In the Three
Zones
By F. J. Stimson (J. S. of Dale)
Dr. Materialismus. His Hypothesis
Worked Out
An Alabama Courtship. Its Simplicities
and its Complexities
Los Caraqueños. Being the Life History
of Don Sebastian Marques del Torre and
of Dolores, his wife, Condesa de Luna
Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York, 1893
Copyright, 1893, by
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DR. MATERIALISMUS
HIS HYPOTHESIS WORKED OUT
[Pg 3]
I should like some time to tell howTetherby came to his end; he, too, was avictim of materialism, as his father had beenbefore him; but when he died, he left thisstory, addressed among his papers to me;and I am sure he meant that all the world(or such part of it as cares to think) shouldknow it. He had told it, or partly told it, tous before; in fragments, in suggestions, inthose midnight talks that earnest young menstill have in college, or had, in 1870.
Tetherby came from that strange, cold,Maine coast, washed in its fjords andbeaches by a clear, cold sea, which brings itfogs of winter but never haze of summer;where men eat little, think much, drink onlywater, and yet live intense lives; where thevillage people, in their long winters awayfrom the world, in an age of revivals hadtheir waves of atheism, and would transform,in those days, their pine meeting-houses intoShakspere clubs, and logically make a cult of[Pg 4]infidelity; now, with railways, I suppose allthat has ceased; they read Shakspere aslittle as the scriptures, and the Sunday newspaperreplaces both. Such a story—such animagination—as Tetherby’s, could not happennow—perhaps. But they take life earnestlyin that remote, a