The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-12-04
JUST OUR LUCK.
TIE END OF THE WORLD IN 1897

A dispatch from Tacoma, Wash,
in that city who declare that the
world is coming to an end in 1897.
They have issued a warning to the
people to beware Of false Christ. who
will arrive about that time. They
are Rev. Mr.. Jefferis, Rev. Mr.. Price,
H. c. Ieuters, Henry Baker and Mrs.
Cliff, all evangelists. They declare
that nine-tenths OF the human race
will perish miserably by war, plague.
famine, pestilence, earthquake and
hail during the next five years. Christ
will come with his bride, and Satan
will be sealed up in bottle for 1000
years. Heaven will hang in midair
all that time They have seen hell,
and it is 5000 miles across, and long
enough, to hold all sinners. One Of
the gentlemen, Mr.. Sefferis, was for
merly rector of prominent Episcopal
church in Philadelphia.-New York
Tribune.
That's the way it goes. We feel
cock-sure that the Populists are going
to carry the country next year, and
take possession of the Offices in
March, 1897 and here along comes a
lot of ministers of the gospel and
knock the whole world into smith
Greens, just as we are being sworn in,
and ready to draw our salaries
1t is just our luck. 1t is too bad!-
too bad!
..Inever nursed dear gazelle
To glad me with its dark blue eye.
But twas sure to go to heaven.
And knock my prospects into pie"
f that story of the impending
famine is true we will hold onto our
potatoes. We have got enough to feed
the family for fifty years. And they
are worth good Republican price
too-six cents bushel!
If when the Lord knocks out that
nine tenths Of the human race he
would only discrimin tie it might not
be so bad. II, for instance, he spared
the subscribers of The REPRESENTA-
TIVE, and their families, and the
Populists generally, and kicked the
stutfing out of the elevator men, and
railroad men, and the ringsters and
the trusters, and the usurers, and the
United States Supreme Court, and the
old party politicians, and Grover
Cleveland, and J. Carlyle, and J. Sher-
man, and John Norrsh, and Bill LIE
Duck, and Bill King. and Joe Wheel
ock, and that incurable case of blind
Piles which afflicts the st. Paul Globe,
and Christopher Columbus Guiana
hani Andrews, and that mucilagnous
thin man in a censer," Stoughton,
and that ponderous hollowness, John
L. Macdonald, and the fools and
knaves generally, we think we could
stand it. Certainly the earth would
De the better of such a hOuse-clean-
ing.
And Satan will be sealed up in a
bottle! If they do we bet sixpence
Eckford will steal the bottle; and
Stoughton will present bill against
his Satanic majesty, on the strength
of his own bookkeeping, for helping
to empty the bottle!
And they thought they saw hell.
Nonsense: it was only prophetic view
of the next National Republican con-
vention.
Is it any wonder they have such
large Republican majorities nova
days when six e1gymen-presumab bly,
educated men-can be found to unite
in putting forth such trash as that?
End of the world! The fools will
end million years before the earth
does. The sedimentary rocks, laid
down quietly in the waters of ancient
seas, from the waste of ancient con-
tinents, are forty-Jfre miles thick! Think
of that! And then talk of putting
the devil in pop bottle and hanging
up heaven on string, like a rope Of
onions Bah!