Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — JOHN W. KEELEY, [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN W. KEELEY,

The Inventor of mt Allejoil Motor that Firmly RofUxe* to HtMge. It is seventeen years since John W. Keeley astonished and mystified the world by his incomprehensible motor, and yet the mist which envelops the invention and the inventor isas thick as ever. Meanwhile the author of this hidden agency lives in luxurious obscurity in a mansion in Philadelphia. A few years ago George W. Brown, of Brooklyn, N. Y., accompanied by a reporter, called upon Keeley for a demonstration of his

powers, but Keeley had no time to; give exhibitions, not even for a compensation. Then began a series of questions which plainly outlined thetheories upon which the reduplication proceeded and the magician blandly wafted himself Into a heaven of polar sympathy on a cloud of words. It Is not a Jest, but a matter of fact, that the professor of Indian archaeology of the University of Pennsylvania Is the only man who has ever been able to translate a section of Keeleyese into language intelligible to scientists and laymen. The visitors were therefore denied theprivilege of seeing how the magician annihilated gravity.