The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-12-12

1t up there in the air, and at any de-
sired height-or will, when it is com
pleted. II you lay q dumb boil down
on the ground, and keep everyone from
touching 1T, it will lie there. But the
keely. motor can pick it up without
any visible substance touching it and
place 1T on the top of post
Ii you OIL up an engine, set all tho
bolts, draw all the fire from under the
boiler, and sit down ten feet away, the
engine will wait as long as YOU do.
But the Keely motor will make that
engine start up anu will send the fly
wheel at 400 revolutions minute. Not
just now, but presently-when it Ia
completed.
Long ago he quarreled with the
heely motor Company and broke up
the machinery which he had spent
years in preparing. At least, he said
he had broken it up. Some of tho
mon who had kissee their contribu-
tlons good-by said he never had made
any such machinery. When he was
IN straits, after that rupture, Mrs.
Moore, who herself owned q good deal
OF the Kcely motor stock, insisted he
should sever his connection with that
organization and contine himself to the
perfecting of an apparatus which
wouln demonstrate his principle ard
reduce it to practical use, and abandon
the hope of making something thut
could be patented.
Ono OF his friends-one who has
been very truc to htm-bcggcd him to
tell the secret, SO that if he should die
suddenly some other scientist could
take up the work whore he left it and
go on, that the priceless boon be
not lost to civilization. But Kecly
has positively refused. He says he
has discovered, and that the ac-
count OF his study and the result OF
his experiments are committed to q
safety deposit vault, and that If he
should ever die before tho motor is
completed the truth will be made
known. So the friend and backer did
what they have all boon doing for q
quarter Of IL ccntury-he waited.
MIS-. Moore says she doesn't know
any more than the rest of them, and
that at least is doubtless true. But
she has cvcry faith in the man, anl he
Is welcome to any part Of her fortune
that he wants-and has been since
1857 II he is successful she can't
make much out of it, and she says she
doesn't want to. And if he were to
arrive at II solution Of his problems to-
his triumph very long. a man of ~
doesn't feel that he has much lccwny
in the matter Of time.
No man knows what the Kccly
motor is.
In the first place, Kccly said whom
he was BOY he saw the window of
his shop shake, and minutes after the
wagon which:had shakcn it won't past.
The wagon was SO far away it could
not be heard when tho window be-
traycd It's coming. Another time he
found there was u certain f;lucet in the
house which, when turned in u certain
hour OF the day, would permit the
water to drip; and that tho dripping
OF the water at that time whould shake
the whole house. IIo went into the
rooms next door, and found the fall Of
that watcr-u drop ut u time, rcmem-
bcr-could be felt there.
One time IL number of men were
practicing drum corps in street,
and storm came up, and thcy went
into hall. The score made all the
drums break into Il concerted roll on
instant And us the roar of that drum
ming smOtC the air tho windows were
broken.
From all this he understood there
was such thing Us sympathetic vibra-
tons by which a. force could, under
certain conditions, he communicated
from ono object to another. And he
believed this force was tremendous
These vibrations are in the ether
which surrounds our earth, which per-
vadcs our universe, and the possibilities
Of the successful kccly motor arc
limited only by the limitations Of
space. Objects vitalizcd so as to
vibratc in this ether with a certain
relation to each other will together
exert IL tremendous force. The ap-
plication OF that force to material
things in earthly affairs in all MIR.
kccly has to do now. He has found
tho other.
THE RESUI.T is STILL. IN MYSTERY.
All that is known is that when two
certain objects are in proper relation
to each other, the vibrations give
thcm control oycr ~ force greater than
anything known in physics; u force
that sots tho laws Of gravity at de-
tiancc: force beside which magne-
tism is rs child's play. How far Koely
has progressed in developing machi-
ncry which will apprehcnd this force
and apply it to mundane objects is tho
problem. Hc may know all about it.
lle may be able, II he will, to hitch
his engine tomorrow to II steamship
and drive her across tho Atlantic with
out tho use Of IL ton OF coal. lie may
be able to attach it to u freight car
and travel from Philadelphia to Chica-
go in two hours. He may be able to
drive tunnel through mountain,
or sink Il shaft into tho earth. He
says he can do any OF these things
when the motor is completed, ana he
has said time and again that he was
at tho very vcrgc OF completion. He
may be fooling them he may be there
now.
And on the other hand, he may know
nothing. He has never given q test
outside OF his workshop. What things
hc has in his tanks and rooms no one
knows. He has never permitted
thorough investigation. Keely has
enjoyed the confidence of some OF the
hrcwdcst investors Of the ago. The
tests he has given have been in the
presence Of men Of silence, and if he |
has not now force he has a method !
OF controlling Old forces that none OF |
thcm can understand. And if he has |
what he prctcnds to have he will |
surely rcvoluti0nizc the mechanics OF |
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