Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-15

what may be called the "schaudenfreude as the sad
Schopenhauer Economically defines joy over suffering
of the gods But one generation after another has
been permitted to gain affluence, power and wealth
to then lose all and die when the comet with
mysterious whitening influence, the cat plays with
the mouse Minerva has trfed with the earth.
The world is standing on tiptoe today to the
coming OF the blast of flame and terror. May 49,
what will it bring? The question is burning deep into
the souls of those to whom life and destiny seems
the while Is that be the all the days?
Shall then Minerva let the messenger of woe complete
its mission in mighty blast of oblivion reducing the
planet toy to chaos of despair, then oblivion? Get
ting warm now.'O D.
Far into the depths of the limitess void the inter-
planetary journey leads The comet is coming around
the oft-covered path bearing down millions of miles
minute toward earth with its burden of accumulated
When that last day is at hand the great warm, liv-
ing world must go, dissolved back into the elemental
energy vapors If the word of the wise men is to
be taken The questions that figure the tawdry fabric
of human existence will all be answered with finality
The great and the Insignificant, prince and pauper
will pass the snuffing the candles flame to
be hurled into nothngness farther forgotten than the
sand rpples on a prehistoric beach
No one may tell of all the somber sober-minded
savants who watching from the observaores with
the wonderful maze of cunning but futile devices
whether that last dag will be May Is oif indeed the
gods to spare the world for further feats of
fancy.
The astronomers have gained the little wisp of
knowledge at least of the fact that for the
the recorded memory of the of the world of
day the earth is to close to the
tail will envelop the whrling planet In tremulous,
uncertain phrases they declare that there is chance
but for what? If in their computations a trihing
of million miles has been made then in
deed it will the end FINS will be written across
the universe the page of the annals of earth
flecked with the dust in the swrling nothingness Of
the empty orbit
Camille Fammarion peerless visionary, with spec
roscope and searching has peered long found
nothing but the instruments of Minerals vengeance
in the comets coming The huge globe of destruction
miles which the astronomical chemist tells us is COM
posed of cyanogen, hydrogen and goodly bit of nitro
gen. intermngled with substances the like of which
have never come before under human observation
There are lines the spectrum out of the range all
that has been recorded that marvellous scale
The properties with which these unknown sub
may be endowed is left largely to conjecture
1t is easily to be gathered however, that they can bear
nothing that bodies good to They. by being un-
known, must perforce be foreign to the world and
something which the human organism is not, there
for calculated to resist assimate Why fret about
them, for all that the scientists discovered that
within their ken is sufficient to bring disaster
enough without the aid of horror of unknown poen-
tial ("some near chemistry.l