Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-09
A STORY OF
1925
By F. A. mitchell


in knowledge of the functions of the
body. During the first decade Of the
twentieth eXperimenters in institutions
for original research became aware
that there was an intermediate state
between life and death, since life i'll
many organisms could be suspended
by being frozen in liquid air and after
ward resuscitated.
1t was found that bacteria, the low
est plant organisms, have enormous
powers of resisting death. Bacteria
of various diseases were frozen in
LIQUID air at temperature of minus
3GO degrees F. There are instances of |
the lives of frogs, rats. snails and fish |
being suspended by this freezing proc |
ess. vet on being ''thawed out after |
several weeks they revived.
These animals were found to be per- |
fectly normal when placed in a refrig- |
Grating jar filed with liquid air at a
certain temperature. After short
time the animals appeared lifeless. A
month later they were removed and on
being massaged showed signs of life,
I often reviving completely.
1t does not appear that these invest-
| gators made experiments with human
beings. Doubtless human beings OBJ
jected to being thrust into a glass
tank filed with liquid air 3G0 degrees
below zero.
Since then there has been no effort to
! discover whether human beings could
be frozen and brought to life.
In 1885 a party Of tourists started
from the town Of Chamonix, in Swift
zerland, by the old route to climb Mont
Blanc, the railroad to the summit not
then having been built. One Of the
guides, Hans Twingle, twenty years
old, was to be married on his return to
Anna Bishof, three years his junior.
The lovers, in the first freshness OF
youth. bade each other goodby, the girl
in tears, for she had dreamed that she
had been separated from Hans till she
was an old woman near sixty, when
she met him again, he being youth
of twenty. At that age he had no sym
pathy for an old woman and turned
his back upon her. At the parting she
feared that her dream bOded some
trouble either for her lover or herself.
And so it did. When the party re-
turned to Chamonix Hans Twingle
was not with them. He had fallen
into a crevasse on the glacier hundreds
of feet deep, and no effort was made
to recover his body. The glacier moves
at such rate that it would bring
5 Hans body down to point where the
o ice would give it up in exactly forty
: years. Anna Bishof, though she mar
ried, all her life hoped that she would
e live to look once more on the lover OF
D her youth when he should be returned
: from his icy grave.
few years ago DR.. Donenshunner
an investigator of the Institute Fol
: Original Research, went to Chamonil
and heard the story Of Hans and Anna
He found the latter an old woman anC
: on questioning her as to the date tha
Hans had disappeared learned that tn
u body was due to come forth from th'
glacier during the summer of the yea
1928. On the 1st of July last the doc
tor went over to Chamonix and wait
ed for the appearance of the body. ii,
did not reveal his purpose, since |
seemed so Quixotic that he feared de
rision. 1t was to determine with tn
. assistance Of the latest scientific meth
y ods whether Hans was dead or in tn
| .nta Nl,n laNa anV
., whether he could be brought to life.
1t was late in September befor
Hans body appeared DIR. Donens
:, :, hummer had revealed his intention t
the deceased relatives and secures
their permission to resusctate him
Ie He had secured a bathtub, which h
}" filled with water at SO degrees. or on
II degree above the freezing point. II
t placed the body in this tub and grad
ually advanced the temperature, mas
- saying the thoraX about the heart an
extending the operation over the Who'll
body.
n A record Of what further eNpedient
the scientist resOrted to he turned owe
to his institute. where they are on fil'
Doubtless they would be too profes
lis sional to be given here. The point
nd wish to mention especially is how hi
Op former sweetheart's dream came tru'
p. When Hans. still man of twenty. ha
m. been restored Anna, attended by he
granddaughter. was introduced to til
nc apartment where he was. Hans spran
~, -. up. brushed by his former sweethear
~ nearly knocking her over, and, throw
ing his arms around the granddaugl
ter, exclaimed:
>, "Anna. dear heart. ] am back wit
lsy you In time for our wedding!"
"Gott in himmel!' exclaimed the o
woman. my dream has come tru
He spurns me-
"What is the old hag saying?" gu
ried Hans.
"Old hagr whined Anna. Then. 10
ing control of herself. she seized
broom standing in a corner and bel
bored him numerically.
DR.. Donenshunner bames himst
\ for scene that was too much for
u heart that had been frozen forty yeai
He did all in his power to bring Hal