The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-02-13
A soMEAMBULIsT's FEAT.
Walked Twenty Five niles Without
Awakening.

Sound asleep, without conscious voli
ton and utterly unaware Of his perfor-
nance, until after it was over, Kenneth
Hughes, a student Of the Lake Forest
Academy, made his way at night from
his room in the academy to his country
home near Loon Lake, % miles dis
tant.
Whether he rode or walked, or by
what road he went, or what were his
ad7entures along the way, he has not
the faintest glimner Ct knowledge as
eardirg to his story. The trips all the
more wonderful because the young man
had been suffering for weeks with in.
fammatory rheumatism. He had ex-
pressed to his parents desire to visit
his home, but deferred the trip because
he thought it would be too painful.
The most the sleep-walker knows is
that he went to bed as usual in Lake
Forest and was awakened next morning
in his fathers barn, twenty Eve miles
distant. The duration Of his sonnol-
ent state was from shortly after 8
o'clock in the evening until 6 o'clock in
the morning. 1t was at the latter hour
that the boys father, who is farmer,
went 10 the barn to feed his stt cz and
found the young man propped up in
the family kuggy, still sound asleep.
Young Hughes had taken the pains to
wrap number Of robes about b N.
This instir ct of self. protection, which
manifested itself while he was dreani-
" unconscious, probably saved him
from serious results from exposure.
The elder Hughes, supposiog his son
was in Like Forest, was surprised to
find him where he was, and his surprise
grew into amazement when the youth
protested that he knew nothing
whatever Of the hours that intervened
between his retirement and his awaken
ing in the barn.
BE opened his eyes in astonishment
and tried to recall some incident Of the
night, but it was al perfect blank to
him. He counted the money in his
pocket, found that he had Is cents less
than he had the uight before. He de-
cided thereupon thar he must have rid
den upon an electric car from Lake
Forest to Waukegan. he has no recol-
lection, however, Of boarding the car,
paying his fare, or Of slighting a. the
| end Of the line. The soreness of his
muscles seemed to confirm the supposi-
ton that he had walked the twenty
| miles from Waukegan to the farm.
The details can only be guessed at,
but it is certsin that the nocturnal
traveller arose from his bed, clothed
himself for cold trip and reached the
destination for which he set cut. There
was not scratch on him, showing
that the sense Of self-preserVation did
not lapse at any stage Of his expert
ence.
Prof. Conrad Hibbler Of Lake Forest
Academy is much puzzled by the case
| and does not attempt to account for the
! strange trip. He thinks Hughes left his
room about l o'clock in the moroing
the fact that the Northwestern railway
night agent stated the boy cane into
the depot and asked when be could get
train or an eclectric car to Evanston.
He was told that no more cars were
| running south and that he could not re-
main in the station. The agent did not
| notice anything peculiar in Hughes &C.
tions, and can not say whether he was
asleep.
Hughes says he remembers absolutely
nothing about this conversation with
the agent. Nobody else SO far as known,
| saw Hughes until his father found him
in the buggy.
| CDt Haven, the boys physician, states
that his patient had no fever and that
his condition was normal, except for
the rheumatism.-Chicsgo Times-Her-
| aid,