The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-16

but she sank and never came to the sur face again; she could not rise. for she had been caught in the undertow. By this time one of the ladies in the boat had become quite hysterical, and, not knowing what she did, threw herself into the water. I tried to save her, but she fell backward and sank, and rose no more; she, too, had been seized by the fatal undertow. Here, with my mind overwhelmed with horror, awake. opened my eyes and looked into the dull gray light of a rainy morning. As lay in my bed began to analyze my dream. The body of water was Hampton Roads. Virginia The building with its attractive surroundings. was Fortress Monroe; above the green grass that ornaments the exterior of the fort. there flies the federal flag, which, together with the red glare of the cannons, (for I've been there when they were f1ring) suggested the rcd building. It Is well known that the un- dertow at Fortress Monroe is very strong, and in Richmond it is remembered that about 12 years ago two beautiful young women were caught by an undertow and drowned.
 These are the facts, but why I should have dreamed those facts over with such particularly as I have related here, no one can say. But the first suggestion of water seemed responsible for all the rest
 The above is not the only dream that I have had wherein the color red was suggestive of fire. I once dreamed that I was in theatre to which crowds had been attracted by the wonderful acting of Edwin Booth. What the play was, I do not know; but this I well remem- Der, the last scene of the tragedy left Booth alone on the stage. The climax was reached when he delivered some masterful lines and fell back against a. divan and lay there in absolute silence. He wore the long scarlet robe of cardinal. though the play was not Rich elieu; and as looked at him he seemed a mass of fire. Just then (so I dreamedD some one opened door on the side of the stage and an awful glare of fire was reflected from the sky. There was great fire in the city evidently. The actor sprang from the stage and the audience rushed to the doors. I found (stiu in my dream) engines on the street, called by the fire that had been sug- gested by the scarlet robe worn on the stage.
 Dreams are often produced or modified by causes external to tho body; that is to say, by the attitude of the body to- ward objects in contact with 1t or by the lack of normal contact. Insufficient bed clothing on a cold night will sug- gest dreams of winter and snow, and if the sleeper has been reading much on tho subject of the recent discovery of the north pole he will, in all probabil- tty, have Cook, or Peary to figure some where in his dream.
 Too much bed clothing or a heated room is apt to suggest dreams of as- phyxia the sense of being buried alive. the closeness of the coffin and kindred horrors
 A person sleeping with hot water bot ties at his feet dreamed that he was walking on the burning lava of Mount Aetna, though he was thousands of miles away. On another occasion this same person dreamed that he was spending the winter at the Hudson Bay settlement and was suffering great distress from the se- were cold of that region. He awoke and found that he had thrown off all the bed clothes and was chilled.
 A man who slept over a grocery store dreamed that he was imprisoned in a huge hollow cheese and that millions of rats were gnawing through towards him He could hear the hated rodents getting near to him. They seemed to be the largest rats in all tho world nf hA fore fhey burst through. however. he awokA and discovered the odor of cheese in the room, rising from the grocery storU below.
 Another dreamed that some gigantic nends had captured him, and having borne him off to their own camp purposed to break his bones with . crcwbar In