The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1898-01-22

out Of another metal than no has or
Gprouting pair of wings and flying right
up into the mir. You can combine tho
chemical elements, tho gases and LIQUIDS
and solids in thousands of ways, but YOU
can't take simple elementary motal such
rs copper and change it into gold unless
you argue that copper contains gold. You
can take n chemical elomont and combine
it in 40 different ways with other clements
so that its appearance will DO changed,
but you can't destroy that clement or
change it to another element If you
think you cnn, why, you'll BIO u good man
to talk to promoter"
Now, look hero. ] remember the timo
when they said we couldn't get machine
to set type. When l was boy, didn't
they say VIC never would have a self bind
or? Think of the telephone, tho phono-
He has no moro chance of making gold
graph and all of them things Ill tell
you, you don't know what they arc going
to do next"
. think they arc going to do you next.
I'll bet if n man came i'll here Mt this min
uto and wanted to sell you some stock in n
gold manufacturing company you'd bite {"
"Well, 1 wouldn't right away, but I'd
investigate.
That's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES They'd
provo to you that gold can be made from
old tin cans. Why, 800 years ago, when
tho world was full of superstition and
most people believed in magic, if man
said that he could mako gold out of tho
cheaper metals his friends began to watch
him and his wife kept him in the house ut
nights. If it seemed foolish then, what
ought it to DO now? Everything that has
boon learned in chemistry simply goes to
prove that tho talk of making gold is the
al S,f t1,Nf -. Il
sharper 1t belongs with tho perpetual
motion schome. There is no limit 60 n
mans ingenuity, but the inventors and
discoveries work according TO general laws
which have been tested and proved mil
lion times. Edison has u now method of
getting iron from u clay ore. He docs it
by electricity. But he doesn't make the
iron. Now, 1 expect to see arships some
day. / expect that we shall have devices
for recording thoughts and taking photo
graphs at long range by some kind of cleo
trical transmission, but 1 never expect to
see tho day when "a straight line will not
bc tho shortest distance between two
points or when tho whole will not be great
er than the part; Also hardly think that
L shall ever SEQ ono chemical element
changed by any hocus pocus into another
chemical element When do see it, OK
pect to sec the rain fall upward and all the
accepted laws Of nature reversed
You'd DC nightly fooled If this follow
did mako gold, now wouldn't you:' ask cd
the other.
'I'll tell you what you do-you wall
until you reach tho ago of discretion and
I'll talk to you. In tho meantime you'd
better let me carry your money for you
l suppose if you started down street and
met man who owned two or three GOLD
factories you'd cash check for him.
wouldn't you? Let me tell you something
If ever turn crooked, this is where
want to be- right here in Chicago. II
organize stock company for extracting
eau de cologne from tho Chicago river
and LII sell million shares ut 81 share
l may start two or three gold factoric.
too. If do, I'll let you know.
The other man WAS mad, but not con
| vlnccd. He knew there might be some
thing in it, after all.