The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1903-12-25

days wonder in the village. The doe
tor said:
You see before you what no other
| sane man has seen, the result of the
labor and investigation of a lifetime.
My discovery is simply this-that as in
| a composite photograph the features OF
many people are blended in one, so it
Is possible to combine in one the brain
power of twenty with magnificent re-
suits.
Look. These were and are all help
less lunatics, yet each had his strong
point, which Ivy electrical excitement
of the corresponding portion of the
brain has in the course of years been
enormously developed. Fly placing all
these in electrical connection and I'M
der hypnotic influence the most eX-
traor,linary results have been OBJ
| tanned"
AS he spoke he placed a pencil in the
| hand of one and rapidly connected
wire to Il different spot on the head of
| each.
"Sec," lie said. "My machine is
| thinking now And indeed every face
fairly glowed with intelligence. The
| transformation was wonderful.
"Give it the most difficult problem
you have mot with in mathematics
| said the doctor did so. 1t was solved
| instantly.
"Givc it the plot of a story | obey
| ed, and as fast as the hand could write
! the story was written i'm excellent Eng
| lish and beautiful chirography. A love
| letter, a poem, an Grafton, sermon,
| an essay, followed in quick succession,
each almost perfect of its kind. Here.
| then. was the secret of the doctors
| fame as an author and a mathemati-
clan. But when asked to tell how to
remedy a defect in we'll known ma
chine the pencil stopped
| "You have found the weak point
said the doctor "These men are not of
sound mind; therefore not one is an
original thinker. In lines of thought
already worked out the machine is in
comparable. But the world needs new
thought, invention. Think of the thou
sands of dollars lost daily by the waste
| full use of steam and the inability of
| the ordinary human mind to find a
remedy! Think Of the urgent need for
| invention in the automobile. the flying
machine, the solar engine, the typeset-
| ting machine the wireless telegraph
| and in numerous electrical appliances!
Think of the political problems. the
social problems, the religious problems
which have worried the minds Of men
for ages, causing more than one bloody
4 tall Il
easy solution.
81 know your record in college. |
know you are noted for originality.
know your speciality is mechanics. For
the benefit of humanity, for the adj
vancement of the human race. | ask
you to give up your individuality, to
multiply your power twentyfold by be-
coming a part OF this machine"
Is it any wonder that | hcsitatcd at
first? | realized at once that greater
opportunity for usefulness had never
been offered to mortal man. Yet the
sacrifice was as great as the OppOrtuni-
ty. All dreams OF love, of wealth. Of
personal glory, must he given up for
ever, for my very existence would be
merged ana lost in this most cXtraordi-
nary combination.
"Wait." said the doctor. LET my
machine plead its own cause"
| Then cnSled the most wonderful rev
elation of all The writer laid down his
pencil, and the spokesman Of the com
pany began to talk. And his words
showed that this phenomenon, this
namelcss combination, this thinking OF
twenty souls with but Il single thought
was more enthusiastically devoted t(
DR.. EaStOn than any of his other pa
tients. 1t showed that in the exercise
OF their combined power OF though
each ono took as keen pleasure rs i
ahc effort We're all his own. The dOcto
had not only brought back to thei
darkencd minds the light of reason
but had increased its power twenty
fold and, individually and collectively
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