Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-11-03
Some Remarkable Dreams,


time when the Imagination takes the
reins, while will, reason and judg
ment sleep, or do they in mysteri-
Gus way give us glimpses of some re-
mote pre-existence or of some future
event? Probably there are almost as
many answers to this question as
there are persons in the world, and
few records of personal experience
are more fascinating to the general
public than those relating to dreams.
Hon. Horatio King, the famous
Maine statesmen, contributes an in
teresting chapter to the literature on
this subject in late number of the
ssNew England Magazine. Besides
recalling many strange and well au
thenticated dreams referred to by
different writer's, he gives many that
may be considered as personal remin-
iscences. One of the strange things
about dreams that he mentions is the
fact that they often appear to be &C.
casioned by impressions made upon
the brain many years before, and in
this connection he speake of two mat
tiers in respect to which he never ex-
poets to cease from dreaming.
The one which most disturbs him
is that of printing, and though he
quit that business over half a centu-
nv ago, hardly a month since has
passed in which he has not dreamed
about it. His experience in this bust
ness was trying one. 1t began be-
fore he was nineteen, and lasted
about eight years, and he was the
publisher, and for six of these years
the editor Of weekly newspaper at
Paris, Maine. Not only was the la
Dor severe, but he also encountered
violent opposition from a section of
his own political party which sought
by most unfair means to crush him.
In his dreams he always goes over
those same experiences, and whereas
in reality he invariably got his paper
out on time, in his dreams he always
fails to get the type set in season,
the forms are pied or something else
goes wrong. The other dream re-
lates to his life in the post-office de-
partment, where the fear that he has
overstaid his time when absent on
leave, or in some other way has fail
ed to do his duty haunts him in
sleep. Evidently these two expert
ences were the hardest and most try
ing times in his life.
AS for dreams telling future events
Mr.. King says he takes little note of
and gives less heed to his own dream
fancies. But one of his experiences
was, to say the least, remarkable.
| Years before the war a dream occur
red to him, not once, only, but sew
eral times, and each time became
more and more wildly. He thought
he saw two armies engaged in dead
lv combat, and was himself in immi-
nent danger in his own home. The
country was then at peace, and he
asked himself if it were possible that
we were to have another war with
Great Britain. Such thing as civ.
President Lincoln's remarkable
dream the night before his assassina-
ton is here referred to. On the af-
ternoon of that day there was cab
met meeting. The president seemed
dignified. grave and calm, unlike
himself. After the meeting several
of the members spoke of it, and the
Attorney General said that while
waiting for late member Mr.. Lin
coin remarked: Gentlemen, some
thing very extraordinary is going to
happen, and that very soon" On
being pressed for his reason for this
belief he said he had had a dream
for the third time. The first was be-
fore the battle of Bull Run, the sec
Ond before another battle disastrous
to the North, and the third the pre-
ceding night. Gin the dream,'' said
Mr.. Lincoln,''I am on a great broad,
rolling river, and | am in boat, and
| drift, and | drift-but this is not
business" and the president resumed
the subject under discussion. He
was shot that night.
A Observation-Disclosures instance of
the fulfillment of dream took place
at Kennebunk, Me. in 1912. A new
bark, the Isadora, was about to sail
for New Orleans. One of the crew
went to the captain and asked to be
released. His request was refused,
and at last he said he had dreamed |
that the bark was driven ashore on |
Bald Head Cliff and that every man
on board persisted. The captain and
his friends laughed at this reason,
and the captain insisted on his keep
ng his engagement. But on the
night before the vessel sailed he
dreamed the same thing again. He
then hid and the vessel had to sail
without him. Within twenty-four
hours the vessel was driven on the
dangerous cliff and went down with
every soul on board.
Closely allied to simple dreamland
s somnambulism, and one of the
IueeFest cases of this state is report
ID from North Turner. Me. One
light in the year 1879, a fire broke
,ut there, and Mrs. Albert Windship
Iroused her husband with the words