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PERSISTENCE IN DREAMS.
The Little Girl That n Man Dreamed
of Every Night for Many Years.

OF Every Night LOT many ScHFss
From the Kansas City Journal.
Inventors have queer dreams. Not day
dreams alone, although these for the most
part are thought by the public to be queer
enough-but just the ordinary, sleeping
dreams Dreams of the latter sort were
discussed at a meeting of inventors the
other night. After talking of dreams in
general and the philosophy OF unconscious
Cerebration, several of those present re-
lated personal experiences that are pc
culiar, strange and weird.
For twenty-five years." said President
| Dimmtt, of the Inventors Association, Il
have dreamed almost nightly of flying
Occasionally L miss a night, but a week
never goes by without my aerial flight
1t appears to me that 1 take running
start as though on a bicycle, and grad
ually rise from the earth, soaring over
cities and towns, looking down at the peo-
pie and observing them often to point at
me- saying: See him! There he goes
There he goes! l sail along from the top
of one hill to another traversing immense
distances in a single night. There is moth
ing terrifying in 1t at all. On the other
hand, 1t is a delightful sensation 10 feel
that you are soaring above everybody,
but notwithstanding this l often get pro-
voked at myself for dreaming this dream
so persistently. l have tried in every way
to break myself of it, but to no avail.
l still take my fly nearly every night. 1
do not imagine that l am in an airship-I
am alone, and am just sailing through the
air like a bird"
This experience caused a great deal OF
comment among the inventors and various
Nlar7 ff.ar,e
occurrence of it. Then George D. Shultz
came sorward with dream even stranger
yet
MY uncle he said, who lived in the
country, had a large meadow adjoining his
farm. There were perhaps thirty acres OF
1t, and il was lowland, soggy, wet and
sproutly a great part of the time. 1t was
surrounded by rail fence and was Dor
dered on one side by a dense thicket For
some reason my uncle always said that he
wanted to be buried in that meadow and
when he died the family, in considera ton
of his request, buried him In one corner
OF the meadow. l remember the grave
distinctly. The ground about 1t was 50
wet that they had to bail out the grave
before the coffin was lowered into 1t,
"A small fence was built around the
grave, inclosing ii in small square lot
in the corner OF the meadow.
NOW, this is where my dream begins
and Tor ten or fifteen years of nv life
dreamed 1t regularly every night One
night l saw a little child a girl. emerge
from the thicket bordering on the meadow
crawl through the meadow fence and s. art
in direct line across it to my uncle s
grave. She had got only part way toward
II when great herd of lions tiger and
other savage beasts rushed into the mead
ow and made for her Just before they
reached her they all got into terrific
night, and in the scramble hid her from
my view. But in a moment she came
into view again, running for her life back
to the spot in the fence where she enter
ed the meadow.
Il could see that little child as plainly
as l see any one in this room l could
see every feature of her face and would
recognize her instantly IL l should ever
meet her. can see her little dress blow
ing out straight behind as she ran from the
wild beasts. | can see the very pan.l of
the fence that she crawled through. ard
many time 1 went in broad daylight and
examined it, peered into the thicket and
searched for childs footprints Nightly
for years 1 dreamed this dream Nightly
the same little girl, always the wild
beasts coming just as she got part way
across the meadow, and always her terri
fled flight back again 10 escape them. I
dreamed this over and over again, the
details always the same, until finally one
night the child got clear to the Enclosure
around the grave before the animals
reached her. She got over the fence
turned around and put her face to the
cracks and looked through at the lions
and tigers. She was perfectly safe. The
wild beasts could not reach her. She was
in a haven of refuge. Since that night
the dream has never come back TO me-