accounted for?''
 'As far hack as we can trace, love and hate have been known by common consent as matters of the heart. Such things very often have a foundation in fact-why may not this have? And if there is any real connection. may if not. since the heart is merely the forcepump of the blood, lie in the life fluid itself? And, this granted, might We not go step farther and ina zine that there exist germs of the two mas ter passions"
 Here follow numerous entries of so technical a nature that they are quite beyond my understanding. They, are evidently notes of the succeeding steps in a very lengthy series of experi- ments. However interesting they may prove hereafter to a scientist. they need not be inserted here. The latter
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