Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1891-05-19
The Doom Scalcrs.

1he gathering gloom OF departed ages,
men OF all classes, high and low, rich
and poor, learned and uuIearned, wise
and otherwise, rather otherwise I am
Inclined TO think, have given time,
attention and fat-fetched Thought and
application in figuring out the exact
time of the end of the world. Times
out of number, men, with more learn
ing than wisdom, have predicted the
day and hour Tor tho destruction of
all things mundane.
Miller succeeded, some forty or fifty
years ago, In creating widespread ex-
element and alarm over his predicted
day and hour, but the end failed to
:rateralize and the most noticeable
event which did occur was the gather
ing IN of the usual number of lunatics
into the folds of the mad-house.
Other individuals, little less CON
spicuous, ut various times and places,
have come to the front with facts and
figures to demonstrate beyond the
shadow of doubt that the end is at
band. Yet the years roll round and
the world continues to turn over as
of old and the end is not yet.
Mrs. Woodwork, of recent date,
with less ambition than some of her
predecessors, seems to be content with
predicting the overthrow and de-
struction Of certain cities, advising
her deluded followers TO flee to the
mountains for safety. And it is but
just to say that by such flight many
poor victims escaped the confines Of
the mad house.
A descendant Of Ham, whose an
cestors have long dwelt in! the shadow
OF the Lark Con tinent, is now busy,
SO We are told, in predicting thespeedy
destruction of New York and Chicago,
while professor of Yale, with far
more vaulting ambition, has fixed the
great day of calamity and extinction
of all mundane things to occur in
1898.
But of that day and hour (the end
OF the world) knoweth no man, no, not
the Angels of Heaven" 1t has been
we'll said that Nature works no
miracles. The bases OF her actions
are we'll defined laws, working with
harmonious regularity, and producing
legitimate results. She jumps at no
conclusions, but reaches them by the
slow steps Of patient, tireless progress.
The volcano, avalanche and tornado,
carrying death and destruction upon
their shoulders, are but the sudden
fruits Of elaborate preparation in the
secret recesses of her laboratory.
Matter is from everlasting to ever
LASTING, without beginning of days or
end Of time. Matter is indestructible.
We may de1ompose, divide, subdiVide
and change ali known substances in
earth, air and waters, organize and
inorganize, but the essential prin-
ciPles which combine to make up
complete whole cannot be destroyed
and remain always and forever the
same.
But change, indeed, is written upon
the brow OF the universe and the time
must come, however remote, when
there will be a new heaven and a new
earth. The earth has long since
grown gray and wrinkled with age.
Loss of heat, the consequent thioken-
ing Of the earth's crust, the cooling
down Of the internal fires and heat
which have operated as an important
factor in keeping the water to the
surface, contraction, depression and
upheavel have made and are making
their footsteps 30 plainly visible that
he who runs may read.
The PARASITES that multiply and
crawl upon the ground or swim in the
water are sapping up the life-giving
substances and Fastening with might
and main the approach OF that period,
yet hidden in the womb OF time, when