The Detroit times., 1909-12-21

other planets they will see its finish
through their telescopes
And after the end OF the world.
what?
Prof Lowell andiother astronomers.
lon or about May IS next. will look
Through the big resractor here and see
Halleys comet DO just what the world
win 40 the day before IL comes 10 an
end. Halley's comet then will cross
the face OF the sun.
According TO Prof. I.owell's startling
( theories. the earth win cross the face
I Of the sun. sometime. and not on'y
7 will cross IL, but will dive. like base
( ban from bat, RIGHT INTO the sun
Itself
( Somewhere back OF the feeble little
space we call our universe there are
1.-THE gnoSs or worlds like our own
moving about as ghosts do with no
hxed time of appearance Every once
I in while ore OF our big planets VIII
start suddenly from IFS path. tremble
little. and then start on again.
During the time Il trembled one oi
these ghost-ll;e worlds was passing
it far out Of the range of the strong
est telescope.
Nobody knows how fast these big
worlds move and nobody knows
" hither they are hound They are
black and cold-tremendous cold and
dead
Some dav one Of these dead worlds
viii wander into the light or the sun.
and with an Aver-increasing speed will
+ hnrl itself into the suns mass. The
earth like Haliey's comet, will soon
I feel the attraction az this dead planet
burtliug through the al with such
terrific speed Slowlv AZ first but
surely under the infexble law OF graz
nv orr globe will turn from its own
nath in tho Great universe. and swing
Ing in behind the stranger. VIII dart
straight for the sun
But unlike the case OF the comet we
az viii b. shot ike 4 giants cannon
/ hall into the molten mass. anG PERHAPS
rIear through II r the latter We vii
conc ont on he other side. black and
lead liko the other ghosts Of words
that once teemed with life and uoN
threaten Ms
This. in brief. is Prof Lowell
theory on the end OF life He Il not
yellow" astronomer. and he has
science 20 back him In this new and
startling view.
We cannot tel the time Of ou-
olanet's end he declares hut we have
an idea of what will hanpen iust he-
fcro the earth hurtles into the sun. u
v.ilj come as the bible foretells. in
! . moment. I'm the twinkling ~ an eye
Rrt IL our planet-ghost. which finally
erficos us TO our death. Is as large Is
tha ~bogts which make other planets
,-an,bIe men like lowell will be able
n sec il - YEARS AWAY,
Twcutv-seven ve2rs Of terror vii
ersue between its discovery and re
ord ~ time Children will be born
into The maddened world who will be
grown men and women with the day
of their fate sealed 10 the hour, the
minrte and almost 10 the second Di
zine promise will be mankind's only
/ cons ISOLATION.
I There viii he reign ot fear and
terror the like of which never has
oome before. nor could r be imagined
+ now.
I This end may rot come in this cycle
or i- 100 600 years from now. b0t It's
coming some time Prof Lowell and
AN other star students arc sure ~
this
Drath VIII he painless thounh
There will be sight 'n tho skv like
.ra- of a hundred suns a. midnight.
The moon VII fade away. and this
great ught tho treacherous. burning
ch0s-.planet. viii lead tho earth on
ILv means of gravity into the sun
With II
So far there IS no direct disturbance
in the realm OF snace 10 cause men
Ike Prof Lowell 70 believe our end
e coming soon but the knowledge OF
how II Is going 70 come will prove
nm unusual ard picturesque revelation.