Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1883-03-14
End OF the World,

Well, yes-anxious, troubled questioner,
II will come this year. We hope you feel
satisfied to have the matter definitely settled.
And we know as much about 1t as Professor
Proctor or Professor Swift, as the Smith
sonian Institute, and the National Observa.
tory, and more than the United States Sig.
nal Service. You have been tormented and
tortured, no doubt, by Mother Shipton, and
by the comet, and by the Canadian farmer
who built him an ark and had it all ready
to launch on the 10th of June-he can go
into the ferry business with it now, or sell
it TO the Miss. Barge & Transportation Com.
papy-Snd by the Millerites and one fool
thing or another, until your mind is dis
tracted, and you can't sleep, and don't think
it worth while to pay your debts. All the
same, you will have 10 pay, or 60 out Of
business and if the world should come to
an end at ten O'Clock tomorrow morning,
up to forty.fve minutes past nine A. NJ,
money would be eight per cent on gilt-edged
paper, and ncne too easy at that. For the
world is coming to an end. And comet
can't hasten, and million comets can't re.
tard its coming. It is bound to come this
year. There is no help for it. If it scares
you, we can't help it. Every day and every
hour the end OF the world comes to some
unsuspectiug mortal who is only thinking
up his plans for the next summer, or study
ing over hoss trade" he has in his mind
for next week. So don't you worry about
two comets, or conjunctions, or perihelia, or
eclipses, or spots on the sun. They have
nothing to do with your case at all. You
may live TO see the world burned up, and
you may pass away in the great final disso-
luton of all things terrestrial, 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 fear. Study astronomy for
its wonders and beauties, and not for fanci-
full and superstitious terrors. You may go
home and sell clean goods by full measure
and honest weights; teach your clerks that
thirty-6ve 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; lie honest and
square in your dealings; pay your pew rent
every week, and your newspaper subscrip-
ment ofteDer, and 60 to church regularly;
can, and live so that you can look every man
in the eyes when you meet him give up
swearing, and try family prayers as substi-
tute; don't be afraid Of any man that ever
wore hat, and always stand by your hon
est convictions; and then, if some night, a
comet with tail like a torchlight procession,
and a perihelion of Jupiter, and an eclipse
of the sun, and old Mother Shipton file into
your front yard and kick and thunder at
the door, ave want you, old man you
would hop cheerfully out of the bed and
shout back All right, wait till get my
trousers on |" and 60 out to join the pro-
cession without tremor. Bless your timid
soul, non.paying subscriber, the other end
Of the world is nothing il you shape this
end as nearly right as you know how.-R.
j, Burdene