The St. Mary banner., 1907-11-16
IIRs INHABITED?

! I,RS MHhDHI0!
s.-,oN REVIVED BY AN
.ssoYIcAL OCCURRENCE.
....o,. For Believing it is the
g ,oteIIieent Beings Than
s.h Reference to Mercury
hotter and Saturn
s.sht planets which go cir
d the sun Mars is in some
~ most interesting. 1t is
having a diameter not
h.r as great as the earth's
lice that Of the moon. How.
w the case is far fro1n beng
10 is better reason TO sus-
q is the home OF inteili'
s. not very different from
ran be presented for hold
theory regarding any other
The suns family except, or
earth. Next to nothing
on the surface OF Mercury
Jupiter and Saturn have
US belts and other mark
1stro!ogers fancy that those
are yet too hot to sustain
rune and Uranus are not
.vay but afford no sign on
q safe judgment can be
Nv. the orbit OF Mars lies
"a that OF the earth. and
sa next door neighbor, SO
81 In the next place, teles-
,.uination reveals many cur
si1rs which cannot be discov-
! he other planets. In some
!. no doubt, this is because
|,nosphere as exists on Mars
~ SEEMS to be a littie-fs prac-
..,.,,aod The differences in
he largely explained now on the
! hat some surfaces represent
Lion, while others represent
|net or sandy desert. 1t ough.
|nded that the boundaries OF ad-
tracts are often faint and are
he'd by only feeble changes OF
h drawing their charts OF Mars.
|omers unconsciously exaggerate
contrasts, which are often moth
l. than a shading from golden
or brown or violet. or from one
y other out Of a dozen grays.
htedly happens, too, that a tint
! in q particular locality at one
bon Is not always the same two
lhter.
mains now to describe a special
] markings the nature of which
q mystery. There are grayish
bually narrow and straight. but
having a greater breadth and
! crooks. Nest of them traverse
|lbwish part of the Martian sur
h II has been observed within
X ten or twelve years that a
kend into the gray regions. r.
last mentioned circumstance.
which shook faith in the no
Ii the so-called seas were bodies
h. BY far the most conspicu-
The markings looks like an ele-
trunk or the tapering outlet
I Z balloon. This named Milo
! Is about one hundred and
1les wide most of the way. The
Z Of the others range from
n'seventy miles in width. A
the large streaks were OBJ
BY Dawes, Proctor and other
mers between 1864 and 1875.
J supposition that they might
} streams Of water they were
nes called canals. An Italian,
ireIh pronounced Skee-ap-a-
devoted special study to them
sDodtions of 1877. 1879 and
md he added many new lines
me ones) to the previously
INES. It Is one of his charts
! years or more old) which Is
qeoduced. Much detailed infor-
ABOUT these lines was given to
= BY Schiaparelli, and in 1884
= ne startling announcement
asaonally the canals we're
Up to the present time at
g 400 canals have been re-
various observers, though
~ oil visible at once.
. Interpretations have been
e wonderful lines. Schiapa-
narion and others once in
= eslieve that they were ar
n. nnels. containing water.
distinguished italian after
ked that he was doubtful.
used the word canal
2 habit and convenience.
my Of canals from thirty to
- and fifty miles wide dis
- theory. too, for a while
4 e1fonomer, Percival Lowell,
~ upon a more plausible
fAnciod onI now coufi.