Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1892-10-07

discovered fact that there is a scarcity
of water in the planet. Necessarily the
planet must be irrigated in that manner,
and as there are canals, the conclusion
Is that there must he PEOPLE there.
How the Cunn.s Look.
The canals of the planet Mars are be-
lieved to have been cut for thousands Of
miles across the land to connect with
the seas. They are green in color, like
the water, and, i'm order to be VISIT
through our telescopes, they must "
from 100 to 400 miles in length. They
must also be about 900 miles wide.
They mostly run from north to south,
for the seas divide the land from east 10
west.
1t is difficult to conceive of such enar-
nous public works, but nothing else wiz
nswer Our little canals would dry up
in crossing a thousand miles of desert.
Conceding that the people who may
live in Mars IRE such wonderful en2in-
GERS and scientists. it is easy to allow
them any amount Of skill. and 1t is easy
to suppose that on the vast canals they
build floating cities, where they may
enjoy the climate neal the water, while
the interior is uninhabituble.
Wonderful Cities.
A city built on steel or iron hulls-for
iron is the metal of Mars chained
closely together and built upon wood
md metal, would be practicable any
where. but would be necessary in
world where the land is dry and arid. IVY
If there are people in Mars, they m,
possess much skill and intelligence. y.
they would probably have wit enough -.
tow their floating cities 10 northern la
tudes in summer AS the winter sc
son approaches they would obvious.
float them southwark, following up tn
climate, as the American Indians d
with their skin lodges and women m,
children.
Ii n people can construct such enor- !
works as canals of the Dimensions !
told in the foregoing, it would be linz
possible to tell where the limit of their
skill would reach. They must be far
ahead OF Americans as engineers and me-
chanics. What other astonishing tri-
umphs as mechanical %originators they
have achieved must be left to the future
to discover.
What Astronomers Think.
"One circumstance says Professor
Proctor, that may Mt first excite sur
prise is the fact that in a planet so
much farther from the sun than the
world there should exist so close a re-
semblancc to the earth i'll respect to
climatic relations.
But if we consider the results of
Tyndale's researches OH the radiation
OF heat. and remember that IL very mod
crate increase i'll the quantity of certain
varors present in our atmosphere would
suffice to render tho climate of the
earth intolerable through excess of heat
just as glass walls cause u dollhouse
to be warm long after the sun has set
we shall not fail to see that Mars may
readily be compensated by Il correspond
ing arrangement fer his increased dis
lance from the vivifying center of his
solar system
Professor Swift says that there is
certainly something that is mysterious
in the topography of the planet, as
viewed from the earth.
Some of its markings, he adds, ARE
and AZ pear as clouds, whitN
others seem stable and are indicativcv
solidity. AS, however, Mars rotates on
its axis so slowly. no belts like .hose
environing Jupiter and Saturn are
visible.
THAT Mars is Inhabited is an UNDER
stood fact. That it was created to that
md is Il verify, hut whether it is or not
is only IL question that we can Judge by
understanding it's availability for the
giving OF life to human beings. No
telescope has yet been discovered that
truly tells that fact"
Prof. Schiaparclli is the only astron-
that has managed to draw a chart
of Mars that as a planet exists only in
the minds of other not quite so famous
astronomers.
Aside from the discoveries Of the
Italian professor, the credit of finding
that Prof. S%chiaparclli is correct must
be awarded to the famous Lick OBJ
s%ervatory ut San Francisco. The money
to build this magnificent observatory
was furnished by Mr.. Lick, and it has
we'll demonstrated his faith that it was
needed by the fact that it has told the
world that Mars is probably another
planet like ours.
Took IL Desperate Measure.
An English writer tells an amusing
story of Il cOuntry-hOuSc where n REQ.