Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-23

glandular tissues, the serum Of the
blood and Of lymph, but no man on
earth except myself has ever been able
to create a prOtoid They have missed
the whole secret because they have
been working at ordinary tempcra-
lures. Just as the drop Of water will
not form from its two gases at 1900
degrees i. or at its own lower eXplo-
sion temperature unless the spark be
added so will protoplasm not form
! except under certain electric and Their
NAL conditions.
"FOr the last two months | have
been working ON these lines alone,
varying my temperatures from the cx-
IRENE cold produced by liquid air to
the intens" heat Of the compound blow
| pipe, and have been repaid. \ fort
night ago | discovered how it was that
l had erred, and since then have sue
cccdcd in everything have tried. |
have formed the prot"ids. the fats and
! the carbohydrates which 20 to make
| up protrplaSm. and with these for my
solid foundations have made every
minute and complicated organ of the
body. | have done lore than that
have put those con. pourMt parts to-
! gethcr, and now bc!.G.I what have
made
! He lifted a sheet, which was thrown
over heap of something on the table,
and | started back with a strange
mixture of awe and horror, for stretch
ed out on that marble slab lay a naked
body, which,. if it had never been a
man, living and breathing as | lived
and hreathed, then would have sworn
l dreamed.
The thoughts which began to come
into my mind probably showed in my
face, for the professor said: you
doubt? You think that | have lost my
reason and this thing is some man that
l have killed. Well, | do not blame
you. A year ago | myself would have
: scoffed at the very idea of creating
such man. But you shall see, you
shall be convinced, for in the next part
Of the experiment | must have your
help. | will show you how have
made this man or l will make another
before your eyes. Then you and |, we
! will 90 further; we will do what no
one but God has ever done beforc-we
will make that inert mass living man."
The horror of the thing began to
leave me, for was fascinated by what
he said, and began to feel the same
spirit with which he was inspired
He took me into his private labora-
tory, and before my eyes, with only
the contents Of a few reagent bottles,
a blowpipc and an electric battery, he
made mass of human flesh, will
not give you the formula, neither will
tell you in detail how it was done.
God forbid that any other man should
see what saw afterward
"Now all that remains is the final
experiment, and that with your help
propose doing tonight said the pro
fessor. what we have to do is as
much of riddle to me as it is to you.
1t is purely and simply an experiment.
am going to pass through that life
less clay the same current of electric
ity which if sent through living man
would produce death. OF course, with
q man who had died from the giving
out of some vital function could not
hope to succeed but the organs of this
man which | have made are in a per-
fectly healthy condition. 1t is my
hope, therefore, that the current which
would destroy living man will bring
this thing to life"
We bore that naked body, not a
corpse and vet so terribly like, into the
electric laboratory and laid it on a
slab of slate. Just at the base of Its
brain we scraped little bare spot not
larger than a pea, and, as l live. drop
of blood ooZed out. On the right wrist
just over the pulse we made another
abrasion, and to these spots we brought
the positive and negative wires from
off the mains of the street current out
side.
| held the two bare uninsulated bits
of copper close to the flesh, Professor
Holbrok switched into circuit 1000
volts of electricity, and then before
our startling eyes that thing which
was only mass Of chemical COM
pounds became man.
A convulsive twitchng brought the
body almost into a sitting position;
then the mouth opened, and there burst
forth from the lips grOan.
l have been in the midst Of battles,
and have seen men dying all around
me, torn to ribbons by shot and Shell,
and l have not tlnched: but when l
tore the wires from that writing,
grooming shape and saw its chest be-
gin to heave with spaSmodic breathing
| tainted.
When | came to myself, | was lying
half across the slab of slate. and the
room WAS filled with IL sickenins
stencil. an ou0r of burning flesh.
looked fer the writing form which
had last seen on the table. but those
wires. with their dcndly current, which
| tried to tear away as tainted. must
have been directed back by higher
hand, for there only remained on the
slab cAnrrcu and cinderiike mass.
And the man who had made Il man
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