The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1898-05-16

told In q Dream.
The peculiar condition of the mind IN
dreaming, though doubtless determined
nv certain mental laws, appears not to be
traoeable to any laws which are at present
fully understood. Dreams of the common
est kinds, however, seem to be referable TO
some of our waking states and follow the
train of thought and feeling with which
we have been previously occupied. Recent
events and recent mental emotions min
ole into a continuous series OF, combined
with old events. take possession OF us when
asleep and produce impressions, which
though often Enthusiastically unreal, are
manifestly occasioned by some reality
which had antecedently affected us.
Among the most curious and unaccount-
able of dreams are those consisting of the
revival of old associations, respecting
things which had entirely passed out of
the memory, and which seemed TO have
been forgotten. DIR. Abercrombie relates
an instance which came under his knowl-
edge. A gentleman was at the time con-
nected with one of the principal banks i'm
Glasgow and was at his place at the tell
er's table, where money is paid when a
person entered demanding payment of a
sum of a6. There were several peopie
waiting who were in turn entitled TO be
attended before him, but he was extremely
impatient and rather noisy, and, being a
remarkable stammerer, he became SO an
moving that another gentleman requested
the teller to pay him his money and get
rid of him. He did so accordingly, but
with an expression of impatence at being
obliged to attend to him before his turn,
and thought no moro of the transaction.
At the end of the year, which was eight
or nine months afterward, the books of
the bank could not be made to balance
the deficiency being exactly 46. Several
days and nights had been spent in endeav-
oring to discover the error, but without
success, when at last the teller returned
home and went to bed. He dreamed Of
being at his place at the bank, and the
whole transaction with the stammerer as
now detailed passed before him in all its
particulars. He awoke under full i'm
preston that the dream was to lead him
to the discovery of what he was so anx-
iously in search of, and on examination
soon discovered that the sum paid to this
person in manner above mentioned had
been neglected to be inserted in the book
of interests, and that it exactly accounted
for the error in the balance.
In 1853 Nicholas Wolton, then the Eng
lish ambassador at the court of France,
dreamed two nights in succession that his
nephew, Thomas Wolton, then in England,
was about to join in an enterprise which
would result in the death and ruin OF him
self and family To prevent such a catas
tropho he wrote to Queen Mary and begged
her to send for his nephew and cause him
to be examined by the lords of the council
on some frivolous pretense and committed
to the Tower This was done, and on the
ambassadors return Thomas Wolton con
fessed to him that but for his committa
to prison he would have joined the insur
rection led by Sir Thomas Wyatt.
During an Investigation in the north o
Scotland respecting an atrocious murder
committed on peddler man came Tor
ward voluntarily and declared that he hat
had q dream in which there was represent
cd to him q house, and voice directed
him to spot near the house In which
there was buried the pack, or box for sinai
articles of merchandise, of the murdered
person. On search being made the paci
was found, but not exactly at the spot TN
dreamer had mentioned, yet very near IL
The first impressions on the minds OF Tn
public authorities was that he was eithe
the murderer or an accomplice in tn
crime. But the individual accused wa
soon after clearly convicted. Before III
execution he fully confessed his crime am
in the strongest manner possible eXoui
pated the dreamer from any participation
in or knowledge OF the murder.
A gentleman residing in the county o
Cornwall. in tho west of England, had
dream which foreshadowed the death o
Mr.. Percival, the statesman, elght uay
before the murder was commltted' III
dream ran that he was standing III III
lobby of the house of commons, When II
saw small man enter, dressed IN a pi,'
coat and white waistcoat. lnlneui.'ei
afterward he saw man, dressed Ih
brown coat, with yellow basket metal pu'
tons, draw a pistol from under MS Goa
and discharge it at the former, VINO III
stantly fell. The blood issued from r,
wound little below the left breast II
saw the murderer seized by some geh,i;
men who were present and observed ~
countenance, and upon asking VINO VI
gentleman was who was shot he was ,oi
that il was the chancellor OF the excneque'
He then awoke and mentioned the urea,
to his wife, who made light OF IT, buo
the course of the night the dream ocourre =
three times without the least Variation |,
any of the circumstances. He was now
much impressed by it that no fels . liuo
inclined to give notice to Mr. leioi no'
but was dissuaded by some friends wnot
he consulted, who assured MN .n"o .,
would only get himself treated IKE = AZ !,
natic. On the evening of the eigh.n va
after he received the account Oh ING e.. g.
der. Being in London a short tiine r aror
ware, he found In the printshops a ,e r.
sentation of the scene and recognizes 80
the countenances and dress OF the pat. :,
tho blood on Mr.. Percivals wals'coa' p p.,
the peculiar yellow basket buttons ' Oh =, ,
bingham, the murderer's coat, preo, s.o, :,
he had SO wildly seen them IN his urea"
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