Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-08-04
Will the End Of the World Come this
Year.

Well, yes. anxious, troubled ques-
TONER, it will. We hope YOU will feel
satisfied to have the matter definitely
settled. And we can tell YOU positively
that it will We know rs much about
it rs Prof. Proctor. rs Prof Swift, as
the Smithsonian Institute and the Ma
tional Observatory, and more than the
u. S. Signal Service. You have been
tormentei and tortured. no doubt, by
Mother Shipton. and by the comet. and
the Canadian farmer who butt him an
ark and had il all ready to launch for
the 18th o. Juue-he can 90 into the
ferry business with it now, or sell it TO
the Mississippi Barge and Transports
ton Company-and by the Miilerites.
and one fool thing and another, until
your mind is distracted and Won can't
sleep, and don't think it worth while to
paw your debts. All the same. you
will have to pay. or go out OF business.
And if the world should come to an end
at ten o clock tomorrow morning, up
to 9:45 a. m. money would be eight per
cent. on gilt-edge paper, and none too
easy to get then
So YOU see the fact that the world is
coming TO an end won't make any dif-
ference in your business affairs. 1t
won't make any change in the shallow
ness of the strawberry boxes this
season; the good berries will all be on
the top the same as last year With
eternity staring them in the face man
kind will go right on, swindling and
lying. and praying and singing, and
swearing and dealing dishonesty. and
doing tricky things, loving and hating.
laughing and weeping, until the end
comes and the lips that cursed orprayed
are hushed alike in the quiet Of death.
For the world is coming to an end.
And the comet can't hasten and a mill
ion comets can't retard its coming. 1t
is bound to come this year. There is
no help for it. If it scares you. we
can't help it. We must tell the truth
about this thing, since you have asked
Us what we know about it. And, in
deed. we know more than we have told.
The end of all things terrestrial is
coming tomorrow, and You can't stop
it by climbing tree or crawling into
cave. Every day and every hour the
end of the world comes to some unsus-
pectng mortal who is only thinking up
his plans for next summer. or studying
over "hoss tIade" he has in his mind
for next week Every time your heart
beats the end of the world comes for
some one. and Just as sure rs You have.
or more surely il you have not. paid
your newspaper subscription. it is COM
ing to YOU. And, good subscriber.
fearful and troubled about comets and
many things, when it does come, if it
catches YOU off your feet with your
business raveling out at the edges. your
bills unsettled. ,our notes protested.
your subscription not paid. your pew
rent overdue and your pastor running
into debt for his living, with your con-
science burdened with wrongs and your
life bristling with uncorrected and I'M
repentant faults. you won't need any
comet nor any long procession of peri
heiia TO scare YOU. You won't think of
the planets then. good man. You will
think about the horse with a SPAWN you
sold to poor Greenwig; you will think
about the shoddy four-dollar overcoat
you sold poor Hayseed for Sl3.75; YOU
viii think about the quarts of straw
JULIUS Nou >oiu 'NciN ttdi III piuI
boxes; you will remember the seven
cent print you sold 10 old Mrs. Thistle
pod for fourteen cents; you will think
about the fjrkin of aXle-grease you
painted with butter and sold for thirty
seven cents Tor table use; you will think
of the mortgage you foreclosed on poor
Ragweed's farm after he had paid Won
thirteen per cent. for the money for ten
years; you viii think of the loads of
three-feet cord-wood you hauled to
town and sold at full market price; YOU
will think of the sand you sifted in the
brown sugar; you will remember how
you sold LOO pounds of coal for ton;
you will think ofthe paper you took for
year and half and never paid for;
you viii recall a thousand little mean