The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-01-08

stitious German nature regarded this
night alarm-an alarm made doubly
hideous by the knowledget that itcame
from a tenement once-and apparent
" still-deserted by its soul.
PERSONALLY | do not behave in the
establishment of these rooms In Gott-
sakers," continued the doctor. The
revival of life occurs too seldom to
justify the otfense against delicacy OF
feeling brought about by this exposing
of thedead and exhibition of private
griefs. To realize the full repulsive.
ness of the practice, fancy a member
OF your own family resting in these
haunts of sorrow, guarded by hire
lings whose tenderness and care are
measured by the length of your purse
and their own unreasOning terrOrs.
Without crediting the existence OF
anything uncanny in the matter | be-
lieve that there is a cause for every
tningl, / had begun to be considerably
puzzled myself. Lifting the shrunken
wrist | sought for a trace OF puIsatlon
the faintest would have given me a
hope-but cold and white as marble
the delicate hand lay IN mine, a spray
of roses falling from the n%erveless fin
gers. A subtle neutrality-suspicious.
half recognitiOn--made me stoOp nor
closely above the body. | felt that |
knew it, and shrank from the shock
OF actual recognition. Pushing aside
| the tresses of hair falling over the
brow and c~oncealing the features, |
could not control a cry OF astonlsh-
ment when in the rigid form before me
| saw the young BarOnin ~Friesbach, a
girl when Ihad last seen her, or rather
a newly made matron in all the rosy
happiness of the first months of mar
ried life. The shock vas the greater
from thefact Ihad heard nothing other
illness, or Of her, as she had gone at
nce to the Friesbach estate, in the en-
virons of Heidelberg. redouUled my
efforts; l sought in every possible way
to discover a sign OF remaining or re-
vivinc life. 1t was in vain. To all APP
pearances stone dead, she slept peace
fully on, with all the strange and IN
accountable weight about the body
which comes when death has frozen
the veins with an icy chill. The mo-
ments passed rapidly by, but without
apparent change IN the condition Of
things.
"Hanserl,' Isaid sternly, turning to
the man who was standing at my side,
his teeth still chattering from his par
oxysm of fright, you have certainly
made some mistake. The signal must
have been turned by accident or care
lessness.'
""Got in H;nmel! No, Herr Doctor,
that would be impossible; nothing
| could touch the instrument; see for
yourself, ~pointingto the one attached
to the body, which, if you have en-
tered these rooms in Gottsaker's, you
know to be precisely similar to those
in use in the regular French morgues.
"The words had scarcely left his
lips, before with a scream of widest
terror, Hansel dropped upon his knees,
~shuddering, half-crazed, with one
shaking finger directing my attention
to the apparatus above US. Looking
up, / saw that the arm of the instru-
ment was moving slowly, TREMENDOUSLY,
but unquestionably moving. /
watched it with almost the same
amount of wonderment that Hansel
exhibited. while it rose, trembled, and
fell upon the gong, with a stroke hard
ly stronger than the blow ofan infant,
but, so delicately are these signaling
instruments arranged, instantly fol-
lowed by the warning rattle. 1t was
but the work of an instant to follow
with my finger the course OF the wire
which attached the instrument to the
body. ! found that after leaving the
battery this wire passed down and
around the neck of thecorpse, pressing
closely like a tight necklace upon the
carotid artery, naturally the first
| place, from it's connection with
| the heart, where reviving life currents
would be perceptible. The mystery
was no longer q mystery. The warn
ing signal had undoubtedly been
sounded by the throbbing artery.
Coming at long andirregular intervals
the pulsation either failed to occur
while / was engaged in my efforts at
resuscitation, or through some disar-
rangement ofthe body Itself, had failed
to be announced.
"The Baronin Friesbach lived; the
throbbing artery proved it. Muscu-
lar contraction, as any physician will
tell you, is entirely possible in the
dead. Arterial movements a~retotally
different lin character and are suscepti-
bic of but one explanation-that life
is not dead, but sleeping.
Gas this is a record of plain facts,
with no necessity for q dramatic
climax, as in fiction, formulated the
cries as to the cause Of such attacks
would be useless. Whatever had been
the cause the result was q semblance
Of death that would deceive the
closest scrutiny. I am not the only
physician who has been driven into q
Iabrynth of INDIGESTION by such expert
ences. Indeed, we are not in such
cases justified in using anything in thu
shape of remedial agents; except sucl
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