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Octoroon? judahandmicahadded this on 10 Nov 2009 judahandmicahoriginally submitted this to Shobal Vail Clevenger Family Tree on 19 Oct 2009

According to Victor Robinson, in his book, "The Don Quixote of Psychiatry", published in 1919, Mariana Knapp was a Southern girl, at school in the North when her engagement to some other man was terminated because it was discovered that she and her two sisters were octoroons. See page 37.

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Mariana Mollie Knapp (1845 - 1910)

Wireless From Mars judahandmicahadded this on 10 Nov 2009 judahandmicahoriginally submitted this to Shobal Vail Clevenger Family Tree on 9 Oct 2009

WIRELESS FROM MARS The wireless telegraph operator merely took down the words as they came, with no idea of their origin, or for whom they were intended. Some previous understanding doubtless had been made as to a future communication which was now radiating to stations other than the one intended, And this was the message: The planet you call Mars is a billion years old, of your length of years. About a hundred million years ago we had passed through all the monkey stages of development that earth folks are still experiencing, and began to see that our mountains were washing down, our seas were drying up, and that sandy deserts were not only spreading over the planetary surface, but rains were ceasing, the atmosphere was thinning and vegetation was scarcer and more difficult to cultivate. Many contending nations killed each other off, however, before the survivors would listen to astronomers, geologists and other scientists as to what should be done to prolong the lives of the miserable few who remained scattered over the surface wherever an oasis permitted existence. Even then false teachers misled the people for their own ends, as your politicians and sovereigns do with you. Finally a remnant of survivors began a co-operative system of engineering expedients to widen the oases upon which they lived, the seas having by this time entirely disappeared, the hills being flattened, and the extremes of alternating temperatures killing off everything animate, whether plant or animal, save in a few green spots here and there; and in only one of these was there any intelligent plan for bettering conditions; the fittest to survive in the other places up to that time being those exerting the most fraud or force. But nature could not be controlled by such means, and when it was found out that

intelligence had increased possibilities in the one spot of expanding cultivation, it was suggested that an expedition should set out to wrest the place from its inhabitants and enslave them so the conquerors could enjoy the new land without working themselves. But only a few families reached the destination, and they were in a sorry condition appealing for help to those they meant to injure, as repentant miscreants do, till the next chance they have for mischief. By ages of training the owners of the last farms and factories were so different from the race that had perished, the remnant of the portion which had taken refuge with the intelligent workers became a serious problem to the good community. The old plan would have been to slay them; isolate them by jailing or banish them; but recognizing their common origin from remote monkeydom and being unable to transport them to earth, where they would soon be riding in automobiles about Newport, buying up legislatures and as New York bankers duping weak minded secretaries of the treasury into handling over the national billions for gambling purposes. So the martians took up the burden and started in for conversion, knowing that thousands of years must pass before results were apparent. And a big thorn in the social body was this pariah set, for eternally were they cooking up schemes for turmoil, wreckage, self aggrandizement, and to subvert all plans of the community upon whose hospitality they lived. Eventually, however, the malcontents grew up to the standards of the others and became more like their hosts, with reversions here and there in hospitals and asylums. Through dire necessity the planet was worked over into canal systems to bring the water from the poles as the ice melted, guiding it to the hot equator whence it was returned by parallel canals to melt more snow and to provide for navigation and irrigation of widening oases with their vegetation. In northern summer time the polar ice and snow partly melted flowed southward, even beyond the equator. In the northern winter the south pole furnished water to the southern set of canals connecting with the north system, the heated equator water warming the temperate regions. The “white spots” above the equator are lagoons for shunted ice to remain till melted and returned to the canals as water. Cold water runs from poles to equator and beyond and back again in other canals as warmed water, accounting for the doubling of canals so puzzling to you earthly observers. We have engineering methods here you could not understand, as you have not advanced in physics and chemistry enough to comprehend them. We are also vastly stronger than the earth people, not only bodily but mentally, so that we know all that you do and more you are incapable of knowing, though the entire secret lies in what a teacher told you a couple of thousand years ago, whose words you repeat as the parrot does, with no meaning conveyed to most of your brains, with no actual following of what he gave up His life to teach, for you slew Him and still persecute His real followers, heaping wealth upon the organizations that pretend reverence for His name and memory, while mocking His teachings. We people of Mars are of one mind, we see the truth as in a few million years you will be able to do, and we know of no wealthy class, no wretchedly poor such as you have, no rulers who while claiming to be public servants rob and enslave you. We are happy with every breath we draw of the attenuated air we still breathe, but now the time is approaching when the air being all used up, the water vanished from the planet, life as we now live it will have ceased, to be followed by some foreword step in

the evolution of the universe, inevitable and best for all of us, yourselves as well as us and the other planetarians in this solar system, all of us but a crop in the universal ocean. Your world will pass through the same experiences, for you are younger than we are, having been cast off from the sun much later than was Mars. You will find that vicissitudes are your best friends and instructors that working together for the common welfare will give you the only heaven you can have on earth; that until you pass your monkey rapacity, vanity and treachery you will not even know that you have a soul. As the laws of nature could not be juggled with there ceased to be use for the other professions than the medical in charge of laboratories and hospitals, and the engineering to superintend vast public works. The planet being one vast system of united co-operative workings. 1909 By Shobal Vail Clevenger (1843-1920)

Additional information about this story Description from the author's book; "Fun in a Doctor's Life", a series of essays, thoughts and

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Shobal Vail Jr Clevenger (1843 - 1920)

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Name: Shobal Vail ClevengerBirth - Death: 1843-1920Source Citation: • Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature: A Supplement. British and American authors. Two volumes. By John Foster Kirk. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1891. (Alli SUP) • Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Six volumes. Edited by James Grant Wilson and John Fiske. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888- 1889. (ApCAB) • Biographical Index to American Science. The seventeenth century to 1920. Compiled by Clark A. Elliott. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (BiInAmS) • A Dictionary of American Authors. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. By Oscar Fay Adams. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1904. Biographies are found in the 'Dictionary of American Authors' section which begins on page 1 and in the 'Supplement' which begins on page 441. (DcAmAu) • Dictionary of American Biography. Volumes 1-20. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-1936. (DcAmB) • Dictionary of American Medical Biography. Lives of eminent physicians of the United States and Canada, from the earliest times. By Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1928. (DcAmMeBi) • A Dictionary of North American Authors Deceased before 1950. Compiled by W. Stewart Wallace. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1951. (DcNAA) • The National Cyclopaedia of American

Biography. Volume 5. New York: James T. White & Co., 1891. Use the Index to locate biographies. (NatCAB 5) • The Twentieth Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans. Brief biographies of authors, administrators, clergymen, commanders, editors, engineers, jurists, merchants, officials, philanthropists, scientists, statesmen, and others who are making American history. 10 volumes. Edited by Rossiter Johnson. Boston: The Biographical Society, 1904. (TwCBDA) • Who Was Who in America. A component volume of Who's Who in American History. Volume 4, 19611968. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1968. (WhAm 4)

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