Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-23
THE SLEEPWALKER.
THERE ARE SAID TO BE FOUR KINDS
 OF SoMNAMBuLISm.

Addicted to the Habit-The Boy Who
 Went Fishing-Cases of slcepwalking
 Which Had Fatal Results.
 According to scientists, there arc four kinds of somnambulism:
 Those who talk while sleeping, but do not walk or otherwise act.
 Those who walk or otherwise act while sleeping, but do not talk
 Those who both net and talk while sleeping.
 Those who act and talk and have the senses of touch, sight and hearing, and it is alleged, ill some instances, the senses of taste and smell.
 This fourth kind is never found ex- cept when induced by mesmeric or hyp- notic influences.
 It is of the 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, go out on port1cos, and, In some cases, on steep roofs, where he would not dare go when awake. Ere quently he will leave the house and walk through street or field and will return and go to bed without knowl- edge of anything having transpired. The celebrated French physician, Bern helm, tells, in his work on Suggestive Therapeutics, of 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 a sleepwalker and also fond of fishing. For number of nights ill succession he would get up and go down through long meadow to a 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 a big fish. II had heard" said his broth CT, that it would break n sleepwalker of the habit to wake him suddenly when he was out rambling about, and I de- cided to try its efficacy on my brother One night followed him when he left the house. As I passed by the woodward picked up tho ax. and when we got to the creek and he began tugging at his imaginary fish I cut the root and let him fall backward into about two feet of not very warm water. He came out n badly disorganizcd and somewhat fright ened boy. I 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 themselves Ordinarily that may be true, but there is at least one authentic record of one death resulting ill that way. The sleepwalkcr walked off high portico and died from the fall. One of the most singular and at the same time sad cases of slecpwalking oc- | cured near Bakcrsville, N. C., few years ago. A young man of tho name of Garland had been n slCcpwalkcr from | chjldhood. His ramblings had always ended without harm to himself or others, and for that reason his wife usually I centricitics. But a ncw phase presented itself when he began to stay away longer at a time and always return ''wringinG wet" as tho washcrwomen say. His wife determined to follow him and ex. plore the mystery. When he left his house, he followed the road to Tow riv. CT 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 summit: of prccipitous cliffs His wife kept 1T sight by means of the moonlight wavcr ing through tho trees. For moro than { mile the slCCpcr trudgcd on until ht camc to large poplar tree which haG fallen with its topmost limbs far out il the river. Ee walked the log till ht camo to a large limb extending from il over the water; then he got down ant began crawling out on the limb. Int now thoroughly frightened wife scream ed and called to him to wake up ant come back. He was awakened by tht cries, and, doubtless startled and con and was drowned. Ho had been getting up ill his sleep. going up the river crawling out on that limb, jumping from thcre into the river, swimming tt the bank and returning home uncon scious of anything that passed.
 These facts arc we'll known to n mum Der of people now ill Washington la,