Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-25

thing, as TIE sun will not set there for
three months. The bet is4with Bra
lillian who forgot about the days com
ing quarterly at Nome. But we shall
be honorable and pay him the million
on the nail II we fail to make 1t before
sunset in Rio. the real locus. Tomor.
row we shall win five hundred thou
sand from Rothschild by leaving
Greenwich observatory at sunrise go
ing west and returning at sunrise next
day from the east, circling the world
in twenty-four hours Of continued sun
rise. Wish us well, gentlemen! Good
by. honest peasantry, your country's
pride, goodbye
The majestic rise Of the Virginia,
with no preliminary run, drew round
Of applause. Craighead waved his
cap, but Carson, paying no attention,
laid the Virginia dead for New York.
They flew high, and the constant pick
ing up and dropping Of railway trains
and steamers and the swift succession
of villages and towns spoke Of the
6erceness with which the Virginia wa,
hurled against the leagues between
Mobile and New York. They left
Montgomery to port and Atlanta to
starboard. Carson had assigned him.
self and Craighead their duties, and
both were busy, Craighead at the till
er, with his eye on the compass, Car
son looking at every working part, oil
ing, feeling for hot bearings, watching
for the slightest CULVER or jar, greedy
Of every mile. Finally they were
speeding along over the great national
Appalachian forest when he relieved
Craighead.
In the little locker were found the
elements from which Craighead pre-
pared the luncheon Of bacon, eggs and
coffee, cooked on the methanose stove.
1--WE shall get into the upper Allan
tic regions" said Carson. '.just In time
to hit the area Of local storms to-
night"
He looked from the tiller to the COM
pass and hesitated about leaving it to
eat. He had never tried letting the
Virginia follow her nose with the tiller
dashed.
''Of course" said he. "she'l fall OF.
But If she turns can put her back
on her course. believe Ill try her."
Whereupon Craighead recited
poem:
II go away this blessed day
To sail across the state. Matilda.
My airship starts for various parts
At twenty after eight, Matilda
] do not know where we may go
Or whether near or far, Matilda,
For Captain Carson don't make a parson
OF any foremost tar, Matilda.
That mystic man beneath my ban
Shall suffer. coute gun coute. Matilda.
What right has he to keep from me
The airy. scary route, Matilda?
Although, In sooth. am q youth
OF common sailor lot, Matilda,
Am a man on human plan
Devised. or am not. Matilda7
"And echo, II there were any place
to echo from, would answer, Not Ma
tilday Have some Of the milk while
the Virginia chases her tail above Mr..
Pinchot's forest"
"She doesn't chase her tail much.
replied Carson, $50 far, at least"
She did not The horoscopes held
her on an even keel, and the altimeter
statoscope delivered the verdict that
the Virginia was following course as
level as battleship's. Carson ate,
watched the triumphant test and for.
got to frowu, and he little knew to-
ward what danger he was hurting him.
self
Peak after peak, village after village
and occasionally big smokeless town
about the national power plants Of the
Leighton reservoirs came hurry1ng to-
ward them, passed beneath like VI
siOns and fell behind.
''See that big stratus cloud?" asked
Carson. "Shall we so over or under
it,"
Personally" replied Craighead, I've
been under cloud long enough
The stratus was an immense vapor
sheet half a mile above the earth. Un-
derneath were the gloom and dizziness
of cloudy weather, but above 1t the
sun shone with brightness augment
ed by the brilliancy reflected from the
upper surface of the cloud as from q
great c>littarinO Main NJ Snoxu Tho