The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-06-16
KE'YSER'S DREAM.
How MI, Keyser Anticipated Death

How Mr.. Keyser Anticipated Death.
Max Adeler has the following:
Last December my friend Keyser dream
cd one night that he would die on the 18th
of January. So strongly was he assured
of the fact that the vision would come true
that be began at once to make preparations
for his departure. He got measured for a
burial suit, he drew up his will, he picked out
nice lot in the cemetery and had it fenced
in he joined the church, and selected six
of the deacons as his pail bearers he also
requested the choir to sing at his funeral
and he got them to run over his favorite
hymn to see how it would sound. Then
he got Toombs, the undertaken, to knock
together burial casket, with silver handles
and cushions inside, and instructed the I'M
dertaker to rush out his best hearse, and to
buy sixty pairs of black gloves to be dis
tr.huted among the mourners. He had
some trouble in deciding upon a tombstone.
The man at the marble yard wanted, to
shove off on him second hand one, with
an angel weeping over kind of a flower
pot; but Keyser finally ordered new one,
with design representing a rosebud with
4 broken stem, and the legend, Not lost
but gone before"
Then he got tie village newspaper to
put an obituary notice of him in type and
he told his wife that he would be eratified
if she would come out in the spring and
plant violets on his grave. He said it was
hsrd to leave her and the children, but she
must try and bear up under it. These al
| hictious are for our own good, and when
he was an angel he would come and watch
over her, and keep his eye on her. He
said che might marry again if she wanted
to, for, although the mere thought of it
nearly broke his heart, he wished her above
all to be happy and have some one to pro-
tect her from the storms of the rude world.
| Then he and Mrs Keyser and the children
cried, and Keyser as closing word of
counsel, advised her not to pillow the corn
earlier than the middle of March.
Ga the night of the 18th of January there
was a flood in the creek, and Keyser got
up a. four o'clock in the morning of the
18th, and worked until night trying to save
his buildings and his weolpile. He was go
busy that he forgot all about its being the
day of his death, and as he was very tired,
he went TO bed early and slept soundly all
night.
| About six o'clock on the morning of the
18th there was ring at the door bell.
Kcyser jumped out of bed, threw up the
window and exclaimed
no there!
It's me-Toombs, SAID the undertaken
What do you want at this time of the
morning? demanded Keyser.
Want, said T0ombs, not recognizing
Keyser. Why I've brought around the ice
to pack keyser in, SOS he'd keep until the
funeral. The corpse'd spoil this kinder
weather if we didn't.
Then Keyser remembered, and it made
| him foql M adj tubnn hp thn,tu nh hnyy tho n 4
had passed and left him still alive, and how
he had made a fool OF himself. SO the
wen, du JUG, sAeev alu1uu mun,,
again with that lie; the corpse is not dead
You're leetlc too anxious, it strikes me
You're not goin' to chuck me into a sep
uichre yet, if you have got everything
ready. 30 you can haul off and unload
About half past ten that morning the
deacons came around with Grape on theil
hats and gloom on their faces, to carry the
body to the grave, and while they were or
the front steps the marble yard man drove
mp with the rosebud tombstone and shovel
and stepped in to ask the widow how deep
she wanted the grave dug. Just then the
choir arrived with the minister, and the
company was assembled in the pa.lor, wher
keyser came in from the stable, where he
had been dosing a horse with patent med
iclhe and warm mash for the CHAMBERS. He
was surprised but he proceeded to explain
that there had been a little mistake some.
how lie was also panied to find that ev-
erybody seemed to be good deal disap-
pointed, particularly the tombstone man,
who went away mad, declaring that such
an old fraud ought to be rammed into the
ground anyhow, dead or alive. Just as the
deacons left in huff, the tailor's boy ar
rived with the burial suit. and before Kew
ser could kick him off the steps the paper
carrier flung into the door the Morning
argus, in which that obituary occupied a
prominent place.
Anybody who wants good, reliable
tombstone that has broken rosebud on it,
ana that has never been used, can buy one
OF that Kind at sacrifice for cash, from
heyser. lie thinks that bad dream must
have been caused by eating too much sau.
SAGE at sumner