Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-03-24

shuddered at
the mere thought of the terrible agony un-
dergone unhinshingly by such as were forced
to be cut and sawn through suivering flesh
and erunching bone, roughly, hastily and
wholly without any anpsthetic save perhaps
glass of water or a few swallows of bran
dy. Terrible as such suffering must have
been, it fades into insigniieance before the
horrible and unique terror, despair, suffooa,
ton and exhaustion of the poor victim who
finds himself alive, yet hopslsssly nailed into
q strong coffin and buried, apparently beyond
all hope of rescue or relief. Alone in the
terrible darkness, alive with monstrous
shapes and foul shadows, weak helpless and
with the terrible knowledge that he is mo-
ment by moment stransliug to death-being
suffocated for want of air. Such however,
was the sad fate of Jules PielIe Lemoyns, of
New Orleans. Taken suddenly i'll in the
street with supposed symptoms of Asiatic
cholera, he sank unconscious upon the
ground, and before police or medical aid
could be made effective he had sunk into
collapse, unconscious, and after short time
ceased to breathe.
Pronounced dead by a physician, he was
hurried away for burial, forced int oom-
mon pine coffin and entombed in the dark
and loathsoms vault in the cemetery. Eve
~ precaution was made with indecent haste
owing to the supposed nature of his dread
disease. Buried at two O'Clock, the sup
posed dead man came to life little be-
fore midnight, to find himself coff14ed and
entombed. He could hear nothing but his
own hoarse, half-stifsd breathing, the trip
hammer beating of his heart, the flap, flap
of the wings of bats and owls huttering
about the dark and noisome vault Then
slowly the booming of the bell in the church
near by announcing the hour of midnight,
solemn and ghastly at any time, bat fright
fully 30 when the sound pierces to the hear
er's ear through the wood of coffin.
Frantically he twisted, turned and braced
his knees against tho lid, trying to force the
boards asunder. But all to no avail, until at
last, with one supreme effort, he threw his
whole strength into one mighty effort, and
with the sound of crushing timber found
himself free, but rolling on the stone floor
of the vault, pile of mouldy cofdns about
him.
Almost insane with fear he half ran, half
stumbled to the huge iron doors of the
vault, and tearing at them madly with his
bleeding and lacerated hands screamed for
help, shaking them until every loathsome
reptile and noisome owl and bat few iercely
about his head in anger and fright.
Suddenly the doors were opened by the
cemetery keeper, into whose arms he fell
ssnseless. He had been summoned to the
vault by passer-by, who had heard the
noise aud shrieks. Carried to the keepers
lodge, physician Was summoned, and when
the poor victim had been restored to con-
seriousness 1t was Iouno that ne mad not been
q victim of cholera at all, but had sunk
down into q trance-like fit of unconscious.
ness due to extreme bloedlessness and ex-
haustion of the brain, due to overwork and
studying long past midnight for many
months. The physician, who was an old
and celebrated practitioner, DR.. Frederick
Johnston, at once recognized the trouble ard
said to the young man, 'There is but one
remedy, but ons hope for you. A few bet.
ties of DR.. Buekland's Scotch Oats Essence
will soon remove your brain and nerve trou-
BILE, and with perfect rest from study and
perfect quiet will restore you to health aud
vigor again"
Following the doctors advice he went to
small house on Bayou La Mere, and after
months use of Scotch Oats Essence found
himself fully restored TO brain-vigor, nerve
tone and in short perfect health. But he
will never forget his brief but vivid expert
ence as q dead man.
Although sad and terrible experience,
this is not an unusual case, SO far at least as
the marvellous actien of Scotch Oats Essence
on the brain and nerves is concerned. It
has saved thousands of lives; has cured
thousands of cases of neuralgia, paralysis,
persistent headache, giddiness, nervous dys-
pepsia, sleeplesaness, nervous debility, ex-
haustion and the like.
It Is natures own nerve tonic and brain
food