Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-09-16

what'll put you IN better trade than
putting me In prison for frolic with
your aeronef Oh. don't talk so limo
cent! How did you finance your air.
ship except by free trader
Carson had nothing to say. He re-
membered Captain Harrod's express
sion when Wilmer had called him an
old smuggling fool. He remembered
q thousand mysterious things now
made plain by the hypothesis of Har.
rods having yielded to the coastwise
temptation of smuggling. Wilmer ut
tered into the instrument sly. SIMS.
ter, exasperating chuckle.
Lost your tongue7" he tainted.
"Well. arrest me. Any one can tell
you where am. But will the girl
leave Silberberg to come and testify
The courtship's just getting good now.
Too bad to disturb them!"
Carson hurled the receiver away and
strobe back to the Virginia. He found
Thomas. the negro. with two men.
hosting the can of methanose aboard.
Thomas gave him the list of aeronat
clearings.
The sailings were not many-the
Tern for Memphis. the Long Tom for
st. Andrews Bay. aud. yes. the Roc
departing the morning before "for
northern points"
1--WE can overhaul the Tern" said
Craighead. with a judicial air, lat. say,
jackson and take on our friends for
Alaska. l do hope the president can
Join US ut Omaha. Gentlemen" ad-
dressing the crowd. here you see a
new aeronef invented BY me. BY
reaching Alaska before nightfall we
win million dollars. This is a sure
thing. as the sun will not set there for
three months. The bet Is with Bra
lillian who forgot about the days COM
ing quarterly ut Nome. But we shall
be honorable and pay him the million
on the nail II we fail to make it before
sunset In Rio. the real locus. Tomor-
row we shall win five hundred thou
sand from Rothschild by leaving
Greenwich observatory at sunrise 60
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. goodby!"
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
Of villages aud towns spoke of the
flerceness with which the Virginia was
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 ut 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
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 Attain
tic regions" said Carson. ''just in time
to hit the area Of local storms to-
night"
He looked from the FILLER to the com.
pass and hesitated about leaving 1t to
eat. He had never tried letting the
Virginia follow her nose with the tiller
dashed.
"Of course" said he. 'she'lI fall Oh.
But IL she turns ! can put her back
on her course. believe Ill try her"
Whereupon Craighead recited a
poem:
II go away this blessed day
To sail across the state. Matilda.
MY airship starts for various parts
At twenty after eight. Matilda
I do not know where we may go
or whether near or far. Matilda,
For Captain Carson don't make parson
OF any foremost tar. Matilda
That mystic man beneath my ban
Shall suffer. coute gull coute. Matilda.
What right has he to keep from me
The airy. scary route. Matildaf
Although. in sooth. l am youth
OF common sailor lot. Matilda.
Am man on human plan
Devised. or am not. Matildaf
"And echo. IL there were any place
to echo from. would answer. Not Ma
tildav Have some of the milk while
the Virginia chases her tail above Mr..
PinchOt's forest"
"She doesn't chase her tall much"
replied Carson. $50 far. ut least"
She did not The horoscopes held
her on an even keel. and the altimeter
statoscope delivered the verdict that
the Virginia was following a course as
level az a battleship's. Carson ate.