Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1896-12-10
DREAMS AND OMENS.
Stories of Special Providence In Vision
of the Night.


In history and in the common walk of
life you come across individuals of every
class who believe that special provi-
dence presides over their affairs. There is
never an accident happens upon large
scale that remarkable instances of escape
are not mentioned more or less in proof of
the truth of this belief, In religious books
of the day you will find many cases where
ministers of the gospel have been prevented
by what is called divine interposition
from sailing on vessels evidently doomed
to destruction.
Recently the papers have been quoting
Welsh papers interesting account of two
dreams that came true in connection with
the Hendreforgan colliery accident. One
man saw visions of the wreck of the pit
and refrained from going to work on the
day of the calamity. A woman had quite
q similar dream and saw her son among
those who were in peril of immediate death.
Unlike the male dreamer, she threw off
her nocturnal impression of disaster. Her
son went to work and was among those
who were seriously injured.
These seem to be very striking Fremont
tions of disaster intended for the behest Of
two particular individuals, the rest being
doomed without warning Professed spir-
itualists and others are naming these in
stances as examples of supernatural inter
position in worldly affairs, but criminal
and other historic records contain far more
puzzling cases to show that There is more
in heaven and earth than is dreamed of in
our philosophy" Who among us have not
had what at the time seemed to be warn
ing dreams touching the safety of those we
love? In the exercise of dangerous call
| ing, such as coal getting, there is nothing
strange in the anxiety of mother being
sufficiently keen to raise phantoms Of trou-
| Bile for her in dreams. A man of any
imagination engaged in pit supposed to
be fiery or otherwise might we'll have
vision of the kind of accident that is not
at all unusual in mining district. Men
and women have scores of dreams that
never come true. 1t would be odd in the
| doctrine of chances that now and then an
impressive coincidence should not occur.
| What may be called the literature of
dreams has many cases that are far less
easy to dispose of than the two dreams
just now being discussed here and there,
and which will travel round the world of
the press and be collected into the note
books of the curious, the scientific and the
| charlatan-for example, the story of the
Princess Nagotsky of Warsaw, who shortly
before she travelled to Paris dreamed that
she found herself in a strange apartment
where man presented cup to her and
desired her to drink. She declined, and the
strange person replied "You should not
refuse; this is the last cup you will ever
drink in your life. She was taken i'll.
The kings physician was sent to her.
When he entered the room, the princess was
much agitated, because he resembled the
person she had seen in her dream. But
/ shall not die this time, she said, for
this is not the same apartment!'
She recovered, forgot her dream, but,
finding her apartments not to her liking,
obtained rooms year afterward in con-
vent near Paris. Being shown to her
chamber, she looked around her and ex-
claimed: sit is all over with me. shall
not leave this room alive 1t is the one I
saw in my dream at Warsaw" She died
soon afterward.
A man in Ireland who had a brother
living in Amesbury, in Wiltshire, dreamed
that he saw him riding on the downs and
that two thieves robbed and murdered
him. The vivid incident awakened him.
He fell asleep and dreamed it again, where
upon he wrote to his relative, describing
the thieves, their compilations, stature and
clothing. Not long after the brother had
received this admonitory letter he rode to-
ward Salisbury and was robbed and muir
dered. The criminals were discovered
through his brothers. letter that was found
in his possession, the description OF the
thifves leading to their discovery and exc
pution. Newcastle (England) Chronicle.