The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-07-22

In our dreams we see men and women as
distinctly as in our waxing moments. II
one saw his deceased friend as plainly
when awake as he does when asleep, he
would acknowledge that the dead do walk
snd that he had seen veritable ghost
1t is, then, nothing to see dead wife,
husband, or sister, merely because our
senses are at the time, shut against the
ordinary objects of the external world!
"O!" said my friend Brown, who had
lost his wife two months before, 30, for
that magic mirror of which 1 have read,
which would conjure up the dead!"
Yet Brown acknowledged that he had
talked with his wife familisrly a dozen
times since she left this sublunary sphere,
but it was in the visions of the night; it
was while his senses were stepped in slum-
Der. He acknowledged that he had seen
his wife without the aid of the magic mir
ror, but, alas he said it was not real 1t
was only dream-it was not her real self,
only deception-her soul was not there.
10 see person in dream is no sign that
the person sees you in a dream, or that he
thinks or cares anything about you. None
but humbugs or fanciful enthusiasts will
assert to the contrary. We want facts, not
fancy. We have dreamed of having ter
rible quarrel and bloody fight with an
individual, and have met him an hour af-
forward in the street, when he has saluted
us with smile and cordial shake of the
hand. The fight had, evidently, been all
on one side.
have mentioned my friend Brown. He
is no imaginary character. He was mar
ried but two months when he lost the be-
ing whom he had chosen for his companion
for life-voluntarily chosen, because he
loved her-irrespective of the circumstances
in which he found her. 1t was most GER
tainly love match--love founded on es-
TEEN, like golden bracelet on beauti-
full arm.
"shall we receive good at the hand of
God and not receive evil?" said the min
lister.
"Alas !" replied Brown gloomily, 'the
good lasted me but fortnight; the evil
will continue for life time"
"No, no." said the parson, 1--WE always
think thus when the blow first falls upon
the heart, but we survive the infction.
As for me, sir, you know that 1 have
been married twice, yet l adored my first
wife"
"We are not alike" was the reply of the
bereaved one. "My heart is in the grave
with Rosalie. Sir, it is an insult to me and
an injury to her, the suppostion that she
can be forgotten. o, then, is it you, who
claim to be the evangel of better world
you, who would treat my Rosalie as if she
was already annihilated-as if she M
longer had conscious existence? Tell MI
that and l will also cease to be; but, while
there is life beyond the grave, how dar'
you hint that Rosalie may be forgotten
that she may be exchanged for an
other?"
"Time, sir-we must leave it to tim
to"
may, sir, then there is no such thing a
genuine attachment. II it be mere ques
ton of time, there is nothing in love bu
idle fancy. Does Rosalie eSistan the les
after the lapse of twenty, fifty, or thou
sand years o, let me tell you that
sometimes imagine that she does not exis
at all, since she comes near me no more
since she designs not to reply to my earnes
entreaties."
"You are unreasonable Mr.. Brown, In
deed you are. Had it pleased God that yo
and Rosalie should continue together, b
would not have taken her away; and, sine
,, he has taken her away, why should b
send her back to you? To doubt futur
state of existence, because God does nc
reverse his decree and restore your wife
r is not the part Of rational man. If Go
: had intended that your wife should retur
: to earth, at your request, she would hav
done 70, but, in that eass. yeu would hsy