Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-12-18
Tarough Riffs in the Clouds.
lcnlcnrp Intcr neeanl

Moot men laugh at ptemonlun'i0'
and nearly all believe ln them ans are
interested In them. The SEVERN no
table cnscs Of the week, IN ~nlch
wurniuvs or premoniuions OF troWoiv OF
death, have come iu shape lhlsnglhI
ne dreams to be fulfilled IN the siSiiI "i
men. hnve set tongues to WEIGHING IN
way that shows taat on lhta P"lh'
there l. half-aeknnWled t%pe'
rie,lce common 10 nlc rlce.
Ia the Baltimore case, reporter
week ago, the yOnug man, IN COCO
health, drcaRed tkatGn old'acqualiit-
amer vino had heea dead sDuec months
came Ia him aud informed him that
be would die Mt - certain hour on
certain day. The gouug man believed
that this prophecy would he iulh1ed,
and IL was. rhe question Of now lar
This unAhakGblo belief and uureason-
ing faith entered into what followed Is
81 debatable one, but any discussion o.
II, from the philosophical standpoint
even. must be unsatisfactory.
The claim has been made isG some oil
,aur most noted Investigators lhE dhefe
jsu mechanism Of mind over which
reason and fact have no contrU. eases
,f halunlngtlon are cited 10 illustrate
this uoint, aad stories are told u show
,yhnt Imagination, acting UNDER con
Victiun, deiuaiun, OF expectation may
accomplish. For example, II - said
that man told that lac WAS 10 Sc bied
10 death, and that hr would He In 20
mauy minutes after being placed on a
table blindlolded odd die, although
not more than IA few drops of blood
had let his Icins. The dropping OF
blood had been simulated " the
steady dropping of wnter, and tht
physicians aud attendnnts had, by
their remarks and movements, con
veyed the impression that blood wa
lowing.
IL IA also stated that ga one occasion
"A soldier distingulsheG by reeklea
daring, sentenced Ia be shot, died a
the moment the rifles were fired, "a
though every rifle contaaled IA blsn
cartridge, and not Il hair OF his hs.a
was harmed. 'ialese tSo eases nr
In the essential .charact ristic, illi
hundreds OF Others not so aartling,
which people bec1de sick with "a
conviction that they will nat get wei
such cnses, phyHcians s'now, az
most diilia2lt Of treatment, ana yer
few attempt TO treat suOll cslsea unit
III
ayermastet.zg impression.
Men who believe that ilsey nav
swallowed septles hzVe leaa cure
emily by ressrt 10 so2lc trstk tila
would present to their aight Snakes q
lizards undet circumstances 10 d'
celye them into the impression thu
tie reptiles bus come from thel
s,omnchs. Eut iflt be admitted tina
lint al
In determining the consequences ,
warning In dreams, little progress la
been made In simplifying ar aiisse
Ing the main qu9atton.
In the case Of Ms. Segiiin Ia
dreamer saw ina .dreanl hn aceldel
that aiterward oGauSred near Utica
Neitl.arLelief nor fai1h nor iniaRini
ton had anything 10 do With tina
DR.. Mpekey Of Washington suv IN
dream hig friend, DIR. sins, who sal,
James tile Fourth IL dead, nIeanin
himself. This startled DIR. Macke
out OF his sleep, and 10 depressed I'M
that lac could not sleep again tbi
night ] tappeared aitT&ard TIA
DIR. Sims died at the hour thai ID
Maekey saw him In his dream. in
nginailgn, as IL IN ordinarily delne'
had 10 connection with either u
warning Or the fItsi in this cats, or I'll
other
In fact. there Is predetermined el
nient la every phase of the question
IL Is probable that vi these dreai
prophecies not one Ia bundled
ever fulfilled. Men dream ghastl
dieans OF murder and self-lmmol
ton and torture. and dfeani oi the
intimaies and friends dead or dyin
aud think nothing Of 1t. Were II
experiences recorded II woul
be found that Ia u tho
sand eaaea where men dream that Ihe
q mothers or wives are dead. tile fae
nre againsi the dream in go Na
hnt this proves nothing as 10 tie ca
" Dr. Nnckey or that Of Mr. Brool