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\ \ x 2 / | i (Ooppeight, 1604, by D, Appleton Co.) GYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAP: cil. A. D, four American sctentists ters to & comet, \e_ explorers, enough CHAPTER IV. Heavenly Bodies head only @ few miles in r, for it was & @mall comet, and wi posed of grains and masses of stone and meteoric iron, Many r than peas them had very irregular shapes. The pace between the particles was never their less than one hundred times masses. “We can move about within It, Ayrauit, as the Callisto entered the ag- | gtegation of particles and moved slowly among them. ‘The windows in the dome, being made of toughened glass, set somewhat slant- ingly #0 ag to deflect anything touching them, and having, moveover, the pros- gure of the inside air to sustain them, were fairly safe, while the windows in the sides and base wore but little ex- ‘Whenever a large mass seemod ngercusly near the glass, they applied rgetic shock to !t and sent It among Its fellows. At these times the Callisto recoiled slightly also, the fesulting motion in elther being in in- verse ratio to its weight. There was constant and incessant movement ainung the individual fragments, but it was not rotary. Nothing seemed to be revolving about anything else; all were moving, apparently swinging back and forth, tut no collisions took place. When the sep- rate particles got more than a certain stance apart they reapproached one other, but when seemingly within ut one hundred diameters of each er they swung off in some other ale tion, After a time the Callisto med to become endowed with the ‘me property that the fragments pos- sessed; for it and they repelled one 1n- 7} other, on a near approach, after which “nothing came near, Much of the material was like siag from a furnace. having evidently been ly fused. Whether this heat was the result of collision or of Its near ap- Proich to the mun at perihelion thoy could not tell, though the latter expla- nation seemed most simple and proba- ble. When at about the centre of the nucleus they were in sem:-carkness—not twilight, for any ray that succeeded tn penetrating was dazziingly brilliant, and the shadows, their own included, were inky black. As they approached the farther aide and the sunlight decreased, found Aiftused luminosity tie @@erging from the nucleus tn total dark- Rem, they found the shadow stretching @eousants of miles before them into Re now understand," sald Bearwarden, “why stars of the sixth and seventh @agnitude can be seen through thou- @ands of miles of a comet's tail. It is ‘because there {s nothing in It. feason any stars are obscured {ts Because the light in the tail, however faint, 1s brighter than they, and that light fe all that the caudal appendage though what produces it T also from the sun, near by it Is overwhelmed by the more powerful Meht; tn fact, I suspect it ts principally shadow that the tall is strange that no one ever visible. Dt 1 thought of that before, or that any one feared the earth's passing through the tail of a comet. It is obvious to me now were any material sub- however rarefied, In immediately fall to the comparatively heavy head and surround that as a cen- tre” “How, then," asked Cortlandt, ‘lo you eocount for the spaces between those @eones? r alight gravitation maght be between some of the grains, if tt existed at all, or was unopposed by some other force, with suMcient time— and they have eternity—every comet LLiss€N, WILLIE. MET MA companiment, it would 4 COMES A LADY Po TO Go WITH BEFORE HE would come together Itke one solid mass. Perhaps milar force maintaiis gases in tended tail, though I know of no such, or even any analogous manifestation on earth. I¢ the law on which we have been drought up, that ‘every atom in the uni- verse attracts every other atom,’ were without exceptions or modifications, that comet could not continue to exist in its Present form. Until we get some aildi- tional illustration, however, we shall be short of data with which to formulate any tconoclastic hypothes's. The source of the light, I must admit, also puazies me greatly. There Is certainly no heat to which we can attribute it.” yond fragments, rong repulsion charme to the comet, creating thereby @ perfect whirlpool among {ts particles, and quick- ly left it. Half an hour later they again shut off the current, as the Callisto's speed was suMictent, Planet into mn — For some time they had been in the belt of asteroids, but as yet they had seen none near. The morning following their experience with the comet, how- ever, they went to thelr observatory fter breakfast as usuat, and, on point. ing their glasses forward, espied a com paratively large body before them, @ Uttle to their right. “That must be Palla scrutinizing It closely, “It was discov- ered by Olbers in 18 nd was the sec- ond asteroid found, Ceres having heen the first, in 1801, It has @ diameter of about three hundred miles, being one of the largest of these small planets. The most wonderful thing about it Is the sald Cortlandt, means that at orbit {t swings that much above and be- low the imaginary plane cutting the sun at Its equator, from which the earth and other larger planets vary but little. ‘This no doubt ts due to the near ap- proach and disturbing attraction of some large comet, or else It was flung above or below the ordinary plane in the catastrophe that we think befell tne large planet that doubtless formerly ex- {sted where we now find this swarin You can see that its path mal eo alderable angle to the plane of the ellp- tle, and that It is now about crossing the line."* It soon presented tne phase of a halt moon, but the waviness of the straight line, as In the case of Venus and Mer- cury, showed that the size of the moun- tains. must be tremendous compared with the mass of the body, some of them being obviously fifteen miles high. Tho intense blackness 6f the shadows, as on the moon, convinced them there no trace of atmosphere. “There be!ng no alr,’ satd Cortlanitt, “It 1a safe to assume there Is no water, which helps to account for the great | regularities on the body's surface, since the mountains will seem higher when surrounded by ‘dry ocean bottom than they would if water came half way up thelr sides. Undoubtedly, however, the main cause of thelr height Js the slight effect of gravitation on an asteroid, and the fact that the shrinking of the tn- terlor and consequent folding of the crust In ridges have continued for a time after there was no longer water ‘on the surface to cut them down. They had one genesis, and were part of the same nebulous mass. But this does not Include the other systems and nebulae; for, compared with them, our sun, as we have seen, Is itself advanced and small beside such stars as Sirius having diam- eters of twelve million miles.” As they left Pallas between themselves and the sun it became a crescent tnd finally disappeared. Two days Inter they sighted another asteroid exactly ahead, They examined tt closely, and concluded {tt must be Hilda, put down In the astronomies as No, 153 and having almost the greatest mein distance of any of these small bodies from the sun. ‘When they were so near that the diak was plainly visible the naked eve Hilda passed hetween them and Jupiter, eclipsing it. To their surprise, the light was not Instantly shut off, as when the moon occults a star, but there was evi- t refraction, "By George!” sald Bearwarden, “h is roid that has an atmospher: ‘There was no mistaking !t. ‘They soon Aincovered a small ice-cap at one pole, and then made out oceans and conti- nents, with mountains, forests, rivers and green flelds. ‘The steht lasted but a tow moments before they swept by, but they secured several photographs and carried a vivid impression in their minds, ‘*S’Matter, Pop?’’ ERE USED A Ye soir] or EN SHE TALITS To You TeuL HER You LIVE INA | Ti BEAUTIFUL HOUSE AN HAVE A BEAUTIFUL MA AN WE'RE GoINn’ DOWN "o, ATLANTIC CITY To STAY oe SumMMeR ©OOOO4-4:6-$6-6-6-06-8-56646006466006OO16-656 Hilda appeared to be about two hun- dred miles in diameter. CHAPTER V. Preparing to Alight. HAT afternoon Ayrault brought out some statistical tattes ho had complied from @ great number of books and also a = diagram of the comparative sizes of the planets. “I have been not ttle puazied at the discrepancies be- tween even the best authors,” he said, “acarcely any two being exactly alike, while every decade has seen accepted theories radically changed." Saying which, he spread out the result of his labors, which the three friends then studied. “You see,"” Ayrault explained, “on Jus piter we shall need our aper@eticsout- fits to enable us to make long marches, while on Saturn they will not be neces- gary, the increase in our welght as a result of that planet's size being consid- erably less than the usual load carried by the Roman soldier. “I do not imagine," sald Cortlandt, ‘we should long be troubled by gravita- tion without our apergetic outfits even on Jupiter, for, though our welght wi be more than doubled, we can take oft one-quarter of the whole vy remaining near the equator, their rapid rotation having apparently been given providen- tially to all the large planets. Nature will adapt herself to this change, as to all others, very readily. Although the reclamation of the vast areas of the North Amertcan Arctic Archipelago, Alaska, Siberia and Antarctic Wilkes Land, from the death grip of the ice In which they have been held will rellove the pressure of population for another century, at the end of that time tt will surely be felt again; It 1s therefore a consolation to feel that the mighty plan- ets Jupiter and Saturn, which we are coming to look upon as our heritaga, will not crush the life out of any human. beings by their own weight that may alight upon them.” Before going to bed that evening they decided to be up early the next day to atudy Jupiter, which was already a brill- fant object. ‘The following morning, on awakening, they went at once to their observatory, and found that Jupiter's disk was plain- ly vistble to the naked eye, and before night {t seemed as large as tho full moon, ‘Then they prepared to check the Cal- lsto's headlong speed, which Jupiter's attraction was beginning to increase, ‘When about two million miles from the great planet, which was considerably on 50000000000 A JOURNEY IN OTHER WORLDS By Col. 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Wishing to be in good con- dition for their landing, they divided the remainder of the night Into watches, two going to sleep at a time, the man on duty standing by to control the course and to get photographic nega- tives, on which, when they were devel oped, they found two crescent shaped continents, @ speckled region and a number of islands. By 7 A. M., accord- ing to astern standard time, they were but fifty thousand miles from Jupiter's surface,.the gigantic globe filling nearly one side of the sky. In preparation for 4 accou- parting Be of elec. developing the repulsion tricity seemed scarcely touched, and they had still an abundant supply of oxygen and for Provisions. The barometer registered twenty-nine inches, showing that they had not lost much alr in the numerous openings of the vestibule, The preasure was about what would be found at an altitude of a few hundred feet, part of the rarefaction being no Woubt due to the fact that they did not close the windows until at a considerable hetght above Van Cortlandt Park. They saw they should alight in @ jon- gitude on which the sun had just risen, the rocky tops of the great mountains shining like helmets in its rays, Soon they felt a sharp checking of thelr fore ward motion,, and saw, from the changed appearance of the stars and the sun, that they had entered the atmo. sphere of their new home, Not even dit Columbus, standing at the prow of the Santa Marla, with the New World before him, feel the exulta- tion and delight experienced by these latter-day explorers of the twenty-first century. CHAPTER VI. Jupiter. UPITOR—the magnificent plan- et with a ameter of 9,500 miles, having 119 times the sur- face and 1,300 times the volume J. of the earth — lay beneath 4 them to go to It and o; mpariion with Ite recent them, Now, thanks to remained glued to the ‘They had often aeen tt In the terres- api force whose existence the telescopes as they pi through the trial sky, emitting its strong, ancients suspected, but of which t rushing clouds, now forming and ray, and had thought of that fi planet, about which tll recently go little The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, June’4; 1912 7 knew so little, all things were possible. dissolving } Ayrault manipulated the silk covered sports of eyes. What tran- , What ecstatto bliss, [Feminine Fri “He eald | looked pretty enough is] “But | notice he didn’t Invite you to.” YESSIR vols © © to eat.” TLL PRETEND! WANT: YOU To STOP TELLIN’ So) MUCH BUT You WEEP RIGHT ON (» wk eevee) QO By J. Bryans “1 hear you met your husband entirely by acctdenti” “Yes. He ran over me in his automobile!” \ Men had discovered and he secret of apergy, and now, lower than the they through space, leaving even 1 comets behind. ot strange,” sald Dr, Cort- lanat, for over a century that bodies charged with unlike electricities attract one an- other, and those oharged with ike pel, no one thought of utilizing the coun- tenpart of gravitation? In the nine teenth century, savants and Indian jug- glera performed experiments with their disciples and masses of inert matter, by causing them to remain without visible support at some distance from t! ground; and while many of these, of were quacks, some were on the rack, though they did not pugh enoarch.” President Bearwarden and Ayrault aented. ‘They were steering for an aD- parently hard part of the planet's sur- face, about a degree and a half north of Its equator. “Since Jupiter's axe ie almost at reht angles to the plane of tte orbit,” auld the doctor, “being inclined only about one degree and a» half, instead of nearly twenty-three and . an was the earth's till so recently, it will ble for us to beve any olimate from constantly warm at equator to constantly cool or cold as we approach the poies, without being troubled by extremes of winter and summer." Until the Calltsto entered the planet's atmosphere Ita five moons appeared like sliver ahlelda against the black #ky, but now things were looking more terrese trial, and they began to feel at home. Bearwarden put down his notebook, and Ayrault returned a photograph to his pocket, while all three gazed at their Bew abode, Beneath them wag @ vast continent variegated by ohains of lakes and rivers stretching away in ali direo- ‘were towering and massive ne, and along the southern border of the continent smoking voloances, while to- F onmeanatraen 1A a i tes PA BATTLE ROVAL © ON JUPITER y . eA “T hope we may find some four-legged inhabitants,” said Ayrault, thinking of their explosive magazine rifles. ‘Tf Ju- Diter {s passing through ite Jurassic or Mesozoic period there must be any amount of some kind of game.” Just then a quiver shook the Callisto, and glancing to the right they noticed one eruption. of the voloances in rest the thunderous crashes thet the interior of the car resound. “Had we not detter move Bearwarden, and accord toward the woods they Finding « firm strip the forest and an arm gently grounded the being altogether sure how phere of their new terrestrial lungs, or nih t i of in @ ¢ew moments their at thirty-etz inches, whessugen fey closed the opening. “I fanoy,” said Dr, Csettands/ “pe Neve it will go mi window made but Ht! i