Having discovered that we are immersed in the ether, and that
it responds instantly, and to untold distances to electric
vibrations, the daring inventor said, if I can set the ether
ajar with a certain kind of vibration by shooting up into
it strong electric impulses, then I can plant yonder in the
distance another instrument keyed to that particular kind
of vibration, and it will pick out its own from the ether,
quivering, as it is, with an infinite number of vibrations. Just
as when you run the scale of the piano in a room, each object
responds to its own note. When you touch D a certain lampshade
will shiver in answer. That is its note. It knows its own
vibration, and is silent to all others.
This, then, is what is transpiring now among men. A code of
signals being arranged, one here sends up his request or prayer
into the heavens, speaks into space. The whole hemisphere
of ether is set quivering. Another yonder, a thousand miles
distant, picks out of space the syllables of that prayer, one
by one, and then throws back through space the answer. Nothing
so marvelous as this, so near spiritual conditions, has ever
before entered the heart of man. It is not surprizing that the
air is full of prophecies, dreams and visions. One says we
will yet be able to carry in a pocket, like watches, little
vibrators, so that we can communicate with our distant friends
without wires or towers, or skilled operators, as readily as
we take out our watch and tell the hour of the day. Others, in
this prophetic madness, say we may yet learn the vibration of
the planets, and fling off into space our “All hail” to Mars and
Venus.--JAMES H. ECOB.
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=Communion Between Man and Beast=--See KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.