The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-11-06

I liner. from creeping jungle streams to
roaring glacial torrents, from desert
| city TO forest town in score of diff
| ferent languages news urchins wildly
shrieked or softly lisped their Eek
! tras," in many cases the first and last
edition extraordinary the populace
ever heard of during their lives. The
earth had been brushed by another
celestial body which had passed it so
closely that it's roar had deafened and
| its breath overwhelmed even to the
death scores of human beings way up
on the back bone Of the North Ameri-
can continent. Buildings had been
crushed like trampled eggs, trees torn
/ up by their roots as dentists pull
| teeth from their sockets, while dust
whisked from the visitor as by
mammoth broom had fallen and car
/ peted a large section of the earth
with a coverlet as thick and soft as
a feather bed The earth had shud-
/ dered like a horse dashed with whip,
| tidal waves had run riot and total
humiliation had only been prevented
| by mere chance, good luck, miscalcu-
lation, Divine mercy, or as one Italian
/ paper naively put 1t, "by the foresight
and prompt action OF Signor Desmond,
the discoverer." Not a telegraph. tel
! ephone, cable or wireless upon the
world but buzzed and cracked with
the tremendous news, and every OBJ
servatory in the world where the at
mosphere was clear or the view I'M
INSTRUCTED had It's great telescope
trained like hostile cannon upon the
supposed path OF the departed body.
Yet not trace OF 1t did they find, and
more astonishing still. the microreflec-
! toscope did not register it. Where II
had gone was as great a mystery as
from whence il had come. and all the
wise sayants of the long tubes could
/ do was wag their heads and form
their own opinions. Some came bold
! ly forth with explanations closely co.
NEEDING with Professor Desmond's,
others held Numerically opposite
opinions, while still others-and per-
haps these gentlemen were the wisest
OF all-withdrew themselves clam
like into their shells of reserve and
refused to be cajoled forth by the
most tempting of batteries or the most
eXasperating of proddings. But great
day as it was for the press and the
wire, it was still greater for certain
of the Adventists. To them the fail
ure Of the world TO be destroyed was
but temporary Encouragement, fully
offset by the certainty that the first
small body had been but herald to
warn the earth of the larger and close
following one which was to destroy
IL. Great day, also, 1t was for the
dead and injured, for their names
were blazoned in great type the world
around; In fact 1t was great day for
almost everybody.
And then close following the frst
announcement of the passing OF the
worlds In the night came a second
scarcely less startling or spectacular.
The earth had at large upon It a new
and marvellous being, in fact former
inhabitant OF the other sphere who
had been blown off, fallen off, jumped
off or in some other manner dislodged
from his native habitat, and who was
now stalking abroad in the land of the
free seeking whom he might devour.
He was seven feet tall, reddish
brown in color, monkeyish of limbs
and had pinions that spread over
thirty feet. He had been seen by at
least a dozen reputable CD citizens,
some OF whom had fought duel with
4 him in which he had escaped after
! being severely wounded This caused
great roar of laughter, especially
in foreign countries, and the newspa-
pers of the world treated the story
according to their national character
istics. The British press treated 1t
with cold sarcasm and deep regret at
the yellow journalism of the Ameri-
can newspapers, the French with
} shrieks of derision, the Latins with
insolent abuse and the Germans with
} utter contempt. The Yankees we're
out Yankeeing themselves, they were
making themselves ridiculous, they
we're comedians unapproachable. they
: we're contemplate braggarts, or they
we're great dunnerheads, according to
: the nationality Of the sheet that
} printed the item. Instantly the car
, toonists came into their, own and for
day the world was theirs. The Fly
ing Man was depicted in every con-
ceivable shape that their vivid mag.
: nations could conceive. He looked
like an eagle, a crow, rooster. a
crane, a bat. demon, an angel.
Learned judges cracked ponderous
jokes at his expense. the ministry
used him to point a moral and adorn a
, tale. mothers employed him as a bug
aboo to brighten their children and
the Congressional clown pretended to
try and get a law passed whereby the
Government should provide him free
transportation back to his own land.
Far and wide dime showmen exhibit.
ed huge pictures Of him and an
, nohnced his presence In chains with.
, in their tents. and that chains did
; really rattle within. those without
: could readily hear Even in the city
. where he had appeared his existence