The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1902-09-05


the whole secret because they have
been working at ordinary tempera-
lures Just as the drop Of water will
not form from it's two gases at 1880
degrees F. or ut It's own lower explo-
sion temperature unless the spark be
added, so will protoplasm not form
except under certain electric and ther-
NAL conditions.
"For the last two months / have
been working on these lines alone,
varying my temperatures from the eX-
IRENE cold produced by liquid air to
the intense heat Of the compound blow
pipe, and / have been repaid. A fort
night ago / discovered how it was that
l had erred, and since then l have sue
ceeded in everything l have tried. L
have formed the proteids, the fats and
the carbohydrates which go to make
up protoplasm, and with these for my
solid foundations l have made every
minute and complicated organ OF the
body. l have done more than that
have put those component parts to-
gether, and now behold what l have
nader
He lifted sheet, which was thrown
over heap of something on the table,
and | started back with q strange
mixture of awe ana horror, for stretch
cd out on that marble slab lay naked
Cody, which, if it had never been q
man, living and breathing as l lived
and breathed, 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 a man. But you shall see, you
shall be convinced, for in the next part
of the experiment l must have your
help. l will show you how / have
made this man or l will make another
before your eyes. Then you and l, we
will go further; we will do what no
one but God has ever done before-we
will make that inert mass living man. "
uC HOllOl VI tllC thiiS pNs5oh "
leave me, for l was fascinated by what
he said, and l 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
q blowpipe and an electric battery, he
made mass of human flesh. l will
not give you the formula, neither will
l 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 q riddle to me as it is to you
1t is purely and simply an experiment
l am going to pass through that life
less clay the same current of electric
ity which If sent through living mar
would produce death. OF course, will
q man who had died from the giving
out of some vital function l could no
hope to succeed, but the organs Of this
man which | have made are in per
fectly healthy condition. 1t is m!
hope, therefore, that the current which
would destroy living man will brin:
this thing to life"
We bore that naked body, not ;
corpse and yet so terribly like, into thu
| electric laboratory and laid 1t on {
slab of slate. Just at the base Of 1T
brain we scraped little bare spot no
larger than pea, and, as I live, drol
| of blood oozed out. On the right wris
| just over the pulse we made anothe
| abrasion, and to these spots we brough
| the positive and negative wires from
| off the mains Of the street current out
| side.
| of copper close to the flesh, Professo
| Holbrok switched into circuit ZOO
volts of electricity, and then befor,
our startling eyes that thing whicl
was only n mass Of chemical com
pounds became a man.
A convulsivc twitching brought tn,
body almost into a sitting position
then the mouth opened, and there burs
forth from the lips groan.
| have been in the midst of battles
and I have seen men dying all arount
] me, torn to ribbons by shot and shell
| and | have not flinched; but when
tore the wires from that writing
| grooming shape and saw its chest be
| gin to heave with spasmcdic breathing
| | tainted.
| When came TO myself, | was lying
| half across the slab of slate, and tn,
| room was filed with n siellenin,
stencil. an odor of burning flesh.
| looked for the writing form which
| had last seen on the table, but thos'
| wires, with their deadly current, which
tried to tear away as | tainted, mus
have been directed back by a higher
hand, for there only remained on TIT
slab n charred and cinderllke mass.
And the man who had made mai
could not explain, for he was crawling
about on the floor counting the nails
in the boards and laughing wildly.