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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1909)
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Woods Brothers C0RVA, The lO-nSzy. rjs Cssf Paint There is no betterfpaint made for appearance and durability than ' : Aons Quafiiy Paint Specially prepared for exterior and interior use "FLOOR VARNISH THAT WEARS" -f-- Ij- Miller WALL PAPER AND PAINT STORE - Second Street, Near Palace ThMt YOU GET WHAT WE GETJMf FfTlff g"i.!kLare. P for vonr inspection. iijhi4 "u;fl w veil ii wanted. We not only FU$fPr gv i0? Prics bTlt' 7 can satisfy yourseli absolutely at any time that you get what w nnilTlirnn nnnnn ennnSM w ii H-l ihmhii . w Will MIUUIUSJ ilU. W. H. MCCORQUODALE. PROP. 95 FRONT ST., PO RTLAN 0, 0 REG OS I i . By OSCAR COX. . : Copyright, 1909, by American Press j&sso- 'The great scientific Investigator and !the great financier talked together. "What is death, doctor?" asked the flatter. . ' "I don't know. Formerly we con sidered' death the separation of animal and spiritual life, occurring when the heart ceased to beat. Now we know that the body lives on ' after fhnt- ipetfiod. .There are two causes of bodily death or. corruption viz, microbes and iself .digestion. Microbes cannot actstf .not ;permifted to enter, and self lion .cannot take place except througa the. agency of water. Exclude the mi- icrohes,, exhaust the water, and, in my opiniontbe body may be kept alive in definitely. In that case spiritual death may ;he i eliminated " Ayearafter this announcement Jon athan Starkweather, the financier, feel ing an, ;sent for Dr. Evan Carroll, the man -who made it. But before the doctof':S;arrival the patient had died of heart failure. tCarroll produced an or der signed iby Starkweather twelve months before for the body. Arthur Starkweather, the deceased's ni,w son, knew of ?the order, respected it, and the ftofiy -was transferred to Dr.' Carroll's laboratory. ... Arthur Starkweather inheritori 1,5 fathers .fortune, ;but by the will, in case 01 lus death without issue,' it was to go to Vr vGarroll in trust to endow an institute .for scientific re search. Two years After getting pos session of the property Arthur Stark weather died a bachelor. Dr. Carroll at once put in a claim for the estate on behalf of bis institute. Innumerable Starkweathers sprang up to contest the will. A -meeting was called, a appointed and counsel emnim-i A month later counscj informed the committee that there was no doubt of. their ability to break the will, owin- to a flaw in the deed of trust. The trus tees' attorneys were so far convinced of this that they made an offer to compromise. The offer was submitted to a meeting of the neirs-at-law and unanimously declined, : Dr. Carroll, who was present at the meeting, arose and stated that there i was some aouut about Jonathan Stark weather being dead and he .might be capable of making another will U1 were surprised at what was consid ered an absurd bluff on the part of a man who stood at the head of scien tific research- in America. Shouts of 1 roor; "Produce him!" "Show your hand!" were heard from every quar ter. The doctor left the meeting with out reply, but in a few days every member of the heirs'-committee was invited by him to present himself at a certain hour of a certain day at his laboratory. . Upon arrival thev wp nii0ra,i a dimly lighted unfurnished room, in the center of which was a gigantic test tube similar to those, nuifh Krr.ii. er, commonly used by experimenters. In the tube was' what resembled a skeleton, though it was'ratiwr m n strip of dried eartilasre. Th . i-nii covered with shriveled flesh, skin and nair, was tue only feature t.hnr gested a human being. The tube was berrneticallv senior fin,i occupied a space twelve feet square by seven feet high,, inclosed in' plate glass. A. steam pipe appeared coming up through the floor. Dr. Carroll and several assistants in sterilized gowns entered the . inclosure. The tempera ture was noted and a jet of steam turned on. Then th& sealed end of the tube was opened, and after a time the cartilaginous figure besan rn na. sume the appearance of a starved hu man being. Soon after Dr. Carroll removed it from the tube it in a cushioned easy chair. J. he figure finally onenerl its hnt immediately closed them. Then, open ing them again, it fixed IliPm nn th committee. There was something so un canny in the stare of the corpselike uouy inar several of the committee, unauie to stand it. left the room. At this point Dr. Carroll asked the patient how he felt. He opened his lips to speak, but the only sound that came was such as is produced by a talking doll. It was very distressing, and more of the committee went out. Dr. Carroll opened the door of the glass inclosure and aked .the commit tee if they recognized Jonathan Stark weather. Several, committeemen ad mitted that they did, but didn't wish to see any more of him, whereupon the doctor took from his pocket a will properly drawn, and handed it to Starkweather with starkweather signed it, and it was wit- uesseu ny tue assistants. Such is the story whispered among the younger experimenters at the Starkweather institute with reference to the withdrawal of the suit to break the Starkweather will on payment of $100,000 to the heirs of the $1,000,000 left fcr the Institution tw,, ' element of the story, however, that cassis a aouot upon its truth. Nothing is said about what became of the re mains, dead or nliro nf S!(-ni- .t... 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