The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16

how she works In her nldlnS places. Iney ascend into the heavens; they have told us how the blood circulates and the na- ture of the air we breathe. They have ac- quired new and almost unlimited powers; they can command the thunders of the heavens, mimic the earthquake and even mock the invisible world with its own shadows" From that day chemistry and natural philosophy. particularly chemis- try in the most comprehensive sense of that term, became Victor's sole occupa- ton. After two years of the closest ap- plcation with his imagination fired by his early reading and the ambitions of the ancient philosophers, and stored with the science and learning of the moderns, Frankenstein conceived the fatal design which was to wreck his life and the lives of all he held dear.
 One of the phenomena which had par ticularly attracted his attention was the , structure of the human frame and, in- deed, of all animals endowed with life. He now devoted himself to those branches of natural philosophy which had to do with physiology; and as to examine the causes of life we must first have re- course to death, he made close study of anatomy and also examined into the nat ural decay and corruption of the human body. He examined and analysed all the minutiae of causation as exemplified in the change from life to death and from death to life, until from the midst of this darkness, a sudden light broke in upon him-a light, so dazzling and won- drous, yet so simple, that while he be- came dizzy with the immense prospect 1t Illustrated, he was filled with aston have seen 1t. "Ah," he was afterward accustomed to say, "how dangerous is the requirement of knowledge and how much happier that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to become greater than his na- ture will allow" Frankenstein believed he had discovered the secret of creating life and resolved to prepare a proper frame for the animation which he pro posed to bestow.
 At this time he stood in high regard at the university. He had made discoveries in the improvement of some chemical n- struments which had brought him great esteem and reflected credit upon the in- stitution of which he was a member. The professors in the department to which he devoted himself declared that he had sur passed them all in his requirements. As his further residence at the university could be of no additional advantage to him he thought of returning home-of once more pressing Elizabeth to his heart and enjoying the companionship of his father and his brothers. But no. he would stay on at Ingolstadt until he had completed his great work of creation. and to that he now began entirely to de- vote himself. To prepare a frame with all the intricacies of muscles, flores and veins Of the life he was about to create still remained, and was a work of in- 1 conceivable difficulty and labor As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to speed. he determined to make the being of gigantic stature-that is to say, about eight feet high and pro- portionately large.
 : After having made this resolution and after spending some months in the collec- ton of his material he began. No one can conceive the variety of feeling which bore hi monward like hurricane fin the first enthusiasm of success. Life and death appeared to him Imaginary bounds which he would be the first to break through and pour 6 torrent Of light on the dark world. A new species would bless him as its creator and source. and many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to him. As he worked on with feverish ardor his cheeks became pale with study and his body emaciated with confinement.
 The horrors of that secret toll were in- describable; he desecrated the grave for material and tortured living animals to animate the lifeless clay. In solitary chamber at tho top of the house where he lived he had his workshop Of filthy creation. Months passed. He seldom wrote to his people at horns, even the love of Elizabeth now, ir lis infatuation. seemed to him secondary to the one great Idea which possessed him. Ills father wrote rer-oachfully of his neglect and Elizaea.n with a sorrowful gentle ness. F6ut nothing could move him now but his work.
 1 At last, one dreary day in November, hs beheld the accomplishment of his tolls. i With an anxiety that was almost agony he collected the instruments of life around him that he might infuse the spark of ! heinz into the lfeless clay that lay at his feet. It was already l in the morning; the rain battered against the panes dis mally and the candle was nearly burned ont when by the glimmer of the half ex- tinguished light. he saw the dull. yellow eyes of the creature open; 1t breathed hard and a convulsive motion agftated its limbs. What can describe the horror of Victor as he gazed at the wretch whom. with such infinite pains and care, he had endeavored to form? His limbs were in proportion and Frankenstein had chosen his features as beautiful. But now before him he saw a hideous monster.
 His yellow skin scarcely covered the network of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was lustrous. black and flowing his teeth of pearly wilderness. But these luxuriances only formed 8 moro horrid contrast with his watery .eyes, which seemed almost of the same color as the dun white sockets in which they were set, his shrivaled complexion and his straight black lips.
 The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human uiofor had uorlo od I,o "A fo~