Show THE MOTOR EVERY now and then the subject of the keeley motor is brought out dressed over paraded for a short time and then permitted to retire for a long ions rest only to be disturbed again as some perhaps more satirical than scientific persons claim until it is about time to levy another assessment on oa the stockholders it has been sug by the more practical that the very fact that a mystery surrounds Kee leys alleged discovery makes it a fraud to all intents and purposes pur poses even i if it be not in theory a mere chii chimera nera but tuis tins does not follow folio wai ab it certainly would it il the standard ot 01 mechanical power were the only one to be applied in all cases the history of all tile the revolutionizing inventions is a story of up uphill hill struggles straggles it IL is the effort of one man who bas penetrated the domain of scientific kaow knowledge ledge until the discovery of sowe some previously unknown principle has rewarded warded ic him battling witt with fortune everybody elte not having accompanied him during his eions and explorations and there therefore A re not having 8 en as he has sen seen must MJ take lake his tor for granted grante ct or dis believe beli eye ane tendency teiA dency of man in all ages of the world to believe only what appears to his sensuous nature because of the effort evolved in entering the realm of metaphysics for further knowledge is V artell en understood meu tal phenomena may not be explicable at ac all and yet be the basic property properly of some grand development by which mau man la Is brought brou tit IULO closer companionship panion ship with nis his fellow man and therefore ther elure advanced so much newer the author and creator ot of all for it should be remembered no man however great a genius tie he may be or how much good he may have accomplished accomplish ud lor for the world is strictly strict Iv speaking an inventor he is merely a successful explorer having brought out of the darkness something that was there to be brought out but was wv previously unseen can some of an idea as to the hardships and discouragements discourage ments attendant upon the early labors of geo stephenson Fulton for example to crude and inefficient appliances ances were added lack of sufficient means and the derision and acoff ing of their neighbors who in the case of the latter at least permitted their ridicule to amount to persecution this is a great hindrance to a young genius who rias haa conceived an idea the full development of which is destined to compress com months into days and change nations from frac fractions Lions of another to next door neighbors but luckily the ont oab who gave him inspiration also gave him courage and strength without which he must mast have fallen by the way and taken his precious embryo with him to the grave jae he was called a lazy loafer because he would do nothing but tinker with his toy and even after he had his boat anchored at the wharf and it was about to be set adrift he was followed by jeers and contemptuous expressions from tae populace but denunciation pre ceded applause prosperity followed adversity in IB tie t ie light of history and of current events in the light of our own experience at one time or another it occurs to us that there is a great deal that is useful and desirable that we dont know but are willing to find out we have an intuition but lack the faculty of giving it expression or attaching it to anything practical we look to others to do this for us and the fact that they do not always in a materialistic way what they have already contrived within the book and volume of their brains is not necessarily an indication that they never will or never can reasoning from this standpoint it is not wise to say that there is nothing practicable in Kee leys assumed invention and it is ad admitted bAtted bya scientists wao have thoroughly examined the plans that there is feasibility in them that the theory upon which they rest is corie correct coneck ct perhaps the addition of one little pulley or the tightening of one small screw will so operate upon the contrivance as to drag the hidden bidden power from its recess aad harn harness essit it to railway steamships and stationery machinery As small a matter as that and which was overlooked by the inventor himself came near defeating Steven sons grand invention his locomotive would work but it awauld not pull a train A bystander suggested that it lacked weight in proportion to its prop propulsive asive power which was all that was needed and to that casual suggestion we may possibly owe the degree of rapid transit which permeates aties every state and territory in the union literally binding them all together with hooks of steel |