The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-10-11

periences In sleep.
A lawyer who had beer overworked
rose in his sleep, went into the hall Of
his house and discharged a pistol. The
household hurried to the place anf
found him at the head of the stairway.
awake. but much bewildered. He had
dreamed of burglars and had gone to ar
tack them. One member of the family
slept through the noise. When he came
into the dining room-before he had
heard of the events of the night-he COM
planned that his sleep had been much
disturbed. He had dreamed that he had
been condemned to be shot, that he nd
been led to the place of execution -
had fallen senseless when the guns ~
Cred.
A lady dreamed that q man came il. .
her room, poured some water into a ba
sin, carried the splashing water to bes
bedside and began to sprinkle it over her
She awoke and heard a loud splashins.
| At first she was motionless with fear,
but presently she lighted q candle and
went to the basin, where she found .
mouse making frantic efforts to get opt
of the water.
Another dreamed that she had a 80
we're earache. that she rose, unlocked =
door that separated her room from one
in which two children slept and went
20 a shelf where was a lotion which she
spilled to her ear. When she awoke.
she found herself in her own bed and
Tithout pain. The door was still
locked, but in a few minutes one of the
children began to cry that his ear ached,
and she rose and went to the shelf fol
the lotion.
A young man dreamed that he was ir
his Office, busy with a troublesome ests
mate. when a woman came in with =
screaming baby and began to walk rap
idly up and down the room, so that i.
was impossible for the calculator to re
member his figures. Presently the VIC.
man thrust the child into his arms. and
he was SO atartled by this that he awoke.
but the screams still troubled his ears
for a mother in a neighboring room was
walking about vainlv trying - quiet a
crying child.
Another incident appee,5 Il. l.. q case
of thought transferencc. , aars
dlleI tHe uedlu OF NeT M -== -E ..ILBAy,
lying awake one night. .ttt s.3dlv
some scenes of her hus.- .a, Illness,
Presently her daughter. aa Was bsside
her, awoke and said. g.. f~o,un,ua. |
have been going over In tay ~,rcarus all
the scenes of papa's il.ut .tir then
told her dream, in which TIA lses were
Utmost the counterpart Of those tiiat had
been recalled nv her mother
Dreamers sometimes answer questions
versations.
A lady had a summer cottage on an
island in Muskoka. One night her sons |
We're stormstaid on the mainland, and a |
young English visitor went to sleep full
of apprehension that Indians might visit
the house while their protectors were
absent.
In the night the hostess was suddenly |
reused by some n clutching her arm,
and when b opened her eyes she saw
her guest standing by the bedside.
"Oh, Mrs. Laughton, Mrs. Laughton y
exclaimed the girl ir 4 hoarse whisper. !
"there'sa mar at the window-an Indian
Hes gone to get something to climb in
by"
The next moment Eva was frmblin-
about on the doo,.
What are you doing." asked Mrs
Il have some liniment in my valise,'
was the answer. I'm going to get i,
out, and when he puts his head through
window again I'll throw it in his
Mrs. Laughton. who was not ner-ors.
began to laugh. but Eva paid no atten.
ton and presently asked. Where's the
button hooky'
What do you want it for2'
Why, Mrs. Laughton," said Eva
aloud. and in q very indignant tone, "do
you think ! would allow myself to be
,een anywhere with my shoes intuition.
I'd? No man would respect that kind Of
In the morning when Mrs. Laughton
woke and looked across the room to
Eva's bed she saw the CIR, sitting up.
gazing with dismay at her crookedly but.
oned shoes in which she had slept. She
.ad no recollection of tho remarks she
made in the night, and it was evil
lent that she had been asleep all the
lime.
One night in camp l heard a peculiar I
near the middle Of the tent. and /
the dim light I saw one of the camp !
rs apparently trying to climb up the
entpole. ]
"What are you doing?' I asked. :
'There's a snake in my bed" she an. {
wered, $50 I'm going to sleep up there" !
up there!" ]
"Yes. why notf 1t will be more CON- l
ortable."
Then, with a sudden change Of tone,
be exclaimed, Il forgot to say my pray
r." but instead of kneeling she picked 2
er way through the tent to the foot of b
ne of the beds and lay there till morn.
y. She did not remember the CONVEX d
stion of the night, but told us that she
I'D q habit of talking in her sleep, and c
she had often conversed with her
STEERS while she Was Steering souud1v