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Another Strange Dream.
The republication in the GixvNn: of
tho wonderful lnaro of tho Kcv. 3Ir
Thomas rt calls another; Htartliti;; vision
f the niht, which caniv to a youthful
Ire azac-r. vixny .years r.o. Ac t what
is vtTt r rnnrk.ibl' in thin other d ream,
the distinguished tt-rsem to whom it
rr fern d jdeeps his list tep in the Fame
"God's Acre'" v.-itji the Jtev. Mr. Thorn-,
as, nnililt frw (ret fron hira., Itii
h.mllv tieci&iarv to" sat that that dis
tinuished person was the lb-v. John
Todd Unmie.4 IuCi J;tr (4 rove C .:
t ry in Nrwlx rn, within a radius of fifty
frr t, arc silently awaiting the resurrec
tion, the botlhs, of G-.stnu, Munly,
harIc-3 Shcpard.IJramc, Thomas nnd
IJrent, men who, in tho furuni and the
pulpit .nud. v:i the? lupch, vr "ohh
and powerful pirits in their day.
Thf Iter. John iod J, 15 rami? won sta
Honed bv the N. C. Conference i the
town of Washington in the war 1KII
In thft reeling 'year Featheritnnc, a
very ztalous aud holy preacher, had
bill-ii nt his pent tniT of yellow fTcr
He was succeeded bv j.rnnu, n scholar
lv vounr evaurrtdist. who was inlerWlv
"intellectual, conibiiuu;! with a keen
char, logical nature a hi"blr ininim
tiv? temperament, and. whdrew every
heart tirhim by his thaitltoess, his chiv
alry and his wnniJcnrons impulses.
-The writer has seen minv j:iftel men.
with' very swct and attractive charac
ter.', but such a man a.s llrarao has
never nain clasped his hand aIon the
. crdarn alleys of this. world. Living in
the town of Washington at that time
were two bovs, studious and ambitious
thr cider fourteen ana the younger
thirteen vears of nr:e. They both took
their first Jatin Irtowiit from Urame
and were almost continually with him
i:i his study. Th? younp r, who has
rown 11 n to ' distinguish himself
" - - - J -
Lrii'Lut the? Sl it both uh oratur
and phvsdcian, wa Hrame's pet, con
stantlv with him by night and by day.
and participating in nil his thoughts,
plans and opinions, his criticisms on
oks, his dream-world id imagery and
hopes, and h?s grand idials of beauty,
uofulnoMi nU iratrnsi- After n uc-
rr Ndiilycirt?frkr.rojio was returned
to Washingfon for the tear 181.1. It
was jtoci? rime during that yertr.T think
in the summu. that the! elder of these
Ixivs, sleeping br himself nt home while
his hruthc r uas sp ruling tnrnignr wun
th. tr mutual fnrnd. was thrilled auti
startled bv the following dream:
It seemed to him that the whole pop
ulation of Washington was gathered
together at the Academy, to celebrato
some wonderful event, hn could not tell
what. Hut the great crowd was there,
rilling and overrunning the building
above and below, and i;ten thronging
the campus on the outside. There
.seemed to be through the whole crowd
id com pan a ttrangj repression of
fedtng, though every lace was intent,
, v ry mind around, and ever) heart
I ntiti!' waldlv with excitement and
anxious intertht. The dreamer could
not tell uliat startling j occurrence or
strange mvsterv had drawn the con
i-rtisrst? together, but he could see dis-
Minrtlr. even faery and knf.r. the form
an 1 name of every cit::d present. The
hours of the afternoon wore quickly
awav arnid ti5r;,jLvl;jtir?c3 ol whirling
figures, the low whiSTitrs of ci cited
.th(nN nnd the earnest cretinirs of
n r " -
t lor. and friends.! At last the
.hrtows of evening fell, and as the first
drapery of darknes-4 began to settle
noon the scene, there wilh a long, wild
rrv went ringing from the people with
out, and instantly every foot within tiie
building was turned toward tho doom,
ari l rout, confusion and dismay took
rocsion of tverf tM-ti. The dreamer
well remernoers, iiuny-t igr.i jram
terw&rd. the imprisxnion male ujkiIi his
mind, ai prr-s-vd around by the boiling,
m thing crowd, ho tdejij-id from thif
front door of the Acabmy, and looked
nim th --tir. Kverr tyo wps turned
upwarl, and tba.lniJ, UJSvi hva! nljnek
tht thnlUl wry L--trt wa. "The
mdgiiict-t! thi judurnt!" 'Jim
oramer ht drrmed rnn tlmH of
t .e rowing the "On ut Ani-." J Jut
ftO':h u txct-uiU v4 tI-ro broke uu
Uim V. tl-fe nIuxiUr- A i tjntch he
.-tr 'brwht to hi tmutu lxfor: nr
t ll.e framj of the. yhr.U tnU riu
uu.Mtt, dittir.nly mi jd U forts him.
with iB sun, moon nud stars,, was aflame.
Tnrough stratum after stratum of ot
raosphero he could sec, and an ocean
of lire raged and stormed everywhere.
c kjicwkh of artillery from all the bat
ten s, of Gettysburg, ik dan, and Xeip
sic could shake th e-arth ns it- then
trembled under his fet. It was all the
excitement and paridysia of life con
densed into a moment. ; In the midst
of this wide-spread terror nnd amaze
ment, the attention of the surging, pal
l.d multitude was drawn to another
strange lject. Almost immediately
over the ground where the people stood,
there came out of tiie regions of flame
and heat burning above some thing like
a throne sublimely canopied, and on it
sat a Majestic Prtsciice, whom every
olio instiuctivi 1 felt to bo the Judge
of nuick and dead. And now the
strangest tiling qf all happened. . 'This
throne paused in mid air; a beautifully;
earn- ted stair seemr 1 to' be let iown
from it ti the earth, and" while the
youthful -dreamer, surrounded by the
stricken, sobbing jwultitum, was gazing
in speechless awe upon the wonieriu
throne and its royal 1 airway, -BrUme;
whouHie had. cut Kcvu.beforo dunp
the evening, pressed his wav to him
through the crowd? and. taking him Irv
the h and, with a patln tic voice and Be
raphic manner, said, Farewell, my
bov. I must lo and leave vou." He then
trod tho first step. of. the stair
way.. It rolled, ui behind him as ht
ascended, and throne. King ami preach
er passed awny Iroai Uie scene. ' .
31 can time, in the rear of tlir Acade-
mv another cause of horrcr andivstop
ishment had seized upon the, excited
fears of tiie multitude." A 'wide, deep
pit, fringed with the very blacknessof
dukne.sN, nnd pouring forth billows of
.ulpliurous vaixir, had opened m the
midst of th& people. Around this gath
ered hideous figures, dark, grim and
ghatlv who run -hither and thither
among the multitude, seizing victims
for the furious names of the terrible pit.
The youthful dreamer saw plaudy ev
try aspect of this appalling spectacle.
and marked even incident that trans
pired before him. He knew the names
of neighbors and friends who ivere
pursued and captured by these fearful
demons, R3 well as of those who escaped.
Tho dork, sinewy forms, the wicked,
scowling faces, the desperate, reckless
expression of there ftnds, ami then the
lost, fiopeies-s manner 01 lueir victims,
as well us the triumphant appearance
of those who escaped, were all vividly
fwrtraved upon his sont i At last, un
der the terrible pressure of this dream,
wfcich neither tho faculties of mind or
body could withstand any longer, the
power of consciousness returned, ami
the dreamer t-prai:g from his couch,
bathed in sweat nnd trembling with
fear. I
A few weeks after this, tho distin
guished minister, scholar nnd gentle-
man, who ligured no -conspicuously in
this vision of the night, was dead, nnd by
the loving hands of kind friends was laid
out in the calm majesty of death's repose
upon the Very cot where this dream ban
ished shtmber, although at tho occur-
ronce of the tlreim lie was in perieci
health. And before the close of that
vear. at least three, if not more, of the
persons seen prominently in the dream
had passed from earth! also. ?uch a
visitation of the night, which is utterly
impossible to describe, would under
any ctrcurxiKianct-s have muoe a vivm
impression upon thr imagination, but
followed as it was by the death of so
gifted a person nnd devoted 11 friend,
and the diath of others ho intimately
known to the dreamer, it stamped it-
. lf upon the brain in n perfection of
remembrance whirh nothing could ever
obliterate. The leading facts in this
dream were published in a tract called
liH Ir.e,' issued Iu Itukigh in lbo'd.
o often bx)V upon IJramo n tomb in
Cedar drove; Cemetery, which already
needs the cunning hand of tho statuary
or the mason to restore it, nnd think of
hisgeni d faetMiiid brilliant tub nts. An
honor to Nexib ni, to the illuhtriouH
annals of his oh 11 Church, and to tho
forgetful Htato which iavo Jiim birth.
Inn memory hIjoiiM v kept frenh rmd
rrren forever, mid a iioble tomb ithould
murk hut hrial renbng phu e, A.
I'fiii.hl ! lfUd lli dMihtrr f
fr. ( i,f l.Ufly. Jfilhl U -aliviiit lll
ld 11 h'i'.ii 1 fly ifi.ria
P l- !.! ! d tilli tOMli'll.
V I
tVief -rr---rrr -fr-g t m ! ' rl - '
How diiTeront people' appear at dif
ferent times: as w!u we aro sick or
well, rejoicing or mourning, laughin
or -'weeping. 'A. few. days' since I met
an old lady who nod Jed very familiarly
to me. and vet I hesitated to call her
by name lest I should miscall it. She
looked ( old and yet young; .soft and
snnlintr. and vet wore stern irowns
She was fair in face, yet her hands
were iron. It seemed as if the wind
would bl vw her lawny, and yet she
moved with the strength of an ele
phant. "Why, sir," said sdie, "you frem to
stare at me, though vou have seen me
a thousand times before."
"That may be, madam, but I never
saw you so loaded down with all sorts
of things. I am curious to know about
them. Would it bc'riide if I should
ask you a few questions?"
'Not at all. Ask nwav."
" Well, w hut ard vou doing with those
smailMhid todies' shoT H '
"Whv, make the ladies Wear them,
to be sureV
i
" Not this'cold, wc t' season 1 Why, I
can hardly keep my f-et warm in these
thick-, double-so!exl;bdtta. ; I must have
overshoes. How can they wear such
thin cold-catching shoes? "
" O, air, I have onlyto bring them to
them, ami thotlear cixvitureft put them
on, and never hesitate A moment 1 hey
know me. 1 u . .
"And those little l-df-dresses hang
ing on your arm? " '
"They are to bo put on little chil
dren in cold weather, or to walk out in;
naked at the knees, naked at the neck,
and hardly covering half the body. You
can't think how eager parents are for
these dresses." . j
"What have you in this little tin
box ? "
"Loze
enges, sir; tnches, noarhound
things tiir.t .io,vs go with tlun
candy-
shoes and thin dresses. And this bright
red box, sir, contains what is called 'con
science salve,' which I always keep on
hand to rub. on, tho conscience when
any one feeLs that ho. has done wrong
in "obeyiugne. It's in reat demuiid,
sir, and a' certain cure."
What have" you in that bundle,
madam?
".This? Why, a few knick-knacks
which I sometimes distribute in bab-bath-schools,
in the shape of dialouges,
speeches things to make people laugh,
and to prevent them, from feeling, too
serious, or tlunkiug too much iibbut re
ligion. You must understand; sir, that
I continually have to attena churcli to
regulate things there, and see that the
bonuets are right, the; rings are bright,
and dresses complete; yet religion itself
I hato as poison. And here is a box of
the finest what shall I call it? It is a
sort of wit aud smartness, which I deal
out to preachers, with which they spice
their strmons and become popular. 1
sell them by the gross. They are grow
ing in demand, and they are a real sa
ving of conscience and heart-ache.
Warranted to keep in any climate a
kind of sensation-powder."
Prav, madam, what arc those screws
for?"
Whv, to pinch the feet, and make
them look small, without regard to corns
and bunions. They can't wear those
little, dear little shoes, except ynu have
these pinchers to go with them."
"And that great neap 01 dooks in
...
your arms :
".Thoso? They are the latest, most
exciting, and the weakest, most silly
novels. But I baud them out, and shake
my head with a smile, and crowds read
them."
"Well; madam, Tin very inquisitive,
I know; but I do want to know what
you have in that bag thrown over your
shoulder." '
MA great variety of vttluablea; such
things us 'late suppers, 111 great de
mand, and which sen I people to the
'ravo early, and thus make, room for
more, 1 lien inero nro iavo nours una
l.ltt , rifting,' nud all manner of hair-
drenning and expensive dressing, things
that IndifH must have, even if their bus
buiidii fait. Hero aro diamond piusuud
. . I ! 1 t '
ringN, Jiui tun uimgn 10 nur up envy
and creaUi oxtrUTaganen. Hero aro
joh! watrlieH,cignrH.nccrchaum pipes, (
;rld hf adrd ciuiew, rye-glasseH, nud all
iiMlihrr f IhlliH" lo fedt 11 inm.nrr of hmjU
And t ltifh nnd hai, ft lid flown ntul com-
Ixnand, till I get them to wear nnd use them
nd do jast what I please. Kowl have stoppe
to talk vrith- you a few moments; don't you
see what a crowd have; gathered around me?
Low neeks. tbin shoes, mcsl in. dresses, tight
loots; tome on crutches, some coughing, some
hreutlung short, all crowdicg to get cer me
and when I move, you will see how they all
run, and rush, nnd crowd after me. Oh, sir.
I am ' tho great power of the world- I rule
kings nud queens, beggars and philosophers.
Don't you see?". . .
t ......
Truly, madam, truly. And now jiay I
r.sk your name?"
"Name! Fashion, sir! My name is Mks.
PaiivjULiNG Fashion. I thought everybody
kne mo." Dr. Todd.
ThG New Scholar For the Boys.
A new scholar came to Kackford school at
the beginning of the half year. He was a well
dre-sed,; fine-looking lri, whose appearance
all the boys like!. , , . . ' -
There was a et of boys at this sehool who
immediately invited him to join their " larkt?,'"
and , I rsnppose boys know pretty, well what
that moans. , . , . , . . ,
They 'used to spend their money .in eating
and drinking, and olten nui np large bills,
which their friends found. hard to pay. They
wanted the ntw pcholar tojoin them, aod fhey
dways contrived hy 1 mghiag at him, or re
proaching, him, to, gctral-oost any boy they
wanted mto their meshes. The new boys, were
afraid not, to yield to them. This new scholar
refused their invitations. . They, called hjm
mean and stingy-n chargo which -. - always'
makes boys very sore. .-
' You are reaj mean not to go with us," they
aid. . j .
" !Ioan ! "he answered; 'whereis the mean
ness in not spending mouey which is not my
own? 'And where : is the tinginess in npt
spending money which is tot my own ? . And
where is the stinginess in not choosing to bf g
money of my friends in order to spend it in a
way w h icU . t b ey would not a pp ro ve ? " ' "
"He talks like a minister," exclaimed one
of them.
"After all," he continued, "our money must
come from o,ux friends, as w hatcn't it, nor
cm we earn it. Osb, boys, I -do not, mean to
spend one penny that I should be' ashamed to
p,ive on account of to my father aud.mother,
should they ask me." '
"JBhl not out of yourleading-stiings theu?!V
"No, nor am I in a hurry to get out of
them." I ;
"Afraid of your father, eh? afraid of -his
whipping yon? Afndd of your mother? Won't
sho give you a sugar-plum? "What a precious
biby ! they cried, iu mocking terms..
"And yet yon are trying to make me afraid
of vou," said the new scholar boldly. "You
want me to be afraid of not doing as you say.
And wfcich, I should like to know; is the bet
ter sort of tear the fear of my school-fellows,"
which would lead me into what is low, or fear
of "my parents, which will inspire me with
things noble and manly ? Which fear is the
better ? It is avery poor service ym are eloing
me, to try to set me against my parents, and
t ach me to be ashamed of their authority."
. The boys fe!t that there was no headway to
be made against such a hew scholar.- All they
said hurt themselves rn&re thau him, and they
liked better to be out of his w ay than in it--a!l
Lad toys, I mean. The others gathered around
him, and ; never did they work or play with
greater relish than while he was their cham
pion and friend. j ,
"Thejnew scholar is a champion fellow,"
said the principal, "and carries more influence
than any boy in the school. They study better
and play better where- he is. Yon can't pull
him down. Every thing mean and bad sneaks
out of his way." '1
j ; ; - ' . -
" That Cbtbtaij Sekmon.' An unconverted
young woman stands by the bedside of a dying
Christian J They have, loved eac other like
two sisters. Unahle to articulate, the, dying
one speaks through her eye. Catching the eye
of her friend, and looking upward, she silently
hut signilicantly (savs to her, "Meet me up
there." I A siupje tear slid out from under the
j - ,
eyelid nnd paused on her pallid cheek, and re
mained there after her spirit had fled. To the
hiirvivor that crystal sermon was the most ef
fective ono ever uddressed to her. 2o rest
could sho find, though she btruggled for
months, j till sh ojHned the : door, and let
Christ in. For twcuiy-rlvo years that iudivid
tin I ha Ihhu tlio companion aud helier of a
loiniitwr of Jcuuh. s . . .
Siciuru-K Dutx. In our lato war a lit
tin drummer boy, . after dwerihing tho hard
nhij o( tho vrinUr campaign, tho oot,' tho
biting, tho pitllrw wind, tho hunger and tho
imkMnm thloh thy had ti mduro, cvmolu
dd ld Irttrr to hia mother with tho itimplc
mid touching word, "but, mother, it. is our
duty, and for our duty wo will dio,"
, j Temperance Talk.
Abstixexce iok Boys. "Put down my
name," if you please, sir, I want jto join the Cotd
Water Army." .' j1 Why do you wish to join it,
my.lad?", "Bdcauise," he said,- with-a-very
serious; look, "I do. not ioant to be suQk,a man
as mt father is." ' " "." . ' ' " "
" Good in Its Place." Bishop Asbury was
a guest of a family where brandy was placed
on the table, nnd he was invited to partake,
but he declined. J The lady blushed and said,
" Bishop, I believe that brandy is good in its
place." -'f So do I," said Mr. Asbury; "if you
have no objection I will put it in its place;" so
hn put it in the old-fashioned cupboard in the
corner of the room, sayiDg, " That is the place,
and there let it stay;" and there it did stay,
never to be brought on the table again.
Mb. Greelex's AusnNXKeE. Horace Gree
ley was once met' at a railway depot by. a red
taced individual, who shook him warmlv by the
hand. -I don't recognize you," said Mr.
Greeler. '" Why, yes, you must remember
how we drank trandy and Avnter together at a
certain place." This amused the bystanders,
who knew Mr.' Greeley's strong tern pe ran ce .
principles. " "Oh, I see," replied Mr. Gree-
eyr " yoa drank the brandy, and I drank the
water, i Mr. Greeley once wrote an account
of a wine dinner, and said that the party had
indulged in Heidsick and Champagne, these
both being Dames for the same iind of wine.
His associates laughed" at his mistake, which
they pointed "out to him. "Did I write it
so?" said' he. with a crood-natured ; smile.
Well, I reckori Tin the only man in this of
fice who could have made such a mistake. "
i - I ' ' . 'T-"
Watl or a Dbtkabd. The brilliant Charles
Lamb wrote,' The waters have gone over me,
hut out of the black depths,' could I be heard,
I would cry out to all those who have set a
oot in the perilous, flood. Could the youth to
whom the flavor of the first wine is delicious
as the opening scenes of life, or theenteriug
urjpn some newly-discovered paradise, look iiir
to my desolation and be made to understand
what a dreary thing it is when he shall feel'
himsedf going down a precipice with open eyes
nrd passive-will-Tto see ail godlin ess -emptied.
out of pim, and yet not be able to forget a time
when it was otherwise to bear about the pit
eons spectacle of his own ruin ; could he see
my feverish eye, feverish with Jast night's
drinking, and feverish looking for to-night's
repetition of the folly; could he but feel the
body "of death out of which I cry hourly with.
eebler outcry to be delivered, it were enougn
to make him dash the sparkling beverage to
the earth, in all the pride of its. mantling
temptation.". -J '
The Contrast. An active temperance man
was assailed in a public place by a drunkard,
w ith the taunti " There goes a teetotaler ! " '
Ie retorted in hearing of the, crowd, " There
stands a drunkard ! Three years ago he had a
-
sum of" $400; now he cannot produce a penny.
I know he cannot; I challenge him to do it;
"or if he had a penny he would be at a public"
house. There stands a cirunKara, ' ana nere
slanels a teetotaler, with a purse fall. of money
honestlv earned , and careful! v kept. There
stands a drunkard ! Three years ago he had a
watch, a coat, shoes, and decent clothes; now
he has nothing but rags upon : him, his watch
is gone, and his "shoes afford free passage to
the water. ; There stands a drunkard; ancl here
stands a teetotaler, .with a good hat, good
shoes, good clothes, and a good watch, all paid
for. Yes, here stands a teetotaler 1 ' And now,
my friends, which has the better of it? " . The
chagrined drunkard slunk away, while the
crowd cheered the temperance lecturer!
;' , ad, eutisemext.
Photographic Notes.
-: - i ' f -' t " " ' "
j BY B. FBAVK PETEBSOJJ. ;
yIIoi to Dress. Avoid black or brown velvet
jas much possible, and' all goods with large
t-pots or stripes. Silks, brocades, satins, alpar
cas, .fcc, drape nicely and take artistic folds,
and reflect light well, so that you get the details
out well, which adds mucb to the effect of a ,
photograph. , Alpacas trimmed with satin are
about the best for black. Trimming of beads,
fringe, &ev, giye excellent effect. Avoid too
much white about the neck. Such colors as
crimson, dark blue and green give a fine dark
gray in Ta i picture, and light red, light blue,
gray, light drab, slate, Jfcc,,' give a light gray
photograph, - Goods that are soft and black or.
brown do not give. much detail, but look, very
black and flat in the picture, and are therefore
very objectionable." Jewelry is no great help .
to n picture. Be sure to fix your hair just like
yo'i want; it to look in the picture.,,. My -thoughts
while posing a sitter are all concentra
ted on lighting the face and adjusting the fig
ure to the position; therefore, I am inclined to
overlook any little defect about the hair or
dress.' So yon most look out for that your?
elf. Whito, If of silk, satin or other nice ma
terial, and well made, with - suitable trim
mings, gives most beautiful effect. The most
elopint stylo of photograph gotten up are the
rvnels, which aro of two sires. One ia ix$x
inches, w hich is worth $o.00 per half dozen,
and tho other xs 5x10 inches, $7.50 per half
dociu . x - ' March 21-lt