The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-04-21

flowed sufficient water from the spring to gener-
ate the immense energy required to set the
chine in motion. Then it began reluctantly to
move hardly revolving once in whole day, but
all the time it accommodating speed Faster
and faster it moved, until the huge fy-wheel spun
with frightful rapidity. turned off the water and
was rejoiced to read on the indicator that the
speed remained constant | had perfected the
grand invention of civilization.
You know the rest. i went in partnership with
such reliable manufacturers as | could interest
and | have now built and dominate city which
is destined to become the metropolis of the middle
west. have the very digestion and propagation
of energy, perpetual motion. unlimited power
through the irritation and reaction of certain
chemicals and water. These natural agents never
lose their potentiality and do not have to be
newed as at first | thought would be the case
The interaction is perfect. To get more power |
pay visit by night to the cave and turn lit
tie more water The upward rush of the Missing
steam and the downfall of water give double
impetus which is almost irresistible
so here is my secret, understood by no other
man IN the world to be secret. revealed in its
fullness only unto you, my old chum. Don't you
think you and | can make a successful flying ship
through the application of this chemical force OF
mine? We can work together, you putting in your
knowledge asa professional aeronaut l co-labor-
ing in the construction of the engines. Perhaps
you will reach the North Pole and the South one
too before Walter Wellman gets started"
Here ended the narrative. l sat in half-haze.
meditating that the day of alchemy and marvels is
still with us There was CLEAN of JOY beaming
through my haze, giving me new hope that some
day | shall be king of the air, in spite OF all my
previous failures.
ON the following morning admitted into the
- hidden cave, and | know beyond peradventure
that the motive force which drives the great fac
tories of that city and lights and heats is moth
ing else than the chemical combination of am
monia-stone water, and complex solution of
sulphur and lime, most cleverly applied to ma
chnery.
My friends who read this, some of you may be
living in the very place whose origin is here de-
scrbed without knowing that there is anything
unusual about it. Matter of fact citizens will you
ever know that Niagara is not your servant? 1t is
doubtful. If in the beginning you had been in
formed whence the current derived, the mys-
terry of it might have been disconcerting, and you
would have been unlikely to risk your capital in
putting up factories dependent upon it. Were you
to be told the whole secret you would go to
making electricity for yourselves and Judah Brad
ford would cease to have an income from his dis
covery.
Puzzeopolis? Well, that is the equivalent of
the name, not the spelling of it, Indian nomen-
clature borrowed from when the town
woolens and many other wares, unconsciously
ing it's existence and prosperity to the Vermont
boy who left home because his mule-power churn
failure in the eyes of his practical father.