The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-14
Arriving Of the Englanians and
&c Corruption Of a Race. -

go as they pleased Frequent banquets
were spread In their honor, while Xere
exerted himself to show them attention.
After spending a few Marian weeks In
Huilpi the Englanians went on tour
of inspection to, all the other Marian
cities, accompanied by Xere and gilt
tering train of philosophers.
While the Martians were remarkably
free from faults as a people the Eng
Lannon's on the other hand were extremely
corrupt Time had destroyed all moral
sense and their advancement in ciyiliza-
ton had rendered them more profligate
than ever. The mentally perfect and
morally degenerate earth jewellers soon
began to exert a baleful influence upon
the Martians. The simple fume banquets
of their guests were too tame to the
Englians introduced the subtitle essences,
the revivifying fluids, and the intoxicat-
ing fumes that rendered their own fes-
tivities such orgies In addition the Eng
lanians were alive with every passion
known to the human race and each had
been developed and intensified through
thousands of years. Their effervescent
wickedness began to change the Mar
tians who were surprised to discover that
they were yielding to strange and unae-
customed emotions which had never stir
red them before. They lost much of their
passiveness in addition to contracting
number of the Englanian had habits.
In every one of the twelve cities Wis
tied by them the Englanians left be-
hind their corrupting influences until the
Martians rapidly drifted downward be-
meath the onslaughts of temptations new
to them and overpoweringly seductive.
Orgies were held in all parts of the land.
The time devoted to feasting was great.
and the learned men began to neglect
their studs in order to participate. The
Martians fell ready victims to the Eng
lanian intoxicants. They clamored for
the seductive essences that brought on
the most blissful collaboration and as their
capacity for emotion increased their ca
pacity for debauchery increased also.
In the splendid palace of Huilpi the
greatest orgies were witnessed. Xere was
leader of the debaunchees and spent days
in unconscious stupor, following revel of
more than the usual duration. He aban-
doned all scholarly pursuits, paid no
further attention to his philosophers. and
gave himself up to the pleasures which
had been denied his fathers. Inasmuch
as all the race were following In his
footsteps there were few to make remon-
STRANGE and the once sturdy Martans be-
gan to sink rapidly. Instead of a race of
physical and intellectual giants they be-
came slothful, careless of their daily work,
and dissipated. In course OF time they
also lost much of their strength but this
was after the departure of the Englan-
ians.
The earth dwellers had been on Mars
only six Marian months but they had
succeeded in thoroughly blighting an adj
mirable race. The calous Bnganians
were accustomed to debaucheries and were
In the habit of spending days in such or
giles when on earth. Consequently they
thought nothing Of acting likewise among
| the Martians DESTINATION showed but lit
tie in their wasted forms and their in
| tel1ect seemed unframed AS the Eng
| lan1ans wer about as far advanced as
| the Martians they paid little heed to the
customs and learning of the people they
were visiting but whiled away their time
| in idle pleasures.
| AT last the Englanians came to the con-
| clusion that they would return to earth
| and report to their fellows their discov-
| cries In space. 1t was decided that the
| proposed expedition to the earth would
| now be made, the Marian aershoots to
| follow closely after the Englanlan YES
sells. The Martians had now become ap-
| palingly corrupt, although the Englanans
| had been among them so short time. 1t
was decided to give a splendid orgy to
| commemorate the departure of the earth
| jewellers. All the Marian cities exerted
| themselves to make the. occasion remem-
| bered and the debauch that then took
| place would have been incomprehensible
to the ancestors of this once vigorous
| people. For days the Englanians and