The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1907-05-24
TWAIN'SDREAM
so Vivid He Thought II
Real After Ne AWOke.
CANE THE SAD SEQUEL

4 ForeshAoo"eo ~ tnS oans1"
ia Came to Pass With Pain
,.esituds Only . Few wssles
q Most Distressing Manner.
ouing when / awoke ! had
aiming. and the dream was 30
IKE reality, that It deceived
thought 1t was real In the
had seen Henry CMr. Clemens
brother) a corpse. BE lay in
burial case. He was dressed
4 of my clothing, and on his
q great bouquet Of flowers,
hite roses, with a red rose in
*. The casket stood upon q
chairs. / dressed and moved
he door, thinking i would 60
and look at it, but l changed
/ thought / could not yet
meet my mother. l thought
Wait awhile and make some
,On for that ordeal.
muse was In Locust street, a
ere Thirteenth, and l walked
eenth and to the middle OF the
gond before it suddenly lash
me that there was nothing
but this-it was only a dream.
I'M feel something of the CRATE
esyal Of Joy Of that moment.
an also still feel the remnant
the suspicion that maybe it
Ii after all. I returned to the
hlmost on a run, flew up the
70 or three steps at a jump
he'd into that sitting room and
be glad again. for there was no
here.
ade the usual eventless trip to
Ieans-no, it was not eventless,
rs on the way down that / had
4 with Mr.. Brown which re-
D his requiring that l be left
II New Orleans. In New Or
always had a Job. It was my
10 watch the freight piles
In the evening until Z In the
and get 90 for it. 1t was a
light Job and occurred every
We days. Henry always Joined
Itch about 8 In the evening,
Is own duties were ended, and
q walked my rounds and chat
ther until midnight.
time we were to part, and so
ht before the boat sailed / gave
rome advice. 1 said: I'm case
ter to the boat don't lose your
Leave that unwisdom to the
eB; they are competent; they'll
% It But you rush for the hur,
seek and astern to one of the
lashed aft the wheel house
B the mates orders. Thus you
useful. When the boat Is
4 give such help as you can
be the women and children into
e sure you don't try to get into
Ell. II is summer weather, the
only a mile wide, as a rule
can swim that without any
OF three days afterward th'
oilers exploded at Ship island
Memphis, early one morning
at happened afterward l hav'
tnld In ''OId Times on the Mis-
AS related there, l follOweC
nsylvania about a day later OIL
boat and we began to &c
the disaster at every port W,
and SO by the time we reach
hphis we knew all about II.
I'd Henry stretched upon a mat
the floor Of a great building
nth thirty or forty other scald
wounded persons and wa
y informed by some indiscree
that he had inhaled steam, tina
y was badly scalded and tina
I'D live but a little while; ais
tOld that the physicians an
were giving their whole after
persons who had a chance o
aVed They were short handle
matter Of physicians and nurses
bury and such others as wer
red to be fstally hurt were N
only such attention as coul
ed from time to time from III
rgent cases.
d.. Peyton, q fine and Iarg
old physician Of great repJ
Tie community, gave me hi
" and took vigorous hold c
and In about a week he ha
HAIRY around. DR.. PeytO
committed himself with pros
tloas which might not mater
out At IL O'Clock one night b
nat Henry was out Of dangS
Ioold get well. Then he SAID
idnight these poor fellows lyin
% there all over this place wi
70 mourn and mutter and lameI
Ike outcries, and II this commi
nould disturb Henry it win I
him. Therefore ask the phys
p watch to give him an eight
pam Of morphine, but this Is NJ
done unless Henry shah sho'
mat be Is being disturbed"
ven. never mind the rest OF /
oyEicians on watch were youn
n hardly out Of the medical CO
md they made A mistake. The