five miles, are the Pali Mountains. and trying, I have felt fully repaid for the effort. Here, with a field glass, one can get such a splendid view of the valleys, the city, and the placid, blue waters of the Pacific. Along up the sides and on the top, when the ground is sufficiently level to admit of it, there are many fields under cultivation. Coffee is the principal crop raised on the highlands, but much fruit is also grown on these lands. They are rugged and steep and of volcanic origin, and in some places rise to a height of 4,500 feet. It was into these mountains that the Oahuan chieftains and their warriors fled when pursued by King Kamehameha I. and his fighting men. It was here, also, that occurred the last battle between the forces of King Kamehameha and the Oahuan chiefs. It ended disastrously for the Oahuans, many hundreds of whom were driven over steep precipices in their endeavor to escape, and were killed. This ended the tribal wars, and to King Kamehameha belongs the credit of consolidating the many different islands under one government, and his name is revered by the Hawaiians, much the same as the Americans revere the name of Washington. "I have made several trips up into the Pali Mountains, and although to climb this range is extremely difficult In the destructive storm which swept the North Atlantic Coast on Sunday, Nov. 27th, the Steamer Portland was wrecked on the east shore of Cape Cod and every soul on board perished. The crew and passengers numbered 120, and the beach between High Head and Peaked Hills was strewn with their bodies for several days following. mentary things to say of them, to all of which I agree, except in one instance, where he states that this is a place where it is always afternoon.' This will stand correction, and Honolulu should be spoken of as the city where it is always tomorrow.' The people here, without exception, are inclined to be languid, and defer anything they have to do until tomorrow. This perhaps is on account of the climate, but more likely on account of the isolated position they occupy. We have no cable lines or means of communication with the outside world, except by mail steamers, and as it takes these steamers seven and eight days to make the trip from 'Frisco,' and as they do not come oftener than every ten days, news from the outside world is always quite stale when we get it. 46 Now that these islands have passed to the control of the United States, and a government of stability is assured, I think it will not be many months before a cable line is laid between here and Frisco.' Frisco.' Charters have already been granted for a cable from Yokohama to Honolulu and from Honolulu to Frisco,' and it seems as if we could hardly get along without it, especially if the United States holds the Philippines and establishes a naval station here. The future seems bright for Honolulu, and I look for a big inflow of American capital, as it seems a very inviting field." JOHN KEELY AND HIS MOTOR. Was It a Barnum, the circus man, self-dependent, his parents having died Confidence attributed his good fortune during his infancy. He learned the Game? to the innate desire of the carpenter's trade, after attending school American people to be "humbugged," for two or three years. According and even Phineas was outdistanced in to his own testimony, he first had his impositions on the public by John his attention attracted to his discovery Worrall Keely, the "inventor" of the by the rattling of a window in response "resonator" and liberator," as he to the deep tones of an organ in a called the two pieces of mechanism by neighboring church. He was only which he succeeded in duping capital- thirteen years of age when he began ists out of more than $5,000,000. his investigation of this phenomenon. W There were many credulous persons, among whom were some of the stockholders in the "" Keely Motor Company," who believe that Keely had really made a wonderful discovery and his secret would be made public at his death should his motor not be perfected in advance. But Keely is dead and he has not left the least evidence that he ever made a discovery of a new" etherical" force. Keely was born in Philadelphia in 1837, and since early childhood was integration of the body in question, and this disintegration in turn is capable of being converted into motion." motor is can probably be obtained from a careful examination made not long since by a disinterested Englishman. He recalls how Tyndall and others have Keely's own language, descriptive of satisfactorily demonstrated that in mo- his theory, is a little flighty in its style; tion is to be sought the true origin of for instance, he is quoted as saying: sound, heat, light and probably elec- All operations of nature have for tricity in a motion that is vibratory, their sensitizing centers of introductory the pulsations of which can be calcu- action, triple vacuum evolutions. These lated, if not explained. The new evolutions are centered in what I call chemistry goes further and discovers a atomic triple revolutions, highly radiaconstant motion of the atoms among phonic, and thoroughly independent of themselves. Keely's idea is the liber- all outside forces in their spheres of ation of that motion in its primitive or action. In fact, no conceivable power, quasi-primitive form, and its applica- however great, can break up their independent centers. So infinitely minute are they in their position that, within a circle that would inclose the smallest grain of sand, hundreds of billions of them perform, to an infinite mathematical precision, their continuous vibratory revolution of inconceivable velocity. The different conditions include the change of the mediums for disturbing equilibrium, under different mediums for intensifying vibration, as associated with them progressively from the molecular to the interetheric: first, percussion; second, undulation; third, vibratory undulations; fourth, vibratory percussion; fifth, water and air; sixth, air alone." W The liberator," a pencil sketch of which is here JOHN WORRAL KEELY. tion to the use of man; the resolution of that ether, so-called-vastly more tenuous and tangible than electricity itself in which the waves of sound and light are supposed by scientists to be produced. The discovery of the fact that objects composed of a material such as glass could be made to vibrate at a distance only in response to one particular chord to which their mass seemed to respond, led to the discovery on which his work is based the finding of the so-called chord of the mass' of any material body, and the application of this discovery to the production of vibrations at will. The utilization of this chord produces dis The Liberator. 64 shown, was the mysterious agent of Keely's public demonstrations for the first twenty-five years. This machine has been remodeled repeatedly. It has been the wonderful feats of this machine which has aided Mr. Keely in securing great financial aid in his undertaking. A Mrs. Moore having such implicit confidence in the discovery, that for years she has paid an annuity to Keely to aid him in defraying the expenses of continued stance was that Keely carried in his steel tube, it was apparently inexhaustible, which militated against the idea that he used compressed air. Keely devised an enormous number of mechanisms to aid in convincing skeptics that this mysterious atomic energy could be put to practical use. He died without effecting his purpose, and whether the mass of manuscript which he left will be of any value or not, remains to be seen. Keely surrounded himself with a halo of mystery and worked for a long time in the most water as you can hold in the palm of your hand. A bucket of water contains enough of this vapor to produce a power sufficient to move the world out of its course. An ordinary steamship can be run so fast with it that it would be split in two.' Keely used to give astonishing exhibitions at his laboratory, which mystified everyone. The wand of the prestidigitateur and the slate of the medium were exchanged in his person for a couple of tuning forks and a violin bow. He struck his tuning forks and set a brass ball running at 600 revolutions a minute. He would rasp a violin bow over a tuning fork and the apparatus would raise a heavy weight, the power exer cised, he said, being equal to a pressure of 25,000 pounds to the square inch. Some of those present at the seances, which occurred in 1885, thought that they had witnessed miracles, others concluded that they had been humbugged. Some of the stockholders were not satisfied that they had not been duped, and, very naturally, they wanted the mysteries explained. Legal proceedings were instituted, and on November 17, 1888, Keely was committed to jail for contempt of court in refusing to obey an order to explain the workings of his machine to a committee of experts. He did not, however, remain in jail very long. To the very last he never failed to get financial KEELY'S "LIBERATOR" Город |