f#m$ INTERNATIONAL PALLS PRESS PAGE TWC while Sola, on the other hand, nppar As I entered and saluted, Lorquaa on* to learn of the customs of my "HONOR"A THING FORGOTTEN •nd drink. Including considerable lent «mni!iimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiii!S ently did not see them. Ptouiei signaled me to advance, and, people and displayed a remarkable from the air craft. All this, it seemed, We decided to use this room, on the fixing his great, hideous eyes upon A Princess of) knowledge of events on earth. When Prussian Officer Unable to Understand had been the property of the two second floor and overlooking the plaza, me,- addressed me thus: 1 questioned her closely on this seeming chieftains I had slain, and now. by Idea of Any Obligations of for Dejah Thoris and Sola, and another "You have been with us a few days, familiarity with earthly things I he customs of the Tharks, it had become Hospitality. yet during that time you have by room adjoining and in the rear she laughed, and cried out: mine. At my direction they your prowess won a high position Mars for cooking and supplies. I then dispatched "Why, every schoolboy on Barsoom placed the stuff in one of the back A "typical illustration of German among us. Be that as It may, you are Sola to'bring the bedding aod knows the geography, and much concerning rooms, and then departed, only to return rule in Poland before freedom came such food and utensils as she might not oue of us you owe us no allegl* the fauna and flora, as well with a second load, which they to its people is given by Mrs. ance. need, telling her that 1 would guard as the history of your planet fully as lidvised me constituted the balance Cheslerlon in the New Witness. The "Your position is a peculiar one.** 1 By Edgar Rice Birrovgbt Dejah Thoris until her return. well as of his own. Can we not see of my goods. German military authorities had issued be continued "you are a prisoner As Sola departed Dejah Thoris everything which takes place upon Finding that I must assume responsibility a command to the people of Warsaw turned to me with a faint smile. and yet you give commands which Earth. as you call it is it not hanging Author of E for these creatures, whether that they should furnish a list of "And to where, then, would your prisoner must be obeyed you are an alien and there in the heavens in plain I would or not, I made the best of it their uietals and plate, from door escape should you leave her, un yet you are a Tharkian chieftain sight?" Tarzan of the Apes nnd directed them to find quarters on handles to samovars. you are a midget and yet you can kill less it was to follow you and crave This baffled me. 1 must confess, I he upper floors, leaving the third A German officer billeted in a Polish a mighty warrior with one blow of your protection, and ask your pardon fully as much as my statements had floor ro me. x»ne of.the girls I charged household, says Mrs. Chesterton, your fist. And now you are reported for the cruel thoughts she has harbored confounded her arid I told her so. with the duties of tuy simple cuisine, llhistraftions by Irwin Myers found hruisfctif lonely on Christmas to have been plotting to escape with against you these past few She then explained in general the instruments and directed the others to take up the da.v. The family was keeping the festival. another prisoner of another race a Siiiiimiiimimimiiimmiiiimimiiiiiirc days?" her people had used and various activities which had formerly and the officer sent a note asking prisoner who. from her own admission, "You are right," I answered, "there (Copyright, 1920. •. C. MeGlarg ft Oo.) been perfecting for ages, which permit constituted their vocations. Thereafter if iie might join the party. The half believes you are returned from is no escape for either of us unless we them to throw upon a screen a I saw little of them, nor did I hostess was compelled to assent, and the valley of Dor. Either one of these go together." perfect image of what is transpiring iare to Herr Lieut. Grunsbach partook of a SYNOPSIS. accusations, if proved, would be sufficient "I beard your challenge to the creature upon any planet and upon many of lavish supper. It iiappened that hishostess you call Tars Tarkas. and 1 think grounds for your execution, but the stars. (To be continued had kepi hack a silver samov:ir. FOREWORD.—The author tells of his we are a just people and you shall I understand your position among "If, then, you are so familiar with acquaintance with the hero of one of the which, usually secreted under the have a trial on our return to Thark, roost remarkable adventures ever recorded. these people, but what I cannot fathom earthly things." I asked, "why is bed. on Christmas day shone forth in From a manuscript left by his friend if Tal Hajus so commands. is your statement that you are not of that you do not recognize me as identical he has vividly set out the strange happennings all its g!ory. "But," he continued, in his fierce which brought together a brave Barsoom. with the inhabitants of that planet?" African Seeds. Some one suggested that it would Virginia gentleman and a Princess of guttural tones, "if you run off with "In the name of my first ancestor, Sixteen hundred of seeds and plants Mars. be wiser to remove the samovar the red girl it is I who shall have to She smiled again as one might In then," she continued, "where may you of African fruits, vegetables, grains^ fore tlie Herr-Lieutenant entered, btl CHAPTER I.—In the Arizona hills, John bored indulgence of a questioning account to Tal Hajus it is 1 who shall be from? You are like unto my people, and flowers not common to this country Carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate fiie hostess insisted that he was there have to face Tars Tarkas, and either child. a and yet so unlike. You speak m.v soldier, fleeing from war party have been sent to the United a guest and not as an enemy, and of Apaches, takes refuge in a cave the "Because. John Carter," she replied, demonstrate my right to command, language, and yet I heard you tell States Department of Agriculture for a fhMf even a Prussian would -respect atmosphere of which has remarkable or the metal from my dead carcass "nearly every planet and star having Tars Tarkas that you had but learned a test as to their adaptability to American effect on him. Yielding to its influence, fiie bread and salt. The evening following he will go to a better man. for such is sinks into unconsciousness, his last atmospheric conditions at all approaching it recently. All Barsoomians speak the soil as a result of a trip made by the party an unpleasant-looking thoughts centered on the glow from the the custom of the Tharks. those of Barsoom, shows same tongue from the ice-clad south to Dr. H. L. Shantz, as agricultural explorer. planet Mars. man came to the house accompanied "I have no quarrel with Tars Tarkas forms of animal life almost Identical the ice-dad north, though their written Dr. Shantz accompanied the hy two German soldiers. He CHAPTER II.—Awaking, Carter realizes together we rule supreme the with you and me and. further. Earth languages differ. Only in the valley Smithsonian-African expedition which that he has, in some incomprehensi-fole had called to collect the samovar that greatest of the lesser communities men, almost without exception, cover Dor, where the river Iss empties into made a tour of interior Africa from manner, been transported to Mars. he Herr Lieutenant had reported. Not He is surprised by a party of armed Martian among the green men we do not wish their bodies with strange, unsightly the lost sea of Korus, is there supposed Cape Town to Cairo, penetrating the only did lie remove the samovar, but warriors, who seek his life. He convinces to fight between ourselves and so pieces of cioth, and their heads with to be a different language spoken, and. Orange Free State, the Transvaal, the their leader, Tars Tarkas, of his Ik1 assessed a fine because the law hacf harmlessness and is conveyed, a prisoner, hideous contraptions the purpose of if you were dead, John Carter, I should except in the legends of our ancestors, Kongo, East Africa, the Sudan and been disobeyed. to the Martian city. which we have been unable to conceive be glad. Under two conditions only, there is no record of a Barsoomian returning Egypt, with side trips to other parts Shortly afterward the officer asked while you, when found by the however, may you be killed by us without CHAPTER III.—A creature holding up the river Iss, from the of the continent and adjacent islands. his hostess why she avoided him.. much the position of a dog on earth is orders from Tal Hajus in personal Tharkian warriors, were entirely undlsfigured shores of Korus in the valley of Dor. Among the many new crops, one set to guard him. What had he done to offend her? She* combat in self-defense, should you and unadorned." Do not tell me that you have thus returned! that is viewed with interest is a uld no longer restrain her indignation attack one of us, or were you apprehended CHAPTER IV.—Three days later a fleet I then narrated the details of my They would kill you horribly gourd two, feet long, which contains of and told him what she thought warships from the neighboring state of In an attempt to escape. departure from the Earth, explaining anywhere upon the surface of Barsoom two gallons of succulent seed about Helium, passing over the city, is attacked of him—to his profound astonishment, "As a matter of justice I must warn by Carter's captors, the green Martians. that my body there lay fully if that were true tell me It is not!" the size of an almond. The meat of iiow could she blame him for doingwhat The fleet is scattered and one of the airships you that we only await one of these clothed in all the. to her, strange garments Her little hands, reached up upon these seeds resembles that of the butternut captured. Among the prisoners is was obviously his duty? Hospitality of mundane dwellers. At this two excuses for ridding ourselves of a young woman of a race different from my breast, were pressed against me in taste, and, in addition to entailed no obligation to forget the green Martians and more closely resembling point Sola returned with our meager so great a responsibility. The safe as though to wring a denial from my their possibilities as a nut substitute, the women of the earth. one's fatherland. Germany had belongings and her young Martian delivery of the red girl to Tal Hajus very heart. they are rich in oil. Many new kafflr need of samovars. What mattered) CHAPTER V.—Carter ascertains that Is of the greatest Importance. Not protege, who, of course, would have corns and sorghums, as well as grasses, "I do not know your customs. Dejah else?—Youth's Companion. the fair prisoner's name is Dejah Thoris, In a thousand years have the Tharks to share the quarters with them. suitable for the semiarid West, as well granddaughter of the Jeddak, or ruler, Thoris, but in my own Virginia a gentleman made such a capture she is the grand-daughter of Helium. He also ascertains that according Sola asked us if we had had a visitor as the pine lands of the South, some does not lie to save himself REFUSE TO SURRENDER RELIC to custom she is doomed to die during her absence, and seemed of the greatest of red jeddak excellent new mangoes, a number of I am not of Dor I have never seen by torture. In the council chamber he much surprised when we answered s, who is also our bitterest, enemy. talks with her and assures her of his oil plants, some dry-land rice, and a the mysterious Iss the lost sea of sympathy. In the negative. It seemed that as I have spoken. The red g5rl large number of grains and grasses Citizens of Little French Town Korus is still lost, so far as I am concerned. she had mounted the approach-to the told us that we were without the are among the specimens. The department Alan Offer Lives in Defense Do you believe me?" CHAPTER VI. upper floors where our quarters were softer'sentiments of humanity, but we has found that several crops of Stone Cow. And then it struck me that I was located, she had met Sarkoja descending. are a just and truthful race. You may which flourish in central Africa are very anxious that she should believe go." We decided that she must have adapted to the southern parts of the The famous stone cow of Alan, a. With Dejah Thoris. me. I looked down at her her beauti- been eavesdropping, but as we could. Turning, I left the audience chamber. southwestern United States. The little town in the Haute Garonne, As we reached the open the two female recall nothing of importance that had So this was the beginning of American-Egyptian cotton and Sudan France, is again the center of a fight guards who had been detailed to passed between us we dismissed the Sarkoja's persecution! I knew that grass are among the noteworthy acquisitions watch over De.1ah Thoris hurried up between the peasants of the village matter as of little consequence. none other could be responsible for as a result of previous expeditions. and the Ministry des Beaux Arts in and made as though to assume custody Dejah Thoris and I then fell to examining this report which had reached the Paris. Twice the ministry has sold of her once more. The poor child the architecture and decora- ears of Lorquas Ptomel so quickly, shrank against me and I felt her two the cow, which dates back to the fifteenth and now I recalled those portions of little hands fold tightly over my arm. century, and each time thevi Giant Eels. our conversation which had touched Waving the women away, I informed I lagers have fought with pitchforksand It is said there are eels no one can upon escape and upon my origin. clubs all attempts to remove it them that Sola would att^tid the captive land. Some years ago a giant conger Sarkoja was at this time Tars Tarkas' from the front of the Episcopal palace. hereafter. Sarkoja merely gave was caught in shallow water off the oldest and most trusted female. us an ugly look and departed to hatch shores of England. It measured 8 feet As such she was a mighty power behind up deviltries against us. After the war a Paris antique dealer, 8 inches in length and weighed 148 the throne, for no warrior had knowing the history of the stone I soon found Sola and explained to pounds. Congers half that size have the confidence of Lorquas Ptomel to cow, persuaded the Ministry des her that I wished her to guard Dejah been known to bite a man's hand in such an extent as did his ablest lieutenant. Beaux Arts to sell it to him. Once before Thoris as she had guarded me that I two and to have driven their teeth Tars Tarkas. they sold the cow, but all the wished her to find other quarters through the blade of an oar. However, instead of putting thoughts gendarmes that they could center on where they would not be molested by In 1913 Kakanamsku, the champion of possible escape from my mind, my Alan failed to get the monument. Thepurchaser Sarkoja, and I finally informed her swimmer of Honolulu, was attacked audience with Lorquas Ptomel only asserts that he will remove, that I myself would take up my quarters by a giant eel, which dragged him served to center my every faculty on it and place it in front of a Parisian among the men. under water, and held him there for :his subject. Now, more than before, mansion. The peasants of Alan have "Yon are a great chieftain now, John nearly two minutes. He escaped at :he absolute necessity for escape, in again armed, and this time with modern Carter." she said, "and I must do your last, but at the cost of a finger from so far as Dejah Thoris was concerned, weapons, for little of the old village bidding, though indeed I am glad to do his right hand. was impressed upon me. for 1 was is left from the shells of the Germanf it under any circumstances. The man Eels attain an immense size in the •onvlneed that some horrible fate and they intend to protect their whose metal you carry was young, but rivers of New Zealand and have been awaited her at the headquarters of relic. There is little left of the Episcopal he was a great warrior, and had by his known to attack bathers. In fact, Tal Hajus. palace, before which the cow promotions and kills won his way close many cases of drowning have been As described by Sola, this monster stands, but not a shell hit the cow to the rank of Tars Tarkas, who. as proven to be where eels have dragged was the exaggerated personification during the war. you know, is second to Lorquas Ptomel the bathers beneath the surface of of all the ages of cruelty, ferocity, only. You are eleventh, there are but the water. and brutality from which he had descended. ten chieftains In this community who Blower Recovers Waste Cement. Cold, cunning, calculating rank you in prowess." The bags in which cement is shipped he was, also, in marked contrast to World's Jute Comes From India. have a considerable return value, "And if I should kill Lorquas Ptomel?" most of his fellows, a slave to that Of sub-tropical products India gives because of the character of the material asked. brute passion which the waning demands us the whole of the world's jute and entering into the manufacture, "You would be first. John Carter for procreation upon their dying a large proportion of its hemp. Some so that all large consumers find It but you may only win that honor by planet had almost stilled in the 500,000 tons of jute are exported annually. necessary to see that these are gathered the will of the entire council that Lorquas Martian breast. Thirty years ago Indian indigo up and returned to the cement Ptomel meet you in combat, or As 1 wandered about the plaza lost "I Looked Down at Her, Her Beautift was the world's standard blue, but plant. should he attack you, you may kill him In my gloomy forebodings Tars Tarkas Face Upturned, and Her Wonderfir the vegetable dyes of India have been Heretofore it has been regarded as in self-defense, and thus win first approached me on his way from Eyes Opening Up the Very Depth destroyed by the German aniline dyes sufficient to turn the bag upside down place." the audience chamber. of Her Soul." and the principal victim has been indigo. and shake it as a means of emptying. -4 laughed, and changed the subject. "Where are your quarters, John Carter?" But recently it has been found that 1 had no particular desire to kill Lorquas fu! face upturned, and her wonderful he asked. this method is wasteful in the extreme, Ptomel, and less to be a Jed "Dejah Thoris and I Then Fell to Examining eyes opening up the very depth of her "I have selected none," I replied. and the cement is now recovered the Architecture and Decorations among the Tharks. soul and as my eyes met hers I knew NARCOTIC BEATS COCAINE "It seemed best that 1 quartered either by a blower. of the Beautiful Chambers I accompanied Sola and Dejah Thoris why. and—I shuddered. by myself or among the other warriors. By this means from one and onehalf in a search for new quarters, which of the Building We Were Occupying," A similar wave of feeling seemed and I was awaiting an opportunity Although It Has 47 Letters in Its to two sacks of cement are recovered we found in a building near the audience to stir her she drew away from me Name, It's Not Habit- 1 to ask your advice." per 1,000 sacks cleaned. Twv chamber and of far more pretentious with a sigh, and with her earnest, "Come with me." he directed, and together Forming. men can clean 2,000 sacks a day, besides tions of the beautiful chambers of the architecture than our former beautiful face turned up to mine, she we moved off across the plaza sorting, counting and bundling building we were occupying. She told habitation. We also found in this whispered: "I believe you, John Carter Charlottesville, Va.—It has remained to a building which I was glad to see them. The cement recovered maks a me that these people had presumably building real sleeping apartments with I do not know what a 'gentleman' adjoined tluit occupied by Sola and for surgeons to deaden pain credit to the cost of handling of about flourished over a hundred thousand ancient beds of highly wrought metal is, nor have I ever heard before with 47 letters of the alphabet. These her charges. $2.50 a day. years before. They were the early swinging from enormous gold cliaius of Virginia but on Barsoom no man "My quarters are on the first floor letters form the word, "para-amino- I progenitors of her rat?e, but had mixed depending from the marble ceilings. lies if he does not wish to speak the benzoyiide tliylamino etlianol-hydroclilorid." of this building,' he said, "and the Sell Many Door Locks. with the other great races of early The decoration of the walls was most truth he is silent. Where is this Virginia, second floor also is fully occupied by This is a new anaesthetic, The crime wave is resulting in vaucb/1* Martians, who were very dark, almost elaborate and. unlike the frescoes in your country, John Carter?" warriors, but the third floor and the better known as pro-cain or novo-cain, new business for the hardware- store black, and also with the reddish yellow the other buildings I had examined, she asked, and it seemed that this which possesses all the pain deadening, floors above are vacant you may take man these days. Padlocks, heavy race which had flourished at the portrayed many human figures in the fair name of my fair land had never your choice of these. but none of the habit-forming chains and burglar alarm devices are'' same time. compositions. These were of people sounded more beautiful than as it "1 understand." he continued, "that qualities of cocaine. being sold like hot cakes, and persons These three great divisions of the like myself, and of a much lighter color fell from those perfect lips on that you -have given up your woman to It was discovered in Germany early higher Martians had been forced in who never before thought to lock than Dejah Thoris. They were clad far gone day. the red prisoner. Well, if you wish in the present century, but did not to a mighty alliance as. the drying up their doors are now taking double in graceful, flowing robes, highly ornamented "I am of another world," I answered, to give your woman to a captive, it come into common usage until early measures against intruders. of the Martian seas had compelled with metal and jewels, and "the great planet Earth, which revives is your own affair but as a chieftain in the war. Physicians of the University "Until a few months ago," said a them to seek the comparatively few their luxuriant hair was of a beautiful about our common sun and you should have those to serve you, of Virginia hospital were among and always diminishing fertile areas, hardware man, "we sold door chains golden and reddish bronze. The men next within the orbit of your Barsoom, and in accordance with our customs the first to introduce the drug into this and to defend themselves, under new only occasionally. Now we can't supply were beardless" and only a few wore which we know as Mars. How you may select any or all the females country, and for the last few years the demand. New Yorkers, as a conditions of life, against the wild arms. The scenes depicted for the from the retinues of the chieftains I came here I cannot tell you, for I it has been used extensively In this institution rule, are careless, but I think that th& hordes of green men. most part a fair-skinned, fair-haired do not know but here I am, and since whose metal you now wear." for operations upon the eye, The ancient Martians had been a present activity of the crooks will people at play. my presence has permitted me to I thanked him, but assured him that ear, nose and throat, and for major highly cultivated and literary race, teach them a lesson. My advice to i\ Dejah Thoris clasped her hands serve Dejah Thoris I am glad that I could get along very nicely without operations. persons living in apartments is to but during the vicissitudes of those with an exclamation of rapture as she I am here." assistance except ip the matter of preparing trying centuries of readjustment to keep their doors well chained. Professional gazed upon these magnificent works of food, and so he promised to She gazed at me with troubled eyes, new conditions, not only did their advancement crooks will get into almost art, wrought by a people long extinct long and questioningly. I would much send- women to me for this purpose: and production cease entirely, any place, but extra precautions cot Dove Rests on Coffin rather not have told her anything of and also for the care of my arms and but practically all their archives, hall doors will keep the sneak thief^ the manufacture of my ammunition, at Railroad Station my antecedents, but no man could records, and literature were lost. out."—New York Sun. PREPARE FOR SPRING LABOR which he said would be necessary. look into the depth of those eyes and We had been so engrossed in explor refuse her slightest heheat I' tinally chose a front room on the ation of the building and in' our conversation Hamilton, Ont.—A remarkable Women's Hair Prioe Increases. Machines and Implements of All Kinds ft third floor, because this brought me Finally she smiled, and, rising, said: Incident occurred here at that it was late In the afternoon The price given by hairdressers for Should Be Overhauled:. and nearer to Dejah Thoris, whose apartment "I shall have to believe, even though the funeral of E. J. Whitworth, before we realized it. Wie' were women's hair has increased enormous*-ly & Needed Repairs Made. was on the second floor of the 1 cannot understand. But why should brought back to a realization of our a veterinary surgeon, who was during the last 12 months. While, I trouble my poor head with such a present conditions by a messenger adjoining building, and It flashed upbearing murdered at Hall's Corners, some women in America and Britainsell Better bring in all the machinery on me that I could rig up some means problem, when my heart tells me that a summons from Lorquas Ont. While the flower-covered their hair, the real trade in thiscommodity not in use and start to get ready for of communication whereby she might I believe because I wish to believe?" casket was resting at the railway Ptomel directing me to appear before is done in Continentalcountries. spring. 4ake off the plows, put them signal me in case she needed either It was good logic, good, earthly, station for transportation him forthwith. Bidding Dejah Thoris Peasant girls in France, where they will be handy to get to services or my protection. feminine logic, and if it satisfied her my and Sola farewell, and commanding to Aurora, Ont., for interment Belgium and Italy sell their hair at the blacksmith's and see that the cultivator My thoughts were cut short by the 1 certainly could pick no flaws in It^ a dove alighted on the box and Woola to remainonguard, I: hastened regular periods to dealers. This hair shovels are cared for. Don't advenf of several young females bearn^ We fell into a general conversation held its position until the coffin to the audience chamber, where •is mostly of the fair and black variety. wait until the blacksmith Is rushed to '»ids of weapons, silks, furs, jewels then,, asking and, answering many was removed to the train. I found Lorquas Ptomel and Tars Tar-1 while most golden hair is obtained have the disks sharpened. He will do •••micing utensils, and casks of food questions on each side. She was curi* kus healed upon the rostrum. from Scandinavians. a better Job If allowed to take bis Ll ~£r