Show A man experience to prevent any person from interfering with my design I 1 jumped into th river late in the afternoon friday no one appeared to be about at the time when I 1 struck the water I 1 immediately sank going down and down and yet being carried forward until I 1 thought 1 would never again arise A sound roared through my head it seemed to me it would burst I 1 opened my boath and attempted to breathe being unable t endure the pressure longer bat the water rushed in and I 1 closed my mouth I 1 was again compelled to open it more water entered the feeling was horrible just when 1 thought all was over I 1 reached the of the water about fifty feet from the shore and feet from where I 1 had jumped in near by was a steamboat on which stood a man with a long pole with an iron hook on the end it tools only a second to see those things and in fact I 1 had just time to get one breath when I 1 again sank with my mouth open my past lifo flashed before me and I 1 was again a child the picture of my father and mother stoob out in bold relief I 1 reached out my hand to them the roaring of the water sounded like the sweetest of music suddenly I 1 saw light and thought I 1 was in paradise A large green field covered with roses and other flowers whose fragrance I 1 could smell came in view I 1 felt as if I 1 was being borne up by soma winged messenger whom I 1 could not see but whose presence I 1 could feel I 1 remembered nothing more until I 1 felt a rough jerk my rescuer had succeeded in fastening the boat hook in my clothing As my body was being pulled from out of the water the pichura changed instead of paradise the place in which the devil dwells with all its fires and swarming with hideous red dressed creatures and other things presented themselves in my mind only tc again quickly disappear and leave ma in darkness when I 1 came to I 1 waa surprised to leam I 1 had been unconscious every muscle in my body pained me but my brain was perfectly clear drowning after the first stages are past la pleasant st louis republic |