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4 X EIGHT PAGES. SECTION TWO. ..... j. A 1 . . . ............ . . . W 1 11 4 1 1 A I A A . "I " "i VOL XIV, NO. 246. ASHEVILLE, N. C, MONDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 22, 1909. fa r. Cfi i .AVI ill M P. DOES C REALLY KILL ? Doctors Hold Out Hope of Re suscitation After Death by , Means of Electrical Fluid. Washington, Nov. 22. That it may In the future be possible to revive norwins who have been killed by elec tricity was admitted by many of the prominent medical men of Washington after they had read the dispatch In The Post giving an account of the suc cessful termination of experiments made In New York before a number of experts and physicians ana sur eons bv a young Russian woman phy ilolnglst, who killed and then brought back to life a dog and a rabbit. This learned woman, who apparent iv has solved a problem on. which surgeons have been working for number of years, Is Dr. Louis Roblno vitch, and she performed her experi ments before the officials of the Edi son Electrical company. She did so at the request of the latter, who had under the leadership of Thomas a. F.dlson. been trying to find some menus to revive workmen and others killed by contact with live wires ana machinery. One startling phase of the matter admitted yesterday by local surgeons is that it may be necessary for several of the states which now execute con rtemned criminals with electricity to change their mode of punishment If the Russian woman's appnratus worn as well on human being as It does on animals. "These experiments," said one sur eon. "make It hard to believe that a man so executed Is really dead If It Is certain that life can be restored by the apparatus of Dr. Roblnovltch. One of the states. New York, most appro priately, should give the young doctor an opportunity to experiment on a condemned man. If he Is resuscitated freedom should be granted him. The annarent success of the experiments indicates that the executed criminals re not really dead when the current Is turned off. but that they die later, under the hands of the surgeons who perform the austopsy, Alsq, the bodletj MitoA rould not be given to their relatives" . At the office of the surgeon general of the United States army Saturday It was pointed out that the method of killing the rabbit and dog nai Dcen very similar to those used In the sev eral prisons where criminals are elec trocuted. Tho rabbit was shocked to death by a current passing through Its head, and out by a wire attached to 1 Its foot. The current was continued until the surgeons present pronounced . the snlmal dead. Dr. Rablnovltch al lowed It to remain dead two minutes. '. Then the points of contact were re Tersed. The current was made In termlttent, with a small mercury In terrupter, such as is used in the army A current of fourteen volts, of one sec , ond duration, given every two seconds was continued three minutes, when respiration began. In half an hour the animal was frisKtng around Its ease, none the worse for Its remark able experience. The same thing happened when a fourteen pound dog was experimented on. "It has been known In the medical profession for some time," said Lieut. Col. E. C. Allen, who has been making experiments with electricity for the army, "that, under certain condition It Is possible to revive a person who apparently had been shocked to death In fact, there are on record a few cases where It has been done. How ever, the subject was put under treat ment Immediately after his apparent rinnth. and. as In the case of the rab bit and dog, before the animal heat had left the body, and before the rigor mortis had begun to set in. m would mean that a person might be revived within several hours after ap parent death, but It is far from prob able, as far as we now know. But. In the light of the discovery, It would appear that a great many things are possible." Col. Allen, CoL Kline. MaJ. O'Brien, and the other medical offlcers, how ever, were more Interested In the ex periments made by the New York doctor, showing that electricity may, In the future, be used as an anesthetic, They said that at the present time there Is no perfect anesthetic. This Is the reason that mellcal men are trying to Invent new ones, it electricity could be used. It undoubtedly would lve the problem and remove much of the danger now surrounding major operations. . The experiments of Dr. Roblnovltch wsre comparatively simple. Ten-volt currents were used. While under the current, the animals seemed to be In sensible to pain. There la, of course, something In the appartu used by Dr. Roblnovltch which Is not yet under stood here. "If this latter experiment was as successful as reported." said Col. Kline, "it would Indicate that t valua ble discovery has been made. Elec tricity will not affect the heart like einer, cocstno, chloroform, or the "ther anesthetic now In use. A pa tient would uot suffer the after-effects that follow the administration Vf a "ug. However, I will hava to learn wore about the matter before I can go Into details." "org. Oen. Walter Wyman, of the public health and marine hospital service, who has been following up the experiments with electricity, recalled several cases of record of the revival t apparently dead victims of electrl- i shookn, but he dldnot car to ex vrr any r jimion on lr. RoblnoVI ten's (Tlm..i,i until he had heard more ninit th ports are too Indefinite. It is possiblo to do many things with a small ani mal that cannot be done with a hu man being. Within a certain period after apparent death, it might be pos sible to revive a person, provided none of the vital organs had been Injured, nor the qualtly of the blood changed." It was recalled yesterday that one Edward Moran, an electric lineman of Washington, had, a few years ago, been revived after he had been killed, apparently, by a wire. He fell from a pole near the department of agricul ture grounds, was-rushed unconscious to Emergency hospital, where Dr. J. Q. White was house surgeon. The latter applied In intermittent battery. current similar to that described by Dr. Roblnovltch s experiments. In a few mlriutes Moran revived. It is sup posed that he Is alive and well today. "There wasn't much life in him," said Dr. White yesterday, "but I would not like to say. he had died. But he was certainly unconscious. As to the New York experiments, I will continue to think that they were simply case of suspended animation until more exact details are obtainable." Similar views were expressed at the George Washington University medical school and Georgetown University. Dr. Joseph 8. Wall, physiologist of the latter, and Dr. Barton, dean of the former, declined, however, to express an extended opinion. We believe In the massage of the heart," was all Dr. Barton would say concerning the revival of apparently dead people. "There are several cases on record where this treatment has revived men who, to say the least, were pretty far gone." pretty far gone." At George Washington University It was said that, so far as known, only one attempt hus been made to revive a man who had suffered electrical cx ecution. This was said to have taken place in the N-sw Jersey State peniten tiary. According to the report, a con vict had been executed, and a few minutes later electricity was applied. It Is said that a reflex action of tho muscles was obtained, but no other evidences of returning life, Dr. Robmovitch admits that, after electricity has been pusslng through body for a long time, or If lifo has been extinct for more than half an hour, it is Impossible for her to revive her animal subjects. THE NATIONAL CORN SHOW Frederic J. Haskin's Syndicate Letter, PATRICK TRIKS AGAIN. Holds That He Is Ix-gnlly Deail and Prison Is No Place for Him. New York Sun, 19th. Albert T. Patrick, the lawyer now serving a life sentence in Sing Sing for the . murder of William March Rice, secured a writ of habeas corpus yesterday from iustlce Hlrschberg of the Appellate division of the Supreme court in Brooklyn. The writ Is direct ed against Jesse D. FroBt, warden of Sing Sing, and is returnable on the afternoon of November 29. Lawyer William L. McDonald of 49 Wall street, Manhattan, appeared for Patrick. In this latest application " Patrick presents certain matters which he fori- got to incorporate in his last previous plea for liberty, when he Insisted that Governor Hughes had no legal right to commute his sentence to life Im prisonment against his protest. The Appellate division decided against him In that Instance and the appeal will be argued before the Court of Appeals In January. Now the appellant claims to have discovered that Justice Dennis O'Brien of the Court of Appeals had no au thority to issue the stay that saved his life, and he wants the Appellate division to decide whether he isn't legally dead and therefore entitled to his freedom. Patrick says that the Court of Appeals had sentenced him to die In a certain week, that Justice O'Brien Interfered while the court was taking a vacation, that the pre scribed time for the execution passed and that the aleged malfeasance of the warden In not putting him to death a ordered by the court allow ed him to pass Into tho condition of being physically alive, but legally dead. This ls Patrick's twenty-fourth at tempt to gain his freedom through appeals. Justice O'Brien signed In July, 1905. the stay that prevented the execution of the prisoner. Patrick says that Its authenticity has never been decided by the courts. The department of agriculture esti mates that the corn crop of. the Unit? ed States this year will amount to 2,767.516,000 bushels. At the current prices this represents a value of more than $1,900,000,000 almost two bil lions dollars. This estimate foreshad ows the greatest corn crop on record, with the sole exception of the bump er crop of 1908, which fell only a lit tle under 3,000,000,000 bushels. It is Imposible for the human bruin to conceive the full significance of such enormous llgures, but they tell, even to the dullard, the fuct that corn Is king. The third annual natlonul corn show will be held in Omaha early in December, and at this exhibition King Corn will hold court. The first annu al show was held in Chicago three years ago. Although not a financial success. It was accounted a most -in teresting exhibition .of corn and oth er farm cereals. It was brought to a close by nn allegorical pageant. In which King Corn brought to his throne Queen Alfalfa. The third an niversary of the wedding will be cel ebrated at Omaha. Chicago decided that the corn show was too slow; that tho people did not care for "still life" expositions. Omaha did not ac cept the verdict, and by Its corn show of last year proved that It could be made a great national success. State corn shows, with general exposition features attached, have proved to lie he very successful in many western cities. Sioux City, Iown, has the honor of originating the corn expo sition Idea some twelve or fifteen years ago. To Kxlithlt SO.O(H) Kara of Com. More thun 50,000 acres of corn will be exhibited at the Omaha show. Oth er grains also will be shown, but corn is to rule supreme over all. The prizes to be distributed will aggregate $50 000. Hut perhaps the greatest public Interest will center in the contest for the largest and finest ear of corn grown In the country Jn this year, for which a prize of a gold cup has been offered by a certain breakfast food concern. The wide advertising given to this prize cup In the newspapers and magazines has focused tho in terest of the whole country upon this one feature of tho nutlnnal corn show. Every corn-growing state will be rep' resented in the exhibits, as well ai every variety of corn grown, Includ Ing the decorative effects, ranging from a landscape done in corn to the latest thing In millinery, copied In mulze, the show will boast more than 8,000 separate exhibits. "More corn to the acre" Is the slo gan of the national corn show. James G. Blaine once predicted that corn would become the backbone of agri culture In the United Stutes, und the! prophecy long since has been fulfilled, j It is conceded that the prospective corn acreage of the nation Is now neartng Its maximum. With 101,000, 000 acres devoted to the growing of corn In 1908, the total yield was 2, 608,000,000 bushela, nnd the farm value of the crop was $1616, 000, 000. The acreage was more than double that of wheat, and its value a billion dollars greater. In fact the acreage of corn In 1908 was greater than that of all the rest of the cereal crops of nation taken together; the yield was a full billion bushels greater greater than the aggregate yield of all other grains, and the American farmer re ceived more for his corn crop by near ly half than he received for all his other grain crops. How Profits May He Increawtf. If the farmer can get 1 cent a bush el more for his com his profit Is In creased $27,000,000. if he can Induce his land to crow 1 bushel more to the acre, he has profiled to the extent of nearly $60,000,000 by the operation. By Increasing the yield per acre of corn vast wealth will he added to the national store, and liy enhancing the quality of the yield the farmer enn multiply his profits. It Is a distressing fact Hint the fig ures for 1908 shdw an average yield of corn amounting Jo only 26.2 bushe- els to the cre.l'Thls Is but little larger than the average yield or all the years since the close of the civil war. While all the rest of the world has been making vast Nlriiles in pro ductive capacity, the corn farmer has stood still. Increasing his acreage at remarkable rate, but giving little attention to Increa.sing the yield per acre the very vital point In prof itable farming. Tho corn exposition wil seek to rem edy this. It Will endeavor to show the corn farmer that he may double his crop If he will. It will direct his attention to the eloquent lesson of New Hampshire, a state certainly far below the avenge In soil fertility, yet with the highest average of per acre yield In the United States. Did every cornfield in the United States do as well as the New Hampshire cornfields In the years from 1K79 to 1908, the annuul corn huslclnr of the nation would produce on and a fifth billions more bushels than. It does now. In other words, the brains of the New Hampshire farmer, applied to the cornfields of the nation, would smite the rocs of latent wealth and make a stream of gold amounting to three quarters of a billion dollars flow therefrom. And even New Hamp shire's average yield per acre Is poor farming compared with that which the national corn exposition alms to teach. - Work of Experiment Stations. The old saying that "blood will tell" applies with as much force to plant life us It does to animal life. In one of the recent textbooks on corn there Ib an Illustration of the old-fashioned pod corn ear nnd the celebrated "Pas- cul ear," which wos the cbamulon of America In 1907, nnd which sold for $1.60, or nearly 15 cents per grain. The difference between a "razorbaek" and a prize-winning Poland China hog was never so marked. A few years ago the various experiment stations throughout the corn belt began a sys tematic study of corn. They give free Information and advice to farmers. The railroads, with an eye to the millions that nay flew Into their cof fers directly and Indirectly through an enhanced production of corn, have given their aid to the movement by furnishing "corn gospel trains," which carry the good news of the new evan gel of progressive farming to all sec tions. The farmer Is given object les sons of what may lie accomplished by correct methods. For Instance, he Is shown that at a cost of only 6 cents per acre to test the seed he sows the farmer may vastly Increase his har vest. What Tenting Will Accomplish. One striking picture held up to him is that of two fields with only a barb ed wire fence dividing them. The wed of the one was tested: that of the other was not. The result In the tested field was 77 bushels to the acre, and that In the untested field was 35 bURbels. All careful students of corn culture agree that by application of scientific methods to corn culture through the country might easily be brought up to 60 bushels per acre. At that rate, the United States could supply the world with Its corn, nnd have enotiKh left to substitute every grain of wheat grown on the globe. The versatility of corn surpasses that of any other grain. At a recent exposition no less than 100 separate and distinct commercial products made from corn were exhibited, lie- sides furnishing human food in many forms, nnd the cup that cheers in many varieties, It yields the glucose that constitutes the base of dozens of by-products, edible and otherwise. It produces dextrin and gums used in sizing and printing cloth. It furnishes starch for tho tnble and starch for the laundry. The stalk furnishes fod der for the cattle, cellulose for the protection of the vitals of warships, and for the making of smokeless pow der. Heavy Exports IxMikcd ('or. America expects to make much out of Its foreign market for corn In the next decade or two. Eastern Asia is becoming Interested in corn ns a food stuff, nnd those who have studied the situation declare that there are not enough vessels on the Pacific Ocean to carry the vast stores of corn that will be required to meet- the demand which may be created In the Orient. Furthermore, other parts of the world' are becoming Interested In this pe culiarly American product, and while Argentina shows some signs of becom ing a competitor as a corn-growing nation. It will be many years before It will be a formidable rival. Pellagra, sad to be due to damaged corn lined tor human food, is a disease occurring most frequently In Italy and other southern European countrels, where the corn Is of sn Inferior quality and where it la Improperly cured. In stead of Injuring the export trade In American corn for human consump tion, pellagra may Increase the de mand, since export corn Is usually the best grown on American soil, and can. therefore, be used with more confi dence than the Inferior kinds grown In southern Europe. MADE BY Secretary of the Interior Gives His Side of the Cun ningham Claims Story. MODERN FFA'DAIj IiOltn. Iglcslns Owncl and Ruled Ketate of 2100 Square Miles In Peru. Buffalo Express. An Interesting South American charactei, type of a civilization that has largely disappeared, died at Lima, Peru, on Monday In the person of Gen Miguel Igleslas. He lived on an estate of 2400 square miles, which had been In his family since 1574, or within 40 years of the date of the eonnuest of Peru hy Plzarro. There were 20,000 head of cattle on this estate and a population of about 4000 persons, over whom Igleslas ruled as absolute lord. He made and enforced their laws, provided for their educa tion .and moral welfare, and never had a rebellion. Drunkenness on any day but Easter Sunday was punish ttblo by a fine of $5. A wife-beater was punished by a $2 fine. The fines colected largely supported the schools. It was the life of tho feudal lords of the middle ages brought down Into the twentieth century. Gen. Igleslus took a prominent part in tho government of the country, particularly at the time of the war with Chile. He wos secretary of the treasury and of war when hostilities began. He conducted the defense of Lima In so determined a manner us to win high commendation. After the surrender he made his escape and Immediately began efforts to se cure peace at any price. It was through him mainly that a treaty finally was concluded with the vic torious Chileans. He was elected provisional president of the country, but h's rule was disputed by Oen, Andres Caceres, who headed the par ty which wished to continue the war. A civil conflict between Igleslas and Caceres resulted, in which Igleslas was defeated. He retired for a time to Europe, but later returned to hi estate, which he rarely left thereafter even to attend the sessions of the con gress of which he was a member. He was 87 years old when he died. Washington, Nov. 20. Today's Post says: . "' . ; Secretary of the Interior Balllnger yesterday Issued a statement contain ing a denial of all the charges and Implications that have been made against him in recent published re ports. He set forth his side of the story of the Cunningham claims cases, and dented that his law firm In Seattle Is known as an adviser for the Stand-. ard Oil company, and that he is In terested In the Alaska "petroleum and Coal company. "To say that I over have advised, aided, or lent support to any effort to perpetrate a fraitil upon the gov ernment." he said, "Is not only false, but is Intentionally so. if made by any one who has taken tin! trouble to In quire Into the facts." In explanation of tho charges in connection with the Alaska coal lands, he went Into the history of President Roosevelt's withdrawal from entry of all the coal lands or Alaska, In 1906, showing that the order was so modi fied bv Secretary Garfield as to vali date nil applications made prior to May 16, 1907. He then directed atten tion to the fact that In his annual re port of 1907, ss commissioner of ths general land oltlce, he had recom mended action by congress to prevent the formation of combinations or trusts by claimants to coal lunds, and punish tho offenders. He added: "The untl-trust clause of the Alaska, coal act, as finally passed May 28. 190S, was not submitted by Glfford I'lnchot, but was submitted as a sug gestion to Secretary' Garfield by Rep resentative Herbert Parsons, of New York. In a letter of May 7, 190K, and favorably considered and Indorsed by the Secretary in his report to con gress." No Coal Claims latnUHl. He then ytatcd that no Alaska coal claims have been patented, and says that the Investigation - of sit much claims, with a view of determining their validity or Invalidity, has been vigorously prosecuted. Mr. Ralllnger denounced as " a plain, ordinary fabrication," a report that he Is Interested in 155,000 sharea Continued on pago five. THIS BABBIT A BOMB. Was leaded With Dynamite and the Honltr Is Glad He Missed. Montclalr (N. J.) Dispatch to New York Press. A rabbit full of dynamite la In the woods somewhere between Montclalr HelghU and Little Falls. When the news got around among the gunners Wednesday there was a reneral stam pede to get out of the region, many pot hunters who were planning to go out Saturday decided to wait, a few days. Two men were out In the forest north of the State Normal school aaw th. r.hhlt nibbling at a substance that -nnrAilwl from their view. One of th hunters tired at the rabbit. which turned and dashed off Into the woods. The hunters then jnveangaicu and found bunny had been devouring on of 14 sticks of dynamite which were concealed In the unaerDrusn The explosive, the police report, was stolen last August from J. Dorlsty, a ninrinr who Is cutting through Fifth avenue In the northern part of this town. The atlcks wer taaen from a storage house. It la supposed the thieves hid them and then forgot where thev concealed their piunuer Twenty-three of the sticks were re- tnrnoit tnrtnv in TWtrlstV. 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