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Show How Two Scientists Had the Sams Dream at Once. By Dr. 'Leonard Keene Hirshberg A. B.tEL A, M. D (Johns Hopkins) PKUf'USSUK H C STEVENS of the great University of Washington a scientist as well as a phi osopher of the first order gives fa scientific world an account of a strange phenomenon In telling about this event Professor Ste vens says that on the first night of August last year he and Mr E Karrer another un prejudiced ooserver were at the Puget Sound Marine Station Winnipeg. With a third man Mr D H Wenrlch they had been sleeping in a tent which was erected upon a wooden platform. Their tent was ten by twelve feet and the platform twelve by fifteen feet square The wans which were boards about tour feet in height and of the same size as the tent were topped by a framework roof over which the tent was stretched The ground upon which this tent hut was built was a steep rocky hillside about one hundred feet from Washington Sound and somewhere near fifty feet above the water Numerous delicate fir trees filled in the foreground between the front of the tent which was always open day and night and the Sound itself The growth of the trees however could not be said by any manner of means to be dense and patches of blue water were always visible through the open door from tha interior of the tent, even when the campers were lying upon their cots The hillside upon which the tent was pitched was very steep The front of the tent had thus to be supported upon posts about ten feet in height and five or six Inches in diameter At the right front end and at the left rear end the platform was in close contact with thriving fir trees One of these Erowing at the right was something like eighteen inches in diameter and the other on the left was about twelve inches in dl imeter The cots of Professor Stevens and hia two companions were arranged parallel to the longer stretch of the tent and their heads were pointed toward the back of the tent very close to the wooden wall Dr Karrer occupied the left cot and Mr Wenrlch with the Professor himself occu pled the other two with the latter on the right Mr Wenrlch was between the two scientists and was not subjected to the strange experience of the other two philosophers philoso-phers and biologists '"B Ights Be ve6V They always slept soundly but on this particular par-ticular night Professor Stevens had the strange experience of suddenly awakening tt Urn He sat bolt upright in bed with a uncanny creepy feeling that the whole tent and platform were afloat in the water Host Ing gently and gracefully among the trees The bright light of a fuU moon cast dart shadows of the trees all about the tent m illuminated brilliantly the water of tie Sound So persistent was this manifest tion of motion that the Professor could an rid htaBelf of it Meanwhile what wu s surprise and aston shment to find that w Karrer too was sitting bolt upright in n cot and staring out of the tent Just as be was doing' Without Professor Stevens saylM word to Dr Karrer the tatter began to how he too had suddenly been awakenea im lama most unusual happening Here are his very words ... I felt the tent rolling slightly I ft t tent and bed floating ffirward I sat up bed looked out of the tent door over tne water The trees' immediately in front oi the tent seemed approaching quite rspiw due to our floating and I felt some anxwij as to our safety wondering how to atom collision with the trees I called out, wlierf are we? I heard Professor Stevens excism Ho and 1 noticed him also sitting up a bed He immediately Jumped up ran to uw door and looked out In tha meantime I ij somewhat relieved thinking that he W guard against a collision They both tnen arose from their cots and walked out w front of the tent and lo' the strange mam testation which they had both independent experienced vanished They were upon w solid earth . ... The great Interest and peculiarity or niusjon lies in the fact that two agnosw sceptical scientific laboratbry workers i dependently of each other experiencea e actly the same strange phenomenon tbw were both wide awake and yet neither " enced the other by speaking until each J Indicated what they were both experlencuis Here then for the first time in the hlsw" of science religion or literature you, a proof of an illusion exper enced at the aa" time in the same place by the ing minds of two sceptical nnprejnowe laboratory scientists 4 |