The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-05-03
A Medley, a Mystery, a Marvel and 4
Miracle:
The st8ry of a Dream.

a Medley Mystery, a Marvel and Z
Miracle:
The st8ry of a Dream.
IS r ct money, honestly if you can. but
~ get money!" was foolish fathers
advice to his son. Get money, if YOU car
honestly, makes but a slight alteration in
the order of the words, but varies the sen.
ument considerably. There is no harm in
making money. 1t answereth all things.
Used rightly, it is power for good, and
there IS money enough in the world to form
lever by which the mass of humanity
could be lifted, to certain extent; out OF
It's 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 gave you
must know how to deny those who would
borrow and never repay as 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 loan.
They will ask for just one word with you,
and that one word is sure to be TlORPB. An
impecuniOus fellow met a rich acduaint.
ance, and not liking to ask directly for q
loan, said, Friend Smith, if you had ten
dollars in your pocket and was to ask you
Tor the loan of five, how many would re-
main i'll your pocketY" - Ten dollars to
be sure" replied the rich man, without a
moments hesitation. He had gumption,
and knew too much to part with his money
by any such rule of subtraction.
a l see, said the impecunious man thus
~ TebuHed. He was able to owe. He was
one Of the Micawber sort-aIways 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 this medley. These para
graphs tell the story, as a patient perusal
Will prove. Those who have keen insight
and can read between the lines NAV solve
the conundrum the sooner for Il, but upon
all light will dawn ere they read the final
word of our story, ...f-
/ light will dawn, we said, and so it will,
- light of hope and help. Light is what
certain individual wanted. Mr.. Jones we
viii call him. He was very sick. Con.
sumption had fastened its fangs upon him.
he 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, hack
ing, church-yard cough Tacked 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 night
mare! 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 go, for he
spent a deal of money on doctors and
pHJ SlCS anu was uOJn1nS DeUUere0. lie ate
little, and was fast going down to an I'M
timely grave, leaving his wife widow and
his four bright children orphans, when, 10!
on one eventful night he dreamed for once
a bright and happy dream, which our next
paragraph will relate.
/ leath, the black-visaged monster, had
- until then stared him in the face, but the
dream brought him hope. He saw bright,
white-robed angel in his dream, who said:
. L come to bring you good news. Here is
your cure-sure, safe, harmless, prompt,
and reliable. Get well and seek to take
health thereby to others. Behold the cure ~
w it'll these words the angel was gone, but
ere the trail of light which followed him
had vanished the dreamer saw glittering in
the light three golden letters-Cf. NJ. d.
. What can it mean" he said to himself
as he awnke from his slumber. 4 have
had a Good Many Dreams before, but new
or such this" Startled and surprised,
ne aroused his wife and to her related his
vision. Alas, she could not solve the prob
EN-. Remembering all the medical advice,
and the physic, and the expense involved
since her husband became sick, she ex-
pressed the hope that the letters were not
Intended to suggest that a Good Many Doc
,Ors must yet be consulted in addition to
I'll that had been interviewed. He groaned
II reply and remarked that if he had to
consult any more there would have to be |
! Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay |
hem.
Every day for a week he and his faithful |
- spouse searched diligently for a key |
o the problem. In the dictionary, in such /
newspapers as they happened to have, in I
looks, on plaCards on the walls-every- |
where they sought-hoping to find a clue. |
letters stand for words, and they hoped to |
light upon the words that would suggest |
he cure. They Grieved Many Days over /
heir lack of good luck, as they said, and
he Good Man Dreamed again and again,
ut saw no more angels. Hope deferred
laketh the heart sick. ooh, that the angel
ad Guided Me Definitely and Given More
IT.
\ early two weeks had elapsed since the
' night of the Great Mysterious Dream,
1hen there came to the house a pamphlet.
ired with his exhausting Office work,
hitch he still pursued, determining if pos |
ible to die in the harness, Jones was about
, throw the pamphlet in the fire when
prompted him to examine it.
urely, thought he, here can be nothing
nat viii Pierce this Gloom Most Distress
lg, or Give Me, Disheartened, any relief.
DOR man, he had worked letters over in
Is mind, and made so many combinations
18th them. that they occurred in almost
ven into his prayers. Heaven Grant Ne
he would say, nor let disease
rind Ne Down, and so forth, dd iRtilitans,
I'd a mile or two beyond.
"A entally tortured and suffering in every
"a fibre of his body, what wonder that he
lad page after page of the pamphlet. 1t
as work on diseases, and in the morbid
ate of his mind its contents seemed to
ise that flesh is heir to, but oh, joy! as
e read, a Glimpse Most Delightful of
ght stole in upon him. /" Eurekal Eu-
,ka :" he cried. Wife, have it, l have !
: Everybody in the house heard him cry
Eureka, and rushed to the room to hear
hat he had found. All expected to see |
me Great Miracle Done, and then came
le explanation. Simple, of course, but
ny had he not thought of it before2 Oh
hat a revelation! Here was hope for !
m and for all consumptiyes. Here, hope / I
II suffering friends and neighboTs. That |
ght he scarce could sleep, but when he /
d., be again saw bright vision of golden /
tiers, in fact, Glittering Monogram De-
phered readily, and reading g. NJ. D.;
Id again p. II. p, and vet again r. p, |
Id one huge p, around which these others
ere entwined, and then w. ID. NJ A. All
e letters blended, yet each was distinct.
II he had seen in the book, all he agaiG :
W in his vision.
Nream Most Glorious. D. NJ. &C. N.
D.-Again he rang the changes; back
ard, forward, every way. Gold Medal De-
rived. M. q. n-hisery' Great DelIvereF
till time would fail % tell them all. Z. =. z.
ODD for Perfect Peace Promised for suffer
s, and sweet release from Frustrating
Pains. And again F. =. was
'eedom Promised, and backward, P. F., it
came Pain Flees. Now he could get well,
ID once well, he would be a missionary, a
ad Missionary Devoted TO the work Of
ling others how they might get deliver
ice. he went through the list OF diseases
aong those of his own acquaintance,
DIN John Robinson, whose torpid liver
We him constant headache and severe
Iious attacks, on through the list of those
fering from ulcers, coughs, weak and
seased lungs, to his friend, General
who was as near the grave as he
nd for all these, as well as for himself, /
E Grave May Disappear from present
sion, and each may be Given More De
des of life than they had hoped to have
ars. Against the milder cases he marked
p. p. Against the serious cases he marked
NJ. D., not the Grizzly Monster Death,
lich he so long had dreaded, but some