Admonitions of a young man to himself

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Preface

and kind. The book was written to himself in a period of sincere resolution to follow in the footsteps of men like Lincoln, Washington, Garfield and such men, not in fame — far be it from such — but in principles, quality, caliber, merit, ability, likeableness, praiseworthiness, etc. — to read when drifting back into the "line of least resistance," morally and otherwise, along with the rest of the "fellows."

If he delays publishing this "written record of thots that have a tendency to inspire" until he dies or becomes otherwise unable, his name would be admonished by the few physical people who perchance would run across the book, and be perhaps, rebuked by his departed relatives and acquaintances if fortunate enough to join them in the Govvernment Above. In short he shall have failed to "do his bit" to help educate the "children of earth ' ' and inspire them to greater attainment and better citizenship.

The book is entirely too deep to do anybody any good unless read slowly and with understanding, perception and realization as you go. It could best be understood if copied word for word, many paragraphs memorized and the whole book reread at least three times a year. The essential revelations were reasoned out while sixteen to twenty years of age but enlarged and elaborated upon in recorded form later on but still several years ago.

PREFACE

If other people have only one-tenth the beautiful and inspiring thots as the writer after reading these revelations each time, he shall have accomplished more than his vainest wish in publishing the book.

If read frequently enough, you will never grow old, just your body gets old and incapacitated. Surely herein and without doubt lies the much sought Fountain of Youth.

If the book is neglected for years at a time, you will forget every word and revelation in it and follow the line of least resistance accordingly. However, to read it without fail at least three times a year should have the desired effect, but to ponder and dream on the realities indisputably set forth on these pages may cause fanaticism, which of course is very harmful and undesirable.

Every time the author finds of takes time to read this book, it ushers him, "mind, soul and body," into the company, society and presence of all characters in history, relatives, friends, acquaintances and other citizens who have left the clay, and irresistibly draws him right back into good principles and upright manhood to whatever degree he happens to value life at the time and fills him with absolute confidence that there is a higher and better life coming to or in store for the desirable citizen and efficient workman.

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Chapter I

Deliberately create or invent the most powerful conception of the invisible magnetic-electric man you possibly can. Invent the mechanical magnetic-electric instrument void of intelligence, simply capable of powerful and positive attraction and repulsion.

Every time you see an electric truck or coupe pass, particularly a very heavy truck, one loaded with two or three tons of merchandise — please observe and try to realize more thoroughly and completely each time that there is a very, very powerful " motive force" stored somewhere about the vehicle. Especially is it very evident when the heavy truck moves without hesitancy up a steep grade, accomplishing a feat or performance equal to the pulling ability of eight or more draught horses. You are deeply impressed with the indisputable, unquestionable, uncontradictable fact and reality of the existence of very real, positive and terribly powerful energy located somewhere about the machine.

You can form a fair and more or less correct idea how a steam locomotive creates its powerful "motive force" by heating water, and the expanded steam propels the machinery by the tremendous pressure against piston heads to seek outlet at the exhaust valves; and some idea of the gasoline automobile or truck motor's propelling force by harnessing the explosions of heated gasoline gas; and some idea of the motive force of a street car, seeing the electric current transmitted continuously from a live wire against which a little trolley wheel is held by a strong coil spring. But to get a fair and accurate idea of the "Electro Motive Force" that impels, compels or propels a heavy electric truck along a bad road or up a steep grade against the powerful resistance of hundreds of pounds of weight, freight and gravity — without any trolley wire anywhere in the vicinity — will take a little closer and more careful observation and study. It would be absurd and ridiculous, even laughable, to question or doubt the existence of some very powerful, real and material motive force stored somewhere about the truck or vehicle.

A young child can see that the truck or vehicle is being propelled, compelled or forced forward (or backward) by a very strong power of some character. The little boy or girl would admit at once, without question or argument, that some kind of very powerful energy is stored or

X2 being developed in or underneath the car. The more intelligent the boy, girl, man or woman, the less they will doubt or question the existence of this power or motive force, and if the person is interested in the progress of human inventions and creations, he or she will study out and realize, to the best of his or her ability, the nature or character of the power and energy that has thus replaced two to twenty draught horses on each electric automobile or truck.

An intelligent man, woman, boy or girl does not dispute the reality of powerful and terrible force when the wind blows fifty or sixty miles an hour, in the nature of a hurricane or cyclone. They do not doubt or question the existence of a powerful and terrible force and moving element, but it cannot be seen by the physical eye. Unfortunate isn't it? We might encounter some very smart man or woman who would argue that the wind does not exist and is not powerful, just because they cannot see it with the physical eye, yet it can blow over trees and wipe out hundreds of heavy buildings in just a few minutes, where it would require hundreds of men with hundreds of horses and engines a hundred days to do the same terrific damage.

If you never learn another thing on the face of Mother Earth, or another thing in your short sojourn here, — and whether another single soul learns it, — please learn this: That there is a very, very vital, capable, efficient, terrible and tremendous power stored in a convenient chamber on each electric truck and coupe that travels around town or over the country each day — but you cannot see it with the physical eye. You cannot see it enter these storage chambers, nor can you see it leave. Under some conditions you can feel it with the consciousness conveyed to your mind by physical nerves, and unless very careful, you will wish you had been satisfied to know of the existence of this motive force or terrible power by evidences crudely set forth above. You have but to touch a positive and negative "pole" of the massive storage battery at the same time, to burn you quicker and ten times worse than the hottest stove you have ever seen heated to a red or white heat. It might kill you instantly if the battery is large enough and the current very strong.

One way you might see evidence of this treacherous and pitiless, though valuable power, is to hold a connection from the negative "pole" close to a connection from the positive "pole" and see it spit tongues of dangerous fire, like a coiled and poisonous serpent with a treacherous flame for a tongue, which snaps like a whip in its lightning quickness of movement.

You can actually measure the quantity of this 14 powerful energy in a storage battery with an Ammeter.

This motive force, power or energy yon say is called or named " Electricity ;" a substance without weight or extension but possessing indestructibility and elasticity, and capable of doing work manifested by attraction and repulsion. It is manufactured from dynamos and conveyed by copper wires to various points and sold at so much per ampere, volt, watt or horse-power.

A storage chamber, battery or group of cells are prepared to hold 6 volts, 12 volts, 24 volts, etc., (60 ampere, 120 ampere, or 240 ampere, respectively) and proper connection is made to a "live wire" and the battery is "charged," ampere by ampere, volt by volt, covering ten to fifty hours or more, until it contains or holds its full capacity of ampereage or voltage — and no more.

The live or charged battery, or storage cells, are then used any place away from the supply of electric current and "spent" or exhausted in such a manner as to convert or utilize this treacherous and terrible power into "hard labor" or "slavery" — and such "slavery" no one knows an equal. A sufficient quantity can make a five ton truck, loaded to full capacity, climb a hill faster than twenty or forty draught horses could pull it. You don't see this tremendous power go into the storage battery, nor can you see it leaving, as it is utilized to propel the heavy truck or coupe, but if you are in your right mind you do not question or doubt the existence of the power and you frankly admit that it is very real and mighty.

Now the great drawback or deficiency with present storage batteries is their inability to hold more than six, twelve, twenty-four, etc., volts of current. Each additional number of volts requires a still larger and more cumbersome battery, (submarine for example).

What we are going to invent now is a storage battery containing an element or a solution of two or more chemicals which will attract an almost unlimited quantity of electric current; so that a battery the size of the present six volt chamber will "take in" or receive hundreds of volts and thousands of amperes. The current then might be called "condensed," "compressed," "consolidated" or "liquid" electricity — but the best description would be "concentrated" electricity. Because the liquid or soluton continues to attract more and more electric current until it would become a solidified mass or quantity, as far as the current was concerned ; or capable of holding enough voltage to propel a heavy truck twelve hours a day for a year and then be far from exhausted. You hardly doubt but that quite a little energy or terrific power would thus be contained in this little storage chamber, or enough to kill a thousand, maybe ten thousand men, if used for this purpose.

But we will do a little more scientific experimenting with this marvelous storage battery than to see how many men we can kill with one or how many trucks we can propel around a hilly country.

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Chapter II

This storage battery lias now become quite a dangerous toy to play with. If all these hundreds of volts and thousands of amperes were housed and concentrated in the typical canon-ball shaped "bomb" used by anarchists, you might have an infernal machine that could blow up the largest office building or a whole mountain, if the entire energy could be made to explode like gunpowder or dynamite. So we will have to figure out a way to make this concentrated, consolidated electricity harmless, yet retain all its marvelous power and all the many other features which are peculiar or natural to electricity. To do this we must convert all or practically all these millions of electrical units of power into "Magnetic Electricity," which does not shock, burn or spend itself in, on or along conducting metals or substances with which it comes into contact; but of its very nature concentrates to the center of the mass, collection, body and multitudinous swarm of units with powerful affinity.

Observe the nature of the little horseshoe magnet as the thousands of magnetic units with which it is charged or saturated, attract little particles of metal for which they seem to have affinity;

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Magnetic units and energy concentrate to a common center with powerful attraction and affinity.

ADMONITIONS 01* A YOUNG MAN TO HIMSELF

and the Giant Magnet used to attract or lift heavy metal castings in machine shops or foundries.

Having applied or poured in the necessary chemical solution to convert this treacherous, condensed volcano of electric energy into a concentrated body of perhaps one hundred or more billion harmless magnetic units — held intact, welded, each unit inescapable, nonspendable, by the very nature and character of magnetic units (like a tremendous swarm of honey-bees clinging to each other in a consuming effort to be close as possible to the Queen Bee who is in the center of the swarm) it would seem, by reason or virtue of the very concentrating nature of these billions of magnetic units, that we might remove or attract from the square or round storage battery, or cell chamber, the mass or body in its entirety, by applying some kind of a chemical to the electrolyte to disengage, liberate or separate the powerful body of magnetic energy from the solution, and employing some sort of magnetized "wand" to capture the "ball of harmless but tremendous power."

Having located the proper alloy of elements and moulded them into a wand which has sufficient affinity or attracting power to capture this concentrated body of billions of magnetic units, we apply the poison to the liquid in the cell-chamber, and in a short while we notice the solution and storage battery has become cold — which before was warm. The wand which was held above the storage battery has now become very much more magnetic in its nature — so much so, we can hardly release our hand from same.

Considering the nature of magnetic units, whether in a swarm or concentration of millions, or a consolidation of billions, we are not altogether surprised nor disappointed at being unable to perceive with the physical eye this concentrated body of magnetic energy — the energy which a short time ago was several hundred volts and several thousand amperes of electricity. It is perfectly transparent — as invisible as the wind, and is capable, by virtue of its nature, to pass through glass or other elements as you can learn by putting these substances between a Giant Magnet and the object to be attracted.

To play or experiment further with this "ball of condensed energy," we will take it and the wand into a "dark-room" filled with a certain kind of gas, and here we will see the concentrated body of billions of magnetic units in apparently a solid luminous ball or block, resembling the mould, battery or cell-chamber from which it was taken. Here we can observe some of the natural abilities of this remarkable but very positive substance. We can pass it through

Every electric magnetic unit or concentration of a body of units or energy has a Xorth and South pole.

All of the body of concentrated Magnetic Electric energy captured by steel magnet is by no means in the magnet. Only the centers of the North and South pole concentrations. Balance actually extends out in space like two invisible balls, inseparable from each other.

Like poles repel with as great force or power as unlike poles attract.

wood, glass, iron or any material in the room and it always remains firmly, intensely and immovably concentrated.

Surely this ball of magnetic energy can be put to some practical use. Its very nature keeps it from "spending" or "wasting away" so we need not fear to let it cling to the wand while we figure out some way to use the invention.

We know that a magnetic body has a North and South pole, or negative and positive, just like the earth, which is itself a massive natural magnet.

We will take some of the material from which we made our "phenomenal wand" and make a receiving station in another "dark-room" filled with this "mysterious gas," and knowing that "opposite poles attract" and "like poles repel," we will hold it steady with two wands placed at the equator, or neutral point — one on each side — and turn the South pole of a powerful bar magnet to the South pole of our "luminous ball of energy" and watch the result. All doors are closed, and the South pole of the receiving magnet in next room is turned toward us. The result is instantaneous. The ball of powerful magnetic units is repelled or shot through partition and attracted by South pole of receiving magnet in next room, and no sign of a scratch where it went through the wall.

We get brave now and try it from one part of the city to another with success, and between cities. The movement, action and speed being quite as quick and instantaneous as the magnetic electric units that travel over copper wires for the telegraph, telephone and cable or through space for the wireless.

The question arises, can this consolidated, concentrated mass of magnetic energy be put to any practical use other than purely scientific experimenting; a plaything for scientists to repel and attract back and forth from one part of the earth to another. A veritable cannon-ball of clear, invisible, concentrated magnetic units, which travels in a perfectly straight line, as instantaneous as electricity, passing through all of the seventy-two elements or combinations thereof that might be between the repelling and attracting poles, exerting no effect on anything through which it passes.

Now if we could inject or make it receive some sound waves which it would retain and carry through space to a receiving magnet at another point several miles away, and the same sounds be collected by another instrument and made intelligible — we might dictate a letter or communication to, or within the concentrated mass and the same be taken from the magnetic ball at another point — something like dictating in a "Dictaphone" and the dictation being taken therefrom most any time later on by a stenographer. Such an instrument would be very valuable in any office. It would eliminate nearly all postage, telegraph and telephone bills on messages between cities and save hours and hours of valuable time. Dictate your letter, telegram or telephone communication to the instrument containing the powerful ball of concentrated magnetic units, and reverse the attracting current to repulsive and instantaneously the magnetic ball jumps from St. Louis office to New York office, just as quickly as a telegraph key would respond at the same distance. Maybe dictate ten or fifteen letters and whistle or sing in a tune or two to make it interesting before shooting the ball, and the entire number of letters and tunes collected, listened to and perhaps recorded at the other office without the slightest deviation from original wording,' meaning and arrangement.

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Chapter III

To make a long story short, we will construct quite a large storage battery of this special character, using something like the iron Indian frequently seen in front of cigar stores, and having charged it for days and days, weeks and weeks and many months, until it contained the tremendous energy of thousands of volts and millions of amperes of electric current, we inject the necessary fluid or chemical to convert the electric current into a concentrated body of billions and billions of magnetic units, to make him a "Good Indian" instead of one capable of killing a whole army of men. Now in addition to being a tame body of magnetic power, we want him to have a mind.

We will not take one from a human being in this experiment, but drill down and capture one out of a horse's head and transfer it to the inside of our Indian's head.

Having done this we inject the necessary chemical to separate or liberate the powerful body of concentrated magnetic units and take care to capture same with the proper kind of a giant magnet (or magnetic field) and step into our mysterious "dark-room" to see what we have.

Not altogether surprising, we have at our mercy a luminous body of concentrated magnetic units, the head of which seems to be almost solid, but the balance scarcely discernible, but by no means without millions of quantity in magnetic units; the whole mass shaped and formed identical with the mold or battery used. In other words, a tame, (let us hope useful) magnetic Indian, with the mind of a horse, which doubtless has given him " horse sense" because he smiles with an expression of intelligence.

His lips move, but I hear no sound. I put my head up to and within his and hear him just as loud and silent as my own thoughts — which one must confess are sometimes louder than the most eloquent orator and easily louder than any kind of ordinary noise and conversation. He could " think to me" instead of "talk to me," and the method of communication was quite as efficient, intelligible and satisfactory.

When one records his thoughts by writing, there is no sound but the scratch of the pen, and when read by another there still is no sound unless voiced by the reader, and yet the thoughts, words and sentences may be some of the most influential and effective of any ideas yet formed by an inventive mind and intellect.

So I did not marvel unnecessarily at this nat- 25 ural condition or ability with him as a magnetic creation, and learned that he could understand me whether I expressed my thoughts audibly or merely formed them in my mind, same as we always do before utterance.

His very nature and composition was energy and power, and a very, very large quantity of it — condensed, compressed, consolidated and concentrated into this artificial human statue or body of electric magnetic units. So I was not altogether surprised at his willingness and intense eagerness to do something for me and was pleased at his spirit of accommodation — but this was doubtless due to his " horse sense" for is not the slave known as "horse" a good worker — both willing and accommodating — all for the little pleasure and remuneration of some dry hay, oats, corn, water and a miserable place to rest and sleep?

Sure! he could do something for me — maybe a thousand things, if I could think of them. "See if you can repeat this thot, 'What do you think of my latest invention.' I am going to repel you to my scientific friend in New York, and I want you to deliver the message to him." "That will be very easy," he thot back — and not a physical sound passed between us — purely mental and rich in its suggestiveness of perfect intellectuality.

I called up my brother scientist in New York and requested of him to turn the South pole of his special magnet toward St. Louis and phone me exact time to a second when this, my latest model, "Electric Magnetic Body of Energy," reached him and to put his head to the head of my model and let me know what he understood from same.

I then placed this "Good Indian" in a horizontal position, with his head, or North Pole, toward New York and directed a powerful South Pole magnetic field to his feet and instantly that powerful body of concentrated magnetic electric units and energy had disappeared.

Not many minutes later "Long Distance" wanted me, and my scientific friend in New York said the "apparition" had been there since 11:45 A. M. which corresponded exactly with the time I repelled him from my dark-room — considering exact difference in time between the two cities. He said he understood the message quite as well as if I had been there in person, "What do you think of my latest invention." "My only answer is that such an invention could be very useful and efficient all over the world if the mind or intellect of the concentrated magnetic body was well educated, proficient and capable. Suppose we try to educate him. I will dictate some knowledge and learning to him and repel him to you and you can do likewise, seeing that it is his delight to be attracted and repelled, back and forth. He seems to have a very sensible mind for some reason or other, and appears eager to learn."

Chapter IV

We will not go into detail as to how long it took to educate this "Good Indian" having just ordinary "horse sense," but these things are worthy of notice: His craving, hunger and thirst for learning, knowledge and education, instead of thirst for liquor and hunger for tobacco, and the stimulants still worse (but that may have been due to his magnetic instead of physical nature). His delight in ability, the acquisition and possession of knowledge by memory; his enthusiasm; his untiring energy and application; his wonderful grasp of figures and preference for good grammar and correct spelling; a consuming interest in the history of humanity from the earliest records down to the present time; and amusement at the different religions of the different peoples at different periods; his inspiration from beautiful music, and hearty mental laughter at good wholesome jokes and humor; his wisdom and prudence at the slightest suggestion of admonition, and his early admiration of the idea of being "self-made." From then on we had but to put books within the range of his mental eyes and he did the rest — reading everything word by word, line after line — even as a business man reads an important communication once and he knows for weeks and if necessary longer, almost every word in the letter. He became his own teacher, preacher, architect and made himself well-bred, cultured, refined and accomplished — ■ and was such a character that if in a young man he not only could be trusted with another's sister, wife, daughter, sweetheart and children — but the lady or children would be benefited and elevated by having come into contact with him. That type of young man is fast becoming very scarce on the face of the earth nowadays, because of the prevalent belief that "When you die you are a long time dead" and "Might as well get all out of life you can, because you have only once to live."

Now this body of consolidated,, concentrated Magnetic Electric Energy has become so well educated that he can do most anything we require of him — from the simplest duties to the execution of the most difficult and admirable tasks and problems. A veritable automatic instrument or an artificial human automaton, so to speak.

We tried to keep track of his abilities as he learned or became capable of performing or executing them, but the number was too numerous — far beyond the million mark.

He became very much interested in my construction, composition, nature, reason for being in existence — purpose of the hard work, difficult battles, unjust treatment by employers and customers; all this suffering under the whip and spur of hunger, poverty, bills, humiliation, insults, seeming insurmountable barriers, unpreventable necessities by the hundreds, etc. — to make a living; and I assured him these were questions that frequently confronted me when a boy of fifteen and sixteen, and were not altogether clear as yet, but that between the two of us maybe we could form some kind of an idea. So he suggested that we go together to a certain Medical College on a particular night, and having done this, we went into one of the rooms where stood a few large chests, and on opening one I beheld half a dozen "stiffs," — more commonly known as dead bodies of men and women. I felt just a little creepy at first, but remembered that medical students learn of the human body and its requirements by dissecting it and they get subjects to work on from the Morgue and elsewhere.

My intelligent, home-made Magnetic Indian suggested that if I lift out one of those large bodies and hold it to the giant magnet with which I held him prisoner, he might be able to "charge" it, ' ' electrify, " " magnetize " or " saturate ' ' it with his entire billions of magnetic electric energy.

I did this, and sure enough he electrified, charged and magnetized the entire body and arose from the floor. The magnet clung to him quite as tenaciously as some you have seen in various high-powered experiments and as long as I let it cling to him, he was a very energetic and vigorous artificial human being indeed — about three times as powerful as an ordinary strong man. The grip of his hand was powerful enough to crush the bones in mine if he cared to be vicious like a wild man, but his education prevented that and the pressure was simply sincerity when we "shook" on the success of the experiment.

He talked quite freely and asked if I caught the idea. I told him I certainly did — because of the acquaintance I had with him before he "charged" that body — I knew the human body was composed of two parts, magnetic electric and elementary or earthly. Even as electricity would "charge" or be united with just such a statue of copper wires, instead of nerves, or a hardened steel statue would be united with magnetic units or salt with water — the electricity, magnetism or salt is throughout the entire metal or element to the remotest atom. He made that body very much alive, but unlike me, he was cold and I well knew that he could hardly be otherwise with embalming fluid in his veins.