The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-02-07

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According to the promoters Of odic
force, q sensitive, fully charged with
/ IT, can go to the scene of murder or
other CHASTITY crime, and by resting
MS nngers upon a specially prepared
plate Of crystallizable matter, cause to
be precipitated an exact reproduction
OF the moment Of crime The theory
Is that every happening leaves its rec
ord, more or less distinct, on surround
ing objects, and that in case Of strug-
gle or death the impress would be so
vivid that odic force would seize and
body it forth. "~ ~
There is marked and mysterious
connection between the force and all
manner of camera pictures. Faraday
photographed the odic rays of mag
net in room from which each particle
Of light was excluded. There is fur
ther strengthening in the fact that j. a
picture be drawn ON polished steel.
with sharp-pointed magnet which
Is not allowed to touch the surface.
j iron filings, shaken over the plate. will
! arrange themselves on the lines Of the
picture.
There is much more to the scheme
the cure, the disease, the turning
madness into sanity, making tie blind
see, the deaf hear and the dumb re-
joice aloud; the rescue of criminals
! from their own tendencies-in short,
the general betterment of the world.
But OF all that I am not at liberty to
speak more particularly, nor can I do
more than barely outline another prof.
ect OF this unique company. Naturally
all it's component parts are much inter-
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cation between the upper world and
the earth one. Good spirits lone for
nothing so much as to be potential in
their own entities, just as good NOR
tails long to know authorltati lively that
what comes to them from the other
side is Of the heavens, heavenly. Ma
terialization solves the problem. but
naturalization is not SO easily done
that is, if you keep to legitimate pro-
cesses and do not let yourself be duped
with dolls, wigs, masks-al the para
phernalia of fraud.
To achieve it, the spirits say for a
single appearance they must gather
the fine emanations Of two hundrel
vital essences. But if there were an
electric or magneto-galvanic machine
capable of suffus1ng vast tracts of the
atmosphere with these emantions in
eXhaustless quantity, Why, then the
only limit to materialized spirits would
be the willingness Of the spirits them
selves to put on the guise of dia-
phanous mortality-and that limit &C.
cording to themselves would not ex-
list.
Even now the company is busy de-
vising such a machine. Anybody can
see its Neutrality-suspicious. as any fair
minded person must admit some dis
advantages. l fancy it is rather lucky
1t was not an accomplished fact upon
the Sth Of January just past. If it
had been Andrew Jackson would have
made it do a rushing business about
that date, and various and sundry
statesmen Of our era might now be
owning to some bad quarters Of an
hour. George Washington, too, might
have something to say-and certainly
the Little Corporal, the great Napo
leon, would rise up to inveigh against
the violation Of his decent privacy now
SO voluminously going on in the maya
zines.
Yet the machine would be death to
strikes. The raw head and bloody
bones Of anarchy itself would stink
ava 1lO1u ucW AcA WHO COulu uc1CuoI
be shot or stabbed, nor pelted with
stones. There is any amount of train
ed skill lying around loose in the spirit
world, and aching to be actively en-
ployed at no wages at all. Yet work
ing men need not stand aghast at the
thought Of ghostly competition, since
to maintain the Undertaking. plant so
as to supply continuously an army OF
laborers would cost more than two
strikes, with a years wages thrown in.
These are but few Of the things the
company has on hand. Chimeras all,
you say? Granted, dear sir! but no
such chimeras as our grandfathers
would have regarded the telegraph,
the photograph, the kaleidoscope and
all their train. Depend upon it, the
fairy tales Of science, or even of
pseudo-science, are not yet all told.
When they are this planet of ours will
be the dreariest sort Of place to live in