Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-09-29
first printed in Greek at Venice IN tha
year lol8. and some time called ..The
Dreamer's Bible.n ~As

n.sS P.!nteu IN Greek at Venice In tho
year l5l8. and some time called ..The
Dreamer's Bible" ."
Ga!en tells us of a man who dreamed
that his left thigh had become stone.
1nu VINO o after lost the use of it bv
a e palsy; of another, one of his pa
tlents, who dreamed that he was in A
vessel full of blood, which he accented
as a sign that the man ought to be bled.
by which means a serious disease nnder
Which he labored was cured.
Cicero is the authority for a remarka-
ole dream' related by Valerius Maxi
mus OF two travellers who put up in
Megara, one at an inn, the other at the
mousse Of a friend. At night one dreamed
tina the other came to him in a state Of
awful agitation, saying his host was at
tempting to murder him, and implorinp
his aid. This made a deep impression.
and awoke him; but, treating it as ..on-
y a dream" he again went to sleep.
HIS friend once more appeared, SAVING
the crime was committed, and his bodyy
had been concealed under a dunp-hean.
from which he desired him to remove f.
IN the morning early he went to rouse his
companion and resume their journey.
and as he entered the courtyard met q
carter removing a load of dung, which
ne insisted upon examining.
The body of his murdered friend was
found in it, the crime was exposed. and
the murderer executed. We may add
that as no record exists of Cicero's Wis
itingg Megara-and it is most probable
that he never did so-hc NAV have
merely repeated this old Greek story
from hearsay, although there is nothing
in it more astonishing than we have in
the preceding records.
Pliny, OIL better authority, tells as
strange a story of one of his w slaves
who, while sleeping among his fellows.
dreamed that two men in white came
INTO the slaves sleeping-place, shaved
their (the slaves )heads, and escaped as
they had come. In the morning he
found the dream realized.
One dreamer-an old woman of Mar.
settles, who visited church every day and
passed almost her entire time before a
certain altar-dreamed that she had
been transformed into a lamp %eternallv
burning before it, and herself made as
sure of its realization as she could nv
leaving in her will the money for sus-
pending there a silver lamp; out this
was hardly a fair case of prophetic
dreaming.
A remarkable dream story is told by
the present German Emperor. He
dreamed one night that, standing at the
Kur Spring, Karlsbad, a mar gave him
a small china cup to drink from which
contained a deadly poison. He laughed
II the morning at the remembrance of
this dream, and mentioned the fact that
every morning when he drank at the
Kur Spring the cup was presented to
him by a charming young girl whom he
was sure could never contemplate muir
der. For the first time, however, on
that morning, instead of the girl, a man
appeared and handed him the cup. The
Emperor hesitated, but, looking into
the mans kindly face, he smiled to him
self and took the draught. "Of course
it did not harm me-" says Emperor
William; ''but, on the contrary, nv
stay at K%arlsbad, instead of proving ia
tai, was very beneficial. "-London So
ctety.