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AA :-2 fYucN55I. g -. The shiort )'istory of the m;:ost rc. Wna'rkablc Aerial Exp1loration 0;n rec. wrd. Scutred from and pueblished Witi i.us/ralions^ made of the Irip, by coztr te i T he Technical World, C'dcago. Last fall I participated in an expe"i.ence that for its wonderful phases has never lewn duplicated." Joiin Bennett reached for his pipe, filled and li.:hted it. and then glanced toward me as if to ask if I wished to hear what he ad to div'ige. He is a very remarkab!e man, of that rare type fast disappearing. For more than half a century he has made his hone In the heart of California's majes. tic mountains, and like the "Poet of the .s a n-a!"Wili 'atrim:'(ha beard.. and hair to match, and is himself a student and a poet by nature. I settled myself in my chair with an ap preciative nod, and John Bennett begar what is truly a miost retuarkable story. "I am the oldest graduate of Yale in California." he said: "and I think it was this that brought to the ranch a party of scientists from my old university. I au not at liberty to name them, for they are coining again to try another experinent. and until that has ben made, the wne?'. thing is a secret of theirs.It will not do any harm to tell as much as I intend to, how ever. "They brought with them a dirigible bal loon, and contIled that they were goin make an aseent and study the topogrnph. of the Sierras so as to be alb' to mak n nac:rate map of the entire rante. Lt lidn', turn out that way how.ve . as yen will see -I In asort of spralway i h.ave %I. wars been intereste'd in arstat n kli:!red sciences; and when the a l: to accornpany them as guide a"1 c"migin ion I aecepted the invitation witu ainerity We went farther up into the range, an made camp. They taok their maumhino and began the work of as'seontii! t parts; and I want to saty h'-re tha t s complete a thing as ever man u.. r was everything calculat"d ,o m.l -:, I"l a success and every appliancep - e'rt av cident. It's pretty cold up on tp -f im rance above timbor line, and arrn;:e nit: bad been made to prevert tis --n'itior from retarding the experimr-nts. Ti; C:M of the balloon was made of isinla:s over : franie of aluminum. It - was en!iregy en *losed, and was heated from an eectr( )tor. which also propelled the machine fodrogen gas was used as the liftin power. supplemented by another motol. an oxygen was manufactured and suppliel t. the occupants of the ear when the atmos phere became too rarified for cornfortalsi. breathing.- Provisions were storcd for the party-enough to last six men a week and when the ascension was made it seened that not a thing had been overloo ed. Al sorts of anemometers, barometers nd ther mometers were taken along, and everything -necessary for the proper study of the con ditions that might confront the party after leaving the earth. * "It was a sparkling morning when the signal was given, and we arose with a bound and were soon soarlng over the top: of the snowy peaks. Never shall I forget that sight as I gazed through the sides ani bottom of the transparent car. So brigh was the sunshine that we were forced to draw the green silk curtli'ns at some of th< windows. Within Ave minutes we were looking down on toy mountains that were dropping away from us as a stone drop: from the top of a tall building; and thn atmosphere had become so rarefied that th< oxygen tank was opened into the car, an< the heating motor was started. Far of to the west, we could see the tiny valleys -and. stIll farther. an endless blue expaus that marked the Pacific Ocean. Many met have exulted in the view from a balloon. have ever bad the experience o an ascension to a height aboni x the so o n- - taih upar w s:'e a. a 41C. the ie odim' --7 were more than sixty miles above Its snr face. The thought staggered me; but on we kept, the scientists exulting at such wonderful progress. Constant observations were being made of every condition, andi all wore jotted down for future ref-rence; ati sill inward and upward we soured for another hour. "At the end of the third hour, I noticed Iremarkable thing and called the attention ol one of my coipanions to it. Hitherto the earth had, as I have said, been n' blue gray blot beneath us. It now appeared part blue and part pale gray,the latter color being tow rd tile west; and, as I interested my other Zellow travelers In tle sight, the western portion of the colored map was '-enl to grow l:trger ias ti' e as'rn pir.in. -ininisel in siz'. Nn" of inly con;a' OnS conid account for the phenomenon. The en tire field of our vision was chaincing. until now It seemed that only a I!, , o d familiar blue remained. ii:--- gray hin absorbed. i. Then . . ..... r? chaning thored olo aTain. ao is wdn whil the former colors mnovaed awayL~. There were no definite objects In sigh.:, only the monotonous dark. blue that sun oeredl the entire field below us. "Ntunestningte aseo.t change, and.becomin.somewhat.exercise by it h rfso ncag ft xe dtotocue t ecnan caig angren abobit. Teren.hr a sudenlyas from thet neatedar blet ado then hangringthywa holoy aganfma to itn hl then formeu color onomea. There werndofiite ojets Inesinhed rapily th onotonous p ak. bu thatoso-u cored the:ntreog fied beorust istoko that unersadingi the cs of ben tatn' bry wi the poesrt incargse mofig C-" tee diof e1 itioh ne to descndrand hacding-n ly paed the mch in e~ry or nit ure Ridlyt thn moto dad:Its wr, and he plain elowas hoan d tho woti:sains 'leut wIr andoge aut broad id- . a/ I tt rety ione ds f aieaedclos' snrl~da b a o 'a2o brVh bu, [t !:go s ter a eaher -:6.Th die1 seme esalit oprsnwt h suroude b-: 4en. :weohlne IPX , Una t tTahlnnnwfl less rapidly than previously, and I hap' p-ned t6 glance upward through tho sides of the car. I ahnost fell over with aston ithment, and could scarcely get my voice I did, they were as amazed as I for directly above us floated a tremendous globe which wke instantly r-c .:ni-zed as a map of the continent of N.orth Americn. It covered almost the entire sky, and seemed but a few mil-s distant. while bensnth us was what certainly was anothe:r earth. " 'Oood gracious," exclaimed our lead er; 'we have made the greatest discovery if all the ages We have discovered an other world, and are falling onto it. That globe off there is the earth, and we have lost it ar are about to land on another planet! "I confess that his explanation did not eplain: but he soon made himself plainer -' I..-*, : a!' - .-r- :Jre supp:1 ' ! : to be uany nebulous bodies afloat outtdde axX. EVENTY FEET. the atmosphero of the earth. a fact that al seientists accept. Some of these bodies arf as small as pinheads, while others may b( dent; yet bow it had never been discovered by the earth's astronomers was a puzzl 1V "ec. " That is a simple matter of explana tion,' sail our leader; 'this asteroid ha, never been discovered, for the same rea sen that many small but important things ha~ve been for years overlooked by eien tists In search of greater fields to con quer. It Is within less than one hundred miles of earth, while the very nearesi aihiect that has ever attracted the tele scopaes of our astronomers is the moon, distant a quarter of a millios miles. Can you not understard that no astronome1 wauldl ever train his Instrument so as t< fa'cai an object .lesb than a hundred miles distant. 'That sounds reasonable, yet I asked him how it was that it had never been sean w~th the naked (ye. "'Simpler still.' be answered, 'hecausi this little planer is less than ten miles ti diiame-t'r. So small an ohfect, with color nearly identical with that of the earth's atmaosphiere, would never be no :e<-l. ta1 1.::.. no lht or its awn could net be seen at any time. It is maore speck in the sky, and no man entr till ho loanz It has floated around oui a ria. Tin-'-i miay beo m:any more of thema. but for the present we will confine ::ivs t' id:e one. :d soon shall land 3ad see whiat there is to see.' "An anrnia Un'aotor wras th-en Thi throria:eh th-- tra- a: 'lhe finart in (rader t( ascertain tile pres.anre of the atmosphere be-f-ori we ah:;reda ta oa'a*n the Cunr anal step "otelit tle world we had disa'overea. :: l: wits zre wina' inr::r ev ryv inao ma-nt. anid we wer" now within less thar a n~o it 90-[.--.The inastrnata iioundsi to the sa-nre aioh. whic-h ab-nt equn i.d that oan ai.:' mountains on the 0::75. o w wsre sa Itandl. The tin ma.m',' nitn(oa t o the car at this time .-how-ed nio in're Inek of' brecz. anad we c-anIy droppad to the sarface of the 'oo!.nsT h-a-vl *lantaeared to enall the isi've ry. AXs we lok'ha upo-n the lana scape, it seemed ~ ati we had suddenly connld no-t possihla- justify this condlition of 'a-rda:r with thei snal! sie of the tinN world, for such a little thing could not be c---i to aob-tru~et inonath of the heal if thr' sun to paroanuec sueh a nn~ttioin. P,-'a-. T myvalf dr-oppiad a thermameter thiora fth.e frendaoor na not -d its rev i-tier. It was oighty dierees-a fact that furt her surpris-d mte--and T sa id so. "'T Inr' s:ay wo shall final that then nr" other soures of heat besIdes the sun, sinid --:a of may companlone: nn n sooner laud we opened the acar door nnd ha-::tn to a-limh dawn the nhor rope, wich had been cast out, than we dis en~. crrectness of tis prophecy. rTer were - -n sprinrs everywhere. tia th-a verdure was ~a nnI deent. "Tyinag the nnchor rope hrrut a bowl. ir. we l~en arn asuirver of our 'world. tfirst oif all. T took na good look e 'arrh we hna left a few h-.nrs before. .t was anmore marnifient sight than vnoris can ('vcr tell It filled almost the rtire dome of the sky, and the contInent at N a : :- -- -a I - -' : m a--ty na lees on a raised gluhe such as we have n school-rooms. I could locate Snn Praneliaeo as well as if T h:al had a map mnd pointer: anal from that Western n roriis cotnld trace the outline of the "-nitedl States to the city of Chicaro, and :o on to the gateway of Enrope-New j'ark. It was wonderful. The air was tot so rare as to he hard on lungs used o mountain conditions: but some of the >arty complained, anal one suffered nose >!a'ed. There was a rippling brook near at hand. its banks lined with plant life. ed T we-nt towara it to got a drink. I ctt wonderfully elated in mind and body, ndl ran lightly towardi it. falling on my hiest, and rluenchird' my thirst with the rhe stream was not more than ten feet ride, and, na far as we coul-d see from -:hor~e we st'-nd. there was no narrower 'ca-a. We wnnited to cross it. and I ancied I could make the lenp, old man 1: ::h I am. I toek a few stops back :ta, andl then ran toiwar the hank and prag into the air. "'I soared tharonva that air like a bird. nd"' !a nl-d at lieast twenty yards beyond he further bank. My (-nmpanlnes. as T htada with the easo vof a feather. first atakeid bewildlered. anal than broke into aonls of almost uneeinsingi lancvhter. For hey nnderstood the reason before Y did. "No. Well, the explanation is as sim I. ta en tim e torhe bnn nnd fajI Iows a well-known natural law. The gravitation of the little planet was almost as much less than that of the earth as ts size, and 1 weighed-had scales been provided-at-out ten pounds, more or less. With my muscle it was nothing to jump Seventy or eighty feet., the dill culty beiug to keep on the ground at all. 'Now, I suppose you are wondering fLw it was that the iplanet was tot drawn to the earth by tle great attractioU Of the latter b-ody. It took the scien:Ists Iess than live iniates to deter:u.ie the reason accurately. .it -as beca:use of the eomn positionl of NelIula, sun L:gredi s av iag been put I: 1:s format:on as to repel the atdviances of the earth toward a union. but not ento:gu to drive the lit tle fellow Itogeth'e away f?rom a motherly protecti.i. He had come with in a certain distance, beroaid which he could not pa-a .1 emn'.Ons called me back, as the. wanted t., rna some alculation:. and I si.rang back as easil as I had juaped acrots. "By lookin- at the earth. they-had dis covered that we were traveling around that plane: from east to west, while it turned over from west to east. The com binledl ntin ai opp-osite- do Iin ade our speed about two thousands miis an hour, so that we should cirele tht- earth -very twelve bours. This eliiiulation wsof the grea'test, limportance. since we would have to time ir d-p:Irturr ac '-urate-ly in ord-r t. 1:1 i! whr- we wanted to. Tf we allowed mir halloon to asiend at the wre 1ino-- it w,: just as likely that we should find ours-lves over an ocean as over the laud. a11,1 just as Ilkely over. Africa as over Ainerivn. Figures were jotted down. and we then determined upon an exploration of our kin;:oml.- I "At this point I dil sonm figuring my- - self. It seemed reasoniable to me to sup pose that. if I could jiup seventy feet with littl ,-ffr. 1 ciull run just so many tims fast, hre nlim I cbtili on the ari. Ao I proed it I poie out t. thi otLwrs a1i-:imp of trves about a mile 'tway, d ith1-i. aIkin:: t hei t tinie m-. ?tart4d . ; . t r Surprised me lw yond x e t-in f 'r I la1e nt) the air abou!t 'hirty ft.-t :it e:1h boud, :ii..:i. L :it som.- sixty ]'.t bevInd. on thl eat:,' yet with an ess that gave n~e ;...: the si :: miltiwa ',-s a b:n-k atl f.':13i t hat I hadl ma:-lo the two inib- in a frar:,i-n utnd-1' three mitnnr: " it th t rn ..' S:tid T. - :ti r-':: arouial this l:il :n the rat- of f-:v ;t:h :. hm::; a i if .v -r a ar- correct, and it is eight miles in dl dn ' indli- -i l I iu -. - for-::r mi :1, :1 T' : 1:: to 44o t."1 "Two of the 'i n:rt Vintl' !to en... n..i:id w 0 :'E good clip, th'e stop wat'-hes bein- out at ihnir :1.( ex r:on E l.tw 9TI i t1 :::: th: - : t t nn a c s t pl:ins witi.h II-- nti rc of- grey hou- . 7* * !i i i : . I.r w. a 1 : s 0n:1n1ur p)at: w.ut thoro ap Penrod iowfire ns a dip gulley. at the b rott.:n f whih was a stronm. -1e-r4 wi -,v me to1 a standstill The gu-h w:ts (!:il fifty fi-r dI and nearly a h:u- 1. widt the ti: :and as far as te ! culd se. jith' waIS no better crossing in silht. Elau-d at oiur witrK. and feelng t'rlain wi- c-1 uli mako the lean. we a :li ait it -t -r. Every bound we took was itti r thlian the pre vio;us one: and when w' r-ached the ed::e of the arroya, we sprang into the air lie thistheg i was sil .i w the tripsafely.a.. n;:.icumambulated brkd anfd serveidi.tt Thln. When~t Cali furniv wa'i just rtioundin te etl::i oft r enthtt frointh wet, wOllltd nulhai an -tored tour otft r, llt din e lruta tu -i ptrh- fartewietll t.oV.-r litlew' bi.f w'I an notl gorint that ynth shall nt bfc orsany tareip ad wl there am haclk to. u .- reeseo the c~itiu ondixts eritintl ane posrfl mi. u.whe w:' I ftirrit whot distance of tt;iehe epot' of h lefit'hft itl' mo. wha hlft et daiy lr-fotl pou:r it fw-oiht nnr ithe noi. war weontilfull in ee-ua' th n at tWi somped wothe wou Innd:. andit thnm- dowt- th "Whcontid axonu fthn ofiit."Ian h baske. er"t-: th itt theu m(tlremarkah. we Ir ever- hortd." tneli tee pod. h let"Ad prhp oetia whulf lik to lotk fate ou- ittl w onlirut rskdterli whr we lnsan-tI . and rm ownet tucly "Int tho ont weh oft." wh:ho sedu. 'n thi ntie tiwtn:itt inarabetae poI ever h0 er"roes, etpl neflyit ''Athn pe-int it eni. s iertow lokit ightly nt a swvo and rose uInky a r fu o k wsmcthnamzd tor hwoa mey.hehnen a aMh whidih he htrip-d whitheIdoruer with care trae an utlSititis of nt w at si tion holan dendes haer.s'i arfully momnt IT.lod n then he Ito rithe srwent tighty rontou a/ swie nit bfremte tk "N crfind loo." Iha e thman amd. d I trewt allmyti to w oat eeit, hotn itie ni water Frbuta -mn and the moon. "That's the reason It has never been discovered." he said: "because astrono-. mers have always been looking for thIngs farther ana.: A Few Asterthoughts. The recent campaign effectunlly dispels the illusion that there is any "silent vote." Teoghlozenge man is glad that t'he iincoImfiirta&~ :: u4 ei :h-r is ox er. The beef trust controls the supply of sole leather, and it Is snid that in conse'quence, the kicks of the consumer do not hurt. The Cleveland woman who was arrested for putting a love notion in her husand's ofee should have used some coffee instead Oscar, not the king of Sweden. htut thi.: chef of the Waldorf-Astoria,. says tnt one, meal a day Is enough for the average man. Doubtless at W. A. prices. . The Panama Canal has reached the stare f a -splendid coat of arms and a commend. able motto. This is a good deal further than the French ot SC frce 14 se:ll the: onc It fur, kno3 rece S71 E W l thor to t Will dres we C up f wbe I to o take xtr rel ij sold TRY THIS EXPERDIENT. Why a Redhot Poker Does Not Hiss in Boiling Water. If a red hot poker be thrust into cold water it hisses and sputters: if into boiling water there is no commotion. When. in the first experiment. cold water comes in contact with the hot iron there is a sudden and explosive generation of steam. which causes the liquid to be s'rattered with a hissing lo is. coisequeit upon the bursting of' innIuiut ral bubbles. When, on the other hand. : poker is thrust into boiling water, which is alrcady freely giving forth steam. introduction of the hot iron by still further assisting stea:m production -auses the pker to become at once surrounded by a sheath of vapor, wi.-hii ffectually nrevents the water froml enming into actual contact -with the niwtal. This sheath of vapor is comparative ly a bad conductor of heat, so that but little heat passes from the iron to the water. There is no commotion, an't the poker can be withdrawn still glowing brightly. THE JUG GLING OF FATE A number df years ago. Amos Rusie, the famous pitcher of the New York Club of the National Base Ball League occupied the lime light of public at tention through his wonderful per formance in the centre of the diamond. 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 are the heaviest meat eat ers in the worl. This appetite is said to be an inheritance from the hunting and fishing stage of tlhe country's life. The annual income of the Emperor of Japan is 82.750.000. His official al lowance is SL500.000. Hie has an in come of $500.000 from the 810,000,000 ranted him out of the Chinese war in demnity. 8250W.000 from his private es tates. $500).000 from the forests of the emjire. 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