The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-06-20
BY w. G, SHEPHERD.


SCRANTON. Pa. June lS.-This !s
astOry. first hand, OF DR.. +. W. Langc,
&c Scranton physician who claims
tat he has turned base METAL into
liver. There isn't much more 10 his
tory than We have here. But it's
nough, as IL Is, TO make you scratch
our head.
Not only. he says. does he secur.
silver from the lower metals: he has
been able to convert them into gold.
You can't help feeling sorry for the
kindly-faoed family physician cf
Scranton, as he tells his story II his
story is true, he has upset all the
old time theories of matter. IL it is
not true, the world will laugh him
down
II know I'll have to suffer-" he says
But I'm ready for II. | turn base
metals into silver; ] bring out from
my pots twice as much silver as
PHI I'm them. It's not lie; it's Gods
truth. The scientists OF the world are
against me, but I'm going to put the
chip on my shoulder and fight TO:
what | have discovered"
You'd be inclined to think. from see
ing this talk In cold print. that the
uOCtOr ls insane.
But hos rot bit OF It, He is still
the trusted family physician of the
millionaires OF Scranton: his daily
rounds cover the countryside: hun
dreds Of sick folk will have no physi-
clan at the bedsides but DR.. LANCE;
millionAires from New York have
s9cket TO his dark little laboratory,
which you enter by means Of the eel
lar door, under his house. One OF
4. iem.C. c. Dickinson. died. they say,
r .rom ne fumes which issued from the
iurnGe as Dr. Lange performed his
experiment of transmutation. He is
the tventor OF lactated food which
is faneHs ameng the physicians of the
Il ,coutry.
ri is Critical About Story.
r'1 ID hobby is chemistry. Either he
,hasbeen deceived and his hobby
hote has thrown him sprawling into
thu road, where all the world will
lagh at him. or else his noble steed
hs carried him into a wonderful
STANCE new country OF chemistry.
were he and others will find rich
unes OF new facts.
"Im as critical about my story as
pm or anybody else is Or. Langc
, Gid to me when | visited him in his
; NV famous laboratory. When first
ncceeded in performing the expert
hent ! was astounded. mixed a
jertain low-grade metal with silver
and turned out q mass of pure silver.
had IL assayed and could hardly
believe the chemists report. | tried
II over again. tested my base metal
no see that IL wasn't silver. | added
III 10 an equal quantity OF pure silver;
again my supply OF silver was
doubled. Over and over and over again
! ! tried the experiment. The base
1 metal was always turned to silver.
I Finally had TO believe.
"One day | found traces OF gold In
the manufactured silver. | cannot de-
scribe my establishment Again | re-
peated all my experiments; the gold,
in small quantities, appeared very
often.
1.-The death OF Mr.. Dickinson was all
act OF God that brought my expert
! ments into public notice. | had dread
ed publicly | knew that storm OF
doubt would rise In the minds of 9th.
ers, as I had In mine. But Fate has
put thu truth into my hands. To
!. me II las fallen to prove to science
that abms, In all elements, are alike.
havelo carry the torch-to blaze the
trail. The publicity from which 7
Is shranf has come upon me-
W. wat does your experiment prove
about atoms?" / asked, referring TO
bis pevious statement.
Improves that oil atoms are alike.
!, The Atoms that make up a piece Of
: wool are the same as the atoms that
COMPOSE a piece of iron. The only diff
- ferdce is that the atoms in the iron
vibate more or. perhaps, less rapidly
thin the atoms in the wood. The
aims In silver are the same as the
aims in lead. or tin, or gold, The
oily difference is>that the vibration is
dferent. The atoms of your flesh are
tactly the same, In size and mate
lal. as the atoms In metal. II the
toms OF which you are composed
tere 10 be vibrated with the same de-
rec OF activity as the atoms of gold,
our body would be turned into gold.
I'm turning base metals into silver
and gold only change the activity of
the atoms in the base metal TO equal
the activity OF the atoms in the silver
and gold.
THE making of the silver and gold
Is nothing, though II may have its
commercial advantages. The proving
OF the theory of atomic vibration is
everything"
4 sustsins Heat Of 1900 Degrees.
DIR. LANCE took me into the labora-
tory In the cellar OF his home. II Is
entered through a slanting door-the
KIDS sliding kind-from outside. The
floor is OF earth. Sunk into 1t is a
huge sheet iron casing. which sur
rounds the furnace. The latter was
made In Germany; Il sustains a heat
I 1000 degrees. A huge electric
lotor stands In one corner.