Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1895-04-20

line of thought would be incom-
plete If did not mention the Kelley
cure, or the treatment of drunken
ness, with bi-chloride of gold. l
think I am safe in saying that the
efficacy of this remedy has been
we'll established, and thousands of
men in this country are being saved
from drunkards' graves by it's
timely use. The great lesson to be
learned by the patient investigator
in these linesis: that amonga great
many errors there are some truths,
and to search out and establish one
of these truths is worthy of a whole
lifetime.
In the field of astronomy great
discussion arose in 1893 among OBJ
servers concerning the planet Mars.
Since the time of Calico many OBJ
servations and measurements have
been made on Mars, and many data
relating to its size, motion, ETC., are
now well known. The diameter of
Mars is about 400 miles, and ap-
plying the rule for comparing the
volume and surface of spheres we
find it's volume to be about one
seventh and it's surface to be about
three -tenths of that of the earth. 1t
rotates on it's axis in "a hours, 81
minutes and q seconds; that is. in
about the same time as the earth.
1t is flattened at the poles, its equa-
tor is inclined to it's orbit at nearly
the same angle as the earth, II re-
ceives about three.sevenths as much
light and heat as fall upon the
earth. But the chief point of con-
I troversy in 1893 was the nature of
the dark rings that encircle the
planet. 1t was given out in the
newspapers that they are canals. l
quote here the views of NJ. Flamma-
rion, the great French astronomer,
on this point. Also those of Prof.
Schaeberle of Lick Observatory:
There are markings on the sur
face of Mars which in all probable
ity represent seas, lakes, regions of
water of various kinds. These mark
ings are permanent. They are seen
today in the same regions where
they were observed in the seven
teenth and eighteenth centuries.
They are not atmospheric products
then, like the markings on Jupiter.
While they are permanent they are,
however, not invariable. They
change both in dimension and
depth of tone in different years and
without doubt at different times of
the season of Mars. There are some
regions which are specially varia-
BILE. These appearto hold middle
place between continents and seas
and to be marshy lands, which are
in turn elevated above and sub
merged beneath thin layer of wa
ter. The continents of Mars appear
to be fiat and subject to inundation
in nearly all their extent. The
northern hemisphere is more ele-
yated than the southern; the seas
are chiefly in the latter and they do
not appear to be deep.
The evaporation on Mars is with
out doubt rapid and considerable.
Water is perhaps not the only agent
concerned in the changes on Mars"
Prof. Schaeberle gives several ex-
amples of phenomena on Mars,
which go to show that the dark
areas are more likely TO be land
than water, and he refers to a strik-
ing instance which is constantly
visible from the summit of Mt.
Hamilton. 1--WE are here 400 feet
above the neighboring valley, and
San Francisco bay extends TO within
few miles of us. Now at all hours
of the day and under all circum-
stances of sun and shadow, the sur
face of the bay is brighter than the
surface of the land surrounding it.
The bright areas of this terrestrial
landscape are water"