Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-02-26

his face which betokened that he real
lied and appreciated every detail of tn,
professor advice, The latter walked
with somewhat quicker step than wa.
his wont to the insulators where tn,
wires OF the Electric Light Compan,
lay, and proceeded to adjust them tt
their respective places on the bell a.
before. Presently Ashley's head fell
back upon the chair as before, and his
eyes closed. The professor took on,
his watch, looked at it somewhat nery.
ously, approached the bell at intervals
with his electrometer, and paced the
floor.
My instrument is based,'' he ex.
planned to me, ION a centigrade scale
of my own. 1t will take some time for
bell of the size you see before YOU to
become fully charged with the fluid,
even with my wires, which I have had
| conveyed almost straight from head
| quarters; and until the bell is fully
charged the experiment can not be con-
summated."
We waited patiently for some min
utes more, Ashley murmuring mean
while: New Orleans; kiosk: | can
see her; l can see him, but l can not ap-
| proach her; her father and mother are
searching anxiously for her through
other portions of the grounds
Presently my friend became silent.
The professor again for the fifth or
sixth time, approached the bell and ap-
piled his instrument.
''Hush!' said he. THE tension in
the bell is now augmenting rapidly. A
| short time more and we snail witness
the successful accomplishment of our
| experiment"
/ As he spoke, I noticed a change TAX
| ing place in Ashley. Seated there, as
he was, his head leaning on the back of
his chair, his hands grasping the cleo
| trodes, L distinctly saw his form be-
come thin, filmy and transparent. Mo
ment by moment more thin, filmy and
transparent it grew, till the attenuation
was such that even the outline was
scarcely visible. The hands alone, of
all portions of the body, retained
something of Their pristine substanti-
| allty.
He has gone" whispered the pro-
fessor. with subdued excitement 1--WE
must now gauge the time till we can
reasonably presume that he has &C
complished his purpose, regaining
his betrothed. and take measures for
their return-the return of both, for if
he be without her little would be
gained. She would again, doubtless,
as soon as her lover has left her, be-
come amenable to him who gained do
| minion over her in the absence of her
original lover, and whose supremacy
would be restored"
but how-how"-1 stammered-
chow is this to be accounted for? What
has become of my friend who was seat
ed there but a moment ago?"
The simplest thing in the world, my
dear sir, replied the professor, earn
estly. You desire to know why your
friends body has disappeared. Would
you ask the same question had that
body been exposed to intense heat? You
| answer, no; because you say that it is q
recognized law of chemistry that the
most refractory substances-rock or
metal-are first melted and then vola-
tilted by heat. Heat, in effect, expands
and disintegrates the mass, and decol-
locates the atoms of every known sub
stance. The static electricity, with
which that glass bell is charged, is, in
one sense, a correlative of heat, and. in
another, a correlative of the physical
energy which we call spirit. Is itwon-
tudb tLc 1OIcc
with which that bell is laden should
suffice to produce the effects which you
now witness? There is nothing Won
derful, my dear sir. in any chemical
process, no matter how apparently in
comprehensive and inexp1icable it may
be. You have seen solid block OF ice
made instantaneously in and projected
from a red-hot crucible. Is what is
hensible than that?
Say that the human body you lately
saw before you has been volatilized.
resolved into its primary elements, and
then, through the agency of the psychic
power resident within it, has been
transmitted to the spot which that
psychic power had most in view, along
the ordinary telegraph wires which con-
meet Us with that spot. Sound waves
can be transmitted in this manner by
the telephone; light waves are amenable
to the same law-why, then, should not
this law apply to matter which has been
etherealized to the same degree as light
and sound? 1t is but carrying the sub
ject to its legitimate conclusion. But
stay! Hushi Here they come.
As the professor spoke, [ became
aware of dim and shadowy form
shaping itself within the bell. As it
gained shape | discerned, with what
feelings of awe can be imagined, that
there was not one form but tac0. Slowly
but gradually the dim form assumed
more bodily and distinct aspect. came
in very few seconds to realize that
the forms which stood before me in the
bell We're those of Gerald Ashley and
his af1ianced bride, Julia Radcliffe.
There could be no doubt about the
matter. There they stood in distinct
bodily form, but still with bewildered,
dreamy look upon them, as though
scarcely awakened from sleep.
1--WE have triumphedr' said the pro-
lessor, in low tones, as he mounted on
chair to diSconnect the insulated
feeding-wire from the rod at the top of
the bell. at the same time motiOning
me to do the same for the other wire.
proceeded to do so as fast as l could,
when suddenly binding flash passed
before my eyes, and a report sounded
in my ears like that of a cannon. The
last thing l remember seeing was the
great glass bell with Gerald Ashley
and Julia Radcliffe inside, and Prof.
fehr standing on chair beside it, the
whole picture lllumined by the brilliant
light of an electric flash. and the Jacade
OF Market street distinctly visible
through the windows of the apartment.
A week afterward, when / recovered
sensibility. l ascertained several
things. First, that Prof Vehr had
left the city, the lessee of the Palace
Hotel vowing that he would never re-
ceive another scientist, or permit an