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Show UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHl Wiorn Wrii By EDWIN BALMER SYNOPSIS and David Rsnsdell. lottd aviator, arrive at New York from South Africa, feating been secretly commission"! at Capetown by lxrd Jthond.n and Professor Brooson, tha astronomer, to deCfcs liver containing photographic St plate to Dr.Drt-k-Cole iiendron, tn Hen-droe calls at the York. Tony apartment. Raasdell irrAn and with whom Tony ( Iiendron, deeply U love, introduce Tony pub-lla-to h KanadelL New Tork newspaper a tatement by Iiendron and concurred In by :ty of the world' greatest scientlMs. The statement aay tbat Frofcssor Bronson ha discovered two planets, which must bave broken way from another star or sun ar.d traveled through Interstellar space until tbey cam to region of the heaven whlrb brought them under the attraction of the sun. ss 1 CHAPTER II Continued " The two bodies have remained associated, approaching Collide us together and at the tame speed. Both now how disks which can be measured. It can now be estimated that, when first observed, they had approached within the distance from the sun of the planet Neptune. It must be remembered, however, that the He In an entirely different direction. "'Since coming under observation, they have moved within the distance of the orbit of the planet Uranus, and re approaching the distance of Sat- urn. ""Bronson Alpha which Is the name temporarily assigned to the larger of the two new bodies appears In the telescope similar In size to Uranus. That la, Its estimated diameter Is aometblng over forty thousand miles. Bronson Beta, which la the smaller of the two bodies, has an estimated diameter of eight thousand miles. It is similar In size, therefore, to the earth. " 'Bronson Beta at present Is In advance of Alpha In their approach toward the solar system; but they do not move In parallel lines; Beta, which Is the. smaller, revolves around Alpha o that their positions constantly change. "They have both come definitely within the sphere of gravitational Influence of the sun ; but having arrived from Interstellar apace, their speeds of approach greatly exceed the velocities of our familiar planets In their orbits around the sun. 'Such are the observed phenomena. The following Is necessarily highly speculative, but it Is offered as a possible explanation of the origin of the two Bronson bodies. "'It has long been supposed that about other stars than ours for of course our sun is only a star are other plants like the earth and Mars and Jupiter. It Is not presumed that all stars are surrounded by planets; but It has been estimated that probably at least one star In one hundred thousand has developed, a planetary system. Among the many billions of stars, there are probably millions of suns with planets. It Is always possible that some catastrophe would tear the planets away. It would require nothing more than the approach of another star toward the sun to destroy the gravitational control of the sun over the earth and Venus and Mars and Jupiter and other planets, and to end them all spinning Into space ou cold and dark careers of their own. " This world of ours, and Venus and Mars and Jupiter and Saturn, would then wander throughout Indefinite ages some of them perhaps eternally doomed to cold and darkness; others might, after Incalculable ages, find Another sun. "'It might be assumed, for purposes of explanation of the Bronson bodies, that they once were planets like our earth and Uranus, circling about some sun. A catastrophe tore them away, together with whatever other planets there might have been, and sent them Into the darkness of Interstellar space. These two Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta either were associated originally, or else established a gravitational influence upon each other In the Journey through apace, and probably have traveled together through an Incalculable time until they arrived In a region of the heavens which brought them at last under the attraction of the sun. Their previous course, consequently, has been greatly modified by the sun, and as a result, they are now approaching Ufe-glvln- g us.'" At this point, the prepared statement of Cole Iiendron terminated. Tony Drake was sitting up straight In bed, holding the paper before him and trying, with his left hand and without looking away, to strike a match for the cigarette between his lips. lie did not succeed, but he kept on trying whllo his eyes searched down the column of questions put by the reporters to Doctor Iiendron and his answers. "'What will be the effect of this approach upon the earth?' 'It Is Impossible yet to tell' 'But there will be effects? "Certainly there will be effects.' "How serious?" Again Cole Iiendron refused to answer. "it is Impossible yet to say.' "Will the earth be endangered?" "Answer: 'There will undoubtedly be considerable alterations of conditions of life here.' "'What sort of alterations?' "That will be the subject of a later statement,' Doctor Iiendron replied. The character and degree of the disturbance which we are to undergo Is now the suhject of study by a responsible group. We will attempt to PHILIP WYLIE Copyrlfat by Edwin Eaimer a PWils WyU WXU Service describe the conditions likely to confront all of us on the world as soon as tbey clearly define themselves.' "'When will this Supplementary statement be made?" "'As soon as possible. Tomorrow 7" "'No; by no means as soon as tomorrow.' "Within a week? Within a month?" "'I would say that it might be made within a mouth.' Tony was on his feet, and In spite of himself, trembling. There was no possible mistaking of the undertone of this astounding announcement It spelled doom, or some enormous alteration of all conditions of life on the world equivalent to complete disaster. The League of the Last Days ! There was some reference to It In another column, but Tony scarcely caught Its coherence. Where was Eve; and what, upon this morning, was she doing? How was she feeling? What was she thinking? Might she, at last, be sleeping? She had been up all night, and at work assisting ber father. The statement had been released at one o'clock in the morning. How much more than this, which had been told, did Eve now know? Plainly, manifestly, the scientists knew more much, much more, which they dared not yet tell the public. Dared not! Tbat was the fact. Kyto, who usually effaced himself, did not do so this morning. Kyto, having the untasted coffee for an excuse, called attention to himself and ventured, "Mister, of course, comprehends the news?" "Yes, Kyto; I understand It partly, at any rate." "I may Inquire, please, perhaps the significance?" Tony stared at the little Jap. He had always liked blm; but suddenly be was assailed with a surge of fellow feeling for this small brown man trapped like himself on the rim of the son's plates and calculations simply cocfiro.ed what really was certain; Father checked them over. Then he gave It out That's what a made everything so changed." "Vet you didn't give out everything you know. Eve." "No, not everything, Tony." "You know exactly what's goliig to don't yoa. Eve? It's going to hapn, be doomsday. Isn't It?" ."No, Tony more than doomsday"What can be more than that?" "Dawn after doomsday, Touy. The world Is going to be destroyed. Tony, ch, Tony, the world Is going to be most thoroughly destroyed,; yet some of us wlil not die! Or we need not die if we accept the strange challenge that God Is casting at us from the skies !" "The challenge that God casts at us What do you what challenge? mean?" "I'll try to tell you, Tony: There are two worlds coming toward us two worlds torn, millions of years ago perhaps, from another star. For millions of years, probably they've been wandering, utterly dark and utterly frozen, through space; and now they've found our sun ; and they're going to attach themselves to it at our expense. For they are coming into the solar system on a course which will carry them close oh, very close indeed, Tony, to the orbit of the earth. They're going to Join up at the same distance from the sun as we are. Do you understand?" In spite of himself, Tony blanched. "They're going to hit the earth, you mean? I thought so." "They're not going to hit the earth, Tony, the first time around. The first time they circle the sun, they're going to pass us close, to be sure; but I i Ski 'M world. Trapped I That was It Trapped was the word for this strange feeling. "Kyto, we're In for something." What?" "Something rather extensive, Kyto. One thing Is sure, we're all in for It together." "General destruction?" Kyto asked. Tony shook his head, and his reply surprised himself. "No; If it were Just that, they'd say It the end of everything. People after all In a way are At Ten O'clock the Gong Rang, prepared for that, Kyto." Tony was the Stock Market Opened. One reasoning to himself as much as talkMan Dropped Dead at His First ing to Kyto. "No; this can't be Glance Upon the Racing Ticker. It doesn't feel like It, Kyto." they're going to pass us both of "What else could It be?" questioned them. But the second time they pass well, one of them Is going to pass the Jap, practically. Tony, having no answer, gulped his coffee; and Kyto us a second time, too, but the other had to attend to the phone, which was one Isn't, Tony. The smaller one Bronson Beta, the one about the same rinsing. Five minutes after the telephone size as the earth and, so far as we can tell, very much like the earth is gorang Tony Drake was at the The place was policed. Men, ing to pass us safely ; but the big one, Bronson Alpha, Is going to take out women and children from Park avenue, from Third and Second avenues, the world!" "You know that. Eve?" crowded the sidewalks; sound film "We know It! There must be a trucks and photographers obstructed margin of error, we know. There the street. Radio people and reporters refused admittance, picked up may not be a direct head-ocollision, Tony; but any sort of encounter-ev- en what they could from the throng. a glancing blow would be Tony, at last, made proper contact enough and much more than enough with a policeman. to finish this globe. And an encounThe officer escorted him In. The eleter Is certain. Every single calculavator lifted him high to the penthouse on the roof. No one was about tion that has been made shows it. "You know what an exact thing but the servants. Miss Eve, they said, was In the breakfast room; Doctor astronomy is today, Tony. I? we have three different observations of a movHendron still was asleep. "Hello, Tony I Come In!" Eve rose ing body, we can plot its path; and from the pretty little green table In we've hundreds of determinations of the gay chintz curtained nook which these bodies. More than a thousand they called the breakfast room. Her altogether! We know now what they eyes were bright, her face flushed the are; we know their dimensions and slightest bit with her excitement Her the speed with which they are travelhands grasped his tightly. Longing ing. We know, of course, almost prefor her leaped in Tony. D n everycisely the forces and attractions which will Influence them the gravitational thing else I He pulled her within his arms and power of the sun. Tony, you rememkissed her; and ber Hps, as they had ber how precise the forecast was In last night, clung to his. Their hands the eclipse that darkened New Engheld to each other a moment more; land. The astronomers not only foretold to a second when it would begin then Tony stepped back. She had dressed but for her frock and end, but they described the blocks Itself; she was In negligee, with her and even the sides of the streets In towns that would be In shadow. And slim lovely arms In silk, her white neck and bosom half their error was less than twenty feet. "It's the same with these Bronson exposed. He bent and kissed her neck. "You've breakfasted, Tony?" bodies, Tony. They're falling toward "Yesno. Can I sit with you here? the sun, and their path can be plotted I scarcely dreamed you'd be up, Eve, like the path of Newton's apple dropafter your night." ping from the bough. Gravity Is the "You've seen the papers? We were surest and most constant force In all through with them before three. That creation. One of those worlds, which Is, Father then absolutely refused to Is seeking our sun. Is going to wipe say any more or see anyone else. He us out. Tony all of us, every sou! of us that remains ou the world when went to sleep." It collides. But the other world the "You didn't." world so much like this will pass us "No; I kept thinking thinking " close and go on, safe and sound, "Of the end of everything, Eve?"' "Part of the time, I did; of course around the sun again I did; but more of the time of you." "Tony, do you believe In God?" "Of me last night?" "Whaf that to do with this?' "I hoped you'd come first thing to"So much that this has got me day. I thought you would . . . It's thinking about God again, Tony. God funny what difference the formal anthe God of our fathers the God nouncement of It makes. I knew it of the Old Testament, Tony ; the God all Inst night, Tony. I've known the who did things and meant something, general truth of It for weeks. the God of wrath and vengeance, but But when It was a secret thing the God who also could be merciful to something shared Just with my father and with men. For He's sending two world's his friends it wasn't the same as to us, Tony, not one not Just the one now. tine knew It but still dltlnt ad that will destroy us. He's sending mlt It, even to one's self. It was theothe world that may save us, too!" retical In one's head, like a dream, "Save us? What do you mean?" not reality. We didn't really do "That's what the League of the Last much. Father and I, last I Days Is working on, Tony the chance night mean do much In proving up the facts of escape that offered by the world and figures. Father had them all be- - like ours, which wiil pass so close and fore from other men. Professor Brou- - go on. We may transfer to It, Tony. n Child's Point of pob.j can have of tie earth, asd therefore posIs perfectly It an atmosphere. abie w sible that people who are reach it can live there. -It's a worid, perhaps very like onrs, and which has been in Immutable cold probof years, millions for darkneM wiil be comlcg ably, and which now to life again. -Think of It. Tocy! The tremendous magniacect adventure of making a try for it! It was a world once like Peoours, circling around some sun. animals and and on lived it; ple Evolution had ocplants and trees. and progress. Civicurred there, too. of Thousands lization had come. thousand of Tens years of it, maybe. we of years perhaps much more than have yet known. Perhaps, also, much less. It's the purest speculation to was guess in what stage that world when It was torn from its sun and sent spinning Into space. "But in whatever stage It was In, you may be sure it is In exactly that stage now; for when it left its sun, life became extinct. The rivers, the lakes, the seas, the very air, froze and became solid, encasing and keeping everything Just as It was, though It wandered through space for ten million years. But as it approaches the sun, the air and then the seas will thaw. The people cannot possibly come to life, nor the animals or birds or other things; but the cities will stand there unchanged, the implements, their nomes all will remain and be uncovered again. "If this world were not doomed, what an adventure to try for that one, Tony I And a possible adventure a perfectly possible adventure, with the powers at our disposal today!" Tony recollected, after a while, that Balcora had bid him to learn from Iiendron, as definitely as possible, the date and nature of the next announcement How would it affect stocks? Would the Stock Exchange open at all? He remembered, at last. It was a business day; downtown he had duties contracts to buy and orders to sell stocks. He did not venture to ask to have Iiendron awakened to speak to him but, before ten o'clock, he did leave Eve. He walked to the subway. "Gimme five cents for a cup of cof- fee?" This panTony stopped, stared. handler, too, was trapped, with him and Kyto and Eve and all the rest, on the rim of the world which was coming to its end. Did he have an inkling of It? Whether or not, obviously today he must eat. Tony's hand went Into his pocket Speculation about the masses assailed him. What did they think this morning? How differently would they do today? Just-destru- ction. Hen-dron- ise Parent Will Get and the will and the ttffl We could sena a It would do us any tie moon today. If could m one good. If any W ell. tier.. on the moon after he got closer than Bronson Beta will pass us Is the size Beta tha moon. Bronson if we ha the nerve! CHAPTER III At ten o'clock the gong rang and the stock market opened. There had been no addition to public knowledge r In the newspapers. The carried, as additional information, only the effect of the announcement on the markets In Europe, which already had been open for hours. It was plain that the wild eyes of terror looked across the oceans and the land across rice fields and prairies, out of the smoke of cities every- EV KERR. National "Kindergarten As.ocat.on, New York. was getting ready for family The was in ride Little George where seat of the machine, b?usuanv rode. Buttherewa.com-land one of the guests place Sato sit in bis accustomed could not objected, and a he egress his objection in words, snce to could not yet talk, he began fret and squirm visitor who -Never mind," said the she saw as his place, . to sit in look on the face of his Lothe who was going to lift him owr onto the front seat "George will sit on my will be all right; he anxious not to be left is Just he lap; Seta and bis mother's funds where they were still comparatively safe In spite of the threat of world cataclysm. Comparatively safe what did that mean? What did anything mean to- day? Balcom came into his office ; he put his head on Tony s desk and sobbed Tony opened a drawer, took out a whisky bottle which had reposed in It unopened for a year, and poured a stiff dose into a drinking cup. Balcom swallowed It as if it were milk, took another, and walked out dazedly. Tony procured his hat and wiilked out Every one else was on the street people in herds and throngs never seen on Wall or Broad street or on this stretch of Broadway, but who now were sucked In by this us, to love us, and obey us." Mormon Cricket One of Farmer's Worst EneaL, rr i3. . Iff- near-grea- UiHH said her companion. "We are always expecting children to understand us," said the oth er woman, "but we should remember that It Is our place to understand them, and to take their point of view, Church Debt Financed Along Business Lines INFORMATION BNCL08B STAMP JUDGE LEHMAN, HUMBOLDT, KAXS. 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The principal indebtedness is being wiped out at the same time. Literary Digest' HOSTELRY Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Bath -- 3 x HOTEL Temple Square Rates $1.50 to $3.00 Tha Hotel Temple Square has atmohighly desirable, friendly imma- sphere. You will always tind it ana culate, supremely comfortable, thoroughly agreeable.You can thai for understand why this hotel HIGHLY RECOMMENDED You can also appreciate why: Ifa mark of rflst'nct'on to iW at Viit beautiful hottalry ERNEST C ROSSITER, Mi mmsssmwsmss i -- rtKh,lH-i- ,narvrv 1 llKWA.Iiri.rJ '- , -1 tuTrncm rlOfaV; avenues. TO BB OONTUatO we can do the will lead them to have coM.iS.ft ml. unparalleled excitement from the East side, the river front, the Bowery and likewise down from upper Fifth and from Park AU trapped thought Tony all trapped together on the rim of the world. Did they know it? Did they feel it? The deluge of humanity was of a single insatiable pa'ion for papers. But the newspapers told nothing more. Their contents, following the repetition of the announce, ment of the morning, were of a wholly secondary nature, reflecting only the effect of tne statement Itself. for then The Mormon cricket, eecTT an Insect of the mountains i, . 1 a destructive pest In L maies bmre Is always Brent in the high, rugged hin. L rado, Idaho. Wyoming and Mont Now and then it becomes Kr- enough to leave Its natural habTZ and migrate, in great bands im0 cultivated valleys. These outbreak as a rule, last from two to six IT1 or until the crickets man, by by natural enemies, n, h! weather conditions. out" Mormon crickets usually All right yon can try It; perhaps In bands varying from the si,.6.. he will," said his mower. city block to a square mile 0r mort toos The bands are very dense, oft The visitor seated herself, nn her lap. and peace n was a child more foot From the time thev ht .' reigned. Never little George all during the spring until they disappear h than content the fall the crickets are almost cob! the ride. were in motion. Once under w. stantly they When the visitors reft, of iuc uauu iiaveis in a behavior on the good straight lio. commenting uttio follow, and one said, I stopping at nothing. If it mxtt we have with board fence or a house, it trio. 4. suppose the trouble c climb over the top, rather than comes Decade children often j. are lug uruuuu. don't understand what they to too are young thinking, and they "Bohemians" to Her tell us." A York woman who numberi New held bad who "Yes," said the one t amont George' "If we can Just take their both the great and her be a functlos will acquaintances gave point of view, our problems one day which was attended by Mis, much simplified ; and after all, It is William Astor, then the dowager of child's a Is in not hard to see what we the Astor family. A few days later how consider we If just mind, Mrs. Astor met her hostess and rewould feel if we were in his place. marked casually: It becomes second nature when we T am having a Bohemian party, underto are with children much, also." stand their thought and feelings." "And whom have you invited to As her companion agreed to this statement, she asked. "Do you re- give it the bohemlan atmosphere? member little Charles, and how the she was asked, to which she replied nurse accused him of crytos because with emphasis: "J. P. Morgan and Edith Wou of temper when he was only a few weeks old? The real cause was that ton." Boston Globe. they had waited too long to give him Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, his bottle. bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for his and "When the nurse left, a laxative three for a cathartic. Aift, mother had to prepare bis bottle, the baby cried while she was preparing Paradoxical, but True it ; he did not know she was at work When a bank's assets are liquid, getting ready to satisfy his hunger. that's when the bank's solid. I carried him into the kitchen, where he could see her preparing the bottle, and at once his cries ceased. "Just imagine how you would feel. If you were hungry, and unable to move a step to get food, and the person In charge of you had left you, apparently ignoring your need." "I suppose we should cry just as hard as the baby did, if not harder," news-ticke- where. The stock market opened promptly at ten. One man dropped dead at his first glance upon the racing ticker. On the floor of the Exhange Itself, there was relative quiet When the market is most busy. It Is most silent Phones were choked with regular, crowded speech. Boys ran. The men stood and spoke In careful tones at the posts. Millions of shares began to change hands at prices down. The ticker lagged as never In the wildest days of the boom. And at noon, in patent admission of the obvious necessity, New York followed the example already set by London, Parts and Berlin. The great metal doors boomed shut There would be no more trading for an indeterminate time. Until "the scientific situation became cleared up." When Tony hung up the telephone, he thought vaguely that only foresight during the depression had placed his View iV J.w&f Protect your skin, as well as the tMiW t does Inoro ths BOap ?.Af" iyi:t ticn, Proprietor.. Pqu, .i:. Ml nmi. bv reg c,eanse' Coilcora Soap roushncM IIPI d4 ContaiBinl safeguard. disciDg,rrita' I - |