Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1905-12-08

lows well-known natural law. The
grayltatlon Of the little planet was almost
as much less than that OF the earth as
lis size and l welghed-had scales been
ploviued1aoout ten pounds, more or
less. With my muscles, Ii was nothing
to jump seventy or eighty feet, the ditll
Guilty being to keep on the ground at ALL
NOW, l suppose you are wondering
how 1t was that the planet was not drawn
TO the earth by the great attraction Of
the latter body. 1t took the scientists less
than i've minutes to determine the reason
accurately. 1t was because of the COM
position OF Nebula, such ingredients hav-
Ing been put together in It's formation as
TO repel the advances Of the earth toward
a union, but not enough to drive the 1T
tie Fellow altogether away from a
motherly protection. He had come with,
in certain distance, beyond which he
could not pass My companions called
me back, as they wanted to make some
calculations, and 1 sprang back as easily
as | had Jumped across.
by looking at the earth, they had dis
covered that we were travelling around
that planet from east to west. while n
turned over from west to east. The COM
bined motions in opposite directions made
our speed about two thousands miles an
hour, so that we should circle the earth
every twelve hours This calculation
was of the greatest Importance, since we
would have to time our departure ac-
curately in order to land where we
wanted to. If we allowed our balloon to
ascend at the wrong time, it was just
as likely that we should find ourselves
over an ocean as over the land, and just
as likely over Africa as over America.
Figures were jotted down, and we then
determined upon an exploration of oul
kingdom
~ .NatN 4
self, 1t seemed reasonable to me to sup
pose that, if l could jump seventy feet
with little effort, l could run just so many
times faster here than / could on thu
earth. And l proved it / pointed on
to the others a clump of trees about {
mile away, and then, asking them to time
me- started My work surprised me be
yond expectations, for leaped into tn,
air about thirty feet at each bound
alighted easily some sixty feet beyond
and took another bound, as simply as |
on the earth, yet with an ease that CAV
me not the slightest WEAKNESS. l raj
back and found that / had made the tw,
miles in a fraction under three minutes
At that rate, said I, I can rul
around this bail at the rate Of forty-fy
miles an hour: and If your calculation
are correct, and it Is eight miles in d
ameter, 1t must be about twenty-five mile
in circumference. / can, therefore, II
don't get wlnded circle 1t in less tina
forty minutes, and I'm going to do It."
"Two of the party volunteered to az
company me, and off we started at
good clip, the stop watches being out o
the word Coz None OF us seemed I
mind the exertion, If floating lightly /
the air can be called exertion; and we ra
along through the forests and across tn
plains with the ease and grace Of grey
hounds. For half an hour we did no
slacken our pace; but there az
: peared before us deep guley, q
the bottom Of which was a stream
Here we came TO a standstill I'll
gulch was quite fifty feet deep an
nearly hundred wide at the top; and a
far as we could see, there was no bette
crossing in sight. Elated at our worl
and feeling certain we could make tn
leap, we all ran at it together Ever
bound we took was better than the pre-
vious one; and when we reached the edg
of the arroyo, we sprang into the air Tx