Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-05-05
G. M. D.

G. NJ. D.
A Medley, . Mystery, a Marvel and .
Miracle.
The Story of q Dream.
IS Get money, honestly if you can, but
oget money" was a foolish fathers
advice to his son. Get money, if YOU can
honestly, makes but a slight alteration in
the order of tho words. but varies the sen.
timent considerably. There is no harm in
Used rightly, it is a power for good, and
there is money enough in the world to form
a lever by which the mass of humanity
could BIO lifted, to a certain extent, out Of
its depths of sorrow and despair. Money
we must nave 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 as we'll 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 a loan.
They will ask for just one word with you,
and that one word is sure to be moncy. An
impecunious fellow met q rich %acquaint.
once, and not liking to ask directly for a
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 a
moments hesitation. He had gumption,
and knew too much to part with his money
by any such rule Of subtraction,
l see, said the ~impecunious mar thus
rebuffed. He was able to 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
we'll ny letting disease take care of itself.
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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 para
will prove. Those who have keen insight
n can read between the lines may solve
the conundrum the sooner for it, but upon
all light will dawn ere they read the final
word of our story.
light will dawn, we said, and so it will,
~ light of hope II help. Light is what
a certain individual wanted. Mr.. Jones we
will call him. He was very sick. Con-
sumption had fastened it's fangs upon him.
He had long neglected catarrh, and laughed
at the idea of taking anything for it when
advised to do so, and so went from bad to
ing, church-yard cough racked him almost
to pieces, n 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
all, seemed to make his bed the arena of
their wild performances. 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. He ate
little, and was fast going down to an II.
timely grave, leaving his wife a widow and
his four bright chi iren orphans, when, 10!
on one eventful night he dreamed for once
a bright and happy dream, which our next
paragraph will relate.
neath, the black-visaged monster, had
~ untilthen stared him in the face, but the
dream brought him hope. He saw q 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"
ere the trail of light which followed him
had vanished the dreamer saw glittering in
the light three golden letters-G. M. D.
What can it mean" he said to himself,
as he awnke from his slumber. 81 have
had a Good Many Dreams before, but new
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
tors must yet be consulted in addition to
all that had been interviewed. He groaned
i'll reply and remarked that if he had to
consult any more there would have to be
a Gold Mine Discovered i'll order to pay
them.
livery day for a week he and his faithful
~ pouse searched diligently for a key
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newspapers as they happened to have, in
books, on placards on the ~walls-every-
where they s~ought-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
the Good Man Dreamed again and again,
but saw no more angels. Hope deferred
maketh the heart sick. ooh, that the angel
had Guided Me 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 to the house u 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 it.
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 sentence he uttered. They entered
%eveninto his prayers. Heaven Grant Me
Deliverance, he would say, nor let disease
Grind Ne Down, and SO forth, al infnitua,,
and a mile or two beyond.
Mentally tortured and suffering in every
WI fibre of his body, what wonder that he
read page after page of the pamphlet. It
rr-oc n 1yor.l< on ljCnoSac- on1 in tho morbid
state of his mind it's contents seemed to
suit him. 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. +" Eureka! Eu-
reka !" he cried. "Wife, I have it, l have
it,"
Everybody in the house heard him cry
~ Eureka, and rushed to the room to hear
what he had ound. All expected to see
some Great Miracle Done, and then came
the explanations. Simple, of course: but
why had he not thought of it before? Oh
what q ravelati0nt Here was hone for