Show AN HOUJl WITH MARS FLAMMAHION WRITES OF THE PLANETS PBOPLC lIe > Ao hIghly uttloahad It coy Th tanai lh > Work at llfrl In IpIleelool l ulanI l Mill let loin motlalO Mllli Tlini c AM IIIIJ i nAM I I itmlon the dlstln C Cttlshed Ireneh I astronomer after Ii Ionic observation of I lara nnd patient I f lnvc tlgatlon of the I work 01 other In I 11 I the samn field appears 71 pears from an nr I tItle which hat come from hit pen Milled An Hour With Man to I have reached the concluilon that the planet lit I Inhahltcil nod that Hie canali a numerout upon Ito surface are thn work of a highly civilised race of heIr go 10 thin elaborate system of canali which the recant perfection of astro noml1 Initrumontt hu made moo and more apparent that M I riamroa I don dlscusnf In the Unlit of the recent nervation Me advance certain I ylw aa 10 tho question of the planet beIng InhabIted that are new and atari ling Among the most Important of these Is I one concerning the atmosphere ol Mir Klammarlon shows that Man hit an atmosphere of lit own which had been denied by some of the astronomers astrono-mers at the lIck Observatory If the planet bad no atmosphere at these gentlemen nought to make out he aaki how the snow cap of Man so apparent In the telescope during the Martian Inter could be formed These mow caps 000 upon either pat of Mart appear at large white surfaces which gradually recede na summer follow II fol-low spring upon the plaId and TUB IATIMT MAI OK t Till ANAIS ON MAHS = multnncouily with their dlsippeir nee the famoua canaU discovered by Prof Hchlaparelll begin to come Into clew To Any aludenl of physics It li I parrnt that no annie could forni here there naa no atmosphere and the moon ni M 1 Hammirlon pain nut ever gather anow or Ice nor are these ibstancni to be observed on any other 01 the planet Ho lIume that the now rap of Mar ore formed through dow which carrlc the molature of the MartIan ntmoipherc from hIs tropic to It la arctic zone And right here la the moil tour hull poInt which M 1 Klammarlnn Imi ella oered yIn that Mar htoo no rain In all of the long oberatlont of Mar made hero and In Kttropo during recent cent year there It no record of Martian ov having obtcured tIme view of lImo planet for any length of time Flue Martian air It I singularly dent coil pure There It considerable doubt whether a cloud coo ever obnervcd pon III anrfnce Upon the other hand 81 M IUmmarlon haa pointed out a Inrtlan astronomer observing lien artli would 1 for da > a at n tlmn be tin ohIo to ace any part of the planet fur ho reason that clouil In lImo tcrro trIal atmoiphero would Intervene lIven our own moon III It Impotilblo to it CAM t Mi rtAMMAIIION tee n largo part of tho year became 01 moltture In the atmosphere while the two atolllte of Mar nro nlwnjs In view when not hidden by the body 01 the planet It Is I thl ulniiularly 1 clenr and pur atmosphere of Mar that 11111 made recent re-cent effort In photographing lImo ranil upon III surface 10 highly nuccwitu Kor week at a time ItO M 1 Flammarlo point out harm wa under oUervatlo last iiimincr hero nnd In Uuropo when there will not ecn the faintest uiK > lion of a cloud In II ntmwphere nm It was 1111 nbsencc nf cloud that nral gave rise I to the mUtaken notion thUd It had no atmosphere at nil It to I right here In thlt contlderatlo of the atmosphere nf Mara that It 1 Klammarlon Omit tho explanation 01 the canola There being no rain iipo Mar It It of course obv lous that w ate must be of the highest value to Ila Inhabitant In-habitant nnd that It thould tw Ie ervcd collected and distributed wllh the utmost care Tho map of Mar moreover bow that It lass no rIvera Without a rainfall such at that whIch 1 F falls In all pan of the earth II I dim cult to He how rlter or i lieiinn wuunl form lAkes are likewise raree upon the surface of Mar except nt the time When the polar Ice I rp are melting and then the > are mini through the canals leading from lii polar eeoc Here then Is I the most reasonable ex planatlon thus fur offered by a distinguished distin-guished astronomer of the elaborate canal system of Mar which han ao long puitleil the MlentlHc world Without rain the Inhabitant of that plantl depend de-pend solely upon Ihelr canil for the Irrigation of their fields Those fields appear 10 dry up and the canal to disappear dis-appear In the telencope of astronomers and the now caps melt oo the water Is I distributed over the surface of the tIt t-It Is lo the future dl coerle of clence rather than to the work of astronomer as-tronomer that M I Klainmnrlon look for come mean of opening communication communica-tion with the Inhabitant of Mar We often ask ourselves he allY In conclusion What are the form and manner of these stratme people Tho rapid progress of optic will help us to know them poole day Will not sonic mean Ira devised lo place us In communication com-munication with out heavenly neigh bore and to throw out Into space a line between heaven and earth III ho I net > probable that tub progress nl useful for philosophy ii for science will nol be accomplished by the optic which wo know The future hat tome discovery dis-covery In ttoro for tit Ilefore the Invention In-vention of photography who realized the possibility of selling nnd filing Image Ilefore the first magnifying IIIMo no one dreamed of the hidden benefit of that marvelous substance called glas which had been so carelessly care-lessly used during three thousand yenre of bllndncM Ilefore the ipectral analysis who could Imagine the possibility pos-sibility of discovering the chemical composition of the planet And the telephone And the phonograph Homo unexpected new discovery perhaps of n physical ordrr will place III In communication wllh the Inhabl lanll of Mar nnd will at last begin the solution of the great problem TIme esllnles of each of in that of the en tIre human race arc united to the IM link of the other dweller of our sys Icm |