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AFTER WORLDS
SYNOPSIS
Under the leadership of Cole Hendron,
noted American scientist, over 300 per-
,ons escape in two Space Ships just be¬
fore a cosmic collision wiped out the
«arth, and land on Bronson Beta. A
emooth, straight metal roadway is dis¬
covered, indicating that whoever once
jived on Bronson Beta had swift mov¬
ing vehicles. Thousands of giant mete¬
ors hurtle through the sky, but none
of Hendron’s colonists is hurt. The
meteors are fragments of the destroyed
earth's moon. Tony Drake, Hendron’s
lieutenant, and Professor Higgins dis¬
cover a river bottom green with vege¬
tation.
CHAPTER II—Continued
—3—
There were a few bends, however;
and upon rounding one of tiiese, 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 roek 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
head-on into the wall of stone.
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-proof.
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, light¬
er even than aluminum. The engine
was twisted and mangled, as was the
rest of the car. It was impossible to
guess what the original shape of the
vehicle had been, but 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.”
“They didn’t have pneumatic tires,
just a ribbon of some yielding material
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 MaltUy, who were
perhaps the best engineers and me¬
chanics among them, except Hendron,
stepped out of the circle of fascinated
onlookers. Behind them walked Jere¬
miah I’ost, the metallurgist of ttie com¬
pany. These three men. together with
Hendron, began painstakingly and
slowly to examine the wreck.
Finally Hendron, after a brief sotto
voce colloquy with Host, Bates and
Maltby, 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 BALMER
and PHILIP WYLIE
Copyright, 1934, by
Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie.
WNU Service.
upright and that their upper pair of
limbs terminated in members which
could he used precisely as fingers are
used, is very illuminating. In fact, I
won’t say that the builders of this very
interesting and brilliant vehicle were
human beings; but I will say that If
the vehicle were intact, it could be
operated by a human being.
“As for tlie 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
had not as yet perfected a way of ex¬
tracting 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 rtudy will be necessary
to reveal precisely how it was done.
‘‘For the sake of those who are not
physicists or engineers, 1 will explain
that except for the atomic energy
which we ourselves perfected, all ter¬
restrial energy was thermal energy. In
other words, it came from the sun. Oil
represents the energy stored up In mi¬
nute vegetation. Coal, the sunlight
stored in larger plants. Water power is
derived from kinetic energy in water
elevated by the sun to high places.
Tidal energy may be also excepted, as
it was caused by the attraction of the
/boon. Since we found electricity a
more useful form of energy, we bent
our efforts to the changing of thermal
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 use
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, into
electricity."
Cole Hendron glanced at Duquesne
and Von Beitz, 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 I will have this
machine studied in complete detail, but
just now planting beans is more im¬
portant.”
In Eliot .Tames’ diary appears the fol¬
lowing entry. It is dated Day No. 14:
“We have been here two weeks. W T e
have 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 loqks like
a shipbuilding yard, but I think all our
hearts are heavy with the knowledge
that we are not building, but wrecking
our ship. We have cut off escape to
It Haa Been One of the Vehicles the Creatures of the Planet Drove or
Rode, and Rounding the Curve at Too High a Speed, It Had Shot
Off the Highway and Smashed Head-On Into the Wall of Stone.
■ is machine could not have been much
^rger or mnch smaller than ourselves.
°u will note,”—he walked over to the
^reck force of and the pointed,—“that crash has collapsed although this the
Portion of the vehicle, we may assume
fhst its operator sat here.
1 say sat, because this is manifestly
• seat The vehicle steered with a
^ “el which has heen broken
off. This
* it- Whether the creatures on Bron-
s,, n Beta had hands and feet like
ours
jjannot v Ufflbs. be said. tb*t However, they that they had
were able to sit
anything else. We have committed our¬
selves to life here.
“The food we eat is monotonous. No
dietitian could give us a better bal¬
anced diet; but on the other hand,
none of us is able to gratify those daily
trifling appetites which were unimpor¬
tant on earth, but which up here as¬
sume great proportions. Bread and
beans and johnny-cake and oatmeal
and bacon and lentil soup and sweet
chocolate and rice, together with yeast,
which we cultivate and eat to prevent
pellagra, and other vitamins which we
DADE COUNTY TIMES: THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1935
not have the nope of rescue, and still
worse, we have abandoned the hope of
any other fellowship than our owa
Solitude-—exile—loneliness!
“The children—tlie little boy and girl
whom, thank God, we brought—are
tlie bright lights in our emotional
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 born among us, new mem¬
bers of our race, this awful feeling of
the end might he lifted. But who would
dare to bear children here? Eve? Shir¬
ley?”
Eliot James, on this despairing note.
Interrupted his 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, tlie little
Jap was no longer Tony’s servant. No
one would have servants again. His
handiness in the matter of preparation
of meals had made him gravitate to
the commissariat in the first few dium.
COLLIDE
take 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 remuin scattered because of the
possibility of a meteoric shower.
“One of the small atomic engines
Hendron brought has been converted
into the motor of a tractor-like ma¬
chine which pulls a flat four-wheeled
trailer back and forth to tlie river val¬
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 him¬
self to the difference in the length of
the day, so that the hours of light seem
interminable, and we reach darkness
exhausted. I have seen workers on the
Ark. and men and women on the farm,
fall asleep at their jobs in the later
afternoon. On tlie other hand, since
we are accustomed to sleeping at tlie
most nine or ten hours, we 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.
"Tiie soil at tlie farm w’as 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 Ijving sound except
our own and the occasional noises of
the animals we tend.
“We would like to restock tlie sea
with fish, but we are doubtful about
tlie 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. I would not
enter this in a diary that is perhaps
to be history, except for the fact that
she announced it to every one the oth¬
er day and said that she was going
to move for a system oi 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
than 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-
doed to occasional downpours. The riv¬
er at the farm rose. When the skies
cleared Tony was jubilant. His wide
acres were covered with even rows of
green and Indeed the farm was a beau¬
tiful spectacle.
“We have moved 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 tlie last of the fodder
brought from earth. Other of the ani¬
mals do not do so well; and if they die,
it is the last we shall see of their spe¬
cies. But shall we ourselves survive?
“On reading the above, it seems that
my tone is melancholy; and I feel
that it cannot be otherwise. Pressure
of work and tlie reaction to our months
of strain and danger, and contempla¬
tion of the awful though splendid per¬
ils of the flight from earth, have
brought about this state of mind. We
may 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 solitude with two cows, two
sheep, two deer, a few ants, grasshop¬
pers, fungi, bacteria and bees that we
have brought with us. We are now feel¬
ing the grinding despair that casta¬
ways must know, except that we cun-
But it began to appear at once that
Kyto was more than a good cook.
On tlie third day, when Shirley Cot¬
ton had been Instructed to inform Kyto
on tlie matter of vitamins and bal¬
anced diets, she discovered thnt he
knew fully as much about the subject
as she. Ilis 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¬
cuss 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.
“Tony,” she asked him, “what do
they—the opposition—say about Fa¬
ther? They want another leader; Isn’t
that it?"
“No,” denied Tony. “They want him
to lead again; that’s all. He’s not do¬
ing It now as he did, you know.”
“But he will again! They’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 Tony; for 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 certainty that
spores of disease-inducing bacteria also
had survived. These would Ik found
where tlie previous “hosts” of the bac¬
teria had dwelt and died—that is. In
the villages and tlie cities of the Other
People.
So Hendron, in this new mood of his,
feared the finding of dwellings of the
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 followers ol
his, whom he considered the last sur¬
vivors of the human race.
Yet, against all Hendron’s care and
caution, death came to the camp. On
the morning of the twentieth day, two
men were found lying in a strang*
stupor. They were Bates and Jere
miah Post. Before sunset, twentj
more—both men and women—were af
flicted, and the physicians had iso
lated all the sick and ailing.
The epidemic might be, Dodson an
nounced, due to an infection carried
from the world and which had de¬
veloped on this new planet, and which
in the strange environment, exhiblte*
different characteristics. It might be
caused by some Infective agent «*
countered on Bronson Beta.
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it in the center of the ball. If you
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member of your family who is about
to depart for the unknown shores—
at least, that is the story.
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CUNDAY Dchool I Lesson
By REV. P. B. FITZ WATER, D. D„
Member of Faculty, Chicago. Moody Bible
Institute of
©, Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for June 2
OUR DAY OF WORSHIP
LESSON TEXT—Psalm 100; John
4.20-24; Colossians 3:15-17.
GOLDEN TEXT—God Is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship
him In spirit and In truth.— John 4:24.
PRIMARY TOPIC—The Lord’s Day.
JUNIOR TOPIC—Our Lord’s Day.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP¬
IC—What Should We Do on Sunday?
YOITNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP¬
IC—What We Do When We Really
Worship.
I. The Origin of the Sabbath (Gen.
2:2, 3).
When God had completed the heav¬
ens and the earth he desisted from
creative action. Since his creative
work was finished in six days, he
ceased from action on the seventh day,
which was, therefore, called the Sab¬
bath or rest day. The Sabbath was
not a Mosaic but an Edenic institution.
It Is older by centuries than the Sab¬
bath given to Israel at Sinai.
II. The Sabbath Given to Israel
(Exod. 20:8-11).
It was made a peculiar sign of cove¬
nant relation between the chosen peo¬
ple and God (Deut. 5:11-15). It en¬
joins a twofold obligation:
1. Work through six days (v. 9).
Work was God’s primary thought for
man (Gen. 2:15). It expresses man’s
normal condition. The command to
work six days Is just as binding as
the command to rest on the seventh
day.
2. Rest on the seventh day (v. 10).
There must be cessation from work on
the Sabbath. Since God gave the ex¬
ample and then sanctified the day, it
should be kept holy. It was not only
to give relief to the body, hut to be
a time when man’s thoughts would be
turned to God. It was designed to
keep fresh in man’s mind the conscious¬
ness of God and Iiis mercies. It was
thus made for man’s well-being (Mark
2:27).
III. The First Day of the Week
(Acts 20:7).
The early Christians met on tiie first
day of tlie week to break the bread of
fellowship and to worship God. Paul
used this assembly ns an occasion lo
preach tlie gospel. Doubtless this be¬
came the day of rest and worship in
honor of the Lord’s resurrection.
IV. True Worship., Taught (John
4:20-24).
1. True worship is not confined to
a particular place (vv. 21, 22). The
place s unimportant. The all-impor¬
tant thing Is to have the right concep¬
tion of God as revealed through the
Jews. Since God is omnipresent, the
true worshiper can hold Intercourse
with him anywhere and everywhere.
2. It must be spiritual (vv. 23, 24).
God is Spirit. Therefore, only those
who through regeneration have a spir¬
itual nature can truly worship God.
V. A Psalm of Worship (Ps. 100).
1. Whom to worship (v. 1). Wor¬
ship should be rendered to God, for he
alone is worthy.
2. The spirit of worship (v. 2). Wor¬
ship should be joyful. This joy should
be manifest In the singing of praises
to God.
3. Who should worship (v. 1). All
the world should worship, not merely
the Jews, but all nations. The pecu¬
liar mission of the Jews was to call
all nations to the worship of the true
God.
4. Reasons for worship (vv. 3-5).
God should be worshiped because he is
God. Being God, he Is our Creator,
Preserver, and Savior.
VI. The Soul Poise of the True Wor¬
shiper (Col. 3:15-17).
1. Peace rules the life (v. 15). The
one joined to Christ by faith and resting
in his finished work is at peace with
God and should be at peace with all
members of the body whose head is
Christ.
2. Gives thanks to God (v. 15). In
spite of all troubles which beset the
Christian, they should all be drowned
in his constant giving of thanks to God.
3. Christ’s Word to dwell in the
heart (v. 16). It is not enough to
know the truth; the very word3 of
Christ must be made real in experi¬
ence. They must be made to dwell, that
is, be at home in the heart.
4. The definite function of the Chris¬
tian (v. 16). It is to teach and warn
others. Christ’s words dwelling in the
believer will result In blessing to oth¬
ers. The Christian should always
maintain a Joyous attitude.
5. The supreme motive (v. 17). All
that the Christian does and says
should be for the glory of Christ. The
enthronement of Christ as the Lord of
life means that all the Christian’s du¬
ties are performed with the conscious¬
ness of union with Christ. He knows
that his life belongs to Christ, who
died that he might live.
Be Cheerful
What do the flowers say, that nod
at you from field and garden and lane?
I think they say “Be cheerful; look as
bright as you can. Leave off frown¬
ing, and cheer other people up; smile*
cost nothing, but can often lift tha
shadows and bless the heart”
Friendship
Make no friendship with an angry
man; and with a furious man thou
shalt not go:
Lest thou learn his ways, and gat a
snar# to thy soul.—Prov. 22:24, 25