Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-11
The Remembrance R of a Figure and Q
 Scar Seen While Asleep Saved Her
From the Utica Herald. l


 A certain lady of letters, well known to some in Utica, in company with number of congenial companions, was passing the summer at mountain resort in this state. She and her companions, who were also ladies engaged in literary pursuits, agreed that each morning they would meet and relate their dreams of the night before, both for the purpose of making scientific observations and for the interest of the thing itself Doubtless if the ladies had pondered the maxims laid down by the father of his country, and had understood that one in which he forbade the revealing of dreams, they would have followed his illustrious example. But if they had this anecdote would never have been told.
 The symposium was held regularly eve " morning and was source of consider able amusement. One day, however, the lady first referred to, who may be called Miss Gale, came down with troubled countenance, and when her friends de manded the records of her sleeping hours she refused to tell them. She had a dream of very bad omen, and did not wish to depress them as she had been de pressed by it's recital. There was a futter of excitement, of course, but the refusal was final.
 On the morning after Miss Gale ap- peared still more disturbed, and in answer to the questions of her friends she said that the dream had been repeated. She still refused to reveal it, but when the vii sion appeared on the third successive night she became quite nervous about it, and was persuaded to make it known.
 ''The dream that have had three times now" said Miss Gale, lis this: I seemed to be sitting at my window in the upper story of the house where my home is watching the passers in the street. Soon line of carriages appeared coming up the street, and when looked more closely l saw that it was a funeral procession. l regarded it idly, but became more interest ed when it halted in front of the house where I was. noticed distinctly the ap- pet. .nce of the train, the drivers with their black hats and gloves, and the hearse. | The hearse backed up in front of the door, | and the undertaker's assistant, who was sitting up in the seat with the driver, | jumped down and opened the door. Then | he looked up at me and I saw that in tho | front of his cap was the number nine. He had deep scar across one cheek Are you readyg asked the man. I was greatly startled, and while I was trying to say something in reply to the question | awoke."
 The effect of the story upon N' Gale'i listeners was depressing, but [ while one of them remarked upon the saying that "dreams go by contraries," and thu unpleasant thoughts were laughed away The dream was not repeated again. Th' vacation passed pleasantly, and the re membrance of the dream grew indistinct and when Miss Gale returned to her hom' and the cortege of her vision did not ma
 terialize she quite forgot it. Severn
 months later she had occasion to visit Chi
 cago, end while there took advantage O
 an opportunity for inspecting some of tn
 public buildings. One day she left he friends on the first floor of one of thes
 buildings, and went up to the fifth stor:
 to see some particular object of interest
 Having finished her inspection she waite with several other people for the elevate , to take her down again. When it cam the others got in quickly enough, but th
 man who had charge of the elevate thought that Miss Gale was too slow. "Wel," he said, 'are you readyg' Like flash the memory of her dresl