Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-07-10
WAS ANDREE HURLED
INTO ABYSS OF SPACED


just $40 seconds! Imagine also poor An
dree and his companions carried in their
balloon right into this terrible vortex
If the balloon sailed nearer to the pole
than any other human agency ever adj
vanced, and happened to drift into a south
wind, nothing under heaven. according to
the Renooz theory, could have saved It's
passengers from the most horrible fate
that ever befell human being. And this
is precisely what must have happened, ac-
cording to the author of Force" unless
the explorers alighted at a point not far
northward of the place that Peary reach
ed and undertook the rest of the journey
overland.
WHAT SCIENTISTS THINK OF 1T.
This. in substance, and in untechnical
language, is the extraordinary theory of
Nine. Renooz, as it was explained to me
by one or two eminent scientists. AS far
as 1 can ascertain, no physicist of ancient
or modern times has ever advanced pre-
cisely the same views of the qualities Of
solar radiation nor can 1t be said that
the theory has the full Endorsement of any
other scientist besides the woman who
originated It. 1t is worthy of note, how
ever that none have ever disproved the
theory, and, as a distinguished savant said
to me, there are doubtless many facts
and forces in nature that science will
never solve, and which will always remain
impenetrable mysteries to the mind Of
man." The principle of solar radiation
may probably be regarded as one of them.
1 was anxious to obtain an interview
with Nine Renooz herself for a further
and personal exposition of her astounding
proposition, but the lady is absent from
Paris and may not return, was told, for
many months.
1 talked with a number of other eminent
scientists on the subject, on point, how
ever, somewhat apart from the scientific
value or plausibility of the Renooz theory.
The feature of 1t that exercised a sing1I-
lar captivation for my lay mind was the
vision 1t left me of three human bodies.
swept overheard from earth, floating like
atoms in the circumambient ether of the
boundless universe. One or two of my
erudite friends refused to humor me by
diving into the realms of useless specula-
ton; two others expressed the belief that
human body thrust into the regions of
space would be speedily dissolved by the
action of the elements. thus reaching a
state of almost complete humiliation
An aged philosopher, whose reputation
is worldwide, smiled as he remarked that
man falling off the earth would keep on
falling until he landed upon some solid
substance such as another planet.
MAY BE A METEORITE.
by that time" he added, ''he would
doubtless have lost every vestige of re-
semblance to the human shape and per-
haps Terrified, turned into iron, would
appear to the inhabitants of the other
planet in the form and substance of me-
teorite. We may, therefore, suppose" he
concluded, that the meteors that occa-
sionally fall upon the earth were originally
mortals occupying another planet or that
perhaps one of them that has descended
within the last few years was poor Andree
himself, floating back towards earth on
a centrifugal tide"
Fantastic as this proposition was, It
was even less thrilling than the hideous
possibility suggested by several of the
learned gentlemen whom consulted. They
were of the opinion that If any such con-
ditions existed as Nine. Renooz had ad-
vanced, and that Andree and his compan-
ions were dashed headlong into space
they or what was left of them, were still
afioat, there, and would remain so until
the end of time. If the solar radiation
possessed the intensity of heat that the
author of Force" attributed to It. It
would require only the four one-thous-
andth part of second to convert hu-
man body into a charred atom. It's speci-
fic gravity being thus rendered practically
nil, the natural thing for 1t to do would
be to float. There, like a speck OF dust
on a sunbeam, 1t is lowering in the tide
less sea of ether, in company with mil
lions of other atoms waited from the
earth or other planets of the system
waiting for time when nature will weave
all these specks into a concrete mass and
place 1t in the armament, to be seen later
by humanity and called new star.