The banner-enterprise., 1883-04-19
g. NJ. d.
a Medley, q Mystery, a Marvel and
HIiructa.
THE STORY OF A DREAM

money. 1t anSwereth all things. use
rightly it is power for good, and there
money enough in the world to form leye
by which the mass of humanity could be lift
ed, to certain extent, out of its depths o
sorrow and despair. Money we must hav
for money makes the mare go. Some cal
make money who have no faculty for saving
Would you save you must know how to den,
those who would borrow and never repay, a
well as those who beg simply because they ar,
TOO lazy to work. There are men who neve
want to see you except to ask the favor of |
loan. They will ask for Just one word witt
you, and that one word is sure to be money
An impecunious fellow met rich acquaint-
ance, and not liking to ask directly for {
loan, said, Friend Smith, if you had tel
dollars in your pocket, and was to ask vol
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 toe
much to part with his money by any such
rule of subtraction.
Oh see, said the impecunious man thus
rebutfed. He was able 10 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
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
I thav rand tha nal word of Our story
Light will dawn, we said, and SO it will,
light of hope and help, Light is what Il
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 ad-
vised to do so. and so went from bad to
worse. His lungs 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 spent 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, 10! on one eventful
night he dreamed for once q bright and
happy dream, which our next paragraph will
relate.
Death, the black-visaged monster, had
until then stared him i'll the face, but the
dream brought him hope He saw bright,
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 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 lctters--G. NJ. d. "What
can il mean?" he said to himself, as he
awoke from his slumber. II have had
Good Many Dreams before but never such
as this. Startled and surprised lie aroused
his wife and TO her related his vision. Alas,
she could not solve the problem. Remem-
berng 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 in order to pay
them.
Every day for a week he and his faithful
spouse selrclel diligently for a key to
the problem. In the dictionary, in such
newspapers as they happened TO have, in
books, on placards on the wals-evorywhe
they sought--hopins to find c'ew. 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. "0h, that the angel had Guided Mo
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 10 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, Disheartered, 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, lie |
would say. nor let disease Grind Me Down,
and so FORTH dd infniitm, ard mile or two
bevond.
Mentally tortured and suffering in every
fiber of his body, what won Ter that he
read page after page of the pamphlet. IL /
was work on diseases and in the morbid |
state of his mind its contents seemed to suit .
him. 1t spoke of almost every disease that /
Haak 90 ka.. - l.y,A IL 1,l ho a
Glimpse Most Delightful of light stole in
upon him. Eureka! Eureka!' he cried.
"Wife, Ihave it, have it"
Everybody in the house heard him cry
Eureka, and rusheu to the room to hear
what he had found. All expected to see some
Great Miracle Done, and then came the ex-
PLANTATION. Simple, of course, but why had
he not thought of it before2 Oh, what a rev.
elation! Here was hope for him and for all
Here hope for suffering
friends and neighbors. That night he scarce
could sleep, but when he did he again saw a
bright vision of golden letters, in fact, a
Monogram Deciphered readily,
and reading G.. M. D.; and again p. z. p,
and yet again f. p; and one huge p, around
which these Others were entwined, and then
W. d. NJ. A. All the letters blended, yet
each was distinct. All he had seen in the,
oOphs !
Dream Most Glorious. d. NJ. G.-G. M.
D.-Again he rang the changes; backward,
forward, every way. Gold Medal Deserved.
NJ. g. D.-Misery's Great Deliverer,-till
time would fail to tell them all. p p. P.
stood for Perfect Peace Promised for suf-
ferers, and sweet release from Frustrating
Purgatorial Pains. And again F. p. was
Freedom Promised and backward, p F., it
became Pain Flees. Now he could get well,
and once well, he would be q missionary, a
Glad Missionary Devoted TO the work of
elling others how they might get deliver
lnce. He went through the list of diseases
among those of his own acquaintance, FROM
John Robinson, whose torpid liver gave him
constant headache and severe bilious attacks,
On through the list Of those suffering from
ulcers, coughs, weak aud diseased lungs, to
his friend, General b, who was as near
he grave as he. And for all these, as well
rs for himself, the Grave May Disappear from
present vision, and each may be Given More
Decades of life than they had hoped to have
years. Against the milder cases he marked
P. P. Against the serious cases he
marked G. M, D., mt the Grizzly Monster
Death, which he so long had dreaded but
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