The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-07-16


covered how to make this force loosen its grip on
the particle-that is Keely of Philadelphia in the
United States
What! You don't the Keely motor man?"
D cred jennie laughing. THAT arrant hunlbug!
Why, all the papers in the world have exposed his
ridiculous preentons Ie has done nothing but
spend other peoples money
Ioo Yes, the newspapers have ridicued him. Human
beings have since the beginning of the world,
their prophets. Nevertheless liberated
- force that DO gauge made by He
~ has been boastful if you like and has said that
w a tcacupful of water he would drive a steamship
over the l have been silent, working away
-, with my him. and he has working away
-. with his eye or me- fer each knows what the other
doing. If either of us discovered how
~ force then that mans name will down to posterty
forever He has not yet been able do it; neither
have l. There still difference betweels
uS-he appears to be able that force in his
% presence; l only do it at a distance All
nv my experiments lately have been III the direction of
making notifications with this machine, o
' Hbemte the force within the compass, say of this
" room; but the problem has baf1ed The invisible
rays which this machine sends and which will
penetrate stone irOn wood or any ether substance
must unite at focus, and l have not been able to
bring that focus than something half
!, 81 a mile
J Last summer 1 went to unnhabted part of
} J Switzerland and there continued my experiments
" blew up Il will rocks and powders
sides the distances varying from a mile to half 1t
and when you came in and showed me the gold 1
recognized Il that one had discovered
nay the secret been trying fahom for the last
ten years 1 thought that perhaps you had
from Keely. l convinced that the explosion
you speak of in the treasury caused by myself.
you" This machine, which you reckessly threatened
IL out Of the window, accidentally slipped from
b ' support when working time after
midnight the 18th 1 placed it Immediately
me you it where it throws its rays into mi|aIr
Wa" and is consequently harmless but L knew
as" posiOn must have taken place in Vienna somewhere
within the radius of half mile. 1 drew the pencil
" semicircle that you the map Of Vienna, for
i"7' my excitement in placing the machine upright
had not noticed exactly where it had pointed, but
knew along the line had drawn explosion must
II have occurred and could only hope that it had
w. been a serious one which it seems it waited
I"F and waited, hardly daring to leave my attic, 3uJ
'' hearing of any disaster torn between
the anxiety that would naturally come to any humane
% in my position-who did not wish to destroy
- Hfe-and that nothing had occurred,
- had not actually made the discovery thought 1
"@ had made You spoke OF my actions being childish
but when realized that had myself been the
% of the explosion fear Of criminal prosecution came
III over me. Not that I should object to Imprisonment
if they would allow me to continue my experiments,
but that doubtless they would not do, for the author
~ tiles nothing of science and less"
spite of her initial skeptcism, Jennie found her
self gradually coming to believe in the efficiency OF
my the harmless looking mechanism of glass and iron
that she the table before her. and sensation
horror held her spelbound she gazed at it Its
pms" awful possibilities began slowly to develop in her
mind, and she asked breathlessy:
fS what would happen if you to turn that
point toward the center of the earh?'
q told you what would happen. Vienna would lie
IN ruins and possibly the whole Austrian empire and
!, "A perhaps adjoining countries would become
iff of impalpabe dust 1t may be that the world
itself would dissolve 1 cannot tell what the mag
s ntude the result might be- for have not dared to
-, risk the experiment"
'"'o "Oh this is too frghtful to think about" she
cried You must destroy the machine, professor,
no. and you must make another"
"Whlt! And give up the hope that my name will
descend o posterity?"
, Prof Seigfried when this machine becomes
. known world, there will be no pOsterity for
I your name to descend With the present hatred
of nation against nation with different countries full
of those unimprisoned manacs whom call jingOe5
preaching the hatred of one people against
cther-how long do you think the world will last
when once knowledge is abroad in itT
The professor looked longingly machine he
had slowly and painfully constructed.
, ut would be of much use to humanity if it
but benevOlently employed. With the coalfelds
" Everywhere diminishing. it would supply motive
the universe that would last through the
ages"
tS prof Seigfried" exclaimed Jennie earnestly
''when the Lord permits knowledge of that machine
to become common property it Is His will that the
end of the world shall come"
49, The professor said nothing. but stood with deeply
wrnkled brow. gazing earnestly at the mechanism
In his hand the hammer head which he had
lent Pie''-' So " W So ~ ~ ~ Wy W
"n % " ~ W no 10 7i ~
-, and sent it crashing through the machine. whose
L splintering glass fell with a musical tinkle
. Jennie gave startled cry. and with low
professor struggled his chair and fell
} than sat down in it. CHASTITY paor Overspread his
face the girl again the cupboard
poured brandy and offered 1t to him. then
tand ~ - p - ~ w