The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1904-09-16
DREAMLAND VISIONS
SOME THAT WERE IN VAIN AND SOME
THAT SERVED A PURPOSE.

the Doom of the III Fated Norge Was
Foreseen = Dreams That Drought
Criminals 10 Justice.
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, says T. P.'s Weekly, 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 outweighs naturally
and incommensurably the. negative.
1.-TWO men distinctly saw you take the
spade" said the magistrate to the
.Irishman In the dock for theft. 1.-TWO
men! Sure, yere honor, can call
twenty men who didn't see me take
It" But the few times hitting natu-
rally outweighed with the magistrate
the ofttimes hagen.
A single circumstantial dream which
Is fulfilled in all its details reasonably
outweighs million that mean nothing
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 wheI
that Ill fated steamer was passing
Rockall in q fog ON her home triI
from New York to Copenhagen.
''It was late one afternoon, and W.
were in mid-Atlantic. I had notices
that the young lady had been looking
very sad for some days, and at last
asked her why. At the time l spok
to her the vessel was supposed to b
close ON Rockall and was expected t
pass it that night. A very dense TO
set In, and this seemed to make tn
young lady more sad than ever. Ate
some hesitation she told me that sh
had on three successive nights terri
BILE dream, and it had oppressed he
spirits greatly. She dreamt that tn
\ Norge had run ashore on Rockall an
that many lives had been lost.
81 tried to cheer her up by pretend
| lQR tudL we uuo Ny thoe siAhO PoSSS
Rockall. But it was no use. She onl
shook her head and insisted that SON
terrible disaster was coming the
spoke to the captain about It and asl
ed him how many corpses he though
would be lying on Rockap that pish
He said he could not tell, and I the
asked him IL Rockall was very dal
gerous place. He replied that it coul
not be expected that Rockall woul
be as safe as place In smooth RI
er, and he added that he thought I'll
young lady would soon get over ht
fears and when they reached Chri
tiania they would all have q pune
together. We reached Christiani
safely, and we had the punch toget
er; but, as all the world knows, til
Norge was piled up on Rockall on be
next voyage exactly as in the youn
lady's dream"
The dream Of the Norge young lad
was wholly ineffective, while til
dream in the following well auther
ticated case was only partly effective
In June, 1895, the ship Mary, Capital
Jones commander, sailed from Spit
head for the West Indies and wa
wrecked on the Caskets. OF the twer
ty-two men Of her crew, eight VIII
were in the hinder part of the shi
were drowned at once. The rest es
capped from the sea to endure for day
such frightful agonies of thirst tina
lots were at last drawn to decid
which should die. The two who drew
the fatal lot were to stab themselve
that the rest might quench their ma,
thirst with their blood. Both mel
were willing at once to kill themselve
In the dreadful way prescribed t.
them, but their mates stayed thei
hands, in spite Of their frenzied thirst
in the despairing hope that days res
| pite to the doomed men might bring
them all within sight of sail ant
safety. But as no sail appeared upor
the next day the two men stabbed
themselves to quench in a way too
horrible to describe the raging thirs
Of their mates.
Then, at last, the long looked for sal
appeared, and they were taken off
The tale Of the victims was not, how
ever, even yet complete, since two OF
the men drank to such excess the cider
and water given them that they died
within couple Of hours of their rescue
from the rock. 1t was Guernsey ship
bound from that island for Southamp.
ton, which rescued them against the
will of Taskard, its captain. He was
induced with the utmost difficulty ia
steer within this dangerous distance
from the Caskets by his son, who had
had two such vivid dreams in success.
sion that there were men in distress
upon those rocks that he again and
again adjured his father to go out of
his course to their rescue.
Blackwood's for June, 1926, guaran-
tees the truth Of the following story,
told to Lady Clerk Of Penicuick by her
father, Dacre Of Kirklington: In the
year 1871 young Dacre, in order to at.
tend classes In Edinburgh, lived with
his uncle, Major Grifiths. One night