Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-03-30
A MIDNIGHT DREAM.
BROTHER AND SISTER REUNITED TN
 A STRANGE MANNER.

Meet After Half 9 Cont ns.y-saiIivva rnes-
 Prayed For Divine Hoip-Tis Sisters
 Residence Revealed to Him h Vision.
 Story Is youched For.
 Jacob Stillwagner, an aged resident of Boydtown, q small villago three miles east of Shamokin, Pa, las just returned from Stetsonville. Wis. and tells remarkable story of how he and one of his long lost sisters were reunited through the medium of his prayers and dreams. He claims that he was born in Iowa 65 years ago. where he lived, to- gether with his parents, sister and two brothers, until he arrived at the ago of 2 years, when both of his parents died suddenly, leaving the four small ehil- dren without any means of support.
 Kind neighbors provided for the lit- ele ones until permanent homes could be efonnd for them, but within a year of their great bereavement they were scat tered far apart and soon lost all trace of each other. Mir. Stillwagner says that his adopted parents drifued east ward, and just as he arrived at the age of manhood he located at Boydtown, where ho has since resided.
 lie made frequent attempts to find some trace of his brothers and sister as the years passed by. but 1t was not un. til early last fall that he met with any success in this direction. Then while walking across tho mountain from Boydtown to Shamokin he was seized With an overwhelming desire to find his long lost relatives, and kneoling on the fallen autumn leaves earnestly prayed God to direct his steps toward his broth. CTS or sister, and allow them to bo 10. united before being called to thei1 eternal home
 The desire to find his loved ones be. came the sole object of Stillwagner's re. maining days, ard about three weeks after his prayer in the forest he dreamed that he was at Stetsonville. Wis, where he found his sister, from whom he had heard no tidings for moro than half a century. le distiaatly saw tho interior of her homo and had her features and the external surroundings of her house indelibly stamped upon his brain.
 When he related this dream to his friends, they laughed and tried to con- vince tho old gentleman that it was merely the result of his continual think ing and talking on tho subject that was absorbing all of his time and attention. He could not be discouraged, however and resolved to investigate on the lines laid out in his dream.
 The name of his sister, the most i'm. portant clew, had not been revealed to him i'll his midnight vision, but he com mnnicated with the postmaster of the little Wisconsin village, describing the house and inmates he had seen, and closed by asking whether such habita- tion and family really existed there. Several weeks passed before he received reply, but the auxiously looked for Sletter gave the history of the woman oc cupying the home he described, and con- vinced Stillwagner that 1t really was his sister.
 So confident was he on this point that he left for Wisconsin, and upon his re- turn east he startled his friends by an- nouncing that tho woman hesdreamed of was none other than his missing sister, who is now surrounded by happy fam. fly. Mr. Stillwagner adds that since his return east he visited Philadelphia, where he found acquaintances of the family that had adopted his sister now residing in Wisconsin, who verified hel story and completely established he1 identity.
 His remarkable story is vouched fol by the Methodist minister of whose church he is a member. and tho aged dreamer is now earnestly imploring God to give him traces of his two missing brothers. Philadelphia Press.
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