The record-union., 1897-10-08

Strange to say, Mr.. Williams had
never seen the Chancellor nor had he
ever been in the House of Commons.
About six weeks after the event Mr..
Williams visited the House Of Com
mons for the first time. Immediately
that he came to the steps of. the en-
trance to the lobby he said: This place
is as distinctly within my recollection,
IN my dream, as any room in my own
house" and he made the same obser-
vation when he entered the lobby. He
then pointed out the exact spot where
Bellingham stood when he fired, and
also that which Mr. Percival had reach
cd when he was shot down. The dress,
both Of Mr.. Percival and Bellingham,
agreed with the description given by
Mr.. Williams, with the minutest partic-
ulars.
MURDER AVERTED BY A DREAM.
But better than the discovery of a
murderer was the prevention of a muir
der through the medium of a dream.
The Rev. Herbert Powers, a clergy
man of the Church of England, saved,
through a dream, the life Of a young
girl who had loved not wisely, but too
Well. He did SO at the instigation of
voice which called him from sleep one
dark and miserable night. He dream
ed that daughter of one of his parish
toner's had just left her home and gone
out into the darkness to meet her be-
trayer, who had promised to meet her
in a secluded spot and take her to a
place of refuge where her child might
be born in secrecy. The man was at
the meeting place before the appointed
hour and spent the period of waiting in
digging a grave.
The clergyman woke with a start,
and, springing out of bed dressed rap
| idly and hurried to the field in which
the meeting in the vision had taken
place. He arrived in time to see the
meeting of the former lovers and to
| see the man hurl the girl to the ground
| by the side of the open grave and raise
his spade to dash her brains out. The
| parson was an athlete and, springing
upon the would-be murderer, he felled
| him to the earth.
! The girl was the one seen in the dream
and she was taken home and cared for.
/ The man was turned over to the po-
/ lice. AT the trial the clergyman was
asked what he was doing in the field
at 3 O'Clock in the morning. He then
narrated his dream.
1t is a pity that the world has not
more dreamers such as this clergyman
men who can both dream and act
/ Science can tell US something of the
! +r,ff Io+ -
cannot explain the dreams that appear
TO indicate some supernatural power.
! THE PHENOMENA OF DREAMS.
From time immemorial dreams have
! oeen the wonderland of waking hours.
/ Hope and fear have wrought them into
/ their own fabric. The present scientific
/ and skeptical age refuses to entertain
belief in the supernatural origin of
dreams, and so the dream as a fore
| teller of events to come has lost it's
rank and caste. 1t is not strange
| however, that, in a ruder age and
among less cultured people. dreams
should be considered as the whisperings
of their deities. In early times ali ma
| tlons regarded dreams as divine revela-
| tions.
! The phenomena Of dreams have been
studied in variety of ways and with
as much care and exactness as the sub
ject permits. Maury, Preyer, Provost,
| Harvey and Leixner, through a long
series of experiments induced almost
every ordinary form of dreams by nerve
stimulation. Maury caused many Gu
rlous experiments to be made on him
! self, Which took the form of trifing
| physical sensations and produced
/ almost invariably a wonderfully ex-
/ aggerated effect on the sleeping mind.
When the doctors lips were licked
with feather he dreamed that a pitch
! plaster was applied to his face and
then roughly torn off, When a pair
of tweezers and a pair of scissors were
struck together near his ear he dream
ed of the ringing of bells. The heat
and smell Of burning match made him
dream of an explosion in a powder
room. He recorded a number of equal
ly appropriate but exaggerated images
which were suggested by simple sensa-
| tions in the same way. Such expert
ments show the extent to which our
dream fancies shape themselves in ac-
cordance with external impressions re-
ceived by the senses during sleep.
But though modern scientific investi-
cation makes it clear that a number of
our dreams are nothing more than an
imaginative symbolization of certain
impressions received by the senses dur
ing sleep, there are other dreams for
which science can give no satisfactory
explanation. Such are the dreams that
have been instanced, picturing an event
that occurs at the time of the dream
| or subsequent to it. These are myste-
ries that science cannot explain, for
there are more things in heaven and
earth than have been dreamed of in its
philosophy.-New York Herald.
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