The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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' Vanishing Kleets," ;i story of "what
might have huppened," opens in Wash-
l:mti'H with tin- United States and Japan
>ii the of war. Guy Hillh'r, • <■
retnry of tii«* British eiiibassy. and Miss
Xonna ttohrrts, chief aide « f Inventor
Hohertt*. nre introduced as lov *rs Japan
• lerhir's war and takes the Philippines.
<;11y miller starts for Kngland. Norma
Roberts with military olllc ers also leaves
Washington on myatt-rlnus • •.xpeditlon for
tin- Florida coast Hawaii is captur
hy the Japs. All ports are clom
1 -arris of missing Japanese fleet and
whole w«>rld becomes convinced that
Cnited States has some powerful war
HKcn< \ Kngland decides t< send ii fleet
to American \vat« rs mm a Oinadlan pro
i.-ction Huainst what tli« British suppose
is it terrible submarine flotilla. Miller is
iI'M rent to Canada to attempt to force
his way through American lines with a
message. British lleet departs amid mln-
ulvings of KngllBh. I'Meet m.vMterioimly
disappears. Hilliei makes a failure of ef-
fort to deliv. i nieHsai,'!' to the president.
War h"tween (Jreat Britain ami Onrsnany
is threatened. The kaiser disappears.
i-Cinu Edward of ICngland Is ronfronted by
Admiral Bevins of t -■ I'nite.l Stabs, and
upon promising to present the missing
British admiral, the monarch agrees to
accompany Kevins on tour, which the lat-
ter says will uti'over the agent of war
and end all conflicts. The Dr sulnaught.
higuest of England's warships. Is dis-
covered at an impassable point in the
Thinner, much to the mystery of the
kingdom. The story goes back to a time
many months before the war breaks out,
and Inventor Roberts visits the president
and cabinet, telling of and exhibiting a
metal production. This overcomes iric-
tion .when electrified and 1* to t « applied
to vessels to Increase speedtoovor f>0 miles
an hour.
CHAPTER XIV.—-Continued.
The secretary of the navy, obeying a
suggestion from the chair, read off a
long list of figures, explaining them as
he went, and concluding with an unqual-
ified indorsement of the plan. So in-
fectious was his blunt enthusiasm ami
confidence, thai those who at first had
hesitated at the irregularity of the
procedure found themselves won over,
and bound with complete unanimity
into a coterie which was to assume
responsibility for a war. And thus
was the issue accepted.
The early hours of the morning
were upon them as they dispersed, but
Norma, resting bask in the corner ol
the cab which conveyed her home-
ward, did not share the elation of her
father, who was already building work-
shops, conducting new experiments
and equipping a navy. Yesterday she
had looked forward to confiding the
story of their great success to Guy
Hillier; for in the preceding month.
when she and her father had been
trembling on the very edge of a great
discovery in unknown fields, she had
given no intimation of their work or
their prospects, planning this surprise.! steered their smacks to the forbidden
and now, by the rigid embargo of si waters, shrugging their shoulders in
lence thrust upon her, her dream was j impotent wrath.
dissipated. To her the production of | Humor had it that the transport
the radioactive metal bad meant a \ s carrying mechanics and laborers
goal; but now that it was reached and to the Philippines, where a new dry-
she was anxious to satisfy a heart; d )( k was to be constructed, and the
hunger, she bad been given another ( liier was generally supposed by
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Great Cases of Machinery Swung Up from the Holds.
Atlantic, with
reaches of thf
destination unknown.
A general order had been Issued
and made public, that, inasmuch as
the poaching of Cuban fishermen on
American grounds round lower Flor-
ida and the keys demanded attention,
the gunboat Penobscot had been de-
tailed to patrol those waters. In the
Vlilted States tills attracted no atten-
tion: but the swarthy fishermen of
the tropics took warning and no longer
task, and was to undergo more silence
and repression and another siege of
work in a world of figures, of test
tubes and retorts, a slave to the lamp
of science and her father's success.
Mot even the knowledge that she was i heed, or forgot.
sacrificing herself on the altar of duty j Thos(, voyagers who were in the
i-rret looked forward with eagerness
men of the waterfront to be laden with
materials for til's work. And so, de-
■ i It? the momentous significance of the
sailing of these three ships, the world
remained in Ignorance, paid little
to country, whose protection and wel-
fare were burdens that she must
share, palliated the bltterm ss of hold-
ing love aloof. And in this light the
triumphs of invention seemed hollow
and the night filled with dreariness. '
There were no more regular meet- \
iugs of those who conspired for the
national good: but It was a season of
terrific activity, and February was j et
young when there sailed away from
New York harbor one night a gunboat,
a collier and a small transport, whose
destinations wen unknown, and which
slipped their moorings In silence and
passed down the bay with scarcely a
sound to announce their departure
On hoard the gunboat were men ac-
customed to unquestioning obedience, ;
and on the transport was a little army :
of skilled mechanics and engineers
who had been called from their usual 1
occupation by imperative orders and [
requested to tell none but their fa mi- ,
lies that they might be absent for sev-
eral months. There was not a man
aboard any of the craft who had not
taken a pledge of absolute secrecy. |
The collier, black and massive, was j
loaded almost beyond her carrying ch-
1 a city, and even on her decks were j
piled lumber and great sheets of cor-
rugated iron, bearing evidence of full j
Imlds below. And all this cargo had
e history of rushed work behind it.
Strange pieces of machinery, sections;
of engin< - powerful dynamos, and tin i
heard of apparatus were stowed awaj '
with cases of chemicals, and the miner I
of the north, the west and the south 1
lu d contributed crude metals or par
i-ally smelted ores to the assortment
Dilven by expert minds and masters
r,l executive work, an army of men in
different walks of life had given their
ingenuity and effort toward something
cf which thev knew not, and then the
to the task before them, realizing to
the full that on them depended much.
And of those was Norma, who leaned
over the stern rail of the Penobscot
as it dropped, down the harbor,
watched the lights of the city grow
dim in the distance, saw the great,
silent statue of liberty rear itself
against the sky. and felt the first free
swell lift and sway the deck beneath
her feet. Her departure had not been
pleasant.
There on the land behind was the
man whom she seemed doomed for-
ever to hold at arm's length. She had
parted from him with the announce-
i :it that her fathei was compelled to
go south for a time, and had Insisted
turbed when the anchor chains went
rumbling through their hawser pipes.
Like an army of ants, drilled and
acclimated, they swarmed out upon
the land, the sappers clearing the way,
the carpenters donning their aprons
and grasping their tools while piles of
lumber, kegs of bolts and nails, and
mountains of iron sheathing accumu-
lated upon the beach. And then, as
the ringing of a multitude of ham-
mers and the steady biting song of the
saws filled the air with sounds of in-
dustry, great cases of machinery
swung up from the holds, floated diz-
zily to the bulwarks, and went slowly
down to the lighters. A city of tents
sprang up as by necromancy, with gut-
ters to carry off the rains, and sewers
to prevent disease. Camp surgeons
accustomed to sanitation superin-
tended these outposts, paying as much
attention to the spreading of a mos-
quito net to keep away the dread
stygomia, as to tautening the canvas
roofs and clearing the grounds.
All available means of a resource-
ful nation had been gathered together
as an expert driver seizes the reins
of a four-in-hand and guides his horses
along a known road to a given desti-
nation, and all with the regularity
which would distinguish the work had
it been the most unimportant action
of every day industry.
Norma, having no part in this task
of construction, wandered idly up and
down the decks or round the clearing
throughout the day; and as she
watched she saw the birth of a minia-
ture city, saw the heaps of material
on the beach dissipated, saw tall steel
smoke stacks poke their summits up-
ward supported by spider-like cables,
saw shining, corrugated roofs spread
themselves protectingly over floors
whereon machinery was already being
placed, and wondered at the accom-
gle carrying lighted lanterns, went the
fireflies on aimless journeyings, not a
few but many thousands of them, as
if in a wild dance of curiosity, looking
through the night to learn what man-
ner of things these were that had
come upon them so suddenly, ripped
away their forests and built strange
mansions in their solitudes.
It was not this, however, that
chained her attention. High up over
this mushroom city where all had been
silent and darkening when she went
below, now gleamed myriad lights
strung as by a genii of the lamp while
others rested from their toil. White,
flaring streaks of brilliance thrust
spearlike rays into the gloom, illumin-
ating below them the creation of a
day. From the distance came the
steady hum of steam driven dynamos,
telling with monotonous insistence
that there would be no cessation until
the last spike was driven, the last ma-
chine set and the last belting hung.
Into this spot of the night began to
come black figures answering the call
of the siren. On a sudden, as if by
I preconcerted signal, the echoes again
awoke to the clang of hammers on
steel and the hum of voices in com-
mand. Like weird pygmies doomed to
twist their thews in never-ending ef-
fort, she saw them resume their un-
completed task, exerting themselves
unceasingly for its accomplishment.
A launch which had come alongside
on some errand was sputtering spas-
modically at the foot of the ladder
below as if impatient, to be off. She
boarded It. and in a few minutes a
smart young naval officer stepped into
the stern, gave a curt order, and they
raced away toward the shore.
"All, good evening, Miss Roberts,"
he said, suddenly spying her. "Look-
ing for your father, who went ashore
awhile ago, 1 presume? I'm going
right in his direction, and will be glad
to guide you." He seemed too busy
for further conversation, and almost
'before the boat had come to a stop
sprang to the shingle and offered his
hand.
Through steadily working groups of
men, past unfinished buildings, and
over lighted floors where machinists
wrought with levers and wrenches,
they went to the far side of the camp.
Here were officers with coats cast
oft and sleeves rolled up, and labor-
! ers in overalls intent on setting a
huge blast furnace; and in the very
j heart of this activity, besmirched with
dirt, his hat discarded and his shirt
; thrown open, she found her father,
i Not even he with all his weight of
j years could resist this terrific call of
I energy. She stood and watched for a
| few minutes while he, the master
i spirit of the group, directed the work.
' It seemed to have passed its critical
point, and after some' final instruc-
tions to the engineer in charge he
straightened up and looked round.
"Hello, here's the assistant," he said
IS THE SOUL f
IMMORTAL I
By REV. A. C. DIXON, D. D.,
Pa*tor of the Chicago Ave. I Moody's) II
Church, Chicago. .fk
Without any
fine - spun defini-
tions we shall con-
sider the soul as
meaning that part
of us which
thinks, renum-
bers, reasons, re-
joices, suffers, ap-
proves the right
and condemns the
wrong.
The immortality
of the soul is sug-
gested by nature.
We plant a seed
in the springtime
and in autumn we reap the same kind
of seed. The thing that continues in
the seed is the invisible vital force.
The particles may be different, but the
life Is the same. The reappearance of
this life in bed and leaf and flower at
least suggests that the life mental,
moral and spiritual In us may continue
after death.
The immortality of the soul is taught
by universal consciousness. The rude
savage believes in a future state. The
Indian buries with his comrade the
blanket, the bow and arrow, believing
that he will need these tilings in the
happy hunting grounds of the future.
Even modern infidelity does not deny
it. When the champion blasphemer of
America stood over the corpse of his
brother he spoke of the star of hope
which the soul sees in the night. The
heart Is sometimes wiser than the
head.
Suggested by nature, taught by uni-
versal consciousness, the immortality
of the soul is confirmed by observa-
tion. There are cases on record where
page after page of foreign languages,
long forgotten, have been repeated by
men on beds of sickness. A friend told
n:e that, when he was thrown from his
horse and almost killed, the panorama
of his past life came before him, im-
pressions that had faded from memory
while he was physically strong revived
during the time of weakness.
A Reasonable Hope.
So imagination is sometimes most
brilliant when the body Is weakest, and
I have known at least two or three
men whose reason was as vigorous just
a moment before they died as it ever
was in their days of physical strength.
If you have been in Mammoth cave
and stood over the River Styx you will
remember that it disappears under the
cavern walls. Up to the very point of
disappearance the current is swift. Is
there a man on earth foolish enough
to suppose that there Is no river after
the swift current has disappeared?
Does ho not believe, with a conviction
that amounts to certainty, that the
river, though hidden, continues to flow
on? And when up to the point of dy-
ing we find memory, imagination, rea-
son, love and conscience as strong, if
not stronger than ever before, Is there
not a presumption which amounts to a
conviction of certainty that these fac-
ulties of the soul will continue to live
after the body dies?
Established by Revelation.
The immortality of the soul, sug-
gested by nature, taught by universal
"onsciousness and confirmed by obser-
vation. is finally established by revela-
tion. The words "immortal" and "im-
mortality" occur six times in the llible.
They are two words in the Greek, one
of which means "Incorruptible" and
the other "deathless." The word mean-
ing "incorruptible" is applied to God
himself in 1 Timothy 1:17 and is so
walking toward her and looking fondly j translated by the revisers. In Romans
into her eyes. She besought hint to i 2:7 are. the words: 'To them who by
1:1 her accompanying hint. For how
ong? Ah, that could be but conjec j plishment.
me; perhaps for two or three months | The sun went down
losing itself
the
among the keys and waters
farther west, before a bugle gave a
quick imperative summons and the
tollers dropped their tools for the I
evening meal. Many of the officers, I
Was ho ill? No, not exactly; but he
was going away and needed her. Yes,
■ lie would write occasionally from Ml-1
'unl, F!a.; but not often, because her!
charge would demand her time. And (
n, answering and evading, filled with j some of them grimy and stained with
yearning, and yet debarred from giv-
ing confidence, she had bidden him
■.nod-by and come to this: Sailing
away in the night with all the furtive-
ness and mystery which enshrouded
I irate ships of old bent on plunder
and rapine.
The days of the voyage were much
rest, and her appeals were seconded
by those of the officers who feared
for the physical strength of this man
on whom so much depended, and who
would have guarded him as a precious
jewel of untold worth. He protested
at first, and then, like one waking from
a dream and suddenly conscious of a
great weariness, made no objection
when the rear admiral, who now
looked like a workman, put his hat
upon his head and tendered him his
eoat. He permitted them to throw it
over his shoulders, and finally, with a
look of infinite satisfaction at the
growing structure before him, took
his daughter's arm and tramped away.
He was an old man again, yielding
the tribute of age to the toll of youth.
They boarded the boat and sought
their cai*"is: but even as they retired
there came to them through the open
portholes, like a lullaby, the sounds
of unremitting labor intermingled with
the lap of waves on the coral beach.
The first creative step toward a na-
tional victory and supremacy had been
taken in a day, even while the war
cloud across western seas was gatli
ering strength for its overcast; and.
waiting, wondering, and expectant, the
world was unaware.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
with work Down In the
alike;
cabins the engineers and machinists j along its deserted length tin r
diew banty plans of buildings, then whistle from the shor
marked spots where machines were to
have floor space, drew diagrams for
transmission of power, and consulted
charts showing the depths of water
round their prospective shipyard.
They had not even time to watch the
devious course in and out among the
inlands which marked their entry to
work, their linen no longer immacu-
late, and their hair unkempt, -came
aboard the gunboat for dinner They
ate hurriedly like men in the field, and
one by one, with scant apology to I
their fellow diners, disappeared. Norma Discoveries in the Air.
was almost the last to leave the cabin The growth of ballooning has led
and appear on deck, which to her sin to many curious investigations touch-
prise was vacant. Even as she glanced ing the atmosphere and Its inhab
lite a j itants. Hy the use of anchored bal
| loons with self-registering Instruments
some of the experiments of deep-sea
sounding have been repeated aloft.
At Strasburg sounding balloons have
been sent to a height of nearly 26,000
Darkness had descended abruptly
and piled Its blackness over the Is-
lands and the seas of the tropics. The
palm trees and shrubbery out to the
west were silhouetted against the last I yarcjs, and 19,000 yards to 20,000 yards
faint light of day, and from the i is not an uncommon height. One of
swamps of the island came the the astonishing things said to have re-
cries of night fowl, the whir and I suited is the discovery at a height of
lesult of their labors bad poured out j the scene of toll. When the pulsations j chirruping noise of Insect life,! 14,000 yards of an isothermal zone In
upon a wharf, been swallowed up by ; ()f the screw stopped and the ship I and the monotonous croaking of which, contrary to experience up to
the cavernous holds of a collier, and j ceased her vibrations, they were still I frogs. Swinging here and there In ! that height, temperature does not dl-
were now being carried out into thejat their several tasks, and were cliu j erratic circles, like fairies of the jun-jnilnlsh with recession from the earth.
patient continuance in well doing seek
for glory and honor and immortality,
eternal life." The revision correctly
renders it "incorruption," which we
are to seek diligently. In 2 Timothy
1:10 we are told that Christ "hath
brought life and Incorruption to light
through the gospel." He is the one in
corruptible being. The word which
means deathlessness occurs in 1 Tim-
othy ti: 10 and refers to the Lord Jesus,
"who only hath Immortality dwelling
In light which no man can approach
unto." Link this with Genesis l:2fi.
"Let us make man in our image after
our likeness," and John 1:1 and 3, "The
Word was God" and "all things were
made by him," and it Is plain that man
wa.s created immortal. God who only
hath immortality created man in that
image and likeness. Sin did not de-
stroy the immortality which Ood im-
parted in creation.
A Distinction.
The difference between immortality
and eternal life should be kept clearlv
in mind. Immortality means everlast-
ing existence, but eternal life is not
everlasting existence. Dead things ex-
ist. 1 can imagine a stone existing a
million years as dead then as now.
Corpses exist. Men dead In trespasses
and sins on this side the grave exist,
and they will exist after death. One
does not begin really to live untl he
has accepted Christ, but he exists. Let
us accept the definition of eternal life
which the I.ord Jesus himself gave,
und this will clear away all misunder-
standing. Turn to John 17:3: "This is
life eternal that they might know thee,
the only true God, and Jesus Christ
whom thou hast sent." ''ternal life is
knowing God through .!■ is Christ. To
know God is to live; to refuse to know
God is to continue to exist In a state
of death.
To Enjoy
the fuil confidence of the V ell-Infcrmed
of the World and the Commendation of
the most eminent physicians it was essen-
tial that the component parts of Syrup
of Pigs and Elixir of Senna should lie
known to and approved by them; there-
fore, the California l-"ig Syrup Co. pub-
lishes a full statement with every packa e.
The perfect purity and uniformity of pro-
duct, which they demand in a laxative
remedy of an ethical cliaracter, are assured
by the Company's original method of man-
ufacture known to the Company only.
The figs of California are used in the
production of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
Senna to promote the pleasant taste, but
the medicinal principles an- obtained from
plants known to act most lieneficially.
To get its beneficial effects always buy
the genuine—manufactured by the Cali-
fornia Fig Syrup Co. only, and for sae
by all leading druggists.
Directed toward the enjoyment o'
the senses, the strong will may be a
demon, and the intellect merely its de-
based slave; but directed toward good
the strong will Is king, and the inte1
lect is then the minister of man's high-
est well-being.
Don't It Jar You?
To have a cough that you can't
leave off—oven when you go to i> 'd?
Put it away for good by using Sim-
mons'Cough Syrup. It heals inflamma-
tion of the throat and lungs—gives
you rest and peaceful sleep.
His Pleasant Visit.
"Why are you whipping that child
so?" asked a man of a German who
was belaboring a boy of ten.
"That's none of your business," re-
plied the German. "Besides, I have
a right to whip him. He is my sis-
ter's child, who is here for his pleas-
ure."
Catarrh and Headache
Mrs. Z. E. Goforth, 2119 Holly Street,
Kansas City, writes: "After using a
sample bottle and two 25c bottles of
Hunt's Lightning Oil, 1 am almost,
well of Catarrh. It stops my head-
aches. It is the best medioine I ever
saw, and I just can't keep bouse with-
out It." She is right.
Looking Forward.
Mr. Wiggins, being in a frivolous
mood, was giving a burlesque imita-
tion of palmistry—pretending to
read his wife's fortune In her palm.
Six-year-old Ruth was listening with
Intense seriousness, but neither of
them was noticing her.
"And, finally," he concluded, after
the usual recitals about a dark man, a
light man, a Journey, and a large for
tune, "you will live to a great age."
"Thank God!" broke in Ruth, clap-
ping hor hands ecstatically. "Then my
children will have a grandmother!"
Come Get Your Medicine.
If that little bit of three-cornered,
half-jointed, pin-headed squirt with a
big automobile and a size three head
on his miserable, slanting shoulders,
who turned the corner of Ferry and
Main streets on two wheels the other
ofternoon, and nearly sent three pedes
trians into Kingdom Come, will call
at this office we'll tear his scrawny
soul to pieces and liek him to a "fraz-
zle" after the most approved Roose
veltlan methods. He knows who we
mean.—Buffalo News.
Enforced Economy.
A friend of Pat's was caught In a
shower near his cottage and asked
shelter from the elements. Pat opened
the door. One of the first things the
friend saw was rain coming steadily
through a hole in the roof.
"Pat, boy," said he, "for why don't
ye fix tli' hole in th' roof?"
"The hole in the roof, is it?" asked
Pat, spearing for an excuse. "Oh, yis.
I would, ye know, but whin th' rain
is comln' in 1 can't fix it, an' whiu it
don't rain it don't need fixin'."
Man fails to make his place good in
the world unless be adds something
to the common wealth—Emerson
NO MEDICINE
But a Change of Food Gave Relief.
Many persons are learning that
drugs are not the thing to rebuild
worn out nerves, but proper food Is
required.
There is a certain element in the
cereals, wheat, barley, etc., which is
grown there by nature for food to brain
and nerve tissue. This Is the phos-
phate of potash, of which Grape-Nuts
food contains a large proportion.
In making this food all the food ele-
ments in the two cereals, wheat and
barley, are retaV.ed. That is why so
many heretofore nervous and run down
people find In Grape-Nuts a true nerve
and brain food.
"I can say that Grape-Nuts food has
done much for me as a nerve renew-
er," writes a Wis. bride.
"A few years ago, before my mar-
riage, I was a bookkeeper in a large
firm. I became so nervous toward the
end of each week that It seemed I
must give up my position, which I
could not afford to do.
' Mother purchased some Grape-Nuts
and we found it not only delicious but.
I noticed from day to day that I was
Improving until I finally realized I was
not nervous any more.
"I have recommended It to friends
as a brain and nerve food, never hav-
ing found its equal. I owe much to
Grape-Nuts as it saved me from a
nervous collapse, and enabled me to
retain my position."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Well-
ville," In pkgs, "There's a Reason."
Ever rcn«l tlie above letter? A new
one iiptH'iirN from time to time. Tliey
nre genuine, true, rind full of liuinun
Interest.
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