The Penn's Grove record., 1883-12-29
.m Fright.



he Irents coG.e aid gone before the
rsnss lad time to come TO the con-
> sion that an effort is possible. There
= 20 fear in human beings S strong as
fear Of death, and yet there is no
ID sion in the mind of man." says
Icon, truly enough, $50 weak that it
mates and masters the fear OF death.
Revenge triumphs over death; love
sights It; honor aspireth to 1t; grief
tieth to it; fear o%ccupateth it," Pity.
which is the -'tenderest of passions"
led many to Kill themselves from COM
passion fol Otho's suicide. Even
toaitan rit@, mere utter WEAKNESS of
doing the same thing over and over
again, will lead a man to defy his in
born fear Of death. Bnt what passion
can guard against fright?
jew, According to Lodovicus Wives,
once crossed a narrow plank oyer a
torrent in the dark, and, visiting the
place next day, saw the extremity of
last nights risk, and died of-what2
Not of fear. obviously, because there
was nothing to be afraid of but possibly
of fright. So again persons have been
known who always tainted at the scent
of certain flowers, notably that of the
May blossom, but 1t would be ridiculous
to accuse them Of being afraid of baw-
thorn.
Surgeon General Francis of the
Indian medical service, tells of a drum
mer who was suddenly aroused from
his sleep by something crawling over
his naked legs. lie imagined that it
was a cobra, and his friends collected
by the outcry thought SC too, and he
was treated accordingly. lamentations,
such as are customary with the natives
on these occasions, were resorted toand
the poor fellow was Negotiated with
twisted cloths on the arms and legs in
view partly to o u him, but prin-
cipally to drive out the evil influence
spirit that for the time belngh had taken
possession of him. With the first
dawn Of light the cause Of the fright
was discovered in the shape of a harm
less lizard, which was lying crushed and
half killed by the side of the poor
drummer, but it was too late. From
the moment that he believed that a
poisonous snake had bitten him he
passed into an increasing collapse until
he died. The drummer was not a
strong lad and the shock was too much
fer him.
The most remarkable death from the
accident of fright wa that of the
Dutch painter Pentman, in the seven
teenth century. He was at work on a
picture In which were represented
IVY heartilys Z thinning skeletons
20 + Corr Spife the beholder
'% whie 3 2 the vanities and
e pen Z q -. Ia order to do his
as Sc went to an anatomical
orler *.r INIT for studio. One sultry
s+' UJis the civil drawing these melan-
Nwas a co saortality by which he
mental circles to re fell off into a quiet
to be promoted ich he was suddenly
(aroused. Imagine his horror at behold
ing the skulls and bones dancing around
him Ike mad, and the skeletons which
hung from the ceiling daslling them
selves together. Panic-stricken, he
rushed from the room and threw HIM
self l.eadlong from the window ON to
the y Neinent below. He sufficiently
recogt ed to learn that the cause of his
fear NS a slight earthquake, but his
nervous system had received SO severe a
shock That he died In a few days.
Frederick |, of Prussia, was killed
by an accident of fear. He was one.
day Sleeping in ali armchair, when his
wife tolssa Of Mecklenburg, who had
for some time been hopelessly insane,
escaped fran her keepers and made her
way to the Kings private apartments.
Breaking through the glass door, she
dabpie,l herself in blood, and, in a rag
ing fiji # deliriam, cast herself upon
the Kmg The latter, who was not
aware sbe hopelessness of her lunacy,
was 50 hnrrihed at the appearance of a
woman 6 d only in linen and covered
| with blr~s that he imagined, with a
lsuperstitlsan characteristic of the age,
that it ,s;ss the White Lady, whose
| ghost, .acs oFding 10 time honored tradi-
ton, inv labiy appeared when death
was around the house of Brandenburg.
He was seized with a fever, and died in
six weeks.
More ridiculous was the death Of The
French Marshal. DE Montreva, "whose
whole soul, = says st. Simon, ''was but
ambition and lucre, without ever having
been able to distinguish his right hand
from his left, but ~conceahng his
| universal ignorance with an audacity
which favor, fashion and birth protect
ed.n He was a very superstitious man,
and one do, ltcelIar was upset, at
public dinllmd h.his lap. and so fright
ened was t isn't he arose and an
nouneed POT the a a dead man. He
reached h, 81 dpa died IL few days, in
lT16, liter, q stof red to death by the
absurd cal in a CT a saltcellar turning
over. : name
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