The Newtown bee., 1909-05-14

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 first impact of the arrship which con
 nected it's own wirless telegraph with
 the world, messages of alarm went forth in every direction. Very near
 ly the exact location of the wreck
 was easily calculated from these
 messages, and soon train loads of
 the most skilled physicians and sur
 geons were rushing to the rescue
 Nevertheless it was ten hours before
 he could be found, and then the doc-
 tors said in low, solemn tones, "It
 too late, he is deal" A l'feless form
 1c seemed, yet not mangled nor bear
 in any outward injuries. They hes
 it,tted even to take him to a hospital.
 but finally decided to give him
 searching examination with lhe new
 radirm bower. AL salt Lake City he
 was subjected to fhe powerful ra-
 dium rays, which disclosed feeble
 signs of life, also serious injury of
 the brain. For weeks and months
 they worked ceaselessly over him to
 fan back the spark of life. Their
 effcrts were finally rewarded, but on-
 ly partially, for it was mere sem-
 blance of man that was restored. His reason was destroyed, entaillng
 loss c spea"h, hearing and absolute
 ly all interest in human beings or animals. After his recovery he
 summed mankind as bitter enemy, aEd lived almost exclusively among the trees and flowers and rocks. He seemed attracted to them as he was rerell' d from man. For hours he
 would delicately handle a flower, seeming to DOT mt deep passion up
 on it, and at night he would seen to listen to the trees, though the loud
 est shouting of men made not the
 least impression upon him. The doctors studied his case with thed
 deepest interest. It baffied all their
 combined knowledge. They exper- imented upon him, performing sur
 gic2! operations upon the brain.
 But all in vain. In fact his brain seemed no different from any other part Of his body, since all feeling and suffering was renlnved Heat, cold and injuries brought not the slightest sensation of pain. His brain |seemeed to be no more sensitive or gan than his hand or foot. When
 walking the fields or woods he would step with the soft est tread, and if he accldel tlv crushed a flower beneath his foot he would weep as though
 his heart was brt ken. For six years this state of life continued, during which time many experiments were performed by the most skilled sur geons from all over the world. At
 the end of that time sudden change occurred. After one of, the most criti- cal experiments, hearing was re- stored and with 1t came interest in animal life, though not in man.
 His eyes and ears seemed made now only for the songs of birds, the low ing of cattle, the barking of dogs, the bleating of sheep and the call 'of all kinds of animals. He even at tempted to initiate them, and was so successful that at his call every an- imal would respond. The thrushes answered his trill, the dogs joyfully
 parked at his call, and he became one
 with them all. He told the secrets Eof wolves to the sheep, and they no longer feared them; he whispered 'the ccoing of the dove to the cat and |she forgot her cruel hunger; he be- came the universal peacemaker a. mong all the animals. The medical profession was more puzzled than lever. They did not know whether he was more man or less than in the
 former state. Yet they would not give up their experimenting. It was
 tour years before they could discover the least effect of their work. A |great German surgeon from Berlin had spent the whole ten years study ing this particular case, and his con-
 clusfon was that the professors men,
 tai life had been arrested at certain stage which marked a definite stage
 of evolution, as shown by embryo
 losy. He studied the development
 of hundreds of infants under his
 powerful radium machine, and con-
 pared them with what he found in
 the Professors brain, and he found
 that a certain lesion of the spinal cord with brain had been broken, and this severed his connection with humanity. His task now was to
 join them. With what should he do it and would he dare such a critical
 experiment. At last he decided to
 use the lesion of an ape, and gaining permission from the family of the
 professor, set upon his trying task on the 10th of February. For 36
 hours the patient was almost contin-
 ually under the surgeons knife, but
 tor weeks it was question whether
 the result would be life or death. At
 last slight improvement appeared
 the patient fell into a restful sleep, a sleep however from which he could
 not be awakened for two full weeks. But during this time his brain and spinal cord were knitting, and a hunan expI essinn vas slov'ly appear ing and on Easter Sunday, the 11th
 of April, Professor Agnostipe came
 back to human life. He called out as iron the dead, asking for his fam fly. his wife and children, the first
 numan interest he had manifested in ten years. He then asked if this
 was not the anniversary of Easter, and said that for ten years he had re- cei, ed almost continuous proof of the resurrection. For six years he had lived in the vegetable and min |eral kingdom, communicating with