The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-08-21
FAME AND FORTUNE.
a Visit to Jno. N. cayce's Work
Shops Some Of His Inventions.
Philosophy Confused and Nature
Made to Yield Hidden Truths.
The World to Be Astounded at His
Accomplishments.
CORRESPONDENCE.

VeQJlOQS JlaG nave SpT uuS from his
mastery brain. Edison had friends
with millions to back him and has
made fame, fortune and failures, but
this unostent atious gentleman, rear
ed a watchmaker's apprentice, with
no college diploma to testify his
acquaintance with even the rudi-
ments of mechanism, with a large
family and nothing but his deft fin
gers to support it with, without
prestige or assistance, and without
even the necessary tools to fashion
the creatures of his genius, has
risen and with meteorIc dash passed
by all competitors and stunned
philosophers by diving underneath
their anxioms or fundamental ideas
and developing facts that will com
pei a rewriting of their books.
This perhaps appears fulsome, but
a visit to his workshops and an ac-
quaintance with the results has
convinced me that he stands unrl-
vailed to-day in the fields of inven-
ton, and has mastered principles in
mechanism SO astoundingly at vari-
ance with accepted truths in nature,
hitherto so called, that actual dem
Onstration can hardly convince.
l have just returned from Frank
lin, where went to see a machine
inst completed for measuring the
quantity, specific gravity and Their
monte temperature of liquids. This
is a continuance that will be of inf
mite value to the government. AS
you are aware, the government has
a man called gauger at each DIS
tillery, who has to dip in his Their
mometer and his hydrometer sepa-
rately and stop to make his figures
and calculations to arrive at the
specific gravity, and then he must
take his gauge and measure the Ii
quid in the tank and again caculate.
Several objections may be raised to
the gauger that do not apply to this
machine. He may be dishonest, he
may make mistakes, he consumes
much time, and he draws a large
salary. Now, put in this machine
at the end OF the still-pipe, securely
fastened in a chest so none can
touch or tamper with it, start the
still to running, and the flow of the
liquid through the meter starts ma
chinery that not only measures the
quantity, but the gravity and temper
AZURE, and records it all upon a
sheet of paper, all done automatic
ally and as absolutely correct as the
of the stars. Mr.. Cayce
has already the assurance that if
his continuance does what he claims
for it, the government will adopt it.
His first machine is just completed
and works perfectly. 1t is model
of simplicity, beautiful in compact
symmetry and systematic design.
Mr.. j. Leede, one Of the finest
young workmen in the United
States, constructed the model,
which is now ready for public in
spection.
Mr.. Cayce has fifteen different
patents, all upon practical ideas and
for every day useful purposes. He
has never made but one failure to
secure a patent and that was be-
cause of bungling agent. He now
does business through the renowned
agents Mum d Co., and through
them has never failed. Several of
his patents are already extensively
used, but are dormant to some ex
tent for the want of capital and con
cert of action among the stockhold
ers. His Spring Power is one of
the cheapest and surest motors
known. His Gas Machine has also
been brought to absolute perfection
and is undoubtedly the cheapest,
surest and best illumination in exist
ence. The Presbyterian church In
Franklin demonstrates this. His
first air-pump did not work salts
factorily and was the means of
bringing the continuance into bad
but this has been replaced
by a perfect machine until now
there is not an objection that can
be urged to the Gas that is not APP
plicable to the finest working gener-
ator that furnishes gas for any city
in the world. It is certain to come
into general use.
One of Mr.. Cayce's latest inven-
tions is a paradox in mechanics.
The very statement of the idea ma
by the invention carries
with it retutation, if we apply the
known axioms upon which philoso-
pliers base mechanical theories.
The attraction of gravitation is one
of natures inexplicable powers.
Throw an object up and it comes
down, exerting a force in its de-
scent, but the force expended In
it exactly balances the pow
err generated by the fall. This con-
trivance consists of two weights
that actually assist in raising each
other and then work together in
coming down. do not know
what the proportion is exactly, but
the idea can be illustrated in the
following statement: Apply one
pound to raising the weights. and
thew give you back ten pounds in
IalllnS5 50 IudL II SntS OOA'h lfoHOS
is made the medium between one
horse power engine and printing
press that requires a ten-horse en-
CINE to move it, the power of nine
horses is saved, or, rather, it is
found, for this invention develops
power in gravity hitherto unknown.
The learned Prof. Knight of GIN
cinnati, the author OF mechanical
dictionary, and perhaps better
versed in known principles of
mechanism than any man in the
country, fell back in astonished
confusion from a contemplation of
Mr.. Cayce's patent, and although
unable to refute the principle which
lay spead out in actual demonstra
ton before him, he denied it be
causesit would compel him to re-
write his books which had been
founded upon a so called truth in
nature that was here proven to be
false.
1 speak by the letter and with due
knowledge of the weight of my
statement when / here remark that
six months time will find Mr.. Cayce
l.