THE BEE: OMAHA, MOXDAV, MAKCII (5, 1016.
AUTHOR. , OF "WHISPERING
SMITH," "THEMOUNTAIN
DIVIDE," "STRATEGY OF
GREAT RAILROADS," ETC.
COPYRIOHT.'lVisriY FRANK H. SPEARMAN."'
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By tela.
IJM Helen HolmM, daughter of Oen-
?'al Holme, railroad man. la rearmed
rom Imminent danger on a scento rail
road br Oeorae Storm. newpboy.
rrwn to young womanhood Hlen aavea
Florin, now a fireman, her father, and
Ms friend. Am-rn Rhlnelsnder, flnanr er,
end Robert Seagrue, pmrnntw, from
threatened olllUon. Sefebreakere em
ployed by Rengrue itMl General Holmes'
survey plans of the cut-off line fop the
Tidewater, fatally wound tne general and
rcape. Her father's etat ladly In
volved hy h' death, Helen goes to work
on the, Tldeaater. Helm twdvr the
survey plan from Stu. and though,
thev ara taken from her. finds an acci
dentally mail proof of the eurrey hlue-
firtnt. atorm a empln-.ed by Rhlne
ndw. Spike, befriended by Helen. In
hia turn aave her and t-i right-of-way
contract- when Seagrue kldnapa her.
Helen and Storm win for nhltielander a
race, aga'nst Seamie for rta-'it-of-way.
Helen. Storm and Rhlnelander rescue
BnlV from Seagrue's men. Hrlke steal
i-ecnrds to protect Tlh ne ender, and
Storm and Helen save S-Mka from death
In the burning ronrt hnie,
fOhnttntied from lm Monday)
alttr of Ike erll MUe.
Outwitted In hla effort to obtain pos
aoslon of tha coveted right-of-way rec
ord and defeated once mora In hla plana
through tha failure of Spike to betray
those who had befriended h m, Seagme's
wrath concentrated on Bplk aa being
chiefly responsible; for hla discomfiture.
But a and in I In tha room wh'ch had
,1'iit bern the scene of hla laat defeat,
Rea (ruo felt that ha could at leaat enjoy
revenue. Helen. hUorm and Rhlnelander
wera atlll far ng him. with Rplka near,
and tba aheriff wss Juat leavlnr tha
room when Baagine railed to him. Aa ha
did o. ha drew from hla pocket a worn
pamphlet and handed It oatentaMoualy
to tha aheriff. 'There' something of In
terest to you!"
"What do you mean?" returned tha of
ficial, Jorulerty. )le glanced at tha
pamphlet, ssw et forth on tha cover a
reward of 'Mo offered for tha appre
hension of Sp k and ha. laughed: "We
aea theee llring averr day," tald ha,
handing It back to Seagrue. "If I wero
to chaw up all the polntera I get Ilka
that, my aalary wouldn't buy my gajo
line." '
"Ton don't liava to burn any aaaollna
to get thla money," retorted Seagrua.
''Tour man li rlsht her."
"ITheri'" demanded lha aharlff,
kepth-ally.
Seajr rue ponted to BplVa. Tfcat la
tha man." he an Id. coldly.
Splka decided the game waa up. I!a
madvi a holt for the door. Tha aheriff
atopned him.
Tha moment waa an unpte&aant one,
Helen waa furloua. "Of all tha mean
th'tiee you've ever done," aha aald to
Beagrue, hotly, "thla la about tha moan
eat. I ahonld think yon, would want to
go and hid yourself," aha exclalrrmd
with cutt na- emphaata, "from tha alght
of all living men
Stung, "eagrua retorted In title: "That
on ml a fine from yoir tipa, Sllaa Iteien
Holmea! It'a a new role for you to he
come the rhajnplon of ptiaon blrda like
thla fellow." He nodded Inaolenlly to
warda Spike. "Rapeclally," he added,
"ainca thla very man" ha pointed a
f!ner relentleeaty at Bplka "thla very
. man," ha glmoat thundered, "waa Im
plicated tn tha death ef your own father!"
I5e meant, with hla retort, to beat poor
Helen Into the ground. Ha almoat did ao.
Rreathlera, unable to apeak, aha looked
helpleaaly from ar-cuaer to aecueed, Sionn
and Rhlnelsnder atood apellboutid. Rtar
tng at Seagrua like one atuned, Helen
co.ild only gaap:."My fatherT
'Yea, your father," repealed Brag-rue,
angrily. "How da you Ilka your hero
now?" he concluded, tauntingly.
Helen looked toward Fptke.,
He coi.ld not apeak to her. He eould
not even look at her. II only turned to
the aheriff and In a voice au h aa no
man 'ever had heard from htm before,
muttered: "I'm ready,"
Tha aheriff led him from tha room.
l'lin, will) Khlnelaiider and Storm,
eilrn'.ly followed, leaving Beagrue, ai he
tuined aaaln to hla window, to hla own
reMectiona. Nor wera tha loaa of tha
recorda and hla exeorlatton by Helen tha
only mlafortunea that wera to come to
him that day. ,
He had long had control of a valuable
gold mine In the' Ruperatlllon range, anil
io hla hai-kera ha had enlarged mora
than one with enthualaara on the proba
bility that their Inveatment In thia mine
would make all of them mora money
than evef bad been taken out of tha
Kuperatltlon mountain. Itut tha day he
. fore, drlllera working In the main tunnel
bad ctop(d auddenly before tha roc
wall they were penetrating. One of them,
after conaultlng In aoma excitement with
. hla fellowa. cal'ed tha foreman.
What'g vpT" demanded tha Utter,
gruffly, when ha reached tha drill bat
tery. , :
"Kverthlng'a up." veeponded the man,
bluntly. "H a all up with thla mine and
thla outfit, and you and me, boaa, right
here." .
ne foreman lookea grave and put a
few hurried n ieilon. He examined the
rock carefully. To hi Inqulrle the men
had but one anawer: "Tha vein pirn he J
out right here."
The foreman ahowed hla worry aa he
atood contemplating tha fault.. Ha drew
from hla pocket a book and hurriedly
acratchlng a note ' on a blank leaf,
handed It la a man and bidding him
hurry wtth It, turned again to the drill
erg ta lnveetlgate. Seagrue waa returning
from the bank when tha mine meaaenger
flopped hlra In the atreet of Laa Vega.
"Thla V.-. Beagrue?" ha demanded.
Seagrue nodded curtly. "What do you
antr"
For anawer the man I nded him
- olled letter. Beagrue, tearing open the
envelope, read:
"Dear Blr: Can you coma to the mine
at once? Vein haa pinched out In mala
wo'ktng. 8. HOE.'
Heagru. t art led at the laat aentenca
volleyed oueatlona at tha maeaenger. The
man could confirm the Intelligence of
what he, Mmaelf. bad aeen before leav
ng tha mine, and Beagrue. telling him
t hunt up HIU and bring him to tha
asay office In Main (treat, hurried back
to the bank.
Hill reached tha aeeay office almoat
ta .aoon aa hie employer. Peagrue di
tee'ed him to go get the car, and a rMII
left. f-'rve' aay expert, an old ehum
of t.ia In )cenaid, came out of the
tner ffie.
To him Beagrue e plained aa hurrl-dlv
aa uoa:ble what had happened. "Will
i
1 Had Xla Way Baal Over Xaaa to tha Tra'.a.
Tb B audita Held tha Party TJp. 3 Bill Bul
lealy Oav In.
you go right out wlih me to th mine?" , .
And when the expert kd how aoun
they ahould start. Hcagrue anawcred,
"At once." -
While the mining man waa getting hla
hat and coat. Hill and Lug appeared
with the car. Th next moment 'he four
drov rapidly away.
At th mine tha foreman waa atlil ex
amining th wall. Jle looked at hi
watch and directing the men to look
after the work, ha left thg tune! to.aee
whether hi meaaenger had returned. He
had hardly leached the surface wneo th
ear with Seagrue and his party drove up.
Alighting, tha new' arrival lost,' no time
In following the foreman Into tha tun
nel, Ha ahowed Beagrue th lout avam.
The latter examined the apot carefully
fid turned to ziueatlun the head driller.
Thla man pointed to the laat apot at
which they had got high grade quarla.
Tha expert stooped and took up a hand
ful of rock from the ground. Answering
Hragnie. In reply to a hopeful question,
he ahook hla head, "t doubt ver much."
eald'he, after th two had canvassed
th matter from all aides, "If It la posal-
bio to recover the vein."
At tha entrance to the shaft, Beagrue
ismlased his own two men and turned
to the expert. They talked together a
few moment. . The mining man aaw
what waa In Seagrue g mind and was not
surprised a momnet later to hear hltn
say, without further heating about th
buan: "If i ran get a bldih-r for the
mine, I II pay 1ft. XW for a good report
on
Beagrue never" would have Ventured
uch a proposal to one he waa not ante
of. But, Ilk most of tha mn Seagrue
did bua!na with, thla particular fellow
had hla price. II affected to conalder tha
proposal. "Of courae," he mused, "If we
could recover the ve n there Is a mine
there yet." He looked toward Bee.arue
for approval of this self-evident proposi
tion.
Beagrue nodded in kind. Kach under
stood the other aa they left tha scene to
gether. And aummonlng his men. Hill
and I.ug. and getting Into hla motor car
with the expert.. Seagrue drove away
toward I.aa Vrgaa. The machine waa
topped g I ttle distance from Khlne
lander'a ramp and Seagrue on a scratch
pad wrote a not to Amos Ithlnelandvr.
(living this to I.ug, h directed him to
deliver it. II then told Bill to drive
back to town; there were atlll a few de
tails of the dishonest arrangement to b
discussed and on these Beagrue and the
expert agreed dur ng the drive tu the
city.
Helen, cut to piece over the disclosure
of Spike's complicity in the death of her
father, returned with Hhlnelandcr and
Storm to the construction camp. Storm
offrrd such consolation as he could, but
thlt was very little. And It tu almoat a
rel ef to him when Rhlnelander directed
him to ara about getting the. men to work.
Rhlnelander, lilm.elf, waa watching tha
protrrraa of th construct on a little while
later, when l.ug handed him Bearnie'f
note:
"Dear Rhlnelander Without a cutoff,
we rannot operate the Superstition initio
prof tably. Thla would make a good tn
veatment for your company and I am
giving you th first chance to bid for It.
Tours. PEAOIU'K."
Rh'nelandrr. aomewhst pusxled. read
th note over two or three times. He
dismissed Lug with the verbal meaanga
to Seas-rue that he would look Into It,
and calling Storm and Helen nto confer
ence; Rhlnelander read them the note
and It content were put under discus
sion.
"Do you suppose," asked RhlnelandVr,
"that ha meana what ha says?"
it m'ght be. ventured Helen, re
flect he' y. "Ortalnly we anow ha is
shout defeated In Ms construction race
And If he's beaten on the railroad pro no
aition. why shouldu t he wsnt to get lid
of his mln ng property?
The Sup.T8tll.on mine." observed
Rhlnelandrr, "hss alwaa been a good
prcdu- er "
"What about' tha prlc?" Inquired
Storm. "
"That" answered Rhlnelander, "he
doesn't commit. himself on. But if the
price Is right," ha continued, tentatively,
"It might not be a bad ides to buy it."
At the mine, matter ware being pushed
rapidly forward for the selling campaign
Driving back with RID and Lug, Seagrue
had aiiinmoncd the foreman, bidden htm
dismiss the men and dispatched hla own
two worthies to th surface for bag of
ore. In the meantime, ha and hi fore
man began to get the rock ready. BUI
and Lug returned presently from tha bag
pile., each of them hearing a sack of Ore.
I.ug whs sent for mora while tha others
deposited the rich quarts In readiness for
Rhlnelander' examination.
At the assay office In Las Vegas,
Uhlnelsnder. accompanied by Storm and
Helen, was looking for the expert. Rhlne
limdi r held a brief conference with him,
telling him what waa wanted and aaklng
whether he would accompany him on a
trip to the KuiMtrxtltlon mine. The expert
raised aoma objection., professing other
work on hand, but was finally Induced
to yield and Storm was sent to procure
anotor car In which the 'parly embarked
on his return. The orders wer to drive
straight to th Superstition mln.
. IVagrue was almost ready for visitors
Aftrr sn hour' hard work with hi men
who had been distributing the sack, and
rolling tha rich ore In among tha worth-
lens rock, he directed them to get ready
for a blasting. The foreman took a single
ihnrge and put BUI and Lug to
vrk on it. .
Keagrue left the tunnel, the foreman re
mainlng under hla order to hurry th
shot. Th moment Rill wss 'ready. Lug
got tha dynsmtta. set tho fuse and com
pleted tla preparations. (Jul side, Bea
grue, to his dfllght. aaw Rhlnelander and
his party driving up. Greetings wera ex
changed, somewhat stiffly, after th r
tent tiKounter of the parties, but with
out dissension In th presence of th ex
pert, and all started . together for the
tunnel.
With Rhlnelander asking questions evety
few steps, the expert explained as thy
walked down the tunnnel, the character
of the formation and recited something
or th history of the mine, with which he
aOmltted he was familiar. It all sounded
encouraging. By th time th group
had reached the end of the main tunnel
Hill and Iig had dtaappeared from sight. !
The foreman called In a couple of men
and when Seaxrue came in with his' vlsi- '
tors, the foreman told him the shot wsa
about ready. Searue asked Rhlnelander 1
If he would like to have It fired, and upon
Rhinelander'a aaaent, the party got Into
aafety and the shot waa dlich&rged.
Coming out of their retreat, the dif
ferent member of th group picked up
specimen of th shattered or and ex
amined it. -
"Certainly. Helen." said Rhlnelander In
an undertone, "thla looks good."
Th expert wss at hand with a handful
of quarts. 'That stuff." he said, showing
It to tha prospective buyer wtth an air
of certainty, "will average 1200 to the
toa." -
Helen and Storm conaulled together,
Seagrue watching. In a moment he aaked
them and Rhlnelander to follow him out
side.. Leaving the ahaft, ha took the
three to the bag pile.
"The., sack," said he to Rhlnelander,
"contain high-grade ore, ready for ship
ment to th smelter. They ara to he in
cluded In Whatever deal t mak wtth a
buyer for the mine."
Rhlnelander, Storm and Helen con
tinued to discuss th purchase apart.
They counted the number of baas. Rhlne
Isi. U-r made an effort l roughly reckon
the value of them. Beagrue and the ex
pert talking together the while aoma
'title distance away. A further conference
sl'h eVasi j disclosed that the' price he
ar.nted for the mine waa l&l.ocOt After
J
tha usual bargaining1, Rhlnelander pro
posed to take tha property. Including the
or 'ready for the- wagon, at U10.03U
I2S.0O0 to b paid down. Seagru accepted.
Ilhlnolander made out his check and
tho transaction waa complete, Rhine-
louder only requesting that tha foreman
keep the men at work until he ahould
have a chanc to get started. Thla was
assented to and Storm was placed tem
porarily In charge of th mln.
While th negotiation -had been taking
hape. a freight train had pulled in e
few mile dletant at Valley Station,
where th crew act out an empty box
oar for loading. A teamster from tha
mine waa sunmioned by the agent who
handed hlra a note for the mine foreman.
When tho teamater reached the mine.
tha new purchaser were taking posses
sion. He handed tha message to the
foreman. Tha foreman read:
"Have empty box car tier for high-
grade ore. Send it down right away and
local will, pick tha car up thla p. m. -
' , "LEN."
H. turned to Rhlnelander, showing him
the message and pointing to the sack
ready for ahlptnent. '
Rhlnelander waa willing io ship tha ore
ready for the wagons at one. "AH right,"
h aaid, nodding to the foreman. "Send
what you have to th smelter . right
away."
Storm was given authority to put this
part of th job through aa auKkiy as
possible. While the detail wer being
talked over between Rhlnelander and his
assistant, neither of them noticed that
they wer overheard by Seagrue' tool,
BUI and Lug, who now decided that there
might ba. a chance to break into the
mining business at their own proper risk
and for their own private account. When
Seagru called them from tha discussion
of their ambitious project, he grave order
to BUI to drive back to La Vegaa. Reach
ing the station he took the train for the
city.
With their boaa out of th way. hi
two worthies thought th moment oppor
tune for their own plana and taking the
machine they started back for the mine.
. Wagone convoyed, by two guard car
rying aa wed-off shotgun had been
loaded at th mine with the valuable
quarts ore. They had reached Valley and
while the teamsters wer loading th
sack into tha box rar th two r-uarde
found a shady apot under th rar door.
The wagon had been under aurvetllanca
for some time by the Seagrue crooks, BUI
snd Lug. who were secreted a mile sway
In the bed of a wash. The two waited
patiently until th wagon had been un
loaded and started back to tha mine.
Then acoutlng their way cautiously down
to the aiding, th thieve creeping under
the farther aide of th box car, aurprlsed
th guards, dtsamed and bound them.
Having don this without loaa of time,
they went to work loading th laet of
the quarts Into the car.
But the guanlf, thojgh taken unawares,
proved no fools, line of them, working
quickly and' quietly with his bonds, git
his hands partly looae: In the next mo
ment he had freed hla feet. Without be
traying himself, ha rolled close to hla
comiia.nlc.ri a fat man bade him to turn
to him bark to back and waa releaaln':
him when a shout from Hil warned hiir.
he had been sees,
Titer wss no time for hesitation.
Springing to his feet th free guarr1
dashed down the road, till opening fir
on hlih a a he fled.
Bill and Lug, dragged the fat guard
down hill, hid him in a ravin near the
side track. The two then hiding In turn,
watched the train as It stopped at the
station W low. The agent came out of the
office after a few mlnutea When tha con
ductor aaked about the car tha agent and
he walked together over to It They aaw
It would not be ready to start for aome
time.
The predicament In which the thieve
now found themselves was an awkward
on. They knew full well that Storm,
the minute the escaped guard reached
the mine, would be after them with men
as fast as horse could travel. -
But Bill, the craftier of the pair,
thought that fcyi working quick they still
mlnht maJce it. Between th siding and
the main line were two cables used by
the teamrtem to switch cars with and
they gave him an Idea. Pointing to th
cable on the ground, he outlined hla
suggestion to Lux;: "There' one way
to work it. Lug, and just one."
Lug, like another Wataon, stared at
his companion until he should hear more.
"Wo must drop this car into tho train,"
explained Bill. "Throw tha ore out on the
right-of-way as we run along and pick it
tip afterward with tha machine. See?
k Together they crossed over to wher
tho train stood, pulled a pin In th middle
of the awing and attached tha longer of
the cables securely between the two sec
tions of the train thus cut in two. The
second cable was attached to the hind
end car of tha first cut. and fastened to
the partly loaded box car on the side
track. The plotter then rested.
The conductor, deriding there was no
use waiting longer for the box car, waa
making ready to go without It. Tha head
rnd brakeman atgnaled th cab and th
iraln pulled out. Aa the alack waa Uken
' p the box ca'r answered first to tha strain
-.on 'the shorter cable and with a Jerk
. - k - I -I 1L. .ill . . ,
wito uwn , infl siuing. Approacning
th switch, aa It momentum Increased, it
sprung the connecting rods' and swung
In on the main Una contact, aa Bill had
Intended, between the two section of the
train.
When the engineer shut off to coast
down th grade; th three seutlons came
together and tha train, except for th
abaenc of air In th hind end of the
trln Una 'pipe, was complete. ,
The escaped guard, running every step
Of tha way to sound tha alarm, had by
thla time arrived exhausted at the mine.
At the foot of the aerial railway ha found
Storm with Helen watcihlng tha or com
down. Grasping th attuatlon from tha
disconnected word the man wa able to
utter. Storm dashed into the chemlst'a of
fice close at hand and seised a Winchester
rifle. Helen sprang to a team and empty
wagon, waiting for a load, and climbing
up to the aeat selxed the . relna at the
moment Storm, rifle In hand, ran out of
the office to Join her. Sha lashed the
horses forward and headed with a very
different load from what they had ex
pected, for Valley.
BUI and his confederate In the box car,
elated by their huge success, looked out
of the side door for observers and seeing
none, began to dump the sacks of precious
quartz one after another out on the right
of way.
But it was a day of surprises for every-
asked. Th agent at Valley who had
asked to ba sent out to the desert on ac
count of hi rheumatism waa peacefully
lighting hi pipe, after the one great event
of the day the departure of tha local
freight whan he heard somewhere out of
door an unwonted rumble. It grew and
still It grew and tha next moment a team.
helter skelter on the run, dashed down
the road from th Superstition mine to
wru ins uepoi. jn a moment he was
dumfounded to recognise In the man be
una tn threatening rifle a he drew
cloae, his old acquaintance in th Ocean
side yards, George Storm, the ex-engine-1
man.
Could George Storm have turned
bandit? Was he running amuck? Would
he take th life of and old and unof
fending friend without provocation.
These and similar queries raced through
hla head when Storm, addressing him
with a shout by an old-time familiar
nickname, asked where tha boxcar of
or waa that had atood on tha aiding.
Tha agent now aaw everything double,
but look . a ha would be could see no
car. Not until now had he given the
presence of the boxcar a thought. He
knew the train had not taken It be
cause It waa not ready.- He knew th
conductor had started without it but
where was it? Th car of or had dis
appeared completely. ,
Stcnn waa talking fast and the sit
uation was made clearer to the startled
agent when he learned the wagon guard
had been held up. To. Helen, who
thought In tremendous eclipse and
reached the end of situatlona before
others had charted their begtnnlnga,
there waa only one poaaibla aolutlon to
th myatery and to solve It they muat
chase the freight train. She so declared
and 'itorra approved.
That day. mere chance, which so often
contributed to th diecomfttura of Storm
and Helen, cam to their aid. Th
freight train atopped at Arden for water.
Thla embarraaaed Dug and Bill, who per
spiring at every pore, were caching
sacksful of quarts aa fast aa they could
along th traek.. What waa of mor
moment, th nglnr' stop for water
enabled Helen and Storm with their
:rrr to gain on the train.
Helen rosa In the seat. "Drive close.
Jeorge," she cried. "I can mak th
tratn from her and give th alarm."
tie for be could make a auccessful ef
ort to atop hr aha )unpad from th
teamMer s aeat to the side Isdder of the
nrarest boxcar.
The watchful thieves, whoso attention
hnd alresdy been drawn to the pursuing
wagon, derided It was time to make a
getaway. BUI started out of tue car.
but . a shot from Storm, who saw the
move and recognised the crm!na, m
warning enough to Bill He hastily
dodged Inside and led the way to . the
little square door at the end of the car.
Out of this, followed by L';g, he crawled
to make the tr.p of' the train.
Storm, determining to b in at the
f.nlsh, only one way of cnmpassiim
his resolve. He took from thobox seat
the driver's rope, and aa the team dashed
alongside the train torm swims h
rope In a loop" over the nearest brake
wheel, secured ' hla rifle and swinging
out from th wagon made hi way hand
over hand to the 'train before It had
quire pulled away from the running
horses. '
Helen aa springing along toward fie
head end of the train. 1 Gaining It she
mado explanation to the crew and with
them started back.
Bill and I.ug gulned the top of a car
just as Helen and the engine crew came
back. The bandits whipped out their
guns, held the party up and drove them
back. The conductor and brakeman
coming forward were treated In the same
manner. But these were too mkny now
for the two men to watch and while they
were forcing the engine crew with Helen
back to the cab. the train crew fell on
Bill and Lug. The fight on tha top of
the train wa vicious. Bill managed to
break away from his captors, but both
men tn the scrimmage had lost their
gun and with Lug after him Bill ran
forward. The engine crew, seeing the
move, put on all spetd to hold the men
if possible to th deck.
Helen had ntarted back to help when
ahe saw tha desperadoes coming her
way. Dropping In botwecn two car she
cut off the head end and It pulled rapidly
away from the train. With hope of
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Rotation of Earth Can Only Be Explained by Go
ing Back to Beginning of Solar System.
By GARRETT P. 9ERVI9S.
"Kindly explain what cause the earth
to rotate. S. B. P."
Of course you mean ' to ask. what
started tha earth' rotation? Once turn
ing, thera Is no difficulty In seeing that
It must continue to turn unless some
fore Interfere to arrest its motion.
Bcience, at present, is unable to give
a definite answer to thl question. Per
haps It never will be able to glva uch
an answer. It' Is a part of th great
problem of the origin of the earth and of
the whole aolar ytem, which consist
of th gun; eight planeta, Including the
earth; om twenty-five or twenty-six
talelUtes, or moons, belonging to th
planets; hundreds of planetoid; a large
number of comet, and many swarms
of meteor.
All tnese things together make up a
gigantic mechanism, of which th sun Is
th motor, or governor, which keep It
running. Th entire system revoles round
and round tho sun and eaoh of the
planeta routes round Ita own axis, like
a spinning ball, th direction, of both th
general revolution of tha syatem and tha
particular rotation of - the Individual
planets being the aame, with certain ex
ceptions, which can ba .accounted for
as due to particular cauaea. -
Since all tha motiona within the solar
system ar linked together aud hav a
cerUIn concord, It ts to be Inferred that
they rmist have had a common origin.
We may say, then, that the earth rotate
because a motion of rotation was Im
pressed, upon It when It came Into exis
tence, together with the other member
of the system. Revolution around a com
mon center (the gun) and rotation around
their own axea are effect of a great
fundamental, mechanical law controlling
all of the planet.
The un Itself, which exceeds in mass
of quantity of matter hundred ef time
all the other member of th system
combined, also obey thi law and ro
latea on It axis tn the direction In which
the planets revolv around It.
Whatever force set the entire syatem
Into revolution was. no doubt, the funda
mental source of all the revolutions and
rotations that we find among its mem
bers. Thst force acted when the system
was created. According to the general
belief of astronomers the start wa mad
In a nebula. A nebula 1 a cloud of gas,
or perhapa a cloud of dust or 'of small
meteors, which I capable by condensa
tion of being ahaped into stars or suns.
Th great French mathematician La
place invented a celebrated theory to
explain the origin of the sojar system
which is known as the Nebular Hypothe
sis. H supposed that there Was once a
nebulous mass (and the telescope and
photography show many auch now tn
the aky) which, under tha attraction of
Its own particles for one another, con
tracted and aasumed a globular shspe.
In consequence of some lack of balance
among the motions of the part'cles In
the nebula the entire nun, as It con
tracted, got Into rotation, somewhat as
the water In a vessel seta Insrlf into a
whirl when a stopcock Is opened at the
bottom. Some irregularity in the flow
starta a motion In a particular direction,
and then all the water begin to move
that way.
Aa the nebula continued to contract It
became mor and more dense st the
center until a globular condensation wa
formed there which ulitmately became
the sun. At the same' time the rotation
of th entire nebula increased In velocity,
aa the law of mechanic would require
tt to do, aa a result of the shrinking
of th mass, and then th centrifugal
force flattened tt out Into ' th shape
of a disk. Wheq the rotation became atlll
swifter 'ring of matter began to sepa
rata off from tha whirling disk, and these
rings, when they broke, rolled them
selves up, o to apeak, into nebuloua
balls, which ultimately condensed Into
.the earth and the other planeta
Th globes, or planeta. thus formed
weuld rotate la consequence of the origi
ecrape In that direction defeated Bill and
Lug turnrd on their pursuers. The en
counter was ahort and terribly sharp.
iAig wts captured, but Bill with super
humin strength managed to get away
from his assailants and springing for-v.-nrd
Jumped with a cry of defiance
from the top of the car Into a bsrrow
pit below. i
Helen on the head end of the rear sec
tion siw his escape. As fRt as she could
climb down she dropped off a side Isd
der and started after B'll; the engineer,
rerlTig the Issue of the fight behind, now
slowed down. Helen, followed by the
train crew, led the chaso for Bill. He
turned on her with sn angry oath, but
for all his threats ehe rprang into him.
liko a wild cat and he found it impossible
to get successfully away from her. Ph
v.-aa on h!s heels every minute, delaying
h's rilcht. while with oath and blows
hs endeavored to be rid of her. By th
time he had finally overpowered her the
train crew wa on. hi back. And at
their heels cams Storm with his Win- '
Chester.
Exhausted by the struggle against too
mnny odds, Bill suddenly gave In. The
conductor stopped the brakeman from
mauling him further and with their pris
oner In front Snd Storm as guard, the
party started back for the train. Helen
waited to see the discomfited thieves
placed safely in custody within the ca
boose end boarding it herself with Storm'a
assistance, laughingly, aa was her wont,
received the congratulation of her com
ptthlons on her success. The engineer
already had his orders as to what to do
and when the lsst of tha party climbed
aboard, the train, was started slowly back
to find the team and th fatefellow who
had been tumbled Into the ravine. It
was feared he had been hurt, but on be
ing released ha asked for nothing more
than a fresh chew of tobacco. When Lug
and Bill were tied and thrown Into tha
wagon to be taken back to tha mine, he
had hi revenge by sitting on tha two
malefactora alternately. -(To
Be Continued Next Monday. T
nal rotational force of 'the condensing
nebula out of which they came, and the
direction of their rotation would, la gen
eral, accord with that of the original
nebula. Tba central mas, the iun, would
also share this rotational tendency.
Now th earth rotates in th sam
direction a the sun doe, which Is the
direction In, which all the planet re
volve round the sun, and, with two ex
ception, all the planet rotate In that
same direction. The exception are
Uranu and Neptune, the two rjost dis
tant planets, and their departure from
the general law of the system 1 ex
plicable by making not Improbable as
sumption concerning the distribution of
the matter composing the particular
nebulous ring out of which they con
densed. Thus you see that lit order to explain
why the earth rotates we are compelled
to go back to the beginning of the aolar
system, and the .explanation that we
then find is a hypothetical one which
seems exceedingly probable, but cannot
be said to be surely and unquestionably
correct. But anyhow, aa "Galileo said of
the earth: "It doe move."
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