Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-25
The Great War Syndicate.
By FRANK R. STOCKTON.

inant' taking q parting crack with his heaviest stern gun at the vessel which had brought the order for lis release.
 All the way from the American coast to the Bermuda islands, the great Adamant blazed, thundered and roared. not only because her commander saw. CT fancied he saw an American vessel but to mo- tify all crabs, repellers and any other vile invention of the enemy that may have been recently put forth to blemish the sacred surface of the sea, that the Adamant still tioated, with the heaviest coat of mail and the finest and most complete armament in the world. ready to sink anything hostile which came near enough-but not too near.
 When the commander found that he Was bound for the Bermudas he did not understand it, unless, indeed, those isl ands had been captured by the enemy. But he did not stop firing. Indeed, should he find the Bermudas under the American flag, he would fire at that flag and whatever carried it, as long as a shot or shell or charge of powder re- mained to him.
 But when he reached British waters, and slowly entering St. Georges harDor, sa% around him the British flag floating as proudly as it floated above his own great ship, he confessed himself utterly bewildered; but he ordered the men at every gun to stand by their piece until he was boarded by boat from the fort and informed of the true state of affairs.
 But even then. when weary Crab C raised herself from her fighting depth and steamed to a dock, the commander of the Adamant could scarcely refrain from sending a couple of tons of iron into the beastly sea devil which had the tn nhn DSf his will.
 No time was lost by the respective governments of Great Britain and the United States in ratifying the peace made through the syndicate, and i'll con- cluding q military and naval alliance, the basis of which should be the use by these two nations and by no other na- tions, of the instantaneous motor. The treaty was made and adopted with much more dispatch than generally accompa- nieS such agreements between nations, for both governments felt the importance of placing themselves without delay in that position from which, by means of their united control of paramount meth ods of warfare, they might become the arbiters of peace.
 The desire to evolve that power which should render opposition useless had long led men from one warlize invention to another. Every one who had con- structed a new kind of gun, new kind of armor or a new explosive thought that he had solved the problem or was on his way to do so. The inventor-of the instantaneous motor mad done it.
 The treaty provides that all subjects concerning hostilities between either or both of the contracting powers and other nations should be referred to a joint high fa1 l>y Ina CTS, and if war should be considered necessary, it should be prosecuted and conducted by the Anglo-American war syndicate. within limitations prescribed by the high commission.
 The contract made with the new syndi- cate was of the most stringent order. and contained every provision that ingenuity or foresight of man could invent or sug- gest to make it impossible for the syndi- cate to transfer to any other nation the use of the instantaneous motor.
 Throughout all classes in sympathy with the administrative parties of Great Britain and the United States there was feeling of jubilant clation on account of the alliance and the adoption by the two nations of the means of prOhlbitive warfare. The public sentiment acted even upon the opposition, and the ma, jority of army and navy officers in the two countries felt bound to admit that the arts of war in which they had been educated were things of the past. Oi course there were members of the army and navy in both countries who depre cated the new state of things. But there were also men still living who deprecated the abolition of the old wooden seventy four gun ship.
 A British artillery officer, conversine with a member of the American syndi cate at London club, said to him: Do you know that you made a grea l mistake in the beginning of your opera tions with the motor guns? If you hat contrived an attachment to the mutol which should have made all inferna 1 thunderclap and storm of smoke at the moment of discharge, it would have saved you a lot of money and time ant | trouble The work of the motor on tht | Canadian coast was terrible enough, bu | people could see no connection betweel that and the guns on your vessel. If yol could have sooner shown that connection you might have saved yourselves thu trouble of crossing the Atlantic. And tory points connected with your worl on the Welsh coast was the jet of smol1 : which came from the repeller-every tim she discharged motor. If it had no been for those jets believe there woul( be people now in the opposition wht would swear that Caerdaff had beer mined, and that the ministry were : party to it"
 "Your point is we'll taken" said tn American, and should it ever be neces sary to discharge any more bombs which l hope it may not be-we shal take care to show visible and audibl connection between cause and effect"
 "The devil take it, sir!' cried an olt captain of an English ship of the line who was sitting near by. What yol are talking about is not war! We mi gh as we'll send out codfish trust to settl national disputes. In the next sea fgh we'll save ourselves the trouble of gnaw ing and crunching at the sterns of tn enemy. We'll simply send note aboar' requesting the foreigner to be so good a to send us his rudder by bearer, which if properly marked and numbered, vii be returned to him on the conclusion 0 peace. This would do just as well a twisting it off. and save expense. Nc sir. will not join you in a julep.
 have made no alliance over new fangle' inventions! Waiter, fetch me some run | and hot wotn,.tif