Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-12-12

Mr.. Emmner, the celebrated electrician
has been working on the thought ma
chine for about three years, against ten
years devoted to the long distanced tele'
phone, whose first patents were granted
him in 1884. He says that in delicacy OF
operation the thought machine is as
mu ,h superior to the telephone as the tel
ephone is to the crudest steam engine
and we can we'll believe this. It's daily
performance In his abratory at Washing
ton proves the truth of all he claims for it
to many people, and Mr.. Emmner says it
accom- plishes more than even he himself
had looked for. He ia said to be plain
spoken scientist who deals with facts di.
rect from natures lavish hand.
1t seemed to him that the thought ma
chine was needed to complete our intel
lectual facilities, and 30 he invented it. In
experimenting with it he has discovered
that emotions of different kind have vi
bratory records and that even the sagac-
ity of animals has its characteristic vi
brations aim ost amounting to alanguage.
And now, to come to the uses of this
thought machine, and one can readily be-
lleve that it is dangerous to be safe'' in
this era of scientific discoveries-certain
ly dangerous to hear oneself think now-a-
days. The poor criminal in his cell, or
in the prisoners dock, can not withhold
one self-criminating fact, for what can
the unhappy wretch suspect or believe of
the harmless little chest sitting on the
table beside him? and he goes on think
ing "damn," like the Dutchman's boy
under the hickory switch, and with even
more easily recorded waves of magnet
ized anxiety. Then, rs the films of the
thought machine are cheap, mailable and
practically imperishable, one of its ear
liest uses will be to quicken and better
Associated Press dispatches. Again,
how much finer and more accurate than
the finest short hand amanuenis, for we
all know that some or the thoughts best
calculated to bring US lasting fame get
lost in "the shuttle" between the pen and
the paper.
Besides all these uses, the last night of
the dying can be given in irrefutable
record, and this will be valuable in the
settlement of estates and in will contest
cases. Thus, the oft repeated speech or
hope about the dying when speech ie
Pd5Us uuIbh ho VA ohS NhSW A1o ohpt
last moment" can be proved, and We will
be able to carry away from the grave
many sweet, comforting thought that
otherwise would be lost to us.
Mr.. Emmner has not only accom- plished
the wonderful work have tried to de-
scribe, but goes 80 much further as tc
cay that with the assistance of the X rays
he will yet be able to photograph
thought
At the last meeting OF the Monday liter.
ary club, of Denver, the paper was or
"Thought Transference." A very animated
and interesting discussion followed in
which the thought machine had its place and
some very radical views were expressed
on the force and far-reaching power of
the brain currents.
Mrs. Belford, one of the brightest wo.
men in Colorado, began her remarks with
quotation from Homer: "Guard well
your thoughts; there all the danger lies.'
She believed that sending out thoughts
of hatred, amin mosity or fear brings about
sickness, epidemics and scourges of var
ious kinds. This is in accord with an
opinion of Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There
is nothing either good or bad but think
ing makes it So"