The Red Cloud chief., 1881-09-15
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IL 81 Prof. Proctor. ~ PrOt Sss. ~
the Smiihsonian institute and the Ma
,ion.l Observatory. and more than the
L. 5. Signal Service You have bees
tormeniei and tortured. no doub;, by
Mother Shipion. sni by the comrt. and
the Canadian farmer who bgit hin al
ark and had IL ali ready ~ launch for
the 18th o; Juue-he can 30 into the
/ ferry business with IL now. or sell Il TO
the Mississippi Barge AMI TransPor;a-
ton Compsny-and by the Miliertss.
and one fool thing and another. until
your mind Is distracted ani 20 cant
sleep. and don't think !; worth while 20
paw your debts All the same. you
will nave 20 paw. or 90 out of business
And IL the world should zone 10 al end
1t ten o'clock o-morrow morning. up
to . a n. IN. money would be eight per
cen. on gilt-edge paper. aud none .
easy To ct then.
so YOU see the fact that the world Is
coming To- ~ end won't make any df-
ference IN your business affairs. IL
won't make any change in the shallow
hess Of the strawberry boxes this
season; the good berries will al be on
the top the same ~ last year. With
eternity staring them in the face man
kind Will 20 right ON, swindling AMI
living. aud PRAYING and singing. and
swearing and dealing dishonesty. aud
doing tricky things, loving and hating.
laughn n and weeping. until The eud
comes and the lips that cursed or pray
ell are hushed alike in the deep quiet If
death.
For the world is coming 10 an end.
And the comet can't hasten and \ mill
ion comets can't retard lis coming. 10
is bound 10 come this year There IS
no help for il, Ii IL scarrs YOU. We
/ can't help il. We must tell the truth
about this thing. since you have asked
us what We know about il Aud. in
deed. we know more than We have told.
The end of all things terrestrial is
coming tomorrow. and YOU cant stop
il by climbing a tree or crawling into
a cave. Every day and every hour the
end OF the world comes To- some unsus-
p%ecting mortal who is only thinking up
his plans for next summer. or studying
over a ''hoss trade he has in his mind
for next week. Every time your heart
beats the end of the world III for
some one, and just a. sure as OF have.
or more surely il you have not. paid
your newspaper subscription. II Is COM
ing To you. And. good subscriber.
fearful and tro6bled about comets and
many things, when it does come. if il
catches YOU off your feet with YOUR
business raveling out al the edges. q u
bills unsettled. Nour notes protested.
your subscription not paid. your pew
rent overdue and your pastor running
into debt for his living. with your con-
~sciencc burdcned with wrongs and Your
life brist.ing with uncorrected and I'M
%repentart faults, YOU won need any
comet nor any long procession Of peri
helia to scare You. You Won't think of
the planets then. good man. You will
think about the horse with a SPAWN you
sold 10 poor Greenwig; you will think
about the shoddy four-dollar overcoat
you sold poor Hayseed for Sl3. 40; you
will think about the quarts of straw
berries you sold every year in pint
boxes; you will remember the seven
cent print YOU sold TO old Mrs. Thistle
pod for fourteen cents; YOU Will think
about the tirkin of aNle-greasc you
painted with butter and sold for thirty
seven cents for table Use; you will think
of the mortgage you foreclosed on poor
Ragweed' farm after he had paid YOU
thirteen per tent. for the money for ten
wears; YOU will think of the loads If
three-feet cord-wood YOU hauled to
town and sold at full market price; YOU
will think of the sand you siited in the
brown sugar; you will remember how
you sold LOO pounds of coal for n ton;
you will think of the paper you took for
n year and n half and never paid for;
you will recall a thousand little mean
nesses and weaknesses Of which YOU
have been guilty; you will think how
you made your money, and how pre-
cious little good ii is going to do you in
the country whittier you are going; and,
poor man. if you have fastened Your
faith and trust to nothing better than
Mother Shipton. or Vennor. or General
Hazen, or some celestial tramp of n
comet. the sound Of the trumpet. the
voices o. the beasts. the seven thunders,
the hail aud fire mingled with blood.
the darkened sun, the vials Of wrath
and the voice of the eagle could not add
to your fears. When the end Of the
world comes for you. that will be the
only end YOU will take n interest in.
1t will be awful enough for you, il il
ONE before you are ready for it. AMI
unless you know you have a dead sure
} thing on e%ighty-nine years or more
and YOU know whether You have or not
you keep u eye open all the time
for the end of the world.
So, don YOU worry about two COM
cts. or ~conjunctiOns, or perihelia. or
eclipses. or the spots IN the sun. They
have nothing to do with your case at
all. You NAV not live to see the world
burned up. and you pass away in the
great final dissolution of all things ter
r~estrial. but You are going TO live to
your end of the world. and don't you
forget it. That's all YOU have to do
with it. You go home now, and Quit
worrying about prophecies. Admire
the comet without n fear. Study as
tronomv for its wonders and beauties.
and not for fanciiul AMI ignorant and
superstitious terror.. You 90 home
and sell clean goods by full measures
and honest weights; teach your clerks
that a thirty-five inch stick doesn't
measure a yard of dress goods; don't
weigh yourself on the hay. and the
wagon by itself; make your ton Of coal
weigh twenty-hundred. and cut your
wood four feet long; be homes, and
square in your dealings; pay your
pew rent every week. and
your newspaper subscription in
advance; read the revised Testament
oftener and go 10 church regularly; be
manly and pay your debts as fast as you
can and live so that YOU can look every
man in the eyes when you meet him:
give up swearing and try family pray
ers as q substitute; don't be afraid of
n man that ever wore a hat. and al
ways stand by your own honest convic-
tons. and then. il some night q comet
with a tail like a torch-light procession.
and the perihelion of Jupiter. and an
eclipse of the sun, and old Mother Ship.
ton. should file into your front yard and
kick and thump at the door: I'VE want
you. old man. o would hop cheer
fully out of bed, and shout back: "AIl
right. wait till l get on my trousers
and 60 out to join tie procession with
Out q tremor.
Bless your timid soul. noa-paying sub
scriber, the other end of the world is
-x,l.-- . q ro, o-tr SLono shia onI a.