individual quarrels, and they could not endure with patience what was then
taking place right under their eyes. But they found it easier to declaim
against the evil than to suggest any practical method of stopping it.
Although so near them in one sense, to the other senses the field of
conflict was some two hundred and forty thousand miles away.

"However, of what value is a high state of civilization if it cannot help
a neighboring world in such an emergency as this? If they could only
communicate in some way with men they could soon make them understand that
it would be better for them to cease their fighting and finish their
legitimate work of subduing the lower forms of creation. But how to open
communication! The problem long remained unsolved, the condition of things
on the earth in the meantime growing worse and worse. At last it was
suggested that a shot might be fired which would reach the earth. This was
a bold suggestion, but it was well known that they had explosives powerful
enough to carry a projectile beyond the moon's attraction, and no one
could give any good reason why such a projectile, being entirely free of
the moon, should not reach the earth under the power of gravitation. It
was determined to try the experiment, and after due preparation, which was
comparatively easy with their facilities, an enormous shot was hurled
forth. It was large enough to be seen by the aid of their powerful
telescopes as it sped on its way, and it was with intense interest that
they saw it enter the earth's attraction and finally strike the surface of
that globe. Now that so much had been accomplished, they saw immense
possibilities before them. What they now wanted to do was to use their
discovery to make men give up their fighting and turn to the arts of
peace.

"How could they do this? Some proposed that they should make hollow shot,
fill them with Bibles and other books, and bombard the earth with good