The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-02-20

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as a source of light and heat, for it multi
| plies production by giving man the means
! OF perfectins and extending his action upon
nature.
Behold where we are. behold to what a
half century of industrinlism has conducted
usl Evidently there is in all this manifest
symptoms Of a near approaching eXuber-
ance, and we may say that before a hun
dred years hence the earth will become
obese. Then will commence the fearful
| period when excess OF production will lead
to excess of consumption excess of con-
I sumption to eoeess of heat excess Of heat
to the spontaneous combustion of the earth
and all its inhabitants. 1t is not difficult to
foresee the series of phenomena which will
bring the globe gradually to the final cntas-
trophe.
Behold, then, what will take place. Dur.
ing n dozen OF centuries everything will go
on better and better. Industry above all
will stride on with great steps. We shall
commence at first by ~exhausting all the
coal beds then all the sources of petroleum;
then We shall cut down all the forests
then directly we will bum the oxygen of the
air and the hydrogen Of the water. At this
time there will be Upon the earth about Il
thousand million steam-engines of a thou
sand horsepower each; that is, Thousands
of Thousands millions Of horse-steaIn work
ing night and day. All physical labor is
done by machinery or animals. Man is
I known no more. but under the form OF q
learned gymnlst, practising only for by
giene. But while his machines vomit inces-
sanity torrents of manufactured products,
from his agricultural workshop comes rush
ing out crowds, more and more compact,
of sheep, oxen, turkeys, pigs, ducks, calves,
and geese, all bursting with fairness, below.
ing, gobbling, quacking, ~blenting, clucking,
granting, and asking with loud cries for
consumers. Now under the influence of
an alimentation more and more abundant.
more and more succulent, the fecundity Of
the human and animal races will increase
from day to day. Houses will rise STORY
upon story. We suppose at first gardens,
then courts, cities, then villages, commence
to project little by little ines OF faubourgI
in all directions. Soon the transversal lines
will unite their rays.
The movement progresses; ~neighborinG
cities begin to touch. Paris annexes st.
German, Versailles, then Beauvais, then
Chalons, then Orleans, then Tours. Mar
settles annexes Tonlon; Nice, Carpentras
Mines, Bordeaux. Lyons and Lille divide
the rest, and Paris finishes by annexing
Marseilles, Lyons, Lille, and Bordeaux.
The same throughout all Europe the same
in all the four quarters Of the world.
But at the same time the animal popu.
lation increases. All the useless kinds
hsve disappeared. There emain only oxen,
sheep, horses, and poultry. Now to nour-
ish all these, open spaces are needed for
cultivation, and place begins to fail. We
then reserve some lands for culture. We
crowd together upon them some fat pastures,
and lying in the midst Of heritage six feet
in height, we gee rolling about unheard of
races of sheep and oxen without horns,
without hair, without tail, without hoof,
without bones, and reduced by the art OF
the breeders into no more than n monstrous
beefsteak nOurishcd by four Unsuitable
stomnchs.
During this time n formidable revolution
is being accomplished in the Southern Hem
ispherc. What dol say? Scarcely go 900
years are, aud behold it finished The
coral insects have united together the con-
tinents and all the islands of the Pacific
Ocean and seas of the South. America,
Europe, Africa have disappeared under the
waters of the ocean. No more remains
but some isles formed of the highest sum
mits of the Alps and Pyrenees, the Buttes,
Monmartre, the Carpathian, the Atlas, the
Cordilleras. Humanity, receding little by
little before the sea, is spread over the
incommensurable plains abandoned by the
ocean. 1t bears here its overwhelming
civilization. Already, as upon the old
continents, space begins to fail it. Behold
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must struggle against the invasion of animal
life. 1t is here that it will perish. 1t is
| upon a cnlcareous ground. 1t necessarily
| converts an enormous mass of animalized
matter into lime. This mass, exposed to the
| rays of n torrid sun, condcnses continually
new unities of heat, while the working Of
machines, the combustion of hcarths, and
the development of animal heat constantly
increases the ambient temperature. And
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continues to increase, and there comes a
moment when, the equilibrium being broken,
it becomes manifest that production will
| surpass the consumption.
Then begins to form upon the shell Of the
globe, Mt first scarcely n film. then an mp
preciablc coating OF irreducihlc d~ctritus.
The earth is saturated with life. Fernen-
tation commences. The thermometer rises,
tho barometer sinks, the %hygrometer mp
proaches zero. Flowers withcr. leaves
grow yellow, parchments shrivel, every.
thing dries and breaks TO pieces. Animals
grow smaller through the effect of evapo-
ration. Man in tu:n becomes msagrc and
dries up. All tempernments blend in one
the bilious, and the last of the lymphatics
offer with tears his daughter, and 100, 000,-
900 of dowry to the last Of the scrOfulous,
who has not n cent of fortune and who
refuses through pride. The heat augncnts
and tho springs are exhausted. Th water
carriers rise by degrees to the rank of cap.
italists, then to milionaircs. Finally. the
great water-bearcr of the Prince ends by
becoming one Of the first diguitarics Of the
state. All crimes and infamies which are
now done for gold. one does then for a
glass of water and Love himself, abandon
ing his arrows and culver, replaces them by
{ ilag,s or ice-water. In this torrid atmo-
sphere cre pays for a piece of ice thirty
timcs It's weight in diamonds. The Emperor
of Australia, in n fit of mental alteration,
had = tutti frutti made which cost him n
year of his income. A savant made n
colossal fortune by obtaining n hectolitre of
cool water III forty-fve degrees. Tho
rivers dry up. HOLSTERS hustle tumultuously,
RAINING after threads Of warm water which
leave them upon the beach changing color
aud turning to scarlet. Fishes with burst
Ing heart and d'stendcd fins are left by the
streams extended stomach upward. Human.
kind begins to weaken visibly. Strange
passions, mheard-of rage, violent loves
insensate pleasures, make life n series o.
furious detonations, or rather y continuou.
explosion, which commences ut birth anu
finishes by death. In this world, torrifi"c
ty IN implacablc combustion. all is red
c~iackling, broiled, roasted, and after tbs
water evaporatcs one feels the air dimini,i
as it %rarifics.
Frightful calamity E! The streams aui:
rivers have disappeared. The seas begin
10 grow warm, then become heated
tchold them already simmcring rs under n
gentle fire At first the little lishe1.
asphyNiatCd, turn over upon the surface.
tftcrward come the seaweed that the heat
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