The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-11-19
CHAPTER vn--continued

y 0G MIRACULOUS lpo YOU DSlltNG
in miracles? The Impressions of heat,
OF the blood, of light, OF our tissues are
not t~ataloguable, if 1 may be allowed
the expression. The impression on the
retfna is produced by the refraction
which Is called ethereal nhosphorescent,
ana winch is almost as difficult to seize
as To weigh the imponderable. To
think 10 find on the retina a luminous
impression after a certain number of
hours and days would be, as Vernois
has very well said, to think one can
find in the organs of hearing the last
souHd which reverberated through
them. cub Seize the air bubble at the
end OF a tube and place it is a museum
as a curiosity. Is there anything left
OF 1t but n drop of water which Is
burst, while OF the fleeing vision or
the passing sound nothing remains!"
The unfortunate Bernardet suffered
keeniy when he heard this. He wished
TO answer. The words came to his lips.
All, If he was only in NJ. Ginory's place.!
'Ihe latter. with bowed head. listened
and seemed to weigh each word as 1t
dropped from M. Morin's lips.
Let us reason 1t; but the professor
went on, Since the opthalmoscope does
not show to the oculist on the retina
any of the objects or beings which a
SICK man sees-you understand, not one
OF thenl-how can you think that pho
biography can find that object or being
on the retina of a dea mans eye?'
he waited for objections from the
examining magistrate. and Bernardet
hoped that M. Ginory would combat
some OF the professors arguments. He
mad MY to say: What of it? Let us
see. Let us experiment" And Bernar-
Diet had longed for just three words
from him, u the magistrate remained
silent, his head still bent. The police
agent felt with despair his chance slip
ping, slipping away from him. and that
we ~ n - ,-.,1 80,
opportunity to test the experiment..
suddenly the strident tones of DR.. Err
wins voice rang out sharply, like an
electric bell, and Bernardet experienced
a sensation like that of a sudden I'M
expected Illumination.
MY dear master" he respectfully
began, Il sa wat home in Denmark a
poor devil picked up dying, half de-
voured by a wolf, and who, when taken
from the very jaws Of the beast, still
retained In the y a very visible
image in which n could see the nose
agination. perhaps! But the fact
struck me at the time and we made
a note of It."
"And| questioned NJ. NORM in a
tone of raillery.
Bernardet cooked his ear as a dog
does when he hears an unusual sound.
IA. Ginory looked at this slender young
man with his long blond hair, his ewes
as blue as the waters of a lake. his
began. Il saw at home in Denmark a
race pale and wearing the peculiar look
conmon to searchers after the mys-
ferrous. The students and the others
gathered about their master. remained
motionless and listened intently as to a
lecture.
And" DR.. Irwin went on frigidly.
~ we had found absolutely nothing,
we would at least have kept silent
0DOEt an JnSffrnaSCffi1 q -
useless to say. Think, then, my dear
master. the exterior objects must have
imprinted themselves on the retina. did
they not, reduced in size, according to
the size OF thep place wherein they were
reflected. They appeared there: they
certainly appeared there. There Isl
peg your pardon for referring to it, but
IL is to these others Gam DR.. Erwin
DESIGNATED NJ. Ginory, his registrar.
and Bernardet)-there is in the retina
g substance of red color. the pourpre
tretinien, very sensitive to the light.
tUpon the deep red of this membrane
objects are seen white, and one can fix
thc image. M. Edmond Perrier. profess
in the Museum Of Natural History.
reports (you know 1t better thar I, my
uear MASTERY, In a work on animal an
aatosny and physiology which our stu
dents are all familiar with, that he
made an experiment. After removing
la rabbits eye, a living rabbits eye
yes. science Is cruel-he placed Il in a
Ozark room, SO that he could obtain
pon the retina the image Of some OBJ
iiject, window, for instance, and
plunged ~ Immediately into a solution
OF alum and prevented the decomnosi-
tion OF the pourpre r~etinien, and the
window could plainly be seen, fixed on
eye In that black chamber which
we q under our eyebrows, In the
orbit, Is q storehouse, a s%torehouse
or images which are retained, like the
image which the old Danes eve held
OF the Wolf's nose and teeth, and-who
knows?-perh,aps # Is possible to ask
q DEAD mans the secret OF what
This was put In more scientific
Terms BY the young Danish doctor, the
substance OF what Bernardet believed
possible. The young man had listened
with the attractive sympathy which is
displayed when anything novel is ex-
planned. Rigid upon the marble slab.
q victim seemed to walt for the re-,
suit of the discussion, deaf To ali fra
sounds about him. his eve
Fixed upon hi infinite, upon the un-
movable which he now knew.
It q however. this insensible BODY
which had caused the discussion @of
what was an enigma to savants. What
was the secret Of his end, the last word
Of his agony? Who made thar yrnI,n,1
which had ended his life? And, IKE 4
statue lying on Its stone couch. fhe
murdsred man seemed to wait. what
wished TO know he still knew perhans.
This doubt alone, rooted deep IN MI
GinorysS mind, was enough TO urge him
20 nave the experiment tried, and ex-
cusing himself Cor his infatuation lie
begged N NORM to grant permission
I q try the experiment. which some a.
the doctors had thought would be sue