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She Grew From Childhood to Womanhood 1n the Land of Dreams. -Tbe atr my case of Mrs. Ewing Althonsa whose very recent awakening from a sleep of over thirty days has caused considerable newspaper comment, had a morethan equal- - ‘,L I, “A :_ mnn-__ and finally administered a dose of some med' icine which gave her a severe chill. From this she passed into a deep sleep, and con- tinued so for some days. The family thought 'her dead, but close investigation saved her from boing buried alive. After a few days she awake at sunrise and remained awake probably half an hour. She was perfectly rational, ate, and complained of no pain, but dropped asleep again. After that for months she a‘volre about the same hour daily, when she was given food. Her physical condition during this time was apparently excellent. But alter a time the regular waking ceased, and it occurred at varying intervals and the periods of wakefulness also varied in length. Generally they were of but a few minutes' duration. Again they extended to an hour and an hour and a half. but this _-.._r.‘,, 1y strange counterpart right here in Ten-nea- eee. the difference being that while Mrs. Althouae slept. days, the Tennessee woman slumbered for ye A". and grew from a child of 10 to a woman uf 32 while she slept. The father at the girl still resides near Troy, the county seat of Obion county, where he ise small farmer. His name is Henry Godeey. His family was large. .. n, Among the younger children was Susie, who up to her tenth year was the brightest and prettiest of the whole lot. Just at this age she was taken 11], and a physician was called in. He visited her a numbpr of timeg, was seldom, and on the whole her hours of wakefulness grew fewer. Her return to s. comatose condition was marked by a bio- cough, :- spssmodic jerking oi the head and shoulders, followed by a sneeza. I‘hese premonitory symptoms lasted long enough for her to reach her couch. All eflorbs to keep bar awake failed, thougi nothing sug- gested was left undone. Electricity was applied in many ways. In the course of time she wekened every five or ten minutes, day and night, but never to exceed two minutes. Finally e purse wan raised when she was about l5, and her father took her to St. Louis, where some of the best physicians experimenter] on her. They {airly tlietered her with electricity, made her flesh raw, puncturing it with needles. and sent her home worse than before. She continued in this condition until her age was 32, when she died while_ osleep. During her life aha was visited by them sands. and her funeral bunched an immense multitude, who came from every direction to catch a parting glimpse of one who had mm: from girlhood to womanhood while ast asleep. HER LIFE SPENT IN SLEEP. During the time when England was rent and turn by civil strife between the two factions represented by the red and white roses, Sir Henry Wyatt, a brave and noble soldier. wore the red rose, and after a bril- liant victory won by his enemies, was cap- tured and imprisoned, so the record tells us, “ in a cold and dark tower." Here he was allowed to languish unsupplied with sufli. cient food to keep the wheels of life moving on. in vain he beyged his jailer to increase his allowance, but fearing to disobey those who ruled over him the man refused. One day Sir Henry discovered that a visitor had made her way into his dark and narrow cell. She purred and rubbed against him and soon the knight and the newcomer were fast friends. Every day she came for a while through a narrow aperture in the wall and day by day the attachment grow. Whe- ther in the course of their interviews Sir Henry told his new friend how hunng he was we do not know. Perhaps it was only guss' desire to show her afl'ecticn for him ; no one day she came lugging something in her mouth and soon she laid a fine fat pigeon at the knights feet. Here was food and just in time to save his life. The jailer was not heartless, and though he dared not buy food for his prisoner, he did not refuse to cook what the knight supplied. In the course of a little while puss brought another bird. Then one came every day. Sir Henry began to recover and grow strong. Finally his enemies, learning how miraculously his life had been preserved, granted him a pardon. You can imagine, after this, how grateful the knight was to puss. To show his feeling towards her, the old chronicle says, “ Per- haps you will not find his picture anywhere but with a cat beside him.’ In was on the line between Charleston and Savannah, and we had run in on a siding to let the express go by. She was behind time and as a number of us strolled around some one proposed to stand alongside of one train while the other passed. The space between two tracks is little enough, but: when you stand with your back to a car the space is frightfully reduced. You can extend your arm and much the passing coaches. Only one man decided to try is. The rest of us stood on the platforms. He stood midway of our train, his back t3 a coach, and he laughed at the idea of danger. When the express finafiy sppesred she was running at a rate of forw or fifty miles an hour, and there was such a. cloud of dust that she might have been taken for a cyclone. She came with a nsr and a scream. I saw the man turn pale before the locomotive was up no him, end the third car had not passed before he wilted rightkiown in his tracks, and when the express had passed and we went to him, he had fsinted as dead away as any woman ever did. When he had been revived, he : _ In Ireland last year 28,569 swarms of beef produced 459.386 pounds of honey, an average of sixteen pounds: per hive. The average store of a swarm kept in hives with monb'e frames, by which portions of the comb can be removed, was ‘23 pounds, while that of a swarm kept in a less commodlons dwel- ling was only 13 pounds. Bebe are not the only animal: that work best in roomy work- shops. “I thought I had more nerve. From where I stood it seemed as if the train was headed right for me, and all at once I at the idea that one of the coaches woul jump the track. The roar confused me. and theepeed of the tram made my flesh orewl. I would not try that position again, safe as it looks, for all the gold you could pile into our beg- gage car." A Test of Nerve Saved bv a Cat THE MYSTERY 01“ A GAS WELL Remarkable Tragedy Occurring in the Buwels of Ihe Enrlh. ercansm), 111., Pub. %.â€"Yesterday morning, while Sam Varner, head driller for the Litchfield Natural Gas Company, was at work at a. well the drill got stuck. The drill is a large bar of steel, weighing about a half ton, and is drawn up by a Windlass. then dropped, sometimes he much as fifty lent. This drill forces its way through thick strata of rock, and is often sunk about 300 feet. Verner worked for nearly an hour before he could get the drill lree, and he then brought it to the surface sud was astonished to discover that it was covered with blood, as was the rope for several feet above the drill. The punderous bar of steel had punctured the life out of something far down in the bowels of the earth. Vnmer placed his ear [0 the mouth of the tubing, and could plain ly hear 3 roaring sound. While he wee in this oature a voice came up. “ You have kille somebody down here," and Varner and his assith made for the village at: a. rapid rebel: nod told their story. ,3 li’eople flocked to the well and examined the bloody evidence of the subterranean tragedy. A physician and a chemist both declared that the red clots on the drill tip were blood, buboould not tell whether it was human or not. Late in the evening the my- stery was explained by the presentation of theiollowing bill by the Litchfield Coal Com- pany 2 “ Litohfield Natural Gas Company, Dr. “ To one mule killed by gas company's drill this day, $50._ _ WaAnd, fel'lbv‘v citizans, there WM: n'ever a. more faithful or useful mule in a coal mine than old Tom, who has met so tragic a death. ” This is a tale of the White Caps. Thomas Benton Smith is over six feet in height and broad in proportion, with bones like rods of steel and muscles like bundles of wire. Unlike most men of large stature be de- lights in strife. He was one of the bravest veterans who followed Grant all through the struggles of the Wilderness. In his neighborhood are a number of wild but good- hearted young men who had read blood- curdllng accounts of the White Cops in the daily papers until their own souls began to yearn for a. little of the gore. In an old ab- andoned logging camp at midnight the Cum berland County White Caps were organized with many a strange and mystic rite. Thomas Benton Smith was selected to be the first victim. He was charged with liv- ing with a woman. l‘he woman was his wifeI but this fact was overlooked by the eager_bsnd. Smith was chopping in the woods on the afternoon before the appointed night, Jau- uary 22, when a friend came along and told him what was up. When the old veteran heard the news he flung his axe into the woods, leaped into the air, clapped his heels together and shouted at the top of his lungs, “ Glory to God I" Then he started for the house capering and talking to himself like a hagpy boy. From the old attic he brought down four old Queen Anne muekets with ' big barrels. Pouringa handful of powder into one of these be filled it to the muzzle Ewith rock nlt. The others he treated in the same manner. He then went; out into his work- shop and prepared a dry basswood war-club twenty feet long and three inches in diame- ter. Around one end he wrapped two old bed quilts, tying them on with a clothes line. It was night. Twenty ghostly forms were gliding over the snow toward the residence of Thomas Benton Smith. Long white capes concealed their forms and heads ; small holes were for eyes and mouth. Two of these phantom-like iorms carried a buck- et of warm, steaming tar ; two held old pil- lows full of feathers under their arms, an- other bore a strong rail on his shoulders ; the others held bundles of switches in their hands. This ghostly band halted a few feet from the front door. Two of them glided noiselesslv around to the back of the house. Never from the gathering shower clouds did the lurid lightning flash and stream with such swift and spiteful fury as those old Queen Anne muskete flamed upon that ghost- ly scene. Flash followed flash with such startling rapidity that all blended together in one blinding glare of angry light. This was followed by a yell as blood curdling l a if all the wild animals in Barnum’s circus had broken loose at once. Towards these astounded White Caps, lwith "flying leaps, came an appalling figure, magnified by the darkness and their own terrors. in its hands this figure bore a warvclub that look- ed like the trunk of some great forest tree. Beside this terrible war club Goliath’s fam- ous spear would have been like a straw in the hands of a child. " Going ter soak the old men in hot tar, air ye ?" screamed the figure, as the huge war-club swung against the foremost White Cap with such force that the nfl'righted wretoh shot up into the air and over the fence as i! fired from a. cannon. Three of his fellows shared a. similar fate, but the rest escaped. “ Hold on, boys, hold on I” he shouted. “ I ain't got helf enough; I ain’t fairly warmed up yet. Come heck I" The only answer was the sound of men running as for their lives. Next: day a. huge grave could be seen on this now famous spot. On it were piled two buckets of tar. At the head of the grave rose a rude stone, shaped from white boards nailed together. On this stone in bold, black letters, was rudely painted : Adventure With White Caps The starfishâ€"the enemy of the oysterâ€" places his stomach upon the mussel shell on which he intends to feed. In a few minutes the gastric juices dissolve the muscles which form the hinge of the shell, the stomach penetrates through the opening thus made to the fish within and exercises upon it so powerful a suction that in a. short time noth- ing remains of the mussel. SAcred to the memory of the Cumberland County White Caps. Enacted by one who loved them like a brother : who would have gathex-ed them to his bosom even an : hen gothereth her brood in a showerâ€"but they would not wait. Requieacat in pace. Oh, the drum 1 There issome Intonation in thy grum Monotony of utterance that: strikes the spirit dumb, As we Eear Through the clear And nnolouded atmosphere, Thy palpimting syllables roll in upon the ear! There’s a part Of the art And in rhyme With the chime And exactitude of time, Goes marching on to glory of the melody sublime. Of thy mmic‘throbbing heart. 1‘hat thrills a something in us that awakens with a start, And the guest Of the breast That thy rolling robs of mac Is a patriotic spirit as A Continental dressed ; And he looms From the gloom! Of a century of tombs, And the blood he spilled at Lexington In living beauty blooms. And hlieyea Wear the guise Of a purpose pure and wise ; As the love of them in lift/ed to a somathing in the skies, That is bright Red and white, With a blur of starry light, A: it laugh! in silken ripples to the breezes day and night. There are deep Hughes creep ’ O'er the pulse: as they leap, And the murmur, fainter giowing on the silence falls asleep. While the prayer Rising fliere _ Then, DWills the sea. and earth and air As a. heritage to freedom’s sons and daugh- ters everywhere. Come And a Oh, the drum! There is some Intonation in thy gram Mononény of utterance that strikes the spirit: umb. Flung on high, Like the flag it flutters by Wings rapturoust upward till it: nestles in the sky. As we hear Through the clear And nnclouded atmosphere Thy palpibating syllables roll in upon the ear! ' ‘l'hc Fearful Crime of: Trotting Horse Owner in Michigan. Angus, Feh,28.â€"Frank Silvers, the own- er of the trotting horse Banker Rothschild, has been living with wife and two daughters at Tecumseh, ten mi‘e: north of here. The girls had just entered their teens. Villiage Marshal Tom Kyle lives near the Silvers homestead. This morning Mrs. Kyle noticed no sign of life about Silvers's house, md spoke to her husband about it. An hour later the village marshal and his wife went to the house and forced open one of the doors. In a chair in the parlor sat Mrs. Silvers. bhe had been shot dead, a bullet having passed through her temples. Neigh- bors were quickly summoned, and the in« vestigation was resumed. In a little room up stairs the horrified searchers found the two girls lying side by side in a bed which was covered with blood. They had been shot through the head also. and both were dead. On the floor at the foot of the bed was Silvers, who, although shot in the head, was still alive. A revolver lay at his side, He was in his stocking feet and coatless. Silvers bought the pistol yes~ tcrday and it is supposed he began his slaughter at 8 o’clock last night, when pistol shots were heard by the neighbors. It is believed family troubles led to the tragedy. Silvers left a letter which provides for the disposition of his property. He will die. The Drum and Its Tum-Tum. No time ought to be unnecessarily lost in securing intimate trade relations between this country and South America, such parts of the latter particularly, as Brazil, Uruguay and the Argentine Republic. According to a report recently If :zssnted by Mr. Simeon Jones, a mutua y beneficial commerce could be easily inaugurated, were certain preliminary conditions complied with. The chief of these. Mr. Jones says, is speedy and regular intercommunication by means of a line of steamers. Surely there is wealth enough, and enterprise enough in Canada to make it certain that valuable markets will not in any sense go a-begging for the Want of a few steamers. Another suggestion Mr. Jones makes is a very important and necessary one. It is that some means should be taken to make the manufacturers and merchants of Canada acquainted with the necessities and peculiar- ities of those countries With which they are assured they can do business if they go the right way about it. This is a self-evident truth. \Ve can never hope to successfully compete with our rivals unless we possess a thorough knowledge of the people lwith whom we trade, so_ that as far as possible we may svécom'modste ourselves t3 their ideas. There is no lack of 50031166. cures for the common ailment known as com. The vege- table, animal, and mineral kingdoms have been ransacked for cures. It is a. simple matter to remove come without pain, for if you will go to any drugyist or medicine dealer and buy a bottle of Putman's Painless Cam Extractor and apply It as direcled the thing is done. Get “ Putnam’s," and no ohher. Round cnfi button: of Roman gold have opal centres, unbounded by a circle of bright rubies. Trade With South America. with sound As profpuqd At! the thunderings resound, thy wild reverberation in a. three that; shakes the ground, A FATHER'S CRIME. To Care 8 Corn. â€" [James Whitcomb Riley. 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