The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-30
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 That this life is but dream and a forgetting is remarkably exemplified in the experience of George F. Weeks Of Hartford, Conn.,. who ''came to himself. in this city yesterday, after a lapse Of memory extending over a weeks time, and during which he evidently journey ed here from Hartford. for he remem- bers nothing of his passage. He only remembers that he started to work last Monday in Hartford, and all the inter- vening period between that recollec- tion and his recovery of his proper ego is blank. The only reason he can assign for his queer freak of memory is over work. Weeks is fortunate in being so soon restored to his normal self. There have doubtless been many persons who have experienced these alterations, and have never recovered from them. At least cases have been recorded where men have fallen victims to such lapseS and remained for years unconscious of their previous personalities and station in life. They have to all intents become entirely different parsonage, assuming other names, characteristics, oecupa- tions, and all the attribute of another being, in some new locality. Then the old age has asserted itself, and the mind has become blank as to what trans pired during the period of alteration. One of the strangest and most complex questions which modern sciences has encountered is involved in phenomena of this kind. and modern science has been unable to satisfactorily explain it, for modern science is devoted to the material, and takes no account of what it cannot weigh or carve. Such occur ences are easily applicable by real oc- cultlsts, but our brothers of the Rosy Cross realize that such explanations gre not wo-th while to be made public at present stage of the worlds psychic de- velpoment. It is not the general phenomena of this nature that are now of public. interest, but particular in stances and their effects upon individu- als.
 Accepting the theory advanced by learned medicos that George F. Weeks lapse of memory was due to overworl1, We may draw therefrom a moral that is better than the premises upon which it is based. That is, beware of over work. Work of any kind is attended with danger and discomfort. but under the present organization of society degree of labor is almost unavoidable. But to overwork, to exceed ones allow ance of mental and bodily strength, is too perils of the sort that overlook Weeks. When the physical are. taxed too much they become weakened. and susceptible to disease, and the same is true of the mind. It is the duty of every worker to determine the danger line for himself. Generally speaking, nature is a safe guide, and when the worker becomes wearied it $ time for him to heed the warning and desist. But there are exceptions to this rule. Many persons are chemically tired. They regard work of any kind with horror. There is no safe standard for such persons to determine what amount of toll is dangerous to them, and it is. better for them to abjure 1t altogether. They usually do, by getting into politics. but there are limits to public pay rolls. Hence the large number of tran1ps, who are politicians in embryo.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.