Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-12-27

definite results from il.
1t was rugged somewhat like the Mars
Magnetograph, with poles and wires
around a large circle. but had a tele-
phone receiver attached 20 it.
Through this receiver we could hear
strange and awful meanings; but no
one had ever been able 10 get @ definite
message from il. Zoril insisted that
according to Kuroi philosophy, the sun
was the abode of los, souls.
DO YOU mean to say / asked, that
what we regard as the main physical
force of light, warmth, life and neat, is
HELP"
Yes" he affirmed. "Why should
there I've any question about it? You
earthling5 debate as TO the eXictGncc or
nou-eXiStcnce Of Hell and there il is,
staring YOU in the face all the time.
OF course. It warns ard cheers you
when il shines moderately. But YOU
cannot look at it with the naked eye
without suffering n horrible shock, or
even blindness. Is not its effects in
summer GenGish and iutc'erGble: and
when it shines too intensely does j.
not drive people mad and cause cpl
denies of wrath and suicide Also. it.
seems quite reasonable thai m0lcfcctors
lost souls from this earth. should he
utilized by being contributed to that
immense combustion which rivcs rse-
full heat and comfort to you here That
would be a sort Of compensation for
the evil they did while on this planet.
it was curious notion, not entirely
new to some readers and thinkers; yet
it caused much dispute among the roo
pie he met.
After that I never could listen ~ the
dreary groapings Of the Sun-Teierh0ue
without thinking of what he said. Per-
haps this strengthened the desire that
was rising in me 10 get away to some
seTener cline and encourage than this
elrtb's. Then. too, in spite Of all OBJ
stacles and opposition. I could not give
up the hope of winning Electra.
J had talked with ZOrlin about it:
and while. as a Kuroi, he could not
quite approve my marrying, be at last
consented to accompany ne if ! could
induce Electra to leave the country;
in brief, TO elope with me.
Going to her I used all nay faculties
nothing more than to make a briei tour
around the earth with me. on cOndi-
tion that Zorlin should 20 with Us as
counsellor, companion and friend 1t
must be done, however, I told her, with
out the knowledge Of Graenantlo: and
especially without that OF Hammeraeet
who was still at large. although he had
been excluded from the house and was
not allowed to see her.
This was how I came to make my trip
TO Europe and other parts Of the Globe;
and to observe the new state Of things
everywhere; and a wonderfully inter
esjing and delightful trip it was. But
several things prevented it from be
coming q genuine elopment.
In the first place Electra held to her
idea that she ought not to marry me-
In the next place, Iorlin being with us.
was similarity inclined TO prevent my
marrying Electra. And finally. just a.
ter we had embarked in the cOmmodi-
Gus air-ship which J had engaged for
the journey, ] found that Eva Pryor
had been Struggled aboard by Electra.
and was TO be one Of orr party.
the noble Electra fairly laughed in
my face when Eva appeared from the
cabin: though she laughed with such
good humor and grace that I could not
possibly take Offense or do anything
else but admire her. What impressed
me- also fayCrably was that Eva had
abandoned her dreadful nineteenth CO.
fury costume and was dressed in the
peaceful and becoming robes of the
new day. This ! tooh-perhaps con-
ceitedly-as evidence Of a gentle and
wOmanly desire TO give pleasure to me-
There was soon a very exciting flight
and chase; for both Graemantle and
Hammerneet on learning Of our de-
parture, followed us, in different air
boats.
II was a wild career, indeed. high in
air above the whirling globe. but I shall
never regret the impulse which led me
into it. because we had so many Cd
ventures and such charming talks-El-
ectra. Eva and with the missionary
from Mars; and because I learned so
many things about the temporal adj
vancemeut Ct men in this new age.
Ascending from Fire Island at dawu.
We swept southwark along the Atlantic
coast line; our ship flying through the
atmospheric eXpanses ike huge bird
without effort Never shall 7 forget the
of that moment. and of the
next few hours. After the first sur
prise and disappointment of finding