Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-15
A MARVELLOUS DREAM.
Soaring TO the EmPyrean Realms Of Fancy
and Making strange Discoveries,
Dc. T,,a.-sS a-

Soaring to the Empyrean Realms OF Fancy
and Making strange Discoveries.
Boston TnsasoriP.
The Other evening, while looking over a
long srd able article on the Tariff say
Hooking over" adyisedly, for nobody ever
thinks OF reading q long and able article,
especially if it be upon the ~tsrif-my eye
lbs contracted in spite Of me, then began
70 uCd, and, before | was aware OF it. was
fast asleep and dreaming away st the rate
Of forty knots an hour.
/ dreamed that 1 had been thrown
amongst q people who wese exceedingly
selfish; each one caring, seemingly, only
for himself.
Not only did this people cheat and cir
cumyent each other upon;eyery occasion
which offered, but they had Che r~eprehcnsi-
bic as well as singular habif Of speaking
sligbtingly Of persons behisd their backs;
and this appeared the more remarkable
inssmuch as the very persons, during
whose absence nobody could find anything
good to say Of them, were, when present,
the recipients Of the most hattering com
pEments and the most distinguished con-
sideration. -.
| dreamed that the children in this
strange land frequently spoke sightingly OF
their parents, and hesitAted not TO deceive
The and even to speak unto them as
though the children fauciAd themselves q
superior race of beings, for whom it Wa a
peculiarly gracious thing even to notice
ibose who enjoyed the honor o. being their
Iart Dts.
I dreamed, also, that lying and stealing
we're very common amongs. this people,and
that murder was not by any wholly
unknown.
L thought that it was the custom for
rrsd.smsn in this country to sdulterate the
foods which they sold, sometimes with
harmful Ingredients, in order to make
money at the expense of their customers
heslth; and / dreamed that instead OF
throwing these offenders into prison, the
uecple Elevated them to places Of honor aud
profit. and $50 it seemed in my dreau) l.
had come 10 be that no honest man could
b, pc for p~refermcnt N that country.
And | dreamed that the lawyers Of that
land could be hired for pay to argue direct
IL contrary 10 their convictions; that bro.
Eers and merchants Systematically deceived
those With whom they had dealings; that
even the clergymen lsbored apparently, for
money aud worldly applause, rather than
frrm disinterested and sinGle-minded deyo-
ion 10 the service to whica they were sup
uostd to be devoted, and, that, in short
mol ody could be trus. ed-flsave, perhaps,
The eonvicts in the public jsils, who, being
handicapped BY their peculiar environment
wire unable to contend in the universal
rice for immoral mo~neygetting which was
going en- withoutth their prison walls.
dreamed that this people sent armed
men into foreign countries and smote the
Inhabitants thereof with the edge Of the
sword, and that they seized the lands in
rbtse foreign countries and held them FOR
their own, and that they made slaves of the
natives of those countries. and waxed rich
from the fruits Of their labor.
And | dreamed that it was not so much
lbe custom, in this queer place in which
ny dream had thrown me, 10 60 into every
laid and preach the gospel unto every liv-
ing creature, as it was to send rum and
opium and tobacco unto every living crea-
Iure, together with weapons with which hv-
ing creatures might main and kill each
other.
And / dreamed many other strange things
about this curious people. l thought they
were .unlruthiul, dishonest, ~covetous, re-
vsngeful and wholly selfish in all which
they did, and that although outwsrdly every
man and every woman appeared upright
and honest, and kind aud benevolent, and
altogether good, yet were they one and all,
utterly corrupt.
Now this is a very silly dream, and i'm
probable; but, still, nobody can know how
haypy / was when / awoke to find it only q
dream, and to know that l still lived in a
Christian land, where sin aud selfish is I'm.
known, and where every one, young and
old, rich and poor, high and low, lives but
for the good he may do to others,and where
ev,rybody loves his neighbor ever and ever
so much better than he does himself.