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Show PERFECTLY SANE NOW. But Forty-five Tears of His Life Are a Complete Blank to Him. "In the village of Lubec," says the Portland raconteur, "lives Clem Wal-lis. Wal-lis. When he was a boy about 15 years of age, he went out to his father's pasture pas-ture to catch a frisky colt As he was about to place a halter around his neck the colt kicked him in the head, making mak-ing a ragged wound. The wound healed, heal-ed, but it soon became apparent that the man was slightly demented, and his hallucination took peculiar forms. He would travel up and down the bay on the steamboats, claiming the proprietorship proprietor-ship o! the latter and refusing to pay fare. The steamboat men humored him, as he was considered daft, and he was the butt of the small boys' jokes and banter. He has lived in the village since and is now 60 years of age. "About 6ix weeks ago the local physicians phy-sicians determined to experiment on his case. They found that a portion of his skull had been forced into contact with the brain by the blow, and by a skillful operation removed the pressure. Strange to say, the man has now recovered recov-ered his reason, and the first question bo asked when he recovered from tha operation was, 'Did the colt get away?' "Wallis is perfectly sane now, but 45 years of his life are a perfect blank to him. " Lewiston (Me.) Journal. |