Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-01
DREAMS AND FORRBODINeS.

Curious Condolences That Make = MAJ
Ask "why"-Odd Things not Easily Ac
counted For.
Detroit Free PrsH.
A little child related one morning q
breakfast 3 curious dream:
Mamma, l thought some men came t.
the house, and they had such a funny Lit
tie box, and they said they were going t.
put me in it,"
ibid you dream what shape the box
was, my lover" asked the child's mother,
anxiously.
"Oh, yes, mamma, and l never saw any.
thing like it. II was like this"
The child took some bread crumbs from
his plate and began to trace out with great
distnctness the shape which he saw in his
dreams.
He had never before looked on death or
seen any OF its pAraphernslia, yet as his
mother watched hSR with sinking heart
there grew under hi9little fingers the ex-
act outlines Of q cofiu.
st was onlya dream" the mother said,
and forebore telling the happy child what
ill-1men his dream had wrought.
But in a few,days the child siekened and
died and the broken-hearted mother WAS
faiu to confess that there was me creed
and potent necromancy in dreams.
A circumstance within the knowledge of
the writer seemed almost to partake of the
spirit of divination. A little girl of four
years old, while yet we'll and with not the
slightest intimation Of coming illness, said
70 her mother:
Next Sunday / am going to die and Mr.
Lever the Episcopal clergyman will bury
me. mamma"
The child's mother reproyed her gently
for talking 80 fOolishly, but the child in
sisted and added this statement:
The Sunday after Mr.. Lever the eler-
gyman) will die, and there won't be any
one to bury him"
The uncommon remaH and the solemn
ity of the child's manner created a passing
impression which was forgotten by her sud-
den illness. She was taken i'll with con-
gestion Of the brain and was buried, a. she
had predicted on the following Sunday by
the clergyman who had also baptized her.
Now IN the incredible part of the story.
The clergyman, until then in perfect
health, sickened and died; but it was not
on the successive Sunday he was buried,
as little Mary had predicted, but on the
second following, and the funeral service
was conducted by . lay brother, there be-
log no clergyman near to oficiate.
1t mag be possible that the coming of
death oppressed the child, and she appre-
hended her own sudden demise. But why
should she anticipate the death of her
friend, and whence came that occult knowl-
edge which breathed forth in the spirit Of
p~rophesy from little Mary's infant lips?
\ few years ago a lady living in Chicago
received q letter from 3 friend residing in
Hannibal, Mo. Before the letter reached
i:s destination 3 terrible disaster had oc-
cOrred and an awful bereavement had
fallen on the friend 10 whom it was writ
ten. Yet three days before the accident
happened, O. q distance of many hundred
miles, this is wat the friend in Missouri
wrote:
Where are your What has happened to
yoU? Arc you in tie flesh or out Of it?
Whefey-r l go your anxious, troubled face
comes before me. l can do nothing until l
hear thst you are well aad happy and gay
~ ever"
IL was two days later that her friend was
plugged iato the deepest sorrow, and her
letter had been mailed As hours when the
telegraph flashed through the country the
tidiEg that carried sorrow into half ahun-
dred families.
HoR do you arrount for IL The narcan-
ton that is nos q dream nor the notified con-
clusion OF a cloudy brain, nor the chimers
of a too vivid imagination, but which is
thrust upon Us when we least expect or
desire II?