The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1905-12-07

Lows Well-knOWn natzsu Law. The
RFaTitauol Of the little . iRhst was almost
as much less than that o. the earth as
us sire, and / Weighed-Aad sCaIes been
proFldeI-abOut leo pounds, more or
less. villa my muscles, II was nothing
TO jump seventy OF eighty feet, the AIM,
Guilty being 10 Keep VI the ground at all.
Nov, / suppose you aIe wondering
how II MAS tnaI the planet vas not dFaHn
10 the earth by the great attraction VI
TIE latter body. II tOUk the scientists less
than i've minutes 10 determine the reason
accurately. Ii was because Of the cOm-
position VI Nebula, sucn ingredients hal
Ing been put together ia It's formation as
to repel the advances VI the earth toward
union, but not enough 10 drive the lit
tie fellow altogether away from a
m0theriy protection. lie had come with.
IN certain distance, beyond which ne
could not pass. My companions called
me back, as they wanted 10 make some
calculations. aud / sprang back as easil,
as ] had Jumped across.
by looking NJ the earth, they had dis
covered that We were travelling around
that planet from east TO west, while II
turned over from west TO east. The COM
hned m"iinnS 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 10 time our departure ac-
curately In order % land whore we
wanted to. II we allowed our balloon 20
ascend At the wrong time, Il 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 our
kingdom.
'At this point did some figuring my.
self. II seemed reasonable TO me TO sup
pose that II l could jump seventy feet
with little effort, could run just so many
times faster here than l could on the
earth, Aud | proved II pointed out
! to the others clump Of trees ahOut Il
mile away, aud then, asking them Ia time
me- started, My work surprised me he
You'd expectations, for l lcaped into the
air about thirty feet at each bound,
alightcd easily some sixty feet beyond.
and took another hound, MS simply rs If
on the earth, Yet with an ease that gave
mo not the Slightest WEAKNESS. | ran
back and found that | had made the two
miles In fraction under three minutes,
AT that rate said I, 4 eau run
around this hail NJ the rate Of forty five
miles an hour: and IL Nuur c"lrulylio"s
are correct, and 1t Is eight miles In d.
ametcr II must be about TWENTY-FIVE miles
/
don't get wiudcd, circle II In less than
forty minutes, and I'm going TO do It."
"Two of the party volunteered to ac'
| comnanv me, and on We started M q
good clip, the stop watches being out NJ
the word 'Cu" None or us seemed IL
mind the cNcrtlon, II floating lightly IN
the air can Lee called cXcrtlon; ana we ran
along through the forests AMI across the
plains with the ease aud grace Of grey.
| ttff * 'HN half lpWT did moi
d.. Slackcn our pace; hut there ap'
p"arrd before MS n deep gulley, At
the bottom uf which was stream.
| Here we camC Ia a standstlll The
gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
nearly a hundred wide NJ the top; and as
far as We could soc. Their" was no better
crossing In sight, Emled AZ our work,
| and feeling certain WE could make the
leap. we all ran at II together, Every
bound we took was better than the pre-
yious one; aud when We reached the edge
Of the arroyo, we sprang Into the air like