COMMUNICATIN WITH MARS

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12427, 16 February 1901, Page 3

COMMUNICATIN WITH MARS

The above subject has attracted a good deal of attention from time to time, arid anything that tends to show the possibility of "such communicaion has considerable interest for us. Two aerolites, which were discovered some two years ago, bore supposed evidence of artificial, though unintelligible markings; these were attributed at the time to a laudable zeal on the part of the Martians for attaining a closer acquaintance with their inferior neighbours, the inhabitants of this planet, who are not gifted with their own godly attributes. Now,' a« we took no notice of their little billet doux in the shape of Martian bricks, which, by the way, are a trifle heavy as compared with our own, they have rebuked our seeming indifference by mildly shaking our shoulders so to speak, which shaking is described : by M. Tesla, as. three " mild earth vibrations,” accounted for as being a felight’galvanic shock sent by. the irritated inhabitants of Mats. Now, it appears to us .that if these’ same Martians, each cut* of.which, according to scientist's a little god, unto himself, and struts abtfffb his back yard with, an ordinary stature of some 20ft, and at their annual Caledonian sports, throws the hammer, weighing a couple of tons a distance of some two miles or so, we think it would bo very undesirable to cultivate their acquaintance to any extent, such accomplishments as compared with our own little efforts would ba bound sooner or latci 1 lo cause hoartburning.a and jealousies, and no doubt; from their superior height, they would look down upon us, and treat us as being very much beneath them, and who'knows they may be gifted with a very captious spirit, but, as a. worthy doctor put it the other day, if they would shown their good feeling and bonne camaraderie towards no by sending us an aerolite, carriage paid order to land- in Cathedral Square for a pound of “Arab” or “Shah” ted, the flavour of which is enough to delight the, palate of even a wooden god, there is no doubt it would be, a very strong argument in ,favour of a closer acquaintnceship and conducive to a better mutual each