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Show UTAH .EIII FREE PRESS. LEHL Wiem Worlds Collide By EDWIN BALMER SYNOPSIS and David Ransdell, noted aviator, arrives at New York from South Africa, commiationed at C'ap-tohaving by Lord fihondin and Professor Bronaon, th astronomer, to deliver a eaa containing photographic platei to Dr. Cola Hendron. la New York. Tony Vrk eaita at the Hendrona' apartment. Ra.rdell arrives and Eva with whom Totj deeply in love, Introduces Tony to Ilantdell. New Tork nawnpapera publish a atate-saety Hendron aaylnf that I'rofea-ao- r Bronaoa baa liseovered two planeta, which mint have broken way from another atar or sun, and have been brought tinder the attraction of our sun. The reault of tba collision muat be the end of the earth. The approaching; bodies ara referred to as Uronion Alpha and Bronson Beta. tta vi Hen-dro- n, 1 nt CHAPTER III Continued Tony dropped Into a restaurant, where, though It was only afternoon, an evening hilarity already bad arrived. The Exchange was closed I No one knew exactly why or what was to happen. Why caret That was the air here. Two men of Tony's age, acquaintances tn school and friends in Wall Street, stopped at his table. "We're going the rounds. Come along." Their taxi squeezed through Broadway In which frantic policemen wrestled vainly with overwhelming crowds. It stopped at a brownstone bouse In the West Forties. A night club, and It was crowded, though tha sun was still shining. The three floors of the bouse were Oiled with people In business clothes drinking and dancing. On the top floor two rouletta wheels were surrounded by players. Tony saw heaps of chips, the plies of bills, tie looked at the faces of tha players, and recognized two or three of them. They were hectic (aces. Tba market had closed. This was a real smash not merely a money amash a smash of the whole world ahead. Naturally money was losing lta value, but men played for when they won, groaned when they lost, and staked again. The limit fead been taken off the game. Downstairs at the bar, were three girls to whom Tony's two friends Immediately attached themselves.' They were pretty girls of the kind that Broadway produces by an overntgbt Incubation; girls who had been born far from the Great White Way. Girls attiwhose country and small-towtudes had vanished. All of them bad hair transformed from Its original shade to ashen blonde. Around their eyes were beaded lashes; their voices were high; their silk clothes adhered to their bodies. They drank and laughed. "Here's to old Bronson!" they toasted. "Here's to the ol' world coming to an endl" Tony sat with them : Clarissa, Jacqueline, Bettlna. lie gazed at them, laughed with them, drank with them; but he thought of Eve, asleep at last, he hoped. Eve, slender as they, young as they, far, far lovelier than they; and bearing within her mind and soul the frightful burden of the full knowledge of this day. After a while Tony looked again at the motley crowd; and across the room he saw a friend sitting alone In a booth. Tony rose and went toward the man. He was a person a personageworthy of notice. He was lean, Immaculate, smooth. Ills dark eyes were remote and unseeing. First nights knew him. Mothers of very rich daughters, mothers of daughters of Impeccable lineage, sought him. Wherever the gayest of the gay world went, he could be found. Southampton, Newport, Biarritz, Cannes, Nice, Deauvllle, Palm Beach. He was like old silver yet ha was not old. Forty, perhaps. A bachelor. He would have liked It If some one of authority had called htm a connoisseur of life and living ho would have been pleased, but ho would not have revealed his pleasure. Ills name was Peter And ha was trapped, too-T- ony was thinking as he saw him trapped with him and Eve and Kyto and tha panhandler and Bettlna and Jacqueline and all the rest on the rim of the world. Tony cleared bis brain. "Hello," ha aid. Peter Tanderbllt looked up and his face showed welcome. "Tony I Jove! Of all people. Glad to see you. Sit. Sit and contemplate." He beckoned a waiter and ordered. "You're a bit on the Inside, I taka It friend of the Hendrons. You know a bit more of what's going on." "Yes," admitted Tony; It was sense-lea-s to deny It to this man. "Don't tell me. Don't break confidences for my sake. I'm not one that has to have details ahead of others. Funny, Isnt It, to think of the end of all this? I feel stimulated, don't you? AU of It going to pieces I I feel like saying, 'Thank God 1' I was sick of It Civilization's a Every one was. wretched parody. Evidently there was a Just and judging God, after all, and He's taking us In hand again the way He did In Noah's time. . . . Good thing. I say. "But Hendron and his scientists aren't doing so well. They're making a big mistake. They've done splendidly hardly could have done better up to today. But they're not well advised If thev hold anything back much longer; they'd better tell anything no matter how bad It is. They'll have to. as they'll soon see. Nothing can be a bad as uncertainty. They're scientists, but the human element Is the one thing they can't analyze and reduce to figures. What they rit'etl l v'ripl In public relations. - lt-c- heered n gray-haire- Van-derbl- top-notc- h PHILIP WYLIE Copyrlcbt a Kdwla Balmer A Pallia WrUa VTNTS Eirvtce Tell Cole Hendron I recommend Ivy Lee." Klsln- -, be left Tony and vanished In the t.'irong. Tony rose, secured his bat and went out The latest newspaper contained a tateiiient from the White House. The President requested that on the morrow every one return to - work. It promised that the government would maintain stability In the country and Inveighed violently against the exaggerated reaction of the American people to the scientists' statement, Tony smiled. "Business as usual! Business going on, as usual, during alterations," he thought He took a taxi to the Hendrons apartment More than a block away from the building, be had to abandon the cab. The crowd and the police cordon about the apartment both had increased; but certain persons could pass. Several men, whose voices he could overhear in loud argument were with Cole Hendron behind the closed doors of the big study on the roof. No one She awaited him, was with Eve. alone. Sha was dressed carefully, charmingly, as she always was. He pressed her to him for a moment ; and for that Instant when he kissed her and held her close, all wonder and terror was sent away. What matter the end of everything. If first be bad her! He had never dreamed of such delight in possession as be felt holding her; he had never dared dream of such 'response from her or from any one. He had won her, and she him, utterly. As be thought of the cataclysm destroying them, he thought of It coming to them together, In each other's arms; and be could not care. She felt It, fully aa he. Her Angers touched his face with a passionate tenderness which tore him. "What's done It for us so suddenly and so completely. Tony?" " The shadow of the sword,' I suppose, my dear oh, my dear! I remember reading It In Kipling when I was a boy, but never understanding It Kemember the two In love when they knew that one would surely die? There Is no happiness like that snatched under the shadow of the sword.' " "But we both shall die, If either does, Tony. That's so much better." The voices beyond the closed door shouted louder, and Tony released her. "Who's here?" Eve said In reply to Tony's question, "Six men, the secretary of state, the governor, Mr. Borgan, the chief of a newspaper chain, two more." She was not thinking about them. "Sit down, but don't sit near me, Tony; we've got to think things out" "Your father's told them?" "He's told them what will happen tirst 1 mean, when the Bronson bodies both of them Just pass close to the world and go on around the sun. That's more than enough for them now. It's not time yet to tell them of the encounter. You see, the mere passing close will be terrible enough." "Why?" "Because of the tides, for one thing. The moon, which Is hardly an eightieth of the world In mass, raises tides that run forty to sixty feet In places like the Bay of Fundy." "Of course the tides," Tony realized aloud. "Bronson Beta Is the size of the earth, Tony; Bronson Alpha is estimated to have eleven to twelve times that mass. That sphere will pass, the first time, within the orbit of the moon. Bronson Beta will raise tides many times as high; and Bronson Alpha you can't express It by mere multiplication, Tony. New York will be under water to the tops of its towers a tidal wave beyond all Imagination! The seacoasts of all the world will be swept by the seas, sucked up toward the sky and washed back and forth. The waves will wash back to the Appalachians; and It will be the same In Europe and Asia. Holland, Belgium, half of France and Germany, half of India and China, will be un "New York Will 8s Under Water to the Top of Its Towers a Tidal Wave Beyond All Imagination! Tha Seacoasts of th. World Will Swapt by the Seas." der the wave of watet. There'll be aa earth tide, too." "Earth tide?" Earthquakes from the pull on the crust of the earth. Some of the men writing to Father think that the earth will be torn to pieces Just by the first passing of Eronson Alpha; but some of them thiLk It wUl survive the strain." "What does your father think?" "He thinks the earth will survive the first stress and that It Is possible that a fifth of the population may live through It too. Of course that's only a guess." "A fifth," repeated Tony. "A fifth of ail on the earth." Eve was watching him. Through the years of their friendship and fondness, she had seen Tony aa a normal man, to whom everything that happened was happy, felicitous and The only crises In which she observed him were emergencies on the football field, and alarms In the stock market, which In the first case represented mere sport, and In the second, money which he did not properly understand, because all his life be had possessed money enough, and more. Now, as she watched him, she thought that she would meet with him and she exulted therein the most terrific reality that man had ever faced. So far as he had yet been called upon, be bad met It without attempting to evade It; his effort had been solely for more complete understanding. A contrast to some of those men among them men who were called the greatest in the nation whose voices rose loud again behind the closed doors. The ranting and shouting offended her; she wanted to go to her father's aid; not being able to, she went to Tony. "Somebody," said Tony, "seems not to like what he has to hear." "Who Is he, Tony?" "Somebody who isn't very used to Oh hearing what he doesn't like. Eve, Eve! My dear, my dear! For the first time In my life, I'd like to be a poet; I wish for words to say what The sudden unmuffllng I feel. . . of the voices warned them that a door from the study had opened ; some one had come out. It was her father. For a few moments he stood regarding them, debating what he should say. "Father," Eve said, "Tony and I Tony and Her father nodded. "I saw you for a few seconds before you realized I was here, Eve and Tony." "We mean what you Tony flushed. saw, sir," he said. "We more than mean It We're going to be married as soon as we can aren't we, Eve?" "Can we, Father?" Cole Hendron shook his head. 'There can't be marrying or love for either of you. No time to tell you why not; only there can't." "Why can't there be, sir?" "There's going to be altogether too much else. In a few months, you'll know. Meanwhile, don't spoil my And don't go on plans by eloping. It'll only doing what I Just saw. make It harder for both of you as you'll see when you figure out what's before you. Tony, there's nothing personal In that. I like you, and you know It If the world were going to remain, I'd not say a word; but the world cannot possibly remain. We can talk of this later." The study door again opened ; some one called him, and he returned to the argument In the next room. "Now," demanded Toay of Eve, "what In the world, which cannot possibly remain, does he mean by that? That we shouldn't love and marry because we're going to die? All the more reason for It and quicker, too." "Neither of us can possibly guess what be means, Tony; we'd be months behind him tn thinking; for he's done nothing else, really, for half a year, but plan what we what all the human race will have to do. He means, I think, that he's put us In some scheme of things that won't let us marry." The argument In the room broke up and the arguers emerged. In a few minutes they all were gone; and Tony sought Cole Hendron In his big study, where the plates which had come ... I" vV SSrV-BTjaZlf- V r&Li-imiM,..,- f J. a wera from South Africa the table. Too were downtown .... .. 77QUOTES77 pread npoa . vj cd Par; KDOKU loi been JaX Tnr . r" EXPORT TRADE REVIVAL ANDERSON By BEXJ. M. Economist. THE cell-tissu- e w ma 1 Thus the $240 expenditure for,, ter was responsible for a tloj? t crease In Income, for counting the Increase in the a.a2 of bushels be harvested at tht suit of irrigation. If They're AU Kecetaary Foodi But All Acid - Forminf. Hence Most of U Havt"Adi Stontach" At Timet. Eat Note to Relieve. Doctors say that much shape. "None of them would ask to look through the microscope himself; he'd know it would mean nothing to him. "But they asked for Bronson'a plates. I showed them ; here they are, Tony. Look here. See this field of stars. All those fixed points, those round specks, every single one of them is a star. But see here; there Is a slight a very slight streak, but still a streak. There, right beside it Is another one. Something has moved, Two points of light have Tony! where nothing moved In a star-fielought to move I A mistake, perhaps? A flaw In the coating of the plate? Bronson considered this, and other He photographed the possibilities. star-fielagain and again, night after night; and each time, you see, Tony, the same two points of light make a bit of streak. No chance of mistake; down there, where nothing ought to be moving, two objects have moved. But all we have to show for It are two tiny streaks on a photographic plate. "What do they mean? 'Gentlemen, the time has come to put your house In order The affairs of all the world, the affairs of every one living in the world. Naturally, they can't really believe It "Bronson himself, he though watched those planets himself night after night for months, couldn't really believe it ; nor could the other men who watched, in other observatories south of the equator. "But they searched back over old plates of the same patch of the sky; and they found, In that same star-fielwhat they had missed before those same two specks always making tiny streaks. Two objects that weren't stars where only stars ought to be ; two strange objects that always were moving, where nothing 'ought' to move. "We need only threa good observations of an object to plot the course of a moving body; and already Bronson succeeded In obtaining a score of observations of these. He worked out the result and It was so sensational, that from the very first he swore to secrecy every one who worked with him and with whom ha corresponded. They obtained, altogether, hundreds d d 1 d, of observations ; and the result always worked out the same. They ail checked "Eve says she has told you what that result Is to be," Cole Hendroa said. "Yes," said Tony, "she told me." "And I told these men who demandedordered me to explain to them everything we had. I told them that those specks showing on the Bronson plates were moving so that they would enter our solar system, and one of them would then come into collision with our world. They said, all right. You see, it really meant nothing to them originally. "Then I told them that, before the encounter, both of these moving bodies Bronson Alpha anu Bronson Beta-w- ould first pass us close by and cause tides that would rise six hundred feet over us, from New York to San Francisco and, of course, London and I'arls and all sescoasts everywhere. 'They began to oppose that because they could unaerstflnd It I told them that the passing of the Bronson bodies would cause earthon a scale untmaglnable; half quakes the Inland cities wouk. be shaken down, and the effect below the crust would set volcanoes Into activity everywhere, and as never since the world began. I said, perhaps, fifth of the people would survive the first passing of the Bronson bodies. I tried fl out some of the areas on th point surface of the earth which wci,i i, comparatively safe. 1 foods in to many modern diet. And that there ij noi way to relieve this . . . often a minutes I Simply take Phillip Milk a! Magnesia after meals. 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CONTINUED p, ning of a long balance by regeeks to restore the The equilibrium stricting agriculture. new work will not be attained until disthe people for found has been inthat and placed from agriculture; cruel a and shifting Immense an volves and painful shifting. In I see the solution of the problem to trade, our of export restoration the I shifting. further make unnecessary want to regain our equilibrium with a I minimum of further readjustment think that the great Increase In general business which would come with our a satisfactory export market for material! raw and goods agricultural would mean that our domestic market for manufactured goods would expand so greatly that our manufacturers, with sharing that expanding market would reasonable foreign competition, nroduce more goods and sell more eoods and make more profits than they can possibly do under existing condi tions. " V aj' AAA, if viewed as tempobut a stop-gathe beginis only rary measure,and difficult process. It won't have It ,tv, trnniii n men aren t reauy educated up to the telescope yet ... in tha microscone. If a docfrom any tor took a bit of one of those men wno were jusi TO BY NATIONAL CHARACTERS a-anu I handsome profits. John C. r of the bureau of pia lndJ port tie experience of a tnit er who irrigated 827 eight lach tree in an orchard at dale. Ark. He applied ar,Droir !y 1,000,000 gallons of w,,V7 the drouth at a cost of r'ifl marketed ' about 3,0u0 bas! 81 loaches from the trees, and was so much better size and ej4 than the peaches from uoirrw! trees that his price was tboa a cents a bushel more than hit tors were able to get over them. Lansing tie . COMMENTS ON CURRENT TOPICS they J morn- o.er the market This U Is; we half told them what It Just tW-- t they believed other half bow I told six men the -, of or moat it. have un t Tje them, Touy; they It world won't come to an end; won another possibly collide with for one thing, tt never becanse-w- ell. and for Has done such a thing before, Not when have it won't another, they you dwell upon ice ueiai .k. Rome Tanners In WATT (Ions who were able to imj, ligation systems last suruml . - it didn't the Qchange. it and and half the busses " town had a houaay. lime that some- . i, . Tt7, PROFITABLE acid-formi- country became convinced that this nation was going to adhere to sound money, return to the gold basis, and refuse to agree with the claims of the greenback propagandists. Again business recovery came after the long depression of the '90s when the people of the country became convinced that we were going to maintain a sound currency and to decide against the claims of the sliver propagandists. If In this depression the Supreme court should decide that the abrogation of the gold clause was unconstitutional, and so force the congress to restore the old one hundred cent dollar, the verdict of our own business men and of the foreign nations might be that this country had finally decided upon a program of upholding the soundness of our money and the validity of our contracts. If that happened, the result would be a sudden general and effective restoration of business confidence. 1 Also in Tablet Form Phillips' Milk of Magnesia Tablet are now on sale at all drug stores everywhere. Each tiny tne equivaUDiet lent of a teaspoonful til Genuine Phillips' Milk of Magnesia. Phillips 1 A4UL vfllaiim. Guard the Speech More have repented of speech of ailenoe. 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