The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1871-09-14
a WONDERFUL DsgA7z.


draw ausuries Of success from their night
y visions; sia;esnen-such as there were
in those days-shapcd their policy from
the admonitory coccsei which, as they
firmly believed, was whispered into their
ears during the dark hours Of night bv
good angels. In short, superstilious be-
lief in The truthluiness of dreams was well
nigh universal and lie who secuted ~
these midnight revelations of mysterious
spirits was looked upon as little short Of
an iniiGel.
All this has been changed in this latter
day. Before the full orbcd glo.ies Of
civilization the darkness of superstition
has vanished as fly the shadows of NIGHT
before the potent arrows Of the god cf day.
People who place any faith in dreams are
now few, and are apt to keep their belief
hid from the great army Of scofiers. And
yet it is perhaps too much TO say tla;
dreams are aluays baseless visions We
have often read of wonderful dreams
dreams which were afterwards fulfilled In
every particular +; bat we are free to con-
fees that we never believed them TO be
more than the coinage Of some romance
writer's brain. And because we have
hitherto been so incredulous. we have hes
ilated 10 test the faith Of our readers by
the relation Of story 10 which, some
three or four weeks ago, we happened 70
be an accidental listener. We have final
ly concluded 10 tell the story, PROMISING
that the lady who tells it was formerly a
resident OF this county, that, from the cir
cumstancc, we believe her story to be
strictly true.
In the State Of Ohio resided, some six
months ago, as they yet 90, a family,
formerly of this county. consisting OF
father, mother, and several chiliren.-
We are of course in possession of their
names, but as the dream was related in
a mixed company, of which we happened
20 be one, and as the relator had no idea
that ''local reporter was about, and
finally, as we have no authority to men
lion names, TO say nothing of publishing
.he facts, cur readers will pardon US for
being a little indefinite.
In the family mentioned above. were
two boys, one about thirteen. years OF
age, and the other perhaps in his third
yea. One day the older boy approached
his mother and asked her if dreams ever
came true. She told him they did not.
adding the familiar saying that s'dreams
always 60 By contraries,p The singular
question awakened her curiosity, and she
| asked what he meant by propoundinc
such a question. He told her hat he had
GRAINED, the preceding night, very ugly
dream that it had made him feel very un-
| comfortable all day, and that it relieved
him very much to hear her tell him that
| dreams never came true. Upon being
pressed TO relate his dream. he did So.
| and this is about what be dreamed -
Some little distance from the house
stands cisiern containing water. which
the family use for household purposes =
He dreamed that his mother directed him
| to bring her some water; ;hat in obeGi.
| ence to her request, he went TO tie cistcrn.
! removed the cover and carried into The
house two buckets OF wafer: that after do
ing this. lie went TO the woodDiIe, picked
| up two sticks of wood and took them tc
his mother; that all this time his iitlt
brother was playing in The ncighborhooC
| of the cisiern that Immediately alie
bringing in the wood he left the house fO
| the purpose of closing the cisieru: that he
! thought he heard hjs mother calling him
and returned, asking ii she had called him
to which she replied 10 the negative f; thai
/ he said it must be the next d dour neighboI
! and proceeded TO see that the neighbor
said she had not called him, and ther
opened a short conversation wi:h him :
that in the meantime he had entirely for
gotten the uncovered cisierR. He further
dreamed that few moments after, hi.
mother told him TO hunt up his little btoth-
er that they searched for him some tins
without discovering him, when the moth
er ran 10 the open cistern, and seeing thc
poor little fellow in the water. iampet
without moments hesitation into the
cistern to the rescue of her child that 3
passing gentleman, whose name was
mentioned. rescued his mother. and inaI-
lY that his little brother was quite dead
The poor boy was much agitated by his
terrible dream, bpt his mother comforted
him, and laughingly assured him shat his
dream came from an overloaded stomach.
Now, the wonderful part of this dream
is that it ,cas Gft.ra0aris fulfJsd, erea to
the mmutest detail Some SIX weeks after
the boy related his dream to his mother,
his little brother fell into the cislern,
which had been left open in the manner
above described the mother Jumped in
and was taken ont by the gentleman who
was seen by the boy in his dream. The
little one who had been in the water but p
q few moments was quite doad. these are
.fuctS, and we leave the reader to make
! the best of them.
The surviving boy was terribly affected
/ by his little brothers tragic death {Ie
became possessed with tie idea that his
carelessness had caused the death Of his
brother, and for time it was feared he
would become insane. His friends re-
moved him from the fatefuI place, and by
! Eeanipg his mind acfiyelv oD,,,lo,.nr -.