Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 22, 1888, Page 12

NATURE'S MAJESTIC WONDER The American Electric Light—How- ells on Death by Electricity. SBOME NEW USES FOR THE FLUID. The Telegraph Lighting Sleighs— Stockton's Road - Dynamos A ovel Sleep Preserver— Electric Notes. s Light. N The old Sun got up from his bed in a huff; Said he, I have lighted this world long enotizh I 1emile down breath, “Put a veil on your face, 1o death.’ 111 put on a cloud cap, scold : “Come out from behind there, we're with cold.! o, Dame Earth, 1 eclipso: You may trust for your light to the Tow dips, Or to kerosene lamps, or to gas, or to stars; rerhnk;, pu can ke an arrangement with in sunshine all ery you will scorch us then one prolonged freezing propose to remain in old tal- You may find some poor fool who will light up your sky, But no contruct with am off, me; o1 80 “old Earth ¢ , “don'thgive find I can manage affairs, r business! Sometimes You may possibly You're a great one u shine 1 or twelve hours, and sometimes for nine. We have always too much sun or else not enough, And we can’t turn you on, and we can’t shut you off. 014 fellow, you're done for, your night! I'll show you my dai Electri lm:lll:nl i come, bring on Amerwan dight!!! aud d Tt will « Death By Ele W. D. Howell's in Hary At this season.w vy influence associntion reminds us of One whe died that merey might live forever in the wills of men, I have been peculiarly in- terested in the newspaper discussion of the proposition for the substitution of doath by electricity for death by hang- ing in the infliction of eapital punish- ment. It appears that a measure of this kind is to be brought forward in the New York legislature during the win- ter, and that there is reasonable hope for its adoption, though I _obscrve that there is a great deal of affectionate re- gard for the good old gallows tree among the publicists of the press. In fact, much to be said in behalf of this venerable growth of centuries, rooted in the remotest past of our Anglo- Saxon race, and hardly survivin ion. Yetthereisaques- tion whether it is not an instrument of torture as well as of death, and whether it is not our duty, after nearly nincteen iturics of the Christ who bade us not t kill at all. to kill by the huma method known to science. The of learned t seems to be favor of cleetrici ‘e is appar- sntly no good reason why this myste- . which now unitesthe whole ligene \ illuminate: prising , which already propels trains of carsand promises to heat them, which has ndded to life in_apparently inexhaustible variety, should not also be employed to take it aws There is a sort of poctical fitness in its use which we ought not to ¢ in an age and country ambi amenity.us well us humanity. I under- stand that the death spark can be ap- plied with a minimum of official inter- vention, and without even arousing the victim, or, say patient. from his sleep on the morning fixed for the execution of the s rce. One journal has drawn an interesting pictare of the simple process, and I have fancied the execu- tions throughout the state taking place from the governor’s office, where. his K ate secretary, or the governor elf might touch a little annun- ciation button, and dismiss a murderer to the presence of his Maker with the slighest pressure of the finger. In cases of unusual interest tl utive might invite & company of distinguished persons to be present, and might ask some lady of the party to touch the but- ton. Or, when torpedoes are exploded or mining blasts fired in the completion of a great public work, a little child might be allowed to discharge the ex- emplary office. In the cvent, however, that the legd islature should refuse to touch a single bough of the honored tree which has so long sheltered Anglo-s have a suggestion to make in this mat of executions, I have long thought it eruel to the sheriff and his deputies to force them to thisfhangman’s work, and monstrous to let some imbruted wretch make legul killing his trade; and T have to propose that the cutioner should be drawn _from society at large as jurors are, and that no excuse should avail, except the oath of the person drawn tnat he is conseientiously opposed to capital punishment. This system, which is perfectly practicable, “would give, from time to time, men of every profession nud station an opportunity to attest their devotion to the g prin- ciple that if it is wrong to take life, a second of the kind dresses the balance and makes it right. The Electric Light for 1887, Electric World: The prominent foa- ture of the year in electric lighting is the number of systems of distribution by means of induction transformers which have been brought out or elab- orated. Prominent smong these are the Westinghouse system (32), in which alternating currents are employed. But mention must also be made of a number of systems in which the interrupted continuous current is employed for the same purpose of reducing the potential through the medium of induction coils of various forms. Among these we note the system of Pfannkuche (33), who em- ploys reversed continuous currents in connection with secondary induction coils, and the system of Bollman (34), which is somewhat similar to the above, but in which the induction coils are pro- vided with only a singlo winding and coupled up in such a way as to reduce the electro-motive force to the desived rm-t Another means of effecting dis- ribution at high potential has been worked upon during the year, which consists in the employment of motor dynamos st is, machines provided with two windings of lugh PR sistance, respectively, the former acting a motor winding, which revolves the armature and causes the generation of low tension currents in the winding of low resistance. . Among the systems of regulation Prof. Elihu Thomson has indicated an ingenious method of regulation of the three-wire system (33). By this method & motor dynamo having two similar windings which ave respectively con- meeted with the two sides of the circuit, sets to supply the unbalanced side with eurrent taken from the side which has an excess of current. In the department of the measure- mentef electricity, we find several new forms of moters und potential indicat- %, Awmong the integrating weters we find Aron’s (36) the action of which de- pends on the registering of .2 tinl clockwork gear acted upon clocks, one as o stan subjected to the iufluence of the current passing through the meter. The Forbes meter depends on the heating action of th slectrie current pussing through the wire, th erated causing the flow of aiv eurrents which sets in motion a light mill wheel, the revolutions of which are recorded by a registering train. Wood (38) and Westinghouse (89) have brought out in- dieating instruments which depend on the repulsion of the magnetic poles of like polarity. instead of the principle of attraction usually employed. The indi- cations of these instruments for equal increments of current or potent vemarkably proportional, To avoid the blackening of incandes- cent lamps due to the separation of the o Trom the: filumett; Thompson s (40) patented an igement by which there is inserted into the lamp an insulated wirc mnected to the ground and provided with sharp points upon which the carbon ted from the filament is claimed to be discharged, thus preventing its depositson the sides of the globe. The Telegraph. The jubilee of the ns lebrated in v r, murks an _epoch i |h- Chistory u[ this branch, and the c wle between the yarious s attainable at the beginning of egraphic work and the present s volumes for the ingenuity and pe; ance shown by n host of s rs in this branch. This speed has now been brought upto such a piteh that, with improved methods, no less than 600 words per minute can be transmitted, whereas the early days showed that fifteen or twenty words were considered high. Among thé improvements which have taken place during the year we notice the additional value which been given to Edison’s phonoplex egraph system by an arrangement by means of which the system increased in extent, so that what was formerly a duplex was con- verted into plex telegraph. The ment is such that it is particu- splicable to lines on whict 2 inmber of interm wlly adapted to n improvement in- by Absterdam (2), the signals sent are retransmitted automatic nll\ to the send- ing station, thus avoiding ‘tho necess of vetransmission for the verific dispatches. Robbins (3) bas troduced an improvement in telegraph lines such, that upon a break occurring in the cireuit the line will be auto- matieally grounded at the point of the break. thus permitting of a continuous working notwithstanding the break. In the domain of printing telegraphs we note the successful operation of asys- tem devised by Brown (4), by means of which eight printing telegraph instru- ments were opera simultancously over the sume wive, Lighting Sleighs by Electricity. t the recent Me- xhibitor he it eleetrie lights in the Lamps, il Newton gentleman have made a 'ments to use this form of lll\lm\nu!lnn hn their sle and ¢ ringes. ry are to be CEC AN TR AN, o P ol six-candle power for thirty hours. After the electricity is exhausted the batter- ics ave taken 'to a dynamo in the stable of one of the gentlemen and recharged. The expense of thi over cents cach time. is a small one, and can be taken out and placed in any kind of a vehicle. It can be doubled, 8o thata gentleman can sur- round himself in a blaze of light 1if he wishes. A procession of these electric- ally bR b G Colbra glasses are used, would make a grand spectacle upon the white snow, and an electric-light sleighing carnival on the mile ground is not beyond the probabili- ties of the winter. chanies’ \\|\h in The “plant”’ New Uses for Electricity, Chicago Times: A new use has been discovered for the electric light. The body of a boy drowned at Winchendon, on Tuesday found through » of the electric light, a bulb being fastoned to a pole and submerged, illuminating the water for a consider- able distance in the neighborhood. The eleetrie light promises to be im- portant aid in all manner of submarine operations. It also promis s to become an import- wid in other sorts of operations. 5 N city, has just re- a patent_on a very clever con- a handle for the in. tric electric light. It is ible standard so arranged that the lamp can be introduced into the throat, or wound, or any incision, for the sake of making medical examinatiol The handle will bend into any quired po- sition, and can be returned to its orig- inal form without breaking the elect circuit. This is accomplished by hav- ing one of the wires going to the light of copper and well insulated, the other wire, completing the circuit, is wound around the first wire in a spiral, so that the handle looks like a spiral wire spring. This can be easily turned and bent in any direction, and bent back again without the slightest trouble, Stockton's Electric Road. San Francisco Chronicle: Hanna, Swayne & Co., of Stockton, have seven- ty-five men at work grading the streets preparatory to laying the rails for the electric motor road. The line will be about ten miles in length, running through the principal streets and to all the railway depots and boat landing. A company is being formed with $500,000 It ing opticiun cent ele pital. The roud will have no wires overhcad nor underneath, but the power of each car will be stored in the batteries under the seats. The contractors expect to have the road completed and in running order by September 1 of this year. Dyn Electrical World: perfection to which dynamo-cle generators had alvcady “been brought hardly affords much scope for improve- ment as regards the increase of efficien- y per se; in_ consequence of this, the attention of inventors has been chiefly directed to the increase of the output of dynamos per pound of material, and we may say generally, that strange as it may- seem, there seemsto be a drift toward decreasing the speed of dyna- mos, aad, in consequence of the change, a number of multipolur machines have been brought out in the course of the year, among which we may mertion that of lh'mh 3 ), in which, with a continuous winding, there are only two cireuits in multiple are, and in Which three pole pieces are employed. In the Patten dynamo (27) the same ohiut is thought o be obtained by re- volving both field and armatnre, by which means the speed of rotation of each part is reduced to one-half of what would be required if eitherone were re- volved singly. This machine is n to give exther continuous or alternating currents. Siemens and Halske an some others, have also brought out a machine in which the armature in the shape of a Gramme ring “is stationary, and within which revolve the maguates, ™ The high presenting four poles to the surrounding armature, Various forms of have n hrought out past year, among which we may men- tion those of Eickemeyer (28) and Lah- meyer In the Oerlikon dynamo a novel fi re is the insertion of the ar- mature wire below the surfice of the iron (30.) Mention must also he method of regulation Trotter (31), which consists an _armature acr the pole pi which acts a magnet shunt to iron of the armature itself.and the m netie pee of which is varied ina; covdance with the stance in the ex- ternal 1it, 80 a8 to keep the current constant. iron-clad dvnamos durihg the made of a new hronght out by in adding the resis! Long Distance Telephoning. Prof. W. W. Jacques said, at a electrical convention, that there were inuse in this country nearly 250.000 telephones. He went on at length to plain the uses and advantages of the lephone as o transmitter of short dis- tance mes It is impossible to use the telephone for any distance over v or 100 miles, A wire the si il would be necessary in ng connections between Boston rcent making spe New York and Boston, between and Chicago a wire the size of a man’s arm, would he necessary, and an insu- lated gutta per cable as large around asn hogshead would be necessary to connect tye country with the nearest Rn('L 'ross the deep; therefore, it would e impracticable to attempt telephonic communication \m(ln'l uu- ocean. A Long Streak of Lightning. polis Journal: The Jenney Compat erday received o aphic proposition from Aukland. New Zo:x\mu‘. which contained seventy words, and cost the sender $2.71 for each word. It is interesting to note the Im-' of travel followed by this message ving its destination. The first repeating station was at Wellington, thence to Sidney, Australia, thence across the country to Palmerston, from there able to Saigon, Siam, then to Caleutta, thence across Hindostan to Bombay, from there under the Arabian sea to Mocha, thence up the Red sea to Mount Sinai, thence across t to Alexandrin, then to Palermo: from under the Mediteranean to Gibreaitar, thence to Lisbon, London, Queenstown, New York and Indianapolis. Curing Headache with Electricity. New Y Mail and Express: Do you know,” inquired a female nurse at Bellevue hospital of a reporter day, “that electricity is the most e tive cure for the headache? 1 have an apparatus at hnmc which I purchased in Englané tw s ago. [t is charged with electri ind cures headache as if by he appuratus is about fifteen inches in length, and is composed y of flat or box-wire links mad . It isan inch an a half wide nnl .nw-rnm(h of an inch thick. At end of the apparatus is a eivcalar cap ¢ plate. Onc of the caps is made of car- bon: the other is ma Two separate layers of ire run through the lin breadthwise, These layers are divided in the center by sealing-wax, the idea being to form the electric circuit. Should the two res touch one another the clectrie ent would be shut off and the ap- would be uscless, On each cap et or small ring made to allow astring to pass through and be fi ened to the head. The apparatus must be placed in vinegar for two minutes before being applied to the head. In operating the zine cap is placed on the right temple, and the carbon cap on the left. The electric eurrent generated by the aid of the vinegar then sets to work and the vietim of the headache is generally relieved within one or two minutes. The only objection I have to using this apparatus is that the zine cap S sometimes so strong as to burn t flesh on the temple. I have had my, right templa red for weeks after using it. Now.in applying it, T always place cloth between the zine cap and the kin, and T find it effective in prevent. ing Dlistering. No. these apparatus ar not for sale in this coun The duty would be high on them. T paid four s for the one T use,and at that \king the tariff into consideration, it would cost $100 to buy one here.” thin p Preserver. ue. the English Medical ppounding the query,**What is it that disturbs sleep?” remarks tha the popular view that noise is the di turbing cause, touches the truth with- out grasping it. It caunot be neise al- together, for the inhabitants of be- seiged towns have been known to sleep through the roar of bombardment, and to waken suddenly when the firing ceased, and we all know that the sleep- ing miller awakes when his mill stops running. The rattle of a train in mo- tion will induce sleep,as even those who are ordinarily very poor sleepers often find, The true cause is interruption; a sudden cessution of either continued sil- ence or of sound awakens. For sound, providing it be monotonous, has precisely the same effect on the brain as silence. The alarm-clock is based on this theory of interruption. It intercupts ~ silenc leads the Journal to make the sug- gestion that a simple contrivance might be made on the same mechanical prinei- ples, but with the object, viz.: that of insuring sleep by sound. Its utility to delicate persons espec- ially would be undoubted. Call it the “morphiometer” or “‘somniferant.” or christen it “‘the sleep preserver’—u name that would truly designate its ob- jeet—for its real purpose would be not S0 much to promote sleep as to insure the sleeper inst disturbance (the vulnerable side of light sleepers) by placing a bulwark of sound between him and the sudden shock of extraneous noise. Let your sleep p nro- duce the drowsy monotonous buzz of the humming top—not so loud as to be heard in an adjoining room, but when placed close to' the bedside or hung over the pillow loud enough to drown distinct noises. y Electrical Brevities. Rev. C. E. Cline writes to a religious i his sensation when lightning, or rather when struck by a piece of plaster that the lightning stroke had dislodged from the ceiling. He says that he saw *‘a great multitude of most beautiful children run- ning towards him and waving their hands, and shouting greeting He does not trace any dire between the lightning sty children, but he s he believes thaton that night he entered heaven, A Sioux City Light, Heat and Power company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100{000. The Globe-Democrat looks forward to the running of railroad trains, within the next ften rs, at the rate of 100 miles an hour by electricity. Commenting upon the intended r port of the New York capital pu ment commission in favor of electricity as the lethal agent, the New York Tri- bune comes out strongly in support of electrical methods of execution. Quite a number of enterprising news- papers already run their presses from electric motors. A project is on foot in California for utilizing the water power of Lake Ta» hoe by means.of an immense siphon: Tt is believed that 100,00 horse power can be obtained, which would be dis- tributed to ous locslities through the medium of electricity, The electric light is apparently a cat attraction to the Japanese. It has been introduced im the Osaka bazaar, which has in eonsequente re- ceived a great increase of visitors, It is snid that the German govern- ment will spend $750.000 in putting its overhead telephone wires underground. y day some new employment is found for ¢ and in the industries where they have already been put to work their use is greatly on the increase An electric heater which will be tolerated the future. The following is from the Kichmond, (Va. i ¢ One of the wonders of ty was seen at the Times office last evening. With n rapidity that seemed hardly controllable, a small ma- chine—an infant in appearance by the side of the steam engine—was runniag the printing ',w--- and paper after paper pour h, and the Times in its this morning's edition may be c tainly said to be “struck by lightning. The machine itself is scarcely more than two feet square, noiseless in its motion, but powerful in its action. The use of electricity as a motor is spreading in all directions. The latest is that a Swedish farmer has hit upon the ingenious iden of lighting his farm by electric light, having purchased a ynamo and connected it with a water- fall close by. At present the machine is used only for lighting, but the w intends also to employ it for worl threshing machines, ete. The light has been found cheaper than paraftin oil. Steps are already being taken to pre- me- for the next meeting of the National Electric Tight association, which is to be held at Pittsburg next month. The year 188 e is the only one in the cars of 3 has been eminently fruitful in the large number of electri railways undertaken, and in the new systems brought out. In so far as the themselves are con- pearance, w dynamo, of details efficiency. Mr. J. Cattle and others are the in corporators of the Seward Light and Power compuny, of & Neb., with a capital stock of $10,000. The New York Gas and Light company, of York, Neb. porated by D.'E. Sedgwick, M Gign and Gthers, his " a eapital stock of £5.000. ich, as in the e chiefly’ present intended to incr e, ABOUT HEADACHES. Common Causes of the Common Com- plaint of Everyday Life. Cassell’s Family Magazane: Probably one of the most common headaches. if not the most common, is that called nervous. The class of people who are most subjeet to it ave certainly not your outdoor workers. 1f ever my ‘old friend the gardener had had a headache it would not have been one of this descrip- tion. Nor docs Darby, the plowmun, nor the business man, or Great- foot gauger, sufier from nervous wche, nor one else who uls an outdoor life or who tukes plenty of exercise in the open air. 3ut poor Mattie. who aves away her vs in a stufly draper’s shop, and Jean- nic in her lonésome attie, bending over her white seam—stitch, stiteh, stiteh rinto the night; and thousands of of the indoor working class ar h Tarvey the Lady R S bR her ball dress fitted on, has often a fel- low feeling with Jeannie.and Mattje. Her, however, we cannot afford to pity quite so much, because she has the power to change her modus vivendi whenever she chooses. What arve the symptoms of this com- plaint which makes your headache so? You will almost know it is coming on from a dull, perhaps sleepy feelipg. You have no heart and little hope. ind you ave restless at night. Still more restless, though, when it comes on in full force, as then for nights perk however much you may wish to, scarce- 1y can you sleep at all. How my poor head does ach you will say often enoughs self and hopelessly to those near ) from whom you expect no symj and get none. And yet the pain is bad to boar, although it is generally con- fined to only one part of the head. The worst of this form of headac liesin the fact that it is periodic, 1 as it avises from unnatural habits of lif ities of constitution, this s10 more than we might expec 101 just note down some of the most ordinary causes of nervous headache peonle ‘who suffer therefrom will know what to do and what to avoid. 1 will then speak of the treatment. Overwork indoors. Overstudy. Work or stuay indoors, carried on in an unnatural or nped position of bod Literary women ought to do more of their work at a standing desk. lying down now and then on a sofa to ease brain and heart and permit ideas to flow. They should work out of doors in fine weather—with th. feet resting on a bhoard, not on the earth—and under canvas in wet weathe It is surprising the good this simple advice, if (ul\o\\--(l can eflect, Negleet of the conduce to health, Want of fresh air in bed rooms, ‘Want of abundant skin exciting exer- ordinary rules that ect of the bath. ndulgenc: in food, especially of ing churacter, Weakness or debility of body, how- ever produced. This cun unlvhu veme- Nervousness, how The citement nmpambl.- from a fashionable life. - Do not disre, gard a muuh It is often the symptom n! the most fatal disenses, bronchitis and consumption. Use Dr. H. McLean’s Tar Wine Lung Balm. cents a bottle. L A novel weapon of defense has been found in the ruined puebles of Arizona. In the deorway of several Los Muertos rooms the Heminway expedition has und many huge defensive stones. These stones are pondereus masses of voleanie rock, rather handsome in shape but destructive in design. The upper end tapers to a sort of handle, The stone was suspended in the doorway hy a buckskin thong, which was fastened to the ng or handl The method ®of using it was extremely simple. By hold- it buck and then letting it fly a'file of men could be h-'v\ll llll‘hll. Statistics of the women twelve American two-thirds of those the age at which girls generally are still unmarried. Evidently the col- lege is not conducive to matrimony. At Orlando, Fla., a d¢ much-coveted belle whi tiresome visitor up in frout of h and show other signs of It is said that the hiny is readily Luhe graduates of colleges show that who hay is owndd by a \, whenever u will stand to umu A WOMAN OF GREAT POWERS. But She is Not the Cause Nor the Oreator of Theosophy. MME. BLAVATSKY ANALYZED. Great ociety Mysteries The Recent Exposure of th Spirit of the Theosophical ~Study of the Washington Star: 1 talked quite freely reporter the other evening con- cerning the recent publication as.to the “exposuve’ of Mme. Blavatsky. the great spiritof the Theosophical society. As a well-known man of science, and at the same time the head of the The- osophical society, in his country, what he says on the subjest will doubtless be of interest. He held in his hand an editorial avstract of the veport of Mr. Hodgson, in which the “exposure” made, and he read and upon it. “They start out with the assumption,” he said, “that Mme. Blavatsky created or discovered theosophy—they speak of her as the “inventor™ of theosophy— and think that to assail her is to attack the school of thought. The- osophy is no more dependent upon her than upon you or anybody els The school of thought is old as the Greek langunge. meuns the wisdom of God. Tt is merely aschool of higher thought, a study of those things in natnre thatare still mys- terious to the majority of mankind. Mme. Blavatsky was one of the founders f the Theosophical society. and to her is due the credit of forming the socie But she is no more the founder or ‘in- ventor” of theosophy thai the organizer of aliterary society is the inventor of S0 whether she ever played ricks on people or not has no bear- ing on the science of theosophy. she has been hounded mul an outrageous manner.” “Theosophy is spoken of here,” continued, “*as a hodge-podge of Brah- maism, Buddhism, spiritualism, and ne- cromaney. Now, it 1s neaver Buddhism than anything else that it is not. It is entirely at variance with Brahma Brahmaism is priesteraft of India. Buddhism is opposed to priesteraft and superstition. It has no in J supernatural. [t reache entire natural means what may appear super natural. Theosophy lw\l.m to Buddh- ism. Asto its relation to spiritualism, I say only that theosophy does not rec- ognize any supernatural” agencies, As to necromancy, that is a good enough word in its way. but it does not in any sense apply 1o us. It isa term used for almost & levilt but it relates prop- rtain superstitions rites over . Elliott Coues with o Star is commented as Theosophy But maligned in finer Tk is a study of the of nature that are more or '« up and difficult of access. | have never heard of a theosophist be- lieving in anything supernatural or pre- tending that he applied to any unnat- ural agene, His object is to discover pure natural causes of things that ap- pear strange and miraculous. I do not belie in miracle know of no the- osophist who does. T do not think a miracle was ever peformed or ever will by T'here have been things that seemed mirncles to those who did not unde stand them, but theosophy discove their natural cause; and th happen- ings are as natural as the force of gravi- tation. The bhy studies the 1n) of nature, and dispels the idex of the supernatural, It cannot be ¢ plained =0 a person who has not made ¢ study of the subjeet any more than you could explain differential culculus to a man who knew nothing at all of the lower mathematics—or than you could explain the sense of smell to one who had never had the power of smelling. It is & mere matter of science, like any other b I-h of rch., There is nothing It is not a sect or religion. It is said here that the society claims to be under the special protection of a mysterious brotherhood in Thibit.spoken adepts and as Mahatmas, I ma is not . man holding communion with supernatural pow Mahatr means great soul or high spivituality Mahatma is a man of great soul or a magnanimous man. Emerson might be termed a Mahatma. Plato and Moses were Mahatmas, You see what folly and ignoranc displayed in all this talk. ““As'to the projection of the double, or the appearance of the astral form far away from where the body T know that to be true. Speaking asa scientist, say [ know it to be true that the astral form may be projected a_ great distance from the hody, and visible, audible and almost tangible. It is accompanied by natural forces that have been discov- ered by scientific research. I ean do it myself. I have attained that power,and have many times projected my astral form. “On the 23d of June T in Chicago at a reception given in my honor by my sister, Mrs, M. Flower, wife of Judge Flower of cago. On that oce asion | projected my double and ealled on and talked with a very nccomplished lady in Washington, who possesses great ps chic powers. Thisis her own account of the visit: * % * 0you have paid me three astral visits during the past six montt I will State the circumstances now. There may be something in them which will be further proof of your power to project your double. On the eveni of June 23 I was standing at my dow * * * when i (hsth'lL\‘ he you say “*No.’ aturally 1 turned to see from whence the voice came, and to my surprise saw you (your double nuh-umunlmg by my side. \\'ln not?” I asked lim'nuwl have gone was the reply. in Chicago vi sister, ) J. M. Flower rson exists or not 1 looking into the- *Just then midst of asked was: on my is do not know), osophical matters a little I secemed to you in t a gathering of people. 1 what it meant. The ply “Oh, only a little recep! sister is giving in honor of me.” I then asked for the names of one or two per sons present, as & proof. These names were given: Prof. Rodney Welch and Dr. Sarnh Hacket Steveuson. With this you disappeared. 1 immediately got up, noticed the time—10:20—und then noted the above down, as you once requested me 1o do, so T could give it to you as it happen » ***On the evening of Novembe morning of the 5th, you again pared, * * **At the time my astral form appeared to her,” said Coues, ‘I was talking to about forty people, umong which were the two named in this note to the transportation of solid % by means of this science, | donot much. ‘The precipitation of i be performed. There is no supernatural agency in it Itis mercly a use of the subtle forces of L and ap- na ture. TLikeall other’ true seiences, theosophy is incomprehensible to those A man must order to study the move subtile forees of a diffieult study. srsoll nature. th in tal faculty and se a man to belong o the studied it © peeuliar powers of fot Ir. G. Inge uline psyehic powers. al of o theosophist. 1 e revolt of his soul o the supernatural, H can crets of nature. It isn Th 1sitiven 10ss possesses is g ! attacks on the christian religion ave on account of at Who is WIAI(. TED, whoinhis nst the belief hns afine men- Ot neces: 100 ety to be a theosophist. eon S0 man of this ch a great deal more than he it by that bt nsibility to name, the Beecher about, su i hearers when h wi 80 wi but a co W force, and cc “And Dr. MeGlynn! T ticularly high psychic RN} and a fine btle in nature. ves him such an talks. ny with Beec 1. Tt is & mesme ant to call it such. short time ntempt. No or uld d ie in touch it the de of ever deeply into the i nature is | {h8 was another . 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