The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-07-06
MYSTERY OF DREAMS
Whence Come the Warning Wis.,
itors We See In SIeep7
TWO VERY PULLING CASES.


Her Father Saved In Shipwreek.
Out Of $40 dreams Of very striking
kind investigated by one OF the lead
ing psychic research societies no fewer
than seventy-nine related to DEATH
and perhaps the rarest 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. Ellington:
"A woman parishioner Of mine," he
says, whose husband was fisher
man, at 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 the
husband, and as she woke she screamed
out, oh, save my boy, my boyT This
was remarkable enough, considering
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. mother.
where Is fatherT The terrified woman
now rose and let the boy I'm. 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
rnptly from long cruise. Next morn.
ing the alarmed mother and wife told
all the nelghbors, 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 ceasting 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 very puzzling
one: A Mrs. Spruit lived ut Balmain.
one Of the suburbs OF Sydney. Austria.
lia Her husband was sen captain
In command Of the Atacama, wooden
ship of.@,300 tons which had arrived in
Sydney IN a leaking state and was
picked up cheap by firm known as
Cowllshaw Bros. for $500. Twice as
much was spent in repairs. and then
the Atacama was sent up the coast
with a 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 feet |
In the bold. Sprult now resolved to
abandon the ship and launch the three |
boats. The captain himself, with one
seaman, the steward. boatswain 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 Sprult could not swim. he was
nearly drowned Some of bis men
were lost. Their situation was indeed |
fearful Ia s@ats half filed with water |
and exposed to fierce gale 400 miles
from land. Again and again was
Spruit washed out, but at last his boat |
was picked up when its occupants were |
In the last stages Of exhaustion from
fatigue, exposure and lack OF food. A |
reporter of the Sydney Morning Her.
aid called to Interview the captain and |
found him barefooted, with terribly |
swollen legs, covered with severe cuts /
and bruises.
Now consider Mrs SPIRITS report to
the Psychical Research society, which
lis most remarkable.
Last Thursday week" she writes,
t'at o'clock 10 the morning my thir.
teen-year-old daughter Lily came into
my bedroom aud woke me by tap on
my forehead. oh, mamma she cried (
in a breathless whisper, I'm so fright /
enedp tried to soothe her, but she
only covered her fac with her hands /
and whispered tremblingIy; oh. lookl I
My papa's ship is all wrecked! Papa's t
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 isn'tF she said passionately
i've seen 1t inemy dream, and know
It's all fruer
,--.Rnt ,c0axed her OF to bed. THE
girl kept worrying about II until the
next sunday. "A week after Der dream
my husband returned, and Lily found
me crying when she came In from
school.
"'Oh mamma, she cried sharply, is /
the Atacama wrecked?
81 told her eyasively her papa had
come home,
"She was not to be denied. however,
and asked. with strange persistence,
Are papa's legs cut?
Il said they we're.
"And the very FIRST thing she said to
her father was: why, you didn't have
those clothes on when saw youl The
ones you had on were all torn in the
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 shipwreck and its sequel. She saN
her father get into the big boat and
keep close to his ship for some time.
She watched his boat eapsize and the
boy Allen drown. What woke her, she
said, was the bowling Of the wind
about the wreck. and the last she saw
was the other men pulling her father
back into the waterlogged boat.-Wn-
liz n II EiEz.Gerald In New York Trih-