Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-27

" aud without my knowledge. ] exam
ined the fabricand judged 1t 10 DO n some
kind OF Scotch matorial--a good suit, !
thought, but not handsome; still neat and
good enough. Tho coat dis loosely, too,
and that Is we'll for summer. How we'll
I feol,' thought. only few minutes
ago was horribly sick and distressed.
Thon came tho change, called death,
which have 70 much dreaded. IL IL
past now, aud hero am I still inan,
alive and thinking thinking As
clearly as over, aud how woll focll
The second case Ia that Of Mr.. her
trand, who was travelling In tho Alps
with some pupils. While ascending the
Tltlls Mountains, becoming wcarled he
sent the students up tho mountain while
he rested. Ho sat and smoked aud
viewed the scenery, and suddenly felt
himself struck m with apoploxy. Ills
head was perfectly clear but his body
was paralyzed. at was the sleep OF
the snow" Here is his own account
OF his experience:
al kind Of prayer was sent to God, and
then resolved to study quietly the pro-
grosS Of death. My foot aud hands were
first frozen, and liiilo by little death
reached my KNOBS and elbows. Tho sem
sa,ion was not painful, and my mind felt
quito easy, But when death had been all
over my body my head became unboar-
ably cold, and 1t seemed to mo that con-
cave plnoors squeezed my heart, 80 as to
extract my life. never folt such an
acute pain, bu, 1t lasted only IA second or
a minute, and my lifo went out. 'well,'
thought I, at Last am what they call q
dead man. and hero am. a ball OF al. In
the air, captive balloon attached to the
Garth by II kind Of elastic string. and eo-
ing up and always up. How strange,
see better than ever, and am dead only
small space in the space without
body, whcro is
my last body9 Looking down was az.
founded to recognize my own envelope.
'strangoi said I TO myself There Is tho
corpse IN which l lived aud which
called me, IN II the coat were tho body
and II tho body were tho sorii VIVA,
horrid thing * ihat body-deadly pale,
with yellowish.bluo color, no lding
cigar la it, mouth and a match in It's two
bufnod dngcrsl woil, hopo that you
shall noyor smoke again, dirty rngi OH
ronly had hand and scls, ors 60 cut
tho thread which lies me to II.
"Whon my companions return they
will look ut that and exclaim, Tho pro.
iossor is doadi Poor young friondsl
They do not know that I mover WINS a.
alive as am, and tho proof is that SEQ
the guido going up rather by the right,
when lao promised mo to 20 by the len;
W. was to DO the last, and he is mother
tho first nor tho last, but alone, away
from tho rope. Now tho guide thinks
that do not SEQ him, because lao hides
himself behind tho young mon while
drinking at my bottle OF Madeira. Wen,
60 on, poor man; hope that my body
will novor drink or again. Ali there
he Is, stealing leg Of my chickonl
Go on, old fellow; eat tho whole
OF tho chiokon IT you choose, for
l hope that my miserable corpus will
mover eat or drink again. I felt neither
surprise nor voxaiion; simply stated
facts with indifference. Hello! said ],
there Is my wife going TO Lucorne. and
sho told mo that she would not leave be-
fore tomorrow, or amer tomorrow. Thoy
arc five before tho hotel OF Lungorn.
Well, wife, ! am dead man. Good-by.
81 must confess that did not call dear
tho one who has always been rci,j dear
To mo, and that folt neither regret nor
joy at leaving her. Ny only regret was
that l could not cut tho string. In vain
travelled through 40 beautiful worlds that
earth became insignacant. 1 had only
two wishes; the cortitudeof not returning
10 Garth and tho discovery Of my noxt
glorious body, without which 1 folt
poworloss. ] could not behappy because
tho thread, though thinner than ever,
was not cut, and the wishod-iur body was
still invisible to my searching looks.
"Suddonly shock stopped my ascon.
sion, and felt that somebody was pull.
ing and pulling tho balloon down. My
grief was measuroless. Tho fac, way that
while my young frIouds throw suowballs
At each other our guido had discovered
and administered to my body tho woll-
known remedy, rubbing with snow; but
as | was cold and sim as ice. he dared not
roll mo for foar OF breaking my hands
still near the cigar l could neither sec
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