Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-10

With a contented If somewhat
breathless sigh l sank down among the
soft moss and grasses that carpeted the
shady woods. and, lighting my pipe,
lay sprawled along the turf, my eyes
wandering back to the zig-zag path by
which / had scrambled up to this little
green solitude veritable eyry among
the mountainous rocks.
| had been staying at the inn down
in the village below and taking daily
walking trips in various directions, SO
l had gradually recovered health and
vitality, until nothing would satisfy me
but this climb; well, here l was at last,
a trifle blown perhaps, and with my
hearts action a little in evidence, but
still feeling remarkably good for sick
man.
lay back, half drowsily, watching
the myriad lights and shadows and the
subtle colOrs in the sun-tipped foliage
above me. 1t was intensely quiet,
nothing but the faint rustling of the
leaves as the wind stirred them idly to
and fro and the droning of a wandering
bee disturbed the silence. l knew that
there was a house back of the woods
somewhere doctors place of some
lord called it. | had half a mind to go
and explore it, and was lazily debating
the question when a shadow fell across
me. AS l started quiet voice apollo
gized for disturbing me, and, looking
up, | saw tall, dark, gentlemanly
looking man dressed in white fannels.
Evidently the doctor, I thought
He was about to move courteously
away, but / had been too long stran-
ger to the delights of intellectual COM
partnership to lose an opportunity like
this and we were soon chatting most
amiably
After the first few commonplace l
found myself talking as naturally as if
he were an old friend, discussing my
health chatting of home, my studies
and ambitions, and so forth. To all of
which he gave the most sympathetic
attentions, asking questions and COM
menting in an entirely interested man
ner, but when | casually brought ont
my jet hobby-the question of over
coming the law of inertia-his interest
was redoubled, his eyes sparkled and
he questioned me so keenly that | saw
at once that | was dealing with no
novice in the realm Of physics, and
very soon it was | who was being in
| terested, led away by the wonderful
magnetic personality of the man even
more than by the clear-cut language
in which he explained his astounding
proposition, which was to the effect that
by the force Of will a man might over
come the force of gravitation.
Said he: eve have no limitations,
| except those we make for ourselves
or have handed down to us by heredi-
ty You step off an elevation; well,
you expect to fall; you always have
fallen; everybody else always has, and
thinking thus you practically will
I yourself to fall again. Now, if instead
{ of all this you had been trained to
use your will freely, you would know
that is was just as easy to will your
self up as down"
But what about the fact of gravi-
| tation itself; surely you will allow it's
eXistence?" | objected weakly.
MY dear sir, surely you, a man of
science, recognize the fact that every
existing law has its polar opposite, and
that science has for the last few years
been investigating this Identical prob
lem; in fact, you yourself acknowledge
| that it has been your great ambition
to discover the law that shall overcome
gravitation.'
"Ah my friend, that's the trouble,