Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
8. NJ D..
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= medley . Mystery, . Marvel and
u Miracle.
inc Story Of q Dream.

L-raItIS~ son. Get money,H you. can.
honesty, makes but a slight alteration m
the order OF the words. 6slt varies ths s. n
linen. considerably. There Is no harm in
LaAihS money. It answereth all things
. SEQ ilgnely, 1t is a power for good, and
- money enough in the world to form
could be lifted, to a certain extent ont ~
us uePtnS OF sorrow and despair. Money
we must nave for money makes the mara
60. some can make money who have no
lacuIy Lor saving. Would you save YOU
must KNOW how TO deny those who xeuld-
borrow ana never repsv az weN ms those
VINO peg simply because they. are too law
70 woi e. mere are men who neyers<vant
sI 70 YOU except to ask the favor Of & loan.
lnsy VII asK Tor just one word with You,
sl.u .nas one word is sure TO be money. An
impecunious fellow met a rich acouaint-
once, and not liking to ask directly for a
loan, said, Friend Smith, if you had Ten.
dollars IN your pocket and l was to aslrsv0{S.
Tor the loan of five, how many would re-
MAN IN your pocketP -" Ten dollars, to
De sure, replied thearich man, without a
moments hesitation. He had gumption.
and knew too much to part with his monsV
byAny such rule Of subtraction. - :
see, said the impecunious man thus
reounea. de was able to owe. Hswas
one OF the Mieawber sort-always waiting
FOR something to turn up. How like some
speople who are sick. They think to get
well by fetting disease take care Of itself
But diseases do not heal ,themselves, and
Zoe tate their victims full often find this out
70 thelr sorrow as death seizes upon them.
Had theyf been wise in time they might
have added many years to their lease or
life. The cure was nigh them. Is IL Il nigh
to all who read this medley. These para
-&t2phs tell the story, as a patient perusal
win prove. Those who have keen insieht
and can read between the lines may solve
the conundrum the sooner for Il, butupon
AL plght VIII dawn ere they read the final
Npkd of our story. "a.
III light win dawn, we said, apdsso it will.
flight OF hope and helps Light is what
a certain individual wanted. Mr.. Jofsx We,
will call him. He was very sick. Com
sumption had fastened its fangs upon him.
he had long neglected catarTh, and laughed
at the idea OF taking. anything for II when
advised to do so, and so went from bad TO
worse. His lungs became diseased. a hark..
ing, church-yard 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 night
mare! A whole circus troupe, horses and
oil, seemed to make his bed the arena Of
their wild performances In this ca se
money did not make the mare 20, for he
spent deal of money on doctors and
physics and was nothing bettered. He ate
little, and was fast going down to an un-
timely 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.
heath, 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
" 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 10
With these words the angel was gone, but
ere the trail of light which followed him.
had vanished the dreamer saw gathering In
The light three golden letters-G. n. d.
wv hat can 1t mean%' he said to himself,
ns he aw"lle from his slumber.s q / have
had Good Many Dreams before, but new
er such as this" Startled and surprised,
he aroused his wife and to her related his
vision. Alas, she could not solve the prob
lem. 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.
tors must yet be. consulted In addition to
all that had been interviewed. He groaned
In reply and remarked that II he had to
consult any more there would have to be
Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay
them, 90 .-.ss.s y -
II very day for 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-every-
where they sought-hoping to find a clue.
Letters stand for words, and they hoped to
light upon the words that would suggest
the cure. They Grieved Many Days over
their lack of good luck, as they said, and
the Good Man Dreamed again and again,
put saw. no;nore angels: Hope deferred
maketk-the heart sick. "Oh, that the angel
/ had Guided Me Definitely and Given More
Directions, iheexelaimed, again and again.
n early two weeks had elapsed since the
~ night of the Great Mysterious Dream
when there came to the house a pamphlet
Tired with his exhausting office work
which he still pursued, determining if pos.
sible to die in the harness, Jones was about
to throw the pamphlet in the fire when
something prompted him to examine II
Surely, thought he, here can be nothing
that will Pierce this Gloom Most Distress.
ing, or.Give Me, Disheartened, any relief
Poor man, he had worked letters over In
his mind land made so many combinations
with, them, that they occurred in almost
every sentence he uttered. They entered
even into his prayers. Heaven Grant Ne
Deliverance, he wouldsa nor let disease
Grind Me Down, apd so forth, 0d iJlfiRituas,
and mile or two beyond.
nj entally tortured and suffering in every
N'I fibre of his body, what wonder thathe
read page after page Of the panphiet- IL
was a work on diseases, andfh the morbid
suit him.s 1t spoke of almost every dis
ease that flesh is heir to, but oh, joy! as
he read, a Glimpse Most Delightful of
| light stole in upon him. Eurekal Eu.
rska !" he cried. !" Wife, have it, I have
Everybody in the house heard him cry
~ Eureka, and rushed to tho room to hear
what he had found. All expected to see
some Great Miracle Done, and then came
1.-THE explanation. Simple, Of course, but
why had he not thought of 1t before! oh
fswhat a revelation! Here was hope for
him and for all consumptives. Here, hope
for suffering friends and neighbors. That
night he scarce could sleep, but when he
did, he again saw bright vision Of golden
letters, in fact, Glittering Monogram De-
ciphered readily, and reading G: NJ; D;
and again II. P p, and yet eEaiu sF.sR-,
and one huge p, around which these others
were eRtwined, and then w. ID. ALL
1 the letters blended, yet each was distincts
| All he had seen in the book, all he again
saw in his vision.
lNHream Most Glorious. d. N. &C.. N.
~ D.-Again he rang the changes; back
ward, forward, every sTay. Gold Medal De-
served. M.H.D.-Misery'sf Great Deliverer
-atill time wodId fail to tell them all. P.P. p,
stood for Perfect Peace Promised for suffer.
Ppfgatorial Pains. And again F. P. was
Freedom Promised, and backward, P. F., II
became Pain Flees. Now he could get we'll
and once we'll, he would be missionary, a
Glad Missionary Devoted to the work OF
telling others how they might get deliver
ance. He went through the list.pf diseases
among, those of his own acqnaintance
from John Robinson, whose torpid Hvei
| gave him constant headache and severe
bilious stacks, on. through the list Of those
spHering from ulcers, coughs, weak and
diseased lungs, To- his friend Genera
B., who was as near the grave as he
And for all these, as well as for himself
the Grave May Disappear from present
Vision, and each maybe Given More De
cades Of life than theyahad hoped to have
years. against the miidercaseshe marked
IL. p. p. Against the serious caseshe marked
g: NJ. D., not the Grizzly. Monster Death
4 which he so long had dreaded, but some
I thing-oh, so much better, as we shall pres
emily see. .-s.le,f
In short while our hero was well, anC
\ went everywhere among his friends ant
neighbors, telling of his good fortune aBt
showing the sick and the suffering how they
! might be healed. Some laughed and con