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Show PUBLIC OPINION Simplicity anil Smartness Here THE WORLD HAD CRASHED . . . IWTTKHN K44 Only a handful of men and women, the flower of earths civilization, had escaped by fleeing in a great space ship to another planet. Here, in a world without law, confronted by new perils, they faced the necessity of building a new civilization. Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie tell a breath-takin- g story in "After Collide World's Read this opening installment and you will not want to miss a word of this remarkable tale as it appears serially in these columns. Alon. In Creation, no far a. they men, know, .tool forty-fou- r women and two children th. survivors of th. and of tho Earth. Two planets hid appeared, hurtling outdla-tn-of apacw One. they had circled lom. nun which w. on our earth could havo aeen only as a star. But millions and millions of years sko occurred a celestial catastrophe; these two atran-ire- r planet, were torn away from their sun. They drifted out Into tho darkness. The light and heat from their sun must have diminished until thnt nun dwindled to th. appearance of a .tar; but long before that tlmo cam, there could havo been no living being left upon either of thoso planets. The seas and at laet the very atmosphere tho air frose solid. Tho planota wore In tho all hot absolute cold of space between tho stare. At last they approached our sun; and they stumbled upon the path of another planet: Our fifty-aev-- If you're tlie type who loves simplicity without severity, you'll enjoy house frock with shoulder tucks, released Into fullness nt the bust, and s fascinating,, scalloped surplice and sleeve trim. A single kick pleat provides the needed skirt fullness, and you will find thnt the senin leading to It gives a slender appearance. The dress Is beautifully proport loned anil certuin to lit correctly. Have you shopped for the Benson's silks, cottons and rnyons yet! The sliops are teeming with most attractive prints to Inspire your new wanlrolw. 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This Is a chronicle of tha first n the New World Bronson Beta, days men of the Earth called It, as they named the awful destroyer planet Bronnon Alpha. This la the record of the emigrants from Earth who reached the planet that replaced tha World. . , . CHAPTER I SIMPLE TWIST lie It doesn't take much to turn a woman's hegd. Klie You're right. That one Just turned and looked at you. Pearson's Weekly. Kerplunk I IIow did George break his leg? Do you see those steps over there? Yes." Well, George didn't." London Tit Pits. Two of a Kind hilarious guest at a party embraced a woman by mistake. lie apologized "Escnse me. but I thought you were iny wife." Y'nu're a nice sort of hush.-infor any woman to have, you clutus.v brute," said the woman. "There, " said the convivial one, "you talk Just like her, ton. A slightly Nary a Word "Who gave the bride away? Nobody said a word." London Tit-Bit- Eliot James gat at a metal desk Inside the Since Ship which bad conveyed a few score human being! from the doomed earth to safety on the sun's new planet, Bronson Rets. In front of Eliot Janies was his already Immemorial diary, and over It he poised a fountain pen. He had written several paragraphs: April whnt ahull 1 call It? Is It the second day of April, or la It the first? The earth Is gone smnshed to fragments; and the companion of Its destroying angel, upon which our band of one hundred and three Argonauts holds so brief and huznrdona a residence, la still without names, seasons and months. Rut April hns vanished with the earth; and for all I know, spring, winter, summer nnd fall nmy also lie absent n the new world. I have pledged myself to write In this diary every day, as Hendron assures me there will tie no other record of our adventures here until we have lieeome well enough established to iiermlt the compilation of a formal history. "My companions stand there In the sunshine under the strange sky on our brown earth forty-thre- e n men, women, two children. They have been singing a medley of songs which under other circumstances might seem Irrelevant Many of them are foreigners and do not know the words, but they also sing with tears streaming down their faces and a catch 'n their mice. They sang The Processional' and they sang Nearer, My God to Thee. After that they sang Hall, Hall, the Ganga All Here. Then they sang "The Marseillaise with Duquesne leading leading and tiellowlng the words, and weeping. What a spectacle! Reside It the id c tu re of Leif Ericsson or Colunibua reaching green shores at Inst la dimmed to Insignificance. For those ancient explorers found the inth to a mere continent while this band has blazed a trail of fire through space to a new fifty-seve- plnnet And" the lien wavered "to what Imagine whimsically as the new future readers of my notes, I make an apology. This la our Brat day on Rron-Bii- n Beta. My Itnpntience has exhausted my conscience, l must lay down my lien, leave the remarkable ship wherein I write and go out upon the face of 'tills earth untrod by man. I can restrain myself no longer. Eliot Jamea walked down the gang- 1 plunk, and Joined Tony, Eve and Cole Hendron. The leader of the exiedftion nodded aa several of the etiple on the edge of the cliff turned toward the Ark. "Hendron I" they hailed him again. Hendron I Cole Hendron! Their hysteria had not yet cleared away ; they remulned In the emotional excitement of the they hud escap'd but witnessed, and of the Incomparable dventure of their flight. Hendron I Hendron I What do you wunt us to do?" they demanded; fur their discipline, too, yet clung to them the steru, uncompromising discipline deuuintled of them during the preparation of the Ship of Escape, the discipline of the league of the Last Days. Hendron itepied upon an outcrop of stone and smiled down at them. "I have nunle too many speeches, he said. "And this morning la scarcely a aultable hour for further thanksgiving. It may be proper and pleasant, later, to devote such a day aa the Pilgrims, from one side of our earth to another, did ; but like them, It la better to wait unkll we feel ourselves more securely Installed. When such a time. arrives, I will appoint on official day and we shall hope to observe It each year." cast his eye over the throng and continued; "Since I know all of you so well, I feci It unnecessary to say that In the days abend lies a necessity for a prodigious amount of work. Your tempers and Intelligences will be tried sorely by the new order which must exist. Our first duty will be to provide ourselves with suitable homes and with a source of food and clothing. Our next duty will be to arrange for the gathering of the basic materials of the technical able of onr civilian In all your minds, I know. Ilea the problem of perpetuating onr kind. We have, partly through accident, a larger nnmlier of women than men. I wish to discontinue the use of the word morality; but whnt I must Insist on calling our biological continuum will lie the subject of a very Important discussion. In all your minds, too. Is a burning Interest in the nature and features of this new planet. We have already through our teleseoiies that It once contained cities. To study those cities will lie an early undertaking. While there la little hope that others who attempted the flight to this planet have escaped disaster,' radio listening must he maintained. Moreover, the existence of living material on tills planet gives rise to a variety of possibilities. Rome of the flora which has sprung up may he iMilsonoua. even dangerous. to human life. What forms It will take and wlint novelties It will produce, we must ascertain as stain ss possible. I will set no tasks for this day It shall oe one of rest and rejoicing except thnt I will delegate listeners for radio messages nnd conks to prepare food for un. Tomorrow, and I use an Americanism which will become our watchword, we will ail get busy. " There was a pause, then cheering. Cole Hendron alepiied down from the atone. Eve turned to Tony and took Ida arm. "I am glad we don't have to work today. My inind flies in a thousand different directions simultaneously, It teems. Where are those cities which, from the world our ended world, Tony our telescopes showed us here? Whnt remains may we find of their people? Of their goods and their gods nnd their machines? What, when they found themselves being torn away from their sun, did they do? . . . That monument beside the rood that we found, Tony whnt was It? What did It mean? . , . Then I think of tnyself. Am I, Tony, to have children here?" Tony tightened his clasp upon her arm. Through all the terrors and triumph!, through all their consternations and amnzements. Instincts, he found, survived. We will not sjicak of aurh things now, lie said. We will satisfy the more Immediate needs, such as food deviled eggs ard sand wlches; and coffee! As If we were on earth-cHtaclys- tlon-to-b- e, earth. Eve. For once more we are on earth this strange, strange earth. But wa have brought our Identical bodies with ua." Sardines ! Duquesne said. Ha patted hla vast eximnae of abdomen an abdomen which In h!s natlva land he had often maintained, and was frequently to assert with pride on Bronson Beta, consisted not of fat but of aujieriur muscle. Indeed, although Duquesne was short of stature and some fifty years of age, he often demonstrated that lie was possessed not only of unquenchable nervous energy, but of great physical strength and endurance. "A picnic In the summer time on Uronaon Beta, children, Duquesne boomed. "And It's summer time, you know. Fortunately, but Inevitably from the nature of events, still summer. My observations of the collision check quite accurately with my calculations of what would bapiien ; and if the deductions I made from those calculations are correct, quite extraordinary things will hapiien. We will have a little class in astronomy. He put to use two resources the smooth vertical surface of a large atone and a smaller atone which he had picked up to scratch upon the bowlder. Aa Duquesne began to talk, all the memliers of the gronp gathered around the flat bowlder to watch and listen. First, he began, I will draw the aolar system as It wnsi He made a small circle and shaded If In, Here, nty friends, la the aun. lie circumscribed It with another circle and said : "Mercury. Outside the orbit of Mer-cur-y he drew the orbits respectively of Venus, Earth and Mars. So this la what we hare had. This la where we have been. Now I draw the same thing without the Earth. Every one watched Intently while he scratched on a rock an ellipse which, on one aide, came close to the orbit of Venus, and on tha other approached the circle made by the planet Mara on Its Journey around the sun. Here Is our path, closer to the sun than Jhe Earth has been-- ; and also farther away. The hottest portion of this new pnth of this new planet about the sun already has been passed when we fled here. This world had made its closest approach la rounding the sun, and It had reached the point In Its orbit which our earth hnd reached In April. Now we are going away from the afin, but on such a path that and under such conditions that only lowly with the days growing colder." "They will become, when we get out on that portion of our path near Mars, a man among hla hearers questioned, "how cold? Duquesne called upon hla comic knack to turn this question. He shivered so grotesquely that the audience laughed. "The most Immediately Interesting feature of our strange situation will be, my friends, the amazing char actor of onr dnya. Many of you have been told of that; ao I ask yon. Who will answer? How long will be our dayi? You, Mr. Tony Drake. You,1 1 know, have hecotpe, like so many others, a splendid student of astronomy. Ilow long will he our days?" "Fifty hours, approximately," replied Tony. Excellent I For whnt determines the length of the day? Of course, It Is the time which the planet takes to turn upon its own axis It has nothing whatever to do with the sun, or the path about the aun ; it la a peculiarity of the planet Itself and Inherent In It from the forces which created It nt Its birth. Bronson Beta lapiiens to be rotating on Its axis approximately fifty hours; ao onr days and our nights will be a trifle more than twice aa long aa those to which we have become accustomed. Now. how long will onr year he? I.et one of the Indies speak, this time!" "Four hundred and twenty-eigh- t daya!" a girl's voice said. Her name was Mildred Pope. Correct," applauded Duquesne, "If you- speak In terms of the daya of our lavished planet It will take four hundred and twenty-eigh- t of our old days for Bronson Beta" Duquesne, not without some satisfaction, stamped uam it to circle the sun ; but of the longer days with which we are now endowed, the circuit will consume only two hundred and five and a fraction. So we will rotate In some fifty hours and awing In townrd Venus and out toward Mars, In our great elliptical orbit, making a circuit of the aim la four hundred and twenty-eigh- t of our old duya which will live now only In our memories or two hundred and five of our new daya. Around and about. In ami out, we will go let us hoie. forever. Ilia audience wns silent Duquesne let them study Ills sketches on hla natural blackboard before he observed: "A few obvious consequences will at once occur to you." Higgins, who had droppeo hla plants while he listened, gave hla Impromptu answer like a grade boy In a classroom; Of course; our aummera win be very hot and our winters will be very cold and very long. Duquesne nodded. Quite aa But there Is one fortunately favorable feature. What chiefly determined the seasons on the old earth, ha reminded, was the Inclination of the earth upon Its axis. If Bronson Beta had a similar or a greater Inclination In reference to the plane of Its orbit around the aun, all effects would be exaggerated. But we find actnally less Inclination here. The equinoxes on Bronson Beta will not inarch back and forth on the northern and southern hemispheres with such great changes In temperatures. Instead, as wa round the aun at Its focus, he pointed with hla chubby finger, there will be many, many long hot daya Perhaps our equator at that time will not be habitable. And later, aa we round the Imaginary focus out here In space so near to tlie orbit of Mars, it may be very cold Indeed, and perhaps then only the equator will be comfortable. So we may migrate four times a year. From (he Paris of our new world to Its Nice I mean to say, from the New York city to Its MlamL Does one think of anything else? A alienee was broken by a question from Dodson : How close wilt we come to Venus and Mars?" Duquesne shrugged. Eve turned to Dodson and said: If my figures are right. It will be three million miles at periods many.Ynany years apart Three million miles from Mars and at the moat favorable occasion about four from Venus. Dodson's eyebrows lifted. la that dangerous? Eve shock her head. "The perturbations of all three planets will, of course, be great Bat aa far as danger of collision Is concerned, there la none. The group was thoughtful. Eve Cook Tony's arm. I want to go over and look at the ocean. 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Way waa made for Bngsley, the paleontologist He bent over and looked up with a curious mile. "That Isnt a Job for me. Hla eyes were fastened on the Inscription the metal slab bore. You see, this la auch a thing aa might be found In the future of our earth but not In the past No ancient civilization In nur world could make a road such aa this, or use metal so skillfully. Puuesue waa talking again. "Whoever lived here had a language to write and eyes to read It They had roads to travel and vehicles to go upon them So they had places to go to and to come from. The dtlea we saw, or thought we saw, muat have been real. My friends, great as our adventures have been, there lie ahead adventures luflultely more astounding. TO US OUMT1MUKO. nu araic ri teachers, Save H on mindc. 'fining rrcr. CATON MI HIC CO. 115 M. Hill. Le Angelre. (Mil. Bt'MNKWt BIT YOI'R OWN! got ahead working few bourn weekly at kwne.Fiill Information Hr, KERVICB AGENCY. Whitehall. Maatana. 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