The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-04-06
Wrttsn for The Progressive Farmsr.l
A Journey to Jupiter.
BY L Z. GATES
II was a night in June, such as

"Then came still evening on
and twilight gray had in her livery all
things clad; Hesperius that lead the
starry hosts rode highest until the moon
apparent queen, rising in clouded ma
jesty, over the darkness her silver man
tie threw"
Twas a night such az on which mi
loves to sit and dream Of past achieve,
ments, to sit and drought his horo-
scope to view the dim vague outlines
that border the pathway of his future
life; to sit and gaze into the starry
maze above and as the tWinkling stars
send down their rays to allow them to
fill his own heart with their bright
ness.
On a night like this the captain of
the Yale Football Team came strolling,
down the flower bordered pathway
towards the waters of the lake, which,
under the moons pale rays, had
wrapped themselves in silvery sheen.
AS he came slowly down the walk.
way he paused to contemplate the
scene abou5 him. As he stood with
the moonbeams kissing his massive
brow, there was to be seer not only q
towering form which bespoke him to
be one of Americas most perfect ath-
letes, but there was that in the man
which marked him as an intellectual
giant. For four long years he had
toiled, exerting to their uttermost the
wonderful powers with which God
had blessed him, and, as q reward, he
stood the champion of his class, men
tally and physically. On the morrow,
as valedictorian, he would receive the
parchment for which he had labored,
and then he would go and fill one of
the nations most honored positions.
The institution looked upon him with
pride; he was a veritable king amongst
men.
Slowly he wendell his way to the
shore of the lake and seating himself
in a light bark, with a few powerful
strokes he shot the vessel out ten rods
or more upon the waters, and then
dropping his oars he gave himself up
to the enchantment of the scene about
him and to his dreamy meditations.
He allowed his hand to drop over
the surface he admired the rainbow
tints of the pearly drops as the moon.
beams fell athwart them.
AS he saw the separation of light
into its primary colors, his thoughts
were turned toward the sciences, our
discoveries in electricity, the x Rays,
steam, navigation, chemistry, bota
ny, etc.
He was reclining with his face to.
wards the planet Jupiter and as he
viewed the stars he wondered if the
people up there had yet had revealed
to the natures secrets in such a NUM-
6cent way as had we. ut a not be"
he half audibly murmured, 'they are
too far away, theirs must be a gloomy
cherries world, without any of these
blessings which we have, the inhabi
tants, a dwarfed intelligent people,
cropping in a worse than Egyptian dark
ness. "Ohl that I could be transported
across the star-spangled heavens and
give to them these discoveries which
have caused our American Eagle to
SOAR to its heights of glory, which have
made our land one of un urpassing
prosperity" He was filled with an in
describable longing to go On this mis-
sion of benevolence.
Again he sat listlessly gazing at the
stars, when suddenly across the heav-
ems there flashed a pencil of roseate
light and there stood before him a fig
ure robed in white, a messenger from
the throne of the Onnipotent One.
In terror he sprang up. make
ready for your Journey" said the ap-
partition, II have come to convey you
to the presence of the President of the
Republic of Jupiter" And in a few
moments he felt himself lifted up and
away-on, on, past the crecent moon,
past the planet Mars, and in the dim
distance there looms up the outlines of
Jupiter.
AS he drew nearer he was filled
with heartfelt sympathy for what he
supposed to be a cold and cherries
world.
Tney were now directly over the
capital city, which extended for miles
DER a broad plain.
The grandest arch itectural achieve
ments of our ages were but as the
houses built by little children when
compared to those before him. The