The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-10

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Arnlm,' cried the surgeon, ''iss ali over,
I'm afraid" then, noticing the strange
attitude of the victor Why what's the
matter-are you wounded. too,"
No reply; but from the direction of the
| plkeroad came the sound of an earlymil1
wagon rumbling toward the city. and
realizing the fact that there was not a
moment to be lost. the surgeon hurried off
TO summon assistance. When he returned
1 with the driver of the dairy wagon they
! found the victorious duellist crouchinCon
! the ground, and trying in an awkward
drowsy manner, TO help the fallen cham
] plOn on his legs. His knee slipping on
the dew drenched grass, he fell forward
ana then arose, now at last more than
half awake
Whats all this-where am II was his
first question. Bit by bit the truth came
out. The rattle of the alarm clo,k had
reused The sleeper from his bed, but not
from his trancelike slumbe and after
drawing his sword, he had sailed, half
dressed, as in dream, and fought the
duel on the plan engeDdered in his mind
during his feverish vigils.
In both cases the dream walkers had,
after all, merely carried out a predeter-
mined course OF action. but DR.. Abercrum-
Die relates anundoubtedly authentic auec-
dote of Scotch lawyer who conceived as
well as elaborated the solution of an in
tricate legal problem in his sleep "A few
days before, he says, "he had been con-
suited respecting case of great impor-
lance and difficulty, and had been study
ing it with
INTENSE ANXIETY AND ATTENTION.
After several days had been occupied in
this manner he was observed by his wife
to rise from his bed in the night, and 60
TO writing desk which stood in the bed
room. He then sat down and wrote a
long paper which he carefully put by in
his desk and returned to bed The fol-
lowing morning he told his wife that he
had most interesting dreamr-Jhat he
had dreamed of delivering clear and
luminous opinion respecting a case which
had exceedingly perpleXed him, and that
he would give anything to recover the
train of thought that had passed before
him in his dream. She then directed him
to the writing desk, where he found the
opinion clearly and fully written out, and
the legal points thus argued were after
ward found TO be perfectly correct
Had the sleeping lawyer turned out a
leglble manuscript with his eyes closed
DIR. +. L. Youman, founder of the Popu-
lar Science Monthly, had, indeed ac-
quired the knack of writing by guesses at
the proper interspaces of words and lines
OF which his failing eyesight revealed
only dim outline, but that art was at
tanned by years of practice, and not be-
fore some of the first attempts looked like
what Horace Greeley called photograph
OF his own letter, "A copy of Chinese
prescriptions for chills" Coleridge
claimed TO have composed the weird poem
of ''kubla Khan in a dream and to have
afterward reproduced the verses from
memory, but
TRUE TRANCE PRODUCTS
Rarely leave more than dim shadow of
recollection, and DR.. AbercrOmbie' law
yer would probably have never found his
MS. without the assistance of the acct
dental witness. Somnambulists awaken
with nothing but a feeling of WEAKNESS
to suggest the extent of their midnight
ramOles, and Patrick Byrne, the Irish
minstrel, used to play lengthy fantasies
on his harp while nodding in an arm
chair, and on being aroused from his
trance was amazed TO see the notes which
friend had iotted down as a stenogra-
pher would an Grafton. Those dream
compositions of the famous harper were
ram ding, but melonious to a degree Of
which the note sheets could give no con
ception, as it was wholly imlossible for
the cOpyist to keep up with the low
sweet by-play that flowed along like a
continuous stream of sound.
Photographs were not known yet in
those days, and it often took more than
one witness to convince the minstrel that
the humming bird symphonies, as he
called them, were of his own Composition
Il know, though, am composing in my
Sleep he admitted, "for my beIfellows
at college often complained about hear
ing me whine unearthlY tunes in the mid
die of the night"
After the establishment of such facts,
there is nothing incredible in Capt. Nc
GregOrS assertion that he fell asleep
while practicing in his ncnpareil boat,
but continued TO ply the oars and
keep fairly correct course by a sort Of
instinct
THAT DRENCHING SHOWER
Failed to wake him, is lsss easy to under
stand, unless he was worn out by exces-
slye fatigue. but DR. Riehl's case of
trance-stricken colored nan. admits of a
different explanation, The young Afri-
can was booked for a butting contest.
and one evening, after going 10 sleep on
his masters porch, staggered to his feet,
and stepping back yard or two, violently
rammed his head against a cider press.
he repeated that programme four times
and then stumbled back to his couch
lethargized by the stunning effects of the
shock as much as by the after effects of
his trance If he had struck the massive
board with his fist or foot he would prob
ably have awakened with a scream
In the sixteenth century, and long be-
fore the theory of hypnotism was ever
mentioned. Lopez de Vega wrote a
comedy on the freaks of a cavalier.
whose Dulcinea got him under spell of
a mystic influence. and compels him to FL
her strong box with present afterpresent
and leave his bed at midnight to MARBLE
red hot stan as under her window and
get olared by the night Waterman for
his trouble.
Love itself is sort Of trance. and there
is nothing improbable in the drama tbs is
plan to make the double, spellbouud
hidalgo continue his serenade under a
storm of kicks, and refuse to awaken till
his captors drag him beyond the sirens
sphere of influence.
Women Gamblers in England.