The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1915-04-08


ffsun, and Of silvery Wilderness.
N When 1t gets within thousant
IN miles Of US, at the beginning
i lpf December. the heat will be con
hiderably increased wrote Professor
iJoram. Therefore 1t Is safe to say
THAT we shall never have another win
tier. We shall have a milder summer
Ia second summer In spring, and next
Isummer will mean the beginning oil
1.-The end"
II Following which he laid in his win.
Ter coal supply.
II It was not that the professor did
mot believe in the celestial visitor.
Nothing could be more certain, as all
the astronomers agreed, than that the
learth must inevitably be consumed.
but the human mind cannot quickly
adjust itself.
The crowds stood staring up at Og
nightly. They measured It; they
looked through telescopes to see the
man In Og.D Meanwhile Mary Hagan
was fading swiftly It was question
whether she would live to see the end
OF all things. And her husbands des-
Aperate plea for q few hundred increase
was vetoed for the same reason that
had been given to Professor Joram.
He was also working overtime, be-
cause the factory was supplying large
quantities OF heavy overcoats for the
booming winter.
fortshn, dear" said his wife. have
"JoE iced that the human mind re-
you notf believe what the professor
fuses to - you think, dear. that
says? Don lind of the people may
perhaps the mSIded by instinct than
be more truly guiVvants? feel that
the minds of the sakxer happen"
the calamity will Md John. "It
ct must happen" Anible escape"
must. There is no posedded: Let
And In his heart he ,rrpr comes
Mary die before that t.
upon u.s." ar In
Terror reigned unmistakab1 Aaw
September. The monster Og was IJ
three times as large as the sun, and
1t was only a few thousand million
miles away. The churches were
filed. It began to be noticed that
charity was increasing. John Hagan,
rendered desperate, applied for raise
OF salary again. This time he got it.
He was to receive four thousand after
the first of the year. But by that
time, according to Professor Joram,
Og, which was travelling with in
creased speed, would inevitably have
DETECTED the earth from its orbit.
Changes In temperature may be
looked for after the New Year" said
the weather bureau, which liked to be
right. even in those days. Certainly
there would be changes.
And now panic descended on all the
world. Men went about their work in
daze. Long estranged families be-.
gan to be reconciled Enemies made
UP. Men wanted to die with clear
consciences.
II was few days, before Christmas
that a sudden hot wave struck the
world. The overcoats remained un-
sold on the factory shelves. The tenn
perature was that Of balmy summer.
Nobody could understand why the
hange had come about so suddenly
asiEn IN ChristAzAs day.
Then the huge star, which had filed
several degrees Of the heavens, was
seen to have disappeared. In its place
was a red mist, like new Milky Way,
which glowed by day and night. And
the heat, instead Of increasing, grad
ually gave way to normal winter tenn
peratures again as the mist finally
turned white and hung, nebulous
curtain, in the heart of the constella-
ton Hercules.
And then Professor Joram an
nounced the truth. A miracle had
happened, such as no one could have
foreseen. The huge star had collfded
with dead, dark body equally large,
that had been circling about the solar
system since the beginning of time.
unguessed at 1t seemed to have
been planted there by providence for
just such an emergency. At dis
lance of a thousand million miles
from earth the two had collided
squarely. The shock OF the impact
had disrupted both into fine particles
of incandescent gas. The heat was
the cause Of the sudden increase OF
the earth's temperature, but, as the
particles cooled, and began to coalesce,
all that was left Of Og and its dark
enemy was the fragments of what was
to be q new universe, aeons hence.
And with the knowledge that it was
saved the world went mad with joy.
Men kissed each other upon the
streets. The prisons were opened and
all the inmates released. Wars ceased,
the rich gave back their plumber to
the state, which distributed 1t among
the nation There were no more poor,
nor ever would be. Preachers traced
from that day the beginning OF the