The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1916-05-31
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STORY OF A DREAM
Curious SIumber Vision and Its
Sequence In Real Life.
A WARMING OR A COINCIDENCE

Whichever cf tho Theories May Be Sc
Iected as the Answer to the Problem,
1t Was Singular and Puzzling
Psychological Experience.
The following real life experience.
which Is interesting both us a story
and for the psychological problems it
involves, is related to the Pathfinder
by one Of its women readers:
"In dream one night 1t seemed that
l awokc and found myself lying on n
mattress placed on the floor OF Il room
entirely devoid Of furniture In my
dream l felt considerable surprise at
finding myself in such II situation. and
l looked about in dismay and alarm.
Upon trying to move l found to my
horror that l was weak and sick, and |
! fell back OH the pillow exhausted and
much depressed.
"JuSt then the door of the room
opened and man entered. He was
extraordinarily tall and was very dark
and thin. Instinctively felt that he
was my doctor asked him where
solcmnly he answcred:
"'You have smallpox
"4At this juncturc l awokc, greatly
Mortified and ugitated All day my
dream stood out With frightful vivid.
ness in my mind. At length in the
hope OF relieving myself Of some Of its
unplcasantncss l related it TO several
OF my friends Without exception they
earnestly advised me to be vaccinuted
| at once, and did so.
| ~ few days later | was in New York
! city. AS | walked along | noted many
| fruit vendors with quantities OF fine
looking white grapes piled up on their
carts. The fruit was SO tempting that
| stopped before one OF the carts and
| asked the young follow in charge OF It
to weigh out two pounds for me AS
he was waiting on me saw him cast Il
| fuiIivc glance behind him, then despite
my request that he give me my grapes
| at once, he seized the handle OF his cart
and with most OF his follow merchants
trundlcd rapidly away
II looked in tho opposite direction
ana saw man. evidently Il city official,
who was ordering the few remaining
fruit vCndcrs to move on He was
coming in my direction, and rs | was
somewhat inccnScd at the summary de-
parturc Of the vcndcr before he could
sell me the grapes wanted, l decided
| to wait and give the cause Of the trou-
bic a piece Of my mind
"On looking up to address him l was
startled to find myself face to face
| with the living counterpart Of the ply
| sician who In my dream had Informed
me that had the smallpox. Recover.
ing my self possession rs best l could
| | said, 'Will you kindly tell me why
these fruit men are so prosecuted? In
steady Of idling their time away in sa.
looms or on park benches they try to
| earn an honest living by selling fruit
| think this Is entirely commcndablc
| Why are they not allowed to conduct
| their business in peace?
"'All this sounds very wcll.' replied
the man, but there is another side to
| this question. These people are poor
and rs matter OF economy live very
| closely, several families sometimes oc.
| cupying Il single room. Not long ago In
one OF their habitntions | saw on bed
| one OF their women suffering with Il
contagious disease. Under the bed W"
Il stock OF fruit which one OF the III II
! took out on the street the following
| day to sell At present we arc Obliged
| 10 watch these people very carefully in
| order to prevent II general spread of
this terrible disease, but,'-and he
looked squnrcly ut mc-'if you do not