Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1888-11-09
STRANGE DREAMS.

PROFOUND the query, "Are there
/ ghosts ?" to one hundred adult peo-
pie, as You come to them in turn,
and ninety.five will return prompt
negative. PROFOUND the query,
SIS there anything IN dreamsf' to
one hundred adults, and it is doubt
| ful if one. fifth of them will reply in
the negative. Indeed, it may safe
/ ly be asserted that at least ninety
five adults out of every hundred the
world over have had dreams which
were wholly or in part fulfilled.
1t isn't so very wonderful that the
mind should refuse to sleep with
the body, and should wander away
from its strange realms; but ebay
ing dreams" and "seelng ghosts" is
placed so nearly on a level by
scoflers that one fears to own to a
dream which has come true. And
yet 90 PER cent, of us believe in
dreams, whether we admit it or
not.
In my time | have had three re-
markable dreams. While no more
remarkable than hundreds of others
given to the public, l would not
give them here except they had
once been publicly talked about,
criticised and shown to be remark
able. The first occurred when |
was but eleven years of age. At
that time my father sold his farm
in LOrain county, Ohio, and pur-
chased another on the banks of the
Ohio river, about twenty miles be-
low Cincinnati. This was in the
spring of 1852. | had a felon oD
my foot-what is called a "trog
felOn"-when we moved, and was
not able to be out of the house for
two weeks. There was another
period OF ten or twelve days IN
which | had to use a crutch. The
back emo of our farm touched the
river, and was quite heavily wood
ed. l wanted to 60 down there,
bOy.like, but was not able to do so,
when fell asleep on the lounge IL
the sitting room one afternoon and
had this dream. / dreamed Of see.
ing two men on the river in a sklff,
One was a heavy set yillianOus
looking fellow with closed cropped
halr and whiskers. The other was
lighter and younger man, with
black hair and a mOustache. One
had on a cap, and the other a hat.
The older man had a large silver
ring on Gnger of the right hand,
and be was using the oars. The
name of the boat was the Gem.
Had | been wide awake and
looking at the two men and not
have seen them more clearly. What
seemed clear to me in my dream,
however, was the fact that l could
not hear their voices. / saw their
lips move, but / could not catch
their tones. The men soon landed
in the mouth OF creek, where
their boat was hidden By the
bushes. When they stepped ashore
they carried an Old.fashiOned car.
pet-bag between them. They walk
ed away from the river into the
timber until they came to tree
which had been turned up by the
roots. The cavity thus made was
full Of dead leaves, and in this
place they hid the bag. Then
they looked about to fix the loca-
ton, and after a few minutes re-
turned to their boat and TOwed
away. They were crossing the
the river when mother called to me
and broke my sleep and the dream
| told her what ] had seen, but
she laughed at it. When father
came in | told him, and he was al
once interested. He said there
vas a creek just as | described, land
he believed he had noticed an up
rooted tree, and he promised to &c
to the spot next morning. He was
called away, however, and three
days later, and during his absence
Il limped ont into the woods.
found the creek without trouble
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