Show I I A WARNING DREAM Tho The Vision Lincoln Saw Several Times In Th t Sleep Steep Napoleon believed devoutly in dreams as lIS warnings S or 01 even as forecasts of ot what wha t was to come and oven ho lee who most prides himself upon his freedom from superstition knows of or has ex cx experienced experienced at least ono one dream that can cannot cannot cannot not be explained as a mere result insult of ot overfeeding When hen wo we w e contemplate dreams and their ramifications science can help holp us but little in their explanation WilkIe Collins showed this to bo be so In one ono of ot othis his most moat ingenious novels Annadale Warning dreams or premonitions may bo be the tho result of natural laws which wo do not understand Lincoln was not counted superstitious superstitious because he had SOme seine confidence In tho the prophetic character of ot ono dream droom at least leun for tor it visited his sleep on several occasions oc and he ho spoke of it seriously to members mom s of his 1 s fatally family and to his closest friends In telling of this vision he ho said ho scorned seemed to be beIn beIn bein In a 3 singular indescribable vessel but always aha s tho the same moving with great rapidity toward a dark and Indefinite shore The Tho dream droun preceded c several marko marked l incidents during his occupancy of o tied tho th presidential chair notably before tho the battles tattles of ot Antietam Fredericksburg and Gettysburg On the tho morning of or tho the memorable of April ho informed members of oC his cabinet that ho loo had dreamed this i Bamo thing thinS the tho night before and be bc that they thoy thO were on tho the threshold I of or somo some momentous issue So Im Impressive impressive were his remarks that his auditors wore swore profoundly moved bat lu t no seer among thorn could rend read then tho warning aright and anel foresee the tho awful I news of ot his assassination which should bo be flashed that night to a stunned and II horrified people Philadelphia Ledger |