Risked Life And Lost

b erdmand Pietrich, the man who eold himself to South American surgeons, is dead. Hsre is the story: Last August a man naraed Obaldeston advertised in the New York papers for a man who wonld consent to go down to Guayaquil, Ecuador, and there submit to an experimental operation by two South American doctors. Osbaldeston acted as agent for those physicians. It was illnstrative of the hard times that more than 120 answers were received. The operation in question was simply an incisión in the stomach, throngh which the action of the gastric juices might be observed. The cavity thus made was about the size of a hazel nut. Tubes of gold and silver were inserted, and through theso the nourishment taken by the patiënt was forced, the digestive process being marked by the aid of an electric light. Incidental to the operation certain chemical substances were administered to the patiënt through the tube to ascertain positively the action of drugs in combination with each other. Among the 120 persons who answered the advertiSement was a well knit, powerful looking fellow who had been a sailor. He was about 5 feet 8 inches in height, weighed about 180 pounds, looked hard and wiry and was active as a cat. Osbaldeston decided that he would de. His name was Ferdinand Pietrich The first week in September Pietrich sailed for Guayaquil. There for four or five weeks he remained under medical care in preparation for the ordeal, and it was the eecond or third week in October before the chief surgeon, Dr. Adele Ajaico, ventured to perform the operation. Osbaldeston bas received iuformation that the operation had been completely successful and that the patiënt was on the road to recovery when he took to drink. Under these conditions it became necessary to stop the treatment for a time, and in this interval Pietrich while sitting on the battlements of a fortress one morning was sunstruck and died within two hours. He was alone in the world, and it does not appear that he ever received the money for which he had risked his life or in fact anything