The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-10-29

searches7 DO not talk any more or
even think any more about It."
Il beg your pardon, NJ. Ginory. One
can and ought to think about 1t. In
any case, 1 am thinking about II"
a smile of doubt crossed NJ. Ginory's
lips. Bernardet quickly added: Pho
Biography of the invisible has been
proved. Are not the Roentgen rays.
the famous X-rays, as incredible as
that photography can find the image of
a murder on the retina of a dead per-
sons eye? They invent some foolish
things, those Americans, but they often
presage the truth. Do they not catch
by photography the last signs of the
dying? Do they not fix upon the film
or on plates that mysterious thing
which haunts us, the occult? hey
throw bridges across unknown abySses
as over great bodies of water or from
one preclpice to another and they reaeA
the other side. 1 beg your pardon
monsieur And the police officer
stopped short In his enthusiastic de-
astonished face. Il seem to have been
making a speech, q thing l detest."
Why do you say that to me? Be
cause I looked astoniShed at what YOU
have told me? 1 am not only surprised.
l am charmed. Go on, go on!"
"Oh. well, what seemed folly yester-
day will be an established fact tomor-
row.. A fact is a fact. DR.. Vernois had
better have tested again and again his
contradictory experiments. DR.. Bou-
rion's experiments had preceded his
own. If DR.. Vernois saw nothing In the
picture taken of the retina Of the eye
of the woman assassinated June II,
1868, I have seen something-yes, I
ave seen with a magnifying glass,
while studying thoroughly the proof
given to the society and reproduced in
he bulletin of volume 1, No. 9, of 1870,
which DR.. Bourbon saw and which DR..
Verno did not see. All, 1T was con-
fused: the proof was hazy. 1t was
scarcely recognizable, I confess, but
there are mirrors which are not very
clear and which reflect clouded vision:
nevertheless the image is there. And /
have seen, or h n calls seen, the
phantom of the murderer which DR..
Rourion saw and which escaped the
eyes of the member of the Academy of
Medicine and of the hygiene council
honorary physician of the hospital, if,
you please.
NJ. Ginory, who had listened to the
officer with curiosity, began to laugh
and remarked to Bernardet that, ac-,
cording to this reasoning. Illustrated
medical cience would find itself sacri-
to the instinct, the d%ivination Of
q provincial physician. and that it was
only too easy to put the acadeInic:ans
in the wrong and the Independents in
the right.
oh, monsieur, pardon. 1 put no one
In the right or wrong. DR.. Bourbon be-
lfeved that he had made a discovery.
DR.. Vernois was persuaded hat DR..
had discovered nothing at all.
Each had the courage Of his convic-
ton. What I contest is that for 90
years no n has experimental, no one.
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experiment, and that DR.. Bourton's
communication has been simply drop
ped and forgotten"
Il ask your pardon in my turn, Ber-
nardet, replied M. Ginory, a little
quizzically. Il have also studied he
Have you photographed any your
self. NJ; Ginory?" +
"Aht There is where the proof is"
but in 1877 the very learned doyent
Of the Academy of Medicine. NJ. Brou-
ardel, whose great wisdom and whose
sovereign opinion We're law, one of
those men who are an honor to their
country, told me that when he was in
heidelberg he had heard Professor
.uhne a that he had studied this
am question. He had made impress
sions of the retina of the eye in the fol-
cases: After the death OF a dog
pr wolf he had taken out the eve and
it with the back part of the
e in front: then he took a very strong
light and placed it in front OF the eve,
md between the eye and the light he
placed a small grating. This grating.
litter an exposure of a quarter OF an
TOUR, was visible upon the retina. Rut
hose are very different experiments
rom those n hears of In America,
They could see the bars In the graf
II that was visible, why could not
he yisage of the murderer be found
.Ehi Other experiments have been
attempted, even after those of which
Professor Kuhne told our conlpatriot.
very one, you understand, has borne
,nly negative results, and NJ. BrouardeJ
,ould tell you better than I that in the
and oculistic treatises
during the last ten years no
illusion has been made to the preserya-
Ion Of the image on the retina after
1t is an affair classe, Bernar-
All, monsieur. yet And the po-
ice officer hesitated. Shaking his head
again repeated. "Yet-yet"-
You are not co~nvinced?"
No, M. Ginory, and shall I tell Won
You, yourself, in spite of the
testimony of ilustrious savants. sti1
I pray you to pardon me, but /
it In you eyes"
THAT is still another way to use the
'etina," said Ginory, laughing. You
'ead ones thoughts,
tcontinued Next Week.l
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