The next morning I was up bright and early to get the sunrise, and a beautiful sight it was. In the valleys the heavy mist was hanging low; a few clouds were hurrying westward with the tidings of the coming dawn. Royal heralds they were, proclaiming the coming of the king.

Upon the horizon appeared a light; gradually right and left it spread, giving a pale glow to all the heavens. A gentle breeze sprang up, rustling the trees, waking the birds and bringing forth their joyful song, and then a beam of light suddenly shot forth high in the heavens, tinging all the clouds a rosy color, which, falling on the earth wet with dew, was reflected to the eye by myriads of diamond dewdrops on every leaf. To the right another beam and still a third appeared; and then, with a burst of splendor, the glorious

orb itself rose majestically to its throne in the heavens.

As I walked back to the camp I found my friend fixing the fire and preparing breakfast, and after we had taken a refreshing bath in the clear, cold water of a little brook back of the camp, we sat down to table with appetites which made us very willing to overlook any faults in the cooking.

"What is the program after breakfast, professor ?"

"Oh, I do not know; suppose we try to see if we can do some soaring. It will be great sport; and if the wind increases I think we shall have no trouble, for, you see, these mountains will give us plenty of upward

currents."

"Are those necessary, professor?"

"Yes. In an absolutely horizontal wind I do not believe we could do anything. What you must try to do is to get over an upward current so that it will not only support you, but will pull you forward. Of course you begin by dropping from this cliff, and when you have sufficient speed, turn into the wind and rise as high as you can, but before you lose your speed entirely, you must turn one way or another and drop across the wind to

regain velocity; but a trial will help you more than all I can tell you."

Just as soon as breakfast was finished we went to our machines and prepared them for flight, leaving every unnecessary article behind and making everything trim and snug, in order to present as little resistance to the wind as possible. The professor, who started first, took a quick run, disappeared over the cliff, and a minute later I saw him shooting across the valley to get in a position to use the upward current which was rising over a high precipice on the other side, and I watched him for several minutes making some very interesting manoeuvres, until suddenly, to my great astonishment, he remained absolutely still in the air at a height of perhaps thirty feet above a ridge, and, save for a slight rocking motion, no movement was perceptible. This excited my curiosity so much that I hurried to investigate, and getting into my machine, took a short run and launched myself over the cliff. My motor was still on the drome, and as I wanted to get to the professor while he was still miraculously suspended in mid-air, I set it at work as soon as I had attained a horizontal course and reached the ridge in a very few minutes, to find the professor

still quietly resting on nothing. As I went over the ridge the cause of all this was made plain to me, for I was suddenly lifted vertically about fifty feet.

"Turn around, come down lower, and stop your motor! I think you can manage it all right."

Try as I could, however, I was not skillful enough to stay in one place, and after several attempts, in one of which I came very near striking the cliff, I gave it up, darted off down the valley, then circled, and turning on the electricity, mounted high in the heavens and spent all the morning in the air, enjoying every moment and feeling glad that I was alive. The temperature was low, but I was dressed for it, and the beautiful view, the stillness, the delightful motion, and the gentle rush of the wind past the wires gave me a sense of pleas ure and rest greater than anything I had before experienced, so that although I had to come down to dinner, I was in the air again and spent all the afternoon until sunset flying over beautiful valleys, rugged mountains, and swollen, rushing rivers.

Indeed, most of our time in camp was spent above the earth; either we soared for pleasure or we hunted for food, and during our two

weeks of camping we were in the air every day.

After our work was done, one night, and we were lounging around a glorious fire with our pipes lighted, I began to discuss with the professor the money question as it had appeared to me during my former life on earth, and happened to bring up the idea of repudiation.

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Repudiation!" said the professor, "what a lot of talk there was about it during the fight for silver just before the close of the nineteenth century. The word was used by the gold men as an epithet. National honor was at stake, the gold men said, and the wholesale repudiation of debts, such as they claimed free silver meant, would bring the nation into disgrace. Let us see just what repudiation means. Let us suppose that I owe you $1,000, and that when the debt is due I cannot pay. You force me into bankruptcy, and a settlement is made at fifty cents on the dollar. That is called a failure and means perhaps the loss of a livelihood to me. Now if, just before I fail and when I can perhaps pay more than fifty cents on the dollar, I can bring force to bear so that my creditor shall have to be satisfied