Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1881-04-27

which mankind can exert 40 restrain
ing influence. There will come storms
and tidal waves that will swamp
whole cities; earthquakes that vii
swallow mountains and towns anc
tornadoes that will sweep hundreds o
villages from the face of the earth
mountains will tremble, totter and
fall into sulphurous chasms; the ge-
ography of the earth will he changed
10y volcanic action; mountains will
toss their rocky heads up through the
choicest valleys; valleys will appear
where mountains stood; skilltnl mar
iners will be lost at ocean, owing 20
the extraordinary variations OF The
compass; navigators will grow pale
with alarm at the capricious needle ;
volcanoes that have been dor
mant for centuries will awaken TO
belch forth their lava with more
violence than when Ia their pristine
vigor; rainfalls will delugo valleys
and mountain streams will enlarge
their beds and become mighty tor
rents; fires will start spontaneously
and deyastate whole forests; great
fires will occur in many cities, and
some will be totally destroyed; there
will he remarkable displays OF elec-
trieity, frightful to witness wild
beasts will leave their natural haunts
and crowd into popuIous cities, tim
id and harmless; sutfocating fumes OF
sulphur will escape from the earth, to
the great dread of many; an unprece-
lent number of ships will be sha.ler-
ed in fragments by running on mighty
rocks and small islands that are not
on the navigator's charts; islands will
appear and disappear without any APP
parent cause; the navigators charts
will prove almost detriment instead
ofan aid, owing to the sudden changes
of ocean currents, temperature and
surroundings; the birds of the air,
The beasts Of the field, and even the
fish in the sea will be diseased; bill
ions of fish will die and be east upon
the seashore, to tester in the sun ami
iLpregnate the atmosphere with their
foul carnations.
No fish nor animal food should be
eaten from 1882 till 1885, for tue
flesh of nearly all the animal king
dom and the finny tribes that inhahit
the rivers, streams, lakes and oceans
will be deceased, and, therefore, those
who partake of the flesh shall poison
their blood and be taken away short
ly after. The poison that enters the
system by eating diseased meats is
Just as deadly as to be inoculated by
the plague. Farmers will be strick-
en- with fear that they will cease to
till their farms, and gaunt famine will
step in to make human misery more
wretched fanaticsm will spring NJ
in many places, and bloodshed will
result therefrom murderers and rob
bers will ply their hellish work with
impunity, for there will be little or no
law every body will be absorbed with
the trying task OF keeping alive /;
people will be buried IN trenches, uu-
cofiined; the Judge will be stricken
from the bench, the ploader at the
bar, and the merchant and customer
will be seized with the fatal maIady
while trading; death will come slow
and lingering in some cases, but in
most it will be swift and terrible. In
seaboard towns thousands will be
buried in bays and harbors, the law
to the contrary Notwithstanding.
In many countries vast districts
will be deserted, and even in Europe
some portions will appear so near that
condition as TO appal the traveller
Que may walk whole days over hun
dreds of farms without seeing living
thing. On all the large tracts OF land
that once were so animated with ani-
nal life, not a vestige will he seen.
The houses on the deserted farms will
show signs of disarrangement and
negligence that plainly tell of the
hurried departure Of the owners to
the populous cities. Let the traveller
pursue his way till he comes TO the
small villages, many of which will not
contain single living thing Let
him look into the houses, let him pass
through the doors that stand Jar and
witness the sickening spectacle Of
whole families dead. Let him still
wander, if he yet have courage,
through the country stricken with
black death, and in the fields on the
and in the dark canons of the
mountains and he will see every
phrase of this terrible malady, till the
point of death is reached
the end of all incurable disease.
The country people will flee to the
crowded cities for aid, but unless they
are rich the physicians will give them
little if any attention. The poor will
die by tens of thousands without a
ministering hand to soothe their
dying agobies. The doctors viii he
in universal demand and extortionate
in charges for their services. Bear
in mind, no medicine or doctor can
give you any more aid than you can
yourself. The disease can not be cur
ed, but unless your system is too weak
or impure, copious draughts of warm
water and vegetarian diet will
prevent the disease poisoning the
blood in the process Of digestion.
Animal food will poison those who
continue the use of it. Fine cotton or