The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1904-08-04

from the great excavation until the
learned professors should have time
to try still another experiment in sup.
port Of this idea. A series of elabo.
rate calculations followed. Every
theory known to modern science for
the measurement of repeated sound
was advanced. And yet without sue.
cess!
That call came once again, clear
and distinct as before, at the face OF
the wall where 1t had ever been
heard, but at no other point was IL
distinguished by either OF the scien
lists.
In vain they arranged scientific in
struments; they listened to the voice.
they pondered over theories Of heat,
electric forces and transmitted sound.
After q fortnight of tireless applica-
ton they realized that they must soon
acknowledge to an expectant world
the chagrin of their own defea,. This
was indeed mystery! But the Eng.
lishman was determined never to yield
so long as there was a possibility OF
success. He arranged a very sensi-
tive Photographic apparatus near the
face of the wall, so as to catch the
faintest sounds, and with extreme pa
tience he waited for the cry. 1t came
at last:
Help! Help!"
The scientist threw his electrical ap.
paratus into action and bent forward
to listen to the family articulated
words. He was standing thus. his
companions near at hand, when he
was observed to throw up his arm
as If to enjoin silence, and then his
face became flushed with excitement
as he heard the cry:
Thank God, you have come at
last!"
Then there followed confused muir
mur of voices, while gleam OF light
flashed from the English professors
eye.
He had discovered the key to the
mystery.
This magnetic iron ore is but nat
ural telephone:" cried Professor
Blake, his face beaming with satisfac-
ton. I'VE have been listening the
the cry of some prisoner who was
doubtless confined where the natural
conditions served as a perfect trans
mitter of sound. The vein of iron
ore has been the conductor, and we
have listened to message that doubt
less has passed through many miles OF
neutrality-suspicious., indeed, the
sounds have come from the distant
mines Of Siberia"
The German professor started.
Somewhere l have read" he ex-
claimed, Frightening, that to the
north Of the great Ural Mountains in
Russia, in the bleak Obdorsk region,
there exists valuable mine OF supe.
rior magnetic, where prisoners are
often confined by the order OF the
czar. AS these great veins of lode
stone trend north and south, and as
that section of Russia Is almost due
north of us, it is not at all improbable
that your theory is the correct one"
Howbeit the cries ceased from that
hour. The sounds reproduced from
Professor Blake's Photographic cylln-
der revealed another voice than that
Of the supposed prisoner. The dialect
plainly identified the speaker as be.
ing either Russian or a Pole.
To-day, three years later, the two
great universities have just completed
their Investigations. After an exhaus-
tive search it was learned that an
suspected of being impli-
Gated In a political revolt. had been
in q cell in the great magne-
tite mine near Serka, that he had con.
stantly called for help during his
period of Imprisonment. and that at
last he had been released through
the efforts of Polish nobleman
named ZaluSki who came To his cell