The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-07-19

NNNiN Nplu, LlANStANltN A1eNti
Temperate 2one) and "Emerineenrer
(Equator) Curious figures were
drawn, which look much like tht
scrawls Of school children, showing
that the men off there wear dresse:
and pants and the women bag-likt
shirts, One of the drawings indicates
that the Martians nearly ten year;
ago were ahead OF the terrestrain'
with the Merry Widow hat, Man,
| little facts abaut the social organiEa'
btion over yonder would indicate ar
advanced state OF civilization, such
as that "the people ON Mars choose
their ruler so that the children ol
great men do not count, with the
emphasis apparently on people" In
his humorous comment DR., Hyslop
SAYS: Evidently the aristocrats in
that planet do not possess the fran
chise, They may have power but
they cannot share the privilege Of
helping in their own elections"
Time flies and is measured on Mars
IL one may trust the testimony Of
Mrs. Smead's subconscious personal
ity; the planchette showed great in
genuity in constructing a. plausible
diagram OF Marian clock. The
name assigned to this mechanism was
"Triveniul.' 1t consisted of two cir
cular wooden boxes resting side by
side, and connected by openings
through which passed from one to
the other the wire that formed the
coil springs in each box.
Without indigestion the Martins
eat Strain, kreki, trikuil, caruitz, flu
iniz." These are not perhaps SO bad
as they sound, for they are explained
as being simply, bread, cake, some
thing like water, fruit and chicken"
In the interest of the new science
OF aerology, as Prof. Lester +. Ward
Of Brown University has called ii, to
distinguish it from geology, there
should be regret, perhaps, that the
Marian communications through
Mrs. Smead were suddenly interrupt
ed and terminated by the appearance
OF new personality, Civil War vet
eran, who called himself Harrison
Clarke, and who for a long time shut
out all other communicators, when
they wanted to get in a word or two
through this medium. The later man
ifestations obtained through Mrs
Smead, whose identity has been care
fully preserved in spite of the publi-
cation of a number OF papers under
the auspices of the American Society
for Psychical Research, are given in
considerable detail in "Psychical Re-
search and the Resurrection" which
contains he remarkable series OF Dr..
Hyslop's works in the scientic aspects
of alleged spiritistic happenings. The
record began, according to the psy-
biologists conclusions with such
shown in the Martian romance, and
has ended in the production OF phe-
nomena much like those OF Mrs.
Piper.
Other instances OF what purport to
be communications from other worlds
may perhaps be explicable in the same
way in which DR.. Hyslop sets forth
the "facts" about Mars which have
been disclosed through Mrs Smead.
II is, at all events, interesting and true
that in addition to the recognized.
literature regarding the neighboring
planet, including such books as those
of Professor Perciyal Lowell, Profes-
sor Edward S. Morse, and the monu-
metnal work on which Professor
David Todd OF Amherst College is
now engaged and which is scheduled
to appear very shortly, there exist
such treatises as the spectacular
Journey to the Planet Mars, or Our
to Ento (Mars), Narrative
by Sara Weiss, illustrated with
Eleven Original Drawings by Dis
carnate Artist" Those who believe
in the truthfulness Of the
claims of such communicators-and
there are said to be more than 3,00O,-
300 spiritulists in the United States
will find this work by famous med
ium of St. Louis one Of a character
to confirm their beliefs; for those who
prefer the recognized scientific meth
od of approaching occult subjects DR..