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l°w«, a well known natural law
Th*
gravitation ot tbe little plauet was almost
as much le„ than that of
2
“JJ*’. *“d 1 "«■‘»tied—bad
be”
7 muscle., it was uothlug
ur el«ht7
the dlltf
i^ll/ belug tu keep ou lue grouud at all.
LADIES THIS
ctow. I supputte you are wouderlug
now 11 wu, that Ute plauet was uul drawu
fn. ire TiS.
.tb*
allractiou ut
„t*ir body, it took the scientists less
mail n\e uiiuute« to determine the reason
auvuruteiy. it
becauae ot tbe cuu>-
pomuuu ot Nebula, •ucn iugredlei u bav-
lug been put together iu ita for mat ion as
Send a« your name and address and wo will «end you
to repel tbe advaucea oi tbe eartb toward
free and post-paid 24 pieces of our lewelry novelties to
a union, L*ut not enough tu drive ibe Ul-
sell at 10 cent« each. Everybody you «how them to will buy
™e,.t ,e1“ow aHogctber away from a
them of you. When sold send ua th« S2.40 and we will al
motherly protection. He had couie with*
once send you thia
lu a certain dl.uuce, beyond which he
could not pass. My companions called
** ,hrf wanted to tu»ke ooma
It la nearly 48 Inches long, made from black Lynx
calculations, and I sprang back us easily
fur, has six full, bushy tabs, very latest style, and we
^^'l I’lTTipotl RCrOM.
know
you will be more than pleased with it. When you
cov^red’^bli* *f ,h,‘ e,rth-
'’»■<* rtl#-
receive it we know you will say it is the most elegant snd
that nl.ni. tre"e Were '’«’‘‘ling around
thoroughly good fur you have ever aeen. Nothing similar
to this scarf has ever before been offered as a premium; it
tnrnnPI 1 re"“ e"St tO WeSt> While It
turned over from west to east. The com
will give yeara of satisfactory wear. It gives a stylish,
dressy effect to the wearer's appearance. The only reason
bined motions tn opposite directions made
we can offer them is we hsd a large number of them made
our speed about two thousand, miles an
up for us by one of the large furriers during the summer
hour, so that we should circle the earth
when trad«, was quiet; thia Is the only reason we are able
every twelve hours.
Thia
calculation
to offer such an expensive premium. We hope you will
"nSi?fue greatest Importance, siuce we
leke sdvan(age of our offer without delay. This is an
world have to time our departure ac
extraordinary offer and cannot be duplicated by any other
curately in order to land whore we
reliable concern. We trust you with our jewelry until
wanted to. If we allowed our balloon to
sold. It costa you nothing to get this fur. Address,
««vend at the wrong time, it Wua just
as likely that we should find ourselves
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ov^r an oceun as over the land, and just
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as likely over Africa as over America,
rlgur*”* wore jotted down, and we then
determined upon an exploration of our
TRY THIS EXPERIMENT,
kingdom.
this point I did some figuring my
self. It seemed reasonable to me to sup Why a Rcdhot Poker Does Not Hiss
pose that, if I could jump seventy feet
in Bolling Water.
with little effort, I could run just so many
times faster here than I could on the
If a red hot poker be thrust into cold
earth. And I proved it
I pointed out
to the others a clump of trees about a water it hisses and sputters; If into
mile away, and then, asking them to time boiling water there is no commotion.
When, in the first experiment, cold
me, started. My work surprised me be
Men's Suspenders
yond expectations, for I leaped into the water comes in contact with the hot
Arm Bands, Lodi«,' Garters
air about thirty feet at each bound, Iron there Is a sudden and explosive
alighted easily some sixty feet beyond,
with the unique new fad
and took another bound, as simply as if generation of steam, which causes the
on the earth, yet with an ease that gave liquid to be scattered with a hissing
PHOTO LOCKETBUCKLE
me not the slightest weariness. I ran noise, consequent upon the bursting
P atkntbd J an . 19, 1904.
back and found that I had made the two of innumerable bubbles.
Particularly appropriate novel
miles In a fraction under three minutes!
When,
on
the
other
hand,
a
poker
Is
ties
in which photographs can
“ ‘At that rate,’ said I, ‘I can run
be inserted.
around this ball at the rate of forty-five thrust Into boiling water, which is
A
N
I n expiniivi
miles an hour; and if your calculations already freely giving forth steam, the
GIFT, OOSTING ONLY
are correct, and it Is eight miles in di introduction of the hot iron by still
ONE DOLLAR BACH.
ameter, it must be about twenty-five miles further assisting steam production
The photo locket buckles are
In circumference. I can, therefore, If I causes the poker to become at once
extra heavy gold and silver
don’t get winded, circle It In less than
plated, on which you can en
surrounded
by
a
sheath
of
vapor,
forty minutes, and I’m going to do it.”
grave initials or monograms.
“Two of the party volunteered to ac which effectually prevents the water
The web is best quality silk, in
company me, and off we started at a from coming into actual contact with
fascinating shades of light blue,
white, and black, and they
good clip, the stop watches ceing out at the metal.
are packed in attractive
the word ‘Go!’ None of us seemed to
This
sheath
of
vapor
is
comparative
single pair boxes.
mind the exertion, if floating lightly in
M A M DSOMl^DBT EMD ABLE,
the air can be called exertion: and we ran ly a bad conductor of heat, so that but
along through the forests and across the little heat passes from the iron to the
Sold everywhere, or uutiled for
plains with the ease and grace of grey water. There is no commotion, anil
fl.OO and to cetti» fest age.
hounds. For half an hour
J “ we did not the poker can be withdrawn •till
slacken
our pace;
but
there
ap- glowing brightly.
State kind and color dmired. if engraved, 75 cent« per
Rir extra, with not more than three letters on a buckle,
peared before us a deep galley, at
kotos reproduced, syc. per set of two, to fit buckle.
the bottom of which 1 was
___ _ a _ stream.
Here we came to a standstill The
THEJVGGLING OF FA TE
HIWES ®. POTTER
gulch was quite fifty feet deep and
Largest Suspender and Belt Makers in the World.
nearly a hundred wide at the top; and as
A number of years ago. Arnot Rusle.
Dept. 64 97 Lincoln St., Bo«ton. Maae.
far as we could see, there was no better the famous pitcher of the New York
Oar siupendsr booklet, showing many styles «dapted
crossing In sight. Elated at our work, Club of the National Base Ball League
for every purpose, aad girl«« vslaabie Ln formation
about correct drew, will be eeat FRB£ OM B1QU18T.
and feeling certain we could make the
leap, we all ran at it together. Every occupied the lime light of public at
bound we took was better than the pre tention through his wonderful per
vious one; and when we reached tbe edge formance in the centre of the diamond.
of the arroya, we sprung into the air like
o
lth
GIVEN AWAY
.^rt history oj the most re-
l- 'Plora‘ion on rec-
" and published with
,na i >f the trip, by cour-
^r '/ue i '■
,z
Ch,cas°-
■
■
i
Tt!! n"n
,bOTe «■ anr'
race. The thought staggered me: but on
.the “'‘«•«»t» exulting '.)' iu“
wonderful progre»,. Constant observation,
were being made of every condition, and
all were Jotted down for future reference-
Moûer hJur.ar<1 *“d upw*rd we ,uured for
I
1‘ netl tod!r»nth
P^omlr. anfl I hap-
of the re, ? . ,,pw*t4 thro««h the al<Iee
»bmont
,el! «’« with »«ton
t’
‘’t,
? 1 M,ri-'el7 «et toy voice
T illti
,hp 0,"‘r* wll,t 1
Wti.-X.
abovi !/. a H **
•• I for dlreetlv
we In,J»tu v't*1 * ‘"“•»done globe which
we instantly recognised a, a man of the
almoi«"fh:'f N?,'r,h . Atuorlcs. It covered
r.w n.tt,h
™ rt7, *nd serntod but a
.d1l*’nnt. while beneath us vat
W!‘.at.ier,,ln,y ,'aa another earth.
Good gracious," exclaimed onr lead
er’ .n'.a. V<‘ “'“'rt, th,‘ ««’»'•’•» dlacovery
ml "J th,i a»v. We have discovered an
other world, and are falling onto It. That
globe off there la the earth, and we have
p°anet! aUd ate “b°Ut to lan<1 00 another
“At the end of the third hour, I noticed
—..II t oartl. ipated In an experience
«??dertul pb.»ee ba. never a remarkable thing and called the attentiou
of one of my companions to It. Hitherto
reached for hla pipe, filled the earth hod, as 1 have said, been a blue
Bi»
»».I then ..lanced toward me gray blot beneath us. It now appeared
part blue and part pale gray,the latter color
live. Be Is a very remarkable belug toward the west; aud, a, I lutereated
rf that rare type fast disappearing. my other fellow traveler» In the eight, the
M’,a' L tbau half “ century be ba, made western portion of the colored map was
■I*““".' id ,, p.an of California-» majes- eeeu to grow larger as the eastern porthm
■*'' .nialus and Hko tbe “Poet of the dlmtnisaed in size. None of my companions
w os a llowiniz patriarchal could a<>count for the phenomenon. The en
“I confess that his explanation did not
K t J hair to match, and ta himself tire field of our vision was changing, until
hut he soon made himself plaluer
.
oet I,- nature.
now it seemed that only a portion of the explain;
by
recalling to ua that there are auppose.1
mvself In my chair with an ap- old familiar blue remained, the pale gray to be
many
nebulous bodies afloat outside
■ IXt'v led. a"J ■I"hU Ben“ett begaD
u truly a .... . remarkable story
■ ’Ji .’m' the . id. st graduate of Yale in
He A ” be sahl; “and I think It was
Iff
’brought to the ranch a party
BJtielentUts from my old uulver.lty. I am
■ it liberty to name them,- for they are
■ »Las again to try another experiment,
■iSnitll that has been made, the whole
■ St h, a ¿' ret of theirs.lt will not do any
Krn to tell as much us I intend to, how-
■
w'-Thev brought with them a dirigible bnl-
■ IMO and contl.l.-.l that they were going to
■ Xu ««cent aud study thb topography
■ rfthe SieiVas so as to be able to moke nu
■ .¡curate map of the entire range. It didn t
■ wo out that way However as you will see.
I " Iu a sort of superficial way I have al-
I Mrs been Interested In aerostatics and
I ffired sciences; and when they asked me
■ t» Mcompnny them as guide and compan-
Iton 1 accepted the Invitation with alacrity.
■ W, went farther tip Into the range, and
I nude camp They took their machine out,
I aid began the work of »assembling the
laarts- and I want to say here that It was as
■ «tuoiete a thing as ever rnan made. There
I ni everything calcinated to make the trip
I a roereoa and every appliance to prevent ac-
I cld.nt. It’s pretty cold up on top of the
I rente above timber line, and arrangements
I bad been made to prevent this condition
I from retarding the experiments. The car
I ef tbe balloon was made of Isinglass over a
I frame of aluminum. It was entirely en-
| closed, and was heated from an electric
I motor, which also propelled the machine.
I Hfdro(en go, was used as the lifting
I power, supplemented by another motor, and
oiygen wns manufactured and supplied to
tbe occupants of the car when the atmos
phere became too raritled for comfortable
breathing. Provisions were stored for the
psrty-eoough to last six men a week—
sod when the ascension was made It seemed
I tbit not a thing had been overlooked. All
sorts of anemometers, barometers nnd ther
mometers were taken along, and everything
necessary for tbe proper study of the con
dition, that might confront the party after
Itavtag tbe earth.
"It was a sparkling morning when the
k,nal was given, aud we arose with a
bound and were soon soaring over the tops
of tbe snowy peaks. Never shall I forget
tbst eight as I gazed through the sides and
bottom jf tbe transparent car. So bright
wa, tbe sunshine that we were forced to
draw the green silk curtains at some of the
windows. Within five minutes we were
looking down on toy mounturns that were
trapping away from us as a atone drops
from tbe top of a tall building; nnd the
atmosphere had become so rarefied that tbe
oxygen tank was opened Into the car, and
tbe heating motor was started. Far off 1
to the west, we could see the tiny valleys,
and. still farther, an endless blue expanse
that marked the Pacific Ocean. Many men
hare exulted In the view from a balloon,
but few have ever had the experience of
making an useeusloit to
above I
I COULD JUMP SEVENTY FEET.
the atmosphere of the earth, a fact that all
scientists accept. Some of these bodies are
ns small as pinheads, while others may be
larger. That tins last '-as <<
■ »
dent; yet how it had never been discovered
by thè earth’s astronomers was a puzzle
to me.
“ That Is n simple matter of explana
tion,’ said our leader; ‘this asteroid has
never been discovered, for the same rea
son that many small but important things
have boon for years overlooked by sclen-
i tlsts in search of greater fields to con
quer. It is within less than one hundred
miles of earth, while the very nearest
object that has over attracted the tele
scopes of our astronomers is the moon,
distant a quarter of a million miles. Can
you not understand that no astronomer
would ever train his instrument so as to
focus an object less than a hundred miles
distant.
“That sounds reasonable, yet I asked
him how It was that it bad never been
seen with the naked eye.
“ ’Simpler still,’ he answered, ‘because
this little planet is less than ten miles in
SOARING OVER SNOWY PEAKS,
diameter. So small an object, with a
color nearly identical with that of the birds nnd landed ott the opposite side
earth’s atmosphere, would never be no fully ten feet beyond tbe edge.
ticed. and having no light of Its own. this the going was simple, and we After
made
could not be seen at any time. It is a tbe trip safely, having circumambulated
mere speck In the sky, and no man can the globe in thirty seven minutes.
tell how long It has floated around our
“I am not going to tire you with all
earth.
There may be ninny “ more of
details of the stay on Nebula Let
them, but for the present we will confine the
It
suffice to say that we had to jvalt there
ourselves to this one, and aoon shall laud twelve
hours for the United States to get
aud see what there is to see.’
back to us. Tn the meantime fond was
“An aneroid barometer was then tot cooked and served. Then, when Cali
through the trap In the floor. In order to fornia w*as Just rounding the edge of the
ascertain the pressure of the atmosphere earth from the west, we lifted anchor and
before we dared to open the car and step started our motor, bidding but a tem
onto the little world we had discovered. porary farewell to our little world, for
The planet was growing larger every mo wo all fully determined that this should
ment, and we wore now within less than not be our only trip there. The journey
a mile of its surface. The instrument back was the reverse of the conditions
showed that the pressure waa eight In coming away from homo; nnd by op
pounds to the square Inch, which about erating the powerful machinery, we were
equaled that on high mountains on the enabled to make our lan Ung within a
| earth, so we were safe to land.
The very short distance of the spot wo had
anemometer attached to the oar at this left’but little more than half a day before.
time showed an entire lack of breeze, and But it was moonlight, and th»* night wi1*
we gently dropped to the surface of the bountiful 1n the mountains. We camped
‘Nebula,* as I had volunteered to call the whore wo landed, and came down to the
discovery. As we looked upon the land ranch next morning.’’
.. va
tu-
scape, it teemed as If we had suddenly
TTo stopped abruptly and rellyhtod bls
¿topped Into M-’’thorn «’ntl^’mla. and I pine
I waited for him to continue.
could not possibly Justify this condition
“What do yon think of tt,” he asked.
of verdure with the small site of the tiny
“T think it the most remarkable tale I
world, for snob a little thing eonld not be ever heard,“ T replied.
expected to obstruct enough of the heat
“And perhap« you would like to look at
of the sun to produce such a condition. onr little world, he asked.___
Puzzled, T mv«e1f dropped a thermometer
T was instantly alert, and rose quickly
through the trapdoor and noted Its rel from my chair.
iefer. It was eighty degrees—a fact that
“Come «long, then,“ he «aid, leading
further surprised me—and T snld «o.
the way.
“ *1 dare snv we shall find that there
Into the garret we went, whore be dog
are other sources of heat besides the sun, nut ...
of a - -----
corner
-----------------------
a fine hand t:
triearepe.
«aid one of my companions; and no which he curried tn the dormer window
sooner badi we opened the car door and on the enxt idde. Rwtncdng
Swinging it
It Into
Intn s a posi
posi
begun to climb down the anchor rope, tion 60 degrees, he peered carefully Intn
which had been cast out, than we dis It then sdjneted It ngnl.t, «crewed it
It
covered the correctness of his pmnbecy. tightly nntn a awtvel. and hade me tnlte
There wore boiling springs everywhere, n careful look. T «’«« more then »maxed,
for before me tn the heaven; wna a globe
and the verdure was magnificent.
“Tying the anchor rope about a bowl of dim light, npnn which I could, with
der, we began a survey of our world enre trace and outlines of what socmen
But first of all. T took « good look at the to bo land and water. For bnt a moment
earth we had left a few hours before. T looked, and then he took the Inatrnment
Tt was a more magnificent sight than rwrv from me and turned It from the lit
words can ever tell It filled almost the tle planet.
“Now And It,” be commanded.
entire dome of the sky, and the continent
I tried with all my might to locate It.
t North America looked exactly as It
does on a raised globe such as we have h«» n .fhfnr revealed itaelf but the «tars
In school-rooms.
T could locate Ran and the moon.
"Tbat’11 the reason It haa never been
Francisco as well as If I had had a map
and pointer: and from that Western fl»«*- discovered.” he Mid: ••bectnae astrono
mers
have always been looking for thing«
trnpolls could trace the outline of the
United States to the city of Chicago, and farther away.”
so on to the gateway of Enrop*—
York.
Tt was wonderful. The air was
A Few Aitertboughf,.
not so rare as to he hard on lunga used
to mountain conditions; bnt some of the
The recent campaign effectually dlwpcla
party complained, and one suffered nose the Illusion that there la any “slleut vote.
the continent or north A merica filled the dome of the . k •
bleed. There was a rippling brook near
at hand, its banks lined with plant life.
n
nd I went toward It tn get a drink.
i
The cough loachg* nan la (lad that the
’''n
“tot* than two mile*. Straight
felt wonderfutly elated In mind and body, uncomfortable hot weather la over.
w* «oared: and wlthtn an boor,
anti ran llghtlv toward
.¿’'"J"'?" IS!
fort* ww<’h We felt not tbe least dleeom-
end quenching my thirst with th*
rertl we h,d risen to high that tbe EsttKisrtS .. cheat, refreshing
Th» beef treat enntreta th* anpply of •*>!<■
water I had ever drenti»
bln.
,now * broad expanse beneath us,
The stream was not more than ten feet leather, and It la aald that In cono-quence,
_»*,ln color and «bowing no convolutions twird a
the klcka of th* eooaumer do not hurt.
wide, end. »• far ” •" m’"M
»
*♦ »»»med perfectly flat at eneb
dlatance, and tbe ocean bad become the
Where w* stood there »«• no "*""’’*1
nl.n.
We wvn’ed to crore ft. end
“me color as th« land.
The Cleveland woman —bo wan arrented
fancied I conti make the leap, old n,,n for pattina a love potion In her husband's
,rea *
tl1* «cntlemeB of tbe party low-
IrtXbTa“ I
are . ’hemometer through the floor and
coffee
should have seed some coffee lantcad.
r” ward and th»n ran toward the bank and
,ha3t? 5?ck within ten seconds. Its bn b "toelf Well, within an hour we *ad
....'7, ,F that th» outside str was too cold
’’Ttó ttó
• «Ìd
Iu«. ,0 t*cord the tentperatnre. A apeclal
and landed at least twepfv yards beynnd
s„ri,"’’.“Pf w«a then sent down, and came evidently psaaed beyond the mountains an
atreL?’111 *he Information that the rarlficl were above a broad plain.
farther bank. Mt
ntoephere we were In w.. eighty degrees
o^t.relv beneath n> now ««« » per- ^Ired h»wl1d»r»d.
«... ,*.ro- 'Within the ear, tbe thermom^
Tmm»x'"re'v
'
.
..
r
|
P
~,te4
color,,
wl: ^"tered alxty-two degree», which reettv circular dree or T»ri*
The Panama Canal haa rett'•bod th* «tag»
■>»ala of altnoat nnoeeMna
tbay under,food th« reaeon before I did of a splendid coat of arm and a commend,
»rew«5’"‘S w»rm enongh for comfort. Tn
wijbX
at, ,.'JL22nr ” *»«,n fc"***’ ,b’ ""’'’I
able motto. Thia la a good deal further
' —No. Veti, the
*5’. i than the French <ot.
n and we eonld none
thl? rt* ,b*n on* hundred below aero. By seemea
1
ia—
r“‘ pie aa all th» "'he™ h*’* N*11- *
haw ‘
th* Mrth
become a dim
and calculate«, shewed that w«l
having absorbed It. Then, as suddenly as
had come the other change, there crept iu
from, the east a dark blue shadow that rap
idly swept across the plain beneath,
changing the color again to its own, while
the former colors moved away. There
were no definite objects in sight, only the
monotonous dark blue that soon covered
the entire field below us.
“Not understanding the cause of the
change, and becoming somewhat exercised
by it, the professor in charge of the expe
dition concluded to descend, and according
ly operated the machinery for that purpose.
Rapidly the motor did Its work, and the
plain below began to assume a definite
form. It changed its color from blue to blue
and green, with here and there a dazzling
pL,
■Ml
Handsome Fur Scarf
H oliday P resents
At that time he received a salary of
$5,000 a year. For some little indis
cretions he was disciplined by the club
management, and rather than take the
punishment he retired from base ball
for a year or two; when he got back
into the harness again, his cunning as
a pitcher had deserted him.
For a time he drifted around without
occupation, but later received employ
ment as a lumber hand, with a com
pensation of $1.50 a day. It is now
announced that he has been success
ful in obtaining a position in Cairo,
Ill., where he will receive $4 a day.
Americans nro the heaviest meat eat
ers In the world. This appetite Is said
to be an inheritance from the bunting
and fishing stage of the country’s life.
The annual Income of the Emperor
of Japan Is $2,750.000. Ilis oilieial al
lowance is $1,500,000. He has an in
come of $500,000 from the $10,000,000
grunted him out of the Chinese war ln-
demnitv. $250,000 from his private es
tates, $500,000 from the forests of the
empire.
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