The daily sentinel., 1913-06-23

Fxperiments toward an Enu- blliiohs
a of hits of magnetic dust were driven
from the planets bowels. churned
hEf ,-,rnd fermented and worked over. At
first she tried for trees, and got trees.
Then snails, clans. jellyfsh. Then
j brooding over her intent, she made the
iellyhsh climb up out of the sea and
~ nrostrate itself upon the sand. Then
she watched yearningly through morose
wears the light and the air beat down
,ss ,eIlyish and irrltate 1t; and she saw the
l.Ou grow into sores, and the sores grow into
! to breathe with and eyes to see with. After
hundred million jellyish had died in the proc
,hs slumbered and considered the process COM
After fourteen decillion. one thousand eight
he'd and seventy-six years had passed, she rested,
kruant planet from her constant, vast, and null
rOus stew and turmoil; for the End Of her EI-
nsuts had come. The numberess millions OF
.sAes and the superb march OF countless years
uroduced Leander Percy Johnson.
.rder enters here, bowing pathetically among
acting the idiot among girls. You have Leander
i name, as II It had been wrapped around him
hbel-Leander Percy Johnson. He was book
L the polnt Of mental numbness, Gatchested, and
mon clay. He was pasty and superficial and
less and he was going to big Eastern univer.
The reason he was going to a university was
use Hiram Jesse Johnson was man who had
starved all his life OF all the finer things-or
~, Of what he considered the finer things.
vas now ilty.fye years old, prematurely bent
gray, broken man, working on a stubborn, poor
farm outside the small town or Happydale. To
nan who really saw into Happydale. its name
ied Ike harsh laughter. To the man who really
into Happydale. its people seemed all to be,
chow, sick people To the man who really saw
these people. It seemed as If they took sixteenths
inch to be miles.
han Jesse Johnson on the other hand, thought
we're sxteenths of an inch. or even millionths
inch. So you see at once he had no business
IN Happydale He was too vague too mystical
be should have been bargaining in a nat,
lle voice with Henry Binns, the grocer, over
phee Of lettuce and radishes he had brought in
Afket' he was instead plucking his old gray
4hu roaring childlishly about the deep damna-
VI sending corrupt George H. Price back to the
senate
mean Tor my boy to have what couldn't get,
'nen'' said Hiram to the town circle in Bar.
drug store. He's going to go through Colum.
yes sf' Columbia!-if it takes every last cent
"a can dig up.
luCauoh'' went on the old man. Education
Ia' we all need. 1t brosdens our minds, gives
4''ne' makes us appreciate more about the
we I'VE in Instead OF just having five senses.
S GOT hye hundred senses, five thousand
ss hye million sensesl"
De' Most too many for Leander To parry
"''nout stumblin'. amt it?" asked sniffen.
- weakly to me, Leander does"
'Ol'l carry some OF # around with YOU. Doc
"I'uout any inconvenience" snapped John.
'lsH ne sottened. And so could l. visb
II wouldn't be here now, grubbinr awav
uaAy miserable farm in a little hideborrd
u, ~. -" 4aA"en' I'd be out helping do the big
.u,lt,, u''hhing O. the world. Maybe I'd
or - " inventions to increase human com.
tB,,. y an honest judge. giving the poor folks
ne 4l' OF something like that. But didn't
% Ia gentlemen. l didn't getlthe chance.
| bov -. Io'Hs the next best thing. I'm sending
lr,.a =, INTO the ranks of the worlds fighters
IA very best can afford to. don,t xart
kaj,s,v :. around Happydale and be the sourc.
sc.. y, MS iather that some are" Here sev.
, ss,ng ,r .'rcle set vindictively; but the old
b L.,,Sa. O ms dream. saw nothing. .I don't
I cou,,... slsy town boy all his life ,urn.
Sr.d .,,..- auu hying out a narrow.minded hard.
b ana .ce a,.sa here. grabbing every pennv IN
}, bp,,,. ',sas the magnificent spectacle az mi.
sn, bIr, Aen' set in between our two eterni.,a.
an b,r, % i've in the fire and hot bsa, =. ,h,nea
han .,l ~, % be man among man 'ninsS'
~ke him four years 70 ea,
r.p 4rs pa Doc sniGen finally asked 'u"Oi"'
He cO,,t' esrs OF ideal training. Four wars
rr ye,r, 'u ms hand through his srav heard
t.d to ~ for the first time his hr,,n ~
Computing ai S..at cost OF the enterprise and h.
bison s,s =, an inch are miles in Hsnnva,,. ~,
nairuv.m,ns- s minimizing way, called the town
.0u.s mem as penny.grabbers' '44pers, n He had
satls,. i,. misery to their fathers. Hicks Iar, ,
b: 'a'y' and unhappy. told his s wis law, law.
.soe, nd M. fool Johnson was around ,o.,,u S..
saeI IN got up and left the plaoan aa 'asnn siurs
70 be ,tu.s aovu' that Leander. is HEP u... %,
~ . tk tS,t. up abOut-a tootles. M mes $50. 90.
10. .' a. druggist. had 60,
he Johns Barker vengefulv ,no1uss maO worked in
va sivips .aer' .s name off tn. sos' l,s, rs Mrs.
sor." .,,a oud better let Ia,rs