Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1899-02-10

vovars. heard a voice saying God
Will give You the keys OF the ocean
Calphurnia dreamed on the night be-
fore his assassination that great
Caesar fell mortally wounded al her
feet. and she used all her arts OF
persuasion TO keep him from going TO
the senate on that day.
The phllosophie explanation Of such
dreams is that the waking thoughts
being lntently engaged upon any sub
iect. either OF hope. as in the case OF
Columbus. or Of foreeoding, as in the
case of Caiphurnia. continue in sleep.
and in that state thought takes the
lorm of actuality. There are few
people who have not in greater or less
degree had dreams of this kind.
That the mind often works intel
IigentIy and logically in dreans.g SEW
ing problems or smoothing out per
picking difficulties that have occurred
in actual life. has been proved by ties
timony that cannot he sainsaid.
Franklin gives several Instances where
lines OF policy or of argument came
10 him in his dreams that had greatly
puzzled him when awake, and Con
dorcet the French mathematician. re-
lares that he solved many intricate
problems in his dreams. huhia
Kahn. that exquisite fragment OF
Coieridge'S genius, WAS composed by
him in sleep. and SO WILDLY was II
impressed on his mind that he sat
down the next morning to write IL
out While thus engaged he was IN
terrupted by yisitor-a person from
Porlock, a neighborlng Silage-and
when he resumed his pen the poem
had vanished from his mind and he
was never afterward able to recall
another line. Low many lovers OF
poetry have mathematical that per
son from Porloek" would be hard TO
say. but their name is legion
The Devils Sonata" is one OF the
finest and most remarkable compo-
sitions for the violin that is known
Its composer, Tartini. the renowned
Italian violinist, says that he dreamed
| that the devil challenged him 10 a
trial of his skill on the violin. and that
the Prince of Pandemonium SO far ex-
f, celled him in brillancy and execution
! that he gave up in despair. On awak-
ening and finding that it was all a
| dream he wrote out the notes that
were still throbbing in his mind.
Strange beyond all comprehension
are the phenomena of sleep. While
| phrone upon our beds we enter land
| OF enchantment. where We see. and
] converse, and travel. and engage in
! wonderful enterprises. We are limited
f, by neither time nor space. The Inn
! possible becomes the actual, the I'M
| born live, the dead come back, and
miracles are the commonplaces of eX-
| iStence.
One-third OF our lives Is passed in
| this realm. which Shelley has called
| the brother OF death.
How wonderful Is Death,
| Death and his brother Sleep
One pale as yonder waning moon,
| With lips of lurid blue;
| The other Dsy as the morn.
| When throned on oceans wave,
| Ii bushes DER the world:
| Yet both SO passing wonderful.
Two things in human experience
| apart from revelation, tend 10 prove
| the Immortality of the soul. One is
that the mind never grows old. The
| man of 20 is as youthful in his mental
/ emotions and thought as boy of 10
| The other is dreaming, wherein the
| mind apparently acts independently OF
the body.
| Can Immortality be any more i'm
| probable or impossible than our dream
| life!