Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-08-26
F0RETOlD BY NIGHTLY VISIONS.


stances In which Chmc Has Been
Detected by That Agency.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
There is a strange disposition to dis
credit the significance of dreams, as
Witnessed in the sad case OF Fireman
Wisbcy on Wednesday. whose wife. on
the morning Of that day, dreamed OF
falling wall and the destruction Il
wrought. II certainly seems to the
ordinary mind that that early morning
vision was premonition Of Wisbeys
death
There are numerous authenticated in
stances whore dreams have saved life,
detected criminals and averted impend-
ing calamity, a few Of which are here
given briefly:
Pcpys relates story Of a dream.
which Luellen did tell me the other day
Of his wife upon her deathbed; how she
dreamed OF her uncle Scobell, and did
tell from some discourse she had with
him that she should die four days thence
and no sooner and did all along say SO
and did So
In Some passages Of the life and
death of the Right Hon. John, duke Of
Rochester, written by his own direction
on his deathbed" G6S0. his lordship RE-
dreamed he would die the next day, went
to bed in apparent health, and died in
the morning
In Various Examples" given by
Frank Sconcld In his work on the litera-
ture ana curiosity of dreams, 1t is re-
lated that my Lady Seymour dreamed
she saw nest with nine linches in II.
And 80 many children she had by the
Earl Of Winchesey, whose name was
Finch"
\ gentleman i'm ireland dreamed Of
brother who lived in Ameshury, in Wilt
shire, that he saw him riding on the
downs, and that two thieves robbed and
murdered him. Awakened by the shock
he at length fell asleep again and the
dream was repeated. He wrote the cir
CumstanCes to his brother and de-
scrihed the robbers complexion, stature
and clothing, and admonshed him to
take care Of himself Not long after re-
ceiving this letter he rode toward Sails
bury and was robbed and murdered.
And the murderers were discovered by
the brothers letter, convicted and exc
cuted.
DR. Abercrombie says he is enabled to
give the following incident as entirely
authentic: a lady dreamed that an
aged female relative had been murdered
by black servant and the dream oc-
CURED more than once. She was so
strangely impressed by it that she went
to the residence of the lady to whom 1t
related and prevailed upon a gentleman
to watch in an adjoining room on the
night following. About 3 o'clock in the
morning the gentleman, hearing foot
steps on the stairs, left his place OF con-
up a quantity of coal. When questioned
as 10 whore he was going, in confusion
he replied that he was going to mend
his mistress fire, which. at o'clock in
the morning in midsummer, was evil
IDENTIFY absurd. Upon further investi-
cation a large, newly sharpened knife
was found concealed beneath the coal.
The fellow was placed in custody, finally
confessed his nefarious design and was
punished.
1. - II
dreamed that her nephew had been
drowned, alone with some young COM
paniOns with whom he had been en-
gagged to go on sailing excursion in
the Firth of I'roth. She sent for him in
the morning, and prevailed upon him to
give up his engagement. His Compan-
ions went, and were all drowned"
The story of the disappearance of
Maria Martin is fully related in Cham
ber's journal for october, 1882. Alarm
by the dream of her mother, three nights
in succession, that her daughter had
been murdered and buried in the red
barn Upon this becoming known search
was made the floor of the barn taken
up and the body Of the murdered girl
found.
In a note to DR.. Binns' Anatomy of
Sleep" Lord Stanhope is credited with
saying that lord Of the admiralty,
who was on a visit to Mount Edge
'Nnbe, dreamed lNaI Wnlle waking on
the seashore he picked up a book which
appeared to he the log book of a ship
of war OF which his brother was captain.
He opened 1t and read an entry of the
latitude and longitude, as well as the
day and hour. to which was added. "Our
captain dead" The company tried to
comfort him by laying a wager that the
dream would be falsified, and memo
randum was made in writing of what he
had stated, and afterward 1t was con-
hrmod in every particular.
lady friend vouches for the truth
Of this incident: My mother resided in
London and one of her children was
sent out to nurse, She dreamed soon
after that she visited the nurses house !
and saw her own child looking half
starved and family struggling for n |
crust Of bread. which the nurses child |
was eating. The children We're both in |
one cradle, My mother went there the |
next day and found the children ex-
actly as she saw them in the vision, her |.
own child weak, i'll and hungry"
Jung Stclllng in "TheOrie der Geister- |
Kunde," relates that a short time before |
the Princess Nagotsky of Warsaw |
Travelled to Paris October, 1720, she
dreamed that she found herself In 4 /
strange apartment, whore a man pre- |
scnted her a cup and desired her to |
drink, She declined and the unknown |
person said: You should not refuse; |
this is the last YOU Will ever drink in |
and the kings physician was sent for, |
Upon his arrival the princess gave signs |
of much astonishmont. Asked the rca- |
son she said: You perfectly resemble |
the man | saw i'm my dream at Warsaw, |
but | shall not die this time for this is !
not the same apartment / saw in my |
dream" She recovered and eventually |
I'm good health, forgot her dream and |
the fears il created. More than a year
atterward, however, she was dissatis-
fed with her lodgings at the hotel and
requested to have apartments prepared |
for her use in a convent in Paris. I'M
mediately upon her entering the princi-
pal room she exclaimed: 1T is all over
with mel | shall not leave this room
alive II is the one ! saw In my dream
AZ warsaw In this room she died soon
lfterward Of an ulcer of the throat, oc-
1asuucd by the drawing of a tooth.
There is a pathetic story of General |
Tytle 10 the effect that in the night
previous to the day of his death he !
aroused one of his staff ana said I'VE
viii have a terrible engagement to-mor-
row, and tomorrow night | will hiyouac
with the brave boys upon the lines OF
eternal victory" An attempt was made
TO combat this view, but without sue
cess In the morning he said. II have
lad a vision three times repeated the
vision that has preceded the death Of
several members of the Lyle family.
and this is my last day on earth" And
such It proved 10 be-
Had Wisbey been visited by the vision
hat came to his wife he might have
)een saved by the force Of the warning
lut warnings at second hand lose much
II their effect and the spirit Of modern