Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-08-17

d., writes on "a Thousand Miles Ar
Hour" in Hearst's Magazine.
Newspaper readers were startled II
Gently by an announcement that q
new type OF conveyance had been in
Vented-a new car able to develop
a speed OF one thousand miles an hour
1t seems almost an anti-climax to say
that the announcement further declai
ed, speed of three hundred miles al
hour could be easily attained"
1t must be added by way of inter
probation that the vehicle for which
such startling future is predicted is
Still only in the experimental stage
To speak quite accurately it exists
only in the form of laboratory models
These models, however, give a really
remarkable performance, and demon
strate the principles upon which the
commercial car is expected to work.
The inventor of the new machine
is Mr.. Emile Bachelet, a Franco
American electrical engineer, now liv
ing in New York.
The car itself is metal cylinder,
with conical ends to overcome all
resistance Tin the models a skele-
+a, 1f Ri Tho hacn ~ tbn ha-
ing a plate of aluminium. The car has
neither wheels nor internal mechan'
ism, yet it is capable of travelling
along the miniature track at high
rate of speed. While in progress it
does not rest on the track itself, but
moves through the air, seemingly I'M
supported.
The explanation of the mystery is
that the car passes over a series OF
electromagnetic which are energlzed
co-incidentally with the passage OF
the car by electricity conveyed from
guide rails to the magnets by brushes
adjusted to the side of the car.
These brushes supply the only con-
tact of any part of the car with the
rails when the apparatus is in motor
The effect of the electromagnetic is
to repel the aluminium plate by Undue
ing what are called eddy currents,
and the entire car is lifted and sup
ported on an invisible cushion OF
ether. 1t is held in the air as tlrmly
as if it were supported by springs OF
steel, yet one may pass ones hanos
beneath the bottom of the car Wlthoi'
experiencing any sensation whatever
The Review of Reviews contains an
article of some interest entitled,
Modern Egypt Under It's New
Pharaoh;
Englands highest Official in egypt
is known as Agent ami Consul-den'
eral" but with this unassumiu3 tit e
20 the authority and responsibility Tx
a monarch. The present holder III
this representative position Is dis
tinguished soldier, of whom Public
Opinion" London) says:
Lord Kitchener is the New Phar-
aoh who is ruling Egypt, and so dill
ferent is he from his ancient prede-
cessor that he strives to free his
people from their burdens, and let
them 20 in peace. How far he has
succeeded he shows in his first OIL
cial report which has been issued
this week. while it's writer was en-
gagged in important consultations at
Malta with the Prime Minister, Mr.
Churchill and others.
It is no small merit for any man
to follow successfully in office so dis
tinguished statesman as LORD
Cromer proved himself in Egypt, Dut
that Lord Kitchener has done THIS is
coiclusively shown by the sauslac-
ton with which the British press gen
orally has received his first report
The daily News Uondon) for exam
pie, says:
Lord Kitchener's report may ho'
have the literary distinction OF Lore
Cromers but the spirit is good lie
writes as one who thinks well OF his
people over whom he has to rule, Wht
can sympathise with their point o.
view, and can see deep enough lhU'
Islam to appreciate its essential de
mocracy resting upon the brother
hood of man. There Is the states
man in Lord Kitchener as well al
the soldier, as those who remember
his handling of the Boer generals du
ing the peace negotiations will call u
mind.