The Press., 1904-12-07
'DREAMLANDs VISIONS
SOME Tl4AT WERE IN VAIN AND SOME
 THAT SERVED A PURPOSE.

THAT SERVED A PURPOSE.
 Peculiar Circumstances Under Which the Doom of the IIl Fated Norge Was FOreseen- Dreams That Brought | gCriminals to 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 incommensurabIy the negative.
 1.-TWO men distinctly saw you take the l spade," said the magistrate to the l Irishman in the dock for theft. 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.
 
 is fulfilled in all It's details reasonably outweighs a 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 when
 that Ill fated steamer was passing | Rockau in fog on her home trip from New York to Copenhagen.
 Tt was late one afternoon, and we were in mid-Atlantic l had noticed
 that the young lady had been looking very sad for some days. and at last l
 asked her why. At tie time l spoke
 to her the vessel was supposed to he close on Rockall and was expected to pass 1t that night. \ very dense fog set in, and this seemed to make the young lady more sad than ever. After some hesitation S,.e tod me that sEe
 had on three successive nights terri
 ble dream, and 1t had oppressed her spirits greatly. S.-e dreant that the
 Norge had run ashore on Rockall and
 that many lives had been lost.
 .I tried to. cheer her up by pretend
 ing that we had by that time passed
 Rockall. But it was no use. She only
 shook her head and insisted that some terrible disaster was coming. l tier
 spoke to the captain about it and ask
 ed him how many corpses he thought
 would be lying on Rockall that night. He said he could not tell, aei l then asked him if Rockall was a very dan gerous place. He replied that it could
 not be expected that Rockall would be as safe as a place in a smooth riv-
 CT, and he added that he thought the young lady would soon get over her
 fears and when they reached Chris tiania they would all have punch together. We reached Christiania
 safely, and we had the punch togeth-
 CT; 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 well authen-
 ticated ease was only partly effective.
 In June, 1895. the ship Mary, Captain Jones commander, sailed from Spit head for the West Indies and was
 wrecked on the. Baskets. Of the twen- ty-two men of her crew, eight who | were in the hinder part of. the ship | were drowned at once. The rest es- capped from the sea to endure for days
 such frightful agonies of thirst that lots were at Inst drawn to decide ! which should die. Tne two who drew \ <hn afoI Inf &O Cfnh fhnmSn1VoG
 that the rest might quench their mad thirst with their blood. Both men were willing at once to kill themselves i in the dreadful way prescribed to tEem, but their mates stayed their hands. in spite of their frenzied thirst, in the despairiny hope that days res pite to the doomed men might bring | tEem all within sight of sail and safety. But as no sail appeared upon
 themselves to quench in & way too
 horrible to describe the raging thirst of their mates.
 Then, at last, the long looked for sail appeared, and they were taken of. The tale of the victims was not, how
 ever, even yet comple.e 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
 bound from that island for Southamp-
 ton, which rescued them against the will of Taskard, its captain. He was induced with the utmost difficulty to steer within this dangerous distance from the Baskets 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 1731 young Dacre, in order to at tend classes in Edinburgh, lived with his uncle, Major Griffiths. One night Le got his uncle's and aunt's consent to joint a fishing party which was to set sail the next morning from Leith. But that night Mrs. Griffiths screamed out in her sleep: 'The boat is sinking! Save. oh, save thenlr'
 The major awakened her and asked, Were you uneasy about the fishing party" "Oh. mo-" she replied; T had not once thought of them." She then fell asleep again. In about another hour she cried out in dreadful fright, T see the boat going downw Again the major woke her, when she said, "It has been owing to the other dream I had, for I feel no uneasiness about it = After some conversation they both fell sound asleep. but no rest could be ob- tained for her. In extreme anguish she then exclaimed: .'They are gone! The boat Is sunkr' When the major once more awakened her she said: ~Now, 1 cannot rest; MT. Dacre must not go, for feel that did he go would