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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-12
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

der knelt, and opened his mouth to shout a
greeting, but stopped short, parayzed by what
he saw.
A big bearl evidently the bear, thin, gaunt,
but huge and full Of strength and fury, had
pushed open the door, come in, and begun to
nose about, and overset things. Maveety's bunk
had first felt her attack--ehe had ripped every
thing out Of it, torn them in shreds and strewn
them about the floor. Then she had explored
the cupboard and eaten everything in it, growl-
ing savagely as she ate Now she was shifting
at the meat in the chimney Rearing she reach
ed for the venison, but, fell short Of it, and
came down on all fours Almost instantly she
was up again, reaching again--this time with a
wadding forward step, that planted foot right
in the middle of the heaped ashes The ashes
gave under her weight, letting the big foot
plunge into the Goals beneath. She sprang back
with fearful growing roar, sat down and be-
gan to lick the burned foot, her little red eyes
getting redder all the while. But she had fetch
ed down in her fall the venison, 80 when the
licking ended she began to gnaw and gulp it.
The scent of the bacon, however, attracted her
more Cautiously, she went after it, reaching
up again and again, but each time failing to
touch IT, Then as she wheeled she spied Har-
per's head, and darted at him growing and
showing her teeth. Climbing on chair she fell
and somehow got her head and one forepaw
through the rounds Of it and in the struggle to
free herself knocked it against the door, bar
ring it effectually. Harper looked about him for
weapon of some sort, but found only big
dull hatchet, with a handle more or less shat
tered Still it was better than nothing-he grip
ped it short, and crouched beside the opening,
being sure the bear would try climbing up the
ladder,
She did try-she would have succeeded but
ior sounding thwack on the nose which she got
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

I you're fine brother!" the man viciously
gasped.
And you're perfect example of what a
brother shouldn't be-" Colonel Revelton cynic-
ally replied
! We'll, give tenner to get back to town
That will leave a few pounds to put on dead
cert i've just struck
The colonel hestated for a moment, and then,
with weary shrug of the shoulders, rose from
his seat and walked into the inner room
Directly his brother had disappeared, Frank
Revelton walked over to the desk There is al
ways chance of finding something worth know
ing, was his theory in life, and he never hes
tated to pore over any papers which might lead
to his making money, even by blackmail. He
saw the letter from Eugene Marent.
"By Jove!" he gasped. By Jove!"
! Colonel Revelton returned, and two ten
pound notes passed into his brothers hand.
Get back to town." he said Don't come
down here again. 1 shall give orders for you
not to be admitted. If get letter from you
from Canada laying you have settled down. and
the statement is vouched for, I'll send you a
hundred pounds, and advance you what you
like on mortgage"
ooh, hang yourselfl'' Frank answered. pock
citing the notes. I've found way of making
! five hundred"
With a curt nod he walked out of the room
out of the prison, and made his way through
| the town.
"By Jove!" he continually exclaimed; and
at the Railway Hotel, where he spent a pound
on his lunch, owing to an extravagant desire
| for expensive wine, he still remarked at inter-
walls, BY Jove, I'll do it,"
Frank Revelton was what is generally known
as a cad but he'd got some good blood in his
veins like his aristocratic- looking brother, and
/ u-ha he lackad ~ WAS M nupk
! Two days after this incident, Eugene Marient,
the writer of the strange letter to the colonel,
was told laborng man wanted word with
him. He had refused his name and insisted ON
speaking to the doctor in private.
! Dr. Marient looked neither like madman nor
practical Joker. He was a well set-up, mus
cuar man, of middle age. Clean-shaven, with a
very determined jaw, and somewhat steely eyes,
"Oh, show him nl" he said to his man, and
minute after Frank Revelton was standing in
the study.
''Well, my man. the doctor exclaimed, what
can / do for you?"
Frank Reveton appeared to be theSmost un-
utterable, downatheel loafer and played the
part to perfection.
'1'm just out of quOd guv'nor," he said
"down at that prison YOU wrote to, where the
bloke's going TO be swung"
DIR. Marient pricked up his ears.
"Things get about prisons you know, guv'-
nor and heard just afore | left that you'd
give five hundred quid to some who would
be operated on, or something Well, guv'nor, l
can't get no bloomin' work, and i've hundred
quid's lot so here / am. II I suit, operate
away"
A look of delight came into the doctors eyes.
''AI'yes," he thoughtfully remarked. "But
suppose you die, my man? It's as likely as
not"
"Wel if die, guv-nor, you won't have TO
part up, that's all I've got to say. / suppose
clever cove like you would know how to get rid
of body"
"But your friends%
| "Ain't got none, and don't want 'em. 1t was
my friends as put me away"
'Ah! then something might be done!" the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

The strange doctor turned to DR.. Marient.
"You tell him." he said. ri want to give 20,
all the chances can"
Doctor Marient was silent for a moment. Ther
he turned to the subject of the experiment
"Our theory is this" he said; many people die
in this world of sheer wasting of blood because
their bodies not strong enough to create
the blood which would make them vigorous"
The subject nodded.
I'VE think if this life-giving stream could be
passed in its full energy from healthy man
like you to almost dead the pulsation OF
your heart still keeping that blood in it's vgor
the cure of the patient would be matter Of
simplicity"
Again the subject nodded.
80" the doctor continued, great work
might be done for science; but"-he paused
were afraid the healthy might bleed to
death, for when, to minds, he has lost suf-
fcient blood for the first period of the cure we
might not be able to stop the flow and he would
bleed to DEATH"
at the other with nothing but surprise on his
face.
Doctor Marient seized his wrist.
| "Feverish, he said. ''Jumpy already"
Don't maui me about!" Frank cried. 'I
didn't ask what you were going to do. I've
taken your money, SO get on with the job"
Doctor Henry put his hand on the subjects
Normal" he said with a chuckle.
Doctor Marient shrugged his shoulders and
left the apartment.
| In five minutes he returned helping a weedy
looking youth along. A youth with ghastly
livid face that looked like that of death itself.
There" he cried, 'some of your hot blood
in this boy and he'll be as strong you"
"Oh, get on" the subject exclaimed; mot so
much jaw!" and Doctor Henry chuckled.
Splendid man." he said couldn't be better +"
| The man and the youth placed side by
side on a wooden framework and their arms
and legs strapped. Cases of glttering instru-
ments were opened and silver tubes sterilzed.
The light was flung full upon where the two
lay.
Ready" Doctor Marient exclaimed, and the
other surgeon knelt by the side of the wooden
bed
Then the subject of the experiment. felt a
sharp stab, then another. gasp, and then an
other came from the youth.
"Half-an-hour" Doctor Marient exclaimed,
rising from his feet. "Half-an-hour from the
| first operation"
aWatch the tubes" the other surgeon ex-
claimed. Hes dead if they slip"
eyes, he's dead for certainty IL they slip"
Doctor Marient replied, and after few mo.
ments he bent over Frank Revelton.
| "How do you feelY" he anxiously asked.
| Same as usual,
"Not weakY You're losing blood"
Same as usual, tell you"
Doctor Henry lightly touched the subjects
heart.
| Normal" he tersely remarked.
| The same question and the same answer was
made many times, and then Doctor Marient
gazed intently at the subject.
"He has lost enough" he cried excitedly,
He bent over Frank Revelton, and again the
man felt the sharp pain.
Then the surgeon gave sharp cry OF alarm.
"OuieklylD he whispered. QUICKLY"
The subject, strapped he was, could catch
no glimpse at what they were doing.
Ne only felt icy sprays upon his body where
the sting of the wound had been.
Hell bleed to death" came whisper from
Doctor Marient.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

Normal" answered his brother surgeon, lay.
ing finger above the mans heart
Doctor Marient leant over the subject
The worst has happened" he said eve
can do nothing for you. You're bleeding to
DEATH
How long" Frank Revelton asked
Half an hour at the most. You'll be uncon.
sclous in five minutes. How do you feel?"
"As well ever"
| Silently they stood for few minutes. and
then drip, drip, drip sounded on the floor of
the room.
He's going!" Doctor Marient exclaimed,
and he bent over the man. "You can't last
| feel%
Same as usual'
The surgeon placed his finger on the sub
jects pulse and then on his heart.
Il give in" he said. cts all normal; the
brute has no nerves and no imagination" .
Doctor Henry started unbuckling the straps
which held the subject of the experiment.
There's nothing whatever the matter with
you, my man" he said "and as it happens
you've earned your money very easily"
The eedy.looking youth sprang from the
couch and walked away.
My friend Doctor Marient," the second sur
geon continued, had idea that no matter
how low down in life a man happened to be
he could be killed by imagination, and the shock
OF being told he was dying would not only kill
him, but kill him with the same symptoms as
should belong to his imaginary fatal disorder
differed, and said that it was only highly
trained nervous system which could be killed by
imagination, and an ordinary hulking man, like
yourself, would be impervious to all suggestion
that he was dying when he felt quite we'll
have won the small bet / made, you have made
fortune in evening You may clear off
now; but you've been well paid so don't talk
The slight stabs you felt were nothing but
scratches There has been nothing more than
testing of your nerves and Imagination We
find as / have always thought that the crim
nal classes have neither nerves nor imagina-
tons"'
The subject Of the experiment shook his head
as though he did not know what the surgeon
was talking about, and, dressing himself, SLOUGH
ed off.
Next day Doctor NIarent received a letter
that was as strange as the one he had written
himself.
Dear Doctor" he read, "I am not quite sure
whether you have really lost your bet I've
but it was not a fair test. / was a medical stu
not understand your game at first, but when
there must be something else behind it. When
nerves with, which you know are only used for
ter. Try the joke on someone else, but see that
Same as usual 'Normap?-o yes, quite nor
NAL! Gratefully yours,
The Subject of the Experiment"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

E7ARPER had found the cabin empty,
IH although the door Of il was hospita-
hETEEya bly, ajar. He stood in the middle OF
aEifHfiy it looking about him, uncertain
whether to smile or frown. He had
come thousand miles for a summer of rough
ing II with his old college mate, Joe Maveety-
but then Joe had been always a fellow of the
Unexpected. He had not known certainly when
Harper would come-only that the arrival was
imminent. Harper had left the railway fifty
miles back, for the stage, which had landed him
within five miles Of the cabin. He had tramped
the five miles sturdiy, happy to draw deep
breaths of early summer air, but as he had slept
but little on his journey, and eaten next to moth
ing since the night before, he was now tired
and hungry enough to feel rather at loss over
finding himself thus alone.
After his eyes accustomed themselves to the
subdued light Of the cabin, he saw pinned high
against the wall boldly written sheet "Jack
Harper" it said; 'T hope you won't come until
| get back, but if you do-remember as the
greasers say, the house is yours. hate like sin
to go off this way-but you see / must. There's
lady in the case-a lady-bear with hungry
young family, that has developed vile fondness
for veal. So the boss of Greeley Ranch wants
me to bring her in--there's a hundred dollars in
~ pVSiuSS bue NOHe Oh IlTCle- men nor
dogs can do anything with her. Pm taking all
five Of my hounds, SO if you get here, you're
bound to be lonesome. Rustic for yourself,
though, and don't nope. Your bunk is up in
the loft-and you'll find grub enough about
Leave the door on the crack o'nights-pull up
the ladder after you when you go to bed. De
pend on it I won't be long away-but that lady
bear must be abated-she's dead, dead nuis-
ance. She lives about ten miles off, according
to my best knowledge. !, wish you had come
in time to go along, but you didn't-why be
the privation on your own head, not that of
Yours Hospitality,
JOE MAVEETY."
Harper laughed as he read-the letter was so
Characteristic. Old Joe had not changed a bit
not even though the wilds had cured his lung
,rouble and made him stalwart and strapping
fellow, wise in all their ways. Harper was no
md sorry to have missed the bear-hunt, but |
Iute ready to excuse his hosts absence. He set
lbout the rustling for himself with great zest,
md soon had fine meal of hot bread, strong
,offee, and bacon broiled over Goals on the ta-
,le He had camped out through three sum-
ners, so was not as awkward as he might have
,een; besides Joe had thoughtfuly left all
hings edible as handy as possible
Harper devoured the last crumb, eating slow
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

A man sees in his minds eye horse running
away and himself Selling it by the reins at the
risk of his life. Should that man ever really be
in such position he will not run away from
the danger.
OF two mothers one recoils with horror from
the very notion of fire breaking out in the home
which shelters her. little ones while the other
forces herself to think calmly what she would do
if such a calamity were to happen. Which of
those two mothers would behave more bravely
and sensibly in the hour of peril?
Train your mind to contemplate doing the
brave thing, the generous thing the wise thing.
Then whatever emergencies sprung upon you,
you will not be taken altogether by surprise
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

- EOLONEL REVELTON, the Governor oi
of his Majesty's convict prisons
szsssE=s sat gazing at the strangest Letter he had
lk8kS ever received in his life
Dear sir" it ran. "You have 'un-
uer your charge at the present time the con-
Vict Williams, who has been condemned to
oeath and is to be executed in couple of
weeks. | hold the opinion that man should
not be hanged when he might be of use to sci
ence L wish to perform a surgical experiment.
do not think it will lead to the subjects death,
but 1t might The man Williams has to be exc
cuted, and it does not matter much which way
he dies. He, no doubt, would be willing to act
as the subject of my experiment, for I pre-.
pared to pay good figure If he should die
under the experiment, I have no doubt that the
prison doctor, member of the faculty. would
be wiling to certify, for the good of science,
that ne died in the night of heart disease; if he
should not die, then my experiment is not such
that viii interfere with the due execution of the
murderer. / am willing to pay five hundred
pounds for this slight favor. Awaiting your re-
ply, am, dear sir,-Yours very truly,
EUGENE MARIENT"
Colonel Revelton read the letter again and
again, and then dictated reply to his secre.
tary.
your letter is that of a madman or a practical
joker, but l must remind you that you have
placed yourself in a very grave position by
making such suggestion, and | warn you that
you are taking most serious risks upon yourself
In making such a proposal either to me or to
any other of his Majesty's subjects"
The secretary departed to his own room, and
moment after the door opened and admitted
man clad in a very loud check suit He was
one who might have been classed as a racing
tout, at first glance.
Hello, George!" he exclaimed sinking into
a chair opposite Colonel Revelton.
Il thought you promised never to come near
again when made the last gift?" the governor
replied, with deep frown.
80 l did, George, and meant it. did not
know then that 1 should be SO deucedly un-
lucky"
We'll if you've come on the cadge again,
you won't get another penny. told you that
two months ago when l gave you two hundred.
We're brothers, Frank, but won't be bled any
more"
81 must have a hundred"
you won't have another penny"
Then / shall shoot myself, and leave a let.
ter behind that I've been driven 10 it because
my brother refused a trihng loan"
"You can shoot hang, or poison yourself, lust
as you like My handbook will show that I've
given you hundreds, and you've squandered
them like the idle, loafing young blackguard you
are"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-16

ly so as to prolong the pleasure Of such an ap-
petite. Then he tdied things, went out for a
pipe and look about and came back in haste
to look after the seed fire. There we're matches
a-plenty, but he knew what a help IL was to
have warm hearth and embers when 1t came
to getting breakfast Beyond that, the Goals,
red and glowing hardwood Goals, really invited
saving at the hands Of anyone who understood
such things Heaping them deity he covered
them deep with the penteous ashes, then glanced
up smiling to where venison-ham and a side
Of bacon hung in the chimneybreast, in plain
sight, but at pretty high reach. Smoke and hot
air did them no harm, rather kept them dry
and sound. It was all of a piece-Maveety's
housekeeping-no locks anywhere, and meat
thus to be had for the taking il the taker but
kept ware of the fire. Marauders must be
scarce Harper thought. He was glad to think
so, since he was wholly unarmed. His guns
and knife along with the rest of his luggage
were to come by the stage next trip-this time
the gun racks, found them empty, then STUN
bled up the step!adder in the corner nearest
the door, flung himself upon his bunk and went
fast asleep forgetting the injunction to pull the
ladder after him.
His last consciousness was Of Joy in the low
sunrays streaming in through footsquare hole
in the tip of the western gable. There were
holes at each end-otherwise the loft was win
dowless. After what seemed to Harper very
little while, he was wakened by loud gruff gut
tural sounds, and found eastern sunrays stream.
ing full in his face. Thus he knew he had slept
all night, and started up, but sat down again on
the bunk-edge, listening hard. The sounds had
sunk to noise of heavy steps and intermittent
crashes as of things overturned. It must be
Maveety had come home, and in bad humor.
Harper moved lightly to the head Of the lad