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Show LEHI FREE PRESS, LEHI. UTAH AFTER WORLDS COLL DE SYNOPSIS Under the leadership of Col Hendron. itttd American cintit, over S00 pr-aoescape In two Spue Ships just before a, cosmic collision wiped out tbe earth, and lsnd on Bronson Beta. Olsnt Dieteors, fragments of the earth's moon, fall In their vicinity, but none of Hendron's colonists ts hurt. A river bottom green with veKetation ts found, and treat forests of dead trees, preserved for a million years by the absolute cold of space. An airplane, which disappears almost Immediately, flies over the camp, making no attempt to communicate with its people, who realize that they are not alone on the new planet, and that their visitors may be enemies. Tony Lrake and Eliot James, In an exploration airplane flight, come upon a wondrous city, an under what seems like half Iridescent glass bubble. Among their finds. In the city, is an edible grain-mill- ions of bushels. On their flight back they come upon tbe camp of more than ZOO persons who left the earth when they did. In a second Space Ship Ransdeil piloted by Dave Ransdell. goes to Hendron's camp with Tony. ni ed CHAPTER VI Continued 9 "I can give you no Idea of the suer-latlv-e order In which everything In It wu arranged. It would be hopeless for me to try to tell you tbe skill with which those people combined use with beauty. Beauty and use with Imaginative Intelligence. I can only say two things first, that you will all see It yourselves, and second, that while th$ streets, and the buildings and the apartments of the city of the Other People fascinated us, we had Intended to leave that morning." Again Tony ceased to read. "We appreciated, of course," he observed to his hearers, "that we ought to communicate with you, and after our breakfast, and a brief journey through some of the strange streets, we went out of the city by the way we bad entered and returned to our ship, where we tried to call you by radio. We failed utterly because of some puz-llnInterference. "We argued, then, whether we should return to you with what we had learned or whether we should first try to learn much more. The second argument was overwhelming In Its appeal to us. We returned to the city ; and on the second day, we discovered that It was not quite so Intact as we had supposed. In no less than six places where we observed, the huge transparent dome was pierced and showed great Jagged tears or holes and below were marks of demolition exhibiting Meteors had torn great violence. through. But except for the wreckage caused by these, I tell you that we found almost nothing out of order In that remarkable city. "Now I will give you a few more random details from Eliot's diary: "One thing we noted on our return to the stores If they were stores," Tony read, "was that In none of them did there seem to have been a system for collecting money, or a medium of exchange, or of keeping books. Seemingly the Other People Just came In and took what they wanted or Individuals must have kept their own books or some system which we couldn't Imagine, was used. For at the end of our three days' stay we were pretty certain that they had no medium of exchange to correspond to money." Tony looked up at' his fascinated audience, then turned again to Eliot g James' diary: department of that store was over to musical instruments. chromatic scale Is different from and their way of writing music entirely different They had a few stringed Instruments, no wind lnstru ments, many percussion instruments, but they had developed a vast variety of Instruments which seem to have been operated by the transference of electrical Impulses to sound. Unques tionably, music and the science of electricity had existed side by side for so long that the art had developed a set ence for Its expression. "We found In profusion small, light vehicles of the type which we first discovered wrecked on the road near our camp. It Is plain these were oper ated by some sort of electric impulse; but we could do nothing with them." Tony skipped more pages. "Imagine us with the sun rising and the flood of indirect Illumination dimming away. Imagine us under that vast transparent bubble in the early morning, having a long look at one marvel after another. We went across bridges and np and down streets. We tramped along ramps and on a dozen levels. We visited civic centers and museums and, theaters and recreation grounds and central kitchens and other places of assembly, the purpose of which was not clear. All we lacked was some one to explain at frequent intervals Just what we were seeing, because while we were Interested we often could only guess and sometimes none of our explanations made sense. We never found that some one. One thing was very clear, however; the Other People liked . to spend a lot of time together. They bad privacy In their own apartments, to be sure, but there were so many things and so many kinds of things for people to do In crowds that we became convinced that they were very gregarious. We felt, too, that their crowds were not comprised of mobs of unfriendly, unsympathetic, unacquainted Individuals like the crowds that once thronged the streets of New York but were crowds of people who were associated In a most friendly and cooperative spirit with each other. "We followed a gallery underground, here we found more great machines which we could not at all un- fmrln "A given Their ours, by EDWIN BALMER and PHILIP WYLIE Copyright. 1JJ4. by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie. WNU Service. demand. We saw further descents into depths we decided not to explore. But we did come upon some of their stores of food particularly grain. "Samples of tui grain," Tony re minded them, looking up, 'already you have examined for yourselves. Eiiot and 1 tasted it; we ate It-- It was starchy and not unpleasant Whether or not It still contains vitamins, at least it has the starch base for nutrition. In the afternoon, we found one other thing of far greater Importance, to us than any other discovery, if I may except the food supply. This was a school." "A school?" several voices cried. "We believe it was a school for their children from their early years up. Can you imagine (he benefit of such a discovery to you? We have brought back some of the objects from that school Some of them seem to be books books of a different type, to be sure, from our volumes; yet they can be described as books. Other objects, which we believe to have been materials of Instruction, are harder to describe. Neither Eliot nor I were able to operate them, but we formed the theory that they probably were mechanisms giving instruction visual ly or by sound. "Then we found a sphere. It was In tbe lobby of the school. It was a sphere about fifty feet in diameter upon which was a relief map which we must assume to be of this planet Eliot James made a most painstaking sketch of that sphere. There were other maps. "In short" said Tony, closing Eliot James' book of notes, "we have await ing us not only an equipment beyond anything dreamed of on earth, but a means of acquiring the secrets of the use of tbe engines and implements and other knowledge of this planet which we could not have obtained, by our selves, at all. "A little study by ourselves as chll dren in those amazing classrooms, i little skill and a little luck In setting in operation their mechanisms of Instruction ; and their secrets are ours !" Lunch was very late that day; It was long before the company of the camp could be satisfied that they had heard everything of Importance that Tony had to tell them. This Included of course, the report on the finding of the lark-lik- e aircraft of which he had made report to the other camp. Now Tony sat alone. Many, at first tried to sit beside hlra and to talk to him. But he bad told them that he was weary and wished to be alone for a little while. Tony had seen meals being sent to Hendron's cabin-lik- e house watched them being carried past the Ark and the workshop and the lumber piles. He had stared often at the door of the house. But no one had emerged and Eve had not sent for him. He sat alone, on a mound of chips and sawdust Was Hendron turning over the command to Itansdell, In there now? Was Hendron asleep from exhaustion and were Eve and Ransdell taking advantage of the resultant solitude to express fresh love for each other? His heart was heavy; heavier still because he realized that the torrent of dreads and despairs It held were unworthy of him. He ached, and stared at his plate. His eyes felt salty and hot He tried to clamp his mind on present necessities. They should move to the miracle city; they should study the food and machinery there. They should tend their own crops for fresh food. They should learn to run the Other People's vehicles so that they could all be transported to the new city as rapidly as possible. They should prepare defenses for themselves against the possibility that the people who had down the lark-likships might some day attack them. People from earth? Or cautious scouts of the Other People, His mind jumped incessantly back to Eve Eve and Ransdell, his two closest friends. They seemed both on the point of deserting him. Ransdell was, of course, a great man. Stronger In character, perhaps. Tony felt the crushing weight of the responsibilities he himself had endured. Still. Ransdell had taken greater risks held a higher office. And Ransdell had been a new and different sort of man for Eve. She had known plenty of Tale graduates with social position and wealth and superficial culture plenty even if the Tale graduates now left alive could be numbered on the fingers of the one hand. . . . "Mr. Drake?" said a rolce. Tony started. "Oh, Kyto!" Suddenly Tony did not want to be alone any longer. The smiling face of the little Japanese was familiar and good. "Sit down here, Kyto." Kyto hesitated. "You're not working for me any longer I" Tony grinned. Kyto seated himself with a precise and smooth motion. "That's true," he said slowly. "I'd forgotten for an In, e stant" Tony was astonished. "You've certainly learned a lot of English In the last few months." "I always knew more than I pretended to know," the Japanese answered coolly. Tony smiled. "Really, Kyrol Then why did you pretend not to?" "I pretended not to know much English while I was In your employ, be cause I was a spy." Kyto answered. What!" "it is true." "But Kyto, what use was my serv ice to a spy? I didn't know where there was a fort, or a gun " "It gave me a respectable character.' "And what did you spy on?" "It doesn't matter now. I shall tell you some day. You see, I used to be,' there was scarcely a trace of accent In his words "long ago In Tokyo, a I professor of foreign languages. spoke English when I was a baby, Missionaries taught me. I was a pa triot I volunteered for espionage. While I was In America, my ideas changed. I became lefore the Bron son Bodies appeared a pacifist I had sent in my resignation and offered to give myself up at the time of the discovery of the approaching planets. My letters were Ignored in the subse quent frantic days. So, during those days, I endeavored to reshape my life. You Americans some of you. at least stood for the things I deA world run by sense and sired: science; a world of peace and fra ternity. I wished to go on your ship. But my wish was not exclusively I continued selfish one. to mingle with my associates in espionage as one of them. I learned much." Tony had never been more aston ished. As he looked at his former servant he realized that his Jaw had literally sagged. "I'll be d d," he murmured. "You find It amusing?" "Astounding." "You were right before." Kyto laughed in a high key. "It Is amusing. Delicious! And I was a foot A blind, patriotic fool." "I'm glad you told me," Tony said suddenly. "You're a man, Kyto. And we need you here. Need the things your race possesses." "Thank you," Kyto said solemnly. "You are also a man." Involuntarily Tony glanced at Hendron's cabin and shook his bead. The Japanese understood perfectly. "I hope you will not mind an expression of my sympathies?" Tony looked at him his valet, expressing sympathies on a most personal matter! No a friend a professor a savant A man who had heroically offered to give up his life for the beliefs that he had gained. "No, Kyto." "You will need courage," Kyto said. "Courage, restraint. You have both In sufficient quantities." "I have ruts eating my soul," Tony answered stonily. "It is too big for all the rats on earth." Tony stared at the little man and said In a curious tone, "Funny." There was a silence between them. "I have more to say." Kyto picked up a chip and opened a pocket knife. He began to whittle as expertly as any country-stor- e porch loafer. "More?" "You know that other ships for the trip to tills planet were being prepared?" "Sure. But none of them " Kyto shrugged. "Did you know that in what had been Manchuria the most fanatical Japanese, the Russians, and certain Germans combined to build such a ship?" planation: Tbrf wish to found a new state to be alone on the planet te make it theirs. To found a state takes people; and for people, one needs women. The more the better the quicker. They will not strike nntil they can be selective in their killing so they wipe out all who may oppose them, but preserve all whom they may convert especially the women." Beta planning that "I am positive." "It's it's crazy!" Kyto shook his head. "Conquest was like that, only two thousand years ago a short time. And there is no more world. Is there anything that can be said to be crazy now anything we cannot exject?" "Then why didn't you tell us sooner?" Kyto fumbled the paper. "I wanted to be sure. This made me sure." "It's the worst evidence I ever saw. The thing's fantastic!" have warned you as best I can." He bowed his head, and walked away. Oddly enough, this scene with Kyto had brought back to Tony some of the strength that had ebbed from him. The thought that his new information would be a good excuse to break in on Hendron and Ransdell and Eve Hendron occurred to him, but he thrust It aside without effort. He walked into the group of people who had finished their midday meaL He touched several on the shoulder. "Duquesne, I want to talk to you privately. Von Beitz! Williamson!" Fifteen minutes later he had explained his command to a dozen picked "I have wondered. There must have a reason for they are wholly ruthless. Ajd I can find only one ex been - Ohio Poultryman Finds Plan Is Worth While. '." Argentine Needed White Man Argentina was largely uniniml Ceu prior to the coming of the whiti- num. - b the Ohio State fniversity Agricultural Eitensiun Service. Fans are used by an Ohio poultry-- j man, to cool eggs quickly in order to Sunrilea ' i i men. B ox EMPLOYS FANS TO CHILL WARM EGGS "Good V--d!" Tony stood up. "You mean to tell me you think there is a pana of men or people on Bronson "I'll have to tell Ransdell and Hendron later," Tony said. "First, we'll double the guard. Second, we'll put out some sentries far enough out to give a warning of approaching planes. Third, well run off a blast on our projectors to make sure they are In order." Von Beitz scowled. "I can't believe It Germans? Maybe some Germans. Heitbrat for example. But wouldn't It be better If we said nothing to the women? They might get hysterical." "These women don't get hysterical," Tony answered succinctly. He had scarcely finished bis Instructions when a message was brought to him to report at Hendron's house. He went in. Eve. was In the living room the room that had been headquarters for the camp since the building of the house. She was sitting at her father's desk, and Ransdell stood at a little distance from her. Dodson was there. The faces of all three were serious. "Hendron has collapsed," Dodson said to Tony. "Whether he will recover or not I cannot say." Tony shook his head sadly. Eve spoke. "The camp must have a leader." "Yes," Tony answered. "Election might be unsatisfactory," she continued. "And It would take time." "Yes." "Father appointed no second In command. Whoever is In charge while he is 111 must remain here. You and Eliot James alone can fly our single plane. We'll need it constantly now. A radio must be taken down to the other camp at once, for example." Tony looked at her with as little sign of emotion as he could show. This was a new Eve to him a stern. "No." "They were mostly extreme com- Impartial Eve. Grief and need had munists. But owing to their need of combined to make her so. "The static scientific experts, they took into their we've been having makes a radio useless," he said. group many "That static occurs only at night," "So?" "Great men. They were as likely she answered. "Sundown to sunup." "The lights In the to succeed as you." city" Tony murmured. He squared his shoulders. his "And at stared Tony companion. "I'll take a radio down at once." you believe they did? You think they Eve rose and gestured Ransdell into are the people who have been flying her father's chair. She shook his hand. " here "I know." Kyto drew an object Dodson shook his hand. Ransdell looked drawn and bleak. from his pocket a tightly folded piece "One other thing," Tony said, his of paper. On It were drawn Japanese voice steady. "We may be in a new characters. to me fantastic danger." Like a "I found this a few hours ago," said and soldier making a report, he detailed "I been had from Kyto. walking It was blowing along In the the knowledge Kyto had given him camp. and told Ransdell what precautions he wind. It was not mine." had already taken. Even as be spoke "What is it?" Tony asked. the air was filled with a hissing "A prayer a written prayer. They thunder and they waited to continue are in common use in Japan." the conversation until tests of the blast "It might have come on the Ark." "Yes. But It might not There Is tubes had been finished. "I'll get outposts established at no such thing In the catalogue." once," Ransdell said. "I scarcely bewho In traveled had "Anybody Japan lieve that such a thing could be but might have had one In a pocketbook we can take no chances." and lost it" "I'd like to talk with Kyto," Eve "Again, yea But I know Intui- said. She left the room even as Tony tively." turned to bid her good-by- . "If they were Russians and Germans "That radio" said RansdelL Tony and Japanese why didn't they land, could not make his senses believe that then?" the man who spoke to him now was "My point In telling this! They do the man with whom he had spent the not want company here. They came to latter part of the previous night In set up a Soviet. I have the informadeep exultation. Rivalry over leadetion in detail. They "were sworn, If over Eve they seemed rshiprivalry they reached here, to set up their own Inadequate things Intellectually for the government to wipe out all opposed breaking of a friendship. Tony re to them. It is not even a government membered the pact he and Ransdell like that of Russia. It is ruthless, In had reached In Michigan, long ago. human a travesty of socialism, a sort Now It seemed broken! of scientific fanaticism. Most of those "I'll take It Immediately, Dave," be men and women believe In nothingness answered. of the individual. They believe that The use of his first name startled love Is really only breeding." Ransdell somewhat from his barren Tony shook bis head unbelievingly. mood. He rose and held out hi "Why didn't they wipe us out then?" hand. were good pro "Your Tony took it "So long," he said. tection. They may find a means of "Good luck." making them powerless. They are Tony opened the throttle regulatina manifestly ahead of us here In study- the supply of minute quantities of fuel ing the civilization of the Other Peoto the atomic blast of his plane. The ple they use their ships already." ncrease of speed as he fled southward "I mean, the first time. Why didn't took some of the strain from hit they annihilate as that first night? nerves. It would have been easy. A bomb or TO BBS CONTINUED. two" PST Housewife's Idea ' maintain quality. The system, to be effective, the poul-- ! tryman declares, must operate in i very humid room, otherwise the rapid circulation of air over the eggs quickly increases evaporation from the egg and enlarges the air cell, Here follows a description of the method: Over a cooling rack surrounded by damp burlap a down draft of cool, humid air Is forced. Water for the burlap Is supplied by a pan over the rack. In this pan the upper end of the burlap Is immersed. The water then follows down the burlap, which acts as a wick. To prevent growth of molds on the burlap. It Is dipped into a solution of two ounces of copper sulfate in one gallon of water. The burlap is then wrung gently and dipped In a solution of eight ounces of washing soda In one gallon of water. That the method is effective is proved by a report from the Wooster Egg Auction, where the poultryman mentioned sells his eggs. Before the system was installed, his eggs graded 32 per cent TJ. S. Extras and 68 per cent U. S. Standards. Afterwards hU eggs graded 68 per cent U. S. Specials, the highest grade and 32 per cent None graded U. S. U. S. Extras. Standard. First Eggs Index Size That Pullet Will Yield The United States Department of Agriculture Is authority for the statement that If a pullet's first ten eggs are weighed, the average weight of her future eggs can be determined. The average of the first ten eggs will s of the be almost exactly average of the eggs for the year. This information offers possibilities for poultry flock owners. Those who have neither the time nor the facilities to trapnest throughout the year might be able to arrange to do it for a few weeks during the fall, when the pullets are coming Into production. The research men o'f the department assure us that this rule Is almost Invariable, provided the following is true. First, that the pullets are receiving a well balanced and plentiful ration, and, second, that they have had an adequate ration since hatching. People who are troubled with a lot e of eggs from their flocks can well afford to consider trapnestlng for six weeks or two months. Wallaces' Farmer. Keeping Butter Freab Sometimes you may have to butter for a long time. A good to keep It from turning rancid is to piace the butter In a small dish Wring out a rag that has bfvn soaked in very cold water. Cover the dish with this cloth. You win be surprised to find how long will keep. THE HOUSEWIFE. w-j- Copyright by Public Ledger. Inc. WNU Service. Tho.e "Laat Worda" There used to be a silly fad of at trlbuting to every notable man on his deathbed some phrase w as supposed to epitomize his career. The stone cutter's chisel on the entablature of the public building is a nit by way of being a similar sentimentality the attempt to provide an age with "last words' .So con reived, how would this age of ours come off? A bevy of reporters were holding ivhat Is technically known as a 'death watch" on a famous man who was thought to be dying. "What are his last words going t, be?" asked one. "lie Isn't going to have any," re plied a confrere tartly. "Your creditor and mine can't get together on them." But this story has a happy end ing. The man got well. "Uncle Dm! ley," in the Boston Sunday Globe. lii-- seven-eighth- pee-we- Quality of Egg Shell That the texture and strength of a in egg shell are affected by feed Is well known fact, states a writer Wallaces' Farmer. The ration of a hen must contain enough mineral matter to supply the body needs as well as to furnish the lime needed for the manufacture of the shell. A laying hen needs a diet in which the lime bears a certain definite relationship to the phosphorus. This relationship need not be exact, but in general lime should constitute from 2 to 4 per cent of the ration, and phosphorus from f to 1.2 per cent One should aim to feed a little more than twice as much lime as phosphorus. Quick, Pleasant Successful Elimination Let's be frank there's only one for your body to rid Itself of the waste material that causes acidity, gas, headaches, bloated feelings and a dozen other discomforts. Your Intestines must function and the way to make them move quickly, pleasantly, successfully, without griping or harsh irritants is to chew a Milnesia Wafer thoroughly, In accordance with directions on the bottle or tin, then swallow. Milnesia Wafers, pure milk of magnesia in tablet form, each equivalent to a tablespoon of liquid milk of magnesia, correct acidity, bad breath, flatulence, at their source, and enable you to have the quick, pleasant, successful elimination so necessary to abundant health. Milnesia AVaferg come in bottles at 35c and 60c or in convenient tins at 20c. Recommended by thousands of physicians. All good druggists carry them. Start using these pleasant tasting effective wafers today. way one-hal- Prevent Early Molting A wet "fattening" mash Is recommended by H. L. Wilcke, Iowa State college, for maintaining the body weight of laying hens, particularly the young pullets which are just coming Into productioa If the pullets have not become accustomed to eating the proper amount of scratch grain, they will lose weight and go Into a partial or complete molt A mash consisting of equal parts of ground corn and ground oats with sklmmllk or buttermilk, fed at the rate of two pounds for each 100 birds, preferably at noon, should keep the young birds in good laying condition. Laxative for Chicks Pasting up In chicks Is often mistaken for diarrhea when In reality it is the opposite, or constipation, O. J. Weisner, South Dakota poultry specialist says. This condition can be helped by giving a mild laxative which can be made at small expense from one pint of blackstrap molasses to 16 quarts of water. The crude molasses used for feeding live stock can be used. It dissolves more readily In hot water. Use this mixture In place of water, thus forcing the chicks to drink it Preserving Eggs Water glass is a preservative, chemically designated silicate of soda, and is readily obtainable in either liquid or solid form. It is readily soluble and no special directions for preparing the preservative solution are necessary. Only perfectly fresh eggs should be used for preservation and the eggs should be completely immersed all the time until required for use. 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