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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IAQES 9 TO 12 11, 1905. the minturn cluster cplled huju'leKKly mysterious, capitulate fur a moment: "lne morning last week, when Mr. aiul Mrs. Minturn, with their guests, Mrs. Grantham and Captain Dalrym-plwere liniahlng breakfast, Minturn, patron. ptctfully to i as just about to to GrayhMa aa ask you to a tort of In Grantham Mrs. for Vjljn anel She was my ward, bother. moved by some newspaper lrl and since her hua- evidently accounts of robberies in the vicinity, you W0' to tried an I have keep announced suddenly his intention of jand death placing the Minturn cluster that very on her,M tyt day in his strong box at the Asbestos al: don't think, But you Deimslt company. Safety In arresting Briggs, the I think that he went directly up"Accordingly, 0 police have the right man, stairs to the toiler took the jewel front library, 1 know, mark you, that the safe which had proof la a good, true tected it for so many years, and reGrantham who could under no clrcum-orlU- y turned with it to the breakfast room. "Take one last fond look at the do evil. But she la impassioned. Impulsive all beautlea all of you,' he said, and passed 'isms,1 In fact, that tend around the morocco case with the cluster glowing on the dark blue velvet like mib the most adorable type of a constellation of fairyland. the most perverse." "He went into the hall, and when Minturn himself Is a client of the butler, had helped him with Briggs, mu his overcoat he put the case In the inyrttinly, and so was his deceased whose young side pocket. Then he came to town prfmr, Thomas Brant, Alice is now Kira's wife. and went straight to the Asbestos company, keeping his arm pressed against jidCkptiln Dalymple, the other guest. one of my wor-ri- ii the case all the while. Aa he opened Hjos know, has been he thought he would Mnce his unde left a trust fund in his compartment much good take one last, fond look himself, but, gy hinds tor his benefit lo! when he lifted the cover the cluster g his done him. In fact, you may say w arn not there." them. to curiae of all amicus sm I tut "There is a alight break In your acAnd that reminds me that I have count. air," said Abe, hesitatingly. Tou a letter from Minturn on my desk, asdon't say who it was closed the case king to come down tor Sunday to alt over his railway holdings. I may when they all got through looking at the Jewel." see jou there." Oh, well, the judge answered, rather said Any one can do that, air," that merely Illustrates how Qwklte, modestly, "who looks sharp testily, different la the recollection of any incident of no Importance at the time It Of course all this talk of said the judge, reflectively, occurs. The ladles, you see, had both k i sufficient reason for Minturns been trying before the glass the effect wsnting me; but I'll wager the real of the jewel m the hair and at the Tou throat, and Mra. Minturn maintalna mine Is this confounded theft on have no idea, Abe, of the pride, that ahe put it back In the case, while the ancestral pride, that old man has Eleanor protesta Just aa stoutly that hken in the Minturn cluster the most ahe did. And Captain Dalrymple?" jewel of rose diamonds in this "Why. the captain Is under the Imcountry, whose luster has reflected diion his family for a hundred pression that It waa ha himself who He'll never rest easy without placed the cluster In the case; but one t and thats why he has offered a re- might just as well attribute fixity at-ofgard of 15,000 for Its recovery rather purpose to the wind aa to pay any e, "1, - -- ed im--cU- jm-h- conaoll-dition- ," & dt & machine is considerably faster than (from Ban Francisco Chronicle.) curious electrical machine In the our present commercial needs demand. flee of Attorney James B. Dill at Ban It is not merely up to date, but very frucUco has excited much interest much ahead of the times. is not an ordinary The Pollak-Varl- g imong the visitors to Mr. Dill. The machine takes the place of the telegraph. As every one knows, the flee boy In announcing callers and Morse telegraph transmits Its messages their business with tbe attor-- ? Its chief advantage is the qulck- with which It does It a Work and it lecrecy. Compared with the of the office boy, when, for Induce, the attorney la engaged with a rat, or in any work requiring close Pfiication, It causes but slight k the entrance lobby of the law of-- Is the recording part of the Inclosed and concealed from fives except those of the man sitting it the roll-to- p desk in the Inner office Hte attorney is the receiver. Vhat the clerk in the Inner office wite on the harmless-lookin- g pad on i desk Is instantly displayed. In the undwrlting 0f the clerk, on the roll Jf Paper before Mr. Dill's eyes within desk. By touching a button at his ow the attorney can signal for the "'tor to las admitted, to wait, or that J Uy an cannot receive him. this conversation with the rterti is in progress, perhaps another "Ktor, in conversation with tbe attor-with- in a few feet of his desk. Is "rely ignorant of the fact that any eruption has occurred. little machine is one of tbe models of Elisha Gray's the same model of metrical mechanism that has been for effective secret work in y bunks and offices. jn the banks It brokerage is nothing less than wonderful innovation, "Ailing a long- want." The tiny desk that holds -"tter Is at the elbow of the g teller. The recording machine, the desk, before the eyes of the ln H distant, secluded part or he me-duis- rn. Je im-pr- ov "Tel-wfrap- 1'" in-"c- ed bank. JNh Uo a stylus attached to the n na,ll,,erF apparently a pencil a w'r S. Ike teller writes on i the information he desires from bookkeeper perhaps for the bal- -. the bank of a depositor who d elec-hi- 0tthr,n,-l,d ' a who ,a for Ihe money. tn vvhol': th 1,,re check to be calling at the win-- I transaction between the bookkeeper la so nearly "l. "i,nu.rthe Question of a slg .r 5ht'" "no good" or "check re-- ,,. that the man pre- entin. I" Ignorant that any "vestL.,, has been made. 'Vsph, 40,000 tvii w ran do than th. 1 tP,,,Bri Cment lMne can n, by means of dots and dashes, which must be translated ln order that they may he read by all. The speed, at beat, la not more than 250 words a minute. With the devices invented by Poliak and Vurlg messages are sent four times aa fast and delivered directly from the receiving instrument in handwriting as clear aa thnt of a copybook. the Invention Roughly explained, The does its work in this manner: message to be transmitted Is converted Into dots and dashes on a perforator that looks like an ordinary typewriter. The perforator punches holes In a paper tape in a bewilderingly complicated series, these holes corresponding electrically with letters. On passing the perforated tape over a aeries of cylinders the electric wavea find their way through the holes and flash over the wire to the receiving end. They come out exactly In the order in which they " n. When, on the following Saturday evening. Judge Marcellus arrived at Grayhllls, he found himself in demand by the several members of the household, which would have been more flattering to his personal pride had It been less perplexing to his professional judgment. His host had set the hour of 9 for their consultation, and, while he was awaiting that time before the cosy Are In his dressing room In pleasant contemplation, which the unfeeling might have called a drowse, the door swung noiselessly to and fro and Mrs. Grantham settled in a silken flutter close by his side. You dear old thing," she said persuasively, "do you think you could do me the greatest possible favor; do you don't in iiccj of any more frills ami Curia lows." Tli. it wouldn't do that wouldn't do at all." he protested, breathlessly; "1 need. must have, Slo.uilo." "line you lost your mind, Eleanor?" the judge demanded, sternly. "of course I toueh your prinelpal, and I wouldn't if 1 could. Hut what does such a preposterous request nie.tu? it is your duty to tell me; it is my duty to know. Mrs. Grantham met his gaze unflinchingly. though her lips trembled. "My purpose is good; it is close to my heart." she cried passionately. "1 can't stay now, but do think It over. Do try to help me. There was a heavy step overhead, and then the sound of a blithesome whistle from the upper corridor. Mrs. Grantham sprang to her feet and stood intent. Some one is coming," she murmured. He, any one. must not find me here. Hut Just one other thing, to think over favorably until I ran see you again, my guardian, my friend, who never, never went back on me, no matter how cross he might try to appear. That poor man. the butler you won't let them send him to prison, will you? To condemn him just because he was honestly striving to live down the past; oh, it is shumeful, shameful." And with her finger to her Ups, she flitted away aa quickly, aa noiselessly, as she had come. The Judge strode up and down the 1 floor. Who can control such a bundle of fancies?" he asked himself, despairingly. Then, as with a sturdy rap, the door opened and , Captain Dalrymple entered, he demanded: "And what can I do for you, sir?" as if relieved to meet a more equal opponent. "It occurred to me," drawled the captain, resting one foot on a chair, as he pulTed out a great volume of smoke, that you might know, don't you know, of some capitalist who would be willing to what the deuce is the word? Oh. yea to commute my income for a that the human body is a constantly; radiating center of activity, and that we are literally surrounded by an aureole of emanations, visible only in the laboratory under exceptional condi- tions. He hns discovered that ouif muscles and nerves, and above all. our brains, are the sources of rays emitted that every time we twitch a muscle or excite a nerve, or think, we are shedding rays. This he has proved by observing the effect of the rays on a phosphorescent screen. By shifting this screen from one part of the body to another and noting the result when there waa a muscular exertion and when there waa none at all, he made the startling discovery that it waa possible to map out the entire nervous system by observing the Increase and decrease of the screen's illumination. According to Charpentler, It la possible to measure thought in this manner. Certainly, the more active the brain the more rays will be shot forth, and the more pronounced will be the effect on the phosphorescent screen. Thought becomes, therefore, a material thing Indeed a thing to' he weighed like so much cheese. Invisible Rays from Human Body. A hot and wordy war la being waged by scientists over a discovery made by Professor Blondlot of the University of Naples a discovery that Is even more sensational than that of radium. Blondlot has found a Welsbach lamp, stones exposed to the sunshine snd even such common things as paper and glass have the property of emitting rays that tre neither like those of light nor those of heat. Borne American and repeated English scientists, who have Blondlot'a experiments with the (called no after the town of Nanobservacy). deny the accuracy of the tions made, and claim that the singu- -, are oplar effects noted by Blondlot them the tlcal Illusions. Blondlot gives retort courteous by producing photoand asking his graphs of his It Is possible to whether opponents For the hallucinations. photograph time being he seems to have the hetter e argument. scientist, named other French Investl-n- s pentler, hns extended the or Blondlot. and mnde which those of seem prosaically anry professor cresting. Charpentler hns found N-ra- ya dlscov-compar- ed Chronicle.) There Is not a pioneer of the great west not a man or woman, who has taken an interest in mining or the search for gold, who has not heard of mine. In all the anthe Peg-Le- g nals of that romantic time epitomised In the expression, The days of old, the days of gold, the days of 49," no incident has attached to it such stories of tragedy, of unbelievable hardships and dashed hopes as are connected with the search for the mysterious "Peg-Leg- ." Now, after fifty drears of searching, of wandering across the desert, of believing and hoping, of cruel disappointment ending but too often In death, the mine has proven to be lost "Peg-Leg- " a myth! The hundreds who, tempted tale of the marvelby the ous "golden peaks," set out undauntedly over miles of burning sand, leaving often their bones on the wastes as a legacy to the hundreds hurrying after them, were seeking that which never existed were moved by a tale which had no foundation save In the brain of Hn old and crippled prospector anxious to end his days In peace end comfort nnd careless of the means used to gain ed "f "Ami, by the way. you've been a m u lid courts ami all that so much, do you aupKxe a poor devil like that but- ler here cures if he gets another soak? It's an old story with him, don't you think? Something like going home on a vacation, or laying off for a while for repairs what?" "My experience with criminals has fortunately been but flight," returned the judge, "but still I believe thnt suffering Is the inevitable consequence of crime, just as It U of folly. And now, sir. If you have quite finished "You would prefer the inanimate space to the animated occupancy thereof? I fly." The judge sighed ns he resumed his chair. I must persuade Elanor to return to the city, he murmured; "this Is really no place for her." There came another rap on the door; light, secretive; Airs. Minturn entered. My husband Is ready to see you now in the library." she said; but, as the judge turned us If to follow her, she closed the door Bnd stood twisting the rostly rings on her frRglle fingers. "Since he pays so much attention to what you say, she continued, I wish you would persuade him to give me a tegular allowance. Of course, I have everything I want, but a woman of my station, who In time, aa you know, must Inherit his vast fortune, should 1 The Peg-Le- g" mine Is 1 myth! ail (Continued on 12.) In what III. later, when the judge returned to his room, a decent looking serving man who was replenishing the coals in the grate rose and bowed An hour 3 & A June has Invented a kind of coal battery, which Is a combined funince and current-produce- r. The principal of the Invention consists in employing a. positive plate or metal and a negative plate of carbon. n heating these two plates to a very high temperature, and in reconi the compound ducing by red-hformed by thus heating the plates. A current Is given off when the two plates are connected, which current Is for industrial sufficiently powerful use. Jone claims that coal batteries of this kind will some dny take the place of steam engines and dynamos, and that It will be iiosalble for every family sin pi by lighting a fire ln the domesPhotographing the Inner Eye. tic coal battery to generate enough A young German oculist, Dr. Wulther current to do the rough work of the Thorner. hns startled the medical houoehold. There are already in use world by the announcement thnt he in large hotels electric chafing dishes hHS invented a camera for photograph-i- n and other cooking utensils, electric the Interior of the human eye, and sewing machines snd electric s. obthat by means of the pictures thus With a simple means of generating tained, he can correctly diagnose dis- current at hand, these appliances eases of the eye. Oculists hnve long would soon find their way into every been working at the problem which Dr. household. Hut the steam engine and Thorner has at last solved, but have dynamo ran hardly be considered such met with uniform failure, because It simple means. Besides the gas range was Impossible for the patient to keep and washtub take up about all the the eye at rest during the exposure of available space in a New York apartthe plate. ment kitchen. The coal buttery may Thorner first began to experiment prove a domestic boon for that reason. with cats' eyes, which, by reason of their peculiar anatomy, are more lu- Sending Photographs by Telegraph. minous than the eyes of human beings, A German university professor, Dr. and therefore more readily photohas Invented a wonderful elecgraphed. Furthermore, he did not wish Korn, to run the chance of ruining a human trical apparatus that may render it for the war correspondent of being's eyesight by employing the pow- possible erful jets of light which at first he the future to outdo anything now dreamed of ln newspaper philosophy. deemed essential to success. on and cats other The inventor has actually succeeded In After many tests animals, Thorner at last devised a sim- sending over an ordinary telegraph ple camera, which differs vastly In ap- wire clear photographs of persons and with a rapidity that It remarkpearance from the ordinary photog- objects able when comparative novelty of raphic camera, but not in principle. In the Teat Is the considered. The cable enorder to obtain the necessary illumination. a is employed, tbe abled us to read full reports of frantic oil the part of the Japanese shutter of the camera being opened attempts capture Port Arthur twenty-fou- r exactly at the instant that the light Is to hours after the events described had produced. Wonderful as this Thorner has done wonders with this taken place. Is. achievement both from the techniof exploring the photographic process inner eye. He hns succeeded In restor- cal and journalistic standpoint. It will surpassed when Korn's invention Is ing sight to patients who had been he introduced. The war correspondent of their blind hopelessly by pronounced future will not only came his news physicians, because there was no way the from the front Immediately after an of examining the interior of the eye. engagement, but he win also telegraph striking photographs of a fierce attack Electricity Direct from Coal. on hill in the next war. ProThe generation of electricity, despite fessor Korn tried his Invention on a the wonderful strides that have been telegraph line several hundred miles made within recent years, is still a long with such startling success that rather cumbrous process. Coal must bis ability to transmit pictures for be burned to heat n boiler, and steam distances cannot be questioned. formed to drive an engine, which In great Indeed, he would have experimented turn drives a dynamo. The result Is with longer lines had the German govthat only a fraction of the energy ernment been willing to place Its full stored up In the coal is ever converted telegraph equipment at his disposal. into electricity, so great me the losses The principle underlying the InvenIn the various steps between fuel tion Is simple. A chemical element burning and the generation Into elec- called selenium is employed, which has A Chicago inventor, tricity. Hugo the very remarkable property of varyJone, has hit upon a scheme of utilizing ing in electrlcnl conductivity the coal in producing a current, there- amount of light by which It with the to by dispensing with boilers, engines, be Illuminated at any given happens moment. dynamos and other IKirnphernnlla. (Continued on Page 12.) animal's veins. If you were to Inject milk Into the blond of a dog. for instance, the resulting "precipitin" would form a precipitate only with milk, and with no other substance. After experimenting on 900 animals snd making 16.000 tests with their blood, Nuttall succeeded in establishing a strikingly close relationship between the penalise, sometimes called the sea hog." and the eomomn pig. What is more to the point, however, he proved that the ehlmpunxee who performs amusing antics in his cage In the zoo, Is blood brother to the man who laughs at him. ot sad-iron- er 203-met- er space-consumi- Page There may be something I will you say," mused the judge. think it over; I will also take advantage of any favorable opportunity to suggest a more liberal treatment of you to your husband. But you must be patient, you must make allowance for declining years. And now, If you will permit me, I will keep my appointment with him. What. Abe," cried the Judge, after a With moment's stare, "is It you? your confounded high forehead and those demure little dabs of whiskers I swear if you didn't nearly deceive me. Yours to command, sir. answered the detective, bolting the door and drawing s chair closely to his patron's side. "Well, what do you hear, what do be indeiiendent." you know, man? I want to tell you "That Is the same old grievance. frankly that I don't like the complicaIsn't it, Alice? interposed the judge, tions in this household at all. "You hnve received three visits and kindly. "You must remember that your httsltand has the caution of age, paid one this evening, sir," suggested Cronklte. Perhaps it would lie well and you are so young, so unused to " (Continued on Page 10.) "Oh, I am sick of such platitudes!" flash-powd- Wonderful Story is Told. One day, half a century ago, a wooden-legged man stumped Into the little town of Los Angeles. The man led a burro. Both the man and the animal were near to death's door from the hardships which they hud experienced In crossing the desert by a no-trroute. The man was taken to a hospital and there for many weeks he raved In a delirium. The saddle bags taken from his burro lay unnoticed beside his cot. When the man waa convalescent, the doctor broached the subject' of compensation. The old miner feebly pointed to the saddle bags, Which were handed to him. From out of these he took three marvelously rich gold nuggets. The doctor's eyes widened In astonishment and eagerness when he noticed their else and beauty. Then the patient said: "Doctor, I am an old prospector, known as Peg-Leg- 1 Smith. I got those specimens from a mountain out In the desert. When my partner and I were about two weeks out from the river. of the times I have worn them through the city to dinner and twill und always have kept them safe ns my life. Io you suppose that if 1 hud the money I should have I wouldn't recover them" "Itecover them!" repeated the surprised Judge. "Have you any idea" Of course, that wretched Krigga pledged them; he had plenty of time before lie was arrested. Of course he won't tell when and how out of revenge. "Hut after lie has been put nwuy for the full term he deserves and the law has been vindicated, and the newspapers are gossiping about something else, then, if I had the money, I would let the ieople know who make such advances that the diamonds would be redeemed and no questions asked." re-sj- on You are descended parish registers. from some knight who invaded England with William the Conqueror, on the more or less questionable evidence of moldy documents that bear names resembling yours. This may be poetic, Dr. George but it Is not scientific. Nuttall, a famous English biologist, has been conducting some investigations tending to show that bottles of chemistry offer considerably better evidence of the Identity of your ancestors than any genealogist can produce. Nuttall was not concerned so much with the desire of ascertaining whether he was a descendant of William the Conqueror as with the idea of chemically proving the truth of Darwin's theory of the descent of man. There seems no reason, however, why the particular chemical method employed should not ultimately be so refined tfiat the relationship of living human families can be determined and thus kinship with the aristocracy scientifically established. How Nuttall made his startling discoveries can be simply explained. It seems that when certain substances are injected into the blood of an animal compounds called "precipltlna" are formed. These "preclpltins" have a most remarkable property. They form precipitates only with the particular substances nrlglnnlly Injected Into the Proof That the Wonderful Peg-Le- g Mine Never Existed. three-hundredt- hs sum that any oiv might he so speculative as to venture n so extraordinary a risk as your life." toursc it would bo u gamble," agreed the un milled captain, "but that's the human game, isn't it? Today for thee, tomorrow for me, is about the ticket, liey? Well, if you should hear of any confiding capital seeking a good thing, you might refer it to little Willie. SCIENCE UP-TO-DA- TE are transmitted. Matter of Photography Is necessay to record Blood Relationship a Chemistry. the message. The electric waves operate a little mirror no mounted that it To the genealogist relationship is a moves both horizontally and vertically. matter of family trees, escutcheons and An electric light ln focussed on the mirror anil then reflected to a ribbon of sensitized paper. The message la written by a beam of light on the paper. as If by a phantom pencil. The of mirror only moves an Inch, and the exposures of the sensitized paper are less than the thouStill the sandth of a second each. be sure, To clear. is perfectly writing the paper must be developed and fixed, but that takes only teift seconds. (James Carson In the San Francisco his end. N-ra- Pnninn - MARVELS OF A Kiting nsv. "Hut ttli.it of it'. What of any of It? Memory rry often is nothing more than a sense t,f what mie would naturally iId in given civeuinstnin'es. The important thing Is ih.it the police foiiiiil (hat the one and only person, outside of these four, who are, of course, utterly reunited from auS' pieion. who eoulil haie stolen the Jewel was Hiiggs. the butler. They arrested him, and vh:rt did they learn? Why. the man I un English thief, a former convict, securing employment through forged recommendations and an assumed name. What more do you want?" "I want the Minturn cluster," replied Abe t'ronkite, mildly. "That's preaching." exclaimed the Judge, thoroughly appeased. "So go ahead und do your prettiest to recover the Jewel and gain the reward. But. tell me, how and when are you going there, and how will know where to find you, should I come down?" Croiikites stolid features yielded to a faint smile. "I have already been engaged as butler." he explained, "by the town agent through forged recommendations and under an assumed name, vice Briggs, unavoidably detained. : |