Arizona weekly enterprise., 1889-08-17
THEOREMATIC DREAMS.
WARNING RECEIVED BY A TEXAS
 FARMER AND HIS WIFE.

Which Was Fulfilled in the Pancho Parras
 Massacre-The Neighbors Couldn't Un-
 derstand Why the Farmer Moved.
 Impending perils may cast a shadow consistently ignored in waking state, while the mind is under the influence of self deluding optimism-the wish that is father to the belief in the significance | of the threatening danger. But in sleep | the voice of the)monitor cannot be si- fenced by such illusions, and warning | forebodings often take the form of dis tinct visions, repeated with a vividness and frequency which at last cannot fail to influence the actions of the individual, in spite of all waking sophisms. c
 DREAMED IT TWICE.
 remember the instance of an Ameri- can family that had settled in the northern uplands of Cameron county, Texas, but before the end of a year re- moved to the vicinity of larger settle ment and sold their half completed home for reasons that remained a mys- tery to their upland neighbors.
 "We had selected that building site after a good deal of prospecting" the first proprietor of that house told me few years later, land at first it seemed puzzle to me that nobody had pre-ernpted it long ago. It was broad hill with a fine prospect east and south; we had an abundance of timber, fine range, two good springs, and ledge of soft lime stone within thousand yards of the house, where you could shape out build I could hope to find better neighbors; they actually got up picnic to celebrate our arrival, so glad they were to have English speaking folks within visiting distance.
 "We had every prospect of getting an improved road and postofice, and three months after our first entry would not have sold that homestead for ten times my direct expenses. But about half year after that ranch seemed a haunted place and didn't feel at rest night or day, though people that know me are not likely to call me superstitious. Inever was afraid of darkness even when l was a boy and swarm of ghosts would not scare me worth cent. But one night, about week after had got home from trip to Brownsville Landing, dreamt our house was tackled by band of Greaser bushwhackers (Mexican bandits) and that they shot me down and killed my little boy with a club, and then loaded their horses with everything they could move.
 "Two nights after I had exactly that same dream over again, and I could see every stick and stone in our yard, when I tried to make a break for our next neighbor and was shot down just as rushed through the gate. noticed the very horses and saddles of that gang and could have recognized every one of them if had met them in daylight, and Inow do believe that I did see them somehow or other on that trip to the landing.
 THE WEES WARNING.
 "The idea began to haunt me when that dream had come back for the third time
 though I never said a word; but one morning my wife seemed uneasy till al
 our farm hands had started to work
 and then asked me to come out in the
 garden for minute.
 "'Do you think there are any robbers in this neighborhoodP she asked mt
 when we were quite alone.
 "'Why, did you see or hear anything
 suspiciousY I asked her back. "'No, but had such strange dream last night said she. with a sort of ; shudder. I dreamt gang of Mexican ], came to our house and made mo run 10 my life, and just before got througl
 the door saw them knock down littl Tommy with club
 "'Didn't I help you? laughed. , "I don't know she said. T saw yol , collar one of them, and kept callinl for you in English to save yourself, bu just as you dashed through the gate
 heard the crack of shotgun and then I fainted.'
 . q made no reply, but that minute felt that we couldn't stay any longer
 and two weeks after made up my min, to move to Indianola. There were n | Mexicans in our immediate neighbor hood at that hill farm, and no seriou , robbery had happened anywhere neare than Casa Blanca, but felt that l ha U to look for a new home if I expected t T Il get an hours peace, and 1t often scene to me that I was doing a sin if let m little boy out of sight for ten minutes I So we made up an excuse about school
 and postoffice and managed to sell OH n pretty place for few hundred. Tn 'i neighbors thought must be half crazy II but couldn't help it; and just ten week n after we were gone we got the news ( O that Pancho Parras massacre. I'll e whole neighborhood had been sacke
 and outraged, and as know my boy, d am now morally certain that he woul 't have stood his ground and got himse r. killed if he had seen any brute lay h
 hands on his mother"
 The very homeliness of that accoul 'r impressed me with conviction of its a It solute truth, and on the whole consid, U it the most characteristic instance Il what Artemidoros would have callt le "theorematic dreams. Felix L. Oswal T. M. D., in The Open Court.