Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 January 1897 — Page 6

DOWSER MYSTEBY.

v^: THE DIVINING ROD STILL HAS STANDING IN ENGLAND. /J .5 "V.

Fe^onages Wlio Testify to the Powers of the Water Cinders—How a frenchman Tracked Murderen— MUbanke Was a "Water Witoh.'Vt

Psychological sharps havo been deeply ctirzed by attempts made to fafchom t«fl auystery of the "dowsers." Yon may not

Enoe

now what a dowser is, and when you GO now you will probably discredit the exisfrof euob a perron. A dowser is a roan jor woman who is possessed of some curi ous oooult force which gives the owner the power to looate bidden streams of water Rowing 800 or 400 feet below the surface of the earth. A dowser oan walk over an un(known piece of country and point out the exact mot where a well or pipes can be sunk. He can tell the exaot depth at which •water will bo found, and also the number of gallons an hour whioh can be pumped up.

Dowsers are scientifically termed hydrosoopists. Ths preseooe of subterranean water-has a peculiar effect upon their nervous systems. The dowser, when prosecuting his work, always carries a hazel twig '•in his hands. When he reaches a spot where water is Sowing underneath, the hazel twig bendB and points downward. This sounds fantastio and unreal, but the truth of it must be acknowlodged or the testimony of soma of the moat respeoted British peers doubted. The psyohio folks who have been investigating the dowsing mystery have collected amass of corroborative fact from scores of great landowners and men who stand high in the opinion of the public. These men are either liars $r the doings of the dowsers are real.

There are five or six professional dowsers gT^in England, and the leader of these is a SiyouDg man of 30, named Leicester Gataker. klfHe is accumulating a fortune by his ouri|f||jous work, and he is kept so busy that he ^f employs 40 asiistauts, who complete the ^•work his strange faculties map out. Dowsers have recently been employed by such august personages as the Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Grafton,

Lord Jersey, Sir E. Welby Gregory and a host of others of like prominence. Dowsers demand rich pay, and it would seem that if people of the caliber of those just named did not have faitli in the art they would not take cognizance of it by patronizing it and paying well for it too.

It is practically agreed among those who liave studied the matter that the gift is not only racial with the British, but seotionul, as all of the dowsers come from the west country of England. This is acoounted for by the faot that dowsing has existed giln the Cornish mine sections for centuries. Sfe01t is claimed that some dowsers are able jr, Sto tell of the presence ofc tJu and other '-,motals beneath the earth's surface by using itf'-lthe hazel twig, or divining rod, as it used 'V. %o be called. Such a faculty would, of course, be of vast benefit to a mine owner, he could discover the presence of metal ||V4?wlthout first going to the expense of eink-

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a shaft.

Moi'e than a score of books have been jV-'written on the subject, several of them by ll^American students of the art, and from jpi some of these it is learned that in olden fj^timeB wielders of the divining rod used it fellfor a variety of purposes, oftentimes with success. It was commonly employed for the solution of mysterious murders and for the hunting down of oriminals. In ^"France ib was used in the last century, |p|but the priests frowned upon it, and eventually the practice was abolished. It may IXbe mentioned that in the tiroe of the inpj'^uisition dowsers were put to death as te work^rs in black art.

Regarding the hunting down of criminals by the divining rod, one of the last peases on reoord happened in France in the ||fe*early part of the eighteenth century. A p'-,?certain Jacques Aymar, a native of Dau-ft-xphiney, kept a wineshop and apparently l^took in lodgers. One day a man and his wife were murdered and their bodies hidfggjsden in Aymar's cellar. In spite of the gliifact that the murderer left behind a bottle and a bill hook wrapped in straw he could not be traoed, and the detective skill of the period failed to find any clew.

Aymar inluself had a reputation for the uso of the rod,-and when ho introduced this instrument of divination into the oellar it beca-no disturbed at the spot where the man's corpse had lain. As he approached the site of the woman's oorpse, Aymar himself bocame excited and feverish, and the rod was violently agitated.

Following the'indication.s, he traced ihree assassins step by step down through the city to tho river Rhone and down the Rhone from Sablon to. Beauclaire, where the annual fair was being held then to the prison, whero, among 14 prisoners lately oharged, he pointed out one, committed for petty theft, who confessed his share in the murder. Unfortunately the others escaped.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries dowsing was evidently an extensive Industry. There is a book written in 1658 by the Baroness of Beausoleil, in which she gives a list of 150 mines discovered by pvherself and her husband by tise of the dil^ vining rod. From 1560 to 1700 no less ffVitlian 46 separate works on the subject of T^dowsing wore published, and when it ia S^'aremembered that book writing and printing in those days were raro things tho

Importance of the subject can be imagined. Lord Byron's mother-in-law was a dowser, as shown from the following extract ?sk' from the memoirs of Mrs. De Morgan: fefe "Lady Byron's mother, Lady Milbanko, had tho faculty of using the divining rod "t-and was often asked by her neighbors and ^•tenants in Durham county to exercise it their benefit when they wanted to sink well. Lady Byron told us that she had l&seen her mother's hands held tightly by fY-Dr. Fenwick, a well known scientific s^physician in tho north, who, going behird

JLady Milbanke, pressed the fingers of each jf-'hand, holding it so as to make the stick X?~ point upward in the air. Nevertheless, sjVlT when the lady had walked a few steps tlie ^5fWig suddenly turned round and, defying fe^the doctor's hold, pointed to the ground p^with suoh violenoe as to tear the skin from fetthe fingers and even to draw blood." t]#f Americans had some experience with fake dowsers in the early mining days of ||tjCalifornia, when a number of Spaniaras Jfe'appeared among the miners with alleged divining rods, which they claimed would point out the golden treasure in the hills.

Fanoy prices were pnid for these rods, which, of oourse, were absolutely worthless.—Washington Post.

SHE BIDED HER TIME.

flfe Told Her

All

About a

Wonderful

Creek

s* and Got a Pointer In Return, Perhaps the most popular man oonnectl«d with the Yellowstone Park Transportation company is Captain E. C. Culver if

Gardner. In addition to the duties of justice of the peace he makes a daily trip on the park train and personally interviews •very man, boy, woman and child' who travels on it. He is a walking encyclopedia of park information. He knows the height of every peak, the altitude of every important location, and oan give you Professor Hayden's theory of the park's geological formation. Besides all this he is a prince of goid fellows and has a furid of humor whioh sometimes carries him away when touching up descriptions and legends of the park.

Sometime ago the captain had anekperieaoe whinh was too good to keep, and be gavf it away to a friend in town. He was going from the springs to Cinnabar, and there wer» three very bright your? lad las on the coaob. One of tbam asked if |i wara customary to have wo mafly mos

quitoes in so high an ^altitude. The cap- TJm «*rkp«*'c IN/T3.2r3.Zlll6 tain assured h«r that it was not unusual Xldl ]JC1 O

that «hey were increasing year by year IN 1897 that no mosquitoes were ever known In the park until, about eight years ago, a New Jersey sohoolma'am bad carelessly Fiction: "The Martian/' the new novel

inclosed some in her trunk and let them Du.Maurler. out at Mammoth Hot Springs, when, like ^ith nu JraUorS from .the author's drawings, rabbits in Australia, they became an in-

one girl seemed to oairy a smile of Inoiv-

tendent ordered them to use no more water mand general attention. American Hjs Bacb from Alum creek. And then the captain Papers," by Woodrow^Wilsoa, Jonn

told another little legend .bonttbeo^k

that was quite well authenticated. syth. Continuation of Howell Person^ Last year, be said, a party went through Reminiscences of eminent literary Ame

tho ™rk on a camnins tour, and a young Africa and the East: "White T»n1,itnev lady with them came into the park wear- mSw"1 pei^Xf

ing No. 8 ahoee.. After camping on Alum during a recent trip to Africa, ^?v it that creek two days and bathing her feet she whole field of European exploitation went p.1r of

At this point the girl with the inoredu beria. recently visited by the author. lous smile said to him: garian Sketches, written and drawn Don't you think it would be a good Hopklnson Smitli. The

plan to bathe your head in that creek a Coronation Qf .the^ Czar, j3y R^r„„flVme. who time or two?"—Livingston Post.

MAHOGANY.

Are

For Every Tree Cut Two. Others

It will undoubtedly be news to many states, Canada arid Mexico. ^_

that the vast mahogany forests of Nica- Addr»=s d.ddud brothebis ragua are controlled in Boston. The outting and shipping of the immense exports from that country area great enterprise in themselves, to say nothing of bringing it hero and manufacturing it into lumber.

From the time that the tree is felled to the hour that it is dumped off the steamer at the Chelsea docks is an eventful life for the mahogany log. The tree is cut into the proper lengths, and then comes the tedious journey to the coast, where it is taken on board the vessols bound for this port. The greater part of the cutting is done during the dry season, which in the United States'of Colombia begins about the 1st of Deoomber. The natives of this •country seem to make better loggers and are better adapted to lumbering than the Nicaraguans. In Nicaragua the season is more irregular and for lumbering is less to be depended upon. After the tree is cut it is hauled to the nearest waterway and rafted to the coast. The logs are hauled by teams of oxen from one to six miles In Nicaragua, but often the distance is very much greater the journey sometimes taking two days. The roads consist of paths through the forest that often are nothing more than swamps and morasses, through which the oxen and horses flounder along. Only animale trained to this kind of work would ever make any progress, and American beasts would wallow about perfeotly helpless.—Boston Transcript.

The Clay Eaters.

In several localities in the south, in the mountainous regions of Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina in particular, there ar^ families, or even whole communities, that use clay as apart of their regular diet. In northern Alabama (in Winston county) there is a bed of this peculiar edible day, and, of course, a community of clay eaters. This queer clay is of a ghastly white color, of an oily nature, and, aooord.ag to chemioal analysis, it has extraordinary nutritive property, if considered only as a variety Of earth.

Persons who have visited the clay eating communities say that a steady diet of tiiis white, oily earth has a tendency to turn the skin a pale olive green^ Some medical writers claim that this deathly pallor is caused by the presence of a large per cent of nrsenic in the clay's composition, but this can hardly be when the statistics prove that the day eaters live as long

I went into a country district in Mary- Brothers.

land a few days ago to try a case," said a

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A new novel by

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dulity. As the conversation continued, elettes by American authors. Short sw Mr. Culver was asked what be considered by Mark Twain, ™*e'j£ndriCk tho most remarkable thing in the park. He Suart,' Octave T^n.«. said that if beauty and grandeur were to Mary E. Wilkins and other popular writers, be left out of the count, he thought the Science: Story of Progress of Science a most'' remarkable thing'' was Alum creek, Nin^teenth Centu^. a se

a little stream putting into the river ^be- StritaSnlSi spSal subjects by expert tween tlie fall/ and the lake. Originally, scientists. Articles on the relations of he said the distance between the hotels at psychological manifestations to pnysioiogy the lake and the falls was Se mil^, but ™tuves: "The Mexico of: Towhen they commenced to sprinkle the road day," a series by Charles F. liummls, sp between the two places with water taken idly illustrated—the result of a recent from Alum creek some years ago they soon jU^^e^for ^P^er.produclnc found the distance between the b°^8 country, and its monetary °Peratl?n8theSvfen shortened by about eight miles. As the tirely on a silver basis. Owing to tn hotels were then only about 18 miles apart discussion of certain economic importance „4.,, aiHinrin- connection with issues of urgent and the road still shrinking, the superin

in Amerlcan

Frank K-

creasing pest. ing a Twentieth Cental? R"ai^Bct^y an fhnt It wan remarkable but humorous situations aad characteristic*! All agreed that it was remarxaDie, uun

lustrated

stockton—devei°p-

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uiam 'Dean HOWSIIS. Other striking nov-

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Employed in Nicaragua and the United States of Colombia by Mr. Emory are from 1,000 to 1,500 native workmen and lumbermen. These are under American bosses. nave uveu luitjr jeaiw.

Harper's Bazar

IN 1897

The Bazar, a thoroughly up-to-date periodical for women, will enter upon its thirtieth volume in 1897.

As a fashion journal it is unsurpassed, and is an indispensable requisite for every welldressed woman. Katharine De Forest writes a weekly letter on current fashions from Paris. In New York Fashions, and In the fortnightly pattern-sheet supplement, ladies find full details, directions, and diagrams for gowns, wraps, and children's clothing. Sandoz,

tistics prove that the day eaters Jive as long Baude^ designs ever^welk6 as or longer than their meat, grain and ^he

the clay eaters often remain sound and and "Father

white beyond the seventieth year.—St.

seriais

—, 'j/n© serittiD iui xv*-** vegetable eating neighbors. The teeth

Louis Republic. wilkins Harriet Prescott Spofford, Marion Harland, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Viola Rose-

tudinnrian is pictured in his sick chamber

boro

whole labeled "A Chancellor In l«ieed of f?r

The Plaintiff's Powerful Plea.

Washington attorney. "I appeared for the postage freo to all subscribers in the United plaintiff, and it must be confessed that the states, Canada and Mexico. evidence failed to establish his claim. I Address Box 959 N City.

presented the matter before the justice of the peace in the best light I knew how, but had very little hope of securing the verdict. My client, when I finished, .whispered to me that he would say a few words if I were willing, and considering the case lost I consented. It was the most unique speech I ever heard, and it won the case. He said: "'Squire, I brought this suit, and the evidence, except my own, is against me. I don't accuse any one of lying, squire, but tho witnesses are the most mistaken lot of fellowa I ever saw. You know m$,f9quire. Two jyears ag6 yoja sole! |me a f°r^ sound that Was-^indaNbat rmad^jr

used to buy grain, you stood on the scales when the empty wagon was weighed, but I never said a word. NOw, do you think I am tho kind of a man to kick up a rumpus and sue a fellow unless he has done me wrong?' "It took just flvi minutes for the justice to decide for tho plaintiff. "—Washington Star.

for 1897 will be: "The Red

Bridge Neighborhood/' by Maria Louise Pool

.. c+ Short stories will be constantly presented by

bri

jjiant •writers, among whom are Mary E.

and Margaret Sutton Briscoe.

Bismarck Cartoons. what women are doing in various parts of Bismarte's politioal reappearance has the union will form a series of special interturned the caricaturists loose on him again, est. .nterest}Dg

featur

and M. John Grand-Carterefc, who in 1888 .-yjomKn devoted to healthful sports and pastpublished his "Bismarck In Carioaturo-" times Music, a weekly critical summary of thinking his material complete bas had to -music^n New Yo^JdjAmateu^ TheaWcuK extend his collections. He gives an ao wtiauette. Good Housekeeping, What Girls are count in Figaro of some of the latest speoi- •poing) current Social Events, and Personals mens that have come to his hands from

gleaned

es are The Out-door

from original sources^

Russia and Athone a»d a. as from more likely quarters. The ex-chan- Answers to Correspondents. This column is oellor figures as an old fox, as Mephlstoph- conducted for the benefit and convenience of eles as the white woman of the Berlin ffTQ^ion^t pTompUy'and fu^y royal palace, as an ogre, as Saturn de- ^s^^ticable. votiring his own offspring, etc. One of the The Bajar is a notable picture galmost cruel of the caricatures is from The ^. reproducing.J^isfi'M Sls'StS i°n Sapnjou of Geneva, in whioh a feeble vale- American^

par.g and New York exhibitions.

and

mustering up strength to write his spiteful hearty laugh to the Bazar's last page. lines in the Hamburger Naohrichten, the A^Al^RQund

Humor. Everybody turns for a

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Davis, illustrated by R. Caton W^odvUle, wno was commissioned by Queen Victoria to a picture of the ceremony.

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With the end of 1896 Harper's Weekly will have lived forty years. In that time it

The trees from which mahogany furniture ot the is made vary in age nnd size. When out,

most lnteres

they range in age from 96 to 60 years, and history of the country, and it has spread besome of them are even 76 years old. They fore its readers tho accomplishments or average 86 inohes or more in diameter and run as.large as 40. inohes, and even more. For every mahogany tree that is cut two others are planted, and thus the forests are praotioally inexhaustible.

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It is impossible to announce with precision all that the Weekly will contain during tne year 1897. It were as easy to announce wnat is about to happen in the world, what triupmhs for good, government are to be won, what advances of the people are to be made, what is to be the outcome of the continuous struggle between the spirits of war and peace, what is to happen in the far East, what is to be the state of Europe twelve months hence, what new marvels of science are to be revealed, or what are to be the achievements ,of arts and letters, for the Weekly is to be a pictorial record of all this.

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More short stories will appear in the Weekly than it has been possible to publish during 1896.

Departments: Mr,. W. D. Hovfell's "Life and Letters" have been among the most charming features of periodical literature Mr. E. S. Martin, and others will contribute observations on what is going on in This Busy World "Amateur Sport" will remain the most important department of its kind in the country.

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