After Many Years

A Portland narrator has a story to teil of scientific as well as popular interest, beariug upon the little understood machinery o f that most wondrous orcranism, the human brain. "In the village of Luba," says the Portland raconteur, "lives Clem Wallis. When he was a boy about 15 years of age he went out to his father's pasture to catch a frisky colt. As he was about to place a halter around his neck the colt kicked him it the head, making a ragged wound. The wound healed, but in soon became apparent the man was slightly demented, and his hallucination took peculiar forms. He would travel up and down the bay on the steamboats, claiming proprietorship of the latter and 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 six weeks ago the local physicians 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 his reason, and the first question he asked when he recovered from the operation was, 'Did the colt get away?' Wallis is perfectly sane now, but forty-five years of his life are a perfect blank to him."