The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-03-29

faith that you are not of those
who will turn and rend. l am an
almost-practitioner, a near-lawyer.
My uncanny cogency of reasoning
is owing to my being unspojled
by actual practice. L"
"Sir!" said Justice McFadden,
81 thought l recognized you as
of this bar! Have we
not metz"
Your Honor" said Craighead,
studied language under me-"
Language" roared the justice.
'When?"
81 was your teacher in English
and drawing" replied Craighead,
lin Schlosser's billiard-parlors-
English and drawing, with Incl
DENTAL instruction in the use of
the globes; also dry-nursing, the
masse and the follow"
Remove him from the bar, Mr..
Bailiff!" Numbered the court.
Take him to jail"
"Stung-in the same old aching
spot" cried Cralghead. Still the
Great Uncalled! But know We,
proud Judges, I have been ex-
PEELED from worse places than
this! What harm have 1 done?
Filley, get me out of this!"
The bailiff, tottering old func-
tionary with a white mustache of
Bismarckian fierceness, warily
laid a raptorial claw on Craig
heads sleeve.
Amateur day in COURT" he
Kissed in the bailiff's ear. 1.-THE
hook! The hook! go; but my
logic sticks! Stone walls do
not"
Mr.. Filley here interposed to
such effect that Craighead was
fined, expelled and set free. Mr..
Filley's mastery address was
based on the law laid down by
Craighead; reference to which
finally evoked a smile from the
justices. In a week an injunc-
ton was issued as prayed; the
of the whole nation were
tied up; the Universal Nitrates and
Air Products Company made the
Carson-C raighead Aeronef Com
pany it's sole licensee; the Carson
aernoefs were the only flying ma
chimes which could be used; the
law of real property was vindi-
Gated; Aerostatic Power dropped
to nominal prices; Craighead was
suddenly recognized as the most
overshadowing genius legal STRAIT
egg had ever known; Carson stood
high in finance and diplomacy;
the factories for manufacturing
flying machines were offered to
him at his own terms, payable in
Carson-Craighead stocks; thous-
ands of men were put to work on
the Carson aeI onefs; the Waddy
family began to occupy space in
newspapers and magazines; the
world of finance whirled about and
readjusted itself to the explosion
all of which took time.
And in the midst of the first
excitement, the following item ap-
peared in a newspaper:
"a bizarre result of the McFad-
den decision is the NARROWING of
Mr.. Finley Shayne, erstwhile
Prince of the Powers of 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
rights surrounding the mountain,
and Mr.. Shayne and his family
have no means of getting away
except by violating the injunc-
tions.
There is already 4 panic among
the servants. 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 joke; but Mr.. Shayne takes
it seriously. The castaways are
Mr.. and Mrs. Shayne, Miss Suarez,
and Mr.. Max Silberberg. Our
representatives will ascend the
cliffs of the Hold IL possible; and
our readers may look for an ac-
count of the 'Castaways in a Pal
ace tomorrow"
Carson approached Craighead
with this paper, his finger point
ing to the item. Craighead read
1t with much glee.
when Shayne has eaten the
last poisoned rat" said he, "and
worn his knees raw sharing rat
off the cliff for food,
I'll go to him, and say, Proud
ex-plute, II on your bandaged
knees you beg my kingly clemency
I'll give. you this sandwich and
bottle of beer. Otherwise, s-s-s-s-
s-tarve! and be 'anged to you!
Either that; or wire him permits
sion to depart in the Roc. Which
sayest thou?"
IT have wired him offer of the
license" said Carson, land he
declined insultingly. ThenI Of