The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-05-29

piece of iron. would release the force
which holds the particles together What
would happen."
81 don t know. =" replied Jennie
ooh, yes, You dol" cried the profess
or impatiently. but you are like ev-
cry other woman you won't take the
trouble to think. What would happen
would be this: The force that held the
particles together world he released and
the hammer would fall to powder like
that gold you showed me, and there
would be an explosion, caused by the
sudden release of the power, which
would Rpbg5ly wreck this room and
extingUiM8 orr lives. Yon under
stand Mio yor not:'
Yes LYlink Ao
Well, here sHSmething yon won It
understand and Probably Won t believe
when you hear it, There is but che
force in this world and but one particle
Of matter There is only one element.
which is tie basis of everything. All
the different shapes and conditions OF
things that We see are caused by mere
variation of that force in conjunction
with numbers Of that particle Am 1
getting beyond your depth?'
81 am afraid you are, professor -
"Of course. | know what feeble
brains the average woman is possessed
of. Still, try to keep that in your
mind. New. listen to this | have dis
covered how TO disunite that force and
that particle. can with touch fling
loose upon this earth giant whose
strength is irresistible and i1nmeasur-
able.
Then Why object 10 making your
discovery PnbAcH'
In the first place because there are
still thousand things and more to be
learned along this line Of investigation
The moment a man announces his dis
coveries he is first ridiculed; then
when the truth of what he affirms is
proved, there rise in all parts of the
world other men who say they knew all
abont it ten years ago and will prove it,
900 at least. far enough TO delude a
gullible world; in the second place, be
cause / ana a humane man [ hesitate
10 spread broadcast knowledge that
would enable any fool TO blow up the
universe. Then there is third rea-
SON There is another who | believe,
has discovered how to make this force
loosen its grip on the particle-that is
Keely of Philadelphia in the United
States =
"What You dent mean the Keely
motor MANI cried Jennie. laughing.
That arrant hulnbug, Why, all the
papers in the world have exposed his
ridiculous pretensfons. He has done
nothing but spend other peoples mon,
ey"
Eyes, the newspapers have ridiculed
him. Human beings have, since the be-
ginning of the world, stoned their
prophets. Nevertheless, he has liberated
force that no gauge made by man can
measure. He has been boastful, if You
like, and has said that with teacupful
of water he would drive a steamship
over the ocean. | have been silent,
working away with my eye on him,
and he has been working away with his
eye on NE, for each knows what the
other is doing If either OF us discovers
how to control this force. then that
mans name will go down to posterity
forever. He has not yet been able to do
it; neither have l. There is still another
difference between us-he appears to be
able to loosen that force in his own
presence; can only do it at distance.
All my experiments lately have been in
the direction Of making notifications
with this machine, SO as to liberate the
force within the the compass say, of
this room; but the problem has baffled
me. The invisible rays which this ma
chine sends out and which will pene-
trate stone, iron, wood or any other
substance must unite at focus. and
have not been able to bring that focus
nearer me than something over half a
mile.
Last summer / went to an uniuhab-
tied part of Switzerland and there con-
tinued my experiments. l blew up at
will rocks and powders ON the noun
tain sides, the distances varying from
a mile to half mile examined the
results of the disintegration, and when
y Oll Cdlllc III anu SuOMtll luG lilG pOIu
recognized at once that some one had
| discovered the secret have been trying
to fathom for the last ten years. |
thought that perhaps you had come
from keely. l am now convinced that
the explosion you speak of in the treas
ury was caused by myself. This ma
chine, which you SO recklessly threaten
ed to throw out of the window, acct
dentally slipped from its support when
| was working here some time after
midnight on the 18th. l placed it i'm
mediately as you see it now, where it
throws its rays into midair and is con
sequently harmless, but l knew an e1-
plosion must have taken place in Wien
ma somewhere within the radius of half
a mile. l drew the pencil scmicircle
! that you saw on the map of Vienna,
for in my excitement in placing the
machine upright | had not noticed ex-
actly where it had pointed, but / knew
| along the line had drawn an explosion
must have occurred and could only
| hone that if had NOT heap :, cario,,c fn,