The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-12-07
SENATOR BEors POPULARITY.
He Explains How He WINS MysterI-
ousiy Helped In Acquiring His Ed
ucatIon In Latin.

lLOuSfihe CORRESPONDENCE
Talking about pecullarities of mems
minds, 1 heard Senator Beck tell O queer
story the other day., said a gentleman to
some friends last night. 1--WE were all dis
cussing the same subject that is up now,
when Senator Beck remarked that he thought
a popularity Of his brain had done him a
great deal Of harm in his life. 4 first noticed
it, said the senator, when I was a boy going
to school in Scotland. | had a strict old
preacher for a tutor, and with a number OF
other boys went to the parsonage
to be educated One night I was
very sleepy and still had a long Latin
lesson to get off. l tried hard to learn it, but
almost before 1 was aware / would be doing.
At length read the exercise through in a
half-dreaming condition, and, with the Latin
all a tumble in my head, / went TO sleep. l
awoke the next morning with my brain
thoroughly clear, and strange to say, all the
antiquities In my difficult lesson wers made
plain and read the Latin without a balk.
The same thing happened a second time, and
l again found that when / vent TO sleep with
a confused idea of my lesson, learning 1t
while half doing, that l awoke witch all the
knotted points unraveled. 1t became my
custom after that to read my tasks over just
before going to bed, and 1 never failed to
have them in the morning. My strict old
tutor saw that never studied, and thought
one OF the other boys was helping
me. At length he gave me a
page OF Livy to translate. and told me il I
did not have 1t for him the next morning he
would hot NE. He then forbid any of the
boys coming near me and watched my &C
tions. | read the lines as usual before going
to sleep and sure enough the next day 1 had
them pat as you please. He never troubled
me after that. Well. the year passed By, and
found my faculty still clinging to me, till l
began to put too much faith in 1t and de-
pended almost entirely on my mysterious
helper. Some time ago a phrenologist came
to examine my family's heads, and they all
went wild over him / paid no attention to
their talk. though my wife urged rne to give
the man a trial. One day, however, he met
me and was SO persistent that | at length sat
down to him. He said that he would ex-
amino my head for sS, and give me n chart
for IS. i told him SO was all would throw
away and he began to name my character
istics. At length he said: 'You
have one faculty that Is fully de-
velopcd. 1t is spirituality. You nave
that faculty developed to a marked de-
gree. You would have made a fine medium.
Your mind is capable Of working separate
from your body, that is, 1t can perform
mental labor while the body Is at rest and
knows nothing of it. You sometimes solve
difficult problems while you are asleep, and
wake up in the morning without knowing
that you have been at work" Here is So
said !, "a man who knowsShs much as you
do deserves it."'
"'My strange faculty. continued Senator
Beck, whether it be spiritual or not, is grow
ing weaker. 1 can hardly explain the action
of my mind during these abnormal spells. |
see the lines and words before my minds eve,
and, without knowing the process, or, indeed,
being aware Of any process. l work out the
problem =
you remember John Sherman's anecdote
OF Beck continued the gentleman. 'Beck
when a member wondered how he got any
rest. Oh said Sherman, who was present,
Beck rests himself when he makes a speech
A man who can work when he should rest
may be pardoned IL he rests when he should
work.