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Show SiNoui.Ait Br.rovKitv Fkom In-SANitT. In-SANitT. the liil..sdale(?r;tdi.).Vi.W-irl liil..sdale(?r;tdi.).Vi.W-irl relates the pariienlars of a very extiaoidinary ca-e of recovery from lontr insanity in the fimily- of one Mills, of ii oil i 1 1 , Lenawee couniy. a pioneer of that t ovu. tils wife broke down under the trials and privations of pioneer life, after sev eral yiais endurance. en-durance. to.k to her bod. and cti'eied upon long seasons r.f i-er'ec- silence, tin il at last the Int-hand nwokc to the terrible consult msin that his wile was insane. For long years has1 she rein re-in uned in this c 'iidi-io'i, for the most part remaining cnt:re;y siicnt. Her childieli grew up, married and le!t the ' old -home, never having remembered seeing th ir ui.it her off her bed, the hu-hand meanwhile patiently caring for her as best he Could. A lew weeks since her attendant one evening .indulged .in-dulged in S'lne improprieties (which need not here be speeiiiedj, not. carina t.i conet al h"i' actions from the ''eiazy woman.'' The invalid's eyes Sished fire; her strength returned; her tongue loosened: she ro-e in her bed and fluin; at the offender such bitter Words of reproach as made her quail in terror! She then arose and walked about the hou-e; she conve sed intelligently and fluently, and evinced in every possible-way possible-way that her reason had returned. Since the occurrence she takes up the thread of her life where she left it, and converses of things in the "old time," which those who have since th"n mingled min-gled in the stirring scenes of life had long forgotten. She is much surprised at the changes and improvements that have all this time gone on around her, and listen to the long story bur friends . have to tell her with a quizzical expression expres-sion of mingled faith and incredulity. She sometimes shows a slight inc'ina- i tion to take to her bed again, and re sume her silence and mental torpor ; but all that is needed to thoroughly rouse her above such dantrer is to suggest sug-gest the employment of her former faithless nurse. The meeting with her children, who had grown u , marrii d. and left their home, without the tender care and love of a mother, is said to have been very affecting. It was hard for her to realize that these were indeed in-deed the children she had pressed to her heart in the dear old pa.-t ; but over all the uncertainties and perplexities perplexi-ties of the situation, the mother's love burst triumphantly forth, and with a flood of joyful tears she pressed them to her bo.-oci. As for the husband, who has all these long years woike i. and watched, and b'.i'.e.s-ly waited, and ;il last beholds the cou.ps.nK'D of bis early manhood ri-e up lioin her livire ptave to meet him. it would be perfect. y ?a:e to tay that be is. just at present, a lj:t the 1 are 'e-t n an on .be l'ei.iw:-..!. 11. .e i. : o l.w io i. s jubilation. |