The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-08-08
"AfterY ou,Sn
BY r. TOWNSEND SMITH
Copyright. 1910 by American Press
Association.

While sauntering leisurely along
thoroughfare. smoking. largely for the
purpose Of killing time. was accosted
by a gentlemaniy. well dressed man
who dotfed his hat before speaking to
me.
7 beg pardon, SIR" he said. ''but
could you spare me little Of your
timer
For what purpose. STRIP
THAT Is not easy to explain on the
street II you will step inside l VIII
show you rather than tell you"
Inside whereT
fright here"
He pointed to an open door. and l
could see a staircase. The building
seemed to be unused.
There are people who seem to have
a power to make other people obey
them, not by force. not always by in
sistence. In this case the man was so
gentlemanly In bis request that I did
not like TO refuse him. At any rate,
before l realized what / was doing
had gone to the upper floor OF an unoc-
rupied building with person who had
accosted me on the street and asked
me 70 go with him. for what purpose
he had not explained. This seems to
me now absurd on the face Of 1t. and
at the time knew that 1 should do
no such thing. but couldn't help It.
He took me into a room on the sec
ond floor. In fits center was what
looked to me 70 be hot air furnace.
only it was neither round nor square,
but oblong. He closed the door be-
hind US. and heard a click. | didn't
like II, for It sounded as though It
came from a lock that closed auto
matically. l was about to turn and
get out Of the place. but my pride held
me. and l waited to be informed fur
Their as 10 this strange proceeding.
The gentleman led me TO corner Of
the room rallied of apparently FOR an
Office. where there were chairs, and In
vited me to be seated.
do you see that ovenY' he said
'eWell. that has cost me great deal
Of labor. Perhaps you think II is a
crematory. but It is not II is an oven
for baking bread a hundred loaves
can be baked at once and In three min
utes. That's 1000 loaves an hour and
BY working day and night three reIiefs
we have 2S.000 loaves a day. Six work
ing days give us les 900 loaves a week.
Fifty-two weeks produce $4,000
loaves year.
80 much for what my oven win do.
Now for my object 1t Is TO feed the
world. You see. my single oven Is not
large. Suppose there are ten of them
in this building alone. That gives
e7.360.000 loaves year. only about
100000 miles less than the distance
Of the earth from the sun"
Since could see no relationship be-
tween loaves Of bread and the earth's
distance from the sun began to feel
q bit uncertain about the gentleman's
upper story. So said to him. rising:
sYou'u have to excuse me. sir. II is
not possible for me to remain any
longer"
aBut you have not examined my in
vention. Besides. told you wanted
you for purpose"
''what purposeT
.Come: will show ron"
He led me to the oven. He seemed
so harmless that / followed him. He
threw open the door. displaying a num-
Der Of iron shelves: / was somewhat
relieved that there was no heat In the
oven.
s'My arrangement for heat Is by
chemical process There are many sub
stances that produce heat in combining
chemically. why should we burn coal?
turn this cock and my substances run
together. In a short time | shall have
nv oven quite hot enough to DO my
baking"
II wouldn't turn It on II ! were
vou.,' remarked, ''since you have no
bread ready for baking"
II have something else. MY desire
Is TO bake a human being"
This was getting warm, as the chill
dren say when hunting for things IN
games. And, az the strange gentleman
looked at me, indicating that ! was