The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-07
TIPS GIVEN IN DREAMS.
Superstitious People Put Great Faith
in Dreams.

Not infrequently a story appears in the
newspapers relative to some lucky indi-
VIdual who. through a dream. has been
shown the road to fortune. says the BOs-
ton Herald. The favored one has dreams
of the winner in a forthcoming horse
race or the right number on a lottery
ticket, or possibly has had revealed to
MIN by the same occult means the cor
rect solution of some popular competition
offered.
Although stories such as these have
some truth in them, there are a great
many more cases where it could be
proved that fate was having a somewhat
costly joke at the dreamer's expense, for
the UPS she gave were worse even
| that those sometimes found in the aver
age sporting paper. True, one seldom
hears of these losses through following
this received in dreams, but is is owing
to the fact that no man likes to be
thought fool or have his supersutions
laughed at v-'s
1t is we'll known that there is no man
more SupersutiOuS than the confirmed
gambler and nine times out of ten, If he
OBTAINS what he regards as direct
TIP through the instrumentality of a
dream, he viii play it, and continue to
play it, though the results are as disas-
trOus as in the following cases
one OF e-1e most remarkable instances
in which a large sum of money was lost
through putting too much faith in a
dream occurred about fifty years ago to
a Colonel Booker. who related the facts
TO the present writer. In 1889 Colonel
Booker was in Mexico City. and while
there played roulette regularly in the
casino. one night. after winning fair
amount, he retired to rest and had a
curious dream. He thought he was com
ing out of the theatre with a lady on his
arm, when cab man came up to him
and asked him if he wanted a cab. The
colonel turned to the lady and inquired
II she would ride, but she declined,
whereupon the cab man took a piece of
chalk from ms pocket and marked the
coloneIS sleeve with the number II. Then
Colonel Booker awoke and was so much
impressed by his dream that he believed
he had received a bona fide tip to put
his money on nat number
That evening he followed the nocturnal
ADVICE ana lost But so great a hold had
the dream taken upon him that he con-
! tined to play the same number, and
though he had lost nineteen times out of
! twenty he perseyered for several days,
at the end Of which time he found his
losses amounted to 600. Then, like a
wise man, recovered from his foolish
ness. the colonel decided to quit" and
since then he rs put very little faith in
dreams as an aid to successful gambling.
But Colonel Booker's experience with
nocturnal tips was by no means so
disastrous as that of certain rich
years ago. This young fellow whom we
viii call Smlt was a member of a well
known and highly respected English fam
lily. he had gone the pace" and had
lost a considerable amount in horse rae
ing and gambling when one night he had
a dream which greatly impressed itself
upon him, and which was the direct
means of his losing The remainder Of his
fortune.
He thought he was standing in the
Avenue dc IOpera, Paris, when q police
officer came along with a squad of gem
darmes and halted within 100 feet of him
He watched them idly, and soon expe-
rienced an uncontrollab-e desire to fin1
out how many there were.-but just as he
began to count the officers issued pc.
remptory commands which were so
promptly obeyed that the dreamer had-no
chance of satisfying his curiosity. Final