INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS TWC 'jHsT ever you have been .off "duly one of in TBf "plaza of The dead clty^of T5oF» CHINESE WEDDING IS gnnnronimiiiiiimuiiiimiiiitminims yon 'and 'Dejah Thoris 'escape the liver an effective thrust. Then he the older women of Tars Tarkas' retinue ad. Tharks It will be upon this Journey. changed his tactics, and fighting warily of I has always arranged to trump GORGEOUS CELEBRATION My first Impulse was to tell her of We know that you will not go without 'f-f and with extreme dexterity, he tried up some excuse to get Sola and me my love, and then I thought of the her. You have shown yourself to do by science what he was unable out of sight. They have had me down helplessness of her position wherein a mighty fighter, and we do not wish to do by brute strength. In the pits below the buildings helping I alone could lighten the burdens of to manacle .you, so we hold you both We circled for some time without Mars Splendors them mix their awful radium powder, Merchant Outshines the her captivity, and protect her In my In the easiest way that will yet ensure doing much damage on either side the and make their terrible projectiles. poor way against the thousands of security. I have spoken." long, straight, needle-like swords flashing of the Old Empire You know that these have to be manufactured hereditary enemies she must face upon 1 saw the strength of his reasoning In the sunlight, and ringing out by artificial light, as exposure in S2ii.r,gs. our arrival at Thark. I could not at a flash, and knew that It were upon the stillness as they crashed together By Edgar Rice Bnrroagks to sunlight always results in an chance causing her additional pain or futile to appeal from his decision. with each effective parry. explosion. You have noticed that their sorrow by declaring a love which. In "This much. Tars Tarkas, you may Finally Zad, realizing that he was tiring An unusual and most elaborate Chinese Aithor ti bullets explode when they strike an all probability she did not return. do for me In return for the friendship more than I, evidently decided to v, otjdiijg ceremony which took object? Well, the opaque, outer coating "Why are you so quigt, Dejah Thoris?" that, I must confess, I feel for close in and end the battle in a final [jit.ee in Rangoon recently was that is broken by the Impact, exposing 1 Tarzan of the Apes 1 asked. "Possibly you would you." blaze of glory for himself just as he the daughter oi' Lin Chin Tsong, a glass cylinder almost solid, in the rather return to Sola and your quarters." rushed me a blinding flash of light "Friendship?" he replied. "There t'h.ne.-e merchant and ship owner, forward end of which is a minute particle struck full in my eyeS, so that I could is no such thing, John Carter but li.ch is described in the London of radium powder. The moment Illustrations by Irwin Myers "No," she murmured, "I am happy only leap blindly to one side in an have your will: I shall direct that Duiiy Mail by one of the wedding the sunlight, even though diffused, here. I do not know why It Is that effort to escape the mighty blade that Sarkoja cease to annoy the girl, and guests. strikes this powder it explodes with I should always be happy and contented it seemed I could already feel in my I myself will take the custody of the 'i he palace of the Chinese merchant A. a violence which nothing can withstand." (Oontlfkt, 100, Q. MoOluig Oo.) when you. John Carter, a vitals. I was only partially successful, key." .:s known as ••Dreamland." Here," according stranger, are with me yet at such as a sharp pain In my left shoulder That night as we were making camp to the article, he lives with all While 1 was much Interested in SYNOPSIS. times" it seems that I am safe and attested, but in the sweep of my I saw him unfasten Dejah Thoris' his sons and daughters' and brothers Dejah Thoris* explanation of this wonderful that, wtth you. I shall soot* return to glance as I sought to again locate my fetters himself. and oilier relatives who can show adjunct to Martian warfare, I m.v father's court and feel his strong adversary, a sight met my astonished FOREWORD.—The author tells of his As I was approaching Dejah Thoris' lighrtui claim to relationship. There acquaintance with the hero of one of the was more concerned by the immediate arms about me and my mother's tears gaze which paid me well for the wound chariot 1 passed Sarkoja, and the most remarkable adventures ever recorded. are so many of them, in fact, that he problem of their treatment of her. and kisses on my cheek." the temporary blindness had caused From a manuscript left by his friend black, venomous look she accorded liiaintains twelve motor cars for their That they were keeping her away from he has vividly set out the strange happennlngs me. There, upon Dejah Thorlg* chariot, "Do people kiss. then, upon Barsoom?" me was the sweetest balm I had felt use. which brought together a brave me was not a matter for surprise, but I asked, when she bad explained stood three figures, for the purpose Virginia gentleman and a Princess of for many hours. when the guests arrived in "Dreaiu.and" that they should subject her to dangerous Mars. the word she used. In answer evidently of witnessing the encounter A few moments later I saw her deep they found the bride alone at an and arduous labor filled me to my inquiry as to its meaning. above the heads of the intervening CHAPTER 1.—In the Arizona hills, John in conversation with a warrior named altar engaged in a religious ceremony] with rage. Carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate Tharks. There were Dejah Thoris, "Parents, brothers, and sisters, yes Zad a big, hulking, powerful brute, She was dressed in magnificent robes soldier, fleeing from a war party "Have they ever subjected you to Sola, and Sarkoja, and as my fleeting and." she added in a low, thoughtful of Apaches, takes refuge In a cave the but one who had never made a kill :iud on her head she wore a gold crown cruelty and Ignominy, Dejah Thoris?" atmosphere of which has a remarkable glance swept over them a little tone, "lovers." among his own chieftains, and so was eigiit inches high, which even in the effect on him. Yielding to Its Influence, 1 asked, feeling the hot blood of my tableau was presented which will "And you, Dejah Thoris, have parents he sinks into unconsciousness, his last still an "o mad," or man with one liaiuiiest king and queen days was considered fighting ancestors leap in my veins stand graven In my memory to the thoughts centered on the glow from the and brothers and sisters?" name he could win a second name to be some height for a crown, planet Mars. as 1 awaited her reply. day of my death. -Yes." only with the metal of some chieftain. itui this particular crown extended in "Only In little ways, John Carter." "And a—lover?" As I looked, Dejah Thoris turned CHAPTER II.—Awaking, Carter realizes It was this custom which entitled lioth directions, as it were, for all she answered. "Nothing that can that he has, in some incomprehensible She was silent, nor could I venture upon Sarkoja with the fury of a young me to the names of either of around it hung long ornaments, which manner, been transported to Mars. harm me outside my pride. At heart to repeat the question. tigress and struck something from her He Is surprised by a party of armed Martian the chieftains I had killed In fact, hid the face of the little bride, blushing they .hate their horrid fates, and so warriors, who seek his life. He convinces "The man of Barsooin." she finally upraised hand something which some of^the warriors addressed me under her careful makeup, to a their leader, Tars Tarkas, of his flashed In the sunlight as it spun to harmlessness and is conveyed, a prisoner, wreak thefr poor spite on me who point just a bit below the mouth. She ventured, "does not ask personal to the Martian city. as Dotar Sojat, a combination of the stands for everything they have not, the ground. Then I knew what had wore enough diamonds to outshine an q' uions of women, exeept his mother, surnames of the two warrior chieftains and for all they most crave and never CHAPTER III.—A creature holding blinded tue at that crucial moment American opera singer, and not one of and the woman he has fought for and whose metal I had taken, or. in other much the position of a dog on earth Is can attain. Let us pity them, my of the fight, and how Sarkoja had her fingers lacked the adornment of a won." 1 eet to guard him. I words, whom I had slain in fair fight. chieftain, for even though we die at found a way to kill me without herself ring. "But I have fought—" I started, and CHAPTER IV.—Three days later a fleet I As Sarkoja talked with Zad he cast their hands we can afford pity, since delivering the final thrust. An When the happy and doubtless also then I wished my tongue had been cut •f warships from the neighboring state of occasional glances In my direction, we are greater than they and they other thing I saw, too. which almost Helium, passing over the city. Is attacked fortunate bridegroom arrived, six Chinese from my mouth for she turned even while she seemed to be urging him ly Carter's captors, the green Martians. know It." lost my life for me then and there, for musicians began working over as I caught myself and ceased, and The fleet is scattered and one of the airships very strongly to some action. I paid "I presume It Is the better part of It took my mind for the fraction of captured. Among the prisoners is drawing my silks from her shoulder weird looking instruments and produced little attention to It at the time, but a young woman of a race different from wisdom that we bow to our fate with an Instant entirely from my antagonist what they called a song of welcome she held them out to me, and without the green Martians and more closely resembling the next day I had good reason to recall as good grace as possible, Dejah Thoris for. as Dejsh Thoris struck the to the bridegroom, who was attired the women of the earth. a word, and with head held high, the circumstances, and at the hut I hope, nevertheless, that I may tiny mirror from her hand, Sarkoja, in a robe of blue and gold. After she moved with the carriage of the CHAPTER V.—Carter ascertains that same time gain a slight insight into be present the next time that any her face livid with hatred and baffled the two principals had advanced to queen she was toward the plaza and the fair prisoner's name is Dejah Thoris, Martian, green, red. pink, or violet, the depths of Sarkoja's hatred and the granddaughter of the Jeddak, or ruler, rage, whipped out her dagger and greet each other, the bride retired toan the doorway of -her quarters. of Helium. He also ascertains that according lengths to which she was capable of has the temerity to even so much as aimed a terrific blow at Dejah Thoris ante-chamber, where all the guests I did not attempt to follow her, to custom she is doomed to die frown on you, my princess." going to wreak her horrid vengeance by torture. In the council chamber he and then Sola, our dear and faithful filed by to congratulate her. After other than to see that she reached the talks with her and assures her of his on me. Dejah Thoris caught her breath at Sola, sprang between them the last this was over everybody went intothe building in safety, but, directing Woola •ympathy. my last words, and gazed upon me We broke camp the next day at an I saw was the great knife descending bridal chamber, which contained to accompany her, I turned disconsolately CHAPTER VI.—The prisoner Is confined with dilated eyes and quickening early hour and marched with only a upon her shielding breast. a bed enveloped in pale pink silk and and entered my own house. 1 to the guardianship of Carter's breath, and then, with an odd little single halt until just before dark. Two My enemy had recovered from his friend, Sola, and the two prisoners plan lace, looped back on each side with sat for hours cross-legged, and crosstempered, to escape before Dejah Tnoris is taken laugh, which brought roguish dimples Incidents broke the tediousness of the thrust and was making it extremely silver embroidered curtain loops, upon my silks meditating Jbefore the supreme ruler of the green to the corners of her mouth,- she march. About nocn we espied far to interesting for me. so 1 reluctantly Martians, Tal Hajus. bolster of the same material divided upon the queer freaks chance, plays our right what was evidently an incubator, shook her head and cried: gave my attention to the work in the bed. On the bridegroom's s.ide was: upon us poor devils of mortals. "What a child! A great warrior and Lorquas Ptomel directed hand, but my mind was not upon the a silver salver tilled with tobacco. To I was a fool, but I was In love, and CHAPTER VII. and yet a stumbling child." Tars Tarkas to Investigate it. The battle. look at him nobody would have thought though I was suffering the greatest "What have I done now?" I asked, latter took a dozen warriors, including We rushed each other furiously time that he was such a heavy smoker as misery I had ever known I would not Love-Making on Mars. in sore perplexity. myself, and we raced across the after time, 'til suddenly, feeling the that. After the guests had examined have had it otherwise for all the Following the battle with the airships, "Some day you shall know, John velvety carpeting of moss to the little sharp point of his sword at my breast the bridal chamber a number of Chinese riches of Barsoom. Such is love, and the community remained within enclosure. Carter, if we live but 1 may not tell in a thrust 1 could neither parry nor girls skipped in and entertained such are lovers wherever love is the city for several days, abandoning you And I, th.e daughter of Mors I Tars Tarkas dismounted and examined'tlie escape, I threw myself upon him with the guests with dancing. known. 4he homeward march until they could Kajak, son of Tardos Mors, have inclosure minutely, finally announcing outstretched sword and with all the To me Dejah Thoris was all that feel reasonably assured that-the ships listened without anger," she soliloquized that it belonged to the green weight of my bod.v. determined that was perfect all that was virtuous would not return for to be caught in conclusion. men of Warhoon. and that the cement I would not die alone if I could prevent and beautiful and noble and good. on the open plains with a cavalcade was scarcely dry where it had been Then she broke out again Into one it. I felt tlie steel tear into m.v I believed that from the bottom of of chariots and children was far from of her gay, happy, laughing moods walled tip. chest, all went black before me, ray my heart, from the depth of my soul the desire of even so warlike a people FIXING STANDARDS FOR joking with me on my prowess as a cross-| "They cannot be a day's march head whirled in dizziness, and 1 fell on that night in Korad as I sat *ns the green Martians. Thark warrior as contrasted with my ahead of us," he exclaimed, the light my knees giving beneath me. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES legged upon my silks, and 1 believe During our period of Inactivity, Tars soft heart and natural kindliness. it today as I sit at my desk in the of battle leaping to his fierce face, JTarkas had instructed me In many of (To be continue'1' I was very curious to know what little study overlooking the Hudson, The work at the incubator was short the customs and arts of war familiar I had said or done to cause her so Twenty years have Intervened for ten indeed. The warriors tore open the to the Tharks, Including lessons In much perturbation a moment before of them 1 lived and fought for Dejah entrance and a couple of them, crawling riding and guiding the great beasts and so I continued to importune her LEGISLATIVE SIDE LIGHTS Thoris and her people, and for ten in. soon demolished all the eggs which bore the warriors. These creatures, to enlighten me. I have lived upon her memory. with their short-swords. Then remounting which are known as thoats, are "No," she exclaimed, "it Is enough The morning of nur departure for we dashed back to join the Wolf bounties, now $7.50 for females •as dangerous and vicious as their mash Thark I sought out Dejah Thoris in that you have said it and that I have cavalcade. During the ride I took and $3 for males, would be raised tc ters, but when once subdued are sufficiently listened. And when you learn, John occasion to ask Tars Tarkas if these $15 for females and $6 for males by a tractable for the purposes of Carter, and if I be dead, as likely Warhoons whose eggs we had destroyed hill introduced by Representative A. the green Martians. enough I shall be ere the further moon were a smaller people than Praxel. Two of these animals had fallen has circled Barsoom another twelve his Tharks. to me from the warriors whose metal Claiming that small towns and vi* times, remember that I listened and "I noticed that their eggs were so I wore, and in a short time I could lages have no use for jails and tha that I—smiled." much smaller than those I saw hatchIng some of them were making public rest handle them quite as well as the native It was all Greek to me, but the more in your incubator," I added. rooms of them. Representative W. warriors. I begged her to explain the more positive Darby of Carlton made a plea for hi He explained that the eggs had just "My experience with Woola determined became her denials of my request, hills requiring villages of the fourt been placed there but, like all green me to attempt the experiment and, so, in very hopelessness. class to maintain public restrooms. Martian eggs, they would grow during of kindness In my treatment of my I desisted. the five-year period of incubation thoats. First I taught them that they The legislative "Pipe club" is in fu The chill of the Martian night was I until they obtained the size of those swing. The present membership i: could not unseat me, and even rapped upon us, and removing my silks 1 threw I had seen hatching on the day of my them sharply between the ears to impress made up of Representatives R. A. Wil them across the shoulders of Dejah arrival on Barsoom. This was indeed kinson, J. B. Gislason, John W O upon them my authority and Thoris. As ray arm rested for an instant an Interesting piece of Information, son, F. J. McPartin, P. J. Long an mastery. Then, by degrees. I' won upon her I felt a thrill pass for It had always seemed remarkable Senators George H. Sullivan and J. W their confidence in much the same through every fiber of my being as to me that the green Martian women, Hnpp Representative Wilkinson wa? manner as I had adopted countless threatened with expulsion recentl: times with pnany mundane mounts. sucli a contact with no other mortal large as they were, could bring forth when he was discovered smoking had ever produced and it seemed to such enormous eggs as I had seen In the course of a few days my me that she had leaned slightly toward the four-foot Infants emerging from. fat cigar He was exonerated whe thoats were the wonder of the entire me, but of that 1 was not sure. he explained a constituent had give As a'matter of fact, the new-laid ege community. They would follow me I loved Dejah Thoris. The touch it to him, and that he did not care Is but little larger than an ordinary like dogs, rubbing their great snouts of my arm upon her naked shoulder lose a vote by not smoking it. goose egg, and as it does not commence against my body in awkward evidence very important, thougn little A Authority for a proposed "efficiencv to grow until subjected to the ^of affection, and respond to my every known to the general public, international survey" of the Minneapolis publl light of the sun the chieftains have Iftw command with an alacrity and docility institution is the international school system was given by the lo\ little difficulty In transporting several which caused the Martian warriors bureau of weights and measures located er house of the state legislature. hundreds of them at one time to ascribe to me the possession of at Sevres, near Paris, France. Complimentary tickets to all motio. from the storage vault to the incubators. some earthly power unknown on Mars. It is there that the standards of picture theaters in St. Paul, Minneap On the seventh day following the weights and measures for nearly all lis and other towns in the state, sen Shortly after the incident of the battle with the air craft we again the important countries of the world out by the United Theatrical Protetive took up the march toward Thark. all Warhoon eggs we halted to rest the are determined. The bureau was established league, have reached members probability of another attack being animals, and it was during this halt in 1875 by a group of leading the legislature. deemed remote by Lorquas Ptomel. that the second of the day's interesting nations including the United Do not tell your neighbor a bank During the days just preceding oui episodes occurred. 1 was engaged States. Delicate instruments invented financial institution is "broke" or in In changing my riding cloths from departure 1 had seen but little of Dejah by famous scientists are used in t! solvent. If Representative W. one of my thoats to the other, for I Thoris, as 1 had been kept very determination of the standards and Briggs' bill, H. F. 177, is passed. You divided the day's work between them, busy by Tars Tarkas with my lessons years have been spent in research would be guilty of a gross misdemean when Zad approached me, and without in the art of Martian warfare, as well in connection with this very important I Sought Out Dejah Thoris in the or. as in the training of my thonts. The a word struck the animal a terrific work, without the knowledge of Throng of Departing Chariots. few times I had visited her quarters blow with his long-sword. which international intercourse, as we she had been absent, walking upon the throng of departing chariots, but I did not need a manual of green know it today, could not exist. Hie Even though the house defeated a the streets with Sola, or investigating she turned her shoulder to me, and I Martian etiquette to know what reply metric system is used in the work of bill changing the weight of corn on the the buildings in the near vicinity of could see the red blood mount to, her to make, for, in fact, I was so wild the bureau and. though the United ear from 70-pounds to 80 pounds in the plaza. cheek. With the foolish inconsistency with anger that 1 could scarcely refrain States has not adpoted the metric October and November and 75 pounds On the evening before our departure of love I held my peace when I might from drawing my pistol and system, this government has adopted in December and January, the senate saw them approaching along one of have pleaded ignorance of the nature shooting down the brute he was but many of the, standards Issued by tne unanimously passed the measures, after the great avenues whi^h lead into the of my offense, or at least the gravity he stood waiting with drawn longsword. bureau. an amendment providing that buy plaza from the east. I advanced to of It. and so have effected, at worst, and my only choice- was to ers "may" take these weights. This Prof. Charles Edward Guillaume, one a half conciliation. meet them, and telling Sola that I draw my own and meet liim in fair means the bill will come up again in of the world's foremost authorities on would take the responsibility for Dejab My duty dictated that I must see fight with his choice of weapons or the house, and with the compulsory weights and measures and winner of Thoris' safe keeping, I directed that she was comfortable, and so I a lesser one. provision stricken out, probably it will the 1920 Nobel prize for phy^cs, is her to return to her quarters on some glanced into her chariot' and rearranged I chose the same weapon he had pass director of the bureau. trivial errand. I liked and trusted her silks and furs. In doing drawn because he prided himself upon The picture shows Professor Gulllaurne Sola, but for some reason I desired so I noted with horror that she was his ability with It, and I wished, if I Bill-Signed By Governor. making a difficult experimei to be alone with Dejah Thoris, who heavily chained by one ankle to the worsted him at all, to do It with his with a menpmeter, an Instrument which represented tovme all that I had left side of the vehicle. r: own weapon. The entire community The soldier bonus bill, passed by the can determine accurately a millionth behind upon Earth In agreeable and "What does this mean?" I cried, surrounded us. leaving a clear space state legislature became a law Friday part of a meter by means of etectrig, 4 congenial companionship. about one hundred feet in diameter when Governor J. A. O. Preus attached turning to Sola. rays Invisible to the naked eye. That she shared my sentiments In his signature to the act. The bill provides "Sarkoja thought It best," she answered, for" our battle. this respect 1 was positive, for on my her face betokening her disapproval Zad first attempted to rush me down for the immediate disposal of approach the look of pitiful hopelessness of the procedure. as a bull might a wolf, but I was much the remaining $4,538,000 bond issue, U. S. Gave $30,000,000 to Near East. The Tyueh of My Arm Upon Her left her sweet countenance to be too quick for him, and each time I which means that the soldiers who I turned* and sought out Tars Tarkas, Naked 8houlder Had 8poke» to M§ American organizations expended replaced by a smile of joyful welcome, sidje-stepped his rushes he would go have not yet received their bonus will to, whom I vehemently objected ,to In Words I Could Not Mistake, more than ?30,000,000 last year In re^, as she placed her little right hand upmy be paid as the money is received from lunging past me, only to receive a the unnecessary humiliations and lief work in the Near East. This snm left shoulder In true red Martian the sale of the bonds. The action of had spoken to ine in words 1 could nick from my sword upon his arm oi cruelties, as they seemed to my loyerfs. Included money spent by the government salute. the legislature also makes it possible back. He was soon streaming bloof not mistake, and 1 knew that I had eyes, that were being heaped upon for flour and foodstuffs, dis* routed. for the state bonus board to acc upon .•} "I think they have been trying to from a half dozen minor wounds, but loved her since .the first moment that Dejah Thoris. under the supervision of tier s-t the bids of the Minneapolis banks. keep "us apart," she said, "for when- I could not obtain an opening to de- nay eyes had met_hers that first time "John Carter," he_answered, "If ever Hoo7~«r. ^5^4 fM-jtA. 1 iwiiJ-'y. :-,\ DEFECTIVE PAGE