The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-12

1.-The other made frantic signs to the
crowd below, shouting with all his
might: "Stopi Stopl | want to come
down. was only jesting. 1t was only
little pleasantly. You shall repent
Of this. No one has any right to keep
me in this place by force. StopH'
But, In place of stopping, the bal
loon went up, up. up. with the rapidity
OF cannon ball. With a single
glance OF his eye my cousin saw all OF
the Champs de Mars. then all Paris,
then all the department of the Seine,
then all the neighboring departments,
then all France, then all Europe, then
all the hemisphere. 1t was most en-
chanting spectacle.
He quickly traversed in turn the cold
regions, which froze him. the hot re-
gions, which smothered him, the tenn
perate regions, where he was perfectly
at his ease. There were also other re-
gions that smelled like Cologne water,
others like bergamot, others like musk.
others like yiolette and so on. But
one thing that he found very strange
was to see the earth grow gradually
small, far, very far, below him, while
another planet. suspended over his
head, grew nightly to his vision. The
one became more and more obscure,
the other more and more brilliant.
After having ascended with dizzy
rapidlty for many hours he arrived
suddenly at the middle point between
the two globes. The balloon stopped;
II did not advance, neither did 1t go
back, for 1t was equally attracted by
the moon and by the earth. What
should he do? How could he escape
from his predicament?
After a few minutes OF waiting and
OF immobility on the part Of the ball
loon, my cousin was seized with a
spasm OF fear. Fe shouted, Help!
Helpl" He called the police, and
leaped about in such crazy way that.
without willing 1t, he gave start to
the balloon. II bounded out OF the mid
die line, but that was enough. The at
traction OF the globe above became i'm
medlately greater than that OF the
globe below.
The balloon, whIrling upside down,
set out again at as great speed as be-
fore, and again traversed regions such
as 1t had already passed through-re-
gions OF cold. of heat. Of temperate
warmth, Of luke-warmness. and some
where the air was so delicions that my
cousin, opening his mouth. believed
that he was crunching barley sugar.
Soon he reached the planet that at
tracted him, and his basket settled
easily upon a summit OF one OF the
lunary mountains He raised his eyes
and perceived, in the midst Of red
sky, green ball. like great globe,
with eyes. a mouth. and two-horned
nose-lt was the earth.
WHAT HE SAW IN THE MOON.
The mountain upon which the bal
loon had rested was a magnificent dia-
mond hewn almost perpendicular.
Down its large sides. in the midst OF
violet trees bearing naturally preserved
pruIies, dashed torrent which had the
color, the taste and the smell OF milk
in our country. At distance. in the
plain, my cousin perceived cluster OF
villages, which shone as II they had
been built OF pearls and covered with
large emeralds in the guise OF slate.
He saw forests OF orange trees ten
times as high as the poplar trees on
the earth. and fruit Of which was as
large as hogsheads. The trees that
surrounded him upon the top OF the
diamond mountain were very much
smaller, because doubtless the soil
formed from the erosion OF the 3ia-
mond was not so good as that in the
plain, which was formed by the mixed
dust OF gold and Of rubies.
These little trees had all kinds OF
tints; some OF them were gray. some
yellow, others amaranth, and others
the color Of poppies. They were COW
cred with all sorts OF birds, little
eagles, little vultures, little sparrow
hawks, all no larger than your thumb,
and so pretty you could eat them alive.
These charming birds, having per-
eeived him. came and lighted familiar
ly on his head. shoulders and hands,
pecktng at him in friendly way. Only
one little raven remained TRANQUILITY
seated upon his tree, where he began to
twitter infinitely better than our night
ingales.
Unfortunately, an enormous canary.
the wings OF which had a spread of
more than fifty feet. appeared sudden
ly above them in the air. The sight
OF this canary OF prey sffrighted the
eagles, sparrow hawks and vultures,
which quickly hid themselves in the
foliage. The young raven ceased his
melodious refrain.
After having for a long time con-
templated the scene, my cousin decid-
ed to quit the summit of his jewel. In
descending he stumbled upon many
streams that tumbled In cascades down
the sides of the mountain. He tasted
OF one; 1t was excellent cream. He
tasted of another; it-was lemonade. He
tasted of a third; it was sweet barley
I water.
L.