Salina Herald from Salina, Kansas • 1

Ihe alma ii rr it um.ii A Twentieth Century News-Magazine Volume XXXV. Number Salina, Kansas, February 4, 90 J. B- Cusadder Discovered "Perpetual motion?" put all his spare time and money into er erimenting, and now that he "has his patent, he has no means with which to build a practical plant and thereby demonstrate the value of his invention. Of local interest. The Anti-Joint Crusade A LL over Kansas the temperance peo-m pie seem to be getting stirred up.

Mrs. Nation's actions have aroused them, although many do not approve of her methods. At Hoi ton, which has had joints for years, a mass meeting was held last Saturday, after which a thousand people marched to the most notorious joint in town and demolished it. In the meantime the other jointists locked up their places and hurriedly got their 6tock ready for shipment out of town. So Holton is dry, for the present at least.

Then there's Topeka. Topeka has been seized with a tremendous epaem of prohibition sentiment." Even Topeka drug stores, some of which are little more than saloons, are obeying the law. A meeting was held in the auditorium in Topeka last Sunday afternoon attended by three thousand men. Admission was by ticket only. Speeches were made by the most prominent citizens of Topeka.

The chief of police read a list of the more prominent joints in town, and a manifesto was passed giving the saloon men until Friday noon to get their belongings out of town. Every drinking place in Topeka was closed Monday morning. Whether permanently or not remains to be seen. Attorney General Godard has appointed an assistant attorney general to enforce the prohibitory law in Shawnee county. The appointment was made in response to a request formulated by J.

Willis Gleed, one of the leading lawyers in Topeka. A rather peculiar fact in connection with the appointment is that Mr. Godard, a Republican, appointed as the assistant Judge A. L. Redden, a Populist, because Galen Nichols, another Republican official, refuses to do his duty.

The Coming of Mrs. Nation. From the Mail and Breeze Mrs. Nation came down on the jointists' stronghold, and her cohorts came also; their sleeves were uprolled, the sheen of their hatchets were like the stars of the sea. It was time for those jointists to be climbing a tree.

Like daisies in the summer when the lamb skips the green, the carmen nosed jointists were calm and serene; like tumble-weeds of the prairie when the cyclone hath blown, those jointists next day were scattered and strown. For Mrs. Nation and cohorts came hurrying fast, and the jointists fled outward before the swift blast. There was a cry of dismay as they struck for the street, and they brokenly muttered, "This is and repeat." There was crashing of glasses as they skipped to the re.ar, and! the thump of a hatchet on a fresh keg: of beer. The bar it was splintered from bottom to rail, and the mirror behind it was wrecked as by hail.

In the course of ten minutes Mrs. Nation was done; her tempest of wrath through the joint had blown. The jointists who met her are loud in their wail, their bottles are busted and they are in jail. The dives are shut tight as result of the fray; the thirsty-are waiting till she gets away. A great many people's watchword is Elgin.

The man who can't sing and will 6ing ought to be sent to Sing Sing. same time, but all pump once with each revolution of the shaft. These twelve pumps, Mr. Lusadder says, pump more than water enough to run the wheel, and that, in turn, raises more water to keep itself going. An overflow pipe takes the surplus water back into the cistern.

Mr. Lusadder's invention differs from other perpetual motion machines in that it actually runs, The apparatus was completed last fall, and after Mr. Lusadder had satisfied himself that it was all right he applied for a patent on it and secured it. After he felt protected in his idea he invited various people-mechanics and others to inspect it, and thus far no one has picked any flaw in the theory. At present the cistern has been drained dry because Mr.

Lusadder has no way to keep it and the pumps from freezing. The apparatus is, of course, simply a rough one, but it illustrates the principle. The idea first occurred to Mr. Lusadder twenty years ago. He is a well-driver by trade and is familiar with hydraulics.

At that time he was living at Qlyde, and after experimenting for some time he moved to Salina fifteen years ago. The first thing he did here was to build the large barn on his place southeast of town. Many people have wondered in all these years why Mr. Lusadder built such a large barn when he apparently had little to put into it, and before he was able to build himself a house in keeping with it. The reason was that he wanted a place to experiment with his idea.

The eccentric shaft which Mr. Lusadder uses to run his pumps was made by T. H. Terry eight years ago at Bavaria. Everyone who visited the shop speculated on its "purpose, but Mr.

Lusadder would not gratify their curiosity. In fact he kept very silent on the subject of his invention until he had his patent on it. "For a practical motor in this climate," said Mr. Lusadder to a reporter for The Herald recently, "instead of using a cisttrn I would go down to the living water, which is about thirty feet below the surface. I would put the water wheei down there and place the tank on a tower seventy feet high.

This would give a direct pressure of one hundred feet on the wheel. I would have twelve or more twelve-inch pumps, which would elevate enough water to supply a tremendous pressure pipe. "By running th motor all the time the water would be kept in motion and therefore would not freeze, as my pipes and cistern do in my model. Whenno extra power was required the water could be shut off so that it would be kept just moving. "A plant of that size would furnish enough power to run all the machinery in Salina, and it would require no fuel, no engineer, no labor nor anything except a little lubricating oil and some one to turn the water on and Like most inventors Mr.

Lusadder has A MONG the prophecies which the magazine writers make to be fulfilled in the Twentieth century is that a machine will be invented which will create sufficient power to run itself and have some to spare. In other words, it will be a "perpetual motion" machine. It is possible that a Saline county man has already invented such a contrivance. He believes he has, and while most people are skeptical on the subject of perpetual motion, it is difficult to see any flaw in his theory. This inventor, whose name may be handed down to future generations along with S.

B. Morse, Edison and other great inventors, is D. S.Lusadder, who lives east of the Wesleyan. Inside of Mr. Lusadder's barn is a curious contrivance extending all the way from a Hole in the ground to a tank in the top of the barn.

It is a.water motor. The machine consists of a double row of vertical pipes, which are really a series of twelve pumps, and the underlying principle of the apparatus is the balancing of columns of water in these sets of pipes and the arrangement of the shaft which operates them. The hole in the barn floor is a cistern, oblong in shape. It is about ten feet long, six feet deep, and two feet wide. The pumps proper extend from the cistern up into the barn loft.

The tops of the pumps are closed with packing boxes through which the pump shafts work. To the top of each shaft is attached a lever which answers the purpose of the pump handle Just above the cylinder down in the cistern a pipe branches off and runs up into the tank in the extreme top of the barn. Just abov the branching point is a valve which holds up the water in this pip. When the pump is in motion the water rises equally in both pipes and when it gets to the packing box at the top of the pump it can rise no higher in that and is therefore forced up the other pipe into the tank. To offset the difference in pressure in the two pipes and make the two columns of water balance, Mr.

Lusadder hangs a weight on the end of the lever or pump handle, so that the pump can be operated with the least possible power. Leading from the tank down is a large pipe which empties the water again on to a water wheel such as is ordinarily used in water motors. The amount of power depends, of course, on the height of the tank above the wheel and the amount of water turned on. This wheel turns a shaft, which, in turn, operates the pumps. Along this ehaft are arranged twelve eccentrics, one for each pump.

They are so arranged that no two are in a row, but they form a complete circle around the shaft, each branching out one twelfth of the distance further around the 6haft than the one preceding it. By this contrivance half of the pumps have an upward motion while the other half are going downward, but no two pump at exactly the Lorie Hamilton is in St. Louis. Tuesday was Lincoln's birthday. J.

W. Lambert was in the city Tuesday. Judge Musser was down to Caldwell Tuesday. J. D.

Millikin was up from McPher-son yesterday. J. Jackson, sheriff of Lincoln county, was in town Tuesday. Sheriff Swayze, of Ottawa, county, was in town Tuesday Leslie Gray was down to Lengford on business the first of the week. John Daum attended the Woodmen's meeting at Wichita this week.

F. M. Hamilton, of Graydon, Texas, spent a few days this week in this city. Dr. P.

H. Van Eaton, formerly of Salina, died February 2 at Olympia, Wash. The Lee-Warren Milling company is figuring on putting in a cooper shop in the near future. The building occupied by Edward's marble shop on South Santa Fe has been moved across the street The Scottish Rites bodies for the Valley of Salina, met in the Masonic temple in this city Tuesday for a few days' session. Dr.

Alfred Rothschild has gone to Kansas City to receive treatment for injuries received in a fall on a defective sidewalk. John C. McCandless and Nellie Mc-Candless, of Deer Creek, were married in this city yesterday afternoon by Justice R. II. Bishop.

About twenty-five pupils of the eighth grade of the Central school gave their teacher, Miss Maggie McDowell, a very pleasant surprise at her home last Friday night. Emil O. H. Kanell, of Niles, and Miss Mary Providence, of Solomon, were married at the Presbyterian parsonage Wednesday afternoon, February 13, Rev. Mr.

Estes officiating. A good laugh has more curative qualities than the contents of a wholesale drug store. "A Woman in the Case," by Bartlett and May and company, is one bi, continuous laugh from start to finish. Opera house Monday, Feb. 18.

Those who attended "Arizona" at the opera house Monday evening were more than pleased. It is the best entertainment Mr. Pierce has secured for the people of Salina for many months and should the company come this way again they will receive a cordial welcome from the theater goers of our city..