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The Tuberculosis Congress.
Tow things which mnrk tho modern
progress of civilization hnvo ndvanced
bo rapidly ns knowledge of tho nature
nml curability of tuborrulosls. Tho
dcclBlon of physicians that tho dlscaso
1b not horcdltnry has lifted n burden
of dread from thousands of henrlH, nnd
tho success of methods of treatment In
tho enrly stages of tho disease has
brought hopo to thousands of others.
Dut far more Important than this has
been, and will bo, tho work of bringing
nbout an understanding of tho dangers
of tho disease and Impressing tho ne
cessity of precautions. From Septem
ber 2t to Octobor 12 tho United .States
will ho the host of tho International
congress on tuberculosis, which Is lo
meet In Washington. Mr. Itoosevelt
has lately nccepted tho presidency of
tho congress. The occasion will un
doubtedly bo tho most Important event
that has yot occurred In tho tight
against tho dread disease. Tho con
vention will bring together tho most
noted exports of the world, and meth
ods of treatment and prevention which
have shown tho best rosultB will bo
Illustrated. It will ho as Interesting
to tho layman as to tho physician, for
In tho stamping out of consumption
much of tho work will have to bo done
by laymen officers of state and city
governments, tho police, hoards of
lieallh and prlvato citizens. It Is to bo
hoped, Bays tho Youth's Companion,
thnt tho congress will also do some
thing to allay tho groundless fear
which many porsons havo of anyone
known to bo suffering from tubercu
losis an attltudo which frequently
renders It Imposslhlo to sccuro tho
most deHlrablo sites for treatment
camps or hospitals, and often results
In grave lnjustlfw, If not nctual cruel
ty, to tho Individual. If duo precau
tion Is observed, Isolation Is In no way
necessary. Thin, Indeed, Is tho chlof
lesson which those most familiar with
tho mnttor nru trying to Impress.
Freight shipped to merchants cast
of tho Mississippi must bo plainly
marked with tho namo and nddross of
the consignee hereafter, according to a
recent decision of tho railroad compa
nies. It has been tho prnctlco of manu
facturers to mark the goods with a
hieroglyphic, partly to savo time in
shipments, and partly to prevent spies
from competitors lcnrnlng who their
customorH nro. This practice has mado
It dllllcutt for tho railroad companies
to dollvor tho goods. One company Is
aaltl to have lost llfteon hundred thou
sand dollars In tho last ton years, be
cause It has had to rolntburso shippers
for goods lost on tho road. Goods In
car-load lota may go marked In clphor
as heretofore, aB It Is not dlfllcult to
deliver a car ut tho point to which It hi
billed.
Another national park Is likely to be
added to thu domains of tho United
Hlntes ut tho next session of congress.
Tho senate comm ttoo on public lauds
has reported In lavor of taking tho
wild nnd beautiful glacier region of
the continental divide In Montann a
tract comprising nearly a million
acres, Tho region contains numoroiiB
penkB from 0,000 to 10,000 feet In
height, end nbout CO glaciers. Tho
largo nrmbor of big gumo anlmnls,
such ns Hooky mountain whlto goata,
bighorn, grizzly, door, oik nnd moose,
Hiiggests tho value of resorvlng tho
trnct as a brooding-ground for tho sur
rounding region. Tho namo proposed
Is tho Glacier National park.
Corn la gottlng to bo ono of tho
great products of tho world, although
tho United Stntes has tho llrst call
The uses to which corn mny bo put
nro rapidly Increasing In number. Muk
lug glucose from tho grain Is tho fouu
dntlon of an Important Industry and
a Now York concern, finding thivAmor
lean supply petering out, Is Importing
stock from Argentina. Hut there Is
promise of a bumper yield In our corn
utates next fall, and tho foreign nrtlclo
Is meioly a stopgap. Tho mills will
run nt a still llvellor rate whon tho
homo supply comen to mnrket.
Mr. FlugletH retirement from
Bfnndnrd Oil, on account of his ad
vancod years, would aconi to ho par
donable, though ho Is not thereby
wholly freed from carklug cares.
man who Is almost an octogenarian
nnd who has got several hundrcdu of
millions of dollaru on his hands, hns
need to bo anxious lost ho may dlo
disgraced,
Count Tolstoi 1b fortuuato If ho as
plres to havo his books become host
scl'nrs. The Russian censor has just
ordored thr" of thont supproBBod
How somo Amorlcnn wrltors who want
circulation must wIbIi tholr writings
could bo suppressed,
A woman lecturer In Ronton sneers
nt mon forswearing starched collars
Hlio Is unroasonabo. Lots of collars
urn only Btarehod whon thoy como
from tho laundry, not aftor thoy mo
BE WAKE! END OF THE WORLD
ONLY 12,000,000 YEARS AWAY!
By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., LL. D.
Then the Sun Will Shrink., Lose Its Heat and Inhabitants of the Earth
Will Freeze and Star-cJe to "Death,
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1JASONINO from tho prlncl
pics of tho pretty gener
ally nccepted nebular hy
pothesis the end of tho
world Ib to bo reached very
gradually through the Increasing reign
of cold nnd the lengthening of the
earth's dny. For It Is evident thnt tho
sun cannot keop on radiating heat nt
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High jBrobucd Scientists Ha-dc It All
Worked Out "Things Arc in a Had Way."
Warns Adherent of Jfcbular Hypothesis
World's Center Giving Forth Warmth
May SatJc Vr for a Time, Hut 7ltimatc
"Destruction Is Inc-ditablc, Wise Ones Say.
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Btm will havo become so far cooled
oft that wo shall bo Indifferent to
everything elso that hnppena,
Another limit to the future of tho
habllablo portion of the earth Is
brought to light by the rapid prog
ress of erosion thnt Is going on all
over tho land surface of the world.
Wallace estimates thnt one foot of
I I Hi ,1 i'iiHIMT 1 1 i t
going 'a7v -js "V HM
v ' WATS 7
tho present rate, or, Indeed, at any
rute, forever. As Lord Kelvin has
well Bald, wo know that tho aim Is
cooling off Just as certainly ns wo
should know that a hot stone which
wo encountered In a Held was cooling
off, though wo had not seen It long
enough to measure tho rate of Its
cooling. I lent Is not a permanont
(litallty of any known object. Tho huh
must bo losing Kb hent, nnd henco In
time will become a cold nnd lifeless
object.
If things continue lo go on as thoy
now do, astronomers tell us, tho sun
will loso Its life-giving heat long boforo
12,000,000 yenrs havo elapsed. Llko all
othor cooling bodies, tho sun must bo
diminishing in size. Its diameter must
be contracting. Nowcomb estimates
that In less thnn 5,000,000 yenrs tho
buu'h dlnmotor will contract to one
half Its present length, ho that tho
huh will occupy only onoclghth of tho
Hpiice It now occupies. It Is hardly posslblo for It
after that to eontlnuo to furnish as much heat as
It does now, hut It must then cool oft with groat
rapidity.
This reasoning Is based on tho supposition that
the sun Is not yet a Holld body, but Is so hot that
ItH maps Is still In a gaseous state, lint tho force
of gravity upon tho sun Is so great that tho gas is
compressed Into n much smaller proportionate com
pass than It Is on tho earth. Tho forco of gravity
on tho surface of tho sun Is 27 times that on the
enrlh, so that a man weighing 160 pounds on tho
earth would weigh nearly two ions on tho sun. So
great Is this pressuro of gravity on the gasos of
the sun that aro they rodueed to one-quarter tho
density or tho solid nucleus of the earth. Hut so
long ns the nucleus of the sun continues to he
gaseous it will continue to grow hotter as It dimin
ishes In size. So soon, however, as It loses suf
ficient heat to allow tho material to take on tho
Bolld form, a crust will bo formed nnd tho rndlat
llig heat will rapidly diminish. Probably, also,
tho heat radiated will diminish long before that
time, even though the sun Is growing hotter, bo
cause of the diminishing slzo of the globe.
Tho only wny that tho astronomers can seo to
avoid this Blow paralysis of the sun, and so of tho
whole solnr system, Is that lately proposed by Prof.
I.angloy In a sensatlounl article depleting what
would happen If a dark world moving at an Inered
Iblo speed in spaco should come so near our sun
thnt tho two would collide. In this caso tho origi
nal heat of the sun might bo rostored, hut tho en
tastropho would practically produeo such an ex
pansion of Ita volume nnd such an Increasu of its
radiating power thnt everything on tho earth would
bo burned up, producing nbout such phonomoiin as
nro descrlbod by tho Apostle Petor. Indeod, tho re
semblance between the words of tho apostlo and
tho theory of tho Washington astronomer was as
striking us It was unexpected, so much so thnt some
readers may not know from which soureo the fol
lowing quotation Ib taken:
"Tho heavens shall pass away, with a great
uolso, and tho elements shall bo dissolved with
fervent heat, and the earth and tho works thoreln
shall be burned up."
Hut tho suggestion of the nstrouonier wns puro
speculation. There aro no apparent signs of any
such approaching catastrophe as Dr. Langloy sug
gests as possible. At any rate, wo tuny settlo
down to the conclusion thnt so far as astronomical
forces are concerned tho present order of things
will not bo disturbed for three or four million
years.
Hut mi equally gloomy prospect Is boforo tho
world In the distant future from another cnuso
which Is In slow operation. Tho length of tho
enith'B day Is slowly Increasing through tho re
tarding Inllueuco of the tides produced by tho
moon. To he sure, this effect is so slight thnt It
him not been directly perceptlblo since accurate
methods of measuring the time of tho earth's
revolution on Its axis havo been observed. Hut
Hint It must bo taking place Is as sure as that
friction will stop a railroad train when tho steam
Is turned off.
Tho tides ratHod by the moon's attraction nro
distributed by the continents so as to present
many anomalies, but whon considered In thorn
selves they act the biuuo as a wavo three feet high
constantly running In an npposlto direction to
the revolution of tho earth, and so by friction re
tarding Us motion. Astronomers are agreed that
similar tides produced on tho moon have reduced
her revolution on hor axis to a porlod of 28 days.
Eventually tho revolution of tho earth will bo
reduced so that our day will bo soveral times long
er thnn now. Whon that tlmo comes tho nights
will ho so cold that nothing can stand It. and If
thoy could the days will bo bo hot that what was
lett by tho cold would be destroyed by tho boat.
Hut that tlmo, also, Is so far In tho future that tho
prosont generation mny put It out of tholr minds.
ThlH cntastropho will not arrive for many million
yours yot. Indeed, before that tlmo arrives tho
tho earth's Biirfaco Is, on tho average
washed away by tho streams every
.1,000 years and deposited at tho bot
tom of the ocean. This nmountB to
more thnn .'100 feet In a million years.
As tho main elevation of North Amer
ica Is 718 feet, and that of Europe G71
feet, It follows that by tho operation
of present forces Europo will bo
washed Into tho sea In 2,000,000 years,
and America In .1,000,000 years.
What provldonco has in storo for us
after thnt, no man knows. If tho sunk
en portion shall rise at tho ond of that
period, as It did at the end of tho coal
porlod, there will bo dry land to llvo
on, but It Is doubtful if It hnvo such
stores of Iron and coal as havo blessed
tho present raco of liuninn beings.
There aro two other sources of boat
to which wo may look with much con
fidence and hope. It was more than
a dream of Ericsson to Invent an en
gine which could bo run by collect
ing the direct rays of the sun through
Immense sun-dials, thus generating
tho bent neceasnry to set In motion
the wheels of Industry. Hut tho suc
cessful carrying out of his plane
would necessitate tho transfer of our
great manufacturing centers to tho
rainless regions of tho world whero
perpetual sunshlno prevails. It. therefore, will
not bo Imposslhlo that the desert of
Sahara and the sandy wastes of Contral Asia shall
In tho future usurp tho placo now nssumed by
the localities in proximity to tho great coal fluids
of the world, while tho latter hecomo overgrown
with briars and brambles llko the mounds of many
nn ancient center of civilization.
Still another posslblo sourco from which wo
may draw Infinite quantities of heat nnd power
Is to ho found In tho hented conter of the earth.
As wo descend below the Biirfnce of tho earth,
tho temperature rises on nn average of ono degreo
In f0 feet. At a depth of two miles, therefore,
tho tonipornturo of boiling water would be reached,
and at a dopth of flvo miles a temperature of
moro than 100 degrees. It would, therefore, not
seem by any mounts Imposslhlo to boro Into tho
earth deep enough to mako a portion of Its heat
avnllnblo for all ordinary purposes.
The world, howover, Is concorned with Impend
ing catastrophes nearer at hand. Tho prosperity
of the present tlmo is largely duo to tho rapid
ity with which wo aro using up the reserved stores
of nature upon or nenr tho surfaco of tho earth.
Thus geology, whllo It opens up to mankind tho
stores of good that aro burled for safekeeping In
tho dopths of thocarth.polntsto their limited quan
tity, und calls upon men to use them economically
nnd leave as much as posslblo for future genera
tions. Wnstofulness of these limited stores Is a
sin. At tho namo tlmo It gives tho philosophical
student of history a sobering view of tho destiny
of man. Nothing is more certnln than that man
has not been always on tho earth, nnd thnt ho Is
not nlwnys to stay here. Tho world Is llko a
transcontinental railroad train nnd tho human
race llko n passongor who gets on nt one end and
hns to get off at tho othor. Out of mystery man
came and Into mystery ho goes. The visible world
Is a parsing show. All that is unchangeable Ilea
In the world of tho unseen,
(Ctipyrlcht. UKW. by Jowpli U. ' Howies.)
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