The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-03-08
HIS VIVID DREAM.
The Port That 1t Played In Saving
His Brothcr's Life.

II never had but one experience in my
life that veIced on the abnormal" said
the colonel after the whist game Mt the
club the other night when the conversa-
ton had somehow gravitatcd to queer
condolences, strange premonitions and
similar unaccountablc happenings. 1T
took place several years ago. he contin-
ued, in response TO little pressing for
the story. when | was living in apart
mcnts in upper Canal street and had
business Office on the second floor of a
building in st. Charles. At that time |
was very methodica At O'Clock sharp
l would shut up the Office for the night.
dine. spend awhile at the club and gen
orally reached home ut about 1890. Then
/ would get into a dressing gown, turn
up the lamp and proceed to read myself
sleepy
"On the night have in mind l follow
ed that programme to the letter: but,
contrary to all my habits, | fell asleep in
my chair and had a vivid dream or.
rather. a sort of swift, flashing vision. l
thought | was standing at the head of
the flight of stairs leading up to my Of
fee in St. Charles street and that my
door was ajar about n foot. showing Il
pitch dark interior. | seemed to have
just arrived for some purpose or other,
and | was conscious of a strong feeling
of surprise that the door should be open.
but before | could form any conjecture in
regard to the matter | awoke
THE picture was absolutely common
place, but it was so extraordinarily dis
tinct that for a moment or two | could
hardly realize where | was. 1t seemed
certain that | Ind just been standing in
the Office hallway, and the impression
was so firm and clear | thought ut first
| must have been walking in my sleep.
Ny watch showed chat | had been doing
less than five minutes, however, and
somnamhulsm was plainly out of the
question.
as Won may well believe. the Incl
dent left me wide awake, and tried in
vain to rccompose my nerves over
book. hut in spite OF all my efforts |
found il impossible to get that gaping
Office door ont Of my mind. | had
feeling. which became stronger and stron-
ger every moment. that | must have
accidentally left it open when | went
away the preceding evening, and. seeing
that sleep was not to be thought Of uHtil
| settled the matter one way or the 9th
err, / finally got up, dressed and started
down town. BY the time | reached the
stairs | was so firmly convinced that the
door would be open that | called a p0-
liceman to go up with me and was not in
the least surprised to find things exactly
as had seen them in my dream.
But the strangest part of the story is
to come Inside the office was my broth
err. 1t seemed that he had been passing
the stairs an hour of so before, when he
was suddenly seized with an attack Of
vertigo and went up to lie down. He is
a very large, heavy man, and the seizure
assumed a sort of apoplectic form which
had already rendered him partly uncon-
scious at the time | arrived. | sent for
carriage and had him taken to his
house, where he was i'll for four or five
weeks What would have been the CON
sequence but for my opportune appear
ance | don't pretend to say. and have
absolutely no theory 70 advance in regard
to the circumstances that led me down
that night. The episode occurred ex-
actly as | have related it. and | have
never allowed myself to waste any time
in specializing over the matter. have
simply relegated it to the category Of
things that can't be explained. New
Orleans Times-Democrat.