The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1908-10-29

searches7 DO not tank any more OF
even think any more about it.v
Il beg your pardon, M. Ginory. One
can and ought to think about Ii. In
any case, ] am thinking about it."
A smile OF doubt crossed M. Eanory'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 al 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 h last signs OF the
dying? Do they not fix upon the film
or on plates that mysterious thing
which haunts US, the occult? They
throw bridges across nknow abysses
as over great bodiea OF water or from
ono precipice to another and they reach
the other side. I beg your pardon.
monsieur" And the police oficer
stopped short in his enthusiastic de-
fellse as he caught sight OF M. Gfnory,s
astonished face. II seem to have been
making q speech, a thing I detest."
Why do Q say that to me? Be
cause looked astonished at what you
nave told me2 I am not only surprised.
l am charmed. Go on, 60 onl"
oh, well, what seemed folly yester-
day viii be an established fact tomor-
row. A fact Is a fact. DR.. Vernois had
better have tested again and again his
contradictory experiments. DIR. Bou-
rion's experiments had preceded his
own. II DR.. VernciR saw nothing In the
picture taken Of the retina OF the eye
or the woman assassinated June IA,
1868, 1 nave seen something--yes, /
have seer with a magnifying glass.
while studying thoroughly the proof
given to the society and reproduced In
the bulletin OF volume i, No. Q, OF 1870.
l have seen d~eciphered the image of
which DR.. Bourbon saw and which DR..
yernois did not see. All, IT was con-
scarcely recognizable, / confess, but
there are mirrors which are not very
clear and which reflect clouded vision:
nevertheless the image Is there. And I
nave seen, or what one 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, II
you please.
M. Ginory, who had listened to. the
officer with curiosity, began to laugh
and remarked to Bernardet that, ac-
cording to this reasoning, illustrated
medical science would find itself sacri-
feed to the instinct, the divination OF
a provincial physician, and that II was
only too easy to put the academfcians
IN the wrong and the Independents in
tho right.
oh, monsieur, pardon. / put no one
In the right or wrong. DIR. Bourbon be-
lieved that he Lad made a discovery.
DR.. Vernois was persuaded that Or.
Bourbon had discovered nothing at all.
Each had the courage OF his convic-
ton. What I contest is that for 26
years no n has experimental, no n
has made any researches, since the first
experiment, and that DR.. Bourion's
communication has been simply drop
pod and forgotten
Il ask YOU pardon in my turn, Ber-
nardet," replied M. Ginory. a little
quizzically. 81 have also studied the
question, which seems to me a curl
GUS
Have you photographed any your
self, N; Ginory?"
"Aht There is where the proof u.s."
But In 1877 the very learned doyen
OF the Academy of Medicine, M. Brou-
ardel, whose great wisdom and whose
sovereign opinion were law, one of
those men who are an honor to their
country, told me that when he was in
Heidelberg he had heard Professor
Kuhne say that he had studied his
same question. He had made impress
sions Of the retina of the eye In the fol-
lowing cases: After the death of a dog
or wolf he had taken out the eve and 4
replaced 1t with the back part of the
eye in front: then he took a very strong
light and placed 1t In front of the eve.
and between the eye and the light he
placed a small grating. This grating.
after an posi- of "a quarter of ankl
hour, vas visible upon the retina. But
those are very different experiments
from those one hears Of In America"
They could see the bars In the graf
Ing? IL that was visible, why could not
the visage of the murderer be found
"Eh! Other experiments have been
even after those OF which
Professor Kuhne told our compatriot.
Every one, o understand. has borne
only negative results, and M. Brouardel
could tell you better than I that In the
and oculistic treatises
during the last ten years no
allusion has been made to the preserva-
ton of the image on the retina after
death. 1t Is an affair classe, Bernar-
'.Ah, monsieur, yet And the no.
lice officer hesitated. Shaking his head
he again repeated, "Yet-yet"-
"You are not convinced?"
mo, NJ. Ginory, and shall 1 tell YOU
why? You, yourself, in spite OF thet
testimony Of illustrious savants. still
doubt. / pray you to pardon me, but I
see II In your eyes"
THAT Is still another way to use the
said Ginory. laughing. You
read ones thoughts
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