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Show I - THE LAST MOMENTS H WHKN THE OP'RIT cnCSZS THE H bokdirlanc. BH Pasting of a Life as 8een by Ona H Who It Not a Physician Death M Rattle a Shock to ft Listeners. B! Ono nftornoon a reporter for tho H Now York Sim was Bitting In ono of Bllf tho rooms of tho houso surgeon of a H hospital In Now York city, smoking a pilj dR.ii and diluting with tho doctor pilj It tlo lot or busied lilmsolf with Bllj Ilok' k ovur aonio Instrtimonts that ! ho I id t.V-trn from a cmo BJVJ An orderly entered and Bald "Doc- M tor, 1 think ho Is djlng now" BlVj "Aro his hrothor and mother hero?" ! nuked tho houso surgeon M "No, thoy eald they woro coming, pilj b.it they aro not horo ot." Bill "It's n enso of sovoro operation," Bill Bnld tho doctor to tho rcportor. "Ho piH took IiIh othor all right and rallied BlH from the Rhock, hut ho has boon BiBJ losing ground for two diyH Will you BlH como nlong with me?" BfllJ Tliorotorter folovvcd tho physician BIB Into ono of tho Rmall room') dovotcd BiBJ to pihnto patients. BflBJ Lying flat on hl3 back on tho nar- BJBJ row Iron cot was n young man, nor- BBJ haps a llttlo moro than 30. Tho bed- BBJ clothing wns In porfect order. Tho BIBJ narrow counterpane was spread BiBj Btnoothly on tho cot and folded over, BIBJ with tho sheet across tho patient's BJBJ, rhost. PPJ' His n-ns lay Rtralght on cither BPJj side. 11H fncu did not lndlcato omacl- BHHi Atlon Ills breathing was Irregular, PPJl and thoro scorned to he a considerable PPJ' Interval, Bomctlmcs longor and somo- BiBJ timet shorter, betweon tho end of an BiBJ expiration nnd tho beginning of an PPJ' Insc'iation Tho orderly Htood at tho I"" tea of the cot "How lors has ho benn uncou-.lous?" uncou-.lous?" tho ph. Melon asked "A llttlo moro than nn hour," rc- BlBjt pllod tho orderly BPJt "We may tnU." catil tho doctor, "ho BPJt won't hear us" lint thli wan spoken BiBJ In a low tono, as b!Utod speaking In BBB the presence of diath i"Doc3 cviv ), son dlo tincnn; rcIous?" ho WUB ilsltPll BPJ "Many persona mo conscious when BJBJ thoy bollovo thoy nro dying Thoy PPJ bacomo unconscious, and they may BiBJ or may not regain conuclousnoHS nnd BPJ lose It again before death ta'cq place. BJBB "A period of unconsclou incus Is lm- BPJ moasurablo to tho subjO' t A second, BPJl a minute, a million v i thcio Is PPJ no difference so no f . i ha 1j con- BPJ cerned." BPJ "Tho death tattle," wli'ipuori tho PPJ PPJ Tho Intermittent hrcnlhlng cf tho PPJ man on tho cot had glr wnv to a BPJ . sound that wns str.mgu I i one not nc- BPJ customed to hear It n mind ?o far BPJ from humnn that It Is ma 1 ' hut onco BVBfl In n llfpllmn VI 1 tin' U w'mn n " BSJ pasfllii" if i' othor Bide of the uir-dciland uir-dciland r n nan clstenco "I'ntu I '1 ptrhnpt th" uro word U .i ' i ;js t ear-t to ; v ct Iriti thlr o 1 1 " (I llocnuic, ma, i . of tho hIIoihp of th'j death chnmbe It RcemH lea 1 to cirs nbt ne-; nlnt ! with It It soeiuH "veil liud e-iCinU to bo !iiir.l through tho btlcl; wnlla and out In tho street. Tho bound roaB"H, nnd tho nntchcra turn tl Mr eyes toward tho faco of tho physician It begins ngali , m If tho dead wero awakening "Thoy will not come ho'oro ho dlos," sa'd tho doctor "Is ho lU.oly to rcra'n conscious-noss, conscious-noss, oven for a moment?" the physician phy-sician wns naked "I don't think bo," was tho replj "May I 1 old his hand bo that If ho does bo may feel that ho Is not alone' ' The 'tyslclnn nodded absent The man's flngor tips Rcomcd very cold to the warm hnnd that took them, Thoro was no slqn of pormlsHkm or rcslstuuco The death tattlo contin ued with longer lnlerals between tho breathings Tor ho innu nmutes this continue con-tinue 1 cannot bo told, It seemed an ngo Tho Btrnngc, unearthly sound censod, and two faces wore turned toward that of tho physician Then thoro was a conwilslvo movement move-ment of tho body on tho cot, followed by a Jerk of tho head as If from strangulation. Tho jaw of tho pntlcnt fell nnd his eyes, which had opened, stared at tho wall There had been no sign of response. from tho hand of tho dying man. Tho ordorly stepped to tho head of tho cot, and with tho thumb nnd n Anger An-ger of one hnnd pushed down tho eje-lids eje-lids over tho Blghtless eyes |