Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-06-27
DREAMS.
Tragic Events Which Have Been
Forecast.

Said a we'll known authority on oc-
cult science a short time ago, 1T is
the visions which anticipate events or
annihilate distance that furnish a
problem which battles all our scientists
and leaves us on the borderland of the
unknown"
81 And almost every day cases are re-
ported of men and women whose ex-
trenely sensitive minds have caused
them 10 forsee, not only IN dreams, but
when they have been wideawake, the
tragic end of some dear friend or rel
ative. the shock being accentuated by
reason of the fact that, although the
tragedy was wildly acted in their
minds eye, they were powerless to
prevent 1t.
To attempt to explain such pheno-
mena of the mind is recognized by sci
/ entists as impossible, for the simple
reason that no proof of any explana-
ton can be brought forward. Take.
]. for instance, the case of a woman liv-
! ing near Cirencester. England, who,
at the. inquest ON the body of her hus-
band few months ago, said that she
had a presentiment that she had been
widowed Evidence showed that her
husband fell over wall returning
home late one night and broke his
neck, and at that identical moment his
wife, overcome by presentiments, and
unable to remain any longer in their
cottage nearly two miles away. was
ont With lighted lantern on another
road searching for her husband.
I Herbert Alexander, in his story OF
act fri rf hiC hrnth-
kr, Boyd Alexander who was muir
iiered by natives, tells how a dream
carne to him on the night of the ira
gedy.
Then / saw Boyd" he says, "illum-
Ined from the darkness of night,
Standing up surrounded by angry ma
lives, who were armed. He was try
Ing to speak to me, but did not hear
his voice; rather it was as if the whole
tir was echoing, ] ain in their power
Then, suddenly, he was swallowed up
In darkness"
4 Students in the occult can offer no
explanation as to why these premoni-
HONS have occurred, neither can they
Explain the reason of the following:
Some time ago the under manager
e q Derbyshire quarry dreamt that a
chain broke, letting fall a heavy weight
that killed man in his quarry. He
fell asleep again and dreamt that one
Of MS men was wheeling barrow
across some boards, when they coll
iapsed-boards barrow and man being
pitched some distance below Again
he woke with a start and declared that
he would not go to sleep again.
Next morning he gave orders for ev-
cry. chain ON the quarry TO be brought
to the forge TO be thoroughly over
hauled, but only 49 out of the so in use
could be found. Later IN the day 3
man was killed by chain breaking
en- Investigation this cham was fount
TO be the missing one-the only on'
not examined.
Four years ago the assassination o
General Beckmann, the well known
Swedish soldier, was foretoid in ;
dream by his great friend, Genera
Bjorlin. The latter was lying i'll il
Berlin at the time his friend was muir
dered in Stockholm. but, according L
the nurses diary, he was normal when
on June u. 1909, he assured everyon
that something terrible would happe
in. Stockholm that day. At night h
got excited and called Beckmann b
name. He imagined himself to be i
stockholm assisting in saving hi
friends life. Al II o'clock he shouted
Nurse. nurse. don't you hear shooting
General Beckmann Is lying on tn
floor. Look at the blood
Next morning he insisted on seem
the newspaper. and told the nurse sh
would see the news of his friend
death. At the newspaper came, an
AL had happened as Bjorlin had see
II.
Apfopos Of General Bjorlin's Fremont
ton and vision OF General Beekmann
murder, Light. the we'll known journs
81 psyshical. occult and mystical re
search. publishes the experiences of
reader in connection with the death q
Z ne late DIR. Benson. Archbishop OF Can
t<fburg:
sOn saturday afternoon when on
y walking. and everything seemed nor
mai. says the Light correspondent, :.
was haunted with something whic
ciifninated In an inward voice that sal