Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1883-04-21
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A Medley, n Mystery, n Marvel and q
Miracle.

Miracle.
THE STORY OF DREAM.
Get money honestly if you can, but get
money!" was a foolish fathers advice to
his son. Get money, if you can honestly,
makes but slight alteration in the order
of the words. but varies the sentiment con-
siderably. There is no harm in making
money. It answereth all things. Used
rightly it is power for good, and there is
money enough in the world to form a lever
by which the mass of humanity could be lift
ed, 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, rs
well as those who beg simply because they are
TOO lazy TO work. There are men who never
want to see you except to ask the favor of a
loan. They will ask for just one word with
you, and that one word is sure to be money.
An impecunious fellow met a rich acquaint-
ance and not liking to ask dire, lily for a
loan, said, 'Friend Smith, if you had ten
dollars in your pocket, andI was to ask you
for the loan of five, how many would remain
in your pocket" ''Ten dollars, to be sure"
replied the rich man, without moments
hesitation. He had gumption, and knew too
much to part with his money by any such
rule of subtraction.
Oh, see, said the impecunious man thus
rebuiled. He was able to owe. He was
one of the Micawber sort-always waiting
for something 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
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story, as patient perusal will prove. Those
who have keen insight and can read between
the lines may solve the conundrum the SOON
er for it, but upon all, light will dawn ere
they read the final word of our story.
Light will dawn, we said. and go it will,
light of hope and help. Light is what
certain individual wanted. Mr.. Jones we
will call him. He was very sick. Consump-
ton had fastened its fangs upon him. He
had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at
the idea of taking anything for it when adj
vised to do SO. and so went from bad TO
worse. His longs became diseased, hack
ing, churchyard cough racked him almost 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 per-
formances. In this case money did not
make the mare go, for he spe-.t a deal of
money on doctors and physics and was
nothing bettered. He ate little, and was
fast going down to an untimely grave, leav-
ing his wife widow and his four bright
children orphans, when, To- on one eyentful
night he dreamed for once q bright and
happy dream, which our next paragraph will
relate.
Death, the back-visaged monster, had
until then stared him in the face, but the
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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 take
health thereby 10 others. Behold the curei'
With these words the angel was gone, butere
the trail OF light which followed him had
vanished the dreamer saw glittering in the
Light three golden letters-G. M. d. "What
can it mean?" he said to himself, as he
awoke from his slumber. 81 have had a
Good Many Dreams before, but never such
as this" Startled and surprised lie arouse1
his wife and to her related his vision. Alas,
she could not solve the problem. Remem-
bering all the medical advice, and the physic,
and the expense involved since her husband
became SICK she expressed the hope that the
letters were not intended to suggest that n
Good Many Doctors must yet be consulted
in addition to all that had been interviewed.
He groaned i'll reply and remarked that if he
had TO consult any more there would have to
be Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay
them.
Every day for a week he and his faithful
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 ciew. Letters
stand for words, and they hoped 10 light
upon the words that should suggest the cure.
good luck, as they said, and the Good Man
Dreamed again and again, but saw no more
angels. Hope deferred maketh the heart
sick. "Oh, that the angel had Guided Me
Definitely and Given More Directions" he
exclaimed, again and again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the
night of the Great Mysterious Dream, when
there came TO The house pamphlet. Tired
With his exhausting Office work, which he
still pursued, determining 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
Pierce this Gloom Most Distressing, or Give
Me, Disheartened 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 sentence he
uttered. They entered even into his pray
ers. Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, he
would say, nor let disease Grind Ne Down,
and SO forth, dd infnitum, and mile or two
beyond.
Mentally tortured and suffering in every
fiber of his body, what won ter that he
read page after page of the pamphlet. IL
was a work on diseases, and in the morbid
state of his mind its contents seemed to suit
him. 1t spoke of almost every disease that
flesh is heir TO, but oh, joyl rs he read,
Glimpse Most Delightful of light stole in
upon him. "Eureka Eurekal" he cried.
"Wife, Ihave it, ha'p it."
Everybody in the house heard him cry
Eureka, and rushed to the room TO hear
what he had found All expected to see some