The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-28

Fafen THAT MnY 0vcrtai<e the aur-
rfvor OF ihc Human Rare
London Answers. Astronomers teA ~
that thf day must come Wnef ane EARN
will like the moon. wheel ta.onen tNe
heavens d dead ana barseA pAu qi AAi
ter-airiess Watefleas. iir Pas .e7'
Irne before tnat time man Nil be e1ttnct.
VIII have disappeared SO utterly tnat NOS
50 much as the hieachel skeleton q =
human being VIII be visible on AZ me
millions Of souare miles OF the surface =
this planet. Unless by some nnsq aN~
Universal eataclysM me whole tacr &
sueut AZ anee into eternity it Is bat ree-
s0nable to suppose that man, like any
other race OF animals, VIII disappear
slowly and that eVentuaAy tAefe NiA d
but q Single human being iliI some old.
old man. gray-neadea ANA boarded. and
left 10 wander alone ia a solitude +nat
may be- Imagined but NOT dercribed. How
viii he die. .his last relic 81 the ieemins
millions that once transformed the face
of the globe and ruled undispuiea master
Of every other living thingf There are
many fates that may hefali him. lie may
go mad with the horror 0f loneliness ard
himself end his own misera bic existence.
ie may be eaten ny zoe s-s reptiles q
giant insects which VIII then probably in
fest the soiitudts. But his rare may b.
FAR Weirder and more dreadful Scientists
say that as We burn the coal and timber
we are stll so richly supplied with we
let loose into the atmosphere an ever
Increasing volume of cAr11nle acid gas
Much OF This Is taken up by plants. but
not alL It must increase and eventually
poison the breathabie air filing the vale
leys and mounting slowly 20 the hlltops.
where the last remains Of animal life
are striving for existence. THe last man
viii climb higher ans aieHeF, bft eveniu-
ally the sunocalne invisible fluid Wiii
reach and drown him
Again. Il Is said tlat the earth as it
gets older is cracking ike dry mud
These cracks Win increase until az last
they viii let the waters 81 fhe ocean and
rivers sink into the fiery ecnier Of the
globe. Then win occur an 1p'oslon so
terrible as may startle the Inhabitants q
neiehborine worlds The a4t man in this
case win probably he some arctic explorer
or Eskimo whom the vast plains Of ice
around VIII save from Instant delsh ana
! leave 10 grin 4 few moments tNi the Ice
continents are swallowed hy reihot gases
and steam Suppose these eatih cracks
develop more slowly thes may SUCK away
the water without devastatine explosions
/ Then the last mans fatf VIII ne ne worst
T describable He will die Of lhlrst The
scene Of bis death VIII probably be the
I great valley IA the bed of thf Atlantic
+ ocean on the brazilian coast. halfway be-
tween Rio Janeiro ard the cape where
now sis miles 81 green water ie between
the steamers Keel and fne anEsmal slime
beneath. There hupeifsly aisging m
the everiuins mud hN mnsi perish and
leaNe his bones 10 uarrh ou Uateriess
plaret THE uuttrtta nolar ire cap has
been growing thicker and heavier for un-
counted aEee The distance irlm the
south pole 10 the edge nf fh's ile cap Is
400 miles The ice Rises steadily from
the edge IS sha center. At taai center ia
T cannot DC less than twelve miles in fhIrk-