THE MYSTERY OFDREAMS PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANA. TIONS THAT FAIL TO SATISFY, **liere Are Pleasant I>i-cams as Well as l'ii|tleaaaut, and There Are Some Folks Who Are Iteal llreain X,overe Something About Nightmares. "Never tell your dreams, for that enly makes you dream the more," is the advice that often greets the per son who tries to enliven the next morning by telliuf? her .adventures in the wondrous land of dreams. But that advice, invented really to ward off the bore of listening, rests in a great and fundamental mistake. Dream the more? Why, that's just what the real dream lover wants, for she knows there is a pleasure in dream-laden sleep of which sound and visionless slumber knows not the first letter. To explain the veal charm of the thing would be like trying to ex plain the real charm of a play in which tile spectator merges her own Individualism in that of the actors, or of a novel with whose characters she laughs or weeps in delicious If senti mental style. Dream the more? The argument is fruitless and unavailing. It would be a wiser plan to say the contrary, when you wish to hear no lengthy detailed accounts of the hap penings of dreams. There are dreams that are unpleas ant, but these must be endured, just as unpleasant things in every-dny life must be endured. The person who likes to dream puts up with the pool ones because of the bright ones, and considers that the pleasure outbal ances the reverse in the long run. Dreams and nightmare are not to be confused. In fact, your real dreamer considers that they are not made of the same stuff, for while one is deli clous and substantial unreality, the other is a hard and physical fact. There are those awful, heart-breaking races with a dreadful something in pursuit, and just as you think you are going to escape, you liud yourself In a blind alley with no way out and the dreadful something at your heels. That Is a physical fact, and in spite of your anguish you may know that you are just in an uncomfortable position from which your utmost will power seeius powerless to move you. Then there are those long cold tramps through the snow that you take in your uncovered feet. You may have a great many interesting dream encoun ters on that journey, but all the time the physical fact that you are cold verges it over Into the realm of night mare. Nightmare pure and simple is caused by remaining so long in one position that the blood ceases to circu late, and that proves that It is just a physical fact. Dreams are different. Psychologists may try to explain dreams, but It is doubtful if they ever Hud a theory that entirely satisUes the dreamer. In fact, she cares little or nothing for theories, for the dreams themselves are enough. They may feel that they have settled the ques tion on the theory of brain cells, but they neglect to explain the chief charm of the whole thing, the unexpected that is always happening. Perhaps during a nocturnal ramble your mind or you may run up ngainst an old friend you haven't seen for years. That is all very well and good. Your brain cell that she once occupied may bo reopeniug after a prolonged state of Inactivity. But the old friend you haven't seen for many years begins it long and rambling discourse about something you've never heard of. You or your dream self Is mildly surprised at llrst, but by and by It concludes to ask a very pointed question. The an swer when it comes is so totally differ ent from what your dream self lias anticipated, and so totally different from what you've ever thought that the uext day you reject the brain cell theory. It's good as far as it goes but it doesn't cover the ground. No one who has become interested In an exciting novel likes to leave it unfinished. Wheal that does happen, other books, equally good, fail some how to fill the void. There is that one story whose end will never be known. A person lias been known to grieve, mildly, to be sure, over a novel whose name, author and publisher she had forgotten, but whose plot In its tin foldings had remained in her mind for years. It's so with dreams. An un finished dream leaves a vague longing, hopeless In its uncertainty. You may try to fall asleep and begin where you left off, but tile chain is broken, and you never have more than the synop sis of preceding chapters. Sometimes you can manage in a state of lialf awakc and half-asleep to piece out the remainder and finish the thing up, but all the time you know you are only hoodwinking yourself and ending It as you want it to end. There are seldom difficulties so great that you cannot overcome them. When those that are too great do come in, then you may struggle and strug gle, but all the time you have a sneak ing undercurrent of thought that tells you It Is only a dream. You get the same satisfaction that smooths over the hero's difficulties in the first of a novel. He can't be killed off then, for there is the whole volume through which he must pass before the author is through with him. A dream that comes inside a dream is a funny thing. You dream that you are dreaming, and it isn't always a dream of long ago. There is a sort of double pleasure about It, like a play in which occurs another play to help oil the plot. Dreams, to be enjoyed, should be taken without the faintest idea that they mean anything. There are plenty of folks who still insist upou an Interpretation for every light and airy vision of the night. Those who are humble enough to be frankly auperstitltous still buy dream books, While the more enlightened simply call to mind what they have heard about a snake for an enemy, a cat for treach ery, a dog for n friend and a horse for luck. If they climb upward In dreams —well. It probably doesn't mean any thing, but still It Is consoling to know that It Is said to mean a rise in the world. If they sail over balmy, smooth seas, that means smooth sailing In many ways. But if they are strug gling at the oars with the tumultuous waves driving the boat back toward the shore, they hope It doesn't mean that hard times are ahead, they reully hope so. but Even those persons who pay no at tention to the usual dream are likely to be affected by the warning dream that comes three times. A woman who prided herself on her superiority to such things as superstitions dreamed one night that her husband was brought home dead, and that he had been killed while walking along the street. The dream was so realistic that it made an impression on her mind, and she recounted it to her fam ily. A long time afterward the same dream In all the same details came again. Later it still cropped up In a third and absolutely last appearance. Even the man himself was somewhat alarmed by that time, while those who knew of the warning dream looked upon hint as doomed and as good as dead. For fifteen long years after ward the woman daily fortified her self to endure the shock. Then she passed away, while the man lived ten years longer, and finally died peace fully and in order in his own bed. Al though there are cases in which com ing events have cast their shadows in dreams, still the great majority of dreams mean absolutely nothing. It is almost a waste of good dream hours to devote them to solving mathemati cal problems and such things, although It is undoubtedly a great saving of day-time energy. Condoreet, who finished a train of calculations In his sleep that had puzzled him greatly In his waking hours, and Coleridge, who composed "Nubia Kahn" in his sleep, belong to the list of dream workers. There are those who never dream. It is such unfortunates who prate of soundless and dreamless slumbers as about the best thing In the line. There are those who never read fiction, and who have never seen a good play. Their argument is "What good does it do?" or "What is the sense?" They miss a great deal, but they never know it, which is perhaps just as well. But to have never overcome time, space and all realities in a dream— that Is a real misfortune;— New York Sun. The Sun Shrinka Every Day. The usual Christmas course of lec tures was begun at the Royal Institu tion by Sir Robert Ball. The sun, he pointed out, was the source of all the heat received by this earth. Now, It was a well-known fact that most things in cooling became smaller; a poker for instance, was shorter when it was cold than when it was red hot. The sun, too, must obey this funda mental law, and must therefore be getting smaller. If we could measure its diameter on two successive days we should find It had decreased by nine inches-that was to say, It was shrinking at the rate of, roughly, fiva feet a week, or a mile in every twenty years. In view of this shrinkage, some of the younger members of his audi ence might feel anxious lest the sun should not last their time. Such anxi ety, however, was groundless; he was 860,000 miles in diameter, so it would take 40,000 years for him to be reduced by 2000 to 858,000, and the lecturer was sure that if there were two suns in the sky, one SOO.OOO miles In diameter and the other 858,000, no one would be able to tell by looking at them which of the two was the smaller. But us the sun was shrinking nine inches every day, and had been doing so for ages, it fol lowed that In the past he was very much greater than lie was now. But he always had the same amount of material In him and weighed no heavi er than at present; hence the infer ence was that he was once a lingo mass of rarefied gas—a great, glowing nebula.—London Times. The Muster's Compliment. It was before one of the masters of the Instrument that a young lady who had for years been studying the piano, secured permission to play a "trial" so as to satisfy herself as to whether she had been as well taught and well grounded in the rudiments of the art as she believed she had been. The piece she selected to play was one of the brilliant bits such us only an artist can perform satisfactorily. She blun dered through It, as she thought, in brilliant fashion, and then leaned back with a satisfied air to hear the pro nouncement of the master. He drew a long breath, motioned her aside, took his seat at the piano and played rite selection as it should have been ptnyed In his opinion. She hardly rec ognized It. Then he turned to her and said politely as possible: "Out of the notes that you dropped when you played that piece, Hiss, there could be made another brilliant piece, already."—New York Times. Ultras'. Cottage to lie llestoretl. Considerable alterations are in course of being carried out at the birthplace of Robert Burns, known as "Burns's Cottage," at Allowny, Scot land. It Is Intended to remove a hall attached to the back of the cottage, used as a museum and temperance re freshment room, and to transfer the Burns relies from this to a new and larger hull in a range of cottage build ings, which have just been completed within the grounds attached to the cot tage. The caretaker and hie family, who inhabit part of the cottage, have also been provided with accommoda tions in the new building. The cottage will thus be restored as far as possible to its original condition.—London Mail. AMERICAN MULES EXALTED.' O rowing Tnternarlnnnl Recognition of Their Merits Keportcd. Ono effect of the Anglo-Boer war in South Africa lias been to exalt not only in market value, but also in of ficial consideration, the American mule. There lias been a constant de mand for American mules for service in tlie military operation of the Eng lish. Tlie distinction of tlie American mule lias become international, and it need be no surprise, therefore, that in recent official publications in Washing ton the mule, 110 longer the subject of slighting official reference, should have a position of dignity and promi nence. Thus, recently, there lias appeared a bulletin concerning the number of mules in large cities from which it ap pears that there are nov* 600 mules in New York City. 509 in Chicago. 213 in Boston and thirty-seven in Detroit, these being the cities in which mules are least esteemed. 111 Philadelphia the number is 1500, in Baltimore 1000, In Kansas City 2400, in St. Louis 2SOO, and in New Orleans 3100. Tlie former distinction of Memphis as the great mule city lias been oblit erated in tlie march of progress of the mule to belated distinction, and tlie to tal of Memphis is exceeded by Louis ville, a city much further north, tlie industrial interests of which are not such as to make many calls for the purchase of mules. The distinction of tne American mule as recognized officially does not stop short with mere enumeration, for there appears also a statement show ing "the number of mules per 100,000 Inhabitants in certain cities and groups of cities of the United States/' Thus it appears that there are 1195 mules to each 100,000 inhabitants in New Or leans, and ninety-nine mules only to each 100,000 inhabitants in Washing ton, in which mules are but poorly represented. In New York City it may ho of in terest to the future historian to know on official authority, there are seven mules for each 100.000 inhabitants in the borough of Queens, eight in the borough of Brooklyn, tweuty-lwo in the borough of Manhattan, twenly-flve In the borough of Richmond, and thir ty-one in the borough of The Bronx. Why this disparity exists in (lie bor ough of The Bronx there is no accom panying official explanation.-—New York Sun. WORDS OF WISDOM. Selfishness insults love. Abiding achievement is greater than restless activity. We do not have to be blind In order to see eye to eye. Evil fastens 011 us only because it finds affinity in us. A good man not. only knows how to live; he knows how to die. The adder on a jeweled tray is as dangerous as its fellow in the dirt. The approbation of self is seldom born of the approval of conscience. He that deals fairly witli his neigh bor does not have to flee from hiiu. He who will not listen to the teach ings of failure shall never hear the voice of success. It is hopeless consulting the compass of conscience when you lay the load stone of lust beside it. The roots of a strong tree do not make much rustle, but they do the hanging on in time of storm. Charity draws from an exhaustless fountain; the more it gives, the more it has to give.—Ram's Horn. Englishmen and the Queen. Curiously enough the great mass of Englishmen knew little or nothing of the sovereign as their ruler. They laid only the vaguest idea of the part she took iu the government of her realm and her people; thoy knew pruc tieully nothing of the controlling and dominant force she exercised iu inter national and domestic politics. But about tills they eared nothing. It was sufficient for them to know that slio was a good woman, a woman whose heart always went out to her people, who shared with them their joys as well as their sorrows, who was keenly interested in everything that could make them better and happier. And perhaps more than anything else was the knowledge that she was a woman who had suffered much, whose heart had been sorely wrenched, and whose spirit often tried, and yet through it all Blie hud remained serene, hopeful, al ways au example for right living, al ways au inspiration to tlie weary and the afflicted. Perhaps that was Un real secret of the devotion which she inspired in Englishmen the world over. —A. Maurice Low. in Harper's Week ly. _ Pleasant For the Parents. A gentleman invited a certain lectur er 10 his house to tuke tea. Immediately ou being seated at tlie table a little daughter of the house said to the guest abruptly: "Where is your w'fe?" The lecturer, who had recently sep arated from ills better hall', was sur prised and annoyed at the question and stammered forth the truth: "I don't know." "Don't know?" repeated the child. "Why don't you know?" Finding that the child persisted in her interrogations, despite the mild re proof of the parents, he decided to make a clean breast of the matter and have it over at once, so lie said with calmness: "Well, we don't live together. We think, as we can't agree, we'd better not." lie stifled a groan as the child began ngain, and darted au exasperated look at her parents. But the little torment would not he quieted until she exclaimed: "Can't agree? Then why don't you fight it oat, the same as father and mother do?" A I'rucher'i Predloimant. A few weeks ago a noted minister went to one of the local railroad sta tions to meet a friend, says a Cleve land paper. Upon entering the station and looking around he saw an elegant ly dressed woman, who apparently was about to board a train. She was carrying a number of par cels in her arms, and besides had with her three of four children that with great difficulty she was trying to help along. The clergyman approached the lady and offered his assistance, which she accepted, afterward thanking him very graciously for the kindness. The l train moved out of sight, and he went j on his way thinkir of the endless op j portuuities one has for doing good, I when all at once he discovered that he was carrying a beautiful silk umbrel- I la with pearl and gold trimmings. The I reverend gentleman is now enduring distress of mind, fearful that the vic tim of his absent-mindedness may some day discover him in the pulpit. Public Hequeiti Made Ut Year. 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