SsPlsKi 'm 'j.rpT'il?} iy^ Vf^fvr^-^T 1»* ". tor 3 ^'sT -„^V--JV r*-\ .- INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, PAGE TWO Kf •r&ri. air vessels until we hung directly over two of us working together should thoats were found wauderftig upon the skill in- defending the person of the" the jegdak of Zpdanga and his staff. be able to accomplish much." iiiitiuiiiiiiiiimtiniifitm^ sea bottom and evidences of a bloody cousin of {he jeddak Than Kosis and, Stari^Across U. S. One of the staff called the attention The plaza now commencing conflict were discovered near-by." was single-handed, vanquishing three green A Princess of I jpf: Than Kosis to the presence of my to fill with people going and comings warriors,*it Is the pleasure of our jeddak While this Information was in no Mn Ox-Drawn House companion above them and the ruler way reassuring, neither was it at all upon the dally activities of their duties. to confer on you the mark of' his motioned for him to descend. I could esteem." conclusive proof of the death of Dejah The shops were opening and Greenwich, Conn.—With his not hear their- conversation and presently Thoris, and so I determined to make the cafes filling with early morningpatrons. Than Kosis then advanced toward home and virtually all of his belongings Mars I it ceased and all dismounted, Kantos Kan led me to one every effort possible to reach Helium me and placing an ornament upon destroyed by fire, J. C. ad the last body of troops had wheeled as quickly as I could and carry to of these gorgeous eating places where me, said: Berrang, a farmer of Worcester, into position before their emperor. A Tardos Mors such news of his granddaughter's we were served entirely by mechanical "My cousin has narrated the details Conn., built a bouse on wheels member of the staff advanced toward possible whereabouts as apparatus. of your wonderful achievement, and started for California, where Bj Edfir Rice Birronghs lay in my power. After our meal,. Kantos Kan took" which seems little short of miraculous, he has relatives. The novel wagon Ten days after leaving the three me with him to the headquarter•? of and if you can so well defend a is drawn by a pair of oxen Author of Ptor brothers I arrived at Zodanga. the air-scout squadron and introducing cousin of the jeddak how much better which Mr. Berrang raised. E S From* the moment tVat I had come in ma» to his superior asked that I could you defend the person of the It contains almost every convenience contact with the red inhabitants of be enrolled as a member of the -corps. jeddak himself. You are therefore appointed to be found in a house, Tarzan of the Apes Mars I had noticed that Woola drew a In accordance with custom an examination a padwar of the Guard and having drop beds, an oil range, a great amount of unwelcome attention was necessary, but Kantos told will be quartered in my palace hereafter." refrigerator and cooking devices to me, since the huge brute belonged me to have no fear. on this score, as 1 lObstrations by Irwin Myers inside. A trailer in the rear, to a species which is never domesticated he would attend to that part of the I thanked him, and with an orderly which carries supplies for the giiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiimiiiiimimiiiHiiiiiiic by the red men. Were one to mattei. He iccomplished this by taking from the palace to guide me I reported oxen, is drawn by a third ox, (OopyTigbt. 1920, A, & MoOlnrg Oo.) stroll down Broadway with a Numidian my order for examination to to the officer in charge of the which is led by the farmer's wife. lion at his heels the effect would the examining officer and representing palace. The couple average about ten be somewhat similar to that which I himself as John Carter. SYNOPSIS. (To be continued) miles a day, and expect to reach should have produced had I entered "This ruse will be discovered later?' California in a year and a half. Zodanga with Woola. he cheerfully explained, "when they They are about sixty years old. FOREWORD.—The author tells of his U. S. BUYS "BLIMP" OF ITALY acquaintance with the hero of one of the As I would willingly have offered check ufp my weights, measurements, most remarkable adventures ever recorded. my life in the service of her in search and other personal identification data, From a manuscript left by his friend Pays $200,000 for Roma, Largest SemiRigid tie has vividly set out the strange happennings of whom I was about to, challenge the but it will be several months before framework in the steps will be insured, which brought together a brave Aircraft in the unknown dangers of this, to me, mysterious this is done and our mission should Virginia gentleman and a Princess of without eliminating all chance of introducing World. city, I could not permit even Mars. be accomplished or have failei long individual variations. Freak-, Woola's life to threaten the success before that time." ish and eccentric 'light gymnastic,' CHAPTER I.—In the Arizona hills, John Washington.—Purchase of the Italian of my venture, much less his momentary The next few days were spent by Carter, mining prospector and ex-Confederate such as exaggerated forms of 'jazz,* "blimp" airship Roma, believed to soldier, fleeing from a war party happiness, for I doubted not he Kantos Kan in teaching me the intricacies are rapidly passing out." of Apaches, takes refuge in a cave the be the largest semi-rigid aircraft in soon would forget me. And so I bade of flying and of repairing, atmosphere of which has a remarkable the world, for approximately $200,000, effect on him. Tielding to its influence, the poor beast an affectionate farewell, the dainty little' contrivances which he sinks into unconsciousness, his last 6,171 KILL SELVES IN 1920 was announced by the War department. promising him, however, that if the Martians use for this purpose. thoughts centered on the glow from the planet Mars. I came through my adventure in safety The fourth day after my arrival at It probably would cost $1,250,000 to Self-Destruction Record of Previous that in some way I should find the Zodanga I made my first flight, and CHAPTER VIII.—Sola confides to Carter duplicate the ship, the statement said. Year Is Broken by More* Than means 10 search him out. as a result of it I won a promotion that she is in a way different from Trie Roma is of 1,200,000 cubic feer 1,000 Cases. the rest of the green Martian women, which included quarters in the palace He seemed to understand me fully, having, unlike them, a knowledge of her capacity, 410 feet long, 82 feet wide of Than Kosis. and when I pointed back in the direction father and mother. The reason of Sarkoja's and 88% feet fiigh, and equipped with New York.—Suicides In the United enmity is also revealed. As I rose above the city I .circled, of Thark he turned sorrowfully six 12-cylinder engines of 400 horsepower States during the year of 1920 numbered several times, as I had seen Kantos' away, nor could I bear to watch CHAPTER IX.—Carter tells Dejah each. It had an estimated speed 6,171, including 707 children, Thoris of his love for her, which she him go but resolutely set my face Kan do, and then throwing my engine reciprocates, and with Sola they plan of 80 miles an hour and a cruising radius members of the Save-a-Life league, toward Zodanga and with a touch of into top speed I raced at terrific velocity to escape. On the eve of their attempt at full speed of 3,300 miles and al were told here by Dr. H. M. Warren, the scheme is revealed to Tal Hajus by heartsickness approached her frowning toward the south, following the vindictive Sarkoja. cruising speed of 8,000 miles. president of the league. walls. one of the great waterways which, Maj. John G. Thornhill has been ordered This exceeded the figures of the previous CHAPTER X.—Dejah Thoris and Sola enter Zodanga from that direction The letter I bore gained me immediate to Italy with an air service detachment year by more than 1,000 cases, are taken before Tal Hajus and he gloats As We Nearejl the City We Discovered I had traversed perhaps two hundred entrance to the vast, walled city. over their plight and the terrible death to bring the Roma to Amer a Mighty Concourse of Civilians he said. During the year 2,604 women In store for them. Carter, concealed in miles in a little less than an hour' The Ptor brothers had given me explicit ica. died through self-destruction. This the throne room, rescues, the two women, and Troops Assembled Upon the when I descried far below me a party directions for reaching the point leaving the ruler unconscious. The three is a large increase over the preceding Plains Before the City. of three green warriors racing madly •scape and make their way in the direction of the city where I could find living year. of Helium, Dejah Thoris' home. They SAYS JAZZ DEAD IN LONDON toward a small figure on foot which accommodations and be near the offices the troops, and calling the name of become lost and fall in with a war party The increased percentage among seemed to be trying to reach the confines of Warhoons. Carter sets the women on of the government agents to whom 8 soldier commanded him to advance. women was ascribed to their entry in their way and remains to obstruct pursuit. of one of the walled fields. English Dancing Authority Predicts they had given me letters. My way He is overpowered and made prisoner. The officer then recited the nature of commercial and political life. Dropping my machine rapidly toward Fox Trot Will Be Standardized. led to the central square or plaza, the heroic act which had woi« the The youngest suicide in the country them, and circling to the rear which is a characteristic of all Martian approval of the jeddak, and the latter CHAPTER XI.—In a dungeon In the during'the last year was five years of of the warriors, I soon saw that the cities. capital city of the Warhoons Carter kills advanced and placed a metal ornament age, while the oldest was 103. More his jailer, but is unable to make his way object of their pursuit was a red Martian London.—The "jazz" is dead in London, As I was crossing the great square upon the left arm of the lucky from the cell. than 400 soldiers have taken their wearing the metal of the scout says P. J. S. Richardson^ one of lost in wonder and admiration of the man. lives since the termination of the war, CHAPTER XII.—Another captive, Kantoe squadron to which I was attached. the foremost English authorities on magnificent architecture and the gorgeous Ten men had been so decorated when Kan, a red Martian, is placed in Carter's the report stated. A short distance away lay his tiny dancing. He declares that no "new" dungeon and from him he learns scarlet vegetation which carpeted the aid called out, that in all probability Dejah Thoris and flier, surrounded by the tools with dances wi]l be popularized this year, the broad lawns I discovered a red "John Carter, air scout!" Sola had succeeded in escaping. Carter which he had evidently been occupied but the fox trot, one-step and tango, Martian walking briskly toward me and Kantos Kan are pitted against wild Never in my life had I been so surprised, Poisoned by Cream Cakes. in repairing some damage when surprised animals and men in the arena. They which have held international interest from one of the avenues. He paid but the habit of military discipline overcome their adversaries and Carter Doctors Lesne, Violle and Langle report by the green warriors. for two or three seasons, will be standardized. not the slightest attention to me, but makes his escape, though he is separated is strong within me, and I They were now almost upon him tb the Press Medicale (Paris) a from Kantos Kan. In the desert he as he came abreast I recognized him, dropped my little machine lightly to comes upon a strange building in which their flying mounts charging down on case of many children being poisoned "Previously persons taught the same and turning I placed my hand upon is situated the machinery which produces the ground and advanced on foot as the relatively puny figure at terrific dances by different teachers found by cream cakes that had stood for 24 the artificial atmosphere which sustains his shoulder, calling out. I had seen the others do. As I halted life upon Mars. The guardian admits speed, while the warriors leaned low hours in a window show case, themselves hopelessly at sea when "Kaor, Kantos Kan!" him, but plans his death. Carter escapes, before the officer, he addressed me to the right, with their great metalshod many of these cases occur in the summer they tried to dance together," he said. having learned the secret of admission Like lightning he wheeled and before in a voice audible to the entire assemblage to the building. spears. Each seemed striving time that it Is suggested that "Through standardization, on which I could so much as lower my of troops,/and spectators. to be the first to impale the poor Zodangan such fillings—made of sugar, gelatin, the majority of dancing instructors in band the point of his lojigsword was "In recognition, John Carter," he and in another moment his etc., be forbidden. CHAPTER XI1L London hjave now agreed,, a common at my breast. said, "of your remarkable courage and fate would have been sealed had it "Who are you?" he growled, and not been for my timely arrival. An Air Scout for Zodanga. then as a backward leap carried me Driving my fleet air craft at high As I proceeded on my journey toj.. fifty feet from his sword he dropped speed directly behind the warriors 1 ^vard Zodanga many strange and interesting the point to the groun^and exclaimed, soon overtook them and without diminishing sights arrested my attention, laughing, "I do not need a better my speed I rammed the and at the several farmhouses where reply. There is but one man upon all prow of my little flier between the I stopped I learned a number of new Barsoom who can bounce about like shoulders of the nearest. The impact, and instructive things concerning the a rubber ball. By the mother of the sufficient to have torn through inches methods and manners of Barsoom. further moon, John Carter, how came of solid steel, hurled the fellow's headless The water which supplies the farms you here, and have you become a Darseen body into the air over the head Qt *Sfars is collected jn immense underground that you can change your color of his thoat, where it fell sprawling reservoirs at either pole from at will? upon the moss. The mounts of the j. the meHing ice caps, and pumped "You gave me a bad half minute, other two warriors turned squealing through long conduits to tiie various my friend,"" he continued, after I had in terror, and bolted in opposite di-, populated centers. Instead of flooding briefly outlined my adventures since rections. the surface of the fields, and thus parting with him in the arena at Reducing my speed I circled and .pasting immense (fuantities of water Warhoon. "Were my name and city came to the ground at the feet of the "by evaporation, the precious liquid is known to the Zodangans I would shortly astonished Zodangan. He was warm carried underground through a vast be sitting on the banks of the lost in his thanks for my timely aid and network of small pipes directly to the sea of Korus with my revered and promised that my day's work would roots of the vegetation. The crops departed ancestors. I am here in the bring the reward it merited, for it upon Mars are always uniform, for interests of the Tgrdos Mors, Jeddak was none other than a cousin of the there are no droughts, no rains, no of Ilelium, to discover the whereabouts jeddak of Zodanga whose life I had high winds, and no insects, or destroying of Dejah Thoris, our princess. birds. saved. Sab Than, prince of Zodanga, has her Hastening td his damaged machine On this trip I tasted the first meat hidden in the city and has fallen I had eaten since leaving Earth— we were bending every effort to finish madly in love with her. large, juicy steaks and chops from the the needed repairs and had almost "I have been here three days, but well-fed domestic animals of the complete^ them when we saw the I have not yet foilnd where Dejah farms. Also I enjoyed luscious fruits two green monsters returning a\ top Thoris is imprisoned. Today I join and vegetables, but not a single article speed from opposite sides of us. When of food which was exactly similar Power they had approached within a hundred to anything on Earth. yards their thoats again became At a second stop I met some highly unmanageable and absolutely refused cultivated people of the noble class to advance further toward the air and while in conversation we chanced craft which had frightened them. to speak of Helium. One of the older The warriors finally dismounted and men had been there on a diplomatic' hobbling their animals advanced toward mission several years before and spoke us on foot with drawn longswords. with regret of the conditions which I advanced to meet the larger, seemed destined ever to keep these7 telling the Zodangan to do the two countries at war. best he could with the other. Finishing "Helium," he said, "rightly boasts' my man with almost no effort, QERTAIN-TEED Paint has The quality of Certain-teed the most beautiful women of Barsoonv as had now from much practice become body which means that it and of all her treasures the wondrou§{ Paint is guaranteed by a great habitual with me, I hastened daughter of Mors Kajak, Dejah Thoris,^ requires fewer coats to properly to return to my new acquaintance organization that is known is the most exquisite flower. whom I found indeed in desperate hide, protect and beautify everywhere as a maker of "Why," he added, "the people really straits. a surface than are required quality products. The name worship the ground she walks upon He was wounded and down with with paints of ordinary quality. and since her loss on that ill-starred Certain-teed means,"Certainty the huge foot of his antagonist upon expedition all Helium has been draped his throat and the great longsword This body results from the of Quality—Guarantee^/ in mourning. raised to deal the final thrust. With use of the best quality ingredients, Satisfaction." "That our ruler should have attacked a bound I cleared the fifty feet Intervening thoroughly ground and the disabled fleet as it was returning between us, and with outstretched Use Certain-teed and be sure mixed by machinery that to Helium was but another ofhis point drove my sword completely of satisfaction from your makes no mistakes. awful blunders which I fear will through the body of thef green sooner or later compel Zodanga to elevate Spring painting. Certain-teed warrior. His sword fell, harmless, to Certain-teed offers other economies a wiser man to bis place. the ground 4&nd he sank limply upon led in price reductions. We too. It has greater covering "Even now, though our victorious the prostrate form of the Zodangan. capacity. It has longer are now selling this paint at armies are surrounding Helium, the Quickly completing the repairs we life and color retaining value. if V'- pre-war prices. people of Zodanga are voicing their rose together into the still, cloudless displeasure, for the war is not a popular Martian sky, and at great speed and one, since it is not based on right without further mishap returned to I Falls Lumber & Coal Co. or justice. Our forces took advantage Zodanga. of the absence of the principal fleet of As we neared the city we discovered -Helium on their search for the prlncess, International Falls, Ninn. a mighty concourse of clyi)ian& and we have been able easily to and troops assembled upon the plate reduce1 the city to a sorry plight." Plione 81 before the city. My companion signaled "And what, think you, may have 1 that slow down, and running City As I Rom Above the I Qircled been the fate of the princess, Dejah his machinl close beside^ mine suggested Time* I Several as Had Seen Kontos n") Thoris?" 1 asked as casually as pos',1(sible. that we approach and watch Kan Do. :§S the ceremony, which, he said was V* "®^e *s dead," he answered. "This 10!} 23 the Zodangan naVy as an air scout for the purpose of conferring honors K- much was learned from a green war- and I hope In this, way to win the on Individual officers and men for IfHor captured by our forces In confidence of Sab 'Than, the: prince, bravery and other distinguishedservice. 1^-^% south. She escaped from the, who Is commander of this: division He pen unfurled' a little ensign a, f* hordes of Thark with a strange crea^•nre of the navy, and thus learn, the whereabduts which denoted that his craft bore of another woHd, only to fall of Dejtih -Thoiii|. I am glad a, member of the roy^ faipHy of Zodanga, §?^1mrrtl,e har-ds of the Warhoons. Their that you are here, John Carter, for and together^ we made our iSf I know your loyalty to my princess and way through the maze ot lQWrlying R0CFIN5 LINOLEUM 'A!NT VARtttSH OIL CLOTH «f RELATED PRODUCT* ••4 V' wiJa 1 •1(