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


spirits and on speaking terms with
ghosts and all sorts Of dreadful things.
But such people are not nearly SO COM
mon rs 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
q wcll-knOwn jurist, who resides west
Of the Chicago river, went to a water
ing-place at Colfax, Iowa, for his rhe,l-
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. 1t was bleak
and rainy ana the wind roared angrily
through the tall trees back of the
hotel. And, as if to further prepare
the guests for a tragedy, the landlord,
an old settler, related the story OF an
awful murder committed in the vicinity
years and years before to a 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 l
o'clock there was nothing save the
moaning of the wind through the trees
intcrlarded with an occasional snOrc
from some sound sleeper to be hearl.
1t was at this moment that the Chicago
jurist distinguished himself and scared
nearly 2O0 sickly men and nervous
women out of their wits.
Help! Help. Murder! Help! Muir
der! Murder! Help! Help! O-h-h-h.'
w~;lAd the judge, in voice that fairly
made the D&lding tremble, and then he
moaned as one dying N. awful agony.
With the first cry OF help item the
Judge every man, woman, and child in
the hotel sat up in bed and let tn c0ld
chills creep unpleasantly along their
spine5. The next cry brought half the
guests to the floor and sent the other
half deep down beneath the covers, and
peIl-melI, neck or nothing, heller
SHELTER. like flock of stampeded sheep,
the frightened guests ran, men, women,
and children, arrayel in fantastic
slumber garments of all sizes, sorts
: and styles, from red flannel to pure
2 white cambria with hounces, anC
: frills, until the corridor around thu
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
? 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 kicl
f the door in with their bare feet Wheu
the door was finally opened and mat
+ tiers explained the motley crowd real
, lied their lack of raiment and beat
hastv retreat. But it was an hour be
fore every one was in his own room Th
/, embarrassment caused some TO get con
fused and enter the wrong apartment
! raising pitiful screams of mode5ty IL
all parts Of the hotel.
81, I'D
! from Monmouth, who visited the fan
, ily of her uncle on La Sale avenue
. aroused the ncighborhood an1 severa
-, policemen likewise while in a somnam
bulistic state. The I'm Gle and aun
, left the city one evening to be gone
over night leaving the niece and hel
two sisters with the servants in tn
house. Fearing that burglars Nigh
O enter, the three cousins decided t.
sleep in one bed. They were quite tim
erous. and lots were cast for place anC
it fell to the visitor to sleep in front
For better protection the window
were nailed down and the croquet ma
- let placel within easy reach at tn
-, head of the bed. AL went well unit
shortly after o'clock, when the visi
= ing cousin sprang out of bed. seized tn
, malIet, and attacked the dressing-caS
. in the corner of the room in mo-
savage manner.
!, 1--we got him! I've got him! Com
=. on, girls, I've got him. she screame>
y ch 1Nr0110ht Il
~ the croqu It m lllet with disastrous ell
:, feet. Smash went a perfume case an
% crash went the mirror while the tW
y girls in bed lent their voices to the di
'e in wild alarm. 1t was all over in tiv
u minutes. but in less time than that tn
- neighbOrhood was aroused, aud fe
IL minutes later two officers arrived.
% was soon explained that Amy had ha
l. nightmare, and the neighborhood +
sumed its normal quiet.
% A gentleman who is prominent
la Grand Army circles created a gre
T" disturbance in the little suburbs
= town in which he lives shortly aft
U the national encampment at Columb'
10 by a ridiculous performance in h
IL sleep. He arrived homo late Sunda
night, and was so tired he couI
scarcely say How do you do?" to h
Or wife, and he went to sleep as soon ;
re he touched the bed. About O'cloc
err in the morning his wife woke up, an
n was not Il little alarmed to find h
weary husband gone. After callil
n him, without receiving any reply, 81
Nv got up, and donniug wrapper we
downstairs. The front door stood OPP
and she went out on the walk.
post No. 81, and alls we'll. Ora
O has captured Vickshurg and the job
re MES are in NV sang out her hi
band in stentorian tones from sor
lofty perch. 1t was bright moonligt
a md going out a little farther S