Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-04-20
G. M. D.
a Medley, Mystery, Marvel and a
Miracle.
THE STORY OF A DREAM.
80 Ttst money honestly il you can, but get
w money! was the foolish fathers ad


order of the words, but varies the sentiment
considerably. There is no harm in making
money. Il answereth sli things. Used rightly
it is a power for good, and there is money
enough in the world to form 6 lever by which
the mass Of humani could be lifted, to a
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, SIS well as
those vino heg simply because they are TOO
Lazy TO work. There are men VINO never
want 20 see you except to ask ths favor of q
loan. They will ask for just one word with
you, and that one word is sure to be money.
An impscnnious fellow met rich acqusins-
ance, and not liking TO ask directly for a loan,
said: Friend Smith, il you had ten dollars
in your pocket and | was to ask you for the
loan of FIVE, how many would remain in your
pocket ?" Zen dollars, to be sure, - replied
the rich man, without moments hesitation.
He had gumptiop, and knew. too much to
part with his money by any such rule OF sub
straction.
"a see, said :he inapecuoious man thus re.
" buked. He was ahie to owe. He was
one of the Micawber sort-always waiting
for sonethilg to turn up. How like some
peepls,x..--5 are sick. They think 10 get vel
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 desth seizss upon them. Had they
been wise in time they might have added
many years co 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 psrusal will prove. Those who
have keen insight and can read between the
lines may solve th9 conundrum the sooner for
it, bu. upon all light will dawn ere they read
the final word of our story.
U ight will dawn, we said, and so il will,
IL light of hope and help. Light IS what a
Certain individual wanted. Mr. Jones we
will call him. He was very sick. Consump-
tion had fastened its fangs upon him. He
had long neglected catsrrh, and laughed at
the idea cf taking anything for it when ad-
vised to do so, aad SO went from bad TO worae.
His lungs became diseased, hacking,
churct-yard cough racked aim 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 dresm
horrible dreams. Talk Of nightmare A
whole circus troupe, horaes and ell, seemed
to make his bed the arena of their wild per.
formances. In this case money did not make
the mare go, for ne spent deal Of money on
doctors and physics a1d was nothing bettered.
de ate littls, and was fast geing down to an
untimely grave, leaving his wife widow and
mis- four bright children orphans, when, 10
on one eventful night he dreamed for oEcs q
bright and happy dream, which our next para.
graph will relate.
~ cath, the black-visaged monster, had un.
I J til then stared him In the face, but the
dream brought him bope. He saw a bright,
white-robed angel in his dream, who said, 81
come to bring good news. Here is your cure
sure, safe, harmless, prompt and reliable.
Get well, and seek to take health thereby to
Others. Behold the curel" With these
words the angel was gone, but ere the trail Of
light which followed him had vanished ths
dreamer saw glittering in the light three
golden lettars-G. M. d. "What can il
mean p he said to himself as he awoke from
his slumber. 81 have had q Good Many
Dreams before, but never such as this.
Startled and surprised, he aroused his wife
and to her related his vision. Alas, she could
not solve the problem Remembering all the
medical advice. and the physic, and the ex
pense involved since her husband becamf
sick, sha expressed the hope that the letters
were not intended to suggest that Gcot
Many Doctors must yet be consulted In ad
ditien to all that had been interviewed. HI
gcoaned in reply, and remarked that il ht
had to consult any more there would have tc
be Gold Mine Discovered in order to pay
them.
livery day for week he and his faithful
II spouse searched diligently for key tc
the problem. In the dictionary, in such
newspapers as they happened to have, in
books, Oh placards on the walls-eyerywhere
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 maketh the heart
sick. so, that the angel had Guided Me
Definitely and Given More Directions" be
exclaimed again and again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the
IN night Of the Great Mysterious Dream,
when there came to the house pamphlet.
Tired with his exhausting offics work, which
he still pursued, determining if possible to die
in the harness, Jones was about to throw the
phsmphlet in the fire, when romething
prompted him to examine it. Surely, thought
he, here can be nothing that will Pierce this
Gloom Most Distressing, or Give Me, Dis
heartened, any relief. Poor man, he had
! worked letters over in his mind, and made so
many combinations with them, that they &C.
Cured in almost every sentence he uttered.
i
Grant Me Dsliversnce, be would say, nor let
disease Grind Me Down, and 60 forth, ad in
faitum end mile or two beyond.
AZ entaliy tortured and suffering in every
IVA fher of his body, what wonder that he
read page after psge of the pamphlet. It wa;
a work on diseases, and 10 the morbid state
Of his mind its contents sesmed TO suit him
1t spoke of almost every disease that flesh il
heir to, bus oh, joy as he read, a Glimpse
Most Delightful Of light. stole in upon him
"Eurska Eureka ne cried. wife,
| have il, 1 have it"
Lyverybo in the house heard him crJ
H eureka, and rushed to the room to heal
what he had found. All expected to So.
some Great Miracle Done, and then came thr
explanation. Simple of course, but why haC
he not thought OF il before? Oh what reve
lation? Here was hope for him and for al
cousumptives. Here, hope TO. suffering
friends and neighbors. That night he scare
could sleep, but when he did, be again saw
bright vision Of golden letters, in fact, Gilt
tering Mono gram Deciphered readily, an
readily G. M. D.; and again P. P. p, an
yet again L. P, and one huge P, sroun
which these others were entwined, and the
| ". D. NJ. A. All these letters blended, ye
each was distinct. All he had seen in tn
book, all he again saw in his viaion.
nresm Most Glorious. D. M. &C.. NJ
~ D.-Again he rang the changes back
| ward. forward, every way. Gold Medal DE
served. NJ. G. D.-Misery's Great Deliy
erer-till time would fail to tell them all
P. ?. P. stood for Perfect Peace Promise
for sufferers, and sweet release from Pro:
trating Purgatorial Pains. And again f. f
was Free iom Promised, and backward, 2. f
it became Pain Flees. Now he could ge
well; and once we'll, he would be mission
sry, Glad Missionary Devoted TO the wor
of telling others how they might get deliver
ance. He went through the list Of disease
among those of his own acquaintance, fro.
John Robinson. whose torpid liver gave hil
constant headache and severe bilious attacks
on through the list of those suffering fror
ulcers, coughs, weak and diseased lungs, {
his friend, General B., who was as nea
the grave as he. And for all these, as well q
for himself, the Grave May Disappear fror
present vision, and each may be Given Nor
Decades Of life than they had hoped to hay
years. Against the milder cases he naJke
p. P. 2. Against the serious cases he marke
G.. NJ. D., not the Grizzly Monster Death
which he SO long had dreaded, but somethin
-oh, so much bstter, ss we shall PRESENT.
rec.
I'm short while our hero was well, and wen
everywhere among his friends and neigh
bors, telling of his good fortune and shown
the sick and the suffering how they might b
healed Some laughed and continued TO sui
fer, refusing to be healed. More were wise
took his counsel and proved his vision of th
night as be had done.
"a visioD, less beguing far,
Than waking dreams by daylight are"