The times-herald. [volume] (Burns, Harney County, Or.) 1896-1929, 1913-12-27
FATE OF A WOR[II
It's Course From Chaos to lis
Hopeless Death Struggle.
THREE ACTS IN THE TRAGEDY

The First ls Shown by Jupiter the
Second by the Earth and the Third
by Mars, While tho Moon Shows The
Empty stage After the Play Ia Done
No stage was ever set for such Il
tragedy M tho planet Mars presents
Il N the last net In the dramn OF q
worlds hlstory
The frst net in such drama consists
of scenes from chaos, The huge plan
ct Jupiter offers us n spectacle of that
kind IN It's streaming belts of thick
clouds aud It's whirling yapors. glow
lug like steam above furnnce.
The second net IL represented by the
earth. with It's fertile crust, It's cool, In
vIgorntlng atmosphere aud its life sus
tnlnlng seas that give birth to the
clouds which. condenslng on the
mountains. furnish the rains ana set
the rivers flowing.
The closing net IN tho role of Mars,
whore the sens have vanished, tho at
mosphcre has thlnned out, the rivers
have disappeared. the continents have
turned into deserts, and life, driven Into
u corner IL battling against ilnnl eX-
tlnctlon.
That there tx yet intelligent life on
Mnrs is the universal belief of all the
observers whom Mr.. Lowell has gath
cred about him at his Flagstaff oh
scryatory. whore the extraordinary pho
nomena Of that wonderful planet are
studied as nowhere else IN the world.
More than that, they tell us with
ever Increasing emphasis that the peo'
pie OF Mars, compelled by necessity.
have developed command over natu.
rul forces which would seem mirncu'
lous II exhibited upon the earth.
With them II has become simply u
question OF brain power against the
lnanlmnic powers OF nature
They have nights and days OF the
same length as ours, They have sen.
sous almost precisely corresponding
with ours, except that they are each
twice as long. Iiut their oceans are
dried up. no rains fall Though there
may bc dewsl and nearly all the at
mosphcric moisture IL alternately lock
eu UP III one or Tue o'ne' VI 'ne pun
sho"'"ps
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flourish unless nrtlncially stimulated
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