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THE MYSTERY OF MARS. ASTRONOMER'S THEORIES.
If any Martian could look at, ur through a telescope, and view the earth as we iew Mars, he would observe how the colour of our earth changes with the xeasons. He would see how the verdura of spring, the bridal time, gives way to the cold and purple of fruition time, and that to the blackness and sunwy, White ness of the season of sleep and "drath Vegetation!" he would say, And gu ing on to argue that the animal is th corollary of the vegetable, he would tësch his children that our earth is peupled by gids, mea, or beasts.
That is how our professors argue about!
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Mars, and come to a triumphant conde CALOUTTA LINE:-This Line afords regular things to Calcutta. Penang and
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All atenuers have excellent passenger accommodation, Etted with Electric Light and fans and carry a toliy-qualifed Sarreon.
sion that it is habitable. For the c Cones of"Mars, as viewed through a tele tu scope, change" seasonably, owing We can vegetation.
almost see the Martian vegetables breaking into leal. Thringha telescope Mars appears as globe crowned by white spots-Polar | caps-and spread with bluegreen patcha Af vegetaticen- an orange ground-desert-and covered by work of lines stretching from pole to pak, each line joining another which HAIPHONG LINE-Sallings approximately weekly for pengers and carus,
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uwee world-the famed canals.
BORNEO
In Mars the day is alsnt forty minute Jonger than bars. The seasons are won- derfully like ours but in length nearly double, the year consisting of UST of our lays. This Polar caps melt in the sum TENTEIN mer to form again in the winter. Melting they are bordered by blue but not much. BANGKOK There are no amountains ani, ng great Se But there are clouds,, and often duststorais. The "elumate is cold, but most of the surface is above freezing point. The sky 1 asually perfectly clear, like "that of a gley, desert land The whether is us warten as with us, and successive Martian pears bring early and late seasons.
Thesare me of the tin articles of h the Martian ereed as they are set forth by the Aurican stronciner, Professor Lowell, in his work, Mars (Macinikani
OLDER THAN THE AUTH.
The blue-green regions, he tells us were formerly thought to be seas, i they cannot be seas, because they chang in tht according to spasons and sho certain permanent marks. The colou comes and goes, as that of vegetatio would in growth and deny. Vast areal change frim blue green to Gehre. One it was thought that this meant th transference of thousands of roms kome substanes. Now it is wit low the quiet turning of the lent under aut un's fiery touch. Vegetation woul mean carbonic acid, orygen, and Mitragé in the Martian atinosphere.
It seems that Mais, like the moon, ha' passed through the stage at which ouă earth Ands itself today, with pecans an seas and we may follow it to a water sage. Our oceans have been dwind ling since archaic times. In Mars we ma semirer of our own future
It is the brick-red tricks that give Mars its hery tiat to the naked eye. Through the telescope they look just like our deserts, the Sahara or the Painted Desert of Arizona, that laad of lambent suffron. Three-fifths of the whole surface of the planet is desert. There are 55,000,000 quare miles of Mars. Travellers of our own. Saharas can best picture what Mars is like, and what its waterless comlition must mean. To the Martian there must the word be terrible significance in desert.
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He must need water very badly, since his only supply, apart from what may be in the air, comes from the melting of the Naturally he would make snow.capa every effort to build lines of water coin munication. Knowing his conditions. Ws should expect his country to be & net- work of canal The inference, says Pro- for Lowell, that the canals are artificial is forthright
"
CASALS 30 MILES WIDE.
They run for thousands of miles "un- wwervingly. far relatively as from London to Hombny." They suggest a Ispider's web against the grass of a xyring morning, a mesh of fine re-ticulat ed lines that compass the globe, of am form width, raceedin
ty, and great loth, and
if laid down by rule and compass. No planet shows the like. The range from a or two in width to thirty miles, and one gained Eumenides-Oreus, is 3,540 mily Where the fines interesect round loog.
appear-ouses, measuring about a huzdred miles. The air of "the" canal syster seems to be to tap the snow-caps for the water there let case semi-annually and distribute it.
"
All along the canals vegetation. Aourishes in season, fed by the water, vegetation that fagles away
when the first frogs and
shows due.
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The presence of the flora is ground fo suspecting A fauna, Vegetable and Animal are coexistent on earth, where
18 13 poor frunn. scanty Animals eat plants, and really exist, in the ultimate, on nothing else. Without plants animals would soon rease to
exist. All our life comes back to fegetation. And plants are beholden to animals for processes that in turn make their own life possible it is the lowly worn that makes the soil.
That life with us came out of the sen finds possible parallel in the Martian
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that once existed. Martian life then the wherewith to begin, and hay- air and water it had the "where: with to continue.
ing
Why is it if that life exists, the astronomers never see a live Martian } Possibly became he is too small. From a great height no animal life would be seen on our earth, though vegetation might be visible: flor
usually overtops fauna. But the work of animals can be seen, though Martian's canals.
ourselves have nothing to com. pare to the
Professor Lowell concludes: "Mars is large enough to have begotten vegetation and small enough to be already eld. All state of the
that we know of the physical of both
planet points to the vegetable and animal life existing there, and, furthermore, that this
of a relatively high order is possible. That Mars is Nothing contradicts this.
inhabited by beings of some sort or othe we may consider as certain
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