The Opelousas courier., 1904-02-27

the jubilee of Queen Victoria, dreamed
one night that he stood in a large cir
cular chamber whose walls were lined
with books; that he took down a book
from a shelf, and found behind it a
lump Of solid gold.
The young fellow had never been in
the British Museum in his life, but his
dream was so vivid that he at once
wrote to the head librarian for a ticket
of admission. On entering the room
he recognized it perfectly from his
dream, went to the spot in which he
had found the gold, took down the
book, and found-nothing at all.
But, as he had always heard that
dreams went by contraries, he only
smiled at his disappointment. Then
he took a glance at the book in his
hand. 1t was a work on metallurgy.
He sat down, opened it, and began to
glance through it. Suddenly his eye
was caught by a description of a GER
tain ore Of tin, a yellowish-brown Or
gray mineral Of great weight, the bin
oxide of tin. Good heavens" he
thought, "why, there's tons of it on
our range"
Very soon he became certain that on
his fathers property in New South
Wales there were valuable veins Of
rinstone. He hurried back home, and
Is now a very wealthy man.
Equally odd were the results Of a
dream for a young Scotch sailor named
Reid. He was On the point Of shipping
abroad a tramp steamer bound from
London to Buenos Ayres, when he
dreamed that he was on a small sail
ing vessel lying in a CLASSY, calm sea
in a big bay. The sun shone brilliant
~, but he was evidently far up in the
arctic, for the black headlands were
tipped with snow, and a great glacier
came down to the waters edge In
this dream he saw little figures moving
on the narrow strip Of sand beneath
the cliffs, and he was ordered to make
one of a boats crew to 20 ashore for
fresh water.
Pulling ashore, the little figures
proved to be Esquimos. One Of them
came up and offere3 him a handful Of
reddish stones in exchange for his
knife. He took them with a feeling
that he had secured a treasure, and
s.Woke.
Going down to the dock next morning
he found, to his amazement, that the
ship he meant to have signed on had
sailed. He had been wrongly in
formed as to its date of departure. He
had an offer to go with a coaster to
Dundee, took it and arrived at his des-
tination to ind a whaler just leaving
for Greenland, and in want of hands.
He had by this time forgotten all
about his dream, but a month later,
when he came on deck n morning,
and found the brig becalmed in one of
the great fords of northern Greenland,
he recognized the scene in an instant.
Every detail of his dream came true,
and when he got aboard again his
pockets were stuffed with the red
stones. When Reid got home a year
later he found that the stones were
amethysts Of very fine quality. He
sold them for $500, and has now given
up the hardships Of a seaman's life.
About five years ago a wealthy farm
CT named Verrall disappeared from his
home in North Lancashire. What had
become of him was an absolute mys-
terry. His family searched every
where, but in vain. He had made a
will years before, but, as no proof of
his death could be secured, probate
could not be obtained. His family
were in the most awkward straits. No
ready money could be touched. There
were no means for c%ultivating the
farm.
One night the elder Of the two YER
rail girls, who slept together, was
startled by a loud scream from her
younger sister, Mary. The child woke
up, shaking with fright, and for some
time unable to speak. At last she ex-
planned that she had seen her fathers
body on some rocks by the sea. It
was wedged in a cleft between two
rocks. She explained the surrounTr
ings with absolute minuteness-so
much SO that one Of her brothers Tec-
ognized the place by the description.
Thefe poor Verrall's body was actu-
ally found. He had slipped into a deep
crevice and become wedged there. The
place was about five miles from the
farm, and it was quite certain that
Mary Verrall had never seen it in her
life. Her dream, If it did not exactly
find a fortune, enabled the will to be
proved, and saved her family from q
very unpleasant situation.
Here is another curious case OF a
dream being the means Of saving a Sc
rious loss. An old lady living near the
Marble Arch had been in the habit all
her life through of keeping all her let
tiers. Consequently when she died her
executors found five enormous secre-
taries crammed with yellow manu-
script. They spent a week on the task
of going through her letters, and found
at the end Of that time that they had
! made hardly any impression upon
them. In any cas- there seemed moth
ing De 1hlue, so after consultation they
daau to burn the lot.
That night one Of the two executors
"a country clergyman-slept very bad
IL. Toward morning he fell asleep.
and dreamed that the old lady-his
aunt she had been-came to him and
warned him not to burn the contents
Of the rosewood cabinet. Three times
the dream came to him, and in the