Weekly Trinity journal., 1876-09-30

in terror. Her husband calmed her fears,
and she fell asleep again, only to dream
the same dream second and third time !;
the boat had persons in it, with every de-
tail, finally appearing to her slumberng
vision. Believing this to be an unques-
tionable warning, she rose and going to
her nephew's chamber told him of what
had passed, and induced him, though not
without difficulty, to relinquish his pur-
pose. The remainder of the party set
out from Leith the day was fair every
thing promised well but in the after
noon, when they were off Inchkeith,
squall unexpectedly arose, and upset the
boat, drowning all on board.
Macuish (" Philosophy of Sleep ~,
who will hardly be accused of supersti-
ton, narrates one of his own experiences.
In the country of Caithness, Scotland, in
| August, lS2l, he dreamed that near
kinsman, three hundred miles distant
had suddenly died. The next morning,
while writing home, he mentioned the
circumstance half fjes;ingly, lest he should
be laughed Mt for putting faith in foolish
fancies, although he admits that he was
secretly and seriously disturbed. Three
days after mailing the letter, he received
u reply mentioning that his relative, pre-
viously enjoying excellent health, had
had fatal stroke OF palsy at the very
hour Of the night that the doctor had
dreamed Of his death.
Captain Clarke, who, not long ago
commanded vessel running between
the port Of New York and Havana, was
in charge of a schooner frozen up during
the winter of 1880 SO, IN the Bay of
Fundy. His grandmother, Mrs. Ann
Clarke, of whom he was very fond, was
then living, as he supposed, in good
health at Lyme Regis, England. The
captain dreamed (Februa ry 10 that he
was in that town, and a witness Of his
grandmother's funeral. He imagined
that he took particular notice of every.
thing As he was acquainted with the
inhabitants, he observed the officiating
clergyman, the mourners, the pail bear
ers, and the friends of the deceasel.-
Joining the cortege, he entered the
churchyard, remarking, as the day was
boisterous and RAINY, that the wind blew
the pail partially from the coffin, and
that the ground was very wet. Familiar
with the place, he was struck with the
fact that his relative was not buried in
the family lot, but in another part Of the
cemetery. He noticed also that the new
| ly dug grave was almost half filled with
water, and that two drowned field mice
were floating in it. Still further, as he
tancied, he talked with his mother, who
told him that the funeral, appointed for
ten o'clock, had been delayed till four on
account Of the storm Mt which he ex-
pressed his gladness, since, but for the
postponement, he should not have arIiv-
ed in season.
The impression produced on Carke's
mind was so great that in the morning
he entered the date and all the particulars
of his dream in his note book The first
letter from England announced the death
Of his grandmother, rs well as the funeral,
which had occurred the same day of his
dream.
Some years subsequently he visited
Lyme Regis, and found that the clergy
man, mourners, pail bearers, friends, the
postponemcnt of the funeral on account
Of the weather, the wind blowing the pail
from the coffin, the change in the burial
place, in consequence of his kinswoman's
wish, the water and the mice drowned in
the grave, all precisely corresponded to
the showing ofhis dream. Captain Clarke
frequently mentioned this vision, as he
termed it, to persons who are still living
in New York and elsewhere.
A marvellous tale is that of Jung Still
ling mot the best authority who claims
that its truth rests on undoubted evil
dence. About the middle Of the last cen
tury there lived in Philadelphia man
having the reputation of determining by
voluntary dreams anything that might
be occurring in any part of the world
The wife ofa sea captain in that city,
having become alarmed at the protract-
ed absence ofand non-receipt Of letters
from her husband, went to consult the
clairvovant, as we should call him now.
Telling her that he would report in n
few minutes, he entered an adjoining
room, and locked the door. He stayed
so long that the woman, wondering what
he was doing, peeped through the key
hole, only to see him lying motionless on
a sofa. When he came out he told the
anxious wife that her ljege was then in
London that he (the dreamer) had talk |
ed with the mariner in a certain coffee
house, and that the latter had given the
reasons why he had not returned.
In due time the wanderer arrived in
Philadelphia, and fully corroborated
what his wife bad been told. She then
accompanied her husband to the house Of
the seer, and the sailor avowed that he
had met and conversed with the clairvoy- /
ant at the time, place, and in the identical
language which she had represented to
him. The dreamer himself was not
whit surprised at this, declaring that he
had long been accustomed to working
just such miracles.
Ofthe superiority of the sleeping to the
waking mind many instances may be /
adduced, Not only in the memory FREE
quently better then, but the reaches of
thought are deeper, and the conception
subtler. Even were we, as some claim,
entirely unconscious during slumber, we
toight etili have fhOuphts. for thoupht