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sMi vr?syy -ifyr- tivnp H THE COURIER. 12 I HfcBltftSlUa lUltiW VJHWErSYW ttMStRftTOttf OF TMSC j I ONE OP the; largest jviuic schools ii the wbi I : s : : The remarkable growth of this conservatory is due largely to the rapid and intelligent advancement of its pupils through the same methods of instruction which are pursued in the leading European Conservatories. AH branches of music taught, with many Free advantages. Fall teim begins Wednesday, September 12 . Send for new circulars giving full information to OREX K. IOCKE, DIRECTOR. University- Place, JXebr 2 !- I -5- r is? )MIMMMMMIMMIIMMMIIMIIIIMIB HMW i 1, mm. Miss Dewey Bpoke of the trick they bad agrssd om the Bight before, but Mary kssw nothing of it and, being in hereby aad reserved state, made do reply. Her companion having heard, nodeBbt,olllka Reynolds' peculiarity gaeased that something unusual had happened. Going down to bteaktast Mary did not know her hoateaa or her awreuadiogt, until her brother, whom the keew in both atatee, came in and introduced her anew to his friend. After a farther etay of a. few daye ahe returned to her home. Soon after ahe awakened her aieter, with whom ahe waa alaeping, and aaid: "Come, Nancy, it k time to get up and play that trick on John!" "When she realized she had come home to what (in her eecond state) ehe termed the "Nocturnal Shades" ehe was much chagrined, for the society of Meadville was much more to her taste in the abnormal stat. . One of the peculiarities of the second state was; thatiMary Reynolds had no sense of personal danger while that con dition lasted. Rattlesnakes, wolves and bears abounded in the wild country contiguoue'.to her home and her ab solute disregard of the risk ehe ran from themin herjriding in the woods caused her relatives much anxiety. On one occasion ahe met a bear and ordered it from bsrfeath and was about to dis mount andfdrive;it away when it re treated growling. She described it afterwardst home Jaa a "great black hog." At another time, in one of her rambles, Bhessw a rattlesnake and, at tracted by its beauty, attempted to capture it "It ran under a heap of logs. She seized it by the tail just as it was disappearing. Providentially her f oot slippedand. to'save herself from a fall, she let go of the snake. " Thus ehe appears to have led a "charmed life" while in thk abuormal'condition. While in this second state, that is in its earlier phases, soon after falling asleep, ehe would begin to recite aloud the events of.the day just ended, mak ing laughing comments on whatever eeemed absurd orscomical, and would follow this spoken chronicle with a pro gram for the next day, which she car ried out to the letter, providing she did not. in the meantime, Ispee into her first or natural state. Doctor Plumer's narrative thus far deals with the marvelous instance of double consciousness in Mary Rey nolds' case. He enlarges it to give the details of a remarkable dream which the "patient" had after the family had de clined to allow her to attend church at Titusville. In this dream a preacher appeared and revived her memory of all the Scripture ehe had learned in her earlier or first condition, a knowledge which, her biographer declares, remain ed with her in spite of the fact "that she could not then read, and did not know the Bible from any other book." In this dream, aleo, she made the acquain tance of a dead sister whom she had not known in life and her description of her was recognised by the family. - The indication of mental unsound ness which characterized, the earlier portions el the tiaMTwhich she passed . Ttalher secoad state grew fainter and, at Issgth, wholly disappeared after these changes had ceased, leaving her per jaaBMtly in her abnormal state. She had then reached her thirty-sixth year, ia 1819. She lived for a quarter of a century after this data end during this long period "no ope could have dis covered in her anything out of the or dinary ay, except that ahe manifested an unusual degree of nervousness, yet aot sufficient to attract particular at tention. She waa rational, sober, in dustrious, and gave geoct evidence of being a sincere christian. For a num ber attests -she-was a constant -member of the Presbyterian church. For some years she taught sesml and in that capacity waa both useful and accept able." Her death occurred in January, 1854 and was very sudden, being un attended with any preceding illness. A severe-pain in the region of the brain was the only warning and it was fol lowed by death in a few minutes. The author of the biographical sketch takes some pains to lay the facts in the case, "especially before those interested in mental philosophy," and gives some good and obvious reasons to prove that it was a genuine instance of Double Consciousness. In conclusion, Doctor Plumer gives the opinion, backed by that of his sub ject, that her abnormal state had its origin in physical disease, fie believes that phyeiologtete will connect her phe nomenal changes of personality with "the time of life when they began and that of their termination," but adds that the brain was immediately affected "But," he adds, "the facts, as far as ascertainable now, fail to explain the special features of her case, the two lives covering fifteen years, wholly un connected with each other, yet each continuous from state to state, and the final settling down into a state of being lasting a quarter of a century, etc." The bearings of the case on the sana tive treatment of the insane, on ques tions of mental science, on questions of conscience or casuistry and on the re ligious aspect of the matter, he leaves to the thinking world, ready and willing to receive light on any of these import ant and intricate matters. Colorado Excursion. 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