The Osceola times., 1883-04-21
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A Medley, u Mystery, "a Marvel and n
Miracle.
The story cf u Dream.
~ CT money honestly ifyou can, but
VI get money" was foolish fathers
advice to his son. Get ctmoncy, if you can
honestly, makes but slight alteration
in the order of the words, but varies the
sentiment conside ably. There is no
harm in making money. 1t answcreth
all things. Used rigAtly ii is power FOR
good, and there is money enough in the
world 10 form lever by which the mass
Of humanity could be lifted, to certain
extent, out of its depths of sorrow and
despair. Money we must have for money
makes the mare GO. Some can make
money who have no faculty for saving.
Would you save you must know how to
deny those who would borrow and never
repay, as well as those who ber simply
because they are too lazy to work. There
are men who never want TO see you ex-
cept to ask the favor of a loan. They viii
ask for Just enc word with you, and that
one work is sure TO be money. An i'm
pccunious fellow met rich acquaintance,
and not liking TO ask direct for loan,
said, Friend Smith, if you had ten dol
lars in your pocket and | was TO ask you
for the loan of five, how many would re-
main in your pocket? ?" "Ten dollars, to
be sure, replied the rich man, without a
moments hesitation. He had gumption,
and knew too much to part with his mon.
ey by any such rule of abstraction.
N / see, said the impecunious man thus
| " rebufied. He was able TO owe. He
was one of the Micawber sort-always
waiting for shmething to turn up. How
like some people who are sick. They
think to get well by letting disease take
care of ITSELF But diseases do not heal
themselves, and too late their victims
full often find this out to their sorrow as
death seizes upon them. Had they been
wise in time they might have added many
years to their lease of life The cure was
nigh them, as it is nigh TO all who read
this medley. These paragraphs tell the
story, as patient perusal will prove.
Those who have keen insight and can
read between the lines may solve the
conundrum the sooner for il, but upon
all light will dawn ere they read the final
word of our story.
| light will dawn, VIC said, and so it will
] light of hope and help. Light is what
a certain individual wanted. Mr.. Jones
we will call him, He was very sick. Con-
sumption had fastened its fangs upon
him. lie had long neglected catarrh, and
laughed at the idea of taking anything for
it when advised to do so, and so went
from bad to worse. His lungs became
diseased, hacking cough racked him al
most to pieces, and he was fast wasting
away. A mere shadow of his former self,
he scarcely slept at all at night, or slept
only to dream horrible dreams. Talk of
| nightmare. A whole circus troupe,
horses and all, seemed to make his bed
the arena Of their wild performances. In
this case money did not make the mare
20, for he spent deal of money on doc
tors and physics and was nothing bet
tered. He ate little, and was fast going
down to an untimely grave, leaving his
wife widow and his four bright children
orphans, when 10 ! on one eventful night
he dreamed for once bright and happy
dream, which our next paragraph will
relate.
neath. the black-visaged monster, had
~ until then stared him in the face but
the dream brought him hope. He saw a
bright, white-robed angel in his dream
who said, 81 come TO bring you good
news. Here is your cure-sure, safe
harmless, prompt, and reliable. Get well
and seek to fake health thereby to 9TH
ers. Behold the cure," With these
words the angel was gone, but ere the
trail of light which followed him bad
vanished the dreamer saw glittcring in
the light three golden lettcrs-G. NJ. d.
"What can it mean ?" he said to himself
as he awoke from his slumber. III have
had Good Many Dreams before, but
never such as this Startled and sur
prised he aroused his wife and to her re-
lated his vision. Alas, she could not
solve the problem. Remembering all
the medical advice, and the physic, and
the expense involved since he be-
came sick, she expressed the hope that
the letters were not intended to suggest
that Good Many Doctors must yet be
consulted in addition to all that had
been interviewed. He groaned in reply
and remarked that if he had to consult
any more there would have to be Gold
Mine Discovered in order to pay them.
livery day for a week he and his faith
Ia ful spouse searched diligently for a
key to the problem. In the dictionary,
in such newspapers as they happened to
have, in books, on placards on the walls,
everywhere they sought hoping to
find clue. Letters stand for words, and
they hoped to light upon the words that
should suggest the cure. They Grieved
Many Days over their lack of good luck,
as they said, and the Good Man Dreamed
again and again, but saw no more angels.
Hope deferred nlaketh the heart sick.
"Oh, that the angel had Guided Me Def
initely and Given More Directions" he
exclaimed again and again.
| A early two weeks had elapsed since the
| ~ night of the Great Mysterious Dream
when there came to the house a p. mph-
let Tired with his exhausting office
work, which he still pursued, detcrmin-
ing if possible to die in the harness, Jones
was about to throw the pamphlet in the
fire, when something prompted him to
examine it. Surely, thought he, here
can be nothing that will Pierccthis Gloom
Most Distressing, or Give Me, Disheart-
cned, any relief. Poor man, he had
worked letters over in his mind, and
made so many combinations with them
that they occurred in almost every sen
tcncc he uttered. They entered even
into his prayers. Heaven Grant Me Dc,
liverance, he would say, nor let disease
Grind Me Down, and so forth. at iaf,ii.
tina, and mile or two beyond.
M cntally tortured and suffering in ey.
N cry fibre of his body, what wonder
that he read page after page of tn. pam
phlet. 1t was work on diseases, and in
the morbid state of his mind its content,
seemed to suit him. II spoke of almost