Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1911-01-20

A recent interVie | Of 5aa newspaper
man with Mr. Edison, the wizard of;
Menlo Park, brought ont Mr.. Edison's
statement that the living body Is q.
mere mac chine. 81, rather, that 1t Is COM
posed Of mil lions Of minute cells, each
having Sits own indy iduality He cons
pares q man to q city containing an
enormous number ofs people Hike Lon
don. New York Or Berlin. The BRAIN
according to this doct rine. Is q complex
camera OF storehouse of innumerablss
Photographic plates. each one of which
has received an Impression duringsthe$5
mans % = life to be used on occasion; that
= these plates are what we call memory.
BY This Is q purely scientific view and
does not pertain to the soul. sSs=
Lord Tenterton, an English noble-
man 1,u had q daughter who had been
engaged to be married to son Of
merchant prince. This young man.
Sidney Hough. died and left the girl
disconlsolate. Sir Percy Scarborough,
g friend Of Lord Tenterton, had son
who had gone through a similar ex-
perience. He had loved Rose Mac:
Alister, the daughter of Scotch laird.
and lost her by quick consumption. e
Now, Lord Tenterton was poor. and
he desired to ally his family with the
wealthier blood of England. Moreover.
his lordship was a scientist with orig
inal ideas. He considered only the
scientific part of love and, looking upon
the brain on the Edisonian principle
of innumerable Photographic plates,
conceived the idea of gradual SUBJ
stitution Of images on, his daughters
brain to change her memory Of her
dead lover to a live one. s# !, -.
If this could be done with her It
might be done. with young Scar
borough. Tenterton called on Sir Per-
cy and proposed scheme. Sir Percy
was 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 engagement of a.
portrait painter.
One day Lord Tenterton returned to
his home from London with 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
long while; then she went out to con-
ceal her emotion. The portrait was
that of the man she mourned, : vet
slightly different She believed it to
be the likeness of some one who very
much resemb1ed him. Not long after
this she came into her fathers study
again under pretense of asking ques-
ton, but really to look at the picture.
1t seemed to her that it had undergone
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 to likeness of Hugh Scarbor-
ough. And while he was doing this
he was changing a 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 inn
posing on his daughter the dissolv-
ing picture of Sidney Hough Finally
after long interval both portraits had
been altered from the dead to the
quick. ~ >...,s.s--:s I'd. ,..,s, 4, =.
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 Hugli's going with him,
and when on the evening of their arr
rival Hugh and Edith met at dinner
there was a 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. 5 ss.=@l. sss* a.. j ..a:
Be seated" said Lord Tenterton,
pretending not to notice this mutual
impression, though while the young
people were intent upon each other
he winked at Sir Percy. Hugh and
Edith had been assigned seats side by
side and We're soon engaged in con-.
versation more animated than either
had ken part ii since they had lost 1
their s. loves a fters dinner they were .
eft eft alone by their elders, who went
on gether. During Il the evening
Hugh made this remark to Edith: 33
S + 1! Did not: aknow you to be living
person a should believe you-so far as 4
appearance is concerned to be u one
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