The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-10-26

into the family, buggy to drive to the
home of a married daughter in a town
twelve miles away. Returning home
after spending the day with her
daughter she had to drive across a
short. high 9culvcrt zoo yards from
home. Except for the fact that a
netghbor saw the mare shy and tip
her out OF h buggy. she could
have given an account OF what had
happened. She was taken into the
house and put to bed. and not until 8
O'Clock next nNrninG did she recover
consciousness autfictcnt to know where
she was.
To this day she has not only no
recollection or remembrance of the ac-
cident at the culvcrt. hut she cannot
recall that ever she started on hat
twelve-mile drive. spent the day and
even started back home. Twenty-four
hours were hlottcd cut Of her life
half of this time spent In active. walk
ing moments n the other half in a
hazE deliriun.
Some time & the wife Of q friend
Of he writer's was riding along a
hridlepath in a public park. a park
wards away, and. looking down the
riding path. saw q horse standing still
In the road and the tlure of II woman
crumpled on the Ercuud. She was IN
conscious for hours, though answering
questions sufficiently to identify her.
and when she recovered consciousness
III a hospital h could . recall that
the course OF the ride. Yet the
chances are that the horse became
frightened and at least swerved sharp
~ enough to throw its rider. for h
was a good horsewoman.
Jones lost his head"
hi Is an old and familiarly accept
ed bit OF phraseology which ma he
literally true on other occasions than
those which involve striking the cram
nus shock there have been half o !.
'cious seconds and even minutes in
which the person suffering from it
may be seen feeling vi brow and head
as If to determine whether il has not
fallen from his shoulders. If the
shock Is such as to excite anger and
revenge In the person. he may turn
on the spot into Il crazed murderer
and when the murderous action Is
done the victim may have no knowl-
edge Of what he did. Juries have ac-
Quilted thousands of such murderers
on the grounds OF temporary insan-
ty."
|. In London the psychologist Walsh
has been making observations of skull
fractures which have served not only
to make a person temporarily chang
ed in personality and character but
which effect a permanent making over
OF the person that was Into a person
that wasn't-"as completely as if the
! person had been born over again." to
quote his phrase.
The case of an Englishman in the
early rush to the Klondike is cited.
One night in a hotel on the borderland
OF northern ice n snow a grizzled
man appeared among a group of min
ers collecting there for the winter and
gave a graphic, romantic story of the
manner in which he had located a
ledge of the precious metal. There
was a look in his eyes. however. which
caused the miners to exchange quiz
zical winks among themselves. A sur
geon present asked the story teller to
allow him to examine his head. The
result of this examination was that an
operation was performed upon an old
fracture of the skull. After his recov-
cry from the operation in a neighbour
ing town a complete change came over
the man who had found the rich ledge
of yellow metal. He recovered his
identity and knew himself as he was
before h Klondike expedition, and,
stranger still, when The season opened
again this man hit the trail again,
found the rich lode anew-and there
the circumstances of his lost identity
came back to him. >. =
His pick layH4here. together with a
q shelf oSssrdek over his head. Seeing
the situation again the circumstances
came back Wilt a ruet. He had
struck his pick into some loose stone
under the edge of the shelving rock.
had caught a glimpse of the ore which
1oosened from the blow, and an in
slant later he had lost all conscious
ness. He found himself again. long
after the accident and the operation:
he found the golden ledge that had
been with him SO long in half deliri-
GUS dreams. and today he is back in
Great Britain enjoying the competence
which his prospecting netted him.