The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-20

@pond by even moving an eyelid, became salts
fed that was in trance. My mird was meyer
clearer, and my hearing was painfully acute. l
made effort after effort to throw of the great
weight which seemed to be holding me down. but
could not bend a toe or crook finger. Hows
ever it was only after the doctor had pro-
nounced me dead that felt any alarm Ep to
that time it had seemed as if l could soon man.
age TO get rid of the weight Had pistol been
fired in the room / am sure the spell would have
been broken. After the doctors ul.imatum felt
that should be buried alive. But was alive2
All OF sudden this query flashed across my
brain, and was troubled moro than / can tell
you AS nad never died before. how was to
thinks Was the mind of corpse in active oper
atom 1t was problem could not solve.
Not word was spoken near me which did
not catch and fully understand. There was A
great deal of weeping and failed TO satisfy nv.
self as to the cause / had died, but IL did not
seem as if this was sufficient excuse When
my wife bent over the coffin, and sobbed and
grieved, and refused to be comforted, / did not
feel bad with her. On the contrary, her action
surprised me. When the two other doctors pro-
nounced me dead made up my mind that was
dead and that the end had come. | had been
taught to believe that the spirit of the dead as
cended to heaven, and that the dead were dead
in mind as we'll as body. It was q base decep.
ton ] felt indignant that it was So
las an instance of the acuteness of my hear
ing, let me explain that after was placed in the
cofiin the receptacle was moved over to an open
window in the parlor, where ii was supported on
saw-horses. Two of my neighbors took seats on
wagon box in the barnyard, fully two hundred
feet away, and for an hour ccnversed of my
death in ordinary tones of voice. did not miss
one single word of the conversation, as both aft
erward admitted ] could hear every tick of the
kitchen clock, and much of the conversation Of
the women in the upstairs rooms On the night
previous to the funeral about half past 10 o'clock
ana while the two men sitting up with the CORPSE
were reading, heard two men climb the fence
into the barnyard, cross the yard and enter the
barn After few minutes they came out and
heard the jingle of something carried by one
OF the pair. could not make out what was GO
ing on, but learned afterwari. The two men
stole horse from field opposite my barn.
and they entered my premises in search Of
BRIDE
II heard the people assemble for the funeral,
and as caught word from this one or that one
| identified them by name to myself l listened
closely to the sermon, but when the minister
spoke of me l could not take it as personal. II
was as if the name and person belonged to some
one had known years before. I knew when
wascarried out and placed in the hearse, and l am
certain that heard the clatter of the team run
ming away before anybody sighted them Whem
the people began to call out in fright felt that
same fear of being hurt that any live man does.
heard them trying to back the hearse out OF
the way to let the team 60 by, but they were not
quick enough. AS the collision came my eyes
opened and my speech was restored. and from
that momsnt l was all right