Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-05
A REAL NATURALIST
oofn With Bird Throat and Loves
All Animals,

me MASSIVE time-l locks with which
iiio9erh bahk vaults are now oouinned
wiz soon De a thing of the past AZ
'ioihS TO the amazing statement
ii',ue by CHARLES Kellogg. the proat
N"Hiofillah naturalist and only LIVING
iiiih VINO can actually sing like a bird
1t won be so very many veare no
lore we shall see the time-lock or 10
Gay suppianted by the tune-l0ck of
me future, declares Mr.. Kellogg IT
nave made special study of the
principles of tone vibration. and 70.
cent discoveries in this direction only
pear out my theories on the snbiect
fof instance only last month ono af
the mechanical publications contained
an article describing an ingenious sa,f-
opening door invented by n london
merchant who disliked TO arise earIx,
to admit the miltman. The Londoner
devised a bolt that would draw itself
When the master of the house whistIed
in certain key.
This is really very simple mat
or for any one who understands tho
first principles of tone Vibration. Rv
Whistiihg IN certain key the inven-
tor causes tiny piano wire to yfbrate
ana inns movement completes cir
cult. sending the current into an eIee-
lro-magnet which draws the bolt. one
can readily see the great possibilities
OF TINS idea. Every house could be
equipped with a time lock that would
open only to the tone vibrations of the
owner In fact, ] expect it will not
be very long before women will he
rushing into the police stations with
the complaint that they have forgot
ten the tune to their front door.
The modern burglars kit Will con-
tain choice assortment of tuning
forks and a harmonica, or perhaps an
accordion. Can YOU imagine a sec
ond STORY worker trying to pick a lock
by Wheedling AleXander'S Rag-Time
Band out of a squeaky accordion
He'd arouse the whole neighborhood.
But burglarizing by music would be n
great thing fer the newspapers Fan
cy this headline staring you i'm the
face, Caught with Skeleton Tuning
Fork Chief Inspector Mascagni Finds
CleW in r Flat"
But how about the fire depart
nlent2" some one suggested.
"Ah, the fire-fghters will also have
10 ne H1uSlcldHS, MI. Kellogg went |
on, III you viii notice how | extin- |
guish the Dancing Flame at b. f. |
keith's Theatre by a certain tone Vi |
bration OF my bird-voice, after half |
dozen husky stage hands have tried |
in vain to make the slightest impress
sion on the flame by blowing at il |
from half the distance. you will rcadi- |
~ see the great possibilities in this |
direction
Fire is vibration; get q higher rate
of vibration and the fire is crushed |
If we can build big enough Vibrators. |
why not substitute for the fire engine |
of today a series of huge tuning forks |
mounted ON autos. fireman could |
strike the fork with a hammer and |
the vibrations would crush the fire. |
Fancy seeing a Richard Wagner or |
a Pietro Mascagni conducting Il tene- |
ment house fire like an orchestra,
Vibration is the secret of my ma
ture singing" he continued. Il hap |
pened TO he born with n bird throat |
| have no tonsils, and the rings in my |
throat make possible far higher rate |
of vibration than with the ordinary |
vocal chords. Then, l WAS brought |
gp by Digger Indians in the lonely |
Sierra mountains of California, prac |
tically all by myself. l never ate meat |
or knew that ii was eaten until | was |
: years old. / though the animals |
we're all harmless. and loved me as | |
loved them. That's my secret / was
born in the animal kingdom, made |
friends with the feathered songsters |
and have never forgotten to he friends |
with an dumb animals. II / hated |
them my gift would vanish. l trust
all kinds of birds, reptiles, animals and |
insects implicitly. and for that reason
they do not harm me. ] can lie ON
the ground and the spiders viii not
crawl into my ears.
1.-THE rattlesnakes will not bite me.
So far as animal life is concerned, l