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was really dead. and had also died OF fe-
yer! Mrs. H., who happened to enter
the room as the letter was being read,
no sooner saw it than with a cry she
exclaimed, "Itis the very letter which
I saw in my dreame'
Our next instance has a sort of clair
voyant power about it which is no less
remarkable A frigate, in company with
smother. was proceeding to America du-
ring the war The commander of ma
rines, a man of unQuestionable courage
and great GOODNESS, dreamed one MORN
ing, jus, before the watch was called
that he was on the deck. and looking
acres the sea The day was calm; but
then was a sort of haze in the distance
He oreamed also that at the moment the
maser at arms announceda a Frenchman
in sight All hands were turned up to
make sail, and the chase was begun
The 9ther frigate in company followed
the 0.nple, and bore away also. The
who'll manipulation of packing sail on
the two ships was wildly depicted to
the dreamer The Frenchman fired
sevenl shots from astern, one of which
took effect and killed two men on board
theirsessel.
Tn. officer was relating this dream
on tie deck Of the frigate, when sud-
denly the master-at-arms cried, "Sail
hos When the officer turned to look
upon he scene, every thing was SO pic
tured N his vision, and sail was made
precisely as he had toreseen, and the
result was that two men were actually
killed on board the other friga,e by a
bali from the Frenchmau.
There are many spells, charms, and
conjnFaiians connected with dreams,
which are evidently relics OF the most
repulsive parts Of popular superstition,
and particularly of witchcraft. If a
maiden discovered that the man on
whom she hal bestowed her heart was
either cold CT faithless, and if she were
awo,nan 0. strong passions, it is posi-.
bic that she might have recourse to the
following means of being avenged. II
is that OF sending him hideous dreams
in order 10 torture him. To do this.
take birds heart, and at the hour of
midnight. stick it full of pins, and
assemblance will appear of him in great
agony" Now this is much more likely
to act in the reverse way for a depraved
imagination may behold the lover wri-
thing in torture, while at the same time
he may be calmly .i---.Io.:-e In bou.-
II ia mt by any means the rule. for that
wh;.a-- fnost desired to happen accord
ing to the wishes, good or bad. of those
who peal to such means oftentimes
the contrary is the fact, and the conse-
quences of impious practices in the ma
jority Of cases fall back upon the head
of the individual who wanders from the
path of proprie;y into that of darkness.
The following singular dream. rela-
Nng to the assassination of Mr.. Perci-
val, shows that dreams predictory Of
death may arise, when there is neither.
knowledge nor connection between the
parties, will interest the reader
On the night of the llth of May. 1912,
a gentleman living in one Of the dis
taat counties of England. awoke his
wife in state of great agitation. and
told hef that he had just dreamed tina,
he was in the lobby of the House of
Commons IA place he has never seen,)
and that he saw man fire . pistol upon
one whom he was informed was the
chancellor. His wife, laughing az his
alarm, bade him 60 to sleep, and sec-
ond time the same dream visited him.
a third time this fearful vision came,
and he saw the assassinated man lying
stark and bloody on the floor. The next
dav he related this dream to some
friends, and asked what kind of man
the chancellor really was. The de-
scription given did not agree with his
vision, and he then delineated graphi-
cally enough the figure of the murdered
man. "That," said his friend, is ex-
actly like Mr.. Perceval the Chancellor
of the Exchequer" Letthe reader also
remember that the gentleman knew no
thing of the unfortunate man, and had
never seen him in his life At this mo-
ment another friend entered, and stated
that on the last evening man named
Bellmgham had actually shot Mr.. Per-
ceyal. The dreamer then gave de-
scription Of the assassin and the pistol,
which was perfectly correct and in a
few weeks after. when visiting London.
he went to the House of Commons, and
when he entered the lobby, he instantly
recognised it as the place where his
dream had taken place. aa
This dreaming of unknown persons
and things is one of the phenomena
that will forever remain unexplained.
Dreams are sometimes of providen-
tial nature, and many life has been
saved by them. A person one night,
paying a visit at slight distance from
home, dreamed that his house was on
FIRE, and that his children were in the
midst Of the flames. He rose up and
hastened home. His house was actu-
ally burning, and he was just in time to
save his little ones from hideous death.
The most sceptical must admit that the
hand Of watchful Providence is visi-
BILE, whether by the medium Of instinct
OF sympathy does not signify, in such
. ease as the foregoing, cr else he must
deny the truth Of rational inferences.
Many readers will doubtless remem.
ber the beautiful moral Of that story oi
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