ABSTRACT
AS I was wandering through space the other day—just aeroplaning past on my way over from Mars——I came suddenly upon a neat, snug little property, with a huge sign stuck up in the middle of it—
The Earth: This Desirable Property to Let. Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan & Co.
I was just about to pass it by, inferring naturally that it must be a mere bank, or wholesale house, or something, when it occurred to me it might do no harm to step off and see. I thought I might at least drop in and inquire what kind of a firm it was that was handling it, and what was their idea, and what, if anything, they thought their little planet was for, and what they proposed to do with it.