Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1913-07-25
FATE OF A WORLD
lis Course From Chaos to Its
Hopeless Death Struggle.
THREE ACTS IN THE TRAGEDY
The First Is Shown by Jupiter, the
Second by the Earth and the Third
by Mars, While the Moon Shows the
Empty Stage After the Play is Done.

by Mars, While the Moon Shows the
Empty Stage After the Play Is Done.
No stage was ever set for such a
tragedy as the planet Mars presents.
1t is the last act in the drama of a
worlds history!
The first act in such drama consists
of scenes from chaos The huge plan
ct Jupiter offers us a spectacle of that
kind in its streaming belts of thick
clouds and its whirling vapors. glow
ing like steam above Il furnace.
The second act is represented by the
earth. with its fertile crust, its cool. in
tanning seas that give birth to the
clouds which. condensing on the
mountains, furnish the rains and set
the rivers flowing.
The closing act is the role of Mars.
where the seas have vanished. the at
mosphere has thinned out. the rivers
have disappeared. the continents have
turned into deserts, and life, driven into
corner. is battling against final ex
tinctiOn.
That there is yet intelligent life on
Mars is the universal belief of all the
observers whom Mr. Lowell has gath
cred about him at his Flagstaff OBJ
ServatOry. where the extraordinary phe-
nOmena of that wonderful planet are
studied us 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 Il command over nntu
raj forces which would seem miracu
lous if exhibited upon the earth.
With them it has become simply Il
question of brain power against the
inanimate powers of nature
They have nights and days of the
same length as ours. They have sea-
sons almost precisely corresponding
with ours, except that they are each
twice as long. But their oceans are
dried up. no rains fall Though there
may be dews). and nearly all the at
mospheric moisture is alternately lock
cd up i'm one or the other of the polar
snOwcaps.
In such situation no vegetation can
flourish unless artiticially stimulated
by gigantic system of irrigation. All
without vegetation animal existence is
impossible.
But whence can the inhabitants of
Mars derive the water needed for irii
CATION: The answer given is that they
get it periodically from the melting of
the polar SHOWS. Being without seas
and rivers they have no other source
of supply.
On Mars the reign of universal peace
must have begun ages ago. introduced
not by moral or sentimental consid-
erations, but by the necessity of unit
ing, all the engineering skill; all the in
ventive powers and all the physical
forces of the entire population of the
planet in Il common battle for life.
The only thought of their inventors
is of improved means for controlling
the slowly lessening supplies of mois
ture that once In about two of our
years may be drawn away from one
of the poles while the summer sun
shine is dissolvng its thin SHOWS.
This universal concentration of men
tai energy upon Il single aim is con
ceived as having developed upon Mars
a knowledge of the hidden forces of
nature such as has up to the present
merely been dreamed of on the earth.
We have just begun to learn how to
use electricity in the mechanic arts.