Morning journal and courier., 1886-04-09
Such Stuff as Dreams.


 happen to remember one dream had the other night while trying to sleep of late terrapin supper. I thought was the treas urer of great theater and stood in the box office selling seats and taking in dollars by the thousand. There was great crowd surging outside, some of the people trying to get to the ticket window, others pushing and elbowing their way toward the entrance in manner rude enough to be quite 1ifelike. All at once a masked robber jumped out from behind tree, grasped my horse by the bit and intimated to me in most ungentle- manly manner that my longevity depended somewhat on the promptness with which surrendered my vaiuablss. I was trying to argue the case with him when the conductor came through the train and said that the en- zine had suddenly changed it's course and that we were running in 8 perpendicular di- rection, but that we were scooting along at the schedule rate of speed, and would prob ably fetch up somewhere or other at some time or other. While I was tiring myself trying to make him understand that if the engine were reversed we would naturally enough run down again, the big, red-faced boatswain came staggering into the cabin to tell us that the crew had mutinied and cut off his head down ill the forecastle, and was now engaged in the not wholly laudable oc- cupation of throwing the steerage passengers over into the sea. This frightened me so that ran out to the barn and began hitch ing my oat-bin and my feed-barrel to my landau sleigh for some purpose which slipped out of my mind just before it got into it, and awoke with a feeling that my ambition would have been more nearly satis- fled if I could only have figured out what I was probably going to do when got this narkable team harnessed and hitched- Still, incompetent it was, hold that any man who wants more of it in the same length of and run down to the sea in droves and do divers other things suitable and properly ap pertaining to his race and breed.
 Another thing that I like about dreams is their industry and economy One able-bod jed dream can get in more work and travel farther and consume more time to the min ate than all the kings horses and all the kings men from Pharaoh's day te Carter Harrison's. I remember falling out of bed once, and as I did so I thought I rolled off the edge of the world. I went sailing around through space for two three hun dred years, knocking about among the stars and comets and things, never stopping to think whether I was hungry or whether it was just the proper thing to go visiting ali over this universe and several neigh boring universes in my night clothes Some way didn't seem to whether school kept not, or whether they taught Latin and Greek in it if it did keep. After l had sailed a while began to drop not like Milton's dis appointed god, ''fron morn till noon and noon till dewy eve,n but from New Years tllI the Fourth of July and from the Fourth till Christmas, and, finally, after few years of this depressing experience I found myself impaled on one of the five points of a star of the fo1ty-seventh magnitude, and gradu- ally came to realize that I had fallen mat ter of two feet and tangled my legs in the rounds of a chair. Now there is industry for you and great economy of time in the bargain.
 One would naturally suppose that when a dream ad worked ten dozen centuries ill half jiffy it would feel like laying off day or two and resting up, but it doesn't. I hadn't been asleep two minutes after crawl ing back into bed when that dream came back and bounced on me again and went to work like boy carrying water to 8 circus elephant.
 That's the kind of stuff dreams are made