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I ennot make out why people try aud cast doubt up the death of the
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THE DROSERA CANNIBALIS. yes, they have senage. We have long known that they have sox This general activity proves the tie that unites the animal and vegetable worlds, and confitus Clude Bernard's genial thesis which proclaims the commiority of all living thanga.
celebrated Professor Bartenstutler: personally, I am particularly qualified
The
kreat to establish its truth. botanist has not merely disappeared; I saw him when he he is really dead. was dying. as well as when he was Meat, I was unr of the two witnes es
who signed his death certificate, whilst I was mobilised, in November 1918.
Accordingly. no doubt whatever should exist about his final disappear.
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The word haul is necessary when applad to one whose death was announced note than once, and who was in the habit of disappearing my steriously for two or three years, during wluch time he was living, lost to the world is the virgin forests of Africa or of South Amenca, snatching for unknown plants, whose discovery and classificate had made him the contemporary greatest botanist of times.
The dramatic form of his death was Chase Censor se abominable, that forbade newspapers even to print the name of Hartenstatier : il necessary to publish any information tending to exite the already over. falrung feelings of the puble.
was not
You may remember at 11arten- statter was passionately fond of soudy. ing carnivorous plants: and that be had succeeded in giving some of them a monstrous development.
In the buge genhouse, some forty feet high, which he had constructed near bis villa at Rottamuster, and into which no one, not even his trust- ed servant, had the right to enter, hs drosera longifolia notably, reached a height of early thirty feet; and the dlustrious professor pretended to be abie to obtain a further in. reuse of
over fifty per cent, m less than two years' time.
Sunie
In the note bm a whch Hartec staffer se down his daily observa- tions, I have coner across absolutely fantastical remarks, wm!- ten with all the unconsciousness of a student beat over bis scalpel; one feels that he is solely preoccupied, above all considerations of pity, humanity or morality, in an attempt to snatch a secret from nature: an
torlaring executioner-in-chiel. prisoner to wring a conlession from
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In noting that his drosees seems easily to devour living animals than dead ones, Hartenstatter adds tha les vingims de rol aptur *
suffer, up to the instant when lite abandons them; they do not seen even to realise their luation at the moineat when theit absorption has
resignation, neither is it anaesthesia, sinco, a moment ago, he felt the prick of a pin that I gave him in the Leck. There is no aguay."
"I may thus conclude that vegetal assimilation as a tornial phase, under a form bithert unknown, but which supports my thesis of the laul enslavement of the animal kingdom: by the vegetable kingdom "
The free may be astrosand one our planet to-morrow, and for suge time at least, Life will continue, it is i almost childish to affinu vetouce again, that if the vegetable kingdom came an end suddenly, the animal som dava the kingdom would cease insatiable, | later.”
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already begun.
And
1 niral wh monster, who seefits in two or three days, brings about an increase in the circumference of the trunk, As well as in the length and robustness of the branches and leaves. One day. Hartenstatter made up
"And I believe that a perfectly conscious destiny directs the ideal of vegetable life towards this end, full of a mysterious abnegation and of be coming, by their transformation. the
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is mind to direct his researches into elements needed by the animal world. a new channel, and from the military Man who believes hionell King of hospital where he goes every morning Nature is but one of the principal on medical service, he brought back slaves of Vegetable Life he is but its the band of a wounded soldier who more less hard-working day- had just undergone amputation, labourer. Plants and trees dominate having cleverly withdrawn it from him, and their irremovability does not the receptacle of surgical debris as it hinder then from leading and inspir was on its way to the furnace of the ing him." hospital crematorium.
And his note bouk states that the drosera guputis completely absorbed that hand in live Lours forty-eight
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Wlus three times the same weight of fout furnished by the remains of a rabbit a week earlier, had only in greased the trunk of the drosera by half a mil meter, human flesh on this occasion had developed it two thirds of a millimeter.
Dr. Hartenstatter is triumphant, he has discovereitan anthropophagous plant the drosera communalisi
From this day ward, the horrible doctor employs all his astuteness to get human flesh, sud bis duties but make this task all the mpler.
But an obsession is apparent in remark in the note book at the end of several wka; since the drosera preferred living animals, and derived very much more advantage from them, would it not be the same with living human flesh
Horror! Ou Janower 2, THE Hartenstatter brings back with bina baby two months old, which he had stolen in the country
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The real cormator is the vegetable kingdom whose roots, antenuae-like, collect under ground, not only purely chemical agents, but emanations, radiations inspirations, vibrations and waves which, on account of their artivity, drive oot from the great mysterious reservoir of which we, as vet, koow nothing, the psychic matter is not permanent in the atmosphere where it is only found in provisional suspension, but it resides itthe Earth where vegetable growths draw upon
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And, in the quiet of the night, whilst the brain is dulled with sleep. the vegetable kingdom, conscious dominator, breathes into the animal into MD, kingdom. particularly great currents of thought that, little by little, change the face of the World, and which ferment more or less in this or that brain, ravaging our
medium of the vegetabic free will just as they like. Through kingdom, our minds receive the ideas the which open for as the paradises ol! enthusiasm, of which plunge us into the gloom pessimisin.
of uneasiness
and
"If such great currents of ideas were inexistent, bow then can we explain the stern of folly that brought about that res one absurdity, the war?"
With their air of protection, these huge trees are the tyrants and despots that toy with our destinies."
The note book states that the more Hartenstaller has no ed every bat diary had seized 108fd
quickly than usual, Baitzustatter had connected wab vie demern famdy plants endowed, as all know, with the not dared to write the word "ebild", Taculty of seizing lies or other insects but there can be no doubl about the that settle on then leaves; these are of the "fog" in this instance, plants then close over thear vitis. for be describes y gag planed over the mouth of the victim, which did which are at obre covered with
not appear to suller, nad which, five
"If Dr. Boerustein has demonstrat- sticky sulestue, digesting them in a jew Lous, and, thanks to an abund- Bours after its legs Lail breu seized by
the vegetable monster, had stilled that the Earth breathes, absorbiog ant secretion of an extraordinarily sufficient desire to live to calde it to air for 10 or 11 hours and giving it active pepsin, alsorbing them so copt- pletely, that a trace or sign of themck at the feeding bottle which the bark during the 13 or 14 hours in the abominable savant placed in its day time, I am prepared to demon is left behind.
For a long Un, Hartenstatter had mouth in order to prulong thestrate that all vegetation goes much been engaged in exciting and devel-patient's existence, as well as the further than its roote to seek the eping, particularly, the appetite of a giani drag which, under special a tree with traming, bad become enormous branches, cupable progres- sively of devouring grasshoppers, guinea pigs, wire, rabbits and Jails. There were, in Hartenstatter's note book, desenptions made, one is con scious, with an almost sadic joy, of that slow and total absorption of anitaals by these moustrous vegetal growths, cruel possibly, because their purveyor observes that they devour
Still, the pages that exist are with greater apretite-it is his own dreadful, and, at the same time, full word-living creatures in pr. f. rence
of bold, mad guesses which, later to dead ones.
Then again, what a triumh when maybe, will be confirmed, and then the savant succeeded in gaining roof declared normal. that these plants are endowed with | the faculty of sight.
duration of his own observations.
Hartenstatter, magnifying-glass in hand, follows all the phases of the infernal meal; they are observed and set down every afteen minutes,
elements of the material envelope of our planet, for the atmosphere certain- Iv contains a matter quite other than a fluid, and which is renewed, not from without, but from the depths of the earth."
Unfortunately, maty pages are
It is by neaus of the vegetable missing from the note book which, by sheer chance, I managed to rescue kingdom which dominates us with all from the ruins of his villa which was its impossibility, that the renewal of plundered and burnt by the maddened this vital element is effected. It is people when his frightful experiments the vegetable kingdom which causes and his stealing of children became the earth to breathe."
"And, I repeat, the psychic Matter known.
which our brains turn into thoughts is not formed in the air: it is formed in the earth where vegetable growtha which put it into circulati go to
Is it possible to ad, without shuddering, an avowal as cynical as the following
Yes, he proven it; plants sec. Deuth
May 12, 1918-Idiots, to lose did not ruve him time to discover where the organs of vision are placed, their beads over vivisection! Ah, and how they work; but he relates well! What matters the disappear the experiment which he repeated ance of nine youngstere bo bad gone several times: when he placed as far as that sixteen months after ouse or a guinea-pig under a glass his first crime!if one can wrest the such a secret from nature? Is she bell cover behind a rereen, drosera did not move; nu instinct, nount herself pitiless nature our mother, divination revealed to it the existence our crucl step-mother?”
of prey within reach of its tentacles, "My experiments. painless though
but these latter became agitated and slowly stretched towards it,immediate ly the ac een was removed, and the organs of vision thereby excited.
see't it, where cerebral antennae more or less powerful go to seize it.'"
mesne
"To-morrow, seekers will reveal to
the real and by xo 113 inert life of minerals; for already Berquerol, Curie and others bave surprised the secret of some of them. such as uranium barium and radium which give rise to, or which become electricity, heat and light."
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"The duration of matter, if not eternal, is at least incalculable; and whilst admitting that with its trans- formations it is eternal, Weissman they be, are indeed less cruel than has on porceived part of the truth. that of Sir Jagadis Chander Bose who Yes, our envelope, the coma asphyxiates flowers; his description assuredly perishable; but if, accord- of the slow agony of a mimosa under ing to the same authority, our germen the action of chloroform is far crueller is inmortal, it is because it is a func- Piante, as everybody knows, push than the slow anconscious a similation tio of the vegetable kingdom."
"November 21. 1918, 17 hours their branobes in the direction of of all thes" efbryons of human ty."
"Just as in the case of the other 20. The expression on the child's light; they appreciate it, they like it; but Hartenrlatter has proved by victims, this one allows no sign of fee seems to be changing. It is means of his drosera, that they eos auffering, no uneasiness, and yet one annoying that I do not understand what be saying: he must be the and further, that they do not see in thiri of his body has already the dark, because the same expert disappe red, and at present the child of Flemish refugees. It is mont, carried out at night, had no tentacles are clutching the shoulders, the head alone being free; na with the I have proof, ho writes in his note others, as soon as a tentacle clutches book, that plants look and ses; and I a vital oran, then paychie lie will prove this as clearly as Sir Jagadis Chunder Boso bas proved, in Calcutta thanks to his ingenious creogoph swallowing of a living creature by which multiplies the smallest move ban constrictor or by an ectopus,'', rent by ten millions, that a plant is November 21, 1918, 7 o'clock. My a amall Impressionable being, agitat experiment to dily is splendidly con
power to move them.
disappear.".
"It is fone and leane than, the
ed by various ceaseless movements, clusive; the infants, in each bake An
strang, after having wept throughout the two hours of the return journey by auto, that he became quiet the stent he came under the induenco
at the drowral":
"November 22, 1918, 4 hours 40. I must have dozed for a short time,! have now had 27 hours of unin terrupted watching, and, at the pre- ent moment, a branch of the drozera
levouring the left eye, which, quito |
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A FORTY YEARS' TESTY
Bir Jagadis Chunder Boss proved far bully a frutothe old abbedecently, was out of its reach," with the needle of his apparatus, that by my didige crumbuli, ware plants an not tho'sano by day s by huminn dos withour inteHluence but night, that they have different the pranen vain whirly certnindy positions, that they prepare them selves" for sliep. I edalem the discoveries, and add, that plants so during the day, while they no longer do so at right. Plants are acnal(196;
over three "veh k of apo, und-retande. "WAMBERLAT 8 Cough Remody 7 hum curing could and colds ong: 5 in under tend that he is being alanrbed, but he is disappearing, hub | * * thu a forty years and has gatved Apostarily every your. What better is yes betray no fear. ho utters no
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