The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-04-17

saw him in the saddle. In Hamlet he says;
ore se.u myset and served against the Frencf.
And they can we'll on horseback hut this gallant
und wi,cbcra,e In I; be grew into his seat;
And to sucb wondrous doing brought his horse
As he had been incorps'd and deni-naturd
With the brave beast.
The English Of that period did not move up
and down in the saddle and no good rider does
to this day. The good rider must "grow into
his seat" ANY one of Stuarts cavalry can
tell you what that means.
Shakespeare was psychologist, and one
would think had deeply studied Dr.. Forbes
Winslow's learned work on "Obscurc Diseases
of the Brain and Nerves" for he understood
!, the early symptoms ofinsanity;and in Macbeth,
by stroke or two of his pen, marked the gra-
dations. When the "doctor of physIc" comes
to attend Lady Macbeth he talks with the wait
ing gentlewoman who has been watching the
actions of the patient. The mistress had been
walking in her sleep, and showing symptoms
of mental disorder, but the doctor had watched
grows impatient, tells the waiting woman he
doubts her story, and asks when the patient
last walked. This conversation occurs:
Doct ~ have two nights watched with yon and can
perceive no truth in your report. When VAS it she
last walked
Gentlcuoman Since his majesty went into the
field have seen her rise from her bed, throw her
nightgown upon her. unlock her closet take forth
paper fold it, write upon it, read it, afterwards seal
it and hen return to bed; yet all this while in most
fast seep.
Doct III this sumbry agitation besides hex walk
ing, and other actual performances, what, at any
time, have you heard he: say:
Gcntieuoman That sir, which will no, repeat
after her.
Doct You may to NE; and lis most Meet you
Should"
Now more pithy matter cannot be gotten in
the same space The doctor had "watchcd two
nights without seeing the patient walk.
During the early stages Of insanity the evil
denccs of its existence are not consistent.
There will be freak, and the sufferer may ap-
pear rational and do nothing to betray further
SYMPTOMS for time-'for two nights" say.
Then the doctor wanted to probe the matter.
What did the patient sag as we'll rs TO? lie
wanted to ascertain if there WAS any secret
cause for Misunderstanding calculated to
dethronc ones reason, for Lady Macbeth's crime
: was not known to him at the time. The gem
, tlewoman refuses, "having no witness to con-
firm her Speech" But the doctor of that day.
Al. Ali,
bearing on the case, and he thinks it the duty
of the gentewoman to tell him,-"'tis most
meet YOU should" She may tell him, if no
one else.
taper in her hand. Now mark how this doctor
catches the salient points of the malady
Doct. ''ilow came she By that light
} Gcatl,romnu Why. i, stood by her: She has
light By her continually; It's her command
Doct. You see her eyes open.
Gcatlc%omaD Ay. but their is shut.
Doct What is i, She does now Look, she
rubs her lluds
GcnticWomaa 1t is au accustomed action with
her, to seem thus washing her hauds.
Lndy w. Yet here spot
Dart. lark, she speaks: will ret down what
comes from her, to satisfy my remembrance the more
strongly"
The doctor seizes upon this symptom. Words
are more indicative of mental malady
than actions-what proceeds from the mind
more significant Of the nature Of its condition
than what proceeds from the body. Her body
did not seem diseased. 1t was the mind he
was to treat and he would even write down
every utterancc to satisfy his remembrance
of its accuracy and to study overit. He under
stood his business. He was no quack.
Lndy ". "Oui damned spot out say. One, two.
Why then It's time to do ',-Eiell is murky Fie my
Lord tic. \ soldier, and fcard: Wla; need We
fear who knows it, when call our power TO
account? Yet who would have thought the old man
to haze had much blood in him:
Doctor DO you mark that"
! The doctor is now getting at secrets. lie
did not understand the allusion "One; two;
WHY then It's time do't--IIcl is murky"-the
striking of the clock telling of the hour of
darkness, and reminding the consprators that
it was now very dark--hcll was murky--and
that it was time for the murder. But he knew
Macbeth had been "a sodicr"-hcncc it began
to dawn upon him that the hcsitating soldier
had something to do with drawing SO much
blood from ''the old man."
Lud, w. "1lo hane OF Fife had wife: Wl5rc
is She now: What. will these hands nc'er be clean;
so more o tina, III. Lord, more o that: You
mar all with inis staring.
4. Va a. t,,nu Ia
should
GcnieWOmGn She has spoke what she should
not, am sure Of that: Heaven knows what She has
known.
Lady W. lcr.'s the smell Of the blood still all
the perfume Vi Arabia will not swceen this little
hand Oh! Oh. Oh!
Doctor What sigh is there. The heart is sorely
charged Well, we'll, this disease is beyond my prac
lice.
That settled the matter, The "Nobe Dun
T can" had been murdcrcd it was done by "a
soldier" Lady Macbeth Was party to it--a
deed foul enough to dcthrone any reason. No
use for "Rhubarb, ccnna, or purgativc drus" in
her case. Could Dr. Winslow have probcd the
disease better or made more accurate report
: Of his diagnosisso clear, so condensed
" Time evcns up all things. Here is an item
4 which many people will enjoy. a week or
more ago, il was asccrtaincd that there was a
destitute family in the city, poor sick woman
with several help less children. The charitable
ladies of the Gap interested themselves in the
sufferers. The mother received attention, and