Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1904-10-05
DREAMLAND VISIONS.
SOME WERE in VAIN AND SOME
SERVED A PURPOSE.
ODD CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH
THE DOOM OF THE ILL-FATED
NORGE WAS FORsEEN.

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 I. 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 incommensuraLly the negative.
Two men distinctly saw you take the
spade" said the magistrate to the
freshman in the dock for theft 1.-TWO
mem 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 a million that mean nothing
Take Mr.. Rider Haggards dream about
the death or his dog, or the dream the
young lady told to four of her fellow
passengers on board the Norge when
that i'll fated steamer was passing
Rockall in a fog on her home trip
from New York to Copenhagen.
ut was late one afternoon, and we
were in mid-Atlantic. / had noticed
that the young lady had been looking
very sad for some days, and at last /
asked her why. At the time | spoke
to her the vessel was supposed to be
close on Rockall 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 nue. that she
had on three successive nights terri
BILE 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.
~ 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. 1 then
spoke to ehe 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, and | then
asked him If Rockall was very dan
gerous place. He replied that it could
not be expected that Rockall would
be as safe as place in a smooth riv-
er, 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 a punch
together. We reached Christiania
safely, and we had the punch togeth-
er; but, as all the world knows, the
Norge was piled up on Rockall on her
next voyage exactly as in the young
Iady's dream
The dream of the Norge young lady
was wholly ineffective, while the
dream in the following well anthem
Heated case 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 Caskets. 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 We're at last drawn to decide
which should die. The two who drew
he fatal lot were to stab themselves
that the rest might quench their mad
thirst with their blood. Both men
we're 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 days res
oite to the doomed men might bring
them all within sight of a sail and
safety. But as no sail appeared upon
the next day the two men stabbed
themselves to quench in a 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 complete, since two Of
the men drank 10 SuCu eACeSS lLG SlbSl
Ind water given them that they died
within n couple of hours of their rescue
lrom the rock. 1t was Guernsey ship,
bound from that island for Southamp-
ton, which rescued them against the
win of Taskard, its captain. He was
induced with the utmost difficulty to
,teer within this dangerous distance
rom the Caskets by his son, who had
had two such vivid dreams In success
ZION that there were men in distress
upon those rocks that he again and
igain adjured his father TO go out of
his course to their rescue.
Blackwood's for June. 1926, guaran-
;ees the truth of the following story,
odd to Lady Clerk of Penicuick by her
hther, Dacre of Kirklington: In the
rear 1871 young Dacre, in order to at
end classes in Edinburgh. lived with
lis uncle, Major Griliiths, One night
lie got his uncle's and aunts consent to
oint a fishing party which was to set
nil the next morning from Leith. But
nat night Mrs. Gritfiths screamed out
', hon eioan. ssrTba hnaf 10 sinl,ine,t