Dreams

Horowhenua Chronicle, 18 July 1916, Page 3

Dreams

THA'I GAME TUCK. There is Mimeining weird in the many instances recordeu oil people predicting not oniy the precise date of 'their death to take place at some distant time, but also the nature of it; and still moro remarkable are the cases where a. party h'as known the precise moment of tho death of a near relative or friend, although many miles awny at the time. For instance, tho mother of n sailor one evening rushed out of her cottage into that of a neighbour's sobbing: ''My boy is dead, my boy is dwul!" "How do you know?" they asked "Have you had a letter?" "No. no!" she cried, "but I was sitting there by tho fire thinkng of him, when I saw them lower him Into the Ken. and just then hir- portrait fell off fclio wall." Th o neighbours were inc:redu>:ius but sympathetic, so thoy took the old lady bo el: to her cottage mid tried to comfort her. Truly enough tho portrait of he:' son had fallen, hut that tliey dismissed n« being unimportant. Out of pure curiosity, however, ofle of the neighbours took a note of the exact hour and date. Some weeks later came the melancholy tidings tliflt the young man had died and lirid boen buried at sea. The date afld the hour corresponded exactly 1 PRKSTI>EXT rjxooi A*S*CASW:.^ An American p'hysicinn who was very sceptical of such premonitions was told by a. friend one ni<dit thnt he was sure President Lincoln had heen murdered. In a few hoiws the news was flashed through tho town,, and the sceptical doctor was convinced, hut dumbfounded. The samo thing m said to have occurred when President Garfield was nssnpgiiiuted—the wife ol a New York clergyman having said some hours before tho news onme that she saw him wounded and dying in a railway station, some Jadies standing by and watching. In the case of President Lincoln, lie himself had a presentiment of the disaster which sometime*! warns the assassin's victim. On tho afternoon of the day on which he was murdered he attended ft Cabinet Council. All preBdit were struck by his unusual gravity. "Cientlomen," ho said, "something very extraordinary is ;ilmnt to happen and that soon. For the third time I have dreamed the same dream. I dream that I am drifting on a grait, broad, rolling river. lamin a bo.i,t, and I drift—l drfft. But this is not business; lot us proceed to business."

A few hours later lie was dead. Tit ire before the dream had come to him, each time presaging disastrous defeat.

The strange storv of dream clairvoyance told in connection with JBpidingham'e murder of slr Percival in the House of Commons is well Authenticated. Eight days prior to the tragedy a CornisUiman named John Williams saw tTio entire assawiination performed, and so impressed was he that he wanted to journey to T-ondon thon and there in order to warn the Prime Minister of his danger, but was dissuaded !>y his friends.