The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1881-09-28

zfor 1t. II it scares you: we cam t
ahelp it. We must tell the truth
sabout this thing, since you have
Nasked US what we know about it.
sAnd, indeed, we know more than
Eve have told. The end of all
athings terrestrial is coming to
smorrow, and you can't stop it byj
sclim bing q tree or crawling into
"a cave. Every day and every
ahour the end of the world comes
Sto some unsuspecting mortal whoI
Sis only thinking up bis plans for!
anext summer, Or studying oyer al
s'hoss trade he has in his mind forj
Snext week. Every time your
sbeart beats the end of the worlQj
comes for some one, and just as
sure as you have, or more surelyI
you have not, paid your news
paper subscription, it is coming toi
you. And, good subscriber, fear
full 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, your
. notes protested, your subscription
:not paid, your pew rent overdue
! and your pastor running into debt
: for his living, with your conscience
j sburdened with wrongs and yourl
alife bristling with uncorrected and
sunrepentant faults, you WON'T
5need any comet nor any long pro
scession or perihelia TO scare YOU
sYou won't think Of the planets
ztben, good man. You will think
zabout the horse with SPAWN you|
ssold to poor Greer nwlg you wiIiI
sthink about the four dollar over
Scoat you sold poor Hayseed forI
.s14.75; you will remember the
sseven cents prints you sold TO oldl
SMrs. Thistlepod for fourteenI
scents; you will think about the
Sfrkin of axle grease you painted
Sswith butter and sold for thirty-I
sseveD cents for table use you will
Sthink Of the mortgage you fore,
Sclosed on poor Ragweed's farm al
Sster he had PAID you thirteen per
scent. for the money for, ten years !;
svou will think of the loads of
sthree feet cord-wood you hauled
Ito town and sold at full mark ct
sprice you will think of the sand
gyou sifted in the brown sugar !;
syou will remember how you sold
aI,7OO pounds OF coal for q ton !;
syou will think Of the paper you
atook for year and half and
3 snever paid for; you will recall a
sthousand little meannesses ard
q Weaknesses Of which you have been
I guilty; you will think how you
8 made your money, and how pre-
scious little good it is going to do
5you IN the country whittier you
Sare going; and, poor man, if you
8have fastened your faith and trust
ato nothing better than Mother
aShipton, or Vennor, or General
;aHazen, or some celestial tramp OF
{ a comet, the sound Of the trumpet,
1.-THE voices of the beasts, the seven
athunders, the hail and fire mingled
S with blood, the darkened sun, the
s. vials Of wrath and the voice Of the
seagle could not add to your fears.
81 When the end of the world comes
S for you, that will be the only end
q you will take any interest in. II
s. will be awful enough for you, if it
comes before you are ready for it,
8 and unless you know you have a
8 dead sure thing on eighty-nlne
& years or more-and you know
8 whether you have or not-you
8 keep one eye open all the time for
s. the end Of the world.
s. So don't you worry about two
8 comets, or conjunctions, or per-
aihelia, or eclipses or spots on the
& sun. They have nothing to do
3 with your case at all. You may
8Dot live to see the world burned
Iup, and you pass away in the hpal
@ @dlssolution Of all things terrestrial,
Abut you are going to live to your
@end of the world, and don't you
@forget it. That's all you have to
DIDO with it. You go home now,
Hand Quit worrying about prophe'
@cies. Admire the comet without
Ia fear. Study astronomy tor Its
Mwonders and beauties, and not 1oE
&fanciful and ignorant and super
@stitious terrors. You go home
land sell clean goods by full meas
cures and honest weights: teach
'ayour clerks that q thirty-hve inch