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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDffORD. OREGON, MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 19.10. Virginia OP THE Air Lanes A ROMANCE OF FLYING By ""HERBERT QUICK CopyriRbt by Bobbs - Merrill Company. SYNOPSIS. CHAPTER I Theodore Carson, laveator of an airship, rescues from a fngitiv flying machine called a helicopter, a beautiful young girl. II and DI Carson is infatuated by her and takes her where she can eoBuaaaioate with her friends. IV Carsoa visits tho Roc, a Riant irahin ownd bv Shayne, uncle of J TirKtaia Snare, the girl he resouod, aad, being coldly received, leaps from the Boo, at a great height, in a V, VI asd VII He lands in the grounds of the Slnttory Institute for 'AnAhriAUd. where he makes a friend f od Craighead, who plans to raise capital to mannfactnro the new style airship Carson has invented. Thus they hope to rival Shayne, who con trols the airahie industry. Vm Mr. Waddy decides condi tionally to capitalize the Carson Crayrbead project. IX Carsoa feoes to Florida to complete a sample airship to exhibit to Mr. Waddy, and he finds Virginia there. X He is in love with Virginia. Wizner, a rival inventor, conspires to "kill Carson. XI, XII, an and XIV Wixner with a submarine in a sensational manner almost accomplishes tho Jeath of Carson and Virginia and the destruction of the airship, a case f "devilfish versus bird." Virginia flees from Carson in tho Roc. XV. XVI and XVII Carson and Craighead nursue the Roc northward in tho Carson airship, the Virginia. They land at the Shayne home, Bhayne's Hold, in the Catskill moun tains, at night. Carson talks with Virginia and is forced to flee. A big lawsuit is brought by Craighead to jrain exclusive dimonlon in the aid based on the rights to their air ho has acquired from hundreds of land owners. Craighead argues in court. "How Bnch more am I damnified by the airship, which may drop a moa ey wrench, a spanner, a gob of bal last or a casual remark Into my priva cy? Aeronefs will fall Into the rural aDo, drag ropes will rip up barbed "wire, and Pyramua and Thlsbe In their .Arcadian wooing may be smothered wider falling gas bags or torn asunder "fcy dragging anchors inserted in their fluttering beans! I shudder, your non . at what may happen when tbe air is populous with flying jiggers, pop popping about, raining ballast and wine bottles and bacon rinds and stalo banunas and hot coffee and soft boiled ggs and lobster a, la Newburg on a lest and undone republic, and when I akudder persons of ordinary sensitive aess dy Into fragments wltb the shlv srs, for I am no light and habitual shudderer. ""I have spoken in my weak way of what might make a landholder un willing to have bis ulr used as a high way. But be doesn't have to give a reason he can show his deed and tell the whole world to go to to the cap tain's office and settle. Your honors. I adjure you to cling to your unbroken precedents and uphold property, on which society is bused. To say that we do not own these strips of land, but only rights in tbe air. is foolishness of the dampbest sort. Tbe landowner snay sell the surface and keep the minerals or sell the mineral rights town to China and keep tho surface. Oar grantors owned and sold these rights to us. It is slanderous to tray that wo have hornswoggled to coin a phrase the farmers by promising cheap nitrates by the Craighead meth od. It Is my Intention to take u few asomeuts some day to perfect tbe Craighead method and begin to extract nitrogen, but that Is another narra tire. The point is that we've got those rights. Wo have what nobody ever had before tho proof that defendants pass over our lands, because they have to. Nobody else ever had lands hum ming In everybody. We have. This makes our proof simply pie, and we call upon you to protect us In the. same of tho law of landowuershlp, on which every government In all tbe world Is founded. "They say we seek to enslave travel ers. This absurdity applies as forcibly to surface rights or mines. If tho trav eler can't pay our scale let blm go by public highways or by boat or rail or stay at home. We anticipate that rights to air navigation will become aore and more valuable, Wo expect to charge whatever the Hltuation -nkes possible. This Is uh moral oh lecreaslBg rent for lands. We shall rant licenses or not. us we please. We nay demand title to all patents on airship Inxeatteus before nllowlug ,fea to he wed. thus applying tbe fW JKH asd your prededessorn have 'e, -wla' Wd down,' 'He who owns ma4 owns to the sky!' How beautiful IhejprtaeipleWhat a stimulus to en- re"nffia6nroffera In cornering Spnw" Our getting of these rights tuny lie it horse on Mr. Shayne. but tbe rules of tho game nnd what a game it Is, your honorsl-givo ur the pot The cest: constitute the kitty." Justice MoKndden tapped on the desk, nnd Craighead paused. "Your language Mr. Crnlghead." snld he. "Is unusual, though your points seem well taken." "You're on!" ejnculntcd Crnlghrnd. "You're on! In fact, to speak grant martnnly, 'You're on. your honer: you're honest!" A bailiff Interrupted by handing a note to the astonished court. "Mr. Craighead." said Justice Mc Fadden. "It Is suggested that you are not a licensed practitioner at this bar or at any other. This extraordinary address of yours leads the court to doubt What Is the fact? I thought I recognized you ns a member of thU bar. Have we not met?" "Your honor." said Craighead, "stud led language under mo." "Language!" roared the Justice. "Whenr "1 was your teacher In English and drawing." replied Craighead. "In Schlosser's billiard parlors English nnd drawing, with Incidental instruc tion in the use of the globes; also dry nursing, tho masse and tho follow!" "Remove him from tho bar, Mr. Bailiff!" thundered the court "Tnko him to Jail'" "Stung in the same old aching spot!" cried Craighead. "Still the great uncalled! But know ye, proud judges, I have been expelled from worse places than this! What harm have I done ye? FUley, get me out of this!" CHAPTER XVIII. ALONE OX AX ISLAND VX ATR. THE bailiff, a tottering old func tionary with a white mustache of Blsmarckian fierceness, wa rily laid a raptorial claw on Craighead's sleeve. "Amateur day In court!" he hissed In the bailiff's ear. "The hook! Tho hook! 1 go. but my logic sticks! Stone walls do not"' Mr. FUley here Interposed -to such effect that Craighead was fined, ex pelled and set free. Mr. Fllley's mas terly address was based on the law laid down by Craighead, reference to which finally evoked a smile from the justices, in a week an injunction was issued as prayed. The airships of the whole nation were tied up: the Uni versal Nitrates and Air Products com pany made the Carson-Craighead Aero nef company Its sole licensee; the Car son neronefs were the only flying ma chines which could be used: the law of real property was vindicated; Aero static Power dropped to nominal prices: Craighead was suddenly recog nized as tbe most overshadowing gen ius legal strategy bad ever knewn: Carson stood high In finance and diplo macy; the factories for manufactnr ing flying machines were offered to him at bis own terms, payable in Carson-Craighead stocks; thousands of men were put to work on the Carson ueronefs; the Waddy family began to occupy space in newspapers and mag azines: the world of finance whirled about and readjusted itself to the ex plosion all of wblcb took time. And In the midst of tbe first excite ment tbe following item appeared in a newspaper; A blzarro result of the McFadden deci sion Is tho marooning of Mr. Flnley Shayne. erstwhile prince of the powers ot the air, at Shayne's Hold, where the Roc was enjoined. There Is no egress from the hold save by airship. The Carson crowd has the air lights surrounding the mountain, and Mr. Shayne and his fam ily have no means of getting away except by violating the Injunctions. No craft save the Carson aeronef, the Virginia, can go to them or anywhere, and Mr. Shayne will starve rather than allow her to land. This sounds like a joke, but Mr. Shayne takes It seriously. The castaways are Mr. and Mrs. Shayne, Miss Suarez and Mr. Max SUberberg. Carson approached Craighead with this paper, bis finger pointing to tbe Item. Craighead read it wltb glee. "When Shayne has eaten the last poisoned rat." said he, "and worn bis knees raw snaring rattlesnakes off the cliff for food I'll go to blm and say: ( ' i -i R V WSBSBBsl - P THKlIOOKl THE HOOK l IOOJ BUT Uf LOaiO STICKS I" Proud ex-plute. If on your bandaged knees you beg my kingly elciuenc.v I'll give you this sandwich and bottle nt beer; otherwise R-s-s-s-s-turve, and lie 'unged to you! Either that or who blm permission to depart lu tho Hoe. Which sayest thou?" "I have wired him offer of the li cense," said Carson, "and ho decllued Insultingly. Then I offered to come for them In tho Virginia." (To Be CeMtismer'.) FIRE SITUATION AT ASHLAND UNCHANGED ASHLAND, Or., Aur. 29. Tho forest l'iro conditions remain un changed bore. Tho fires nro boinjr held well in check, with little or no wind blowing, but there is still n call from tho forest rangers for tnoro men to replace thoso who luivo be come exhausted in the work of watching the fires. There is not any danger for tho city, but no 0110 can tell what n heavy jnlo might do with tho dying embers. Tito chief of police has been order ed to strictly enforce the city ordi nance prohibiting the accumulation of rubbish in the rear of tho buildings in tho business section. Robert Goodyear nnd Gene Fen dell, who had been deer hunting nnd rusticating nt tho initio of the hit ter's father, near tho California line, have returned to Oakland, whore thoy are employed. They report n good time, but got no game. If thore's n good storo in tuls city that's not well advertised, It dosorves to have a moro progressive management. ANNA A. MALEY TO GIVE PUBLIC TALK Associate Editor New York Call and Woman's National Organizer So cialist Party, Who Is Authority on Equal Suffrage and Socialistic Doctrines, Will Speak Here, Has Partially Defined Her Position as Follews: "Socialists submit to tho world that the basis of all oppression and corruption is to be found in the fact that Individuals arc permitted to control the bread rights of the peo ple. These bread rights are cen tered in. the land and the machinery of production nnd distribution. The great means of life hnve so grown and developed that the holders of the mining and railroad properties and other productive wealth of such vabt importance and extent are virtually the owners of the employment or bread right workers and thoy have no less nt their mercy the general public, who must use nnd consume this form of wealth in their daily lives. Corporations lluy Opinion "In order to keep the laborer and tho general public within their power for purposes of profit, tho corpo rations buy without soruplo tho press and all sources of opinion within tho nation, as well us the governments and courts which make tho laws un der which tho people must live. "Socialism is only a proposal for a now industrial control. Since in dividuals do not worthily administer tho wealth upon, which tho people collectively depeitd. Socialism in sists that collective control of tho socially necessary industrial prop erty should bo established. If tho public school which furnishes im partially food for tho brain of thu bright and the dull is a good insti tution, a public coal mine, flour mill or railroad, through which must come food for the stomachs of the people, cannot ho a bad iustittutiou. Menus Freo Opportunity "Tho puhliu school does not menu freo education, hut thu free oppor tunity to get education. Socialism does not mean freo bread, but tho freo opportunity to got bread. Op portunity to get broad is not freo today, and the people stand in po litical and industrial subservience to thoso who hold the power to take their bread away from them. Let the peoplo own their bread right, is tho message I would give. Tho bread right comprises tho right to clean politics, clean and fair conditions of labor, education, recreation things. iu a word, that may ho Huuunod up in tho tonus, uultui'o and wIioIumiiuo and upright life "No ono who does not wish lo is asked to adopt tho socialist theory. Wo only maintain that in these days of social unrest no honest school toucher should bo debarred from giv ing freely his message. My dismis sion is oloun, and 1 trust it is intelligent." ot may bo Imported upon application to tho undorslrnud, at Medford, Orc-jgon, VM. ULUIG1I, Trtmtoo, Dntod at Modiora, Oregon, August 8, 1010. " i - WILL SELL AT LOW PRICE ONE SQUARE BLOCK OF 13 f LOTS, 7 FACIING EAST ON H- NORTH CENTRAL AVENUE BALANCE WOULD MAKE GOOD FACTORY OR WARE- HOUSE PROPOSITION, SIDE TRACT ALREADY IN. THE PROPERTY HAS A GOOD FUTURE, P. AND E. ROAD ON SIDE. SOUTHERN PA- CIFIC AT BACK, ALSO FINE TRACT OF 65 ACRES I 1-2 MJLES WEST OF CENTRAL POINT, 13 ACRES PLANTED TO PEARS AND APPLES, 10 ACRES IN ALFALFA, All UNDER CULTIVATION, GOOD SOIL, LOCATION IS BEC0M- ING MOST POPULAR IN VALLEY, THIS TRACT CAN SOON BE IRRIGATED FROM THE NEAR CANAL. PRICE $280 PER ACRE OR WILL SELL BEST 40 ACRES FOR t $300 PER ACRE TERMS, AP- PLY 334 WEST 6th STREET . -- FOR RENT Only hotel in town of 1000 inhabitants on South ern Pacific railroad, Rogue River Valley. Newly refurnished, papered, painted, equipment modern. Baths, toilets, electric lights, hot and cold run ning water. Now doing good business. CALL ON KOFELDT CONDOR WATER & POWER COMPANY 216 WEST MAIN ST., MEDFORD, OR. Make Every Dollar Worth More Than a Dollar! An educated ad reader will never be poor. To "know advertising' is to have a prac tical knowledge of values of things of when and how and where to buy. No one, having and utilizing such knowledge, could over be unthrifty, or in any sense careless or reckless of expenses. For such knowl edge makes for thrift for saving. It makes one proof against shams false values manipulated reductions. The intelligent ad reader uses as much thought and ability in buying things as is required in earning the money that ia spent for them. And that amounts to a substan tial increase of the value of every dollar of tho family revenue I NOTICH. In tho district court ot tho United States tor tho district of Oregon. In tho mnttor ot doorgo A. Butt, bankrupt. Tho undersigned trustoo ot th nbovo ontltlod oatnto In bank ruptcy will rocolvo soalod bids at Uio Jackson County bank, In Medford, Orogon, up to 13 o'clock nooi, of Friday, August 19, 1910, for tho following doscrlbod uroporty belonging to Bnld ostato, nniuoly, a otock ot moriurudfso, con sisting principally of Jowolry of the invontory vr.luo of $3987.47, togothor with a lot of storo fittings jf tho In ventory vnluo of I17G.50, all now In custody of tho undersigned at Mod Tord, Orogon. Cash or a cortttlad chock for ten por cent of tho amount offorcd must accompany oach bid and tho salo is innile nubjoct to coi.flrma tlon by tho court, tho rijjH being re served to roject any and ull bids. Tho "aid proporty and an Invontory thoro- REStLVEt Thi best resolution for yon to make is to ooms to us for your noat suit, if you wunt something out of th ordinary. Wo do tho best work al ohrg the lowest pries. W. W. 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