The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-20
DREAMS AND OMENs.
Stories of Special Providence in Wis
ions of the Night.

From the Newcastle Eng) Chronicle.
In history and in the common walk of
life you come across individuals of every
class who believe that a special providence
presides over their affairs. There is never
an accident happens upon large scale
that remarkable instances of escapes are
not mentioned more or less in proof of
the truth of this belief In religious books
Of the day you viii find many cases
where ministers of the gospel have been
prevented by what is called divine inter
position from sailing on vessels evidently
doomed to destruction.
A young friend of mine narrowly es-
capped coming home from a very sad mis-
sion in the Drummond castle. An occa-
sional correspondent favors me with a
letter over a column in length, to show
that there is an omen for England and
Germany in the sad accident off Cowes,
in which the kaisers yacht and the
Isolde came into fatal collision. His
theory is serious trouble between the two
countries, in which the eventual injury
shall fall upon Germany. This is the kind
of way in which prophets and woud-be
seers strain events in support of their
theories Recently the papers have been
quoting Welsh papers interesting &C
count of two dreams that came true in
connection with the Hendreforgan col
llery accident. One man saw visions of
the wreck and refrained from going to
work on the day of the calamity a wo-
man had quite a similar dream, and saw
her son among those who were in peril
of immediate death. Unlike the male
dreamer, she threw off her nocturnal i'm
preston of disaster. Her son went to
work and was among those who were
seriously injured.
These seem to be very striking premo-
nitions of disaster intended for the ben
eft of two particular individuals, the
rest being doomed without warning. Pro-
fesSed spiritualists and others are nam
ing these instances as examples of su-
pernatural interpoSition in worldly af-
fairs; but criminal and other historic rec
ords contain far more puzzling cases to
show that there is more in heaven and
earth than is dreamt of in our philoso-
ply" Who among us have not had
what at the time seemed to be warning
dreams touching the safety of those we
love? In the exercise of a dangerous call
ing, such as coal getting, there is moth
ing strange in the anxiety of mother
being sufficiently keen to raise phantoms
Of trouble for her in dreams. "A man Of
any imagination engaged in a pit sup
posed to be fiery or otherwise might well
have a vision of the kind of accident that
is not at all unusual in the mining dis
trict Men and women have scores of
dreams that never come true; it would
be odd in the doctrine of chances that
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 a man pre-
sented a cup to her and desired her to
drink. She declined, and the strange per
son replied: you should not refuse this
is the last cup you will ever drink in your
| life" She was taken i'll. The kings ply
stefan 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 i 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 a year afterwards in a
| convent near Paris. Being shown to her
| chamber she looked around her and ex-
claimed 1T is all over with me! 1 shall
/ not leave this room alive; it is the one
saw in my dream at Warsaw" She died
| soon afterwards.
A man in ireland, who had a brother
living in Amesbury. in Wiltshire, dream
ed that he saw him riding on the downs
and that two thieves robbed and murder
| ed him. The vivid incident awakened him
| He fell asleep and dreamed it again,
| whereupon he wrote to his relative, de-
| scribing the thieves, their compilations.
| stature and clothing. Not long after the
brother had received this aumonitory let
| ter, he rode toward Salisbury and was
robbed and murdered. The criminals
were discovered through his brothers let
ter that was found in his possession, the
description Of the thieves leading to their
| discovery and execution.