The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-05-17
Virginia Of the
Air Lanes B, ,. 4 s;:'; ;':: Quick
Author of
Double Trouble"

text OF hOuSe-Cleanlng, had the seed
corn taken down from over the por-
traits of Dante and Aeschylus, and
removed the cream separator from
it's place beside the bard of Avon
who had been looking at it all the
time with a knowing air, as if en-
tirely familiar with it's operation.
The old democrat wagon and ma
trOnly Percheron mare, whose pro-
gress was impeded by the neces-
sity of an occasional stop for pur-
poses connected with the susten-
ance of her colt, were supplanted
by new automobile. Mr.. Waddy,
like the toes of the Barefoot Boy,
was encased lin the prison cells of
pride"
1t was CALLING; and so. sitting
desolate in his deruralized library,
the old gentleman, having no voca-
ton for any other intoXicant, inn
bibed freely of Craighead He knew
re was likely to lose money by it.
He rather desired to do so, that
he might say to his sons, and to
Caroline: We'll, dumb it, If you'd
have let me alone l wouldn't have
lost anything"
But that was at first. The money
for the last touches to the airship
was to be the extent of his venture;
and then came Craighead with his
newly-hatched plan for actually
monopolizing the air; and, Mr.. Wad-
ry, having submitted it to his local
lawyer, hesitated. and was lost.
"I'll go into it," said he. We'll
that wants a trip by airship. Hey?'
Exactly" replied Craighead.
Jest as if the whole country was
our farm" cried Mr.. Waddy.
ut will be for circumambient
purposes, replied Craighead. And
as you well said. farms cinch.
And remember, Mr.. Waddy: in put
ting Shayne and his pirates down
and out, we and our pirates are
making way for the matchless, I'M
sinkable, double-acting, universal
speed, direct-drive, non-halation, or
thochromatic Carson aeronef. Don't
forget our naughty Southron Cocoon
spirator who will wing his way to
Illinois by the time We return. Don't
fall down and forget that"
Huh" calculated Mr.. Waddy.
"Oh, say not so. Mr.. Waddy, say
not SOL" urged Mr.. Craighead pro-
testingly. Our aeronef has every
thing, the in-shoot, the drop, the
float, the out-eyerything. Tested
under al conditions; marginof-
safety factor completely looked
after; basic principle so demonstra-
bly, correct: gyroscopic libration-
devices, for automatic power-distri-
button to correct perturbations OF
and oblique. Why, doubt these and
doubt the advance of science, the
Improvement in corn. the advent or
the generalpurpose hen, the fiXa-
ton of nitrogen in the soil by the
nodules of the roots or legumes-
or Is it on the legs of rootlumes?
Thou knowest. o son of the soil,
which it is! All of us knowest how
crude it is to doubt EN-; and to
doubt the Carson aeronef is waur,
mon, dell sight waur!"
We'll, you'd better have him on
hand" said Mr.. Waddy. 'as he
promised, or III know why he took
my good hard money"
1t was on occasions of this sort
that Mr.. Craighead had sweated
kilograms begging to know if Theo-
dore really had any airship. and
asking if Carson's status as asset
or liability; for Mr.. Waddy had
accompanied Craighead east; and
these Geographic means of a spirit
agonized by doubt had been evoked
by his truculent attitude toward the
possible failure of Carson to come
north cleaving the air in the inven-
ton which was to change the world.
But think, my dear sid" pro-
tested Mr.. Craighead, 'of the untold
millions in the Broom idea-aerial
monopoly! Even If Theodore should
be only four clubs and spade, we
still hold the aces, my dear Mr..
Waddy. Do not grind your teeth
thus, so long as the American Nj
trates and Air Products company
remains as the Archimedean lever
with which to pry up and dump the
world We are ahead, whatever
happens to the aeronef end of the
deal"
well, the aeronef end" said Mr..
Waddy, had better come to the
center. or I'll see what law there
is for getting money by false pre-
lenses"
Continued Tomorrow