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AFTER WORLDS COLLIDE - •• <1 V V i —- SYNOPSIS Under the leadership of Cole Hendron, noted American eclentlet, over 300 per- ■one escape In two Space Ships just be* * or * * cosmic collision wiped out the nnd land on Bronson Beta. A smooth, straight metal roadway is dis covered, Indicating that whoever once lived on Bronson Beta had swift mov- 3n* vehicles. Thousands of slant (hete- turtle through the sky, but none cf Hendron’s colonists Is hurt. * Th« meteors are fragments of the destroyed earth’s moon. Tony Drake, Hendron’s lieutenant and Professor Higgina-dla^ cover's rlvef bottom green with vege tation. CHAPTER II—Continued —3— ■■ , There were a few bends, however; and upon rounding one of these, they came abruptly upon an object which made both of the men scramble from the road and stand and stare silently. The object was a machine—or rather', what was left of a machine. It was crushed against a pinnacle of rock at the end of one of the rare curves in . the road. The very manner In which it stood against the rock wall suggested How It had arrived there: It had been one of the vehicles which the creatures of the planet drove or rode, and round ing the curve at too high a speed It had shot off the highway and smashed b£ad-on into the wall of stpne. — The two men bent over it then touched it They exchanged glances without speaking.. The thing still glit- , tered in the sunlight—the metal which composed it being evidently rust-proaf. The predominating color of that metal was crimson, although many parts were steel blue and some were evidently made of copper. An unidentifiable frag ment lay on the ground beside it; and Tony, picking it up, found to his sur prise that it was extremely light, fight er ev«n than aluminum. The engine was twisted and mapgled, as was the rest of the car. It was Impossible to guess what the original shape of the vehicle had been, btft it was conceiv able that an expert might decide what type engine had driven It. “An automobile,’’ Higgins said at last. “With an engine like none I have ever heard of. It must have been go ing frightfully fast’’ “Did .you see the wheels?’’ “They were big.” 7 “They didn't have pneumatic tires. Just a ribbon of some yielding materia] around them.” “You wouldn’t need rubber tires on a road as smooth as this.” They walked quickly'^ now and by and by in the distance they saw the summit of the Ark. They ran to .the encampment bringing their news. ■, An hour later nearly every one from the Ark was gathered around the ma chine. Bates and Mnltby, who were perhaps the best engineers and me chanics among them, except Hendroh, stepped out of the circle of fascinated onlookers. Behind them walked Jere miah Post, the metallurgist of the com pany. These three men, together with Hendron. began painstakingly and slowly to examine the wreck. Finally Hendrqp, after a brief sotto voce colloquy with Post, Bates and Maitby, addressed the crowd of people. “Well, friends," he said simply, “un til we have had time to take this appa ratus back to camp and study it more thoroughly we will be unable to make * a complete report on it But we four are agreed on a good many things that - will interest you. In the first place, Judging from the area of space for passengers and the division of that area whoever occupied and operated by EDWIN BXLMER and' PHILIP WYLIE pr Edwin Balm Copyright, 19S4, by er and Philip Writs, WNTJ S«rrtc«. V upright and that their upper pair of limbs terminated in members which could be need precisely as finders are used. Is very illuminating. In Met, I won’t say that the builders of tty* very interesting and brilliant vehicle were human Tieitfgs ; but I will say that If the vehicle were Intact, It could be operated by a human being.. “As for the machine Itself, It was made very largely of beryllium. Beryl lium was a very common element on earth. It is, roughly speaking, about half as heavy as aluminum, and about twice as strong as what we called duraluminum. It was rare and valu able in a pure state only because we I self lb the difference In the length of had not as yet perfected a way of ex-I the day, so that the hours of light seem Uk« in tablets, form a diet nourishing, beyond doubt, but tiresome in the ex treme. “Some of us still sleep In the Ark. Some sleep In the observatory and some In two different groups of tents. We remain scattered because of the possibility of a meteoric shower. “One of the ftnall atomic englpes Hendron brought has been converted Intp the motor of a tractor-like ma chine which pulls a flat four-wheeled trailer back and fo; ley. “Tony and twenty other men and women live In that river valley. They have used the tractor to plow and al ready they have several hundred acres under cultivation. They work frantic ally—not knowing how long the grow ing season will be—knowing only that our survival depends upon their suc cess. None of us has yet adjusted hlm- t-iri not hare the hope of rescue, and still worse, wo have abandoned the tops of any other fellowship than our own. Solitude—exile—loneliness I “The children—the little boy* and girt whom, thank God, we brought- the bright lights Indoor emoti gloom. Their eagerness, their amusing behavior, their constant loyalty and af fection, point us more powerfully than anything else to an untiring hope. “If there were more children—if babes were bom among us, new mem bers of qur race, this awful feeling of the end might be lifted. But who would dare to bear children here? Brel Shir-" tractlng beryllium cheaply. “The principle upon which this ve hicle was propelled is obvious in the sense that we are all agreed upon what was accomplished by its engine, al though further ctudy will be necessary to reveal precisely how It was done. . “For the sake of those who art; not physicists or engineers, I will explain that except for the atomic energy which we ourselves perfected, all ter restrial energy was thermal energy. In other words. It came fronrthu wm. oil represents the energy stored up In mi nute vegetation. Coal, rthe snnltgks- stored in larger pt&nts. Water power is derived from kinetic energy in water elevated by the sun to high placi‘S. Tidal energy may be also excepted, ns It was caused by the attraction of the moon. Since we found electricity a more useful form of energy, we bent our efforts to the changing_ofL then energy into electrical energy. Thus we burn coal and oil to run steam tur bines.' which in turn run-, dynamos, which generate electricity. We run oth er turbines by water power, not to usje their force directly, but in order again to generate electricity. “All those systems were inefficient. The loss of energy between the water fall and the power line, between the fire-box and the light bulb,was tremen dous. It has been the dream of every physicist to develop a system whereby thermal energy could be converted di rectly into electrical energy. For most of you It will probably be difficult to understand more than that the engine of this vehicle of the ancient inhab itants of Bronson Beta was run by that precise method. Its machinery was capable of taking the energy of heat and turning it, in simple steps, Ipto electricity." Cole Hendron glanced at Duquesne and Von B6itz, who stood near the ve hicle. He spoke as If to them: “A stream of superheated, Ionized steam was discharged at a tremendous veloc ity upon a dielectric, and the induced current ran the driving motor." He turned to the others. “As soon as we can spare the time 1- wlH- have this machine studied In complete detail, but just now planting beans is more im portant” In Eliot James’ diary appears the fol lowing eritry. It is dated Day No. 14: “We have been here two weeks. We bavd been working furiously. “Great cranes surmount the top of the Ark. Already the uppermost layer has been removed and reassembled on the ground. Our settlement looks like a shipbuilding yard, but I think all pur hearts are heavy with the knowledge that we are not building, but wrecking our ship. We have cut off escape to interminable, and we reach darkness ley?"* Eliot James, on this despairing note. bis record. — * Two matters recommend themselves for comment at this point One con cerns Kyto, the quick-witted, obedient Japanese, who had so honorably, ..as he would have said, followed his mas ter’s cause and was now one of the mysteries of Bronson Beta. Everybody talked of Kyto. Naturally, the little Jap was no longer Tony’s servant No on* .would have servants again. His handiness in the matter of preparation of meals had made him gravitate to the commissariat In the first few days. IMPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL »r iutv. #, a. rrrzwATBR. D io, lftmb«r of Faculty. Moody BIMo .. laatltuto of Chleaco. Q. Wootora Nowopapor Union. Lesson for April 21 THE FUTURE LIFE (EASTER LES- SON) 1 LESSON TEXT—Luko 24:1-11; Joha 14:1-*. -GOLDEN-TEXT—1 am Urn - It Had Been One of the Vehicles the Creatures of the Planet Drove or Rode, and Rounding thq Ourve at Too High a Speed, It Had Shot ', Off tha-Highway and Smashed Heed-On Into the Wall of Stone. exhausted: I have Seen workers bln the Ark, and men-and women on the rnriu. fall asleep at their Jobs In the later afternoon. On the other hand, since we are accustomed to sleeping at Hie most nine or ten hours, yre are apt to wake up long before dawn. We have ameliorated this problem somewhat by dividing the labor into eight-hour shifts, with eight more hours for rec reation. “The soil at the farm was Judged excellent by the chemists. Bacteria have been sowed in It Ants have been loosed there. Our grasshoppers are fat tening on the local flora; their*buzzing Is the only familiar living sound except our own and the occasional noises of the animals we tend. this machine could not have been much larger or much smaller than ourselves. You will note,”—he walked over to the wreck and pointed,—“that although the force of the crash has collapsed this portion of the vehicle, we may assume that ltd operator sat here. “I say sat, because this la manifestly • seat The vehicle steered with a wheel which has been broken off. This Is It Whether the creatures on Bron son Beta had bands and feet like ours eannot be said. However, that they had fear limbs, that they were able te alt anything else. We have committed our selves to life here. “The food we eet la monotonous. No dietitian could give us a better bal anced diet; but on the other hand, none of ua Is able to gratify those daily trifling appetites which were unimpor tant on earth, bnt which up here as sume great proportions. Bread and chocolate and rice, together with yeast which ws cultivate and eat to prevent pellagra, and other vitamins which wa “We would like to restock the sea with fish, but we are doubtful about the possibility of establishing a biolog ical economy there. We have numerous fishes in an aquarium on the Ark, and perhaps at some later date we shall make the attempt “Shirley Cotton has fallen more or less in love with Tony. 1 would not enter this in a diary, that is perhaps to be history, except for the fact that she announced it to eyery one the oth er day and. said that she was going to move for a system ot marriage codes by which she could compel him to become her mate as well as Eve Hendron’s. It must have saddened Eve, although she has said nothing about It and appears not to mind. But Shirley has pointed out what every one has often thought privately—there are thir teen more women than men. All the women but five are under forty years of age. Nearly half the men are more tlian fifty. Our other party, which ap pears lost, contained more of the younger people. “So at the end of two weeks we find ourselves disturbed by many questions, working hard and realizing slowly the tremendous •difficulties to be conquered. “Yesterday and the day before it rained. The days were like any rainy ones on earth, with gray skies and an incessant heavy drizzle that crescen- floed to occasional downpours. The riv er at the farm’ rose. When the skies cleared Tony was Jubilant—Hia wlde- acres were covered with even row* of green and indeed the farm was a beau tiful spectacle. “We have move<^ our animals to the farm and put them* in stockades where some—the most valuable, fortunately, the cows and sheep—thrive so far, on the ferns and mosses which we have mixed with the last of the fodder brought from earth. Other of the ani mals dq not do so well; and If they die. It Is the last we shall see of their spe cies. But shall we ourselvea survive? “On reading the above. It seems that ‘f'-my tone la melancholy; and 1 feel that It cannot be otherwise. Pressure of work and the reaction to our months of strain and danger, and contempla tion of the awfnl though splendid per ils of the flight from earth, have brought about this state of mind We mky be—are. for all we know—the only living. Intelligent being In all the cosmos; one hundred and three of us— many past the prime of life—stranded In this aolltvde with two cows, two sheep, two deer, a few ants, graashop- “The Children—the Little Boy ancf Girl, Who, Thank God, Are the Bright Lighte in Our Emotional Gloom. M But It began to appear at ; once that Kyto was more than' a good cook. On the third day, when Shirley Cot ton had been Instructed to Inform Kyto on the matter of vitamins and bal anced diets, she discovered that he knew fully as much about the subject as she. His budgeting of the food supply was a masterpiece. Indeed the eventual discoveries about Kyto sur passed even the wildest guesses of the colonists. The other matter concerned Hen dron. , Others beside Eliot James had ob served, and with concern, the change in the leader; and they began to dis- ensa It, Tony knew that he himself was talked of as a candidate for command er of the group—governor of the cam —if Hendron was to be ^replaced; so Tony Was especially careful to refrain from criticism. In addition to his sin cere loyalty and devotion to Hendron, there was the further fact that Eve became even more frantically devoted to her father as his difficulties in creased. -a “Tony,” she asked him, “what do they—the opposition—say about Fa ther? They want another leader; Isn’t that ft?” “No,” dented Tony. “They want him to lead again ^that’s all. He’s not do ing It now .ss be did, you know.** LIKE iwi 'v y* < ■ beans and Johnny-cake and oatmeal and bacon and lentil sonp and sweet { pdfr, fungi, bacteria and bees that we have brought with ua. We are now feel ing the grinding despair that casta ways must know, except that we can- "But he will agaiiU Thdy’re so un fair to Father!” Eve cried. “How much more of a man can they expect? He brought us all through the greatest venture and journey of mankind; and they complain that now he rests a lit tle, that he does not Immediately ex plore. Does It occur to nobody that perhaps Father is too wise to explore or to permit others to wander off- exploring? It must not be done now; and yet. And you know why." . “Yes,” Said Toby^Tor he was too familiar with Hendron’s fears—which were these: since the spores of certain plants had manifestly survived upon Bronson Beta, it was probable up to the practical point of certaint” that spores of disease-inducing bacteria also had survived. These would bv found -where the-preriousr “hosts^ of the~bac- teria had dwelt and died—that is, in the villages and the cities of the Other People. So Hendron, In this newjpogdof his, feared the finding of dweilings^of-thc Other People; 'e forbade, absolutely, further exploration. Hendron was tired; he had borne toe much; he would risk no more. He be came obsessed with a passion to pre serve and keep safe these follewers of his, whom he considered the last sur vivors of the human race. Yet, against ail Hendron’a care and caution, death* came to the camp. On the moaning of the twentieth day, two ere found lying In a strange atupofr. * They were Bates and Jere miah Post Before snnset, twentj radre—both men and women—were af dieted, and the physicians had Iso lated all the sick and ailing. The epidemic might be, Dodson ao nounced, due fo an infection ourie^ from the world god which "bad de veloped on this new pl<ip*tr«nt) TThlch, In the strange environment, exhibited different characteristics. It might b« caused by some Infective ageat eo countered on Bronson Beta. TO B^-CONTINUBB. 1 — tlon and tha life: he that bellt-vetli In me, though he were dead, yet aha 14 he llve.-^obn 11:26. PRIMARY TOPIC—Jeau* Living Again. JUNIOR TOPIC—Jesus Living Again. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—Life Here and Hereof lei . YOUNG PEOPLE AND SENIOR TOP IC—L»fe In the Light of Eternity. I. God, the God of the Living (Mark 12:26, 27). “If a man die, shall Pie live again? |g an age-long question. It is affirma tively answered by both the universal buman conviction and the holy Scrip- tores. Death does not end all. ft Is not s leap into the dark. It is rather the open door through which human personality enters- into the light of glorious freedom. Life Itaelf is but a training school, a preparation for the larger and higher lift' after death. Those who in their lifetime are in vital relation to Jesus Christ, the eternal Life, shall never die. II. Th* Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Luke 24:1-12). The supreme test, of Christianity Is the Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. It matters little what Jesus said and did .while alive, if his body remained in Hie grave. If he did not come forth In triumph from the tomb, then all his claims are false. On the other hand, if he did arise, all his claims are true. 1. ■ The empty sepulchre (vv. 1-3). a. The coming of the women (v.l). As an expression of affectionate re gard for the Master, they came with spices for his body. b. What they found (vv. 2, 3). When they came to the sepulchre they found the stone had been removed, but they found not the J^ody of Jesus. For them to have fouihL his body In the sepulchre would have beeu the %orld's greatest tragedy. The empty tbtnb spoke eloquently of the deity and pow er of the Son of God (lUmi. 1:4). 2. The message of the men in shin ing garments (vv. 4-8). a. “Why seek ye the living among the dead?" (v. 5). The angels’ ques tion has continued to reverlierate through the centuries. b. “He is not here, hut Is risen” (v. 6). Jesus, before he was cruci fied, had told them that Hie Lord must be betrayed and crucified and that on the third day he would rise. 3. The women witnessing to tha eleven (vv. 9-11). Their thrilling testi mony concerning the empty tomb and the words of the angels appeared to the apostles as iilie tales. 4. Peter investignting (v. 12). While the testimony of the women seemed as idle tales, Peter was not of the tem perament to lightly dismiss the matter Therefore,' he ran to Hie sepulchre. Upon close investigation he found the linen clothes lying in such a way as to prove the reality of the resurrec tion. III. Jesus Preparing a Place in Heaven for Hie Own (John 14:1-3). ■o- The hopes of the disciples were ut terly shattered when Jesus told them about the cross. He consoled them by pointing to the reunion in the Fa ther’s house This he did by 1. Asking them to trust In him oven as God (?. 1). Faith in the God- man, Christ Jesus, will steady *the heart no matter how intense the grief. 2. By Informing them that be was going to the Father's house to prepare a home for them (v. 2). He declared that in that house there were many abiding places. Heaven is an‘eternal dwelling place for God’s 1 children. 3. By assuring them that he would come again and escort them to heaven (▼. 3). He will come and call forth from the grave those who have died and transform* living believers and take them all together to be with him forever in the heavenly home (I Thess. 4:16. 17). IV. Jesus Christ Is ths Way to ths Heavenly Father (John 14:4-6). In answer to Thomas’ interposed .doubt Jesus asserted: 1. Time-he 4s the way (v. 6). Jesus Christ is more than a more guide to Hod or a teacher. He Is the way Itself, the very door of the shVepfold. the gateway to the tree of life. 2. The truth (v. 6). He is not merely the teacher, but the truth In carnute. In his incarnation the spir itual and material worlds were united. Therefore, every line of truth, whether spiritual or material, converges In him. 3. The life (v. 6). Christ Is not merely the giver of life, but the very essence of life. Only those who re ceive Christ have life In tb» true sense. The first etep'ln raising prize-winning stock is the careful selection of parents r . . sires and dams whose Characteristics have been, determined through many generations of perfect sirea and dams. The same law applies in the vegetable kingdom. The Ferry’s Purebred Vegetable Seeds you buy this year are the children of generations of perfect plants. 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