Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-02-19
DUAL PERSONALITY.
A QUEER STORY TOLD BY PRO-
FEsSO7 WILLIAM JAMES.

tail o. HIS experience
Professor William James describes n
| case Of double personality Of the so called
ambulatoiy type, the investigation Of
which he has just concluded.
The subject is a man, now about 90 years
Of age, residing in a small place near Paw
tucket, r. l. This person was a carpenter
until 1867, when, by a strange visitation of
| Providence, he was induced to adopt alto
gether different habits of life. He had been
an atheist One day, while walking in the
open country, he thought he heard a voice
saying;
"Go to the chapel, go to the chapel"
"Io what chupel?' he inquired OF his in
visible monitor
ITO the Christian chapel, )" was the reply.
Now the carpenter was on unfriendly
terms with the minister of the Christian
chapel, and he exclaimed aloud:
Before ! go to that place | hope God
may strike me deaf, dumb and blind"
Instantly he fell to the earth, enveloped
in darkness and silence, and without the
power Of speech
The events which followed, as Professor
Jane, said in telling this part of the story,
were such as generally occur in cases of
the same sort, which are frequent in re-
ligious history, Suffice it to say that the
events eliminated in the mans restoration
to his senses, in his conversion and in his
adoption Of the vocation of an itinerant
preacher
For thirty years he followed this calling,
doing a great deal Of missionary work, and
becoming well known over large area of
New York state and western New England
Early in 1857 he had abandoned his
preaching, being advanced in years and de
sirous of living more quietly, and had
taken up again his old trade of carpenter
ing. His health was still good, and he
worked twelve or thirteen hours day in
preference to nine or.ten.
In what follows it is we'll to remember
Professor James' assurance of his convic-
ton that the man in question is sincere,
free from deception and genuine subject
of strange physical phenomena.
TIE CANDY MERCHANT.
One day, while living at Greene, r. l., he
suddenly disappeared from home. Every eff
fort was made to find him. but to no avail
He WAS completely lost.
Two months later, in Norristown, Pa, a
man named Brown, who kept little candy
store, woke up in the middle of the night
and found himself in a strange place. His
bed was strange, the room in which he lay
was strange, and the shop into which he
CROPPED his way was SO unfamiliar that he
became thoroughly alarmed Fearing he
would be taken for u burglar he cried for
help. The ueighbors rushed out in the
night and discovered Brown, the candy
merchant in an unaocountable state
"Whcra am r. Who am /? Who are
ypu HN Ip pripI in trrpot nnrtI,rbotion
They Thought their ncighbOr must have
suddenly gone crazy. When told that his
name was Brown he denied it, and gave as
his name that of the erstwhile preacher and
carpenter Of Rhode Island,
The village doctor was called upon for
advice lie saw in The case something diff, |
fcrcnt from ordinary mania, but still he
thought it was mania, However, he com
municatcd With Browns alleged relatives
in Rhode Island, and, to be sure, Browns |
assertions concerning himself were found
to be true.
But Brown now had no recollection of
his experience in the candy store nor did |
he know how he got there or how he left |
Rhode Island.
The case became noised abroad and was
investigated by n Philadelphia physician, |
but with no results.
All that was known was that the man
had bpon AWAY from homo two ,,onths |
sjE weeks OF which he had spent at Norris
town. bat the remaining fortnight was a
blank to him and could be explained by
nobody else.
In the course Of time the circumstances |
reached the notice of Professor James. The
man was now again at home, peaceably |
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