The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-06-28

ne terms iron. carbon and hydrogen, which
he calls the primary elements.
BACK OF all he placed electricity. which
of matter, without which matter could i'g not
ysis, Is matter.
new table of the metals. First come the
three primary elements. Then are four
which are nothing more nor less than COM
metals the one OF which is form Of ron RON
and the second an unknown" which. how
ever. is not a primary since 1t will dissolve
tx. oss'sAa'es as x and the second as
BACK OF ALL
IS ELECTRICITY.
The following is his table of four metals.
including gold showing his psoportions of X
and Y:
Afsentanum e5x 5x1
Beryliu!n SIX iixx
Gold ..................... ....... SiJ1 nv = =
Meaning quite the zane thing as when
| he says the whole secret Is electricity Bra
| zelle will say that the whole secret IS vibra-
| ton. He asserts that to send current Of
| extreme vibration through iron changes that
| II the proper vibration be attained. iron can
be transmitted into gold: or. in other words.
| in vibrations.
Upon the surface the chief apparent COIN
| cidence between the statements Of Brazelie
| and the we'll weighed words of the English
to electricity; This, Of itself. as an idea.
| obtained credence for years among some
few theorists but heretofore it has not
| experiment upon.
This Is what Brazelle claims to have done,
| to have upon this one underlying principle
| built up a structure of laws and facts of
discovery. which opens many new fields of
Investigation to man. which discloses the
universe scheme" which renders visible
In theory also he claims to have fore
| stalled Professor Won Schroen of Berlin.
who announced to the scientific world that
alive. '>'''>sN ~ - '@''s' ''''( '''S are
!, Brazelle maintains that he had long since
and several Of the minerals. He carries the
principle much farther. asserting that ev-
| erythlng in nature is alive and has sex that
| the divisions into mineral. vegetable and an
imal life are purely arbitrary and that no
boundary line exists. As proof positive of
the life and sex of minerals. and their close
| relation to the vegetable kingdom. he pro-
| duces samples of growing metal.
SAYS METALS HAVE SEX
| AND WILL REPRODUCE.
| Reproduced with this article are five OBJ
| jects that resemble inverted ink wells. The
| black substance at the bottom is nothing
but cork coated at the top by. layer OF
mineral SOIL" the nature Of which Brazelle
meater claims to have placed a buib-a
| hollow seed. manufactured at forge under
great heat. Then at a still greater hea.
| the alchemist declares that the strange
looking tendrils inside of the glass grew up.
The one at the extreme left. he says is
! gold. the one at the right silver, the one
| In the center uranium and the two further
| back unknown metals. Under the micro
scope the tips OF the curvtng stalks take
shape and seem miniature ferns of sur
| passing beauty.
This is about as much as the untutored
observer can gather from study of Bra
zelie's garden of growing gold. silver. and
| SO on. Whether In the presence of a mys-
terry which goes far to explain hitherto hid
den facts concerning the structure of the
| universe. whether deep into the heretofore
unknown or merely beholdins clever
| trick-well. these are questions which 9TH
ers must answer.
Mr.. Benjamin Brazelle's ideas concerning
astronomy are fully as startling. and as
destructive of existing canons, any OF
the foregoing. Just as coolly as he an
I. nounces that prese Mt day chemistry is all
| bosh, he asserts th6t the accepted under
standing Of the nature Of sun, moon and