The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1881-10-26
viii the World Come TO all End
this Year!
Burlington HG'ckeye.

Burlington Ha'ckeye.
Well, yes, anxious, troubled ques-
toner, it will. We hope you will
feel satisfied TO have the matter def.
nitely settled. And we can tell You
positively that it will We know as
much as Prof Proctor, as the
Smithsonian Institute aud the Ma.
tional Observatory, aud more than
the Z. S. Signal service. You have
been tormented and tortured, no
doubt, by Mother Shipton, and 10y
the Canadian farmer who built him
an ark and had it already 10 launch
for the 18th OF June-he can go into
the Terry business with it now, or
sell ii to the Mississippi Barge aud
transportation Company-snd by
the Millerites, and enc foolish thing
and another, until your mind is dis
tracted, and you can't sleep, and
don't think it WORTH while 10 pay
your debts. All the same, you will
nave to pay. or go ont OF business.
And If the world comes TO an end at
ten o'clock 10 morrow morning, up
To 9:l5 a H.. money wouid be eighl
per cent. on gilt edge paper, and
none too easy to get then
so y GU sec the TACT that the world
Is coming 10 an end won't make amy
difference in your business affairs. 1t
has made 10 change il the shallow
ness Of the strawberry boxes THIS
season; the good berries ere all on
the top the same as last ear With
eternity staring them in the face,
mankind will go right OF, swindling
and lying, and praying and singing,
and swearing and dealing dishonesty
and doing tricky things, loving and
eating, 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 comet can't hasten and
million comets can't retard its CONS
ing. IL is bound to come this year.
There is no help tor it. We must
tell the truth about this thing, since
YOU have asked US hat We knew
about it. Aud, indeed, we know no
more than We have told. The end of
all things terrestrial is coming to>
morrow, and you can't stop 1t by
climbing tree OF crawling into a
cave. Every day and every hour the
end OF the world comes to some un-
suspecting mortal who Is ouly think
ing up his plans for next Summer,
or studying over a Gloss trade" he
has III his mind for next week.
Every time your heart beats the end
Ut the word comes Tor some one,
aud just as sureas you have, OF more
surely II you have not, paid your
newspaper subscription, it Is coming
to you.
And, good subscriber, fearful and
troubled about comets, and many
things, when 1t does come, II it catch
es you Off your feet, with your bust
ness raveling OUT at the edges, your
bills unsettled, your notes protested
your subscription not paid, your pew
rent over due, aud your pastor run
Mig into debt Tor his living, will
conscience buriened with wrongs
and your lie bristling with uncorrec
ted and lnrepented faults, you won
need any comet nor any long process
son OF perihelia W scare you. Yol
won't think OF the planets, then, gooC
man. You will think about III
horse with a SPAWN you sold to 200
Greenwig; YOU will think about th
shoddy four dollar overcoa' You sell
10 poor Hayseed for Sl3.75; you VII
think about the quarts OF strawbel
I ries you sold every year in pint box
.s. Won will remember the seven Gel