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Show M-VM. TALES OF RAPID pit NAMING. Many Instances ol Vivid Imigluatlon In FiviMluutcs'Tima.. I Hrnv long iIoca It tul(u you t.n dream? Did ymi isver And out or try? Mohnuv med, It U nihiU'd. unco Ml iisli'op on n cuinol'n buo ;. Doforu fnlllnii off Into dri'ainlitml he mild he s iw 11 p.ilm ireu the only mn In sikIii ubouis'xeaiu-el'udengths ubouis'xeaiu-el'udengths aw He full uslui-p and dreamed ihu U had gnnu to hi vnn s:iw el(jht8 (dranuH'tind wonderiul ninny of iln-m. lie had no dear con-ecpi con-ecpi Inn of time, hut he Ml, rntlii-r tluin knew, (hill dy u)id days hud parsd. And tiieu he woke up. Tim camel whs Jus piMlir the pulm treo M"hainnifil hud been usup about four (teconds. Some one told the above story tho other night, after Mm talk had chanced on psychology, mesmerism, thought transference--) hn occult In general. And then one young fellow of M or thereabouts told ihW tale: "I had a dream ih other night that since I bad It has kept me nwitku thlnklnsr. It was a mixture of tho Futist Idea and of my own m-itor pas-slini pas-slini nibney-gettlnir. But the fiet that It was nvr so qiilekly li the part which litis iiz7.!ii'l mii most. 'I had gone ihroiifli a pretty haul day, and before dresntf 10 go nut that evening I.lhnuullt Pd lie on the eoiii;h i rora m'nute llu full leiiL-th on my buck ifnd get a good rs that way. A I lay lhuro,I nolo I that the chick on the mantel was just, striking 7. . 'I fell usleep and dreamed that the duvll hml come, to mo and said I cnuld iiavo all the money I wanted If I would ho content to die ot my Uilriluth blrth-diiy. blrth-diiy. He (old me 10 think the mutter over, und ho sat downjn my Morrla clnlr and, picking np u mngazluu, read' It for a long I line., In alauit 1111 Imur's lime I told him that I would accept. He row, put a p icket of money on the mantel und told mo that as orien us I desired tuuiiey 1 had bm m look on the mantel mid the uinnunl would be there. And then be opemJd the door and went out. I wis thoroughly cgnlzaift of the fact that I was only 35 years old und had live years yut to live yet in mat dream I lived tliem. I did nut go the pace-I behaved ruywlf but lived hiunptuously toiik one of relatives ,aud friends travolnl all over Urn world. 1 even fell li love, but did not ask the girl to bo my wlfe,-because I had ulw.iys In mind the fact that I was 10 die us soon m I was 30 years 'old. "Year after jriar passed and I saw no mora of my filood, the devil, As often aa I wanted money I louna it and took It Jwjtk no misgivings s to my ultimate futuro, Inasmuch as I knew that the life I was leadlug whs above reproach. .... "Thirty days, before my 90th birth, day I went to my lawyer and saw that my will was In perfect technical shape. And then I concerned ulyjelf.no more in ftPct to my death than t would to tbo purchasing of a nuw collar. On the ulghl before ray Wtn birth-dy birth-dy I Ravi a St IK afTrtlr to about twea-ty twea-ty wen, I wa as gay any mail ihsfe nad the qiP and 'al,d iQ1V ,,a'1 M,a around. TfceB my aearest, lull-matcgoi lull-matcgoi up xi11' Pra iyhenltb ItwiamiiKHii'l 1 ws wiled utn lt k uneech, rsrT laM l UaMd. Jlwtas l gtrtfo my fi tbo:K-k1n th ball ehluied out midu.bjtht-I was O'j jeart old, I trlU to mi 017 k!M oil high, bl, It rell wlih a ereh to the table. The tluhts duimrd lit, from of me, t'te inVnV faces fade I hvhjvh bl, bhiek pall canin down and ldntiil everyihlngnnd I f.t mysa.f talllinr, falling. ailin4 and thmi I woke with a Mart. "I looked up at the clock, on the tnnnlid. It, murked five mhiiilei after 71 had been nsleep five mluulvs and had lived five yeir." That, was the miin'a story ytm oan believe hlio or not, you can reason oui' Its meaning or tmt, Just us U Leal Mihh you. 4 He merely told the tnlen Illustrating inw 8'inri a time as computed by human hu-man reckonleg it may take to live a cycln of draain life. And maybe dial's what's meant by tbo Fcilpiiuat phnise: "A thousand yearn In ihy sight are but us yesterday when It li pant." Well, It's worlh thinking over whether you LelUvo It or not, New Yiirk Sun. |