The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-28
SOME STRANGE DREAMS
THAT HAVE COME TRUE.
Lives That Have Been Saved and
Criminals Brought to Justice.

Criminals brought 10 Justice.
From IT. P's" Weekly.
The number of fulfilled dreams are
to the numberless dreams which are
meaningless as shadows of April
clouds, as a handful of sand to the
sands OF the seashOre. On the other
hand, there is this to be said for the
superstition of those who believe in
the forewarning of dreams-that there
are cases where the affirmative out
weighs naturally and incommensur-
ably the negative. 1.-TWO men distinct
ly saw you take the spade" said the
magistrate to the Irishman in the dock
for the theft. 1.-TWO men! Sure, we're
honor, l can call twenty men who
didn't see me take it," But the few
times hitting naturally outweighed
with the magistrate the ofttimes ha-
gen:
single circumstantial dream which
is fulfilled in all its details reasonably
outweighs a million that means MOTH
ing. Take Mr.. Rider Haggard's dream
about the death of his dog or the
dream the young lady told to four of
her fellow passengers on board the
| Norge when that Inflated steamer
was passing Rockall in a fog on her
home trip from New York to Copen-
| hagen.
1T was late one afternoon. and we
were in the mid-Atlantic / had no
| ticed that the young lady had been
| looking very sad for some days, and
at last I asked her why. At the time
/ spoke to her the vessel was sup
posed to be close on RockaH and was
expected to pass it that night. A very
dense fog set in. and this seemed to
make the young lady more sad than
ever. After some hesitation she told
me that she had on three success
i've nights terrible dream, and it had
! oppressed her spirits greatly. She
dreamt that the Norge had run ashore
on Rockall and that many lives had
been lost.
Il tried to cheer her up by pretend
| ing that we had by that time passed
| Rockan But it was no use; she only
shook her head, and insisted that some
terrible disaster was coming. 1 then
| spoke to the captain about it, and
| asked him how many corpses he
thought would be lying on Rockall that
night. He said he could not tell, and
1 then asked him If Rockall was
very dangerous place. He replied that
| 1t would not be expected that Rockall
would be as safe as place in a smooth
| river-and he added that he thought
the young lady would soon get over
| her fears, and when they reached
d
| punch together. We reached Chris
| tiania safely, and we had the punch
together but as all the world knows,
the Norge was piled up on Rockall on
her next voyage exactly as in the
young lady's dream
The dream of the Norge young lady
was wholly Ineffective, while the dream
in the following Northumberland
case, was only partly effective. In
June, 1895. the ship Mary, Capt. Jones
| commander sailed from Spithead for
| the West Indies. and was wrecked on
the Caskets. OF the twenty-five men
of her crew, eight who were in the
hinder part of the ship We're drowned
| at once The rest escaped from the
sea to endure for days such frightful
agonies of thirst that lots We're at last
| drawn to decide which should die
| The two who drew the fatal lot were
to stab themselves that the rest might
quench their mad thirst with their
blood. Both men were willing at once
to kill themselves in the dreadful way
| prescribed to them, but their mates
stayed their hands-in spite of their
frenzied thirst-in the despairing hope
that a days respite TO the doomed men
might bring them all within sight Of a
sail and safety. But as no sail ap-
| peared upon the next day the two men
stabbed themselves to quench in a
| raging
thirst of their mates.
1t was a Guernsey ship. bound for
| southampton, which rescued the sur
! Vivors against the will of Taskard, its
| captain. He was induced with the
| utmost difficulty - steer within the
| dangerous distance from the Caskets
! by his son. who had had two such
! vivid dreams i'm succession that there
were men i'm distress upon those rocks
that he again and again adjured his
father to go out of his course to their
/ rescue.
"Blackwood" for June 1926. suaran
tees the truth of the following story.
| told to Lady Clerk OF Penicuick, by
| her father. Dacre OF Kirklington: In
! the year 1881 young Dacre. in order TO
| attend classes in Edinburgh. lived with
| his uncle, Mai Grifflths. one night he
| got his uncles and aunt's consent TO
! join a fishing party which was to set
| sail the next morning from Leith But
that night Mrs. Grifiiths screamed out
out I'm her sleep. The boat is sinking
Save. OH save them"
The Major awakened her and asked.
Were you uneasy about the fishing
party" "Oh. no" she replied. II had
not once thought Of them" She then
fell asleep again. In about another
hour she cried out In a dreadful fright.
II see the boat going down" Again
the Major woke her. when she said II
has been owing 20 the other dream I
! had FOR ! feel no uneasiness about &c."
After some conversation they both fell
sound asleep, but no rest could be OBJ
tanned for her. In extreme anguish she
then exclaimed. They are gone Tho
boat On sunk" when the Major once
more awaked her she said. NOV, !