Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1913-12-26
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trail diaphragm OF certain exceptionally delicately
framed persons"
About the middle of the nineteenth century
Professor Won Riechenbach. of Germany believed
he had found the source OF the power exerted
by any one using divning rod in the radiation
of very fine gas given of by many bodies and
which he called 'odyc force" The Frenchman,
M. e. Chevreul, on the other hand. explained the
whole phenomenon as being selfdeception of
the persons holding the rods their arm muscles
becoming excessively irritated by the peculiar
way OF holding the rod, and their nervous system
likewise by the straining desire OF the divner
to find something.
1t in the midst OF this somewhat general
skepticsm concerning the actual power of the
OWNERS and rather listless search for some real
explanation of the phenomenon that Herr Won
Buelow became interested in search for a sub
terranean water supply near the imperial wharf
at the harbor of Kiel. Won Uslar, who called
upon to make the experiment achieved such con-
elusive results even actually piercing water
veins, that Won Buelow brought the matter to the
attention of the emperor, and II was then that
Won Uslar was sent by the government to south
west Africa.
For two years and half" said Herr Fran
Eius to the writer, 'von Usar traversed that
country in the midst of the hostile Hottentots. in
order to find at once a constant supply of water
for the troops and for the farmers in that region
where for the most part water was lacking
When he returned, In the spring OF 1908. he
had designated subterranean water courses in
500 places, and according to the official report up
TO that time 163 OF those places had been investi
gated by borings. Seventy-nine per cent of his
designations had proved to be correct. The Dor
ing continued, and up to June, 1911, according to
an official government report which was issued at
that time total OF 2o6 OF the 500 places had
been investigated, and in I'll OF them. or about
S3 per cent, water had been found.
INV crfa 4u4nr
ed in the art. Beyerhaus believed he had found
the explanation of the phenomenon in electricity
Blom pinned his faith to radum. Professor W.
Kubler, In Dresden, found that confined steam
or great masses of ice had Just the same infu-
ence on the diviner The physicist DR. G. Rothe
attributed the influence to Reichenbach's odyic
force the physician DR.. A. Voll. to electricity
Or. Aigner. in Munchen. also a practicing physi
clan, devoted himself closely to an investigation
Of the question and is inclined 10 presume an
altogether unknown kind OF rays or terrestrial
currents, as probable sources of the power.
Meanwhile diviners in various parts of Ger
many devoted themselves to practicing the art
quite independently Of another. and contin-
ued to meet with pronounced successes until in
1909 effort made to bring them and all
those interested in discovering the secret of the
nower together In sort OF convention at Dres-
den. There carefully recorded experiments were
made before a number of professors OF the tech
nical schools OF Drnden and Munchen by the
OWNERS Won Buelow, Uslar and DR. Voll
Not only were the experiments conclusive, but
each OF the three men named, working indepen-
IDENTIFY OF one another located in the same spot
near Dresden, an extensive subterranean coal
Held After this the OF the OWNERS by mine
owners rapidly increaeed and in 1911 another
convention lasting three days and marked by
more startling successe. held at Hanover.
Potash Is very abundant in this region and the
discoveries OF deposits OF II made by the eight
fUfn Il. A,N-
astonishing that the formation OF a permanent
society TO collect all available facts concerning
diVining rods and, II possible discover the secret
OF their power was at once undertaken.
The society is seeking to gain the interest OF
wider circles for the investigation OF the riddle
OF the rods. and Herr Won Uslar and myself have
met with fair success In efforts to arouse the
interest OF scientists In this country"
Herr FranZius was modest in his claims as to
the accuracy with which the designations OF sub
terranean water and minerals could be made.
but declared In response to a question that this
accuracy was quite remarkable.
mot only" he says, "can the diviner. by walk
Ing about In a circle, that II he crosses vein
once he must necessarily cross IL at least sec.
ond time determine the location OF a substratum
OF mineral or water. but he can also determine
In most cases the depth OF the stratum below the
surface, even when it is several hundred feet,
and also the direction in which the vein extends
Herr Won Uslar. speaking through his friend
Herr Franzius. cited case after case where mine
owners had employed OWNERS to locate new
veins In Germany and railroad directorates had
employed them to find suitable water supply
at their various stations.
The two visitors hope that on their return,
after the Landrats findings In Wisconsin and
Michigan have been Investigated, the results of
their discoveries in this country OF new deposits
OF coal, iron and petroleum will rouse as much
interest IN the mysterious power possessed by
Won Uslar as has already been manifested in
Germany, II is only by rousing such interest
among scientists everywhere the Landrat be,
iieyes, that the answer can be found to the riddle
that Vexes and tantalizes him day by day, Wha,
is the true source OF the diyinar'a Dowarf