Show STEAKfiE DREAMS Ii I = i Four gentleman were seated one evening last week in a private room of an uptown resort One of them made casual reference to dreaming and mentioned incidentally a paper read the night previous by a clergyman clergy-man on the phenomena of dreams Two of the party scoffed at the idea that persons ever dreamed of events to come They admitted that they seldom had dreams but when they did dream the fancies had little continuity I con-tinuity and relevancy One gentleman gentle-man however boldly affirmed that I he had had several demonstrations that the mind did often carry out in aleep the designs of the day Wh ° n I was abont twelve years I old he said like moat boys of that I age my principal occupation was deviltry de-viltry of one kind or another I An old man heartily detested by all i the boys had died in our neighborhood I neighbor-hood and every evening his widow i and grown daughter had to pass down a lane running parallel with our fence along the top of which was laid flat boarding Noticing the nightly trips cf these two females an idea occured to me Keeping my own counsel I laid my plans I intended in-tended some night when my parents were out to wrap a sheet around my body and climbing the fence run along it when the women came by Now here is a curious fact Two days after and before I had a chance I to carry out fee plan all the people I about ware greatly excited A ghost I had appeared and there could be no I mIstake as to us identity it walked down the lane and distinctly said I am the ghost of old S This was sworn by two witnesses I wondered won-dered who had forestalled me I asked all the other boys but none of them that I was sure knew anything any-thing of the matter The next night a battalion of watchers I among them all patiently pa-tiently some tremblingly awaited the coming of the spectre Twelve oclock one oclock passed but it didnt come Then we all went to bed The next morning it was announced an-nounced that a gentleman had seen the spook later in the night and heard its cry By this time my soul was filled with envy to think of the unknown who was kicking up Euch a ow A night intervened without dis urbance but on the following night it was laid forever and with it the elief of many that souls can return from the other shore Two men had watched At last hey saw the gleam of white at the end of the lane Suddenly it occurred to them what was the cause of the ghosts great stature It is walking on the fence They laid for it Tabbed it by the arm tore away the beet and with such endearing names as little imp of hell they awoke the spirit Glancing wildly bout me I became conscious The mystery was solved The I neighbors were enraged until it was i ound that 1 was really sick from right I was sent away to school Boon after and never told until long years had succeeded that the scheme I carried on in sleep was hatched while wide awake Several years afterwards I made up my mind to strike out for myself and leave home Most of you no doubt have gone through the experience experi-ence so I had been away two weeks and had besides some money a tock of attachments for sewing machines but I had not the skill or boldness to dispose of them One day I went to the Grand Central depot de-pot and took the first train for borne Arriving at Stamford fcConn I felt impelled to stop over It was the first time I had ever been in the town and yet everything eoemed familiar streets houses the very trees shading shad-ing the walks At last it all came tome to-me I had seen Stamford in a dream Details returned to my memory and walking along I could tell what was to appear next I knew that in a triangular space formed by the junction of two streets J should find a brick building the lower low-er floor occupied a3 a dry goods store with a sign over it in black and gold In this store I sold my stock to a man whose face had never looked into mine except in a dream Some time before I had bad suit of clothes made by B tailor in a town twenty miles distant from my home and on wearing them found the vest did not fit I decided to rep turn the garment for aiterationa and went to bed In the morning it was missing and a thorough search could not find it About ten days after it came to ino by express with a no e from the makerpoping that it would now prove all right Investigation showed that in the night I hed decided to return it I had gotten out of bed at halfpast ten p m gone to the express office and bad written a note to the maker stating the alteration altera-tion to be made and then had expressed ex-pressed the package All the time I must have been sound asleep Iu 1881 a friend of mine want to Wisconsin Wis-consin under engagement to a manu facturing concern in Racine Two months after I had a dream in which I lanced myself on a train bound for Albany Waiting in the depot in Sringfield Mass I saw my friend coming toward mo and get ting down shook bands with him and asked him to explain bis sudden appearance He said the factory had burned down two weeks before and the firm bad refused to continue ita contract In a joking way I told the dream next morn ink to a gentleman who had bsen offered B position by the firm named I An hour alter I had repeated it 1 I telegram came from Racine an noanoing the total destruction of the factory by fire the previous night Subsequently letters brought the news that the firm had cancelled all contracts In the township of GuilfordConn lives a queer character known as Sherm Di51 fisherman hunter clam digger be is anything in fact which will turn for him an honest penny He lives not far from the scene of the Mary Sannard tragedy and moat peope who visited Black Rook at that time struck UD an ao quaifcance with Sham Hia house is always open and is is considered the corect thing when in that vicinity vici-nity for the tired hunter or wes trout fisherman to step tbere and enjoy a quiet oia with Snatn Urn f ly and after supper indulge in generous draughts of punch The night before be-fore I was to make my first visit to Davis in a dream I had the expei ence to come all day in company with a friend I whipped trout streams but no fly was cinnting enough io tempt a single fish Tired wet and hungry we teacbad Sheens at five oclock We ound him just emptying a dilapidated basket containing con-taining fourteen trout the largest weighing eleven ounces He condoled con-doled with U3 ovdr our poor luck and soon over a nice supper we forgot the fatigue of tha day Tais was the dream Toe reality even to the weight and number of Davis catoh was precisely as I had dreamed on the previous night it would be except thttt my friend caught wo small fish then my dream had given him no catch whatever 1 |