Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-18
A DREAMER OF DREAMS.
A Chicago Woman Relates Her Remarkable
Experimentation Dreams are Reliable
or the ContrRry-The Genuine Article
Described and Illustrated

A ChicaEO Woman Relates Her Remarkable
Experiences-How Dreams are Reliable
or the Contrary-The Genuine Article
Described and Illustrated
The Chicago Inter Ocean prints q
communication which says,
l want every person who reads this to
understand that it is the plain, UNI
vanished truth. Being natural, i should
commence with children's dreams. Of
course they are more foolish and harder
to understand than grown persons on
account 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.
1 told her / dreamed brother came home
and left his bones. She seemed excited,
and sat down and wrote him letter,
telling him to come home Immediately,
as some great danger threatened him.
He replied to her letter, made light of
her warning, and ended by saying that
was some of her "old woman's notions"
Mark what followed. In about six weeks
he was brought home a corpse, being
greatly reduced in flesh, having died of
typhus fever. 1 will 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 after man
died in the same room after q lingering
Illness,
The dreams of some persons are not
rol,,11n hoxr,,,rr x,raoly V,,1Yn1c
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 a span of horses.
The result was, old nags, in various
stages of decay, were brought and rep
resented as sound and without blemish.
In every instance detected what allied
them, and their peculiar traits. To
make long story short, I will merely
relate one dream. imagined myself
sitting in the house, when a woman en-
tered without ceremony. She held her
head slightly back, and L noticed wrin-
kles extending from her ears to her
eyes, which gave her a look of great
suffering. asked her what allied her.
She said: 81 have been afflicted with a
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 a great deal which is not necessary
to mention. The next day about noon a
man drove up to the gate with span of
mares, which he wished to sell for $3.50
apiece. Ny husband examined them,
and could see nothing amiss, but said he
would not take them until I looked at
them. As [ walked from the house to
the gate, L 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: "There is
something the matter with that off
mare" As soon as L said that he gave
a sudden start, as though something had
bit him. I felt certain I had hit the
nail on the head, so said: Husband,
go around and 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 l have been rubbing
strong stuff ON her neck, and she is
afraid you are going to rub some on"
After the collar was removed it was
evident she had an incrrable disease;
and her neck was minus q pound of
flesh