The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-03

most difficult law case which would occupy
him half the night to study out. For hours
thereafter he grappled with its intricacies,
but finally desisted, saying It would be i'm
possible to make his brief until morning.
since the case presented some difficulties
that he had been unable to master. He fell
asleep from exhaustion almost as soon as
he went to bed, but In few minutes rose,
and. seating himself at his desk, wrote
furiousy for an hour or more. Then, care
fully folding and indorsing the sheets he
had written upon, he put them away In q
pigeonhols Of his desk. after which. without
speaking, he returned to his bed and slept
eeundly TIL late In the morning. At break
fast he expressed some uncertainty as to
his finding q solution" His wife told him
to look through his desk, which he did,
discovering the paper he had written in the
pigeonhole. where he had hidden IT. AS he
read It Joy, mingled with amazement, show
ed plainly In his face, for the paper was
clearly reasoned. correctly phrased brief
on the intricate case with all the obscure
points srnoothed out! He had not the
slightest recollection Of having written the
document.
Another extraordinary case is that of a
young man who, an hour or 30 before
starting on a railway journey, paid a
visit to steamer in which his parents
were financially interested. In the course
Of the inspection he entered the little
chamber In the bow of the vessel where
the atishor chain is coiled, and was i'm
pressed by the chambers smallness and
the or amped quarters 1t would afford
man sent down there to superintend the
paying out Of the chain. In due course
the traveller went to the railway station
q Epr, fv, &hn
OF first class corridor and sleeping car
rage. He had the compartment to him.
sell. The train had not been long on it's
Journey before the young man was sound
asleep, But he imagined that he was
awake. ana, moreover. that he was i'm
prisoHea In the little anchor chain COM
partment OF the steamer. The vessel was
under way, he thought, and moving more
rapidly than he had ever known a steam
er to move before.
His first Idea was to go on deck at once,
put ne could not get out of the cell-like
chamber. He could not stand erect even,
.he compartment was so little, as he
tound out at the cost of an imaginary
pumped head when he attempted to RISE
linen, to his surprise, he found that the
room had window, evidently dead
c but square and unusually large.
-
termined to break 1t, thinking that he
could seize the anchor chain and by its
ala reach the deck.
There was only one way to smash the
siass. and that was by striking 1t with
.'is clinched fist. He knew that this would
.ssuis m cut hand probably. but he
.saeu II all the same, for he felt certain
~ NV mat the vessel was In a storm and
.ane'y 10 90 down any moment, in which
trap. -"o '"' :"
having smashed the glass, he found that
we Winoow was double, and he distinctly
.sme.nnsrs breaking the outside pane, aft
winch, with profusely bleeding hands
ne carefully picked out the bits of glass
-s,.nssihing In the sashes, SO that he could
climb out
alter removing the last remaining frag-
nents OF glass from the sash he carefully
: =" ss' MS head and arms out and began
:. .eei tor the chain. 1t was nowhere to
~ - louho. Then he pulled himself half
ward. "'N'" anu ie"e01 w
40 MS great Joy he found he could reach
49,. me cage or the deck, but TO his dis
nro ny y was curved and smooth. offering no
n ,s.,n n Whatever by which he might
pun himself up. That being the case. and
A.. wishing to fall into the water and be
he painfully drew back Into the
LIE chamber However. he must certainly
I.seape or be drowned, and after getting his
Sealn ne would make another attempt to
reach the deck.
:, ~ ne lay painting and frightened he ac-
ss.ueh'aily reached In the direction away
.'oH, the headlight. To his surprise he
.ouched swaying window blind. and the
seAt moment he found himself lying on the
.N,, OF the corridor of the onrushing train,
"iai window down, through which he had
,.s"eh'ly been trying to reach the deck OF
mat Imaginary steamer The wonder was
~ " old not lose his grip and fall on the
,he. 1t was his fear of being drowned
n nat prevented him from being killed on
w railway! The young fellow had long
c serious illness after his experience,