S. W. Hibbert

“ The old are pensioned, if need be, by money once spent on means of destruction."
Then, as if the sum of human happiness on earth were complete, my dream grew faint and fainter ; the voice which told of all these ideals accomplished faded into the strains, of the anthem to which we had listened, and I awoke with its words in my ears like the sound of a silver bell —
"I hear once more the voice of Christ say ' Peace ! ”

“ Alexis was pointing out that the great buildings we took for erections of flats at least, wore merely factories.
"No smoke?" said our friend; "that is a nuisance no longer submitted to even in England!" and we murmured our approval. "Besides," he continued, "Atlantis has no coal of her own; it was necessary to use electric power, or to make a patent fuel, and both are used, the one as inexpensive as the other. No," to a question from one of us, "Radium will always be costly to produce, and it is only used in hospitals and for scientific purposes." ”

“ The upheaval in the North Atlantic which raised this island upon which we now walk caused a corresponding depression and sank once more that great sandy waste, once the desert, now the Sahara Sea, which has vastly improved transit in North Africa; it raised and drained the Congo Valley and all the low-lying forest and morass land which made Central Africa so deadly to the white man. ”