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deluded creatures who allowed themselves to roll screaming in the mud and spertively agreed that if either of them should fall the other should remain and render suitable protection aud assistance. They had not been long on the ground when, to the con sternation of the gentleman, his gay cons panion suddenly dropped-whereupon, ills stead of fulfilling his promise, he fecat full speed. Flight however proved no preser> vative, for he had not gone 200 yards before he was seized in the same way, and meas> ured his length on the gronnd, while crowd hocked round hinr to witness his mortifica> ton, and offer prayer in his behalf.

 The Jerks continued to prevail for sewers al years. Doctor Cleland saw young woman in Baptist settlement up Green river, who had been subject to them for three years. Lorenzow Bow metwith them in 1885, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was preaching in the Coart>house, the Govern or being present, on which occasion l5O persons were exercised with the jerks. Nor were they confined to any particular sect or denomination of Christians, for at an evening meeting that eccentric individual held IS miles from Knoxville, about dozen Quokers, the most unlikely subjects tha. could have been selected, were affected by them. He says, "I have seen all denomi- nations of religion exercised with the jerks. gentleman and lady, black and white, young and old, without exception. passed a meeting>housc, where I observed the under, growth had been cut away fora camp meets ing, and from fifty to hundred saplings were left breastshigh, on purpose for the people who were jerked to hold by. ob, served where they had held on they had kicked up the earth, as horse stamping fiies." One is almost tempted to suspect that some wag means to pass hoax on Lorenzo's credulity, in this account of the jerking>posfs, for it would seem much more plausible explanation that they were used for tying horses, especially as others assure us it was so difficult to restrain the persons affected.