The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-24
OF Naval Convention Setween
France and Russia for
a Long Time.

keeps careful eye.
This time the center OF operations
was the palatial building at the
other extremity of the place de la
Concorde, where Theophile Declasse,
minister of marine, presides. The
Russian admiral chose a quiet hotel
close at hand, and for once in way
the Paris press missed the scent.
Every day the negotiations were held
at the, Ministry of Marine, ana no
one. was in the least aware of the
fact.
The scheme was drafted in the
second week OF July. Just in time to
allow M. Delcasse to be present at
the naval maenuvers in the Mediter-
Iranean. The communique revealing
the fact was made at the wish OF
Premier Raymond Polncare, st is
understood, in order to give an ink
ling to the public, as to one OF the
objects Of his visit ito the Imperial
Court Of Russia.
$50.
The proprietor of a cycle factory
at Saint Btienne placarded his es-
Enlistment with printed notice
under the caption advice to Work
men," containing certain number
OF maxlms, such as thine is money!
''Punctuality is the first quality OF
the conscientious worker ''Dirty
machines mean dirty operators, I"
Drink is the greatest breeder of tu-
berculosis," "Be clean in your per-
sons, in your homes and our work
shops"
The only effect of this display o,
proverbial philosophy was to arouse
violent indignation among the en-
p1oyees; two-thirds OF them de-
handed the withdrawal of the no.
tees, and. being refused. threw
their tools and went on strike.
A treatise by Professor A. Berget,
OF the recently tnaugurated Institute
of oceanography, giving the result
of exhaustive researches into ana
prophesying the ultimate destruction
of the earth, has attracted wide
spread attention. especially as the
authority of the professor is undis=
puted in his particular field.
"The Life and Death of the
Globe" treats not OF the dream OF a
metaphysician, but of problem.
the solution of which is the result of
deductions in the sphere of physics.
NJ. Berget considers that, as our
globe possesses an Independent life.
careful study OF the conditions of
this life is bound to reveal its ulti-
mate fate, in the same was as q
physician prognosticates after a
careful examination of patient.
The FIRST agent OF the earth's de-
struction is the sun. and in this way:
Rocks are hut poor conductors of
heat; the side Immediately opposed
TO the rays OF the sun alone is ar
fected, hence expansion of the mass
being only partial, the molecules
are disintegrated. Every day this
expansion occurs and every night
the corresponding contraction. In
the end the rock cracks; It's surface
becomes covered with riffs and fis-
sures. AS vapor is continually con-
dehsihg on the higher regions, water
VIII soon begin to pentrate these rs
sures and freeze. The rock will be
rent asunder, making the second
stage of destruction. The fragments
will fall from the submits to the
valleys. where the water courses VIII
carry them on ever TO a lower level,
the fragments acting as destructive
agents by friction wherever they go.
The actions of the rivers in carry
ing away portions of their banks Is
still another agent of destruction.
In addition large masses of earth
will become impregnated with water
and slide down into the valleys
The result-far off, but certain
of all these ceaseless processes will
be that after many centuries the
continents will be leveled and the
oceans, filled with the accumulation
Of their materials. will riss and
overwhelm them. The oceans Them
selves are factor in :he work of
destruction, attacking the coasts
with their wave power of ter tons
per sGIare foot. The coast lines OF
the globe total nearly 100000 miles.
which will give some idea of the Inn
mense extent OF surface offered to
the destructive action of the sea.