The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-08
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 discovery which we frankly aamit appeals to us all over. In order to get at the subject properly. we give this extract from an article In contemporary:
 It has been known for centuries that two electrically charged bodies attract or repel each other. According as they are charged with the same or opposite kinds of electricity. IL has been more than sus. pected that gravitation is merely the pull of the earth's electricity. But until now no one has succeeded In so charging q body with electricity that the grayitation would be overcome and the body be free to rise from the earth
 Mir. Gieberus has made a new form of electrical machine and charged hts body one day as an experiment, when he ne-
 weight. He ct once followed on the line
 of experiment and succeeded in getting
 the electrical charge strong enough to
 overcome srayitation.
 There you are. Talk about flying ma- chines-they are not in 1t with this inven-
 ton. True. Mir. sieberus finds one serious dificulty. owing to the rapid dissipation of the electric charge which does not
 give the wouid-be iiyer fair chance to exploit himself in the upper regions He hopes to overcome this difficulty by don ming clothing of silk. and why should not that be sueessfulF Franklin. if history hasn't skipped a cog. brought down the lightning with Kite and string of silk. and why shouldn't the same material help fir. sieberus in his experiments? It can. and must. or science Is no good.
 As -intimated, balloons and other flying
 nAchlnas win have no standing-or sail ing-when this invention Is perfected and made success Instead of depending oa a cumbrous mechanical arrangement which is at all times liable to take a header into the nearest water, a Ia Lang ley. this will require no machine of any description. All that man will have to do VIII be to charge himseif properly and then lift himself up and be of. Of course, he will require some kind of paddle or screw propeller to carry him along after he gets up, but that is one of the minor details of the business. The main thing is to get of the earth. When that is &C., compilshed the man win find some way to go. If 1t is only by taking advantage of a favorable breeze.
 When we come to think of this inven- tion, the mind Is amazed at the wonder full possibilities involved. All that Is necessary is to take on the proper charge. If one doesn't get enough of the rising fluid he'll remain on the earth, like Mark Twain's loaded frog, and if he overdoes the thing, he may find himself pumping some of the planets before he can unload, Doubtless, the inventor will properly com slider all these difncuities. and will be able to load himself with just enough electricity 10 elevate him as high as he chooses to go and to remain in the air till he Is ready to descend. We beg that he win not overlook these essentials.
 If we stop to think, we will find 1t dIf- fcult to estimate the many times and ways that this invention will appeal to us. stOh. that had the wings like dove!" sighed the Psalmist. and who is there who has not at some time felt ths desire to kick the solid earth from under his feet and get up into the pure air of the upper regions. To get away for even a short time from the noise and hustle and confusion and politics of earth and gyrats among the bats and things, would be a wonderful relief at times. A man would take chances of collision with a comet if he could enjoy a jaunt where politicians and bill-pushers' couldn't get at him.
 As wessiew 1t, there are two difficulties | in the way. one of which the inventor may overcome, but about the other we ton of portability. if we may so term it. A ship on the water or a train on the land can stop when the motive power | gives out, but man up among the clouds | might have some difficulty about finding a | convenient stopping place. and if all his fluid should give out while he was some hundreds or thousands | of feet above the earth he would come down a little more. suddenly than he | would find pleasant.
 This is drawback which Mir. Sieberus | has probably taken into consideration and provided against, but the other one is likely to be too much for human skill to overcome. That is the probability of en- high winds when one gets up into the air. It is difficulty which every class of flying machine has to contend with, and we fail to see how this inven- tor will get around it. To go up In the air with the intention of going to Guam and find oneself pumped down in Kala- mazoo might be embarrassing. Or. if he should set out to see his best girl and land in duck-pond. he would say things not in the good books. If Mir. Seberus can conquer these difloulties along with the others referred to, we may soon see men and women lifting themselves out of various tight places and unpleasant situations as easily as birds could do. Let | the inventor hurry his eontraptlon to per fection so that the present generation | may get some fun out of 1t.
 INSANE NEGROES.