The La Jara chronicle., 1905-12-08

vSs' sv%s g. a well.known natSaI law. The
ss r,I,t Itatloh OF the little pisDet was almost
r. niueh less than that OI the earth as
nr,tt1,, s.1e, aud | weighed-hnd scales been
fess SItur,auout Ten pounds, more or
eS' With my muscles, 1t was notaIng
~ ~ Jump seventy or eighty feet, the difii.
Oeing To keep On the ground at all.
now suppose you are wondering
now II was thai the planet was not drawn
~ tle eAtth by the great attraction of
t .he 4attef body. 1t took the scientists less
aI'4t an4A i've minutes TO determine the reason
aSSut"teiy. II was because Of the com
position VI Nebula, such ingredients hay
ihs p"en put together In It's formation as
70 ttPeI tue advances of the earth toward
"a union, but not enough to drive the lit
We itliow altogether away from
mothetiy protection He had come with
.H certain distance, beyond which ne
could not pass. My companions called
nv nf Daek' as they wanted to make some
guiAtlons' and ! sprang back as easil,
us ~ l mad jumped across.
by looking at the earth they had dis
cvuEcrrd that we were travelling around
.nat planet from east to west, while 1t
'uIrhed over from west to east. The COM
ut speed about two thousands miles an
nour, so that We should circle the eartn
every twelve hours. This calculation
was or the greatest Importance since we
would have to time our departure ac.
curHtely In order to land where we
wanted to. II we allowed our balloon to
ns''mn as H.! Mt the wrong time, it was Just
oNer m ocean as over the land, and just
as likely over Africa as over America
s'ehres were jotted down, and we then
kingdom
AT this point did some figuring my
self 1t seemed reasonable to me to sup
pose that. II | could jump seventy feet
times faster here than 1 could on the
| earth, And 1 proved it / pointed out
10 the others clump of trees about
| mile away. and then. asking them to time
| me- started. My work surprised me be-
yond expectations, for 1 leaped into the
| air about thirty feet at ench bound,
aiiGhied easily some sixty feet beyond;
aud took another hound. as simply as If
| on the earth. yet with an ease that gave
| me not the slightest weariness. 1 ran
| back and found that had made the two
| miles In fraction under three minutes!
| AT that rate said I, Il can run
around this ball at the rate OF forty five
| miles an hour: and II your calculations
are correct, and 1t Is eight miles in d.
| In circumference. ] can, therefore, II
| don't get winded. circle 1t in less than
forty minutes, and I'm going to do it.
| Two OF the party volunteered to ac-
good clip, the stop watches being out at
the word Go" None or us seemed to
mind the excrtion, II floating lightly in
| tn" air can be called exertion: and we ran
al"ug through the forests and across the
plains with the and grace of grey
| h"rnjs, For half an hour we did not
| slnrscn our pace; hut there ap
pcarrd before us deep gulley. at
! the bottom of which was stream.
Here came to Il standstill The
| gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
| nearly hundred wide at the top; and as
fnr rs we could see, there was no better
| crossing in sight. Elated at our work,
| and feeling certain could make the
| leap. we all ran at 1t together. Every
bound we took was better than the pre-
| Viuus one; and when reached the edge
OF the arroyo, we sprang into the air like