The Arizona champion., 1890-11-29
SUSPENDED ANIMATION.
Dr. Tanner on his Much Talked
 of Subject.
WARNING AGAINST PREMATURE BURIAL
Don't Bury Your Dead Until DecOm'
 position has set in.

IaSJlnP IOfIy udyS ana nlSnIS III OldfeQOOl hall, in New York city. For sixteen days he touched neither water nor food. After the sixteenth day he began to drink water, and subsisted on this alone during tho re- maining twenty-four days of his fast. The public has not heard much of the plucky little doctor for the last few years. but not long ago he turned up in Chicago, bright and chipper, a splendid specimen of a man in perfect health and with a rotundity of form indicative rather of the bon vivant than of man who eats only two meals day in summer and only one in winter.
 ''Where have you been keeping your self, doctor?' asked a reporter, after friendly greetings had been exchanged.
 ''I have just returned from New Mex ico, where I have been for nearly four years, pursuing certain investigations of a scientific nature. 1 am much interested in the subject of suspended animation or counterfeit death. l am convinced that a far greater percentage of people are buried alive than even those who have ever given the matter much thought would be willing to believe. In no coun- try in the world are the dead buried with such criminal haste, may say, as in the United States. have been looking into this subject more or less for. the last twenty-five years, and the evidence have accumulated is startling. tell you, it is murder, horrible murder, and it is high time some agitation was started for the purpose of securing needed legislation on the subject of the burial of the dead.
 THE MOVEMENT IN EUROPE.
 1.-The principle of life is so subtle, " con- tinued the doctor, ''that man with all his lrro only safeguard against the awful crime of burying alive those we love lies in the precautions that are taken against com mitting their bodies to the tomb before decomposition has set in. That is the only unmistakable sign that death has finally taken place. The people of Hol- land were among the first to awaken to the importance of this subject, and in 1764 society was organized in Amster- dam for the purpose of looking into cases where death seemed counterfeit rather than real. In less than four years they had resuscitated-savedfr from entombment alive-no less than 150 persons. In 1768 the authorities at Milan and Venice, and those at Hamburg, followed the example set by Holland, and a little later similar societies were formed at London, Paris and Glasgow. As a result of the work and investigations of these societies, among the members of which were some of the foremost scientists of the times, it has been proved that in a great number of cases where every known test had been applied and preparations made for the burial the subjects had recovered. These experiences led Professor Morine, of the University of Rome, to offer a prize of 1,500 francs for the best essay on appar- 41. 41o -lgT 10000 francs to be used in discovering the best means that could be applied in de- tecting the counterfeit of death And so in all countries statistics collated on this subject are startling, as revealing the danger of premature burial"
 ''Now don't you think" asked the doctor, ''that this is a subject that peo- pie should discuss, should be walked up aboutY
 What remedy have you to offer, doctor?"
 Simply this: 1 holland it certainly cannot be successfully contradicted-that the setting in of decomposition is the only certain sign of death. In the ab- sence of this burial should be delayed weeks and months, if necessary, for so long as there is no decay life may hang by 8 feeble thread, and, by that subtleness of which l have already spoken, the re- covery be spontaneous.
 THE DOCTOR WILL HIBERNATE.
 Another discovery that have made" said the doctor, ''is that hibernating ami mals do not use their lungs during the period of hibernation. For several years have been studying the habits of this class of animals, and, do you know, am about convinced that man can hiber- nate"-
 Here the reporter must have looked the incredulity he felt, for the doctor hastened to explain: Take the bear for example; its organs of respiration are the same as mans, and it hibernates for months with out food or drink. I have also been studying the philosophy of the adopts who used to be able to go into the death trance at will. Their preparation for this was long fasting, and the trance condi- tion following was, in my opinion, a sea son of Information. I am studying now with view of making some experiments in this line, and the time may come when l will permit myself to be sealed up in an air tight coffin and laid away until such time as l shall designate for it to be opened"
 But, doctor, you will not expect to come out of test like that alive, will yoU?"
 ''Yes, indeed, was the earnest reply. 'I have twice been near the portals of the tomb in my studies of this subject of life principle and of suspended animation, and firmly believe I can go still nearer that can to all outward appearances be dead, and, remaining that way for a length of time, can still come back liv- ing witness of the truth of my theories and investigations"
 Speaking of his fast, he said: "The ] fact is, with most people the body rules the mind, while the reverse should be the case-the mind should control the body. Appetite, and it may be a dep-aved one, clamors for this or that desired article, and people rush off to gratify it. When | l began my forty days fasting l said to my stomach: Here, old fellow, I have job for you. I want you to take good 1 long rest, and want no grumbling about | it. That settled it. At 10 o'clock of the | last day of my fast, when had only two | hours to go, a little child that was in the | room where l was thrust a ripe peach un- der my nose. If Adam was tempted as | was then do not wonder that he fell. | had so little longer to go without eating | that l relaxed my will power, and truly l my greatest sufferings were during the | last two hours of my fast. Chicago ] Tribune.
 A Prevailing Masculine Fad.
 A prevailing masculine "craze" is for ma nf 70 faJ O lf 4 iroa%