Amazing Stories, August 1927 — page 55: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ELECTRO~EPISODED in A.D. 2025 By 6.D Skinner Inserting a needle-point barely beyond and to the left of the highor of the two mountain peaks, he took a delicate copper wire and connected this with “Local.” Throwing the clutch a Lieutenant-Colonel Algernon Sidney St. Johnstone, N.Y.N.G., had been in a normal condition, he would certainly have been aware of a peculiar buzzing <4) sensation in the region of his upper left-hand vest pocket; but unfortunately it so hap- pened that his actual physical state was most em- phatically sub-normal. Still he could hardly avoid the suspicion that some- thing out of the ordinary back into “Local” the faint outline of the mountain disappeared, and a vivid picture of the “Parker Pass’? replaced it. » . down above his wide-open mouth, his tongue re- peated the information with emphasis. Dejectedly keeping the bottle before him, he glared in an in- sane fury at two green Jabels—one the trade mark of a by-gone century, and the other a ‘Bottled in Bond” stamp dated: “July 1, 1916”—which his wis- dom told him were both forgeries. Then, as the topographical details of his “den” became clearer to his blurred vision, his eyes had disturbed him; and, COW. HUMOR, we have been told by some of our critics, never amonnt to much im scientifiction. picked out the recumbent Te sie form of his correctly at- with blinking eyes, he searched the apartment for possible inordinate things. The first to attract his - attention was a_ neatly ' folded copy of the eleven may let a secret out of the bag, the Editor has been on a rampage, lately, to find @ scientifiction story in which there really could be a subtle humor without weakening the narrative. Well, we believe we have found it tr this tale, which not only has all of the above-mentioned qualifications, but a fine O. Henry ending thrown in for good measure. Only when you have read it for the second time will you appreciate it to its fullest extent. tired and correctly featur- ed valet slumbering peace- fully and audibly in a Morris chair in the far corner—and this under the very nose of his mas- o'clock edition of the Hourly Bulletin, bearing the date: “Tuesday, Jan- uary 7, 2025”; which, with its “up-to-the-minute” Wall street market quotations, lay unread upon the desk before him. This he swept to the floor with an impatient sweep of his arm! Next his left hand instinctively sought, with practiced precision, a black bottle on a side-desk elose by. Holding the bottle to the light, his eyes told him that it was empty. Tipping it upside- ; ‘ ter! Instantly the bottle, was hurled at the valet’s head!—and the latter, promptly proved his trained efficiency in the art of sleeping “with one eye open,” by automatically and unnecessarily dodging. Finally Algernon’s superheated emotions found vent in speech. Glaring savagely at his valet, he said: Me “Shay you varlet!—” He paused and chuckled for 2 moment at the icomichooksrecom