Charlevoix county herald., 1905-12-02

lows wellknown natural law. The
grayitation Of the little planet was almost
its size, and l weighed-had scales been
proFided-aDout ten pounds, more or
less. With my muscles, Ii was nothing
To jump seventy or eighty feet, the diff
Guilty being 10 keep on the ground at all.
Now, suppose you are wondering
how IT was that the planet was not drawn
10 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 or the COM
position Of Nebuia, such ingredients hay
ing been put together In its formation as
to repel the advances of the earth toward
union, but not enough to drive the uti
tie fellow altogether away from
motherly protection. He had come with
in a certain distance. beyond which ne
could not pass My companions called
me back, as they wanted TO make some
calculations, and 1 sprang back as easily
as l had jumped across.
by looking at the earth. they had dis
covered that we were travelling around
that planet from east TO west, while It
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 10. III we allowed Our Dalloon TO
ascend mt the wrong time. Ii was Just
as likely that we should find ourselves
over ocean over the land, and just
ms likely over Africa as over America.
Figures were jotted down, and we then
determined upon an exploration Of our
kingdom.
"At this point did some figuring my
self 1t seemed reasonable to me to sup
pose that, II | could jump seventy feet
with little effort, 1 could run Just so many
times faster here than 1 could on the
earth. And l proved 1t l pointed out
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 l leaped into the
air about thirty feet at each bound,
alighted easily some sixty feet beyond,
and took another bound, as simply as If
on the earth, yet with an ease that gave
me not the slightest WEAKNESS. L ran
back and found that / had made the two
miles in fraction under three minutes!
60 AT that rate said I, can run
around this ball at the rate of forty-fve
are correct, and 1t Is eight miles in d.
ameter 1t must be about twenty five miles
in circumference. can, therefore, III
don't get winded. circle II in less than
forty minutes, and I'm going to do It,
1.-TWO of the party volunteered to ac-
company me. and off we started ar n
good clip, the stop watches being out at
the word Co. None or us seemed TO
mind the exertion, If floating lightly in
the air can be called eXertion; and we ran
along through the forests and across the
plains with the ease and grace of grey
hounds. For half an hour we did not
slacken our pace; but there ap-
peared before us a deep gulley, at
the bottom of which was stream
Here we came to standstil The
gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
nearly hundred wide at the top; and as
far ms we could see. there was no better
crossing in sight. Elated at our work.
and feeling certain we could make the
leap. all ran at II together. Every
bound we took was better than the pre-
vious one; and when reached the edge
of the arroyo, we sprang into the air like