INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS THREE PAGE faTrty glued upon me, aad fell to abonf forty or fifty male marnans the ^reynuutios latter would have appeared before the creature could overtake me wondering just what might befall me around the steps of a rostrum. On as though asleep on a door at least there was a chance for safety should I endeavor to escape. the platform proper squatted an enormous Five Minute Chats mat. As I was to learn, this is the in flight, against almost certain death I have ever been prone to seek adventure warrior heavily loaded with fleetest animal on Mars and. owing should I remain and fight, however and to investigate and. experiment on Our Presidents metal ornaments, gay-colored feathers its intelligence, loyalty and ferocity. Is desperately. where wiser men would have left and beautifully wrought leather trappings used In hunting. In war and as the well enough alone. It therefore now 1 had turned to make for the windew, ingeniously set- with precious protector of the Martian man. but my eyes alighting on the form occurred to me that the surest way stones. By JAMES MORGAN I quickly saw that I would have difficulty of my erstwhile guardian threw all of learning the exact attitude of this What struck me as most remarkable in escaping the fangs of the thoughts of flight to the four winds. beast toward me would be to attempt Edgar Rice Birronghi about this assemblage and the hall in !exst on a straightway course, and so to leave the room. He lay gasping upon the floor of the by (Copyright, 1920, James Morgan.) which they were congregated was the met his charge by doubling in m.v 1 chamber, his great eyes fastened upon Slowly and carefully, therefore. 1 MARTIN VAN BUREN fact that the creatures were entirely •racks and leaping over him as he was me in what seemed a pitiful appeal 5 Autkor of gained my feet, only to see. that ray out of proportion to the desks, chairs, I most upon me. This maneuver gave for protection. I could not withstand watcher did the same cautiously I and other furnishings, these being of •ie a considerable advantage and I 1837—- Martin Van Buren inaugurated that look, nor could I, on second Tarzan of the Apes advanced toward him, finding that by a size adapted to human beings such as able to reach the city quite a bit eighth president, thought, have deserted my rescuer moving with a shuffling gait I could as I, whereas the great bulks of the •head of him. and as he came tearing aged 54. without giving as good an account In retain my balance as well as make reasonably Martians could scarcely have squeezed fter me 1 jumped for a window about Revolution In Ontario. bis behalf as he had in mine. rapid progress. As I neared Illustrations by Irwin Myers Into the chairs, nor was there room Miirt.v feel from the ground in the face Revolution in Texas. Without more ado, therefore, I the brute he backed cautiously away beneath the desks for their long legs. one of the buildings overlooking The Seminole war. turned to meet the charge of the infuriated Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? from me, and when I had reached the Evidently, then, there were other denizens he valley. 1840—The sub-treaaury law. (Oovflfkli UN. A. 0. MeOiarg Oo.) bull ape. He was now too open he moved to one side to let me on Mars than the wild and grotesque Grasping the sill I pulled myself up Van Buren defeated for close upon me for the cudgel to prove pass. He then fell In behind me and I creatures into whose hands a sitting posture without looking re-election. of any effective assistance, so I merely followed about ten paces in my rear had fallen. SYNOPSIS. into the building, and gazed down at 1844—Defeated for nomination. threw It as heavily as I could at as I made my way along the deserted Our party had halted at the entrance he baffled animal beneath me. My 1848—Free soil candidate for his advancing bu'k It struck him street. to the building, and at a sign '•sulfation was short-lived, however, FOREWORD.—The author tells of his president. just below the knees, eliciting a howl Evidently his mission was to protect acquaintance with ""the hero of one of the I from the leader had been lowered for scarcely had I gained a secure seat 1882—July 24, died at Kinder, inost remarkable adventures ever recorded. of pain and rage, and so throwing him me only, I thought, but when we to the ground. Again locking his arm upon the sill than a huge hand grasped From a manuscript left by his friend hook, N. Y., aged 79. off his balance that he lunged full upon reached the edge of the city he suddenly he has vividly set out the strange hap?£n".in.g8 in mine, we had proceeded into the •te by the neck from behind and me with arms wide stretched to which brought together a brave sprang before me, uttering audience chamber. There were few Iragged me violently Into the room. Virginia gentleman and a Princess of ease hi-s fall. strange sounds and baring h!« ugly THE Mars. formalities observed in approaching Here I was thrown upon my back, and mo*,t notable event of Van Again, as on the preceding day, I and ferocious tusks. Thinking to have the Martian chieftain. My captor eheld standing over me a colossal Buren's administration was the CHAPTER I.—In the Arizona hills, John had recourse to earthly tactics, and some amusement at his expense, merely strode up to the rostrum, the .^carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate :pe-iike creature, white and hairless occurrence of one of the great panics swinging my right fist full upon the rushed toward him and when almost soldier, fleeing from a war party others making way for him as he advanced. \ceri for an enormous shock of from which In the nineteenth century or Apaches, takes refuge in a cave the poiirt^ lnL it of his chin I followed with upon him sprang Into the air, alighting The chieftain rose to his bristly hair upon its head. atmosphere of which has a remarkable the country regularly collapsed every 15 a ^m Gnashing left to the pit of his effect on him. Yielding to Its influence, far beyond him and away from the feet and uttered the name of my escort The thing, which more nearly reembled or 20 years, as in 1819, 1887, 1)57, he sinks into unconsciousness, his last stomach. The effect was marvelous, city. He wheeled instantly and who, in turn, halted and repeated our earthly men than it did thoughts centered on the glow from the 1873 and in 1893. Those periodic for, as I lightly side-stepped, after delivering planet Mars. charged me with the most appalling the name of the ruler followed by his prostrations always followed wild debauches the second blow, he reeled speed I had ever beheld. I had title. Is in speculation, but since It and fell upon the floor doubled up thought his short a bar to swift­ legs My captor, whose name was Tars could not underhand. He then stopped convenient and consoling to blame with pain and gasping for wind. Leaping ness, but had he been coursing with as though waiting for my reply, some one else for our own sins, the turlty, but not yet to her full height over his prostrate body I seized pricking up his antennae-like ears and Tarkas, evidently explained briefly the president invariably has been made She was of a light olive-green color, the cudgel and finished the monster cocking his strange-looking eyea still incidents connected with his expedition, the scapegoat in each period of hard with a smooth, glossy hide. Her name, before he could regain his feet. including my capture, and when further toward me. times. as I afterward learned, was Sola, and As I delivered the blow a low laugh he had concluded the chieftain addressed As the silence became painful I No doubt Jackson's removal of the she belonged to the retinue of Tars rang out behind me, and, turning, I concluded to hazard a little conversation me at some length. public deposits from the United Tarkas. She conducted -me to a spaclous beheld Tars Tarkas, Sola and three on my own part, as I had guessed I replied in our good old English States bank caused financial disturbance chamber In one of the buildings or four warriors standing In the doorway that he was making overtures of tongue merely to convince him that and his distribution of the federal fronting on the plaza, and which, from of the chamber. As my eyes met peace. neither of us could understand the surplus among the state treasuries the litter of silks and furs upon the theirs I was, for the second time, the Stretching my hand toward him I other but I noticed that when I smiled also was disturbing. The government, floor, took to be the sleeping quarters recipient of their zealously guarded slightly on concluding he did likewise. advanced and took the armlet from the banks and the people generally of several of the natives. applause. This fact and the similar occurrence his open palm, clasping It about my had all merrily Joined In sowing Sola motioned me to be seated upon My absence had been noted by Sola arm above the elbow smiled at him during my first talk with Tars Tarkas the wind, whose harvest was the a pile of silks near the center of the on her awakening and she had quickly convinced me that we had at least and stood waiting. His wide mouth whirlwind of 1837. room, and, turning, made a peculiar Informed Tars Tarkas. who had set something In common the ability to spread into an answering smile, and hissing sound, as though signaling to The nation had been Indulging In out immediately with a handful of smile, therefore to laugh denoting a locking one of his intermediary arms some one In an adjoining room. In the first of its big western booms. The warriors to search for me. As they sense of humor. But I was to learn In mine we turned and walked back response to her call I obtained my river steamboat aided to open up new had approached the limits of the city toward his mount. At the same time that the Martian smile is merely perfunctory first sight of a new Martian wonder. regions, where mushroom states, In they had witnessed the actions of the and that the Martian laugh lie motioned his followers to advance. ambitious emulation of New York and It waddled in on its ten short legs, bull ape as he bolted Into the building, is a thing to cause strong men to He exchanged a few words with his its Erie canal, ran wild in appropriations and squatted down before the girl like frothing with rage. blanch with horror. men, motioned to me that I would ride an obedient puppy. The thing was for the building of canals. Van They had followed Immediately behind The ideas of humor among the green behind one of them, and then mounted about the size of a Shetland pony, but him, thinking it barely possible men of Mars are widely at variance own animal. The fellow designated its head bore a slight resemblance to that his actions might prove a clew to with our conceptions of incitants to reached down two or three that of a frog, except that the jaws my whereabouts, and had witnessed merriment. The death agonies of a bands and lifted me up behind him on were equipped with three rows of my short but decisive battle with him. the glossy back of his mount, where fellow being are, to these strange creatures, long, sharp tusks. This encounter, together with my setto provocative of the wildest hilarity, I lrnng on as best I could by the belts /, with the Martian warrior on the while their chief form of commonest and straps which held the Martian's CHAPTER III. previous day and my feats of jumping amusement Is to inflict death on weapons and ornaments. placed me upon a high pinnacle In their prisoners of war In various Ingenious The entire cavalcade then turned A Fight That Won Friends. their regard. and galloped away toward the range and horrible ways. Sola stared into the brute's wickedlooking Sola, who had accompanied the The assembled warriors and chieftains of hills in the distance. eyes, muttered a word or two searching party of her own volition, examined me closely, feeling my In a short time we gained the foot of command, pointed to me, and left was the only one of the Martians muscles and texture of my skin. The of the mountains, and after traversing the chamber. The beast, after surveying whose face had not been twisted In principal chieftain then evidently signified a narrow gorge came to an open valley, me Intently for a moment, crossed laughter as I battled for my life. She, 'The Thing, Which More Nearly Resembled a desire to see me perform, and, at the far extremity of which was the room to the only exit which led to on the contrary, was sober with apparent Our Earthly Men Than It motioning me to follow, he stacted a low tableland upon which I beheld the street and lay down full length solicitude and, as soon as I Did the Martians I Had Seen, Held with Tars Tarkas for the open plaza. an enormous city. Toward this we across the threshold. had finished the monster, rushed to me a Me Pinioned to the Ground With Now, I had made no attempt to galloped, entering it by what appeared This was my first experience with a and carefully examined my body for Huge Foot." walk, since my first signal failure, except to be a ruined roadway leading out Martian watch dog, but It was destined possible wounds or Injuries. Satisfying while tightly grasping and flitting from the city, but only to the edge of the Martians I had seen, held me not to be my last, for this fellow herself that I had come off unscathed about among the desks and chairs like the tableland, where It ended abruptly pinioned to the ground with one huge guarded me carefully during the time she smiled quietly, and, taking some monstrous grasshopper. After in a flight of broad steps. foot, while It Jabbered and gesticulated I remained a captive among these my hand, started toward the door bruising myself severely, much to the Upon closer observation I saw as at some answering creature behind green men, twice saving my life, and of the chamber. amusement of the Martians, I again we passed them that the buildings never voluntarily being away from me me. This other, which was evidently Tars Tarkas and the other warriors had recourse to creeping, but this did were deserted, and while not greatly its mate, soon came toward us, a moment. had entered and were standing over not suit them and I was roughly decayed had the appearance of not bearing a mighty stone cudgel with Sola returned bearing both food and the now rapidly reviving brute which jerked to my feet by a towering fellow 1 having been tenanted for years, possibly which It evidently intended to brain drink. These she placed- on the floor had saved my life, and whose life I, who had laughed most heartily at for ages. Toward the center of me. beside me. and seating herself a short In turn, had rescued. There seemed my misfortunes. the city was a large plaza, and upon The creatures were about ten or ways off regarded me intently. The something menacing in their attitude As he banged me down upon my this and in the buildings immediately fifteen feet tall, standing erect, and food consisted of about a pound of toward my beast, and I hesitated to Martin Van Buren. feet his face was bent close to mine It surrounding were camped some nine had, like the green Martians, an intermediary some solid substance of the consist* leave until I had learned the outcome. the and I did the only thing a gentleman or ten hundred creatures of same Buren Was the first president-elect to set of arms or legs, midway ency of cheese and almost tasteless, It was well I d-d so, for a warrior might do under the circumstances of as such I breed my captors, for now ^ride in a train even part of the way between their upper and lower limbs. while the liquid was apparently milk drew an evil-looking pistol from Its brutality, boorishness and lack of consideration considered them, despite the suave Their eyes were close together and to Washington, and the expansion of from some animal. It came, as later holster and was or. the point of putting for a stranger's rights I manner in which I had been trapped. non-protruding their ears were high the steam railway system was beginning discovered, not from an animal, as an end to the creature when I swung my fist squarely to his jaw and With the exception of their ornaments set, but more laterally located than to inflame the national Imagination. there is only one mammal on Mars, sprang forward aad struck up his he went down like a felled ox. As all were naked. The women those of the Martians, while their and that one very rare indeed, but. arm. The bullet striking the wooden he sunk to the floor I wheeledjyound varied In appearance but little from When the day of reckoning and remorse snouts and teeth were strikingly like from a large plant which grows practically casing of the window exploded, blowing with my back toward the nearest desk, the men, except that their tusks were came when bread riots broke those of our African gorilla. a hole completely through the without water, but seems to expecting to be overwhelmed by the much larger in proportion to their out when laborers stood in line near The cudgel was swinging In the arc wood and masonry. distill its plentiful supply of milk from vengeance of his fellows, but determined height, In some instances curving nearly New York to get jobs at a wage of which ended upon my upturned face the products of the soil, the moisture I then knelt down beside the fearsome to give them as good a battle to their high-set ears. The adult $4 a month and board when banks when a bolt of myriad-legged horror of the air, and the rays of the sun. looking thing and raising it to as the unequal odds would permit before females ranged In height from ten to hurled itself through the doorway full suspended payments in coin, and when A single plant of this species will give Its feet, motioned far It to follow ipe. I gave up my life. twelve feet. business houses were tumbling into upon the breast of my executioner. eight or ten quarts of milk per day. The warrior whose gun I had struck The children were light in color, My fears were groundless, however, bankruptcy, the bankers and business With a shriek of fear the ape which After I had eaten I was greatly invigorated, up looked inquiringly at Tars Tarkas, even lighter than the women, and all as the other Martians, at first struck men, who had always been violently held me leaped through the open window, but feeling the need of rest but the later signed that I be left to looked precisely alike to me, except dumb with wonderment, finally broke but its mate closed in a terrific anti-Democratic, turned upon Van I stretched out upon the silks and was my own devices and so we returned that some were taller than others into wild peals of laughter and applause. death struggle with my preserver, Buren and pointed their accusing fingers soon asleep. I must have slept several to the plaza with my great beast following older, I presumed. I did not recognize the applause which was nothing less than my faithful at the White House. The foremost I hours, as it was dark when close at heel and Sola grasping as such, but later, when I had I saw no signs of extreme age among man of business in conservative watch-thing I cannot bring myself awoke, and I was very cold. I noticed me tightly by *he arm. become acquainted with their customs, them, nor Is there any appreciable difference to call so hideous a creature a dog. New England, Abbott Lawrence, did that someone had thrown a fur over I had at least two friends on Mars I learned that I had won what they in their appearance from the not hesitate to hint to a public meeting me, but it had become partially dislodged As quickly as possible I -gained my a young woman who watched over me seldom accord, a manifestation of approbation. age of maturity, about forty, until, at In Boston, the incendiary suggestion and in the darkness I could not feet and backing against the wall I with motherly solicitude, and a dumb about the age of one thousand years, that the time might come for see to replace It. Suddenly a hand witnessed such a battle as it is vouchsafed brute which, as I later (fame to know, they go voluntarily upon their last The fellow whom I had struck lay forcible resistance to the government, reached out and pulled the fur over few beings to see. My beast held in Its poor ugly carcass more strange pilgrimage down the river Iss, where he had fallen, nor did any of his when the crew, as he said, would have me, shortly afterward adding another had an advantage in his first hold, love, more loyalty, more gratitude which leads no living Martian knows mates approach him. Tars Tarkas advanced to mutiny and seize the ship of state. to my covering. having sunk his mighty fangs far Into than could have teeen found In the whither and from whose bosom no toward me, holding out one of the breast of his adversary but the Van Buren faced the gale without I presumed that my watchful guardIan entire five million green Martians who Martian has ever returned, or would his arms, and we thus proceeded to the great arms and paws of the ape, backed bending. He rose above political was Sola, nor was I wrong. This rove the deserted cities and dead sea be" allowed to live did he return after plaza without further-jnishap. I did by muscles far transcending those maneuvering and the temptation to girl alone, among all the green Martians bottoms of Mars. once embarking upon its cold, dark not, of course, know the reason for flatter the mad passions of the hour of the Martian men I had seen, had with whom I came in contact, ters. which we had come to the open, but locked the throat of my guardian and —and preserved an attitude of masterful disclosed characteristics of sympathy, I was not long In being enlightened. Only about one Martian in a thousand slowly were choking out his life, and inactivity! kindliness and affection her ministrations (To be continued") They first repeated the word "sak" dies of sickness or disease, and in bending back his head and neck upon The president did call congress to my bodily wants were unfailing, possibly about twenty take the voluntary a number of times, and then Tars Tarkas his body, where I momentarily expected extra session, but only to recommend and her solicitous care saved me made several jumps, repeating pilgrimage. The other nine hundred the former to fall limp at the the adoption of the sub-treasury system. from 'much suffering and many hardships. the same word before each leap then, and seventy-nine die violent end of a broken neck. INDIAN PRINCESS IS The banks having failed, he proposed turning to me, he said. "Sak!" I saw deaths In duels, In hunting, in aviation that Uncle Sam, like a timid old Back and forth upon the floor they As I was to learn, the Martian nights AFTER FLYING HONORS what they were after, and gathering and in war but perhaps by far the woman, should lock up his money In rolled, neither one emitting a sound are extremely cold, and as there is myself together I "sakked" with such greatest death loss comes during the the bureau drawer. And the economic practically no twilight or dawn, the of fear or pain. Presently I saw the age of childhood, when vast numbers marvelous success that I cleared a great eyes of my beast bulging completely folly of the sub-treasury was persisted changes in temperature are sudden of the little Martians fall victims to good hundred and fifty feet nor did In until the establishment of the federal from their sockets and blood and most uncomfortable, as are the the great white apes of Mars. I this time lose my equilibrium, but reserve system. flowing from its nostrils. That he transitions from brilliant daylight to landed squarely upon my feet without As we neared the plaza and my It was squally weather all around, was weakening perceptibly was evident, darkness. The nights are either brilliantly presence was discovered we were immediately falling. I then returned by easy jumps with the costly Seminole war dragging but so also was the ape, whose Illuminated or very dark, for surrounded by hundreds of of twenty-five or thirty feet to the Its slow course through the malarial struggles were growing momentarily if neither of the two moons of Mars the creatures, who seemed anxious to little group of warriors. everglades of Florida with embarrassing less. happen to be in the sky almost total My exhibition had been witnessed pluck me from my seat behind the revolutions on both sides of us, darkness results, since the lack of atmosphere, Suddenly I came to myself and, with by several hundred lesser Martians, guard. A word from the leader of the In the revolted Mexican province of or, rather, the very thin that strange instinct which seems ever and they immediately broke Into demands party stilled their clamor, and we proceeded Texas and In Ontario. atmosphere, fails to diffuse the starlight to prompt me to my duty, I seized the for a repetition. But I was at a trot across the plaza to the The defeats of the Democratic ticket to any great extent on the other cudgel, which had fallen to the floor entrance of as magnificent an edifice In the off years plainly foreshadowed hand. If both of the moons are In the at the commencement of the battle, both hungry and thirsty, and Ignored as mortal eye has rested upon. the Ill-starred president's own defeat heavens at night the surface of .the and swinging it jyith all the power of the repeated commands to "sak," and The building was low, but covered ground Is brightly illuminated. In his candidacy for re-election my earthly arms I crashed it full upon each time they were made I motioned an enormous area. It was constructed After Sola replenished my coverings in 1840. No prophet was needed to had the head of the ape, crushing his skull to my mouth and rubbed my stomach. of gleaming white marble Inlaid with I again slept, nor I awaken write the refrain of the popular cam* did as though it had been an egg shell. Tars Tarkas and the chief exchanged gold and brilliant stones which sparkled palgn song of the Whigs: until daylight. The other occupants Scarcely had the blow descended a few words, and the former, calling The Indian princess. Anlwegl and scintillated In the sunlight. of the room, five In number, were all Van I Van 1 to a young female among the throng, when I was confronted with a new Boadlnot, grand niece of the former There was no stairway, but a gentle females and they were still sleeping, danger. The ape's mate, recovered Is a used up man. gave her some Instructions and motioned great Cherokee. Chief 8e Incline to the first floor of the building piled high with a motley array of from Its first shock of terror, had returned me to accompany her. I qooyah. whose statue was placed Nevertheless Van Buren remained In opened Into an enormous chamber encircled silks and fun. Across the threshold to the scene of the encounter la the hall of fame at Washington grasped her proffered arm and' together active politics 10 years. For still another by galleries. by the state of Oklahoma, wants lay stretched the sleepless guardian we crossed the plasa toward a byway of the Interior of the building. 10 years he lived on in retirement On the floor of this chamber, which to 8y 8he's flying now at Washtagton. brute, just as I had last seen him on large building on the far side. I was standing near the window at Llndtnwold, his country estate1b trying to qualify for a was dotted with highly carved wooden the preceding day apparently he had My fair companion was about eight and I knew that once In the street his native village, where he died Vflott license and be th« flrst ladiaa desks and chairs, were assembled not,moved a muscle his .eyes, jrera feet tall, having Just arrived at ma- I might gain the plasa and safety la Ike midst of Civil war. the girl to hold a»ch honor lliis li,"''