San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-03-10
DREAMS.
A Dissertation on Their Peculiarities and
General Results.
From the Chicnco Ncws.

What like as much as anything else
about dreams is their spicy variety.
You can't always do as you please in a
dream, but you can do everything else,
and the scenes shift so often that you
don't have time to fire of any one of
them; then, too, you can be so many
things in dream.
happen 10 remember one dream had
the other night while trying to sleep of
a late terrapln supper. l thought was
the treasurer of a great theatre and
stood in the bOx-ofliCe selling seats and
taking in dollars by the thousands.
There was q great crowd surging out
side, some of the people trying to get to
the ticket-windOw, others pushing and
elbowing their way toward the entrance
in a manner rude enough to be quite
lifelike. All at once a masked robber
jumped out from behind tree. grabbed
my horse by the bit. and intimated to
me in a most ungentlemanly manner
that my Longevity depended somewhat
on the prOmptnesS with which | suTren-
dered my valuables. | was trying to
argue the case with him when the con-
duCtOr came through the train and said
the engine had suddenly changed its
course and that we were running in
perpendicular direction, but that we
were scoOting along at the schedule rate
of speed, and would probably fetch up
somewhere or other at some time or
other. While | was firing myself trying
to make him understand that if the en-
CINE 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 Otihis head down in the
fOrecastle, and was now engaged in the
not wholly laudable occupation Ofthrow-
ing the steerage passengers overheard
into the sea. This frightened ne.
so that | ran out to the barn and began
hitching my Oat-bin and my feed-barrel
to my landau sleigh for some purpose
which slipped out Of my mind just be-
fore it got into it, and / woke with a
feeling that my ambition would have
been more nearly satisfied i'll could only
have figured out what l was probably
going to do when got this remarkable
team harnessed and hitChed. Still, in
complete as the experience was. l hold
that any man who wants more of it in
the same length Of time ought to take
his meals from trough and run down
to the sea in droves and do divers other
thing suitable and properly appertain-
ing to his race and breed.
Another thing that like about dreams
is their industry and economy. One
able-bodied dream can get in more work
and travel farther and consume more
time to the minute than all the kings
horses and all the kings men from Pha-
raoh's day to Carter Harrison's. | re-
member falling out of bed once, and as
| did so | thought | rolled off the edge of
the world. Invent sailing around through
space for 200 or 300 years, knocking
about among the stars and comets and
things, never stopping to think whether
| was hungry or whether ii was Just the
proper thing to 60 visiting all over this
universe and several neighboring uni
verses in my night-clothes. Some way
| didn't seem to care whether school
kept or not, or whether they taught
Latin and Greek in 1t If it did keep. At
ter had sailed awhile l began to drop,
not like Millions disappointed god,
"from morn till noon and noon till
dewy eve" but from new years
till the 4th Of July and from the 4th
till Christmas, and, finally, after q few
centuries Of this depressing experience,
| found myself impaled on one of the
five points Of a star of the 47th magni-
tude, and gradually came to realize that
| had fallen II matter 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 bar
gain.
One would naturally suppose that
when dream had worked 10 or a dozen
centuries in half a iiffy, it would feel
like laying off day or two and resting
up, but it doesn't. hadn't been asleep
two minutes after crawling back into
bed, when that dream came back and
pOunced on me again and went to work
like boy carrying water to a circus ele-
plant.
That's the kind of stuff dreams are
made OF. Ben WILDE.