The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-10-18


ns!'s y Cfy,,ailzins Carbon E1'
P''P sl'p, Of tho New York wo,ldl
nv I' have a strange story to tell, but
sal %", attention for the sake oil Its
sA! !TDorlsSce to mankind: Having
rt,' lux. llupJ in single night from com:
in ta''S overly to afIlueuCe by one Of
pr ,aT,, eg't Of chemical discoveries |
be SDp lace i the opportunity of wealth
~ y 5Ipn ' OF every one, The discov-
i'as I uSu NV own but q friends, and the
~ sn aW% by which l became &C.
e-t',.,sG with it arc quite briei,
i!iiaIWSI ejnesday, September 25, We met,
T.. VI nine IN years separation, Ills llle
'''i , ,SS crslle had been struggle for
rN il.0 %s md when we parted he went
ai y.s jiampshire to teach n country
y ..o SI% and started on q tramp in Cen
':IV vi IS South America. Upon my re-.
~. ',' wear ago, | heard that he was
,I ,',b several millions, made in lucky
citations, rumOr said. ,,.,
TSn first greetings over, he insisted
-. ..I nv accompanying him home, and
Y. i in and over our cigars he told
", ',0ry which | refused to credit until
y S,oved iB truth to my unbelievlng
y: y T and sent me away 100000 richer
N " when entered the holse-himSelt
~ :, me- poorer for lt-with permission
.'T ~,ke public the whole story This |
II nd 10 IS near as possible in bis own
VII y have been hunting you nearly q
- said he, "ior | am tired OF keeping
J. ~, secret | have discovered the method
IeT,lalizing carbOn-how to make Ola.
u" II is siSEears ago the ed ofnext
i Nom since l first saw a tiny
'T,iI Of carbon in bed OF Ito.
.,IoSi,e and baryta when open.
!, nv Crucible. For three years
iiMlJ, guarding my secret as o cay.
~ would q bone, afraid to read a
%,ptfc periodical or buy a new work
.rSemi,iry lest | should sec It heraldcd
" he world; for l early learned that dis.
s,r,1es Of this kind come Us the cholera
oSs-in theair, Then, as l grew rich,
ENORMOUSLY RICH,
,,luy crystals multiplied on my hands,
,si found that had more trouble to
uIe care oil my money than to make 1t, oil
M hungry CowardlCG vanished. But to
TS I resolved to reveal it for 'auld lane
ind; and then, having assisted in making
.Ihe diamonds you desire, to give it to
NJ world. found your address yester.
hy-your name is not in the Directory,
nj il was long hunt. For weeks psat
Is.ye been as strongly tempted as man
gGwN to make your share OF diamonds
I'D then reveal my secret and expose this
Arizona diamond fraud, now alluring so
SinV poor men into the hands OF the
altleiOus ApAChes, Tor firmly believe
s.t | have been the innocent cause OF the
,ElSIle Diamonds in Arizona there are
rns-e1cept those made in my foun.
IT, lie opened drawer in q cabinet
vi handed me two manusCripts-notes
d lectures on chemistry by Professor
WOkOu Gibbs, then OF the Free Acade.
n.y. now Of Harvard College, and contin.
I'd;
In these notes you will find the won.
lstll secret. Do you remember my
uOsQuesiOning when he told us that
!.nOrds were crystalized carbon, and
bis sour answers that diamonds could not
AcYstalized5 His answers did not
gree with what he had said in the lee.
TIT, and ! was not satisfied. Diamonds
I'D btn made. lie had one in his shirt.
Carbon had been crystalized. The crys.
ID Of carbon flashed before our eyes.
Whist had been done in natures labOrs.
d! might be done in mans. The idea
slaHtedmeiOr year that diamonds could
eNIIy be made il l only knew how, and
aenit wore off with the harder work im.
Fsel on me when my father died. One
tiy while teaching that New Hampshire
EaoOl | picked up these notes and read
hem carefully over, when, like q binding
sAa Of light there came, not alone the
o.l feeling intensified ten fold that dia-
1ludi could be made, but the feeling that
be asd unwittingly revealed the way. So
intense was the emotion that | was death.
y sick and completely unnerved. Take
hat lecture on car6On-nOt that, the OH
e Oae' Turn over, and you will see IN.
tttSorel In red ink the words, "DIa-
aonts are cYstalized carbon" and fur.
Gs' on The words, "CarbOnic acid consists
o. one equivalent Of carbon and two OF
oxygen gas" Now take the other on
Chemical composition ami resolution, and
avn md that he said: ANY com
pi1d, known to be such, is capable of
ts0i0llOn into its elements, and although
Ae process be unknown to chemists, ii is
1ssIunale subject for investigation, and
aaS eventually be discovered" This,
!yaay GCes not touch the problem to be
S r which was 10 crystalline carbon.
Nv, .Dta SsSin TO the lecture on carbon. He
v. ks Us that il has been found impossible
s%TgNailleit, when obtained from solids,
!! Nor cold; also, that to get it pure
S SDa SIS by means Of sulphuric acid has
bAFFLED CHEMISTS,
asolly result being SCOT. In the foot
.S t lne NTH page you will notice that
s :, ~ placed ina gold tube and burn
,..S Oy means Of oxygen produces as n
:, 'Sg1 pute csrboniC acid gas. On page
a. al , Wv VIII md that pure carbon obtain
~ =. aoa liquid or solid, burned in oxy-
s ~ l 40 Produces carbonic acid gas. You
y SS ,., ~ NyetS Combine these scatter
, i. ",'us, anu IS it not plain that no at
h. .E T. aS oeen made to crystalline car
\ I ~ .Ge loFn Of an original gas, that
T 4, pIIO@ attempts to crystalline 1t
s,,n sI Eon liquid or solid form, which
r 'r'. ". enough failed, even when they
I, w. t 'i!, toa gas by intense heat, by
ss IS azure e, IN keeping It pure or in the
NJ 1 That which has never been
WI mi S WI 70 start from carbon gas and
, rss T y, That had never been tried,
NJ, =. Y nature in producing the crys-
Nam AM a 4, scattered over the earth
II wv ae easier, simpler, natural way
NM T NV been tried-and tho Pirate
4, M u .as up BY saying that carbon could
N S,5 S' ! BY heat or cold,' when