West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1891-09-10
LAST DAY on EARTH.
TANcITUL SKETCH OF THE END
OF ALL THINGS.
What Nay Happen in About 2,ooo,.
600 Years From Now-The Earth
viii Grow Cold but Love
Will Forever Bloom.
Camille F7ammorion.

than 10,000,000 years to go through
its several phases.
The primary age had occupied
more than 5000, 900 the second.
ary age, 100000 years the ter.
tiary age, 100000 years the pri-
mitive human age, the time OF
national divisions, of barbarism and
of militarIsm had filled about 300..
600 years, and the sixth age, that OF
intellectual humanity, had reigned
for nearly 100000 years.
During that 10 & succession OF
ages the earth had grown larger
and the sun cooler, and, in conse,
quence the geographical aspect OF
the globe had metamorphosed itself
the water of the ocean had slowly
penetrated through the earth's
crust F; the sea was contracted to a
fourth of its area in the early
human period ; warm valleys and
equatorial regions alone were habi-
table.
All the rest were frozen. From
century to century humanity had
attained forms Of exquisite beauty
and no longer worked materially.
a network of electricity covered
the globe, producing at will all that
was. 1t was then a united race,
entirely different from the rude and
heterogeneous races that had char.
acterlzed the frst period.
About the year 100000 after
Jesus Christ the last great focus OF
human civilization shone in the
centre or equatorial Africa, in the
brillian: city of Suntown, which
had al:eady several times been
raised from its ashes. The sites
where Paris, London, Vienna and
New York had stood we're then
buried beneath the ice.
The capital of this aristocratiC
republic had attained the last
limits of n luxurious aud volup
tuOus civilization. Wives no Longer
became mothers except by accident
they no longer desired the imconvc.
nicncc Of maternity, and reigned in
all the splcndor of their unblem.
ished beauty.
Life had been, il not dried mp al
its source, 1at least rendered irrcme.
diably unfruiiful. No young wo-
men remained the soil, too, was
steriIizcd, and the generation saw
the end approaching.
In this dilemma an aerial flotilla
was constructed, and all the strong
men started on a voyage Of investi.
CATION Of the equatorial zone, to
see whether any isolated human
groups still existed. The entire
earth had almost disappeared
beneath the snow and ice, and
already half the members Of the
expedition had died Of hunger and
cold, when the survivors discovered
a human settlement on the banks OF
an unfrozen river.
They were received as saviors by
men who believed themselves the
only survivors Of terrestrial human.
lty, looking on with despair at the
last days of the world.
The river on whose banks they
were campcd was the once famous
Amazon.
The last woman OF the commu-
nifty was already dead, the wine and
the grain we're extinct, and the men
subsistod solely on fish.
On hearing Of this the guests
were in despair their country was
still wealthy, science rendered them
independent Of soil and natural
temperature, and the leader Of the
party exclaimed
owe came in search Of female
associates, and had we found but
one single wife al the riches Of our
land would have been hers"
Some time before these events
happened in Africa and America
the island Of CcYlon, now atta,hod
to Asia, was the last refuge Of the
human in Asia and there in this
former earthly paradise, not far
from the equator, at the foot Of
Adams Peak, dwelt II womon.
some beiresses Of The last unextin-