The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-08-28
PHILOSOPHY BADLY BEATEN.
" Three Strange Dreams Which Can
be Scoffed at But Not Explained.

NV Three Strange Dreams Which Can
be scoffed at But Not Explained.
From the Ne,o York Sun.
y PROFOUND the query, "Are there ghosts?
10 100 adult people, as you come TO them In
tsrn. and ninty-fve will return prompt
aerative. PROFOUND the query. SIS there
ANYTHING In dseamsr to 100 adults, and it
n doubtful IL one-flfth of them will reply in
she negative. Indeed, it may safely be as
sarted that at least ninety-five adults out of
.varv hundred the world over have had
Irearns which were wholly or In part full
aiJad IL isn't SO very wonderful that the
mind should refuse to sleep with the body,
and should wander away from 1t into
strange realms, but "having dreams" and
.s'seeing ghosts" is placed. SO nearly on
Ieyelby scoffers that one fears to own to a
dream which has come true. And yet IS per
rant. of us believe in dreams, whether we
admit 1t OF not.
' In nv timeI have had three remarkable
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 remarkable The first oc-
cured when / was II years Of age. At that
lime my father sold his farm in Lorain
county, Ohio, and purchased another on the
hanks Of the Ohio river, about twenty miles
below Cincinnati. This was in the spring
Of 1859 had felon on my foot-what is
called a "frog felon"-when we moved,
And was not able to be out of the house for
Two weeks. There was another period Of
}en or twelve days in which had to use
4Yutch. The back end Of our farm touched
The river, and was quite heavily wooded. l
wanted to go down there, boy-like, but was
hot yet able to do so, when l fell asleep on
he lounge in the sitting room one after
boon and had this dream. / dreamed of
Seeing two men on the river In a skiff. One
was a heavy-set, Misunderstanding fellow
with olose-cropped hair and whiskers The
other was lighter and younger man, with
black hair and mustache. One had on a
cap, and the other hat. The older man
had large silver ring on finger of the
right hand, and he was using the oars. The
name of the boat was the Gem. Had been
wide awake and looking at the two men
and the boat from distance of five feet,
could not have seen them more clearly.
What seemed queer to me in my dream,
however, was the fact that could not hear
their voices. / saw their lips move, but
could not catch their tones. The men soon
landed in the mouth of the creek, where
their boat was hidden by the bushes.
When they stepped ashore they carried an
old-fashioned carpet bag between them.
They walked 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 location, and after a
few minutes returned to their boat and
rowed away. They were crossing the river
when mother called to me and broke my
sleep and my dream.
| told her what had seen, but she laughed
at it. When father came in l told him.
and he was at once interested. He said
there was a creek just as described. and he
believed he had noticed an uprooted tree,
and he promised to go to the spot next
morning He was called away, however,
and three days later, and during his abb
sence, limped out into the woods | found
the creek without any trouble, and from
thence went straight to the upturned tree
and found the bag. Everything looked as
familiar to me as if had seen it before.
The satchel was not only there, but it was
so heavy that could not lift it. l returned
to the house and told mother, and we took a
hand sled down and in that way conveyed
it to the house. Then we opened it and
found two bags containing 400 Mexican
silver dollars each, together with silver
knives, spoons, and forks, and some costly
jewelry. Father came home that night aud
at once notified the sheriff, and then we
bDdb Du6 DiuHltT WhS bno Icoulb VI
two burglaries in Cincinnati. A detective
came down to see US. He was hard head,
who wouldn't believe in anything he
couldn't see, but he had to go down before
my dream. My description of the men
tailed with that of two men under sus-
picion, and a watch was at once placed at
the mouth of the creek. 1t was ten days
before the men returned and were taken
into custody, and they had not been under
hon xxl,a ftaty nOr1fa In hn
robbery The detective hated to give into
the dream theory, and | think he went
away believing. that l was out in the woods
and saw the men land. | could not have
walked there to begin with, and mother
was in the room all the time lay sleeping.
1t was exactly as I have told you, and
the jeweler sent me do wn 100 of those big
silver dollars to show his gratitude at my
recovering about 81, 900 worth Of his prop
erty.
About three years later went to visit an
aunt in Eastern Kentucky. 1t was near a
hamlet Of half dozen houses, and of course
l soon knew all the people Four or five
miles away lived an old bachelor who was
known as tle hermit. He WAS then 50
years old, lived all alone, and people said he
had money buried under his fireplace. He
dressed in rags and went barefooted, and
was always subject of remark. My aunt
had farm about mile and half from
the town, and one afternoon as | was re-
turning home after making some purchases
at a store, a man who sat in a fence cor
ner called me over TO him and asked me If |
knew the hermit. | told him what knew,
and he seemed much interested and OBJ
served
II think he is my brother George, who
left home thirty years ago and has not been
heard of SINCE"
l was green country boy, and he had no
difficulty in pumping me to his hearts con-
tent. remembered afterward of his ask
ing if it wasn't reported that the hermit
had money, and OF my replying that our
hired man said be had thousands of dollars
hidden away. He asked if had ever been
to the hermit's place, whether he was
known to have gun, and other questions
which had no great interest for me until
several days afterward. When | went
home | told the folks about meeting the
stranger but the matter excited little COM
ment, and it was not in my mind when L
went to bed. slept with the hired man. |
was asleep, and had been for an hour, when
he came to bed. / was also asleep when he
turned out in the morning.
Now, then, that night l had my second
singular dream. Mind you, l had never
been to the hermit's place nor heard 1t de-
scribed. All at once l found myself in
front Of his little log house, and knew that
1t was his. The place looked poverty poor.
| noticed the single window in front, a leach
in the yard, an old scythe hanging up in a
tree n orindstone with its face broken and