The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-03-11
A DREAM DISCOVERY.
hIrs. Rorer's Vision Helped q Scientific Man
to His "NIiasing Link

hIrs. Rorer's Vision Helped Scientific Man
to His "N1iasing Link.n
A very curious instance Of what may be
called thought trnnsference, or telepnthy,
was rotated recently and Is unquestionably
authentic, since tho narrator was herself
tho medium through whom very strange
bit OF lore was communicated to O scien-
tiflo man whose most persistent researches
In that direction had failed to discover
what ne sought.
Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer related the in
cidont. She was at the time sharing q
summer cottage IN the woods with the
Cushings-Professor Cushing of the bu-
reau of ethnology Of the Smithsonian in
stitution and his wife. They were domi-
ciled In one OF those camp lodges where
the partitions between the rooms are only
about feet high and serve merely as
Screens, since they do not obstruot veptila-
tion, conversation nor, 1t seems, the oirou-
lation of that subtle current which Ia COM
monty called magnetism"
Mr.. Cushing WINS occupied in the prepa-
ration of history of 1.-The Evolution of
the Arrow" There WAS gap in the
chain of succession which he seemed un-
able to I'LL. 1t came between the "throw-
ing sticks'' of the mound builders and tho
Tartar arrow, and his most diligent search
failed to find the missing link. This wor-
ried him greatly. His perplexity had
been tho subject of conversation one even
ing before tho family separated for tho
night. "Of course, wo couldn't be of tho
least SERVICE" said Mrs. Rorer, "only to
sympathize, but that we did most heart
lily"
She continued in these words: "I foil
asleep as soon as I was in bed, and then
had strange dream. Some ono camo to
mo. seemed to know no was venerable
man. but cannot describe him except as
presence, though 1 saw with absolute
dlstlnotness, what he held out to me. 1t
was bow and arrow, different from any
L had ever seon. Tho bow was bent some
what after tho manner of tho Tartar bow,
but tho lacings were peculiar. They were
crossed to form n six pointed star in the
centor. What does that moan?' asked
And the presence answered: The four
points are the four directions Of north,
south, east and west. The othor two SWIM
boliZo tho upper and the under worlds
The arrow passes over them all in its
Tight, and, crossing this star, Is sped on
its way with tho blessings of the gods.
This is tho arrow you SOCK
Then stretched out my hand to take
1t. The vision vanished, and awoke. AS
opened my eyes heard the stroke OF a
match and saw its flash In an adjoining
room. knew by that sign that Mr. Cush-
Ing was awake smoking and worrying
about tho missing link. called out that
had just dreamed Of an arrow and told
him what Ind seen. When came to the
lacing Of that bow and it's meaning, his
excitement was great, for tho whole thing
proved to be exactly what ne was in quest
Of.
I'm some mysterious way the revelation
which his alert, anxious, active brain
could not receive had been brought to my
mind as l lay passive, asleep. That arrow
won't into the history, and ever since be-
cause OF that dream have regarded my
self with certain pride as n sort OF latter
day Joseph. New York Herald.