The Newtown bee., 1909-05-14
The NeWtoWn Bee.
 Newtown, Friday, May 14, 1909.
THE STONES CRY OUT"
Easter Allegory By Andrew Chesley
 Eurbush of Georoetown.

hobgoblin of religious faith are flee ing before he light of human reason. God is myth an1 eternal life a sheer delusion. The world is at last com ing to it's senses and realizing that hard, firm, solid matter is the ea5ence and core and the whole constituency of life."
 Thus declared Prof Agnostico, fel- low Of the R. val Society, President of the International Aeronautical society and professor of aerial navi- gation at Pisa, and he paused a mo- ment to see how his words struck his foreign audience, the 5000 Ameri- cans who had crowded Cooper Insti- ute to haaJ this distinguished Ital- isn s1'~'.ti't and aeronaut. He could not perceive that a muscle moved in that vast audience, but he felt the weight of heavy breathing from 6UUO lungs. The very air seemed bur den which none but Atlas could bear. This 1ic ,t daunt him for he was accustomed to incredulity and even, at times, to riuirEle. lie passed rapidly on to the practical side of his lecture, which was to describe and explain his new invention, the flying automaton. It was nothing else than monster mechanical eagle which would take it's passengers at will throughout the sky seemingly never exhausting irs strength. It was self governing, the slightest movement of the Pr lessor deter mining it's course upward or 1own
 ;"a'd or to one side or the other; it relnil ed no power outside itself, hut automatically fed upon the electricity of the ai1, and was thus. like the life. In fact as the Professor said wa mine up to his theme. this auto.n&ton is u C 20,h century in vention which proves that self di- recting, reasoning beings are after all but sn inner phase of the great world substance, matter. Matter is everything -f"rle. energy. reason. the soul: and thcre s .lo;nirg lesi le it. And let those who question this truth go now with r,e to Central Park in wonder lobe of this great city and there l will prove this state ment.
 The crowd s,uged from the lecture hall amid |. huhbub of voices and gesticulaTing that resemhled the con fusion at the Tower of Rahel. Fully 100000 bodies with upturned faces blackened the earth beneath the automatic eagle which bore the Professor rar lily into the hc;.vc,,' an hour later. In order to more clea.ly demonstrate the wonder of his hu- man machine, which he ueclared could do almost everything except th'nk, and he was not sure but it could do that Prof Agnostine al lowed himself to be bound hant and foot several feet from any lever or governing arm of his airship. Mere ly by nlei'ia suggestion was his ma chine to defect it's course to his will and increase it's speed to even 500 mics an hour or reduce it to noth- ing. Silently and gracefully it as cen led and in the space of only a lew brief minutes it became mere speck among the clouds, waiting westward to overtake the sun. Hour ly messages by wireless telegraphy reported it's appearance over Ma gara, Chicago, Topeka, Denver, Salt Lake City and San Francisco. On- ly six hours were consumed in mak- ing the flight from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard, and by the end of that time the whole country was afame with excitement over this greatest wonder of human skill. The mayor of San Francisco, the govern or of California and other eminent men at the Golden Gate greeted Prof Agnostine on his dscent once more to earth. He seemed neither chined nor fatigued by this eagle flight, though five times swifter than the fastest train; for the air did not touch him nor the breezes blow upon 1im. He was enclosed in a glass case which was artificially fed by air to suit his pleasure. When liberated from his bonds he stepped forth as fresh as you or might be after trav- cling from New York to Boston. After 24 hours of resting or rather of ceaseless celebration, for the Cal ifornians regarded him as little less than a god, he entered again, hand cuffed and bound, his glass car to speed as rapidly homeward. Too much feasting and too little regard for his bodily wants brought upon nim drowsiness, specially as he en- tered the greater attitudes of the Rocky mountains. For single mo- ment he suceumbed to sleep and his car was like a ship without a rudder. flashing at terrific speed, ten miles a minute, upon the reefs. She swerved, she sunk, she darted like a madman and struck a tall gnarled oak tree in the heart of the Rockies. There was a terrible din in the snap ping of steel and the clashing of glass and debris was scattered on