Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1898-04-01
MADE LOVE OVER AGAIN.
How . Clergyman Lost All Memory Of
His Sweetheart,

His Sweetheart.
Everything was driven from the mind
of the Rev. T. a. Hanna Of Southington,
Conn.,. when he fell on his head year ago,
even the all important fact that he was en-
gagged to marry handsome young wom-
an. She remembered all about IL, Of course,
but she did not wish TO remind him OF it.
Every one is happy now. howe yer, for the
Encouragement of the young woman and
the Rev. MIR. Hanna is announced.
MIR. Hanna was driving along a Connect
icut road last March when he was thrown
from his buggy. He fell upon his head
and was picked up insensible. When he
regained consciousness, it was found that
his power of memory was entirely gone.
He could not think of the name that fit
ted the article of furniture we call chair.
Everything about him was nameless His
intellect was alert and his mind receptive,
but the past was a complete blank. He
gazed at the pictures, books and flowers.
He tried to speak about them, yet the
words would not come
His friends pointed to tho common
things about him and spoke the names
over and over again. He repeated the syl-
tables after them. Gradually the words boz
gan to attach themselves again to the OBJ
iects which surrounded him. Every body
was glad that tho Rev. Mr.. Hanna was
coming to his senses. From nouns he pro-
ceeded to verbs. 1t was not long before
his Investigations brought him to that
same old verb which every beginner in q
language learns first of all There was
something about it which suggested a
previous existence. Then one day he saw
upon the street a familiar face
He asked his friends if they could not
remember, for they reasoned that when
tho man had completely come to his senses
perhaps he might have different op;n-
ions. Besides, what idea could tho word
"fancee" convey to man who had barely
learned again the meaning of single words
like 'chair, F" sofa, "gas" and the like?
1t was amazing after this period to wit
ness the progress made by tho Rev. Il. C.
Hanna in the use of words. He made the
acquaintance of tho young woman Once
or twice he remarked that ho thought no
had met her before. She said she believed
that she had had tho pleasure of meeting
him. From child Of one year tho Rev.
Mr.. Hanna became man Of %. His yO-
cabulary returned.
Surely no young woman need wish a
better compliment than to have a man fall
in love with her the second time without
remembering anything about the first ex-
periepcel Tho Rev. Mr.. Hanna, as his
memory returned, made frequent calls at
the home of the young woman.
The verb which the Latins call "amo"
came back to his lips again. The young
woman accepted, and they are to be mar
ried soon.
Besides his fiancee, tho Rev. Mr.. Han
ma had forgotten everybody else. He is
making new acquaintance out of old ones
every day now. 1t will only be question
of few weeks before he is able to attend
to his pastoral duties again.
He is already preaching again, and those
who have heard him say hc breaches with
the old time fcrvor, oven if his vocabulary
is not quite SO large. He uses simple words
now and steers away from the sesquipeda-
Ian terms of theology, which Is itself not
such bad result of the accident from
which he suffered.