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...China, one Han Yu-ming, a stone cutter, found a small sigil in the foothills of the Taihang mountains. It evidently had belonged to a priest long since dead, for lo! as Han stooped to pick it up, a vision came to him. He heard a voice like the Voice of Thunder. The Voice told Han that the sigil would cure diseases, that soon a leader would come...
Shortly after that, Han's unmarried sister gave birth to a son. Han proclaimed him the promised leader. Worshippers came to see the babe, to touch the sigil. Han called the child the Emperor of Heaven and a cult grew about him called the Heavenly Gates. Today the Emperor of Heaven is two years old. As yet he has done nothing remarkable. But in the Honan province he has many worshippers who are allied in a secret society. And recently Han purchased arms to protect the Heavenly Gates...
...over the Rutland. The Pennsylvania might also branch up to Canada, and bridge over to New England, by way of Mr. Loree's friendly, temporarily isolated Delaware & Hudson,* and go into New England over the N. Y., N. H. & H. New York Central, C. & O. and B. & 0. would han le Michigan's automobiles, furniture and lumber; the B. & O., C. & 0. and the Pennsylvania the South's lumber and fruits northward bound and South America's raw materials U. S. bound. All four roads would touch Chicago, St. Louis and New York; and all but the New York Central...
...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
...Texas. He declared that 13 planes are already entered, including his own giant all-metal, trimotored Spirit of Canton. The League was then addressed by Philosopher-Lecturer Dr. Huang ("the Chinese Count Hermann Keyserling"), now touring the U. S. "It was the great Kum Ming of the Province of Han," said he, "who, in the fourth Christian century, invented, made and flew the first airplane. . . . Its motive power was magnetic. . . . Kum Ming, who was a poet and a wise ruler, destroyed his airplane just before his death for the protection of mankind. . . . He had bombed and destroyed many...