The Press., 1886-03-18
Chicago News.J INDUSTRY OF AN ABLE-BODIED NIGHT
 MARE.

I h0nDen to remember one dream | had the other night while trying to sleep of a late terrapin supper. thought l was the treasurer of great theater and stood in the box office selling seats and taking in dollars by the thousands. There was great crowd surging outside, some of the people trying to get 10 the ticket windows, others pushing and elbowlng their way to- ward the entrance in a manner rude enough to be quite lifelike. All at once masked robber jumped out from behind tree, grabbed my horse by the bit, and inti- mated to me in a most ungentlemanly manner that my longevity depended some what ofi the promptness with which sur rendered nay valuables. l was trying to argue the case with him when the conductor came through the train and said that the engine had suddenly changed it's course and that we were running m perpendicu- lar direction, but that we were scooting along at the schedule rate of speed, and would probably fetch up somewhere or other ct some time or other. While I was tiring myself to make him understand that If the engine were reversed we would nat urally enough run down again, the big red-faced boatswain came staggering into the cabin to tell us that the crew had mutinied and cut of his head down in the forecastle, and was now engaged in the not wholly laudable occupation of throw ing the steerage passengers overheard into the sea- This frightened me so that ran out to the barn and began hitching my oat bin and my feed barrel to landau sleigh for some purpose which slipped out of my mind just before it got into 1t, and awoke with feeling that my ambition would have been more nearly satisfied if could only have figured out what was probably going to do when I gG this remarkable team harnessed and hitched. Still, ineom- plete as the experience was, hold that any man who wants mofao of it in the same length of time ought 10 take his meals from trough and run down to the sea i'll droves and do divers otEer things suitably and properly appertaini1g to his race and breed.
 Another thing that Hike about dreams is their industry and ee5Aomy. One able bodied dream can get 5n more work and travel farther and consrine more time to the minute than all the king's horses aud ali the kings men, from Pharaoh's day to Carter Harrison's. lE remember falling out of bed once, and as ! did so thought I rolled of the edge of AAe world. went sailing around throHg space for two or three hundred years Knocking about among the stars and NOmets and things, never stopping to think whether wes hungry or whether it was just the proper thing to go visiting all Over the universe and several neighborinH universes in my night clothes. Some way didn't seem to care whether school kept or not, or wheth- TT they taught Latin or Greek in it if it did not keep. After Ind sailed awhile I began to drop, not A1ilton's disap- pointed god ssfrom morR till noon and neon till dewy eve, but from New Year's till the Fourth of July, and from the Fourth till Christmas, and finally, after a few centuries of this depressing experi- once found myself impaled on one of the five points of star of the forty seventh magnitude, and gradually came to realize that had fallen matter of two feet and tangled my legs in the rounds of chair. Now, there is industry for you, and great economy of time in the bargain.
 One would naturally suppose that when dream had worked ten or dozen centu- ries in half 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 bounced on me again and went to work like boy carry ing water to circus elephant.
 That's the kind of stuff dreams are made of