The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-07-30

Stories OF Curious Things Don@ by ThOs.
Addicted to the Hablt--The BOY wh,
Went Fishing Cascs Of sIsepwalkin,
which Had Fatal Results.
According to scientists, there are foul
kinds of somnambulism:
Those who talk while sleeping, bu
do not walk or otherwise act
Those who walk or otherwise act while
sleeping, but do not talk.
Those who both act and talk while
sleeping.
Those who act and talk and have tht
senses of touch, sight and hearing, anc
it is alleged, in some instances, the
senses Of taste and smell.
This fourth kind is never found ex
cept when induced by mesmeric or hyp
motto influences.
1t is of the third kind that there ar
most queer developments, independent
of voluntary external influences. Otter
the somnambulist viii rise in the night
and walk through the various rooms oi
the house, go out on porticos, and, II
some cases, ON steep roofs, where he
would not dare 60 when awake Ere
quently he will leave the house and
walk through street or field and will
return and 60 to bed without knowl
edge Of anything having transpired.
The celebrated French physician, Bern.
helm, tells, in his work ON Suggestive
Therapeutics, of a photographer 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 1t finished
when he went to work ON the following
morning Painters have been known
to do superior work while asleep, and
essays have been written and poems
composed in the same way.
A young countryman related an Incl.
dent occurring In his own family. His
brother was sleepwalker and also fond
of fishing. For number of nights in
succession he would get up and so down
through long meadow to creek and
seize the root of walnut tree growing
on the bank and pull and tug with all
his might and at the same time calling
for the hired man to help him land q
big fish. Il had heard" said his broth
er, THAT it would break sleepwalker
of the habit to wake him suddenly when
he was out rambling about, and / de-
cided to try it's efficacy on my brother
One night / followed him when he left
the house. AS passed by the woodward
/ picked up the AK. and when we got to
the creek and he began tugging at his
imaginary fish / cut the root and let
him fall backward into about two feet
of not very warm water. He came ont O
badly disorganized and somewhat fright
ened boy. I have never heard of him
going fishing or otherwise walking in
his sleep since his ducking. d.
Sometimes sleepwalkers go over places
where they would not dare 30 when
awake, and the fact that such things are
frequently done with safety has led
many to believe that they never hurt
themselves. Ordinarily that may be
true, bat there is at least one authentic
record of one death resulting in that
way. The sleepwalker walked off high
portico and died from the fall.
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 of the name
of Garland had been sleepwalker from
childhood. His ramblings had always
ended without harm to himself or others,
and for that reason his wife usually
paid little attention to his nocturnal &C.
centricities. But new phase presented
itself when he began to stay away longer
at a time and always return ''wringing
vet, T" as the washerwomen say. His
wife determined to follow him and ex.
plore the mystery. When he left his
house, he followed the road to Tow riv-
er and then took rough, narrow pig
trail leading up the river.
He picked his way through the tan
gled hemlock and laurel and over stones
and fallen trees and along the SUBMITS
of precipitous cliffs His wife kept in
sight by means of the moonlight waver
ing through the trees. For more than a
mile the sleeper trudged ON until he
came to large poplar tree which had
fallen with its topmost limbs far out in
the river. He walked the log till he
came to large limb extending from ii
over the water; then he got down and
began crawling out on the limb. The
now thoroughly frightened wife scream
ed and called to him TO wake up and
come back. He was awakened by the
cries, and, doubtless startled and con-
fused 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. swimming to
the bank and returning home uncon-
scious Of anything that passed.
These facts arc well known to mum
ber of people now in Washington. -
Washington Star.
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