Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-02
DREAM OF LOST ARTICLES.
Anecdotes Which Would Delight His
torian of Covenanters.

Rev. Mr.. Woodrow, the historian of
the COvenanters, is an enthusiastic
Calvanist; it was he, I think, who
told a poor woman with large family
that 'it would be an uncouth mercy if
all her children were saved" This
was logical from his point of view
they that be saved are few; here is
2 family of a dozen, and their mother
actually expects to meet them all in
the New Jerusalem. Such a mercy
would be 'uncouth" Then Woodrow
believes in every kind of portent ana
miracle and warning and boyle down
to Cotton Mathers last sermon, mar
velously pursuing him and rejoining
him as he rides. The following an
eCdote would have delighted Woodrow,
though how he would have classed it
| cannot guess. A gentleman, very
we'll known in many ways, was at
his house in the country, where a
young lady was visiting himself and
wife. She lost a pearl from a ring.
It could not be found, and she went
home. Four OR five weeks later she
again visited her friends, arriving in
the evening. and, as it happened, not
going into the library that day Next
morning while dressing her host said
to his wife:
DID you remember to take away
the pearl that Mary lost from the
place where I put it?''
You never said anything about it, -
answered the lady.
ooh, excuse me! I told both you
and her that [ found it in a chink of
the bureau in the library, and put it
on top of my papers, and I asked you
to take it lest the servants should
dust it away in the morning"
The lady then went to her guest S
room and asked her if she remem-
bered being told about the discovery
of the pearl. She agreed with her
hostess that the subject had not even
been mentioned.
''Then the maids will have swept
it away" said my friend, and he ran
gown. The pearl was not where he
remembered having laid it. But he
looked in the crevice where he said
that he had found it, and there lay
the pearl.
One explanation would be that he
had dreamed the whole affair, the
dream being suggested by an uncon-
scious or subconscious perception OF
the pearl in the crevice. But he can
not recall any dream on the subject
he was certain that he had found the
thing when wide awake, taken it Out
of the chink, placed it on the top OF
his papers and told both ladies.
1t is just conceivable that he &C
tually did find it and place it on the
papers; that, meaning to inform the
laCies, he believed that he had &C
tually done so; and that the pear
was accidentally swept back by the
housemaid into the chink Of the blu.
reau whence he had rescued it. This
would not have been Wodrow's ex
PLANTATION, but it would have recon-
mended itself to DR.. Carlyle.
I know personally of four cases il
which lost articles were discovered b!
| a dream of the losers. The last case
was the key Of the cellar-an awk
ward thing to lose. After it haa beer
missing for days, the owner dreamed
| that it was lying in certain drawer
where it was found, though why, how
or when it was placed there memor.
| could not recall. Sleep seems oc
| casionally to have this power of reviv
! ing lost memories of things done O
perceived with imperfect waking con
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