Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-25

Ineligible, and I doubt that ne was
conscious Of my presence. His soul had
gone out through the giant tube, and
climbed the long ladder Of light TO the
regions he loved At length though
he never for a moment relaxed his
searching Of the skies, he grew calmer
and began to tell Of the vision unfolded
before him.
Il am born far out into space" he
said. and his tones were like the chant
Of the Delphian priestess, "but however
far fly, the fixed stars are still so dis
tant that they show only as atoms OF
light. Yet their brightness is inehable,
an effulgence like That which comes IN
dreams; and their number is so multi
blied that the dark interspaces all are
filed. and they merge until the whole
heaven appears as a solid dome OF llght.
He was silent; the great cylinder
swung slowly downward, waVered, q mo-
ment and again came to rest.
az have turned it upon the planet
Mars" The continued, "fOr Of all the stei-
lar host it is most like this earth on
which we are imprisoned
He cried out in ecstasy. In very
truth the fields of the valley are not more
plain. / hover above that distant Old
as If floating on bed Of cloud ana iooA
down on the scenes Of another world
Again silence fell.
"And you see
And Won SEE" QUeried at last.
az see much. much that l cannot I'M
daretand far less explain. Time Will
no needed. nv beloved son, time and pa
tio,ca and study: and that task IS lot
me and not for me. The first vision
fhrough the sweet grace OF God-thlS
.frst vision and its JOY are mine, my sur
,9ciont reward. the wages OF my toll.
Bu- the full revelation is thine. may
Int look on the mysteries OIL WAIcA IuOu
shalt find the solution
"Rut tell me, father, tell me something
a. least Of what you'see,' l urged Ior l
was afiame with eagerness.
"Soon thine own eyes shall benoid.'
he answered. "but not yet Have pau
ynce. son of my heart, for the lens also
Is nv child, and I cannot yet endure 10
turn awav. | will tell what may, but
my soul is bewildered.
81 see a land that is like Egypt in the
season of irrigation; yet it seems more
ancient than pyramid or obelisk. All
lis surface is Melted with assures like
plate of porcelain cracked with heat
lint each assure seems silver stream.
Those Ahat | see most clearly are
broader than the Nile at its height, and
their hanks are banded with the green
of field and forest. The rest is but des-
prt waste of idle dust beneath cloud
less. MINDLESS sky; yet l deem II was not
slwavs so. No ocean rolls Its waves III
tbe deep hol,ows; neither sea nor lake Is
mere to Stake the thin and thirsty air
yyitb vapors. Only from beneath Inc
,Ted Dlane.s snowy crown the siiyery
Tear drops trlckle down and CLEAN in
,be myriad wrinkles that crease MS
eunken cheeks. SO it seems TO me- he
cried but my eve is old and reaas, per
cnaDce in part its own sad iancies.
"Put the people?" 1 demanded, with
uncomfortable curiosity. Are there no
creatures like ourselves? Can you nhd
"Surelv." he replied. Intelligence is
still at work there; Of that ] see many
.U1stances. Nor is it any mark Of IN
teiiigence in US to suppose that in all tle
universe earth alone has mind. Mars IS
a living planet; fl is not, like the moon
a dead home Of ghosts But ,hat rs
neople are beings like ourselves in any
attribute I dare not assume. Not even
through the Eye Of Amm0n can I per-
GIVE their forms-if indeed they are
like Ms visible and encountered with the
flesh; for who can say? And though
along the borders of the STRAINS l see
whas may prove to be ,leir dwellings, /
am in no wise sure. Their aspect is
most strange; and I cannot see them
well. for the air is already growing trem-
ulous with the approach Of day. Thy
yonger eye shall doubtless discern them
better when by long training 1t mas
learned 10 view Alright
But this was not 10 be.
Though the conditions were no longer