The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-02-07
ON THE BORDERLAND.
Some Remarkable Dreams and visions
of the Night"

They were talking of dreams.
1T is quite as impossible" said the Wo-
man with the big gray eyes, ito pick
a dream to pieces, to analyze and
classify it as it would be to make a
shirt waist out of a pink cloud or to ex-
plain why a cream or white chysanthe-
mum planted with clump of red chy-
santhemums changes to red. Yes they
are strange enough, these PRESENT.
ments, incidents of telepathy visions,
dreams, or what you will. Many that
are weird and wonderful have come
under my own observation. For in
stance, knew of woman
who sat at her her desk late one
night finishing letter to friend. She
was dressed for bed, but she added a
hasty postscript. This was the post
script:
Don't burn this letter if you love
me, have the feeling that If my letters
are burned, / myself shall some daymeet
with the same terrible fate. How
horrible! To be burned to be burned!"
"She arose and shood before the CRATE
Her long hair swept into the blaze and
caught, her night dress caught, and she
was DulIltQ " uGdlfl UtlOTc LIley COulU
burst open the door which had been
locked. They found the letter on the
table.
THAT I know to be true, but this is
my own experiences: A few years ago
my mother-in-law died at my house
The nurse and l were with her. When
we found there was no hope l said to
the nurse. IT wish Won Herlich were
here"-Von Herlich was our rector
she was always a pious woman; If
only he were here to say prayer!"
and, kneeling by her bed, I watched
her die, still longing for Won Herlich.
The next morning Won Herlch came to
the house. He was amazed to see
Grape on the door, and he stammered
as he told me his dream Of the night be-
fore. He dreamed that I stood by him
and said to him, There is somebody
dying. I wish you could be here"
My look was so troubled and my pre-
sence so vivid that he awoke. He
looked at the clock 1t was H. exactly
the hour that kneeling by her side, /
was wishing for him.
These are not cheerful dreams; but
happy people have few dreams and
presentiments, even as they have no
histories. 1t is only in trouble that
signs and wonders present themselves,
in death and sickness and worry of
mind and Of body. I knew of grand
mother once who lay dying. Her
daughter who lived a hundred miles
away could not be with her. She sat
at home by the cradle of very sick
child. Suddenly the grandmother at
tempted to rise. She was assisted to a
sitting posture by the nurse. She was
past speaking, but, raising trembling
forefnger, she pointed upward. At the
same time her daughter, looking up at
the corner of the room, above the child's
head, saw trembling forefinger point
ing straight down at the cradle. The
child and the grandmother died that
night at the same hour.
"Of course all of us have jumbled
dreams, but dream which
leaves lasting impression generally car
ries with it some warning Of premonition.
At least that has been the case with me.
one particularly was vivid warning.
was in Chicago at the time visiting
my sister. My visit was drawing to a
close, and as usual wrote to my
servant, an Irish woman by the name
of Mary, to get the house in readiness
for my return. That night I dreamed
of Mary. l thought / saw her in a
common room without a carpet She
was stretched upon a cheap iron bed |
stead. Her hands and arms were |
bandaged with white cloths and her |
body was covered with a comfortable. |
1 felt that she had been hurt in some
way, but my dream did not tell me how.
Her hair was spread out on the pillow
and her eyes We're closed. She appeared |
to be sodt of stupor 1 would hardly
believe that / dreamed this dream ex-
,ept that / told it the next morning at |
breakfast to my sister.
THE next night ] started for home.
there on the following evening