The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-03-17
G.. M. ID.
A Medley, Mystery, a Marvel and a
Miracle.
The Story of a Dream.

There is no harm in making money. 1t an
s8ereth all things. Used nightly 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 Its depths of sorrow and despair. Mon
| ey we must have for money makes the mare
| go. Some can make money who have no fac
ulty for saving Would you save 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 of loan. They will ask for Just
one word with you, and that one word is sure
| to be money. An impecunious fellow met a
rich acqu aintance, and not liking to ask direct
ly 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 re-
main in your pocket" "Ten dollars, to be
sure replied the rich man, without mo-
ments hesitation. He had gumption, and knew
too much to part with bis money by any such
rule of subtraction.
y see. said the impecunious man thus re-
buhed. He was able 10 owe, He was one of
the Micawber sort-alwsys waiting for some
thing 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
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their lease of life. The cure WAS nigh them
as 1t Is nigh to all whoread this medley These
paragraphs tell the story, as patient perusal
VIII prove. Those who have keen insight and
can read between the lines may solve the
copllndrum the sooner for If, but upon all
hight VIII dawn ere they read the final word of
our story.
Light will dawn, we said, and so it will, light
OF hope and help. Light is what a certain in
dlVldual wanted. Mr.. Jones we will call him.
he was very sick Consumption had fastened
It's fangs upon him. He had long neglected
catarfH' and laughed at the idea of taking any
thnS for 1t when advised to do so, and so went
from bad to "orse. His lungs became dis
eased, a hacking churchyard cough racked
MN almost 10 pieces. and he was fast wasting
away. A mere shadow of his former self.
ne 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
iormances. In this case money did not make
the mare go, for he spent a deal of money on
doctors and physics and was nothing bettered.
lie ate little, and was fast going down to an
uutlmely grave, leaving his wife a widow and
his TOUR bright children orphans, when 10 on
one eventful 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 INN hope He saw a bright, white
toped anger IN bis 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 r' With these words
the angel was gone, but ere the trail of light
which followed him had vanished the drea mer
saw glitterlng IN the hight three golden letters
". Nj D. What can 1t mean p he said to
himself, as he awoke from his slumber. 81
nave had Good Many Dreams before but
never such as this" Startled and surprised he
aroused bis wife and to her related his vision.
Alas. she could not solve the problem. Re-
membenng ali the medical advice. and the
physlc and the expense involved since her
husband became sick. she expressed the hone
that the letters were not intended to suggest
that Good Many Doctors must vet be con
suited IN addition to all that had been inter
viewed. lie Sroaned IN reply and remarked
that Il he had to consult any more there wouId
nave to be a Gold Mine Discovered in order TO
pay them.
Every day FOR week he and his faithful
spouse searched diligently for key to the
problem. In the dictionary, in such news
papers as they happened to have, in books, on
placaTds on the wals-everywhere thew sought
hoping to find a clue. Letters stand for
words. ana 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 d.
feIred maketh the heart sick. ''Oh, that the
angel had Guided Ne Definitely and Given
More Directions" lie exclaimed again. and
again.
Nearly two weeks had elapsed since the night
OF the Great Mysterious Dream, when there
came TO the house pamphlet. Tired with his
exhaustlng office work, which he still pursued,
determining if possible to die in the harness,
Jones was about to throw the pamphlet in the
lre, when something prompted him 10 exam
Inc 1t. Surely, thought he, here can be moth
ing that Will Pierce this Gloom Most Distress
ing, or Give Me, Disheartened, 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 SEN
tence he uttered. They entered even into his
prayers. Heaven Grant Me Deiyerance, he
would say, nor let disease Grind Me Down. and
so forth, al u.tintt't1l and mile or two be-
yond.
Mentally tortured and suffering in every
fiber of his body, what wonder that be read
page after page of the pamphlet. 1t was
work on diseases, and IN the morbid state of
his mind It's contents seemed to suit him. 1t
spoke OF almost every disease that flesh Is heir
to, but oh, joy as he read, a Glimpse Most
Delightful of light stole in upon him. ''Eu-
reka Eureka I" he cried. Wife, have If.
have it."
Everybody in the house heard him cry Eure-
ka, and rushed to the room to hear what he
hadfound. All expected to see some Great
Miracle Done, and then came the explanation.
Simple of course, but why had he not thought
of 1t before? Ga what revelationl Here
was hope for him and for all consumptives
Here, hope for suffering friends and nelghbors
That night he scarce could sleep. but when he
did he again saw bright vision of golden let
tiers, IN fact, aGlittering Monogram Deciphered
readily, and reading G.. NJ D.; and again 2. P.
P, and yet again f. P, and one huge ?,
around which these others were entwined. and
then W. d. NJ. A. All the letters blended. vet
each was distinct. All he had seen in the book
all he again saw III his vision.
Dream Most Glorious. D. NJ. &C.. NJ. D.
Again he rang the changes; backward, for
ward, every way. Gold Medal Deserved NJ.
g. D.-Misery's Great Delverer-till time would
fail to tell them all. 7. p. 7. stood for Perfect
Peace Promised for sufferers and sweet re-
lease from Frustrating Purgatorial Pains. And
again f. P. was Freedom Promised. and back
ward, P. f. it became Pain FIeas. Now he
could get well. and once well he would be
missionary. a Glad Missionary Devoted to the
work of telling others how they might get deIiv-
erance. 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 and diseased lungs, to his
friend General B, who was as near the
grave as he. And for ali these, as well as for
himself, the Grave May Disappear from pres
ent vision. and each may be Given More De-
cades of life than they had hoped to have
years. Against the mllder cases he marked 2.
P. P. Against the serious cases he marked G.
NJ. D., not the Grizzly Monster Death, which
he so long had dreaded, but somethIng-ob, so
much better, as we shall presently see.
In short while our hero was well, and went
everywhere among his friends and nelghDors,
telling of his good fortune and showing the
sick and the suffering how they might be
healed Some laughed and continued to suffer,
refusing to be healed. More we're wise, took
his counsel and proved his vision of the night
as he had done.
"a vision, less beguiing far,
Than waking dreams by daylight are.
Can anything be more delightful than health
after sickness2 To be a well man. to feel pure