The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08
SLEEP WALKING.
There Are Said TO Be -Four Kinds Of
SOmnambuliSm.
Some Stories of Curious Things Done
by These Addicted to the Habit-One
Game That Didn't Work.


sleeping.
Those who act and talk and have the
senses OF touch, sight and hearing-aud 1t
is alleged, in some instances, the senses
of taste and smell.
This fourth kind is never found except
when induced by mesmeric or hypnotic
influences.
1t is of tho third kind that there are
most queer developments, independent of
voluntary external influences. Often the
somnambulist will rise in the night, and
walk through the various rooms OF the
house, 20 out on porticos and, in some
cases, on steep roofs, where he would not
dare 20 when awake; frequently he will
leave the house and walk through street
or field, and will return and go to bed
without knowledge of anything having
TRANSFERRED. The celebrated French
physician, Bernheim tells, in his work on
Suggestive Therapeutics" of photog-
rapher OF his acquaintance, who rose in
the night and finished the work on which
he had been engaged during the previous
day, and was astonished on finding it fin
ished when he went to work on the fol-
lowing morning. Painters have been
known TO do superior work while asleep,
and essays have been written and poems
composed in the same way
FISHING IN HIS SLEEP.
A young countryman related an incl
dent occurring i'll his own family. His
brother was a sleepwalker, and also fond
of fishing. For a number of nights in
succession he would get up and 90 down
through long meadow to "a creek and
seize the root of q walnut tree growing
OF the bank and pull and tug with all his
might and at the same time calling for
the hired man TO help him land big fish.
II had heard" said his brother, that it
would break a sleepwalker of the habit to
wake him suddenly when he was out
rambling about, and / decided to try its
efficacy on my brother. one night | fol-
lowed him when he left the house. AS
passed by the wood yard, picked up the
AK and when we got TO the creek and he
began Juggling at his imaginary hsh, | cut
the root and let him fall backwards into
about two feet of not very warm water,
He came out badly disorganiZed and
somewhat frightened boy. | have never
heard of him going fishing or otherwise
walking in his sleep since his ducking.
Sometimes sleepwalkers go over places
where they would not dare go when
awake, and the fact that such things are
frequently done with safety has led many
to believe that they never hurt them
selves. Ordinarily that may be true, but
there is at least one authentic record Of
one death resulting in that way The
sleepwalker walked off of nigh portico
and died from the fall.
SINGULAR CASE.
One of the most singular and at the
same time sad cases of sleepWalking oc-
Cured near Bakersville, n. c., few
years ago A young man by the maine of
Garland had been a sleepwalker from
y l., q o.
ended without harm to himself or others,
and for that reason his wife usually paid
little attention to his nocturnal eccentric
tiles. But new phase presented itself
when he began 10 stay away longer at a
time and always return 'wringing wet, -
as the washerwOmen say. His wife de-
termined to follow him and explore
the mystery. When he left his house
he followed the road to Tow river
and then took Il rough, narrow pig
trail leading up the river. He picked his
way through the tangled hemlock and
laurel and over stones and fallen trees
and along the submits of PERCEPTIONS
cliffs. His wife kept in sight by means
of the moonlight wavering through the
trees. For more than mile the sleeper
trudged on until he came to large pop
lar tree which had fallen with its top
most limbs far out in the river. He
walked the log till he came to a large
limb extending from it over the water,
then he got down and began crawling out
on the limb. The now thoroughly
frightened wife screamed and called to
him to wake up and come back. He was
awakened by the cries, and. doubtless
startled and confused by the situation,
fell into the river and was drowned. He
had been getting up in his sleep, going up
the river, crawling out on that limb.
jumping from there into the river, swim
ming to the bank and returning home un-
conscious Of anything that passed.
These facts are well known to a num-
Der of people now in Washington.
sOMNAMBULsM OF ANOTHER SORT
A different phase of somnambulism is
told of the son Of a Baptist preacher re-
siding In a southern state. The preaC her
rises to his highest fights of eloquence
when inveighing against the sin of dane
ing: no likewise indOcseS the prOVerb
spare the rod and spoil the child" Just
as much as if il we're i'll fact an utterance
of Solomon instead of the New England
almanac. The son was, after the tradi-
ton Of preachers sons, the worst boy in
the country. He would swear, and fight,
and fish on Sunday, and go TO hoe-down
dances where the elite of the neigh Dor
hood by no means predOminated The
preacher reliRlOuSly whipped him from
seven to fourteen times week for vali-
Gus infractions of paternal authority For
his last attendance at a hoe-down he had
been given dose Of the buggy whip, with
the advice that it would be doubled in
case he repeated the ohcnse A big
candy-puuing and dance was set for
a night in the near future He
swore he would go, but Just how to escape
the whip was a problem of Archlmedean
proportions. He had heard the irresponsi-
bllity Of sleep walkers discussed and he
hit on the bright scheme of working that
racket in the event of discovery On the
night Of the candy pulling and hOe-down
he retired carly and listened till he heard
his father snoring. Feeling that all was
quiet along the Potomac he crawled out
on top OF the pOrtico and sid down post
and hurried TO the hoe-down, where he
did valiant service TO make up for the
latenoss of his arrival When the dance
was over he hied himself hOmeward and
was soon shining up the post Of the por-
tico, cxulting IN the hope Of having
worked the rabbit foot on the old man
and avoided the buggy whip His heart
sunk within him when he heard the stern
Come here, Louis but ne climbed on,
as though he did not hear. A second stern
command fell from parental lips un-
Needed. lie was ruthlesslY yan6ed down
and savagely shaken and asked If he was
deaf lie seemed TO come to himself,
shake himself together, as 1t were, and
ask. in mild surprise, where am , Why,
must have como out here in my sleep"
"You think you've been sleep walking
do youtn asked his father, as he grasped