The daily Alaskan., 1913-10-10
Returned From
 the Dead
By E. D. LEONARD

"Your father is dead"
 The announcement was made at 10 o'clock at night to Albert Huntington. a young man who stood in the room where physicians had been attending a | dying patient. The son covered hia | face with lis hands as if to shut out R realization of his bereavement Then, suddenly taking them away, he said:
 "Why could he not have lived two hours longerT
 What purpose would his living | those two hours have serYedT' asked Dr. Pulsifer.
 q cannot explain to you without en- terlng into long series of legal tech nicalities. But l can say briefly that my fathers estate will pass into the hands of a guardian for me. which will involve endless litigation. Tomorrow will be my birthday. At 12 midnight I will be legally of age and could en- | ter upon the administration of my ill., ! herltance myself.
 The doctor made no reply. He seem- ed lost in thought. Then he drew the other physicians Into consultation in | low tones and in few minutes return ed to the young man and said:
 Send for your notary"
 "He is waiting below"
 "Very well. You have heard of the recent discoveries. l suppose, in refer ence to what we call death-that when a man is pronounced dead and is what we have always supposed to be dead he is not dead He Is like n man un- conscious under water. If he Is per mitted to remain there he eventually rots. If he is drawn above the surface 1 he may be reSuscitatcd. Your father may be brought back to life and posst- bly, held there till after midnight" i Do you mean it?'
 'I do. At any rate, and my col leagues are willing to make the expe2i- ment But to take advantage of our efforts if we succeed you should have witnesses here to testify that the pa" ticnt lived the day you became of age"
 Doctor" exclaimed the young man, grasping the physicians hand, If you do this you will make q friend of me so long as 1 live. There is Q reason why l am so anxious in the matter that have not yet given you. 4 mar riage was arranged by my father and the parents of a girl love that by the terms of his will is indirectly depend ent upon my coming of age and lnher- iting as a man instead of a minor. By prolonging my fathers life two hours you will not only save my estate from being decimated under an expensive lawsult. but you will unite a pair of lovers."
 While this dialogue was going on the assistant doctors were administer ing a hypodermic injection. Dr. Pull sifer while waiting for the effect oc- cupied the attention of young Hunting ton, commenting upon the discoveries on which the expected result was based.
 Tt has been shown," he sNid, that every function of life except conscious ness may be kept up after death. We | hope to show that your father per forms those functions. If his heart beats and he breathes he Is, In the eye of the law, alive. EXperimenters have not yet reached a point where con sciousness may be restored, but 1t is not unlikely that result may be at tained."
 One of the assistant physicians, who had his ear on the dead mans chest, announced to Dr. PuIsifer that the heart beat faintly and asked If he should administer another injection. pr. PuIsifer looked at his watch and saw that there still remained an hour 1 and ten minutes to midnight. "Wait twenty minutes" he said, unless the heart beats cease"
 Doctor" said young Huntington, may I announce what you are doing to those waiting below%
 'T would advise you to say nothing"
 "I may at least give hope to the girl whom love and who loves me, may l not?"
 "Yes, but I would only give hope. 1 would not explain the matter to her"
 Huntington ran downstairs, and when he returned a second hypodermlc injection was being given to the dead man. In ten minutes the physician,