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Show HITI.I'.X HAYS IX Till! HLIllIAlTl.ir. A onM.iixrricvT turn, wnn.i: umii.n-tK'tuLa umii.n-tK'tuLa ijitiuMa aiiu wan Hkan. r,n J mil i fome time ago Him Coru Mattoan, of l'lyiiHiulh, Coun., the daughter of J). K. Matloou, a prominent realdenl of the place wm taken III with la grippe. Ml.i Maltoon I. Hie belle of the town and one of the te.oh.r. In the l'.plH'O. pilHund.y achool, Shortly nfter the young laity Learn, ill alio apparently fell oleep and aortmiluiHl for fifteen day.. During thl. Hut. two of her warineat frteii J., Jennie Haa kins and Tilda Matthew, died. Upon awaken lug alio told her rent. or having met her two friends and alo an uncle aud aunt and a brother, all of whom had Ihch dtad for a long lime, and of having m-cii .trange and vvetrJ alghts In the far beyond during her nleencu from boiue, which she aupjio.ed occu plul two years. Tho young woman la prostrated by her experience, aud It 1. doubtful if the will ever again recover from the aevrre shock which her uervou. eyatom ha.rtlvid. Ml. Mattoon glveithl. aowinlof her long driaru, which alio doc. not like to speak about,for It make, her shudder to recall the awful ex. irleuctia: "My trance, or whatever you may call If, li'gan In Imagining I saw my own death. I saw father and mother and brother, and llrr. crying around me, and when 1 was put lu thocolllri 1 did not seem locate. I thought lhat after 1 died that 1 rain, to a long, cold vault, where I met Jennie Hawklu. and lot. of relative, who had died. They eceuic! to think J wa. dead like them, and they Liked to me, but 1 can't rememtier what they told me. "They took ma with lli.m to a high mountain and left me oil the lop, whkli ws. a gnat rock. Thu rock kept growing smaller and smaller, and U.t I had room for only ono foot. 1 fell oil, and for hour. I wa. falling, falling, I landed tu , nu lucloaed .pace, filled wllh wild Ua.s of all kinds. They did not hurt tue, but whin I tried lo get out they told mo I could not, dud tiny ijnke to mu Jurt like human beluga. J crouch en In uuecoriurof the den, and the beasts soon began lo light, and I falulud away. "When I recovered I was on a rock In Iho ucenu. The water kcidrlilog tu Iho top, and I cried for help, but nouo time, Huon the water Hunted mu oil the rock, and 1 tank to tbo bottom. Oli, tbo horrlhlu experience I had Iheio suakia and queer thlugtcf all aorta cruwled over luu. and 1 oould not open my iiioulli to cull for help. II was not like a dream. "I leemlo feel tbo day. and weeks and mouth, go by Ju.t ss now, und I was sure lhat two years had 'a..eil slntw I saw my father and mother. Whllu nt-the bottom of thu mean something with long hairy arms grrued mo aud 1 fainted oguln. When I woke I waa In the moat splendid piece ynu could Imagine. All toy dead friends weru with lio nud wu did nothing but wander through Held, lull of flowers and over brooks and rivers all day long. Wo wiru happy a. could be. I forgot everything ehe. .It Kerned to rial to talk to the peoil. ubonil knew haddled beforumelhat 1 never Imagined lhat t waa truly dead. "The lt i-itt of my unconscloua ma. was thu pleruanle.t, and I aw ok. emu morning to II nd my tWter looking at mo. I thought that .lie, too, had died and come to mo, but after n while, when my eyea became uccuetoniud tu thu old familiar alhtii, 1 knew 1 had not died, and that It waa a horrid dream. How glad I was. I cannot tell you. That I. all I remember, but tborowcrulot.of thing, thathad hap. pin-d lu that lonj time that havi- gouo altogether out of luy mind." |