THVKHDAY FEBRUARY 18, I92K THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS reveeled to me the suitable answer to one who claims she love« your hooks,” sadly confessed Davenport. Burton begun to chuckle, then to luugh aloud. "I'm thinking of the Joke on us," she explained, "of Dad. We thought you were a garage mechanic!" "And me with such gentlemanly manners," he mourned, “and my dic tion, faulty as It 1«, yet observe» the | rule« of gramincr." I llu s t r a t io n s b y H e n r y J a y L ee •'Your funny little car misled us. Copyright S t e w a r t E d w a rd W h i t e I suppose,” she explained, "and then I you were so handy about everything.’ R x la a a e d t h r u . P u h lla h a ra A u t o o a a t a r S e rv ic e "You relieve me. The ear was the ' cheapest 1 could get for a pure expert- , mi nt.” "And the battery?" "Caine to me Just like the story, a men of the nucessury skill would have the frills. The frills represent the grace and beauty of Ufe. We all \ little at a tlui«. I'm no mechanic. cost." "Gr ¡instead'« poker face was still have an Instinct for frills; and real 1 No one could be worse fitted than 1 doing business, but hla dgur butt was Instinct« should be gratified—In pro to be an Inventor, But I couldn't help portion. But the point Is, frills are noticing from tlm« to time the Incred- chewed to a frazzle. too hard to got. A living is too hard : lble amount of power everywhere go "You say that battery there will ing to waate, and one day when I run a brake test of forty horse to get. Heaven forbid we should ever was filling the startlug battery of my get anything without working for t. power?" he asked. ¡that Is absolutely fatal. But there's car—I have got a car—tt struck me "About that." no sense In having to perform soul- what a nuisance tt »as. and 1 wonder- "Will a larger battery develop more <sl If we couldn’t get a battery that deudcnlng ami «rinding toll for It." horsepower In proportion? What are "But what has the battery to do i would work on air.” the limits In capacity? I "And then yon figured It out." with this?" 'T haven’t the slightest Idea There's "1 did not,” he disclaimed. ‘‘I "Why don't you see? Every Inven no limit apparently to the amount of , merely kept It In mind, the way 1 tion that reduces the labor necessary static you can take by means of do a story, and It worked out Its own dynamos; why should there be any to produce things Is a step toward that plot, bit by bit. It took me some time ( leisure for the race. It’s a step to more limit to what you can take by to tumble to the fact that the plates other means? Of course, 1 don't ward supplying more drills, besides had to be Just exactly so far apart. more abu'dant necessities, with the know; I ni Just beginning to try It But at last I got it to work I same amount of labor.” out." * and to work hard for a long ■ With vivid sentence« he sketched the • Well, you may have something, time.. One horrible thought occur though It sounds pretty radical." world as be suw It: u reorganize t red to me: that maybe it will only world, free to pul its energies into the yawned GrlBistead. as though the sub i positive creation of those things work near electric plants already la Jed hud ceased to Interest him. operation under the old methods.” Burton hopped from the tog on which men's true Instincts crave; pro "Stealing what's already b e e n ducing Its abundance by honest, sin which she sat. made! I se e !” cere, necessary labor, but accomplish "The moonlight Is heavenly," she ‘‘That's why I'm up in this wild declared, "I must see it through Ute ing the production without the ex country, bag and bay gage. I’m going haustion of squalor. big trees. Will you go with me, Mr. It was no imposalble Utopia; it was to find out. It set ms to be alright, Davenport, outside the firelight?” an absurd dream of an impossible I though." Davenport Jump‘-d to his feet. Gar "You don't know how I appreciate diner too stirred as though about to "equality;" but It was a world of op- your telling me all this, Mr. Daven- i port unity released from pressure. rise, but paused as he felt Grlmstead'« ! Wbnt men did with the opportunity j port,” then said she. restraining haud on his arm. "1 told you my friends call me The two young people stepped out would still be, as It had alwuys been. Larry," he pointed out; then at her , a mutter for themselves. Into the enchantment of the forest. But no longer would there be any slight withdrawal. "Now, really, look CHAPTER X. i reason or necessity for the submerg at me. Am I a Larry looking person " T h e " L a rry D avenport ence under Inexorable circumstance I or a Davenport looking person?',' He They walked for 100 yards, feeling ' of the man whose hands reached to Socked his eye ¿omlcally in her direc their way In the black and white con ward the stars. tion. \ t trasts of moonlight; then sat side by "You're right—Larry.” said she. That Is what he visioned; and that side on a log. CHAPTER XI. i Is wbut Burton, kindling to his Ideas, l"It Is almost too perfect," said saw too. And as she had not lived In the morning the famous battery, Burton. "It almost hurts. But 1 shall with the idea, ns had he, and was un lashed to the running board, had been never forget It.” accustomed to IL she wus the more i connected up with t ie self-starter The began to chat, to make dis eagerly afire. * ; which was now turning over in the jointed remarks, swinging back down t They sat silent for a time. laborious and vociferous manner pe the wide arc of^ecstasy to the starting "Tell me about yourself?" she said culiar to the species. Grlmstead and point of everyday things. In a little suddenly. Gardiner were inclined to stand and while Davenport was talking eagwrlv, "I was born of poor but honest par- watch It in fascination; but Daven openly. The subject was his battery. | tn ls and my friends call me Larry," port was quite unimpressed. ► "It o t ig h to be tremendo»-’y valu he bqgnn. i ‘'That's all thery is to It," said he. able. You'll probably make a million •'You’ee not the Lawrence Daven "Now all we have to watch out for or so out of If. 1 hope you do,” the port?”. she gasped. is that she doesn't run dry of lubrica girt said . “I'trf the only one I kflow about. tion. Simntlns can keep track of "Yes. of course. I'd like to make There may be others 1 know not of; that.” something out of It. But that Isn't the but be assured. O Lady, thut they are He turned away, • ’ real point. Do you mind If I talk a nothing b i l t spurious imitations." ‘‘Now we've got a good morning's little about It?” "Why, I've read nil your books and , work in front of us," he announced •'Oh, please-" she begged. ' cheerfullv'. "I picked a good place for I’ve Just lotn-d them-" t "Don't you see what It will mean "Long am^puth nt stn ly has not yet (Continued on Page 6) to the world." he said, "the poor strug gling old world? What a burden It does carry. Ixtrd. what a task It Officeh— 831 Miner Building, East Broadway Street / A < I has assum«‘d Just In feeding Itself anil clothing Itself and keeping Itself warm And It has to hustle Just to do that.” He twisted on the log more nearly to face her. "Ixwk here," he demand ed, "what Is the greatest material need, the very greatest need of the world?" "Davenport's batteries," she replied promptly. He threw his rend hack nnd laugh ed boyishly. "I was getting rather preachy, wasn't I? Well, the thing the world need« most Is breathlng’-tlme, time to play more and Io soak up the things O ur success lies in giving good optical service e n d that never come to a man when he's In a hurry or surrounded by the buzz- doing it a little bit better. files of detail. What the work-n«lay world needs most Is leisure, a little leisure.” “The trouble Is," said Burton, »'peo ple are never satisfied. If they’d he O P T O M E T B I 5 T - - 'E Y E S I G H T S P contented to go without so many frill« Suite 831 Miner Bldg. Eugene, Oregon, Telephone 362 they’d have leisure enough." »'No, you're wrong. They should ON TIPTOE PAGE FIVE DEPENDABLE E1JEQLASS SERVICE Dr. Roi]dl Qick OPIOmSTEIST—EIJEb'.QMT SPEC ! » 1ST 879 UTillamelle St Pitone 620 EUQENE Joct one thmQ— But I do tt nqtit Stew art E dw ard W h ite WHO'S WHO IN THE »TORY: GItIMBTkIAl), »he “H ueauw r" of »tv* swashbuckling story, I k »iranch-l anions Ihs California rod wood« In lila "private craft", a hlghpowerstl car, wlirn lln (aaollnr task li broken BI'HTGN GRIMftTHAO, hla " kjm .II ed" daughter, I* with him against her will, especially »o ea &ha perceive« hoi father'« object In Innlalln« on her «oln« on thr trip la In throw her Into the company of RGBS GAItDINEIl. Grlmslrad's slels- ter "Heroad In Command," a capable, good looking young man. HI MM 18, the Orlmeteaife English butler-chauffeur whose gay Mplrlt» «re repress««! by his dignity. DAVENPORT, a youth, cornea by and astonishes them first by saying his small car runs on electricity so he has no "gas" to «Ivo them, nnd n«««t by »Innin« a $10,000 bet from Gardiner by predicting a rain storm. The stranger makes another bet with Gardiner, thia lime that his car will run a certain period of time on Its battery. • CHAPTER IX . A M arvelous Discovery Grlmstrad put on hla poker face to conceal his Inner excitement. This offer was more than he had hoped "I should like to very much." he replied. "So should I." spake up Burton, •‘but I want to hear It In words of one syllable." "It Is not at all complicated Now you know If you put a copper plain and a xlnc plate side by aide In an acid solution nnd connect theta with wires you generate electricity. That is the simple wet battery. "All right If you run a dynum.» you alao generate electricity, thia time by Induction. • Where does thut electricity come from? You might say chemical action In the one case or mechanical action in the other, hut they are actually only a means to an end. The world lies In a great field of static or Inert magnetism. The cell nnd the dynamo are merely meant by which thia Ineit electrlcty I k livened up. made Into kinetic or uctlve eletcrlctjr; they actually produce nothing In them- aelves. Is thnt d ear?” "Perfectly." said Burton. "When we have used thia kinetic electricity, or It becomes 'grounded,' it returns to the reservoir of static. All I’ve done Is to make a short cut between the static electricity In which we are Immersed and the kin etic electricity we can use." "Thnt Is self evident, young man," remarked Grlmstead drily. ■'I am Just milking It dear for Miss Burton Go back to the wet cell. It Is heavy and awkward and short lived My battery Is Just like a wot cell with out those disadvantages. The wet cell consists of two plates of different metals In a solution Mine oonslsts of two plates of different metals side by side In air. The wet cell transforms or produces Its electricity by or through, a chemical action that Is limited In effectiveness and In dura tion. My buttery transforms the static from .the air Into kinetic with out chemical action—apparently; and In much greater quantity In proportion to the size of the plates." Grlmstead was sitting up now In his Interest. "There must be chemical action!" he cried., "You can't lift yourself by your bootstraps.” “Of course; there probably Is," agreed Davenport. “1 only said there was apparently none. It must be very slight—like the apparent loss In radium, 1 suppose— for, as I say, I have used Inis battery Jo drive my car eleven hundred miles without any wear I can determine by looking at It" »Wbnt metals do you use?” "Pardon," returned the young man "but there, of course, you’re asking my secret. 1 will say this, however. They are alloys of metals easily pro curable. The alloy must be exact and the distance between the plate« must be exact. 1 have a micrometer ■crow to adjust my plates.” ‘•You say the metals are easily pro curable. How much do you estimate It cost you to build such a battery?" "Mine up to now have been experi mental and built piecemeal by experi ment,” Davenport pointed out. "But in quantity they could be built—of that «lie—for somewhere between fifty and a hundred and fifty dollars. R Isn't the materials; It's tks ae«sr- a « | aad I d e a t know »«* wfcfift ««ft» Roister Radios Where Power Noises are worst. 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