The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-08-10
ODD OD1C.
Gunner, the water Witch, .
Tells of his Power.
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Something for the Scientists.

Something for the Scientists.
Mr. Editor. Many of my friends
who have known my ability to los
cate streams of living water in sub
terranean channels have asked me
to explain what I know about il;
therefore with your permission, I
will try to explain the matter as
clearly as can.
1 am not an egotist. nor do seek
to palm off anything for the purpose
of making believe / am great. III
did I should lose what little eelf.
esteem do possess. am generally
called a "water WITCH" by those
who have eeen me or heard of me
at my pranks, but by whatever
name it may be known or where
the power and force have come from,
| know l possess something which
| never heard or read of any man
having before or now, and should be
very blessed 60 find anothe~, that we
might talk or write TO each other
Ii this should meet the eye of any
man or woman who can do as l can,
| should be very glad to cosresp nd
The old method of locating streams
of water and the general one u ed
is by a forked peach twig, hazel
twiy, or willow wand, but in my
cese dispense with all appliances
of that sort, unless as the only ocu-
lar demonstration I can make; all
these will work as we'll with me as
with anyone else, but do not re-
quire anything except my sight. In
looking up "Chambers' Encyclo>
peiia,"I find the most satisfactory
account l have ever seen.
This authority says the Cd force
has positive and negative poles like
magnetism. The human body is
Cd positive on the left side and Cd
negative on the right. Certain per-
rons called Se7lsitiCeS can see the Odic
radiation like luminous vaEor in
the dark, and can feel it by the
touch like breath.
As the meeting IF like ode poles
causes a dissgreesble sensation,
while the pairing OF unlike poles
causes pleasant sens ation, We have
thus sufficient cause for those lik-
ings and antipathies hitherto held
unsccountable. some sensitive per
sops cannot sleep on their left side
in the Northern Hemisphere because
the North Pole CT the earth being
cd negative effects unpleasantly the
Of neg ative let size. All motion
generates cd.
Why then may not stream runs
ming under ground affecta sensitive
water finder so that the divining
rod in his or her hand will move
without Git may te) any conscious
effort of will? Reichen bach's Dyna-
mics Of Magnetism.
Mr.. Editor, my case is I'LL more
wonderful 20 me, and to all who
have seen and proven 1t, for not only
will all a 1pliances work with me, as
H1!h others, but I can and do prefer
to dispense with them altogether,
and without going On the ground at
all, will send another person, and
direct him or her where to 60 or
stand as far az I can see their feet
upon the ground, then direct them
TO place mark, say at his right toe,
or left heel, and / will warrant that
stake to be Immediately perpen-
dicular over a living stream of
water, although / may never have
passed over the ground myself.
And l can, by standing on an
eminence, follow therwindings and
directions of that subterranean
stream.
Neither does snow ncr any
other intervening substance in the
least affect ms in the work.
l have many tim,s when alone tried
this force, not for the practice itself
| for it is not needed, but to try to
unders tand the Cause of the effect
but my attempts to gain information
in that or any other way have hith
erto been failures.
l beg to re'er to the many wht
have tested this force in me to thei
own prof Mr.. Fred. Day, q
Sandy; Mr.. George Goss, sandy
Messrs. Van Praag & Co., Sandy
Messrs. Scott s. Anderson, Sandy
Mr.. A. E. Culmer, Twenty>trs
Ward, City; Mr.. John Pike, Eight
Ward, City; Messrs. Moritz & Cul
len, Tenth Ward, City; Mr.. Hobbs
builder, City. I am willing to d
what I can to help with this fore
the development of living stream
OF water, but must stipulate for n
more dragging about on mountain
sides and tops at my age to gtatif
morbid curiosity. I have neve
heard of this like in the world;
any one else has, please speak up, 8
| should like to hear from you.
Respectfully,
FRED. CULMER, Sen.