• <<SW3̂ J24G4Z77&3:) r r; -V' synopsis. "Vanishing Fleet*," a story of "what «n?*ht have happened," opens in Wuh- ioffton with the United Siatea and Japan on the verj?e of war. Guy Hilller, sec retary of the British embassy, and Miss Norma Roberts, chief aide of Inventor Roberts, are introduced aa lovers. Japan •dealarea war and takes the Philippines. <3uy Holier starts for England. Norma Roberts with military officers ».lso leaves "Washington on mysterious expedition for the Florida coaat. Hawaii is captured t>y the Japs. A11 ports are closed. Tokyo learns of missing Japanese Meet and whole world becomes convinced that TJnited States has some powerful war •agency. England decides to send a fleet to American waters as a Canadian pro tection against what the British suppose Is a terrible submarine flotilla. Hilller is also sent to Canada to attempt to force his way through American lines with a message. British fleet departs amid mis givings of English. Fleet mysteriously •disappears. Hiiiier makes a failure of ef fort to deliver message to the president. War between Great Britain and Germany is threatened. The kaiser disappears. King Edward of England is confronted by Admiral Bevins of the United States, and upon promising to present the missing British admiral, the monarch agrees to accompany Bevins on tour, which the lat ter says will uncover the agent of war and end all conflicts. The Dreadnaught, biggest of England's warships, is dis covered at an impassable point in the Thames, much to th6 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 fric tion when electrified and is to be applied to vessels to Increase sr»eedto over BO miles an hour. CHAPTER ?X1 V.---Continued. The secretary of the navy, obeying a euggestlon 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 and •confidence, that 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 back in the corner of 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. Testerday she had looked forward to confiding the story of their great success to Guy Wilier; for in the preceding month, nvhen 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 thie surprise, and now, by the rigid embargo of si lence thrust upon her, her dream was dissipated. To her the production of the radioactive metal had meant a goal; but now that It was reached and she was anxious to satisfy a heart hunger, she had been given another 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. Not even the knowledge that she was sacrificing herself on the altar of duty to country, whose protection and wel fare were burdens that she must share, palliated the bitterness 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 ings of those who conspired for the national good; but it was a season of terrific activity, and February was yet young when there sailed s^-ay from New York harbor one night a gunboat, a collier and a small transport, whose destinations were unknown, and which slipped their moorings in Silence and passed down the bay with scarcely a «ound to announce their departure. On board the gunboat were men ac customed to unquestioning obedience, and on the transport was a little army ©f skilled mechanics and engineers who had been called from their usual occupation by imperative orders and requested to tell none but their fami 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 loaded almost beyond her carrying ca pacity, and even on her decks were piled lumber and great sheets of cor rugated iron, bearing evidence of full holds below. And all this cargo had the history of rushed work behind it. Strange pieces of machinery, sections of engines, powerful dynamos, and un heard of apparatus were stowed away with cases of chemicals, and the mines of the north, the west and the south had contributed crude metals or par tially smelted ores to the assortment. Driven by expert minds and masters of executive work, an army of men in dffferent walks of life had given their ingenuity and effort tdward something of which they knew not, and then the result of their labors had poured out upon a wharf, been swallowed up by the cavernous holds of a collier, and were now being carried out into the broad reaches of the Atlantic, with 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 United States this attracted no atten tion; but the swarthy fishermen of the tropics took warning and no longer steered their smacks to the forbidden waters, shrugging their shoulders in Impotent wrath. ~ Rumor had it that the transport was carrying mechanics and laborers ILLUSTRATED y? TWtm Great Cases of Machinery Swung Up from the Holds. to the Philippines, where a new dry* dock was to be constructed, and the collier was generally supposed by men of the waterfront to be laden with materials for this work. And so, de spite the momentous significance of the sailing of these three ships, the world remained in ignorance, paid little heed, or forgot. ** Those voyagers who were in the secret looked forward with eagerness to the task before them, realising to the full that on them depended much. And of these 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 ment that her father was compelled to go south for a time, and had insisted on her accompanying him. For how long? Ah, that could be but conjec ture; perhaps for two or three months. Was he ill? Nq, not exactly; but he was going away and needed her. Yes, she would write occasionally from Mi ami, Fla.; but not often, because her charge would demand her time. And so, answering and evading, filled with yearning, and yet debarred from giv ing confidence, she had bidden him good-by and come to this: Sailing away in the night with all the furtive- ness and mystery which enshrouded pirate ships of old bent on plunder and rapine. The days of the voyage were much alike; filled with work. Down in the cabins the engineers and machinists drew hasty plans of buildings, then 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 islands which marked their entry to the scene of toil. When the pulsations of the screw stopped and the ship ceased her vibrations, they were still at their several tasks, and were dis 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 Baws filled the afr 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, vith 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 ifios- 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 no1 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 protectlngly over floors whereon machinery was already being placed, and wondered at the accom plishment. The sun went down, losing Itself among the keyB and waters of the farther west, before a bugle gave a quick .imperative summons and the toilers dropped their tools for the evening meal. Many of the officers, some of them grimy and stained with 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 their fellow diners, disappeared. Norma was almost the last to leavo the cabin and appear on deck, which to her sur prise was vacant. Even as she glanced along its deserted length there came a whistle from the shore. 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 faint light of day, and from the swamps of the island came the cries of night fowl, the whir and " chirruping noise of insect life, and the monotonous croaking of frogs. Swinging here and there in erratic circles, like fairies of the Jun 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 bulljt strange mansions in their solitudes. ' It was not this, however, that chained her attention. High up over this mush&om city where all had been silent and darkening when she went belofr, 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 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. "Ah, good evening, Miss Roberts," he said, suddenly spying her. "Look ing for your father, who went ashore awhile ago, I 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 off and sleeves rolled up, and labor ers in overalls Intent on setting a huge blast furnace; and in the very heart of'thls activity, besmirched with dirt, his hat discarded and his shirt thrown open, she found her father. Not even he with all his weight o* years could resist this terrific call of energy. She stood and watched for a few minutes while he, the masted 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, walking toward her and looking fondly into her eyes. She besought him to 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 aB 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' coat 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 toil of youth. They boarded the boat and sought their cabins; 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 gath ering strength for its overcast; and, waiting, wondering, and expectant, the world was unaware. (TO BE CONTINUED.) w Happy Despite Their Poverty Resident* of 8unny Naples Seem Never to Repine. It Js estimated that a quarter of a million people in Naples live from hand to mouth, and there are hundreds of children who subsist out of the gar bage boxes, and who sleep in churches and on doorsteps. •The taxes in Italy to provide war ships and to keep the nation on a war footing with the other powers are really stupendous. There is a tax on everything, says the Delineator--grain in the field, fruit on the vine, old bot tles. Fuel and foodstuffs are very dear--only labor Is cheap. For the very poor, meat Is a luxury unheard of and even macaroni is too dear to be in dulged in often. There are any num ber of perambulating street kitchens, where various kinds of soup, cakes and fruits are sold in portions costing one cent. And yet these people seem very happy. Bands of musicians are always playing In the streets; the guitar and the mandolin are to be heard everywhere--on the boats. In the hotels--and the stranger is lulled to sleep by a soft serenade under his balcony. * The story teller thrives In Naples, as there are so many idlers there. He collects a little crowd around him and proceeds in the moat dramatic way, gesticulating wildly and working his face into the most excruciating ex pressions, to relate stories of ad venture or other events, much to the edification of his hearers, who, to show their appreciation, are often be^ trayed into giving a sou which might have been better spent for bread or polepta. The public letter writer is another street dignitary of Importance, and in* great demand, especially with timid and buxom maids of all work, who have themselves neglected to learn the art of writing. Of such the public let ter writer holds all the secrets of their loves and is often their adviser as well as amanuensis. Discoveries in the Air. The growth of ballooning has led to many curious investigations touch ing the atmosphere and Its Inhab itants. By 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 yards, and 19,000 yards to 20,000 yards Is not an uncommon height. One of the astonishing thingB said to have re sulted is the discovery at a height of 14,000 yards of an isothermal tone' in which, contrary to experience tip to that height, temperature does not di minish with recession trtm tb» «•!* Sign Painter (to Dauber, A. N. A.) Hello, bo! It's great to meet up wid one of de p*trfesh out here in da 4 wilds! - COVERED WITH HIVES. '#/••• -f££Ac£> ST BANK ROBBERS FIGHT CITIZENS BOLD BANDITS IN RAID AT BALD KNOB, ARK. Part of Band Shoot Up Town While Cracksmen Make Vain y Attempt. Bald Knob, Ark.--While some of their number rode about the streets discharging their weapons and hold ing the populace in terror, others of a band of robbers worked for more than an hour Friday in an unsuccess ful effort to dynamite their way into the vaults of the Bank of Bald Knob. The first explosion was heard shortly before three o'clock. As citizens emerged from their houses they were greeted by the bullets of the outposts and quickly ran to shelter while the robbers held undisputed sway, keep* ing up an almost continuous fire and taking chance shots at any who came within range. In the meanwhile those at work In the bank building contin ued to explode dynamite but, as It proved, with little success other than to partially wreck the building as well as an adjoining structure. Before beginning operations the rob bers. destroyed telephone communica tion out of Bald Knob but overlooked a railroad telegraph wire. A message to Augusta over this wire brought a posse of citizens from that place who joined several other posses hastily formed here and immediately started in pursuit of the band. Investigation showed that although the outer doors of the bank vault was blown away, the Inner doors were not opened and the bank officials state the robbers did not secure any money. Both bank buildings were dynamited. LOUISVFLLE 8TATION BURNS. Fire Causes Loss of $400,000 to the Railroads. Louisville, Ky. -- By the destruc tion Thursday night at a loss of $400,- 000 of the Union depot, the local ter minal for five of the country's chief railroads, Louisville will probably benefit by a new Union station. This was decided by the Commercial club, half aa nour after the building at Sev enth street and the Ohio river was a mass of smoking embers and debris. Crowed wires 1q the attic of the big structure which was erected by the Illinois Central in 1890 are charged with tjie responsibility for the blaze. Chief Clerk W. O. ifoach to Superin tendent Egan of the Illinois Central fell through a skylight in an effort to escape and was badly injured. All other occupants escaped unhurt. Minnesota Woman Killed in Mexico. Mexico City. -- Mrs. E. A. Ever ett of Waseca, Minn., was killed Friday night In a collision between a wild engine and the regular passenger train bound fiom Vera Cruz to Mexico City. ' Germany Issues Naval Statement. Berlin.--In view of the assertions made In the British house of com mons that Germany in the spring of 1912 would have 17 warships, all of the big gun type, the navy department authorizes the Statement that in the autumn of 1912 Germany will have 13 sitch vessels. Charity Conference in June. Buffalo. N. Y.--Announcement has been made that the thirty-sixth na tional conference of charities and cor rection will be field here June 9-1®. Pays $2,750 for Killing Man. Birmingham, Ala. -- A consent verdict for |2,7&0 against Gov. Comer of Alabama for the killing of J. D. Biles by the governor's automo bile was awarded. The governor's chauffeur was en route to the depot to meet the governor when the accident happened. Papke Whipped by Flytm. Los Angeles, Cal. -- Jim Flynn waa given the decision over Bill Papke at the and of a tan-round fight Friday night. Coo & } «. tv*. Had A ffeRPECTLY 1 OOR-Kme- Tim* j COOPERS ARE FOUND QUILTY. Each Is Given 20 Years by the Car- mack Murder Jury. Nashville, Tenn. -- Guilty of mur der in the second degree, with 20 years' imprisonment as the penalty, was the verdict of the jury Saturday In the case against Col. Duncan B. Coop er and his son, Robin Cooper, charged with the murder of former United States Senator E. W. Carmack. The jury Friday acquitted John B. Sharp, a co-defendant. Immediately the defense moved to set aside the verdict because of the Terdict of disa greement and asked the court to de> clare It a mistrial. Judge Hart Bald he would listen to arguments on this motion later. ? He then fixed the defendants' bonds at $25,000 each, which amount was ac ceptable to both sides and both were released. The verdict, cming as were released. The verdict, coming as it did upon the heels of Foreman Burk's declaration "that we are hopelessly tied up as to the Coopers," was a de cided surprise. Child a Mass of Dreadful Sore, Itch- ing. Irritating Humor for 2 Months '--tittle 8offerer in Terrible Plight. Disease Cured by Cuticura. "My six year old daughter had tiWr dreadful disease called hives for two months. She became affected by play ing with children who had it By tscratching, she caused large * sores I which were irritating. Her body mas V a complete sore but it was worse em her arms and back. We employed a physician who left medicine hut it did ^ not help her and I tried several reme- ! dies but without avail. Seeing the Cuticura Remedies advertised, I thought I would try them. I gave her a hot bath dally with Cuticura Soap and anointed her body with Cuticura Ointment. The first treatment re lieved the Itching and In a short time 1 the disease disappeared. Mrs. George t L. Fridhoff, Warren, Mich., June 30 and July 13, 1908." Fotttw Drag aChem. Corp.,. Sole Pnp, BceMfc Lots Easier. ' ^ i-' Bobby rushed out to meet his father * ; the other night as he was returning J \ " | from work and said, breathlessly: ' • "Oh, papa, I won't have to study * ** | J nearly so hard at school any more.'* " Now, Bobby had been doing far ji} from well, and his father was pleased 4 to hear of the new interest, hoping ^ tor better things. . * yh,.: "How's that, my son?" said ha. 1 . |v "Oh, I got put back a daaa,"--Jffc» 4 4 :|C FIVE KILLED BY -WINDY SHOT.** All the Victims of Accident at Evens* ville Are Recovered. Evansville, Ind.--What Is known as a "windy shot" caused an explosion in the Sunnyside mine Saturday after noon, and caused the death of five men. The dead are Joseph Schenk, William Schnute, Samuel Coomes, Nelson Willingham, Sr., and Nelson Wllllngham, Jr. The injured are Fred Clark,. DavJA Brink. Jesse Craig, George Clausheidt, Charles Parrlsh, Joe Lyons and Alex. Jarvis. „ It Is believed the explosion resulted ft-ora an extra large shot fired by Petit. Ho was the only man burned. The othfrs were killed or Injured by the force of the explosion and the gases. All the bodies have been recovered. Twenty-nine men were in the mine at the time and the work of rescue was accompanied by extreme danger to. tlio rescuing party. WHITE PLAGUE KILL8 RED MEN. Government Officers Prepare to T«pah Indians Value of Sanitation. Washington.--As the buffalo van ished from the great western plains, so is the red man gradually disappear ing through the ravages of that slow but Insidious disease of tuberculosis. To save the Indian race from ex» tinctlon by this disease and yet lead It into the ways of the white man, is the task which officials of the bureau of Indian affairs have undertaken. Officials are determined to teach the Indian cleanliness of sanitation, personal cleanliness and other pre ventive measures with the view of gradually cutting down the yearly enormous death roll. Angry Women Invade Iowa Senate. Des Moines, la. -- Hundreds of women joined as many men Thurs day afternoon and stormed the senate chamber, in which a hearing was be ing granted by a committee on constl- | tutional amendments to adherents of j prohibition. I Speeches weie made violently de pouncing recent unfavorable action by the senate. Rev. D. Everett Smith of Indianola led the demonstration. The committee announced it will grant a hearing to the liquor interests ne^t Tuesday. -j Housekeeper. 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