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The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1908-07-03

two plates are working against each
other with nearly equal force, the bal
ance being disturbed only in ratio to
gravitation."
'The solution Of the flying ma
chine!" Jenkins shouted excitedly, and
Roberts, approaching the engineers
quick understanding, smiled and re-
sponded:
Eyes, just that"
"But what will furnish its propul-
sion?" asked Jenkins, whose mind
was travelling I've the possibilities OF
rapid fight. The others evinced their
interest by craning. forward.
1T Will furnish its own" the SCI
enlist answered, because by the use
of the apparatus behind It we can
excite its radioactivity to any degree
that. might be safe. More plainly, the
moment the current excites and there
fore increases the power Of the lower
plate, q lifting energy could be exerted
which would destroy the equilibrium
Of deviation and drive the plates into
the air with a force corresponding to
the strength or character Of the cur
rent. Or, on the other hand, II the
upper plate was similarly excited, thus
liberating It's %corpuscles, the plate
would be driven toward the earth"
The admiral, who had been. slowly
following this dissertation, seemed
suddenly to have grasped its entire
meaning, and thrust himself out from
the group with both hands extended
and gesticulating rapidly. Then all
you have to do" he said, els to put
on either end Of your airship q free
board made Of this metal. capable Of
eXcitation and insulated on its inner
surface, and you. would thereby be
able to drive your craft in either direc.
ton at any speed you might wishl"
That's II exactly" answered Rob
erts and jenkins In unison. The in.
ventor continued:
Il can beat q freeboard, however,
because shall apply my electrical cur
reRtl In such way as to send all the
%corpuscies Of radioactive matter IN
any direction / may choose. I could
with this alloy even create magnets
Of unknown power. I can built q craft
IN sections where magnets and radio
active surfaces will alternate
He was growing excited as the mag
nitude OF the scope Of his. discovery
dawned upon his Imagination. Norma
Gained him down; but the admiral. In
fected with these visions. took up the
strain and enthusiastically expatiated
TO HIS companions. To him the skies
were already filled With Tying ships
that were 20 swoopS down over IN enc
my. drop terrific bombs Of high q.
plosives. and khrI sweep the So.
But future sysnts. he 49, n lsasa.
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active to a certain degree, does not be-
come intensely 80 without the appli.
cation of the excitant current" He
pulled the plate down till it rested ON
the floor, and stood upon It, while
they, still awed, waited for his further
exposition.
This morning, by an accidental
contact which lasted until the plate
had torn itself loose and broken che
current, I saw to the full the posi-.
bilities It contained. The impact Of
the emanations, or radioactive cor
puscles, against the sheet Of insulation
and tank at the bottom drove 1t
through the floor and into the ground,
because the corpsucles which flew of
in the other direction were unimpeded,
free and harmless. Had the excitant
current been maintained, the plate
would have hurled itself indefinitely
toward the center Of the earth"
The officers gave a gasp Of some
thing almost approaching incredulity,
with the exception of Jenkins, who
nodded his head and excitedly rubbed
his hands.
Roberts picked up a,scrap at his
feet and held it. toward them. "For
years I experimental upon and per-
fected this" he said. 1T is an insu.
lation which will pass nc current OF
electricity, and which no known heat
can destroy. To-day by accident
learned that it was also an impervious
screen to radioactive emanations. In
the second experiment I so charged
the alloy in my lower plate that II
merely Offsets gravitation,, and put my
sheet Of insular substance between;
and there we have deviation. Those
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CHAPTER XVI.
. An Arm.

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The officers, still doubling their
senses. stood before this uncanny
manifestation like men in q world Of
u~nreality. From without, for some
unaccoHntable reason, the varied
clamor Of industry had suhsided to
silence. and the soldiers song was
finished. Even the yellow light Of the
afternoon which filtered through the
window panes appeared strange, spec
trail, and unearthly. In the shadow of
that massive thing which lowered
above them, Nature seemed bent on
the revocation Of her laws. and for an
instant their senses reeled III the
struggle for comprehension.
"Old Bill" Roberts broke the spell.
He reached up and touched the tip Of
q finger to the mass and moved Il
gently toward them with no more ex-
srtion than would be necessary to
push q toy balloon. There was no
levity In him when he addressed them,
but rather the simple grandeur OF one
who has wrested from Nature one Of
her greatest powers, and was wpre-
pairing to harness It for all time, q
slave to peace. progress and the well
fare OF his fellows.
my friends" he said, 'by the DIS
csvery Of an alloy Of metals and metal
loids we have created a new sub.
stance, which when an electrical cur-
rent Of certain potentiality is passed
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button. A sharp clashing noise smote
their ears. and when next they looked
at the ports they were shut of by
metallic slides. Again the girl touched
q button, and instantly the interior of
the radioplane was flooded with Sill
very light. It was q disappointment,
for sight gave no calculation of the
secret.
A low roof Of implanted metal
arched above them. In one end were
ordinary electrical dynamos, q motor.
and q polished electrical apparatus
which they could not understand, and
beyond this, outside the hoods, there
vas nothing whatever; only the signs
Of hurried work, rough, implanted, and
unpaneled. Rude benches, evidently
placed for this occasion only, com
prised all the trappings and furnish
ings of this monster that vas the van
guard of modern transportation, and
in whose keeping rested the nations
strength. They had expected in
t~ricacies of construction; but before
them raj simplicity. They had pic
tured strange manifestations Of elec-
trical science; but only compact mass
Of brass rods and cleaning tubes was
visible. The admiral read their I'm.
worded curiosity.
IS Il can't explain It quite" he said.
"Dr. Roberts will tell you all about it
pretty soon, when he can get away
from plotting the ship. Look out for
the shutters again. Norma is going to
open them and shut of the lights. We
are at our journeys end"
A clash, a flash, and again they were
in darkness, and with one accord they
turned to the reopened ports.
Beneath them now glittered the arc
lights of the plant on the lonely is
land which they had peopled. The
great blast furnace vas spouting to.
ward them showers of glowing sparks
and sheets Of writhing flame, and be-
fore 1t, dwarfed by height into squatty
gnomes, were those who necessarily
fed 1t. The windows Of the machine
shops were limned in squares Of white,
and out to n side, throwing its
searchlight to and fro, there steamed
a gunboat, while afar on, the. other
boundary of the key It's sister ship
kept equally vigilant patrol. Industry
was spread before them-industry be-
tokening that niglMa and day we're be-
ing devoted to the country's need;
telling through the hum of wheels and
the roaring of the blast that the eagle
from his lone aerie was sharpening
his talons for the impending struggle,
and preparing for a resistless fight
into the red sun of war.
Dumfounded and unable to com
prehend that in SO short a time they
had been transported q distance
which by all known methods would
have taken a couple Of days to trav-
erse, they stared at the scene opening
to their view, and while this bewilder-
ment continued the radioplane began
q rapid descent In wide, sweeping cir
cles, daintily picked out an open spot
Immediately in front Of the plant, and
gently came to rest.
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TO the presidents desk, ana faced him
and the secretary Of the navy.
Il have come to deliver my report
in person, and with me are those who
have given this nation the greatest
engine Of war that science has eve
known"
The room was electrified; but the
president sprang to his feet and threw
up q restraining hand commanding ST.
lence.
'Well?" he queried. inviting further
words; but Brockton's place had been
taken by the shriveled figure Of a
diminutive old man. who put a trem.
bling hand out to his friend and in a
voice Of affection, hushed but 5exultant,
exclaimed:
paul, Paul, we've made good!'
The others hand came out to meet
his. and the only sound heard was the
presidents fervent. sThank God!
Thank God!.
The gates Of repression and emotion
were down. These men had been
tried to the breaking point, and now,
when In n moment their skies had
cleared. they gave way. They Rugged
each other. repeatedly shook hands,
and In the eyesso some there were un::
srestrained tears. They crowded round
tho little group from the 10y and
admonished each othar g ssilsncs.
k
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to his interrupted scrutiny of the pan
Drama on which the others were intent
once more.
They were being lifted higher and
higher, and in this recession Of the
earth, its lights, which only q few
moments before had been far apart,
now appeared as spangles on a vast
field of black. Above them through
Q transparency in the roof the stars in.
the clarity Of the rarefed atmosphere
cleaned brighter, throwing outward
into the pail long scintillating arrows
Of fire. The strange creation Of an.
abnormal old man and his daughter,
the Magic Carpet Of fable realized.
swept upward into the, dome Of the
sky, veering outward over the silent
reaches Of the ocean. and then, like a
great aux In homing flight, swung OF
In q wide tangent toward the south
western void, carrying them at q speed
which they could not reckon. Below
Val nothing more to claim their atten-
3tion; so, silent and spellbound, they
turned to discover what they might;
within this shell Of mystery.
Forward. where the hood was glow
Ing 3dimly. they NV the inventor stand.
5lng calmly attentive 70 hin task and
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Beet Growers Resist Cut.

Denver.-A Republican special from
Rocky Ford Saturday night says: At
monster convention here TODAY at
tended by nearly 500 delegates, repre-
senting beet growers associations of
the Arkansas valley, resolutions were
passed that beets would not be grown
by the farmers for $3.50 a ton, and that
unless the factories agree to the scale
of 1907 some crop other than beets
would be grown this year.
1t was announced by the compani. \
recently that for 1908 only $3.50 a ton
would be paid, unless they contain fif-
teen per cent. sugar content, when IS
would be paid. A meeting of growers
in this vicinity was held two weeks
ago and committee was appointed to
go up and down the valley, organize
the beet growers and invite them to
send delegates to the convention to-
day.
AS result nearly thirty associa-
tions were organized within the last
week and the meeting to-day included
delegates from ST. Charles, the Pueblo
growers association, Nepesta, Fowler,
Manzanola, Vineland, Las Animas, La
mar, Holly, Garden City, Kansas, and
intervening points. In the district
there are five plants, at Rocky Ford,
Swink, Las Animas, Lamar and Holly.
Before the resolutions were passed
to-day delegation was sent to wait
upon General Manager Weitzer of the
American Beet Sugar Company and
tell him that the convention had de-
cided that beets would not be raised
unless the 1907 scale was signed for
1908. His reply was not favorable, and
when the delegation returned to the
convention the resolutions were
passed.
The growing of tomatoes was most
favored. The Barlow Consolidated
Canning Company has agreed to re-
build the canning factory recently
burned here, If enough acreage is
pledged and should tomatoes be SUBJ
stituted in the valley for beets it is
likely that more canning factories will
be built
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
DENVER MARKETS

Denver Onion Stock Yards, Jan. 81.
Over 1l,500 head of cattle were re-
ceived here last week. A great many
of these came for the show, but there
WAS also a liberal Offering ON the lo-
cal market. The demand was strong
for all grades and prices ruled gener-
ally steady throughout the week de-
spite the fact that the eastern mar
kets quoted big declines. Beef steers
sold mostly at s4.00 to $3.50 on the
open market with fancy carloads of
show cattle up to $3.50 and the cham
pion carload at $50. The single fat
steers in the show brought s425 to
$7.25, with the grand champion single
steer at s21.00. Cows were good sell
ers, most of the best killers going at
$500 to $3.50 on the open market
Show cows sold up to s4.75, and the
prize heifer, Jane Grubb brought $3.50
in the auction ring. The supply of
feeder cattle was heavy and some good
ones here. Buyers were plentiful and
all purchased readily, the result being
a good active market and very satisfac-
tory prices. Most of the feeders sold
at auction brought $425 to $4.75 with
fancy show lots up to s5.25 and the
grand champion car of feeders at $3.50
freight paid. The show is generally
acknowledged to have been the best
ever held west of Chicago.
Hog receipts were 9,400 head during
the week and demand on account of
the heavy supply was not urgent to
wards the close. Prices held up very
well, bulk now selling at S4.25 to s4.35.
Sheep receipts were good. Prices
were higher early in the week but
later there was some drop in sympathy
with eastern declines. The demand
here is good and prices fully in line
with eastern points.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30

When science through the medium
of Darwin and his co-laborers made
monkeys of us in retrospect we were
st-rtled. That discovery, however,
revolutionary though it was. cannot
be classified as any more wonderful
than are other discoveries now being
made or announced in a low tone of
voice by the discoverer at some meet
ing of scientists. Usually he mentions
what he has found out in casual
way as If he didn't think much of 1t
but wanted to get it off his mind so
that he might return to his laboratory
and put in eight hours or so day
making more discoveries. If this sort
of thing keeps on we shall soon know
as much about our internal machinery
and the workings thereof as we now
know about the stars. In fact, we
shall be as familiar with the alimen-
ltary canal as with the canals of Mars
When man gets sick he will drag
himself to the repair shop and the
machfnist and the electrician will
make him over as If he were an old
boiler. 1t will be great day about
January 1 next when the inventors
all get together and relate the results
of their experiments for the year
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30

Street names spelled out in bright
colors or figures and imbedded In ce-
ment walks are one of the most re-
cent innovations in American city
architecture. The plan has been tried
in Kansas City on all the large boule-
wards. the main idea being not to dis
figure the street and houses by the
usual printed signs that are placed on
the walls of corner houses or fastened
to the lamp posts at the intersections
of the streets. The name of each
boulevard is spelled out in letters
from six to eight inches high. formed
with stones about one-half inch
square laid in the cement sidewalk,
similar to the tile or ceramic mosaic
work which is now SO frequently seen
In the vestibules of buildings.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
SECRETARY TAFT's SPECIAL RE-
PORT OF HIS VISIT TO THE
ISLANDS.
PRESIDENT SATISFIED
RECOMMENDS PARTIALLY OPEN
DOOR TO Philippine
PRODUCTS.

Washington.-Nine years after the
battle of Manila Bay Secretary Taft
records the results of the American
occupation of the archipelago and
forecasts the future of the Filipinos, in
an exhaustive report transmitted to
Congress by the President, with let
ter written by the chief executive,
commencing in the highest terms the
secretary's conclusions.
The President declares that ruin
would have followed the adoption of
any other policy toward the Philip
pines than that outlined by William
Mckinley and carried forward through
these nine years, and asserts tri-
umphantly that there is no brighter
page in history than that dealing with
the relations between the strong and
the weak in those islands. He adds
that the Filipinos have yet a long
way to travel before they WIZ be fit
for complete self-government."
Secretary of War Taft has sub
mitted a special report upon his re-
cent visit to the Philippine Islands in
which he makes the following recon-
mendations:
"First-That legislation be adopted
by Congress admitting the products OF
the Philippine Islands to the markets
of the United States, with such rea-
sonable limitations as may remove
fear of interference with the tobacco
and sugar interests of the United
States.
"Second-That the present restric-
tions be removed as to the acquisition
of mining claims and the holding of
lands by corporations in the Philip
pines.
"Third-That further legislation be
passed authorizing the Philippine gov
ernment, if it chooses, to open and
conduct an agricultural bank, with a
capital not exceeding S2,000,000.
"Fourth-That the coastwise laws of
the United States be made perma-
nently inapplicable to the trade be-
tween the ports of the islands and the
ports of the United States"
President Roosevelt in submitting
the special report to Congress ex.
presses hearty approval of the recon.
mendations in the following words:
II heartily concur in the recon-
mendations he makes, and I call es-
pecial attention to the admirable work
Va oofSlnoI HIS dSSOCldItS-
1t is subject for just national graft
fication that such a report as this can
be made. No great civilized power
has ever managed with such wisdom
and disinterestedness the affairs of
people committed by the accident of
war to its hands.
Save only our attitude toward
Cuba, question whether there is
brighter page in the annals of inter
national dealing between the strong
and the weak than the page which
tells of our doings in the Philippines
"The islanders have made real ad-
vances in a hopeful direction, and
they have opened well with the new
Philippine assembly; they have yet a
long way to travel before they will be
fit for complete self-government, and
for deciding, as it will then be their
duty to do, whether this self-govern-
ment shall be accompanied by com
plete independence. 1t will probably
be generation, it may even be longer,
before this point is reached; but it is.
most gratifying that such substantial
progress toward this as a goal has al
ready been accomplished"
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Ebert County Tribune
}. E. Pope, Editor and Publisher.
ELBERT. - COLORADO.
Marriage Laws.

There could hardly be more prof
Htable undertaking for a young man
and young woman who contemplate
matrimony than study of marriage
as a historic institution 1t would
show them better than almost any.
thing else could do their relations to
society and to the state. and would
give them a personal understanding
of what the minister means when, in
the beginning of the ceremony, he
says, mot by any to be entered into
unadvisedly or lightly" The laws OF
marriage in all Christian countries,
says the Youths Companion. are de-
rived from the canon law. that is, the
law established by the Christian
church In the middle ages. This law
was based upon the Roman civil law,
influenced to a considerable degree
by Teutonic ideas. Marriage laws are
also Influenced, and in some countries
controlled, in respect of marriage
within certain degrees of relationship
or affinity, by the laws of Moses. con-
tained In the book of Leviticus. Grad
nally some of these prohibitions have
been relaxed. In the recent case of
the deceased wifes sister act of Eng
dand 1t was matter of controversy
whether the Mosaic law forbids such
marriages. The purpose of all statute
law. as applied to marriage, is now
and has always been primarily the
protection OF the state, and secondar-
lily the safeguarding of the rights Of
fhe contracting parties. The Roman
Catholic church regards marriage as
sacrament The Protestant churches
.of western Europe reject this theory,
and in order to lessen or prevent
secret marriages demand that the
consent of parents be obtained. Even
in Roman Catholic countries to-day
marriage is governed by civil legisla-
tion. The civil marriage has been
said, indeed, to be the great innova-
'tion of the nineteenth century. In
most Catholic countries two services
are performed. The religious cere-
mony complies with the theory that
marriage is a sacrament, the civil
ceremony with the theory that 1t is a
contract. In these countries the civil
ceremony alone makes the marriage
valid. The church ceremony alone
does not.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
Interesting items Gathered From all
Parts of the World Condensed
Into Small Space for the Ben
eft of Our Readers.
Congressional.


The shipbuilding summary COM
piled by the Shipping World shows that
only England accomplished more in
that respect than the United States in
1907.
The subcommittee on pensions of
the house committee on appropriations
has announced an agreement to recon-
mend pension roll of $150.000.00 for
the fiscal year ending June 80, 1909.
The house has requested the presi-
dent to send to congress a copy of
the report of the special Goldfeld
commission.
In a recent statement to the senate
canal commission Col. Goethals, chief
engineer, said the Panama canal was
reasonably safe from military inva-
sion, and that the locks were so far
inland they could not be injured by
shells from naval vessels.
The urgent deficiency bill, carrying
appropriations of s24, 100000, has been
agreed upon by the house committee.
Champ Clark of Missouri declared
on the floor of the house recently that
the democratic party intended to NOM
mate William Jennings Bryan for
president at the Denver convention in
July.
George Peabody Wetmore has been
reelected United States senator from
Rhode Island.
John Sharp Williams has been for
mally elected to the United States SEN
ate to succeed the late H. D. Money,
whose term expires in 1911.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30

A New York cat saved the lives of
two people by caterwauling and thus
waking them in time to escape from a
burning building. 1t will be the rank
est ingratitude for them to ever throw
things at yowling cats after this.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30

Anna Gould will yet be obliged to
hire a special secretary to deny mar
riage rumors about her. She might
arrange with the newspapers to have
the rumor of her union with the
prince issued on Tuesdays and Fri
days, with her stereotyped denial, and
on Thursdays and Saturdays the ru-
NOR of conciliation with her former
husband. That would leave her three
days to herself, which is little enough.
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30

Frank Vanderlip declares that New
York is the nerve center of the United
States. However, he will have to ad-
init that in response to demand a few
not unimportant ganglia have devel-
oped in other portions of the United
States. particularly in the west
The Elbert County tribune., 1908-01-30
Sheep.
Grain.

Wheat. choice milling, per 100 lbs.
$1.35. Rye, Colorado, bulk, per 100
lbs, s1.1o. Oats, bulk, Nebraska, No.
8, white, $780, same, in sacks, s1.60.
Corn, in bulk, SILT; in sack. s122
Corn chop, sacked, s1.23. Bran, Colo,
per 100 lbs, s1.10.