A Sailor's Dream

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 47, 6 October 1892, Page 4

A Sailor's Dream

The following sensational story is related by Captain John Cracknell, commodore of tiie Tyne Shipping Company's fleet:— "Sailors are accredited with being the most superstitious community it is possible to come across. Well, 1 suppose they are, and, though I don't recken that 1 am much of a believer in the supernatural, I'd just like to relate a little yarn of what betel me some years ago. I was commanding the Grenadier in 1883, and at the end of September we were caught in a terribly heavy gale. I had been up on the bridge, full of anxiety all day and all night, and when next morning broke I went to lie down on the couch in my chartroom for a little spell of rest. I fell asleep almost immediately and bad a dream. I dreamt that J saw a steamer laboring in a fearful sea, and whilst I looked I recognised her as a vessel named the Inchluthe, which was commanded by my eldest son George, whose figure 1 could distinctly make out, swathed in oilskins, upon the bridge. The vessel was being cruelly knocked about by surges, and I held my breath in suspence as I watched her. Suddenly » towering billow came rushing down upon her, aud swept like an avalanche of foam over her stern. She staggered like a wounded deer, and before she recovered herseli a second wave, heavier even than the first, careered wildly over her. I saw her dark outline lingering a moment amid the boiling yeast, then her funnel and masts settled out of sigh', and she had vanished from off the raging waters. I woke with a start, and, rushing up on the bridge, cried to the mate, '* My boy is drowned ! my boy is drowned V And from that day to this the vessel has been nevermore heard of." Certainly the best medicine known is Sahdbb and Sons' EucAirnr Extbact. Test its eminently powerful effects in coughs, colds, influenza ; the relief is in* Btantaneous. In serious cases, and ac« cidents of all kinds, be they wounds, burns, scaldings, bruises, sprains, it is the safest remedy— no swelling — no m« flammation. Like surprising effects produced in croup, diphtheria, bronchitis, Inflammation of the longs, swelling, &c. ; diarrhosa, dy sentry, diseases of the kid* neys and urinary organs. In use at hospitals and medical clinics all over the globe; patronised by His Majesty the JLiog of Itaiy ; crowned with medal and diploma at International Exhibition, Amsterdam. Trnsfc in this approved article and reiect all others. — Advt