Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-03-12
WATER WITCHERY.
WHY 1T is THAT SOME PEOPLE
ARE ABLE TO DISCOVER WATER.


~ Elucidated by a Wisconsin savant-six
Rules About Water and How 1t May
BE Found-A Striking Case.
Our modern time sorcery is water witch.
cry. Skeptics are to be confronted on
every hand; men who laugh at the idea
that there is any other way to find vein
of water than to dig for it; unbelevers
who regard the water philosopher either as
knave or fool. 1t seems to be a law of
self preservation that men will trust in
nothing until they have seen it tried time
and again.
This fact alone remains undisputed, that
there is water beneath. 1t runs in veins
far down below the surface of the earth, in
assures that it has worn for itself between
the layers Of rock and soil But there is
the problem how is a man to know where
the water runs? Must he dig blindly and
trust to chance and his own imperfect
judgment for successful outcome? Has
nature or her God provided great supply
of something so necessary as water, run
ming everywhere in the bowels of the earth,
without which man and beast would suffer
and al the earth be barren waste and given
no other way to find the treasure than by
haphazard digging2
One can reasonably expect such pro
vision. 1t is not, however, for even the
greatest to judge save by the facts that
have been recorded from time to time by
men who have felt enough interest in sci
entifc research to make record. First
chat you can find of the science of divining
comes from France There a man by the
name of Bleton made observations, and
had the good sense to write upon paper the
progress he had made So far did he dis
cover the conditions of water witching
that among the learned the ability to dis
cover subterranean veins came to be called
Bletonism.
HOW OWNING Is DONE.
For apparatus there is nothing needed
but freshly cut forked switch of peach,
hazel or willow. 1t must be of the last
years growth, so as to be small, slim and
full of sap. The tapering tipped ends are
placed horizontally in the hands The
palms are held above. The fork is brought
upward in the shape Of an inverted V,
thus: A. In the hands of those for whom
it will work-and they are more than one
would think-the forKed end will be at
tracted as the medium approaches vein
of water, if it be living spring water and
not dead and stagnant. The rod will also
be attracted by silver or iron or any other
metal that has a liking for electricity.
The moment that the twig comes within
the field of the water veins it will curve
downward in spite of all that can be done.
Even if the limb is grasped so tightly that
the hands turn purple and the bark is torn
the switch will bend. Unseen behind it is
mighty force of nature At first it points
downward at an angle of 40 dogs, but as
the operator advances the twig begins to
straighten.
BY the time that the medium reaches the
point Just over the vein the limb - aims its
usual shape and points directlyup When
the fssure of ore or water is passed the
twig will point backward and righttowarC
the vein. It is in this way not a difficult
thing to locate the vein. 1t is a harder
matter to tell the depth at which water
will be found For this there is only one
rule that has for it's testimonial anything
reasonable. 1t is known as the 45 deg. rule
The distance from the point where thu
green twig is first bent at an angle of a
degs. to the place over the vein where it i
in no way affected is equal to the depth o
the vein beneath the surface of the earth.
A sKEPTIC CURED.
Dr. Adam Clark was one of the wors
skeptics on this matter that ever disbt
Ieved. As a Wesleyan Methodist preacher
he was sent to the Guernsey islands, in tn
British channel He soon found that waite
was the great thing needful Cisterns ha
been resorted to, but drought frequentl
prevailed. There was dire suffering anon
the people,
A man came forward who claimed t
have the power Of divining. He offered
find water if it was TO be found. But ID
Clark stormed and denounced him. He o.
dered the fellow away, and said he woul
have no such cheat around him. The maj
however, was persistent A spot wa
chosen. Water was predicted, and waite
was found. Trial followed trial, and owe
and over there was the same happy result
Dr. Clark was astonished. As all did ne
have the power Of water philosophy, |
concluded, in his piety, that the facult
was a gift that God had given TO some fc
the benefit of the human race DR.. Adal
Clark lived a hundred years ago. Before
half century had passed a Wisconsin phi
osopher had figured out for himself wh'
he called the laws Of divining. They a
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tributed throughout the whole earth, bI
some bodies generate or imbibe more OF
than others. Those that contain more tins
natural are said to be positively, and tho
which contain less to be negative
charged.
THE LAWS OF OWNING.
"One of the established laws of electri
itv is found in the fact that two bod,
both positively or both negatively charge
invariably repel each other, while if one
positively and the other negatively charg
they uniformly attract each other.
1T is well known that the best subteri
mean conductors are beds Of ore or natl
metals and veins of water. 1t is their
ture to extract the latent fluid from 81
rounding objects aud absorb it themsely
hence where these exist there will be
most electricity.
'In general the human body is also
good conductor, but there are some exec
tions. Some men usually imbibe the ne;
tive and positive in such equal quantit