THERE MUST BE PEOPLE IN MARS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 41 (Supplement)

THERE MUST BE PEOPLE IN MARS

Professor Lowell, of Flagstaff Observatory, is making further, revelations as . to .changes he observes to take place on t;he surface rofthe: yAlarsLAThe ;• .“eanasl,”which some 'astronomers;fuse to believe in ate to hiin a reality, And; fie; knows them by name,. just; as. we knb \y by name' thAriyyefs traced• upon •a. I - map: of Scotland. = He ; refers now ,to ; cer- ' tain adjacent canalsy charted and named by Schiapa,reiki, , and with which- ho was .?■•'./ himself; familiar, 'and / some • changes in' • connection with these, canals, whichjhe >■ believes must ibe' “artificial,” that is, must be the work of intelligent beings inhabiting .that, planet. Sbme time ago ‘ he was surprised to find . that two; of these canals had disappeared, but That a .'y new canal near the same place j and .. running' in the same direction, had come :. ■ y into view. Then after a : .time the, new canal disappeared and, one of- the old ; - ones came again and then;t'He .' other bid canal appeared.;: Bfe finds , that canals near: each other Are thusyin: the : way of alternately coming and going, y These changes, he tells' us, - take .place : . quite independently .of. -the. seasonal • : changes, which ; produce, sometimes a .•;. considerable' difference in the appearance of the : canals. . His idea is ihat the. '• scarcity, of water on theplanet. makes v it necessary' for the Martians yht ; tiriries,•:' of, perhaps, regularly,"; to drain: one canal into another. When the country around one canal has • been.sufficiently • irrigated the .water is • hff ipto; another; waterway to irrigate : another / district, and; thus; .one ;cahal; ydisappeafs. '• • and another comes' into. view. .y '