Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-27

Provision is among the most difficult
of psychic phenomena to explain.
There is for instance, no means OF de-
ducing the reasons for the dream IN
which John Williams, a Cornish mine
manager, had a presentment of the
assassination of Spencer Perceval, Tory
prime minister of Great Britain. r
williams foresaw the assassination
down to the last detail. On three occa-
sions he dreamed that he saw a small
man in blue coat and white waist
coat enter the lobby of the House OF
Commons, whereupon another man, IN
a snuff colored coat, drew pistol from
under his coat and shot the little man
In his left breast.
The repetition Of this dream alarmed
williams, who made inquiry as to what
public official answered the description
of the victim of the shooting. Being
told that the little man in the blue
coat seemed to be Mr.. Perceval, chan
cellor of the eXchequer, he seriously
considered going to London TO warn
him. However, his friends argued him
out of the project.
This was unfortunate. Soon Perez
val was shot down in the lobby OF the
House of Commons by John Belling-
ham, a monomaniac.
This was on May IL, 1912. The in
cident has become historic. Its chief
point of interest is that Williams had
never had the slightest connection with
Mr.. Perceval. Why should he have
been selected to receive warning OF an
event so far removed from him?
A similar question might be asked
in relation to a more modern instance
of provision. This is reported by J. w.
Dunno, a British aeronautical engineer
and author Of IAN Experiment With
Time"
In the Spring of 1902 Dunno was
stationed in what was then the Orange
Free State, the Boer Republic in South
Africa, since become province OF the
Union of South Africa. He was en-
camped with the 9th Mounted Infantry
near the ruins of Lindley. The place
was isolated, mails and newspapers ar
irving at rare intervals.
One night, in vivid dream, ne
seemed to be standing on an upper
slope Of a hill or mountain. Looking
at the ground. he saw it to be of a
strange white formation, broken by IN
Vulnerable little assures, through which
Jets of vapor seemed to be spouting
upward.
Mace of which he had dreamed on 9
Similar occasion--"an island" he says
"in imminent peril from volcano
Now, in his dream, when he saw these
strange outpourings Of vapor, he gaspec
in alarm. :.
"It's the island!" he cried to himself
Good Lord. the whole thing Is going
to blow up"
This part of his dream was based or
memory. Somewhere he had reac
about an eruption on the Island OF
Krakatoa. in the Strait of Sunda, be-
tween Java and Sumatra, where Kra-
katoa Peak had literally blown to pieces
when the sea, making its way to the
heart of the volcano through subna-
rine crevice, had flushed into steam.
In that disaster more than $4,000 per
sons lost their lives. Foreseeing repe'
tition of this destruction, an overpoW
ering desire to save the inhabitants o
the dream island seized him. Their
were 1000 of them, he thought in hi
dream, which now became nightmare
for all his efforts at assistance proved
fruitless.
He seemed to have gone to neigh
boring island, where all the authoritie
were French. These received his plea