The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1912-08-01

sands OF miles apart, some on wires,
some through the air. They ride in i'm
mense coaches-many coaches strung
toeether-and as fast as the fastest
wind. Yet there is no horse to draw
them"
Surely these people must be gods"
mo; they are mortals. Lately they
have begun to fly through the air like
birds. l have looked up from a plain
in that country and seen man far
above the clouds soaring on two great
wings. Indeed. l have made fights
myself
1t was the credulity of the Roman
people that created their great network
Of mythology. A modern girl of, say,
the eighteenth century. living before
these wonders were even thought Of,
might have doubted Wetmore's state
ment. Not so this girl. She sank upon
her knees. clasped her hands and bent
her eyes to the floor.
20 Apollo" she said (Wetmore is a
handsome NAM. forgive me that l
have dared to look upon your celestial
face. If you have flown in the air like
bird you have done wonder that
no person has spoken of in these days
or since the sacred fire was committed
to the vestal virgins. Did you fly
from that strange land across the
ocean to the Pillars of HerculesY'
mo: came in ship far larger than
the greatest trireme-a ship moving
without oars or sails"
This seemed to affect the girl as even
more of marvel than flying in the air.
She bent her head clean down to the
floor.
20 Apollo" she said. trembling. "for
/ am sure you are he. fear you have
come to work disaster on this house"
II assure you | have not"
"Have you come to bring us good
fortune. to beat down those evil spirits
that would work us ill?"
Il would gladly favor you.'
''Then attack these monsters in the
mountain who are groaning under the
work of preparing to shake it as they
did decade ago, when they destroyed
our city"
Wetmore smiled. Then, advancing
he raised the girl. but she dared not
look in his face.
Il have no power over such forces.
l am not Apollo, nor Jupiter, nor Her,
cules. | am an ordinary man. one of
many men who have learned that these
phenomena. which to you are the acts
of gods. are mere forces of nature. We
have learned that the world is great
globe resting on nothing. whirling
around the sun once every year."
THAT cannot be. Atlas supports the
world. And. as for the sun. it rises in
the east and sets in the west. and none
night
What say know. have started
eastward from Atlantis. gone around
the great globe and come upon Atlantis
again from the west"
And yet you say you are not god.
across the waters. since between the
shores no land is to be seenw
I'VE poise a steel needle on a point,
so that it swings free. 1t is always
turned to the north
And what god points it-Neptune?"
It occurred to Wetmore that any at
tempt to explain to this one of peo-
pie who had a god for every force what
even scientists of the present advanced
age cannot explain would be futile.
And yet" he said to himself, even
with all our enlightenment. the source
of these forces-our one Colds no
more Ineligible to us than the many
gods of the ancients were to them"
Tell me-" said the girl. lowering her
eyes. who is your goddess Of lover"
1--WE have no such goddess"
The girl looked surprised. 'Nor
Cupid?'
mo Cupid"
whence, then, comes lOvew
Another point in which we heirs to
the past know no more than the an
GENTS
Love is sent by God" he replied.
with an uncertain tone.
but thought you said you have no
god for love?'
1.-THE difference between our one God
and your many gods is that each of
yours controlled a certain power or
emotion: our one God controls ALL He
can move US to love as powerfully as
if he had no other work. From heaven.
| believe at this moment. comes upon
me that which you believe follows
from prick of Cupid's arrow"
"For whomY'
'For you, fair maiden"
She stood as one in Q dream. Wet
more was curious to know how she