Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-07-04
MYSTERY OF DREAMS
Whence Come the Warning Wis.,
tors We See In Sleep?
TWO VERY PULLING CASES.
One Where Mother and Son Both Got
Tidngs OF Disaster at the Same
Time and One Where a Child Saw
Her Father Saved In a Shipwreck.

kind investigated by one Of the lead
Ing psychic research societies no fewer
than scventy.nlne related TO death.
and perhaps the raresi of all these
| dreams Is the ease where two persons
| dreamed the same thing Oh the same
night. and the episode came true. This
striking instance Is reported by the
Rev Il. u. Ellington:
a woman parishioner OF mine" he
SAYS. whose husband was Il 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 great
| liner Her eldest son was with the
| husband. aud as she woke she screamed
out. oh save my boy my boy" This
was remarkable enough. considering
the sequel. but almost at the very mo
mcnt the poor woman was In her dis
| trcSs. yet still asleep. another son was
pounding nj her door half asleep and
| half awake. and crying. oh. mother.
| where Is fathery 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 alb
ruptly from a long cruise Next morn
| Ing the alarmed mother and wife told
all the noighbors. and before the day
was out the dreadful news came that
every detail Of her dream was true.
| The little trawling lugger had been run
into by a coasting liner. nearly cut In
two and sunk with all hands. includ-
| ing her husband and son"
Prcmonitory dreams occupy Il large
! part Of the psychological records. and
| the following case Is very puzZling
one: y Mrs Spruit lived AT Balmaln.
one Of the suburbs Of Sydney, Austria
! Tia. Her husband was sea captain
| IN command of the Atacama. Il wooden
| ship Of 1900 tons. which had arrived In
! sydney in leaking state and was
| picked up cheap by firm known as
| Cowlishaw Bros for S3.500 Twice as
much was spent In repairs. and then
the Aiacama was sent up the coast
| with cargo Of coal. She delivered
this and rext set out for San Diego.
But when 800 miles out from sgd
ney she Sprang leak. and Captain
! Sprut decided TO put back In spite
| Of the pumps the water gained, and
soon there was a depth Of eleven feet
In the hold Sprult now resolved TO
abandon the ship and launch the three
| boats The captain himself with one
seaman. the steward. boatSwaln and
an apprentice. was in the twenty four
| foot lifeboat. while the rest OF the
crew twelve in all, were In the other
two boats. Heavy seas were running.
and the boats were nearly swamped.
! As Spruit could not swim. he was
nearly drowned. Some of his men
were lost. Their situation was indeed
! fearful IN boats half filed with water
and exposed To u fierce gale 400 miles
from land Again aud again was
| Sprut washed out, but az last his boat
was picked up when It's occupants We're
| In the last stages of exhaustion from
| fatigue. exposure and lack of food \
reporter Of the Sydney Morning Her
| aid called to Interview the captain and
/
| swollen legs, covered with severe cuts
and bruises
| Now consider Mrs. Spruit's report 10
/ The Psychical Research society, which
! is most remarkable.
| Last Thursday week she writes.
at 3 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 GREATNESS whisper. I'm so fright
encdn tried 10 Soothc her hut she
only covered her face with her hands
| and whispered trembingly. oh. look.
| My papa's ship Is all wrecked. Papa's
come home all In rags. with his feet
and legs cut. aud | see two or three OF
| his men drowned out OF the boat
81 told Lily sternly 1t was all non
sense.
cit isn't" she said passionately.
I've seen Il in my dream, and ! know
it's all true"
But | coaxed her OF 10 bed The
girl kept worrying about II 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. is
/ the Atacama wrecked
II told her evaslyely her papa had
come home.
/ "She was not 10 be denied. however.
aud asked. with strange persistence,
Are papa's legs cutr
Il said they were.
And the very first thing she said to
her father was why. you didn't have
those clothes on when saw you, The
ones you had on were all torn In the
shipwreck'"
Lily Spruit herself furnished re
port to the Psychical Research society
She said she woke In terrible fright.
having seen every microscopic detail OF
the shlpwreck and Its sequel. She saw
her father get into the big boat and
II 1T. For