Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-10-08

will one day find execution"
The sexton came with his spade and
threw after the old custom one spade
full of earth upon the coffin in the
grave, and waited for the people to go,
They turned await was ended
now, faded and gone; the beautiful life
was a memory, and the memory q star
OF the tomb.
The procession formed to return, and
entered the carriage with Congress-
man Grant
This has been hard day for me. :
he said, "Placide and ! were associ-
ates for many years He was great
~ overrated man, but there was a good
heart in himhe was more sentiment
than business, but | always did well
by him; that is, | treated him ON the
square; had sometimes TO act on prin-
oiple and so take sides against him,
Duty makes the world hard sometimes,
Doctor, to come to the point. | can't
sleep"
so you told me- What Is 1t that
keeps you worry?"
No knockings.
How? That Is worn out super
stition"
"Just as seem about to go to sleep
there Gomez knocking on my door. .
Does your wife hear it?"
"No."
How do you account for it,"
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and what / tell you now is In conf
dence. The knockings that keep me
awake began the night that placide
died Something strange happened
II was this; | came down to Warren
that day on private business, and
stopped over night at the old inn
called Coles Hotel. Early in the
morning | was awakened by a knock.
ing on my bedroom door. There stood
tall, thin figure in white: 1t was Pla.
eide. He did not look natural. He
said; 1T is the last time; | came into
your life in love and go out OF II in
love. We have shared life together
for many years. shall never see you
again in the flesh. II is the last time
| have been trugr He moved back
down the stairs out into the night
How could II nave been?~-it was the
very morning that he died The next
night. just as seemed to fall into
sleep, crossing the border land as II
were, The knocking returned just as
1t sounded the night before. But moth
ing was there. hear IL in the very
moment that | am passing into sleep
and | can get no sleep at all until
am exhausted. Then / do not sleep
wander off IL dreams. Il is all ter,
lible. Did you ever hear of such case
before? Knockings and no one
there?'
Eyes. have read OF like cases
Insane patients sometimes think that
they hear voices in the moment Of
waking These yoicen at that time
when the mind Is clear, may tell their
the truth about their condition Fol
example, the poet, Cowper, thought
that he was lost soul; that he had
committed the objectionable sin,
There was in his time a famous lady
who had the same halluclnation One
day she dashed to the floor glass vase
and said that she was as surely
damned as the glass would be broken.
But the glass did not break, Il was
taken up whole. One morning Cow
per In the moment Of waking heard as
he thought voice saying. "A whole
glass What ails you is hallucina-
ton"
Insane people, did you say doctor2''
yes, or those subject to hallucina-
tiong'
What is the cause of hallucina-
tlon?"
An overweight imagination; often
q disturbed conscience"
II have always acted on principle. /
once lad a letter to write that caused
me a pang. hated TO do it. had 10
do 1t. 1t left darkness In my mind. 2
You must have rest, | said There
came back to me the words Of Luther,
the undertaken and II was night
Rest what would ! give for rest.
haven't had any Iocd rest since
wrote well you can't know all--sinee
Placide died. Doctor. what do you
suppose it was that ] saw
Your mind is in state that is sub
ject TO Authorizations You must have
a change. What you saw that night
might have been Plaeide himself.
What you hear now Il Illusion"
Doctor, could dying man appear
to another bodily?"
Possibly"
Doctor, you speak of hallucination.
After / wrote that letter that moral
principle caused me to write, | was
once passing an open church door.
when these words came flying out
after me from the pulpit And he
went out and It was night don't
know whore they come from, but they
fly after me in the air. Oh, doctor,
wish | could never hear them again.
Who said them? VINO wrote them? |
wish you could get them out Of the air,
doctor am persecuted Why,
doctor, have always acted on princi-
pie, Placide's father WIS insane"
The last sentence seemed discon-
nected with the subject that had pre-
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