The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-10-27

IT took It to the house." he says. and
shove: .n we'd Il 1.-THE there IN; Mother Mr ana M sae 1 WS,o %s' =
farmers wife near by. was on the road, and
she came up and looked at i; Wn sr. I v so1a
A few nights later the British soldier. for
the sixth time, came to Michael ADVISED
him to go back and dig deep on the Same
spot.
ael narrates. and dug two feet deeper;
k hasi1s In ahd the ground I 4, fo@ aiam q erti and rIu sia
inches long. I couldn't dig well there. as the
srbsoil seemed to have been pressed TO-
gether. and In lloosening the bottle 1 nap
pened to break 1t with my crowpar
II carried the broken bottle to the mouse
and took a paper out and showed IT to the
folks. There was writing on II, pretty iadeo.
dated I775 for 1900 with interest on the
Bank Of England. l knew what the f stood
for from my arithmetic lessons.
SCIENTISTS INVESTIGATE.
Andrew, one of my brothers. was work.
ing for B. F. ]. Jewett. whose son. Profes-
sor n. F. Jewett.. was then al nome. ne
said to me: You had better take 1t to the
5rofessoT'' o So | took 1t a 1ewe the a hTar h my
dreams. He looked at both notes, ana a,.sL
a while said: III keep them In some dark
place, where they won't fade.
horse and buggy and came down and exam
ined the spot. The professor took a spade
and dug till he struck solid ground. His IA
said he did that to see II the ground at the
bottom was old. old ground, and he said:
Il have no doubt Of it. ! an satisfied 1t
has been there for years, Ill.
Professor JeYett. who Is connected with
the High School at Fredonia, and who In
terested Professor Hysiop In the case, has
assured the latter that It was evident that
the ground had not been disturbed for many
years.
Professor Jewett took the two papers to
Fredonia. For a seventh time the British
that the first note, which could not be de-
ciphered, was for 10000. with interest.
Michael wrote the substance of this dream
to Professor Jewett. who replied that such
used acids on the ncte, and had found that
It was fer the very sum named In the
dream.
NOTES WERE SPURIOUS.
Professor Jewett subsequently went to
England and presented the notes at the
Bank Of England. As with interest and
compound interest money doubles every
twenty years, the i14,GO from ITS would
now swell the amount to more than $780,
Coo.
The officials of the Bark OF England care
ully Investigated its accounts and replied
that there were no outstanding obligations
Of that nature. and that the bank never
gave interest on notes.
The Bank of England authorities also
eeLN'd tIdS tIc phpSR VI tHC hOl~o a III
n Edc until twenty-five years after 11I5.
In the meantime Professor Hyslop began
to study this remarkable case experimental
ly. This required 4 series OF Investigations.
The successful working of a new machine
Is OF itself a complete demonstration of fact.
NO further proof Is needed. In Analysing
the subtleties Of the brain energy. possible
reasonable hypothcses and all the resources
OF trained erudition must BIS brought to
bear.
Confronted as they are with these difficult
fin0 NJ tho - ---..l
might affect. psychologists are quick to de-
tect frauds. or at any rate are able. in most
cases. to furnish lucid explanations Of men,
TAI phenomena.
These findings do not apply in the case of
AlichaeI Mccartney. He is neither a fraud
NO HYPNOTIC CONFESSION.
AS a final touch to his experiments, Pro-
lessor Hyslop took McCaffrey to his house,
NO. el9 West One Hundred and Forty-ninth
street. recently. and the.e repeatedly hyp-
er In that condition, acting urder suzee.-
tion, he could reveal the supposed real
sources OF the dreams.
~ The n singular inconsistency and incoheren-
~ OF creams are Well known. I'VE do not
ayWays remember Dreams" says Camille
In his work, 1.-THE GnknoWn-"
IN order to seize a dream as 1t passes. it
ened. and to retain a vivid Impression OF it.
ZOE nothing Is more easily destroyed than
a dream. 1t is generally the affair OF a sec
49, dit uLlIcsS IL Is mmG0fa telv
$rasped II vanishes-like a dream.
IN general We dream OF things with which
are occupied, or Of persons whom we
Know. Still. there are curious exceptions
10 this. and sometimes thoughts are not re-
tanned during Sleep"
To appreciate fully the unusual character
OK Michael McCanrey's dreams II Is well to
quote from F~1ammarion:
Time and space are annfhiIated
IN dreams. The events of several hours. or
even OF several days, can be unrolled In a
second You can retrace a great number of
years and find yourself again in your in
fancy, with persons long since dead. with
put these remote recollections appearing to
be weakened. You meet with persons OF
another age without establishment in
dreams" "
n Frank Podmore. in his Studies in
Psychical Research remarks: The best
cases SO far dduced have fallen
short OF conviction because of their vague
ness or their failure to demonstrate a real
connection between the thing ~foreshadowed
and the thing as 1t occurred"
REMARkABLE CONDOLENCES.
THESE observations. which strikingIy de-
pct the dream experiences OF nearly every
BODY, nave no relevancy to the Mccartney
case. Every one Of the seven dreams was
literally alike to the minutest circumstance
something marvellous in itself, for seldom
areams precisely similar.
Moreover. the finding Of the notes on The
spot Indicated. the coincidence Of the soil
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