The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-04

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sible 70 set tho best results With the IN
strument. In the early part OF the
evening, however, tho Lick telescope
may be used with startling effect when
the planet is close TO the horizon. BONE
wonderful discovery may then be made
which will astound mankind. 1t may
DO possible to SEQ cities, railroads and
even people on tho ruddy surface OF
this orb. Maybe they may DO looking
at US at the same time and trying to
make signals to us, knowing that they
will not have another chance as good
for fifteen more years.
an Mara thcy may have known Tor
centuries all about what We were doing
here. Many scientific men believe the
planet is inhabited by a. highly civil
led race who may have been trying to
open Communication with us They
may make grand and final effort this
week. Ihope the Lick telescope has a
fine clear sky that night and that the
fortunate men who use it may DO en-
abled to see these people on ,the, other
planet. At the same limo the Lick is
not tho only great telescope which will
DO directed a. tho planet with better
appliances than were ever used before.
Startling announcements may be made
from aay OF tho great obServatories
here or in Europe, and the whole as
Economical world Is on the qui CiUe.
According to its calculated magnify,
ing power, tho Lick telescope will
bring tho planet Mara worry close to the
earth. Seven years from now Mara will
DO .Jl 600 Coo miles from tho earth.
Thursday night it will be only 25,5OO,-
600 miles away. Tho Lick telescope
will bring it within one-hundredth part
Of that space, or only $4,000 miles away.
That will be near enough TO SEQ any
large movement that may take place,
upon tho surface Of tho warm colored
orb.
II its inhabitants arc so highly civil
lied as some astronomers believe, they
will doubtless then make o great effort
TO attract the attention Of the inhabit-
ants of the earth. This high state OF
civilization they are believed 10 have
attained would make earthly civiItza-
ton look like barbarism in comparison,,
and they may have Lick telescope
which shows Now York, the Pulitzer
building aud the Brooklyn bridge,
steamers moving on the bay and trains
upon tho land, Il, iudeed, they may not
be able to soc people on the streets.
A scicntific man, in discussing tho
question yesterday, said that il tho in
habitants OF Mars make flnel effort to
attract tho attention OF people hore
they might adopt some kind Of fash
light, scarch-light, or aash-signal, or an
explosive which would mako a great
noise or raises cloud of smoke. The
planet is believed to be thicSly popu-
lated in all parts except tho poles. In
proof OF this SchaipaIclli's map shows
continents of geometrical shape. One
OF them, whcyo their largest city may
be situated, ia called by us Hellas, and
is directly on the equator. In addition
to being as round as an orange it is cut
entirely in half by canal.
Other continents are also OF geomet-
rical shape. Tho canals separating
them are unlike anything on the earth,
being Of regular shape and Immense
length, wholly unlike any earth torma-
tion. They may indicate separate races
or nationNlities, as many astronomers
believe, or they may be, as Schtaparelli
was inclined to think, artificial canals
built for purposes OF commerce, thus
bringing the forces Of nature on Mars
under complete subsection to the culti-
waited people OF that planet.
There is not another planet or orb in
the heavens which shows surface con-
t'figuration at all approaching or re-
sembling that OF Mars. They oil, for
instance, moro or less resemble tho
moon in this respect, showing traces OF
uneven nature in ragged mountain
ranges, desoIate valleys and wild plains
OF apparently hardened lava. Only
Mars shows the softening and conquer
ing effects as Of race of highly civil
lied people who have become complete
masters Of their own planet, altering its
surface to suit their desires, and max
ing and unmaking rivers and oceans as
the requirements OF commerce or social
life might demand.
The whole southern part of their
planet appears to have been originally
compact continent completely en-
circling the globe. Now it is inter-
sected BY canals like the surface OF
Holland, and communication and irri-
cation thus seem to have been estab-
lished.
A people who could thus cut up and
divide world, turn back oceans, sub.
due mountain ranges, make the wild
seas their servant and bring huge rivers
into existence would almost as mat
ter Of course know everything which
astronomy can teach. Their telescopes
may bring the earth so close as to ex-
cite their widest desire 10 establish
communication with its inhabitants. It
has even been asserted that the people
on the earth and the people on Mars
camc originally from the same parent
stock. Startling as is the idea thus
conveyed, yet more singular thing is
that there are facts which so to support
tho contention.
It will be remembered that the two
satellites OF Mars were only discovered
fifteen years ago, and that up to that
time all tho astronomical authorities
agreed that the planet had no satellites.
On tho other hand traces have boon
found in Egypt and othor eastern
countries indicating that not the cul-
tured mon but tho common people
there believed in tradition that Mars
was attended by two small moons.