The daily tribune., 1905-12-08

lows Q well-kpown natural laW. TAs
sravitation Of the little planet WAS almost
ITS Aze. ana 1 weiehcd-had settles beer
pfsvided- -al,out ten pounds, more oS
iess. VIA my muscles. Il was nothios
% tum1 seventy or eighty feet. TUE IinS
ouAty beiAy " Keep On the ground ~ all.
'No~, suppose you ais Mondefing
how II was that the planet was not drawn
% the esrth BY the great attractiVs OF
the latter svdy. II tvvx Ske sjssutists lSss
shsA i've aiInutes 80 deierIiinx sss feasoi,
aeeerateiy. ~ was becaass OF tho COIN
posAtaoh u Nebuia, sucA Inyredlsnts nav
Ing been put together Ia Its formation as
" repei the ADVANCES OF the edrta toward
union, but not enough to drive the 1T.
tie FELLOW altogether away from
motheriy protection. He had come with
IN 4 certain distance. beyond which ne
could NOT pass My companions called
me back. as they wanted to make some
calculations and I sprang tark as eas1N
a. had jumped across.
~ looking at the earth. they Ind dis
Severed that we were travelling around
turned over from west to east. The cons.
bined motions In opposite directions made
our speed about two thousands miles au
every twelve hours. This oaicuIation
was OF the greatest Importance sincc we
would have to time our departure ac-
cnrateiy In order to land where We
Whuteu TO- ~ We allowed utsr balloon to
ascend at the wrong time. IL was just
as likely that we should Hnd ourselves
over an ocean as over the land and just
Hs likely over Africa MS sver America
Figures were 5otted down. and We then
determined upon an exploration OF our
Kingdom.
AT this point did some aguring my
self. 1t seemed reasonable to me to sup
pose that. 4 ! could jump seventy feet
With little effort. could rn:, tnst so many
| times faster here than l could on the
earth. And l proved 1t / pointed out
to- the others n ciurhp of trees about n
mile away, and then, askirg them to time
me, started. My work surprised me be
yond expectations, for leaped into the
ar about thirty feet at each bound,
and took another bnund. as simply ns II
on the earth. yet with an ease that gave
| me not the slightest wearincss. 1 ran
back and found that l hnd made the two
miles in q fraction under. three minutes!
| AT that rate shd /. I can run
around this ball Mt the rate OF forty. I've
miles an hour; ANA II yotr calculations
arc correut, and It Is eight miles In d.
ametsr II must he about twen,y-fvc miles
| In circumference. can, therefore. II
| don't get winded, circle II In less than
forty minutes. nnd I'm going to do It."
Two of the party volunteered to nc
compdny me. nhd Of we started Mt 4
good clip, the stop witches being ont al
the word GO! None of us sccmed I'd
mind .he exertIon. II nonting lightly In
the air can be called excrtion; and we ran
along through the forests and across the
| plains with the ease ana grace of grey.
| hounds. For half IN hour we did moi
sincken our pace; but there mp
pesred before us deep go"ey, al
| the bottom OF which vas stream.
| Here we camo TO stHpdstiil The
gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
nearly hundred wide at the top; and as
far as we could see. there wns no better
crossing In sight. Elated at our. work
\ - m
leap. wo AL ran at II together. Every
! bound we took was better than the pre-
vious one; and when We .carhcd the odge
Of the arroyo, We sprang Into the air like