The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 1, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO ' CALL, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 189 EL DORADOSS RICHES, Mining Property That Awaits Capital for Development. MOTIVE POWER NEEDED. Couid Be Generated on the South Fork of American River. REVENUES FROM ELECTRICITY. Various Enterprises That Would Contribute to the Profits of a Plant. [Spectal Correspondence of THE CALL.] 30.—To the rough this at must come to upon him. yut one-third the 1d commands a t future for El )t be in products that winds nor upon the Liverpocl. The mining iing to show their iduity with which opportunities in »of convincing of the ¢ taking in California PLACERVILLE observing traveler 1 county the great it it becomes viv Though the frt usual yield, it is b good price. But t Dorado County depend upon the price of industries great value, cs these p interest men yperties oing to the State in general at large a great service in ce the many and favorable r capitalists to find gold- unds. ed from one end of thiscounty I found many localities pos- »d mines, but most of the pres- s are unable to either develop or upon them. There are proofs 1 bankers’ books to show what e grounds produced ata depth m that to 250 feet. Then er with poor machinery hin- suance of the work. They were ndoned, and so they remain for capital proved mining methods to revive ccessful properties to-day are those ave gone to 700 and 1400 feet depth. Jver at Grass Valley and Nevada City a depth of 2200 feet has been reached, and ore rich in quantity and quality is the reward. The same is true in Amador | County. So it must be here. Capitalists | will find in this county that it will be to | their advantage to expert upon grounds as | they find them, do the pumping and | prospecting themselves, instead of asking men without means to put the mine into shape. Otherwise many of the best prop- erties will remain forever idle and capital be the loser. Commensurate with the importange of industries and intimately reiated to them for this portion of the country i tive power. Capital can find oppor- tunity here for fruitful investment. Power can be generated on the south fork of the American River in a central location equal to that at Folsom. Mills could be sup- plied within a radius of thirty miles, and electric power thus at the disposal of mill- men would stimulate mining in this county to such an.extent as would yield great dividends to both the enterprises. It is true the Pearson Brothers of Piacer- ville have begun a plant on the American River, built 1500 feet of ditch, done some tunneling and finished the flume grade. | Though they are persevering in their un- | dertaking they lack capital for rapid pros- ecution of the work. Here is a chance for | investment that would revolutionize the | canal system, often inefficient in its supply. Owned by Scotch and English capital, with not an interested resident in | charge, many properties - are without | motive power simply for lack of interest in | the enterprises to be supplied from these | The situation is exeeedingly favorable for the introduction of electric power. Not | only would mining industries be served, but the hundred andne other purposes to be supplied within the district would yieid a good revenue. Electric power is being put into the mines near Nevada City at an enormous expense from the Yuba River, while here the situation 1s far more favorable and the expense comparativ small. Tt is to be hoped that capitalists seeking opportuni- ties will not overlook this chance. It is but two and a half miles from Placervile to the river where the plant is now in course of construction, but proceeding minir slowly for lack of funds. The outside world has scarcely an ade- quate idea of the opportunities offered by El Dorado County in her mines and elec- A. tric facilities. . Hamirtox, SAN BERNARDINO Result of a Four Days’ Run in the Des- ert Queen. | SAN BERNARDINO, CaL.,, Aug. 31.—As the work progresses on the Altuma mine, in the Morongo mining district, the richer the ore becomes. There are at present three tunnels, No. 1 rurning in 147| feet and striking a ledge thirty-eight feet wide. Tunnel No. 2 runs in 177 feet and crosscuts a ledge eight feet wide. In this tunnel is a shaft opening to the sur- face, the shaft being eighty feet deep. Halfway up the shaft some verv rich rock has been discovered, going in the neighbor- | hood of $300 per ton in gold. This lnst‘i discovery was made only a few days ago | and has renewed the excitement in the camp. A large force of men is at work building a good road into the mine. At the point where the new ledge was dis- covered in the shaft leading from tunnel No. 2 to the surface a tunnel will be run into the body of the mountain following up the ledge. J. C. Christy, who has been making an extensive trip all over the mining country 1n the eastern portion of San Bernardino County, is quite enthusiastic, and predicts great results within the next year or so. The Virgima Dale mining district, situated near the Hathaway Mountains, isto be the place, as at present the work is being car- ried on quite extensively, and the district js overrun with mining men. The entire country shows up many bright prospects and mining men from all over the country are becoming interested. James McHaney was in San Bernardino yesterday and was much sought after, all becaunse he arrived in the city with a valise full of gold bullion from his mine, the Desert Queen. He deposited the bullion at the Farmers’ Exchange Bank, it weigh- ing 250 ounces, netting McHaney a little over $4000. The pile of bullion was viewed by\a number of curious people and men MINING. interested in mining. Everywhere on the street it was, “Have you seen McHaney ?"’ “Where is he?” etc. Mr. McHaney was seen in the evening by a CaLL representa- tive at the St. Charles Hotel. **How many days’ work does that bullion vou brought in represent?” was asked. “What I brought in is the result of four days’ run and from ‘ore that has been worked over once by my five-stamp mill and as yet there'are over 300 tons of second- hand rock still on the dump and we have milled none of the best ore.” . “How far down in the mine have you worked ?”’ “‘Our main tunnel or shaft is in about 80 feet and shows a ledge over seven feet wide, while drillings here and there along the cappings of the claim show some rich quartzite. One ledge as far as developed is over 500 feet in length. Hereafter we will run the mill day and night.” “Do you claim your mine to be the famous ‘Pegleg’ mine?” No, sir, Idonot. I am too far north and east; and another thing, it was claimed by the finder of the Pegleg that he could stand at his mine and see Warner’s ranch, while from my mine I cannot see past the San Jacinto Mountains, and they are quite a ways this side of Warner’s ranch. No, sir, I do not claim to have the Pegleg, but Pegleg or no Pegleg, I have got a good mine.” “How about those skeletons that it is re- ported you have found ?”’ “‘Oh, that’s all a myth; butif some of those ‘greenhorns’ who go about prospect- ing on the desert this time of year are not | more careful there will be some skeletons found in reality.” Mr. McHaney has some other rich claims that he has not yet done any work on, as the Desert Queen occupies his entire at- tention. The other claims are in tke vicin- ity of the big claim EXHIBTS AT STATE FAR A Large Force of Men Work- ing Day and Night in the Pavilion. Scores of Crack Horses to Contest in the Various Racing Events. SACRAMENTO, Carn., Aug. 81.—Ron- covieri’s American Concert band will in- augurate the opening of the State Fair Pavilion on Monday with an elaborate programme of music, with a stereopticon exhibition illustrating the various pieces of music as they are rendered by the musi- cians. The first selection will be the “Star-spangled Banner,” followed by a series of solos, marches, etc. Work in the preparation of the many and various ex- hi is being prosecuted day and night, and it is thought by the management that everything will be in order by Monday noon. At the park everything has received a thorough "overhauling and renovation, a large force of men under the personal supervision of Director Terry being busily engaged. The track has received every possible attention, and such horsemen as bave been working out their flyers claim that it is faster than ever before known and offer to wager that all its previous records will be broken. Director Terry has found it necessary to engage fifty outside stalls for the accom- modation of the various stables, as the 450 stalls on the inside are either occupied or engaged. A number of stables have ar- ranged for outside accommodation. Among the largest stables on the track are the strings of A. B. Spreckels, J. G. Brown & Co. and Burns and Waterhouse. At the head of Spreckels’ string is Cad- mus, one of the best handicap ‘animals in the State, who went a mile and a fourth at the last State Fair in 2:08, with 123 pounds up. Candid and Creighton are also with the stable, as are the fleet three-year-olds, Piquante, Gallant, Pat Murphy, Captain Skidance, Foremost and Navy Blue, while Rummel, Ravelston, Pique and Carnation represent the two-year-old class. In the stable of J. G. Brown & Co. of St. Louis are such animals as Libertine, who has a record of 83{, and Uncertainty, the great steeple-chaser. Lucky Dog and Lovdal head the string of the Burns & Waterliouse stable. Wilber F. Smith pre- sents Gilead,who is working out faster than ever before. The stable of Walter Hobart is expected to arrive to-morrow. Bright Phoebus heads the list, and Ferrier, who has shown great speed, is also in the com- pany. In pacing events a greatfield is promised. The free-for-all will probably list W. Wood, Chehalis, Waldo J, Seymour Wilkes and Diablo. The latter finished the last half in working out to-day in 1:01}4. The racing will begin at 1:30 o’clock on Monday, the first event being the Occi- dent stakes, a trotting race for foals of 1803. The Occident cup of the value of $400 is to be added by the society. The first colt is to receive the cup and six-tenths of stake, the total value of which is $2400; the second three-tenths and the third one- tenth. This race will be in mile heats, three in five. The stake closed with sixty nominations, of which the following rix made final payments: Vendome stock farm’s Iran Alto; Palo Alto stock farm’s Nordica and Cressida; William More- house’s Silver Ring; H. T. and A. D. Porter’s Our Seth and M. S. Severance’s La Belle. La Belle was a very speedy two- vear-old, but the Palo Alto entries and Iran Alto should give her a good race. The second race will be a pace, purse $800, for the 2:25 class. This race has the large list of sixteen entries, as follows: Dictatus, Don Fallis, Dan N, Little Alph, Pansy, Birdroe, Prince C,.Babe Marion, Alco, Welcome, Chief Moore, Ruby M, Trifle, Jay, Senator and Lynette. The third event is a trotting race, purse $1000, for the 2:20 class. For this the entries are: John Bury, Maud H, Director Prince, Montana, Hera, Bijou, Knight, Stella and Tilton B. PORTLAND'S BAD PARSON, Bank Robber Read to Be Re- leased From an Insane Asylum. The Mental Derangement Which Kept Him Out of Jall Has Disappeared. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 31.—The Baptist preacher J. C. Read, convicted of attempt- ing to rob the First National Bank of East Portland in broad daylight several months ago, and sent to the insane asylum, has' never manifested a trace of insanity since he was incarcerated. In a few days he will be set adrift upon the community. At his trial the parson showed strongin- disp osition toward entering an insanity plea, but his friends succeeded in having Lis mental condition examined, after con- viction by a jury, with the result that the asylum was substituted for the jail. The proceedings in this case were regarded as farcjcal. Three years ago Rev. Mr. Read disap- peared from his home here. The nextday his clothes were found on a river bank. Every one supposed he was accidentally dro wned or committed suicide. The river was dragged for his body| Two weekslater a telegram was received here from Moline, I1L, announcing his arrival there very sick. He returned here early this year with his family, and at once made plans to rob the bank. Read watched for an opvortunity to find the paying teller alone and then frightened him with a toy pistol. He attracted the attention of the (e{]ler of a bank on the op- posite side of the street, who arrested Read at the muzzle of a shoteun. il g S SALUTED THE AMERICANS. German Veterans Visiting the Fatherland Royally Weleomed. BERLIN, GERMANY, Aug. 31.—The Ger- man veterans of the war of 1870 visiting the Fatherland for the purpose of partici- pating in the celebration of the principal events of the conflict arrived here to-day. An immense concourse of people, headed by a delegation of 700 members of the Kriegerbund in uniform, met the veterans at the ralway station, which was gayl decorated, and gave them a rousing wel- come. The German veterans saluted the Ameri- can visitors in the military style and three bands. of music played the patriotic air “Deutschland Ueber Alles.”” After their receptionat the station the German-Ameri- cans entered carriages and were driven to the United States Embassy, where they were receiyed by Embassador Runyon. Mr. Schlemaker of Chicago made a short speech, in which he assured Mr. Runyon that he and his companions were prepared to fight for their new Fatherland as they had fought for their old one. Runyon re- plied, thanking the veterans for their visit and welcoming them as American citizens. E i FEOM THE SOUTH SEAS. Severe Earthqualke Shock on the Island of Tonga. APTA, Samoa, Aug. 14.—Political mat- ters are guiet, but no permanent peace is possible under the present conditions. No taxes are being collected from the natives. A treasury deficit of $500 was discovered. An inquiry has not vet elicited facts warranting a _ criminal _ prosecution. President Schmidt, Custodian of Rev- enue, is blamed for great carelessness. H. M. Consul, Cusack Smith, is to return to Samoa on duty and soon leaves London. Acting Consul Woodford will be much re- gretted. On July 24 there was a severe shock of earthquake on Tonga Island, but no dam- age was done. — Pitzel's Body Exhumed. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 3L.—The body of Benjamin F. Pitzel, the supposed victim of H. H. Holmes, was taken from its grave in the Mechanics’ Cemetery here this afternoon by Dr. Sidbotham, the Coro- ner’s physician. The object of the physi- cian was to secure the skull of the mur- dered man. It is understood that this gruesome relic of crime is to be used to identify the dead man by means of his teeth. It is surmised that Mrs. Pitzel will probably be called upon to testify in this direction. ——a Mrs. Foltz's Mission. LONDON, Ex~a., Aug. 31.—Mrs. Clara 8. Foltz, the noted woman lawyer of San Francisco, 1s here to assist in the case of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, who is serving a life sentence in Woking prison for the poisoning of her Hustecdl - Killed by a Carbuncle. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug 31.—Lois Willich, the publisher of ‘‘Die Laterne,” and one of the best-known German poets and jour- nalists of this country; died at his resi- dence here this morning. Death was caused by a carbuncle. Sl Mrs. Weiss Wants a Divorce. GUTHRIE, 0. T., Aug. 3L.—Mrs. Isa- belle Weiss, a prominent society woman of New York City, has filed a petition _here f\(‘)'l'_n divorce from her husband, Jacob eiss. HOTEL ARRIVALS. GRAND HOTEL. C Fly, apa W C Sawyer, Belmont 8CC¢ H W Stahl, Sacramento CT La Ge: W an Jose Martin, Sacto F L May, Auburn W H Minor &w, 111 Mi L D Fowler, Ventura Los Ang shaw, Nebr “al ckum, Denmark B Hornung, Marysville J R Moore, Ukiah M Mason & w, Ukiah Miss Jackson, Suisun A ¥ Sewell, Ukiah Mrs L Abrahams, Cal W A Hoftman &w, Cal Miss Gray, Healdsburg M L Beemer, San Jose S H Griflith, Guatemala A'W Bramson,The Dalles H M Patton, Towa G L Cross, Berkeley E Williams, Cal G T Gribner, Sen Jose F J Brandon & f, Dr Carns & w O F Mathews, Sta Rosa Jose J W Willey, Bakerstield ockton A Russin, Los Angeles W JO'Brien, 'San Jose W M McKay, Napa F W Vankirk, Wis Mrs Paray, Naps {1 P Brainerd, Petaluma Mrs P Handy, Ukiah Miss Handy, Napa Mrs I A Harper, Palo Alt ¥ C Vignoler, Anderson Mrs Small & sn, Tacoma 1 mall, Sacto € A Wakefield & {. Cal L F Moulton, Colusa Mrs M Linder, Watsonyill Sieux, Pacific Grove C E Lindsey, Santa Cruz RUSS HOUSE. J ¥ Wadsworth St Rosa C E Gilerest, Palo Alto J 3 Murray, Palo Alto J Lawler, Petaluma M TH F rson, Sacto J R Palmer, Canada W F Cowan, Sta Rosa T M Brown, Eureka Miss R Counsil, Bksfield Miss Butterfield, Eureks W P England & w, Rdug H R Porter, Los Ang E W J Peterson & fm, L An L K Vaughan, Gridle J G Caldwell s Cloverdale C Peteman, Cloverdale P Bradie & fm, Mrs Dixon, Cloverdale G Roth, Cloverdale L D Washburn, Clyrdale F L Wright, Guerneviile B M Davidson, Ukiah Mrs Procton. Healdsburg ev J H Neil, Potter Valley der, Hldsbrg H L Gillespi, Fulton Eureka W Mahon, Blue Lake Cloverdale Ukiah E L Cottre G G 5 H G Calpella H M Baker, Healdsburg F Finlay, Stockton © 0 Clark, Suisun M " Keyes & fm, P J Goebel, Colusa Healdsburg. J L Johnson & w, Ukiah F Brown, Ukiah T F Simpson, Los Ang G B Somers, Geyserville M Komer & w, San Jose LICK HOUSE. Mrs Hy Berg, Mary: E E Westervelt, Ind Grant Lafin: Cmcg:.:me G W Tackelbury,Colo Cecil W Scott, Placerville W McKenzie & w.S Jose J E Young, San Jose E M Ebrhorn. Mt View L Y Christopher, Los Ang L Pomeroy, Santa Clara R Godchauk SanLeandro Wm ASeaman,SLeandro T Fox & w, Sac R H Beamer, Woodland A J Hull, Napa T R Kistler, Sac Miss M Montgomery, Mo Miss S Kinsel,SantaRosa Miss L Kinsel, Sta Rosa Mrs J H Kinsel Sta Rosa J H Kinsel, Santa Rosa Gett Jr, Sac G F Morris, Santa Rosa G Nunnemater, Visalia S B Orr, Hanford B N Bullock Jr, Eureka B W Boyd&w, S Lorenzo Mrs J R Serene, Omaha G L Arnold, Los Angeles M D Eaton & £, Stockton F D Nicol, Stockton LMcDonald,FrenchGulch PALACE HOTEL. R Graham, Sacto H H Brown, Nev S'8 Campbell, Colo H K Brown, Nev Miss E Smylie, ¥ngland Col von Kretschmar, Ger 'AC Bingham, Marysville A B Costigan, Mich I R Lenist, Neb Miss M L Feitz, Mich G L Fleitz, Mich G M Spear, Mats 8 ¥ Bickford & wi, Mass Miss Davis, Mass B U Steinnman & wf, Sac Miss C Hartshorn, R T ‘A Rathborn, San Felipe Mrs Childs, Los Angeles C Holcombe, H Newman, N Y H G Hunt, ingland Miss Hunt, England E T Fleming, R [ J Parmlee, N R King, N Y ET Robinson, N Y FAL Wallin, N Y A Milnie, India F A Downing, Mass Dr Proctor &wi, Petaluma P Lange, Guatemala L L Arguello & wi,S Joge R S Gutman, Guatemala J W Findlay, San Jose Mrs H A Dreer, Pasadena Miss Dreer, Pasadena H C Minor & wi, La S Campbell, South Africa NEW WESTERN HOTEL. Thos J McQuade, NY J Pritchard, Alaska S L Mitchell, N'Y J W Elisworth, Cal Geo B Donaidson, Napa C L Linden, Napa James R Little, Chico H L Dempsey, Chicago H L Willie, Boston A Werner, Boston G L Peters, Pa Thos W Jackson, Gliroy C J Achre, Pa T F Ward, Menlo A H Conaway, Menlo Miss Booth, St Louls * F B Duft, Visalia Jas Scott, Visalia C C Curtis. Vallejo ¥ B Lucas, Vallejo L1 Lewis, Vatlejo 1, C Morris, St Louis Morris Peck, Cal C P England, Cal Mrs Johnson, Cal BALDWIN HOTEL. I MM pitcher. Napa T E MoFadden, Napa A T Oliver & w, Oakland H P Hull, San Mateo W H Miller, Ukiah M Lawrence, Tallac K CSapero, New York MrsTJ Rogers&c, 8 J W Case & w, Oakland T,0 Cormack, St Louis 30 McRee. San Jose H J Wood, Belveders BJR Aden, Vallejo KINETIC STABILITY. BY ROBERT STEVENSON, C.E. FIFTH PAPER. Although the vast importance of this principle of the persisience of energy to mankind is not to be measured alone by the explanation it gives of the cause of universal gravitation, yet to the scientist and scholar that will, perhaps, be the most interesting, and I will devote these papers exclusively to a description of its action, whereby all the planets of the solat system are enabled to move as one unit through space and at the same time have perfect independent freedom of motion around the sun, without being attracted by it orin any way held in their orbit by any kind of stress or any vibratory motion of an elastic medium. To the mechanic and the in- ventor the knowledge of this great kinetic principle will prove invaluable in hundreds of useful inventions in the arts of life. To the chemist it will open up the secret cause of molecular combination. To the physicist it will explain the cause of electricity, magnetism, heat, light and various other yet unknown energies; while to the biologist it will reveal the proximate cause of life itself, and enable him to produce living protoplasm from chemically prepared albumen. He will only.have to direct those kinetic and po- tential energies which God has so abund- antly given to universal nature, and the resultant kinetic stability will produce the living cell. : . All'that is required is intelligence and energy, and ho presto! you have life. God has intelligence and energy to an infinite amount, and he can produce an in- finite amount of life; while man is limited by his finite capacity, and even when he knows how his production of life must be a finite quantity. Although I look upon the successful so- lution of aerial navigation to depend largely on the principle of kinetic stability, which enables us to overcome gravity by hori- zontal motion, and although fnll{ ex- pect to see passengers and the mails leave San Francisco after sunrise and arrive in Chicago before the same sun sets that day, and all through the intelligent application of this grand secret of God in nature, yet I find it to be the most difficult of all tasks to_convert the kinetic stability or falsehood and error, in the scientific mind, into the glorious potential of life and truth. 1 suppose_it is due to the growing belief among scientists in general that, because their method of acquiring knowledge is more definite than others, therefore their knowledge must be more certain. While I fully acknowledge and respect their reason, I don’t think it should prevent true scientist from testing by experimenta a new theory, and when the Technical Society,which has not the apparatus neces- sary for testing a fact, should ask the State University,which has theapparatus and all the necessary talent for making an ex- haustive experiment, I don’t think it looks much like thirst for scientific knowledge on the partof the university tosimply pigeon- hole such an important request. Is there any wonder that the Legislature should keep reducing the appropriation to such an institution, which does nothing in the way of original research but appears to_have become a mere teaching-school, using the same_ old arguments to propa- gate the same old errors? ‘When I called on the manager of the | San Francisco News Publishing Company four months ago and told him I had pub- lished a pamphlet on ‘A New Scientific Discovery” and wished him to distribute it he seemed greatly astonished. He took off, his spectacles and looked at me, then wiped them very carefully and again looked very earnestly at me. “Why, sir,”” he said, ‘‘do you expect any sale for a book which is published here?’” “Certaimly,” I said, “what does it matter whether a’ discovery is published in San Francisco or anywhere else? That should not in any way make the discovery of less value.” “‘Ob,” he said, laughingly, that; but if you will cail again in four months I will' tell you what I mean, and you will not then look so surprised, and in the meantime I shall do my best to dis- tribute the book.”” I called the other day as agreed, he looked over his books and said, “We have done very well; much better than I ex- pected. We have sold twenty-five copies of your book. Now, you understand what I meant by my astonishment when you called on me four months ago.” T acknowledged the lesson and asked for an explanation of the cause. “Well,” he said, ‘‘you that can discover the cause of gravitation may be able to find out that cause, too.”” Butto me he said it is a simple fact that the people of San Franciseo will not buy a book which is printed and published in San Francisco and if the Bible had been first published here we could not have sold ten copies in ten years. “Now,” he said, ‘take my advice, and when you have another book to publish go to London, have 1t printed there, and then send me a few thousand copies and they will go like hot cakes.” I thanked him for his advice and thought to myself, “Well here is another problem to solve before I construct my fly- ing machine.” After this digression we will Froceed to demonstrate how kinetic stability acts in producing orbital motion, and the poten- tial of gravity. “Tdon’t mean We have “already shown how kinetic energy in the bicycle produces kinetic stabilitv. Now, I hold that every body which has kinetic energy has kinetic stability, and that the kinetic stability increases and diminishes in the same ratio as the kinetic energy increases and diminishes. I also hold ‘that kinetic stability is not a mere passive resistance like inertia, but isan elastic resistance which, when disturbed, produces vibratory motion. Take a spinning-top and disturb it, then notice how it oscillates. Take a water- nozzle when the water is issuing under a high Eressure, shake the nozzle and notice how the particies of water describe peautiful curyes. Those are the curve of sines, and nothing but elastic motions can produce them on a free body. Now it is the kinetic stability of the particles of water issuing from the nozzle which enables you to pro- duce those curyes. To these I might add scores of other il- lustrations to show how intelligent inter- ference can cause kinetic stability to pro- duce the phenomena of nature. The sci- entific world at present does not know that kinetic stability is produced by kinetic energy, nor do_they know that kinetic stability is a reciprocating force. -Hence, I bave in my Kamphlet reduced these facts into a nutshell, and shown them how by two simple experiments they can satisly themselves of their truth, in the same way as I satisfied myself fifteen years ago. I have shown in a previous paper the secret of the bicycle’s stability. I have shown that when it is itself moving, or has what we call kinetic energy, then it has stability ; but that if it is only a por- tion of another moving body, it does not matter how fast the other moving body may be movini, the bicycle only has mo- mentum, not kinetic energy, and conse- quently has no stability, and under such circumstances we may say the bicycle is dead. So it isin the organic world. When once a species has reached the limit of its acquired forces of evolution and becomes entirely subject to the control of instinet, then the growth stops, its stability becomes neutral—it is, so to speak, dead, and in time becomes extinct. And in the spiritual world spiritual free- dom and .pmfim life depends on_energy and vigilance. The ego, like the bicycle, must have the kinetic energy or it cannot have kinetic stability, and without kinetic stability it is dead; and in that sense it may be said to be dead even while it isalive, Now to those of my readers who can fully realize and utilize these important facts T can safely say you have found wisdom, and if you wish to kpow its value take your Bible and read the Book of Proverbs through carefully three times, and if after that you have not discovered eternal life, then thou art dead whilst thou liveth. This difference between momentum and kinetic energy is really a_very simple mat- ter. In mnfi:emnfics it is only the differ- ence between v_and v2; but, as you have seen, it is the difference between death and life, both in the inorganic, the organic and the spiritual divisions of nature; and it is a difference which science does not yet realize. And as it is necessary that every reader who wishes to follow the demonstration of the cause of gravity should fully under- stand that difference, I have taken partic- ular pains and a great deal of space to make my meaning simple and clear, but now I must proceed. First, then, science teaches that the earth and the other planets of the solar system are constrained to move in orbits by the centrifugal force of the sun’s attrac- tion. Hear what Newton says about that cen- trifugal force in Definition V, Book I, of the ‘*Principia’: ““A centrifugal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or any way “tend toward a point, as to a center; of this sort is gravity, by which bodies tend to the center of the earth; magnetism, by which iron tends to the loadstone; and that force, whatever it is, by which the planets are perpetually drawn aside from the rectilinear motions which otherwise they would pursue; and made to revolve in curvilinear orbits. A stone whirled about in a sling endeavors to recede from the hand that turns it, and by that endeavor distends the sling, and that with so much the greater force as it is revolved with the greater velocity, and as soon as ever it is let %o flies away ; that force which opposes itself to this endeavor, and by which the sling perpetually draws back the stone toward the hand, and retains it in its orbit, because it is directed to the hand as the center of the orbit, I call the centri- petal force.” Those who wish to follow this most in- teresting subject through all its mathemat- ical phases cannot do better than study the “Principia” of Newton, and the ‘“Mecan- ique Celeste'’ of La Place. But it is sufficient for the general reader to know that science explains the earth’s orbital motion round the sun in the same way as it explains the centrifugal force ofa stone swung round the hand at the end of a string; the tension or stress of the string | is xe(}ulred to keep the stone revolyin; acircle, and in the same way there 1s a tension or stress between the sun and the earth, to keep it revolving round the sun. Now that tension or stress is sup- pused by some scientists to be a property of matter, in the same way as magnetic attraction was supposed to be a property of the loadstone, and at one time it was supposed to act through a vacuum and was called action at a distance. But since Faraday discovered that magnetic attrac- tion was not action at a distance, but was caused by lines of force in an elastic me- dium, the greatest scientific authori- ties of the present day have come to the same conclusion with respect to grav- itation, and they ascribe the apparent at- traction of matter to lines of force, actin, through or by an elastic medium whic! pervades all space, and the interstices of all bodies; but as the conditions of the problem are such as to require a medium 100 times denser than steel, and yet baving as little resistance to a body moving through it as vacuum, the greatest author- ities have not yet succeeded in finding that medium. They are yet at sea with respect to the true cause. When we think on the multitude of grent scientists who, during the last hun- red ¥ears, have devoted more than one- half of their whole lifetime of study to the solution of this great problem, in the vain endeavor to find a medium per- vading all space 100 times more rigid than steel, and offering no more re- sistance to ~matter than a vacuum, and when we consider that kinetic stabil- ity, the simplest thing in all creation, is the true cause, we feel ghumbled with awe and amazement to think that such a sim- ple truth should be hidden from the wise and the great and revealed unto babes. The conditions of the problem, as given out by the Smithsonian Institution to%bose who wish to solve it, are: ““It is well to bear in mind that every hypothesis directed to the explication ef Fmvxty is required in limine to give a satis- factory account of the phenomena as given in the following six characteristics of this mysterious influence. “‘First—Its direction is radial toward the acting mass, or rectilinear, indefinitely. This rectilinear traction is incapable of de- flection by anav intermediate force. It suf- fers neither disturbance nor interference from any multiplication of similar lines of action, and admits neither of reflection, re- fraction nor of composition. ‘‘Second—Its quantity is exactly propor- tional to the acting ‘mass—indefinitely.'| Corollary : hence, second, its integrity of action is complete with every accumula- tion of additional demand—indefinitely, that is to say, no multiplication of duty in the slightest degree impairs its previous tensions. *Third—Its intensity is diminished by recession in proportion ‘to the square of the distance through which it acts indefinitely, in a manner somewhat analogous to—but as modified by the sec- ond condition radically different from— the action of light. Fourth—Its time of action is instanta- neous throughovt all ascertained dis- tances, and, therefore, presumably— indefinitely. Corollary: hence, fourth (), its rate of action (if the expression may be tolerated) is precisely the same on all bodies at all velocities—indefi- nitely. It no more lags on a comet ap- proaching the sun at the inconceivable speed of 200 miles in a second thanona body at the lowest rate of motion, or than on the same comet receding from the sun at the same velocity. “Fifth—Its quality is invariable under all circumstances—indefinitely. It is entirely unaffected by the interposition of any ma- terial screen whatever, its character or ex- tent, or, in other words, it can neither be checked by any insulator nor retarded by any (]blll’ll?lfln. “*Sixth—Its energy is unchangeable in time; certainly for the past 2000 years; resumgbl}y} — indefinitely. Corollary : ence, sixth (b), its activity is incessant, and inexhaustible—indstinitely. The ceaseless fall of planets from their tangential im- Fnlus involving no dynamic expenditure n the sun or other known matter. “No hypothesis hi]'msw embraceeach of these six requirements deserves considera- tion, and any hypothesis fully covering them all might be expected to account ually for the quite incomparable actions of elasticity, magnetism, affinity, cohesion, before being accepted as a just or compre- ‘hensive theory of molecular force.” Now, I hope to show in the next paper that the persistence of energy and etic stability covers the whole field. ROBERT 2607 Fillmore street, San Francisco, o Vanderbilys Yacht Escaped. NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 3L—The ferry-boat Newburgh of the West Shore Railroad Ferry collided this evening with an ice-barge, the name of which is at present unknown. As a result of the acci- dent several boats were more or less dam- aged. 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