The Falls City tribune., 1911-03-10

statement that tie living body is Il
mere machine, CT, rather, that ii is con.
posed Of millions Of minute ee.Is, each
having lis own individuality. lie com.
pares Il man 10 a city containing an
enormous number Of people liae Lon
don, New York or Berlin. The brain.
aecordins to this doctrine, is n complex
camera or s%torehouse Of innumerable
Photographic plates. each one Of which
has received an impression during the
mans life To be used ON occasion: that
these plates are what We call memory.
This Is Il purely scientific view and
does not pertain TO the soul.
Lord Tenterton, TN English noble
man. had 4 daughter who had been
engaged TO be married to a son of IA
merchant prince. This young man,
Sidney Hough, died and left the girl
d|lseonsolate. Sir Percy Scarborough,
Il friend Of Lord Tenterton. had n son
who had gone through n similar ex-
perience. lie had loved Rose Mac
Allster, the daughter of Il Scotch laird,
and lost her by quick consumption.
Ae9hs Lulu 1lllti lUAl WIS lbOl, ulltl
be desired to ally his family with the
Weather blood of England. Moreover,
his lordship was a scientist with orig
lnal ideas, lie considered only the
scientific part of love and, looking upon
the brain on the Edisonlan principle
of innumerable Photographic plates,
conceived the idea of Il gradual sub
stitution of images ON his daughters
brain to change her memory of her
dead lover to a live one.
If this could be done with her 1t
might be done with young Scar
borough. Tenterton called on Sir Per-
cy and proposed n scheme. Sir Percy
VAS much disappointed at his sons
failure to marry that the family might
be perpetuated and was ready for any
plan that would induce him to do so.
But Hugh Scarborough, like Edith Ten
terton, refused to be comforted and
would not consent to take another
mate. What Lord Tenterton proposed
was accepted for trial, and the needful
was supplied by the enga cement of a
portrait painter.
One day Lord Tenterton returned to
his home from London with a portrait.
His daughter, entering his study, saw
1t hanging on the wall. she was struck
with its resemblance to her dead lover.
She said nothing to her father, who
pretended to be busy writing at his
desk, though he was really watching
her. He saw her gaze upon it for a
long while; then she went out to con-
ceal her emotion. The portrait was
that of the man she mourned, yet
slightly different. She believed it to
be The likeness Of some one who very
| much resembled him. Not long after
this she came into her fathers study
again under p%retense Of asking n ques-
ton, but really to look ut the picture.
1t seemed to her hat 1t had undergone
Il slight change; but, being in the same
place and in the same frame as the
one she had seen before, she thought
she was mistaken. From time to time
she visited the study to gaze upon the
portrait. and every time she found
some slight change.
The portrait had been painted by the
artist employed to carry out the
scheme. and he was gradually altering
It from a picture very like her dead
lover 10 a likeness Of Hugh Scarbor-
OUCH. And while he was doing this
he was changing n portrait of Rose
MacAlister to one of Edith Tenterton.
Sir Percy was imposing on his son
these pictures, substituting one for an
other, just as Lord Tenterton was i'm
posing on his daughter the dissoly-
ing picture of Sidney Hough. Finally
after Il long interval both portraits had
been altered from the dead to the
quick.
The Tentertons and the Scarbor-
oughs lived in different shires. When
the transformation Of the portraits
had been completed Lord Tenterton
invited Sir Percy to visit him and to
bring with him his son. Scarborough
insisted upon Hugh's going with him,
and when on the evening Of their ar
rival Hugh and Edith met at dinner
there was Il scene of much interest to
the two fathers. Hugh stood with
wide open eyes gazing upon Edith,
while Edith cast one glance at Hugh,
blushed and lowered her eyes to the
floor.
BE seated" said Lord Tenterton,
pretending not to notice this mutual
impression, though while the young
people We're intent upon each other
he winked at Sir Percy. Hugh and
Edith had been assigned seats side by
side and were oon engaged in a ON
~versation more animated than either
had taken part in since they had lost
their loves. After dinner they were
left alone by their elders, who went
off together. During the evening
Hugh made this remark to Edith:
Did l not know you to be a living
person l should believe you-so far as
appearance is concerned-to be one
who is dead"
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