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Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1924-06-27
CHAPTER Nv.
rhe RattIe Of the poaaer.


Within the next three days series
Of phenomena occurred which left no
doubt as to the dangers which were
menacing the human race.
Before noon messages began to pour
in from all parts of the country and
from the fleet The admiral in COM
mand of the home squadron wired that
torpedo-boat destroyer had APP
preached him under a flag Of truce,
with the singular statement that the
ocean had receded all along the Baltic
littoral, leaving vast swamp of mud
dy sand, in which ships were embed
ded. The Zuyder Zee no longer exist
ed. A spur of land extended from the
dogger bank nearly to Ostend. He pro
posed temporary armistice.
BY evening reports were telegraphed
that an army Of the monsters had
landed upon the shores Of Lincolnshire
and Norfolk, had crossed the Wash,
which became first a swamp, then an
and was moving along the
river beds toward Cambridge, strip
ping the land of vegetation.
BY nightfalI all communication be
tween London and the eastern counties
had ceased. The telegraph poles were
washed out of the sodden ground. The
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Beard sounded another fork, and the
creatures began edging Ida toward the
recesses of the cave.
eff 1 sound the sacrificial note you
die" snorted MacBeard.
Ida. perfectly passive, waited. The
monsters guarded the entrance. She
was alone. Outside MacBeard paced
up and down beneath the sea in fury.
He had encountered a problem which
seemed insoluble.
As Ida waited, all at once a most
remarkable object broke upon her
gaze. Advancing through the midst of
the luminous, vague monsters outside
the entrance there came a perfectly
human figure, a man with a square
beard.
He passed through the monsters
without the slightest difficulty and en-
tered the cave. He was walking ex-
actly as a boy walks when he drives
a flock of geese or a herd of pigs; that
is to say, there was q straddle in his
step quite different from the rolling
gait of sailor, and he had his arms
extended. With his lips he made
kissing sound which resembled
"Shoop
And in front of him, retiring back
ward. Ida thought she saw phantom
woman's form. But it must have been
a delusion, because it was only by
straining her eyes that she could dis
Germ anything at all; and now and
again the figure seemed to vanish into
the air.
The man was Clouts. AS he passed
her, Ida called to him. Clouts jumped.
He looked at her with a comical ex-
preston of fear on his face.
"Cloutsl Where is Donald? Can
you get me out of here7 Take me to
him at oneei"
Clouts looked terrified.
Certainly, marm," he said. But
that isn't nobody. There's all sorts of
shapes and things here, but it isn't a
real person, marin. I'm telling you
this so you'll understand, marm."
He hastened past her, and, far ahead
of him, Ida discerned the shadowy |
shape Of the queen.
"Cloutsl Help mel You aren't go
ing to leave me3 cried Ida pitifully.
She heard Clouts' muttering tones
come back to her, and he was lost in
the hydrogen haze. She was astound-
ed at his abandonment. Hadn't he I'M
derstood7
To do the sailor justice, Clouts had 1
one of those minds which are open to
only single impression at a time.
Just then his mind ERs- onen TO the
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''You Must Stop This War at Once"
approach Of the herd was measured
by the haze.
Already poultry and domestic ami
mails were being devoured. There were
reports that children had been seized
from riverside houses. The DOCKS the
shores Of Essex and the Thames estu-
airy were abandoned. The fats were
a level stretch Of water, above which
the steeples of the churches stood out
as isolated landmarks.
Everywhere the war had been halted
by a short armistice The governments
of the civilized world devoted their
whole attention to the consideration
and solution of this new and stunning
problem.
In the meantime there had been a
good deal Of activity on Fair Island.
The tidal surge created by the depar-
ture Of the herd soon subsidized, break
ing into a choppy, turbulent sea. The
F55, tossed and battered as she was
by the waves nevertheless held tight
The locked rudder prevented her from
submerging.
Within the messroom the queen of
the swarm was housed securely.
She was almost invisible, and not
at all visible by daylight. A silent,
phantom figure, she created fear and
awe in each of them. They did not
know what her connection with the
swarm might be. They knew she had
not human intelligence.
From his position upon the highest
point of Fair island, MacBeard saw
the swarm vanish at sea. He saw
the F55 start in their wake, and threw
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"Nop shouted MacBeard. you'll
stay here untileyou learn to love me.
Why can't you love meY"
Ida's look was touched with pity.
She did not answer him.
MacBeard sounded his tuning fork,
and Immediately the monsters gath
cred about them. The hydrogen haze
rolled higher, disclosing the entire in
terror of the cave, and the idol. Mac
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"why have you brought me here|
asked Ida.
"Because-because I-er-I love
you" answered MacBeard.
Ida burst into ironical laughter. The
situation was so impossible that there
was room for no emotion but amuse-
ment. And in that laugh the professor
felt thousand arrows of jealousy
rend him.
Listen to mew he exclaimed pas
sionately. "You don't know who am
or what am trying to do. am going
to obliterate the earth, as it is known
to you. l command the Man of the
Future. The Man who is to come. The
new race of the sea, which is to sweep
away the puny monkey-man. And
want you to share my power with me-"
Ida laughed Historically. She could
not help herself. MacBeard glared at
her. He did not know what to do.
"You shall seel" he cried, beside
himself with anger. "You don't be-
lieve what tell you? I'll prove It,"
at doesn't make any difference, pro-
fessor. / am not a blackboard" an
swered Ida. "Will you kindly take me
hack to the place you brought me
fromT'
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CHAPTER IV-Paget proceeds to sea
on his submarine, the F-55. He encoun-
ters and sinks a German cruiser which
had jusf destroyed the steamer Beotia, on
which ida Kennedy, Pagets flancee, was
a passenger. Ida escapes from the Beota
In a small boat.
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CHAPTER VI-The F-55 is invaded by
the swarm and all on board devoured ex-
cept Ida, Paget, a midshipman named
Davies, and a seaman, Sam Clouts, whose
hobby is the playing of the mouth organ.
CHAPTER VII-MacBeard. guided by
Information contained in Masterman's pa
pers, sets out for the unknown creatures
abode, off the Shetland islands. He is a
man of high scientific attainments, though
embittered against the human race, which
he would willingly destroy. In the strange
creatures whom he is able to control
through instructions left by Masterman,
he thinks he sees an instrument fitted to
his insane desires.
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CHAPTER IX-The air in their diving
suits becoming exhausted Paget plans TO
escape the agony of suffocation by q
quicker death and removes his headpiece.
He discovers that there is pure air at
the bottom of the sea-
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CHAPTER vIII-Paget and his party
are stranded In the submarine on Fair
island which MacBeard had made his
headquarters. Attempting to escape, the
submarine, which had been damaged,
sinks, and the party, In diving suits. aban-
don her.
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CHAPTER V-Paget swiIns to the boat
and attempts to reach the submarine
His progress through the water is
strangely impeded and he discovers that
a horde of the creatures which Master
man had discovered had surrounded the
boat. They are invisible while alive. One
invades the boat and Paget kills 1t. At
death the creature becomes visible. Paget
and Ida are picked up by the submarine.
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CHAPIEH AI-FAB5L uISCUVCIb tIIttt
one of the monsters had entered with
them. a female. She appears to be in
love with Paget. Clouts and Paget sue
coed in putting her back into the sea.
CHAPTER xII-The monsters attempt
the destruction of the submarine. but only
succeed in floating it; Paget and the rest
MacBeard captures Ida, and Paget sees
hts duty is to reach England and warn
the world of its terrible danger from the
sea monsters He leaves In an airplane
which had been wrecked on the island
some time previously.
Evening star., 1924-05-25
First Public Telegram
Sent Eighty Years Ago

TABLET on the land office
~ building. formerly the post
~ Office, at 7th and, F streets,
marks the spot where, eighty
years ago, on May "a, 1874. there took
place an event of the most far-reach-
ing consequences to the whole coun-
try. On that day the first public tel
egraph message was sent over the
wires. on an experimental line be-
tween Washington and Baltimore.
Prof. Samuel F.. B. Morse and AL
fred Vail, the inventers of the tele-
graph, came to Washington, with
their instruments, and demonstrated
them before the congressional COM
mittee of commerce and. after several
years succeeded in obtaining an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for a large
scale experiment, which was to be
conducted under the direction of the
Secretary of the Treasury. The bill
was signed only a few minutes be-
fore the end of the session, Just
before midnight on March 5, 1s43,
long after Morse had given up all
hope that it could go through.
1t was Miss Annie G. Ellsworth,
daughter Of his friend, the commits
sioner of patents, who brought Morse
the joyful news that the appropria-
tion had been granted, and he then
and there promised that she should
send the first message. He kept his
promise, and it was she who, few
months later, chose the words, What
hath God wrought" which Morse, at
the demonstration on May "a, flashed
over the wires to Baltimore. In do
ing so he opened new-era in the
worlds history-the era of electrical
communication, which in a few years
has seen the growth of the telephone.
wireless-the linking up of the whole
world into almost instantaneous con-
tact.
Washington also has another close
connection with the telegraph. .Afor it
was joseph Henry, later secretary of
the Smithsonian Institution, who made
the early experiments in electro
magnetism on which the invention is
founded. Morse was not a scientist,
but well known artist, and it was
from a chance conversation on board
ship in 1892 that the idea came to
him of turning, to some practical pur-
pose the startling discoveries which
had been made in electrical science
Scientists had found that they could
send electrical flashes over long dis
tances. Morse conceived the idea of
using these flashes in some manner to
communicate messages, and the ia
miliar Morse code was the result.
At first the line from Washington to
Baltimore was laid underground, in a
deep trench made with a specially in
vented plow, but when it was nearly
finished, and, what was still more un-~
fortunate, when most of the 100000
appropriation had been spent, it was
found that this would not work. on
account of the great escape of cur
rent
Evening star., 1924-05-25
Cupid, Stage Manager

his ear that tabs might be kept dur
ing rehearsals and the performance.
There was no part in the pantomime
for her. as it had been modernized.
OF course, there was to be an assem-
bly, of women in scant attire-some-
thing like a chorus and something
like ballet-but Mrs. Van Tflbury
would not put on tights. She had
some of the angularities of Gothic
ruin.
AS Mrs. Van Tilbury had. init
mated, the newspapers prepared to
devour the affair. They assigned de-
scriptive writer's and f1ashlight and
snapshot men to assimilate it. One
paper instructed it's representative to
get all the atmosphere" possible.
Where society persons thus display
themselves" said the managing edi-
tor, every episode and incident out
side of the performance itself is fine
copy"
There was a rehearsal in the after
noon. After this rehearsal the per-
formers and fgurants made merry at
spread on the lawn.
Mrs. Van Tilbury had watched
things with the eyes of Argus all the
afternoon. And when she found
Mrs. Van Tasselle and her Harry
were not among the throng at the
tables she whispered Van Tasselle,
who had been Great ting much amuse-
ment in his costume as clown, that he
had better look them up.
Van Tasselle quietly left his
guests and searched for a time with
out success. In a remote part of
the spacious grounds, near a cottage,
he came upon a smiling photographer
who was adjusting his camera, SEEM
ingly after snapshot, as he was
hastily departing.
And then Van Tasselle discovered
on the other side, close in All en-
brace, his wife and Van Tilbury.
"I say, what's this?" he asked, as
Columbine and Harlequin disentan-
gled themselves and stood at atten-
tion.
Why" said Mrs. Van Tasselle. 1--WE
were just rehearsing a little interpo-
lation-a little surpise-for the panto-
mime."
But you were talking as / came
up. There are no lines in the panto-
mime"
And the incident really did not ap-
pear in the performance. But one
of the newspapers had an episodical
beat" 1t was picture Of columbine
and Harlequin as Van Tasselle found
them.
When two divorce cases, entitled
Evan Tasselle VS.. Van Tasselle" and
Wan Tilbury VS.. Van Tilbury," were
called on the calendar they went by
default. Columbine and Harlequin
were continuing their rehearsal
abroad.
tCW1dsAt 1aAA
Evening star., 1924-05-25

amusing said Mrs. Yah
Trompe. Il know it isn't
usual in a charity enter
tainment, but"
Why not?" asked Mrs. Van Til
bury I'm tired of the conventional
things"
We've had serious dramas and his
torical tableaux and all that" said
Mrs. Van kirke, land we ought to be
original. Why not pantomime?"
Mrs. Van Kirke was always surpris-
ing in suggestion.
would a pantomime be original?"
asked Mrs. Van Trompe.
why, it's old enough and rare
enough to be original replied Mrs.
Van Kirke.
And the newspapers would just
eat it up" suggested Mrs. Van Tflbury.
And that would help the cause i'm
mensely," said Mrs. Van Trompe, Ito
say nothing of personal mention"
illustrated with portraits of all of
US in costume and all that" put in
Mrs. Van kirke.
for Providing Bibs for Bibless Babies
should give a pantomime.
The great country place of the Van
Tasselles had always been at the call
of the society for these events, and
Mrs Van Tasselle grew newly happy
at the suggestion. Much was always
conceded to her. And as it happened
that she was handsome enough and
wanted the part, it was decided that
she should be Columbine. Mrs. Van
Tasselle was also expert in panto-
mime. She could express more biting
disapproval of a person she didn't
like by shrug than most women can
convey verbally.
At Mrs. Van Tasselle's suggestion
Harry Van Tilbury, Mrs, Van TIL
bury's husband, was to be Harlequin.
His wife objected at first. She saw in
this juxtaposition of personalities a
confirmation of her suspicion that her
lord and master and the handsome
Mrs. Van Tasselle were willing to
know each other better. 1t was whis-
pered that they were already we'll ac-
quainted. Harry was a handsome and
a gallant blade, while his wife was
no beauty. Money had also spelled
matrimony in her case. Her objec-
tion was ephemeral, though her sus-
picion survived, and Van Tilbury be-
came Harlequin to Mrs. Van Tas-
selle's Columbine.
But Mrs. Van Tilbury squared mat
ters by insisting that Van Tasselle
should be Clown, because he was $50
humorous" He was little shrimp.
Mrs. Van Tasselle had married his
money.
Mrs. Van Tilbury, this being set
tied, decided she would put a flea in
Evening star., 1924-05-25

Everything had to be changed. and
eventually the line was carried on
poles over the fifty miles. 1t was at
ward famous as the founder of
Cornell University, became connected
with the telegraph. having been
brought here by Representative Smith
to invent the special plow.
Smith had been chairman of the
committee of commerce that had made
the favorable recommendation TO Con-
gress which brought Morse his appro-
priation, and he had at once seen the
great possibilities in the idea. He
offered to take a financial interest in
the scheme. Morse accepted the offer,
but only on condition that he should
resign from office and promise never
to sit for reelection.
The line was continued expert
mentally for some months. and dur
ing this time the Democratic con-
vention met in Baltimore. There was
great excitement in Washington
when it was found that Morse was
aware of the doings of the conven-
tion almost as soon as they happen
ed, message being flashed to him by
Vail, who was at the other end of
the wire. From this time the news
Eapers began to see that they could
use the telegraph to great advantage.
but the idea was very slow in taking
root with the general public.
The telegraph Office was first open
ed for uublic business here in Wash
ingten on April /, 1S45, but was
patronized SO little that when Morse
offered to sell the invention to the
government for 100000. it was re-
fused by the Postmaster General on
the ground that he did not think the
telegraph could ever be made profita-
BILE.
AS a result the inventors, who,
fortunately, firmly believed in its
ultimate success, organized private
company, which was incorporated in
Maryland under the name of the
Magnetic Electric Telegraph Com
pany, with offices on the second floor
of Towers Printing Office, at 9Th
street and Louisiana avenue.
Business was very poor, but I'M
proved steadily, and plans went on
for further development. After a
long struggle, funds were raised to
build a line from New York to Phila-
delphia, which was opened in .1S46,
and later this was continued to Balti-
more, thus connecting Washington
and New York, messages being sent
at a charge of so cents for the first
ten words and cents for each ad-
ditional word.
New York was soon connected with
Albany. and New England followed
suit with line to Boston. A few
years later, in 1861, the first trans
continental line. was opened when
the lines from San Francisco and
New. York met at Salt Lake City.
The laying of the Atlantic cable in
1856 made contact with Europe,
which has never been broken.
Evening star., 1924-05-25
Modern PrirnitiVes


longed to know you better. Couldn't
you spend the next weekend with us
in Menlo"
Miss Farren stared at the lovely
face raised eagerly to hers.
Thanks" she said briefly. De-
lighted, if my aunt has nothing on"
| She was tall. thin girl, with a
mass of heavy black hair and oval
| light-blue eyes eyes whose long
black lashes gave them the effect of
still pools brooded over by sweeping
willows. She wore filmy black, and
her white skin was in dazzling con-
| trast to her hair and frock. She
clipped her words and her manner
was abrupt, but her voice was deep
and rather husky.
Heard a lot about you, too-from-
ah-Mrs. Carroll. All! There's MIR.
| Chester
She met him more than half way
Hoped you'd be here. Lead me to
a glass of water, will you? I'm per-
iShing." And she steered him into
the next room.
Marjory raised her eyebrows. She
was critical of manners
The luncheon was served at -four
round tables in the lofty dining room.
| Clara had placed Miss Farren at her
own table, bnt the guest of honor had
deliberately changed her seat to the
next, beside Morgan Chester.
Marjory was the life of her own
table. and on her right was Tom Bar
nard. who had been hopelessly in love
with her since her sixteenth birthday.
Like that Farren girl?" he asked
Marjory when he finally had her un-
divided attention. Il can't stand her.
She drips arrogance, and she hasn't
an atom of charm"
y Il shouldn't say that" said Mar
jory, smiling. shes about the most
beautiful person I ever saw, and she
certainly has vivacity. Morgan finds
her interesting. He's been tired out
lately, and now she's walked him up
or the champagne has"
Barnard looked at her sharply. But
Marjory's red mouth was smiling
roguishly.
"I believe you've fallen for her
yourself" she said
"Oh-you think that? Well-it's
rotten thing to do, but I'm going TO
tell you. Morgan has taken tea with
her at the Palace every day for two
weeks. The whole town is talking"
The pink color ebbed from Mar
jory's cheeks. "That-that-cannot
be possible. Morgan would have told
me. He knows l wouldn't mind in the
least if he took tea with a girl every
day in the month.
Hasn't he been coming home on
the late train"
''Yes-he-has-but YOU ought to
be ashamed of yourself to give him
away, Go and try to make trouble
somewhere else She leaned across
the table. What are you all so
hilarious abouto Toms been boring
me. and i missed it,
Tom relapsed into black and sulky
silence.
After luncheon the greater part of
the company rushed to the mah-j jons
tables, but Marjory noted that Nor.
gan and Miss Farren sauntered off in
the direction of the japanese garden.
Nevertheless, she had never played
better game.
During the drive to MEMO she chat-
tered of the heavenly time she had
had, taking no notice whatever of
Morgan'si nervous silence.
She mapped out her preliminary
tactics that night as she sat before
her dressing table, brushing her hair
and examining herself critically in
the glass. I'D never be looked at in
the same room with her. It's my wits
against beauty, novelty and the high
bred type of vamp."
Evening star., 1924-05-25

she said. "And you don't know Mar
jory. Leave it to her"
When Lydia Farren moved over to
Mrs. Hobson's Marjory teIephoned to
Mr.. Marlborough and invited him to
luncheon. He was an old bachelor,
fond of Morgan, his only living rela-
tive and his heir, and devoted to
Marjory and the baby.
Marjory gave him light and de-
lectable luncheon. and told her story
in the living room over the coffee.
Il want you to take it calmly"
said Marjory, land do what l ask you.
Just regard Morgan as a temporary
lunatic and help me run this affair"
We'll, what do you want me to do?
I'd like to kick him out"
What j want you-now-tO do is
to have a detective watch him and let
me know If he makes any plans to
leave California. Then I'll know
what to do. Then you'll do a good
part of it, I've told mother not to
say a word to father about it. He's
so peppery that he'd ruin everything"
We'll, count on me- said Mr.. Har-
borough. heartily. THE young ras-
cal-fool. / hope you'll give MIN
lesson he'll never forget
"Oh, he'll get his lesson said Mar
jory coolly.
Marjory continued 10 take the nurse
and the baby for the usual morning
drive, and visited the downtown
shops when necessary. When friends
called she talked serenely of the many
interests they had in common and in
vited them to play NAH jong.
1t was just seven weeks from that
first momentous interview that Nor
gan burst into her bedroom late one
night She was lying in "a nest of
pink pillows, reading. He looked
haggard and desperate.
"Marjory." he said tensely, Il give
you one more chance. Will you di-