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Show I AFTE R WO RIDS COLL IDE SYNOPSIS Coder the leadership of Cole Hendron, acted American acieutist, over Ju be- a escape in two Space (Ships Just fore a cosmic collision wiped out the earth, acd land on Bronaon Beta. A smooth, straight metal roadway ia Indicating- that whoever ones lired on Bronaon Beta bad awift moving vehicles. Thousands of giant meteor hurtle through the sky. but none of Hendron'a colonists ia hurt. The meteors are fragments of the destroyed earth's moon. Tony Drake. Hendron'a lieutenant, and Professor Higgfm discover a river bottom green with vegetation. They find great foresta of dead trees, preserved for a million years by the absolute cold of apace. An airplane, which disappeara almost Immediately, Bits over the camp, making no attempt to communicate with ita people. They realise that they are not lone on the new planet, and that their visitors may be er.err.les. per-on- by EDWIN BALMER and PHILIP WYLIE Copyright, 1U. by Edwin Baluier acd Philip Wylia. WVU Service. everything you are likely to nerd, ia all our observations from the earth, we made out a great continent here nearly two thousand miles wide and seven thousand In length. We believe we landed about the middle of the east coast of that continent "Vour charts have sjiotted in them the sites of the cities that we thought we observed. Go to the nearest points 11 rt, and then as much farther as as circumstances dictate. "Iteiuember, If yuu coaie upon survivors of the original people of this planet their first Impulse may be to protect themselves against you. I cannot myself imagine bow any of the CHAPTER III Continued 5 people of this planet have survived; Others besides themselves were on yet I must admit the possibility. If they this world. Survivors of the I'eople of live, tliey probably have weajions or the I'astt That Idea would not down. materials of defense and offense utterContrarlly, It Increased with the nljrlit. ly strange to us. . . . Far more Survivors of the People of the Past probably, you may find other people or other emigrants from F.arth who from earth. If you possibly can, avoid bad made the journey safely, estab- conflict of any sort with tlieui. Nothlished themselves and already were ing could be more tragic thau warfare exploring, and who, having found this between us here. Yet If they attack, encampment, had swung away again to you must defend yourselves. Fight to report Report what? And to whom? kill to annihilate. If need bel May the God of this world go with you!" He stepped back and, for a moment, Nothing bapeneL Tony merely stared at him. No moslow of the long, days Days passed Bronaon Beta. The murmuring specter ment since they had gained the ground of the sky put In no further appear- of this strange planet bad been as ance; but the consequences of its eva pregnant with the emotions of the Descent presence continued. The camp Earth. Fight to kill to annihilate, if was roused to a fevc:isn activity which need be! Eve broke the spell. She stepped reminded the- - emigrants of the days , Tony." on earth. Indeed, forward. "Good-byof the She gave him ber hand; and he this was again, but on a far smaller scale; for the Ark was be- longed to draw her to him, and though to clasp her close and ing taken down, and Its materials were before them all, being adapted to an exploration ship. kiss her again. Suddenly, defiantly, he The crew that manned the farm was did it She clung to him. It was antill at Its post Lumber was still be- other very earthly moment His eyes caught Hendron'a and ing brought from the forest. Rut the In her father's In his leader's found most skillful and the most energetic members of the colony were working no reproach. Hendron, indeed, nodded. Shirley Cotton spoke to him; he upon a small metal ship hastily designed to travel In Bronson grasped her hand, and she kissed his Beta's atmosphere a ship witb lifting cheek. She kissed also Eliot James. surfaces but a ship with an enclosed Others crowded about Then Hendron signaled men and cockpit ; a ship which could travel very rapidly through the atmosphere of the women alike away from the ship. Tony new planet and which could rise above and Eliot climbed In; but they waited that atmosphere If It became neces- until their friends bad retreated nearsary. If the colonists were to preserve ly half a mile before they set the tubes In action. the intelligent pattern of their plans, It There was a tremendous roar. The was essential to learn at once what interference threatened them. They ship bounded forth and took the air. could look upon themselves no longer A few moments later it was out of as law unto themselves. Some other sight; a spark in the sunshine then beings survivors of the people of this nothing. Eve sat down and wept Hendron planet or others from the earth knelt beside her, encircling her with ahared this new world with them. his arms, and remained there staring On the morning of the fifty-sixtBronson Beta day after their arrival, toward the west In silence. the airship was ready. At about noon Tony flew at a height of five thou of that day Touy and Eliot James climbed Into the hatch of the ship, sand feet They followed the Other after Tony, under Hendron'a tutelage, People's road Inland. From the far bad been familiarizing himself with the side of a valley the mountains rose precipitously to the level at which controls. craglike They were to make the exploration Tony was flying. They were bronze-colore- d alone; the ship bad been built only for raw mountains of red and stone, bleak and forbidding. pilot and observer. Both carried pisTony tilted the nose of the plane tols. As long as the explorers stayed in upward and gained sufficient altitude their ship, they possessed, of course, to clear their summit by a few thousand feet They rose higher to surweapons far more deadly than pistols the tubes which bad mount (till loftier peaks. For almost proved their terrible deadllness on the half an hour they flew straight west across the mountains, and then, far night of the raid on the camp in Michaway, they saw a break in the turmoil igan. The camp here owned the same of opthrust caks. The mountains finto a broad flat plain. weapons; for all the tubes from the ally gave way Ark had not been broken up to supply It was a plain that seined endless and the little exploration ship. Hendron, through its heart, like an arrow, ran the metal road. keeping his word to prepare defense Tony occupied himself with the busifor the camp, had had the extra tubes ness of losing altitude for a few moprepared and mounted almost like cannon which he hoped never to use. ments and abruptly felt his arm gripped by James' hand. He followed But he had them. Hendron watched Eliot James es- the outstretched finger of his compantablish himself in the cockpit beside ion and be drew in his breath in astonishment Tony; then he beckoned him out Hendron would make one last trial flight CHAPTER IV with Tony at the controls. So'Jamea Hendron stepped out; reluctantly Far away on the horizon, blazing In Stepped in, and the ship rose. It rose shot. Indeed, crazlly for- the pathway of the sun, was a mighty ward, spun. Jumped still higher and Iridescent bubble. From the windows finally rushed southward along the of the plane It appeared to be small. - that Vo..ks very .V.ker rwt.l over rfcr.-.-Tourn like a metal ring a to pointed "Itieres e ij .ho of . s i, leer -- wreutlj mil BY DR LLOYD Pru(,4r of Bsneriolor, st the s. !e of the tO" 10 Itself was feel high. eves. t the level of Toil's in the a inscription " it U.,ir of the onku..ti In u, kn.,.. tang-atook hahiiai.ts of Hr..iiS..n Beta Tony Much it pui!.-and hold of the ru:g iile Quietly to His us!'.!uj,hlnelit blew from Air and swiftly wparmed. air that sound, the W:v with a gusty reined' and otmuued to blow and fort) Vl ' eee.ee fo you ever get spring fever when von feel dull and listless and sleepy to ' x . v ? 'w.J I and you aren't able to concentrate on .I.E....? Ati.l all you want to do is to sit looking out of the window, or. better, to sit outdoors in the If you don't sun-chin- aren't you I ' quite normal, for that's quite the human way to feel at that time. And in the f.ill is there a le- riod when, if you have neuralgia or rheum.-tisit aches worse than ever, and your eyes, for no apparently accountable reason, seem so weak that you wonder whether you shouldn't g to an oculist for glasses? And you have a touch of melancholia you know, "the melancholy days of fall are here" attitude? That again is quite the proper reaction. We can't any of us avoid being part of the tremendous change that goes on in all nature the two times in the year when the sun reaches its exact period of twelve hours above the horizon. All animal life feels that change; every cell in our body feels it. Ail the visible forces of nature seem to awaken from a resting period and become active in the springtime. Flowers, grass, trees, birds and animals all take a now lease on life. The hibernating animals arouse from their winter sleep. Seeds of the vegetable world begin to undergo some Internal changes that Initiate germination and sprouting. The sap begins to rise In trees, followed by the appearance of buds and leaves. Man changes just as much as the plants, the trees, and the other animals during the transition period from winter to summer. The body seems to respond with greater ease to many disturbing influences. Eczemas and Itchings of the skin become aggravated. Tuberculosis is usually more active as a disease process. People suffering from certain types of goiter become worse, and a great many types of asthma and hives are aggravated during the spring g months. Streets Beneath That Dome No Living Thing Moved . . . and Although Their Motor Made Hearing Impossible, They Knew Instinctively That the Colossal, Triumphant Metropolis Below Them Was as Silent as the Grave. In the Majestic bubble which covered the city, and that the bubble itself was penetrated by gateways. He tipped the nose of the ship toward one of the gates and a few moments later rolled up to a stop on the smooth metal roadway which entered through the ;locked gate. The two men climbed out df the ship. When they put their feet on the ground and looked toward the city, one gate of which was now only a few rods from where they stood, Its majesty was a thousand times more apparent than it bad been from the air. Their imaginations were staggered, their very souls were confounded with the awful slience and ionesomeness of the place. They looked at each other without speaking. Finally Tony turned to Eliot James and grinned. "Here we are, pal ! "Sure. Here we are. What do you suppose this Is their Chicago? New Orleans? Paris, Bombay, Tokyo?" "Search me," said Tony, trying to down his awe. They knew that this was a city of the dead; It must be. But standing there at its gate, they could not feel it Their eyes searched the curved slope of the great glass dome over the geometrical angles of the metal gnte. Nothing stirred; nothing sounded. Not even an echo returned. "Maybe everybody's asleep," said mile. From their airplane the city had looked like a spangled toy town, but from Its own streets. It looked like the royal city of Titans. There was no sound In It, not a murmur, not a throb, not a tinkle or a pulsation just silence. Nothing moved. They stared down the avenue ahead of them and aside along the ways that ' Spring weather stimulates us. It Is nature's way of causing a period of housecleanlng. We burn up and get rid of useless accumulations. During the summer and fall we enjoy good health and well being after this renovating and rejuvenating springtime. But during the cold and depressing winter months we again have so many sluggish and hibernating cells with their slow and lazy response to our usual demands that by the time spring comes around, the freshening up process has to be repeated. These seasonal changes In the function of man are of major significance from the standpoint of public health. We have no more control over these factors than have any of the other living cells in nature. The forces of nature cause us to become good soil at one time and poor soil at another time for disease production. The season of greatest hazards is the cold winter season. crossed it "Where are they, Tony?" Eliot James whlsiered. He meant not, "Where are living beings?"' For he knew the people who built this city must be dead; but he expected, at least their bodies. Tony, too, had failed to drive away When spring comes we should clean such expectation. If not living, where out our bodies, just as the housewife were the dead? He could not help feels the urge to clean house, and men expecting the streets to be, somehow, like those of Pompeii after the debris get out the rake and gather up and burn the winter's rubbish before they and ash of Vesuvius was cleared away ; start planting, and school children joyhe could not help expecting to see cambones of the Beings, fallen in flight ously enter on paigns. Spring Is a cleaning out procfrom their city. But conditions here had been the op- ess; that's why symptoms of disease become more pronounced our body posite of those In Pompeii. There It forces have a flare-up of stimulation. as sudden destruction by fiery blasts We all have an urge to eat and burial from volcanic ash, that had green overwhelmed the people and caught things at this time. Our grandmothers and buried them. Here, Instead of sud- thought calomel and sulphur and moden, consuming heat had come slow, lasses were called for. But they also creeping cold cold and darkness, of anxiously waited for the first rhubarb the coming of which they had been to become long enough to cut and for warned for generations. Such a death the asparagus to push Itself up, and could have caught no one unprepared dandelions were cooked or made Into a salad with vinegar and on the streets of the city. "Where are they, Tony?" Eliot egg- It was really these things that James whispered again, as his senses refreshed the body, and not the sulreminded him of the situation. "Where phur and molasses. Today with redid they go to die? Did they stay la frigerator cars that bring us spinach their homes, do you think? Will we and fresh fruits from California and Texas and Florida all through the winfind them In these buildings?" ter months, we do not have the same "1 don't think so," Tony tried to say urge for a diet change that our grandsteadily, improving his tone above a mothers did. But still, psychologically whisjier. as well as physiologically, we do crave "Where will we And them, then?" at this season of the greens "We won't find them any of them year Tears of joy run down the southernhere, I think." Tony said, er's cheeks at the thought of "pot "Why? What did they do?" and greens-mus- tard greens, danWhat would .such people do?" Tony delion greens, sorrel and thistle shoots returned. "Such people as could build Even the hater of spinach this city? What would they do against will eat confirmed spinach In the spring time. annihilation which they could see comIt is nature's way of ing for a century?" getting our tract in order, for summer "is "They eliminated themselves, of course: they ceased to reproduce trie time of greatest incidence of f diarrheas of themselves; they ceased to have chilvarious dren." And the better our "That" said Tony, "seems certainly Intestinal tract the logical thing to do; and these works, the better chance we have of people appear to have been logical But going through the summer without hav-n- g to spend valuable time in there must have been some group who bed clearwere the last They could ing up some Intestinal trouble. scarcely have burled themselves after In the autumn, if they you notice, died. Somewhere we will And some Instinctively seek the sunny side people of the body." street and there Is the urge to spend "It's marvelous," said Eliot James, "how they left this city. Shall we w Inter Is the season of respiratory dls- move on?" ? ,hls to be outdoors "All right" agreed Tony, and ended is natures way of storing sunah!ne ln their paralysis of amazement aRUinSt tlm (,ark n,ont,1 ' "This street" be said, "mjgnt have C Wsstern Nswspaper been swept yesterday." Union. clean-the-clt- y hard-cooke- d - The Camp Was Roused to a Feverish ARectivity, minding the Emigrants of the Busy Days Spentin Building the Ark. and yet Its distance was so great that the senses immediately made the proper adjustment in scale. It was like half of a soap bubble, Ave or ten miles In diameter, sitting on the earth. Its curvature was perfect It was obvlnmly not a natural formation. The road pointed toward it and Tony followed the road. What It was he could not guess. Eliot James hazarded a notion : "Per baps the people of Bronson Beta lived under those things w hen they began to drift out In space," The bubble stretched out laterally before them as they flew, and quite suddenly they were able to see In the opalescent glitters of Its surface what was within It It was about six miles In width and more than a mile In height at Its center. Inside It completely contained by It, wus a city a Eliot James, ind knew he made no sense. "Maybe everybody's taking a walk." "Well And them Inside. We must And some of them Inside." said Tony. "Dead, of course," said Eliot "Yes," agreed Tony. "Of course, they're dead." But he had never been further from believing It The city stood so In order that it seemed its Inhabitants must be going about within. It seemed that dowr the wide road to this gnte, some one must be coming. Tony suddenly spun about, startling Eliot who Jerked around, also. No one and nothing approached. The wide, smooth, hard road remained utterly deserted Again tliey looked at the gnte ilow do you suppose wu can gel In ' here?" Eliot lakcd as Leftover coffee is no lo,u-,- r S00(, Do not reheat it and sen It as it never tastes the same ! unru uui lurow it iiWilv Ym, jiu can use It to flavor mam 'If serfs no laoco, I'uuuillgs or sauces. Trwi coffee as a change from tle u,ua. vanilla or lemon flavoring. THE IIUL skwii k. coffee. Copyright bv Public Ledger ' WNl? Service. w New Zealand Becoming Dairy Products Leader The New Zealander is the world's champion butter eater, the per capita consumption being around 377 pounds, while, on the other hand, he puts up a poor showing when' t comes to eating cheese. Dairy products account for almost 25 per cent of the total value of New Zealand's output of all kinds. She established a record in butter production for the year ended July 3 19.14, there being an increase of fj.55 per cent over the preceding year. Production has been sleadily increasing since 1920. New Zealand also piled up another record in butterfat production, estimated nt 220 pounds per cow, as compared with 214.8 the previous season. New Zealand and Australia f of together supply nearly the butter imports into the United Kingdom, which has doubled its butter Imports since 191.", New Zealand's share being 2S..r).j per cent. In the case of cheese, New Zealand's exports are always wholly to the United Kingdom. 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Sold everywhere. One sample each free. Address: "Cuticura Laboratories, Dept R, Maiden, Mass." Adv. SALT LAKE'S NEWEST HOSTELRY Our lobby la delightfully air cooled daring the summer month! Radio for Every Room 200 Rooms 200 Baths lik-ke- i coast till nearly out of Then Tony brought It back, Sight pushing away Hendron'a hands that wanted to help him. He made a landing on the barren acres selected a mile from the camp; and after waiting a few minutes, Tony and then Hendron leaped over the hot earth which surrounded the ship, and went to meet the people hurrying from the camp. Eve was with the first of them ; and Tony saw ber pale and shaken. "Oh, TonyT she exclaimed. "You nearly" Lie looked nt ber and grinned. "I you were certainly nearly did whatever goln,i to say." tlendron said: "He did well euough." "All right now?" asked Elot James eagerly. "All right' old Hendron; and yet be held them, reluctant to let them go.- -' I've bad everything pot lu place "" DOLDRUMS ge as they hesitantly walked through the gates. Inside, under the mighty glass dome, a stuiemious tliey were confronted by heart through Sitacle. Straight ran a the highway of the circular city were two along the edge of which over they asrails, so that by leaning certained a moment later that underneath tliis fop street were other thorboth oughfares at lower levels, t'n sides of the street, which was wider than the main avenue of any of the earth's cities, towered colossal buildcenings. The tallest of them, in the ter of the city, must have been more than half a mile in height and they were made of materials wlil 'h took brilliant colors, which gave hak In the Exsunlight myriad glittering hues. connected stisended bridges quisitely these buildings, which rose at Intervals of proximately a quarter of a " Pre.eau.e SPRING FEVE" AND AUTUMN al-.- ut age-old- Idea Eox ad McdiC.oc. Lnierii oi JUio. lt .liked oer to .L The gate "id!6 pertnp i''1' tVrt The rli.g in a Housewife's I GOOD HEALTH ARNOLD i g h Let Our Motto Be g h-- y the city laid out to a circular geometrical pattern, a city which had at regular Intervals gigantic terraced nietal skyscrapers a city with countless iayer of roads and streets leading from one group of buildings to the uest a city around the outer ed?e of which ran a bufe trest led railroad. Tony flew directly to the bubble and circled it at a short distance from Its perimeter. The men looked down ia Stunned silence as the ship wheeled slowly round the great transparent bubble. Both observers realized that the city had been enclosed for some s:eb reason as to keep out cold or to keep its Internal tenierature unchanged. IMmly Tony heard James shouting: "It's magnificent!" And In an almost choked voice he replied: "They must have been amazing." In the majestic streets beneath that dome no living thing moved. No lights glowed In those streets where the setting sun allowed shadows to fail; no smoke. , no steam, no fire showed anywhere, and although their motor made hearing they knew Instinctively that the colossal, triumphant metropolis below them was as silent as the grave. Eliot James spoke: "Guess we'd bet!" ter have a look-seTony nodded. He had already noted that several metal roads led up to the s..u-t!.ir.- al ZA TO BK CONTlMUaUJ. 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