The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-11-15
A DREAM DISCOVERY.
nss~. Rorer's Vision Helped Scientific Man
to His '.Missing Link"

A very curious instance of what may be
called thought transference, or telepathy,
was related recently and is unquestionably
authentic since the narrator was herself
the medium through whom very strange
bit of lore was communicated to scien-
tilic man whose most persistent researches
In that direction had failed to discover
what he sought.
Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer related the in
cident She was at the time sharing u
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-
ciied in one of those camp lodges where
the partitions between the rooms are only
about 8 feet high and serve merely as
screens, since they do not obstruct ventila-
| ton, conversation nor, it seems, the circu-
| lation of that subtle current which Is COM
| monty called magnetism
Mr. Cushing was occupied in the prepa-
ration of history of 1.-The Evolution of
| the Arrow There was a gap in the
| chain of succession which he seemed I'M
| 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 the subject of conversation one even
| ing before the family separated for the
| night "Of course, we couldn't be OF the
least SERVICE" said Mrs. Rorer, "only to
| sympathize, but that we did most heart
lily"
She continued In these words: 81 fell
| asleep as soon as / was in bed, and then L
had strange dream. Some one came to
| me. seemed to know he was "a venerable
man, but cannot describe him except as
presence, though L saw, with absolute
distinctness what he held out to me. 1t
was bow and arrow, different from any
had ever seen. Tho bow was bent some
what after the manner of the Tartar bow,
but the lacings were peculiar. They were
crossed to form a six pointed star In the
center. What does that meanf' L asked
And the presence answered. The foul
points are the four directions of north
South, east and west The othor two sym
bolze the upper and the under worlds
The arrow passes over them all IN III
flight, and, crossing this star, is sped OIL
its way with the blessings OF the gods
This is the arrow you seek
''Then stretched out my hand to taxi
it. The vision vanished, and l awoke. "A
l opened my eyes heard the stroke of I
match and saw its flash in an adjoining
room. / knew by that sign that Mr.. Cush
ing was awake smoking and worrying
about the missing link. l called out tina
had just dreamed of an arrow and toll
him what had seen. When came to tn
lacing of that bow and its meaning, hi
excitement was great, for the whole thin
proved to be exactly what he was in ques
of.
Sin some mysterious way the revelatio
which his alert, anxious, active brai
: could not receive had been brought to III
mind as lay passive, asleep. That AFRO
went into the history, and ever since b
cause of that dream l have regarded IN!
l self with a certain pride as sort OF latte
day Joseph. New York Herald.