Show REMARKABLE MISHAPS Of Men len Who o Suffered From Double Hallucination Measles Cured by Smallpox Brought on by Now Non OW theres there's something I might find hard to believe belleve It if I didn't know something something some Mme thing of that kind of ot thing myself sal said 1 Harley T. T Page of oC Baltimore with his finger on the article which he had been reading In tho the lobby of oC the Brown Drown ho ho- tel I t What Is It the asked traveling man next to him without looking up from his paper I This about the man Stapleton who vho went from New ew York to and thence to New Orleans changing from one vessel to another and going through this long sea voyage vonge without knowing anything about It The drummer became Interested And you OU say you ou knew some somo one who had a n similar attack Knew Him I should say n I dl did 1 I was the sufferer myself I didn't take tako a sea voyage oage that I know of or but my experiences beat bent this man Stapleton's Stapletons Stapletons Stapleton's Staple Staple- tons ton's all nil hollow lIe He was unaccountable for Cor his own acts nets for tor the space of three months while I 1 was knocking about without a a. hea head 1 on me you ou might sa say for tor nearly three years And the funny part of or It was I remembered a great many occurrences of oC that time and do you but they're there all nil mixed and always will be Without much urging Mr Page proceeded with his strange narration Some ten years ears ago I was taken with measles I was only about 2 22 years ears old but hut I filled a n rather responsible place as shipping clerk In a big wholesale grocery grocery grocery gro gro- cery house and lived at home with m my father tather and und mother and other members of or our family I had a n pretty prett rough siege with the measles and when I was WIlS able to beup beup be bo boup up and about again I found myself afflicted with a peculiar hallucination hallucination and and yc yest t It wasn't exactly a n. hallucination I simply could not determine whether I was asleep or awake During m my Illness I slept badly and dreamed a great deal an and 1 when I got well I found Coun 1 I was still dreaming even en when I was going about m my business Then sometimes when I thought I was dreaming 1 Id I'd 1 find myself wide awake eIt e. e It was awful My 1 trouble really real unfitted me for Cor work but hut my employers were very land kind to me and antI let me work when whenever eyer I could coul 1 but I was worried to death nearly nearl all nil the time For Instance In the bl big warehouse one afternoon I at a n. great rate and turned In a fire alarm The whole place was on lire fire It seemed to me Everybody came rushing In but there wasn't an any fire at nt all nil It embarrassed mo me melike like sixty for I had seen the lire fire or 01 thought I had and now there wasn't any I went out and hunted up one of the proprietors and apologized for having turned In n the alarm and caused all the trouble and commotion He looked sur sur- x r Vh Why Shy there hasn't been any alarm turned In he saidI said ald aldI I asked him If he lie meant to tell me that he and twenty or more of or the employees employees em em- had not been out In th warehouse hunting for tor the fire I had been shoutIng shoutIng shouting shout- shout Ing about Certainly that's that Just what I mean I haven't been out of oC this office for tor three hours he answered I Well Veil I was wa dumfounded and so mixed up that I went straight home or I thought I did and told m my father Cather about It but he Informed me that I hn hadn't been down town that day that on the tho contrary I had put In the whole day rea reading In the library Well Yell I wont won't go on with more of or the these e aggravating blunders of or mine I did dida a good deal of hard work but was continually puzzled puzzle to know what was going on and whether things were as they looked or whether the they just seemed to beI be he I got so o used to being fooled by things that I always expected 1 them Jo o turn out exactly opposite to what they seemed But Dut even cn this got me mo Into trouble Once I was passing a house and saw a alot alot alot lot of bricks rolling down the roof right at me but I knew they were not bricks so I dl did 1 not dodge 1 e and one of them hit me on the head hearl an and 1 darned near ended me It turned out that the they were real bricks Just ns as I had hall not expected Oh I was always alwa's In trouble I went to St. St Louis or at least I think I did lid though Im I'm not sure for tor though my father told me mc about It afterward I cant can't remember though whether It was before or after I recovered m my senses sense Anyhow Anyhow Any Any- how I went to St. St Louis I think and lived there for tor a year doing odd tu tuns ns at work when I felt able that able that Is Is I think I worked worked worked-I I know I did If I really was there and 1 then I came back to Baltimore And what cured you asked the highly Interested ted traveling tm man Smallpox I had a had bad attack of oC It but hut It left me all aU straight In my head and you OU bet I prefer smallpox to measles and always will Denver Post |