Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-26
CHAPTER xxxIv (Continucd)

.,1ryuo ever would have thought. after
wv ALL" murmured he, that we'd find
..opa intact as we did? A miracle-nothing
,nss, with our printing plant already at
.nrk under the cliff, all the art, science
ia literature of the aEes--all that's worth
sreserving--can be still kept for mankind.
faut II hadn't happened to find a library
- hooks I'm a New York bonded warehouse
sil cased up for transportation. the work of
crsseryation would have been forever i'm.
possible!'
He turned back to his history, and be-
core writing again idly thumbed over few
oares of his voluminous manuscript He
read.
MARCH 1, A. d. 1880. The astronomical
observatory on Round Top Hill, one mile
south of Newport Heights, was finished to-
6ay and the last of the apparatus from
Can,bridge. Lick and other ruins was in
stalled I find my data for reckoning time
are unreliable, and have therefore assumed
mis- date arbitrarily and readjusted the
calendar accordingly
"Our Daily Messenger, circulating
through the entire community and educating
the people both in English and in scientific
thought will soon popularize the new date.
"Just as I have substituted the metric
system for the old-time chaotic hodge-podge
We once used, so 1 shall substitute English
Gears Already the younger generation
hardly understands the native Merucaan
speech. 1t will eventually become n dead,
historically interesting language, like all
other former tongues. The catastrophe has
rendered possible, as nothing else could
have DONE the realization of universal
speech, labor-unit exchange values in place
Of money and a political and economic
democracy unhampered by ideas of selfish,
personal GAIN
He turned few pages, his face glowing
with enthusiasm.
April 1.-THE first ten-yearly census
vas completed today Even with the aid
Of Frumuos and Zangamon, I have been
at work on this nearly two months, for
now our outlying farms. villages and set
Elements have pushed away fifteen or
twenty miles from the original focus at
the Cliffs, or Clifton, as the capital is be-
coming generally known.
Population, 5O72, including n high birth
nate and an exceptionally low mortality.
Our one greatest need is large families.
With the whole world to reconquer, we
must have men.
Area now under cultivation, under graz
Ing and under forests being actively ex-
plotted, 42,076 acres. Domestic animals.
26,011. Horses are already being replaced
by motors, save for pleasure-ridng Power
plants and manufacturing establishments
thirty-two. Aerial fleet, seventeen of the
large biplanes, eight of the swifter mono>
planes for scout work. One shpyard at
Mobile.
Total roads, macadamized and other,
S32 miles. Airmotors and sunmotor in use
or under construction. forty-one; mines
being worked, thirteen; schools. twenty
seven, including the technical schools at
Intervale, under my personal instruction.
Military force, zero--praise be Likewise
jsils saloons penitentiaries, galows, hos
pitals, vagrants, prostitutes, politicians,
diseases, beggars, charities-ail zero, now
and forever r.!
Allan turned to the unfinished end of the
manuscript, poised his pen a moment and
then begun writing once more where he
had left off when called by Beatrice:
THE great monument in memory of the
patriarch, first of all our people to perish
In the upper world, Was finished on June
49, Memorial exercises will be held next
month
ION June 22 the new satellite, which
passes darkly among the stars every forty
eight hours, was named Discus.
"Its distance is S246 miles: dimensions,
720 miles by 432; weight, six and three
quarter billion TONS
ION July I discovered unmistakable
traces either of habitations of their ruins
on the new and till now unobserved face of
the moon, hidden In the old days. This