The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1912-01-18
CHAPTER ..
The Man With Wings.

The Man WITH Wings.
FOR many hours-CayieJ was too
Tylnch OF a god today 20 bother with
the exact number of them-he had
been flying slowly uorthward down
mid southerly breeze. Hundreds OF
Feet below him was the dazzling. ter
sibie expanse of the polar ice pack
which shrouds the northern limits of
che Arctic ocean IN ita tmpenetrable
veil of mystery.
A compass. a sextHnt, bottle N
milk and a revolver Comprised. with
tAe clothes he wore. and with the
shimmering silken wings OF hts areo-
plane, his whole equipment His near
est base OF supplies. II you could call
IL that, was n 20-pound tin Of pemmt-
can. hidden under a stone ON the
north east extremity OF Herald island.
800 miles away. The UnHed States
rescue station at Point Barrow. the
extreme northery point of Alaska,
the place which he had called home
for the past three months. was pos
sibly, half az far again away, some
where of to the southeast.
But for these past weeks Of IN
broken arctic sunshine. ne had fairly
lived awning. The earth had no OBJ
Structions and the air no periis. To
day. with his great broad fantah
drawn up arc-wise beneath him. his
pianes pitched slightly forward at the
precise and perilous angle that only
fust did not send him piunging. head
FIRST, down upon the suilen masses OF
ice below, he lay there. prone. upon
the sheep-skin sleeping bag which
padded the framework Supporting his
txo wings. as secure as the great fuE
mar petrol which drew caTiously near.
and then. with a wheel and a plunge.
aed away. squawking.
For all practical purposes Caytey
Rad learned to fly. The great fan
driven air ship. 100 fest from tip to
dip. which had long tain idle on his
ranch at SandoYa. would probably
never leave It's house again. II had
dome yeoman service. Without dts
powerful propellers. for the last re-
source, Cayley would never have been
able TO try the experiments and get
the practise which had giyez htm tho
air for his natural element. lie had
outgrown It. lie had NO more need
of motors or whiriing fans. The force
of gravity. the force Of the breeze and
the perfectly co-ordlnated muscles OF
his own body gave him AN the power
be- needed now
Perhaps the succeeding generations
of humankind may develop an eye
which can see ahead when the body
rs lying prone, as bird lies In tts
Hjght Cayiey had remedied this do
Gciency with a little silver mirror.
slightly c0ncave. screwed fast TO ths
ErOssbrace which supported his shoul-
ders. Instead OF bending back his
head. or trying TO see out through his
eyebrows. he simply cast o backward
glance into this mirror whenever he
wanted to look ON ahead. Il had been
little perpleXiug at first. but he
rould see better in II now than with
mis- nnalded eyes.
And nov. a minute or two, perhaps.
1ni INIT suihei hah SUM oHuaHhN6
away. he glanced down iuto hts mir
TUw. and his olympian calm was
shzken with the shock ~ surprise.
For what ne saw. clearly reelected In
his little reducing glass. was land.
There was "A mountain. aud a tong
DARK kse that must DC a ciinhke
coast.
And IL Was land fhm never had
been marked on any chart In abso
sute degrees OF latitude he was nod.
from the arctic explorers yiew. very
Ear north Over on me other side OF
the world they run excursion steam
eTs every summer nearer 10 the cole
shsn no was at this moment. Spitz