Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-08-14

other day, just to try it, we ran train
of thirty freight cars so fast you couldn't
see the stations. Fact, sir! The train
travelled faster than the sound and, af-
ter the locomotive had rushed by, the
people at the station could hear the
whistle and clatter and bell ringing and
engineers oaths indulged in two miles
back coming up the road. The people
came rushing out of the ticket Office
only to find the train clear out of sight.
Once we whistled to warn a lot of la
borers on the track, but the train got
there ahead of the sound and smashed
up six hand cars and knocked fifty or
sixty men over into a potato patch"
"Didn't they hear the whistle, Mr..
Keely p ...t
Hear it? Yes, they heard it, but
it was too late. The sound came fool
ing along two minutes after the train
had passed. The foreman said he felt
rush of wind, saw himself in the air,
and Just as he struck the ground he
heard the engineer swearing and shout
ing, "Clear the track--we're coming
hell-to-split! but he looked up and the
tram was out OF SlSHt.
"Gen'ra jackson! Will it do anything
else, Mr.. Keely2" asked my uncle, wip-
ing his bald head with his red bandan-
ma handkerchief.
"Do anything else Ofcourse it will.
1t will do anything and everything
else. Travellers iu the desert can use
it this powerful motor fluid. They
can carry it on camels in times of
drought, and dilute it as they need it
for drinking purposes. Why, this
morning I sent a vial of it to Greeley,
Colorado, to be diluted there for irri-
cation. But its great use is for putting
out fires when water is scarce"
"You don't say so, Mr.. Kelly"
L" Yes, sir, do. All we have to do
is to boil u vial of this condensed motor
water down to fine powder, and let
fremen blow it on the flames through
tin horns-it will put out the fire in
horn, Mr.. Perkins"
"Wall, wall, wall! and is any more
stock for sale - can I buy in, Mr..
Keely?" asked my uncle, taking out
his leather wallet. ...
"It's all taken, Mr.. Perkins-eyery
share, but--hum-let's see-Tll let you
have few shares I'd saved for my wife
and"
"All right, I'll take 'em-put me
down a life member, Mr.. Keely. It
beats my corn planter-it-"
eft beats anything, sir. 1t has beat
en- Charley Collier and Charley Haswell,
and it will beat all Wall street, and it
will beat all the stockholders, and
newspapers, and let's see, you want
five Shares for $1,000, Mr.. Perkins,
don't you ?"
Yes, yes, but what else will it do p
asked Uncle Consider; counting out his
money.
Why, it will separate heat from
light, sir. Haven't you heard of Prof.
Tyndal? Great guns, he's nowhere.
Why, the other day a coal mine caught
fire up at Wilkesbarre. Flames went
into the air mile high, and oceans Of
heat was being wasted. They sent for
my machine. / took the motor up there
just for a fly. Lord! you orto a seen
her when Charley Haswell turned the
crank and we sent the fame through
her. Out of one spout came bright
cold fame, glaring like comets tail,
but cold as an icicle, and we loaded
down thousand box cars with it and
brought it down to Philadelphia to light
the streets with. And out of the other
spout came" .-.-.s
Goodness gracious, what ?" ex-
claimed Uncle Consider, raising his
arms like great v.
"Why, black chunks of solid heat
came out, Mr.. Perkins, red hot heat
and they carted it away in -four barrels
oceans of it, strand they're using it
now in all the big cities to bake bread
with-using it to smelt iron with, to
heat gas retorts, and blacksmiths use it
to heat horseshoes with, and"
"Great heavens! Take my pocket
book, Mr.. Keely-take the farm--take
my corn planter, and let me have stock
in this big thing-let me have it p and
the perspiration rolled down my uncle's
face.
AS my uncle came away from Mr..
Keely I heard him talking half way to
himself: " Wall, wall, wall! light
have known it! I might have known,
Eli, that when those dangerous elevat-
ors and defective fues used to set SO
many buildin's on fire and I invented
the idea of making fues of solid cast
iron, and having them run up in the ad-
joining house--and after told 'em ef
they wanted to make their elevators
safe, they must fill 'em with water and
let 'em freeze, and ef they still caught
fire to turn 'em bottom side up, and let
the flames go right down into the cellar
Il say after I invented these gigantic
idees, why, I might have known some
darned fool of Keely would invent
a power that would knock water wheels
and wind mills and horse powers galley
west. / might!'
81 Bessie Turner has found her
father, and discovered that her name is
Mary Ann Mcnarpott