The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-01-03


 sole sustenance, yet he is hale and hearty, and his face Ill retains the ruddy hue of his younger days. A short distance from the little city of Russellville might be seen an old brick wall, which the judge built as a recep- tacle for the large boilers he intends using in the construction of his flying machine. The lack of means is his only impediment, but he goes on day in and day out, never showing the least sign of discouragement. He is not averse to talking about his prospective adventure, but to a person who is in- clined to jest his lips are sealed.
 T told all that asked me-" said the judge, that the different airships that were reported to be successful could not possibly be made to fly, for they were all made on the wrong principle. Mine will be a certain success; there is no chance of failure, for I have made 1t lifetime study"
 The airship is not the judges only hope of reaching the moon. AS soon as he can raise sufficient means he will build a large cannon, and into that can non he is to put smaller one, and con- tinue placing cannon in cannon until they have reached one that will hold a man comfortably. In firing these can mons the judge is going to use dyna- mite, and they are to be touched off by means of electricity. Judge Fenley says if he fails to reach the moon by means of his airship, he will, beyond doubt, go up by means of the cannons. He is to place himself in the smallest cannon and fire them in succession. By that means" says the old man, "I can reach the moon in ten or twelve days, travelling at the rate of ten thou sand miles an hour and allowing for a variation of the course. When I get beyond the gravitation of this earth l will be attracted to the other planet by gravitation."
 Upon some subjects the judge is we'll informed. He has written history of Russellville, which he sells on the streets when he is in town. This histo- ry Is said by some to be very good and wonderfully accurate. Most any day he can be seen walking brisllly through the streets with an armful of his books, stopping all whom he meets and trying 10 sell them one Just before he leaves town, as regular as the day comes, he walks around the court house and looks directly over It at the heavens. Not long ago, while in the woods, Judge Fenley saw boy climbing a tall tree. The little fellow was nearly to the top, when he became very dizzy and would have fallen had the judge not called aloud to him to look aloft The boy did so, and his dizziness left him at once. T have become accustomed to being in high places" said the old man. "and can now stand on any limb that will bear my weight and look down without the least feeling of fear or dig ziness." 7t7oi
 He gets old boards and carries them to the tallest trees he can find. He then carries them up one by one and constructs a rude platform. Tn this el- eyated station he spends most of his time. He takes great delight in stand ing on the very edge of the platforms and in climbing to the most dangerous places he can find. Few boys can equal him in climbing, and his agility is re- markable for one of his years. The judge wears a heavy beard, which, like
 Is hair, is perfectly white. His clothes are all tattered and torn, but he would consider 1t the grossest insult should one offer him old clothes. He always wears his trousers stuffed into his boots, which are held together by wire ingeniously twisted around the leather in the worn-out places. It matters not how cold 1t may be, he will wear his shirt partly open in front. The little boys about town have long since learned better than 10 make sport of Him, foI he will not give up until he has caught them and punished them himself, or followed them to their homes and had their parents do so. Upon being asked how he expects to breath when he leaves this earth and launches into space, he replied: "Oh, there will be no trouble about that; I will take plenty of mashed-down' air along with me Of course, I will have to make calculations as to how much will consume on my voyage, and make plenty allowance for error in distance"
 When the old man lived in the old hollow tree he would sit down and lay out plans for his aerial trip while the lightning flashed about him and the rain poured down in sheets. No matter how severe the storm without, like squirrel he sat in his hollow tree and defed the weather.
 He is often asked to dinner by a prominent citizen of Russellville, but he seldom accepts such invitations, When he does go he shows by his man ners that lie has seen better days. It is reported that he was once a lawyer of good standing, but whether or not this Is true is not known, as his life is a mystery.
 No man need try to follow him in his Wanderings through the woods, for he desires to be alone to observe and med itate, and one might as well try to fol- low an untamed animal. Year in and year out he has lived in the woods alone, and time has made no material change in the character of this myste- rious old man. How he spends his time in the woods while not observing the planets from his elevated platform is never known until some one happens to find a rudely built hut or structure of some kind that they have never seen before, and then they know that Judge