The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-11-14
THEY WALK IN SLEEP.
Queer Performances OF People
Who Are Unwilling Victims OF
SomnambuiiSm.

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spirits and on speaking terms with
ghosts and all sorts of dreadful things.
But such people are not nearly so COM
mon as they were in the days of puri-
tanic bliss, when even the astute resi-
dents OF bean-loving Boston believed
it quite the thing to cast old wives in
to the sea, and If they survived the
pillows to hang them as witches. But
those "good old times are well out of
the way. Somnambulism remains,
however, and even here in Chicago
men and women, and sometimes maids
of fashion, have been known to do mar
velous thing in the silence of the
night. when golden sleep doth reign"
Early in the month of last September
awell-known jurist, who resides west
OF the Chicago river, went to water
ing-place at Colfax, Iowa, for his rheI-
matism. The hotel was crowded and
the judge was placed in the same room
with a travelling man, who was to be
there only over night. It was bleak
and rainy and the wind roared angrily
through the tall trees back of the
hotel. And, as If to further prepare
the guests for tragedy, the landlord,
an old settler, related the story of an
awful murder committed in the vicinity
years and years before to party of
chronic invalids in the parlor.
At II o'clock the guests, sick and
we'll, were all in bed. At midnight
every one was sound asleep, and by
O'clock there was nothing save the
moaning of the wind through the trees
interlarded with an occasional snore
from some sound sleeper to be heard.
1t was at this moment that the Chicago
jurist distinguished himself and scared
nearly 200 sickly men and nervous
women out of their wits.
Help! Help! Murder! Help! Muir
der! Murder! Help! Help! O-h-h-h!'
Ws;lad the Judge, in voice that fairly
made the p1ilding tremble. and then he
moaned as one dying IN. awful agony.
With the first cry of help itam the
Judge every man, woman, and child in
the hotel sat up in bed and let the cold
chills creep unpleasantly along their
spines. The next cry brought half the
guests to the floor and sent the other
half deep down beneath the covers, and
/ pell-mell, neck or nothing, helter
, skelter. like flock of stampeded sheep,
the frightened guests ran, men, women,
and children, arrayed in fantastic
slumber garments of all sizes, sorts
and styles, from red flannel to pure
, white cambria with founces, and
: frills, until the corridor around th'
judges chamber was packed so clos
you couldn't have dropped a pin.
By this time the judge realized that
he had an attack of the nightmare
r and so did the travelling man but not
so with the crowd of alarmed guests.
They were determined that the judge
had been assassinated by some anarch
ist, and were doing their best to kick
f the door in with their bare feet. When
the door was finally opened and mat,
ters explained the motley crowd real
, lied their lack of raiment and beat
hasty retreat. But it was an hour be
fore every one was in his own room. Th'
embarrassment caused some 10 get con-
fused and enter the wrong apartment
| raising pitiful screams of modesty in
all parts of the hotel.
, During the holidays a young lad!
from Monmouth, who visited the fam
: lily of her uncle on La Sale avenue,
, aroused the neighborhood and several
, policemen likewise while in somnam-
bulistic state. The un Gle and aun
left the city one evening to be gone
over night, leaving the niece and her
two sisters with the servants in th'
house. Fearing that burglars nigh
, enter, the three cousins decided tc
sleep in one bed. They were quite tim
erous, and lots were cast for place and
it fell to the visitor to sleep in front.
For better protection the windows
were nailed down and the croquet NAL
, let placed within easy reach at the
head of the bed. All went we'll unit
= shortly after 2 o'clock, when the visit
: ing cousin sprang out of bed, seized the
mallet, and attacked the dressing-cast
> in the corner of the room in a mos
savage manner.
"1've got him! I've got him! Com
= on, girls, I've got him!" she screamed
and with each word she brought dow
- the croquet mIllet with disastrous ef
feet. Smash went a perfume case an
- crash went the mirror. while the tw
) girls in bed lent their voices to the di
in wild alarm. 1t was all over in fiv,
minutes, but in less time than that thC
!. :. neighborhood was aroused, aud fey
= minutes later two officers arrived.
was soon explained that Amy had ha
a nightmare. and the neighborhood re
sumed its normal quiet.
. A gentleman who is prominent i
= Grand Army circles created grea
" disturbance in the little suburba
town in which he lives shortly afte
. the national encampment at Columbu
. by ridiculous performance in hi
. sleep. He arrived home late Sunda
night, and was so tired he coul
scarcely say sHow do you doP" to hi
r. wife, and he went to sleep as soon a
e he touched the bed. About o'clocl
II in the morning his wife woke up, an,
J. was not little alarmed to find he
weary husband gone. After callin
l. him. without receiving any reply, sh
W got up, and donning wrapper wen
downstairs. The front door stood ope
aud she went out on the walk.
Post No. 81, and all's well. Grar
j has captured Vickshurg and the Johi
q nies are in h--m sang out her hu
band in stentorian tones from som
lofty perch. It was bright moonligh
a and going out a little farther sf