Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1915, Page 9

Read It Here—See It at the Movies. By Gouverneur Morris and Charles W. Goddard Cegyright, 1918, Star Cempany. Synopsis of Pevious Chapters. John Amesbury is kiiled in a raurcad accident, and his wife, one of America s most beautifui women, dies from tie #hock, jeuving & $-yeau-old daugnier, wuo is waen by Prof, Stullter, asent of the interests, far .nto the Adironascks, where sle 18 reared In Lne seciusion of a cavern. Fifteen yewrs wter Tommy Barclay, woo has just quarreied with nis adopu fatioly wanaeis into the woods and dis- covers the girl, now known as Celestia in company with Prof. Stilliter. Tommy takes the girl to New York, where she falls into the clutches of a nohfd pro- curess, but_1s able to win over the woman by her pecular hypmotic power. Here she attracts Freddie the Ierret, Who becomes attuched to her. ) clothing factory, where she goes to Work, she exercises her power over the girls, and is saved from being burned to death by Tommy. About this time Stilliter, Barclay and others who are working to- gether, decide it 18 time to make use of Celestia, who has been trained to think of herself as divine and come from heaven, The first place they send her is to Bitumen, a mining town, where the coal miners are on a strike. Tommy has gone there, too, and Mrs. Gunsdorf, wife the miners’ leader, falls in love with him and denounces him to the men when he spurns her. . Celestia saves Tommy from being Iynched, and also settles the atrike by winning over Kehr, the agent of the bosses, and Barclay, sr. Mary Black- stone, who is also in love with' Tommy, tells him the story of Celestia, which she has discovered through her jealousy. Kehr is named as candidate for president on a ticket that has Stilliter’s support, and Tommy Barclay is named on the miners 'ticket. Stililter professes him- self- in love with Celestia and wants to get her for himeelf. Tommy urges her to marry him. Mary Blackstone bribes Gunsdorf to try to murder Celestia, hile the latter is on her campaign tour, traveling on a snow white trein. Mrs. Gunsdorf is again hypnotized by Celestia and the murder averted. W THIRTEENTH EPISODE., “Are you speaking to me?’ asked Tommy, leily. The man did not answer. He merely attempted to get hold of the dorknob, and fatled. Better luck next time,” said. Tommy. “Please open the door,” said Celestia, “I have to go for a drive.” “What do you want mixing in this?’ said the driver. Tommy did not answer, but sald to Celestia: “T wpuldn't go alone with this man. Why not take me t# look after you? I won't speak even once, it you'd rather not.” ‘Better get in, Miss,” said the driver. “Something wrong here,” sald Tommy, as Celestia pushed him gently to one side, and started to open the door Tor herself. “Hurry up,” sald the driver. Celestia hurried and Tommy's face De- gan to flame with rage. At the same time he formed a pretty shrewd guess at the condition Celestia was in, “How can you tolerate such insolence?”’ he exclaimed, his brows lowering. “I have to do everything the driver says,” exclaimed Celestia, in an un- emotional Voice. . climbed into the car, and shut the Joor after her, the driver sprang to his seat, and Tommy stepped calmly on to the footboard. The driver, seeing this, attempted to throw Tommy. off the £00t- board. Tommy simply got his fingers in the man's collar, jerked him clear off the car, and let gd. The man fell heavily on his head and lay still, “If you have to do everything the driver says,” cried Tommy, in & jubflant volce, “I shall be the driver! Jump in, Freddie, while the jumping is good..1 may need ou.” > Preadie jumped in and seated himself by Celestia. With every evidence of pride and importance, and the car lurched for- ward just as the former driver began to show signs of life. It was only a hundred yards to where the road entered the woods; a dense sec- ond growth of spruce, birch, pine, bals sam and larch, succeeded after about a mile by a splendid fragment of primeval forest. Fere Tommy brought the car to a stop, got out, and opened the door of the tonneau, “I'a like you to sit In front, by me," he sald gently. And Celestia obeyed him like an auto- maton. “There's dirty work here,” thought Tommy. “And once mere the car went forward. He addressed various questions to her, but got no answers. It was as it she did not hear him. She sat bolt up- right, looking straight ahead with unsce- ing eyes. It was only when he spoke words or phrases with a semblance of | command that she showed signs of un- derstanding. As when he said, “Don't try to fight this road. Take it easy. Lean back." The road came out of the forest, passed between two swamps, and sscended a long hill, fenced, and pastured, from which there was a view of rough farm land, and in the distance a wooden vil- lage and a steeple in the midst. i At the bottom of the hill & car had skidded from the road and came to grief in & boggy ditch. The driver was trying to lever it out with a fence rail. Two women stood watching him. At the sound of Tommy's car sweeplng down upon them, they looked around, and Tommy recognized Mary Blackston: and Mrs. Gunsdorf. His face became white and srim. He gave his engine more gas, and rushed by them, hurling a column of thick dust high in the afr. Mrs, Gunsdorf, at sight of Celestia, be- came for & moment like a stone image of horror. Only her head turmed a little, and so standing, she looked after the car. Then very slowly, as if she was lifting heavy weights, her arms twisted and tense rose from her sides, reached the horizontal-and then without a word or a sound, she dropped dead in the dust. Next to the ghurch in the village stood the little parsonage. A car was drawn up in front of this, and in the middle of the road, looking expectantly at the car which Tommy was driving, stood Prof, Stilleter with a white flower in his button hole. Also on the lookout was & clergyman and a lady who was doubtiess his wife. To Tommy the scene was like a page in @ book, written for children in words | Sthileter, e wae white almost of two syllabies. flower—the clefgyman. 1t too simple. To Stilleter the driver who bring Celestia to him was a man portance. Not until the car was almost upon him with undiminished speed, did he divert his eyes from Celestia’'s face to that of the man beside her. Upon the fact of that man there was a jubi- lant boyish grin. Tommy pressed a button, the car gave one of those sudden signals of warning that sound like a glant being sick at the stomach. Prof. Stilleter leaped aside, but pot in time to escape being grazed by the mud guard which sent him rolling. Freddie, the Ferret, leaped to his feet for the sheer joy of being allve to see his enemy bite the dust. When Prof. Stilleter got to his feet, the car was passing out of the village, To get should of im- At @ big | his OWn car under way was not the work of & moment, the driver having gone into the back yard of the parsonage for a pail of water, and remained to gossip with the mald of all work But Tommy knew that there would be a pursuit, and thenceforth drove his own car, or rather the one with which he had eloped, as fast as he dared. FHe had no personal fear of Stilleter. But he wished, it possible, to show Celestia the cave, and the proofs, that she had once in- habited. The state of hypnosis, that she was In, troubled and distressed him. But sooner or later, ft must pass, he thought. Certainly nature must come to the rescue. Meanwhile, he took a pa- thetic pleasure in working on her men- tal condition with a view to promoting her comfort. “You look tired, dear” he gald. ‘““Are you?" No answer. “The driver says don't be tired, And you have to obey the driver." This had a marvelous effect. Her head no longer drooped, color came into her cheeks and into her eyes a look of vi- vaclty, In one way Tommy was rejolced; 80 pathetic about her absolute doellity. “Soon,” sald Tommy, *“you are going to leave the car and go for a long walk through the woods with me. Yeur'll walk fast and not get tired. We're going to {the wonderful cave where you lived and played when you were a little girl, and which they taught you to believe wi heaven''— He broke off suddenly. ! a, question, “Do you have to do you?’ Ces."” “Do you have to believe a thing if he tells you to belleve it?" “Yea ™ . It would be absurd to say that Tommy {was not tempted then and there to do 4n unmanly thing. In a few moments, by the power of mental suggestion he could undermine her bellef in herself, in her origin and in her destiny. It would not eveh be necessary to take her to the cave. They would simply drive on and on until they came to a civilized place dnd could be married, - All this occurred to Tommy and tempted him. But like the good gentleman that he was, he re- (eisted the temptation at once, and with finality. If he wag to shake her beliefs, it would be by fair means, open and above board. ‘Then asked her the driver tells (To Be Continued Tomorrow.) at the same time, he felt as if he would rather like to cry. There was something | THE BEE: By GARRETT P. SERVISS. The imagination is potentially the no Dlest of human gifts, but It becomes a fearful thing when it is allowed to go astray and when, exchanging its glorlous pinlons for the wings of a bat, it takes flight in the dark night air of supersti- tion and ignorance, amidst Iimages of horror and terror, One of the most hideous products of the imagination in its darker moods is to be seen in the American Museum of Natural History. It is the copled statue of the Aztec “Goddess of the Barth.” The whole dreadful story of the gloomy, i bloody Astec “civilization" is told by this extraordinary carving. Despite all its re- pulsive features this story is fascinating in its grip upon the reader's mind and it Is of great importance to Americans who wish to understand the historical devel- opment of thelr own continent. The word picture that Preecott drew in his history of the conquest of Mexico has never been equalled in vividness, Although the reader ghould mupplement Prescott's brilliant story with the results of later investi- gations, which he can find in any large library. But nothing that he can read will place before his mind so dramatic a represen- tation of that strange, and, even yet mysterious, period of American history, as is afforded by this statue in the halls of the museum in Central Park West, The Asztec name for the goddess whose figure is shown in the carving wi Coatlicue, “the serpent-skirted one.” It was found near the cathedral in the city of Mexico in 1791, 210 years after Cortex overthrew the bloodstained altars of the Aztec war god. What had happened to it during the time iIntervening since it was tumbled from its pedestal we do not know, but, at any rate, it escaped de- struction. It is Dbelleved to have ho;n the carved In the century preceding Spanish invasion. It was a religious symbol, but every noble element of religious thought is elim- inated from fit. It is a product of the basest superstition, acting through an OMAHA imagination degraded to the level of un- This statue was found in Mexico City in doubt played a high part in the Aztec ritnal. 1t dates from the last part relieved horror. The squat form is sur- mounted with a flat head consisting of two huge-fanged serpents’ heads, with their blunt noses meeting in the middle, and their wicke® eyes serving to represent The Lesson ot an Aztec Deity ol the 15th oen- Ty and ghows how the Aztec idea of cruelty and terror was em-- bodied even m their sacred sym- bols and idols, the organs of vision of the abominable godde The serpent's fangs stand for her teeth. Each arm, presped to the sides of the body, terminates in a snake's head instead of a hand, The feet are | tion | Around the fat neck is a | of several human hands and torn human hearts, with a death's head pendant, descending over the breast. The ekirt and vesture of the figure consist of & “writhing mass of braided rattle- snakes'™ This terrible great claws. collar out goddesa was regarded as a very old woman, the mother of the Astec gods. Insanity never went further! But the most amasing fact is that the | religious customs and rites of the Astecs, which Inextricably blended with social, political and military idens and practices, were of such a character as to thoroughly accord with the awtul symbols and suggestions embodied In this | foul statue. How could any people ever descend | s0 low. How the imagination of a whole race become so universally de- were their cowid bauched? The Astecs were above all things warlike. They attained all thelr alms by war. They subdued all their neighbors and held them in subjection by | military force and terror. They bowed their necks to a ruler, but elocted al-| ways from the same family, who was war chief and priest in one. They formed a confederacy, or “em-| bire,” which was organized ‘“purely for plunder and tribute, not at all for| Kovernmient or incorporation. It ever the true spirit of war was shown f{vrlh{ in human affairs it was in the empire | of Montesuma. It was a spirit of fright- | fulnese, of oruelty. of merciless oppres-| slon, of selfish grandisement.. The As- tec plotured himself in his “Snake | Woman,” and she, or rather her son, the sanguinary Huitstlopochtll, repro- sented the horriblo side of war—the side that really is war—as the Greek Mars represented the deceitful other side. And yet the city of Montezuma aston- ished Cortez by a kind of mock civiliza~ that haa a superficlal brilliancy. But every good mpulse that might have developed into a meal civilization was suppressed, or turned aside to serve the purposes of a soclety based only on force, oppression, bloodshod and superstition. % By EDGAR LUCIEN LARKIN, Question—I have read in two or three | magazines of the theory of “nature's finer forces.” Are these finer qualities of force or forces besides those usually mentioned in scientific books?—Reader, Alameda, May 10, 1915, Answer—This is a difficult, if not im- possible, question to answer. The forces commonly mentioned in university text books oif “sclence’ are gravitation, heat, light, electricity, magnetism, chemistry, molecular attraction and repulsion. These terms are so fine, or refined, that they are beyond all imagination. |The more discoveries made in their true |nature the more complex and elaborate they are seen to be. Science .does not even make a pretense of telling us what they are or thelr causes. All that we can do is to study their effects, Al these are included in one word—en~ ergy. Thus, energy traverses cosmio space at absolute zero of temperature, a degree of cold that cannot be compre- | hended. But, when this radiant energy strikes atoms or molecules of matter able to receive, then at certain rates heat is | the result. Science for If this energy strikes responsive living nerves, as in the retinas of cyes in con- nection with a living brain, the gffect is named light. Energy traverses frigid space, that upon contact with matter may be ren- dered avallable as electricity; likewise cosmical magnetism, Light is assoclated with chemism, a very familiar example being its action on sensitive salts on photographic plates. Many other chemical effecta are due to radiatioh energy called light, when it strikes the proper kind or states of matter. Electricity induces magnetism, and magnetism induces electricity, by a proc- o8y whose nature is not known. Magnetism can react on light and greatly modify its waves. All light can develop electricity, and it can induce magnetism. Chemism is in innumerable phases and reactions, Molecular attraction is a formidable force, namely, in & bar of steel it Is hard and of great strength of resistance to breaking. There is the mystery of molecular re- pulsion also in ever expanding gases if free. But the cause of repulsion is un- Workers known unless it may be due to electric- ity, for like charges of electricity always hepel. Thus atomic and molecular attraction and repulsion are exquisitely refined forces. But these are coarse when com- pa to the effects of the finer entities —electrons, When we consider gravitation, sclence s against a herculean wall directly across its path. There is not the faintest Clue as to what gravity 1s. As It cannot be insulated, cut off, screened off, or in- tercepted, it must be finer than any of the forces mentioned. One can ocut off heat and light, but gravity passes through every substance known and attracts all bodies beyond. Suspend any object by a fine thread out In the open air to direct radiation from the sun. Interpose a block of granite; it wWill screen off heat and light energy, but no effect can be discovered on gravitation. To discover how would change all civilization for the better. From this fact it is doubtiess well to say that gravitation ls a very fine force, But the magazines spoken of by “Reader,” beyond doubt, referred to transcendent forces finer than gravita- tion, that is, to mental forces. Nearly all of the writers using the term “finer forces” in books recelved up here use it in a mind or mental sense, One writer on this subject sald: “Mind is finer than gravitation.” But he did not know anything of either. On the face of this proposition it would appear that mind is finer than force, or shall I say a finer phase of force, than universal gravitation. But since I know nothing of the nature of mind and gravity the assertion would be useless metaphysics, the exact opposite of sclence. Lite 1 & force; it msmembles tons of matter into an oak tree or Into an ele- phant. One may speculate here and drop Off into metaphysics, but this would be time totally wasted until ¥t least ono faint clue is detected as to what life is. I have a theory that mind is by far the finest force In eéxistence, but this must be a theory until it is discovered what mind is. At present, this seems to be hopeless. I will not may hopeless, for a humun able to Invent the telegraphone may be the forerunner of others able to find & clue to what force and also matter may be. Here is & theory: There may be only one force In existence; all apparent forces being phases, and a theory that there ls only one kind of matter, all ap- parent kinds being phases, Pitfalls of Wives Shun Men Admirers Who Flatter Only to Deceive, : ¢ By ELLA WHEELER WILOOX. Copyright, 1915, by Star Company. Men who are not ready to marry, im- mature youths, or men who have not money to spend on theaters, oarriages and flowers, often deny themselves tho company of un- married women whom they ad- mire. But they will eagerly kill time by flocking to the eide of any married woman who will permit it All the most ordi- nary type of mar- ried woman needs ot do Is to flatter adrolitly, Usten well, look unutter able things and nvey the impres- slon that her heart is not quite well, and there she is, all equipped for a train of sllly men, who will do their best or worst to make her forget her pride. And the moment they succeed they boast of thelr success. No married woman on earth has lover- like admirers unless she wants them, It is the castest and simplest thing in the world to make men understand that you do not want and will not receive such attentions, and you will soon find these would-be lovers turned into admiring friends, who will sing the praises of your good sense, You need to realize, too, that Instead of “making fools of themselves” about you, it is always the married woman who {s made the fool in the matter of flirtation, when you sift the subject to the bottom., The men who you imagine dying over your pretended coldness are merely amusing themselves at your ex- pense in their secret heart. They will read this article aloud, to you, perhaps, and declare that It is wholly wrong so far as their love for you ia con: cerned, but they will know all the time that it is true. You will urge as an excuse for your action that your husband does not appre- clate you or sympathize with you; that he neglects you. 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