The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-08-03
poNNslLYs CYCLONE tRADlcAToR

D%oNNElLY'S CYCLONE tRAOlcAToR.
Ignatious Donnelly has turned his
attention from Shakespeare and poll
tics to cyclones. Mr.. Donnelly is one
of those men who are in advance of
their time. AT some future day the
the world may recognize Donnelly just
AS IL finally recognized Galileo and
Copernicus: but Mt present the world
is not stuck upon Donnelly. When
Donnelly attempted TO show that Bacon
wrote Shakespeare and that Shakes
peare personally was a fake, the world
refused Ia believe him, maintaining
that the only genuine fake who had
anything To do with Shakespeare was
Donnelly himself. When more recently
he sought the gubernatorial nomina-
ton from the Farmers Alliance of
Minnesota, Donnelly was derided the
length and breadth of the land as a
chump as well as a fake, and the Min
nesota farmers would have none of
him.
Failing TO convince the world of his
genius in literature and politics, the
unfortunate but versatile Donnelly
proposes To make n ten-strike in
science. There is no getting around
a scientific demonstration. People
may be too dull to understand a liter
AIRY argument, too stupid TO appreciate
political sagacity, but they have got to
believe the evidence of their senses.
and Donnelly will show them how to
tame cyclones for u starter.
Donnelly announces that he has made
"A critical study of cyclones, their origin,
nature, attributes and propensities. and
has succeeded in discovering the secret
of tapping their fury and making
them AS tame and weak as M of
President llarrison's messages. In the
first place, he says. cyclones are mani
festations of electricity. There was a
time when they staid at home. and be-
haved themselves reasonably well, but
the rails and telegraph wires of the
Pacific railways have eNerted a bad in
lluence upon them. The surplus cleo
tricity of the Pacific coast. instead of
gradually diffusing itself over the Pa
cilic ocean, now goes East every little
while by some one of the competing
lines 10 enjoy itself. After crossing
the Rockies. il encounters the electric
ity of the Atlantic coast taking a pleas
ure trip West, and the collision of the
two results. of course. in a horrible
wreck. There is a fierce struggle to de.
termine which shall get out of the way of
the other but the Pacific electricity, be-
ing better trained and more "scienced"
than the Atlantic, soon succeeds in
winding its adversary and knocking it
heels w head across the country to
the great detriment Of all people any
where within the vicinity.
Donnelly has a remedy for these dis
reputable prize fights far more effect
i've than any city ordinances or police
supervision possibly could be. lie adj.
yises communities not TO wait till the
contest has actually begun, but TO take
time and electricity by the forelock.
lie proposes keeping anchored balloons
in the air at a great height, connected
TO the earth by metallic ropes. The
balloons are 10 be kept supplied with
gas by means of tubes. In each there
is one of D%onnelly's improved cyclone
eradicators, which catches the electric
ity from the air, spanks IL, makes il
thoroughly ashamed of itself, and