Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1930, Page 44

THE EVENING STORY One of World-Famous Works of Literature Full Speed Ahead! BY JULES VERNE. Verne. 1828-1905, was & Prench | "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. *Tour of the World in Eighty Days, “The Mysterious Island,” etc.) { The train had stopped in front of & red signal which blocked the way. The engineer and conductor, having got out, discussed quite excitedly with a signal man, whom the station master at Medi- | cine Bow, the next station, had sent in advance of the train. Some of the pas- ngess approached and took part in Be dincussion, among them Col. Proc- tor, with his loud voice and imperious| gestures. 3 ‘No, there is no means of passing” | said the signal man. ‘“The bridge at| Medicine Bow is shaky and will not bear the weight of the train.” It was & suspension bridge over rap- | 4ds, about a mile from the place where | the train had stopped. According to the signal man, it threatened to fall, several of the wires having snapped, | and it was impossible to risk its p.s-; sage. He did not exaggerate in any way, then, in asserting that they could not pass the bridge. “And cannot the river be crossed in & boat?” asked the colonel. “Impossible. The creek is swollen | with the rains. It is & torrent, and we | will be compelled to make a detour of | 10 miles to the north to find a ford.” ‘The colonel launched a volley of oaths, blaming the company and the conductor. The disappointment was general among the passengers, who saw | themselves obliged to foot it 15 miles | scross the plain covered with snow. | There was a hubbub, exclamations, loud and deep, of dismay. Suddenly the engineer of the train, | a genume Yankee, raising his voice, | said: “Gentlemen, there might be a way of passing.” “On the bridge?” asked a passenger. “On the bridge.” “With our train?” asked the colonel. | “With our train.” “But the bridge threatens to fall!” #aid the conductor in objection. “It doesn't matter,” replied the en- gineer. “I believe that by rushing the train over at its maximum speed we | would have some chances of passing.” “The devil!” exclaimed the colonel. But a certain number of the passen- | gers were immediately carried away by the proposition. Hot-headed dare- devils found the thing very feasible. They recalled that engineers had had the idea of passing rivers without bridges, with trains closely coupled, | rushing at the height of their speed, and so on. And, finally, all those in- terested took sides with the engineer's vlev;]!. 5 “We have 50 chances for passing,” Said one. o “Sixty,” said another. ‘;‘!fl hty! Ninety out of one hun- A young Frenchman thought the at- tempt seemed a little too '?Ameflcl:lf" ml&mceld his thought: “Monsieur, the way proposed by the :g!.neer seems a little hazardous to o “Eighty chances!” replied the man lddlresied, turning his back. " now very well,” returned the Frenchman, “but a simple reflec- S~ St “No reflection, it is useless!” replied the American, shrugging his shoulders, “Bince the engineer assures us that we will £ “Without doubt” continued the Prenchman, “we will pass, but it would perhaps be more prudent—-" “What prudent!” cried the colonel, zllmpmg at this word, heard by chance. ‘At full speed, you have been told! Don't you understand? At full speed.” “I know—I understand,” repeated the Prenchman, “but it would be, if not more prudent, since the word offends you, at least more natural——" “Who? What? How? What is the matter with this fellow?” was heard grom all directions. ‘The poor fellow did not know whom #o address. “Are you afrald?” the colonel asked “T, afrald” cried the Prenchman. *#Well, so be it! I will show these people | hat & Frenchman can be as American ! All aboard!” cried the aboard,” seconded the Frenchman. “All aboard! And right away! But they can’t prevent me from thinking that it would have been more natural for us to have gone over the bridge afoot, and then brought the train afterward!” But no one heard this sage reflection, and no one would have acknowledged 1t if he had. The passengers took their seats in the cars. The Frenchman resumed his. The locomotive whistled .~ The engineer reversed his engine, and backed for about & mile—returned like a jumper who is going to take a leap. Then, to & second whistle, they com- menced to move forward, the speed in- creased; it soon became frightful, but a single puffing was heard from the locomotive, the pistons ~worked 20 strokes to the second; the axles smoked in the journals. They felt, 80 to speak, that the entire train, moving at the rate of 100 miles to the hour, did not bear upon ihe rails. The speed seemed to destroy the weight. And they passed! And it was like & flash of lightning. They saw ng of the bridge. The train lea) it might be said, from one bank to the other, and the engineer could not stop his train for five miles beyond the station. But the train had scarcely crossed the river than the bridge, already about to fall, went down with a crash into the raplds of Medicine Bow. ARE NO LONGER GAY Louis Latzarus Asserts He Finds Gloom Everywhere and Is Puzzled for a Reason. PARIS (/). —France no longer laughs, says Louis Latzarus, prominent author, and he can't decide wh Gayety is gone, in any case, he con- cludes, and, like Andre Tardieu, the new | premier, he counsels an effort to look on the bright side of things. People actually do not smile as they | did a generation ago, seriously says Latzarus. He finds the same condition everywhere—in the cafes, on the stage, in_books and at home He asserts the average Frenchman has more money than usual, has less reason to worry about public affairs, and has within his reach more pleasure than ever Nevertheless, for reasons he can't | fathom, Latzarus finds gloom every- vhere—on people’s faces, in their speech and in their writings. The better the book today, he says, the more lugubrious Faces to Hltr;h Fashions. Beauty doctors of London have dis- covered that their clients’ faces do not “g0” with the new fashions and are giving lectures on the subject. One lecturer pointed out that only a Dres- den china make-up was suitable for the new flowing feminine frocks and advocated the pink and white Victorian face as opposed to the mahogany one of recent _seasons. 'Won the One Thing She Wanted Most “The thing I have wanted more than | anything else came so easily I can | realize it. For years I have had to r 50 few without gas forming ish I never had to eat again,” says Miss Marion Dunlap of 202 Riverside Drive in New York Oity. “A dose of Acidine, which was given to me when I had one of those spells, was the beginning of a different story. I have been taking Acidine night and morning | since then, and I don’'t know what it is to have a sour stomach or nervousnes: | from it now, no matter what I eat.” after eating. gassy b!lchml.‘ sen, sour rising and a dry sensation the ‘throat are signs of m d | stomach. Sweeten It with Acidine. only ‘& minute or two, tastes nice, and | costs so little. 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