The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-04-03
VISf0NS-eFEt+E NIGHT
queer Dream That Came to a Prominent
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From the Philadelphia Times.
A few days ago several gentlemen
were gathered in the law office of
counselor j. Joseph Murphy on Walnut
street talking on a variety of subjects
when the conversation, after drifting
from one topic to another, at last set
tied upon queer dreams. 81 think"
said Mr.. Murphy, that l have had an
experience which is peculiar, to say the
least, and proves TO me very conclu-
sively that long slumbering thought.
or more properly speaking, long slum-
bering remembrance, may come to life
In our sleeping instead of our waking
hours. DO you see that old safe there? ?"
pointing to an old-fashioned affair in
one corner of the office. well, when /
was a newly admitted member of the
barlow many years ago | will not
now contest bought that safe of M.
Ihomas Sons, thinking il would be a
goou receptacle FOR my papers. An old
prass Key came with it, weighing about
a pound and a half. A few days after
l bought the safe picked up that key
ana without any particular thought or
intention traced an outline of II on n
thick piece of pasteboard and hung nm
the drawing in bookcase. At the same
time l pressed the barrel of the kew
against the woodwork, leaving an i'm
preston of its diameter. / had n half
conscious thought that this might be
usetul at some time, but before night I
mad forgotten the key and the drawing
and in day or two the whole thing
was completely wiped out of my mind.
About four years after that / was
called upon to try an important case in
one OF the common pleas courts and at
ter remaining until after noon, hard at
work, locked up the papers In the safe
ana as usual, hung up the big brass
key behind the door / went out to get
some luncheon, and during my absence
thief came into my Office and stole
the key. 1t possessed no intrinsic val
ue, but I suppose he saw the price of a
drink in ii as old brass. Here was n
pretty how-d'ye-do. After wasting Is
or 20 minutes in quoting from the Sans
krit / started down to the safemakers
10 get another key or to have the lock
picked. Neither one nor the other
could be accomplished. The kew could
not be manufactured In less than "a
hours, and there was no man about the
place at that time who could pick the
lock. j was very much disturbed and
went home with the full determination
to open the safe in the morning myself
with a sledge hammer IL / could not
get anyone else to do IL.
1T was of the utmost Importance
That should have the papers locked IN
In the safe in court by 10 O'Clock and
when went TO bed ] was so thorough
ly impressed with this that il was a
long time before I fell asleep. / could
think of nothing else. In the night /
Dreamed that / was in my Office and
That saw a picture Of the missing KEY
and a hideous looking tramp stood grin
ming behind my desk pointing at the
bookcase. When J awakened in the
morning the dream was wildly i'm
pressed upon my mind. and I spoke TO
my wife about ii. I came down town
cudgeling my brains as to how I should
get the papers out of the safe. When
arrived at the office the dream was still
upon my mind, and without any idea
that IL would be verified. / went TO the
bookcase and unlocked IT, / want TO
call your attention TO the fact that I
had no remembrance whatever OF hav-
ing drawn an outline OF that key three
or four years before-not even a shad-
ow Of remembrance-and you can Judge
of my establishment when / opened
that case and saw hanging there a
dust-covered piece OF pasteboard with