1 igg •. MP#** 1 n&giss^spsw II ",- jpf# sssss 5 INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS ib***" PAGE TWO *. mint! a series of nine long forgotten For nearly five years ten soldiers of liiiifiininiitiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiuiiinminio sounds. Like a flash of lightning In the Jeddak's Guard had constantly the darkness their full purport dawned stood over It, and not a day passed A Princess of upon me—the key to the three great when I was In the city that Dejah D-7 doors of the atmosphere plant! Thorls and I did not stand hand In U».m Turning suddenly toward Tardos hand before onr little shrine planning Mors as I still clasped my dying love for the future, when the delicate shell Mars I to my breast I cried: should break. "A flyer, Jeddak! Quick! Order Vivid in ray memory Is the picture your swiftest flyer to the palace top: 8 of the last night as we sat there talk* I can save Barsoom yet." tf ing In low tones of the strange romance I By Edgar Rice Birroiflt He did not wait to question, but In which had woven our Jives together mm an instant a guard was racing to the and of this wonder which was E ol S Author nearest dock and though the air was coming to augment our happiness and thin and almost gone at the rooftop fulfill our hopes.. ,v I Tarzan of the Apes they managed to launch the fastest In the distance we saw the brightwhite one-man, alrscout machine that the light of an approaching airship, skill of Barsoom had fever produced. but we attached no special significance nhutrations by Irwin Myers 1 Kissing Dejah Thorls a dozen times to so common a sight. Like a bolt of and commanding Woola,. who would lightning It raced toward Helium until SiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiliiS have followed me, to remain and guard its very speed bespoke the unusual. law. a (Oepyiicht. a. UoOiwi o*j her, I bounded with my old agility and Flashing the signals which proclaimed strength to the high ramparts of the a It dispatch bearer tor the SYNOPSIS. palace, and In another moment I was Jeddak, It circled Impatiently awaiting A Job That Has to be headed toward the goal of the hopes the tardy patrol boat which must convoy FOREWORD.—The author tells of bis of all Barsoom. It to the palace docks. acquaintance with the hero of one of the I had to fly low to get sufficient air moat remarkable adventure* ever recorded. Ten minutes after It touched at the IT S*v- Done and Paid for Only Once! From a manuscript left bjr hie friend to breathe, but I took a straight course palace a message called me to the he has vividly set out the ittange haopennings across an old sea bottom and so had to council chamber, which I found filling which brought together a brave Virginia gentleman and a Princess of rise only a few feet above the ground. with the members of that body. Mars. I traveled with awful velocity, for On the raised platform of the throne my errand was a race against time CHAPTER XIV.—Carter la a witness Then your cleared land will bring in was Tardos Mors, pacing back and to an interview in which Dejah Tnorls with death. The face of Dejah* Thorls forth- with tense-drawn face. When plights her troth to the son of the' ruler bung always before me. As I turned of Zodanga. Seeking audience with added profits every year! all were In their seats he turned toward her, Carter lights with and slays four for a last look as I left the palace garden us. members of her guard. He learns that, I had-seen her stagger and sink believing him dead, Dejah Thorls has -This morning,** he said, "word GERafter sacrificed herself to save Helium, with upon the ground beside the little Incubator. reached the several governments of that stump-covered pasture or wood which state Zodanga is at war. She has, That she had dropped Into the been assured that peace will follow her Barsoom that the keeper of the atmosphere lot! Don't let it lie and just pay out money marriage to the Zodangan prince. last coma which would end In death. plant had made no wireless report produce—crops If the air supply remained unreplenIshed, in taxes oir it. Make it and money. CHAPTER XV.—Kantos Kan and Carter for two days, nor had almost I Well knew, and so, throwing plan to rescue Dejah Thorls. The two ceaseless calls upon him from a score set out to secure aid from Helium. They Put Du Pont Dynamite to work for you and it caution to the winds, I flung overboard of capitals elicited a sign of response. are pursued and Carter's airship shot for all time. everything but the engine and down. He lands in the vicinity of a battle will be done quickly Stumps out. All day a thousand cruisers have been between his old acquaintances, the compass, even to my ornaments, and searching for him until, just now, one Boulders broken. All clear—ready for the plow! green Martians, and a force of Warhoons. lying on my belly along the deck with In the fighting Carter saves Tars Tarkas* of them returns bearing his dead body, More crops next harvest-time. life and the two return to the stronghold one band on the steering wheel and which was found In the pits beneath of Tal Hajus. The ruler orders Carter the other pushing the speed lever to put to death by torture, but he Incites his house horribly mutilated by soma Its last notch I split the thin air of the .chieftains to depose Tal Hajus and assassin. More cleared land—more crops—more money! elevate Tars Tarkas to the rulershlp. In dying Mars with the speed of a meteor. the ensuing fight Tal Hajus Is killed by "I do not need to tell you what this Tars Tarkas. Sola and her father are An hour before dark the great walls means to Barsoom. It would take reunited. On the advice of Carter thegreen Last year was one of the biggest land-clearing years this of the atmosphere plant lodmed suddenly Martians decide to Join Helium In months to penetrate those mighty state has ever known. It's just Make this before me, and with a sickening good business. war on Zodanga. With a party. Carter walls, In fact the work has already makes his way Into the city and admits thud I plunged, to the ground before year bigger. the green Martian forces. commenced, and there would be little thiP small door which was withholding to fear were the engine of the pumping CHAPTER XVI.—Carter makee We way Our local dealer can supply you with Du Pont Dynamite. the spark of life from the Inhabitants to the palace, arriving there In time to plant to run as it should and as they See him without delay and order all that you will need for the of an entire planet. Interrupt the marriage ceremony of afctove for hundreds of years but the Dejah Thorls and the prince of ZodangA. Beside the door a great craw of men season. Because it is always reliable, economical, of uniform The ruler and his belr are killed In the we fear, has happened. The worst, had been laboring to pierce the wall, quality, always be sure to get the new extra kw-freezing conflict and the city taken. With a larige Instruments show a rapidly decreasing army Carter and Tars Tarkas ,set ^OUt but they had scarcely scratched the air pressure on all parts of Barsoom— to the relief of Helium, besieged by ithe flintlike surface, and now mint of Zodangan army. The green Marti ana are the engine has stopped. completely victorious, Dejah Thorls Veins them lay in the last sleep from which restored to her people. "My gentlemen," be concluded^ "wo not even air would awaken them. have at best three days to live." CHAPTER XVII.—Dejah Thorls and Conditions seemed much worse here Carter are united In marriage. In the There was absolute silence for several than at Helium, and it was with difficulty RED CROSS EXTRA 20% DYNAMITE midst of their happiness word Is brought minutes, and then a young noble that the atmosphere plant has failed In that I breathed at all. There operation, which means death to all living arose, and with his drawn sword held were a few men still conscious, and to And if you have a pond to drain, ditches to dig or trees, things on the planet. Carter remembers high above his head addressed Tardos one of these I spoke. that he has the secret which will to plant, dynamite will do the job thoroughly^ Our 100-page Mors. open the doors of the plant, and sets out "If I can open these doors is there a at once to save the people of Mars. He book tells just how you can make dynamite a valuable field* "The men of Helium have prided succeeds in obtaining, admission, but In man who can start the engines?" I hand on your place. Write for it. It's free. themselves that they have ever shown the moment of his triumph falls unconscious. asked. without knowing If he has arrived Barsoom how a nation of red men in time. "I can," he repliied, "if you open should live, now is our opportunity to quickly. I can last but a few momenta CHAPTER XVIH-—Carter returns to show them how they should die. Let earthly life in the cave In Arizona, from more. But it is useless, they are both us go about our duties as though which he bad been transported to Mars. dead and no one else upon Barsoom E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS 8s CO., Inc., Hartley Bldg., DUL.UTH, MINN. Heartbroken at his separation from his thousand useful years still lay before beloved Dejah Thoris, he lives the rest knew the secret of these awful locks. us." of his life waiting for the end, which For three days men .crazed with fear he is convinced will reunite him to the The chamber rang with applause have surged about this portal in vain Martian woman, t.ie partner of his re and as there was nothing better to do markable experiences, whom he has attempt^ to solve Its mystery." loved so welL than to allay the fears of the people I had np time to talk, I was becorfti by our example we went our ways CHAPTER XVII. Ing very weak and it was with difficulty with smiles upon our faces and sorrow sky which showed through a ragged opened my eyes upon Mars. CALLS FOR STEADY NERVE that 1 controlled my mind at ali. gnawing at our hearts. aperture. I can see iier shining in the sky But with a final effort, as I sank From Joy to Death. Wheu 1 returned to my palace I As my hands passed over my body through the little window by my desk, of Thark weakly to my knees I hurled the nine For ten days the honit Duty Devolving on Cook for East found that the rumor already had they came in contact with pockets and and tonight she seems calling to me end Be -and their wild allies were feasted thought waves at that awful thing before African Monarch Can^Not reached Dejah Thoris, so I told her in one of these a small parcel of again as she has not called before with entertained, and. then, loaded me. The Martian had crawled to Called a Sinecure. matches wrapped In oiled paper. One all that I had heard. since that long dead night, and think •coptiy presents and escorted by ten my side and with staring eyes fixed on "We have been very happy, John of these matches I struck, and its dim I can see, across that awful abyss of *t!v n=nnd soldier? of Helium commanded the single panel before us we waited The Rev. John Roscoe, rector of flame lighted up what appeared to be Carter," she said, "and I thank whatever space, a beautiful black-haired woman started on Ovlngton Norfolk, kept members of by Mors Kajnk, they in the silence of death. a huge cave toward the back of which fate overtakes us that it permits standing in the garden of a palace, and own lands. -the return journey to tjieir the Royal society wondering for more Slowly the mighty door receded before I discovered a strange, still figure us to die together." at her side is a little boy who puts bis with a small The Jed of Lesser Helium than an hour while lie lectured on his us. I attempted to rise and follow huddled over a tiny bench. As I approached The next two days brought no noticeable arm around her as she points into the all Journey through East Africa, where party of nobles accompanied them It but I was too weak. it I saw that It was the dead change In the supply of air, sky toward the planet Garth, while at more •the way to Thark to cement he went on a tour of investigation on "After it." I cried to my companion, and mummified remains of a little old hut on the morning of the third day their feet is a huge and hideous creature bonds of peace and **1nsoly the new behalf of the government and^he Mand if you reach the pumproom turn woman with long black hair, and the breathing became difficult at the high* with a heart of gold. friendship. Royal society. (nose all the pumps. It Is the only thing it leaned over was a small charcoal I believe that they are waiting for King George was amused by the er altitudes of the roof tops. The avenues chance Barsoom. has to exist tomorrow 'Sola also accompanied Tars Tarkas, burner upon which rested a me, and something tells me that I shall traveler's description of the royal servants and plazas of Helium were filled tier father, who before all his chieftains round copper vessel containing a soon know. at Bunyoro, one of the places with people. All business had ceased. had acknowledged her as his From where I lay I opened the second small quantity of greenish powder. (THE BND.J Mr. Roscoe visited. He described their For the most part the people looked door, and then the third, and as I daughter. Behind her, depending from thp wof duties in his lecture in London. bravely into the face of their unalterable Mors Kajak and saw the hope of Barsoom crawling Three weeks later, upon rawhide thongs, and str^salug "The king's chief cook has a very doom. Here and there, however, weakly on hands and knees through his officers accompanied by Tars Tarkas Just Naturally Friendly. entirely across the cave, was a row of trying job," said Mr. Roscoe. "The men and women gave way to quiet a the last doorway I sank unconscious A woman who is known in the southern and Sola, returned upon battleship human skeletons. From the thong custom is that every morning' he grief. upon the ground. Indiana town in which she lives that had been dispatched to Thark which held them stretched another to brings to the.king a pot-of. specially Toward the middle of the day many for her friendliness and absentmindedness, to fetch them in time for the ceremony the dead hand of the little old woman prepared meat, with which he must of the weaker commenced to succumb recently went to Indianapolis and which made Dejah Thorls John CHAPTER XVIII. as I touched the cord the skeletons, walk all around the royal enclosure. and within an hour the people of Barsoom on a shopping tour. She .Carter one. swu'ng to the motion with a noise as of JYith his face whitened he enters the were sinking by thousands Into I planned to return on a late afternoon For nine years served In the councils At the Arizona Cave. ttie rustling of dry leaves. presence, and in a dead silence the unconsciousness which precedes of iuterurban car, and hurried from and fought in the armies Helium It was dark when 1 opened my eyes It was a most grotesque and horrl^ throughout the court, which may not death by asphyxiation. store to store. She bought several as a prince of the house of Tardos again. Strange, stiff garments were tableau and I hastened out into the be broken by coughing or sneezing on Dejah Thoris and I with the other articles at a department store and Mors. The people seemed never to upon my body garments that cracked fresh air glad to escape from so gruesome pain of instant death, the chief cook members of the royal family had collected was walking rapidly toward the exit lire of heaping honors upon me, and and powdered away from me as I rose a place. puts a piece of meat at the end of a In a sunken garden within an no day passed that did not bring some thinking where she would go next. to a sitting posture. The sight that met my eyes as I fork into the king's mouth. princess, Inner courtyard of the palace. The new proof of their love for their In her haste she dropped one of her I felt myself over from head to foot stepped out upon a small ledge which little incubator had been brought from "He does this four times, but If by Thoris. packages. A floor walker recovered the Incomparable Dejah and from head to foot I was clothed, ran before the entrance of the cave chance or nervousness he touches the the roof of our palace at request of it and handing it to her said: In a golden incubator upon the roof though when I fell unconscious at the filled me with consternation. king's teeth with the metal fork he Dejah Thoris and she sat gazing longingly 'Of our palace lay a snow-white egg. "Here is your parcel, madam. Call A new heaven and a new landscape dies Instantly. upon the unknown little life that again, please." met my gaze. The silvered mountains now she would never know. "These servants find the ordeal so "Thank you, I will," she replied. in the distance, the almost stationary As it was becoming perceptibly difficult trying that they can only carry it out "You bring your folks and come over moon hanging in the sky, the cactistudded to breathe Tardos Mors arose for a few days, after which they are to see us real soon." valley below me were not of saying: sent away for a six weeks' holiday. Mars. I could scarce believe my eyes, That is all the meat the king is supposed "Let us bid each other farewell. The but the truth slowly forced Itself upon to have in a day and for the days, of the greatness of Barsoom are Tractors in Arctic. me—I was looking upon Arizona from rest he lives on milk."—London Daily over. Tomorrow's sun will look down Tractors are crawling over the the same ledge from which ten years Mail. upon a dead,world which through all snowfields of northern Greenland with before I had gazed with longing upon eternity must go swinging through the supplies of the Lange Koch polar expedition. Mars. heavens peopled not even by memories. How to Use Violets. At last the dog team of the Violet time is at hand. In addition Burying my head In my arms I It is the end." Eskimo has a partial substitute. With turned, broken, and, sorrowful, down to bouquet making these flowers have He stooped and kissed the women their adaptable caterpillar tread, the the trail from the cave. a number of uses which might well be of his family, and laid his strong hand tractors, like the army tanks, are able more widely known. We are told that Above me shone the red eye of Mars upon the shoulders of the men. to negotiate sharp grades and even the blossom is a cough remedy, an holding her awful secret, forty-eight As I turned sadly from him my eyes wallow over obstacles, along their emollient and a medicine for increasing million miles away. trackless course. Not that the picturesque fell upon Dejah Thoris. Her head was the perspiration. It is also used In the Did the Martian reach the pump dog is to be altogether displaced. drooping upon her breast, to all appearances treatment of various inflammatory illnesses. room? Did the vitalizing air reach For heavy transportation the she was lifeless. .With a cry A hair- tonic may be made the people of that distant planet in I sprang to her and raised her In my tractor is useful, but when It cornea to from violets by slowly pouring over arms.: time to save them? Was my Dejah the malls the dog teams will still be 1 them oil of sweet almonds, which absorbs Thorls alive, or did her* beautiful body an essential of the rural delivery service Her eyes opened And looked Into their fragrance, and mixing this lie cold In death beside the tiny golden In the land of the igloo. mine. with a quarter of its volume of 80 per incubator in the sunken garden of the "Kiss me, John Ctorter," she murmured. cent alcohol. This emulsion is said inner courtyard of the palace of Tardos "I love you I I love you I It is Paper Gown for Physicians. to prevent the hair from coming out if Mors, the jeddak of Helium? cruel that we must be torn apart who The first design of a paper gown used daily. To perfume Un&n: Detach For ten years I have waited and were just starting upon a life of love which can be worn -by physicians the violets from their stems and put prayed for an answer to my questions. and happiness." handling transmissible diseases, and them in a small bottle in alternate For ten years I have waited and As I pressed her dear llpfe "to mine then discarded, has been made by layers of violets and table salt. When prayed to be taken back to the world the old feeling of unconquerable power Mrs. Annie C. Miley of Mount* Airy, the bottle is half, full, seal it herl of my lost love. I would rather lie and authority rose tn me. The flghting Philadelphia. The present garments cally and put it in a corner of tiT dead beside her there than live on blood of Virginia sprang to life In are difficult of disinfection and have kitchen near the stove. At the end earth all those millions of terrible my veins. of three weeks the stopper may be been found to be frequently dangerous miles from her. "It shall not be, my princess," 1 sources of contagion. They are drawn and the bottle placed among The old mine, which I found untouched,' cried. "There Is, there ihust be some also expensive. Mrs. Mlley's gown Is your linen, will Infuse the garments me way, and John Qarter, who has fought has made' -fabulously made of sftft White crepe paper and with the fragrance -of violets. The re-%recork his way through a strange world for wealthy but what cave 1 for wealth I next day take the bottle out and resembles the enveloping garment I tMk ll^eonsetoiw Upon tha around. love of you, will find It." Jn Golden Incubator Upon tho Hoof As I sltheretonitfit In my little, it. The process may then be worn by Bed Gross nurses during the I of Our ^alaca Lay a 6ndw-Whlto And with my words there crept study overlooking theHudaoo, Just peated whenever your linen needs perfuming.-rFrQm Utfla doorway I hud beta naked. ^feefore WSf. i* Egg. atwre the threshoId^ of_my conscious twenty years have elapsed since I first Le Petii Parisien. me was small patch of moobllt •n-u r# M- HSF-SS ^'•Ja£®bis. li-y: IS8SS "/i