A Singular Case of Resurrection By F. A. MITCHEL J The investigators of the Rockefeller institute may be very proud of them selves. Indeed, they have reason to be. They have substituted live parts of the human body for dead parts; they htve set heart substance beating out side its proper place in a man's breast. If they keep on they may in time make a man out of parts of other men. But if the stories of what Indian fakirs have done in keeping persons alive in a comatose condition for many years is true these Rockefellers or scientific fellers or whatever they are have jet much to learn from an antique and ap parently undeveloped civilization. There is a story going the rounds among the undergraduates of a certain university which, if it can be substan tiated, puts the modern scientific inves tigator to shame. Arnold Gereau, as sistant professor of chemistry—he has charge of the laboratorj'—is one of thdse phenomena who spring up once In a century. lie is verj- young, and it is well known that he was born with certain mental powers, a certain su pernatural knowledge of things on which many a man has studied for a lifetime without making any progress whatever. Willhur Stockbrldge, a member of the class of 'l5, so the story goes, one daj' went to Professor Gereau with a yellow bit of paper on which was writ ten in old English style: This Is the body of William Arbuckle, private In hia majesty's —th foot. Cap tured In the patriot lines with maps show ing our fortifications on the upper part of Manhattan Island. He was condemned for a spy. An Indian serving with the same regiment—he had Joined it at Singa pore—proposed to General Washington to put the man to sleep for an indefinite peri od instead of executing him. The general, who was averse to the execution, consent ed, and Arbuckle was turned over to the Indian, who claims that any time after fifty or even a hundred years life will •till be in the body. But not one man In many millions will be able to effect a resurrection. Young Stockbrldge told the professor that in excavating for building pur poses on the upper part of Manhattan Island on property owned by his family a tomb had been discovered containing the body of a man in British uniform of a former period. The paper had been found in the lead coffin in which the body had been buried. Gereau—mind j'ou, I don't vouch for this—arranged with the student to bring tlje find to the laboratory, which at the time was closed on account of the spring recess and would therefore be at the professor's individual dis posal. No one has attempted to give the process by which Gereau manipu lated the remains of Private Arbuckle, but it is claimed that he effected a resurrection. The professor avers that he worked on lines which are being followed by modern scientific investi gators. He must have had an inkling of the method by which animation was suspended by the Indian or he would not have been able to restore it by reverse action, which, he says, he applied. He gives as a fundamental principle that the Indian knew how to suspend—not kill—the action of the heart, and Gereau restored the pulsa tions, which are the basis of animal life. Whether the story Is true or false there is one part of it that fits In with modern scientific investigation. It Is said that Gereau found that certain members of the body had suffered from the long suspension of their func tions. The resurrected man showed signs of decay, and the professor fear ed that, though he had remained in an ordinary condition of health for more than 130 years, he would die within a few hours after resurrection. A test was begun of different organs, and the first tested—the kidneys showed decay. Gereau at once tele phoned to the College of Physicians and Surgeons for a pair of sound kid neys and. removing the ones affected, introduced the new ones. He supposed for some time that Arbuckle had died under the operation, but half a bottle of Irish whisky brought him round The liver was next tackled, and half oi it replaced. There were other parts to be substituted, but those mentioned were the principal replacements. These operations required several hours, and another hour passed before Private Arbuckle spoke. Then he opened his eyes and cried out in a voice that seemed to come through dry leather: "Corporal of the guard!" Gereau was delighted. It looked as if he might save his patient, for while the man had doubtless been deanimat ed in good health his being brought back to consciousness was not only a difficult matter, but a dangerous one. There are several versions of the rest of the story. Some say that Arbuckle was sufficiently restored to remembet and speak of his expected execution Others aver that Gereau. finding his breathing defective, worked his arms vigorously, but in spite of his efforts the man died. It is said that at one time Arbuckle sat up and was given a stiff drink Raising the glass he shouted in a horn like voice: "To his gracious majesty Kins George. God bless him and confound his rebellious subjects I" Stockbrldge and Gereau have both been asked to make a statement, but have refused either to affirm or deny the story. It is suspected that they are afraid of coming under the ban of the law. which might involve them in a charge of murder. -j Purchasing Job Printing w When making Purchases in a store YOU will Buy at the Place where Most Goods of the Best Quality at the Lowest Prices Are Received. This Rule Holds Good When .Buying Printing For This Reason We Call Your Attention to OUR 'JOB' Department which Sells High-Grade Fancy and Business Printing at Lowest Cost to YOU Send us your Order w The Patriot üblishing Compaan y "Job Printing" Dep't. Carpenter Way, INDIANA, PENN'A. Retaliation By WILLIAM CHAMBERUN I've heard a story about a certain orator that will bear repeating. They say that when he was in college he was a member of a debating society and was on a debating team chosen to meet a team from another college for the intercollegiate championship. When this young man came home on vacations he was used to spending a good deal of his time with a girl who lived in the adjoining place to his fa ther's. Both places were in the coun try, with large grounds about them. The college boy used to go out in the rear of his home and practice elocu tion. When he was not practicing elo cution he was talking soft to the girl next door. Young fellows of that pe riod in life, especially collegians, don't mean anything when they spoon with a girl, and the governor—we'll call him the governor, since he afterward became the chief executive of one of the United States —didn't mean any more than other boys of his age who pretend to be in love. One afternoon—the governor was go ing back to college the next day for his senior year—Grace from her win dow 7 saw him orating in a wood at the back of his home. She could see his gestures, but could not hear a word he said, not even a sound. Any one who has thus seen a person addressing an audience must have been impressed with the absurd appearance he pre sented. A smile came over the girl's face, which suddenly gave place to the expression of an idea having entered her brain. Going to a telephone, she took down the receiver and called a number. "Is this the county insane asylum?" "Yes, ma'am." "I think one of your patients must have escaped. At any rate, there is a young man back of the house next to this who is talking to himself and fling ing his arms about wildly." The person at the asylum took down the address and hurried away. Not ten miuutes had elapsed before a couple of men in a buggy, with the letters M. (J. A. S. painted on the side, drew up in front of the governor's home and, passing through the grounds, saw the governor in the po sition that had been described to them. Walking slowly and carelessly toward him so as not to excite his suspicion of their intent, as soon as they came uear enough to him they sprang for ward and pinioned his arms. Of course he was greatly astonished, asked a lot of questions and made many pro tests. The men paid no attention to either, but, one at each of his arms, walked him through the grounds to the road where the buggy stood. Now, it happeued—that's what Grace said, it happened—that she was looking out of her window as the prisoner was walked by in the adjoining lot. When they came opposite her she called out: "What's he been doing?" "Loony," replied one of the captors. This was the first the governor knew of the reason for his arrest. The cause of his being considered a lunatic dawn ed upon him at the same time. "Really, gentlemen," he said, trying to laugh, "this is very funny. Grace, explain, please." What did Grace do but withdraw from the window without a word. The governor looked at her, first with as tonishment, then with anger, then with terror. He was hustled to the buggy, placed between the two men and driv en away. Before they reached the asylnm Grace had got out a pony cart and driven there herself by a shorter route. At the office she informed the man on duty that she was the person who had telephoned about the maniac next door and had come to tell them about him. A few minutes later the two asylum men with the governor drove up and entered a waiting room. Presently Grace came in, raised a pair of glasses, through which she stared at the pris ! oner, then dropped them and said: "All right; that's the man." "Grace," the "for heaven's sake, what does this mean?" ; But Grace walked away, evidently not inclined to argue with a madman. As soon as she was outside, however, she told the keepers that she was quite sure the man was harmless—indeed, she regretted having caused his cap ture —and, after considerable vouching for his being merely queer, persuaded the authorities to release him, agreeing to drive him home in her cart. The governor was put in the cart by his captors, looking by this time positively dangerous. Not a word was spoken till the pony had pattered his little hoofs on the stones for half a mile. ; "I presume." said the governor, "that you think you have done something very smart." "I'm sorry. Forgive me." There was no sorrow in her tone and no pleading in her request to be for given. What was said during the rest of the drive home was never revealed. The goveri or left the next day for college with a flea in his ear. It breaks a man rp to be beaten by a woman, and the governor at the Christmas holidays went home ready to bend the knee to the girl who, as he expressed it, had wipet the floor with him. She sent him back much more of a lunat.'c thikn he had been when arrest ed, b' t after he got his profession re lente-. and married him. He now says that his wife, not he. is the governor, and. whether or not she governs the state, she governs the governor. PENNSYLVANIA NEWS IN BRIEF Interesting Items From All Sec tions ot the State. CULLED FOR QUICK READING News of All Kinds Gathered From Various Points Throughout the Keystone State. Allentown's fire loss for last year is estimated at $60,001.92. Altoona's mayor, in his first mes sage, urges a new city hall. Only six per cent crops were raised in Lancaster county last year, farm ers assert. The Hotel Wheatland, one of Lan caster's leading hotels, will have no bar alter April 1. The Cumberland County Agricul tural Society will spend $19,000 in plant improvement. The March meeting of the state board of pardons is announced for Wednesday, March 15. The Seneca and United refineries in Warren county have given employes a ten per cent advance. A flock ot wild geese virtually de stroyed a field of alfalfa on the farm of A. B. Huey, near Lenape. Missing eight months, Eugene C. Strausner, Northumberland, mourned as dead, has returned home. A cracked coal stove exuded enough gas to almost kill Mr. and Mrs. Hen ry Cocklin, of Bowmansdale. Postoffice receipts in Lancaster for February were $16,359.37. In Febru ary, 1914, they were $14,608.42. Five thousand Lackawanna track men, mainly on the Scranton division, get fifteen cents a day Increase. Medical authorities in Lancaster are puzzled over the birth of a seven pound baby to a 12-year-old girl. The managers of Bloomsburg hospi tal have elected Mrs. Mary Robinson, of Chadd's Ford, superintendent. Puddlers and helpers of the Reading Iron company have been granted a twenty-five cent a ton increase. The Jeanesville Iron Works, Hazle ton, has given its shellmakers a volun tary ten per cent wage increase. Anthony Doubloski, of Shamokin, fell dead while praying in church, and heart disease was given as the cause. Freight embargoes have caused mines to close and railroad crews to be laid off in Northumberland county. C. L. Morris, a traveling salesman, of Buffalo, was found dead in his room at the Biffler hotel, in Port Allegany. Cumberland county auditors are in vestigating the accounts of a former treasurer and steward of the county home. A contract for the erection of St. Mary's Home for Girls at Cresson has been let to J. C. Ivory, Altoona, at $75,000. A body believed to be that of Ed ward Riffle, of New Florence, was found floating in Red Stone creek, at Uniontown. Since the Billy Sunday services at Trenton 107 new members have been taken into the Methodist church at Morrisville. Two more mammoth ovens for dry ing paint on its cars are to be erected at Altoona by the Pennsylvania Rail road company. Miss Myrtle Arney, Carlisle, left I for Oklahoma, where she will meet and marry her girlhood sweetheart, Jack Gutleben. It is believed that a pack of wild dogs killed four sheep and maimed two others on the Edward Paret farm, near Rushland. Plunging thirty-five feet from a win dow in an effort to kill herself, Mrs. Warren Harpter, Sunbury, escaped with slight hurts. More than 5000 returns for incomt tax hare been made in the ninth dis trict (Lancaster). Three thousand are from individuals. Bids have been asked for the erec tion o the armory in West Chester for Company I, Sixth regiment, N. G. P., to cost $45,000. To keep a $2-a-month job in North umberland county, William Dodge, of Northumberland, must sign a contract and furnish a bond. An epidemic of mumps has spread from Dickinson college and the Car- j lisle Indian school, to all parts of Cumberland county. Edith Goodman, six weeks old, be came entangled in' the bedclothes and was smothered to death beside her mother at Palo Alto. Freight traffic over the middle di vision of the Pennsylvania railroad showed a gain of 31.1 for last month over February, 1915. The trustees of the Greene Free Li broary, at Wellsboro, have taken title to the homestead willed to the library by Mary B. Robinson. Work on the construction of a new school building in Newville has b?en held up following a disagreement with the bonding company. For neglecting drills, Second Lieu tenant Walter A. Selfridge has been dropped from Company E, Third in fantry, national guard. Altoona Central Labor council has indorsed the nomination of Louis D. Brandies for justice of the United States supreme court. Montgomery county Republicans endorsed for renomination and >n Congressman Henry M. of L&nghorne. Daniel Bell, an Old Forge police* man. was shot and killed by John i Zota, his father-in-law, after a quar rel over domestic troubles, i Sidney A. Hagerting has been ap pointed first lieutenant, battalion ad jutant and quartermaster, and assign ed to the state signal corps. The Central Labor council of AJ toona. passed resolutions endorsing Louis D. Brandies for the United States supreme court bench. Staff Lieutenant Colonel Jamas Archbald has been appointed captain of infantry and assigned to Company F, Fourth infantry, at Pottsville. David Benjamin, a Hazleton strip ping contractor, is a candidate for delegate to the Republican national convention from Luzerne county. Corn last season was one of the most profitable crops, farm ers say. If the war continues, an in creased acreage of corn will be plant ed. Radishes, onions cabbage and let tuce formed the bouquets and nose gays at a dinner dance of society folk at the Berkshire Country club at Read ing. From an Injury in a basket ball game two weeks ago, Charles Mc- Laughlin, a member of one of the Pittsburgh High School teams, has died. The Ingersoll-Rand company, which is making munitions for the allies in Easton and in Phillipsburg, N. J., will erect large new buildings at each plant. State college debaters, upholding the affirmative side, for an interna tional police tcrce, won the decision from the Dickinson college team in annual debate. Miss Elizabeth Sillyman, who serv ed several terms at postmistress of Pottsville, being first appointed by President Lincoln, was found dead sit ting in a chair. Charged with neglecting a pen of twenty pdgs, in consequence of which the animals starved and froze to death, L. Peterman, Lemoyne, was fined $lO and costs. Forty-five Sunday schools, with a membership of 15,000, were represent ed at the fifth annual district con vention at the First United Evangeli cal church, in Easton. As a result of the Security efforts, a new company of the nation al guard will be organized in Lancas ter, the committee being headed by Colonel John H. Groff. Governor Brumbaugh issued tbo death warrant and fixed the time for the electrocution of Martin Eristan the Allegheny county murderer, tat the week of March 20. Morgan E. Gable, fifty-four yearn old, chief editorial writer of the Ga zette-Times, of Pittsburgh, died after a brief illness. The body will be taken to Tamaqua, his former home, for In terment. When a man and woman were found unconscious in a Harrisburg house suffering from an overdose of mor phine, the police unearthed extensive violations of the Harrison anti-nar cotic law. The Firemen's Relief association of West Chester has received $240 from the state as its share of the Interest on foreign insurance for the last year, and now has a fund of more than $4OOO. Its discovery of a formula for mak ing a sulphur Wack dye, heretofore imported from Germany, has made of the Reading Chemical Manufacturing company one of the important indus tries of the country. The application of the West Penn company of Pittsburgh to merge its electric power companies into one company and its railways into another company was approved by the public service commission. Live stock prizes offered by the Montgomery county farm bureau were won by Eugene Dambly, Jr„ Centre Square; Abram Cassell, Worcester, and James L. Wood, Jr., and Raymond 'Hangstaffer, Centre Square. Negotiations are about complete for the purchase of the Monongahela, Ellsworth and Washington Street Railway line by eastern capitalists. The line will be extended to Hazlo kirk and thence to Washington, Pa. Several women, members of a swim ming party at the Natatorium In Pitts burgh watched John Plower break in to the Army and Navy Goods store, in Sixth street, summoned a police man and assisted in capturing the burglar. Charles Dittman, a wealthy Waynes burg coal land operator, was sentenc ed to serve sixty days in the work house, at Pittsburgh, and pay for the maintenance of a child of Pearl Ross, following his conviction on serious charges. Dodging from in front of an auto mobile in front of a car of the Web ster, Monessen, Belle Vernon & Pay ette City Street Railways company, in Monessen, Annie Kikel, six years old, daughter of Michael Kikel, was killed instantly. A troop of coloredi Boy Scouts was registered at the national headquar ters in Chester by Scout Commission er John C. Norak, boys' secretary of the Chester Y. M. C. A. The troop will be in charge of Scoutmaster Rothwell Dean. After living together forty years and rearing eleven children, Mr, ami Mrs. E. J. Keibler, of Armstrong town ship, in Indiana, have obtained a le gal separation in court. The husband was charged with abuse and non-sup port. Judge J. N. Langham directed Mr. Keibler to pay his wife $25 a month. Mary Hannigan, of Man ess en, and Marie McCamey, of Parker's Landing, students at Grove City college, ara In the hospital, suffering from injuri received when a wagon containing crowd of students upset on hill and went into a deep
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