^T|- ,.? *^-i fj^p2-/7'%U f" •J"S,r "J ^v. V*„ V. -*1 '"-Jac X, O- ,V f' INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS PAGE SIX "Toil are a brave people and you cue her and return her to Helium. The intentions, I ordered ten warriors tor and his pistol arm and threw him heavily fought, shoulder to shoulder, during all love bravery, but where was your loot of .Zodanga would be magnificent, capture and open one of the greu^ to the roof. The weapon dropped that long, hot afternoon, until the. tide mighty jeddak during the .fighting today? and I have often thought that had we from his grasp, and'&y-fingers choked gates while with the nine remaining of battle turned and the remnant of I did not see him in the thick an alliance with the people of Helium off his attempted cry for assistance. I took the other. We was to do the work the fierce rWarhoon horde fell back of battle he was not there. He rends we could obtain sufficient assurance of gagged and bound him and then hung upon their thoats, and fled into the defenseless 'women and little children quietly, no shots were, to be fired and sustenance to permit us to increase LUC him over the edge of the roof as I myself gathering darkness.. in his lair but how recently has one no general advance made until I had the size and frequency of our hatchings, had hong a few tfiinutes before. On our return to the city after the of you seen him. fight with men? Why, reached the palace with my fifty. and thus becotae unquestionably I knew it would be morning before^ he battle we had gone directly to Tars even I, a midget beside him* felled him .Tharks. Our plans worked to perfection. supreme among the {green men of all would be discovered, and I needed all STRIKE Tarkas' quarters, where I was' left with a single blow of my fist. Is it of Barsoom. What say you?" The two sentries we met were the time that I could gain. alone while the chieftain attended the such that the Tharks fashion their dispatched to ijieir fathers upon the It was a chance to fight, an opportunity Donning my trappings and weapons customary council which immediately jeddaks? There stands beside me now banks of the lost sea of Korus, and the to loot, and they rose to the I hastened to the sheds, and soon had follows an engagement. a great Thark, a mighty warrior and a guards at both gates followed them ir^. bait as a speckled trout to a fly. out both my machine^ and Kantos As I was awaiting the return of the noble man. Chieftains, how sounds, silence. In three days we were on the march Kan's. Making his fast behind mine I green warrior I heard something move Tars Tarkas. Jeddak of Thark?" toward Zodanga, one hundred thousand 'started my engine, and skimming over (To be continued) in an adjoining apartment, and as I A roar of deep-toned applause greeted strong, as Tars Tarkas had been the edge of the roof I dove down into glanced up there rushed suddenly upon this suggestion. able to enlist the services of three Cigarette the streets of the city far below the me a huge and hideous creature which "It but remains for this council to smaller hordes on the promise of the Game. Golf Now Presidential plane usually occupied by the air patrol. bore me backward upon the pile of £omms|pd, and Tal Hajus must prove great loot of Zodanga. What a part golf has come to play In less than a minute I was settling silks and furs upon which I had been his fitness to rule. Were he a brave We traveled entirely by night, timing in our public life! Thirty years ago safely upon the roof of our apartment' reclining. It was Woola—faithful, loving man he would invite Tars Tarkas to our marches so that we camped during there were two or three golf courses beside the astonished Kantos Woola. He had found his way combat, for he does not love him, but To seal In the the day at deserted cities where, in America. The few people who Kan. back to Thark and, as Tars Tarkas Tal Hajus is afraid Tal Hajus, your even to the beasts, we were all kept delicious Burley It was decided that I was to try to played it were regarded as faddists later told me, had gone immediately to jeddak, is a coward. With my bare indoors during the daylight hours. On make Helium, while Kantos Kan was who had encountered some ^orm of my former quarters where he had tobacco flavor. hands I could kill him, and he knows the march Tars Tarkas, through his to enter the palace and dispatch Sab aerial croquet, observes the Cincinnati it's Toasted taken up his pathetic and seemingly it." remarkable ability and statesmanship, Than. If successful he was then to Times-Star. hopeless watch for my return. After I ceased there was tense silence, enlisted fifty thousand more warriors In quest of. recreation, President follow me. Bidding each other farewell "Tal Ha jus knows that you are here, as all eyes were riveted upon from various hordes, so that? ten days Cleveland sought the quietude Of boat we rose together and sped in the John Carter," said Tars Tarkas, on his auci*±g: Tal Hajus. He did not speak or move, after we set out we haltej] at midnight and bait in a side stream. So far as direction of the palace, which lay in return from the jeddak's quarters but the blotchy green of his countenance outside the great walled city of Zodanga, records show. President Harrison had the route which I must take to reach "Sarkoja saw and recognized you as turned livid, and the froth one hundred and fifty thousand no form of sport. President McKinley Helium. we were returning. Tal Hajus has ordered froze upon his lips. strong. found his sole form c»f relaxation As we neared the high tower a patrol me to bring you before him tonight. "Tal Hajus." said Lorquas Ptomel in The task of obtaining entry to the in the smoking of cigars. Then shot down from above, throwing I have ten thoats, John Carter A PRINCESS OF MARS a cold, hard voice, "never in my long city devolved upon me. I took twenty Theodore Roosevelt, whose strenuosity Its piercing searchlight full upon my you may take your choice from^ life have I seen a jeddak of the Tharks dismounted warrior^ and approached turned him to tennis with an occasional craft, and a voice roared out a command among them, and I will accompany you so humiliated. There could be but one one of the small gates that pierced to the nearest waterway that leads to boxing match until a professional to halt, following with a shot as answer to this arraignment. We wait the walls at short intervals. Helium. Come, we must start." or a more youthful if less vigorous I paid i/o attention to the hail. Kantos it." And still Tal Hajus stood as Placing three of my warriors with (Continued from Page Two.) "And when you return, Tars Tarkas?" amateur. Kan dropped quickly into the darkness, though petrified. their faces to the wall and arm* I asked. But after Colonel Roosevelt golf while I rose steadily and at terrific "Chieftains," continued Lorquas locked, I commanded two more to "The wild calots, possibly, or reigned supreme, President Taft speed raced through the Martian Ptomel, "shall the jeddak, Tal Hajus, mount to their shoulders, and a sixth to strengthen Its hold, but whether It worse." he replied. "Unless I should sky followed by a dozen Of the airscout played the game regularly and President prove his fitness to rule over Tars Tarkas?" I ordered to climb upon the shoulders would bear the weight of my body I chance to have the opportunity I have Wilson, until his unfortunate craft which had joined the pursuit, of the upper two. The head of the topmost did not know. It might be barely so long waited o£ battling with Tal and later by a swift cruiser -carrying illness, was seen on the Chevy Chase There were twenty chieftains about warrior towered over forty feel caught upon the very outer verge of Hajus." a hundred men and a battery of course almost every day. Senator the rostrum, and twenty swords from the ground. the roof, so that as my body swung out "We will stay. Tars Tarkas, and see Harding now is to move his golf clubs rapid-fire guns. By twisting and turning flashed high in assent. In this way, with ten warriors, 1 at the end of the strap it would slip Tal Hajus tonight. Tou shall not sacrifice my little machine, now rising and into the White House. a There was no alternative. That decree built a series of three steps from tlie off and launch me to the pavement yourself, and it may be that tonight now falling, I managed to elude their was final, and so Tal Hajus drew ground to the shoulders of the topmost thousand feet below. you can have, the choice you searchlights most of the time, but I bis longsword and advanced to meet mam Then starting from a short distance TO FLY WITH 50 PASSENGERS An instant I hesitated, and then, releasing wait." was also losing ground by these tactics, Tars Tarkas. behind them I ran swiftly up my grasp upon the supporting While we were eating I repeated to and so I decided to hazard everything Thcreombat was soon over, and, with from one tier to the next, and with a ornament, I swung out Into space at Tars Tarkas the story which Sola had Airship Will Be Experimented With on a straight away course and his foot upon the neck of the dead final bound from the broad shoulders the end of the strap. Far below me told me that night upon the sea bottom for Service Between Great leave the result to fate and the speed monster, Tars Tarkas became jeddak of the highest I clutched the top of the lay the brilliantly lighted streets, the during the march to Thark. Britain aj)d Egypt i,j of. my, machine.. among the Tharks. great wall and quietly drew myself to hard pavemeij^s, and death There wis He said but little, but the great Kantos Kan had shown me a trick its -broad expanse. After me I dragged His first act was to make me- a fullfledged a little jerk, at the top^o* the supporting muscles of his face worked in passion England.—British avlatleft of gearing, which is known only to the London, chieftain with the rank I had six lengths of leather from an equal eaves and a nasty slipping, grating and in agony at recollection of the announced that the navy of Helton that greatjy increased authorities have won by my combats the first few weeks number of my warriors. These lengths sound which turned safe cold with honors which had been heaped upon R-36, of four airships to be the speed of our machines, so that I one the of my captivity among them. we had previously fastened together, apprehension then the hook caught the only thing he-had ever loved in all experiments In commercial felt sure I could distance my pursuers used for and passing one end to the topmost Seeing the favorable disposition of and I was safe. his cold, cruel, terrible existence. will have a passenger saloon, if I could dodge their projectiles for work, warrior I lowered the other end cautiously the warriors toward Tars Tarkas, as Clambering quickly aloft I grasped He no longer demurred when I suggested with capacity for 90 persons. Thio a few moments. over the opposite side of the well as toward me, I grasped the opportunity the edge of the eaves and drew myself that we go before *Tal Hajus, will be airship bo Gradually I left my pursuers further the first British to wall toward the avenue below. No one to enlist them in my cause to the surface of the room above. As only saying that he would like to speak fully for passenger servtc* and further behind, and I was just congratulating equipped was in sight, so, lowering myself to against Zodanga. I told Tars Tarkas I gained my feet I was confronted by to Sarkoja first. At' his request I accompanied is nearing completion myself on my lucky escape," The R-36 now the end of my leather ^trap, I dropped the story of my adventures, and in a the sentry on duty, into the nuzzle of him to her quarters. when a well-directed shot from the at Glasgow. the remaining thirty feet to the pavement few words had explained to him the whose revolver I found myself looking. "Sarkoja," said" Tars Tarkas, "forty cruiser exploded at the prow of my Four airships will be used in the experiments. below. thought 14iad in mind. "Who are you and whence came years ago you were instrumental In little craft. The concussion nearly The others are the British I had learned from Kantos Kan the "John Carter has made a proposal," you?" he cried. bringing about the torture and death capsized her, and with a sickening R-37 and the German L-71 and secret of opening these gates, and in Ski- he said, addressing the council, "which of a woman named Gozava. I have MI am an air scout, friend, and very plunge she hurtled downward throughtlie 1*64. another moment my twenty great fighting meets with my sanction. I shall put it just discovered that the warrior who near a dead one. for just by the merest dark night. to take The first tests are expected men stood within the doomed city to you briefly. Dejah Thoris, the loved that woman has learned of your to and How far I fell before I regained control place on the route Malta of Zodanga. princess of Helium, who was our prisoner, part in the transaction. He may not pi of the plane I do not know, but I and back. If the experiments I found to my delight that I had entered is now held by the jeddak of Zodanga. kill you, Sarkoja, it is not our custom, of for must have been very close to the the practicability using airships at the lower boundary of the whose son she must wed to but there is nothing to prevent him ground when I started to rise again, the carriage of goods and passengers enormous palace grounds. Dispatching save her country from devastation at tying one end of a strap about your as I plainly heard the squealing of animals the service may be started fairly early one of Qiy men to Tars Tarkas for a the hands of the Zodangan forces. neck and the other end to a wild thoat, below me. Rising again, I this year. detail of fifty Tharks, with word of my "John Carter suggests that we res­ merely to test your fitness to survive scanned the heavens for my pursuers, and help perpetuate our race. Having and finally making out their lights far heard that he wouJd do this on the behind me, saw that they were landing. morrow, I thought it only right to evidently in search of me. warn you, for I am a just man. The Not until tlieir lights were no longer river Tss is but a short pilgrimage, discernible did I venture to flash my Sarkoja. Come, John Carter." Down Goes the Prices on little lamp upon my compass, and then Tlie next morning Sarkoja was gone. HAY AND FEED I found to my consternation that a n.r was she ever seen after. fragment of the projectile had utterly In silence we hastened to the jeddak's destroyed my only guide, as well as palace, where we »:ero immediately tny speedometer. It was true I could admitted to his presence in fact, follow the stars in tlie general direction he could scarcely wait to see me and of Helium, but without knowing was standing erecf upon his platform the exact location of the city or the glowering at the entrance as 1 came in-."Strap speed at which I was traveling my him to that pillar." he chances for finding it were slim. shrieked. "We shall see who it is Helium lips a thousand miles southwest dares strike the mighty Tal Hajus. of Zodanga, and with my compass Heat the irons with mv own l-nds intact I should 'have made the trip, barring accidents, in between four and five hours. As it turned out, =UNTIL FURTHER N0TICE= however, morning found me speeding over a vast expanse of dead sea bottom after nearly six hours of continuous flight at high speed. About noon I pass'ed low over a great dead city of ancient Mars, and 4 as I skimmed out across the plain came full upon several thousand green warriors engaged in a terrific battle. Scarcely had I seen them than a volley Dropped From His of shots was directed at me, and The yVeapon and My Fingers Choked Off with the almost unfailing accuracy of Grasp Attempted Cry for Assistance. their aim my little craft was instantly His a ruined wreck, sinking erratically to chance 1 escaped falling to the avenue the ground. in*low." I replied. I fell almost directly in the center "But how came you upon the roof, $1.50 of the fierce combat, among warrior* man? Quick, explain yourself, or I who had not seen my approach, OATS—80 pound sack call the guard." busily were they engaged in life and $1.65 "Look you here, sentry, and you ^ath struggles"' As m7machine"sanU shall see how I came and how close a among them I realized that it was fight BRAN—per 100 pounds shave I had to not coming at all," I answered, or die, with good chances of dying in turning toward the edge of the $1.65 any event, and so I struck the ground •roof, where, twenty feet below, at the with drawn longsword ready to defend SHORTS—per 100 pounds end of my strap, hung all my weapons. myself as I could. $2.00 The fellow, acting on impulse of curiosity, I fell beside a hqge monster who was stepped to my side and to his engaged with three antagonists, and ar.1 GROUND CORN—per 100 pounds.. undoing, for as he leaned to peer over glanced at his fierce face, filled witli $2.00 the eaves I grasped him by his throat the Jight of battle, I recognized Tars Tarkas the ^Thark. He did not see me, WHOLE CORN—per 100 pounds.. as I was a trifle behind him, and just $23.00 r« r« «r# »V O MM #.« O 4 then the three warriors opposing him, TIMOTHY HAY—per Ion and whom I recognized as Warhoons, PROFESSIONAL CARDS 5 charged simultaneously. The mighty fellow made quick work of one of 'Heat the Irons With My Own Hands them, but in stepping back for another I Shall Burn the Byes From His thrust he fell over a dead body JOHN H. BROWN Head." behind him and was down and at the Attorney at Law mercy of his foes in an instant. Quick shall Jtairo the eyes fr&m his head that Office over O. M. Carr & Co. as lightning they were upon him, and he may not pollute my person with his Tars Tarkas would have been gathered International Falls, Minnesota vile gaze." to his fathers in short order had I not •'Chieftains of Thark," I cried,, turning sprung before his prostrate form and to the assembled council and ignoring A E engaged his adversaries. I had accounted J. J. Tal Hajus, "I have been a chiel for one of them when the Lawyer among you, and today I have fought Ife. mighty Thark regained his feet and for Thark shoulder to shoulder with International State Bank Bldg. quickly settled the other. her greatest warrior. You owe me, at The Falls Lumber & Coal Co. He gave me one look, and a slight International Falls, Minnesota ieast, a hearing. I have won that much smile touched his grim lips as, touching today. You claim to be just people—" my shoulder, he said: "Silence," roared Tal Hajus. "Gag N O E N I N N E S O A would scarcely recognize you, the creature aud bind him as I command." Wi-: O S I A John Garter,\ but \tfiere is: no other u' .iifehVi' Phoie jBl upon Barsoom whoWouId have done International Falls, Minn. "Justice, Tal Hajus," exclaimed Lorquas Dr. B. F. Osburn, Physician and what you have for me. I think I haye Ptomel. "Who are you to set Surgeon in Charge as learned that there fs such a thing aside the customs of ages among the Office Phone 99 Hospital Phone4 79 friendship, my friend." -'7 ...V. 4. Tharksr & A He A^ no more, nor was'tliere opportunity, Office Intl State Bank Building "Yes, echoed a dosen justice!" "v tf for thpr Warhoons were clo*» 7'A* International Falls,dp Minnesota voices, and so, whllo Tai Hajus fund 1 tac in about and together **, JBnthedt I conttmdk N 3o 1. .M