Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-01-28
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New interest has been aroused in the planet Mars by the fresh and more positive declaration of Prof. Per cival Lowell that that far-off heavenly
 body is inhabited by race of intelli- gent beings. akin to the human race on this earth. Prof. Lowell at his ob- servatory at Flagstaff. Ariz., where the high elevation and the clear atmos- phere give him peculiar advantages in studying the planet, has spent his nights in watching and his days in thinking and figuring, until he is con vinced beyond any shadow of doubt that Mars is inhabited. He has dis covered $50 canals on the planets sur face in addition to the 104 larger and more plainly marked canals charted by the astronomer Schiaparelli, and he declares that this legion of canals, forming as they undoubtedly do CO., lossal and wisely planned system Of irrigating ditches to make the vast deserts of the planet blossom as the rose, are an unanswerable argument for the existence of conscious, intel- ligent life there.
 In the beginning of his work Prof. Lowell encountered three phases Of dissent from the canal theory. The first was the diplopic-that the focus ing of Schiaparelli's observations was not exact; the second, the theory known as interference phenomena" that of the doubling in consequence of the circular aperture of the instru- ment, and the third, the very natural and common objection of illusion. If the proportion of the blind and deaf were that of the majority of the pop ulation, all sight and hearing would be largely rejected by the masses as being merely phenomena of illusion.
 The observations began with the visibility of the phenomena to be ob- served. The southern hemisphere was in opposition, and the changes in the polar cap and on the surface, the canals, the oases and the terminal de- signs were the matters to be studied. If these lines were canals. what was there to prove the presence on Mars of the intelligent designer? In other words, is Mars the abode of life, and might the astronomer pluck out the heart of the mystery?
 As the Martian season advanced the polar cap dwindled. This implied the pressure of an atmosphere-it was unmistakable evidence of atmospheric envelopment. As the polar cap dwin- dled it was bordered by dark band. which retreated with it, the band be- ing blue and widest at the maximum of the melting. Again it polarized the incident light. Now, only one known substance could be white as a solid, blue as liquid, and co-existent in both states. and this substance is water. Therefore Prof. Lowell's ob- servations brought him to these-the proofs of the existence of the funda- mental conditions for organic life air and water.
 An observation made on November IS, 1894, on which occasion the air was exceptionally free from vibration, revealed two canals that showed them selves with the clearness of copper plate, "or as if each had been the twin rails of railway. so regular and absolutely equidistant from each other, and these remained visible dur ing succeeding days" The connection between the cases embraced by the dark canals began then to dawn upon Prof. Lowell Further observation disclosed that each canal has its own times and seasons. its entrances and its exits; that they differ entirely from each other in these. and that the canal which. at one time and under unfavorable conditions. will stand out plainly, at another. under favorable conditions, does not appear under the most careful scrutiny.
 Now, what does this indicate? Nothing less than that this visibility de- DenQS Ou tltt pidutt S pECuiidI sldtt and only indirectly on the seasonal law. The double canals are realities. and consist of perfectly parallel lines inclosing such part of the surface of the planet as may he within a few hundred to many thousands of miles. and their visibility depends on the colJF of the vegetation of the land in- closed. From total invisibility to be- ing vividly conspicuous depends. pri- marily. on the tune of the melting of the palor cap. the liberation of the water thus formed from the melting ice and snow. and the subsequent and consequent quickening of vegeta- ton which at one season is seen as masses of blue-green. and again as . chocolate color. as the changes from spring to autumn take place. Trans formation consequent upon transfer ence- Is the key to this process