A POSTSCRIPT.

"There are more things in Heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our
philosophy." Thus wrote Shakespeare, and as the centuries roll by, and
the marvels of invention and scientific research are unfolded, this
truth of the immortal bard becomes the more and more evident to thinking
people of all nations.

The faculty or attributes of water divining--that is, ability to locate
water running in natural channels beneath the surface--is one which of
late years has received great attention in Queensland.

In this material and matter-of-fact age it is difficult to place belief
in anything savouring of the occult--anything which cannot be explained
by recognised natural laws, or which is not readily understood.

For this reason, and notwithstanding indisputable evidence of the
genuineness of the claims put forward by water diviners, many people
regard them all as a huge joke, and laugh outright at the credulity of
their patrons. Certainly it is true that the faculty is claimed by many,
but possessed by few. After all, however mystifying it may be to the
ordinary mind, hard facts cannot be ignored, and proof positive has
repeatedly been adduced of the good work done by men possessing this
marvellous faculty.

In Queensland alone, many western landholders--shrewd, hard-headed,
business men--have reason to be thankful that they secured the services
of a genuine and expert diviner, whose "magic wand" quickly disclosed
the whereabouts of sub-artesian water. Thus, it has happened as a result
of the diviner's visit that a bore is driven, and presently by means of
a wind-mill, or oil pump, a sparkling stream is brought from the vast
caverns which have held it prisoner, turning the oft-times dreary waste
into a smiling, life-giving oasis.

In my opinion, what constitutes the faculty of divination is an inherent
quality that cannot be acquired. Some people describe it as a sixth
sense, while Dr. Grasset, a French authority, believes that the ability
to find underground streams proves the existence of a faculty belonging
to a class of psychological feelings forming what he calls "psychisme
inferieur," the study of which is just beginning to attract the
attention of the scientific world.

Perhaps I should explain that, as a rule, a forked twig, the extremities
of which are held loosely in each hand, is used to locate sub-artesian
water, and in this connection its movements, so far as is known, can
only be affected