Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-12-07
good Mother Earth with tremendou.

good Mother Earth with tremendous
unfairness.
The good mother always has some I'M
discovered pocket in which she stores
her goodies TO meet her children's
wants. When her harder apparently
gives out there is some higher shelf dis
covered in her capacious pantry, where
she stores away provisions for her chill
dren.
No one now is afraid of the earth
coming in collision with comet. In
fact, it is quite possible that the earth
has passed right through a number of
comets without knowing it. Comets
that we can not feel are not to be par
ticulary dreaded.
AS TO the sun burning itself out and
leaving the world an iceberg, the best
astronomers say this can not happen
for ten million years. We need not
worry for our remote grcat-grand-chil-
dren of that far away era. for o great
many new shelves will be discovered in
Mother Natures pantry before that
time.
In ten million years our learned and
developed descendants will no doubt
have found some way of getting along
without the sun. Perhaps by that
time they will have found some means
OF cmigrating to some other solar sys-
TEN; aud SO when their own sun goes
out, they can borrow the sun of some
neighboring universe. At any rate, we
Will look ont for our needs and not
worry about their affairs
As for poor Nautilus, who was afraid
the world was not big enough, he seems
20 have been needlessly alarmed He
had never made any trips into Mother
Natures pantry. The population Of
the whole United States could be
crowded into Texas, and then the state
would not be so thickly settled as Bel
gium. In fact, even in Belgium, where
the people are packed in almost like
sardlnes III box, the country is capable
of supporting y much greater number.
Man has never properly estimated the
true value OF Il pound Of soil. The COM
mon dirt under our feet, considering
its possibilities which have probably
not yet been half discovered, is precious
as gold dust. Natures pantry is deep
and high, and her children have not
found the top shelf by any means.
AS to the worlds supply of fuel be-
coming exhausted, we need not worry.
There is tremendously big fire in the
middle of the earth that burns as inces-
sanity as the fire of the old vestel vir-
gins. In fact, the world is an immense
egg of fire, which very thin shell upon
the outside upon which we stand.
After our fuel supply has given out
we will bore through the shell and boil
our tea-kettles and cook our breakfasts
from Vulcan's own smithy in the under
world. If Vulcan himself runs out of
heat we will burn water. Chemists
know how to do it now, and in course
of time we will learn to do it cheaper
Besides there are other ways of pro-
ducing heat except by combustion. 1t
can be produced by chemical changes,
by friction and doubtless by some I'M
discovered recipe which nature has hid
den away in her cookery book, some
where In that capacious pantry of
which l have spoken.
Nature never goes to her cupboard,
like good Mother Hubbard" and finds
it bare. Let us still trust In childlike
simplicity to the immense resources Of
that uneXplOred pantry We shall not
be allowed to cry in vain for bread
Yankee Blade.