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them: and their joy increased up to the
final torpor.
rive years passed. The earth's popuia-
ton had become 1000: and all the GASES
reservoirs. Their springs had finally
dried. never recovering from the shock.
There was no war to capture Rediands'
water. Fifty thousand years oasis life
law. According to the data Of the
physical-state records, they went up 20
the Euthanasia obedienty.
Men even took il ahead Of time. 1t
became contagion. In the equatorial
GASES. they did not await the end of their
provisions. Water remained in the reser-
voirs when the last inhabitants had died.
Alone on earth remained Rediands the
Fortunate. For ten years it's 1000 in
habltants lived in vast hopes. Their deep
ly technical water engineers never gave
ing considerable use OF prot-atomic
forces. prodigiousiy powerful machines
were boring In desert parts of the earth.
Targ and his sister Arva each enjoyed
the right to raise UP children. They were
perfectly happy. A tiny repast OF con-
centrated gluten and essential hydrocar-
bides kept strong man rourisned
twerty-four hours. Their red globules
were reduced to almost pure haemo-
globin: and II was by drawing them mag
netically to the surface OF the skin ana
their iron-particu!es through space that
the Ferromagnet:cs drank the life" of
their victims when they got the chance.
Inside the bismuth- barriers they could
sometimes die Of exhaustion. preyed on
at a distance-usually not beyond ten
feet-by the living worm-like things re-
sembing tangled iron-shavings OF violet
color. They had not yet evolved more
consciousness than a foot-long earth
worm. But one day Targ was terrified
to discover. In the desert, gigantic
species, nine feet long. Living on the
human iron OF buried cities. they
drew 1t magnetically from a depth of
thirty feet.
What would they live on in distant
ages. when this human iron was con-
sumed? Perhaps they would have ac-
quired sufficient life with 1t to continue
with other elements Perhaps they would
prove as immortal as metal, building up
completely from each other ever greater
bodies to form. finally. magnetic-metallic
intellectual giants.
One night these reveries of Targ were
stopped by a slight shock. The birds ad-
nitted having no premonition of It,. Yet
by noon the waters Of all three springs
were slowly subsiding.
In two days their machines had cut new
stone reservoirs. AS the first was pump
ed full, the last spring went dry. The
only water remaining on earth could now
be measured.
Cold. impassive, the grand council gave
it's orders to the resigned people.
I'VE are 1000 souls" said Rem the
chief, Targ having long ago resigned.
Three thousand must take the Eu-
thanasia today. Five hundred will die by
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Open-Air Services.

Open-air gospel meetings will be con
Quoted for one week every night, except
Saturday, commencing Monday. in front
of Central Union Mission on Louisiana
avenue near eth street northwest. These
meetings are to be conducted by Philip
Sidersky, superintendent of Emmanue
Mission to the Jews, Baltimore. Md
The services will be conducted in the
Yiddish, Hebrew and English Languages
and will be illustrated with stereopticor
views which Mr.. Sidersky has for such
services This is the fourth season tina,
Mr.. Sidersky has conducted such meet
ings in Washington, as we'll as in Other
large cities.
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For Labrador Hospital.

The Sunday school of the Central Pres
byterian Church recently made a sener'
Gus donation of clothing and linen fol
the Grenfell Hospital at Battle Harbor
Labrador.
Rev. James HI. Taylor, pastor of the
church, who Is secretary and treasurer
Of the Washington Grenfell Association,
will gladly receive and forward any con-
tribution of money for the work of DIR.
Grenfell In Labrador.
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Revival Closes.

A series of religious services which
commenced July ii at Fort Myer
Heights, Va, closed Thursday evening.
1t resulted In fourteen additions to the
A. ". Graves. who was aided in the
meetings by Rev. Ernest H. MacEwen
of Hyattsville, Nd, baptized those pro-
Tossing conversion in the Potomac river
at a point just above the Aqueduct
bridge.
1t was largely through the efforts of
the Christian people in this community,
it is averred, that the large number OF
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| Xipehuz in my book published in 1887.
| MIR. Wells had not yet begun. Also, my
| 'Cataclyism and Another World pub
lished in 1904. show that l preceded Mr.
Wells abundantly."
| Something like his Ferromagnetics
! drawing life from human iron and
/ human blood by phenomena of induction
| at a distance, so Mr.. Rosnv. personally.
| gives out notable magnetism of great
| ness. Merely to be beside him, you feel
! the utterly superior mind. When he
| talks, he charms. No one else has
| chance-or wants it. For two hours we
| forgetting his Russian tea. l neglectinS
| my appointments. engrossed in Rosny's
| fascinating discourse on plurality and
! the future of the world.
| Which brings US to TarG, the Last
| Man.
| take UP the story as it begins in
| Rosny's terrific book
! Young and in love. Targ was denied
| marriage. Though there had been no
earthquakes for years the water OF
/ their oasis had lowered. and its popula-
/ ton must be kept at 1000.
| The earth's inhabitants were then To-
| 600. huddled in FIVE GASES thousands OF
| miles apart: but distance was nothing to
| their great aerial planetaries. Even
| their little planners for the 7OO-mile trips
to nearby Redlands and Devastation
| Gases carried two years motive power
| and could support four persons. though
| designed for one. Like their reservoirs
and houses. they were made of arcum,
universal mineral fiber, spun for clothing
| and compressed to replace wood and
! iron.
! The day when the birds came prophecy
| ing new earthquakes seemed lucky for
| Targ. Hurrying a relief party to strick-
| en- Redlands, he discovered a new sub
| terranean lake, by venturing miles into
a fresh fissure. BY law. he became chief
man of Redlands. won golden-l1aired Ere
for himself, and a husband for his sister
Arva.
At that moment of joy news came by
| Wave-bearers that the other GASES had
| been terribly damaged. These wave
bearers were adapted to the small life
of GASES Looking like megaphcnes on
poles, they were Hertzian-wave tele-
| phones, permitting all the Inhabitants Of
| one to converse with all the others. In
| houses. fields. workshops or pleasure gar
dens. without other apparatus. A chang
| ed tone carried the voice, at will, to any
! other oasis.
But what invention could profit High
| Springs, Devastation or the two Equa-
torial Gases. losing two-thirdS Of their
| water in the cataclysm?
Targ's home. High Springs. going quite
| dry. Redlands received half its popula-
| tion.. All the rest would have to take
| the Euthanasia in patches until new
equilibrium could be established between
each oasis population and reduced water
supply.
The Euthanasia was extremely gentle.
! Once they had absorbed the marvellous
poisons, the condemned ones lost every
| fear. Their days were permanent &c
stasy, their sleep profound and refresh
| ing. The idea of nothingness ravished
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Takoma Park Presbyterian.

President MacAllister of the Takoma
Park Presbyterian Society led the prayer
meeting on the church lawn last Sunday
evening. Monday this society held bust
ness meeting at the church and arranged
to send a large delegation to participate
In Mondays meeting OF the union at
Forest Glen.
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United Presbyterian.

The United Presbyterian chapter to the
number of fifteen plan to join a picnic
party en- route to Forest Glen Monday
evening This society will hold it's month
~ business meeting Thursday evening
follow ne the church prayer meeting in
the tent at the corner of Georgia and New
Hampshire avenues.
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Eastern Presbyterian.

Miss Elsie AllWine. presiden. of the
Eastern Presbyterian Society. has re-
turned to the city after vacation of sew
eral weeks. 4 portion of which time was
spent i'm Charlottesville. We. The lawn
fete held by this society Monday evening
was enjoyable and successful. The tables
were spread on the church lawn. Chinese
lanterns were used as a decorative fea
ture.
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Extension Department Meeting.

The extension department of the local
union. of which Harvey H. Chown is su-
has held it's first meeting
and organized by the election of a secre-
tary and the appointment of subcommit-
tees. They will undertake the organiza-
ton of new societies and the increase of
local representation in the Comrades
Of the Quiet Hour
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Lesson on Forgiveness.
Matthew, 1s: 21-S5.
TF the gospels were of no other serv

F the gospels were of no other serv-
ice they would be most useful as
a study in psychology. The disciples
10 were doubtless the most spiritually
minded men of their time, but the
school in which they had been trained,
tie theories Of the kingdom which pre-
vailed throughout the Jewish world and
wh,.h they shared. were so different from
those which were taught by Christ that
they were unable to comprehend the new
doctrines or to make them square with
the every -day duties of life.
If we would understand this lesson We
should study carefully the verses preced-
ing it, 1t is true that the committee has
omitted them, but it is no less true that
they lead up to it and they enable us
more fully to comprehend 1t.
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LII Paris reads a
fascinating story
of the world S
future. written not
by a science-pop-
ularizer. but by a
deep philosopher.
1t is as II Haze
excl, the Monist,
should put his far
seeing rsasonings
of things into a
story of the style
of n G.. Wells.
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metallic life evolving here?" I asked.
What else can live. when earth's water
and air disappears they must?" he re-
piled. my Ferromagnetics really carry
on human life. Without it they could
not come into being-as animal life van
quished but carried On the life of the
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Union Omcers Meet.

Tine board of officers OF the Christian
Endeavor Union held a meeting last night
at the home OF Miss Alice Rideout, near
Berwyn. Md, and discussed plans for the
fall and winter work of that organiza-
ton.
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saloons and others places Of evil at Ross
lyn and Jackson City were gotten rid OF
a few years ago. A large and handsome
public school building has been erected
and a church full of vigor and moral
earnestness Is now hourishing there.
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s y
Officers Elected.

The recently organized brotherhood chap
ter at George Washington University has
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: Director, David r. Coveli;
vice director, J. P. Fleming; secretary
and treasurer, Herman b. Chubb.
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Open-Air Meetings.

Calvary Baptist and Gunton- Temple
Presby terrain Endeavorers have each con-
Quoted open-air meetings at Camp Good
Win recently. The former society has
collected and sent to the camp a quantity
Of toys for the use of the children there.
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planets, live metallic beings, crystal be-
ings, and others of whose nature we cam
not dream. To think of Alfred Russell
Wallace arguing ours to be the only in
habitable planet because Of our moderate
extremes of heat and cold.
land it is philosophical to imagine
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Colonial Beach.

The service held under the auspices of
the Washington Brotherhood chapters In
the Union Chapel at Colonial Beach will
tomorrow morning be in charge of Jo-
seph H. Gibbons of ST. Marks Chapter.
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Chevy Chase.

Efforts are under way for the early Or
ganization of a senior brotherhood chap
ter at All Saints Church, Chevy Chase,
of which Rev. DIR. Thomas Childs is the
rector.
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North Carolina Avenue M. P.

F. NJ Bassford. who was until recently
an active member of the North Carolina
Avenue M. p Society. is now connected
with the Lorain, Ohio. Y. NJ. c. A.
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A IL Paris Reads a Fas-
"A cinating Tale-Profound
Philosopher Adopts Wells
Methods-Talk With ]. H.
Rosny. ST., of the Goncourt
MISUNDERSTANDING and
Proto Atomic Ages The
End to Come by Dryness-
Story of Targ. the Last
Man.
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- 70 Organization can keep alive
the interest OF its members
without great purpose. The
u perfunctory meeting and the
platitudinous address never
wins out. This is Just as true Of the
labor union as it Is OF the church or
any other movement. The social aspect
of an organizations life Is important. but
oyster suppers, vaudeville shows. smok-
ers and all the rest of It never yet held
together a company OF earnest men who
were supposedly banded together for the
purpose Of really doing things. When an
organization Is compelled to resort to
such features in order to hold it's men
it is an indication that somewhere there
Is a falling down. either In leadership or
in purpose. and 1t Is destined to fall.
No movement can long remain force
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The bishop was one of the promiren
speakers during the international con
vention held in this city in 1907.
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Giving rs pou Go A!ong.
By the Churchman.

- o s and in in
of
time To be able to give million dollars clip
feel it, or $no0O0O0 $50OO0OO0 able pension
aging college
subsdize
betterment-ah would
that Such lavish
contribution like
motives likely be misunderstood
because
building library Another Of critics ynicay remark
Scotland he had before have
Even heartless the effect that all
way another and that Mones Bags only making
tad the people the heirs Of the people whom he
stating various criticisms justify them
emphasize wisest effective
utilities the afforded by today This
which missionary phanthropc
multitude small gifts and they all the more
the
to he and n
He said She Of all
We make mistake when hold
aE leash sn we snSe pile S %Gns spo os @ a day
along the education that
wide kingdom
little gifts the fruit Of thought and love and sacrifice thousand
n
that the day abore loves God and his
to feel that thes ie on We're NOR neded or e
the kingdom without
than without humble givers.
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Three years passed in hope and love.
In his aerial planetary Targ beat up vast
stretches of the earth for water. How
he found it. pure and gushing, after a
new earthquake is a story you must wait
for. One of our foremost magazin is
to publish Rosny's epic.
Only Targ put all speed to rush with
the good news to his dear ones.
1--WE shall build barriers round the land
above the subterranean lake and have a
new oasis!' he sang. darling through the
thin. blue cloudless atmosphere. I'VE
shall eat fruits again! My boys and girls
shall battle in water. Wonderful, like
young humanity, before the radio active
age!"
Arriving, he called to his family
Silence.
They lay white and motionless upon
their beds.
The earthquake had let in the Ferro-
magnetics.
Targ. the lost man. lay down with
them. quiet. to die. A great tertiary
rustled in. corner.
STERLING HELLO.
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The August meeting of the District
Christian Endeavor Union VIII be held at
Forest Gen, Md. Monday.
h Several hours of enjoyable
MS outing promise to attract a
IN large gathering of Endeavor-
W ers and their friends. The
crowd will start from G
street at 18th street at 5:13 O'Clock I'm the
afternoon in special cars and will carry
lunches, which will be eaten on the
grounds OF the National Park Seminary
Al Forest Glen. The meeting at = o'clo *
in the chapel will be opened with "A devo-
ttonai service conducted by Rev. NJ. G.
Jsaman. pastor of Chevy Chase Baptist
Church. One-minute reports from the
Silver Bay missionary conference and the
Pen Mar Christian Endeavor assembly
will be given by several Endeavorers, who
will also exhibit pictures taken on their
trips. f. NJ Bradley, the we'll known To-
cal temperance lecturer, will be heard In
a brief address on More Sunshine" A
duet by Miss Blanche Dew and w z.
Bra thawaite will be an attractive fea-
ture OF the program.
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Gunton-Temple Presbyterian.

AS result Of their recent study Of the
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the end Of the month. The remaindef
will decrease from week to week, 50 that
fifty human beings can maintain them
selves five years. II by that time no new
water is found. IL will be the end OF
humanity"
Targ. as water-discoverer years back.
would have certainly been spared among
the fifty. with Ere. his wife. But all
her children, would be among the perish
ing.
Targ revolted Mano. his brother-in-
law. refused to bulge.
Here I die. fearless and asreeably."
he said why fee to perish with you
miserably after few months priva-
tion?"
Targ resolved to save the two families.
He knew that there must be fifty years
food and several years water for so small
number remaining In the equatorial
deserts, whose. last Inhabitants had died
ahead of their hour. While he put r.
planetary In order. the women gathered
provisions and water for the trip. And
while the others were taking poison. they
made off In the blue oxygen OF dead
world
Dead? No. thought Targ. looking
proudly on his little ones. There was a
moment. in the night of ages. when tn.
earth held one man and one woman. So
now. a new humanity shall spring from
these dear children! 1 shall again dis
cover water!
Space forbids to tell their hopeful set
Ting in the equatorial oasis. They found
water for five years i'm the arcum reser-
voirs. There vas food for hundred
years. power for unlimited great works.
generators to make more. and subtle.
prodigious machines with which. in one
month. Targ dug ffty-feet trenches round
a stronghold of two spacious houses and
hlled them with the usual bismuth- com
pound. This was for extra safeguard
against the earth ravages Of the giant
Ferromagnetics. whom he called Ter
tiaries. All round the desert they had
ripped great crevices. drawing up iron
from dead cities.
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Prelate May Attend.

The Lord Bishop Of London. who is
to attend the Canadian church congress
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at Halifax in the early
autumn, may be among
the speakers at the
next national brother
hood convention, to
m e et in Nashville.
Tenn, in September.
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Nine. de stael asked Fichte to sum
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Special Corraspondcnce Of Tho Star
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The August meeting of the District
Christian Endeavor Union VIII be held at
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PARIS. July u, 1910.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-02-14

day. The boy had attended the sick in
the daytime, as well as patrolling bis
post at night. When he was found
asleep and placed in confinement, his
friends feared that be would be shot for
sleeping at his post, as the oifense had
occurred at critical time,
q went from our camp that was on
the lower Potomac and called on Presi-
dent Lincoln AS ! entered Nh. Lincoln
said You are troubled, my friend;
what i The matterY' | explained the
case and told Of the double duty the
boy had performed, Of his fine service
Tor one 50 young and then mentioned
The parents, who were waiting for his
return.
President Lincoln was much affected
BY my recital While I was explaining
the case, tears trickled down his cheeks
One thing that aided my plea was that
the matter had not become noised abroad
From what / learned. / am satisfied chat
the matter was never allowed 10 reach
the regular channels. Under the condi-
tons President Lincoln was able to act
without making decision that would
interfere WITH discipline"
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grip Of steel and bore her out to his
sleigh. She screamed aud struggled
but she had to 60 Jed Smith had
said that It would be an the better Isl
the plot il she screamed and strug-
gled More credit would be due him
for rescuing her
What neither Of The plotters had
counted on was that some one might
come driving along the highway at the
critical moment Some one did come.
He was man without romance in his
soul He was driving a fast horse te
a cutter. and when the masked man
swung the schoolma'am into his sleigh
and started of at gallop the stran-
ger followed on and cracked his whip
and shouted to let the girl know that
help was at hand. She heard him. and
SO did Jim and his horse. HI fact. The
horse ran away, ana inst as he reached
the point where the rescuer stood
waiting he SHE'D into drift and
things were upset Jed jumped for.
ward. but he had scarcely roared out
'Die. villainw when he was knocked
silly BY the stranger Then the strng-
Cling Jim caught it. The sehoolmaam
was pulled out Of the robes and blan.
kets and stood one side. and then her
rescuer went IN 10 have some fun with
abductor and rescuer.
He stood them on their heads IN the
drifts; he iammed them about: be wall
loped them up and down. and when
they shouted for mercy Be walloped
the harder Then, when tired ont. he
lifted the girl into his cutter and drove
her home. Il did not break up the
school; It simply broke up the romance
Of the thing When Farmer Smith
had got through using the CAD on the
battered led he threw It aside and
Snid.
You was after romance. and IN
give you nun Of Il. There's 200 bush.
els Of corn to be husked and sheled.
and MS going to be your work from
now on to next Fourth Of July Res
cuing a gall why, durn you. You don't
know nun to rescue an old cabbage
head!n