The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-22
BROTHER GARDNER.
He Has Something to Say About Signs
and Dreams.

Gact of a dream he had last night.
Nj understand dat Brudder Samuel
Shin am at home and in bed wild his
head kivered up. OWN to havin' seen
a sign in de sky.
81 understand dat Brudder Walpole
has shet hisself up in de darkness OF
de garnet bekase he thought he heard
voice calling him to git ready to die.
Almost cherry day 1 am axed by
some O. you if dar am anything IN
dreams and signs. At least one night
a week de year round some fool mig
ger routs me out at midnight to tell
me dat he has heard mysterious
voice under his bed or behind de wall.
out of two hundred members OF
dis club, at least hundred ana nlhe-
ty of you carry around dream-oook KS
and am guided by dem mo- dan by de
Bible. 1 has talked and talked, but
it has done no good. While you am
gettin' ahead wild de rest of de world
in general way, you am keepln
yourselves back in another. L has got
tired of talkin' and am gwine to act
I have prepared here a pamphlet on
dreams and signs, and shall present
each member a copy. From dis date
on you will be guided by de pamphlet
Any member who am guided by any
thin else will be asked for his reslg-
nation forthwith. Let me read, so dat
all of you may know what am befo
you:
"If you am sittin' on your back
steps at night lOOk1n at Qe moon, anu
all of a sudden de sky gifts dark and
a white dog seems to be chasin' a pur-
pie cat across de sky lookout. Dat
signifies dat de white man up de alley
has set a spring gun in his chicken
coop, and dat de next time you reach
for pullet on de roost dar will be
'sploshun and some one killed and it
won't be de pullet.
IF you see de new moon frew
knothole in de alley fence it's sign
of good luck, but be a leetle keerful
dat dar amt policeman behind dat
new moon
eff you am lynn on de grass and
am awakened by a voice calm, to you
dat your days am numbered, it's
sign dat will do we'll to heed. You
may git charge of birdshot in de
back de first time you enter water
millyon patch
street a dark night and you sud
denly seem to hear soft footsteps be-
hind you, don't stand dar foolin'
around. Drap dat garden hose and
run fur your life. Dose footsteps may
come from a ghost, and dey may come
from de policeman who saw you climb
bout of de yard.
IF you am gwine home about
Sen o'clock at night, and you pass
a DNtcher shop and find dat de butcher
has left a ham hung up outside, take
it as a sign dat your kids will have
fried nam fur breakfast. If de butch
about warrants and police and prisons.
take it as a sign dat he has only
pair of nine-spots in his hand and am
bluffin'.
eff you fall asleep in bed on your
back. wild your hands locked under
your head, and you dream you are
havin' your tin-type taken down to
Coney Island, you might as well git
ready for what's to come. 1t means
death. Borrow all the money you kin
fur de funeral in advance.
IF you am lookin' ober de alley
fence at midnight into white mans
yard, and you suddenly seem to see
two Goals on fire in de grass. OATS
sign dat your lottery ticket will win.
you am. Dose Goals may be two dia-
mond earrings lost by de white mans
wife as she hung out de clothes. or
dey may belong to a bulldog dat wants
you to come a leetle cluser.
eff you start to walk down cellar
and don't find any stairs dere it am
sign dat YOUR letters ticket will win.
Oar is always a state of suspense and
a bump at de end of it before you hit
g prize.
night in a restless speerit, and stars
suddenly begin to fall and de wind to
breeze up wild a wall make a sneak
fur home. It's a sign dat dar am bar
traps around.
IF you wake up all of a sudden in
de middle OF de night and think you
hear soft whispers and de patter OF
soft footsteps. it's a serious matter.
De ghosts am arter you. and If a mo-
torman kin pick you up and fling you
thirty feet he am gwine to do 1t and
claim dat you didn't pay no 'tenshun
to de bell.
''If YOU am passin' a graveyard at
night and stumble ober a white horse
lyin' down in de road. and at de same
time a black cat runs across your
path and an unearthly laugh greets
your ear, git a move on you, and skate
Frrr a
man has gone to bed wild a pipe in her
mouth and sot de house afire.
''If you dream dat you have borrow
ed a wheeIbarrow out of a white mans
yard at midnight and dat de wheel
comes off as you am takin' it home.
riz yourself - in de mawin' wild a de-
terminashun to keep clear of de
wheeIbarrer business. Dat white man
has got strings attached to de handles
to ring alarm bells.
ITO dream dat you hear roosters
CROWN fur you in de night. and dat
Nou git up and take an empty sack
Nj YOU and start up de alley. means
ones of two things. You go out next
night and safely return wild four fat
chickens and have de feathers safely
hidden befo' daylight. or you are gwine
to hear of de death of a relative. If
you don't happen to have a relative,
it will be some one else's-
ITO dream dat you see yourself in
same thing, and dar am no escape from
it. Your wife am gwine to lose her
Job of washin', and you've got to go to
work or find nuthin' on de table to eat.
Sich of You as dream ois dream are as
eured of my heartfelt sympathies.
ITO dream dat as you was gwine
along de street you stumbled ober a
bookmaker's wallet containin' thou
sand dollars dat fools had paid in to
beat de races. would be one of de
luckiest Of dreams but fur de police
man on de coner who saw you pick 1t
I'D. He takes charge OBJ de find AMI
neither you nor de bookmaker cher see
de color of dat long green agin. He
whacks up wild de man higher up. Try
at he didpsf v,ioIr