Evening journal., 1908-07-20
MYSTERY OF DREAMS
Come the Warning VS.
Itors We See In SIeep7
TWO VERY PULLING CASES.


Her Father Saved In a shlp~vsct-
Out OF 14o dreams Of a very striking
kind Investigated by one Of the lead
ing psychic research societies no nsweg
than seventy-nine related 10 a death
and perhaps the rurest OF all these
dreams Is the case where two persons
dreamed the same thing on the same
night, and the episode came true. This
striking instance Is reported by the
Rev. r. b. Elringtoni
"a woman parishloner Of mine" be
says, whose husband was a fisher.
man, az that time on the sea, dreamed
one night In terribly vivid fashion that
his little craft had been cut In two by
the towering steel bows Of a great
liner. Her eldest son was with tho
husband, and as she woke she screamed
out 'oh. save my boy. my boyr This
was remarkable enough. considsFinE
the sequel, but almost at the very mo-
ment the poor woman was In her dis
tress, yet still asleep, another son was
pounding at her door, half asleep and
half awake. and crying, oh. mothez.
where Is fatherT The terrified woman
now rose and let the boy In He was
crying He told her he had distinctly
heard his fathers heavy tread coming
up the stairs and his ponderous kick
with sea boots against the door. as had
been his manner when returning abb
ruptly from a long cruise. Next morn
ing the alarmed mother and wife told
all the neighbors, and before the dag
was out the dreadful news came that
every detail Of her dream was true.
The little trawling lugger had been run
into by a coastlng liner. nearly cut In
two and sunk with all hands. includ-
ing her husband and SON."
Premonitory dreams occupy a large
part OF the psychological records. and
the following case Is a very puzziing
one: A Mrs spruit lived at Balmain.
one Of the suburbs OF Sydney. Austria
la. Her husband was q sea captain
I'm command Of the Atacama, a wooden
ship Of 1900 tons, which had arrived IN
Sydney In a leaking state and was
picked up cheap by a arm known as
Cowlishaw Bros. for $500. Twice az
much was spent In repairs, and then
the Atacama was sent up the coast
with cargo OF coal. She delivered
this and next set out for San Diego.
But when 500 miles out from sgd
ney she sprang a leak, and Captain
spruit decided to put back In spite
OF the pumps the water gained. and
soon there was a depth OF eleven fest
/ ia kh.. haI - -.
abandon the ship and launch the thres
boats. The captain himself, with one
seaman, the steward, boatswain and
an apprentice, was IN the twenty-four
J foot lifeboat, while the rest OF the
crew, twelve In all, were In the other
two boats. Heavy seas were running.
and the boats we're nearly swamped
AS Sprult could not swim. be was
nearly drowned. Some OF his men
were lost Their situation was indeed
fearful In boats half nlled with water
and exposed TO a fierce gale 400 miles
from land. Again and again was
Sprult washed out, but at last his boat
was picked up when its occupants were
I'm the last stages OF exhaustion from
fatigue. exposure and lack Of food. A
reporter Of the Sydney Morning Her
aid called 10 interview the captain and
found him barefooted, with terribly
swollen legs, covered with severe cuts
and bruises.
Now consider Mrs. Spruits report to
the Psychical Research society, which
Is most remarkable.
last Thursday week." she writes,
'at o'clock In the morning my thir~
teen-year-old daughter Lily came into
my bedroom and woke me by tap on
my forehead. oh, mamma she cried
in breathless whisper, I'm so fright
enedP tried to soothe her. but she
only covered her face with her hands
and whispered tremblingly: oh, lookt
My papa's ship is all wrecked Papa's
come home all In rags, with his feet
! and legs cut, and / see two or three Of
his men drowned out OF the boat
II told Lily sternly 1t was all non
sense.
"It isntF she said passionately.
I've seen It In my dream, and know
it's all truer
"But 1 coaxed her on TO bed. The
girl kept worrying about IT until the
next Sunday. A week after her dream
my husband returned. and Lily found
me crying when she came In from
school.
~'Oh, mamma she cried sharply, 1a
me Atacama wreckedr
Il told her evasively her papa had
come home.
"she was not to be denied. however.
and asked, with strange persistence.
Are papa's legs cutr
II said they were.
~And the very first thing she said 30
her father was: Why. you didn't have
those clothes on when 1 saw you'll The
ones you had on we're all torn m the
shipwreck.'
Lily Spruit herself furnished a TO
port to the Psychical Research society,
She said she woke In terrible fright
having seen every microscopic detail OF
the shipwreck and its sequel She saw
her father get into the big boat and
keep close TO his ship for some time
She watched his boat capsizs and the
boy Allen drown What WOKE her, shs
said, was the bowling OF the wind
about the wreck. and the last she saw
was the other men pulling her fathel
back into the waterlogged boat.-WD
liam I. Fttz-Gerald In New York TTib
une.