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12. THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE : StNDAY , JANtTAKY 22. .1888. r PAGES , NATURE'S ' MAJESTIC WONDER The American Eloctrlo LlKht How- cits on Death by Electricity. SOME NEW USES FOR THE FLUID. Tlin 'J > lei > rnpli Uxlitlitt ; Block ton'H Itoiul Dynamos A Novel Hlci'j ) I' Mlcctrlu Notes. The American lOloctrlo I/l lit. AVip Via It nnijilitr. Tlir old Him ( jot up from his bed In n liufT ; Knld lie , "I luivo lighted tliU world loiif , ' If 1 smile down In sunshine all cry In a breath , Put a veil on your face , you will scorch us to ilcuth. ' Jf I put on a cloud cap , then ono prolonged Hcold : 'Coma out from behind there , wo'ro freezing with cold. ' Ko , Damu K.uth , I propose to remain in rrllpsa ; Y6u may ti list for your lli ht to the old tal low dips , Or in kerosene lamps , or to pas , or to stars ; I'erhntm you can make an arrangement with Mara ; You may find Rome poor fool who will light tip jour Blty , Hut no contract with mo ; el am off , so good by. " . "Old fellow , " the Eiirtb cried , "don'tlgivc yourself airs , You may possibly lltnl I can inanago affairs. You're a went ono for business I Sometimes you shine For fifteen or twelve hours , nnd sometimes for nine. Wo have always too much sun or else not , enough , } And wo can't turn you on , and wo can't shut ( you off. Old fellow , jou'ro done for , come , bring on your night ! I'll show you my daisy American light 111 ! Klctitrlcl and brilliant ! ! and steady ! ! ! and clear ! ! ' ! > It will knock your spots out every night In the year. Death Ity Electricity. W. 1) . IIowoll's ill Harper's Weekly : At thin season.when every influence anti ill-social ion reminds UH of One who died Unit inorc.y might livu forevoiin tlio wills of inon , 1 bnve been peculiarly in terested in tlio newnphper discussion of tbo proposition for tlio substitution of death by electricity for death by hang ing in the infliction of capital punish ment. It appeal's that n measure of this kind IH to be brought forward in the Now York legislature during the winter - tor , and that there is reasonable hope for UH adoption , though I observe Unit thcro is n great deal of alTcotloniito re gard for the good old gallows tree uniong Iho publicists of tbo press. In fuel , there in much to bo said in behalf of thin venerable growth of centuries , rooted in the remotest pastof our Anglo- Saxon race , and htirdly Mirviving the nxo and the Htuko through every change of polity iiiid religion. Yottherc'isaqucs- tiou whether it is not an instrument of tot'ttiru UH well us of death , mid whether it is not our duty , after nearly nineteen centuries of the C'hriut who lliido us not to kill nt all , to kill by the humuiest method known to science. The weight of learned testimony buoms to bo in favor of electricity , and there is appar ently no good reason why this myste rious ngont , which now unites the whole oivili/.ud world by nerves of leen intel ligence , wliioli iliumiiiales every enter prising city , which already | > i-opels trains of cars and promises to heat them , which has added to life in apparently inexhaustible variety , should not ulso bo employed to take it away. There is a sort , of poetical fitness in its use which wo ought not to overlook in an ago and country ambitious of amonity.as well as humanity. I uiulor- Htand tii.it tlio death spark can be ap plied with a minimum of otllcial inter vention , and without oven arousing the victim , or. say patient , from his sleep on the morning fixed for the execution of the sentence. One journal has drawn an interesting picture of the simple process , and 1 have fancied the execu tions throughout the state taking place from tlio governor's otllco , where.his private secretary , or the governor himself might touch a little annun ciation button , and dismiss a murderer to the presence of his Maker with tlio nlighcst pressure of the linger. In cases of unusual interest the executive might invite a company of distinguished persons to bo present , and might ask nome lady of the party to touch the but ton. Or , when torpedoes are exploded or mining blasts 11 red in the completion of a great public work , a little child , - might bo allowed to discharge the ox- 55. j > emplary oillco. | T * In the event , however , that the log ; islaturo should refuse , to touch a single bough of the honored tree \\hich has so long sheltered Anglo-Saxon society , I have a suggestion to make in this mat- of executions. I have long thought it eruol to the sheriff and his deputies to force them to thisjhangmnn's work , and monstrous to let some imbruted wretch nwko legal killing his trade ; and I have to propose that the executioner should bo drawn from society at largo as jurors are , and that no oxouso should avail , except the oath of the person drawn tnat lie in conscientiously opposed to capital punishment. This system , which is perfectly practicable , would give , from time to time , men of every profession and station an opportunity to attest their devotion to the great prin ciple that if it is wrong to take life , a second of the kind dresses the balance and makes it right. [ I The Klectrto Mglit Tor 1H87. * Electric World : The prominent fon- turo of the year in electric lighting is the number of systems of distribution i > K by means of induction transformers which have been brought out or elab orated. Prominent timong these are the Westinghouse wystom ( JJ2J , in which alternating currents are emplpycd. Hut inontion must also bo made of a number of systems in which the interrupted continuous current in employed for the pa mo purpose of reducing tbo potential through tlio medium of induction coils of various forms. Among these we note the system of I'faunkucho ( il'l ) . who em ploys reversed continuous currents in connection with secondary induction coils , and the system of llollinan ( i4) ! ) , which is somewhat similar to the above , but in which the induction cells are pro vided with only a single winding and coupled up in such a way as to reduce the eleetro-motivo force to the desired point. Another moans of effecting dis tribution at high potential has been worked upon during the year , which consists in the employment of motor dynamos ; rUiat is , machines provided with two windings of high ana low re sistance , respectively , the former acting as n 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. F.llhit Thomson has indicated an ingenious method of regulation of the three-wiro system ( ! to ) . By this method a motor dynamo having two similar windings which are respectively con nected with the. two Bides of the circuit , acts to supply the unbalanced side with ' current tako'ii from the side which hns an exccus of current. In the department of the measuro- montof eleptricity , wo find several now forma of meters and potential indicat or * . Among tho'integnitinj meters wu 'find Aron's ) ( JMM the action of which de- jHjndt , on the registering of a differen tial clockwork gear acted upon by two clocks , one tin a standard , and the other subjected to the iiilhicncu of the current passing through the meter. The Forbes motor (117) ( ) depends on the heating action of the electric current passing through the wire , the heat gen erated causing the flow of air currents which sets in motion a light mill wheel , the revolutions of which are recorded bv a ri'gl toring train. Wood (518) ( ) and WcstliighoiHo ( ! ! ! ) ) have brought out in dicating instruments which depend on the repulsion of the magnetic poles of like polarity , instead of the principle of attraction usually employed. The indi cations ot these instruments for equal increments of current or potential are remarkably proportional. To avoid tlie blackening of incandes cent lamjis duo to the separation of the carbon from the filament , Thompson has MO ) patented an arrangement by which there Is inserted into the lamp an insulated wire , connected to the ground and piovidcd with sharp points upon which the carbon separated from the filament is claimed to bo discharged , thus preventing its deposits on the sides of the globe. Tlio Electrical World : The jubilee of the telegraph , which was celebrated in England this year , marks an epoch in the history of this branch , and the com parisons made between the various speeds attainable at the beginning of telegraphic work and the present speak volumes for the ingenuityand persever ance shown by a host of seekers in this branch. This speed has now beeji brought up to such a pitch that , with improved methods , no less than (100 ( words per minute can bo transmitted , whet OILS the early days showed that fifteen or twenty words were considered high. Among the improvements which have taken place during the year wo may notice the additional value which has been given to Edison's phonoplex telegraph system by an arrangement (1) ( ) by means of which the system is increased in extent , so that what was formerly a duplex was con verted into a triplex telegraph. The arrangement is such that it is particu larly applicable to lines on which there in o u.liu'ffa number of intermediate sta tions , so that U is specially adapted to railroad work. In an improvement in troduced in the ordinary Morse system by Absterdam ( " ) , the signals sontaro retransmitted automatically to the send ing station , thus avoiding the necessity of retransmission for the verification of dispatches. Itobbins ( . ' ! ) has also in troduced tin improvement in telegraph lines such , that upon a break occurring in the circuit the line will bo auto matically grounded at the point of the break , thus permitting of a continuous working notwithstanding the break. In the domain of printing tolcirraphs wo note the successful operation of a sys tem devised by Brown (4) ( ) , by means of which eight printing telegraph instru ments wore operated simultaneously over the sumo wire. Sleighs by Electricity. Boston Transcript : At the recent Mo- clianics' fair ono exhibitor had carriages with incandescent electric lights in the lamps , Several Newton gentleman have made arrangements to u'-o this form of illumination for their sleighs and car riages. Three cells of battery are to bo used , and will furnish three lights of six-candle power for thirty hours. After the electricity is exhausted the batteries ' ies are taken'to a dynamo in the stable of ono of the gentlemen and recharged. The expense of this charging cannot be over CO cents each time. The "plant" is a small one , and can bo taken out and placed in any kind of a vehicle. It can bo doubled , so that a gentleman can bur- round himself in a bla/.o of light if ho wishes. A. procession of these electric ally-illuminated sleighs , when colored glasses are used , would make a grand spectacle upon the while snow , and an electric-light sleighing carnival on the milo ground is not beyond the probabili ties of the winter. Now Uses for Kleetricity. Chicago Times : A now use has been discovered for the electric light. The body of a boy drowned at Winchcndoii , Mass. , on Tuesday , was found through the use of the oloetrio light , a bulb being fastened to a polo and submerged , illuminating the water for a consider able distance in the neighborhood. The electric light promises to bo an im portant aid in all manner of submarine operations. It also promises to become an import ant aid in other sorts of operations. Mr. Ernst Max Fasoldt , a manufactur ing optician of this city , hns just re ceived a patent on a very clover con trivance as a handle for the incandes cent electric electric light. It is a llox- iblo standard so arranged that the lamp can bo introduced into the throat , or wound , or any incision , for the sake of making medical examination. The handle will bond into any required po sition , and can bo returned to its orig inal form without breaking the electric circuit. This is accomplished by hav ing ono of the wires going to the light of copper nnd well insulated , the other wire , completing the circuit , is wound around the first wire ia a spiral , so that the handle looks like a spiral wire spring. This can bo easily turned and bent in any direction , and bent back again without the slightest trouble. Stockton' ) * Klcutric lloud. San Francisco Chronicle : Hanna , Swayno & Co. , of Stockton , have seven ty-live men at work grading the streets preparatory to laying the rails for the electric motor road. The line will bo about ton miles in length , running through the principal streets and to all the railway depots and boat landing. A company is being formed with $ oUU,000 capital. The road will have no wires overhead nor underneath , but the power of each car will bo stored in the batteries under the seals. The contractors expect to have the road completed and in running order by September 1 of this year. Dynamos , Electrical World : The high state of perfection to which dynamo-oleelrio generators had already been brought hardly affords much scope for improve ment as regards the increase of otlicion- cy per so ; in consequence of this , the attention ot inventors has been chiclly directed to the increase of the output of dynamos per pound of material , and wo may say generally , that strange as it may- seem , there teems to bo a drift toward decreasing the speed of dyna mos , and , in consequence of the change , a number of multipoint * machines have been brought out in the course of the year , among which wo may mertlon that of Bradley ( ) , in which , with a continuous winding , tlioro are only two circuits in multiple arc , and in which. , three polo pieces tire employed. In the Patten dynamo (27) ( ) the same object is thought to bo obtained by re volving both field nnd armutnre , by which means the speed of rotation of each part is reduced to one-half of what would bo required if oitherono were re volved singly. This machine is arranged to give either continuous or alternating currents. Siemens and Halsko and 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 magnates , presenting four poles to the surrounding armature. Various forms of iron-clad dvnamos have also been brought out durihg the past year , among which we may men tion thos-o of ICickemeyor ( ! M ) and Lah- meyer ( U ! ) ) . In the Oerllkou dynamo a novel feature is the insertion of the ar mature wire below the surface of the iron ( JfO. ) Mention must also be made of a new method of regulation brought out by Trotter (111) ( ) , which consists in adding nn armature across the polo pieces , which acts as a magnet shunt to the iron of the armature itself , and the mag netic resistance of which is varied in ac cordance with the resistance in the ex ternal circuit , so as to keep the current constant. Distance Prof. W. W. .1 deques said , at a recent electrical convention , that there * , sere in use in this country nearly USO.IMM ) telephones. Ho went on at length to explain the uses and advantages of the telephone as a transmitter of short dis tance messages. It is impossible to use the telephone for any distance over seventy or 100 miles. A wire the size. of a lead pencil would bo necessary in making speaking connections between New York and Boston , between Boston and Chicago a wire the si/.o of a man's arm , would be necessary , and nn insu lated guttu percha cable as largo around as a hogshead would bo necessary to connect ttjo country with the _ nearest part across the deep ; therefore , it would be impracticable to attempt telephonic communication under the ocean. A Ijotiu Streak or Indianapolis Journal : The .Tennoy Electric Company yesterday received a telegraphic proposition from Aukland. Now Zealand , which contained seventy words , and cost the sender & 2.71 for each word. It ia interesting to note the line of travel followed by this message in reaching its destination. The first repeating station was at Wellington , theneo to Sidney , Australia , thence across the country to Pnlmcrslon , from there via cable to Saigon , Siam , then to Calcutta , theneo across Hindostan to Bombay , from there under the Arabian sea to Mocha , thence up the Red sea to Mount Sinai , theneo across Egypt to Alexandria , then to , Palermo ; from under the Meditoranean to Gibraltar , theneo to Lisbon , London , Quccnstown , Now York and Indianapolis. Headnchcwlth KIcctrlclty. Now York Mail and Express : "Do you know , " inquired a female nurse at Bellevue hospital of a reporter. yester day , "that electricity is the most effec tive cure for the hcti'lacho ? I have nn apparatus at homo which I purchased in Englan fi two years ago. It is charged with electricity , and cures headache as if by magic. The apparatus is about fifteen inches in length , and is composed entirely of Hat or box-wire links made square. It is an inch an a half wide and one-fourth of an inch thick. At each end of the apparatus is a circular cap or plate. One of the caps is made of car bon ; the otheris made of.inc. . Two separate layers of thin wire run through the links breadthwise. The o layers are divided in the center by sealing-wax , the idea being to form the electric circuit. Should the two wires touch one another the electric current would be shut off and the ap paratus would be useless. On each cap is tin eyelet or small ring made to allow a string to pass through and bo fast ened to the head. The apparatus must bo placed in vinecrar for two minutes before being applied to the head. In operating the zinc cap is placed on the right temnlo , and the carbon cap on the left. The electric current generated by the aid of the vinegar then sets to work and the victim of the headache is generally relieved within ono or two minutes. The only objection I have to using this apparatus is that the zinc cap sometimes so strong as to burn the llosh on the temple. I have had my. right temple red for weeks after using it. Now , in applying it , I always place a cloth between the zinc cap and the skin , and I find it effective in prevent ing blistering. No. those apparatus are not for sale in this country. The duty would bo high on them. 'l paid four guineas for the ono I use , and at that r.ito , taking the tariff into consideration , it would cost $100 to buy one hero. " Klectrle Sleep Preserver. In a recent issue , the English Medical Journal propounding the query , "What is it that disturbs sleep ? " remarks that the popular view that noise is the dis turbing cause , touches the truth with out grasping it. It cannot bo noise al together , for the inhabitants of be- seigcd towns have boon known to sloop through the roar of bombardment , and to waken suddenly when the firing ceased , and wo 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 oven those who arc ordinarily very poor sleepers often find. The true cause is interruption ; a sudden cessation of either continued sil ence or of sound awakens. For sound , providing it bo monotonous , has precisely the same effect on the brain"as silence. The alarm-clock is based on this theory of interruption. It interrupts silence. This leads the Journal to make the sug gestion that a simple contrivance might bo made on the same mechanical princi ples , but with the object , viz. : that ot insuring sloop by sound. Its utility to delicate persons espec ially would bo undoubted. Call it the " " " " "morphiomoter" or "somniferant , or christen it "tho " sloop preserver" a name that would truly designate its ol > - ject for its real purpose would bo not so much to promote sloop as to insure the sleeper against disturbance ( the vulnerable side of light sleepers ) by placing a bulwark of sound between him and the sudden shock of extraneous noiso. Lot your sleep preserver pro duce the drowsy monotonous buzz of the hummincf top not so loud as to bo heard in an adjoining room , but when placed close to the bcdsido or hung over the pillow loud enough to drown distinct noises. Electrical Urcvltles. Rev. C. E. Cline writes to a religious paper describing his sensation when struck by lightning , or rather when struck by a piece of plaster that the lightning stroke had dislodged from the coiling. Ho says that ho saw * 'a great multitude of most beautiful children run ning towards him and waving their hands , nnd shouting greetings of joy. " Ho does not trace any direct connection between the lightning stroke nnd the children , but ho says hoboliovcs that on that night ho entered heaven. A Sioux City Light , Heat and Power company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100fOOO. The Globe-Democrat looks forward to the running of railroad trains , within the next [ ton years , at the rate of 100 miles an hour by electricity. Commenting upon the intended report - port o'f the Now York capital punisn- moiit commission in favor of electricity as the lethal nsent , the Now York Tri bune comes out strongly in support of electrical methods of execution. Quito 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 ot Lake Ta boo by mcans.of.au immense slplmin It is believed that lOO.KH ( ) horse 'IKIWCI * can bo obtained , which' > would bo dis tributed to various locnllties through the medium of electricity. The electric light in ' apparently a great attraction to the Japanese. It has been introduced in the Osaka bazaar , which has in consequence re ceived a great increase of visitor * . It is said that the Gormnn govern ment will npynd $7oO,0K ( ) in putting its overhead telephone wires underground. Every day some new employment Is being found for electric motors and in the industries whore they have already been put to work their use is greatly on the increase. An electric heater is the only one which will bo tolerated in the cars of the future. The following is from the Klchmond. ( Vn. ) Dispatch : One of the wonders of elcctricit.v was seen at the Times ollico last evening. With a rapidity that seemed hardly controllable , a small ma chine an infant in appearance by the side of the steam engine was running the printing press , and paper after paper poured forth , and the Times in its this morning's edition may bo cer tainly paid to bo "struck by lightning. " The maehiiit ! 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 bus hit upon the ingenious idea of lighting his farm by electric light , having purchased a dynamo and connected it with a water fall close by. At present the machine is used only for lighting , but the man intends also to employ it for working threshing machines , etc. The light has been found cheaper than parallln oil. Steps are already being taken to pre pare for the next meeting of the National Electric Light association , which is to bo held tit Pittsburg next month. The .year 1887 has been eminently fruitful in the largo number of electric railways undertaken , and in the new systems brought out. In so far as the electric motors themselves are con cerned , a number have made their ap pearance , which , as in the case of the dynamo , chiefly present modifications of details intended to increase their efficiency. Mr. J. Cattle and others are the in corporators of the Seward Electric ; Light and Power company , of Scwnrd , Neb. , with a capital stock of $10,000. The Now York Gas and Electric Light company , of York , Nob. , incor porated \ > y D. E. Sedgwick , M. Sovereign eign and others , has a capital stock of ABOUT HEADACHES. Common CIIMSCH of the Common Com plaint ofKvcrydny Ijll'e. Otis-oil's. Family Magazine : Probably ono of the most common headaches if not the most common , is that called nervous. The class of people who arc most subject to it are certainly not your outdoor workers. If over my old friend the gardener had had n headache it would not have been ono of thidescrip tion. Nor does Darby , the plowman , nor Jarvey , the business man , or CJreat- fool , the ganger , suffer from nervon.s headache , nor any ono els-o who leads tin outdoor life or who takes plenty of exercise in the open air. But poor Mattie , who slaves away her days in a stuffy draper's shop , and Jenn- nio in her lonesome attic , bending over her white seam stitch , btitcb , stitch till far into the night , and thousands of others of the indoor working class are martyrs to this form of headache. Are they alone in their misery ? No ; for my Lady Bonhommo , who comes to have her bull dress fitted on , has often a fel low feeling with Jeannie-and Matlie. IIer _ , however , wo cannot afford to pity quite PO much , because she has the power to change her modus vivondi whenever she chooses. What are the symptoms of this com plaint which makes your headache soV You will almost know it is coming on from n dull , perhaps sleepy feeling. You have no heart and little hope , and you are reslle-s at night. Still more restless , though , when it comes on in fuU force , as then for nights perhaps , however much you may wish to , scarce ly can you sloop at all. 'How my poor head does ache ! " This you will say often enough ; sadly to your self and hopelessly to those near you , from whom you expect no sympathy , and got none. And yet the pain is bad to bjar , although it is generally con fined to only ono purl of the head. The worst of tliis form of headache liesin the fact Unit it U periodic. Well , as it arises from unnatural habits of life or peculiarities of constitution , this periodicity is no more than wo might expect. If I just note down some of the most ordinary causes of nervous headache people who suffer therefrom will know what to do and what to avoid. 1 will then speak of the treatment. Overwork indoors. Ovorstudy. Work or study indoors , carried on in an unnatural or cramped position of body. Literary women ought to do more of their work at a standing desk , lying down now and then on a sofa to case brain and heart and permit ideas to How. They should work out of doors in line weather with their foot resting on a board , not on the earth and under canvas in wet weather. It is surprising the good this simple advice , if followed , can effect. Neglect of the ordinary rules that conduce to health. Want of fresh air in bed rooms. Want of abundant skin exciting exor cise. Neglect of the bath. Os'or-indulgenc3 in food , especially of a stimulating character. Weakness or debility of body , how ever produced. This can only bo reme died by proper nutriment. Nervousness , however induced. The excitement inseparable from a fashionable life. Do not disregard a cough. It is often the symptom of the most fatal diseases , bronchitis and consumption. Use Dr. J. II. McLean's Tar Wino Lung Balm. Uo cents u bottle. A novel weapon of defense has been found in the ruined pueblos of Arizona. In the doorway of several Los Muertos ' rooms the Ho'minwny expedition has found many lingo defensive stones. These stones are ponderous masses of volcanic rock , rather handsome in shape but destructive in design. The upper end tapers to a sort of handle. Tlio stone was suspended in the doorway by n buckskin thong , which was fastened to the ring or handle. The method 'of using It was extremely simple. By hold- it back and then letting it fiy a file of men could bo hewn down. Statistics of the women graduates of twelve American colleges show that two-thirds of those who have passed the ago at which girls generally marry are still unmarried. Evidently the college - lego is not conducive to matrimony. At Orlando , Fla. , a doc is owned by a much-coveted belle which , whenever a tiresome visitor stays too long , will bland up in front of hitn and begin to yawn and show other.signs of being sleepv. It is said that the him is readily taken. A WOMAN OF GREAT POWERS ; But She is Not the Giuiso Nor the Creator of Thooeophy. MME. BLAVATSKY ANALYZED. The llecent i\posnre : of the * Crcnt Spirit ol't he Thcouophlcnl Society Study of tin * Mysteries ol' ' .Vaturc. Washington Star : Dr. Elliott Cones talked ( jullo freely with a Star reporter the other evening con cerning the recent publication as. to the "exposure" of Mmo. Blavatsky. the great spirit of the Theosophieul society. As a well-known man of science , and at the name time the head of the Thc- OMiphiuul society , in Jiis country , what ho says on the subjo.U will doubtless beef of Interest. Ho hold in his hand an editorial abstract of the report of Mr. Hodgson , in which the ' 'exposure" is made , and ho read and commented upon it. "They start out with the assumption , " ho said , "that Mine. 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 moro dependent upon her than upon you or anybody else. Tlio school of thought is as old ii thc Greek language. Theosophy ' means' the wisdom of ( Jod. It is merely a school of higher thought , a study of those things in natnre that arc still mys terious to the majority of mankind. Mmo. Blavatsky was one of the founders of the Theo-ophieal society , and to her is duo the credit of forming the society. But she is no more the founder or 'in ventor' of theosophy thaii the organi/.cr of a literary society is the inventor of literature. So whether she ever played any tricks on people or not has no bear ing on the science of theosophy. But she has boon hounded and maligned in an outrageous manner. " "Theosophy is spoken of hero , " ho continued , "as a hodge-podge of Brah- maisin , Buddhism , spiritualism , and ne cromancy. Now , it is nearer Buddhism than anything else that it is not. It is entirely at variance with Brahmais'in. Brahmaisui is priestcraft of India. Buddhism is opposed to priestcraft and superstition. It has no faith in the supernatural. It reaches by entirely natural means what may appear super natural. Theosophy is akin to Buddh ism. As to its relation to spiritualism , I say only that theosophy does not rec ognise any supernatural agencies. As to necromancy , that is a good enough word in its way , but it does not in any souse apply to us. It is a term uted for almost any deviltry , but it relates prop erly to certain superstitious rites over the dead. "Theosophy is n study of the liner torces of nature that are more or less covered up and dilllcult of access. I have never heard of a theosophist be lieving in any thing supernatural or pre tending that ho applied to any unnat ural agency. His object is to discover pure natural causes of things that ap pear stiarige and miraculous. I do not believe in miracles I know of no the osophist who does. I do not think a miracle was ever peformed or over will bo. "Thoro have been things that seemed miracles to those who did not under stand them , but theosophy discovers their natural cause ; and their happjii- iugs are as natural as the force of gravi tation. Theobophy studies the mys teries of nature , and dispels the idea of the supernatural. It cannot bo ex plained so a person who has not made a study of the subject 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 ono who had never had the power of smelling. It is n mere matter of science , like any other branch of research. There is nothing sentimental about it. It is not a sect or religion. "It is said hero that the society claims to bo under the special protection of a mysterious brotherhood in Thibitspoken of'ns adepts and asMaliatmas. A Mahat- mu is not a man holding communion with supernatural powers. Mahatma means great soul or high spirituality. A Mahatma is a man of great soul or a magnanimous man. Emerson might be termed a Mahatma. Plato and Mo cs wore Mahatmas. "You see what folly and ignorance is 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 is , I know that to be true. Speaking lisa scientist , say I know it to bo true that the astral form Inay bo projected a great distance from the body , and visible , audible and almost tangible. It is accompanied by natural forces that have been discov ered by scientific research. I can do it myself. I have attained that poworand have many times projected my astral form. "On the 2d : ! of Juno I was in Chicago at a reception given in my honor by my sister , Mrs. .1. M. Flower , wife of .ludgo Flower of Chicago. On that occasion I projected my double and called on and talked with a very accomplished lady in Washington , who possesses great psy chic powers. This is her own account of the visit : * * * " 'You have paid mo three astral visits during the past six months. I will state the circumstances now. There may bo something in them which will bo further proof of your power to project your double. On the evening of.I uno U. { I was standing at my win dow * * * when I distinctly heard you say "No. " Naturally I turned to see from whence the voice came , and to my surprise saw you ( your double ' ra'thor ) standing by my side. "Why notV" I asked. "Because I have gone , ' was the reply. 'I am in Chicago visit ing my sister , Mrs. J. M. Flower ( whether such a person exists or _ not I do not know ) , and looking into theosophical - osophical matters a little. ' .lust then I seemed to see you in the midst of a gathering of people. I asked what it meant. The reply was : "Oh , only n little reception my sister is giving in honor of me. ' I then Hiked for the names of ono or two per sons present , as a proof. These names wore given : Prof. Rodney Welch and Dr. Sarah Ilackot Stevenson. With thlb you disappeared. 1 immediately got up , noticed the time 100 : and then noted the above down , as you once requested mo to do , so I could give it to you as it. happened. ' " " 'On the evening of November 2and thomoiningof the 6th , you again ap peared. * * * . " "At the time my astral form appeared to her , " said Coues , 'I wai talking to about forty people , among which wore the two named in this note. "As to the transportation of t-olid bodies by means of this science , I do not know as much. The precipitation of writing , I know , can bo performed. Thcro is no supernatural agency in it. It'ls merely u use of the subtle forcea of nature' . Llko.aU other' ti'uosciences , t coophy Is inc.omprchonsihlo to those Alto hiiVo iml studied it. A mini must have peculiar powers of sonsltvones-s | in order to study the more nuhtllo forces of nature. It is a dllllcult study , "Mr. Robert I ! . Ingersoll possesses peculiar p < vehle powers. Ho is a great deal of n tlieo ophist. His attacks on the Christian religion are on account of the revolt of his soul against the bullof in the supernatural. He has a line men tal faculty and can see deeply into the secrets of nature. It is not ncbcs-snrv for a umn to belong to the Thcosophicnl so ciety to bo a tlieosophist. He may not call it by that name , but the delicate sensibility to the touch of nature is theosophy. "Henry Ward Beechcr was another man of this character. He saw and knew a great deal more than ho ever talked about. "And Dr. McGlynn ! Ho is a man of particularly high psychic powers. Ho is a man of sensative organism , of great learning , and a line perception of the subtle in nature. 11 is this power that gives him such an inlluuiice over his hearers when he talks. It was the same way with Beccher , and is so with Inger soll. It is a mesmeric influence , if you want to call it such. Mesmerism was but n short time ago spoken ofvith contempt. No ono who knows anything would think now of disputing that it isa force , and certainly it would be silly to speak of it as supernatural. "Now I will say again that Mine. Blavatalcy never made any clnlm to su pernatural powers. She is n wonderful woman and can do things through per fectly natural means , which may appear supernatural to the ignorant. "She is a woman of great powers , us I happen to know. Of course I know her well and correspond \yith her. She has novel * tried to deceive mo. The story about' ilie Coulomb letter is an old one that has been talked about until there is nothing to bo got out of it. 1 do not know as to the truth of the matter on one side or the other. 1 was not there. But even if what Mr. Hodgson says is true , it does not prove anything IIP to theosophy. Even if Mine. Blavatsky did become impatient at being bothered by people who wanted her to perform miracles , ( which she has not the power to do ) , and if she did fool them as they asked to be fooled , that proves nothing as to the theo-ophy whether it is or is not a true science. The investigators started out on nn en tirely false assumption. They attribute to her a claim ol supernatural powers , and then go to work to prove that she has no such powers. Of course she has not. She doesn't pretend to have. Quito the contrary , she claims that no ono can have supernatural powers. "But Mine. Blavatsky is not the cause and creator of theoMiphy. She is sim ply a very powerful theosophist. The Theosonhieal society is formed like any other society for the advancement of science. It is advancing all the while. Its objects are legitimately scientific. The society has its secrets as other so cieties have. 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