Daily Arizona silver belt., 1910-05-15

catastrophe which such collision would cause? Just imagine, if you can, even the approach of the comet with its fearful binding light, its scalding, blasting heat its terrific roar, and fin ally the awful shock of contact.
 What would it all mean for Globe? How would its coming be heralded and what would be the progressive steps of the calamity which must end almost before begun in death and de- structon, in the annihilation of land and sea and the reduction of all the earth to formless mass, indeed, to the orig ginal chaos.
 No living thing could see much of the disaster. Life in all its forms would be snuffed out in the earliest moments of the destruction But inI spite of the fact that no human eye would catch a glimpse of even the beginning of the disnte- grafton, the speculation as to what would hap pen is tempting field for the imagination, and furnishes unlimited possibilities for conjecture.
 What if on one of these mornings the watch CTS observed peculiar defection of the comet from its calculated course, and after much com putation had come to the incontrovertable con- clusion that the comet was destined to collide with our planet about May IS, and that on that day the Biblical prophecy would certainly bel fulfilled in that the heavens would be rolled upl like scroll and the earth would melt with ferv- ent heat?
 What would be the effect on the nations of the world?
 The waters of the earth would wash over the land and tidal waves would overwhelm what the fire left rendering the works of man and those of the elements inseparable in their total anni- hilation
 But before the actual beginning of physical destruction there would be period of terrible mental suffering for all of the human race to whom the fact of inevitable doom had become known. These would be days of deepening gloom and despondency, of dread and woe of failing hope and weakening fortltude until death would be hailed as most peaceful wis itor, much to be preferred to the awful suspense of waiting and welcomed as the termnator of a maddening and utterly hopeless outlook. All improvements would cease and be follow ed by the abandonment of all business and in dustry. The farmer could find no excuse for continuing the cultivation of his crops and why should anyone proceed with the manufacture of automobiles or playing cards.
 There could be no reason for even locking the door of any store or bank The contents of all the safety deposit vaults of Globe would not be worth the trouble of carrying away. There IS no doubt that there would be those who would find the greed for gold too deeply ingrained to be destroyed even by the prospect of imminent death and such could be found hurrying from one place to another snatching now at bolt of silk or costly suit, to throw them in the gut ter presently in order that they might carry, in stead, silver punch bowl or bag of gold, all, however, equally useless and, therefore, worth | less.
 There would be no use in collecting debts nor in paying them. No one would have any use for medium of exchange which could be of fered as settlement All interest would be cen tered in the great nightly apparition, which would soon put an end to all material wants or needs.
 The one great aim perhaps among all classes would be to get home. The son in business in the city would want to be with his parents back on the farm, and throughout the whole world would be the desire for the reuniting of those of blood relationship. That might seem simple to the man who is accustomed to put little money in his pocket and with it go to the utter most parts of the world.
 | But when you stop to think could money any longer buy passage across even limited dis tances? Would not the railway engineer or the ship captain think more of being with his own family than of possessing all the wealth in the world, even though it were offered to him as doing would be those which might result in laying up treasure in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, nor comets break through and destroy
 All the while the great fiery nomad of the