Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-05-30
The Keely Motor.

the irrepressible keely turns up once
more under an entirely new phase.
He has abandoned his old twenty
thousand.pound machine for new
creation. He affirms, now, that it
is not the elastic power of an invisi-
BILE vapor that causes his gauges to
register such an enormous power,
but a new thing altogether, and one
which even he himself understands
very imperfectly. We once heard of
a lecturer who, upon facing his au-
dience, divided his subject into three
heads. The first head, he remarked,
would include such things as he
knew and his hearers did not know;
the second head would include such
things as his hearers knew and he
did not know; while the third head
would include all those curious
things which neither himself nor his
hearers knew anything about what
ever. So we think that, like the
lecturer, Mr.. Keely has now come to
the consideration of the third and
last subdivision of the weighty mat
ter before him, viz, that which Meth
er he nor anybody else, not even
Edison, knows anything about. He
has, however, gone so far as to chris
ten the unknown power. He calls
it an "inter-molecular etheric sub
stance" produced by vibratory mo-
ton. If Keely thinks he is tho pio-
neer in giving strange sounding
names and vague solutions to what
the world does not readily compre-
bend, he is mistaken. When an
cient savants could not divine the
the reason why the atmosphere
should SO persistently fill every crew
ice and chamber to which it had &C.
cess, they at first shook their heads
in candid ignorance, and when the
question waxed too warm for human
pride to endure, they looked wise
and said that the whole thing re-
suited from the fact that " Natura
racuum ablorrerH." Even so late as
the Middle Ages, it was customary
for learned doctors to declare that
this or that manifestation in physics
or metaphysics which they did not
understand belong to the " occult"
sciences, as if the gods had her.
metically and forever sealed those
truths which their children were not
to understand. Perhaps Mr.. Keely
proceeds on the principle that still
waters run deep, and that the ig.
norant populace are fully satisfied
of the profundity of the stream even
though the water be profoundly mud
dy. The most curious pant of the
keely motor fraud is that he should
still find wealthy dupes in Philadel-
phia who are willing to back him in
his fruitless career, which, it must
be admitted, is either a nefarious
scheme or one of the most stupend-
GUS builders of the age. Edison,
on the contrary, is entitled to some
credit for what he has already done.
Neither keely nor Edison are, in
our estimation, pursuing the course
which true inventor would take.
After reading the pretensions of
these two men, there is something
refreshing in contemplating the lives
and works of such master-spirits as
Whitney, Goodyear and Morse.
MODERATE DRINKINa.-Rev. VIM.
Goodell thus declares in reference
10 the various shades OF drinking
/" Which is the most destructive to
life, drunkenness or moderate drink
ing? What are the facts? A man
may get as drunk, as some do once O
month, vomit out the poison, sleep
off the effects, and be sober all the
rest of the month, drinking nothing
TIL the fit comes on again. Such q
man may do more business, do it
better. preserve better health, and
live longer than the moderate drink
or, who nevergets drunk, never vomits
out the poison, keeps it within him,
adding little to it daily till it un-
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