The Arkansaw traveler., 1885-10-03
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The believer in dreams Is usually con. sidered crank. So were Stephenson, Morse, George Francis Train, Ben Butler and all other great gcniusea Way then should despon6e
 A great many people have no seSuples about accepting JosepA'A NebuchadneR, sar's, and the butler aAd bakers dreams and their interpretation, while at the same time they look on the dream of to-day as chimera. Why is this thusI Why has dream stock so depreciased that what In bible times was quoted above par, Is now not worth " sinker's dam }" (parcly or.hodox-B, R,l l,can only be explained by the universal skepticism as to alt sacred things. also was once skepsic. l thought the quality of boarding house determined the quality oi dreams, and that a railroad sandwich would knock the spots out of any supernatural agency in showing up dreams ot the thrilling aud blood.curdhng kind. And there is no doubt that there is some weird, inexpiic- able connection between the dream and the sandwich. May it not be that the sandwich is really superna,uralp Ger tainly all our advanced nineteenth cen. tury science has no. yet discovered it's mystic ingredients, Whence that ada. mantine hardness, that delicious elasticity, that arctic endurance, that chewing gum immortality Hut digress. As said, l am no longer skep,ic, but firm be- liever. This Is the thusuess of the why One night dropped into a Methodis, meeting. It was near its close and the master of ceremonies wAs giving the sin. ners particular fits, He stopped from sheer exhaustion. Then they sang a li,- tic dit,y and he up and at i, again. He wanted them to come up to the altar aud said he "Dont take my word for i, don't take any of these brcshrens word, but just come up and try for youiselt He says He won't turn any away, Nov jus, come up and prove for yourself whether the Lord is liar or not" l thought that was pretty fair. Of course, did not need to go up, for was born a Presby- terian and so one of the elect, but 1 con. oluded to try dreams by the same test. l would watch my dreams and see whether anything came cf them. l watched and the sequel astonished me. The test never failed though uied hundreds of times. Anyone who could doubt the efficacy of dreams after my experience Is A case hardened, copper. bottomed, brass-lined idiot, who would disbelieve in the ro,un. dity of.he earth because he couldn't play football with IL. shall give here only a few illustrations, enough, however, 1 think to convince the mos. skep.ical.
 OAe night, after A late oyster supper with some of the boys. retired to rest. For an hour l ,umblcd and tossed in a vain effort 10 WOO "Na,ures sweet re. storer, balmy sleep"
 At last slept, and as slept dreamed. The incidents of the dream 1t Is unnec. essary to relate, except that l dreamt l met the mos, beautiful of maidens, that her name was Mary, and that ~ooed and married her. In the morning when l awoke, the dream was still vivid before me. Now, thought 1, have something tangible to work op. Here are three striking points Beauty, Mary, Marriage. Let us see what will come Of IL, For three days nothing happened, and l had begun to chuekle at the oreduli,y ofshose who believe in dreams, when received an invitation to attend tho commence ment exercises at Madam Scord's acade. my. l accepted. have the Grant fac. ulty of never refusing anything. On my arrival, the class-s bevy of as handsome girls as you could wish to sec was con- gregated on the platform. One especial ly a charming brunette of sixteen, At- racted my atteetion. inquired her name, and was told 1t was Mary Morton. Then my dream rscurred to me. Here was beauty, here was Mary, but where was marriagef The exercises were abou, of the usual order, the beauty and grace of the sweet girl graduates compensa,ing for the cTudeness Of their efforts. To- ward the end t was announced that Miss Morton would read an essay, Her sub ject was Divorce" Then was really staggered. Divorce is marriage, or ai least its natural sequel. There certainly can be no divorce without marriage. One prssupposes the other. Here, then, was my dream ful6iIed to the letter. Beauty, Mary, Marriage. Call 1t . coin