Cortland
Evening Standard, Wednesday, September 15, 1897.
PHOTOS OF THE SOUL.
A FRENCH
DOCTOR MAKES EXPERIMENTS AND SAYS MAN IS A SUN.
An
Incandescent Atmosphere Surrounds Him Which Produces Temper and Emotion—Some
Eminent Scientists Are Inclined to Support This Strange Theory.
Dr. H. Baraduc of Paris, who recently made
some interesting experiments with the object of obtaining photographs of the human
soul, has now come forward with a new theory, which is that every human being
is a miniature sun—is, in fact, what he styles a "man sun." He has
fully explained his theory to the French Society of Biology, and also to the
French Academy of Sciences, and so impressed was the academy that it
straightway appointed a committee, composed of MM. d'Arsonval, Becquerel and Moisson,
and instructed it to examine as to the scientific value of Dr. Baraduc's views.
According to Dr. Baraduc—and the fact is
generally admitted—man is surrounded by an incandescent atmosphere known at the
photosphere. Now this photosphere, as he points out, is the theater of
perturbations and of gigantic cyclones, the influence of which is felt even on
our own small planet, since it also produces on this globe cyclones and other
disturbances. We, too, says Dr. Baraduc, have our photosphere or atmosphere,
which vibrates and moves, not only in accordance with the moral impressions which
we receive according to our spiritual condition, but also according to the
influence which is brought to bear in it by the tempests in the sun and on the earth.
In other words, he insists on the verity of that old aphorism of the
alchemists, the theurgists and the therapeutists—namely, that "the small
is like the great, and that which is on high is like that which is below."
As a proof of his theory the doctor and his
assistants have taken several photographs of vibrations which emanated from human
bodies and when these bodies were in varying conditions. The photographs show
these varying conditions very clearly. Thus the vibrations which emanated from the
calm body are tranquil, those which emanated from the body in a state of
cerebral or cardiac activity resemble the normal atmosphere of the sun, and
those which emanated from a body in a state of fury or profound trouble
resemble the solar tempests as they have been photographed by astronomers.
The coincidence of these photographic images
is at least curious, and at any rate there can be no question as to their
reality. To explain them is the problem. Does this human photosphere radiate
simply from our bodies and from the nervous centers of our material beings, or
does it, as is now claimed, radiate from our very souls?
For the present we must rest satisfied with
the knowledge that our beings are not bounded by the epidermis, but that they
radiate and extend their influence much farther. Long ago the Hindoos foresaw
that this discovery would be made, and that by means of this photosphere, which
thus registers all human passions, human knowledge would be vastly increased.
Should Dr. Baraduc's theory prove correct, a
simple explanation can be given of all the phenomena of sympathy, antipathy, telepathy
and others of like order. Technically his theory is concerning "curved force
and the vibrations of ether," but in plain English it is based on the
assumption that every human being is a miniature sun, and is not only influenced
in the same manner as the sun, but also influences others around him as the sun
influences the neighboring celestial bodies.
A wonderful fact, if true, and so it is
believed to be by some eminent scientists. Unusual interest is being taken in
the subject in Paris, and many agree with
the French writer who says: "If the results reported by Dr. H.
Baraduc can be obtained by other scientists who are equally trustworthy, we have
at once before us the greatest discovery of the century, a discovery which is
certainly more remarkable than that of the famous X rays."—New York
Herald.
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| Guglielmo Marconi. |
MARCONI'S
BOOM.
The
Young Italian and His "Wireless Telegraphy" Are Exploited
Continually.
The manner in which Marconi, the young
Italian who claims to have discovered the so called "wireless
telegraphy," is still being boomed in London is becoming remarkable. It is
almost impossible to pick up a newspaper or magazine without finding a puff
preliminary or a puff present, and altogether no one reading these advertisements
would suppose anybody but Marconi ever thought of telegraphing without wires.
Edison, Tesla and other masters who were experimenting with the same thing
almost before the Italian was born would smile to read the wonders which are
now promised in this young man's name.
Recently the world has been informed that
Marconi and his paraphernalia are installed at Dover, and startling things have
been done there in the way of demonstrating the feasibility of establishing
telegraphic communication with beleaguered forts. A fortnight or so ago Marconi
was in Italy also working wonders. A good deal of money must have been spent
upon these puffs, and the people who are
running the Marconi boom are not the sort of folk to give something
for nothing, yet the expected joint stock corporation destined to take over the
wireless telegraphic business has not made its appearance.
Three months ago these commercial arrangements
had been almost completed on a basis, it is understood, of a capital of $1,000,000,
but difficulties arose out of the question of the validity of certain patents. At
present the vigor of the boom seems to justify the belief that these
difficulties have been surmounted, and the public will soon be expected to put
money into the Marconi limited, or whatever the corporation may decide to style
itself.—London Cor., St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
Jews' New
Jerusalem.
America seems to be a good enough promised
land for the Hebrews of the
United
States. While this is true of them, there are hundreds of thousands of their
brethren in Europe and Asia who still suffer from oppression and the prejudices
of other races. It is these who will perhaps welcome the plan of the enthusiastic Dr. Herzl and his
followers. The movement at first excited ridicule as something cranky and
impracticable. If delegates to the recent Zionist congress at Basel in Switzerland,
are to be believed, the plan has already passed the stage of being scoffed at.
The idea seems to be to purchase Palestine outright from the sultan. He will
still retain the sovereignty of the new Jewish state, but the internal affairs
will be managed wholly under the auspices of the colonizing companies. They
will make a great and prosperous state, to which persons of their race will
flock from all parts of the earth, and thus will be fulfilled the Bible
prophecies.
This much is certain—if the Hebrew race
throughout the world desire to form such a state for their less fortunate
brethren, they can do it. They have both the means and the executive ability. Those
who have managed their own affairs successfully can also manage those of other
people. It is to be hoped that English will be the common language of the new
state.
Dr. Herzl says of the project:
My plan is simple enough. We must obtain the
sovereignty over Palestine, our never to be forgotten, historical home. At the
head of the movement will be two great and powerful agents, the Society of Jews
and the Jewish company. The first named will be a political organization and
spread the Jewish propaganda. The latter will be a limited liability company,
under English laws, having its headquarters in London, and a capital, say, of 1,000,000
marks. Its task will be to discharge all the financial obligations of the
retiring Jews and regulate the economic conditions in the new country. At first
we shall send only unskilled labor—that is, the very poorest—who will make the
land arable. They will lay out streets, build bridges and railroads, regulate rivers
and lay down telegraphs, according to plans prepared at headquarters. Their
work will bring trade, their trade the market, and the market will cause new
settlers to flock to the country. Every one will go there voluntarily at his or
her own risk, but ever under the watchful eye and protection of the organization.
PUSHING THE ROAD.
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| Fast mail train at Cincinnatus, N. Y. |
PLENTY
OF TIES AND RAILS AND EVERYBODY BUSY.
Trains
Will Soon be Running to the Otselic Valley—Setting the Telegraph Poles, and Stringing the Wires
—A Branch to be Extended to South Otselic Next Spring.
The ties so long looked for have begun to
arrive again in large quantities and the work of building the Erie &
Central New York R. R. is again being pushed for all it is worth. Last
Wednesday Mr. J. S. Bull took the contract for furnishing the ties for the road
and made an arrangement by which an unlimited supply can lie furnished, and
ties will be delivered in Cortland without fail on the sixth day after the
order is sent. Seventeen carloads were ordered to be sent in installments, and
Mr. Bull has received a letter saying that the required number of carloads will
be started to Cortland from Charlotte [New York] each day. The first lot
arrived last night, and to-day track-laying is under full operation. The
company does not desire to have the tug come faster than they can use them,
because they want to ship them on the cars right to the place where they are to
be used, and they do not wish to pay the railroad company for the use of cars
in holding them in the yard waiting to be unloaded.
Each car contains 500 ties and these will
lay 1,000 feet of track. The seventeen carloads now ordered will lay almost
three and one-half miles of track. More ties will be ordered before these are
used up.
There are now in the yards at the [Cortland] junction nine carloads of rails that have not yet been unloaded. There
are also unloaded in piles east of the Tioughnioga river twelve carloads more
of rails making twenty-one carloads in all. Each carload contains seventy
rails, each thirty feet long, using the two rails side by side, a carload of
rails will lay 1,050 feet of track, and the twenty-one carloads will lay 22,050
feet or four miles and 930 feet. There are consequently enough rails on hand to
build the new road clear to the Solon station. With nothing lacking to hinder
the work it would seem that Contractor Jacoby's job, which is to build the
track to Solon, will soon be accomplished. Contractor Coffin who takes the work
from Solon to Cincinnatus is pushing the grading with all the speed that three
separate gangs of men can put forth and will be ready for ties and rails as
soon as the track reaches Solon.
This morning a gang of men put in the frogs
and made the connection of the new road with the D., L. & W. R. R.
The contract for setting the telegraph poles
and stringing the wire has been let to Edward Dillon of Cortland and he has a
gang of men rushing his contract.
The new enginehouse at the junction is
entirely completed except the laying of the track inside and this will soon be
done. The freighthouse at the junction is receiving its last coat of paint and
will then be called complete.
Arrangements are nearly completed for the
building of a spur from the mouth of Gee brook early next spring up to South
Otselic twelve miles away. This is the largest and most flourishing town in the
Otselic valley. It is ten miles from Cincinnatus village, and its nearest
railroad connection is with Georgetown, thirteen miles away on the Chenango
valley branch of the West Shore R. R., and with DeRuyter, fifteen miles away on
the Lehigh Valley R. R. A fine valley extends ten miles from South Otselic
toward Georgetown, and the last three miles are over a very steep hill and a
hard road. It is fully believed that a railroad at South Otselic would draw the
patronage of people clear to the foot of that hill who would prefer to drive
down on a smooth road the ten miles rather than to climb over a three mile hill
with heavy loads.
With every additional rail that is laid—and
they are going down at a rapid rate now—the matter becomes more sure that
trains will run to the mouth of Gee brook before snow flies and to South
Otselic early next summer.
And then when so large a beginning is made
the original project will be pushed to continue the road to Hancock to connect
with the Erie R. R., and with the Ontario & Western R. R. three miles
further on. The days of long teaming to and from the Otselic valley are indeed
numbered.
THE MILK
STATION
At the
Junction Leased by Henry Arnstein of New York.
The Cortland Dairy Co., proprietor and
operator of the creamery built last spring at the junction of the D., L. &
W. and the Lehigh Valley railroads has leased the creamery to Henry Arnstein of
New York who will take possession to-morrow. Mr. Arnstein is in control of the
milk station at Cuyler, and his Cuyler representative, B. M. Hallock, is in
town to take charge of the creamery for a few days and assist in starting it
off under the new management. Milk will be shipped to New York to-morrow. Some
butter and cheese will also be made.
The Dairy company, as it has been conducting
its creamery, has had twenty-two patrons and has daily received about 5,000
pounds of milk. It is likely that more patrons will be taken on under the new
management.
Wild Man
of Borneo.
Frank Bristol, colored, who has for a number
of weeks been the bootblack at the barbershop of P. J. Peckham, has joined the Forepaugh & Sells Brothers circus, and will travel with them as
the wild man of Borneo. His head is peculiarly adapted to this character as it
measures twenty-one inches from crown to chin. He was picked up by one of the
show's freak hunters and will go with the show on its southern trip.
BREVITIES.
—The D., L. & W. pay car passed through
Cortland this morning.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Joe
Wallace, "The Man in the Iron Mask," page 5.
—Grover post, No. 98, will meet tonight at
7:30 o'clock. All comrades please take notice.
—Justice of the Peace John H. Kelley
performed his first marriage ceremony on September 8, when he united in holy wedlock
David Dodge and Mrs. Phebe Wavle, both of McGrawville.
—The Cortland board of trade will hold its
regular monthly meeting at 7:30 o'clock this evening in the office of James A.
Nixon in the Wallace building and a full attendance of members is desired.
—Stanley Yerkes, who pitched for Cortland
this season, pitched for Scranton in the Eastern league yesterday against Toronto,
and Scranton won 6 to 3. Only six hits were made off Yerkes' delivery.
—The board of education at Auburn is having
a bicycle stable 60 feet long and 10 feet wide erected at the high school for
the convenience of the pupils who ride their wheels to school. There is a
suggestion for the Cortland schools.
—Cortland readers have perhaps noticed a
series of interesting letters published in a number of papers of different
cities all signed "Grace H. Webb" and treating upon California life.
The writer is a niece of Mr. Edward D. Webb of Cortland.
—Judge Burr Mattice, who is holding court in
Binghamton, is suffering from an attack of grip, and court was immediately adjourned
upon its assembling yesterday morning till Thursday morning, when the white
passbook case in which Cortland attorneys are interested will be continued.
—Mr. Arthur W. Baker of Oneonta, formerly of
Cortland, and Miss Dora
Saunders
were married at 3 o'clock this afternoon at the home of the bride's parents in
Keeney Settlement in the town of Cuyler, just on the northern line of this
county. The bride is a niece of Assemblyman F. P. Saunders.
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