The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-07-16

- 4nsa uay Overtake the Ssr-
- -. - ehD RuAnn Race.

4nea uny Overtake the Sor-
80 vsvee 81 the Ma0an Race.
sxs AruONoSfER6 tell u that the day
s -nes come when the earth will, like
81 - moon. wheel through the heav-
s. AeaA ana barren ball 0g matter, afr.
u -. s-assrfess. Hfesess. But long long be-
- stas Tina man will be extinct. win
& ~. AiearpeaYed 50 utterly that not -
- - - bleached skeleton OF q human
sss.r vfa be visible on all the millions
= S~uaro niles Of the surface o. this plan
r Unlsm b. some huge ard universal
$500 the whole race is swept at once
s 49, stArnity, Il II bat reasonable TO sup
& ~s-. thet nan. like any other race Of AMI
ssss~ m dsappear slowly and that even
C.iav fbere win be but q single human
s~se~ ieft-eome old, old man. gray-head-
- - beerded. and left to wander alone
- : eniftude that may Be imagined but
- lererJbed. How will he die. this last
- e the feeming millions that once
sreaefnrsned the face Of the globe and rul-
l nn61eputed master Of every other Nv
- fhin97 1heee are many fatee that may
Hlnn him He may go mad with the hor-
go q loneliness and himself end his own
s11nnhte existence. He may be eaten by
y ~ 80 reptiles or giant insects which will
- neobably INCEST the so0tudes. But
\ Trn1ful. Scientists say that a. we burn
~ eoaI and timber We are still % richly
I'D with We let loose into the atmos-
$3.50 a erer increasing volume OF car
k aid EnS. Much Of th1 ID taken up
nfonts, but not all. II must increase
- eyentually poison the breathAble air.
- the valleys and mounting slowly to
fl1tDpo, where the last remains Of AMI
- nfe arc striving for existence. The
- nan will climb higher and higher. but
e.-.ssily re suffocating invisible hnid
- reacA and drown HIM
1nn1n, Il h said that the earth - II gets
49, = cracking like dry mud. These
$3.50 viii increase until AZ last they VIII
r. ~ waters Of the ocean and rivers sink
- IL nery center Of the globe. Then
N occur an explosion 30 terrible a. may
aaF1le the inhabitants OF neighboring
poe11a The last man In this case viii
o1knbU be some artic explorer or Eaki-
-. whom the vast plains Of sce around
N nse from instant &cath and leave TO
mi few moments till the Ice continents
- swallowed by redhot gases and steam.
1spcpoe these earth cracks develop more
teNiy, they may suck away tho water
x4kout devastating explosions. Then the
IT mans fate win be the worst describ-
"a He will die OF thirst. The scene OF
I'D 843tn Will pI0ldDty 10 tho kIeAI Foatey
- he bed Of the Atlantic ocean. or the
Nak1lan coast, halfway between Rio ia
rotro and the cape. where now six miles
n Reen water lie between the steamers
- ana the abyssmai slime beneath.
1>ege. hopeic1iy digging in the cver-dry-
~ mud. he must perish and leave his
Inn 10 paxch on . waterless planet. Tho
MtAsctsc polar Ice cap has been growing
fkfckes and heavier for uncounted ages.
~ distance from the south pole to the
stee q this ice cap 10 I. 100 miles. Tho Ice
hnes steadily from the edge to the center.
81 Tat center II cannot BE- less than twelve
Aitoe IN thicknees-twice as thick AZ
hount Everest Ia high. Suppose II splits.
tnas1As the gigantic mass Of water and
- that viii come sweeping up north over
~ oceans and continents of the earth.
Whegu then. will the last man breathe his
enAl easpy High up In the SHOWS Of some
Rseaf range ne will perish miserably OF
eolA and starvation. looking down on
hnes shallow sea beneath whose tossing
waters will lie the whole Of the races OF
ne worid Or. last. and perhaps dreariest
fate Of ALI the human race may outlive
tfhef mammals and last until the sun. an
sclne day II must. grows dull and cold
ana vegetation dies from the chilled earth.
IAs miserable remnant OF earth's people
mast then slowly die out after ages of an
existence to which that Of the Eskimo OF
today ID paradise. London Answers.