Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-11-07
KEEN REPORTERS OF
PARIS ARE Fooled
Naval Convention Between
France and Russia flushed
Up Three Weeks.
Po1NcARE MAKES 1T KNOWN
French Manufacturer Posts Advice
To Employees, Peeves Them
and Strike Is
Called.

SdIJ0os
Paris-Spccial-The announcement OF
Russia might have been made three weeks
before 1t actually was. " the secret had
not been we'll kept. Political acts OF ma
tional Importance have heretofore been In
variably negotiated at the foreign office.
on which the press, both French and for
cign, always keeps a careful eye.
This time the center OF operations was
the palatial building at the other cx-
tremity Of the Place de la Concorde.
where Theophile Delcasse. minister OF
marine. presides. The Russian admiral
chose q quiet hotel close at hand. and
for once In a way the Paris press masscd
the scent. Every day the negotiations
were held at the ministry of marine, and
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.
Delcassc to be present at the Naval Ma
noeuvrcs in the Mediterranean. The COM
monique revealing the fact was made at
the wish of Premier Raymond Poincare,
VI Is understood. in order to give an ink
ling to the public as to one OF the OBJ
tects Of his visit to the imperial court
of Russia.
The proprietor of a cycle factory 1t
III -Etienne placardcd his establishment
with a printed notice under the caption
advice to Workmcn.' containing IA GER
tain number of maXims, such as Thine
Is money! 'Punctuality !s the first qua'-
lily OF the conscientious worker" DIRTY
machines mean dirty operators" Drink
is the greatest breeder OF tuberculosis"
BE clean in your persons, in your homes
and In our workshops"
The only effect of this display of pro-
verbal philosophy was to arouse violent
indignation among the employees: two
thirds of them demanded the withdrawal
of the notices, and. being refused, threw
down their tools and went on strike.
A treatise by Prof. a. Bcrget. of the
recently ~inauguratcd Institute of Occano-
graphy, giving the result OF exhaustive
researches into the prophcsying the ulti-
mate destruction of the earth, has attract
ed widespread attention. especially as the
authority OF the professor Is undisputed
in his particular field.
THE Life and Death of the Globe
treats not OF the dream of a metaphy.
stefan, but of u problem. the solution o.
which is the result of deductions in the
sphere of physics. NJ. Berget considers
mat. as our globe possesses an indepen-
dent life. u careful study of the condt-
lions of this life is bound to reveal tts
Ultimate fate. I'm the same way as a ply
sicfan prognosticates after a careful ex-
animation of a patient.
The first agent Of the earth's destruc-
ton Is the sun. and In this way: Rocks
are but poor conductors of heat; the side
Immediately opposed to the rays OF the
sun alone is affected. Hence expansion of
the mass being only partial. the mole
cules are disintegrated. Every day his
expansion occurs and every night the cor
responding contraction. In the end the
rock cracks; its surface becomes covered
with riffs and assures. AS vapor is con-
tinually condensing on the higher regions,
water Will soon begin to penetrate these
assures and freeze. The rock will be rent
asundcr, making the second stage of de-
stiuction. The agment will fall from
The submits to the valleys, where the wa
Ter courses will carry them on ever to .
lower level. the fragments acting as de-
structive agents by friction wherever they
go.
The action of the rivers in carrying
away portions of their banks is still an
other agent of destruction. In addition
large masses of earth will become inn
pregnated 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 ieveled and the oceans. filled with
the accumulation of their materials. will
rise and overwhelm them. The oceans
themselves are a factor in the work OF
destruction. attacking the coasts with
their wave power of 10 tons per square
foot. The coast lines OF the globe total
nearly 10000 miles. which will give some
idea of the immense extent OF surface Of
fered to the destructive action OF the sea.
Biologists calculate that the amount OF
solid matter worn away annually from
the earth and carried down towards the
sea-level represents about Is cubic miles.
II this action worked automatically 1t
would require 100000 years for the earth
to be worn below the level Of the ocean.
But as the matter disintegrated finds Its
way into the ocean the level of the water
rises inexorably. diminishing the mass of
earth remaining for destruction. and 1t Is
calculated that 10000 years would suf-
flee for the enguiiing Of the earth ny the
waters.