The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1896-01-18
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havo become resigned. " ! said soothing
ly, for the old man was signing heavily
and gazing fixedly into space as though
he saw again the lost visions Of lone
livers he had been describing.
mo, / am not resigned, and ha
shook his head slowly from side to side.
Both myself and my sister look for
ward to better times to come.
"Your sister," ! exclaimed wonder
ingly. 81 was not aware
'That had a sister, no interrupted
"Oh, yes, have. but forgot OF course
you have ns7er seen her. She lives Oh
the side Of the moon opposite to the
earth, amid mountains and valleys, up
on whose bold outlines no earthly eye
has ever gazed. 1t is by far the best side
Of the moon, too, but she is getting
rather tired of living there and talks
about changing places with me. / ex-
pect you would be rather surprised down
below there if some fine day-or night,
rather-you found a woman in the moon
instead OF a man. Ha, ha, hal' and for
getful Of his recent fit of the blues the
old chap gave vent to a hearty guffaw.
Eve should indeed" / replied
laughing in my turn, although fancy,
unless your sisters appearance differs III
"A marked degree from your own. that
we should scarcely be able to distin-
guish the difference. You must admit
yourself that one must possess good eye
sight to tell a man from a woman 240.-
600 miles away"
"Oh, but, ," answered the old man,
with touch of family pride. "she is a
fine womanl Not bent and bowed with
age like me. Indeed she is really 1000
600 years younger than am l. Then, Of
course, she dresses in-in"-
1.-THE habiliments suitable to her
SEX" ventured to say.
Precisely, and, like all the women
here, is fond of dress. Why, when last
visited her, some %, 900 years ago, al
most her first question was, How do the
women dress now on the earth? OF
course there wasn't much to tell her be-
cause-well, the women Of that day
didn't trouble themselves much about
dress, but am thinking of paying her
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different budget of news for her"
But tell me" l interrupted, for
was not much interested in the old fel.
] lows sister, something about the
. earth. You must have seen almost a:
great changes in the earth as in the
moon. "
$ almost, was tho answer, "but moi
= rrarl1 - rp1I aud 1nad
Yours is still alive, as was mine once
but your turn will como some day, anC
then wo shall both go circling through
space, cold, silent and lifeless. Blu
q that" he continued, will be man.
3 millions Of years from now, almost a
a many millions as it is since | first Sc
q eyes on your planet Then, as / said be
i fore, it was a mere mass of molten mat
s ter-a vast white hot ball whirlin
l round the sun and carrying me with it
J. / remember as though it were yesterda,
, the first beginning Of earthly life. A
first the seas covered everything, an
beautiful specimens Of marine for
II foated everywhere upon the surface g
the water, while in its Translucent
s depths fishes of strange form and gle
Is rious coloring disported themselves
Ie Then the dry land began to appear, an
D by slow degrees the great forests tha
Is shrouded as with mantle all the cart
10 not covered by the waters. For million
III of years what you are pleased to ca
y the lower animals were the only den
S. zens of their somber depths, and eve
I'd after man came it was hundreds {
r, thousands Of years before he even pa
IT italy dominated the face of nature.
IN "But was there not" asked, "a
ice aGe:"
"A what?' he exclaimed, with pu
er zled expression Of countenance.
TX can ice age" repeated. "A periC
Oh of time when the ice, which, as you a
so aware, is always present at the pole
S spread northward and southwark unit
IL it enveloped almost the entire globe. "
OF "Oh, yes" responded mine hos
sn with the air of a man trying to reca
OF some long forgotten and altogether tri
IL ial incident II believe something
w the kind did happen, and not more tn;
rs 100, 900 or $50, 900 years ago eithe
an But it only lasted about 90. 600 year
O. and l had quite forgotten all about
. until you mentioned it. "
ng This concluded the interview, I
er although l would have liked to ha
re pursued my inquiries further the Q
IL chap suddenly snatched up his bundl
bent his back and resumed his orthod
ny position, at the same time indicating
a gesture that he was not inclined
on any further conversation. 1--WE are rig
an over Greenwich observatory. he {
ar planned in answer to my look of 81
IL prise, land / don't want the astror
Ter ,,ers there 70 see me without nv br
ere die and talking to a stranger too. isl
all respectable London Amusing JoI