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FEAR PREMATURE BURIAL DREAD OF BEING PUT INTO COFFIN ALIVE IS BECOMING VERY GENERAL. Large Number of Live Persons Who Have Been Put Under the Ground. LONDON, May 18. fear of premature burial which haunted the latter days of Miss Frances Power Cobbe the famous authoress, and caused her to leave instructions for her doctor to the arteries of her neck before her interment is more general than is popularly supposed. A well known physician said today than many of his patients had the greatest horror of the possibility of being buried alive, but the gruesomeness of the subject prevented their discussing it except with their medical advisers.

The peril of premature burial in this country is not, it is true, so great as In warmer climates, whence interment follows closely on death. But exhumations in England are so rare that there Is no absolute proof that some people are not consigned to the grave while still alive. There are several well authenticated Instances in which the death certificate has been signed and the patient prepared for the grave, and in rarer cases, actualfy buried while still living. Woman Twice In Coffin. There is a lady living in Kensington who has twice been put in her coffin.

An even more remarkable case is that of a Liverpool man, who was actually lowered into the grave. At that moment the coffin was seen to move, and one of the mourners insisted that it should be reopened. Drug takers and victims of alcohol- Ism are peculiarly liable to this terrible fate. The late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson recorded a case in which a physician, who had taken 120 grains of chlorah was resuscitated after he had apparently died. The records of the Paris morgue show that revivification occurs in about one case in every 300.

So real is the risk of premature burial that the London Cremation Society requires two independent certificates of death, and recognizes that the only sure test of death is decomposition. Dr. Hartmann, the eminent Austrian physician, has declared that no doctor has any right to say a person is dead when the principle of life has ceased to manifest its activity in a human body. He cannot, with truth, say more than that such a person appears to be dead. How deep the feeling of the public is'on the subject may be imagined from the existence of a society the examining physicians of which will, in the event of the death of a member, put the body to certain tests before pronouncing life to be extinct, and, if necessary, delay the burial until the possibility of life lingering be quite removed.

Extreme Caution Necessary. What are the special precautions Wkich you was asked of Stenson Hooker, secretary of the London Association for the Prevention Premature Burial. great object." said Dr. Hooker, 'i 6 to prevent the possibility of any one being buried alive. I know some people declare that such a contingency is impossible.

But how can they or any one else possibly tell that? In England there is only one case of exhumation in every 50,000 burials. 'Another fact we 1 found out only with great difficulty, and that is that 10,000 people are buried each year without any death certificate. "We want, too, to alter the law with regard to the giving of death certificates without seeing the body. As the law stands a doctor who has attended patient can give the death certificate on the mere information of a neighbor or any ignorant person who may come to him with the news that life has departed from his patient Doctors Deceived by Cstalepsy. "Trance and death from suffocation and drowning should also, I believe, be scientifically investigated.

Doctors can be deceived by catalepsy. There was quite recently the case of a Norwich match vender. The certificate of deajth was given, but when the undertaker arrived, the was sitting up Jn bed." Dr. Stenson Hooker complains that although there are certain tests by which the fact of death may be assured, no stress is laid upon the question in the curriculum of the medical seudent. The subject was to a great extent passed over as though of no importance.

Premature burial is most to be feared. Dr. Hooker thinks, in the case of very young people, especially those subject to hysterical, trance and catalepsy. But there is also grave danger where "death" takes place while under an anaesthetic. In such cases and in those of death from suffocation, it is quite impossible to point to the exact moment of death.

Edison Bitter Against Patent Office. NEWARK, N. May A. Edison, the inventor, declares that many of the employees at the patent office at Washington are incompetent, chat the system is faulty, that he had been a sufferer on numerous occasions and is at last driven to desperation by what he termed a "most remarkable Mr. Edison has appealed to President Roosevelt.

He did not charge dishonesty, but said that things had been permitted which were improper and contrary to law. The president has given heed to the appeal. "Now, just let me give you an instance of the way they do things up there at the patent offce," said Mr. Edison. "In this case we had applied for a patent covering an electrical storage battery.

They took a couple of young fellows out of the bottle department in the afternoon, and set them to looking up a highly technical matter. "They often take young men out of the bottle department and the collar button department, and set them to examining application for patents or systems of wireless telegraphy. It is the same thing over and over. These men are absolutely incompetent and we have to be the sufferers. "Some fellow goes there with an application and files it.

Then he wants to get something added to it. He takes a couple of sharp lawyers and they talk these young examiners death. They induce them to hand out the application papers and then they can make the additions if they wish." Mr. Edison was asked if he did not think the appeal to the president might result in a change of policy on the part of Commissioner Allen. "Why, say, that commissioner isn't afraid of the supreme court, let alone the president," was the reply.

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FUEL QUESTION SOLVED HALF THE CITY OF BOISE 18 BEING HEATED BY STEAM AND HOT WATER. Suggestion of State Geologist of Pennsylvania Is Carried Out With Splendid Results. PHILADELPHIA, May three years ago the citizens of Boise, Idaho the winter is almost as severe as it is in Alaska, and fuel is very that Colonel Henry C. Demming, acting state geologist of Pennsylvania had determined that the earth's crust was very thin in that region, and might be tapped for hot water and steam, for the practical heating of stores and residences. To some of the wiseacres in Boise the idea seemed to be merely a piece of Aladdin's lamp dream nonsense, so far as real utility "Was concerned.

But several business men and the governor of the state, John T. Morrisson; the for-r mer adjutant general, J. L. Weaver, and the mayor of Boise' wrote to Colonel Demming for suggestions and obtaining them, began an experiment by boring holes in the ground. During the last five months half the stores and dwellings in Boise, which has a population of 15,000, have been heated with boiling water and steam by pipe lines from borings through the earth's crust On invitation of state and municipal officials Colonel Demming will travel from Harrisburg, to receive a public ovation at Boise in appreciation of the successful economical demonstration of his idea A Reception for Colonel Damming.

The reception was arranged by General Weaver, who was among those who believed, when the first experiment was made, that the natural heating idea was practicable. His enthusiasm is indicated in a letter to Colonel Demming, in which he states that the waste hot water is being used for sprinkling some of the streets, and that in consequence, the grass plots and shrubbery on the sidewalks have been green since early in the spring. Colonel Demming was surprised and greatly amused over the report of verdure in March in the streets of Boise, one of the coldest places on the weather map. But he wasn't surprised to learn that half of the town, including the public buildings, had been heated from holes bored under it. "I knew the crust was thin at Boise," he said, 'and that the strata of soil would permit borings to reach boiling water within say 2500 feet That estimate was conservative." It was very conservative, for they found boiling water under Boise last winter at a depth of 1500 feet, and at 2000 feet they found a temperature of 220 degrees Fahrenheit 8 degrees above boiling.

No Longer an Experiment. Some idea of the thinness of the earth's crust in Idaho may be had from the fact that to reach a temperature of only 160 degrees Fahrenheit under New York, Chicago or Philadelphia it would be necessary to bore to a depth of 6600 feet, If the temperature at the surface were as high as 50 degrees above zero. And at Boise, with a surface temperature of 30 degrees below zero, they have been obtaining a plentiful supply of boiling water from a depth of 1500 to 2000 feet. In the world's modern scientific records of geological exploration there has not been any experiment as astonishing as the project at Boise. Flying machines, balloons, electricity as a substitute for steam in fast railway transportation, wireless telegraphy, electricity as a substitute for fuel these things are yet really in the experimental stage.

But getting "heat from the center of the earth" to warm your of the forefathers no longer an experiment. Away out in snowbound Idaho it is a fact simple in application that the community regards it as commonplace, as Pennsylvanlans regard oil wells, or California gold mines. Where the Hint Came From. From the middle c- September until the first of May, Boise requires artificial heat, and coal costs $20 a ton. For months at a time the city Is snowbound, and often coal cannot be had at any price.

By the tapping of the earth and piping hot water and steam through the town last winter, the citizens saved thousands of dollars, and besides, did ism not experience the annoying necessity of attending furnaces or grates or stoves. Boise was kept so warm last winter by hot water and steam from the "bowels of the earth" that 600 families came to town and lived in tents for several months, awaiting the resumption of building operations. They were like "boomers" squatting on a claim in the days of invasion of Oklahoma. And it was all on account of an assurance of saving money for coal or wood, and of being made comfortable by using the "direct pipe line from the center of the earth." This economical godsend for Idaho that's what they call it out in came about through a singular interest which Colonel Demming has always taken in the welfare of men working in mines. About four years ago, on looking over reports upon the famous Comstock silver mine in Nevada, he learned that though the miners were working only at a depth of from SOOO to 3500 feet their suffering was severe on account of the heat from the earth.

The temperature averaged about 100 degrees, and the' men were kept capable only by having their heads and shoulders drenched frequently by cold water. About the same time Professor Wiliam Hallock of Columbia college, who Colonel Demming had not met, but in whose work he was greatly Interested had drawn the attention of the German government to the scientific value of experimental borings. Researches by the German government, especially at Schadebach, showed that the average rise of temperature was one degree Fahrenheit for every sixty-five feet. One Degree for Each Sixty Feet. Colonel Demming, hearing of the results, Inquired as to experiments in England, and learned that the deepest borings there showed an average of one degree for every 64 feet.

Then he turned his attention to the United States, and found that east of the Rocky mountains the average was one degree for every sixty feet, and, somewhat in his astonishment, one degree for every fifty feet of the Rockies. He investigated particularly the Tamarack copper mine in northern Michigan. The shaft, 29 by 7 feet inside measurement, is now over 6400 feet deep, and is to be sent to 6000, when it will be the deepest hole in the world. Today blasts of cold air are forced down upon the miners, and cakes of ice in barrels are lowered, and ice water is constantly thrown over the shoulders of the workmen. No man is permitted to remain below more than two hours at a time.

Even during that short period the miners must have thick-soled shoes, especially made for them sometimes the heat of the ground is so intense that the men must stand on ice cakes. "The comparatively low temperature of the Michigan mine at such great depth," said Colonel Demming, "puzzled me. It set me to thinking for a while. But I was certain from personal investigation that the earth's crust in Michigan must be. exceptionally thick.

The Tamarack mine, that a good test in Itself, was not, to my mind. Indicative. I had made a good study of the whole northwest in southern Idaho, prospecting for metals, I came to be sure, through small and a knowledge of the soil, that hot water could be found within 2009 feet below the surface." A Crsnk Idss Thst Worked. That was three years ago. I had no idea that my belief expressed at that time would result in any enterprise that might be sf economical use to the tqwn of Boise.

It was then called Boise City, and had about 3500 inhabitants. 'When they heard om my assertion several prominent members of the community called me a 'dreamer' and a 'crank from the said that getting hot water from borings out in a blizzard town was nonsense. 'Well, the gentlemen were privileged to think what they pleased about me. I wasn't selling ideas. My sole object was the obtaining of scientific data.

'Of course, it's pleasant now to be looking forward to a public reception as a token of appreciation of that 'crank' idea of an easterner." There are about a dozen holes under Boise today, the deepest being less than 2000 feet They were sunk with chuck drills, such as are used in boring for oil or natural gas. They measure from twelve inches to fifteen in diameter at the top, and grade down to six inches. Water at 130 degrees was found at 1000 feet 145 degrees about 1250 feet, lOt degrees about 1500 feet, and 220 degrees at 2000 feet. Now, in some instances the hot water rushes up from these wells as oil from a boring, and to other instances it is pumped up. Tanks receive the output of groups of borings, and from these tanks the hot water and steam are forced through pipe lines underground to all the public buildings, and to stores and private dwellings.

It may seem to lawman that the water would become cold going through the pipes under frozen ground. The citizens of Boise employed steam-heating engineers to solve the problem, and it was not difficult The whole matter resolved itself into the practicability of keeping a constant flow. The supply being sufficient, it was easy to install adequate pumping apparatus. Ths Cost Is One-Fifth. To the purchasers or customers, the cost of the "fuel" is about one-fifth of the ordinary cost of fuel and general maintenance of fires.

In addition the company operating the borings puts into the houses free of charge certain parts of the distributing system. For all that achievement Colonel Demming is to be honored publicly by the citizens of Boise. SHARKEY PICKS JEFF TO WIN Sailor Says Munroe Will Not Lest Ten Rounds With Champion. do I think will be the next champion of the world?" said Tom Sharkey last evening, as he leaned up against the bar, pulling away at a black perfecto. "Well, I don't have to think hard," continued the marine.

'Jeffries will, and Jeffries always will be the heavyweight king. These poor suckers that go up against him now are marks every one of them. I can lick them all. I nave done it already. 'And just look at the gall of those guys! When I admit that Jeff beat me, now do they class? That fellow is 'too big altogether; he's not in his prime yet, either.

And just look at the things hell do. Corbett and Munroe and the rest of those mummies have no license to meet that man. Munroe won't go ten rounds. Tip Hot Off Bat. "Now that's hot off the bat.

and see if Tm not the tip kid. Oh. yes; I'll fight him again. Sure I'll challenge him. I won't fight those fellows, though.

I licked the whole lot of 'em once, and there's no use of me wasting time doing it again. "I'm working all the time; you know I'm always in shape. They can't get me out of condition. A fellow can't tell when a good chance will come, and I'll be Johnny behind the rocks, when it does show up in my neighborhood. "I'm going on a wrestling tour pretty soon.

If Jeff won't let me get a chance at the fighter's title I'll cop that wrestling championship just as sure as I'm chirping you." His diamond horse pin began to buck at the last remark, and the sailor gently fixed it in place again. He is full of ambition, and only hopes that he is given another chance at Jim Jeffries. Although he gives every other man in the world no chance, Tom is dead sure that he is the man to take Jeff off the fence, and will never stop thinking so until Fother Time comes along with his dirk and cops him. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F.

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Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. A SCIENTIFIC DIAGNOSIS. The Seattle Argus alleges that the following letter was received by a Seattle physician from a "doctor" living: in Clallam county: "Dear Dock I have a pashunt whos Physicol signs shos that the windpipe is ulcerated of and his lung have dropped into his stumick. He is unabel to swaller and I fear his stomack toobe is gone. I hay giv him everything without efeck hi father has money and is honble and fnfiuenshul.

He is active member in the M. E. church and God noes I don't want to loose him, what shall I do?" Walla Walla Athletic Club Alder ma Fourth Mmm Mmim 129 DO YOU Bowl? BOWLING la a paattme worthy of jour attention. It la aurely a royal anna. you have never bowled, why not begin now.

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