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Show OCCULT POWERS IN FEATHERS OF QUAIL California Physician Kecotmta Weird Tale Told Hlin fcy An Aged Indian. STOCKTON, Cal., 'ov. il An or-diuarv or-diuarv mountain quail feather hel.l before be-fore the eve? serves the pamo purpose as a powerful X-rav machine, accor.i-ing accor.i-ing to Dr. Barton J. Powell, of this oitv who sent a bunch of the feathers to the state university for experimental purposes. . . Dr. Powell says that while htintinj in the Sierra Nev;ila an old Indian called the fact to his attention. Taking a feather from a quail he was plucking, tho rndiail held it heforo the jihysi-cian's jihysi-cian's eves and put his hand up to the li"ht. The bones of the hand were pfiiinly visible thromrh the flesh. The Indian said feathers had boen ned from time immemorial br hi? tribesmen as an aid in setting broken , bones. He added that the penetrating power of a buzzard's foatlicr exceeded' all others, but that any tVather produced pro-duced the X-ray effect to some extent. ex-tent. ' |