The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, October 25, 1917, Page 19

e T BRSO IHHIII Wi Sive AR W, “The horriblest dream o’“my hole life.” ADVERTISEMENTS f | | than ifsSpark That’s why it pays to use Hy-Watt Batteries for ig- nition! silence in my life. Then he heaved a sigh—a shudderin’ sigh, which I furst mistook fur a slight earthquake shock. “But I don’t understand why I shud have bad dreems,” sez Mr. Hed. “I have allus dun what I thot wuz rite—that iz I have allus dun what most ever body that: I associated with: tole me wuz rite—an’—an’—an’—ef that aint the way to find out what iz rite, then —then—how iz a feller to find out?” he continued, haltin’ly. I wuz bizzy lighten’ maid him no ansure. “Now wun time not long ago I dreemed I wuz in prison—in stripes an’ chains, mind you. Now why shud I dreem a dreem like that? Then anuther time I dréemed I wuz in the insane asylum—jist- think uv it—in the insane asylum! An’ not long ago I dreemed I wuz in the pore house, that I wuz clothed in rags, that my shoes wuz full uv holes an’ that my hare stuck out thru holes in my hat. An’ agin jist the uther nite I dreemed I wuz wurkin’ on a section—think uv it, wurkin’ on the section with pick an’ shovel, along aside uv dagos an’ niggers an’ gittin’ only a dollar an’ sixty sents a'day an’ had a wife an’ nine childeren to support an’ the cost uv livin’ like it iz.. O! it wuz turrible.” Crafty leened forward and helt hiz hed between hiz han’s. My heart went out fur him in profound sympathy. He straightened up, heaved a long and shudderin’ sigh an® moped the beeds uv presperashun offen hiz slopin’ forehed. . HIS DREAM ABOUT BEING A FARMER “But the wurst uy all the dreems I have had, “he continued, “wuz about two weeks ago when I dreemed that I wuz a farmer! Jist think uv that, Mr. Hed!” he groaned, turnin’ hiz pitiful ize to me while horror an’ terror wuz ritten all over hiz face. ; “I dreamed that I had bin livin’ on the saim farm fur thirty years. That I had tuck a homestead when I wuz a young man—twenty-eight - years old, an’ that at the saim time I had tuck a buteful naber gurl to be my life com- panion. . I thot we had wurked an’ wurked all theze thirty years, expectin’ ever year to git ahed uv the houn’s an’ land on ezey street. But I thot it wuz allus uphill bizness. Furst thar wood be a drouth an’ then a flood. Then ef I happened to get a good crop the prices wuz down to nuthin’. “Then thar wuz misfortunes, sich az gickness, deths—an! burths—all uv which added to the burden uv meetin’ the note and the intrust on the mort- gage. But I had struggled along, allus hopin’ agin hope; allus patient an’ on- complanin’, allus gitten up early in the mornin ‘an’ goin’ to bed late at nite, an’ allus expectin ’that the next year " wood put us over the hump in the hill. But it didn’t. Sumthin’ wood allus happen to set us back. - «phen I'd have to renew the mort- gage an’ increase the size uv the loan an’ pay a little more intrust, which did not increase the productivity of the Jand but did increase the intrust an’ taxes I had to pay. I thot I had bin ' goin’ thro all this fur thirty years, I say, an’ by this time I had got our farm purty well improved. Then cum the calamity uv the dreem. I dreemed that the banker had foreclozed the mortgage on us. - I thot he sold us out —in frunt uv the court house door at two o'clock. I thot me an’ the old womern an’ the children—thar wuz geven uv 'em—stood around in a hart- broken huddle an’ seen-our home—the home we had lived on fur thirty years —tuck away frum us, “] thot I wuz old an’ bent an’ that my pipe an’ my once young an’ buteful wife wuz shrivilled an’ faded away. I wuz in the | depths uv dispair an’ downhartedness. Then—then—az ef to cheer me up, the banker—after he had robbed us uv our home—after he had tuck the savin’s uv a life time away frum us—he cum up 2 to me smilin’ a sort uv a sickly, sar-’ kastic smile an’ offered to rent me the farm on the halves, soze, as he sed, to give . me anuther chance! = Think: uv that! Take my home away frum me an’ then want to gimme anuther chance. The shock wuz too grate. It woke me up! An’ beleve me, Mr. Hed, I wuz shore glad when I found that it wuz only a dreem.” DECIDES IT MUST BE HIS NERVES He pawzed agin, while I smoked on in silence. “But why shud I dreem sich a dreem az that?” he broke out agin. “You ‘may surch me,” I answered in- differently. “God knows I aint no farmer, never wuz an’ never want to be,”” he went on, sorter ravin’ an’ lookin’ wild in the ize, an’ then stoppin’ suddenly, leened for- ward agin an’ burried hiz face in hiz han’s. I admit I wuz gittin’ a little bit alarmed by this time. I wuz not cur- tin whuther he wuz goin’ crazy or not —an’ I wuz durn nigh curtin that he wuz not. But I wuz worried. I cud- den’t understand it all. Finally he leened back, looked around sudenly, sorter smiled, a faint, week smile. " “0, I guess thar's nuthin’ to it, nuth- in’,” he sed tryin’ to cumfort hizself. “I guess its my nerves, or my hart or sumthin’. But its gittin’ my gote more an’ more ever day an’—an'—Gad dost it,” he broke off sudenly an’ visciously, “its nuthin’ but that—(deleted by cen- sur), blankety blank, blank (deleted by censur agin), crazy, insane, wild eyed (slaughtered by censur still agin), blankety blank”—biff! bang! roar!— “that—that”—kerslam went hiz fist on the park bench—*“that, that (wiped out by censur once more), farmers Non- parteshun Leeg that’s dun it all—nuth- #in’ else, Mr. Hed, nuthin’ else! It's ruined me, ruined me, fur the rest uv my life an’ maybe shortened it fur twenty years—that's what's dun it an’ nuthin’ else, I say!” ! I admit, Mr. Eq, that I wuz gittin’ Jist the least mite sceard by this time. I didn’t know but what he wood turn into a ravin’ maniack at enny minnit. I glanced around to see if I cood see a policeman in the park enny where but cuddn’t, which maid me feel still more nervus. 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