The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1909-07-04
TODD TALKS TRIP TO MARS
WILL COMPRESS RARE AlR-BE.
titves he CAN LIVE AT ATL
TUDg OF $4,000 FEET.

Amherst Mass. July 3.-ln an in.
tcryicw PROT David T.. Todd put
new light ON his forthcoming high
balloon trip. Il has been said that
the professors effort in striving to
attain am altitude Of $4,000 feet was
to- try the wireless telegram upon
tho inhabitants OF Mars. The pro-
f,ssor says. however:
Tho object of my balloon trip is
to learn whether at height Of 25,-
OoO feet air pumped from the sur.
rounding atmosphere and compress
ed will support human life. II is nv
theory that IT. viii II my bal',,t
experiments prove that | am r'gAl,
then will have established the
feasibility 81 "A plan ! have for build
ing the biggest and consequently the
most efficient astronomy observa-
tory In the world
"This observatory will be on the
summit of Mount Chimborazo in the
Ecudorcan Andes This peak has an
altitude Of 21OOO feet It is pcrpctual
lv covered with snow and ice The
atmosphere is no rarified that ho.
man beings cannot breathe it and
live.
"f1cnce the utility OF my cxpcri.
mouts with compressed air.
believe that life must have cN.
listed ON Mars some thousands. per
haps hundreds OF thousands Of years
ago. The qucation is. could an ami
nal organism have adapted itself to
those slowly changing conditions? II
that is possible. then perhaps thor,
are some beings human, If YOU like
living there.
"lf this hypothesis is correct. why.
then the Martians being far older
people then We. have i'm all probabil.
ity progressed far beyond us in
knowledge and achievement If the
Narans are sending wireless mes
sapcs TN receive them If they an,
not. I'M simply have spent slo.Ooo
ON a very interesting. II rather hope.
less experiment"
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flesh aud fowl as wcll as fruits and
herbs As for clothing, he wears
absolutely nothing, at least when he
has been seen his crooked old frame
has been draped in nothing except
the long white hair which covers
his body.
Three years ago the old man was
seen near this abandoned mine. but
soon altcrward all trace of him was
lost till some days ago. This time
he was seen by an old Indian who
was passing down Rio las playas in
a canoe. He reports the wild man
as being much more feeble when
last seen and his antics are of a
wilder nature. He did not run, as
in former years. but instead frolicked
about and laughed in a most hideous
IldlItIs UldhlUE ld''H hl 'u' lllhlhn
and conducting himself generally in
the way becoming a halfwitted per.
son.
The old man is said 20 have never
had companion In this weird ~,
but he is supposed to have become
dcmcntod when. more than sixty
years ago. he returned TO his home
in nearby village and found hlc
young wife murdered. The shock
is oupposed TO have caused his
mind to become unbalanced and he
Immediately segregated himself fror
the rest of mankind. He Is not fear
ed by the older Indians am McNi'
cans OF this out-of-tnc-way dist"lc.,
tdt he has served as the bJgey man
who will get unruly children His
name Is much feared by the litrI,
cnCs In the ncighborhoo' dnl IN
their minds he is capable Of many
terrible things And. II is not strange
TO relate the terrible long haired wild
man never molests well behaved chill
dren Mexican Herald.
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