The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-10-06
Will the World Come ID an End this
Year.

Noh tSii yOu pUstlrelS tlat III
will We know ms much about i. ns
Prof Proctor, as Prof. Swift, as the
Smithonian Institute, and .he National
Observatory, aud more Than The U. s.
Signal Service. You have been tormcn.
TED t.nd tortured, no doubt, by Mother
Shipton, and by the comet and The Canal
dian farmer who built him an ark and had
it launched for the 10Th Of Junc-he can
60 into the ferry business with it now. or
sell it to the Mississippi Barge Transpor
tation Company and by the NIlleritca,
and one fool Thing and another until
your mind is distracted and you can't
sleep, and don't think it worth while TO
pay your debts. All the same. you will
nave To pay or go out Of the business.
And II tho world should come To M end
AT ten O'Clock to morrow morning, up TO
9:4o a. nj. money would bc eight per
cent, on gilt edge paper and none too
easy to get then
So you see the fact that the world il
coming to III end won't make any differ.
encc in your business affairs. II won't
make any change in the shallowncss of
strawberry boxes this season the good
berries will all be on the top the snmc as
last year. With eternity staring them i'm
the face mankind will 20 right on swind.
ling and lying, and praying and singing
and swearing and dealing honestly, end
doing tricky things, loving and hating.
laughing and weeping, until the end
comes and the lips that cursed or prayed
are hushed alike in the quiet Of death.
For the world is coming to an end.
And the comets can't hasten and mil.
lion comets can't retard its coming.
There is no help for it, If it scares YOU.
we can't helpil. We must tell the truth
about this thing, since you have asked
us what VIC know about it. And, indeed,
we know more thpn we have told. The
end OF all things terrestrial is coming to
morrow, and you can't stop it by climb
ing tree or crawling into cave. Every
day aud every hour the end of tho world
comes to some unsuspecting mortal who
is only thinking up some plans for next
summer, or studying oyer 'hoss trade
he has in his mind for next week. Every
time your heart beats the end of tho
world comes for some one, and Just as
sure ms you have, or more surely if YOU
have not paid your newspaper subscrip.
tlon, 1T is coming TO you. And, good
subscriber, fearful and troubled a6ouS
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 ruunn;nr
into debt for his living, viii. your con-
science burdened with wrong and YOUR
life bristling with uncorrected and unre-
pentant fnults, you won't need any comet
nor any long procession or perihelia to
scare you. You won't think of the plan
cts then, good man. You will think
| about the horse with spawn YOU sold TO
poor Grcenwig; you will think about the
four dollar over coat you sold poor Hay.,
seed for $14.75 ; you will remember the
seven ccits prints you sold to old Mrs.
Thstlapod for fourteen cents; you will
thiuk about the firkin of axle grease you
painted with butter aud sold for thirty.
seven cents for table use you will think
OF the mortgage you foreclosed on poor
kaagwced's farm after he had paid you
thirteen per cent. for the money for ten
years; you will think of the loads of three
feet cord wood You hauled TO Town andso
at iuli market price; you will think of
the sand you sifted in the brown supar,
you will remember how you sold i.7Oo
pounds OF coal for q ton you will think
OF the paper you took for n year and n
half and nerer paid for; you will recall
thousand little meannesses aud weak.
nesses of which you are guilty; YOU will
think how you made you money, and
how precious little good it is going to do
you IN your country whittier you are going
and, poor man, if you have fastened your
fhItn and trust to nothing better than
Mother Shipton, or Vennor, or General
Hazen, Or SOME celestial tramp OF comet.
the sound of the trumpet, the voices Of
the beasts, the seven thunder5. the hail
and fire mingled with blood, the darkened
sun, the voice Of the eagle could not add
TO your fears. When the end of the
world comes for you, that will b. The only
end you will take roy interest in. j.
will be awful enough for you, if it comes
before you are ready for it, and unless
you know you have dead sure thing on
eighty-nine years or more-and you know
whethersyou have or not-you keep one
eye open all the time for the end of the
world. ., t"f
So don't you worry about two comets,
or perihelia, c- cc,ipses or spots on the
sun. They have nothing to 60 with your
case at all. q You may not live to see the
world burned up, and you pass away in
the fiEal dissolution Of all things terres-
trial, but you are going to live to your
enc END OF the world, and don't you forget it.
100" Ca r''.. -.s.vO 10 no WIFI T.. on
GO aome now, and quit worrying about
prophecies. Admire the comet without
fear. Study astronomy for its wonders
and beauties, and not for fanciful and ig-
| noraut and superstitious terrors. You
go home and sell clean goods full meas
ures and honest weights; teach your
clerks that thirty-five inch stick doesn't
measure 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 honest and square in your
dealing: pay your yew rents every week,
your newspaper subscription in advance
read the revised Testament oftener, and
go TO, church regularly be manly and
pay your debts rs fast rs you can, and
live 80 that you can look every man in
the eyes when you meet him give up
swearing, and try family prayers as o
substitute, don't be afraid of any man
that. ever wore hat, always stand by
your own honest convictions, and then, if
some night n comet with tail like
torchlight procession, and the perihelion
of Jupiter, and an eclipse of the sun, and
old Mother Shipton, should file into
your front yard aud kick and thump at
the door nSNVe want you old man =
you would hop cheerfully out of bei, and
shout back 'All right, wait till get on
my trousers = and go out to join the pro-
cession without tremor.
Bless your timid soul, non paying sub
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