Show A NEW AND startling USE TILE THE spectroscope f nage HAGE nid ald july 16 1873 doctor ambroso ambrose Penny wick a baltimore chemist well known for mr his beautiful studies of the spectroscope an instrument which he has made a specialty for some years has been spending the summer in this tills beautiful country in order at once to continue his experiments in quiet and to recuperate his health which has been in injured luo r ed by exhaustive application he has a cottage on the edge of the town near the and brought here his most delicate test instruments wishing if possible to perfect the analysis he has undertaken of the supposed now methi metal heli heil helium hellum uin urn which mr lockyer detected in the solar spectrum since he came here he has been much interested in the case of miss bachel rachel lindquist a swedish lady far gono gone in a consumption who has for some years been a music teacher here hero and is a particular favorite with our citizens by reason of her gentle kentle antle 1 manners and her remarkable 91 talent ent for musie musi this young lady of a morbidly nervous temperament ehe eho is the frailest most spiritual looking being imaginable apparently only a soul lightly imprisoned in an almost transparent case has ever since her health began e n to decline cc e been n subject to dis distressing asin s spectral ct I 1 illusions illusion as the doctors ca called led them thom she is familiarly known as catho the ghost seer beer J rind the illusions are so painful in 6 their character that she does not daro to go near a graveyards gravey ardi at night for the sights she beholds in those localities always throw her into a nervous fever from which it takes her several days to recover miss lindquist who is a very modest retiring person has been so much pestered in regard to this matter by a small but by no means choice tribe of spiritualists of this region that she is very relue tent to speak of her vision visions ij even to her medical advisers advisors dr penny wick however has hasa a way of winning the confluence confluence of every one by honestly de deserving deservio servin it he showed miss rachael tha that his interest in her was a human and kindly not merely a scientific interest and he was able to give her some palliatives that sensibly diminished her sufferings rings hence when he heard of those illusions and questioned her about them she readily told him all that she had seen and described the visions to him as accurately as she could these visions were not illusions she said for they did not visit her lier in her priva privacy CY nor could she sho call them before her by an exercise of the will or an indulgence of the imagination they were lu appearances which she only saw baw as emanations over graves they were more visible in dark nights and more distinct over recent graves these emissions of light had no motion from place to place the focus of each emanation was ille the grave from which it streamed up the emanations however were always in motion flickering quivering evering pulsing waning now naming up some yards in height then shrinking down again to a mere dim luminous hemisphere the motions she described as most resembling those of certain brilliant appearances of the aurora borealis which she had witnessed tile the light of the apparitions was white semitransparent semi seini transparent but not rather it resembled filmy thin grayish clouds which somehow had a sort of cold self radiance she was always afraid to go near ono one of these apparitions which never approached her but when she had done so on two or three occasions ca she had been conscious of a change a sort of depressing atmosphere that chilled her to the heart dr Penny wick listened to her very attentively and questioned her closely my dear said he either in tho the morbidly excited excited state of your system you are victimized by impressions to which more healthy persons are impervious or else your sensibilities being refined by disease disease you see what is denied to the average eye but if you see an actual object act and thal that obi object act is a luminous CZ one Y I 1 may not be able to see it but my little instrument hene hero will enable me to measure and to test it and ill uli make the experiment come with me and point me out one of those graves that has its lumen that I 1 may bring the spectroscope tro scope to bear upon it for thorgood the good of science in this way was the first step initiated towards what may turn out to be one of the discoveries of modern science dr argued that the spectroscope must tell him something in regard to a luminosity no matter of what G sort he is fully advanced in the modern theories and he is well acquainted with the as yet problems of animal magnetism ma chism reichen bachs idea of ot gree adyle and the odio force occurred to him at once and he conceived that experiments if they had been conducted in a more 1 genuinely scientific spirit and wit with more suitable instruments might have resulted very differently spirits dr penny wick did not believe in an anymore moro more than he believed that light and heat beat could be evolved from the sun without the operation of force upon this basis therefore lie has attempted to bring spectres spec tres within the ken of the spectroscope this is not the place nor am I 1 at liberty to t give the process resorted to by dr he is only upon the threshold of his discoveries and he has barely permitted me after much solicitation to give in general terms some of the results to which he has so far attained with a remarkable degree of certainty these results may be briefly kumf summarized as follows 1 what are called apparitions are but conditions of the force which has been called animal magnetism 2 these thom conditions beem seem to bo be subject to the influences influence of changes molecular or other in a ile lle ether which seems to be continually effluent from the bodies of men and an deome some bome other animals and also aiso plants plant I 1 it is likewise present statically in certain minerals and in fluids at certain degrees of cohesion 3 some gome of cheso conditions of this ether which dr has provisionally named lumen are capable of being detected by a particular adaptation of tho spectroscope tro scope which dr has invented 4 ho he has by this means discovered that the lumen Is an ethereal substance or gas produced by the volatilization of a new anew metal 5 this metal known to be such suell by its characteristic lines in the spectroscope is is volatilized at an inconceivably low temperature he calls it 6 its ethereality and are so great that it is apparently apparent lyas as much more imponderable than hydrogen as hydrogen is more imponderable than lead 7 it is co consequently ri agitated by influences inconceivably tle than those which influence other substances 8 consequently the greater part of its oper operations aLlons aro are entirely out of the range of human perception or instrumental tests as instruments now are certain peculiarly organized temperaments however are vaguely conscious of their action upon it and its reciprocal action within them and moreover certain 1 other of its conditions are icu acu cumulative mula muia mutative kive tive enough to impress themselves perceptibly upon delicate test instruments in a constant manner 9 dr Penny cuick ruick is inclined to believe that nearly all the ena of what is called abnormal orinal nervous action are to be traced to tot the varying conditions of this ethereal lumen 10 he thinks thinka it probable that its dynamic influences are the foundation of nearly everything i in the ll 11 human man race which is vaguely grouped under the head of idiosyncrasy pta pra to trace up and classify th these dynamic influences will therefore be one of the most important objects of the science ot the future 11 these dynamic conditions he thinks can be regularly induced and when that is successfully performed everything like individuality of temperament and consequently ly every tiling which is now known as suffering ning ring and pain ean can bo be made to disappear from the inheritances heri of the tile human ra race CO if I 1 had bad time and were permitted I 1 would tell you instances of this dynamic induction performed by dr that make the most wonderful experiments of the pseudo psychologists seem tame and trivial he has already dl disposed of the by showing his ability to reproduce all their phenomena without the aid tild of spirits ts but it would require a volume to give details of th this is remarkable discovery and this volume dr will himself write when his exper experiments ime haye have sufficiently advanced M D mow mom arem new york graphic |