Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-01-07

tell you, Is entirely possible In the
dead. Arterial movements aretotally
different In character and are suscepti
pie OF but M explanation-that life
~ not dead, but sleeping.
IA tins Is a record OF plain facts,
with no necessity for a dramatic
Climax, as in fiction, formulated the.
cries as to the cause OF such attacks
would be useless. Whatever had been
D cause the result was a semblancc
OF death that would deceive the
closest scrutiny. / am not the only
physician who has been driven into a
labrynth OF indecision by such expert
ences. Indeed, we are not in such
cases justified in using anything in the
shape OF remedial agents; except such
drugs as act as prompters to torpid
organs, the sort opposition in medicine
occupied by the man under the baize
at the opera.
After dispatching n messenger fora
case OF surgical Instruments and n
power-galvanic battery, / had the Bar
onIn Friesbach lifted from her resting
place among the grim companions and,
warmly wrapped in blankets, placed
In the carriage. She was still uncon-
scious, but was evidently returning to
a state which, If not exactly life, Dor.
dered too closely upon it to risk the
shock which the sight of her surround
lings would inevitably produce. Hav.
ing also instructed the messenger, who
had gone for m yinstruments, to warn
the family OF my arrival with my sad
burden, there was nothing to detain
us. As we passed into the dewey fresh
ness Of the early morning the rising
sun was Just beginning to throw long
n slender fingers OF light through
the widely opened windows.
"Catalepsy," continued the doctor,
after a thoughtful pause, sis one ofan
endless series of ervo disorders
which science has never fully con.
quered or comprehended. 1t unques-
tionably exists, but not, as old wom-
ans tales would have us believe, in
variably accompanied by the hellish
torture of whole or even semi.con-
seriousness. In the Baronin's case,
whatever the cause of the suspension
OF LIES forces, she was the same rs
dead, and, most fortunately, had been
ignorant of everything going on about
her from the moment when the deliri-
UNI inseparable from violent fever had
set IN.
"She complained to me afterward
CT having suffered under a painful SEN
sRtion OF weight and a singing or
~prickling in the spinal marrow-as
nearly as l could gather from her con-
fused statements the kind of feeling
which accompanies the rousing OF a
limb which has been, as laymen term
IL, asleep
"Of the funeral ceremonies, the grief
and agony OF her family, the Longtime
OF coroneted carriages blocking the
broad streets filled with sorrowing
friends, following her to her eternal rest,
she knew absolutely nothing. Not being
the Friesbachs' family attendant at
that time it vas necessary, in order
to avoid arousing her suspicious, to
masquerade in the character Of the
consulting physician. A iudicious
outlay OF golden thalers secured the
silence of the Gottsaker's officials,
from whom the most danger was to
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norant of the three days spent in the
dreadful depths of the Gottsaker's
dead house
"None of u.s." continued Schorn, af-
ter a moments silence, "ever profess
ed to believe in n special providence,
but after this it would be difficult for
to doubt that this at least is n
page in the life of one man or WDman
upon which a Supreme Care has set its
seal. 1t was never blind chance that
kept me, for the first time in twenty
years from taking a sadly needed rest,
or n combination of circumstances
only, which threw me-granting that
the services OF any other physician
would have done as well-dirc.ly in
the way Of the Gottssker's mes" ger
at a most unusual hour, or keL me
at my post OF mercy when the last
hope and known to science
had seemingly failed"