1938-05-26 — Page 8

At Last! Science Tells You What Really Happens.

THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1988.

WHEN YOU DIE!

are

You death. γου

death again."

and I was sinking gently, slowly probably afraid of death, or the death of the organs.

General death takes place with Grant Allen, whose heart and easily, into a darkness which гове to to meet me. There was something You have heard so much about the last beat of the heart. At this pulse for a long period ceased

and the beat altogether, has written: soothing, almost alluring, about this the "death agony," of the tortures point, personality ceases

"Dying is as painless as falling darkness. that precede that dreaded "rattle" man is biologically dead.

im- "I accepted the prospect of in the throat.

But each, organ dies at its own asleep. Death is associated with pain, rate. The kidneys, for instance, can "It was only the previous strug- pending death as most of us accept gle, the sense of its approach, that the prospect of continued life-as a and blood, and the dark hopeless live on for more than an hour,

The first stage of death Dr. Carrel was at all uncomfortable. There was matter of course. anguish of physical despair.

"Some may look upon death with And you know that whatever else calls reversible, because so often, a total absence of craven shrinking."

And so with dozens of others, a shrinking dread in their souls. in life you may miss, death is the as in the case of "drowned" people,

can man biologically dead

be who have gone through the whole one thing that everyone must share. a

"To all such, I, who have skirted physical experience of drowning. the Valley of the Shadow, say that It has been called "the great ad- brought back to life.

But when, the organs, too,

There has been the

agony of we will face it without fear and But it isn't so easy for venture."

fear, of course, but this has always without bitterness, without reluc- all of us to face it in that almost dead, death is irreversible.

What does a person feel whose been followed by a period of peace- tance and without repining, without carefree mood.

fulness before the fade-out of con- suffering, whether physical or men- sciousness.

tal. We shall find it at the last but After the struggle has come a a peaceful transition, an eternal In front of me lie hundreds of that no cuttings relating to men and wo- sense of exhaustion, painless, and change mercifully accomplished."

be the quiet dimming of conscious Value Of Faith point men who have "died" only to

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We speak of the shadow of death, heart has ceased to beat?

darkness because we fear it as a stabbed with pain.

Yet there is one thing one ever seems to bother to out for our comfort: and this:-

are

it is brought back to life after periods thought as the heart has ceased its

varying between five and twenty work.

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Even With Cancer

It looks as though we should chan- ge our attitude to death, and accept That all the medical evidence minutes.

it, not as a twisting torment, but a points to death, not as an agony, In no single case is there any

peaceful prelude. to the other life. but as a painless passing from con- mention of pain or suffering at the Perhaps the testimony of mere The doctors, you notice, exclude sciousness to the last equivalent of actual moment of death.

patients is not enough.

all question of faith: and if man sleep.

Sir James Goodhart, when he was has faith in that other life he has Typical of them is John Pucker- Did you ever read Dr. Alexis ing, of Arley, in Worcestershire, a resident of Guy's Hospital, ar- still less reason to fear. Carrel's "Man, the Unknown"? who, in January, 1935, was dead ranged to be present at the bedside Violent death-in war, in fire, or

Dr. Carrel explains that death is for five minutes.

of every dying man.

from the burning fumes of gas- not instantaneous. It consists of "Suddenly everything cleared,”

This is the conclusion he reached: can never be easy unless it is in- two stages: General death, or he said, "and I was filled with ""There is nothing terrible to the stantaneous: but there can be little death of the individual, and local great content. I shall never fear dying person in death itself.

doubt that the majority of deaths "The veil between the two worlds in peace time are painless and with- is but a cloud, and one passes out horror. through it imperceptibly."

THEN TAKE

I ALWAYS FEEL SO TIRED DOCTOR

For ⇓ ganer attitude towards Cancer is generally agreed to be death, writes Lester Howard Parry, one of the most painful of diseases, in the "Readers Digest," there is a with the pain increasing towards sound scientific reason. the end.

"The simple process of physiologic

Yet Dr. Shelton Horsley, cancer degeneration is responsible. Each specialist of Richmond, Virginia, succeeding beat of the heart pumps has stated that "the actual process the blood with a little less force than of dying apparently not accom- the one before. panied by any marked conscious dis- "As the blood pressure sinks to comfort."

ever lower levels, the brain is "Dying," says another famous soothed by the gentle anaesthesia of American physician, Dr. Alfred receding vitality, Worcester, "is always easy at the last."

"We'relax, and in our relaxation we face life's greatest adventure Then there is the well-known case with serenity." of Irvin S. Cobb.

Faith and science together de-

"I began to sink," he wrote after- mand that we face our last moments- wards. "It was a physical feeling. without horror and without fear.

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THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 26, 1937

BRITISH

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OBSERVERS MAY

BE SENT TO CZECH BORDER Proposal Reported Discussed By The Cabinet

More Diplomatic Conversations

London, To-day.

The Cabinet met for two hours in Downing Street

yesterday morning.

The Czech situation, which it is felt continues to improve, although anxiety has far from dis- appeared, was discussed.

It is believed that if the Czech elections are orderly, there should be no recrudescence of acute ten- sion.

The Czech Minister, M. Jan Marsyk, called on the

The

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TRANSFER

OF EIREAN HARBOURS

London, To-day. Officials of the British, and Ei- rean Governments are beginning discussions to-day of detailed ar-. rangements for transfer of Eire harbour defences, in accordance with the recent Anglo-Eire Agree- ment.

It is understood that the Eire Government is busy preparing a defence programme which will soon by submitted to the Dail Reuter.

Foreign Secretary, Lord Halifax, and the Ger- QUEEN OF

man Ambassador, Dr. von Dirksen, yesterday.

BALLROOM WINS HER CASE

WEST POINT GAMBLING RAID

The Poor Box this morning bene-. fited to the extent of $114.57 when Mr. H. R. Butters ordered this amount, found during a gambling raid at No. 11. Hee Wong Terrace, West Point, to be placed to the fund.

Three men charged with keeping the gambling house had their bail of $75 each estreated when they failed to appear, and nine gamblers who were also absent. had bail of $2 each estreated.

AMERICANS TO WED

M. Marsyk is going to Prague during the past few days. to-day to consult President Benes The Czechoslovak problem was in

The forthcoming wedding of Miss and the Premier, Dr. Milan the forefront of discussion and well

Lillian Pearl Miller, of San Fran- Hodza, and is returning to Lon-informed circles believe that

cisco, and Dr. Francis Carrilo Tyng, don at the beginning of next the Cabinet had under considera- week.

of No. 1142-B, Dakota Street, Mani- Reuter.

tion a definite plan for its solution.

THE ACTION BY THE EM-la, has been announced. Czecho-Slovakian question A press report that the Cabinet |PORIUM BALLROOM AGAINST continues to be the chief topic dis- would envisage the advisability of HUNG KOOK-LAN, DESCRIBED the Colony soon after the arrival of The marriage will take place in cussed by the press. The view ap-despatch of British observers to AS A "STAR" PERFORMER, the bride-to-be by the s.s. Empress

be gaining ground that Czechoslovakia in connection with CLAIMING $600 LIQUIDATED of Canada. future developments depend above the municipal elections, which have DAMAGES all on the attitude which the yet to be held, is so far unconfirmed. BREACH OF Czecho Slovakian Government In diplomatic quarters here, how-WAS CONCLUDED adopts in the forthcoming negotia-ever, much interest is manifested in MORNING, MR. JUSTICE R. E. tions with the Sudeten German this suggestion which is said to em-LINDSELL GIVING JUDGMENT

pears to

Party and on events in the Sudeten German districts.

The "Daily Mail" says: "If the parleys between the Prime Minis- ter, Dr. Hodza, and the Sudeten German leaders are continued in a peaceable atmosphere, their suc- cess ought to be assured. tunately, however, minor

anate from Paris.-Trans-Ocean.,.

FOR

ALLEGED CONTRACT

THIS

OCCASIONAL RAIN

IN FAVOUR OF DEFENDANT that the ridge of high pressure is The Royal Observatory reports

WITH COSTS.

HOTEL LOITERER plaintiffs, and defendant

Mr. H. L. Kwan

was presented by Mr. M. A. Silva.

The plaintiffs' case was that the

а parties signed contract

probably stationary over the mouth appeared for of the Yangtse, Japan and neigh- re-bouring seas, and pressure is rela-

tively low over. Indo-China. Sentence of three months' hard

Local forecast:-E. and S. E. Unfor- labour was imposed on Wang Shao- March 14, whereby defendant was al rain.

dated winds, moderate; cloudy, occasion- Czech shan, 48, described as a tailor, at to work for the Emporium for one excesses against the German popu-the Central Magistracy this morn-month at $100. The contract, how-agreement signed but did not see lation in the border districts con-ing, for loitering on the second floor ever, was never fulfilled, defendant the contents. tinue. Such minor excesses must, of the Great Eastern Hotel yester- having gone to work for the Capitol sign two printed papers after which She saw defendant in view of the political situation, day.

Ballroom, whereby she was to pay Fung said that he would take them the breach. $20.00 a day liquidated damages for [back to be chopped.

&

inevitably lead to a new accentua- Defendant was seen to enter tion of the tension which at pre-room and later loiter in the passage sent has somewhat relaxed."

for some time. Defendant had Trans-Ocean,

previous conviction in 1931. .

BRITISH OBSERVERS?

London, To-day.

A press rumour that the British Cabinet envisages the despatch of observers to Czecho-Slovakia for

CAR OFFENCE

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NO DATE FIXED а Final witness for the defence,, Giving judgment, His Lordship Mary Chiu, who described herself said that he was satisfied that an as a dance partner, formerly work-agreement was signed whereby de- ing at the Emporium Ballroom but fendant should enter the service of now employed at the Capitol, said complainant at some future date. that she was a "very good” friend | "I am also satisfied," he continu- Yam Ah Hing, 25, painter, ap-of defendant. the remaining period of the muni-peared before Mr. R. Edwards this

ed, "that that date was never de- cipal

elections would, although morning, when he was charged with fendant's arrival in the Colony, she judgment to defendant with costs." On the evening of the day of decided upon. For that reason I give officially neither confirmed nor driving a motor van No. T400 with-visited witness at denied, appear to be well founded. out a licence, without due care and Ballroom and told her

the Emporium that she Everything seems to indicate caution, using a trader's licence for wanted to see her. By arrange- that negotiations are going on on the a purpose other than for a de-ment, the two met the next day at subject with the Prague Govern- |monstration and having inefficient the Hotel Cecil sometime after

ment.

brakes.

Fines totalling $55 were imposed.

that the departure for FOUNTAIN PEN THEFT

o'clock in the morning,

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KEEPING FIT AT SEVENTY

After Being Crippled

by Rheumatism

In some

quarters here doubts are expressed whether Prague will

HOTEL CECIL INTERVIEW. accept such a proposal. It is be-

Witness said that the reason for lieved

the meeting was that defendant, This old man's life had been made Prague by air of the Czecho-Slovak

after her absence from the Colony, miserable by rheumatism, but since he was wished to acquaint herself with the he has been perfectly free. His daugh- Minister

tried. Kruschen Salts several years ago, to

Ho Chun, 32, unemployed, London, M. Jan Masaryk, is connected with these sentenced to four months hard state of business at the Emporium ter and her husband have profited by negotiations.

labour by Mr. R. Edwards for the Ballroom.

his experience. Read how the whole An exchange of views between theft of a fountain pen from Mr. While the conversation was tak-family keep themselves clear of

rheumatism: London and Paris is also said to Arthur Eveleigh.

ing place, Mr. Fung and Mr. Kwan,

"My husband and I have only taken be taking place.

Det. Sergeant Hunter said defen- of the Emporium Ballroom, called Kruschen Salts for a few months, just There is no doubt that the mat- dant took off the pen from com- and asked defendant to rejoin them. [for those nasty rheumatic twinges one ter engaged. the attention of the plainant's pocket at about 4.40 p.m. On asking what terms would

be gets out here. But my father has taken them for quite a few years and would Cabinet at its sitting yesterday Tuesday in the Queen's Road Cen- offered, defendant was asked not be without them for the world. morning.

tral..

name her own,

Before taking them he was absolutely In political circles it is thought

Defendant then asked for $150.00 crippled with rheumatism and tried that the British Government is de-. Before Mr.

everything he was told, without any R. Edwards this per month, but Fung offered $100 benefit at all. I can safely say Krus sirous of selecting some Foreign morning, Yladimir Shuisky, 18, only. She would not agree and even-chen Salts made a new man of him. He Office officials as well as some born in Harbin, was charged with tually Fung agreed to pay the sa- is nearly 70 years old."-(Mrs.) F.G. officers for the task-Trans-Ocean. entering the Colony from Hankow lary she asked but requested

Kruschen Salts are a blend of six that

mineral salts, each of which has two days ago without a valid pass- she sign an agreement.

direct or indirect action in the treat- The usual Wednesday Cabinet port and with being a vagrant.

Defendant offered to work for ment of rheumatic complaints. A Council was, it is stated, exclusive- Defendant was sent to the House one month and this was finally agre-single bottle of Kruschen will convince ly devoted to discussion of develop- of Detention and an expulsion or-ed upon.

you that rheumatism simply cannot exist in the system that gets its 'littla ments in the international situation der was made.

an daily dose.'

London, To-day.

Witness said that she Baw

to

a