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Show HE CHANGED HIS MIND. Praying: for Death, the I.orer Struggled Agralniit It When Menaced. A curious case of nervous hallucination hallucina-tion is reported in the London Telegraph. Tele-graph. At Bordeaux recently a hysterical hyster-ical Frenchman visited the tomb where his beloved was laid. Carrying a lighted caudle and kneeling by her eolhn, he exclaimed ex-claimed passionately: "Would I could die! Would T could die!" .fust then the wind closed the door and extinguished the light. The bereaved lover who had just prayed for death rushed for the door; he could uot open it; he tore at it, knocked, kicked, struggled, calling loudly for help. No answer, only the utter silence and darkness of the tomb. Ills wish to die was forgotten. He sank down and wept; his tears were not for his beloved, but for himself. Lie felt tho pangs of hunger; he thought of his candle and cut it into four parts. He ate the first quarter the first day, the second quarter on t,he second day, the third ou the third day, and tho lust quarter on the fourth day. No more, and ho mustdie of starvation. Ife made one more desperate ettort to open tho door, when it suddenly opened and the keeper of the cemetery stood before him; the sunlight blinded him, and he fell from exhaustion. He had been there iust four hours. t v,. , , I |