The Washington times., 1910-07-25

! Edmund" he said. Il think YOU
I have made fool OF yourself What
/ 5000 " IA ~ 90 you OF US, 70 60 10
| ton tnat viii revOlUuiOnfze mechanics
/ You might If you had exploited &c as
/ milll0uaire look like the Smallest
/ kind OF an atom But ms cad of de-
/ veicpins the thing in a businesslike
/ way, you rush or into space on a
] Eare-b Drained adventure"
/ THAT depends upon the point OF
I view and the mental makeup Ed
I mund replied, calmly ITO me Venus
3 Is infinitely more interesting than all
I the wealth that you could pile up be
I tween the North Pole and the equator
i Am not the Columbus OF space-and
; you my Icuteuauts-' he added, smil-
I ing Besides just wait until we re-
/ turn 20 the earln- don't promise 10
give nay attention 70 money getting
I then, but ] may reyOlutlouize q good
I 0eai more shan mechanic
/ yes If We ever do return" said Jack,
| 2 little iueuorIOusIy.
/ Por Jack! None Of as knew then
I what was IN store.
The time IAN on, and we watched the
cay land on the calendar clock. soon
{ u ndd marked week, then ten days.
I then "a fortnight We were getting pref
/ y close, but up 10 this time we had
not yet seen Venus. Edmund had seen
/ il. he said but 10 do so he had been
I oDA8e4 10 alter the course, because
/ the planet was almost in the eye Of the
{ sum- and the light or the latter. stream
I ing into the peep-hoie. blinded him
/ in consequence Of the change Of
l course. DE told u.s. va were now sp-
/ ing her. In fact-and she appeared in
= the form OF an enormous shining cres-
1 cent shall never Tor get my first view
1 We had got within haIf "a million
Z miles, and Edmund was very nervous
I about uleteorS again lie said they were
around the earth. because the former is
nearer 90 the sun. and everything
{ crowds MP as ToI approach the center
OF the solar sy--em- Consequently Ire
I AZ the planet, because he wanted IN
/ De all tIe time at the lookout The
peep that / sut was sufficient
( -Ls-t VASE -lea-linE sickle nauElnS
2 -u the black sky was the most LFeHeu-
dguS tEllE I ever looked upon-
soon afHerI.art Edmund changed the
( course again We had uut come upon
{ the expected Ue-egrs iu aIsv great MINI
beTE. auC Edmund said he felt safe
now IN running into the planets shadow
and making "a landing on her night
1 hemisphere
You see. Venus, as SchiapareIU had
/ found out doesn't turn on her axis once
bUJ Keeps always the same face 20 the
sun The consequence is that she has
Uetuat night on the other I asked why
I we didn't land oU the daylight side. but
{ Edmund said his plan Was safer We
( could easily go from one hemisphere TO
I the other he declared
Eut il didn't turn out to be as easy
I as he thought.
~ hardly expect 10 md any lnf1st2-
I i-aurs ON the dark hemisphere no said
/ cit must De rsarfullT cold tHere--DD
cold FOR life to- exist perhaps. But one
Z can never tell anyhow, ] am going 10
md out Wen just stop for a look at
Z things. and then the car viii carry Us
{ round 10 the other side we can thus
I approach the inhabitants who, 7 am
sure exist Oh taat Stoe- from behind as
I f. were. and that win give us a chance
E -1 TerDuuD-tcr them a little and plan
+ -.--- q ---=--rr -. rarr-
.-If Venus is rightly named said
Jack, ~ m FOR getting where the inhao-
4 itant5 are as soon as loSsi5le-'
When we swung round into the
/ shadow OF the planet We got her he
I tween the sun and US Then she com
u-ctelv hid the sun and appeared 5fEe
au immense black circle, hiaczer than
4 circle appeared q most beautiful rinE Of
. light
That's her. atmosphere" said Ed
I TUuELs lighted ND by the sun from be-
+ hind But, for the life OF me, ] can't
. tel what those great flames mean
4 Ele referred 70 O. vast circle or many
. cclorel flames that blazsi and GicIcered
{ with all the nITs Of the rainbow ar the
( inner edge Of rle ring OF light IL was
the most a7yfL' and ar the same time
{ beautiful sight r-a- I ever Eazed at.
E That's something altogether outside
F ms calculations Edmund averred- "I
. can't account for 1t at an"
aa-Hr Lf...aE Eele.f-GI
. our arrival with --reT-orlzs-' said Jack,
always ready TO take the humorous view
T That's not llre." Edmund responded
. mat l. IS cannot sag. But ven find
out 4 haven't come all this distance TO
. be scared off,
+ Our approach was so rapid that the
. immense black circle grew LUlr after
. hour, with pGrteItious swiftuesS soon
. u was SO large that we could no LONGER
see its boundaries through her perh0Ie
N-s.rH
mCUds finally. we must be close 70 the
upper limits Of the atmosphere The at
Euosplere OF Venus is Ceuser and more
extensive than that Of the earth, and II
we rush into il we shall be burned uo
by the effects OF friction. III have 10
slow down"
{ he slowed down a little more rapidly
Lla-I ~ as comfortable. II was jerk after
jerk and he dropped of the power but
. At last We got down 10 the speed OF an
ordinary express train. Being out OF
the sunshine now we mad TO use the
electric lamp 10 illuminate the car
( At lenEtn we got 50 close that the sur
1ace or the planet became dimIv visible
we were settling very slowly by this
time. and as we drew EraduaITv nearer
We began % notice singular shafts of
hight that seemed e. issue frrJD the
ground beneath US. as f Il had been
covered with so many iron tOundTies.
by JOVe-' cried Edmund, Il believe
I there are inhabitants on this side after
| all I certainly don't believe that those
/
T TO make for the nearest one, and Will
J soon know what they are
Accordiusly, he steered the car for one
I OF the cleaning shafts. II grew bright
. er IS We approached. and threw 2 faint
Z illumination 4p0u the ground around III
{ Everything seemed TO be verv fat and
/ level, as If we were dropping down
upon @ prairie. But no features could
I be clearly made out in the gloom
Edmund boldly approached within a
[ hundred feet Of the light. and with the
slightest perceDtible bump, we touched
/ the soil OF Venus
ITS probably fri-l5tfflIv cold o-7r-
side" said Edmund. "and wen r7r7r On
these things by way Of Drecaution.r
lie draEEed ont OF one Of his iunu-
merabIG reCeDtaCles a lot Of thick fr1r
I garments and gloves. as # we were So
ing among the EskimCS. and made ms
nut them on. while he dressed Hfr9seIr
IN similar fashion Then he handel to
each of Us pair Of biz automatic MS
tolls. telling us TO pot them in our side
pockets These precautions having been
made. he cautiously opened the door
after having. as he said. electrically an
Chcrcd the car TO the ground