The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-10-02
How NWnlHS Rods HelQ
BY Opel4fOr

CfFHTff1t.1 LtONt a. 1870
Opef4tOr
trail diaphragm of certain exceptionally dehcaVeN
framed persons"
About the middle of the nineteenth century
Professor Won Riechenbach, of Germany, believed
he had found the source or the power eXerteu
by any one using divnng rod in the radiation
of a very fine gas given of by many bodies ana
which he called "odyllic force" The Frenchman'
NJ e. Chevreul on the other hand, explained the
whole phenomenon being self-decepuon oil
the persons holding the rods, their arm muscles
becoming excessively rritated by the peculiar
way Of holding the rod and their nervous system
likewise by the straining desire OF the uNlher
to find something.
II was i'm the midst of this somewhat general
skepticism 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 Tor SUD-
terranean water supply near the imperial wharf
at the harbor of Kie Won Uslar, who was 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 it was then that
Won Uslar was sent by the government to south
west Africa.
For two years and half" said Herr Fran
zius to the writer. won Uslar 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 in
500 places, and according to the official report up
to that time 162 OF those places had been invest
gated by borngs. 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 al
that time, a total of zoe OF the 500 places had
II In nj hon mr. ahnni
SO per cent, water had been found
I'm Germany many scientists became interest
ed in the art Beyerhaus believed he had found
the explanation of the phenomenon in electricity
Blom pinned his faith to radium. 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 Rechenbach's 'odyllic
force the physician, DR.. A. Vol, to electricity
DR.. Aigner in Munchen, also practicing physi
clan, devoted himself closely to an investigation
OF the question and is inclined to presume ar
altogether unknown kind OF rays, or terrestrial
currents, as probable sources OF the power.
Meanwhile OWNERS In various parts of Ger
many devoted themselves to practicng the ar
quite Independently OF one another, and contin
ued to meet with pronounced successes until IL
1909 an effort made to bring them and al
those interested in discovering the secret OF tn,
power together In a sort of convention at ORES
den There carefully recorded experiments wer
made before a number OF professors Of the tech
nical schools of Drnden and Munchen by thu
OWNERS Won Buelow, Uslar and Or. Vo
Not only were the experiments conclusive. blu
each of the three men named working indepen
IDENTIFY of another, located In the same spot
Dresden extensive subterranean Goa
field. After this the use Of the OWNERS by min
owners rapidly increased and in 1911 anothe
convention. lasting three days, and marked b.
more startling successe was held at Hanover
Potash is very abundant in this region, and tn
discoveries OF deposits Of it made by the egh
OWNERS appearing before the convention s
astonishing that the formation OF a permanen
society to collect all available facts concernin
divining rods and, if possible discover the secre
Of their power was at once undelt taken.
THE society is seeking to gain the interest O
wider circles for the investigation of the riddl
of the rods. and Herr Won Uslar and myself hav
met with fair success in efforts to arouse tn
interest OF scientists in this country"
Herr Franzius was modest in his claims as I
the accuracy with which the designations of sui
terranean water and minerals could be made
but declared in response to question that thi
accuracy quite remarkable.
mot only" he says, "can the diviner, by wall
Ing about in circle, 80 that II he crosses vel
once he must necessarily cross IL at least SCI
ond time, determine the location OF a substratuI
Of mineral water. but he also determin
In most cases the depth OF the stratum below tn
surface. even when II is several hundred fee
and also the direction In which the vein extends
Herr Won Uslar. speaking through his FRIEND
Herr Franzius cited after case where min
owners had employed OWNERS to locate me-
veins in Germany and railroad directorates ha
employed them to find suitable water suppl
at their various stations
The two visitors hope that on their return
after the Landrat's findings In Wisconsin an
Michigan have been investigated the results
their discoveries in this country OF new deposit
OF coal iron and petroleum will rouse as muc
interest in the mysterious power possessed
Won Uslar has already been manifested
Germany. II is only by rousing such intere,
among scientists everywhere. the Landrat b.
lieves that the answer can be found to the ridd
that vexes and tantazes him day by day:'Whs
is the true source, of the OWNERS power?