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

iiioNcilcHt db lucy plCphASo " VI o'f hiS bones His tears and pleadings were dis regarded; sullenly they went on with their preparations. When they were ready they slowly proceeded to break his bones, be- ginning with his toes. They plunged the crowbar between his toes and began to twist and turn it in every direction. The pain was something intense, and finally awoke the sleeper. Upon examination he found a tiny piece of straw between his toes, the cause of his intense suffer ings.
 A learned French physiologist caused many curious experiments to be made upon himself in the interest of science.
 A feather tickling his lips while he slept became form of horrible punish ment, even a mask of pitch covering his face. A pinch on the neck sent him back to his childhood days and to the old family physician, who, many years before, had applied fly blister to the Identical spot that had been pinched. A bottle of cologne gently held to his nostrils caused him to cross the sea and to seek an ancient city of Egypt. which he subsequently, found. He en- tered the shop of an Oriental perfumer. The shop was filled with an atmosphere laden with the delicious fragrance of aromatic herbs. Now, who can explain why the perfume held to the nostrils should have created a Journey across tho sea, a strange city. a curious Oriental shop with it's air fragrant and delicious as flowers?
 
 The eminent naturalist, Prof. Conrad Gesner. dreamed that he was bitten by a snake, a venomous creature that had injected its poison into his left side. Doubtless the dream was excited by a sudden, sharp pain in the side, for after wards a profound lesion was found at the identical spot where the serpent in the dream had bitten him. In three days he died from the lesion at the very spot of the snake bite.
 Why should the touch of & nerve ex- .cite such strange cerebrations and the widest phantasmatoria7 No one can say.
 Among other curious phenomena in dreams is this the multitudinous events that may occur in the merest fragment of time. Indeed, days, weeks and long periods of time are lived In dreamland in & few seconds of time. The reason is that in dreams there is no sensation of time and as the dream to the sleeper is a reality. 1t seems to occupy all the time that the succession of events would require in actually happening In this phase of dreams we have Q marvellous H. lustration of the power of the mind for rapidity of motion. It is quicker than the swift-winged lightning, flashing like a fire-tipped arrow from the bow of God. More swiftly than all analogy does the mind traverse the earth; career through abysmal voids, above fields of space strewn with stars to the utmost verge of the universal How 1t mingles with the choir invisible in the Arcanum of God, treading courts all golden paved where only angels trod beforej then back to earth, all in a few seconds of time.
 Often are these flights of mind &C., companied with sequence of thought, log ical order. connected adventure, intelli- gent conversation, and sometimes with subtle reasoning, when but the merest modicum of time has been engaged. Near ly everyone has had these strange ex- periences and upon waking has found it difficult to believe that he had slept for SO short time, since so much had happened.
 A locomotive engineer. who had been on duty for many consecutive hours with out sleep, at length fell asleep in his cab. his engine drawing a passenger train. In his sleep he dreamed an elaborate story of a wreck, which resulted from confusion of train orders. In his dream he puzzled over his orders, but could not dccipher them. His train the meanwhile was dashing forward and finally crashed into an oncoming engine drawing a long train as he supposed in his dream. He was thrown high into the air and fell back into his cab with great force. The supposed shock awole him and to his joy he found 1t all a dream His train was moving at the rate of 4S miles an hauA o,sAalulx hs laoa1sd cut anA found