The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-05-24
SIGNIFICANCE. ....-
OF DREAMS
GREEKS AND ROMANS WE'RE FIRM
BELIEVERs-LORD BROUGHAM's
FAITH IN THEM.
MAJOR ANDRES WARNING
KINGS AND PROMINENT PERSONS
HAVE BEEN FAVORED.
Hamilton's Dfstrust of Arnold Born
of Vision Which Came to Him
El Sleep.

Ell Sleep.
From the Chicago Chronicle:
We are such stuff as dreams are
made of and our little life is rounded
with sleep.-The Tempest.
Are future events foreshadoWed in
dreams? Was Xenophone right when
he said: Nothing more closely re-
sembles the death of man than sleep,
but it is in sleep that the soul of man
appears most divine and it is then that
it forsees something of the future, for
then, as it seems, it is most at liberty?'
This question has occupied the minds
Of philosophers in all ages. Lord
Brougham considered that dreams by
the inconceivable rapidity of their ac-
tion-the events of months being often
lived through by the mind in dream
Of less than two minutes Duration
proved the independence of the mind
and it's capacity to exist without the
body. History shows that DEGREES of
fate have been flashed upon the souls
of men through the medium of a dream
or vision and no less an authority than
Coleridge says the superstition of des-
tiny signals in dreams is natural to
victorious generals. The Bible posi-
lively affirms numerous instances in
which future events were foreshadoWed
namely, the dream Of Pilates wife
which so troubled her that she tried
to prevent the condemnation of Christ;
the dream of Abime;ech, in which it
was revealed to him that he had taken
Abraham's wife, while the dreams of
Jacob, Of Laban, of Joseph, Of
Pharoah's servants, Of the Midianites,
of Solomon, of Northumberland and of
the wise men all proved to be Of benefit
to the dreamers. And in Job xxxiii it
is stated that God calls men to re-
pentance by visions.
The old Greeks and Romans were
firm believers in the significance Of
dreams. dreams descend from Jove,"
says Homer. Cicero dreamed that he
saw the sons of the Roman senators
called to Capitol hill to meet Jupiter,
and as they passed before the great
god he saw him point one Of them
out as Rome's future ruler. The next
day while walking on the Campus
Martius Cicero met the boy. whom he
had seen in his dream. The boy lived
to be the great Caesar Augustus. who
defeated Pompey and Marc Antony and
ended the civil wars Of the empire.
The dream of Calpurnia, in which she
foresaw the murder Of her husband,
Julius Caesar, is another familiar his
torical instance: -.
Without going back into history there
are modern examples enough of re-
markable revelations of coming events
made within the curtained halls of
sleep. Lord Brougham was lying in
his bath one morning day dreaming,
when he saw seated on a chair close
beside him the form Of a school mate
whom he had not seen for many years.
Lord Brougham thought he had fallen
asleep and dreamed. Yet while dress
ing he remembered that as college
students they had signed pact in
blood that whichever Of them died first
should if possible appear to the other
as proof of the existence of life here
after. Shortly afterward Lord Broug-
ham received news of this friend s
death on the day and hour the vision
appeared to him.
Kings and prominent persons have
been specially favored in the matter of
dreams, though as a rule the warnings
conveyed by dreams have no practical
effect. They either come too late to be
comm unicated to the threatened person
or if they are communicated they fail
to be credited. Many famous persons
received notice through vivid dreams
to get out Of Paris before the mas
| sacre of st. Bartholomew, in 1872: Ad-
miral Coligni received three such warn
ings, but he paid no heed to them and
met his death.
The ill fated Major Andre received a
country that he would be executed as
spy. He was visiting Miss Rebecca
Stewart, friend who lived in Derby
shire. This lady introduced him to a
man named Cunningham, who imme-
diately recognized Andre as the person
whose image he had seen in a dream
the night before and which was go
singular and vivid in it's character that
he could not shake it off. Mr.. Gun
ningham dreamed he saw Andre riding
on horseback in the midst Of a strange
forest and witnessed his seizure by
three men, who searched him and led
him away. He awuke, but fell asleep
again, and dreamed that he was one
of a throng of spectators watching a
hanging conducted under military
SUPERVISION and Andre was the man he
saw hanged. Within twelve months of
the dream it had actually come to pass
Hamilton's distrust Of Arnold was
born of a dream that he had when
sleeping in Arnold's house. He
| dreamed that he saw Arnold walking in
| garden with British soldiers and later
leading redcoats against his own
countrymen. All of which was verified
Spencer Percival, prime minister OF
England, who was assassinated by
Bellingham in the lobby Of the house
| of commons in 1872, might have escaped
| his fate if John Williams, the Cornish
miner, had not been prevented by
friends from warning him. Williams
dreamed three times in succession that
he saw small man dressed in a blue
coat and white waistcoat enter the
lobby Of the house of commons, where
he was met by larger man dressed
In a brown coat, who pulled a pistol
and shot the little man in the left
breast. Williams dreamed each time
that he stepped into the crowd and