Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-18
Written for the Grant County Herald

In this age of fancy and credulity
and at time when the whole eountr,
is rife with spiritual manifestation
and apparent evidence of mesmeri
power and influence, and many ar
converts to belief in supernatural
premonitions and mesmeric control
the following sketch will doubles
prove interesting to the many who ar,
curious in the investigation of th'
philosophy of dreams, signs and won
derful phenomenon:
Twenty-Five years ago the write
of this article, the incident of fact re
ported from memory, was stopping a
jamestown. then a quiet prairie vii
lage, nestled among springs, and
shaded with poplars and orchard
trees. The situation is at the head O
a ravine, which videns and deepens
in its decent toward the Sinipee, into
which it discharges a fine stream Of
clear water. Mining was then more
general business than farming al
Jamestown, and the miners at that day
were more noted than any others fol
sobriety and stability. There was a
flourishing lodge of the Sons Of TEN
perance, and not liquor store in the
place.
One Home and his lady kept the
boarding house, and they entertained
travellers. Some of the miners board,
ed there, including the subject of this
article. Mr. Home was large man,
and stern in his ways, and Mrs Home
was a Jolly fat woman; they had no
children, ana some years after they
removed to their old home in New
York.
One morning at the breakfast, a
reticent young man and good listener
to the conversation, and who had
not yet spoken a word, introduced
the subject of dreams bv asking this
question, addressed generally for an-
swer by any one present; as there
anything in dreams, particularly the
dreams of a miner?o Mrs. Home
answered in a Yankee way, "Why,
Harry, have you been dreaming?"
eyes, Madame" said Harry. 81
dreamed in the night that | was in
luck, had plenty of money to pay
board bills, store debts for blasting
powder and the like, and had cart
load of dollars; | had struck a lead
aud was fush?" pheasant dream"
continued Mrs. Home, "but whereof
Harry said, fright across from the
Gilmore place where | am digging,
but dreamed | had drifted north thirty
feet where a crevice opened out, filled
at the bottom with heavy mineral "
Whereupon the breakfast company
avowed their disbelief in dreams, but
with accord encouraged Harry to
"drift north thirty feet" just to find
out sure whether there can be any
truth in dreams. A month later the
following notice appeared in the
GRANT COUNTY HERALD:
"MlNERAL DfscovERY.-We learn from Esq.
Y an Week, who is in town, that a few days
since Harry - and partner made a dscov~
cry Of heavy mineral in their diggings near
jamestown. It is further reported that Harry
had dreamed that BY dritting north thirty feet
he would find his fortune; and that in pursus
anee of his dream monitors advice, he drifted
north the thirty feet and found the treasure.
This is their first luck after years Of perseyer-
ancc and scant living The discovery is regard
cd az one Of the most promising ever made in
-, f,s1
lion. Several thousand dollars worth in sight
and raisedn
Mouths aftcI IL was reported ne
lode had already brought them large
fortunes, and that they were investing
their money usefully and not for self
decentralization, as was too often the
custom those days. Harry subse
quently visited his home east, married
4 lady with whom he had been &C.
quainted at school when boy Of
fourteen, and they are now happy
folks residing not far from their source
Of fortune.
We have narrated thus as an intro
ductory to the subject indicated by
the head lines over this article.
Wise and learned men of every age.
masters of thought and science, and
men claiming inspiration, have held
that originally man possessed an intu
tive knowledge, or sixth sense; and
that such sense or knowledge has
long since been lost, or if at all exist
ing appears in some modified degree
and doubtful rarity; that originally
his mind was a mirror of the universe
in which everything was reflected, th'
future as well as the past and living
present.
But from some cause man gradual,
or suddenly lost all knowledge, ex
cept what is received through tht
FIVE senses, or so nearly all that b,
can only know beyond what comes
to him when the mind is in passive
condition; that is when external oh
iects are excluded from the mind by
sleep Of the senses, then the spirit i,
free from its impediments and may en-
ioy somewhat its original privileges.
Its not questioned that there i
something in the mind, or nearly re
lated to the mind, which does not sleep
a something which never rests ant
wanders abroad, or into the past an,
future; and there is mental or spirit
ual popularity, or anomaly, which ap
pears to report things present AM
known with no more truthfulness tina
what is unknown and unrevealed. !
must be inferred that such property {
the mind appears false and tramelle
only for the reason Of its connectlo
with the gross senses. For in the pas
sive state we seem to see and hea
with natural organs, and to convers
in one common language. Recent ex
periments prove with reasonable cleai
ness that, under high state of mag
netic influence, there being a con
plete state of positive and negativ
polarity, the purer essential of mia
or spirit is more free and perfect, an
more truthful than when there exist