Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-09-19
A ARCHAEOLOGICAL
 CASE OF 1899.
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TOEI, TtiI. Professor Fnlcrum, l believe"

discoveries
 q have simply been building on the scant knowledge held by our grand parents. II has been reserved for us fin de sicclc people to point out the exact spot on the brain that directs any special condition.
 Your modcstN is wasted on me pro lessor. It is you who have made this last discovery. How did you do il -
 "EiviScction Our ancestors found ment on animals Now, with some 0O,O00,00O Of people, life is so cheap that we can operate on human beings. 1 am indebted to nalefaetorS for my debted to me as well, for 1 can now make an honest man of a rogue
 "By what means:'
 ''Trepanning. For instance, I know the exact spot ill tiY brain that pre- dnces klcptomania 2 cut away bit of the skull and find an abnormal development of the brain directly un- der it. This cut away. and the pa tent has no more desire to steal"
 Gan you turn hate to fsye, or vice versa =
 "No, but I can destroy either the one or the other.
 NOW we are getting down to the object of my visit My son is in love with q girl whom 1 dc not wish him to marry. Can you destroy his love for herr
 "YcS'
 How"
 Recent development in microscopy has shown us that each sensation has n minute corru@ation on the brain. On a certain point in yo,r sons brain will be found little proluberance com posed of these minute corrugationS If this protuberance is removed the love is killed"
 "Forever:"
 Not necessarily. Another operation is required to prevent it's return. must cut away a certain tiny particle in the bump of memory for that par ticular girl"
 "Nery well. professor. will bring my son to you at once. He is waiting without
 Professor fAulerum consented only on the payment of an immense fee and guaranty of indemnity in case he son claimed damages Then the young man was shown into a room. where an anacSth hetic gas was turned on When he was unconscious he waS placed on d table and the operation performed. On coming to his senses he found his head bandaGed and was told that |; burglar had shot him. mak ing two bullet holes in the brain. He was to be kept quiet till the wounds healed He was removed to his home
 "Who the dickens is this Amanda Brown who is sending me howers?" he asked one morning during conva- lesccncc.
 His father. who heard the remark and hoped that he would marry the donor. was delighted. He rushed off to Professor Fulcrum to tell him that the operation had been eminently sue cessful.
 NOW. professor" he said, there is a girl wish my son to marry. Can you make him love hero
 '.Certainly not
 Are you sure? She loves him, and she is immensely rich.
 .I am perfectly sure. cannot ere ate. 1 can only destroy"
 Jennie Carr who h2d been removed i,.ry;,,.,' ,--#,,,..,,, upon seeing him as soon as il was safe for him to undergo the excitement of the meeting. Mr Higgins senior. euri- ous Ia "aoW if his son would rcmem- Der her n seeing her, granted pcrmis- sion at otsce.
 "Oh. Hqlter." she said plaintively. q Ill so ,,o"l'y.'
 let lre see" said Walter. looking at her scrutiniZingly, "%F many people met you!'
 This was enough for Mfr. Higgins senior He took tha girl away and told hey that the shooting had affected his sons memory
 One day six months later MT. Hig- gins rushed into Professor Fulcrum's workroom in Il rage.
 You have swindled .s.e!' he cried.
 "How so:''
 My son has married the girl, after all."
 Well"
 You said that yoa rould guard against his love for h, turning by destroying his memor her. His love has returned. aaS married her"
 '.lt has hot he loves her it is q new loN old one"
 "It is certainly ' a new one, for my son has had tz hing to do with her since you operated en him.
 'I don't believe il. My knowledge is based on 'ong experiment and is exact. Find out wh., hlS taken place he- tween the couple since your sons re coyery and You will prove my roef. tion'
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