Show I AND ITS PEOPLE Professor Lowell reems to leave hAY Cr ar arrIved rIved at the tho that U tt that the planet is Inhabited by in III beings Is no Ion longer Iter to rIsk reputation as tt n matter If f tact fact scientist t When the BUC guess s waR wait ventured that the markings known an Intelligent plan plait It was Willi thought to tolie lie he too fanciful for tor lIm but that view tins has gradually gi giCa Ca 11 way und and It III now PrettY weli ell cc that no other theory 0 tar suggested accounts for tor the Martini phenomena nil as satisfactory liS as the of oC the tho plc presence ence on th the planet ot of Intel Intelligent beings In a 11 series ot of lectures In HuntinGton hall Hoston Mr Ir Lowell Lowen interestIngly explaIned what Is known Inon ot of our neigh neighboring boring planet and drew drel rome fame lions which seem irrefutable Ito point oil eel out there arli are no oceans on and that of at Its cur Lites Is desert But Dut It Is not without water Inco It has Its polar enDS cave or of snow and Ice Then com comIng In to the tho ot of canals he maintained that thal their unnatural regularity theIr Ing uniformity theIr great length their adherence to Jho ho great circle ar arc traits of traits lii III stead ot of disappearing on closer tee ac leave come out always with greater Insistence The disposition or of orthe the canals the tho relations which they hear boar to one another the tho way In iii which theY are by the oases nil all ot of these matters disclose an orderlIness that we cannot refer reter to nature They cannot tho thit lecturer ho he rivers nor can they bo be cracks III ii the surface ot of the tho orb Ito IIo quoted the following data that have hae been confirmed by careful Tho ot of then tho worldwIde n net network t work vork ot of canals stand connected with the dork clark blue hatches at the tho edge of oC one of oC the Iho other ot of the caps But Dut arc not always visible In the wInter SeaSon they tall fall to II show how Not till the cap b glus to tacit mett IO do th y up antI then thell they come out nail strong J Front theIr on gin the flee lines to darken down the thee One utter litter the other takes up the thread ot of visibIlity to ianI It on to th ties next Place i A lIo flow In hero apparent JourneyIng with measured progress I 0 or er tile tue Nitrite ot of I o I talal the tho mental ear car detects the tho oC if water flowing down Iown the tho latitudes Water thou then must bo be the wor word 1 ot of tim tho enigma the clew that will lead head us to the unloosing or of the riddle An II for Cor the tho motive ot of drawing such uch IL a anet net or of canals over the surface of at the tite planet Mr rr Lowell found II I I prevalent scarcity or of Water and the nrc necessity of at conducting It train Crom the po polar tar lar where tt It Is stored up In tha form torm ot of snow and Ice Wo We are he said In that we leave the cause and our can coit elusion lie III that we ire leave hay In these strange features witnessed that life lite und and bite lito or of no mean order ut at present Inhabits the planet Mars And ho add Not etch do the tho observations lead us to the tho conclusion that Mars I Is at thIs moment Inhabited but bul the theland they land us at thee tho one ona that these denizens are arll ot of nn na order whose no Is worth the tho making Tim Tho tact fact that they exist Is the Important Otto OliO made all 1111 the nOlO so hy by their pro pre or of us In the path ot of lion Mate Is to be lo u a much older than hail the tho earth and In III Its pres Ires present eat ent state It is III saId to tn forecast the tho fate ot of our own world The Tho dryIng up of oC the planet we are oro told must continue until every drop ot of Is gone gOllo and life lito there as wo we know Its forms Corms will willbo willbe bo be t a thing of oC the tho when till this last fiance flamo of life lito has flickered out the tho pIn planet net In space II a deall world until through sonic cosmic vet ea eata ta It ilia may be reduced to tra frag ments to bo bl used perhaps In coilS eons In the Iho construction or of a 11 new world |