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:
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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. "
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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
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