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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

INTO tnree classes. About three-fifths OF
the SURFACE is Of a yellow, Ochre color
| the land of Mars. Two-fifths is Of
/ darker color, and by analogy with the
earth, was thought to be water At the
poles Of the planet white areas accu-
mulate In the Marian winter and dis
appear In the summer and these are
5eueIa4ly thought TO be polar oceans.
These icecaps show the presence Of an
atmosphere on Mars and make certain
Inat Jhe climate on Mars has seasons.
AS a matter Of face, the day on Mars
rs not much different in length from
our own, Tor the planet rotates once in
"a nouns, 81 minutes; and the seasons
are quite similar. for the axis of Mars
degrees
In 1877 the Italian SchiapareIu star
tied the astronomical world by stating
Unat ne could see, running from the So
called seas into the continents. fine
dark markings, more or less straight
winch looked like rivers or channels
Ihey. appeared something like the Eng
l1sh Channel, which separates ENGLAND
from France, and hence they were
called by the Italian equivalent cana
II. NO reference at all was made to
canals Of human construction. Two
years later Schiaparelli thought he saw
some OF the channels were doubled
rms aroused a great amount Of skeptf-
clsm- Tor he possessed. a telescope of
only eight inches in diameter, and no
one else could even see the markings.
SchiaparelH stuck to his observations
and for nine years he alone coulF see
the channels 1t was not till 1886 that
Lne construction Of a large telescope in
Nice permitted PerrOtin to be the second
man to see these markings. Needless
TO say these channels on Mars are e1-
cessively difficult to see. they are de-
scrlbed as fine hair like lines that ap-
pear only under the very best condi-
lions Of seeing. But throughout the
world there has been Onln- an astronO-
mer here and another there who could
see them.
A favorable opposition occurring in
1892 permitted Percival Lowell to make
a close study OF the planet He had
lens OF % inches aperture, which he
used in the excellent climate Of the
west LOWeu is firmly convinced that
the 'canali" are canals, artificial water
ways constructed by human beings. Z
His work has been most excellent, and I
deserves the highest communication. His I
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
RENE BACHE's BUDGET,
DIGGING UP. The MONSTERS
RECENT DISCOVERIES OF SCIENCE IN Re
GARD TO DINOSAURS
Picture Of the Worlds Distant Past Painted in More
Vivid and Accurate COlOrs- Searchlght Turned
Upon the Marvellous Fauna of the Meso
zoic-WOnders From Wyoming

logic CONFUSION which is destined TO
provide the American continent with
backbone" The climate is like
that Of the middle eastern states to-
day, with green forests and q luXur1-
ance Of other vegetation
1t IS the epoch Of the dinosaurs
surely the strangest creatures that
ever inhabitated the earth They
were not merely a species, or a genus,
but q whole order Of reptiles-sOme
Of them as much as so feet in length
others were no bigger than modern
house cats. The dinosaurs which made
the famous fossil bird tracks" dong
mistaken for suCh) In New England
sandstOnes must have been about the
size Of setter dogs. and walked kan
CARGO fashion on their hind legs.
Reptiles ruled the whole Of North
America in those days They rOamed
the land, swan the waters, and even
few IN the air. What makes the
Laramie Sea especially interesting in
connection with them IS that its shall
low waters swallowed up great NUM-
bsrs Of them, and its muddy bottom,
eventually transformed into rock, pre-
served their remains for the wonder
and instruction Of later and en-
Ightened age At the present time, in
Wyoming. certain exposed strata run
ming for hundreds Of miles along the
mountain cliffs are bound to be filled
with dinOsaur bones These strata
mic beds" represent the silt ancienty
deposited on the bottom Of the brack-
ish Sea Of Laramie.
Beasts Of the Air.
1t IS hardly necessary to say that
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

the reptiles which "flew in the air"
were what are today called "pterodac-
tyls." They were by far the most per-
feet flying machines ever devised by
nature, being in this respect incOm-
parably superior to modern birds
even to the eagle, or the sky-searching
condor. They had wings resembling
those Of bats, with spread in some
species, Of % feet or more; their
huge heads were hollow, and their
bodies weighed so little that they may
be said to have fitted through the air
like moths. Doubtless they fed on
fish and lowered over the waters with
vibrating Dinions while in pursuit Of
prey.
Today the sea serpent is regarded
as q fabulous animal. In the Age OF
Monsters. however, II was by no means
such. The mOsa saur-a lizard 70 feet
or more in length, fiercely carnivOrouss
provided with huge paddles for swim
ming, and with a lower jaw so attached
that Oike a modern snake) It could
open its mouth enormously wide for
sWalOW1ng-Wa ver1table sea ser
pent In the cretaceOus seas II ruled
supreme. And one should by no menas
suppose that it was a, rare animal A
government paleOntOlOgist, passing
through a valley in Wyoming, came
across the remains Of seven, all in
sight at one time and Yale univer-
sity at this very minute has bones
representing no fewer than 1,400 speci-
mems.
me Marine hGuIlleau
When, a few years ago, a life size
cast was made Of icthyosaur-another
marine Mesozoic reptiIe-for the Bri-
fish museum, 26 men comfortably sat
down to dinner inside Of the huge
mold. This was a creature win a
head like an alligator's and paddles
resembling those Of a turtle Tt had
eyes a foot In diameter, for seeing IN
depths Of the sea; and its petrified
droppings, containing bones of the
fishes on which It preyed. have been
collected by the hundreds Of tons
Having thus referred to the marine
reptiles. inadeQuately-fOr at least
mention ought TO have been made Of
the fish eating plesiOsaur, which re-
sembled a gigantic turtle threaded
through with the body Of q snake
one naturally arrives at a discussion
Of the huge amphibious creatures such
as the brOntOsaur. which in that
epoch inhabited the river mouths and
adjacent shores Of the Sea Of Laramie
Any visitor to the Museum Of Natu-
raj History in New York may see a
sized sDecimen that IS to say. With
the addition Of a long whip-hke tail
Ca new discovery, by the way, 1t was
probably u feet long. Il occupies
nearly the whole Of an immense hall,
producing IN the mind Of the obser-
yer a most awe-inspirinE impression
Yet this was q very harmless crea-
ture. Dwelling In shadows not far
from shore. 1t walked along in water
deep enough to cover its mighty back,
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

small fore-limbs terminated in hands
| whose myers bore mOnstrOus claws.
I In al likelihood the first thing 1t
I qld On assalllRg victim was to rem
I der escape impossible by patching
/ out its eyes.
Doubtless the most impressive nat
ural history group ever placed on eK-
( hlDluQh is one at the New York mus
cum, IN which the skeleton Of one Of
these mighty CarnivOrOus reptiles IS
represented as crOuChing over the
! bones or a brOntOsaur And it's in
teresL rs greatly augmented by the
1act lndt this very specimen was actu-
ally round close by the brontOsaur's
rernallihs-as If, indeed, the laelaps
too greedily Of the flesh Of its VIC
tim.
Were Exceedingly Agile.
The carnivOrOus dinosaurs were ex-
supposed that all of them were Of
large size. The laelaps may have
been the biggest; the ceratosaur
(Which mad a long and sharp horn on
its nose) ana the creOsaur atrOx cat
roclous flesh eating uzard") were 20
feet or more in length and likewise
built on the kangaroo pattern, walk
ing on their hind legs But there
example as the bird-catching dino
sour, which, Weighing hardly more
than 10 pounds, is supposed to have
sought Teathered prey by preference
Although the order Of dinosaurs en-
tirely disappeared at the period when
the Rocky Mountains were uplifted by
mighty geologic CONFUSION which
brought the Ages Of Reptiles to
close, certain intimate contemporaries
OF theirs survived-nOtably the crOcO-
diles and alligators. and the marine
turtles But the sea turtles Of today,
though sometimes attaining a weight
Of LOCO pounds are pigtnies compared
with Mesozoic fOrebea1s; and where
shall we find the alligator or crOcO-
die that wiz bear comparison. in re-
spect OF size with its so foot congener
Of $4,000 600 years agO2
AligatOrs Interesting
Yet the alligator and the crocodile |
Of today are particularly interesting
because such obvious surTivals from a
remote geologic epoch. They even
bear the plate armor which clad so
many OF the dinOsaurs-pa Z
certain sluggish species. such as the /
huge three horned tricenratOps which l
had scarce any other defense against Z
the assaults Of such foes as the LaeI- I
ans or the ceratOsaur. Some Of the I
smaller dinosaurs. no bigger than I
house cats, were armOred
Egg Laying Animals.
Most, II not all, of the dinosaurs {
were egg laying animals. It is sur /
missed that their final determination /
may have been brought about. to a
large extent at least. by small. sharp I
tOothed gnaWing animals. which al i
ready had appeared on the earth and
were rapidly increasing in numbers.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01
SOUTH

were made by Beer ana 1Ioedler about
20 years ago. These were quite crude.
0 CQl showed some Of the main features.
CLner observers followed r. A. Proctor
IN 1867 made an excellent map Of Mars
from sketches made by the eagle-eyed
dawes OF England. 1t was thought that
wars resembled the earth in having
land ana water surfaces. Consequently.
the light patches were called CONT
nents and the darker areas oceans
seas, straits, etc
In 1877 began a new era I'm Marian
map ma king. But before taking I'D the
newer discoveries it would be wen TO
gam an Intelligent acquaintance with
distances and dimensions The average
qlstance Of Mars from the sun is 141,
100000 miles. The distance from Earth
Earth and Mars are in line, with the
sun ana Mars on opposite sides of the
earth, Mars is said to be in "oppOsf-
llon and II is then closest to the earth.
II earth and Mars both moved in cir
eles about the sun, the distance from
7arth 70. Mars at opposition would be
100000 (1411z-93) miles But
ither orbit is circular that Of Mars
is ng much more elliptical than that OF
.e- earths with the result that at OppO-
=. ~ Mars may be as FAR away as 61.-
% miles from the earth when there
u.s. unIaFOraDle opposition; or Mars
is acme as close as 50, 500, 900 miles
its slWhen it is as near as it can Dos
.25 uome to the earth. and its OpDosi-
ms AT hen the most favorable possible
he SKY times Mars is brightest in the
apepars Of greatest size.
Ma'he Circuit Of Mars
once kes a circuit about the sun
", days days, the earth in 365 IA
en- us ORD earth, being more rapid in
re passes notion than Mars after it
ny; again al at opposition catches It
as many "a. next opposition, in how
Tot ana me This is a simple question.
I'D called Jne is $50 days. whfhc Is
JUS Two years ic period. Hence, every
~. opposllion' 90 years Mars Is at
'ut ana 4ulte then near the earth
re opposl llons AS seen above. all
h most tayoraDt equally good; at the
on -FOUR times as 2sition. Mars is about
aole one, At as at the unfavOr-
.de must elapse or 1as nv I < $3.50
Ia equally favOrabl an 0DDos5+ir17
it'll lions occurred inre e77cL or7-,oSt- I
ID A moderate size 1Qo9 a1d 1o0-
4Is HlaAeAl mar KINGS cope shows per |
may be divided I
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

lew YORK n. T., Sept 8O.-Re-
n cent discoveries have enabled
science 10 tn IN with surprising
deflniteness OF detail the pic
ture OF that most wonderful Of all
past epochs. the Age Of Monsters
which I'D to now has been hardly
more than q sketch
600 years Of intervening time the
awe-struck observer finds himself
standing on the shore OF the Laramie
Sea-in a locality which today might
be Converse county, wyoming. he
looks out over a seemingly lmitless
eXpanse Of water, above the surface
OF which rise many islands
The Shallow Laramie Sea.
The sea Of Laramie. indeed. is quite
shallow, and might rather be termed
"a string Of vast brackish water lakes,
extending northWard from Mexico far
into Canada AS yet there are no
Rocky mountains, that mighty range
not having been uplifted by the geo
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-10-01

rs Mars Inhabited
late years, has rece3 Questlon' OF
q tion from astronoIi nuch aUten-
thinking public. 1t " and the
the greatest tIiumphs ev De one OF
science IL it could be pro hleFeu Dy
is inhabited by thinking hnat Mars
The solar system is mad beings
great life giver, the sun, sui or tae I
the eight large planets, Meoeu Dy
nus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Sat' We
nus, Neptune. Life, as we l1n IRA
this planet the Earth, is dt on
mainly on three factors, air, waent I
congenial temperatures. ma
Mercury is so close. to the sun
at times receives nine times the art
Of heat received by the earth. It-w
be much too hot on Mercury to pei
life at all similar to what we have
our own planet; and there has new
been any discussion regarding the Ia
liability Of Mercury.
The ''Earth's twin sister" Venus,
100000 miles from the sun. Tt 7
ceIves more heat than we do Very
tie is known Of the surface Of Venl
and so few markings are seen that it
not known whether Venus rOtates on
axis once in "a hours or once in
days AS so little is known, IL seel
futile to discuss in any serious way [
inhabitants Of Venus
CLINT OF the SUMS Family.
Jupitr. the giant Of the suns fami
is covered with a shell Of clouds, viii
change so rapidly that conditions the
can be interpreted only in one wa
that Jupiter is so large that 1t j
cooled slowly and ii Is still FAR too
to support life. The same may be 50
Of Saturn. OF the conditions on Uran
and Neptune, we know almost nOthiI
OF the solar system there remains
Mars Is II inhabited2 What a
the Maritans like2 Are they fart
er developed in the scale Of civilizati
than are we2
knowledge Of conditions on the rud
planet is derived by observations ma
with telescopes, and hence our inform
ton concerning il has progressed vi
the increased perfection Of the telescC
&c objective The first maps of III
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These may have destroyed the eggs Of
the dinosaurs by nibbling them, thus
putting an effective and final stop to
the multiplication OF the monsters.
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reasons for believing Mars is fnbab-
I tied viii be told later.
BrOOzs's Comet.
CoheI 4s1lc, discovered by Brooks, is
visible TO the naked eye on October
II VIII be brighter than the fifth mag
nlrude, and may be found from the
epnemer1s below or from its position
sven on the map above. 1t appears as a
nepulous star, but viii be a little diff
cult 20 lind on account OF its rapid mo-
ton In the sky. It passes closest to the
SulL On DcLoDer ~ when il viii be As
vVvuUu miles from the sun. il was clos
eSl 20 the earth on September IT, when
-L was 46.OO0,O00 miles away. Its own
moLOn about the sun Ombfued with
that OF the earth has caused its rapid
mOUOn in the sky. At the middle Of
September, the comet was a circurDo-
Jar OBJECT % degrees north declination.
4ls motion on October ] is southwest I'm
Lne constellation Of the Hunting DOGS.
Inc eplemeris follows.
Date Right Ascension Destination
sSepL ~ Ion Slim los pls SO deg. 39m
sept Is u 81 II 40 21
sept % 4 Y q A SIS 56
Get Is Is 5 5s g 80 a
On September .. Prof Barnard OBJ
famed an exquisite photograph with a
TOUT hour exposure Though the comet
showed no tail even I'm the 90 inch ta1-
escope OF the Yerkes observatory. a Tan
elshI degrees In length was seen on
me phor0graph. This tail was 10000
W mics IN length, the diameter at the
head was 500. 600 miles Amateurs
should watch the comet carefully. on
october d it sets in the northwest BIZ
10 o'clock but its rapid motion south
west makes IL set earlier each night
so that on the seventh 81 sets al
o'clock IT via soon set as early as the
sun, when it viii become invisible-to
be seen later before sunrise.
Tho Planets.
Mercury is too near the sun to be
seen Venus is a brilliant morning OBJ
JecL rising before the sun. on October
~, Mars becomes stationary among the
stars, then begins TO move west or ret
rograde, at first slowly. then with In
creasing speed. 1T viii diminish the
distance between &c and Saturu br+
VIII not Overtake the latter.
Jupiter Is In the evening sky still
low down in the west at sunset IL fs
getting closer to the sun.
There is an eclipse of the errn on +,s
twenty first which is not visible in the /
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