The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1905-12-08

lows well-known natural law. The
gravitation Of the little planet was almost
US much less than that Of the earth m
its sue, and 1 weighed-had scales been
pro'iae9naDout ten pounds, more or
less. With my muscles, It was nothing
to jump seventy or eighty feet, the difii.
Guilty being to keep ON the ground at all.
NOW, l suppose you are wondering
now it was that the planet was not drawn
70 tne earth by the great attraction OF
the latter BODY. II took the scientists less
tnan nfe minutes to determine the reason
accurately. II was because of the CON-
position Of Nebula, sucn ingredients nav.
ing been put together In Its formation as
TO repei the advances Of the earth toward
union, but not enough to drive the Lii
tIe ieiiow altogether away from
motherly protection. He had come with.
In certain distance, beyond which be
could not pass. My companions called
me back, as they wanted to make some
calculations, and l sprang back as easily
as | had Jumped across.
ny looking at the earth. they had dis.
that planet from east to west. while hiI"" II
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, 1t 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 eur
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, I could run Just so many
times faster here than could. on the
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 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. 1 ran
back and found that had made the two
miles In fraction under three minutes |
AT that rate said I, 4 can run
around this ball at the rate Of forty-ive
miles an hour: and II your calculations
are correct, and it is eight miles in d.
ameter, 1t must be about twenty five miles
In circumference. I can, therefore, If
don't get ,winded, circle 1t 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 at
good clip, the stop watches being out at
the word Go! None OF 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
slaeken our pace; but there ap-
the bottom Of which was q stream.
Here we came to a standstill The
gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
nearly hundred wide at the top and as
far as we could see, there was no better
crossing In sight. Eated at our work,
and feeling certain we could make the
leap, we all ran at it together. Every
bound we took was better than the pre-
viOus one; and when we reached the edge
IF the arroyo, we sprang into the air like