The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1897-01-08
DooMsDAY sPEcuLATioNss5
Discussions a. 90 the Fate of Humanity
the Last Great Day.

Discussions a. 90 the Fate of Hlr Humanity
the Last Great Day.
The probable fate of the last man
has often BBen bseasseds RIidsdozenst
of theories have been advanced by
persons who honestly believe that
they have solved the problem. That
there viii bk aFtirne4wb6n this fittle
world of ours will no longer exist
there isa.net the least shadow of a
doubt, but exactly how the human
race will perish and disappear from |
the face 6f the globe is the question
that las interested the PHILOSOPHERS
of all ages IL s9H4'''Ss- 1
Some profess to: beliege, that ythtle,
oceans are-gradually encroaching on
the land surface, and that eventual
ly the lagt9naHd*fH be drowned. :"
OpposfHaa tofdis IL thHdnn s1l talk 4
ed of theory that the sEatefilqA the,
earth 8 surface is slowly drying up,
the amoERPnts oERPnts 4eing 4gediFn9 appreeaiianbbly ainby less less
now than ie was at the opening OF
the century. lqheE apostles of this
unique theory say that if the drying
up process continItesfOr a few thou
sand years longer the earth will be-
come as arids asl thhe 1paons and the
last manlEin perish for want OF VA
ter. -. =,
Some beliesB ffat the eHrth viii
fall to pieces; others that u monster
planet RiEf plunge into the sun,
causing that great luminary to blaze
up and burn TO Qinders the earth
and the other planets il, its train,
There have been dozens of other
theories Some of them equally curl
Gus. advanced by men who have
been maRfRg tho subject a study But
the most remarksAle Seltetian-ef-tho
question is t6E -of31hnn5 lately'ex-
pressed BY leading GerLlan mete-
orologist and astronomer. He says
that the Internal fires of the cart b
are rapidly dying out, and that The
sun is suEa tozburn out and become
cold and dark.
This, he saya,is proved by tho faci
that ice is rapidly accommodating al
the poles of the earth and slowly
creeping down toward the temperate
zones. Places visited by Kotza1ue
Franklin, Ross, Parry, Lyon ant
others during the first quarter o.
the pressnreentflry aDd pronounced
by them AAbeing FREQ from ice dur
ing June, July and August are nov
covered with several feet of tn
crystal deposit, which is capped will
snow throughout the year. Thi
certainly proves that the earth
glacial zones are rapidly and perma
nently onlarging and that the oI
German apostle of the freezo on
theory has q basis for his calcula
tions, to say the least.
That Europe is on The borderlan
Of another glacial epoch has bee
shown by Flammarion, the gre;
French speculative astronomer. Du,
ing the last 80 years every kingdom
empire, republic and prinoipality
that country as well a. these {
Asia has lost from 8 TO 44desrees
its mean annual temperature. !
|, France, Germany and Italy Il
\ northern limit of the growth Of Il
vine is being steadily forced soutl
ward In South America and Sout
Africa similar conditions are note'
At Rio de Janeiro the annual ter
perature has been steadily goir
down since the date when meteor
logical records were first kept
that city The German authori
just cited declares that this will {
steadily on, with the effect of na
rowing down the habitable area
the globe. AT last shivering huma
ity will all collect along the equato
Finally that, too, will become
region of ice and snow. Then Il
time will come when the overcrow
ed human beings will all be starvt
or be frozen in heap st. Lou
Republic.