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I want to draw in the garden this time"
"Now what does that mean?" de-
manded his aunt. "Do you take your
scenes at long distance and draw them
in here?"
Brainard hesitated an instant, then
laughed. We'll, I may as well allow
YOU, that detail ALSO" he replied.
Though I'm betraying more OF my Sc
crets than should. A vibration IN the
, ether, properly speaking, has no ENDS: IL
simply vibrates everywhere, spreading
like ripples on pool after the wen
| known pebble But conceive OF a v1bra-
tion established with one end in your
garden and the other at my condenser.
Whatever responds to that vibration at
| the garden end creates itself anew at
| this end. I don't have to condense the
air on the spot where my original event
| TRANSFERRED; condense at this end while
! the air here is agitated by the vibration
that transmits that event here!"
"Help" gasped Carol.
| Don't be foolish" said Radley
Think q moment. Anything you ge
over the radio takes at least an in
| finitesimal fraction of time for it:
| transmission from the source. I SIM
DIV lengthen the period of time between
event and reproduction and add visible
ity and scent to sound. That's a!
simply as I can state It,"
"Simple!"
! "But how do you know what vibra-
| ton to use for any given event vol
want to get?"
II don't-Nll shove my vibrations
out into the ether and feel round fol
| It. as you might feel for iron filing:
with a magnet in a sand heap"
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(copwight. 1928, by Public Ledger

A red blaze-and they looked into
the room of open window and cut
screen. In the stiffness here in the
downtown studio the white papers on
that uptown library table huttered with
cracking distinctneSs. The odor OF
stale cigars exhaled last night on an
ash tray in her home drifted out to
PHYLLIS, today'S abomination to her
noStrils on the cool night breeze here
in this mornings midst! Then stir
, caught her eye. A mana man In q
derby hat and brown suit-was bend
ing over bowl of glass from which
he had lifted linen covering, and was
gaping at something there!
"Oh, it's you in here, too, Is 1t,
Honer?" said Brainard, apostrophizing
him. Look Van," Radley went on
quickly; hes tried to open the bowl!
and has pulled the cap that allowed the
scene to evaporate!"
The man by the bowl dropped its
linen cover over it and drew back. In
his face amazement, tinged with fear,
was written. He looked hastily about
his eyes fastened on a small leather bag
on the table He caught at 1t, opened
it, weighed in his hand one of Brain
ards bombs.
But sound from outside the nel0 OF
vision broke in. The slam of door!
The man by the table dropped the bomb
into the bag and Sprang for the window.
In a single leap he bounded from the
floor and over the sill and was gone.
And sound, scent and scene melted
away into dead nothingness!
Talk about unity!" said Brainard as
the white light came on again.
Phyllis awoke to a sense of complete
conviction If this which she had wit
messed here were possible, then the
half Joking speculations of last nights
dinner conversation were prophecies
if not already realities. She looked back
upon her skepticism, feeling that it was
that which now seemed unbelievable.
No matter how staggering the prospect
of looking into f1eSh-and-blood history
with the vision of an eyewitness, every
faculty within her proclaimed now that
she had seen again what she had lived
through last night in her own home
and more! The real events brought
back to her Senses-or her senses turned
back upon them-real as the hand she
clenched, the breath she drew
But Radley's voice broke in upon her.
He was talking into the transmitter of
a radiophone. YES" he was saying, in
matter of-fact tone, "Set your vibrator
to 9:l2 last night and move your con-
denSing point to the porch itself, so
that you can face away from the house.
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st should think you'd have to mar
row 1t down some. You can't just poke
your vibrations out, can you,. and be
sure you're within a Thousand years
of Alfred the Great, say, or Ivan the
Terrible?" 1t was John, and he ended
with laugh. He rose from his chair
and crossed to the switchboard.
Brainard closed its cover quietly.
Forgive me, old chap" he said. But
have to keep some things under my
own hands"
"Of course" returned John, I'M
affronted and walking back promptly
| toward his chair.
But look here. Radley," said Mr.
Norman; IT can see the consequences
spreading out from this device of yours
also like the we'll known ripple you just
mentioned
Lots of EN-" smiled Brainard.
Think of how absorbed an audience
| is going to be in liquid eventsi LiquiC
life! I'm free to say the prospect blinds
nv mental vision! Think of how peo-
pie will flock to see your shows-they
will mob you when the truth gets out
And then think of showing them scene
you have condensed out of history with
out knowing yourself exactly what Il
is! Think for an instant of the fearful
possibilities"
| But I won't show them anything
I haven't already seen myself"
| "Oh-you are to be your own censorP
exclaimed Aunt Relief.
| IT certainly am-till I get some o.
my events indexed."
Miss Brainard's face fell. "Oh" she
said. II was just beginning to think
I was going to like your your
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The verv expression on Phyllis own
| countenance was distinct to the girl
| as her memories of the emotions that
had caused it. It startled her. Then
shame and contrition seized her. Hav-
| ing looked at it, she looked at nothing
else; IN its questioning incredulity, its
misconceptions skepticiSm, its re-
sentful pride was contained such an in
suit for the man at whom 1t was di-
rected-the man whose strong Shoul-
ders and fine head stood dark in silhou-
| cite nearest the glaSS-such insult as
she had never dreamed she could Of
fer to human beings, far less to the
| man she loved!
No wonder Radley Brainard had re-
Sented her attitude! Was thiS-was
this the appearance she presented to
his eyes? Appearances! Was this their
adequacy to the causes that coined
them? If womanS own face, caught
in reflection unawares, gave back to
her such a counterfeit of what she had
felt, what was the currency her unwit-
ting heart dealt to others eyes?
But a scream rose sharp, piercing,
within the house-whence no sound had
issued before. The group within that
lighted room leaped into action. Her
mother-upon her feet! Phyllis herself
up ana pointing! a little SunDurSI OF
glittering cracks radiating from a hole
in the pane almost opposite his eyes!
Then his quick jump to the side-and
lowered shade! Darkness!
How narrow the escape had been!
How could she have let that fact be
eclipsed by anything else? And yet
even as she thought of this, the mar
vel of this reproduction of last nights
scenes swept away the very consider
alton of it,
by George!" said Brainard from the
switchboard. Il missed him!-Just as
he luckily missed me. And he must
have had a silencer on his gun-there
was no sound of shot in the garden.
I set my condensation point too near
the porch"
Light famed up in the white room
again-and one more poignant impress
sion was printed on Phyllis Norman'S
life-like an "etheric record"
But Radley had opened the closet in
which he stored his bombs. He turned
with another in his hand-little blued
steel globule of enormous potentialities!
And Phyllis found space in her mind
for wonder whether or not it was cold
to the touch
But he slipped it into its niche
and flung his switches.
Here's the library" he announced,
as one might have shown mere
Photographic print.
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"I'll make you the censor, then, Aunt
Rel" laughed Brainard. Suppose I
start you off with q little inside stuff
from the Spanish Inquisitionl Let you
see how much of it we can release in
the neighborhood theaters!"
They will mob you, indeed! said
Van Wrinkle. "You are going to in
troduce to the world something that
will be worse than new habit forming
drug. Once they taste of it they'll cry
for it-or die for it! I'm afraid of it
all over again, as I was at first!'
A momentary realization that the
man showed constant Inconsistencies
in memory arrested Phyllis attention
But she was ignorant of laws, that
might operate in his condition, OF
whether any such laws were known
Then she lost the thought of the man
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himself In what he had said. She had
not intended to speak. but she found
herself forced by sort of prophetic
impulse.
You are offering us life, Radley,"
she said. ut Is life lived as we our
selves have lived it, or as others have
lived it-actually. You're going to let
us live it again without-without &C
tually participating in it.
"Or-participate in it without liv-
ing it! II don't believe I want to
live that way-vicariouslyi"
You'll be. lonesome, Phyl," he told
her casually. But I'll tell you now
that I've already decided what to name
my device, as you call it. I shall call
it, The Vicarion!"
CONTINUED in Tomorrow's StarO
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16

In the year 1885 Radley Brainard demon
etrates to some friends his invention where
by 1t is possible to project past events ex-
his sweetheart, Phyllis Norman; her ia
ther,. mother and brother, John; John
Relief. While they are looking at famous
dinner given. for motion picture star WIG e
had been drowned a week before, ana
RadIey explains the scenes he shows are
released from liquid air contained in
bombs" a ragged. gaunt man, staggers IN
the studio He cannot remember who ne
is, but calls Phyllis by. her name. Radle,y
names the STRANGER Van Wi n1,;i: Wh NE
Invention in the Norman home some one
fires at him through. window. He says
he believes he was shot at by c[lni ma
been captured through information supplied
by the invention. Brainard then SHOWS a
scene out of Van wrinkles lost hte-the man
wounded, being placed on railroad TRACK
Icontin,,ed from YeSterdaY's Star)
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Cosmopolitan
presents this dazzling group
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or brilliant stories by
famous authors zee
A. W. MELLON, Secretary OF the Treasury
gives in FIVE minutes priceless advice to
any young man.
SIRARTHUR CONANDOYLE, creatorof Sher-
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most thrilling stories you have ever read.
90. MCINTYRE laments thepassing Of the
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SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS charming char
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Connie, in ''The fragrant Years."
HELEN ROWLAND proves that women have
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Wish I Were Man."
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Murder" etos tells of gruesome murder
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AMELIA EARHART answers the question
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BLAsCO IBANEZ wrote unknown Lands"
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CLUYAsWIILIAMs will delight you with his
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IRvINS. COBB, the American prince of story
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Which does?
SHIRLEY WARDE tells US about Joan and
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WILLIAM MacHARC, in ''Why Smart Men
Write Silly Letters" reveals why men feel
foolish when their love notes are read to
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REX BEACHs "Son of the Gods" is fasci-
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RUPERTHUGHES discloses what really goes
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SIR PHILIP GIBBS "The Lover of Her
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PC. WREN. who wrote "Beau Geste" and
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CAPTAIN JOHN W. THOMSON, Jr, knows
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E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM will intrigue you
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THE EARL OF BlRKENHEAD takes start
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EDGAR LEE MASTERS, who wrote Spoon
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EUGENE MANLOvE RHODES, one of the two
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ROYAL BROWN delightfully."- narrates the
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FORREST WILSON relates the amusing ro-
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Interestingly told in ''What Is Whitew
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Continued in Tomorrow's Starr
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TITLE wonder that commonplace
things, like breaking and enter,
ing and attempts to kill should
momentarily pale into insigniti-
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INSTALLNENT X.

Continued from Yesterdays Starr
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Agricultural Notes
Heavy Receipts Force
Butter Prices Down
Good Demand for High Quality
Eggs-Poultry Shipments Are
Increasing

Actual receipts Of butter in Chi
cago, New York, Boston and Phil
adelphia from Monday to Friday
last week were slightly lighter than
the same period for the week pre-
vious. At this time, current con-
sumption is fair, but production is
above these requirement. The sur
plus is being taken care of by
buying of speculative trade and for
storage requirements. Eastern but
ter markets developed an easier
tendency during the last half of the
week and quotations have declined
slightly.
Chicago market on 80 Score
Standards today is 421a cents. New
, York 90 Score Extras are 43A to
43h cents.
Production of fresh eggs is fall
ing off, and the volume being mar
keted in the large producing sec
tions of the Central West is light
err. Supply is slightly ahead of a
year ago. With high temperatures
prevailing in the East, consump-
ton has been directly affected and
in some cases stocks are being
cleaned up with difficulty.
! Chicago market today on Firsts
is 3O1a to liz cents, while New
York Firsts are 1924 to 80 3-4
cents.
| Volume of live poultry being
marketed throughout the Central
West is increasing in an orderly
way. The proportion of springs is
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of such proportions as to affect
terminal operations and effective
ly impair that system. Farmers,
farm papers and farm organiza-
tons have, with good reason, pro-
tested against direct buying. They
have urger the livestock industry
not rest upon sound principles of
marketing. The difficulty is In Sc
curing results. AS long as packers
secure sufficient supplies they
worry little about condemnation.
to shun this system because it does
Sincere farmers attend protest
meetings, adopt resolutions point
ing out the dangers of direct buy
ing and feel that generally speak
ing direct buying is bad for the in
dustry. Then they sell their pigs
to the direct buyer because they
feel that their pigs make little diff
ference in the market. AS a result
we have direct buying with it's dan
gers.
Because the direct marketing sys-
tenn canot exist without patronage
and because no one excepting the
producer himself can be held re-
sponsible for that patronage, it fol-
lows that the shipper can decide
what marketing methods are to be
used for the industry.
BY insisting that the marketing
system be fundamently sound he
saves himself good deal of loss,
both present and future. By US
ing fundamentally sound market
ing system he assures himself that
he receives fair treatment and am
pie service. The rewards for right
marketing are obtained on every
head of livestock sold.
The maintenance of the ter
minal market is of the utmost inn
portance to the industry. The prin-
ciples of this system furnish the
foundation for the able selling ser
vice available. Together they guar
antee that when the little pig goes
to market his true value comes
home.
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and then wheat, the yield was in
creased to 25.7 bushels. But where
the cropping system called for al
falfa for four years first, followed
by one year of corn and then two
seasons of wheat, the yield jumped
to 31.2 bushels of corn to the acre.
Other Kansas College experiments
show that alfalfa in the rotation
has a marked influence on the
yield and protein content of wheat,
which further emphasize the val
ue of having alfalfa in the rotation
wherever possible
The reason alfalfa tends to in
crease the yield of the crops that
follow it, college authorities point
out, is largely because it has deep
roots and like all legumes is able
to secure nitrogen from the air
Its deep roots enable it to pene.
trate the subsoil and secure food
at greater depths. Some of this
plant food is left near the surface
by the decaying alfalfa roots where
it later becomes available to corn
wheat and other crops The TO
tation of other crops with alfalfa
also aids in the control of weeds
! insects and plant diseases.
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son locality point to an excellent
crop of small grain this year; bet
ter than in most parts of the coun-
try. The corn crop is not as yet
an assured success. It needs rain
soon to guarantee a good yield.
Corn suffered considerably during
the July hot spell.
Winter wheat threshed from scat
tered small fields indicate that the
yield may run as high as 80 and 40
bushels per acre. Oats, from first
reports, is yielding from so to IS
bushels; rye is quite uneven but
average yields of about 30 bushels
and barley is running around 40
bushels per acre.
A field of winter wheat on the
Gust Adam farm north of town
operated by Albert Eggert, yielded
40 bushels an acre of high grade
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
Bigger Corn Yield
Follows Alfalfa
Gain of IL Bushels to the Acre by
Including Alfalfa in
Crop Rotation

Inclusion of Alfalfa in the cropp-
ing system as means of boosting
the yield of corn is suggested by
the Blue Valley Creamery Institute
to farmers now planning their
spring planting. There no longer
can be any doubt but that the Yield
of corn can be considerably increas-
ed by planting it in rotation with
alfalfa.
The latest evidence on the value
of alfalfain maintaining yields of
other crops comes from the Kansas
Agricultural experiment Station,
which has been carrying on exper-
mental tests along this line over
a period of fourteen years. These
tests show that where corn was
grown continuously, the average
yield per acre was only 20 bushels
Where the cropping system called
for corn the first year, then corn
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08

steadily increasing. With lighter
volume of fowl available, markets
have been about steady and there
is fairly good demand existing for
fancy quality springs. Ordinary or
inferior quality stock is being mar
keted at suitable differentials under
the top grades.
Chicago live poultry market to-
day is quoted as follows: Fowl,
leghorns and light weights "a cents,
heavy colored stock %, springs,
leghorns "a, light weight colored
stock 26, heavy 20, old ROSTERS 81
cents.-Produce Review, Swift &
Co., Chicago.
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Threshing Reports All Point to
High Yields From Small Grain
Reports Of early threshing oper-
atoms of farmers in the Hutchin-
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08

Miss Clarissa Sundae, of Winona,
and Miss Olson, of Osakis, instruc-
tors in the local public schools last
year, left for the East last Friday
in company with the Misses Ellen
and Jennie Hedin.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08
WAGONS MUST HAVE LIGHT

A highway bulletin calls atten-s
ton to the amendment to the traf-
fic law adopted this year requir-
ing horse drawn vehicles using the
highways at night to have either a
lighted lamp or reflector. The
new state patrolmen are cautioning
persons who have failed to comply
with this law, but the bulletin
points out that if you drive
wagon without a light or reflector,
it will be lot worse to have a
speeding car hit you than to have
a patrolman pull up along side you.
In collisions between motor and
horse drawn vehicles, the latter US
ually get the worst of it and the
law was intended largely for their
protection.
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08

grain. Around Heatwole the win
ter wheat is running about 81
bushels according to the threshing
returns on the Andrea Olesen farm
On the William Hanke place in
Lynn township IS bushels of spring
wheat to the acre was threshed.
Wheat is generally quite clean
this year and is running about 62
pounds to the bushel. Rye is UNI
even, with good kernels and stands
in some places, and not so good
in ers.-Hutchinson Leader
The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1929-08-08

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Eighty acres of machin-
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