San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1883-05-10
End OF the World.
Burlington Hawkeye.

Well, yes-anxious, troubled ques-
TONER. it will come this year. we
hope you feel satisfied to have the
matter definitely settled. And we
know as much about it as Prof. Proc
tor or Prof. Swift, at the Smithson'
ian Institute and the National Ob.
servatory, and more than the United
States Signal Service. You have been
tormented and tortured, no doubt, by
Mother Shipton, and by the comet,
and by the Canadian farmerwho built
him an ark and had it all ready to
launch on the 10Th of June-he can
90 into the ferry business with it now'
or sell it to the Miss. Barge and Trans
portation Co.-and by the Millerites
and one fool thing on an other, until
vour mind is distracted and you can t
sleep, and don't think it worth while
to pay your debts. All the same you
have to pay or go out OF business;
and if the world should come to an
end at ten o'clock tomorrow morning
up to 9:45 a. M, money would be
eight per cent on gilt-edgedpaper, and
none too easy at that. For the world
is coming to an end. And a comet
can't hasten, and million comets
can't retard it's coming. 1t 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 unsuspect-
ing mortal who is thinking up his
plans for the next Summer, or study
ing over a "hoss trade" he has in his
mind for next week. So don't you
worry about two comets, or conlunc-
tons, or perihelia, or ecEpses, or
spots on the sun. They have nothing
to do with your case at all. You may
live to see the world burning up and
you may pass away in the great final
dissolution of all things terrestrial,
but you are going to your end OF the
world, and don't you forget it. That
is all you have to do with it. You
60 home now, and quit worrying about
prophecies. Admire the comet with
out fear. Study astronomy for It's
wonders and beauties, and not for its
fanciful and superstitious terrors. You
may go home and sell clean goods by
full measures and honest weights;
teach your clerks that thirty-fve.
inch stick doesn't measure a yard OF
dress goods; don't weigh yourselves
on a load of 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 dealings; pay your rent every
week, and your newspaper subscrlp.,
ton in advance; read the Revised
Testament oftener, and 60 to church
regularly; be manly and pay your
debts as fast as you can, and live so
that you can look every man in the
eyes when you meet him; give up
swearing and try family prayer as a
substitute; don't be afraid OF any
man that ever wore hat, and always
stand by your honest convictions;
and then, if some night comet with
tail like a torchlight procession and
a prihilion of Jupiter and an eclipse
of the sun, and old Mother Shipton
file into your front yard and kick and
thunder at the door, "We want you
old mani" you would hop cheerfully
out of the bed and shout back, All
right, wait till get nay trousers on"
and 60 out to join the procession with
out a tremor. Bless your timid soul,
non praying subscribers, the other
end of the world is nothing if you
shape this end as nearly right as you
know how.