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Show 771 .' JUbE2M2 ' OUR BUSINESS GUIDE. -A adDirectory for those wishing the dress of auy of the following business tueD of Provo. END OF THE W ONliY ISoOOO.OOO YEAR a By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, A. M., LL. D. Then the Sun Will Shrinks Lose Its Heat and Inhabitants Will Freese and Starve to Death, F. Decker Q. Co.. C. Fruit and Produce. J. Provo City, Ut.h. Beck, Watches and Jewelry of . s Ca.pita.1. $100,000, DIRECTORS: the Earth John T. Ta.ylr Reed Smoot Groceries and Provision C, Knight,' REASONING from the prlnci- pies of the pretty gener- ally accepted nebular hypothesis the end of the world Is to be reached very the increasing reign through gradually of cold and the lengthening of the earths day. For It is evident that the cun cannot keep on radiating heat at High Drcttied Scientists Hade It Alt Worked Out " Things Are in a Dad Way Warns Adherent World's Center of Jfebular Hypothesis Giding Forth Warmth for a Time, Dut Xltimate Destruction Is Ineditable, Wise Ones Say, May Sade lAr Berch Watkins Roger Farrer, Geo. Taylor, sr, John R. Twelves, JOS. T. FARRER., Cw.ki.f, Architects. sun will have become so far cooled off that we shall be Indifferent to ever thing else that happens. Another limit to the future of the habitable poition of the earth is brought to light by the rapid progress of erosion that is going on all over the land surface of the world. Wallace estimates that one foot of 335 So. Academy Avenue, Provo. 518 Dooly Block, Salt Take City. General banking business transacted Safe deposit boxes for rent. PROFESSIONAL. I Do It Now PROVO. See The D. D. HOVTZ Electric ATTORNEY-AT-LA- Nos. and 1, 2 Farrfir Block 3 Provo City, Ufah And get them to figure on wiring your house for electric lights. It is the only JACOB EVANS, Attorney-at-La- clean, safe anu reliable method of lighting. w. Practice Law in tha State and Fad Court. eral Office, 95 Offices, room 3, 4 and Co. N. Academy Avenut 37-- 2 Rinjt Both Fhoive 5 Knight block, Provo City, Utah. mm TELEPHONE NO. 81 V. ft KAICHN State Bank of THVRMAN ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- W. II. Brereton, Pres., John Marwick, Cashier, Alva Nelson, Asst. Cashier, W BUILDING SALT LAKE CITY D. F. WALKER Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Drafts on eJl Parts of the World. HARVEY CLUFF A. L. BOOTH BOOTH & CLUFF ROOMS S nil Provo, Utah BUILDING. the P. Opposite ATTORNEYS-AT-LA- W CATES-SNO- Provo O. on Avenue, Academy EGLESTON LEADING PROVOS SHOEMAKER 123 N. ACADEMY the earth's surface is, on the average, washed away by the streams every 3,000 years and deposited at the bottom of the ocean. This amounts to more than 300 feet in a million years. As the main elevation of North America is 748 feet, and that of Europe 671 feet, it follows that by the operation of present forces Europe will be washed Into the sea in 2.000,000 years, the present rate, or, Indeed, at any rate, forever. As Lord Kelvin has well said, we know that the sun is cooling off just as certainly as we should know that a hot stone which we encountered in a field was cooling off, though we had not seen it long enough to measure the rate of its Heat is not a permanent cooling. quality of any known object. The sun must be losing its heat, and hence in time will become a cold and lifeless object. If things continue to go on as they .now do, astronomers tell us, the sun will lose its heat long before 12,000,000 years have elapsed. Like all other cooling bodies, the Bun must be diminishing In size. Its diameter must tie contracting. Newcomb estimates that in less than 5,000,000 years the f nun's diameter will contract to Its present length, so that the sun will occupy only one eighth of the space it now occupies. It is hardly possible for it after that to continue to furnish as much heat as it does now, but it must then cool off with great rapidity. This reasoning is based on the supposition that the sun is not yet a solid body, but is so hot that Its mass is still in a gaseous state. Dut the force of gravity upon the sun is so great that the gas Is compressed into a much smaller proportionate compass than it is on the earth. The force of giavity on the surface of the sun is 27 times that on the earth, so that a man weighing 150 pounds on the earth would weigh nearly two tons on the sun. So great is this pressure of gravity on the gases of the sun that are they reduced to the density of the solid nucleus of the earth. But so long as the nucleus of the sun continues to be gaseous it will continue to grow hotter as it diminishes in size. So soon, howeer, as it loses sufficient heat to allow the material to take on the solid form, a crust will be formed and the radiatProbably, also, ing heat will rapidly diminish. the heat radiated will diminish long before that time, even though the sun is growing hotter, because of the diminishing size of the globe. The only way that the astronomers can see to avoid this slow paralysis of tho sun, and so of the whole Boiar system, is that lately ptoposod by Trof. Langley in a sensational article depicting what would happen if a daik woild moving at an incredible speed in space bhould come so near our sun that the two would collide. In this case the original heat of the sun might be lestoied, but the would ptactically produce such an expansion of its voitijne and such an increase of its radiating power that eer thing on the earth would be burned up, ptoducing about such phenomena as are described by the Apostle Peter. Indeed, the resemblance between the woids of the apostle and the theory of the Washington astronomer was as ntiiking as it was unexpected, so much so that some readers may not know fiom which sohree die following quota'ion is taken: life-givin- g Farmers and Merchants Bank PROVO, UTAH OFFICERS The heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works therein shall be burned up." But the suggestion of the astronomer was pure There are no appatbnt signs of any speculation. such approaching catastrophe as Dr Langley suggests as possible. At any rale, we may settle down to the conclusion that so far as astronomical forces are concerned the present ouler of things will not be disturbed for thiee or four million years. But an equally gloomy prospect is before the world in the distant future from another cause which is in slow operation. The length of the eaiths day is slowly increasing through the retarding influence of the tides produced by the moon. To be sure, this effect is so slight that it has not been directly perceptible since accurate methods of measuring the time of the earth's But revolution on its axis have been observed. that it must be taking place is as sure as that friction will stop a railroad train when the steam is turned off. The tides raised by the moon's attraction are distubuted by the continents so as to present many anomalies, but when considered in themselves they act the same as a wave three feet high constantly running in an opposite diiection to the revolution of the earth, and so by fiiction its motion. Astionomeis aie agreed that similar tides pioduced on the moon have reduced lur revolution on her axis to a peiiod of 28 das. Eventually the revolution of the earth will be reduced so that our day will be seveial times longer than now. When that time comes the nights will be so cold that nothing can stand it, and if they could the days will be so hot that what was left by the cold would be destrojed by the heat. But that time, also, is so far In the future that the piesent gcneiation may put it out of their minds. This catastrophe will not anive for many million Indeed, before that time arrives the (Copyright, 1908, by Joseph B. Bowleg ) AND DIRECTORS. Thomas N. Taylor, President; Himer J. Rich, Vice President; J. D. Dixon, Cashier; James A. Loveless, Robert Bee, John J. SiCraner, Andrew Knudsen, mon P. Eggertsen, Wm. R. Wallace. General Business Banking Interest paid on time deposits. Safety deposit boxes for rent. Drafts issued on all parts of the world. Transacted. WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS. sun-dial- one-hal- one-quart- and America in 3,000,000 years. What providence has in store for us after that, no man knows. If the sunken portion shall rise at the end of that period, as it did at the end of the coal period, there will be dry land to live on, but it is doubtful if it have such stores of iron and coal as have blessed the present race of human beings. There are two other sources of heat to which we may look with much confidence and hope. It was more than a dream of Ericsson to invent an engine which could be run by collecting the direct rays of the sun through immense thus generating the heat necessary to set in motion the wheels of industry. But the successful carrying out of his plans would necessitate the transfer of our great manufactuiing centers to the rainless regions of the world where perpetual sunshine prevails. It, therefore, will that be impossible not the desert of Sahara and the sandy wastes of Central Asia shall in the future usurp the place nc assumed by the localities in proximity to the great coal fields of the world, while the latter become overgrown with briars and brambles like the mounds of many an ancient center of civilization. Still another possible source from which we may draw infinite quantities of heat and power is to be found in the heated center of the earth. As we descend below the surface of the earth, the temperature rises on an average of one degree in 60 feet. At a depth of two miles, therefore, the temperature of boiling water would be reached, and at a depth of five miles a temperature of more than 400 degrees. It would, therefore, not seem by any means impossible to bore into the eaith deep enough to make a portion of its heat available for all ordinary purposes. The world, however, is concerned with impending catastrophes nearer at hand. The prosperity of the present time i3 largely due to the rapidity with which we are using up the reserved stores of nature upon or near the surface of the earth. Thus geology, while it opens up to mankind tSe stoics of good that are buried for safekeeping In the depths of the earth, points to their limited quantity, and calls upon moq to use them economically ard leave as much as possible for future generations. Wastefulness of these limited stores is a sin. At the same time it gives the philosophical student of history a sobering view of the destiny of man. Nothing is more certain than that man has not been always on the earth, and that he is not alwaj s to stay here. The world is like a transcontinental railroad train and the human i ace like a passenger who gets on at one end and has to get off at tho other. Out of mystery man came and Into mystery he goes The visible world Is a parsing show. All that Is unchangeable lies In the world of the unseen. AVENVE IN EACH T( WARTED-- A sample Latest Model making money fast NCI MONEY distrh RIDER AGERT ind ndeandexh MDanBaaH " w Ll I. umu yvt u t 1,. Our agents everywwi receive ana approve ut your without a cent deposit in advance, rtit hi ,lnJb.e DAIS' FREE TRIAL durtng which tune you mayfrtfav nde the bicytli wu not If do f aLn satisfied are or then not ,wsh. you Tu perfectly enecent. back to keep7the bicycle ,,anyo allow TLN us at our expense and you wtU net be out ship it FACTORY PSHf'Ft " furnish the highest grade bicycles it is possible toi at one small profit above actual factory cost. You sav V 7 to $2$ middlemen s profits by buying direct cf us and have the manufacturer antee behind your bicycle. 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