Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-27

subject There IL therefore no danger Of GRIM
inals becoming hypnotizers snd thus making
Others do their wicked deeds for them. The
kind of somnambulism above described is what
the French term the somadD,baesBe mag
nefe9ae.
EFFECT UroS A SENSITIVE sUBJEcr.
Nevertheless. il a skillful mesmerizer operates
constantly upon one sensitive subject, the latter
after time almost ceases 10 have any will but
bis. There is a case on record Of a man Who
had such an influence over young girl that
when she was expecting the arrival of her
mother he induced washerwoman from the
streets to enter the house. calling ont 10 the girl
as she did so: MARY, here's your mother :"
The girl embraced the stranger with ELUSIVE
affection. and when her t,rant called her atten-
ton TO her mistake sank down in tears of help
less modification.
The somnambulist. a. some one has put IL,
''scts his dreams" and in that way. subject
to human limitations. he performs wonderful
feats He cannot fy, and 20 dream that you
are hying is not uncommon. nor can he pene-
trate the portals Of heaven as happy people
have done in their sleep. Does he experience
that perfect ecstacy that DE Quincy has de-
scribed as one Of the stages Of opium intoxics-
uon! IL would not seem probable from the in
stances that have been recorded.
oeen known TO do IN unnatural sleep are only
equaled by the ordinary things that they can
90 when they are sleeping a normal sleep.
Tho old horse jogging along the dusty road
which he Is perfectly familiar with on q hot.
drowsv summer day not infreouently goes 20
sleep, and when he is standing in front of the
village store where his owner loves 10 loaf for
hours at time. unless something out of the
usual run Is TRANSPORTING about him he is nearly
always taking nap III you watch him
you will see his head gradually sinking lower
and lower IN the check rein until the bit presses
his mouth disagreeably. when he wakes with a
start and looks about him guiltily hike an old
man after dinner. ready TO deny that he had
ever thought of going to sleep. Il there any
thing wicked in taking nap in your easy chair
after dinner? No practice is more natural and
innocent Vet there never man or womah
who would confess to it. however visible the
proof might be. One would a. soon expect a
confession of snoring as a confession Of that
Sfter-dlnner nap.
MEN WHO WORK WHILE ASLEEP.
But if horses go TO sleep standing in the
shafts or jogging along the road, it is equally
true that men have been known to sleep while
engaged in some habitual occupation. Sir
William Hamilton. the results of whose investi-
cations have been alluded to before. gives an
instance Of a postman in England who used to
make a journey every day between two neigh
boring villages by a certain beaten track.
Regularly every day he would 60 TO sleep and
continue walking and regularly as clock work
he would wake up when he came to a certain
little stream which had to be crossed by a mar
row and shaky plank. This was no more than
the old horse does and the waking up at a GER
tain place was no more than the faculty Of
waking ut regular hour every morning. which
nearly all people possess. Many people, for
that matter. are able to wake at any hour that
they choose. The night Waterman does not
watch la Ennkys uh In
spector Is TO be expected he can regulate his
sleeping and waking to suit. Another story is
told by Sir William, more wonderful than his
postman story. Ii comes down 10 us on the
authority of two philosophers of the olden time.
REMARKABLE INSTANCE.
Two scholars were making a journey on
horseback on the continent, and having been
riding all day long and doubtless beguiling the
weary hours by erudite discussion. they arrived
at an inn at nightfall thoroughly fatigued.
There q third philosopher Joined them and pre-
scented them with a manuscript he had recently
found. The more tired one of the two travel
ers volunteered TO read il. Ii NAV we'll be i'm
agined that it was dry reading and that all the
surroundings were calculated TO induce drowsi-
ness. Nevertheless, the reader read for some
time, turning over the pages and making the
proper paases and infections, until one of the
listeners, making an interruption and obsery-
ing that IL was not needed. went up - him and
found that, while he was reading perfectly cor
rectly, he was, notwithstanding, sound asleep.
Nor had he. when awakened, the slightest recol-
lection of a word he had read. IL NAV well be
suspected that the country parson in the no,
summer weather, when the birds are twit.erinp
lullaby among the vines about the church
windows, and when the locusts are buzzine
their drowsy tune against the naples about the
porch, takes little nap while he drones forth
his familiar prayers.
ALL ARE MYSTERIOUS MANIFESTATIONS.
While some people behave as though they
were awake. when in reality they are asleep
Others behave as though they were asleep wher
in reality they are awake The absent-minded
individual who walks along the street appar.
emily cutting everybody he meets. who walk.
into an open drain or perhaps bumps up against
n moving carriage. might just as well De a
somnambulist. But this is another thing and
has nothing to do with the subjects sketched
here. Mesmerism. hypnotism, somnambulism
are all manifestations of dreams and sleep. and
are mysteries rs strange almost as the mystery
Of death itself
How wonderful is Death,
Destt, and his trother sleep,