Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-04-30

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snced friend, who sympathizes with
avery phase of your sufferings and can
lEniel iorate them al. Tell me, now, what
re WIS that filled your mind with such
fear and horror as to overthrow your
RoFtifude so completely. 1t was not
fear OF death 1 know; for even children
meet death unblenchingly. What was
st then? Ii will do you good to confess
10 me-
~You Judge me rightly said Eudora,
rs. calmly by the morphia. she now
eBfered with perfect self-possession
npon h dreaded subject. 1T was not
fear Of death. for | should be happy IL
\ could die quietly here in my bed. 1t
was the manner OF the death, the deep
sishonor and the mysterious unknown,
awful agony Of that blindfold, suffo-
Eating, helpless struggle with a violent
feath!'
~In a word. you dreaded excessive
physical su~fferingT'
-0h. yes"
my child, there will be no such suf-
,Fering at all. The death you so much
Dreaded will be the easiest of all
dcaths.''
She looked up at him with calm, in
.relulous wonder
-tEudora, / speak the words Of truth
md soberness, as we'll as Of science
and experience said the doctor
xrzyely.
"AF. how do you know? How car
sny one know? I myself a only
yudge by this" Here h put her
thumb and fingers toward her throat.
but the doctor arrested her moving
hand and held 1t while he said:
"You must not do that-you will only
n So. -,lg x,itb falCa tarrnrS
An incomplete pressure like that is
sery distressing, n complete one is
quite the reverse"
~Ah. how can we be sure of that:'
"SBy the light Of science, which
shows us that the instantaneous on
vcstion Of the brain consequent upon
mch a pressure prevents all suffering.
a. my child, dismiss all dread OF pain,
you will not have TO bear 1t"
81 do not know. No one has ever
come back from that dread mystery
10 tell us what Ii was"
ayes. but there has. There are sew
sral authentic instances on record of
individuals who have been resuscitated
after execution, and who have all
agreed in testifying that the manner
NJ death was easy, u u demonstrating
INC theory of science in that respect.
PCT: &c YOU want farther confirmation,
Eudora. you can have IL In my own
professional experience.
4yours..' exclaimed Eudora, in quiet
Encrcdulity.
eyes: | resuscitatcd n man who had.
I'm n fit Of despair. attempted to de-
xtroy himself in that very manner.
He was found by his friends suspend
I'd from n tree in n grove. and when
fcken down was quite insensible, and
apparently quite dead. But the vital
spark had not fed. for when l was
rallied TO him, and took proper means
90 restore him 10 consciousness, i sue
rcc led. He was very penitent for
hnving. in n fit Of dependency, tried
DO rush unbiddcn into h presence OF
mis- God. But what made his case
most interesting to me. as n medical
man. was his description of his sensa-
lions while undergoing that process.
He described them as being without
shc least degree Of suffering, and ms
resembling the effects produced by the
I1rst in,alations OF chloroform, until,
like one under the full influence OF
HAT drug. he lapsed into insensibility,
md knew no more until his resuscita-
zion; and now / hope you will believe
u,e, and dismiss your fears Of suffer
Tlg.-
4Oh. yes; I suppose / was n sad
reward 10 dread torture so much"
~ AAH women do. Eudora. 1t Is their
nafure; their tender, delicate sensitive
organizations shrink from torture. But
Row. what other feature Is there In
his fate that so distressed you, for
the dread of physical agony was not
air
''fsh. no, for there was the sense Of
deep dishonor."
-let you say that you are inno-
cent
81 am weary Of repeating that to In