The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-07
SLEEPING STUDENT
WALKS 25 ETTrs


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Sound asleep. without ..rS--..-.
Htlon and utterly unawar- .r his -..
Torrance until after it was over 7.-
meth Hughes. "a student of tn. III.
/ Forest academy. made his r-ay ar -.- -l.
from his room ar the acaGar.- o. SIT 81.
country home near Loon Lake. fa.s-..
five miles distant
whether he rode OF walked hr --
route he went. or what r..-. t.- ''5-
ventures along the way. Ha has -.. al.
I tatntest glimmer of knovIaGg- a.-gz
/ ing TO his story. The trim is an p.
more wonderful because the
man had been suffering FOR weeks .--.77
I IntlammatOTy rheumatism b. -
| expressed 90 his parents ID 5z..-.
/ visit his home. but deferred --s --
because he thought il would b -
[ painful
The most the sIeepwaIker kr.rs q.
that he went to bed as usual IN rsg.
Forest and was awakened The nav,
morning in his fathers barn -rzr--
five miles distant. The duration aft
somnOlent state was from shortly En-.
5 o.clock i'm the evening until g s'.ras
{ IN the morning. Ii was at the s-r.
nOuT that the boys father. who is .
farmer went To- his barn tl feed -..
stock and found the young mar
pTopped up in the family buggy sill
sound asleep. Young Hughes had TAX
en- the pains to wrap number .
robes about him This instinct of SELF
protection. which manifested fty-s
while be was dreamUy unconscious
pTobdbly saved him from serious De
suits from exposure.
The elder Hughes. surprising his -r
was i'm Lake Forest. was surprised -l
md him where he was, and his 5a--
prise gre" into Imazempnt when -r.
youth protested that he knew nothing
Whatever OF the hours that intervene
[ between his retirement and his srar-
euinE i'm the barn.
He opened his eyes iu .--prfsrrar-
and tried To recall some incident of The
night, but IL was all perfect blank -a
! him. He counted the money Do his
pocket and found that De had r. cents
less than he had the night before H-
decided thereupou that boz must have
ridden or an electric car from Lake
Forest TO Waukec8u. Ha has mo- rae1I-
lection. however. Of boarding the car.
paying his fare. u~ of aEghrng at tho
end Of the line. The soreness Of his
muscles seemed To confirm The suppo-
SitiOn that he had walked The twenty
miles from WaUk-Eau tu the farm.
The details can only be- guessed at
but II is certain that the H".Il'nt.
traveller arose from his bed clothed
himself for d cold trip. and reached III"
destination for which Doe set out There
was not a scratch on him. showing
that the sense of preservation --
not lapse at any stage ut bis aE---
euCe-
Professor Conrad HibboI-r of -tA.
Forest academy is much puzzled - PIP
case and does not attempt fp d. -
for the strange trip. He thinks Hugs
left his room about 1 O'Clock 10 ne
morning. from the fact that ne
Northwestern railway night ag-l-
stated the boy came into the depot ---
asked when he could get a train 1T al
electric car TO Evanston He was .'-
that no more cars were running SOUR
and that ne could not remain 1 .'-
station. The agent did not notice any
thinE peculiar I'm Hughes actions. am
cannot say whether he was asleep
Hughes says he remembers nS".l---
" nothing about his conversation Ni-
the agent Nobody else, s.. far IS
known. saw Hughes until his tatl-
found him in the buggy
Dr. Haven. the boys physical
states that his patient had TO fever am
that his condition was norma. .Er-.
for the rheumd lISm-