New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-05
TONGUES IN TREES.
Thsu Can Be Utilised in Conveying
Ureless Tclegraphic Messages.


W. they DO have powers of communication
- that they are able 10 convey messages over
coral miles OF Intervening country. Shake
s-a,re stated q scientific fact when he made the
ts1ishe5 duke r AS You Like II" say:
And this our lie. exempt from public haunt
Finds tongues II trees
The taking trees described in Judges tx, SIS,
s-e REGARDED ts al modern Bible students as
merely d parable prophetic Of the disaster that
should befau The men Of Shechem if they chose
Atimeiech for their king. No one has ever ad-
Tsnced the belief that the trees could actually
speak in council. which, as told by lothian, was
as follows.
king over Than. and they said unto the olive
Tree Reign thou over US
But The OLIVE tree said unto them: Should
leave my t4tness. wherewith by me they
honor God and nan. and go to be promoted over
he treesT
And the trees said 10 the fig tree, Come thou
md reign over U.s..
But the AZ tree said unto tham. Should I
tlrsake ny sweetness. and my good fruit, and
q 70 - E-0- noted over the trees?'
Then said Tho trees unto the vine. Come
thou and reign over US
and HI vine said unto them. Should 1 leave
ry wine which aheereth God and man, and go
70 Re promoted over The trees?'
Then said ali The trees unto the bramble
Come thou and reign over US
And The ar-uhle said unto the trees. If in
ruth you alo-rr me king over you. then come
anc p1i your trust in my shadow; and if not
lei IRE come out Of the bramble and devour
The cedars Of Lehauon''
Il has been recently demonstrated, however.
mat these trees could really have held this con-
ference ana have asked the olive the fig. the
Fln7 and TIL tramble 10 be their king In the
-EHt Of modern science II would also appear
That The priests of Dodona were not altogether
wrong Wher they believed that the sacred trees
q zeus could speak 10 them. It woc,1 also
seem thar -h- D-ui5s ri~ht have has some
mixing Of me truth when they expectos that
the great oaks would hear their prayers. For
lie SAM reason there may have been some real
fllncarlal for the singing tree in the Arabian
Nights. each leaf e which was musical, so that
al JOINED IN delightful harmony.
The language by which trees may cor7-auni-
cate with each other is not the sound Of the
wind il their branches so often dessr..eI by
poets whispering" or signing or howl
ing Real tree talk consists Of vibrations
that 90 not affect the unaided ear and are only
Per =Etible 10 man by the assistance Of delicate
Documents IN fact. these vibrations are the
wives Of wireless teIegrarhy. 10 which. il has
~ found. trees ara peculiarly sensitive
tree is all ears and tongues. and nv
means or every leaf and tvig and root it may
receive OF transmit messages by air or earth
n discovery that trees can talk was made
Inadvertently by Signal Service officers in the
e--se II some experiments TO improve the field
telephone system Of the army In establishing
some telephone wires Lieutenant William II
Dap-a- found that q tree was an especiaIIe
god conductor Of an electrical current In
pressed ~ this fact, Major George o. Squire. a
men Der II me signal corps at Fort Mason. San
: FRANCISCO, net long afterward hit on the idea
" -----Ais trees IL wireless telegraphy instead
q --- -a--- IEasts that had heretofore been used
He believed laat trees would be able to catch
and send the electric waves far better than
mass Tor The reason that trees have a multi
'--e ~ -iiefns= IN the twigs and leaves Of their
--si'4-1-hg branches, whereas the masthead
presents only small point Where a mast
would have only one ear or tongue >, = tree
might have d million. Major Squires put his
I-eory -5 The test and found that he was right
IS q sequence Of his experiments a wireless
system 4 tree telegraphy has been introduced
INTO The army which compels trees to talk to
One another and issue commands and take or
Gers even in the midst Of battle if need be.
IL t5s way messages may be sent from one
part Of a.. army 70 another with remarkable
iaIidlty i is no longer necessary TO haul
ABOUT c-Ha5rous masts and take the time and