Bellefonte, Pa., July 31, 1908.
TWO VERY PUZZLING CASES.
One Where Mother and Son Both Got
Tidings of Disaster at the Same
Time and One Where a Child Saw
Her Father Saved in a Shipwreck.
Out of 149 dreams of a very striking
kind investigated by one of the lead-
ing psychic research societies no fewer
than seventy-nine related to a 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. Elrington:
“A woman parishioner of mine,” he
says, “whose husband was a 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 boy!" 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 father? The terrified woman
now rose and let the boy in. He was
crying. He told her he had distinctly
heard his father's heavy tread coming
up the stairs and his ponderous kick
with sea boots against the door, as had
been his manner when returning ab-
ruptly from a long cruise. Next morn-
ing the alarmed mother and wife told
all the neighbors, 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.”
Premonitory dreams occupy a large
part of the psychological records, and
the following case is a very puzzling
one: A Mrs. Spruit lived at Balmain,
one of the suburbs of Sydney, Austra-
lla. Her husband was a sea captain
in command of the Atacama, a wooden
ship of 1,300 tons, which had arrived in
Sydney in a leaking state and was
picked up cheap by a firm known as
Cowlishaw Bros. for $3,500. 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 Syd-
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 hold. Spruit 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 Spruit could not swim, he was
nearly drowned. Some of his men
were lost. Thelr situation was Indeed
fearful in boats half filled with water
and exposed to a fierce gale 400 miles
from land. Again and agaln 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
ald called to Interview the captain and
found him barefooted, with terribly
swollen legs, covered with severe cuts
and bruises.
Now consider Mrs. Spruit's report to
the Psychical Research soclety, 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 a tap on
my forehead. ‘Oh, mamma,’ she cried
in a breathless whisper, ‘I'm so fright-
ened!” [I tried to soothe her, but she
only covered her face with her hands
and whispered tremblingly: ‘Oh, look!
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.’
“I told Lily sternly it was all non-
sense,
“qt isn't!’ she sald passionately.
‘I've seen it in my dream, and I know
it's all true!
“But I coaxed her off to bed. The
girl kept worrying about it until the
next Sunday. A week after her dream
my husband returned, and Lily found
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me crying when she came In from
school.
“+Oh, mamma,” she cried sharply, ‘is
the Atacama wrecked?
“1 told her evasively her papa had
come home,
“She was not to be denied, however,
and asked, with strange persistence,
‘Are papa’'s legs cut?
“1 said they were.
“And the very first thing she said to
her father was: “Why, you didn’t have
those clothes on when I saw you! The
ones you had on were all torn in the
shipwreck.” ”
Lily Spruit herself furnished a re
port to the Psychical Research society.
She sald 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 capsize and the
boy Allen drown. What woke her, she
sald, was the howling of the wind
about the wreck, and the last she saw
was the other men pulling her father
back Into the waterlogged boat.--Wil-
liam T. Fitz-Gerald in New York Trib
une.
African Natives’ Drum Signals.
All through the continent of Africa
the natives have a very perfect system
of signaling with drums, by which
means they rap out messages from vil-
lage to village, and it is quite wonder-
ful how swiftly and how far they are
able to spread news.
The drumming Is always done at
night, when sound travels farther, and
as one lies awake on a still, clear
night the ear is often gently assailed
by the low, musical roll from a drum
in the village near, and one waits with
pleasant expectancy till the answering
echo comes, muffled by distance, from
a village sometimes two miles away.—
Wide World Magazine.
Bohemia.
Bohemia is youth. Youth is every-
where. It is bounded on the north and
east by the barren desert of middle age
and on the south and west by the steep
and impassable mountains of success.
The true bohemian is drunk on nothing
but ambitions and ideals, and, though
these leave no headache, they frequent-
ly leave an emptiness of the stomach.
The true bohemian has an appetite the
morning after, but there is often no
breakfast.—Sydney Bulletin,
Public Opinion.
Public opinion is a will-o'-the-wisp.
It is here today and gone tomorrow.
Public opinion crucified the Christ, and
the centuries have condemned it for its
act. Ever since that time the public
has been making blunders, committing
crimes, furnishing the evidence of its
own unwisdom in every time and coun-
try.—Boston Herald.
Business Sense,
“Has that titled son-in-law of yours
any business sense?"
“Yes,” answered Mr. Dustinstax. “1
must say 1 admire his foresight and
wagacity. He absolutely refused to
take any chances on my regarding him
as a poor relation.”—Washington Star.
Men's Hats also Fauity.
The size, the style and, incidentally,
the cost of woman's hats, says a writer in
the Berliner Umschau,” have taken up so
much of the time of the people who make
hats a study tbat they have not bad a mo-
went to devote to the head covering of the
sterner sex. Considered from the hygienic
point of view, little fault can he tound with
the bats of our sisters, although some of
them, when viewed through the glaes of rea-
son, are unthinkable. Bat men’s hats are
faulty from the physician’s point of view,
and a wider knowledge of the defects of the
modern hat wonld add to the already large
army of bareheaded men. In order to
demonstrate whioh hate shoald be avoided
a perfectly healthy man was placed where
the rays of sun could strike him direotly.
He wore ‘while taking the sunbath various
kinds of bats for a period of fifteen minutes
each. Every hat contained in the crown a
thermometer, and these recorded as follows:
The one in the Panama hat, 77 degrees; the
straw ‘‘sailor,”” 81; the silk hat,89; the felt
hat, 95; and the black felt and yachting cap,
99 and 100 respectively.
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