| Show AS TO DREAMS every one has noticed that some gome people have a habit which at times becomes annoying of relating what they dreamed the night before the degree of annoyance experienced by the list listener being lessened or increased or even removed as aa the recital to ia interesting or otherwise and the frequency or infrequency of the occur rence together with the dreamers dreamer descriptive ability and the regard bad for him jor for her having much to do with it there are occasions when the victim of these thead well meant but usually tiresome narrations since they as aa a rule possess neither interesting nor amusing features wishes hi hie 19 persecutor almost any mild form of mental penance commensurate with the aggravated grava ted nature of the case yet a general disregard for dream drea maor eor a spirit of ridicule in thinking of or listening to them is in not to be recommended As a matter of fact there is ia scarcely one even am among ong the most moat prosaic and unimaginative who can be said eaid to be wholly free from interest in the subject for let it be remembered there are dreams and dreams there are those which have a distinct significance sometimes beyond the ken ot of the dreamer though at times their meaning will dawn upon the unde under stan nil ng as soon sa aa has relax ot his grasp others are a hoton of absurdities in some ID instances stances they come as an inspiration a warning or a comfort in others they are the result of a disordered stomach scientists say the sleep that is dream dreamiest drea left is the natural repose that thai it is of this form te poets sing when they refer to the balmy sleep that is tired natures a sweet restorer yet who would forego the exquisite pleasure that comes like a breath from another anu and a holier world in the form of dreams ofa of a blissful reunion with loved ones of exalted encouragement in the stern battle of life of gentle instruction st in the duty that lies before who to is there that at some time in his life has not received benefit or strength j from these mysterious uncontrollable unexplained visions of the night A notable instance of dreaming to advantage and thus saving the lives of I 1 several persons was recently related to dr horace bushnell author of nature and the supernatural si s I and by him has been given to the public many years yeara ago in a midwinter night captain yank Yant now a patriarch of naps napa valley cal had a drem drean in besaw be saw what appeared to he a company of emigrants arr arre eted by the snows of the mountains ains and perishing rapidly by cold and hunger he noted doted the very cast of the scenery Lery marked by a huge perpendicular front of white rock cliff he saw men cutting off what appeared to te be tree tops topa rising out ot of deep gulfs of snow enow he distinguished the very features ot the persons and the abelo lo 10 k of their particular distress he awoke prof profoundly impressed by the distinctness end and apparent reality of the dream he at length tell fell asleep and dreamed exactly the same dream over again it might here bore be I 1 roper to observe parenthetically that when a dream to la repeated especially in the same night there is generally something more than imagination or chance to it and it proved to be so in this case yant waie unable to shake off the im am produced and falling in shortly afterward with an old hunter comrade he LOU his story and was only the more deeply impressed by his recognizing zing without hesitation the scenery ot of the dream this comrade came over the sierra by the be carson valley pass pan and declared that a spot in the pass pan answered exactly his bis description by this he was decided he immediate ly collected a company of men with mules and blankets blan keto and all necessary provisions the neighbors laughed at his hie credulity but that did not deter him in the least and the two men led the line of march for the scene seene pictured in dreamland they found it ex exactly antly as shown and a company of perishing emigrants in the situation described those who were alive were rescued and brought into civilization who loowns but what in the instance here referred to one of the spirits which had bad taken flight from its mortal tabernacle amid the snow was permitted to seek out a 1119 confidant on earth and ald to him the condition OY ol the suffering camp realizing that he be was the kind of men man who would act upon the in formatin thus conveyed I 1 who knows indeed but what when deaths counterfeit to is upon us we sometimes in spirit visit scones scenes and see objects and mingle with beings in visible with our mortal vision I 1 opaque to the natural eye is the veil that separates us from the beyond but it is a thin veil for all that thal may it not perhaps be more readily pierced when oblivious to all carnal dis distractions trao and influences Influence ss we are wrapped in slumber verily there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in mans philosophy |
