The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-02-20
The Harris Phenomenon Again.

EDITOR HERALD:-Permit us again
to criticize little the position you
took in your last article.
Now my dear sir we stated our ex
PLANTATION in the three phenOmens
cited as to your questions concerning
the dog bowling, etc.; We will say as
before we believe that dog and bel
have cords of the same tension, and
whether that cord be tenor, base or
treble, or if it is a cathedral chime,
Just so they possess that sympathetic
cord the dog will howl.
And now to your tuning fork,
which you say ais no phenomenon u
ave all know the cause" etc.
Now we beg leave to differ from
you little right there, as you say
the air waves causes each.
Now as questions are in order let me
ask you few. We will take an f
fork which is thicker and more pow
erful than A. one. Sound the E. fork
and the A. will not sound; but place
an E. fork in the position of A. and
it will sound in unison with the first.
Now If the air waves are strong
enough to vibrate the +. fork why
will not the same force vibrate the
A. fork, which is easier to bend than
the E. fork? Now again; place your
two forks at the proper distance apart
for the second to sound; suspend be-
tween them a piece of tissue paper
now will the paper vibrate? Again /;
hold lighted candle between the
two forks. Will the blaze on the
candle duck? 1t does seem to us
that if the first fork sent off waves of
air sufficient to vibrate a steel fork
it will Yibrate piece of intervening
tissue paper.
A gain, my dear sir, if 1 should
sound tuning fork just by tapping
1t against the table, L suppose you
could hear it at least 20 feet away.
In so doing it performs Il mechanical
power sufficien to move a weight of
air equivalent to about 300, 900
pounds; can.any one believe that so
small an instrument could perform
so great a power?
Now YOU confess that "books like
newspapers report a great many phe-
nomena and good many lies" In
that particular we agree with the
gentleman. And perhaps those old
text books which teach the wave
theory ..of Sound have been among
that number. At least we have been
lead to believe the whole theory a
false hypothesis.
Do you wish to discuss the wave
theory?
We will now try to show what all
this has to do with the point in ques-
ton. We will take the position that
force itself is an immaterial sub
stance in forms from that which
causes the tiny leaf to rustic to that
which causes the blood to course its
way through the veins and arteries
or the more highly cOnci, us form
which causes mentality to perform
it's wonderful functions.
We also believe that man is q dual
being, that this fleshy tabernacle is
but casket containing the inner or
true man. We believe that that in
ner man is an immaterial substance
but perfect counter part of the ex-
ternal man, possessing all the organ
ism Of the external being. That
when MrSHarris' hands were detach-
ed from his body and laid away to
moulder into original dust, that q
portion of that inner man in a highly
attenuated form accompanied him tC
the grave, and by a sympathetic feel.
ing between the departed portion and
that which remained, Mr.. H. was
able to know the position of his los
members and to tell what we did t.
them while we were arranging them
afterwards J. K p, TIMMONS,