Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1883-04-11
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A Medley, n Mystery, n Marvel ind
Miracle.

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A Medley. a Mys,ery, Marvel ind
Miracle.
TIE STORY OF A DREAM,
Get money honestly If you can, but get
money" was 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. 1t answereth all things. Used
rightly it is power for good, and there is
by which the mass OF humanity could be lift.
cd, 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 thosew 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 o
loan. They will ask for just one word with
you, and that one word is sure to be money.
An impecunious fellow met rich acquaint-
ance and not liking to ask dho tly for
loan, said "Friend Smith, if you had ten
dollars in your pocket, and was to ask you
for the loan of five, how many would remain
in yourp ocket?" "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.
Oh, l see, said the impecunious man thus
rebuliel. He was able TO owe. He was
ore 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 10 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 SOON
er for it, but upon all, light will dawn ere
they read the final word of Our story.
Light will dawn we sid, and SO 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. lie
had long neglected catarrh, and laughed at
the idea of taking anything for it when ad-
worse. His lungs became diseased, hack
ing, churchyard cough racEed him almost TO
pieces, and he was fast wasting away. A
mere shadow Of his former self he scarcely
slept at all az night, or slept only to dream
horrible dreams. Talk of nightmare. A
whole circus troupe, horses and all, seemed
to make his bed tie arena of their wild per-
formances. In this case money did not
make the mare go, for he spent deal OF
money on doctors ard physics and was
nothing betterod He ate little, and was
fast going down to an untimely grave, leav-
ing his wife a widow and his four bright
children orphans, when, 10. on one eyentful
night he dreamed for once bright and
happy dream, which our next paragraph will
relate.
Death, 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"
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 leters-G. NJ. 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
rs this" Startled and surprised he aroused
| 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 a
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 i'll 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-every where
they sought-hoping to find a clew. Letter.
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 Mar
Dreamed again and again, but saw no more
angels. Hope deferred maketh the hear
sick. "Oh, that the angel had Guided Me-
Definitely and Given More Directions" hi
exclaimed, again and again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since thu
night of the Great Mysterious Dream, wher
there came to the house pamphlet. Tiret
with his exhausting office work, which HI
still pursued, determining if possible to di'
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 vii
Pierce this Gloom Most Distressing, or Give
Me- Dishearened, any relief. Poor man
he had worked letters over in his mind anC
made so many combinations with them, tina
they occurred in almost every sentence h
uttered. They entered even into his pray
ers. Heaven Grant Me Deliverance, h
would say, nor let disease Grind Me Down
and so forth, dd mfnit,nn, and mile or tw'
beyond.
mentally tortured and suffering in evel
fiber of his body what wonder that |
read page after page of the pamphlet.
was a work on diseases, and in the morbl
state of his mind its contents seemed to sui
him. 1t spoke of almost every disease tina
flesh is heir to, but oh, JOY. MS he read,
GLIMPSE Most Delightful of light stole i
upon him. Eureka. Eureka he criec
"Wife, 1h0ve it, have it."
Everybody in the house heard him CT
Eureka and rushed to the room to hea
what he had found. All expected to see som
Great Iltacie Done' anu .nea ea AVN .hv :,
Pr'iati1n Gi'lPlv' COURSE ouv WY r ~,
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Dright VISION Oh goiuen letters, ~ tav,,
and reading G. NJ. D.; and again P. Z. 7
and vet again +. p; end one huge p, aroun