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THE
fessor Edward S. Morse, curatorof the
department of Japanese pottery at the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, says the
Boeton Herald.
Professor Morse, while not an astron
omer by profession, has made a special
study of Mars for many years. Hi
new bo6k, '"'Mars and It Mystery,"
which appeared early in October, con
tains some astonishing revelations
about our next-door neighbor in the
solar system.
Professor Morse thinks the inhabi
tants of Mara may raise tobacco exten
sively. The Martians may be even
greater smokers than the men. of the
earth. How Professor Morse got this
idea is best explained in his own
words.:
"At certain times there has been ob
served in the equatorial region of Mars
a number of white spots, which have
greatly puzzled the student of Mars,
and for which no explanation has yet
been- offered. That they are not clouds
is seen in the fact that they do not
move or drift. Furthermore, these
white spots are fixed features of the
region, as they appear in the same
places.. ._,.:._
'.'It might "Ke* suggested "that they
represent snow-capped elevations or
mountain peaks, but this is difficult to
believe, as an examination of the ter
minator of Mars reveals no evidences
of -high elevations. These white spots
appear only in midsummer, which
would argue against their being snow
caps, as in midsummer they would cer
tainly melt and disappear. The time
of their appearance coincides with the
time of greatest equatorial heat.
"Since the appearance of these
white spots in Mars corresponds with
the period of greatest evaporation, it
is conceivable that an intelligence in
Mars might utilize the same method
which has recently been adopted in
Connecticut and Porto Rico in the
raising of tobacco, namejy, to protect
the fields with white cotton cloth."
It is the canals of Mars, however,
that furnish Professor Morse with the
strongest evidence of life on the red
planet. On this point he quotes Pro
fessor Pcrcival Lowell of Boston, who
has made more extensive obrervations
of the Martian canals than any other
astronomer. He says:
"What we see hints of the existence
of beings who are in advance of, not
behind, us in the -journey of life."
Problems of a Dying World.
A peculiar interest is excited in these
superior beings because they have
grappled with the problems of a dying
world. They have learned how to ex-,
ist on a desert planet where water is
the scarcest and most precious thing in
existence. Their whole world is much
like the Sahara desert, or the flat des
ert plain of our own Arizona.
Yet on a dried-up world of this -sort
they evidently have built up and con
tinue to maintain a civilization far in
advance of anything on the earth. This
is indicated by the complex canal sys
tem that prevails all over their globe.
One of their canals alone is over 3,000
miles in length, long enough to reach
from Boston to San Francisco. In
deed, canals on Mars seem to be
aswiths
numerous as railroads on the earth.
Professor Morse has made a drawing
showing how similar some parts of our
network of railroads are to the Martian
canal lines. The canals of Holland also
present a similarity. These illustra
tions are set forth to show that such
markings must be the works of intelli
gent beings rather than the haphazard
cracks or markings of nature. Profes
sor Morse sums up the argument in fa
vor of the Martian canals being arti
ficial in these words:
"The unnatural straightness of these
interlacing lines on Mars, many of
them following the arcs of great cir
cles their unilorm width thruout, their
always starting from definite areas, their
convergence to common centers, find
no parallel in natural phenomena.''
Where these canals meet one another
are circular areas, indicating great
oases, and probably large cities.
Professor Morse gained much of the
material for this book by a visit to
the southwest. He spent five weeks at
Professor Lowell's observatory at Flag
staff, Ariz. In the dry, steady, clear
air, 7,000 feet above sea level, ho
studied the surface of Mars thru a
telescope. He saw the pale yellow disk
of the planet gradually develop a net
work of dark markings. I was like
a photographic plate, first blank and
then mysteriously taking on shades and
lines.till a world picture was presented.
Looking about him in that desert re
gion, Professor Morse found an explan
ation of the Martian mystery.
Explanation of the Martian Mystery.
"Let one stand on some peak of the
Verde mountains," he said, "northeast
from Phoenix, Ariz., overlooking the
Gila river as it follows its course across
the desert, and after the river is lost
to view he will notice that the foliage
/long its banks marks its course.
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latest word of science about
Mars and its probable inhabi
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A^SCIENTISPS SPECULATIONS ON^
WHAT THE MEN OF MARS ARE LIKE
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COMPARISON OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIA LINES TO SHOW THAT MARTIAN CANALS MUST BE MADE -BY
INTELLIGENT BEINGS.
Prof*ES. Morse Thinks They Are Great Agriculturists
Solving the Problem of a Dying WorldMay Be Like
Men or Gigantic Ants.
'Su're'"W MaraD Is Inhabited.,MORSE
"If one $ake$ this view in" winter
time, the ui=iform gray of the plains,
Unbroken by^fe-shade of color, blends
with the lightsbitt^.of the distant Plo
mas and Ca&tle.Dome mountains on the
southwest horizon. In the early spring,
when the water is first let into the
irrigating channels, with their innumer
able divergent ditches, a, shade of green
may be seen emerging from the monot
onous yellow-gray of the hot and ster
ile plain, first conspicuous near the
source of the water supply, and then
following along to Phoenix, Temple and
other regions, till in full efflorescence
these cities stand out like great green
carpets spread upon the earth.
From this mountaintop not a trace
of an irrigating ditch, large or small,
would be discerned, except here and
there a glint, of reflected sunlight, but
the effects of the life-giving waters can
be traced in broad bands to the re-?
motest limits of the water channels,
when they would end as abruptly as
they had begun."
Professor Morse makes this explana
tion to illustrate how wide areas of
vegetation may be seen at a great dis
tance, so great, indeed, that canals
themselves would be invisible. The
canals of Mars are believed to be gi
gantic irrigating ditches, very similar
to those now in operation in the'west
and those being constructed by.tbe-govr
eminent.
As life on Mars appears to be sus
tained solely by irrigation, it would
seem that its inhabitants. are great ag
riculturists. We are only beginnings to
learn how to produce vegetation and
sustain life on deserts. But the. Mar
tian have covered their whole globe
irrigation works. Professor
Morse thinks they must understand the
principles-of hydraulics far better than
our best civil engineers.,
Their sole source of water supply
seems to be the snow caps that- form
at the poles during the winter. When
these snowcaps begin to melt, the wa
ter is conducted by the canals clear
down to the equator, and probablv
every drop of it conserved and used
over and over again for irrigating the
land.
Inhabitants of the Planet. .,V'
What manner of beings these are
that have created such a prodigious,
universal waterworks system is a mys
tery. Professor Morse appears to
think they may be like men or gigan
tic ants. For men and ants, he ob
serves, exist at the greatest extremes
of elevation, where the air is heaviest
and rarest, as well as in places where
the climate is hottest and coldest.
On Mars the air is exceedingly/rare,
about half the density of the atmos
phere on the highest mountain tops of
the earth. A man from the earth sud
denly transported there, Professor
Morse thinks, would give a few gasps
and die. But the rarefaction of the
air has taken place by very slow de
grees, and for this reason Professor
Morse conjectures that man might sur
vive the change. He says on this point:
"One has only to make himself fa
miliar with the wide range of. cond^
tions under which life in various forms
exists on the earth to realize that the
introduction of Martian" conditions here
would not be such an overwhelming
calamity. If these conditions could be
introduced by minute increments cover
ing thousands of centuries, it' is not
unreasonable to believe that myriads
of forms would survive the change
and among those that survive would be
precisely th$ kinds that thrive under
the most diverse conditions here, name-
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ly, man and the higher hymenoptera,
the ants."
We have the choice, then, of consid
ering the Martian either a man or gi
gantic being,, adapted to breathing the
rarefied air, or a mammoth ant. Pro
fessor Morse seems to lean to the idea
that a creature very like man is theof
Martian intelligent being.
What Martians Might Say of Us.
One of the most interesting parts
of Professor Morse's book is the chap
ter on "What the Martians Might Say
of Us," which begins:
"For every single perplexity of inter
pretation we encounter in our study of
the surface markings of Mars the Mar
tian would encounter a dozen perplexi
ties in interpreting the various features
on the surface of the earth.
"What must be the Martian inter
pretation of the surface features of
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THB MINNEAPOLIS JOURNAL.
When the nature of the business of the Tailors' Misfit Ex-
change was explained to the public last week we prophesied the
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Overcoats would keep us good and busy.
As you are aware, we had our opening Saturday, and, with-
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tomers and would-be customers. 7
We very much regret that our limited space compelled us to
turn away a lot of men who wanted to get next to the good
things, but have made arrangements to overcome this difficulty
on Monday.
We shall have a much larger force of salesmen tomorrow, and
the bargains we shall offer will be greater than ever.
Among the good
thingsa offeredvests,:made
this world In examining the earth as
we have examined Mars, the Martian
would find large yellow and reddish
areas, extensive greenish areas, and,
besides, large regions of varying shades
of blue, occupying throe-fourths of the
earth's surf/ace. The vellow areas he
would interpret as desert land, the
greenish areas he might consider vege
tation, but "what would he make out
of the larger regions of blue? ThiB
would certainly puzzle him, because, un
familiar with oceahB, he could not be
lieve that suckvast tracts could really
be water: He, 'would easily interpret
the polar caps .and the water at their
edges, but the oceans would be impossi
ble to solve."
"Even i.he"rocognizod oases in the
deserts of America and Africa, the re
sults of artesian wells or springs, he
could not believe them to be vegeta
tion, for he WQ^'ld detect no irrigating
canals running into them. He would
come to the conclusion that no creature
could possibly exist on the earth. Tho
tremendous force of gravitation and
atmospheric pressure would forbid the
existence of organic forms. Life, if it
existed, must have legs of iron to sus
tain its weight, and a crust like a turtle
to be impervious to the force of rain
drops, and this.wouldbe contrary to all
Martian analogy..
"Believing that Mars is rightly bal
anced as to temperature, the. earth, be
ing so mach-nearer the sun, would be
too hot for lire to exist. The Martian
considers our year too short. In his
reflections he says: 'During the pe
riod in which one of us attains the
middle age of 50 years, thoSe on earth
have become decrepit old men of 94.
if indeed.they,,are. not already dead.'
"If there is an intelligence on Mars,"
writes Professor Morse, "it must have
evolved alongf the same general lines as
intelligence has developed on the earth.
Being an older planet, it must have out
grown many of the vagaries and illu
sions which still hamper man in Ms
progress here.",
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Asphaltfine, a substance composed of
a mixture of tar and iron slag, is being
successfully used on the streets of Lon
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this, new substance, invented by Pro
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to any now in use in the construction
of pavements. The journal Bitumen
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and durable as to resist almost com
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Bad weather during construction of
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