The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-01-23

away I then awoke; but soon fell asleep again and dreamed the second time. In my second dream I was in a crowd near city. I saw the same horseman brought forth between two files of soldiers who marched him to the gollows, where he was hung" MT. Newton was not much impressed with Mir. Cunningham's dream, and saw nothing In 1t, but the result of a dis turbed digestion.
 Presently Miss Steward and Major Andre returned from their walk, and MT. Cunnin gham and Newton were pre- sented to the guest of honor. But as MT. Cunningham looked into Major An dre's face he was horror-stricke en, for there standing before him was the soli- tary horseman of his dream. How pro- phetically accurate the dream was we all know. Every detail of the dream was carried out with ghastly particu- larity within the 12 months that. fol- lowed; the incident forming one of tn @ most pathetic as well as one of the i most dramatic of the war.
 By what psych ological conditions all these details could have been antici- pated. no one can say with certainty. MY OWN EXPERIENCE.
 Some years ago I visited home in Virginia to which l had never made a call before. arrived there late in the afternoon and my host insisted that I spend the night. This, after some de- liberation, I decided to do. went to my room to go to bed about 10 o'clock Before going to bed I looked to see if there had been placed in my room a comb and brush, articles that I always carried when I expected to stop over night anywhere from home. I looked everywhere in the room for comb, on the mantelpiece. fin the drawers belonging to the old-fashioned dresser, and in tho bureau drawers, as well; but no comb could I find. Finally l gave 1t up and Jumped into bed and was soon sound asleep. Before waking In the morning had a dream; was in search of a comb. and was in the same room in which I had so diligently tried to find one in my wakefulness. I moved hither and thither. tumbling over many pieces of furniture l had not seen when awake. Finally l came upon very small sewing stand. and while examining 1t I found a tiny drawer In my search I opened this little drawer, and to my delight found an old well-worn comb. I said, still in my sleep, q shall be all right in the morn ing"
 Early in the morning I awoke and sat up in bed. My dream was fresh in my mind, and I, therefore, looked to see if there was a little sewing stand in the room like the one I had seen in my dream. At some distance from the bed there was such stand. laughed aloud, sprang out of bed and was soon looking after a tiny drawer in the stand. which 1 found I was rather slow to open the drawer for fear that by so doing l might destroy the parallel to my dream, which had thus far worked out beautifully At last l pulled the drawer out--and there was the comb that l had found in my dream. and had left undisturbed.
 I am confident that I never saw the little drawer in the stand until l saw 1t in my dream, and, of course. never saw the comb until in my sleep had opened the drawer
 The news of terrible tragedy crashed down upon the social world of . cer- tain city in which lived some years back. A young man much loved, one of the social leaders. very popular with young men and young women and the idol of his family, committed suicide. There was absent from homo at that