| Show THE TUE CAN is O HAILS HABS I Fret Harris on In a 11 tl ti the fla the tho that photograph taken takemi b h b C O 3 at nt the Lowell oh dt lt Yal practically thAt the tho ll Martian ennois We n c Irrigation ditches arid not merely l natural marking nt In III the lie of tho timo planet net Actual proof of this lilt would be hI i one of ot the I achieve meals munis of tho the age iIII the great groat Italian as oil astronomer nearly thirty years eals ago URO ad art 1 i tho the opinion that those K Kw t w ro real r al canals but bilt tho tIui l 1 lion lIun of lit u IL tow row advanced al thinkers th the I doubted 1 the correctness I both hoth bothof of or hIs Ms observations rind and conclusIons conclusion In II later inter years yen the ex of or the lines hats has beell confirm 1 by many astrom astronomers merit mers mer but hut thin tho nature of them has hils not con clearly understood The photo photographs graphs referred 1 to are arc said ald to prove that thu the dark patches PI Ie h ell on omi the tho planet largo hl KO fields lIel of ut nourish nourished ed Ott by hy wilter In Iii I n tim Ihn canals ca Mam Mitre U ti described as 1111 a vast Mt having no oceans rind and a 11 tore rare atmosphere In lii the tho cold coil sea len season lenI son soil I of ot the lie stIr air Is at tho oies lole In the lie form of t dew w that hot freezes to 10 d Ul nil UlIn In the spring The rIte fh canals start at lit it time the Polar leI Ire ir and conduct tho tacit moll melted ed tt ice Ico mid snow for tor thousand of or ward toward t the i regions Cross canals Intersect Iho tho maui main ditches antI III In the tho Martian when tho the sun still melts molts tho the polar caps capa they nil with lIh water witter anti and the tho lie banks take on tho time greenish O or of vegetation VP Tho rho Tim of or vernal chango change sweeps lIi eplI front from rom the time toward the tho equator An tho the Martian winter approaches the lie canals fade the t Ii c permanent it e at turn lighter In Pm OH as If Ir thu vegetation tion tio were anti and a 1111 the 10 1 IIrI I ap al Is II tho lie paUlo as tUI the tho earth look lodl If It I from rota a great din taul at lit ho tho Kimu 1 limo into of it the tho year lh I s are GIe thuu ht to toun un hn vu 11 proved by IW the he latest It IlI IN Js that lint beings who uro are nub able to maintain life lite under tinder Martial conditions must ho he Intellectual Intellectually ly iy I moio highly developed limn the n tho lie In of 11 tho tIme earth me ate for to tn hu ho human man skill Ilk III the tho construction of or canal canals for tor the purpose O of conducting conduct III water from fron the tho polar regions r sufficient for tor forthe forthe the Irrigation of ot tho the Inhabitable world would bo be out hUt of ut the tho question Mum I Ii a much older planet Ihan the tho earth Its Inhabitant tony may be bo moro more high lly tl Iy developed both Intellectually and otherwise c |
