Arizona republican., 1905-07-08
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One Of the most remarkable in stances in which a large sum of money was lost through putting too much faith in a dream occurred about five years ago to Q Colonel Booker, who related the fact himself to the present writer, says Tit-Bits. In 1899 Colonel Booker was in Mexico City, and while there played roulette regularly in the casino. One night, after winning a fair amount, he retired to rest and had a curious dream. He thought he was coming out of the threater with a lady on his arm. when a cabman came up to him and asked him if he wanted a cab. The colonel turned to the lady and inquired if she would ride, but she declined, whereupon the cabman took a piece of chalk from his pocket and marked the colOneI's sleeve with the number H. Then Colonel Booker awole, and was so much impressed by his dream that he believed he received bona fide tip" to put his money ol that number.
 That evening he followed the noe turnaI advice and lost. But so great hold had the dream taken upon him that he continued to play the same number, and though he los nineteen times out of twenty. he persevered for
 ~ he found his losses amounted to s. 000 Then. like a wise man recovered from his foOHshness. the colonel de- cided to quit, and since then he has put very little faith in dreams as an aid to successful gambling.
 But Colonel Cookers experience with nocturnal tips" was by no means as disastrous as that of a certain rich young man at Monte Carlo some few years ago. This young fellow. whom We will call Smith. was a member of Q well known and highly respected De vonshl-e family: he had gone the pace and had lost a considerable amount in horse racing and gambling when one night he had a dream which greatly impressed itself upon him, and which was the direct means of his los ing the remainder of his fortune.
 He thought he was standing in the Avenue de POpera. Paris. when a pO- lice officer came along with a squad of gendaTmes and halted within a hun dred feet of him. He watched them idly, and soon experienced an uncOn- trollable desire to find out how many there were, but just as he began to count the officer issued peremptory ! commands, which were so promptly 1 Obeyed that the dreamer had no chance 1 of satisfying his curiosity. Finally ] however, the men stood in single file facing their officer, and MT. Smith was ] just able to make out that there were l twenty in all when he awOke. Being superstitious, like all gamb- ] leTs he at once saw in his dream the finger of fate silently pointing to 27 as the lucky number, and the follow ing day he was early at the tables and ] Staked large sum on it. CuriOuSly enough, 27 won twice in succession, and then tne luck changed and he began to lose steadily. Most of that day he played his favorite number without ! success, and when the casino closed that night he had lost a considerable amount of money.
 The next day he continued to play the same number with the same re- suit and, to cut a long story short that fatal 2 ran away with every pen ny he possessed, and he was only pre- vented from shooting himself by an in- terested spectator who followed him out of the casino, and by tact and the loan of a small sum induced him tC face his misfortune like man. Those to whom Ar. Smith afterward related the circumstance of the dream declar- ed that he had made the mistake ir not counting the officer as well as the . gendarmes.