The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1877-09-14
A Dreamer Of. Dreams.

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understand that it is the plain, unvarn-
ished truth. Being natural, l should
commence with children's dreams. Of
course they are more foolish, and harder
to understand than grown persons on ac-
count of the immaturity of their minds;
nevertheless they have a deep meaning.
My dreams were always hints, or, more
properly significant Of the future. My
oldest sister was aware Of this, and often
asked me what dreamed. | told her /
dreamed brother came home and left his
bones. She seemed excited, and sat down
and wrote him q letter, telling him to
come home Immediately, rs some great
danger threatened him. He replied to
her letter, made light of her warning, and
ended by saying that was some OF her
'Sold woman S notions" Mark what fol-
lowed In about six weeks he was brought
home corpse, being greatly reduced in
flesh, having died Of typhus fever. Twill
relate another child's dream. A little boy
four years old dreamed he went into a
certain room, and saw a mans head lying
on the floor. Some time afterward a man
died in the same room after a lingering
illness n,l y - - = .'. rl
The dreams OF some persons are not re-
liable Persons having weak minds and
crooked ways, could not be expected to
dream straight. The general unbelief in
dreams comes mainly from this cause.
When we moved to Illinois my husband
wished to purchase span of horses. The
result was, old nags, in various stages of
decay, were brought and represented as
sound, and without blemish. In every
instance detected what allied them, and
their peculiar traits. To make q long
story short, will merely relate one
dream. III, 4YEV T., ...% ....- 80
imagined myself sitting in the house,
She held her head slightly back, and I
noticed wrinkles extending from her ears
to her eyes, that gave her a look of great
suffering. asked her what allied her.
She said: rFN "a t~t5a#'f~5 ,.
II have been afflicted with pain in the
back of my neck. They have rubbed all
kinds of strong stuff on it, but nothing
does it any good" ...... =.
She said great deal more which is not
necessary to mention. The next day
about noon q man drove up to the gate
with span Of mares which he wished to
sell for $3.50 apiece. My husband ex
amined them and could see nothing amiss,
but said he would not take them until I
had looked at them. As / walked from
the house to the gate noticed one of the
mares held her head back, had her ears
cropped and also wrinkles extending from
her ears to her eyes. bid the man the
time of day, and then said: ssThere is
something the matter with that off mare"
AS soon as I said that he gave sudden
start as if something had bitten him. I
felt certain had hit the nail on the head,
SOL said: Husband, go around and I'M
loose the collar and see if there is not
something the matter with the back of
her neck" AS soon as he touched the
harness she kicked like vengeance. At
this the man seemed to recover from his
fright, and said:
''Oh, don't do that! have been rub
bling strong stuff On her neck, and she is
afraid you are going to rub some on
After the collar was removed it was
evident that she had an incurable dis
ease; and her neck was minus pound OF
flesh.