The San Francisco call., 1896-08-23
arions unpublished view Of Mars as companion to our

oTs%se poRs1sd s view Of Mars
At long passage there arrives
period when have become toeraby familiar with the pas
and the objects board and when begin to cast
longing outward the distant sails the HORIZON
least in imagination make ourselves feel less alone by
conecug the conditions that obtain those other refugees
that traverse the watery waste.
Some such period has arrived in long through
infinite with company than other planets
the Astronomicay speaking have become familiar
with benecent prison. earth have noted as we
think important outward concerning the
brilliant sails upon celestial
ocean, we begin to feel lonely as it were and wonder what
conditions of life obtain in them ordepresng thought
those the and planets could in truth be
void of life could understand ympahize with
and that could voyagng alone forever gifted
only with intelligence sufficient realize isolation
"At such a point then in secular voyage fix our
hopes chiefly upon that planet which all that reach
effectively with optical appliances bears the most
resemblance eah the other planets eed with clouds
of mpenelabe density and possibly seamy semincan
descent heat seeming unlikely brought within ken
such life would have fellowship with
Mars upon which all the telescopes specroscopes calo
astronomical gauges directed hoping to
derive information this approach to
him. the counterpart of earth in respects ana
deserves all the attention he receives possible link with the
life of other worlds than
Though year twice long ours his day is nearly
like his nearly similar that his axis in
cned like ours very visible white gather at the
end which for the time is turned from the sum- and mets
away when the pole is presented to that
glowing orb just does the axis of EARTH his ana
continents which show their outlines he turns
upon brings these features in succession into the
sunlight into view gf and lakes and connect
channels which vary outline according to the
and the melting reforming what call the polar
SHOWS other points, which will be noted further
mark him as possible companion in our solitude and even
communicable intelligence True there important differ
that sometimes initiate the OF forms OF
life would greatly resemble Mars has only onehalf
earts diameter and only tenth part OF its mass That
say his attractive so much less that man
weight would there weigh only So pounds
of the body this would necesstae not to speak
of distances upon small globe being shortened that
each mile also much to accomplish Mars amos-
phere atmosphere there must be to produce the
we see hinso loose in texture were, owing
small wegh-since it does not be deeper than
our own while compactlng effect
gravity-ha the lungs of living, organized beings also
plants be of absorbing and asmia
power than familiar with Such differences OF struc
perhaps of function in the highest order of animal
life might however nsuperable barriers to
muncation if progress in the should have
parallel with that in Mars put the two separated nte
nearly level and here for
find that Mars, judging by the generally fiat and time
worked surface and the apparently small area OF water is
anything advanced stage of its history than EARTH
Snce the sunlight has penetrate the atmosphere that
before reaching his surface then through
that atmosphere before being back
should naturally find evidence looking through the
spectroscope of similar analogous absorption.
told nothing observed absorponines
due atmosphere through which the ray
pass Therefore it is argued if atmosphere
there be- be of such rarity ghtness only
mains the solid fact that the polar of Mars could
formed dissolved without sensible practicable
atmosphere and it is easier admit certain
petence delicate and difficult analysis in the
therefrom than disbeeve phenomenon
plainly visible the alternate accumulaons upon
poles of that ruddy, earth-ke orb.
1--WE forget that the specroscope has been
notably disappointing in the investigation of nearly all other
bodies shining by reflected light-the moon begin with
while admirably fulfilling its office with the and
prime inarieas also nebue and Like its limited
handmade the pariscope which, being directed upon the
Mars pronounces that the light reflected from them
poarized and therefore that exists in them Like
still limited handmad in the work of ethereal
ons the thermoscope boomeer which has failed utterly
apprecabe heat the any celestial body
Though sensitive the heat rays from
hall mile away but being turned the by the
colder than the Arctic circle which his celebrated
declared to be hot as boiling waterl
apparently wait for certain and concordant
results before concluding that the condition of Mars very
different from that of earth and hope that
other eminent observers have clouds and
falls hail upon the soil and dicaons
atmospheric action air wholly wanting Especially
take with caution conclusions of those who,
all instrumental evidence their calculations upon
knetc theory cases. roundy that
small body Mars would insufficient
envelope about him. of which the would
be ever flying off through space to parts unknown.
IF encouraging conclusion could be then how is
it that the comets which have millonth
manage retain instant the huge nconcev-
ably atmosphere which follow Clearly
the knec theory gases-admirabe approximation toward